By Syed Ali Mujtaba
Internationally, there are some serious developments taking place with regard to Citizenship Amendment Act, National Citizenship Register that has triggered massive social unrest in India also pertaining to human rights violation that’s going on in Kashmir now entering into its fifth month.
In this regard the first development has taken place at Kuala Lumpur on December 18, 2019 at the Islamic summit where Malaysian president Mahatir Mohammad lambasted India for tampering with its secular character.
The nonagerian leader who is widely respected world over has called India’s claim over Kashmir as fraud and termed Indian forces in Kashmir as occupation forces. He also talked about Citizenship Amendment Bill in India and linked it with 1, 78 million Hindu population living in his country. He obliquely pointed that if he meddled with his country’s Hindu population, what may be the fall out.
Close on the heels of the Kuala Lumpur Summit, the Organization of Islamic Countries has announced to hold a special meeting of the Islamic Organization in Islamabad in April 2020. This meeting is convened to discuss India’s policy on Kashmir and Citizenship Amendment Act and National Citizenship Register in India.
The 57 member OIC had earlier had asked India to take back the abrogation of article 370 and restore human rights in Kashmir. Three OIC member countries Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh are peeved at recently Citizenship Amendment Act in India which explicitly indicts them to be committing atrocities on Hindu minorities in their country. The OIC has also taken notice of the National Citizens Register being prepared in Assam that is going to take away the Indian citizenship of a large number of Muslims and will be sent to detention camps.
These are major announcements that are happening on international fronts with regard to the so called internal policy of India. The Kuala Lumpur summit and the OIC special meet in Islamabad are wake up calls to the mavericks of power siting at the ‘Delhi Darbar’ that its internal policies have international ramification. India which is also a member of the OIC is finding hard to defend its act and searching means and ways for damage control exercise. The government of the day is on the lookout for Muslim friendly countries in the OIC to build lobby from any anti-Indian resolution being passed at the OIC meeting in Islamabad in April.
The OIC members can broach over the idea to pass a resolution that all the Hindu Indian nationals working in the gulf region should be asked to leave within in a short notice. The other resolution that could be considered at the OIC would be to put a moratorium on the sale of crude oil to India.
Since suggestions and requests has unable to move the Indian leadership from relenting from its anti- Muslim policies, the OIC are within its rights to draft its internal policy to pay back India in its own coin.
God forbids that OIC may not flex its muscle on India to protect its religious brethren living in India but in case if it happens, what plan of action the current government has in place to stem the backlash. It’s simple these moves are enough to trigger the people to unseat those who got fraudulent majority through rigged EVM and have come to power and making rules and regulations that are to ruin the country.
Well some may laugh at my kite flying of ideas, but then examples are galore when Indians had to face such hardships before. In 1962, in Burma, when General Ne Win who assumed power through coup, he asked Indian’s to pack off just with the cloths they were wearing from his country. It was a mammoth crisis that India had to face as well as the hardship Indians living there faced. India had to arrange aircraft and ferries to take back its citizen from that country.
Then on August 7, 1972, Ugandan dictator Idi Amin demanded that Ugandans with Asian ancestry (some 60,000 Indians) leave the country within 90 days.
In order to defuse any such crisis and that may lead to operation “Air lift,” two comments made by two non-state actors needs to be dissected as why it has been made from the authorities that is the fountainhead of Hindutva ideology.
The first statement comes from RSS spokesperson, Ram Madhav, who said that Jammu and Kashmir will soon get back its statehood status. His statement assumes significance because he is ‘Nobody’ in the BJP government, and yet he is making such profound statement and that too with such great deal of authority. Why he is making such statement that goes against its government’s stand?
The second statement comes from RSS supremo Mohan Bhagvat who says that Pakistani’s are brothers and India must make peace with Pakistan. Again why he is making such statement that goes against its government’s anti-Pakistan stand?
No if we piece together these two statements that has come one after the other by these non-state actors of India, it reflects the agony of the Hindu mind that is peeved at the international concern at internal developments in India.
Everyone knows that after Balakot Air attack and abrogation of Article 370 in Kashmir, India Pakistan relationship has dipped to its lowest ebb. Indian Army Chief has said that situation on the line of control is so bad that any time war can break out with Pakistan. Indian Prime Minister has also vowed to teach Pakistan a lesson or two on being good neighbors and has ruled out any talks with Pakistan till it shuns the path of cross border terrorism against India.
In such context, what is the need for the comments made by the non-state actors? Obviously the mandarin of state power in the New Delhi foresees some big announcement being made by the OIC and in order to change the direction of the discourse in India it has egg out these two statements to sober down the lynch frenzy that it has orchestrated through its laws on citizenship.
Well the developments in India certainly has stirred international chord. The protests in the country against CAA and NCR have sent the message is that the din and clatter of street protesting youth are not falling on deaf ears. The fall out of anti-people policy of the government is going to be huge for the country. The voices of protests have signaled that a storm that is brewing up broad that may bode ill for the country. So even though it looks all is well right now but will it be so well in some time to come needs to be watched.
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Syed Ali Mujtaba is a journalist based in Chennai. He can be contacted at syedalimujtaba2007@gmail.com
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