This is
December 26, 2013. A magistrate in the Indian city of Ahmedabad announced the
rejection of Zakia Jaffery's application. Hearing this, Begum Zakia Jaffery had
tears in her eyes and she fainted. But the 74-year-old woman soon regained her
composure and announced that she would continue her jihad against Narendra
Modi. It was Zakia Jaffery's extraordinary courage to publicly challenge her
most important and dangerous leader in a stronghold of extremist Hindus.
When the earthly resurrection came
Zakia
Jafari's tragic journey began on February 28, 2002. She was then living happily
with her family at the Gulberg Society in Ahmedabad, a popular city in Gujarat.
But on the last day of Hindu Sadhus at Godhra railway station
When a
train caught fire, doomsday fell on all the Muslims living in the state.
On February
29, at one o'clock in the afternoon, ten thousand extremist Hindus surrounded
the Gulberg Society. By then, other Muslim families in the city had taken
refuge there. The society was inhabited by Ehsan Jaffery, husband of the famous
Congress leader and Zakia Jaffery. The area was just a mile and a half away
from the police headquarters. Hundreds of Muslims believed that Ehsan Jafari's
influence and proximity to the police would keep him safe in the Gulberg
Society.
But these
unfortunates did not know that Chief Minister Narendra Modi, the master of
black and white in the state, had himself allowed extremist Hindus to play Holi
with the blood of Muslims. He said: "Let them vent their anger." From
February to March 2002, extremists intensified their persecution
of Gujarati Muslims.
Thousands
of Muslim businesses were destroyed. Their savings were looted. At least 2,000
Muslims were martyred. Above all, the trauma that has befallen Gujarati Muslims
have not gone away. The anti-Muslim riots of 2002 made him a second-class
citizen of Gujarat; a citizen who no longer dared to speak out
against atrocities and that was Narendra Modi's wish.
The
metaphor of Hindu extremism in India, the life story of Narendra Modi reveals
that he laid the foundation of his political career by shedding the blood of
thousands of Muslims. Then he continued to develop the politics of hatred,
until he was considered the next Prime Minister of India. He may have great
administrative skills, according to the Indians, but Modi's "essence"
was revealed only when he came across a staunch Muslim enemy.
Born in the bag
Narendra
Modi Dardas Modi was born on October 17, 1950, in the ancient city of Vadnagar,
Gujarat. His parents belonged to the Ghanchi caste which belongs to the Shudra
class. In Gujarat, Ghanchi is engaged in the business of selling oil. However,
Modi's father, Mol, had a large family (six children). He had also opened a tea
house near the railway station to meet his household expenses.
When Modi
was eight years old, he started shaking hands with his father in the tea house.
Whenever a train stopped at the railway station, Modi would handle cups of tea
and run towards the coaches.
At the age
of eight, Modi started moving to the local center of the RSS (Rashtriya
Swayamsevak Singh). There, the RSS children used to train the adults and
inculcate the extremist Hindu ideology "Hind Tova" in their minds.
Modi was a
restless and emotional boy. His greatest wish was to do something so that
everyone would applaud him. So Modi was thirteen years old when he left home to
become something. Where and how he spent the next two years, except for Modi nobody
knows. However, he kept wandering like a sannyasi.
Two years
later, Modi returned home. Now the parents wanted him to marry his childhood
fianc ،e, Jashodha's sister. But Modi
refused to marry. When his parents pressured him, he went to Ahmedabad to fight
with them.
In
Ahmedabad, his uncle used to run a canteen at the bus stand. Modi worked there
for a few months. When some money was collected, Gita started running his tea
house on a bicycle near the temple. There was a Hindu center there. Some preachers
of the Center started drinking tea from Modi's stall and became his friends.
A preacher
took Modi as an employee to the state headquarters of the RSS, Head Guar
Bhawan. Thus began a new chapter in Modi's fast-paced life.
Fat oral work came
Modi, 20,
used to get up early in the morning at Head Guar Fry and prepare tea and
breakfast for 15-16 men. Big and small leaders were to come and go at the RSS
headquarters. The young Modi, due to his fat mouth, soon became close to the
leaders and managed to gain their trust.
