Post-Bihar Poll: Where do we go from here?

A Short Take By

Dr Mohammad Manzoor Alam

The Bihar elections have delivered a staggering blow to the NDA. They may not be a game-changer, but they certainly point to possibilities of a better performance by a secular front in the future.

The havoc BJP and its Sangh affiliates have created over the last 18 months is there for all of us to see. That what is called “intolerance” is a fact of life is reflected not only in award returns by some of our brightest talents, it is also there in the huge protest rallies against it in London.

However, calling what is being wreaked upon the weak in India mere “intolerance” is like calling Hitler, Mother Teresa. This is not the appropriate word to describe our situation as Arundhati says, “Lynching, shooting, burning is not just intolerance”.

The Institute of Objective Studies expects from our experienced and excellent journalists, academics and writers, who have a wide experience of the world, whose insights are sharply honed, whose sympathies are broad, who are meticulous chroniclers of the present and crystal gazers into future, to analyse it to have some idea of future trends.

We hope the above classes will give us certain leads on where the country is headed. We are apprehensive about future because our celibate, non-smoking, vegetarian, teetotaler Prime Minister is a great bhakt of another similar person who rose in the 1930s to fall in 1945.

Because the senior vegetarian liked to identify and try to annihilate the scapegoats for his failures, our man is also prone to doing that. The earlier virtuous man thought that Jews, aided by communists and liberals were responsible for his failures, our man, too, has a readymade scapegoat in Muslims, Christians, communists and liberals, to blame for his and India’s failures. And his failures over the last 18 months are too numerous to be counted on the figures of two hands. And, this is not a good situation for the weak.

Let us look at some of them. In West Bengal the PM, in his first flush of victory, announced grandly that he would soon launch a railway reform that will make this great national asset modern and highly productive. Soon after that he said that it was too complicated to be tried anytime too soon.

He was to bring home all the black money parked abroad which would be in such huge quantity that he would deposit Rs 15 lakh in every Indian’s bank account as a Diwali gift from the sarkar. When people asked his Man Friday, Amit Shah, about the delay in the money coming into their bank accounts, Shah shrugged the question off, declaring: “that was a mere election jumla.” We, the victims of such jumlabazi, wonder how wise it is to believe any announcement coming from such people.

The banking industry is complaining that the millions of non-functional bank accounts opened for Jan Dhan have put additional burden of expenditure on them, compounding their troubles. These financial institutions had already been in trouble and the Prime Minister had promised bank reforms. Instead of doing that he is using the banks for fanciful populist schemes. The latest Credit Suisse report warns that India’s banking industry can collapse if its problems are not quickly addressed.

In mere 18 months this government has completely alienated neighbours, including the good old faithful Nepal, with whom the PM professed to have good relations. Today these ties are at the lowest ebb in decades.

The economy is not looking up despite cheap oil. Investors in New York and London are hesitant to plough in their money amid such uncertainty.

To give a boost to our economic growth, reform and simplification of the tax system is a priority. Knowing it, the Prime Minister had promised a prompt move towards tax reform. Like everything else, he has shelved this too, indefinitely. Naturally, it does not bode well for our growth, business and investment.

The magician is losing charm by the hour, running out of tricks. We fear he may plan something like Gujarat 2002 (the dreaded Gujarat Model), or even a war, to recapture our attention. God forbid, our fears seem plausible in the light of our experience. Scapegoats and diversions come handy in such situation.

We will be happy to have a more hopeful scenario from professional experts.
It should be both optimistic and realistic.

Author can be contacted at : manzooralamdr@gmail.com

Bihar sets the trend

By Dr Mohammad Manzoor Alam

With their political maturity and fresh thinking the people of Bihar have set a trend which is likely to be followed in other state assembly elections in near future.

This trend shows that the electorate has moved away from identity politics and anti-Muslim hysteria of Parliament elections. Not that the BJP did not try to recreate its familiar magic by demonizing Muslims.

Amit Shah, who is a past master at divisive, hate-driven politics, tried his old tricks like making insinuations about the “enemy”. In Raxaul, on the Indo-Nepalese border, he spread the canard that the area was a hotbed of “terrorism.”

Champaran Satyagrah

He tried to subtly suggest that the Muslim population in Champaran (from where Gandhiji launched the freedom struggle) was involved in terrorism, while the fact is that not a single person from the area has been accused of terrorism, much less involved in a court case regarding it. And, naturally, there is no question of any terrorism outside Shah’s conspiratorial mind.

