1984 & 2002
This is my comment on Jairus Banaji's comparative analysis of 1984 Delhi and 2004 Gujrat pogroms.
I was also a witness to and active against the 1984 massacre and when the Commercial pilot son of the then "queen", who inherited the mantle of governance justified the pogrom by nsaying that when big tree fells the earth shakes. (BADA PED GIRTA HAI TO DHARTI HILTI HI HAI). Also I spent a fortnight in visiting various affected areas in Gujrat in 2002. Both were state sponsored pogroms. Both fetched electoral gains on the cost of lives, property and dignity of minorities. Not only this, both are equally loyal servants of the US imperialism. The difference between various ruling class parties is the same as the difference between Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Montek Singh Ahluwalia and Montek Singh Ahluwalia, or for that matter same as between Chidambaram, Chidambaram and Chidambaram, I totally agree with Jairus Banaji that 1984 gave the BJP formed in 1980 by erstwhile Jansangh (Parliamentry wing of RSS) on the facade of Gandhian Socialism and was quite defensive on its communal agenda, the idea of aggressive communalism beginning with Shila Poojans and air-conditioned automated Rath Yatras under the leadership of hard core communal bigot LK Advani, the mentor of his own nemesis, Narendra Modi. I totally agree with Kapil Bhai on the question of our silence opn Bhagalpur, Bhiwandi, Varanasi(1991), Meerut, Maliana etc. No one knows about how many PAC( a thoroughly communalised force) men who gunned down scores of Muslims at Maliana at maliana in 1987, have been prosecuted. During our recent fact-finding visits to Muzaffarnagar, a victim of tacit Modi-Mulayam alliance, every time we passed through Maliana, memories of 1987 greatly saddened and plunged into painful introspection about our inability to counter the ideologies of communal/caste hatred in all these years. Its not only just 1984 and 2002 pogroms and adherence and devotion to neo-liberal imperialist policies, but the Congress and the BJP also match with each other in fake encounters. The Banzaras and Pandeys are lamenting in jails regretting (perhaps) their devotion to their erstwhile human-God in place of their conviction and commitment to Reason and the constitution but the Cops responsible for Batala House fake encounters are made into heroes as the government has refused a judicial probe in the name of "national security", the biggest threat to the dissenting voices. Its true of the all ruling class parties matching one another in corruption, ideological bankruptcy, lack of vision and the ideas pro-people programs and policies and loyalty to neo-liberal imperialism. The tested tactic of ruling classes is to overplay and overproject their minor (most of the times artificial) contradictions to distract from and blunt the edge of the major contradictions. the populist, neo-liberal AAP is not the solution of the miseries confronting the country due to the level of the social consciousness vulnerable to manipulation and exploitation by the vested interests. The existing left parties for whatsoever reason have not been able to catalyze the rise of expected progressive social consciousnesses. It is time for non-party left to introspect and think of their role and contributions in this regard.
This is my comment on Jairus Banaji's comparative analysis of 1984 Delhi and 2004 Gujrat pogroms.
I was also a witness to and active against the 1984 massacre and when the Commercial pilot son of the then "queen", who inherited the mantle of governance justified the pogrom by nsaying that when big tree fells the earth shakes. (BADA PED GIRTA HAI TO DHARTI HILTI HI HAI). Also I spent a fortnight in visiting various affected areas in Gujrat in 2002. Both were state sponsored pogroms. Both fetched electoral gains on the cost of lives, property and dignity of minorities. Not only this, both are equally loyal servants of the US imperialism. The difference between various ruling class parties is the same as the difference between Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Montek Singh Ahluwalia and Montek Singh Ahluwalia, or for that matter same as between Chidambaram, Chidambaram and Chidambaram, I totally agree with Jairus Banaji that 1984 gave the BJP formed in 1980 by erstwhile Jansangh (Parliamentry wing of RSS) on the facade of Gandhian Socialism and was quite defensive on its communal agenda, the idea of aggressive communalism beginning with Shila Poojans and air-conditioned automated Rath Yatras under the leadership of hard core communal bigot LK Advani, the mentor of his own nemesis, Narendra Modi. I totally agree with Kapil Bhai on the question of our silence opn Bhagalpur, Bhiwandi, Varanasi(1991), Meerut, Maliana etc. No one knows about how many PAC( a thoroughly communalised force) men who gunned down scores of Muslims at Maliana at maliana in 1987, have been prosecuted. During our recent fact-finding visits to Muzaffarnagar, a victim of tacit Modi-Mulayam alliance, every time we passed through Maliana, memories of 1987 greatly saddened and plunged into painful introspection about our inability to counter the ideologies of communal/caste hatred in all these years. Its not only just 1984 and 2002 pogroms and adherence and devotion to neo-liberal imperialist policies, but the Congress and the BJP also match with each other in fake encounters. The Banzaras and Pandeys are lamenting in jails regretting (perhaps) their devotion to their erstwhile human-God in place of their conviction and commitment to Reason and the constitution but the Cops responsible for Batala House fake encounters are made into heroes as the government has refused a judicial probe in the name of "national security", the biggest threat to the dissenting voices. Its true of the all ruling class parties matching one another in corruption, ideological bankruptcy, lack of vision and the ideas pro-people programs and policies and loyalty to neo-liberal imperialism. The tested tactic of ruling classes is to overplay and overproject their minor (most of the times artificial) contradictions to distract from and blunt the edge of the major contradictions. the populist, neo-liberal AAP is not the solution of the miseries confronting the country due to the level of the social consciousness vulnerable to manipulation and exploitation by the vested interests. The existing left parties for whatsoever reason have not been able to catalyze the rise of expected progressive social consciousnesses. It is time for non-party left to introspect and think of their role and contributions in this regard.
What about the role of Media?
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