![]() ![]() Life in India has become fearful and intimidating for minorities, as a muscular nationalism is paraded on the streets by self-appointed custodians of a shallow political morality by the semi-fascist forces known as Hindutva. ![]() (Siddiqui, 2019 also, 2020a) Modi is systematically dismantling India’s plural structure. Some policies recently introduced by the Modi government seem to be the manifestation of a “long term project of the Hindutva movement” which rests largely on the policy of undermining the democratic rights of religious minorities, particularly Muslims, and “suppressing dissent and protest”. Muslim population is nearly 200 million or 15 % of the India’s population. If Modi wants to remember he should remember on occasion to bind people together not blaming only Muslim and thus dividing Indian people, pointing finger about partition at Muslims. Modi has chosen August 14 as ‘Remembrance Day’, both countries India and Pakistan suffered loss of life. ![]() Therefore, it will be interesting to examine this issue based on historical facts. ![]() Recently India’s Prime Minister Mr Narendra Modi again brought the issues of India’s partition and tried to blame it on Muslim League’s leader Muhammad Ali Jinnah and the Indian National Congress (hereafter Congress Party), especially Jawaharlal Nehru. ![]()
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