Given as he is to such thinking, he said if BJP lost in Bihar, Pakistan would rejoice. This again is a veiled reference to Indian Muslims, as all through the 2002 anti-Muslim killings in Gujarat the top BJP leadership in and outside government was saying they had taught Pakistan and Mian Musharraf (General Musharraf) a lesson. How come?

The Sangh and its offshoots like BJP and Bajrang Dal have developed their own language. If Babu Bajrangi, who was accused of mass murder of Muslims, tells you something about “Pakistan”, he means Muslim areas like Juhapura in Ahmedabad. This is common language between them. It is not clear which Pakistan Shah was talking about.

BJP did everything to communalise the situation, and failed, unlike in Gujarat and UP. Even the Prime Minister twice tried to demonise Muslims and unleash a conflict between Muslims on one side and OBCs, Mahadalits and Dalits on the other. He said on two consecutive days in Buxar and Betiah that Lalu-Nitish would “steal” their reservation and pass it on to a community. Everybody knows, of course, which community he was referring to.

Often people have wondered whether the PM had breached his constitutional oath by trying to create enmity among communities. When nothing worked, they brought in the fail-safe, fool-proof cow in the last phase, breaching the electoral code.

Biharis are praiseworthy for they have seen through this vicious mischief, all of which was based on demonisation of a sizeable part of the population. There should be no surprise. After all, this is the land where Buddha got his enlightenment, Chandragupta Maurya and Ashoka had their empires that ruled up to Kabul and Kandahar, happened to be the home of Khuda Bakhsh Khan, Mazharul Haque and Rajendra Prasad. Even the JP movement that threw up Nitish and Lalu began there. Bihar has the potential to lead. It is a trend-setter. Has always been.

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Bihar stes the trend  
With their political maturity and fresh thinking the people of Bihar have set a trend which is likely to be followed in other state assembly elections in near future.
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💥پیغام اتحاد ہے جهاں تک پہونچے💥

