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Growing Hindu extremism exposed
Bilal Zubair
It has been four years since the occurrence of Samjhota carnage and government of Pakistan still wait on for official disclosure of findings by India. The Indian government is still reluctant to share the official findings with Pakistan on the pretext that the investigation is at premature stage. On Febuary 19, 2007 in one of the most gruesome incident of terrorism on Indian soil, 68 people mostly of Pakistani origin died in the Samjhota Express bombing on its way back to the Pakistani border from India.
Pakistan would table the matter at the upcoming foreign-secretary level talks scheduled to take place in first week of Febuary in Thimphu, Bhutan next month. In October last year first official acknowledgement was made from Indian Government that the perpetrators of Samjhota Express blast belong to Hinduvta extremist outfit of Rashtriya Swayamesevak Sangh (RSS). In the most thrilling confessions by Swami Assemanand, a leader of RSS arrested on Nov 18, 2010 the attacks were carries by his loyalists. He admitted of planning, financing, and executed many other terrorist plots including Jamia Masjid, Ajmer Sharif, Malegaon and the Mecca Masjid in Hyderabad Pakistan has repeatedly stated its desire to get official information regarding the ongoing investigation by Indian investigation agencies on Samjhota incident. The level of cooperation India seeks from Pakistan following the Mumbai terrorist attacks has to be similarly responded by informing Pakistan about the developments taken place in the investigations by the Indian investigation agencies. The success of the joint terror mechanism between the two uneasy neighbors requires a parallel collaboration by Indian side so that real culprits could be brought to justice.
Meanwhile, the ruling dispensation is under constant pressure on disclosing the findings of Samjhota bombing from the opposition party BJP and its allied RSS. Therefore, Indian wariness could raise doubts that the ruling Congress party may fell victim of a political compromise at home following the telecom corruption scandal, high food prices and poor show at the state elections.
The government in India is well aware that these findings once disclosed will bring glaring ramifications for Indian political landscape. Since inception the conservative establishment and political hardliners in India are deeply imbibed with anti-minority mindset. Alienation of Muslims, Christians and other minorities is well known fact and way of life in India. Debate has already been triggered that has India intrinsically achieved the socio-political maturity needed to acquire its ambitious big power status? Similarly, concerns have emerged from various quarters that how would India response to the emerging Frankenstein of Hinuvta extremism at home.
In past many incidents such as thousands of Muslims killed by Hindu mobs in Gujrat and in Bombay in 1993 have been conspired by the rightwing Hindu groups. Growing tendency of religious intolerance is manifestation of Hinduvta as state policy. This is undoubtedly a big blow to the so called Indian secular identity. It is a matter of time when international fears will align the concerns shown by many across India.
In a meeting with US ambassador Timothy Roemer the Indian prime minister in waiting, Rahul Gandhi expressed grave concerns regarding radical Hindu groups. According to wiki Leaks Rahul Gandhi spoke of these Hindu groups even greater threat than the militants involved in Mumbai attacks in 2008. Young Gandhis remarks can been seen in the backdrop of rising fears that how the menace of extremism has engulfed the Indian society. If terrorism is manifestation of extremism then it can not only be correlated with Muslims alone. Even in the wake of Mumbai attacks Muslim community feared a wide spread reaction from the Hindu Right Wing parties.
In 2008 the Coalition of Concerned Indian Americans wrote a letter to the newly President elect Barak Obama expressing serious emerging danger of Hinduvta which says We are particularly sensitive to the status of Muslim and Christian minorities in India who have been facing growing hostility from Hindu nationalist groups such as the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), and their various affiliates, in several states of India. Unfortunately, every terrorist incident directed against the people of India, like the heinous attack on Mumbai last week, seems to only strengthen the hands of these groups, who relentlessly propagate religious stereotypes and commit violent acts against minority communities with impunity. We are writing to you to share our deep concerns in this regard, before your administration shapes its policy priorities towards India. However, minority communities in India remain in anguish that President Obama did not even give lip service to their growing agony by Indian extremists during his visit in November last year.
One wonders that how the acts of these Hindu holocaust have escaped the attention of western media and proponents of democratic pluralism in West.
Growing Hindu extremism exposed