Gradually,
he was given organizational tasks, such as reserving buses, opening letters,
and delivering files to various offices. In 1972, Modi spent a month training
at the RSS headquarters (Nagpur). Only after this training did Modi become a
regular propagandist of the RSS.
The RSS
leadership then made him the local head of its student organization, Akhil
Bharatiya and Diyarthi Parishad in the state of Gujarat. After assuming the
same post, Modi's activities revealed that he is extremely arrogant,
egotistical and ambitious.
RSS has
been banned three times since 1947. Each time, the government accused him of
committing acts of violence. That is why RSS leaders do not openly participate
in political activities and behind the scenes lead extremist Hindu parties. But
Narendra Modi broke this rule to make himself stand out.
Aggressive
Once in
1975, the RSS held a protest rally against Indira Gandhi in Ahmedabad. As
usual, the RSS leaders began to criticize the government in a cold tone.
Meanwhile, Modi arrived there. He was furious to see that there was no sign of
protest in the meeting. Modi grabbed the mic and made a scathing speech against
the government. The people liked the speech, but the RSS leaders were very
angry. Later, Modi also faced the party's disciplinary committee.
In fact, it
is Modi's temperament to show aggression and power and in his youth he had
reached the point of bullying. But Modi did his job so skillfully that the RSS
leadership overcame his aggressive nature Ignored.
Whatever the leader gave him, he would be sure that it would be completed on
time.
When Indira
Gandhi declared an emergency, Modi disguised himself and carried out various
party work. He secretly printed anti-government posters in Ahmedabad and sent
them all over India.
Arrangements for meetings and processions were also
entrusted to him. He was well-organized and well-respected.
Narendra
Modi has been climbing the ladder of growth in the RSS due to his relationship
building skills, management skills, and aggressive nature. In 1987, he was made
the Secretary of State for the RSS. Thus, for the first time, Modi also tasted
political power. In every Indian state, the organizing secretary of the RSS
looks after the affairs of his political wing, the BJP (Bharatiya Janata
Party).
Remember,
the state and central presidents of the BJP are public leaders. But both the
RSS and the BJP have the same organizational secretary who does not belong to
the masses. He runs the affairs of the BJP from behind and acts as a bridge
between non-political and political arms.
Modi was
the organizing secretary of the RSS in Gujarat from 1987 to 1995.
Coincidentally, during these years, the BJP emerged as India's largest
political party. He also planted the flag of success in Gujarat. In 1985, it
had only "11" seats in the state assembly. In 1995, that number rose
to 121. At that time, Kishobhai Patel and Shankarsena were the most senior
leaders of the BJP. But by 1995, Modi also emerged as the third force in the
state.
Development continued
During
those nine years, there were three Hindu-Muslim riots in Gujarat, each time
targeting mostly Muslims. This politics of hatred and revenge proved to be
beneficial for the BJP. Its leaders incited the Hindus against the Muslims and succeeded
in getting their votes.
To
capture the Hindu vote at the national level, the BJP organized yatras, rallies, and processions in collaboration with all the extremist parties. The Babri
Masjid was martyred in 1990 during the Ayodhya Rath Yatra. Modi, while staying
at the local level, took an active part in the preparation of all the yatras.
However,
gaining power and influence, Modi became arrogant and self-centered. Now he
wanted the BJP to do what he wanted, but that was the prerogative of senior
leaders. Due to this, Keshu Bhai and Shankar Sahna started disliking the
ambitious Modi.
Meanwhile,
state elections came in February 1995. At that time, the BJP had little
experience in keeping voter records, campaigning, bringing voters, etc. So the
three leaders put their differences behind them and started working together to
win the state elections. He has been in the state for RSS
One and a
half lakh workers of SS, Vishwa Hindu Parishad, Bajrang Dal, etc. were
mobilized. His efforts were successful and the BJP won 121 seats. The Congress
got only 45 votes.
Possessing a conspiratorial mind
Thus, for
For the first time in the state, the BJP formed the government. Keshubhai Patel
became the Chief Minister. Now Modi started walking back and forth in front of
the Chief Minister. Modi would fill his ears against Shankar Sahna and accuse
him of conspiring against the Chief Minister. Modi conspired against the two
senior leaders.
