L K Advani’s Emergency remark has created a buzz in political circles. What prompted the BJP patriarch to make such a high-pitched statement is speculated heavily. Speculation aside, the remark has not only reminded the minority groups what is coming but also provides leverage in campaign to safeguard and promote their values and belief systems. This is so because such remark has come from a seasoned political figure of the country at a time when apprehensive mindset of the minority groups is at play that, at the core of the Hindutva movement stands Narendra Modi. For quite sometimes now the gossip clubs have been speculating that Mr Modi will employ policies to clear things that stand in the way of the Hindutva movement.On Thursday, in an interview to The Indian Express L K Advani said that a suspension of civil liberties similar to the 1975 Emergency could not be ruled out in future in India. “At the present point of time, the forces that can crush democracy, notwithstanding the constitutional and legal safeguards, are stronger,” he added. “But that it cannot happen again — I will not say that. It could be that fundamental liberties are curtailed again,” L K advani further said.
Well, in reality the ground work for the “suspension of civil liberties and to crush democracy” has started sometimes ago engineered by those people at the helm. This fact became visible soon after the Modi government started ignoring the values of the Muslims and the Christians and their belief systems. If there is a societal insecurity today among the minority groups it is because of this cultural imperialism of the Hindutva movement which the former perceives as a threat to their survival as a community.
