Modi Breaks Dadri Silence, Sends Stern Message To BJP’s Hatemongers

“In a democracy everyone has the right to speak their mind”.

A related but fundamental question must also be asked: Why did Mr Modi have to await a presidential expression of anguish and concern before he reacted to what happened in Dadri? I looked up to him all through my life. Modi’s government wants a nationwide ban, but beef is consumed by Muslims and other religious minorities in India.

The beef controversy reached a fever pitch Thursday, after a politician in the state assembly of Jammu and Kashmir was beaten by members of Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party, allegedly because he held a beef party on the lawn of a politician’s hostel in Srinagar. Such statements should end…

Modi’s so called digital Indians have left no stones unturned to show their love for mother cow and to prove Muslims as the killers of holy cow.

The PM also invoked President Pranab Mukherjee’s statement made on Wednesday warning against letting India’s core values of diversity and tolerance waste away. One crucial aspect of this agenda is to ban beef throughout India, depriving millions – Muslims, Christians and millions of Hindus, too – of their right to eat it.

After the killing of Mohammed Akhlaq, Modi was slow to make a comment and when he did so this week, he stopped short of making an explicit condemnation.

Modi repeatedly targeted Lalu over his remark, terming it as an insult to the “yaduvanshis” (yadava clan) as also Bihar.

Many have been copy pasting a few excerpts of Manusmriti to show if beef allowed in Hindu religion. Hindus ought to determine whether or not to struggle Muslims or poverty. Passions are aroused by provocative speeches, and the private armies made to attack through the spread of rumours. Six people have been arrested in connection with the incident.

The foreign media carried this story on the front page, and in great detail with several newspapers recalling the Gujarat violence.

While his eloquence is extraordinary in public meetings in the country and in public and diplomatic forums overseas, his enigmatic silence when a healing touch is required for communal wounds has been a subject of much adverse comment.

As if on cue television news channels, with full ignorance on display, went on to hail the PM’s decision to break the silence, without analysing what he had actually said, and why? Parties like BJP and like want to exploit this issue at best to manipulate the sentiments of Hindu people which will give them benefits in upcoming elections.

He has expressed his “gratitude to American people” for their hospitality during his recent trip to the USA, greeted a cabinet colleague and a governor on their birthdays and the people of China on its National Day, offered his condolences on the death of a singer’s son and congratulated a billiards champion on his prolific twitter feed.