In late
1995, Shankar Sahna threatened to split with his colleagues (half the members
of the Assembly) if he was not made Chief Minister. The matter escalated so
much that Atal Bihari Vajpayee had to come to Ahmedabad from Delhi to resolve
it. The settlement resulted in the third leader, Suresh Mehta, becoming the
Chief Minister. Since Modi also played an important role in this fight, he was
sent to New Delhi as punishment.
In New
Delhi, Modi was made the BJP's small organizational national secretary and
assigned the states of Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Chandigarh and Jammu, and Kashmir. In fact, this punishment proved to be very useful for Modi.
Because at the BJP headquarters, he was close to national leaders and he was
able to increase his influence. Even when Vajpayee was elected Prime Minister
in 1998, Modi was promoted. This time he was made the organizing secretary of
the RSS at the national level. Thus, he has now become an important leader in
overseeing the affairs of the BJP at the national level.
In the
50-year history of the Bharatiya Janata Party, only three leaders have so far
become national organizing secretaries. He continued to handle the affairs of
both the parties behind the three media and fame and traditionally behind the
scenes, but the rope of fame proved to be Modi's innovation.
The bullet responded with a bomb
When the
Kargil war broke out in 1998, Modi held provocative press conferences against
Pakistan and gave several interviews to newspapers. In a TV debate, Modi said
in his typical militant style, "We will not feed chicken biryani to
Pakistanis, but will respond to bullets with bombs."
In the
meantime, the courts in Gujarat kept changing. In 1999, Keshu Bhai became the
Chief Minister again. However, under his leadership, the BJP lost two
by-elections. Now Modi has started a campaign in New Delhi to make him the
Chief Minister of the state. He knew that he had very few allies in Gujarat;
most local BJP leaders considered him selfish, conspiratorial, and arrogant. But
if the Center had sent him as Chief Minister, they would have had to accept
Modi.
So Narendra
Modi pushed hard to become the Chief Minister. He received overwhelming
support, especially from the leaders of the RSS; they were happy with the idea
that a preacher of the organization was going to become chief minister for the
first time. Modi's efforts color
Prime
Minister Vajpayee appointed him Chief Minister of Gujarat.
Efforts to become Chief Minister
However, in
Gujarat, Modi was known as a conspiratorial leader. Most BJP MLAs disliked him.
Along with Modi, two important BJP leaders also reached Gujarat to appease him.
Kashu Bhau Thackeray was a former BJP president while Madan Lal Kharana was a
senior leader. Due to his presence, the members of the state assembly took a
bitter sip and recognized Modi as the unelected Chief Minister.
Now Modi
had to decide from which constituency he would contest. No member of the
Assembly was willing to give up his seat for the sake of gold. Whoever Modi
talked to would get a definite answer. Finally, after much pleading, Vajo Bhai
Wala agreed to leave his seat in Rajkot.
Modi won
that seat after a tough contest. However, this victory made him the Chief
Minister of Gujarat on October 7, 2001. But his hands and feet were tied. Most
of the ministers would not face him and would make secret plans to bring him
back to Delhi somehow. He did not like this arrogant and dictatorial Chief
Minister.
At the
time, it seemed that Modi's pulse was not melting in the state; political
pundits thought that this opportunistic leader, like hundreds of
"accidental" chief ministers, would disappear from the scene in a few
months. ۔ Things were going in the same
direction when the Subramanya Express crashed on February 27, 2002. The
subsequent horrific anti-Muslim riots also changed Modi's destiny.
The beginning of a new life
Nilanjan
Mukhopadhyay, an Indian intellectual and journalist, is considered an authority
on Hindu extremism. He had penned Narendra Modi's biography "Narendra Modi
The Man, the Times" last year. In it, he writes that Modi's life consists
of two parts; the 2002 riots before and after!
It is as if
the massacre of Muslims brought a revolution in Modi's life. Before that, Modi
had no identity. He was not among the Brahmin leaders who played a pivotal role
in the martyrdom of the Babri Masjid. Nor was it counted among the important
leaders of the middle and lower classes, such as Sushma Swaraj, Kalyan Singh, and Uma Bharti.
But the
2002 riots gave Narendra Modi an untouchable identity that no BJP leader had.
