Hindus have barely come to terms with Islamist violence in Muslim-dominated Nuh of Haryana’s Mewat even as Congress leader Kamalnath has come up with the ‘Hindu majority’ trope.
“What is the point of creating a Hindu nation? 82% (Indians) are Hindus anyway. Where 82% are Hindus, what is the need to say this, the figures are saying it”, the Congress leader said in response to a query posed by one of the journalists.
Interestingly, this seems to be a strategy to lure Hindus in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh as readers may recall that Kamal Nath had reportedly said in a closed-door meeting that Congress would be in trouble if 90% of Muslims did not vote for it during the previous assembly election. It appears to be repeating the soft-Hindutva approach it had used previously. Whatever the politics behind his statement may be, it needs to be examined in light of Islamist No-Go zones in ‘Hindu majority’ Bharat and some other harsh realities that raise a question mark on the ‘Hindu Rashtra’ claim.
Islamist No-Go zones
An Islamist No-Go Zone is an area created by militant Muslim outfits where entry of police is resisted, even banned. The entry of police officers is resisted by rowdy gangs of criminals and jihadis fighting pitched battles with security forces. Experiences of the police forces in European countries tell us that these Muslim-controlled pockets gradually enlarge into extensive ‘no-go’ zones which rapidly evolve into enclaves of ‘vexation and exhaustion’ where lawlessness is used as a strategic tool for exhausting the patience of the police.
Very much like Europe, most cities and States in Bharat are now dotted with ‘no-go’ areas, where neither the Hindus nor the police can enter without facing resistance and large-scale violence by jihadi goons.
Bharat’s capital, New Delhi, has a large number of ‘no-go’ areas. In June 2013, the citizens of Delhi, especially the motorists and pedestrians on Delhi roads had to suffer through a harrowing experience of lawlessness throughout the night of the Muslim festival of Shab-e-Barat.
The unsuspecting motorists and commuters were caught in a frightful melee caused by thousands of skullcap-wearing motorcyclists. Many of them were gesticulating at motorists, especially teasing the lone women car drivers, while performing stunts on the roads of New Delhi.
“Over a period of time, a number of ‘No-Go’ zones were created in West Bengal by the illegal infiltrators from Bangladesh duly aided by hundreds of ISI-embedded spy modules nurtured by the radical outfits operating from Bangladesh like Jamaat- e- Islami Bangladesh, Chhatra Shibir, Jamat-ul- Mujahideen Bangladesh, etc. There is no denying the fact that the complexities created by the partisan politics of West Bengal have added grist to the mill of the jihadi explosion in that State”, noted IndiaFacts.
Like West Bengal’s Burdwan and Malda, hundreds of Islamist ‘no-go’ zones have come up in Kerala, Karnataka, U.P., Bihar and Maharashtra among others. In Assam’s Dhing Char lands belonging to the sattras (Vaishnavite monasteries) were allegedly taken away by Islamists. Furthermore, Assam is troubled by illegal Islamists from Bangladesh who occupy the state’s land illegally. The widespread Ram Navami violence across Bharat brought ‘Muslim areas‘ to the fore.
Hindus struggling for rights in ‘Hindu majority’ Bharat
The Islamist No-Go zone is just one aspect that raises questions on the theory of ‘Hindu Rashtra’. Hindus also face the issue of crypto-Christianity which makes it difficult to estimate the actual percentage of the Hindu population. Bharat must be the only country in the world where the so-called majority population is demanding equal rights let alone a privileged position that the majority population is accorded across the world.
In fact, Hindu temples are under government control and their funds are repurposed for secular uses. No majority community of the world tolerates government control of its religious places particularly when the government is a secular democratic one.
Kamal Nath’s claim is either just soft-Hindutva political positioning to claim Hindu votes or a dubious claim to lull Hindus into complacency. However, awakened Hindus are buying neither.
