Advani’s
Real Motive
By Brig. (Retd.) Usman Khalid
Director
London Institute of South Asia
London, UK
It appears that L.K.Advani is now seeking to
lead Sindhis rather than the Hindus. His praise
for Jinnah as a ‘secular Indian nationalist’
was actually aimed at slandering him in the eyes
of the Muslims. He was grossly misunderstood by
his fellow Hindus. They thought he praised Jinnah;
actually his game has much more sinister aims.
The BJP now believes that it can succeed in the
disintegration of Pakistan and incorporating the
bulk of it in its empire - Akhand Bharat - more
easily by subversion rather than by invasion.
The BJP project of Hindutva is to use the same
methods against Muslims that were used so successfully
against other untouchables in India. They embraced
the Bahujan gods but on their own terms - as lesser
gods. As children of lesser gods, their oppression
and exploitation was ordained by the gods.
The BJP does not embrace Jinnah as the founder
of the largest Muslim state on earth. Pakistan,
in their view, was a mistake. Jinnah as the author
of that mistake is no hero to them. But for greater
good (expanding their empire) they are willing
to accept him as a Hindu saint who was too vain
and arrogant to be number 2 to M.K.Gandhi. They
embrace leaders of other communities as they embraced
their gods in the past but the object is the same
- to deny the followers of those leaders their
separate identity.
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