By martyring hundreds of Muslims and teaching them a "lesson", he
became the leader of the Hindu people. "Remove these riots from Modi's
life in 2002, then he becomes an ordinary politician," writes Makhu
Padaye.
The
misfortune of Gujarati Muslims was that at that time an anti-Islamic atmosphere
had developed internationally. incident
After 9/11,
the United States launched a "war on terror" that was actually
against the Muslim Mujahideen. The war benefited Hindu extremists who were
already active against Muslims and Pakistan. Among them was RSS propagandist
Narendra Modi.
The police did not stop the thugs
By turning
an accident into terrorism, Modi brought doom to Gujarati Muslims. He became
the ringleader of the Hindu thugs and gave them free rein to treat Muslims as
they wished. The then Deputy Commissioner (Intelligence) Sanjeev Bhatt
narrates: “On February 28, Chief Minister Modi called a meeting of security
officers. In it, the Chief Minister ordered the police not to block the way of
Hindu rioters, so that they could vent their anger.
Here is an
example of the horrible way in which Hindu thugs vented their anger on Muslims.
By two o'clock in the afternoon, the Hindu rioters entered the house of Ehsan
Jafri. They grabbed Jaffrey, stripped him naked, and paraded him on the street
for some time. After that, Jaffrey's fingers were cut off in the echo of Hindu
slogans. Then he was beheaded and then martyred. And then his body was thrown
into the fire.
Many men
and women in the Gulberg Society were also burned to ashes. The same cruelty
was meted out to Muslims in other parts of the state.
Gujarat's
anti-Muslim riots were first seen on TV networks across India. All moderate Hindus
condemned the horrific incidents of massacre and arson. He also split the BJP.
The moderate leaders of the party believed that this tragedy would alienate the
liberal Hindus from the BJP. But the extremist leaders decided to give their
full support to Modi.
Extremist Hindus win
Moderate
leaders gathered under the leadership of Prime Minister Vajpayee. By then,
differences had arisen between Modi and Vajpayee. Modi did not like Vajpayee's
polite style, interest in poetry, and pacifism. For Vajpayee, Modi was closer to
ignorance and arrogance.
Meanwhile,
key BJP leaders Krishna Lal Advani, Bal Thackeray, and Mohan Jaitley started
supporting Modi. The biggest threat to the moderates was that the coalition
parties would break away from the BJP coalition government in protest. But no
party, including the Janata Dal, DMK, Telugu Desam Party and Trinamool
Congress was sympathetic to Indian Muslims. Due to this, even the moderate
Hindu leaders became cold. Even Vajpayee started speaking the language of
extremists. Addressing the BJP Executive Council on April 12, 2002, he said:
"In
Indonesia, Malaysia, wherever Muslims live, they do not want to live in mutual
understanding. They are not like others and are not peace-loving. So we don't
have to teach secularism, India was secular even before the arrival of Muslims
and Christians. ”
From that
day on, Vajpayee also came under Modi's influence. Even when Modi called him to
Gujarat on the occasion of the December 2002 elections, the Prime Minister left
all his busy schedules and went there. "My heart is pounding at the thought
of what stupid things Modi would say in meetings," he told comrades
aboard.
Removed from the opposite path
The Muslim
assassination made Modi so powerful in Gujarat that he could face his opponents
in the party. Among them were Sanjay Joshi, Harin Pandey, and Gardhan Zadafia.
Harin Pandey, who served as finance minister in the Modi government, was
assassinated in 2003 under mysterious circumstances. Sanjay Joshi was the
General Secretary of the BJP. He had to resign when pictures of him with naked
women surfaced (which later turned out to be fake).
Gardhan
Zadafia was the Minister of State in the Modi government. He was also acquitted
in late 2002. He says: "Modi knows only one alphabet
Is and is:
1 (in). Modi also threatened me that if I kept speaking against him,
"Brother Gardhan, you will be gone."
After
wiping out opponents in the BJP, Modi from time to time kept on martyring
Muslims in fake encounters with the Gujarat police. These Muslims would later
be considered terrorists and agents of the ISI or LeT.
Modi,
meanwhile, was hailed as the best administrator and business-friendly chief
minister. However, this feat was the result of planned publicity. (Read more in
the attached box: "Gujarat; Has there really been progress?"). And
the pro-Hindu media exaggerated Modi's achievements.
