The reason is that I am going to say today in absolutely clear language that the Prime Minister is demeaning himself and India with the latest twist that his campaign has taken.
More worrying is the way Modi has demonised our own Muslim citizens. This has debased the Prime Minister’s office. India has the world’s second largest Muslim population, after Indonesia, so calling our Muslim citizens ‘infiltrators’ is irresponsible, untrue, and very dangerous. Then there was Modi’s comment on how the Congress Party was going to steal gold and ‘mangalsutras’ from Indian women and redistribute this wealth to those ‘producing more children’. This comes from his Alma Mater. I once had many RSS friends and discovered over many post-shakha Punjabi breakfasts in Delhi that they were paranoid about India becoming a Muslim majority country because Muslims bred more children than Hindus. What an ordinary Sanghi can say cannot, and must not, be said by the Prime Minister because he is supposed to represent everyone. Not just Hindus.
by Tavleen Singh
05/05/2024