PM Modi speaks on Dadri lynching, calls for Unity and Harmony

“We know that people with a certain mindset are ruling the country, and they would like to reshape Indian polity according to their narrow agenda and dreams”, says Zafarul Islam, editor of The Milli Gazette, the first English Muslim newspaper in India. Only 3 percent of Muslims are vegetarian.

Of the aforementioned attacks, the attack on Akhlaq was the most galling. Modi has riled opponents by calling for a nationwide ban on cow slaughter and criticised the previous government for promoting beef exports. Modi slammed the politicians who are attempting to make petty gains through the inciting the one community against another.

Amrit Dhillon is a journalist based in New Delhi. Since the ancient times, Hindus have treated them to be “Motherly”.

A few state laws prohibit killing of all cattle and a few others ban only killing of cows and calves.

The spokesman said that attacks on Muslims on the issue of cow slaughtering are beyond comprehension and a cause of concern for the Muslim Ummah. After all, Zuckerberg hailed Modi as a model leader who would revolutionize governance with his masterful use of social media “to connect with citizens”.

“The Prime Minister has skirted the real issue”.

Ravinder Raina, a BJP lawmaker in the state, told reporters on Thursday that Sheik-the beef-eating Muslim politician-had “hurt our religious sentiment”. In 2014-2015 alone, India has received $19.78 billion foreign direct investment (FDI) from the 12 countries visited by him. Others fashioned him as a libertarian railing against “red tape-ism” and governmental overregulation and inefficiency.

Believing that Modi would become a pragmatist once elected, however, proved to be a devastatingly huge mistake. Your friend President Obama took on the NRA- gun lobbyist when there was a major shooting that killed 10 innocent people in the US. This incident took place in Bisara village in the Dadri suburb of Uttar Pradesh, about 50 kilometers from Delhi.

Modi had yesterday pitched for communal harmony, saying Hindus and Muslims should not fight each other but together fight poverty. “If they are doing this is Kashmir, the biggest Muslim state, imagine what they have planned for the rest of India”. This is a logic that Modi has articulated himself several times – that India is a land for everyone, so along as people respect the Hindu way of life. Although a 2012 judicial inquiry cleared Modi of wrongdoing during the riots, the fact remains that his attitude toward the event was depressingly defiant. In today’s India, the minorities live in fear. Their justification? Hindutva extremists see all Indians as originally Hindu. “If you need to pay heed, it should be to the guidance given by the President”, Modi said. Muslims especially are under siege in India today. “The people in Bisada are behaving responsibly, which is helping the state government to heal the wounds of communal tension”, Singh said.

These acts of violence show that for all of Modi’s efforts, the communal situation will continue to simmer. And on September 27, a day before Akhlaq’s murder, an Indian Muslim man was lynched after being falsely accused of terrorism. But does Modi sympathize more with Akhlaq’s murderers?

The Pandits, who are Brahmins, cook and serve meat, chicken and fish on Shivratri, the most important festival on their calendar.

Slaughtering cows and consuming beef is considered a sacrilege by the majority of Hindus in India, yet for a country that supposedly espouses secularism and never tires of recounting its secular nature, the present controversy is but a reflection of the change India is undergoing.