HINDUTVA vs SECULARISM

Politics in India may not be the same aagain , as BJP is moving away from secularism and getting close towards HINDUTVA. Secularism has been the corner stone of the structure that India has tried to raise since independence. It has not been an ideal effort , Yet it has kept the country together, with no recurring example of communal divide.

 The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP)  has introduced pure communalism to the soft Hindutava that prevailed so far. By appointing the hardliner Narendra Modi, Gujarat Chief Minister, the panel chief for the 2014 parliament election, the party has dropped every bit of ambiguity over secularism. It is stark Hinduism for all to see.

 The repercussions of such a person at the helm of BJP, not possessing even a semblance of liberalism, can be dangerous. Obsessed with driving a wedge between Hindus and Muslims, he can vitiate the young mind. Liberalism or idealism already receding to the background, bigotism and extremism will go to allocate what is left of the composite culture. The BJP has purveyed the impression that it is looking for a space that will give it an image of being  pro-Hindu but not extremist. Modi will stop such an ideology developing. Modi’s image of parochialism will make the idea of India jeopardized  The country will be unsettling when it is settling down to an ideology which may not be purely secular.