New Delhi: Poet, critic, art lover and institution builder, Ashok Vajpeyi, while warning against the rise of Hindutva politics, said it is a big threat to Hinduism and needed to be fought by Hindus to protect their religion.
"Hindutva is nothing but a big threat to Hinduism and if the leaders of Hindus have to protect their religion then they have to fight the Hindutva forces", Ashok Vajpeyi said in New Delhi on Saturday.
Ashok Vajpey was speaking at a function held at Constitution Club, New Delhi to launch "Dismantling India – A 4 Years Report". Comprising of 24 articles by eminent writers who questioned the current government’s actions, policies, and directives.
The Report is supported by a series of tables which has recorded four years of "mis-rule" by the Modi government, including the list of hate speeches he and his party members delivered in these four years.
Talking about the rise of Hindutva in these years, Subhash Ghatade said, that the right-wing which used to work covertly has now started working openly and defiantly.
"The trishuls have changed into Swords. The hatred seeded deep inside the common man is at its height. In Ranchi, RSS was meeting to devise various mechanisms to win 2019 election via social media", he said.
"They have failed in getting their promises fulfilled so they will polarize communities", he added.
Prof Karen Gabriel while addressing the event explained how the government has silently introduced many things in Higher education.
"For instance, in Higher education, the government introduced four modern Indian languages and Sanskrit. But there are no teachers for four languages while they have teachers for Sanskrit. So students are made to opt for Sanskrit and no choice is given", he said.
"The Sanskrit department has been asked to teach history through Vedas, distorting the history, introducing their re-writings of history covertly", he added.
Usha Ramanthan speaking on ADHAAR said that the ruling party when in opposition strongly advocated against Adhaar but when they came into power they not only took a u-turn but implemented ADHAAR in such a way that created havoc in the country.
Vijoo Krishnan said that the BJP had said that farmers' land will be protected but within 6 months the government brought Land Ordinance. "Massive protests were organized and they had to pull back the ordinance", Vijoo said.
"Now they have implemented these land acquisition bills through the BJP ruled States. In Odisha, 92% of acquired land is lying un-utilized. This party made many promises during elections for the farmers, when they came into power they said that these were only Chunavi Jumla", Vijoo said.
Kavita Krishnan said the worst kind of attacks on Women Autonomy and rights happened in the present government. "This government has diluted many laws related to women. After a fight by women rights group on triple talaq Supreme Court pronounced its verdict. But this government is now bringing a law, which will again give powers to police and the state to criminalize Muslim men", Kavita Krishnan said.
Gauhar Raza, said that this government is attacking the scientific institutions in such a way which will be irreversible and the country will be taken back many years. "This government not only propagates unscientific and irrational views but in these 4 years has slowly reduced the publication of scientific journals", he said.
Souradeep Roy speaking on "Unmaking Indian Culture" said that the attacks on culture is not only on artists and writers but on the common man of India, every single person living in this country is attacked.
Vidya Bhushan Rawat talked about cow-politics, which has created a huge problem for the small and medium farmers; this fear of cows and its protectors has disturbed the village economy.
Harsh Mander gave first hand information on the horror account of Mob Lynching across India which he visited during Caravan-e-Mohabbat. He also talked about the great examples of communal harmony shown by father of two boys one in Delhi and another in Asansol. In both the cases they appealed to the political leaders and the masses to shed communal hatred and preserve harmony.
Mani Shankar Aiyar spoke on the issues of the neighbourhood policies with the present government, and how the situations with the neighbours got adverse during this regime.
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