Conspiratory ‘Bandhutva’ call against ‘Hindutva’ in Jharkhand.

In the name of “Bandhutva”, Communists, Socialists, Naxalites, Evangelists, and Selective Secularists are trying to oppose “Hindutva” in Jharkhand to “resist Hindu Rashtra”.

Upendra Bharti | HENB | Dhanbad | July 17, 2023:: A big conspiracy has been hatched in Jharkhand in the name of promotion of “Bandhutva” (friendship) to vehemently oppose any advancement of “Hindutva” (Hinduness-Hindu fraternity) whether it is in the social or political atmosphere.

So-called rights activists and civil society members in various fronts of Communists, Socialists, Naxalites, Evangelists, and Selective Secularists organisations have called for a campaign across Jharkhand’s 14 Lok Sabha constituencies to defeat the BJP in next year’s general election, considering BJP as a Hindutva force.

The united anti-Hindu forces have coined the slogan “Hindutva nahi, Bandhutva (Not Hindutva but friendship)” and planned to spew the venom against Hindu Rashtra as apprehended.

The Jharkhand Janadhikar Mahasabha, a coalition of so-called human rights and tribal rights groups, and the crypto civil society organisation Loktantrik Rashtra Nirman Abhiyan have begun the campaign with meetings in Chaibasa, part of the Singhbhum parliamentary seat. Meetings are also planned in Ranchi, Chatra,  and many other places of Hazaribagh.

“We have groups and individuals joining us who broadly identify the BJP as a threat to the nation and want the country to retain its secular identity rather than become a Hindu Rashtra,” said Manthan, a key Abhiyan functionary.

They have drafted pamphlets that will be distributed among the people attending our meetings and programmes. The pamphlet’s tagline is ‘Hindutva nahi, Bandhutva’.”

Manthan added: “We will be holding small meetings in all the 14 constituencies and all the district headquarters with members of civil societies and political groups. We will request political parties opposed to the BJP’s ideology to forge an alliance to avoid splitting the (anti-BJP) vote during the 2024 parliamentary polls.”

Sources in the Mahasabha said the tagline had been coined keeping in mind the BJP’s stress on its Hindutva ideology and its politics of targeting minorities and dividing communities.

“The pamphlets talk about the fragmentation and distortion of the concept and structure of democracy, the nation, the Constitution and citizenship by the BJP-RSS combine,” tribal rights activist Ms. Elina Horo, a member of the Mahasabha, said.

“Repression is going on against Muslims, other minorities, Dalits, tribal people, backward communities, democratic agitators and anti-BJP parties as part of efforts to turn India into a Hindu Rashtra.”

Ms. Horo added: “The pamphlets also cite how the BJP-led central government is using its agencies such as the CBI, ED and the income-tax department to intimidate the Opposition. Even social activists and those who raise the voice of dissent are being suppressed through draconian laws like the (anti-terror law) UAPA.”

Women’s rights activist Aloka Kujur said: “The pamphlets also portray the rising inflation, weakening social security, and the increasing unemployment as the Modi government sells or hands over the country’s resources and (public) companies one by one to a few corporate houses. The loot of the water, forestland, and minerals of the tribal communities has become more intense.”

As a coalition of anti-Hindutva forces, the Abhiyan was formed in October 2022 at a meeting in Delhi attended by individuals and organisations ideologically opposed to the Hindutva forces mainly targeting RSS and BJP.

The coalition has units in Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Bihar and Delhi. It has members in Chhattisgarh and Odisha and it will  open the functional units in these two states very soon. The coalition has the target of Dalit (SC/OBC), Adivasi (ST) and Minority (Muslim)  people as the stakeholders of their ‘anti-Hindutva agenda’.

Experts have traced the link of many members and partner organisations of this coalition with the Foreign funding agencies, Naxalites, Evangelists including the Bible Society of India.

The ‘Bandhutva’ call against ‘Hindutva’ in Jharkhand is nothing but a conspiracy playing with a fire game by capitalizing the sentiments of people for equality, rights, and justice in a camouflage of fighting against the majority Hindus and Hindutva in a very dangerous way.

It is also alleged that the Hemant Soren Government is also secretly supporting this rainbow coalition to create a strong anti-Hindutva and anti-BJP force in the state for his ultimate political gain.