On the US Revocation of Modi's Visit Visa

It is a sad day for India, that on Human Rights violations of Gujarat riot victims, it was upstaged by a country, which has much more sordid record of violation of Human Rights by using lethal blanket bombings to kill and maim thousands of civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Modi’s complexity in the genocidal spree of mass murders, rape and torching of victims has not remained a secret, mostly due to convoluted show of pride by the Sangh Parivar itslef over their despicable orgy of bestial inhumanity.

Though US consular staff has cited India’s own state Human Rights Commission’s report on its decision to deny diplomatic visa to Modi as well as revocation of his tourist/business visa for travel to the US; Indian political leadership is remarkably smug and conceited about the wider context of the brutality of the whole state sponsored communal holocaust in Gujarat.

The political leadership is seriously out of step with the changing globalized world.

As the reverberation of the denial of visa to Gujarat State Chief Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi will put India in the docks in the world court of public opinion, as to how its then BJP-led Coalition government dealt with the horrors of Gujarat carnage and how the new Congress-led coalition government is still dragging its feet on providing full justice to the victims and trying its best to put the whole incident in cold storage, India cannot hide behind the false security of its ‘internal matter’ cover, as India is signatory of international covenants on Human Rights and genocide.

Gujarat genocide and BJP’s basic anti-people political ideology is very much live issues that has now become an albatross around the neck of Indian politics. It is time the ruling elites in both BJP and Congress realize that their attempt to chalk up a two party system on the basis of communal divide in the nation can never go very far.

In strict construction of Indian constitutional norms, BJP’s Hindutva plank can never fit the secular democratic test that should be applied to allow legal recognizance to Hindutva politics. In fact, there is no space left in the world for jingoist, extremist, racialist and exclusivist political movements.

The world has not forgotten the horrors of its past incarnations.

India’s own experiment with such an ideology sneaked through democratic loopholes is not yet fully exposed to world scrutiny.

The US action against Modi, who was being projected in the US Gujarati circle as the rightful successor to take over from the aging Vajpayee, has for the first time put Hindutva with all its warts and blemishes in the glare for world scrutiny. In a way, the US action has given Indian government enough grounds to reclaim political courage to deal with a festering wound that Gujarat riots in its essence symbolizes. Congress coalition with its Leftist partners, should rise above the politics of power cartelization and rearrange its priorities to bolster India's constitutional democratic and secular fundamentals. Without solid social justice foundations, India's economic development and super power aspirations will only remain a distant and unfulfilled dream.

Source: Ghulam Muhammed, Mumbai, India <Ghulam_muhammed2@yahoo.co.in>

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