Opinion View From The Right: Dangerous Andrabi

Akhand Bharat
An article in the Organiser says the reconstruction of Akhand Bharat is the only eternal solution for ending religious conflict in South Asia. Quoting Swami Akhileshwaranand — “a saint from Madhya Pradesh” who spoke on the occasion of “Akhand Bharat Sankalp Din” organised by the Hindu Jagaran Vedike (HJV) as part of the Independence Day celebrations in Bangalore — it says that “the Muslim community living in Bharat, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh are Hindus as their ancestors were Hindus”.

“Akhileshwaranand… seemed to have an eternal solution to end religious conflict in the South Asian countries. His idea is to recreate Akhand Bharat by reminding the Muslim community that they are part and parcel of Bharat.” He is quoted as saying, “I am confident that [the] formation of Akhand Bharat will revive the culture, tradition and reclaim lost glory…” Akhileshwaranand blamed the British for creating the rift among Hindus and Muslims by propagating their divide-and-rule policy, which resulted in the dismantling of the country. The article says that he has called for efforts to re-establish India’s glory by uniting all four countries. In the same function, HJV leader Nagendra Prasad asked the Hindu community to be more vigilant than before, alleging that Muslim organisations have begun a jihadi war, including “love jihad”, against Hindus while Christian organisations are aggressively converting Hindus by offering them money.

India-Pak talks
The Panchajanya editorial talks about the importance of the India-Pakistan talks — a development that the entire world was watching, according to the editorial, and had the ability to alter global reality depending on the outcome. But the editorial, written and published before the NSA-level talks were cancelled, says Pakistan could never be trusted because it kept changing the goalpost. Pakistan has acquired a “unique identity” in terms of reliability, but the country doesn’t seem bothered by this. Although India-Pakistan talks are bilateral and this round was to be between the security advisors, there were issues that made them globally important.

Alleging that, for Pakistan, protecting Osama bin Laden or Dawood Ibrahim was more important than the security of its own citizens, the editorial raises a number of questions — whether Pakistan’s action of protecting Osama was right or the US operation to hunt him down was justified, and whether Pakistan protecting Dawood and other terrorists is right or the UAE’s decision to assist India in its pursuit
against terrorists.

Compiled by Liz Mathew.