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Economic Crisis Deepens, Hate And Violence Rises -Subodh Varma

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Religious bigotry and violence are meant to distract people from questioning sweeping unemployment, sky-high prices and faltering incomes.

If you go by Sarkari views, India's economy is on an upward bounce after the devastation caused by the Covid pandemic. But, in reality, there is ever-widening discontent because of the inability of the government to rein in prices of essential items, its complete neglect of job creation and low incomes that are unable to recover to pre-pandemic levels. This discontent has been visible in not just recent elections – where both price rise and joblessness were prominent concerns of voters – but also in inevitable protests that are gathering pace. The year-long farmers' struggle ended last November after a scared government withdrew the three infamous agri-laws. But protests against other government policies have continued. The most recent – and one of the biggest – was the two-day general strike on March 28-29 called by a joint platform of trade unions, supported by the farmers’ organisations and a phalanx of peoples’ organisations. An estimated 25 crore persons participated in the protest actions over the two days.

Not surprisingly, very shortly afterwards, a spate of orchestrated incidents of communal violence erupted spread across nine states. Three religious occasions – the Hindu new year (nav samvatsar) on 2 April, Ramnavmi on 10 April, and Hanuman Jayanti on 16 April – were used to take out provocative processions and clash with minority community members. In some cases, mosques were entered and attempt to hoist saffron flags took place. In many cases, the BJP state administration (or municipal body, in Delhi) followed up by demolishing houses in the area where clashes took place, mostly belonging to the minority community, through some innocent majority community members' houses or shops were also torn down. It is natural that such a flagrant provocation and the insidious propaganda unleashed in accompaniment should fan the flames of hatred and vitiate the otherwise harmonious relations between religious communities.

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