prasad1
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Three years after he became Prime Minister, Modi made his second statement against the vigilante violence unleashed by cow hoodlums in different parts of the country. The speech, welcome though it was, lacked conviction primarily because Modi heads a government in which ministers have openly lauded such 'gau rakshaks', and given them state financial assistance. Just a week ago, home secretary Rajiv Mehrishi said hate crime was not new in India and that the only thing new was its over-reporting.
This kind of casual dismissal of targeted brutality over the past three years flies in the face of the Prime Minister's claim to have finally taken a stand against such crimes.Now what neither the Prime Minister nor Mehrishi will acknowledge is that hatred in human beings needs only a small trigger to turn violent — and the most effective violence is often self-righteous. So all the provocateur needs to do is provide a platform — it could be the train in 2002 or the cow in 2014. Once set in motion the instigator can easily disown his role in the affair.
A casual look at the emergence of new leaders of Bharatiya Janata Party over the past three decades reveals that violence has been the most effective stepping stone for many of them. There seems to be a pattern here whereby violence against disadvantaged groups, normally minorities, helps bring the individual to the notice of the party. Once the goal is achieved, overt violence is renounced by the individual and we start to see the individual as a 'normal politician'. The violence doesn't end, however. It just gets outsourced to those lower in the hierarchy.
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In 2017, Yogi Adityanath was made UP chief minister. The first month of Adityanath's rule was a period of terror for the minorities with his outfits like Romeo Squads and Hindu Yuva Vahini running amok. Yet, a few months later, the process of normalisation was on, and the media was full of celebration of a hundred days of his rule. The process of Adityanath's gentrification had begun.
Meanwhile, the Parishads, the Dals, the Vahinis, the Senas, the moustached Generals, the Romeo Squads and, of course, the Gau Rakshaks wait their turn. They need to be noticed. They need to be upgraded when the next opportunity arises. Who can ask them to hold back and not partake of a model that assures success? They are savvy enough to know the Prime Minister has to make occasional noises every now and then. They will ride this out as did 'their fathers before them'.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/sunday-times/all-that-matters/romeos-to-rakshaks-how-violence-became-normal/articleshow/59403719.cms
This kind of casual dismissal of targeted brutality over the past three years flies in the face of the Prime Minister's claim to have finally taken a stand against such crimes.Now what neither the Prime Minister nor Mehrishi will acknowledge is that hatred in human beings needs only a small trigger to turn violent — and the most effective violence is often self-righteous. So all the provocateur needs to do is provide a platform — it could be the train in 2002 or the cow in 2014. Once set in motion the instigator can easily disown his role in the affair.
A casual look at the emergence of new leaders of Bharatiya Janata Party over the past three decades reveals that violence has been the most effective stepping stone for many of them. There seems to be a pattern here whereby violence against disadvantaged groups, normally minorities, helps bring the individual to the notice of the party. Once the goal is achieved, overt violence is renounced by the individual and we start to see the individual as a 'normal politician'. The violence doesn't end, however. It just gets outsourced to those lower in the hierarchy.
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In 2017, Yogi Adityanath was made UP chief minister. The first month of Adityanath's rule was a period of terror for the minorities with his outfits like Romeo Squads and Hindu Yuva Vahini running amok. Yet, a few months later, the process of normalisation was on, and the media was full of celebration of a hundred days of his rule. The process of Adityanath's gentrification had begun.
Meanwhile, the Parishads, the Dals, the Vahinis, the Senas, the moustached Generals, the Romeo Squads and, of course, the Gau Rakshaks wait their turn. They need to be noticed. They need to be upgraded when the next opportunity arises. Who can ask them to hold back and not partake of a model that assures success? They are savvy enough to know the Prime Minister has to make occasional noises every now and then. They will ride this out as did 'their fathers before them'.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/sunday-times/all-that-matters/romeos-to-rakshaks-how-violence-became-normal/articleshow/59403719.cms