Writer and human rights activist Ram Puniyani said here on Tuesday that after Narendra Modi became the Prime Minister “acche din” (good days) have come only to the corporate sector.
Delivering a talk on “rising intolerance, future of Indian democracy” organised by Students Islamic Organisation of India and Karnataka Komu Souharda Vedike he said communal violence began with attacks on churches in Delhi and reached up to Dadri lynching incident; and the number of incidents had shot up 40 to 50 per cent after Mr. Modi became the Prime Minister.
He said it appeared the Prime Minister and the right-wing “fringe groups” spoke in different tones regarding minorities. “But it is a well co-ordinated different voices” to make one believe that the Prime Minister cared for minorities. “It is a chaalak rajneeti,” he said adding that all right-wing groups and their associated “fringe groups” were hand in glove and worked in unity in back and made a show off that they were different.
The Rasthtriya Swayamsevak Sangh decided when exactly the Prime Minister should speak about minorities, he alleged. Mr. Puniyani alleged that the RSS and the Muslim League never participated in the country’s freedom struggle. If the RSS wanted to have Hindu rasthra the Mulim League was striving to have a ‘Muslim rashtra’.
