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Removal of minorities names from voters list
By Zafar Agha
Behold! Another conspiracy is taking
shape against Muslims of Uttar Pradesh. News have been received during the
last few days from Rampur and many other districts that names of Muslim
families are missing in new voter’s lists for the forthcoming elections.
This is a very serious matter because this is not simply a matter of
chance but a well planned conspiracy being hatched by BJP and R.SS. Now
their tentacles have spread so far that Indian bureaucracy is under their
control. Even otherwise news had been making round from 1970’s onwards
about Election Commission that election machinery was under their control.
Now, most of the staff and managers on election duty are either members of
the Sangh group or its sympathizers. In addition to this, members of the
Sangh group have penetrated almost every branch of administration,
including census department which collects all statistics about the
country’s population. Their attitude is such that they visited all other
houses of my locality but did not take the trouble of visiting my
residence. Obviously they knew that a Muslim family lives there and when
that family will not be mentioned in the census list, it is not at all
difficult to remove its name from the voters list.
The news regarding Muslim families names missing from voters lists is
making rounds in many districts and states for quite some time but these
days such news are mostly coming from UP. Obviously, there are two
objectives of this strategy. Firstly, the ratio of Muslims population
should be reduced in the overall population of the country, and secondly,
the names of as many Muslims should be removed from the voters lists as
possible.
The most important problem for Sangh group is how to deprive Muslim voters
from their voting rights. This is a very serious problem because a common
man in this country may very well enjoy many constitutional rights but, in
ordinary life he has one important right i.e the right to vote or to elect
or remove a government. Now this RSS group, which includes BJP also, wants
to deprive Muslims of their voting rights by hatching different types of
conspiracies. The names of Muslims occupy the top place in the list
containing the names and communities or classes who are prepared to be
deprived of their voting rights. Dalits and other backward classes are
also targeted for being deprived of their voting rights but for the
present Muslims are their main targets for being deprived of voting rights
for the UP elections.
The main reason for all this at present is that elections in UP are to be
held shortly. The Sangh group feels that the earth is slipping from under
the feet of BJP in UP, the most important state of India. The Sangh group,
which includes BJP also, is extremely worried lest it may lose UP
elections scheduled to be held early next year. And if BJP loses UP, the
central government at Delhi will become shaky. This thought is giving them
sleepless nights and they are trying their best to somehow or the other
make BJP win the UP elections. For this they are prepared to employ any
means. The first step in this plot is to somehow eliminate as many names
of Muslims, ‘Dalits’ and other backward classes from the voter’s
list as possible so that the numbers of these voters, who are generally
opposed to BJP etc, may be reduced to the maximum possible extent. In
other words, the Sangh in collaboration with BJP have planned to somehow
hijack Indian democracy so that the Indian masses may not be able to
remove BJP from power through elections.
It should be borne in mind that removal of BJP’s likely opponents from
voters list is the first step of their conspiracy. The second stage of
this conspiracy is to manipulate Hindu-Muslim tension and possibly
organize riots in the states where elections are to be held. For example,
preparations are in full swing to create Hindu-Muslim tension in the name
of Ram temple. On the occasion of these elections, on one side their
strategy is to rouse Hindu emotions in the name of Ram temple and to
attract them towards BJP and on the other side, to spread rumour and
create tension in and around Muslim localities just a couple of days
before election day so that heavy police patrolling could be effected so
that many people, specially Muslim bodies, may not dare to step out of
their houses for casting absence, BJP supporters may cast their votes in
favour of BJP candidates.
Another conspiracy has already been hatched to conceal this conspiracy in
a different way. The government of UP has recently announced that Muslim
backward classes will also be given reservation out of the quota of other
backward classes. Firstly, this is not something new and secondly, a
government which wants to destroy mosques and close down ‘madrasas’ on
some pretext or the other, how once an expect of such a government to give
reservation to Muslims? As a matter of fact the objective of this
announcement is that there should at least be some logical reasons or
bases to verify the bogus votes to be cast on behalf of Muslims and other
backward classes who may not step out of their houses on account of the
fear because of heavy police patrolling.
Another important objective of this new reservation policy is that the
impression should be propagated through false opinion polls that normally
are held and shown on the eve of elections that this time such and such
percentage of backward classes of Muslims and other communities are
inclined to cast their votes in favour of BJP which is because of the new
reservation policy. Subsequently, when the elections are over, it should
be shown in bold letters on TV and newspapers that in these elections
such-and-such percent of Muslim votes were cast in favour of BJP and in
this way BJP got the majority.
But there is no cause for worry. Muslims and other backward classes should
carry on agitations along with their leaders for inclusion of their names
in the voters list. Fort this purpose they should ‘gherao’ offices of
election commissions. Again, the difficulties created on the eve of
elections by creating tensions and police’ bandobast’ should be
ignored and people should came out fearlessly, including womenfolk, and
cast their votes against BJP.
Backward sections of India should remember that they have only one strong
weapon at their disposal i.e the weapon of vote which the BJP and Sangh
group is trying to grab from them. Educated people should educate the
people about these sinister conspiracies. Teachers of institutions like
Aligarh Muslim University can play an important role in this movement.
These people should remember that if this weapon of vote is taken away
from them, they will be destined to lead a life of slavery. (Translated
from Urdu) q |
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