This year, October, which is a month of celebration and festivities, has been unusually violent. Days of calm and peace have been few and far between. Hatred and intolerance seem to have taken over the festive mood. So much so that it forced President Pranab Mukherjee to invoke Goddess Durga against those who have been working consciously to undermine the Constitution by openly targetting the Muslims and others who don’t conform with their worldview. He was not specific but it was certainly a reference to the radical Hindutva outfits which seek to change the country’s image from a secular republic to a Hindu Rashtra.
The lynching of Akhlaq Ahmad in Dadri came as a shock even to those who have been watching this show of bloodlust and hatred from the margins since the BJP-led NDA government took oath under the Constitution in May 2014.
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