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| Dr. Suresh Khairnar |
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Is the announcement of celebrating 'Partition Day' on 14 August a way to justify the politics of partition? Know the sharp analysis of Dr. Suresh Khairnar.
On the pretext of celebrating 14th August Partition Day.
On the coming 15th of August, even after 78 years of our independence, 28% of the population has to go from one place to another for employment to earn their livelihood. However, the current Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi, repeatedly said in his election campaign that if I make you the Prime Minister, I will give employment to two crore unemployed people every year. This means that in the eleven years of his becoming the Prime Minister, 22 crore unemployed people should have been given employment. This means that every unemployed person should have been given work. Then even today, the unemployment rate in our country should not have been 28%. And there is no need to broadcast live programs to promote giving employment to small people. And in this way, there was no need to take action against people who have gone for employment in the name of language or religion. But to hide their failures, instead of making meaningful efforts to solve the problem of unemployment, inhuman tactics are being used. In order to unite the majority community, the workers of the minority community speaking Bengali language in BJP ruled states were picked up ruthlessly from non-BJP states, their identity cards were confiscated, and the most surprising thing was that they were forced to leave their homes and whatever money they had saved after hard work, their mobile phones and other valuables were confiscated. Yesterday, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was forced to take out a protest march with lakhs of people on the streets of Kolkata against this kind of action being taken by the BJP, due to the incidents of forcefully picking up workers from minority communities in BJP-ruled states and leaving them in the border areas of Bangladesh. Instead of solving the main problems of our country, are we not taking the country towards a storm by doing politics on religion, language, their food and clothing, creating a dangerous situation for the unity and integrity of India?
After the announcement of lockdown, videos and photos of migrant workers from all parts of India, five years ago, during the Corona period, walking barefoot with their entire family, bleeding, in 40 degrees Celsius temperature, carrying their world on their heads, have started appearing in front of my eyes.
Similarly, in America, immediately after Trump's second presidential swearing-in ceremony, the inhumane treatment meted out to illegal immigrants, people of Indian origin, who were tied with chains and stuffed in cargo planes and dumped in India like garbage, but no member or official of the BJP government was seen saying or writing a word about it. But in India, the work of picking up Bengali-speaking and lungi-wearing minority community workers from BJP-ruled states and sending them across the border to Bangladesh is going on continuously. Is this your answer to Trump?
Yesterday, Mamata Banerjee had to take out a rally with lakhs of people on this issue in Kolkata. And the most surprising thing is that the opposition leader of the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, is saying that Mamata Banerjee is trying to save illegal intruders. There are some people from Suvendu's own district too. Despite showing all the documents, they were declared Bangladeshis and forcibly picked up and sent to Bangladesh by plane and some by other vehicles. I have seen dozens of examples of these people crossing the border of Bangladesh. I am sitting down to write this article in a very sad state of mind.
BJP's politics of communal polarisation is being used to create communal polarisation from temple-mosque disputes, Gujarat riots, mob lynching, Article 370, Uniform Civil Code, Waqf Amendment Bill, Hijab, cow slaughter ban, Love Jihad, conversion, and now on the issue of language. On one hand, strictness on the Hindi language, and on the other hand, action is being taken against migrant workers only by looking at Bengali language speakers and especially Muslims. What message does the BJP want to give?
Last year on 15th August, after hoisting the flag from the ramparts of Red Fort, Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi addressed the nation and announced that from now onwards, 14th August will be celebrated as the day of the partition of India. I welcomed this announcement wholeheartedly and asked a question, "First of all, why did India get partitioned? It is important to know the reason for this. And it was based on the principle of two nations, Hindu and Muslim. I had opposed this before I was even 15 years old. And I had asked the seniors to allow people of the Muslim community to join RSS shakhas. "If RSS is constantly chanting the mantra of Akhand Bharat, then people of other religions besides Hindus should also be included in shakhas. Some of my Muslim friends also want to join the shakhas. So are you procrastinating on including them? Instead of answering my question, you showed me the way out. This happened 50 years before the establishment of RSS. (1965-66) This year, RSS is preparing to celebrate the centenary. If RSS feels that our political unit BJP, which was started by us a hundred years ago, has come to power. But at what cost has the BJP become the ruling party today? In the journey of 78 years of independence, today India is divided on the issues of religion, caste and languages. Never before has it been so much so. During the emergency, RSS members were also imprisoned with me in jail. I had repeatedly told them that "I am secular. But you people are Hindutvawadis. So, definitely unite the Hindus. But which Hindus? Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar had said in Yeola of Nashik district in October 1936, "I am born in the Hindu religion by birth. But I will not die as a Hindu." While making such a declaration, he did not stop, and twenty years later, on the same day of the Sangh Foundation Day in the month of October, on Dussehra in 1956, he took initiation in Buddhism along with lakhs of his followers in Nagpur. That is why the name of that place is Dikshabhoomi today.
Before going to the Parliament of Religions in Chicago, Swami Vivekananda Ji said during his visit to South India that "The notion that the rulers of the time played a coercive role in the propagation of Islam and Christianity is wrong. Most of the people accepted Islam and Christianity because they were fed up with the discrimination in the caste system of our religion. As long as this inequality exists, how will the Hindu religion be united? The Hindu religion will never benefit by uniting only 15% of the upper caste people. And that is why, in order to create continuous polarisation, the barbaric behaviour with the workers of the Bengali language and mainly the Muslim community is going on in the BJP-ruled states. It is inhuman and the BJP and its government are preparing to take India towards another partition because of all the acts of harassing the minorities everywhere and pushing them into an insecure mindset to mobilise the majority community. The anti-national act of organising a mother organisation on the occasion of the centenary year of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has been going on for the last hundred years.
Why did we have to accept a divided India on 15th August 1947? In 1923 itself, barrister Vinayak Damodar Savarkar wrote in his book titled 'Hindutva' that Hindus and Muslims are two nations. And on that basis, another barrister, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, while demanding Pakistan in the Muslim League convention in Lahore in 1940, has continuously centred himself around it for the whole seven years. And he has succeeded in that. At that time, the Hindu Mahasabha was in power in Bengal and Sindh provinces along with the Muslim League. Which common minimum program did they formulate before joining the power? Talks about joining power with the Muslim League at both places were held in Mumbai between barrister Savarkar and barrister Jinnah. Yes, before the talks, it was a matter of prestige for both the barristers as to who would meet whom. But an agreement was reached. And Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee was a part of Fazlur Rehman's government in Bengal. And it was Dr. Syama Prasad Mukherjee who wrote ten points to the Viceroy on how the Quit India Movement activists could be stopped.
Prime Minister Mr Narendra Modi has indeed announced to celebrate Partition Day on 14 August. So, first of all, to save whatever is left of India, the politics of polarisation will have to be abandoned. Only then will there be any justification in celebrating Partition Day.
Dr. Suresh Khairnar,
17 July 2025. Nagpur.
