Love and hate relationship specially “Muslim” bashing are back just a week before elections in Uttar Pradesh as both BJP and secular parties are trying their best to polarise voters on communal grounds all the talks that elections will be fought on corruption and development agenda is a farce.
Communalism is threatening to muscle into the electoral arena, defying the original estimate that the polls this time will be marked by a focus on development and other secular issues like corruption and inflation.
BJP can capture New Delhi only with the communal agenda and UP and Bihar are two states where they have already laid the foundation of communal divide in the last 4 months specially Muzzafer nagar riots.
He was accompanied by BJP legislator Suresh Rana, who was an accused in the Muzaffarnagar riots in which over 60 people, mostly Muslims, had died, while thousands were rendered homeless.
Narendra Modi’s close aide, BJP general secretary Amit Shah, exhorted Jats in riot-scarred Muzaffarnagar to avenge their “insult”. Two days ago, addressing a meeting of Jats, Shah said, “You have been treated as second-grade citizens. It is time for revenge now.”
He stressed that the revenge was to be exacted through the ballot by voting for BJP. “Aaj kal lathi, bandook ka jamana nahin hai. Talwar se badla nahin lena hai, Button daba kar lena hai …(Batons, guns and swords belong to a bygone era. These days you take revenge by using the button on EVMs),” TV channels showed Shah telling his audience.
“It is not a question of taking revenge with any religion. He was clearly referring to what Congress has done. BJP has never tried to give the colour of communalism to any election or on any issue,” party president Rajnath Singh said.
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) also went to the poll panel, seeking action against the former Gujarat minister for spreading