Though SP calls itself secular, it has again and again done politics on the communal lines. The suspension of IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal was a classic example.
The inefficiency of Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav’s government is in front of us with its huge mistakes.
The administration’s inability to stop the clashes ongoing from three days in Muzaffarnagar shows how favouritism cannot go hand in hand with the ability. The administrators deployed in the area were handpicked by CMr’s father and former chief minister Mulayam Sngh Yadav.
In what may look like classic example of exaggerated incidences, the clashes were given communal colour by the ruling Samajwadi Party (SP) when it showed a video of opposition Bhartiya Janata Party’s (BJP) member allegedly fuelling the riots.
According to BBC, and editor of newspaper Amar Ujala Rajiv Singh, the alleged purpetrator in the situation – the video – is a fake.
As BBC reported quoting the editor Rajiv Singh, on the night of August 31, two young men killed another boy who supposedly eve teased their sister. Later, both the men were killed by unknown people. All three men belonged to different community. Singh said, “From the very first day there was dereliction from the side of the administration. After these deaths, which were not communal, the state government transferred all the local senior officials and new officers joined in there places. When 10 people were killed on the morning of September 7, nobody was able to understand what happened.”
If we have to believe the reports, the clash took communal colour only after the alleged video surfaced from SP’s side. BBC claims that it had taken up the issue and demanded from the government a ban on the broadcasting of the video by any means declaring it a fake.
It will be interesting to note that the state government has been warily reporting communal riots all over the Uttar Pradesh calling it a work of opposition. But the fact is, the chief minister and his extended kinship in the administration was never able to catch any of the alleged miscreants.
Dhiraj Nayyar writes in his column on a website, “For secularism to serve its political purpose in India there needs to be a perpetual fear in the minds of minorities about a potential threat to their lives and property from the majority. It suits politicians of all colour to allow this fear to simmer because they can then fashion themselves as saviours. That is why the Samajwadi Party has been pussyfooting about the communal violence in its backyard for several months.”
Though SP calls itself secular, it has again and again done politics on the communal lines. The suspension of IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal was a classic example.
As the death toll rises in the small town of big state, it will be interesting to see how far SP goes with its fake video and fake practice of secularism.
