Indian National Congress (INC), formed in 1885, had a vision of representing the entire Indian population. On the other hand, the All India Muslim League (AIML), formed in 1906, was an ethnic platform. Its purpose, to safeguard the interests of the Muslims of India. It never had the vision to represent all the people of India. It never thought that it was possible for the Muslims or members of other minor religious groups, to move out of their limited mental and physical circles and represent all the people of India. This was the limitation of thought of the Muslim leadership of India.
The fear of the Muslims of India that one person, one vote, would keep them under perpetual Hindu subjugation, stems from lack of belief in themselves. Lack of belief that they can fairly further the interests of the people of other faiths. Lack of belief, that they have the ability to take along with them the people of all faiths. The Muslims of the Indo-Pak sub-continent, by their actions since partition, have lived up to this ‘lack of belief in themselves’.
Still, more than seventy years after the partition of India, there has never been a thought or talk, on the possibility of ever a Muslim dominated organisation representing the interests of all of the peoples of the Indo-Pak sub-continent. This has been the limitation of thought, which was, is and appears that it will remain, until there is a Muslim leadership strong enough to overcome it.
The Muslims of the sub-continent of India have proven, time and time again, that they have never entertained the thought of representing the interests of anyone but the Muslims. Even this function has not been performed well. East Pakistan has become Bangladesh.
Occupied Kashmir has become more occupied. Baluchistan is calling for independence. While each of the seventy two factions and sub factions of Muslims in Pakistan, call the other, a ‘kafir’.
The string of non-inclusive approaches of the leadership of Pakistan to deal with their own people, shows the inability of the Muslims of Indo Pak sub-continent to take along with them all the people, no matter what religion they belong to. These very Muslims, who sit in the legislature, and others, who are the beneficiaries of most of the meager resources of a poor country, on immigration to a new country, expect a treatment and status equal to the one, enjoyed by the citizens of the host country. However they are not willing to give the same status to their own non-Muslims.
Today, more than seventy years after partition, Pakistan is an ideological wasteland. It is adrift in rough waters for grabs by the highest bidder, to use and abuse, as the buyer may wish.
What the Modi government of India is doing since coming to power, Pakistan did it six months after the death of Jinnah, in March 1949, with the passage of the objectives resolution. This was the first coup on the ideology of Pakistan. The steps taken by the Modi government with the passage of the Indian Citizenship Act of 2019, is a coup by the BJP government on the ideological basis of India, as envisioned by Jawaharlal Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi. The forces that carried out this coup, on the ideology of India, are the ones whose hands are stained with the blood of ‘the father of India’, Mahatma Gandhi. Nathuram Godse, a member of the radical Hindutva movement carried out the assassination by firing three bullets, into his chest on 30th January, 1948.
Today, more than seventy years after partition, Pakistan is an ideological wasteland. It is adrift in rough waters for grabs by the highest bidder, to use and abuse, as the buyer may wish. If India continues on the journey, which Modi embarked with the Hindu led and Muslim targeted Gujrat riots of 2002, the revocation of the special status of Kashmir in August 2019, the Indian Citizenship Amendment Act of December 2019 and the Anti-Muslim riots in Delhi of February 2020, then in the years to come, India would be more directionless, than Pakistan is today.
What the Muslims of Pakistan have done with their minority, is exactly what they themselves feared would be done to them by the Hindu majority of India. They reduced the non-Muslims of Pakistan, to a constitutional minority, ‘half a citizen’.
Good article. However I wish the author had stayed with Pakistan rather than mudding the water with a commentary on India. Because context and details aren’t the same, so it created doubt on the author’s grasp of Indian affairs beyond the sensational headlines in the populist media.
It was Sir Sayed Ahmed who had decided that the British were going to rule India forever and Muslim interests were best served by hitching to their bandwagon. The Muslim League was formed by the Aligarh intellectuals at the behest of the British to counter the INCongress and consisted of feudal Muslim rulers and Mullahs. It was an organisation with no purpose other than to promote British interests, which was served by the antiCongress stance and the demand for Pakistan when it suited the British. Being bereft of a genuine political vision, it fell naturally into the conveniently available option of continuing with and promoting increasingly radical Islam as the ideology of the State. As a result, in an act of economic suicide, it got rid of its productive minorities who would have been its wealth creators and provided an army of professionals in every field. Not being encumbered with the fake socialism and petty populism of India, it would have been the tiger economy of South Asia long ago.
nrc caa is a law to give respect to those fleeing from pakistan and bangladesh and to discipline 50k to one lakh muslims those who have encroached govt land out of 28 crore muslims.. secular structure of constitution is not changed by modi ji.. and pakistan can solve all its problems by one child policy .. as consumption of imported things like mobile fridge ac tv automobiles will reduce and pakistan will also eat less wheat beef and export the surplus … small education and healthcare budget will provide enough for everyone
This seems less of an article and more of a childish overly simplistic rant.