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Political Dynasties and Rise and Rise of Muslim Parties
Dt: 9/3/21
Political Dynasties and Rise and Rise of
Muslim Parties
-Dr T H Chowdary*
In 1928, Motilal Nehru was the Congress President. All the Pradesh Congress Committees wanted Sardar Patel to succeed him. Motilal requested Gandhiji that he should in his life time itself see his son Jawaharlal Nehru become the Congress President. He wanted his son to succeed him and establish himself as a Congress leader. Gandhiji asked Sardar Patel to withdraw. Thus Nehru became the successor to his father as Congress President.
2. In 1959 the Congress High Command decided that Nijalingappa should be the next Congress president. Govind Vallabh Pant sensed that Nehru wished to make his daughter Indira Gandhi, the president . Govind Vallabh Pant told Nehru, “ Indira has frail health. We did not therefore want to burden her with the Congress Presidentship . So, we have fixed up on Nijalingappa”. Nehru grew wild and said, “ Indira is not in good health because she has not adequate work”. That was the signal to Govind Vallabh Pant that Nehru wanted Indira to be the Congress president . Just as Jawaharlal Nehru succeeded his father, Indiraji became the Congress President by her father’s gift.
3. When Indiraji was assassinated, Rajiv Gandhi who was anointed as General Secretary of the Congress after the demise of the wily Sanjay Gandhi on the flight from Calcutta to Delhi itself Rajiv mentioned to Pranab Mukherji, the number two in the Indira cabinet, “I am afraid I will have to take over Prime Ministership”. Mukherji was dumb- founded . Rajiv got himself sworn as the Prime Minister . His assumption of the high office was ratified by a dutiful Congress
parliamentary party. Pranab Mukherji was incensed. He left the Congress and started another party which lasted only for a short while leading to Pranab Mukherji walking back to the Congress.
4. In 1998 Sitaram Kesari, the Nehru dynasty loyalist and an almost non -entity as far as public was concerned, was the Congress president. The chelas of the dynasty brought Sonia Gandhi into the party office and when the chair of Sitaram Kesari was vacant (he was in the bathroom). Sonia was put in the chair of the Congress President . Thus was Sitaram Kesari pushed out and like her husband before, she simply grabbed the Presidentship of the Congress. Ever since the presidentship is alternating between the mother and the son. It appears that when the mother ceases to be active and Rahul chooses to be a non-responsible power wielder, Sonia’s position will be taken up by her daughter, Priyanka who is already inducted as one of the General Secretaries
5. The example set by the Nehru Dynasty is now the norm among all political parties barring the communists and the BJP. Every regional party has become the property of a person from the dominant caste in the region and each one of them has built up his son or daughter as a successor. In Tamilnadu, Stalin succeeded Karunanidhi; in AP Jagan Reddy of YSRCP succeeded his father ; Chandra Babu is building up his son, Lokesh to be his successor ; in Karnataka Deve Gouda has built up his son Kumar Swamy as his successor; in Maharashtra Sarad Pawar has built up his daughter Supriya Sule as his successor; in UP Mulayam Singh is succeeded by his son, Akhilesh Yadav and in Bihar Lallo Prasad’s son Tejeswi has succeeded ; in West Bengal Mamata the sinister has her nephew as the next in command of her Trinamul Congress.
6. At the time of partition of India and creation of Pakistan, the Muslims of what remained as India were the most militant rioters and voters of the Muslim League . While not all Muslims in what is now Pakistan or Bangla Desh voted for the Muslim League , it was Muslims of what is now India, who created Pakistan . While the Hindus and Sikhs, minorities in Pakistan were decimated ( from 18% to 1.5%) and the Hindus in East Pakistan ( Bangladesh since 1971) are reduced from 35% to less than 7% , the Muslims of India, the creators of Pakistan, did not go to Pakistan . Jawaharlal Nehru and of course Mahatma Gandhi and Abul Kalam Azad counselled and abetted them for staying put in India . The intention of Nehru and Azad was that they could be used as an unfailing voting block for Congress.
7. In the 1952 general elections to the State Legislatures and the Lok Sabha, Nehru -led Congress was in alliance with the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) in Kerala. IUML was the successor to the Muslim League of Md Ali Jinnah. Inf act , the IUML was born in Karachi with the blessings of Jinnah . The Muslim Leaguers of India more than fulfilled Nehru’s’ expectations. In the 1952, 57 and 62 general elections Muslims solidly voted for the Congress. Bin the 1967 (Nehru died in 1964 and in elections, regional parties in especially in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar competed with the Congress to get the Muslim votes, by promising what Muslims demanded. That was the beginning of Muslims become vote banks for the regional parties and of the communists in West Bengal. The communists in India were staunch ideological supporters of the two-nation theory and supported the Muslim Leagues’ Direct Action for the division of India.
8. With the patronage of the regional parties and the communist parties, the Muslim population of in India (not counting the infiltration of the Bangla Desh and Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar) 9.8% in 1951 has grown to about 16% officially and actually to over 20% as per the claims of their leaders. In West Bengal while the 1951 census (immediately after partition) put the Muslim population at 18% now in the same state they are 35% more than before partition. In Murshidabad they are 50% and in Malda 48%. In one third of the districts of West Bengal, their votes decide the winner. In Assam, some districts have become Muslim majority. Muslims only can win as MLAs and MPs in those areas. Muslims boldly formed their own party, All India United Democratic Front ( AIUDF) . Its leader Ajmal is an MP. Sonia Congress, in the Nehruvian tradition has formed alliance with AIDUF to fight the 2021 elections to Assam’s state legislature. Several districts in Kerala, Gujarat and Haryana are already Muslim majority and are getting separate districts carved out, courtesy the regional party governments . Before 1947 there were slogans, “ladake lenge Pakistan, haske lenge Hindustan” . The later slogan is now being realized by their furious population growth, aided infiltration from across borders, love jihad and intensified appeasement of regional parties desperate to preserve their vote bank as in West Bengal .
9. Hindus who by and large ignored Nehru’s intentions of keeping Muslims in India and the selfishness of the proprietarised regional parties are now waking up to the reality of “haske lenge Hindustan”. The Razakarist MIM’s successor AIMIM is now spreading its poisonous Islamist divisive politics into rest of India, particularly into Maharashtra , Bihar , UP and Bengal. Its likes, the AIUDF in Assam SFI in Bengal, the Welfare Party In Kerala, in addition to IUML, Campus Front of India and the Popular Front of India are all the likes of the pre-independence Muslim League, They would all act in concert to get maximum political support from regional parties, communist parties and Sonia Congress to frustrate the BJP in it s efforts to save India for Hindus. Hindus should do well to recall and remember Prof. Samar Abbas’s seminal proposition published in the communist-leaning Economic and Political Weekly of 2-8 Dec 2000 that India should be partitioned against to create Mughalistan, comprising of Western districts of Assam and northern districts of Bengal, Bihar and UP as another safe homeland for Muslims. The UPA government (2004-’14) led by Sonia launched “Muslim First” (not SC or ST) programs in 80 Sachar Committee-identified districts across India for the all-round prosperity of Muslims. We may recall that the Nawab of Bhopal attempted to forge a third State, Princesstan in India by federating the 560 plus for their non-accession to India. Sardar Patel put an end to the Muslim Nawab’s machinations.
10. The desire of Islamists and their traditional allies, communists is to tuckdafy ( break up) India. They are assisted by the greed of dynasty- building politicians. Hinds must bestir themselves to frustrate these tukdewalas. (1,395).
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