The bravery of Zakia Jafari
Ehsan
Jafari's wife Zakia Jafari had saved her life by hiding in a room. But the
catastrophe that befell his family kept him in a semi-crazy state for a long
time. Gradually, she regained her composure and regained her senses.
Now they
have decided that there is an FIR against Narendra Modi and other extremist
leaders. But which police officer dared to file a case against Modi?
He has to lose not only his job but also his life. Then Zakia Jaffery reached
the Supreme Court. Finally, in June 2006, Ahmedabad police lodged an FIR
against Modi and others.
But then
the same problem came up that Gujarat police was Modi's captive; here it was a
matter of reprimanding the thief Kotwal. So the investigation escalated into an
ant's trick. So Zakia Jaffery again knocked on the door of the Supreme Court.
In March 2008, the court set up a special investigation team, the SIT (Special
Investigation Team).
Injustice of Indian Supreme Court
But while
giving justice, the Indian Supreme Court was also killed. It so happened that
he made RK Raghavan, the former head of the CBI (Central Bureau of
Investigation), the head of the SIT, and handed over all the power to him. It
was RK Raghwan who had a controversial record.
In 1984, he
headed the police and intelligence agencies to provide security for Prime
Minister Rajiv Gandhi. But he failed in his duty and a Tamil suicide bomber
killed Rajiv Gandhi with a bomb. The government later set up a "Verma
Commission" to investigate the incident.
The
commission found out from the investigation that RK Raghavan had failed to make
security arrangements. Raghwan should have been fired under the law if the
allegations were proven, but the commission granted him a waiver and he
continued to work in the government.
Blood of justice
RK Raghwan
had a soft spot for Hindu nationalism. That is why when the BJP came to power
in 1999, he was made the chief of the CBI. Surprisingly, the Indian Supreme
Court headed such an investigation team Made a
government official who was close to the killers.
This
introduction brought color. The SIT submitted two reports in the Zakia Jaffrey
case in April 2010 and February 2012, both of which acquitted Modi.
In May
2011, the Supreme Court hired a reputed lawyer, Raju Ram Chandran. He asked
them to read the first report of SIT and asked them to go to Gujarat and do
research on their own. Raju Ram stayed in Gujarat for a month. He met with
several accused, government officials and witnesses and submitted his report to
the Supreme Court in July. He stated:
There is
evidence that Narendra Modi took part in the massacre of Muslims. So they
should be prosecuted. ”
But the
Indian Supreme Court, again blaming justice, ignored the report. Rather, the
SIT reports were true, even though they were clearly in favor of Modi. In February
2012, the court acquitted Modi.
The news
struck Zakia Jafari like lightning. Every child in Ahmedabad knows that Modi
slapped Hindu thugs so that they would attack unarmed Muslims like wolves.
In April
2013, Zakia Jaffery filed a protest (according to law) with a magistrate in
Ahmedabad against the SIT reports. But what was feared happened? In December
2013, the magistrate rejected the application.
Seeing that
justice was not being done, Zakia Begum became obsessed. But she did not give
up and announced that she would go to the Supreme Court again. Thus the
tyrannical Chief Minister escaped capture by the law through his state
machinery.
Reasons for false progress
According
to Neelanjan Makhupa Daye, Narendra Modi cleverly adopted the method of
"image building". Under his influence, the media skillfully portrayed
him as the "savior" of the Indian Hindu people. That is why he
occasionally threatens minorities so that Hindus may know that he can establish
their supremacy in India.
The
one-sided spectacle of Modi's personality is that the media portrays him as a
simple-minded and wealthy leader. Extremists claim to be from a poor family and
are well aware of the plight of the poor. But Modi is crazy about expensive
clothes and goods. He wears the most expensive tailors' kartas which are called
"Modi kartas" and also travels by helicopter.
But the
The most prominent aspect of Modi's personality is his domineering and
authoritarian temperament. His colleagues and friends all say that he does not
listen to anyone. If Narendra Modi succeeds in becoming the Prime Minister,
then he may continue to trample on all democratic
traditions.
The problem
is, do the Hindus of the world's largest democracy, especially the
industrialists and merchants, want such an authoritarian ruler? This is the
irony of modern times!
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