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Don’t create a Hindu Pakistan, says Sitaram Yechury
Trinamul MP urges PM to stop ‘engines of coercion’.
New Delhi: Ruing the fact that the nation is witnessing an upsurge in incidents of hatred and violence in the form of communalism, Trinamul Congress MP Sugata Bose urged upon Prime Minister Narendra Modi that if he actually wants all evils to quit India by 2022, then he should “stop the engines of coercion in their tracks.”
Meanwhile, participating in the discussion in Rajya Sabha, CPI(M) MP Sitaram Yechury warned against creation of “Hindu Pakistan”.
Mr Yechury referred to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's comments in the recent episode of his monthly radio programme Mann ki Baat in which he had said that all out efforts should be made to end the problems of the country in five years from now, just like the period between 1942 and 1947 was a decisive one.
“Now, Sir, what is that objective? In 1947, we became Independent. We are all proud... In those five years, we also saw the partition of India. We saw the communal polarisation that led to this unfortunate partition, aided by the British. So, if you are alluding to those five years, there is an ominous sign. It is a very dark cloud,” Yechury said.
However, Leader of the House in Rajya Sabha, Arun Jaitley, said it was the day to commit to make the country a strong, just and economically-progressive country.
Meanwhile, Trinamul MP Sugata Bose called upon Mr Modi, who was seated in the House throughout the two-and-a-half hour long discussion, to unambiguously condemn and take stronger action against those who are spreading the poison of hatred and killing human beings in the name of religion.
“We are witnessing a recrudescence of the hatred that had marked the cow protection movements of the 1890s, and the shuddhi and sangathan movements of the late 1920s. Rabindranath Tagore’s book, Nationalism, published exactly a hundred years ago in 1917, has a passage that sounds like an uncanny foretelling of the social and political crisis besetting India today,” he said.
Quoting from the verses of the national anthem, a couple of paragraphs which he actually sang, an emotionally charged Mr Bose said that it offers thanks to “Bharata Bhagya Bidhata” for the divine benediction showered so generously on our country and our people.
