Fascism

The Rajsamand killing is not one off incident. It can neither be brushed aside as an act of lunacy. A recent report has pointed out that there has been an unprecedented spike in hate-crimes, incidence of violence and terror acts especially against Muslims, over the last three and a half years since Bharatiya Janta Party and Narendra Modi assumed power in May 2014. The incidents of lynchings and violence in the name of the “cow-protection”, beef-eating, “Love Jihad”, “Ghas Wapasi” that has been unleashed since the coming to power of Hindutva Fascism must be viewed in a continuity.  Even as the aftermath of Rajsamand barbarity was still unfolding, other scenes of Fascist violence were on full display in yet another laboratory of communal Fascism, Madhya Pradesh. In Satna district, Bajrang dal goons attacked Catholics who were out singing Christmas carols and even set blaze a Catholic priest’s car. The police, instead of taking action and slapping relevant charges against the attackers, booked cases against the carol singers themselves!