🔨بلا کسی تے ایک فکر ایک اتحادی پیغام نوجوانان اسلام کےنام


ہماری سب سے بڑی کمزوری یہ ہے کہ ہمارے اندر سے جماعتی نظام مفقود ہوگیا ہے ہمیں ضرورت ہے ایک جماعت بنکر رہنے کی ہمیں ضرورت ہے ایمان و یقین کے ساتہ ساتھ بصارت و بصیرت کی اور اس درد کو تڑپ کو کڑہن کو امام الہند مولانا ابوالکلام آزاد رح نے اپنے رخصت ہوجانے تک محسوس کیا اور اپنی سحر انگیز خطابت میں ہمیشہ یہی فرمایا کرتے تھے (کہ محض جماعتی قوت کی نمائش کا کوئ فائدہ نہی کمیٹیاں تشکیل دی جائیں کانفرنسیں منعقد کروائ جائیں یہ تمام تر اجتماعی نمائشیں ہیں جن پر بهیڑ کا اطلاق تو ہوسکتا ہے جماعت کا نہی بهیڑ اور جماعت میں فرق ہے بهیڑ بازار میں دیکهی جاسکتی ہے جب کوئ تماشہ ہورہا ہو جماعت جمعہ کے دن مسجدوں میں دیکهی جاسکتی ہے جب ہزاروں انسانوں کی منظم اور مرتب صفیں ایک مقصد، ایک جهت، اور ایک حالت، ایک ہی امام کے پیچھے مجتمع ہوجاتی ہے اس کے علاوہ نہ تو جماعت ہے اور نہ امت اور نہ قوم اور نہ اجتماع اینٹیں ہوسکتی ہیں مگر دیوار نہی کنکر ہوسکتے ہیں مگر پہاڑ نہی قطرے ہوسکتے ہیں مگر دریا نہی)
آج ہم کڑیوں کی شکل میں بکهرے پڑے ہیں کیا ہم زنجیر کی مضبوط کڑی نہی بن سکتے؟ جو بڑے بڑے جہازوں کو گرفتار کر لے اور جکڑلےہر طرف باطل طوفان منہ کهولے کهڑے ہیں ایسے نازک وقت میں اسلام کی بقا کیلئے اور خود کو توٹنے اور بکهر نے سے پہلے ہمیں منظم ہونا ہوگا ایک جماعت بنکر رہنا ہوگا اپنے عزائم اپنے ارادوں اور اپنی قوتوں کو تسلسل اور استقلال کے سات اور مضبوط کرنا ہوگا فخر سے سر بلند ہوتا ہے اور حوصلوں کو تقویت ملتی ہے جب میں اپنے بزرگ مؤسس التبليغ مولانا الیاس کاندہلوی مرحوم کی کی تحریک کو دیکهتا ہوں جو ایک سو تراسی 183 ملکوں میں نہایت ہی فعال اور متحرک انداز میں صحراؤں اور سفینوں میں اپنے فریضہ کو انجام دیتی نظر آتی ہے اللہ ہی جانتے ہیں کہ کس اخلاص سے انهوں نے امت کی اس بهیڑ کو نہایت خاموشی سے ایک جماعت بنانے کا کام عظیم قربانیاں دیکر کیا اور اللہ رب العالمین نے ان کو ابدی کامیابی عطا فرمائ سلام علی الیاس انہ کان من المحسنين غالبا یہی وہ بات تهی جس کے پیش نظر مولانا الیاس کاندہلوی مرحوم نے حضرت مدنی رح سے ایک بار کہاتها کہ آپ لوگ جو کام کررہے ہیں میں اس کی فوج تیار کررہا ہوں. کاش یہ لڑیاں اور کڑیاں پہر سے مربوط ہو جائیں اور کسی طوفان نوح سے قبل ہم ساحل مراد پر واپس آجائیں اور میں یقین سے کہہ تا ہوں جب تک دعوت و تبلیغ کی دنیا آباد ہے جب تک تقوی کی عظمت باقی ہے جب تک یہ قافلہ اعمال و اخلاق کی قیمت برقرار ہے اس وقت تک حضرت مولانا الیاس کاندہلوی رح کا نام نامی سینوں میں اور سفینوں میں زندہ اور محفوظ رہے گا اس وقت مولانا مرحوم کی اس تحریک سے سبق لینے اور سیکهنے کی ضرورت ہے نہی تو پہلے بهی ہماری اجتماعی قوت کا شیرازہ بکهیر دیا گیا ہے تقسیم وطن کے نام سےاور آج بھی مصائب اور غیر معمولی حوادث کی آندھیاں ہمارے سامنے کهڑی ہیں ہر جگہ مسلمانوں کے لئے عرصہ حیات تنگ کر دیا گیا ہے چاہے وہ امریکہ وإسرائيل کا دہشت گردانہ طغیان ہو یا شیعہ کافر کا برپا کیا ہوا فساد ہو یا ہندوستان کے ہندوؤں کی گندی سازشی سیاست ہو کفر چاہے جس شکل میں ہو مسلمان ہر طرف مشکلات اور مایوسیوں کی دهند میں بے یارو مددگار سے ہوکر رہ گئے ہیں عدم تحفظ کے احساس نے زندگی جینے کا حوصلہ جیسے ختم ہی کردیا ہے یاد رکهو مسلمانو اگر ایسے حالات میں بھی ایک قوم ایک جماعت نہ بن سکے تو اس روئے زمین پر ہمارے مدرسے ہیں خانقاہیں ہیں ہمارے پرکھوں کے مزارات ہیں ہمارے تاریخی آثار ہیں جو ہمیں تاقیامت پکاریں گے اور کہیں نگےکیوں ہمیں بے یارو مددگار چهوڑا کیوں ہمیں غیر آباد کرکے خود برباد ہوگئے
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وہ 313 تهے تو لرز تا تها زمانہ
والسلام علیورحموبرکاتہال

Victory for the Grand Alliance. Mahagathbandhan ki MahaJeet.

 Congratulations to the Mahagathbandhan in Bihar. It is a victory for the lesser evil, but a good lesson for polarising BJP leaders such as Sakshi Maharaj and Yogi Adityanath. I hope that at least now, the Prime Minister will ensure that these hate mongers are not allowed to dominate the agenda. That polarisation doesn’t always help win votes is clear.

When Arun Shourie expressed his disappointment with the NDA’s declining popularity, it was brushed aside by BJP leaders due to overconfidence. The Delhi Assembly results, coming so soon after a spectacular show by the BJP in the general elections, should have warned the party that there is a silent undercurrent moving against it coming to power in States. Its election strategy should have focused on gaining the confidence of voters and not on personalised campaigning. The BJP failed to see the warning signals and has paid the price.

The outlook is gloomy for the BJP. This results is clear message to either improve governance or face the rout in future elections as well.

Victory for the Grand Alliance in Bihar is a victory of love over hatred, of tolerance over intolerance, of secularism over growing communalism. The real credit for this decisive victory goes to the patience and far-sighted leadership of Nitish Kumar. He has once again proved his political acumen and shown that true leadership involves not dividing people on sectarian grounds but uniting them on common ideals of peace and prosperity despite having differences and diversities. However, the real test, for both Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad, lies ahead. They, along with the Congress, have to understand that people have voted for them with great hope. They have to fulfil the aspirations of a large section of the young population that seeks better infrastructure, education and employment.

