Modi must go

 As the Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has clearly failed to perform rajdharma (good governance without any discrimination), the Centre should intervene and make all possible efforts to douse the communal that engulfed the State at the earliest. Otherwise, the fire will soon engulf the entire country and damage the very foundation of the nation beyond repair. Already, several other states are feeling the heat of the ongoing Gujarat carnage.

 The over-enthusiastic Hindutva activists may find Modi new avtar of Hinduism, but the Chief Minister, by presiding over the organised genocide in Gujarat, is actually doing immense harm to Hindustan. He is not only curtailing all the political ambitions of the Sangh Parivar, but also at the same time doing an irreparable damage to an experiment called coalition politics, which the country is practising at present. Narendra Modi’s shameless act, beyond doubt, sooner or later, will force the partners of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) to leave the coalition and with that will come the end of the coalition politics in the country.

 It is not difficult to understand the partisan act of Narendra Modi. After failing to provide good governance as promised, the BJP is fast losing ground even in its strongholds. The recent election results in Uttar Pradesh, which many considered as BJP’s strongest base in the entire country, clearly showed that neither the party had managed to provide effective, corruption free government, nor it could establish itself as a viable alternative to the Congress.

 Anticipating the same kind of results in Gujarat, where Assembly election is due in March 2003, the Sangh Parivar started the damage control exercises much in advance in a brutal way. The parivar and it’s loyal follower Modi targeted the members of the minority community, who are not the traditional voters of the BJP to pave the way for a smooth return of the BJP to power in the State. They made the entire State administration, especially the police force, ineffective so that the anti-BJP voters do not get a chance to survive. Places of worships were attacked, demolished. Business establishments, run by the members of minority community were burnt down; shops owned by them were looted. Officials, who made efforts to quell the communal fire, were transferred overnight. Even the media was not spared and brutally lathicharged by Modi’s police for reporting the truth.