Secularism in its mutated format of majority-bashing flavour is not an idea in
India any more, it has developed into an industry. The entire media
thrives on this skewed understanding of secularism. It is used as a
protection by a selected few individuals among the vast population of
minority to keep on exploiting their supporters. It pays to side with
an NGO that supports this violated form of secularism as (a la
Teesta) money starts pouring in. This industry provides a cover to
many minority institutions to hide their activities of conversion.
Human activism as a byproduct of this industry helps many groups in
hiding their anti-nationalist intentions and activities. Corruption
happens to be the end product of this industry. Seculars are so
overflowing with leaders like Lalus, Mulayams, Kapils, Mamtas,
Jayalalitas and Rajas that it becomes impossible to find a clean
leader among them. And even if with some great difficulty you are
able to identify a small fry with a clean history, the culture of
secularism makes them difficult to accept that clean individual as
their leader.
After the emergence of BJP in India, this nearly century-old secularism
industry has been hit very hard. What adds to the discomfort of
these seculars is the fact that the nationalist party has no dearth of financially
clean leaders who are devoted to their ideology. A clean leader on the
top makes these seculars uncomfortable – it becomes difficult for
them to breathe corruption. They find no other way but to follow the
same old tactics that they had been pursuing ever since Modi became
the CM of Gujarat. These elements keep on trying to portray a picture
that is very far from the hard reality. They kept on doing the chest-beating on
the alleged poor and dismal condition of minorities in Gujarat while
the reality has remained opposite to their claims if their status is
compared with the other states in India. The rise of minorities in
Gujarat during Modi's tenure is an example enough to shut these
laud-mouths up but they would not do that as they earn their living
on this. I dare these close-minds to first rise above their vested
interest and then honestly analyze why an RSS man Modi saved a
minority 'Father Alexis' from Taliban – they would immediately realize that RSS and
Modi are actually following our true tradition and ancient-pure form
of secularism. They consider all Indians as Hindus - a word that helps them in discovering a deeper connect within the fellow nationals.
