Triumph of Secularism

                                                  Divide and Rule Policy Fails 

The results of the five assembly elections show that people have lost faith in the BJP as it failed to implement its election promises and adopted ill thought of policies damaging country’s economy. Demonetisation, introduction of GST, lack of support to farmers, direct and indirect patronage to monopoly houses, political vendettas, failure to provide jobs as promised to youngsters, mob lynching, cow politics, rhetoric on unproductive issues, all the more communal politics etc. have made the people show the door to the BJP.

The Congress has captured power in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh, TRS in Telangana and MNF in Mizoram. If elections are held in other states like U.P., BJP is bound to taste defeat as even its legislators do not seem to be happy with the things happened and are happening there including the appointment of the Chief Minister ignoring all of them.

The beauty of India is its unity in diversity. Indian people cannot be divided on communal lines. The BJP’s defeat is also the defeat of its ugly communal politics and divide and rule policy. It should learn a lesson from the defeat. 

People belonging to all religions are by and large secular in our country. It is only a few politicians who divide people on caste and communal lines for political advantages. They are not religious at all.

V.M. Khaleelur Rahman