330. The impact of BBC's Modi video has begun

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The impact of BBC's Modi video has begun

P. S. Remesh Chandran

Editor, Sahyadri Books & Bloom Books, Trivandrum

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Attacks on Hindu temples have begun in Australia. The BJP-appointed Australian Indian High Commissioner has alleged that Sikhs, who are expatriates from India, are behind the attacks. The job of the BJP-appointed Australian Indian High Commissioners is to level allegations against Sikhs from India, because Sikhs in Australia are better off than Hindus in India under the BJP Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rule. Australia is a country that encouraged immigration for the sake of national development, for the prosperity of the country, due to its vast land area and very low population. We must not forget that hard work was required from the early settlers, including the Sikhs from India. Today they are reaping the rewards for their hard work there- a happy prosperous and contended life and recognition!

After the release of this Modi Video by the BBC, the resultant hatred of foreign peoples- not all Sikhs perhaps- towards the genocidal Modi is now being directed at the Hindu temples these people see nearby, which are situated conveniently everywhere near at hand, built without discrimination all over the world with the arrogance of wealth. And wasn’t it in the name of Hinduism that Modi unleashed all that violence, that series of murders, actually Muslim pogroms by his extremist Hindu followers, in Gujarat, and after Modi became the Prime Minister with the help of Reliance, Adani and the Election Commission, his followers are still continuing them wherever they succeed in creating an opportunity? As these Hindu temples are the direct representatives of Hinduism everywhere, are now the icons of his-type-of Hinduism abroad, available near them to desecrate at will, the walls of these temples are now filled with anti-Indian slogans and graffiti written by the people there, wherever non-Hindu people live.

Narendra Modi, through India's Ministry of External Affairs and the leaders of the central BJP, has expressed very negative opinions about the BBC's standards of news reporting and the videos it continuously produces and broadcasts, that actually have global acceptance and political relevance. Using the freshly concocted draconian I. T. Law Amendments by the BJP, he has banned its showing in India and has asked Face Book, Twitter and You Tube, both officially and unofficially, to withdraw it from their platforms in the social media. Obviously scared! It is clear that he is petrified that from now onwards his entry into many countries will be impossible due to protests from the people there whether he possesses a diplomatic passport as a Prime Minister or not, and that he will not be able to tour around in many countries posing as a self-appointed world leader anymore like before without touching the ground and always in the air!

It seems that Narendra Modi assumed that if he, sitting in the chair of the Prime Minister of India, makes a comment about the BBC, all Indians will attach great importance to it and take it at face value! The people of India today give Modi's words about the BBC the same importance that anyone except those who participated in it and those associated with BJP’s organizations who see his Gujarat-like pogroms as a path of liberation and release for Hindus would give to the words of someone who took the people's salaries and votes, sat in a position of power, planned genocides sitting there, and implemented it ruthlessly. Do the people of India who are as old as him need to know about the BBC through Modi?

Until 1945, during World War II, the people and the soldiers who were in the trenches with communication links cut off, knew who were winning and who were losing, who were advancing and who were retreating, by listening to the BBC radio news, which even at that time reached everywhere in the world, across every sea and mountain. It was those battery-powered transistor radios, always kept at low volume by civilians and soldiers that ensured the victory of the Allied powers over the world’s threats Hitler and Mussolini in many places, on many fronts. Military messages against Japan and Germany were sent to Allied troops stranded in remote areas, cleverly mixed with BBC news interspersed with coded words, because wireless could not be used always. One of the results of this overall political maneuvering was the independence of India, as well as of many other colonial countries, in 1947 after World War II.

Now seventy years after the BBC saved the world, and India, today in 2023, India's BJP Prime Minister Modi is babbling with authoritarian arrogance that if he is exposed it would be BBC’s insulting India. Today, grown up and become a servant to Adani and Reliance, along with a number of other servants like him, he stands up and shouts that the BBC's video ‘India: The Modi Question’ calling out his crimes with evidence is a disgrace, a plot to insult to India. What insult to India? Isn’t it an insult to him alone? Was it Modi and the BJP or the BBC who committed the communal riots that killed thousands of people in India? Modi and the BJP are the insult to India. It is the response to this insult that is appearing in the world wherever there are Indians, and even where there are no Indians! It is because Modi is a Hindu, because he is in power by selling out Hindus everywhere in the name of Hinduism, and because he is imposing a Hindu Rashtra on a democratically and constitutionally secular India, that the Hindu temples are attacked abroad, representationally. If Modi was a Muslim or a Christian, with the same policies, it would have been the mosques or churches that were attacked there.

Written on 26 January 2023 and first published on: 22 July 2024

Original article in Malayalam written on 26 January 2023 and first published on: 27 January 2023

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