Bangalore:
Miraj and Kolhapur in Maharashtra are getting ready for a Hindu-Muslim communal clash if the RSS drum-beatings are any indication. For the past few months it has been whipping up anti-Muslim hatred in these places. And lately, Bijapur in Karnataka is also getting ripe for such an explosion.
Puttur, 50 km. away from Mangalore, noted for its communal peace is being rocked by communal violence since Nov. 23, when several Muslim shops and mosques were attacked during broad day light. The communal unrest in all these places is a direct result of the recent miss conversion of Untouchables to Islam in TN. But RSS has used this as a pretext to attack Muslim life and property. The twin object behind the move: keeping Untouchables under permanent Hindu slavery and not giving peace to Muslims. Following the Rahatmat Nagar mass conversion of Untouchables to Islam, the RSS has launched a countrywide crusade against Muslims and Christians culminating in the massive Virat Hindu Sammelan in Delhi Hindu unity conferences are being held in every town and city. This sudden love for “Hindus” is not to organise and unite Hindus, as the RSS says, but to turn the Hindu lumpen proletariat against Muslims and Christians.
The RSS and its lackeys like Karan Singh who continue to shed gallons of tears over Rahamat Nagar conversion of Untouchables, never bothered to issue even a statement when in Deoli 42 Dalits were shot dead by the Hindus themselves. In Rahamat Nagar it was not a case of Muslims killing Untouchables. The Untouchables said they sought refuge in Islam to escape from Hindu tyranny. Conversion, therefore, has actually helped them, but the Hindu orthodoxy which wept for months and months had not a drop of tear to shed over the brutal murder of Dalits at Deoli. What double standards! On the other hand the RSS and its drummer boys are busy engineering communal trouble in different parts of India. But with all this propaganda against conversions, including the threat to ban conversion, the Dalits are continuing to get out of Hinduism. In Delhi itself there was a big conversion ceremony right in the Jama Masjid, pre-sided over by the Shahi Imam and blessed by Jagjivan Ram.
Meanwhile, the Organiser (Nov. 22) has given clear indication about the communal trouble brewing in Miraj and Kolhapur “The increasing influx into certain areas of south and west Maharashtra of Arab nationals with their petrodollars and their nefarious ways has brought a new awakening to the Hindus. One such centre is Miraj in Sangli district. Trouble started two and a half years ago when a large number of rich Arabs came to Miraj on the pretext of seeking medical treatment. Miraj has become an aggressive Islamic centre. Many new hotels have come up to cater to the special requirements of the visitors from Arab lands-and they are flourishing. Another celebration was that of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar’s birth anniversary. The procession was led by Harijans.” At Bijapur the “national press” is being used by the same section to whip up anti-Muslim feeling. Another important feature is the RSS bid to befriend the Dalits by observing Ambedkar birth and death anniversaries. At Miraj the RSS-sponsored Hindu Ekta meeting observed Ambedkar birth anniversary in which Dalits participated. RSS has started worshiping Ambedkar in a big way. They are repeating what they did to Gandhi. When Gandhi was alive, they made his life miserable and finally shot him dead. After killing him they took over Gandhism, and today almost every Gandhian institution is monopolised by this section. “Gandhian socialism” is made the political philosophy of the BJP.
Militant Dalits fear that RSS is out to repeat the same with Ambedkar. The sudden RSS love for Ambedkar, they fear, is intended to befriend the Dalits and use them as cannon fodder to attack Muslims and Christians. Ambedkarites have warned Dalits all over India to beware of this new-found love of the RSS towards Ambedkar. In days to come Ambedkar may slip out of Dalit hands. Organiser (Dec. 6) has called Yusuf, formerly Tangaraj, as the villain of Meenakshipuram. “To ensure communal harmony and peace rowdy Yususf must be arrested. If the Govt. and the police do not act immediately worst things may follow”, it says. This is a clear warning that the RSS is hell-bent to create a communal clash in Rahatmatnagar. It also comes out with another cock and bull story about the “fundamental right” to take out religious processions before mosques. By this it means that the Hindus have the right to take out processions before the mosque. To support this it quotes a recent (Nov. 9) Supreme Court judgment on the 130-year-old dispute between Shias and Sunnis of Varanasi. But the Organiser also quotes that the SC has put 3 conditions to take out such processions. Firstly, the procession is subjected to the order of the authorities who are responsible for regulating the traffic; secondly, exercise of the right must not violate any order of the magistrate passed under the law; thirdly there should be no infringement with the right of the public. Minorities will have to assert their rights. On the whole, from the issue of conversion to cinema, anything is good enough for the RSS to attack Muslims.
