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Is Rahul Gandhi's Vision Of India A Challenge To BJP? | The Big Fight Feb 5, 2022
Rahul Gandhi's stirring speech in Parliament earlier this week , where he spoke about his idea of India, in it, he spoke about India's federal identity, while that's nothing new but by raising the issue of states having primacy with their own independent identities may seem to suggest that Rahul Gandhi was trying to position the Congress party as a natural ally and representative of state parties. Is Rahul Gandhi's vision of India a challenge to the BJP?
Opinion: Reading Between The Lines Of Rahul Gandhi's Speech https://www.ndtv.com/opinion/rahul-gandhi-via-speech-shoots-for-southern-appeal-2747220 Aunindyo Chakravarty February 04, 2022
By 2004, when Rahul Gandhi became an MP, the balance of power had shifted to a certain extent. If the Congress emerged as the single-largest party, the role played by the regional elites of Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra was not insignificant. This would later show up in the rise of regional capital from Andhra Pradesh and its country-wide spread during the UPA years - GMR, GVK, Lanco, to name a few. Yet the centralising tendencies of the Congress 'High Command' meant that it tried to disempower regional leaders, weakening local units of the party, in the process.
Today, Rahul Gandhi recognises there may be a space to unite the interests of regional elites from outside the Hindi-speaking belt who have seen a loss of importance as a handful of business houses have taken control of almost all sectors. He is betting on the potential for disquiet amongst regional capital in the face of the rise of Zaibatsu-Chaebol-type mega-conglomerates. Regional elites understand that they need a voice at the centre to reverse this process.
https://www.genocidewatch.com/tenstages
The ten stages of genocide:
(not necessarily in sequential order or discrete stages. Perhaps even as sub-cycles of selected stages)
stage one: Classification
The differences between people are not respected. There’s
a division of ‘us’ and ‘them’, which can be carried out using
stereotypes, or excluding people who are perceived to be different.
stage two: Symbolisation
This is a visual manifestation of hatred. Jews in Nazi occupied
Europe were forced to wear the yellow Star of David. In Cambodia the Khmer Rouge forced people from the Eastern
Zone to wear blue scarves. From 1992, in north-west Bosnia, all non-Serbian citizens were forced to wear white armbands.
stage three: Discrimination
The dominant group denies civil rights or even citizenship to identified groups. The 1935 Nuremberg Laws stripped Jews of
their German citizenship, made it illegal for them to do many jobs or to marry German non-Jews.
stage four: Dehumanisation
Those perceived as ‘different’ are treated with no form of human rights or personal dignity. During the Genocide in Rwanda, Tutsis were referred to as ‘cockroaches’; the Nazis referred to Jews as ‘vermin’.
stage five: Organisation
Genocides are always planned. Regimes of hatred often train
those who go on to carry out the destruction of a people. The
Sudanese Government supports and arms the Janjaweed (Arab militia) in Darfur to carry out the violence and killings.
stage six: Polarisation
Propaganda begins to be spread by hate groups. The Nazis used the newspaper Der Stürmer to spread and incite messages of hate about Jewish people.
stage seven: Preparation
Perpetrators plan the genocide. They often use euphemisms such as the Nazi’s phrase ‘The Final Solution’ to cloak their intentions. Acts of genocide are disguised as self-defence if there is an ongoing armed conflict or civil war, such as
in Bosnia.
stage eight: Persecution
Victims are identified because of their ethnicity or religion and
death lists are drawn up. People are sometimes segregated into ghettos, deported or starved and property is often expropriated. Genocidal massacres begin.
stage nine: Extermination
The hate group murders their identified victims in a deliberate
and systematic campaign of violence. Millions of lives have been destroyed or changed beyond recognition through genocide.
stage ten: Denial
The perpetrators or later generations deny the existence
of any crime. Evidence is destroyed and witnesses are intimidated. There has been an increase in Holocaust denial
online in recent years.
Genocide never just happens. There is always a set of circumstances which occur or which are created to build the climate in which genocide can take place.
These stages may occur simultaneously or in a different order.
Based on research by Dr Gregory H Stanton:
genocidewatch.com
Hindutva’s Unending Search for an Imaginary Past Subhash Gatade 04 Feb 2022 https://www.newsclick.in/Hindutva-Unending-Search-Imaginary-Past
The Centre is planning a museum at Pusad, in the Yavatmal district of Maharashtra, in memory of the 1930 Jungle Satyagraha. it plans to dedicate to RSS founder KB Hedgewar.
The Jungle Satyagraha was led by regional leaders such as lawyer, freedom-fighter and Congress member from Nagpur MV Abhyankar, Wamanrao Joshi, a Marathi journalist, playwright, and freedom fighter from Amravati and MS ‘Bapuji’ Aney, an educationist, freedom fighter and founder of the Congress Nationalist Party.
Biographies of Hedgewar written by votaries of exclusivist Hindutva corroborate his position, recording that he “sent information that the Sangh will not participate in the Satyagraha”.. He joined the Satyagraha not as an RSS man but in his personal capacity
- by Rajmohan Gandhi February 01, 2022 https://www.ndtv.com/opinion/hindutva-is-running-into-difficulties-by-rajmohan-gandhi-2741462
Reminding Indians in 2022 of the lives and thoughts of Bose, Ambedkar and Patel would only strengthen those who are striving to preserve India as a nation for everyone.
Ramachandra Guha: India’s fate hangs on whether we pick exclusionary Hindutva or Gandhi’s pluralism by Ramachandra Guha https://scroll.in/article/1016231/ramachandra-guha-indias-fate-hangs-on-whether-we-pick-exclusionary-hindutva-or-gandhis-pluralism
Gandhi emphatically rejected the suggestion that the majority community had the right to dominate politics and governance in the country.