Godhra has given India two Prime Ministers. Morarji Desai was the 'Dipty' (Provincial Civil Service officer) of Godhra, during the 1930 riots. He was accused of anti-Muslim bias and resigned. He joined Congress and rose because of his administrative experience and the fact that he was an bullheaded martinet.
Modi, too, gained from the 2002 Godhra atrocity though it was his Home Minister, Govardhan Zadafia- a protege of VHP leader, Togadiya- who should have got the 'credit'. Instead Zadafia and Haren Pandya were pushed out by Modi before the elections. By 2005, the year of the Visa ban, Sanjay Joshi, an RSS Modi rival, too had been brought low by a dubious sex tape. This was the moment when Modi looked most vulnerable and the newly elected Congress, quite naturally, stuck the knife in. Sadly for Manmohan, Modi had performed so well that Gujarat voters had been won over. Moreover, they knew that if Modi was guilty of anything, it was only of letting them do what they wanted. Defaming Modi was a way to defame Gujarat. Meanwhile the West was revenging itself on Islamic terrorists by killing hundreds of thousands of innocent people in distant lands. Blair, at the behest of his pal, Bush, had invented an excuse to invade Iraq to grab its oil. Meanwhile, Congress's 'Natkat Singh' was revealed as having profited from Saddam's evil regime. Compared to such slimy characters, Modi appeared, not a saint, but a proper Gujarati who was lifting up himself and his community through hard work and mutually advantageous deals- e.g. that by which farmers gave up 'free electricity' in return for usable electricity at an affordable price.
The lesson we can learn from Modi is that the Press and the 'activists' are shit. They act like prosecutors but won't assemble evidence properly. They are like a dog which has got hold of a bone- except it isn't a bone, it is a turd. Worse, they want to recycle the same shite year after year, decade after decade.
A case in point is the recent BBC documentary 'the Modi question'. Is it incendiary', as a senior Indian ex-diplomat has suggested? Should we dismiss it as mere 'propaganda'? The answer is that it is incendiary if it fuels violence in Leicester. In that case there is Hindu vote consolidation in favor of Rishi and against poor old Starmer.
The Government of India says the documentary is propaganda. It appears they are blocking internet access to it. This is understandable but foolish. The thing is propaganda- but for Modi and for the RSS. The truth is the Godhra atrocity has been the gift which keeps giving for the BJP. But Godhra only happened because Advani had taken up the cause of the Ram Temple. It was the Rath Yatra that put the BJP on the path to power. The Muslims of Godhra attacked a railway carriage full of Hindu pilgrims returning from Ayodhya and burnt them to death. There could only be one outcome. Gujarat already hated Muslims- there hadn't been a Muslim MP from there since 1989 when Ahmed Patel lost his seat- because gangsters like Abdul Latif, who won 5 ward seats while in jail, were creating havoc. Latif even killed Muslim politicians like former Rajya Sabha member, Rauf Waliullah and the chairman of Shankarsinh Vaghela's own party. There was a Congress Minister who had orchestrated a terrorist incident in Surat with Latif's help. Muslim politicians were seen as terrorists and gangsters. Ehsan Jafri, a former MP, paid the price. A mob butchered him and his family.
Gujarat saw little ethnic cleansing at the time of partition- at least when compared to Delhi where Nehru was running things. But, after the 1969 riots there was no question of peaceful assimilation even though Indira Gandhi promoted some Muslims in the Seventies. I suppose it was the cynicism of KHAM strategy and the increasingly criminalized nature of Congress politicians which entrenched the political instrumentalization of communal disturbances. Modi ended the cycle of riots but, sadly, hatred of Muslims has increased. There is now only one Muslim MLA in the 182 member Gujarat Assembly. Not too much can be read into such numbers. In 2013 there were just two Muslim MLAs in Rajasthan. Now there are 8- seven from Congress. But BJP Muslim candidates are not winning. Previously, we might have said 'this reflects a failure on the part of the BJP in becoming a truly National Party.' Now, we say the reverse. If Muslims won't vote for the BJP, they are failing to be part of the Nation. I don't suppose this situation will long continue. The CPM could shoulder aside Congress as the true party of Secularism. Kejriwal might become an increasingly attractive alternative to an ageing Modi. Omar Abdullah and Sachin Pilot and other such younger, more attractive figures, might take the fore in a new 'Janata Parivar' able to take on the Sangh Parivar. But all this will take time. Still, for now, there is no question regarding whether Modi will get a third term. Nor does anybody really care whether or not Indian Muslims chose to listen to fear mongers. If they run amok the BJP benefits. Even if they peacefully protest the granting of citizenship to kaffirs fleeing Islamic terror, the BJP benefits. So there is no 'Modi question' and no real 'Muslim question' in Indian politics.
What remains a matter of speculation is why the BBC has chosen this moment to broadcast lazy, facile, tosh. Do they hope to inspire a Godhra type atrocity in Leicester? Why go all the way to South Asia to cover stories about Muslim terrorism when you can whip up that sort of thing just up the motorway from your TV studio? In 2017 a British judge ruled that even if Tony Blair and Jack Star had broken international law by committing the crime of 'aggression' and even if 1.3 million Muslims died in that illegal war, still British politicians hadn't broken British law. But Jack Straw pointing the finger at Modi won't cause British Muslims to forget his own great crimes and that of his boss, Blair. Modi is accused of not doing enough to save Muslims. Blair, Bush, Brown and other such men of straw lied and cheated so as to take a misguided and counterproductive revenge on innocent Muslims in far away lands. The death toll of 1.3 million may be an understatement. What is certain, is that the only beneficiaries of the War on Terror were enemies of the West. India did not join that War as it didn't join Gulf War One. Hindus don't like it when the West kills Muslims. Why? The same cunts who promote Islamophobia in the West also want to go after Hindus. That's why a recent survey in India showed that Indians consider America the second greatest threat after China.
As for the BBC, there was a time when it was respected for disseminating news. Now it recycles the views of the sort of people who won't be happy till Leicester has its own Godhra atrocity which can be blamed on a Hindu Prime Minister.
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