Founded around the principles of secularism and equality in 1947, the country led by Narendra Modi is going through a serious crisis of cohabitation between religious communities fueled by Hindu nationalists in power.
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Analysis. India celebrated the 75th anniversary of its independence on August 15. The country had never been so flopping. The orange-white-green flag floated almost everywhere in Delhi, on the roof of buildings, on the countless Rickshaws (tricycle vehicle) which crisscross the Indian capital. The small street sellers had made it in the hope of elapling them with motorists. Narendra Modi, the Indian Prime Minister, had urged the Indians to hoist the tricolor banner at home and on social networks.
m. Modi has delivered his traditional speech since the ramparts of the Red Fort, the majestic Mughal Emperors Palace, as Jawaharlal Nehru, the first chief of independent India, in 1947, presided over the destinies of the subcontinent of the subcontinent For almost seventeen years, a longevity never equaled. But the celebrations of the 75 e anniversary have left a bitter taste for all those who defend the values of the Republic.
The subcontinent moves away every day from the inheritance of the founding fathers by denying the fundamental principles inscribed in the preamble to the Constitution, equality, secularism and democracy.
a Democracy weakened
Mr. Modi’s India no longer seeks to defend secularism – the Indian version of secularism, which defends the cohabitation of religions in public space – to bring to life in Hindu, Muslims, Sikhs, Christians , Jain, Parsis, Buddhists, components of the Indian mosaic. It aims to establish the domination of the Hindu majority, in the name of the Hindutva, a supremacist ideology. Aggressions and humiliations towards religious minorities, first of all, Muslims, multiply. The latter represent 14.2 % of the population, or about 200 million people, whose ancestors had made the choice, at the time of the score in 1947, not to join Pakistan, confident in the idea of living in peace In their country, India. Seventy-five years after independence, the promise has a betrayal scent.
The current power has so much encouraged community divisions that the leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Prime Minister’s party, no longer restrained. Recently, a former Rajasthan deputy, Gyan Dev Ahuja, was able to boast in a video that his supporters have lynched five Muslims in the name of cow protection. The next day, a deputy for the Telangana Assembly, Raja Singh, made outrageous remarks on the Prophet Muhammad by attacking Munawar Faruqui, a popular Muslim actor harassed by the Hindu nationalists. Shortly before, the national spokesperson for the BJP, Nupur Sharma, had, herself, created a diplomatic incident by stigmatizing the relations of the Prophet with her young wife Aïcha.
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