The American Foreign Affairs website published an article highlighting the plans of Hindu extremists to continue to power in India, and their tireless work to empower Hindu nationalists in the country at the expense of other religions and nationalities, especially Muslims.
The author of the article, Hartosh Singh Pal - political editor of the newspaper "The Caravan" in New Delhi - highlighted that despite the economic stagnation in India under the rule of the extreme right-wing Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party, and the government's mismanagement of the crisis of the outbreak of the Corona epidemic;
The party has been scoring major electoral victories across the country, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 2014 victory as prime minister and his re-election that surprised observers in 2019, as well as a string of other victories in areas where Hindu nationalists have never won before. .
He said the BJP had won 5 out of 6 states in the recent elections in India, the results of which were decided in February and March.
In those elections, Adi Yogi Adityanath (a Hindu monk from the Bharatiya Janata Party who does not wear orange monks clothes) won a second term as Prime Minister of Uttar Pradesh, the most numerous state among India, with an estimated population of 200 million, located southeast of New Delhi (Northern India). .
The writer notes that the bells of temples throughout the state rang out for two hours that morning in celebration of his victory.
This celebration is consistent with the image that Adityanath seeks to establish.
He seeks to be the heir of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and a leading figure in the Bharatiya Janata Party's efforts to transform India into a Hindu nation-state, according to the writer.
He also notes that the victory of the Hindu nationalist monk was an achievement;
No state premier has been re-elected for a second term in the past 30 years.
It is noteworthy that he managed to achieve this victory despite the disastrous performance of his government with the outbreak of the Corona pandemic in the state!
The writer highlighted Adityanath's hostility to Islam, and his statements offensive to Islam and its followers. He once said that Muslims are "animals that walk on two legs", and their "production" should be stopped.
Singh Pal attributes the secret of the BJP's election success to much deeper and darker causes than those that usually control the popularity of candidates such as the economy or the handling of the health crisis caused by the pandemic, and says the secret lies in the hard work of Hindu nationalists over the years to integrate elements of of their religion from different levels into a unified political movement;
They have been very successful in organizing the upper caste of Hindus, who sit at the top of the hierarchy of Hindu religious authority and make up most of the Indian elite.
The party also succeeded - and the writer says - in obtaining the support of many marginalized Hindus and from the lower classes by affirming their Hindu identity and ensuring their representation in the party.
The Bharatiya Janata Party played Islamophobia, reinforced anti-Muslim sentiment and turned it into a weapon to influence Hindus, which contributed to uniting the Hindu citizens in the country, who are estimated at 966 million people, and in return made the lives of Muslims - estimated at 200 million people - more difficulty.
This situation produced policies of discrimination against Muslims that prevailed in most states except for those where there is no Hindu national majority, which will negatively affect India's democracy with multiple levels, according to the writer.