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As election season approaches in UP, BJP moves in to communalise everything it can 6 hours ago Updated 4 hours ago Shoaib Daniyal Saffron surge On Saturday, Bharatiya Janata Party leader Ram Shakar Katheria said that it was inevitable that saffronisation will proceed, both in the education sector as well as of India as a whole – and that this is a fine thing. Katheria is no ordinary leader. He is a minister in the Narendra Modi government. His words, like the exculpation of the Dadri beef murder by Union minister Mahesh Sharma, carry some significance. Clearly, this sort of statement is a prelude to the keenly contested 2017 Assembly election in Uttar Pradesh. Follow ANI ✔ @ANI_news Whatever is good for the country will be done,whether it is 'Bhagwaakaran' or 'Sanghwaad':Union minister RS Katheria 12:22 PM - 19 Jun 2016 63 63 Retweets 73 73 likes And this isn’t the only indication of the party's strategy for the state. The BJP is continuing to attempt to make the alleged exodus of Hindus from Kairana a point of contention. The controversy was sparked last fortnight when a party MP produced a list of people who had purportedly been forced out of the town by Muslim criminals. Pro-government media such as Zee News went to town with these claims, comparing the situation to Kashmir in the 1990s. The only problem? There was no exodus. Checks by the administration showed that the list had names of people who had died years ago or left Kairana for better economic opportunities. One of the people on the list, Gaurav Jain, a businessman living in Ghaziabad, has even decided to file a police complaint. His name was put into the Kairana exodus list, his Kairana home painted over with the sign “for sale” and his photo circulated – without any basis. He had moved out of Kairana in 2010 for career opportunities. Despite this, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, part of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh family, has announced a state-wide survey in Uttar Pradesh to identify areas where the Hindu population has decreased. Uttar Pradesh is the country's largest state, home to one out of six Indians. It is also desperately poor. Even Bihar, the poster boy of India’s poverty for much of the recent past, seems to have turned the corner. In such an environment, it seems naked communalisation is the only way to do politics in the state. It was true when the BJP was rising on the back of the Ram Janmabhoomi campaign to demolish the Babri Masjid in the late 1980s. Today, three decades later, even with a BJP government in Delhi, it still seems to hold true. -- Peace Is Doable -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
