Hindutva's damaging game

Violence against minorities will affect everyone

Civil society has been shocked by the recent call for genocide against Muslims and for Hindus to arm themselves to create a Hindu Rashtra by religious leaders at a Dharam Sansad in Haridwar. It is remarkable, however, that although sundry opposition politicians have protested and Supreme Court lawyers have written to the chief justice to take suo motu notice of the incident, no major ruling party leader has cared to condemn this public incitement to mass murder, nor have any arrests been made (though FIRs have been filed), even as the video footage of the incendiary speeches is freely available.