Narendra Modi – The merchant of death

Q : Define Narendra Modi

A: A leader who, after being subjected to a malicious and prolonged campaign of vilification, has been able to impress even his critics with his determination, single-minded focus, integrity and a wide array of achievements in a relatively short time.

(Source : L.K. Advani)

Disclaimer : I do not intend to intend to appeal to the irrational communal mindset of staunch Narendra Modi disciples.

Since I shall be launching one of my highly passionate tirades at an iconic figure, I felt it that much apt to have cleared the air at the onset. Despite my efforts to pacify a brainwashed and indoctrinated mob, I am very aware that I shall not fall even an iota short of irking the ire of many, but I care no less.

Narendra Modi is perhaps independent India’s most influential Chief Minister any state has ever had, and an administrator like none. At least that what the SANGH PARIVAR and the other proponents of HINDUTVA would claim. When one talks of Narendra Modi, one generally visualizes a politician who won an election, ensuing a communal riot, by a landslide majority, on a campaign supported by laurels of Gujarat’s infrastructure and economic progress, which he later went on term a “referendum on his rule.”

Beyond this façade lies a destructive personality (maheshwar – a simile for the followers who understand the HINDUTVA language), driven by fanatic communal ideas and religious hatred.

Wise men have said “there is always more than what meets the eye”, and Narendra Modi is no exception to it. Despite his attempts to project himself as a politician primarily involved in the development and progress of Gujarat, there is an unmistakable and undeniable truth, that this savage is guilty of culpable homicide and genocide. However vehement be the protest, the protestors deep within their scruples are aware that their icon is a mass murderer. In case one analyzes even the manipulated official statistics of the Godhra riots, one would effortlessly infer that the Muslim community was irrationally massacred and harassed. The Human Rights Watch aptly described the communal fiasco as the failure of the Indian government (then led by the HINDUTVA driven BJP) to address the resulting humanitarian condition of people, the "overwhelming majority of them Muslim," who fled their homes for relief camps in the aftermath of the events; as well as the Gujarat state administration for engaging in a cover-up of the state's role in the massacres.

The simple question that Mr. Narendra Modi ought to answer in candid words is, “when the Banerjee committee clearly called the Godhra train tragedy ‘an accident’, how did Mr, Narendra Modi and his Hindutva indoctrinated accomplice, Mr. Giriraj Kishor (leader of VHP) come to conceive that the incident was ’pre-planned?’

According to HRW in its widely-quoted report, mobs of thousands, dressed in saffron scarves and khaki shorts - and armed with swords, sophisticated explosives, and gas cylinders, were guided by voter lists and printouts of addresses of Muslim-owned properties, information obtained from the local municipal administration. The horrifying tribulations inflicted on the Muslim community peaked after the Bilkis Bano case, where fourteen members of Bilkis Bano's family including her two-month old daughter were killed in a mob attack near Chapparwad village in Dahod district. Seven women including Bilkis Bano, then five months pregnant, were raped.

If Mr. Narendra Modi is the person he makes himself to be, then by today, all the accused should have been convicted and prosecuted under the most stringent laws. However, we are millennia away from such an eventuality. There is compelling and credible evidence that of lack of intervention by the Gujarat police who often watched the events taking place and took no action against the attacks on Muslims and their property, and the police force leading rioting mobs aiming and firing at every Muslim who got in the way, or instead of offering assistance led the victims directly into the hands of their killers. Calls for assistance to the police, fire brigades, and even ambulance services generally proved futile. And if all these accusations still haven’t jolted the Modi supporters to reality, then the admission by the Intelligence Bureau that the deployment of army troops was deliberately delayed by the State and the Central Government would do much good.

To further exterminate the existence of the Muslim community, the Gujarat administration went to the heinous extent of turning a blind eye and a deaf ear on the economic boycott of the Muslim community, propagated by the Hindu fundamentalists.

In the ensuing political aftermath, the Gujarat administration transferred several senior police officers who had taken active measures to contain and investigate violent attacks to administrative positions. The then Gujarat Intelligence Chief admitted that the state government issued "unconstitutional directives", with officials asking him to kill Muslims involved in rioting or disrupting a Hindu religious event.

And for all those who live in a world of illusion, I implore to their nascent senses to wake up and see for themselves that Narendra Modi’s style of governance is something the Nazis would pride themselves in. His style is to isolate an easily identifiable group and to then portray it as the enemy. Adolf Hitler did this to turn Germans against the Jews. My question to indoctrinated Hiundutva minds is – if Hilter was inhuman, how is Narendra Modi not? Why should he not be tried for offences of culpable homicide and genocide?