Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 8: Brig (retd) Anil Gupta, State spokesperson of Bharatiya Janata Party, (BJP) has accused suspended Congress leader, Mani Shankar Aiyar of letting down the vast majority of Indians on an enemy nation’s soil once again by making a historically and factually incorrect statement in which he blamed Vir Savarkar, Hindu Maha Sabha leader, as the first proponent of two-nation theory in 1923.
In a statement issued here, today Brig. Gupta while making a scathing attack on Aiyar said the suspended Congress leader is known for his Islamo- fascist ideology and he suffers from a ‘foot in mouth’ disease, hence he is habitual of making such statements.
He said it is unfortunate that Congress leadership is trying to communalise the State election in Karnatka where the party is desperate to win the election at any cost. The party has announced 4% reservation for Muslims in Government jobs in its manifesto, ignoring the Lingayats, whom it had declared a minority religion just before the elections. It has also promised to open “Maulana Azad” schools in all talukas for minorities, giving even education of children a communal colour, he added.
Brig Gupta said that the party has crossed all limits by promising health insurance and education to the children of auto and taxi drivers belonging to minority community only.
He said as far as Mani Shankar is concerned it is nothing new for him. This is not the first time that the cynical politician has made a controversial remark. And it is not the first time he has done so in Pakistan. In the past, Aiyar has said that he receives more hatred in India than love in Pakistan. Earlier this year, at the height of Indo-Pak tension, he had said that India is still caught in a “partially 1947 situation” while there is “change of mindset” in the neighbouring country.
Aiyar needs to know that the seeds of two-nation theory were sown by the British immediately after the first war of Independence-1857, when the British followed a divide-and-rule policy, exploiting differences between communities, to prevent similar revolts from taking place, said Brig Gupta. In that respect, Indian Muslims were encouraged to forge a cultural and political identity separate from the Hindus. Much before 1923, the British experimented the two-nation theory in 1905 when Bengal was partitioned based on religion, which Aiyar conveniently forgot while distorting history and apportioning the blame on Vir Savarkar in order to appease his hosts, rued Brig Gupta.
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