Do Indians understand what secularism Means; Congress and Pampering of Muslims

I think the title of this post should have been "Does the Congress party Understand what secularism" means". I have used the word Indians only because the Congress helped shaped India's  policies  for almost 6 decades after India became free. In that respect it represented India and thrust its brand of secularism all over India.

Pandit Nehru for reasons best known to him was always to sympathetic to the Muslims . I again use the word sympathetic , well the actual word is appeasement as he seemed to hold the Muslims in awe for whatever reason we do not know. One man in a light hearted meander once expressed to me that  Pandit Nehru had close affinity and blood relations with Muslims and Sheik Abdullah was his half brother. This can all be treated as drivel and perhaps not true, but the fact is that Nehru went out of his way to accommodate the Muslims.

There is no doubt that the Muslims ruled India for 900 years and this does prey on the mind of Hindus in a sub conscious manner. The Hindu psyche cannot rid itself of it and the result is a desire not to antagonize the  Muslim community and gave them a greater rope than is warranted. This has also led to twisted interpretation of the word secularism

Secularism is something good , but it does not mean a deprivation of the majority community and pampering of any community or religion. Unfortunately Gandhi followed by Nehru believed in pampering the Muslims and this was in fact a doubled sword. The pampered Muslims failed to integrate with the nation and remained backward, wedded to obscurantism and old fashioned ideas. Education failed to seep through to them and the community remained backward. By giving a warped sense of secularism the Congress failed to integrate Muslims with India  and in a way harmed the Muslims themselves.

Things like personal law and Sharia continued in the 21st century and even though Muslim nations like Turkey discarded them, but not the India led by the congress. This is the bane of India that once the Hindus came to power albeit by default and without a fight, they have squandered a united India by allowing the Congress to rule and thus India is riven by casteism and religion and the so called secularism in real terms an anchor around its neck.

Narendra Modi First Prime Minister to Acknowledge Indian Military Contribution

The Indian army right from the days of Nehru was given short shrift by Nehru and other Congress politicians. these politicians not only denigrated the Indian armed forces but never acknowledged that the Indian army was a factor in Indian polity. Nehru required a kick from the Chinese to realize that he was wrong and by that time the sands of time had run out for him and he died a broken man in body and spirit. His reputation was in tatters as he realized that he was at best a loser.

However the neglect of the armed forces continued and right up to the time of the stooge ManMohan Singh, their was no change in thinking. Indian leaders going abroad studiously avoided visiting any memorial to the Indian army outside and even at home they never wanted a war memorial. Manmohan Singh will go down in history as one of the most incompetent prime ministers, a man who behaved as if he was Man Friday of the Gandhi family. His character can be gauged from the fact that he joined the very party that had engineered the massacre of Sikhs in delhi in 1984 and he was a Sikh himself.

The record of 67 years was set right by narendra Modi. This man is the first Indian who acknowledged the army as a national institution. His visit to teh war graves memorial at Nouveau Chateau in France , the first by an Indian Prime Minister is something to be cherished. Here is a acknowledgment that the army is part of the Indian nation, something the Congress leaders never did.

Modi has also formulated plans for a war memorial and his approval of One Rank One Pension is a feather in his cap. He is the one leader who has given respect to the man in uniform. Its sad that Nehru and his ilk thought otherwise. History will dam them, but 67 years of neglect is something that cannot be forgotten.