: Julio Ribeiro: Will the victory of Hindutva’s 80:20 formula make minorities second-class citizens? #IndiaNEWS A little before the Assembly elections in five states, sants and seers with links to

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Julio Ribeiro: Will the victory of Hindutva’s 80:20 formula make minorities second-class citizens? #IndiaNEWS
A little before the Assembly elections in five states, sants and seers with links to Hindutva groups at a meeting in Haridwar called for the elimination of India’s Muslims. A few weeks before, a Hindutva mob had attacked a Christian prayer hall in the district, alleging attempts at conversion.The police treated the offenders in both cases with kid gloves, an approach diametrically different from the way opponents of the regime are treated.What is in store for India’s Muslim and the Christian minorities after the resounding victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party in four of the five states that went to the polls recently? Will they be compelled to accept second-class status in the land of their birth and the land in which their forefathers were born? Will their plight be the same as that of Hindus and Christians in Pakistan?The Indian Constitution, which our popular prime minister swears upon, promises equality, dignity and justice to every citizen, irrespective of religion, caste, gender or linguistic preference. But as political scientist Ashutosh Varshney says, majoritarian politics cleverly utilises one vehicle of democracy – democratic elections – to push through the legislature laws to limit the freedoms guaranteed to the minorities by the Constitution. ‘Second-class treatment’A tale I have told before may bear repeating in the wake of...Read more

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