Anti-national forces emerging amidst Corona pandemic

R K Sinha

Can there be more unfortunate thing that India is not able to fight unitedly even in the bloodiest epidemic like Corona. The government is fighting day and night. The Prime Minister and most of the Chief Ministers are betting on their lives. The Chief Minister of country’s largest state Uttar Pradesh is not even going to his father’s funeral in this hour of crisis. But even now some wretched minds are not desisting from their rotten mentality. Just see that in Palghar, Maharashtra, two sadhus and their driver were beaten to death by the mob.

On the other hand, expressing her hatred against India again, Arundhati Roy tells a German news agency that the government is using the Corona crisis to strategize the genocide of Muslims. By the way, she never writes an article in favor of India nor makes a statement. She is an Indian who is the stigma on Indian women. She is a puppet in the hands of anti-India forces for years. Perhaps she feels pleasure in her anti-national conduct and it is a well known fact that she receives hefty money from abroad, for this purpose. She openly praises the traitors and abuses the country.

If we talk about the killing of sadhus in Maharashtra then it is really a shocking event. How can someone be so cruel, merciless and violent? Who was the mob that massacred the two innocent monks of Juna Arena and their driver in presence of police? Soon the police also disappeared within no time. But all that has happened is stigma on civilized society. Nearly 100 people have been arrested in this connection.

A general feeling prevails that in all cases of mob riots, there are some arrests initially but everybody is released after some formalities. It would be better if the state administration ensures that the guilty gets a severe punishment so that such incidents do not recur again. There should be a judicial inquiry into this incident. Supporting such atrocities done by the mob will end the judicial system of the country. It is a matter of thinking that some people kill any human being on the suspicion of being a thief and a few people give it a colour of ‘mob trend’. If he was really a thief, he could be caught and handed over to the police.

I was told by my Mumbai journalist friends that this incident was the third during the last ten days. The first one was when two doctors associated with the Shiv Sena were beaten up. They were kept tied for a long time and were later rescued by the Casa police station after a three-hour altercation. The second incident was of last week when a police party was stoned.  The case of beating to death of three persons is not as simple as it is said. There were rumors of thieves and harvest. Now tell how the Marathi-speaking doctor or the police patrolling party or the 70-year-old ochre-clad Mahatmas could look like thieves?

Would the killing of sadhus not be considered mob lynching? Will the award return gang now question the government in the same way as it did when Akhlaq or Pehlu Khan were killed? After the killing of Akhlaq in Noida, adjacent to Delhi, all the so-called secular gang members started reaching the house of the deceased Akhlaq. There was less condolence and more politics. Among them were also Rahul Gandhi, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Asududdin Owaisi, CPI’s Brinda Karat.

Will they now tighten up the Maharashtra government also for the killing of the sadhus? Maharashtra nowadays has a coalition government of Shiv Sena, Nationalist Congress Party and Congress. Will Congress President Sonia Gandhi withdraw support from Maharashtra government after this incident? It is pertinent to say that on the killing of Akhlaq, the then Union Minister and MP from Noida Mahesh Sharma had said,”It is a blot on our culture and such incidents have no place in civilized society. If someone says that it was pre-planned,I don’t agree with it.”

Will any leader of the ruling coalition of Maharashtra now ask Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray how the sadhus were killed in front of his police? Will any litterateur return the award on the slaughter of sadhus? Believe that the answer to all these questions is in ‘no’. Since the monks were Hindus, why should anybody express any sympathy towards them? There is a smell of deep conspiracy here. It is learnt that the business of converting tribals to Christianity in the villages of Palghar district is going on in full swing.

An amount of twenty to twenty five thousand is reported to be given to such convert, and in return what he is required to do – wear a cross, put a Christian name in the title and go to church every Sunday. Bus .Thus, if a poor family gets a quarter and a half lakh, obviously they would listen to them. Now the huge cost for lynching of two sadhus is sure to be met with. As a formality sake, the station house officer and his deputy have been suspended. The constituency where the incident took place is Dahanu and the MLA from there is Mr. Binod Bhiwa Nikolay of the Marxist Communist Party. It is also important to investigate their activities and involvement in the incident.

Many progressive secularists have already started saying that the Maharashtra government has taken quick action and caught the culprits. That is, the covering of the scandal which has created such a ruckus has also started. During the Corona period, people associated with the medical field, police, administration and other essential services are engaged in service. It seems that this time will also pass with no knowledge how much it would cost.

Get it in writing that Arudhuti Roy, who is alleging that the Indian government is persecuting Muslims in the name of Corona, will not speak even a word about killing of sadhus. There is a need to understand the agenda of such pseudo-secularists. By the way, Arundhati Roy calls herself a human rights activist. But he did not see the slaughter of Pandits in Kashmir.

Possibly, she may have considered that slaughtering as a secular massacre. Therefore, those who are expecting any condolences on the killing of sadhus from Arundhati Rai, perhaps are living in a fool’s paradise. Many Corona warriors and two police officers have also been martyred in the country. But Roy did not say a word of condolence for him. They are on the streets day and night to save us all from Corona. However, for Arundhati, the day and night struggle of the police to apprehend Jamaatis is nothing but atrocities on Muslims.

Surprisingly, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi is tweeting against linking Corona to any caste, community, religion or border, Arundhati Roy is bombarding India with accusations. One thing to know is that Arudhati Roy is determined to oppose the Modi government in every phase. She is not only angry with the current government. To her, every leader of the country is the enemy of the people. India’s enemy Pakistan considers him the greatest personality of the world because, she does not leave any opportunity to demean India.

A few years ago, Arundhati Roy, in her interview to the Dawn, a newspaper started by Mohammad Ali Jinnah, had badly whipped Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his predecessor Dr Manmohan Singh. So the country is now seeing that even in these difficult conditions, some negatively affected elements are committing shameful acts. To condemn them only will, however, not serve any fruitful purpose. Once the battle against Corona is won, the Modi government will have to fight the powers that are licking the country like a termite. At any cost, the national antithesis shall have to be destroyed.

(The author is a senior journalist, columnist and former MP)