“India must scrap the term ‘minorities’, redraw list with only tiny, needy groups”, First Post, August 31, 2023:
“The Congress has been the biggest beneficiary of minority politics. As the nation’s trust gained by being at the frontline of the Independence struggle began to erode, the party started relying heavily on using minorities, mainly Muslims, as a vote bank.
Indira Gandhi inserted the word ‘secular’ into the preamble of the Constitution during Emergency through the backdoor. Rajiv Gandhi overturned the Supreme Court’s decision to grant divorced Shah Bano alimony to appease violence Islamist mobs who came down on the streets.
PV Narasimha Rao created the National Commission for Minorities (NCM) to recompense for the demolition of the Babri Masjid under his watch, and UPA government under Manmohan Singh with Sonia and Rahul Gandhi as his para-constitutional super bosses declared that minorities have the first right on the nation’s resources, besides floating fraudulent ideas like ‘saffron terror’ and brazenly biased legislation like the Communal Violence Bill (2011)…..”
Read the full article at Firstpost.com
