razed it to ground. Such activities normally led to the birth of extremism with a new vigour. Meteoric rise in it is witnessed in the face of ongoing wave of intolerance which is shrinking the liberal space in otherwise secular India.
Narendra Modi’s government is now under the sway of RSS, Shiv Sena, Bajrang Dal etc. Emboldened faces of these outfits have now started dictating people what to eat, wear and what not. This growing chauvinistic jingoism is not easy to vanish due to the fact that Hindu fundamentalists under the garb of RSS have penetrated deep into the India’s social fabric.
A wide-spread network of Hindu organisations with extremist leanings has been established. There are Saraswati Shishu Mandirs with formal schools which highlight the so-called Hindu ascendancy of yesteryear tinged with communal hatred against Muslims and other faiths in India. Thus a new mindset is in making laced with bias and bigotry at the cost of communal harmony.
BJP government at centre is seen subservient to RSS as largely reported in media that recently Narendra Modi produced his cabinet members before the men in Khaki shorts and black caps; RSS office bearers, who subjected cabinet members performance to close scrutiny. RSS reported satisfactory performance of Modi’s cabinet. These Hindu extremists are with all audacity seen inspecting private life of people that includes eating habits and lynching Muslims under the suspicious of beef eating, or even bovine keeping. Rajeshwar Singh; head of Dharm Jagran Samiti (DJS) in Uttar Pradesh while defending forcible conversion of Muslims and Christians has recently asserted in a TV talk-show that India would be free of Muslims and Christians by 2021. This is alarming and minority population is seen quite perturbed.
Hindu extremists have been spewing venom against Pakistan. Recent, attempts to sabotage Khursheed Kasuri’s ‘book launch ceremony’ in Mumbai and spraying black the face of Sudheendra Kulkarni hosting the show were reported in media. Besides, Shiv Sena’s threat compelled ICC to keep Aleem Dar, a Pakistani known for his impartial umpire-ship; off from series between South Africa and India recently played in India. Imran Tahir, a Pakistani born South African cricketer was asked by team management to stay in hotel in Mumbai in the face of Shiv Sena threats. His Pakistani background and being Muslim got him restricted inside hotel.
Shiv Sena hardliners on 19th October had stormed the office of Shashank Manohar chief of Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) protesting against Shashnak’s planned meeting with his Pakistani counter-part. In view of Hindu extremists’ growing communal hatred towards non-Hindu population of India it appears that these Hindu extremists would never stop their activities and the communal peace would remain their activities’ victim.