By dissolving the Gujarat Assembly for holding early elections, RSS-BJP have openly owned their gameplan to continue their hold on power through organizing communal carnage against minorities. Not that utilizing communal strife or building communal hatred for elections is something unknown in the annals of crimes of the Indian ruling classes against the people, but the sheer shamelessness and impunity is disgusting and appalling. When a Govt. should have been busy in providing relief and succour to those who have been victims of brutality and mayhem, all that RSS-BJP can think of is how to use the present catastrophe for holding on to power. And why not? They have meticulously planned it, systematically executed it and venomously propagated it.

RSS-BJP are losing their balance fearing delay in elections in Gujarat. They are condemning the Election Commission for having gone to Gujarat and enquiring into the situation there and are even insinuating against the President for visiting Gujarat. In their unashamed pursuit of power they are unmindful of their position as the party ruling the country. They have no patience for constitutional proprieties and no tolerance for anything going against their gameplan. From schoolboyish arguments to high-pitched threatening posers, they are sparing nothing to browbeat the Election Commission into holding early elections in Gujarat.

In their maddening drive for elections in Gujarat, BJP leaders are drawing a parallel with the elections in Jammu & Kashmir. J&K has been and continues to be the blind spot of the Indian ruling classes. Ruling class parties of right, centre and 'left' persuasions do not acknowledge the ground reality of Jammu & Kashmir i.e. the alienation of the people there from Indian state. Ruling class parties have been going through the motions of elections in J&K on the strength of the military there with little participation from the people. Number of reports have substantiated the farcical nature of elections held in J&K. Not that elections in many other parts of the country are fair or democratic, the whole exercise progressively degenerating into the show of three Ms, the power of Money, Muscle and Media whereby the rabbit is pulled out of the hat with people apparently electing the elements they despise in their daily life. 

By drawing parallel with Jammu & Kashmir in their short-sighted endeavour, BJP leaders hope to drive their point home of 'biased' attitude towards elections in Gujarat, but they are unwittingly admitting that they have brought Gujarat to the level of Jammu & Kashmir. It is an acknowledged fact that J&K and Nagaland stand on different footing in terms of the aspirations of the people of these states. It must definitely go to the 'credit' of RSS-BJP to have pulled off this feat of making the situation of Gujarat similar to that of J&K.

While recommending dissolution of assembly and early election, Narendra Modi, butcher of Gujarat, held forth that there is a sinister campaign of painting all Gujaratis black. Like all fascists he too has delusion of grandiosity, believing himself and his gangs to be synonymous with people of Gujarat. It goes without saying that overwhelming majority of the people of Gujarat, like elsewhere in the country, are opposed to his murderous games and communal hatred, the creed of RSS. It is to silence this overwhelming majority that he wants to hold early elections. Rather than being synonymous with people of Gujarat, he is in fact opposed to them and is their enemy.

From its inception RSS has been propagating communal hatred and carving out communal division of the society. The timing of this brutal genocide has its relation with successive electoral defeats suffered by the BJP after having returned to power in elections held in 1999.

However equally noteworthy is the attitude of Congress, the principal parliamentary opposition party, which is still the largest party of the ruling classes in India. It is a major party in Gujarat and has been of late winning in Gujarat. But one could not see any active opposition from it to the communal mayhem indulged in by the RSS cadres in the state. It is significant that while Mayor of Ahmedabad is a Congressman, an ex-MP of that very party was brutally killed in Ahmedabad. And yet the party did not take to the streets in defence of the minorities. Rather an MLA earlier expelled from Congress for felicitating butcher of Gujarat Narendra Modi, has been re-inducted into Congress.

Congress does not want to antagonize Hindu communal hordes. However making appropriate sounds for secularism it wants to garner the votes of the minorities. Congress has chosen ex-BJP stalwart Shankar Singh Vaghela to lead them in coming elections. Vaghela while quitting BJP had held forth on his RSS past. These acts of the Congress are not accidental but evidence of its phony secularism while in reality pandering to majority communalism.

The real challenge in Gujarat is to ensure that culprits of this genocide, mayhem and destruction are not allowed to go unpunished. And this cannot be expected from the Congress. The fate of the Sri Krishna Commission's recommendations in the Congress-NCP ruled state of Maharashtra is a good pointer. Incidentally the report had played an important role in unseating Shiv Sena-BJP combine in the state. In Maharashtra the police is in hands of ex-Sainik Chhaggan Bhujbal. Sri Krishna Commission had pointed out the communalization of administrative and police machinery but nothing has been done to correct the situation or punish the guilty. Congress will only repeat the same in Gujarat, benefiting from anti-communal sentiments of the people but doing precious little against those guilty of the genocide.

'Left' parties- CPM and CPI have declared Congress to be an integral part of their secular front. These parties view all issues including the issue of communalism from the myopic vision of parliamentary politics. While they claim they are busy fighting RSS-BJP, in West Bengal they have launched feverish attacks against the revolutionaries and are targeting PWG there. In West Bengal, the state ruled by them uninterruptedly for twenty five years, they are busy fighting the revolutionary forces and treating them as their main enemies. They have resurrected the images of repression under the Congress rule in early '70s with its flouting of civil liberties and midnight knocks.

What should in fact be the agenda for Gujarat? The genuine secular forces must put all efforts to build a movement that the guilty of the genocide of Muslims must be punished. The genuine secular forces must strive to isolate the communal forces in all walks of life.

The genuine secular forces must also see the link between the growth of communalism and the implementation of new economic policies. MNCs are tightening their stranglehold over all sectors of economy with all ruling class parties particularly RSS-BJP and Congress committed to serving their interests. RSS-BJP leaders, while facilitating the loot of the country by MNCs, are indulging in massive corruption and loot of the Govt. property and resources. Not that corruption has raised its head for the first time, but the RSS-BJP have taken it to new heights and more importantly they have scaled new heights in shamelessness. They hope that their Hindutva platform will wash away all their crimes and fetch them votes.