We're being driven to a "Hindu Rashtra" - denuded of all vestiges of substantive democracy and pluralism, at an ever accelerating pace. This is very much in conformity with the RSS agenda. The pandemic has providentially made things even smoother than otherwise. That's all.
Should have been no surprise at all. This is what I had posted here and elsewhere back on June 15 2019: <<The BJP – the Modi-Shah duo, in particular, is, obviously, only too elated [over the poll outcome]. Modi is taking this opportunity also to refashion the organisational power structure.66 *What, however, is far more germane in anticipating the developments in the coming days is that the BJP/RSS has a project - to supplant the "secular" and "democratic" Indian state with a "Hindu Rashtra" (Hindu nation state) - the contours of which are, understandably, not etched in stone, but, even then, would mean complete negation of substantive democracy and pluralism. Of still greater salience, the journey towards it has got to be propelled by constant stirring up of hatred and violence against the constructed inimical "others", in order to mobilise the Hindus as "Hindus", drowning out all other competing identities*.67 Taking off from that basic proposition, the new regime is likely to have two major focal points on the "political" front68: I. Dismantling of all opposition - both party and non-party. Towards that, dislodging, maybe even dismissal, of, at least a few, opposition-run state governments. ED, IT, CBI raids on opposition politicians; also, in some cases, buying out. Tightening the screw, in a myriad ways – including enhanced digital surveillance, also as regards the civil society organisations and dissenting individuals. II. Sharply spiking communal polarisation by way of (phased?) nationwide roll-out of the NRC69, also scrapping of Art. 370 (and Art. 35A)70 and putting to good use the Mandir-Masjid issue(s)71, as per the demands of the situation. Other expected developments are: (i) Further intensification of non-state physical violence.72 (ii) Mega sale of PSUs.73 (iii) “Economic reforms”.74 (iv) Stepped up trashing of environmental norms and safeguards.75 (v) Tightening the grip over the education infrastructure and institutions. 76 (vi) Further defanging of watchdog institutions.77 (vii) More repressive laws, if felt necessary. While the actual (detailed) work plan will evolve and be calibrated, based on the perceived ground situations, and be punctuated with some measures to project a “people-friendly” image78 – to confuse and divide the potential opposition, there is little scope that the general direction would be anything significantly different from the one sketched out above. *It would no longer be business as usual, not even by the standards of the last five years.>>* (Ref:* <* https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSX4J7wt12TDUlBKNQ_x1AiIPFvYKiNay001ceKe6qrZD9kAy_8sdtYNE25Jbwk0A/pub >.) The 'Conclusion' follows. All emphases are in original. Sukla On Mon, 14 Sep 2020, 21:52 Somdeb Lahiri <[email protected] wrote: > It appears that the ability to think and reason is a major > disqualification in our country these days. > https://thewire.in/rights/protests-government-policy-criminal > > > Sent from my iPad > -- 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 view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/greenyouth/CACEsOZi5jqtugVjWukNPUBaH_NCvxoZWY4jkKbsUqFFkBkbhVA%40mail.gmail.com.
