VIF organized Vimarhsa on Saturday, July 20, 2013, where senior
advocate Mahesh Jethmalani dwelt at leangth on the topic ‘Institutional
Subversion in India – Implications for the Nation and its Security’.
In his introductory remarks, Ajit Doval, KC, Director, VIF, regretted
that the Indian society was more fragmented than at the time of
Independence in 1947. He said there appeared to be some invisible hand
that gave impetus to anything divisive and weakened anything that
united.
In a sharp indictment of the ruling UPA, Jethmalani accused it of
polarizing polity on religious grounds by demonizing the alternative
(BJP in this case) and keeping minorities in a perpetual state of
insecurity. He also charged the ruling Congress with portraying Hinduism
and its political manifestations, both internationally and
domestically, as irrational, militant, extremist and dangerously
violent.
He alleged that the ruling party was using a vocal press, high
profile NGOs, corrupt and pliable police force as also resorting to
institutional subversion to camouflage its dangerous game.
He cited seven high profile cases in recent times in support of his
argument. They included the burning to death of Hindus in Godhra, the
Best Bakery Case. The Zakia case, Sohrabuddin and Ishrat Jahan case
besides the Malegaon and Samjhauta blast cases where Hindus have been
chargesheeted by the “constitutionally fragile” National Investigation
Agency without any shred of evidence “only to exonerate the Muslim
accused”.
Maintaining that the present Government was “hell bent on destroying
every institution”, the noted jurist asserted that “nationalism requires
Hindu spirituality and those who deny it are nothing but unmitigated
morons”.
The session concluded with a thought provoking round of Q&A.
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