Any nation worth its salt, on assuming the
reins of power after a bitter and protracted
struggle against a foreign enemy, is duty bound
to try the collaborators and traitors as enemies
of the people, and mete out justice by hanging
them. In the case of India, this righteous duty
remained unexercised, this major responsibility
remained undischarged.
This glaring dereliction of duty was a tragic
lapse on the part of the Congress. The criminals
left unpunished and unhanged felt emboldened
to keep conspiring against the nation, their
habitual treason and terrorism culminating in
the assassination of Gandhi, the father of the
new nation, and continuing thence the bloodbaths
of the minorities.
Unfortunately, that was not the only tragedy
that wrenched the new nation, and that was not
the only instance of Congress abdicating its
responsibilty of fighting and uprooting the
enemies of the people.
Saffronazis had made several earlier attempts
too on the Mahatma's life - in 1934 (Poona),
in 1944 (Panchgani), in 1944 (Wardha), in 1946
(Poona), and on 20 January 1948 (Delhi). 30th
January 1948 was the last in a long series of
murderous attempts on Gandhi's life by the Hindutva
assassins.
Not to have them hanged proved fatal not just
for the Father of the Nation, but perilous for
the nation at large and for its future as a
sovereign state enity. The traitors of yesteryear
remained unrepentant and turned into inveterate
and seasoned terrorists, masquerading as patriots.
Congress remained remiss and negligent in dealing
with the Hindutva fascists, and allowed the
communal reactionaries and reprobates a field
day. That is how the polity became polluted
and the nation set ablaze repeatedly by Hindu
gangsters spawned by RSS, functioning under
various names. Thus the cult of crime came into
vogue in India as cultural nationalism, a verbal
variant of national socialism of the German
Nazis and fascism of the Italian capo.
The wave of killings and assassinations launched
by the Hindutva hordes rocked the nation no
end setting aflame city after city in various
parts of India and drowning minorities in blood,
the police actively participating in the pogroms
and protecting the Hindutva murderers, rapists
and arsonists as their "duty". The
communally contaminated bureaucracy played the
willing accomplice of the criminals, judiciary
functioning rarely to deliver.
The state was subverted, and law suborned,
to the extent that for the minorities there
was left no exit, no reprieve, let alone justice.
They were victims several-fold of murder, robbery,
rape, frame-up, hunt and harssment, violence
and villainy. Their rights as citizens, as humans,
were abrogated by hoods the state becoming compliant
and complicit.
Their widespread rampage of outlawry going
unpunished swelled the heap of their crimes.
Whether it was Gujarat 2002 ethnocide, planned
long in advance and executed "quite efficiently"
by the state, taking a toll of over 2000 innocent
lives, or the successive holocausts against
Muslims and Christians in Dangs, Surat, Ayodhya,
Muzaffarnagar, Hashimpura, Meerut, Mumbai, Nanded,
Malegaon, Madhya Pradesh and scores of other
places in other states, they saw to it that
their trick of raucous diversion kept them out
of the loop of law.
It is the nagging fear of and bid to escape
punishment and gallows for their countless crimes
of treason and recurrent terrorism that these
saffronazis are the most vocal in demanding
death for Afzal whose crime cannot be proved
as a terrorist.
Thus they are seeking to wipe off their stigma
of treason that they have perpetrated against
the nation and that they persist in still when
they scream that 1942 was a failure, i.e., it
should not have taken place to discomfit their
paymasters, the Brits.
With no other electoral ploy or catchy plank
to mobilize their vote bank handy, their desperate
resort to phony patriotism and their stridency
in respect of Afzal Guru can be understood as
a pitiable gambit, a pathetic attempt at playacting,
characteristic of a drowning and degenerate
party.
It is they who must be hanged first for their
umpteen crimes against the nation. Let them
not deceive anyone this time around. Had they
been hanged there would have been no holocausts
and carnages against minorities, nor would India
have been bereft of the Mahatma.
They threatening a nationwide campaign for
Afzal's illicit execution, and Congress intimidated
by them, spell , for their benefit, and to the
world, that India is a soft state where fascist
criminals and assassins, rapists and arsonists
can flourish and function with impunty.
