The myth of India as popular democracy has been exploded by Prime Minister Narendra Modi fascist agenda, which is being implemented by bringing anti-Muslims laws on the statute book and supporting hate campaign against them on the social media. Renowned Indian writer, Arundhatti Roy said in an interview with Radio Deutsche Welle of Germany that BJP Nationalist Hindu government is deliberately creating a situation in the country to push RSS agenda of racial extermination of Muslims. She painfully noted that coronavirus pandemic is not the cause of real crisis of India poverty; it is the hate campaign and abject in the country, which has sparked crisis.
Central government of India has attributed the spread of coronavirus pandemic across the country to Tableeghi Ijtima held last month in Nizamuddin area of capital New Delhi, in which few participants from Indonesia had tested virus positive. The virus has spread across the country despite complete lockdown. Since then Muslims are being stigmatized. The hands of Muslims alone are stamped with purple ink by health workers, who have remained in Quarantine. They genuinely complain that health workers are being used to collect data on the community under the guise of containing Covid-19 pandemic and reduce them to second class citizens.
A 64 years old citizenship law was amended through Citizenship Amendment Act 2019, with the sole objective to marganilise 200 million Muslim minority of India. Protests across the country broke out against this draconian legislation. In West Bengal Chief Minister Mamta Benerji led protest rallies. It was challenged in the Indian Supreme Court but the Apex Court did not grant stay against the operation of amended citizenship law. Few leaders of Islamic countries and United Nations (UN) had expressed concern over the discriminatory law targeting Muslims in India. Human Rights organisations have also expressed anguish and indignation over it.
Now Muslims in India are unfairly blamed for spreading Covid-19. Some Hindu Nationalist politicians have supported RSS vigilantes to spur the trending of topic “Corona Jihad” on the social media. It is now for the world powers and UN to exert pressure on Modi government to stop implantation of fascist agenda against Muslims.
