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Is BJP resorting to hard core Hindutva to retain its power in UP?
There is a fable about a scorpion and a frog where a drowning scorpion tells a dying frog that it can’t help injecting poison because it is his nature. Many political analysts were drawn towards this fable, when yet another controversy involving the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Muslim community erupted during the ongoing battle for Uttar Pradesh assembly. A campaign 'CD' released by the senior BJP officials was found t o contain derogatory and inflamatory references to Muslims; something that BJP and its earlier avatars have sometimes excelled at.

There has been a predictable hue and cry. The Election Commission has asked the police in UP to file a case against the Party President Rajnath Singh. Many ‘secular’ parties like the Samajwadi Party, led by Mulayam Singh Yadav, and the Congress have demanded that BJP be barred from contesting elections. Top officials of the BJP have denied their involvement in the making and release of the CD. But the reality is, if the BJP top brass is acting coy, the other parties are being even more hypocritical. The UP assembly elections have seen major ‘secular’ parties shamelessly seeking the minority ‘vote bank’ by making senseless promises and by encouraging extremist elements within the Muslim community. The BJP thinks this ‘minority appeasement’ makes it an opportune time to target unhappy ‘Hindu’ voters. That it is all about a desire to gain power is quite clear from the statement of Ashok Singhal, President of BJP affiliate Vishwa Hindu Parishad, who says, “The controversy over the CD is good. Now more people will be curious to see it and the message will be delivered.”

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2007

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