The era of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the political history of India is also different because Modi fought the elections on the basis of religious division and started the election campaign with the slogan of Hindutva and finally became the Prime Minister of India in 2014. When Prime Minister Modi won the election, he announced that today India has been freed from a thousand years of slavery.
Modi did not consider the country free until 2014 because of the way Modi contested the election on the basis of Hinduism and he was elected by the votes of the majority Hindu population. If this was the main point of Modi’s 2014 speech, the speech delivered after the general election results on May 31, 2019, was not much different from 2014.
There is no doubt that Narendra Modi also did not give any importance to the idea of secularism of India, which was the idea laid down by the first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, that India would be a secular state. Until 2014, the Congress party maintained this ideology, but Narendra Modi promoted Hindutva after coming to power in 2014.
After Modi came to power, BJP as a party and voters clearly started showing their sympathy for Hindutva in the country and in the whole process there was an element of extremism that only Hindus had the first right to India.
The talk of Narendra Modi’s fascist policies and his association with the RSS is a fact. Narendra Modi became the Prime Minister in 2014 on the platform of the Bharatiya Janata Party, but Narendra Modi joined the RSS a long time ago. It may be noted that the BJP is a political wing of the PRSS and is known as a far-right Hindu nationalist party. Extremist party RSS always promoted it politically. Every effort was made to suppress the non-Hindu minorities.
In February 2019, Modi’s fascist policies continued in the second term of the government, and oppressive behaviour against the people against the regime was common. Modi government targeted minorities directly or indirectly. Tear gas shells were fired at farmers’ legitimate protest in New Delhi. There was a tendency towards fascism and policies were made that promoted Hinduism.
The controversial change in Kashmir’s constitutional status on August 5, 2019, made it even clearer that Narendra Modi can do anything illegal to convert the Hindu majority into votes, at the expense of minorities and hurt the sentiments of Muslims.
But by this process, Modi had also gained a lot of popularity among the majority population living in India, which was his main goal. For the past few years, BJP national and provincial governments in India have been publishing such textbooks, in which Hinduism and Hindutva are promoted, forcing minorities to be taught such curriculum. Modi’s party, the BJP, also dominates India’s parliament and state legislatures and promotes its ideology.
BJP implements the policies of its Prime Minister Narendra Modi and minorities are forced to follow the policies made by BJP, it is also a fact that ever since Narendra Modi and his party BJP India has come to power, it has piled up institutions with Hindu nationalist ideologies and Hinduism, BJP does not even accept that many historical places in India, which are named after Muslim leaders, Names of Hindu heroes have been replaced. Due to such one-sided policies of Modi, secularism in India has lost a lot, but the minorities living in India have become more insecure.
The BJP considers India to be a country of Hindus only and other citizens are treated as inferiors. Nehru, India’s first Prime Minister, rejected decisions to divide India’s history into Muslim and Hindu eras because he was better knew that a secular state is the only way for the welfare of the people living in India but Narendra Modi’s policies have seriously damaged the unity among the citizens in India, and today the claimant of the largest democracy India is the most unsafe country for minorities.
It is right that Modi is a fascist ideologue who is known all over the world for his saffronism and RSS-related activities. RSS is a Hindu extremist party which promotes Hinduism by force. Popular editors around the world have also criticized Narendra Modi’s policies, noted editor Carl Wick writes that, unlike other Indian prime ministers, Modi has ruled in favour of the majority. BJP has targeted minority communities. Especially targeting the Muslims of India. In summary, it is very important for a Fascist Indian ruler to act wisely and giving breathing space to the minorities living in India should be an eye-opener.