Hindutva’s rise, influence in India discussed
Experts highlight how the religious nationalism movement created a sense of inclusion and exclusion
Experts highlight how the religious nationalism movement created a sense of inclusion and exclusion. PHOTO: AFP
The Hindutva’s rise in India has been meteoric and swept nearly everyone in India while helping to push out the more moderate Congress.
Sultan Mehmood Hali, a senior defence analyst and a former senior officer of the Pakistan Air Force, gave a briefing on “The Concept of Hindutva”, during a roundtable organised by the Center for Global and Strategic Studies (CGSS) on the “Use of Different Mediums to Generate False Narrative by India”.
Hali claimed that in India, those who do not share commonalities with the motherland or Holy Land or Hindudom, do not get any privileges.
The followers of Hindutva, he said, were known for their criticism of the Indian government as being too passive, suggesting that criticism from the religious nationalism movement helped influence the Indian polity to push out the more moderate Congress from power.
Hali further claimed that the Hindutva has had a great impact on the Indian military as well.
Elias Davidson, who wrote the book “The Betrayal of India” stated that while investigating terror attacks in India over the past decade, he concluded that the official statement issued by the Indian Government was an absolute lie.
“It is an allegation by India which is unfounded, the case of Pakistan is very strong and it can accuse India for its malicious allegations,” Davidson stated.
During the attacks, the first information was provided by the chief of Police that nine people have been arrested.
This news report, though, disappeared two days after the event. Everyone still talks about those nine people, he said.
This contradiction in the statements was not followed by any media or the court. The facts and figures relating to these events kept on changing, he stated.
Davidson further claimed that the attacks were conducted in two series. In the first series, locations with a domestic population were targeted. In the second series, locations with frequent foreign visitors and tourists were attacked.
“Not even a single timeline is given by the officials for these incidents,” he explained, adding that the facts and figures were not provided about the dead bodies or who killed them. “I found the motives behind these operations after I understood that the official statements were a lie,” he said. The roundtable session was followed by an interactive question and answer session unfolding the truth behind the false flag operations.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 19th, 2019.
Sultan Mehmood Hali, a senior defence analyst and a former senior officer of the Pakistan Air Force, gave a briefing on “The Concept of Hindutva”, during a roundtable organised by the Center for Global and Strategic Studies (CGSS) on the “Use of Different Mediums to Generate False Narrative by India”.
Hali claimed that in India, those who do not share commonalities with the motherland or Holy Land or Hindudom, do not get any privileges.
The followers of Hindutva, he said, were known for their criticism of the Indian government as being too passive, suggesting that criticism from the religious nationalism movement helped influence the Indian polity to push out the more moderate Congress from power.
Hali further claimed that the Hindutva has had a great impact on the Indian military as well.
Elias Davidson, who wrote the book “The Betrayal of India” stated that while investigating terror attacks in India over the past decade, he concluded that the official statement issued by the Indian Government was an absolute lie.
“It is an allegation by India which is unfounded, the case of Pakistan is very strong and it can accuse India for its malicious allegations,” Davidson stated.
During the attacks, the first information was provided by the chief of Police that nine people have been arrested.
This news report, though, disappeared two days after the event. Everyone still talks about those nine people, he said.
This contradiction in the statements was not followed by any media or the court. The facts and figures relating to these events kept on changing, he stated.
Davidson further claimed that the attacks were conducted in two series. In the first series, locations with a domestic population were targeted. In the second series, locations with frequent foreign visitors and tourists were attacked.
“Not even a single timeline is given by the officials for these incidents,” he explained, adding that the facts and figures were not provided about the dead bodies or who killed them. “I found the motives behind these operations after I understood that the official statements were a lie,” he said. The roundtable session was followed by an interactive question and answer session unfolding the truth behind the false flag operations.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 19th, 2019.