Dt: 4/3/15
Reviving the Muslim League
Dr T.H.Chowdary*
The Oweisi brothers Asauddin and Akbaruddin of All India Majlis Ittehadul Muslameen (AIMIM) are super -active to extend their organisation which basically so far was centered in Hyderabad, to all over India. One has recently visited Karanataka, Maharashtra and is scheduled to go to UP & Bihar. In all these places they want to extend their organisation. Ittehad’s present agenda is reservations for Muslims in educational institutions ( despite the minorities having the right to establish educational institutions of their choice without any limit), in government services and in legislatures etc. This was precisely the demand of the pre-partition Muslim League which the then foreign rulers conceded. From these reservations it will be a short step to ask for separate electorate, as the pre-partition Muslim League demanded and obtained from the British rulers.
2. In the 1946 general elections, the League’s agenda was to partition India and create Pakistan as home -land for the subcontinent’s Muslims; it harangued the Muslim electorate to reject Congress’ nationalist Muslims and elect only the Leagues candidates. Over 98% of the Muslim electorate rejected the Gandhi-Nehru-Azad backed Congress’s nationalist Muslims. Thereafter, to suppress the resistance to partition by the Congress and Hindu Maha Sabha, the Muslim League resorted to rioting. Much of north and east India was engulfed in communal riots. Frightened by the violence unleashed by the League the Congress had to agree for the partition and the creation of Pakistan. In deceptive self-righteousness, the Congress declared that it accepted partition but not its basis, namely the two-nation theory that Muslims are not part of the Indian nation but are a separate nation by dint of their religion, Islam.
3. The Muslim residents of remnant India who voted and rioted for creation of Pakistan did not by and large go to the country of their creation. Here they remained and thanks to Nehruvian secularism they prospered. With fast and large breeding their proportion has gone up from 10% to 14.4% and their growth is 50% more than the average for India. Already, 92 districts have been identified by the Nehruvian secular UPA government as Muslim districts. Under Muslim (not Dalit) First programs of the UPA government, Rs.1,80,000 crores were spent for their development (eventually as Muslim majority districts).
4. Very soon the MIM will be asking for separate electorate, autonomy to those districts as for Kashmir and finally, a federation of the Muslim districts of India. That would be reversion to what we used to have namely, the princely states, 600 of them. Instead of princely states, we will be having over 90 Muslim states within remnant India.
5. Nehruvian secular Congress is now a party mostly of the minorities and those sections of Hindus whom the Muslims want to co-opt into their fold. That is how the Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha is a Muslim. The leader of the Congress party in the Lok Sabha is from that section which is being wooed to join them.
6. If the Oweisis succeed (as they appear to be ) in welding Muslims as a vote bank, then the pre-1947 Hindu -Muslim tensions and riots will be re-enacted. It is essential that the Oweisis should be taken seriously and since their agenda is and separatism divisiveness, legal means must be found to ban this organisation just as SIMI was banned. Oweisis’ MIM is the successor of the Razakarist MIM of Nizam’s Hyderabad which wanted to create an independent, sovereign Islamic state in the Deccan. That desire is undying among many Muslims and as Dr Ambedkar observed, the Pakistaniat DNA seems to have only hibernated but not completely dead with the creation of Pakistan .
7. The NDA government’s development agenda cannot remove this cancerous Pakistaniat from the body politic of the descendants of those who fought to partition India and create Pakistan . What the PDP Chief Minister of J&K has said namely, that among others, Pakistan facilitated the peaceful elections in 2014 in Kashmir and that the remains of Afzal Guru should be returned to Kashmir is evidence of the undying existence of the Pakistaniat DNA. Added to the Muslims’ divisiveness is now the militant Christian conversion enterprise. They are raising the ante. While they can denounce Hinduism, in various ways, they demand that Hindus should not resist the missionaries’ and evangelists mean and foul references to Hinduism and their massive conversion efforts.
8. While development is alright it should not be like feeding poisonous snakes with nourishing milk. We should be aware of the disintegrating and destructive sections among some residents of India and take decisive measures to frustrate their consolidation and growth to irresistible size, as the Muslim League in pre-Independence India. Till 1940, the Muslim League agitated for rights and protection to Muslims as a minority but since march 1940, it declared that Muslims are not a minority but a separate nation, with a right to separate homeland and State, Pakistan . The MIM is taking to that trodden path of the League which led to victory because of the militancy, stridency and rioting. The Muslim League had no following in the Punjab, Sind, NWFP and even Bengal before 1940 But the assertion that Muslims are a separate nation and that an Islamic state, Pakistan should be carved out for them, Moslems in those provinces too, rallied round the League. The Oweisis ( of Telengana) seem to rouse Muslims in other states to rally under its banner, to repeat the success of pre-1947 Muslim League. The Owesis’-owned AIMIM is Muslims’ Communal party bent upon promoting Muslims’ separateness from India’s nation-hood. Truthfully secular Indian State should not allow self evidently sectarian ad communal (Ittehad-ul-Muslameen) parties to operate in the country (950 words)
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