The landslide victory of the Grand Alliance in the Bihar elections proves that the bedrock of secularism on which Indian democracy was founded is safe. The dispassionate observer was watching with growing anguish the recent developments in India.

 The Prime Minster of India is the head of a pluralistic society with multifarious interests. He should not just satisfy himself with mob oratory and unfulfilled promises. He should be a champion of the teeming millions and, by his words and deeds, commit himself to the all-round development of the country, irrespective of his political and personal leanings. Further, he should be respectful of our ideals, the time-tested values of truth, socialism, democracy and secularism. Bihar has shown in unmistakable terms that Indian democracy is far too sturdy to be swept away by fissiparous tendencies.

Bihar election results have once again proved that regional heroes have an upper-hand over national figures when it comes to State elections. It is the second-consecutive debacle for the BJP after the Delhi elections. It is time for the BJP to introspect and hone its governance skills to regain the confidence it enjoyed earlier, that resulted in its Lok Sabha victory.

 Congratulations to Mr. Nitish Kumar for scoring a hat-trick, and I hope he meets the people’s expectations.
The results will check the spread of the BJP in eastern India as Bihar is the gateway to the eastern part of the country. The BJP should take a lesson from this result and follow the advice of Moody’s Analytics, which warned the Prime Minister that unless he steps in to rein in members of the party, India runs the risk of losing credibility. It is also advisable that Mr. Modi avoid involving himself too much in State elections as it becomes a PM vs. CM battle, which is against the spirit of our federal structure.

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Murder is no ordinary issue

by Dr Mohammad Manzoor Alam

The Dussehra address of the RSS chief is by now an established ritual to which Hindutva votaries look forward with great excitement and expectation. Even common Indians, not affiliated to the Sangh, are interested in it as it shows the Sangh mind and its prospective targets among religious minorities. This year’s address was no different as it subtly hinted at the Sangh’s attitude towards the victims of its myriads of secondary organisations.

Under the NDA government different kinds of attacks on Muslims and Christians have grown tremendously. With the Sangh propaganda against Muslims and Christians at peak, functionaries of Sangh’s affiliate organisations have created havoc. Anti-minorities venom has been spread all over the country and riots have become a common occurrence.

On one hand, over the last 16 months or so, the Sangh has brainwashed Dalits against Muslims and used them in anti-Muslim violence, on the other, Dalit women have been publicly and routinely raped and subjected to violence. The recent murder of Dalit children in Haryana has brought the cruelty against the weak to a new height. The Haryana chief minister, a hardened RSS man, does not think much of the murder. In an extraordinary show of cruelty the children were burnt to death as others were subjected to grotesque violence.

This case of insane barbarity followed in the wake of the Dadri murder, in which a man was killed on the mere suspicion of keeping beef in his fridge. The unlucky man, Akhlaq, in his, 50s, was lynched by a Hindu mob which also attacked his 20-year old son, who had been battling for his life in ICU of a hospital in the national capital for days when we heard the last of him. Preliminary police reports said the animal flesh in his fridge was mutton, not beef. Samples of the flesh were sent by the UP government to a forensic laboratory to determine whether it was beef.

Now, the point is, if it was beef, does the law prescribe death by lynching for keeping or eating beef? If not, who are these Sangh-trained goraksha (cow protection) volunteers to lynch someone? Who are they to take the law in their hands? This year Sangh men created great violence countrywide over this issue against Muslims. Does the law permit it? If not, what has the law done to contain this mischief? The plain answer is: nothing, which shows that it will grow in years ahead.

In his Dussehra address the RSS chief, who heads the family of Hindutva organisations, complained that the media had blown non-issues out of proportion. That forces one to ask, “Is mob justice and lynching an ordinary issue? Is murder a non-issue? Is the public burning of Dalits a day-to-day, petty event? What scale of barbarity will satisfy you and fulfill your criteria for a major issue?

We must keep it in mind that trivialising a heinous crime and anaesthetising people to it is a more serious crime than murder itself. Claiming that a barbaric lynching by a criminal mob, or burning Dalits to death is a non-issue is an attempt at normalising extreme violence against the weak. Once we normalise murder, it will become routine. Even law enforcement agencies will take it as something ordinary which does not need attention, much less protest, not to talk of justice.

By trying to normalise violence against the weak, Shri Mohan Bhagwat has done a great disservice to India.

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Murder is no ordinary issue Dr Mohammad Manzoor Alam's take on Dussehra address by RSS chief
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