Madani has thrown Philian Storm in Congress captive Muslim voters plank, the media is gung-ho on its implication on the Congress’ Rahul vs Modi game plan. Many commenter or writer including Sanjay,are interpreting it as a ploy to undermine Muslims' trust on Congress.
Was it a ploy ? Do Muslim as a whole trust Congress at all ? Is today's Congress is same as of fifties or sixties ? Or if the parameters as on today for the minorities, are same as one decade back or say immediately after 2002 ? More analysis, speculation, permutation and combination of causes and reasons are in the offing and still it is as difficult as always, to reach any conclusive view nearer to the hidden truth.
The writer (SS) suggests Jamiat-e-Ulema-e-Hind general secretary Mehmood Madani has hit Congress where it hurts most – its claim that it is the principal custodian of secular fabric of Indian society and polity. The cleric’s rude jolt to the grand old party was that Muslims must not be seen as captive voters or just as a vote bank when it...................... subsequent parliamentary polls. This effectively means that Congress’s hopes of painting the Narendra Modi versus Rahul Gandhi contest as a secularism versus communalism one, which would allow it to be the natural beneficiary of what is called hostile voting by the minority community, has been dented.
INDIA HONEST contests Congress claim that it is the principal custodian of secular fabric of Indian society and polity,which it was never in past refer Sikh carnage in 1984 , Bhagalpur or hundreds of other riots in last five decades of Congress rule.Again many are not aware that by passing of every single day the platform of contest is switching from secularism to development; and that was the message of Madani.
Madani’s statement that caught the Congress completely off guard, is important as Jamait is India’s biggest Muslim organisation with around 125 lakh active members in various parts of the country. Therefore it commands enormous political clout in the community and outside. The Madani family also controls Deoband, which is the largest and most revered Islamic seminary in Asia. The official Jamait website ..........................displaying pictures of Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh engaged in close conversation with Maulana Mehmood Madani and his uncle Maulana Arshad Madani. That is indicative of the strength of relationship ......................................... with the Congress top brass. The same ............. with the Samajwadi Party and some other regional parties.
The clerics statement, where he said, “Congress should not try to get Muslim votes by creating fear about somebody. These so called secular parties should look at possibilities of community welfare which they have not done so far”, will not however only unnerve the Congress. It will also hurt other other secularists such as Nitish Kumar, Mulayam Singh Yadav, the CPI and CPM who are planning a joint convention against communalism (Narendra Modi), on October 30 in New Delhi.
Madani is undoubtedly a leader and Islamic scholar of great stature and what he says needs to be taken seriously by those concerned. He is effectively generating a debate on the prevailing politics of negativity and telling the Muslim community that it is the members of the community who should decide on who is secular and who is not, instead of being told by Congress or other secularist parties. His speech in Jaipur two days ago stirred the political class. He is angry because the Congress and other ‘secular’ parties take Muslims for granted, currently even more by engaging only in “negative” politics, and raising a bogey of Narendra Modi to garner minority community votes.
Madani slammed Rajashthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, calling him a name which has so far been passionately used against Modi by his hard boiled critics – a mass murderer. “Rajasthan chief minister has got Muslims killed and has done nothing other than getting them killed. He has failed 100 percent. People were looted killed and the killers are at large. Close relatives of those who died were booked as accused in these cases”,.
INDIA HONEST says : with many of the circumstances changing rapidly, but still the Congress or many other so called secular parties are hiding themselves away from the facts regarding the minority's present thoughts , their necessities, their willingness to forget past enmity for hopeful future. But they are adamant to en cash a used cheque, for many more decades, and it will be objected by more and more persons till 2014.