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Boris Johnson arrived in India. Rabble-rousers know that the world's media attention will follow; and they use this opportunity to garner some of the spotlight.
by 1024core 5y ago
Boris Johnson arrived in India. Rabble-rousers know that the world's media attention will follow; and they use this opportunity to garner some of the spotlight. It's just a shameless ploy to get their names out.
Such is democracy, I guess.
And the Guardian doesn't help by adding flame bait such as this:
"In the capital, Delhi, bulldozers have demolished the homes of Muslims accused of rioting."
Illegal construction, encroachment on public land will sometimes get this response. Of course, due to vote bank politics, this may not always happen; but it does.
- stickfigure 5y agoAbout the content of the tweets, the article says: But Mevani tweeted this week that Modi “worships and considers Godse as God”, accusing the prime minister of fomenting religious division. He also demanded that Modi apologise for communal violence in Gujarat, where Mevani is a member of the state legislature. Assuming this representation of the tweets is accurate, are you saying that posting them should be an arrestable offense?
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- CtznIndn 5y agoThis is a very ingenuous take, trying to shield the wrong doings by Current Gov. First, Illegal encroachments were not bulldozed. People had valid documents proving the legitimacy of their houses. Also, the Supreme Court ordered for the demolitions to stop, but the houses and shops of people were still razed to ground. The Rabble rousers were people who were undertaking religious processions with swords and guns raised in front of mosques, mocking and troubling Muslims. They even hoisted saffron flags over the mosques. Rabble rousers are those who are continuously giving calls for genocide of Muslims in Dharm sansads, publicly. And PM of India has stayed mum all through out. What Guardian said is absolutely right. It's not flame-bait. Such is Democracy, I guess.
- imdhmd 5y ago> Illegal construction, encroachment on public land will sometimes get this response. Illegal construction is rampant in india. Please contextualize the act of bulldozing with the riots that happened. Let's not be blind to the clear use of power and authority to specifically root out people of a certain cast. The level of politics being played out in India is nearing to the intellect of a badly scripted bollywood movie and people are turning the other way or even worse making excuses for it.
- bruceb 5y agoAnd bulldozing happens in non Muslim areas as well. Sometimes even middle class homes illegally built. Just as cities in the US clear homeless encampments.
- webartisan 5y agoSure, again, context matters. A lot of Delhi, and probably a lot more of Mumbai is just illegal construction, if you were to apply the law squarely, a large part of the cities would be rubble. You're (perhaps rather knowingly) ignoring the nuance here.
- actuator 5y agoAgreed but this is not unique to the current federal government at all. Whoever is in power at the state or national level has used this power for their benefit. Case in point, office of a prominent Indian actor was broken by a state government which is the political rival of the government at national level, even after a high court order preventing them from doing so.
- imdhmd 5y agoI seriously don't want to engage with whataboutry, but I'm going to reply to you with the tiniest hope that you might be willing to listen to reason. So first, i agree with you that power structures have always taken advantage of their position to shutdown their opposition. The reason that this has become significant enough in India for someone to take note and take action, is because of the blatant and frequent application of authority in this manner and that too targeted towards a specific community. The scale is enormous and is not showing any signs of decreasing.