Varun Gandhi considers that the Hindus are ’under siege’ and has appealed to the nation to stand by him. He thinks that Hindus are ‘living under fear’ and ‘three temples have been vandalised in the block in which I am supposed to have given the speech’
Now, I was always under the impression that the minority community (read Muslims) were under seige in India. Varun has a new take on that.
I wonder what the reactions would be if a Muslim leader from Gujarat were to have given the same speech and substituted in Varun Gandhi’s speech “Hindu” for “Muslim”.
The Other Gandhi, the Mahatma of India, was a Hindu and a Bania to boot, but can anybody recall him in that fashion. In fact, if one visits states as far flung as Meghalaya or Assam, they are quite surprised to note that he was a Gujrati. They can think of him only as the Father of the Nation.
This Gandhi, although much more goodlooking than him, is a pale shadow of the real thing.
There have been many attempts to demolish the secular fabric of the Constitution of India. That a Gandhi, a scion of Nehru, has also been adding to the push, only adds to the misery.