India PM Modi’s unfinished tasks of 1947 partition are explained by Apporvananda
“A stupid man’s report of what a clever man says can never be accurate because he unconsciously transcends what he hears into something he can never understand.” -Bertrand Russell.
Kathmandu: once again international headlines.
This time around, India is in the global media as this secular country under Hindu supremacist and highly Islamophobic (having intense hatred towards minority Muslims) Prime Minister Narendra Modi, if and when he wins the approaching Indian elections, is sure to be declared a Hindu country-a la Nepal.
To win the third consecutive election and for the creation of a Hindu state, Modi forcefully constructed the temple of Lord Rama in Ayodhya, on January 22, 2024.
The fact is that Lord Rama’s birthplace is in Nepal’s Thori area, somewhere close to Chitwan district. Visit the place, as I have stated in my story, and get the facts that India hijacked on January 22, 2024. PM Modi’s ploy expectedly was to lure the majority of India's Hindu population to vote for him on Hindutva lines and grab power in India and then a Hindu state.
Sources in Nepal also see Modi’s clandestine design to restore the Hindu identity of Nepal by reinstating the nowdeposed monarch, King Gyanendra.
To recall, a great Indiadesigned conspiratorial blizzard ousted the Nepal Monarch in and around 2006.
The enactment of a citizenship law that purposely excludes migrants who are Muslims, a minority community whose concerns have heightened under PM Modi’s Hindu nationalist government, writes columnist Sheikh Saaliq for the AP News on March 15, 2024.
The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) brought into force early last week, March 11, 2024, is taken by the Indian regime as a fast track to naturalization for the Hindus, Parsis, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, and Christians who had “once upon a time” deserted India.
However, the deliberately "left-out Muslims across the region do make the law sensitive in that the “Muslims 0ut” campaign and that too in the holy month of Ramadan that the entire Muslims across India and beyond observe with full devotion.
The new act enacted by India hints that yet another dangerous ploy to discriminate against Muslims from among the differing faiths is on the move, which shall in all likelihood bring in a “political blizzard” that once again destabilizes India, whose tremors may be felt in the South Asian region as well.
The situation in India and the Indian Muslims after the enactment of the CAA shall in all likelihood impact Nepal with the change in demographic pattern of the minuscule Muslim population in Nepal.
Because of the open border “facility made available for India and its starving population, it is easy for the poor Indian nationals to sneak into Nepal, and, recalling the past influx, the Nepali population is already saturated, so any added flood after the repression begins in India due to the enactment of the CAA, Nepal an easy target to find a place to live in, specially for the “oppressed” Muslims from the adjoining provinces of India.
This makes Nepal even more precarious with two options left: either to welcome the terrified Indian Muslims entering Nepal or “seal” the border for all time to come, which will cap the possibility of the heavy and unwanted influx of minority Muslims from India, or prepare itself for the disaster in the pipeline.
So writes a teacher of Hindi at the University of Delhi, Apporvananda, for Al Jazeera, “The BJP government passed this Act not to help persecuted minorities, but to reassure its base that Muslims would never have the same rights as Hindus under its rule”.
Apporvanand further explains the CAA and says, “The CAA is a reiteration of the ideology of the BJP, which holds that Muslims do not belong to India in the same way that Hindus do. The government claims that with this amendment it is merely seeking to help those who had to leave these three countries because of religious persecution”. International commentators claim that India's Modi regime is trying to reshape the country into a Hindu state and marginalized Muslims which is what we at this People’s Review Weekly have been writing for long. The most dangerous part of the CAA design is to complete the “unfinished tasks of partition”.
But what is this unfinished task then?
Apporvananda says that the unfinished task is the transfer of the entire Hindus to India from Pakistan and the Muslims to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
If the design of the CAA is so then the enterprise is frightening indeed in that such acts entail colossal harm ultimately.
Many countries across the world have come out with appropriate criticisms of India’s CAA enactment. The US Ambassador to India Eric Garcetti on March 15 right being in Delhi said the United States “can’t give up on principles” amid an exchange between the two countries over India’s implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).
Garcetti, while speaking at the India Today Conclave, said the principle of religious freedom and equality was a cornerstone of democracy”. Ambassador Garcetti added “But you can’t give up on principles, no matter how close you are with friends, or if it comes from your worst enemy, when those are principles that you stand for.”
In all modesty, US envoy Garcetti further said “We invite you to do the same for our imperfect democracy. It’s not a oneway street.”
Prior to assuming the post of Ambassador to India, Eric was the 42nd mayor of Los Angeles from 2013 until 2022.
Garcetti is a distinguished member of the Democratic Party, he was first elected in the 2013 election and reelected in 2017.
President Joe Biden apparently sent him to India to take up the new assignment.
Yet another bombshell has come from a powerful US Senator Ben Cardin who has questioned the timing of the Modi government’s decision to notify the Citizenship Amendment Rules, thereby bringing the controversial CAA into being.
The WIRE (Diplomacy) on March 19, 2024, quoting Senator Cardin writes that he-–the Chair of the US Senate Ben Cardin “deeply concerned” by the decision and its “potential ramifications” for India’s Muslim community. Cardin continues, “Making matters worse is the fact that it is being pushed during the holy month of Ramadan (Ramzan). As the US-India relationship deepens, it is critically important that our cooperation is based on our shared values of protecting the human rights of all persons, regardless of religion,” However, a State Department spokesperson has told Reuters that “Respect for religious freedom and equal treatment under the law for all communities are fundamental democratic principles.”
Perhaps it is the official stance of the US government on India’s CAA.
If it is so then the question crops why the US exhibits each time its leniency as and when India's strategic security partner in the QUAD (which comprises Australia, the US, Japan, and India) does so many wrongs against the USdetermined principles.
Is it simply because India is a must for the US in this South Asian region to take control of the emerging power of China?
Had such a “close to criminal act” would have been brought into action by smaller South Asian nations. Will the US tolerate it all as it has become flexible for India on several occasions?
The US, as an umpire, must not exhibit a soft corner for India all the time which doesn’t suit the personality of a strong world power like the US that it is.
Let’s listen to what Pakistan has to say about India’s CAA:
On March 15, 2024, rival Pakistan condemned India’s Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) of 2019, labelling it a discriminatory move by what is dubbed as a “Hindu fascist state” aimed at presenting India as a sanctuary for persecuted non-Muslim minorities from neighboring countries.
“The legislation and relevant rules are discriminatory in nature as they differentiate amongst people based on their faith,” the foreign office spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said at the weekly media briefing while commenting on the controversial Indian law that took effect recently marking the first time Delhi has established a religious criterion for citizenship”.
Ms Baloch further said, “These regulations and laws are premised on a false assumption that minorities are being persecuted in Muslim countries of the region and the facade of India being a safe haven for minorities.” Asaduddin Owaisi, the Hyderabadi MP explodes: The All India Majlis-eIttehadul Muslimeen party Chief Asaduddin Owaisi early last week slammed the Indian government for implementing the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, claiming the law is based on Mahatma Gandhi's murderer Nathuram Godse's thoughts.
Owaisi claimed that the CAA law will reduce Muslims to second-class citizens.
In the meanwhile, some interested parties/ leaders in opposition have approached the Supreme Court against the CAA enactment by the Indian government notified on March 11, 2024.
Owaisi, the Times of India reports, the AIMIM chief has also petitioned against the CAA. His petition seeks directives to halt the processing of citizenship applications under Section