The era of doing anti-Hindu politics is gone, why are the opposition parties unable to understand this?

There is a very famous saying that bad to infamous bad means you are bad, it does not matter much but if you become infamous then it affects the most. In the context of this saying, remember the report of the AK Antony Committee constituted by the then Congress President Sonia Gandhi after the humiliating defeat in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections to find out the reasons for the defeat.

AK Antony’s committee, while going into the reasons behind the defeat, had clearly told the Congress high command that the biggest reason for Congress being reduced to 44 seats in the Lok Sabha was that the party of Muslims was attacking the Congress party. The allegation of being a Muslim got stuck because the policy of Muslim appeasement created such an image of Congress and Congress had to suffer a lot in the battle of secularism versus communalism.

At that time, the Congress high command not only read this report, but also tried to understand and adopt it. Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra were seen visiting the temples of the country and worshiping them. The most important thing is that after the Yadav voters were scattered in other areas of the state except Saifai, Mainpuri and Etawah belt, Akhilesh Yadav also understood that there is a need to change the image of the party. After this, Akhilesh Yadav was also seen sharing pictures of Mata ki Chowki and feeding and worshiping girls during Navratri on social media. Their pictures of worshiping in temples also started appearing and the most important thing is that in the month of Ramzan, there was a decrease in the number of leaders wearing caps and giving iftar feast.

When the India alliance of opposition parties was formed, there were also reports that it has been broadly agreed that it should refrain from hurting the sentiments of the country’s majority community i.e. Hindus, do not attack Prime Minister Narendra Modi personally and The coalition has to attack the Modi-led NDA government largely on poverty, unemployment, inflation, protection of the constitution, surrender to China and to some extent scams.

But Tamil Nadu government’s Sports and Youth Affairs Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin has played such a game regarding Sanatan Dharma which seems to be overshadowing the India alliance because Udhayanidhi Stalin is not just a minister but Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin’s son and DMK are the future faces of This is the reason that as soon as the BJP started besieging DMK as well as opposition leaders including Rahul Gandhi, Mallikarjun Kharge, Nitish Kumar, Tejashwi Yadav, Mamata Banerjee and Akhilesh Yadav regarding his statement, the India Alliance started this whole matter. I came on the backfoot. Even West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was seen distancing herself from Udhayanidhi Stalin’s statement. Now news is also coming out that in the next meeting of India Alliance, the DMK leader may be advised to avoid making such statements.

In fact, the opposition parties have now understood that they can neither defeat the BJP on the Hindutva pitch nor can they defeat it outside Hindutva because the BJP always has an upper hand over them in the game of image and perception. Will have to. This is the reason why they want to focus more on the issues but still sometimes they get stuck in the controversy of Sanatan Dharma and sometimes they get entangled in the controversy of India vs India. But now the political reality is that the era of doing anti-Hindu politics in the country has now passed. The opposition parties may be dreaming of bringing back the old era of Mandal politics with the help of OBC caste census issue, but the bitter reality is that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has used Kamandal politics for the construction of Ram Mandir, abolition of triple talaq, country Free food grains to more than 80 crore people of India, issues like Chandrayaan, G-20 summit and India have been given such a flavor that the opposition parties will still have to do a lot to overcome them.

-Santosh Pathak

(The author is a senior journalist and columnist)