Congress Says If BJP Wins in 2019, India Will Become "Hindu Pakistan".
Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor while addressing an event in Thiruvananthapuram fear mongered about the 2019 result of the General election. Claiming that the BJP will rip apart the Constitution and create a new one that will only uphold the principles of a 'Hindu' country, Tharoor made a controversial India Will Become "Hindu Pakistan". comment.
"So far what is preventing them is that they need three things to change the constitution. They need two-thirds of the Lok Sabha, two-thirds of Rajya Sabha and half the states. You know, right now they have two-thirds of the Lok Sabha with the NDA alliance. They have more than half the states. They control 20 states and they are in coalition in 2 more out of 29 states.
The only thing that they don't have is a majority in the Rajya Sabha. But because they have so many state governments and the state assemblies elect the Rajya Sabha you can be sure that in four or five years they will have a majority in Rajya Sabha. So the great danger then is that if they have been able to win a repeat of their current strength in Lok Sabha, then frankly our democratic constitution as we understand it will not survive, " Tharoor said.
"Because all the three elements they need to tear up the constitution of India and write a new one. And that will be a new one that will enshrine the principle of a Hindu Rashtra, that will remove equality for the minorities, that will create a Hindu Pakistan. And that is not what Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Maulana Azad, Sardar Patel and the great heroes of our freedom struggle fought for," Tharoor said.
Tharoor's remark seems to suggest that as per the Congress party, Hindus will become a dominant force and will be allowed to suppress the voice of minorities with the re-election of Narendra Modi as Prime Minister in 2019. The suggestion by the Congress is also that Hindus will wield more power because India will become some sort of "Hindu only" country. The question is, why and on what basis is this fear-mongering based on fact? Is there a deliberate suggestion to brand the majority community as monstrous one which is to be feared by senior Congressmen Shashi Tharoor?