: How India’s attitude to corruption exposes Hindutva’s shallow claims about real patriots #IndiaNEWS As India completes 75 years of Independence on August 15, where do its citizens think the nation

How India’s attitude to corruption exposes Hindutva’s shallow claims about real patriots #IndiaNEWS
As India completes 75 years of Independence on August 15, where do its citizens think the nation stands today? To many, it is clear that we are in midst of a dangerous communal schism and are being forced to demonstrate which side we are on.India has been pushed into this communal binary since 2014, after the Bharatiya Janata Party under Prime Minister Narendra Modi took the reins. This transition took place in the backdrop of a strong anti-corruption movement against the United Progressive Alliance government led by the Congress. But soon, the public focus shifted from corruption to communalism. Today, even corruption is being viewed through the prism of communal binaries.Oddly, BJP voters seem to see corruption only in the Opposition. They seem to look the other way when the saffron party spares tainted Opposition leaders who join the BJP’s ranks. The loot of lakhs of crores of rupees from India’s public banks by dodgy industrialists over the past eight years is apparently not a problem either.This attitude to corruption exposes the shallowness of the founding principles of the BJP’s communal ideology. One of the abiding postulates of the communal binary is that the majority community – Hindus – are the original flag-bearers of India’s...Read more

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