Irresponsible speeches - Togadia & Modi in Kerala // Amit Shah & Azam Khan in UP

An illustration of a communal speech by the RSS/BJP network : Link to speech by VHP leader Praveen Togadia in February 2014 in Kerala. See the section lasting 7 minutes when he says 'Don't forget Muzaffarnagar, Gujarat and Khokrajhar'.   
     

Politicians using opportunities for what is expedient and what’s popular is not unusual, but if the opportunity used is to slam India’s development model state as a “nursery of terrorism”, it is irresponsible. That too by a man who is waiting to become the prime minister of India. Speaking at an election meeting in the northern tip of Kerala, Kasargode, Narendra Modi said on Tuesday that the state has become “a nursery of terrorism” - which essentially means that the state breeds and trains terrorists! "Kerala had the potential to become a tourism hub but has been converted into a nursery of terrorism," he said. This is the problem with national leaders darting across the country, without sufficient preparation, but only equipped to awe and shock the public. Modi did it yet again, but failed to shock the people of the state because either they don’t take him seriously or they are too confident about the communal harmony that the state embodies. What Modi has done is amplify the odd cases of some "terrorists" being caught elsewhere in the country and traced to the state where they had been apparently trained. What he misses, perhaps deliberately, is that minorities (Muslims and Christians) account for nearly half the population and by and large the state is communally peaceful. Both the Muslims and Christians are part of the ruling coalition and they are the state’s biggest protection against any radicalisation of faith.
http://www.firstpost.com/politics/modi-calls-kerala-nursery-of-terrorism-scare-tactics-fail-1472063.html

The Election Commission Wednesday sought details of Uttar Pradesh Minister Mohd Azam Khan's speech in which he said the Kargil war was won solely because of Muslim soldiers. The minister Tuesday had allegedly said the Kargil peaks were not conquered by Hindu soldiers, but by Muslim soldiers, while addressing an election rally in Ghaziabad where he was campaigning for Samajwadi party candidate Nahid Hasan.
The Election Commission has asked to view tapes of Amit Shah's call for revenge against those who were 'protecting' the killers of Jats, during an interaction in Uttar Pradesh. The EC action follows a complaint by the Congress, over what they called his "provocative hate speech", demanding that he be arrested and banned from campaigning for "creating animosity between communities" in western UP. “This election is about voting out the government that protects and gives compensation to those who killed Jats,” Shah had reportedly said. “It is about badla (revenge) and protecting izzat (honour)".


Popular posts from this blog

Third degree torture used on Maruti workers: Rights body

Haruki Murakami: On seeing the 100% perfect girl one beautiful April morning

The Almond Trees by Albert Camus (1940)

Satyagraha - An answer to modern nihilism

Rudyard Kipling: critical essay by George Orwell (1942)

Three Versions of Judas: Jorge Luis Borges

Goodbye Sadiq al-Azm, lone Syrian Marxist against the Assad regime