The Sindh assembly has rejected the remark of India’s defence minister Rajnath Singh regarding the province as “delusional”, pointing out that his is a deliberate attempt to distort history.
On Sunday, Singh said that “civilisationally, Sindh will always be a part of India”, and that “who knows, tomorrow Sindh may return to India again”. Therefore, his words were strongly rebuked by the Foreign Office as “dangerously revisionist remarks” that clearly revealed an expansionist Hindutva mindset and India’s growing belligerence against Pakistan.
In my view, the Sindh assembly ought to have done it many days ago. But better late than never. It is important to recall that the Sindh Legislative Assembly was the first British Indian legislature to pass a resolution supporting the creation of Pakistan. Later, weeks before the creation of Pakistan, the assembly also became the first to officially decide to join the new country of Pakistan. In other words, Sindh assembly had played the most critical and crucial role as a legislature towards efforts aimed at founding of Pakistan.
The BJP, which is the political face of Hindu right wing RSS, seems to have run out of its ploys and machinations against Pakistan. The entire world knows that BJP or Sangh Parivar’s entire politics is premised on the hatred of minorities and Pakistan. India lost its secular moorings and character ever since Narendra Modi came to power in 2014.
India’s humiliation against Pakistan in the four-day conflict in May has added to Hindu right’s desperation. Rajnath Singh’s remark about Sindh clearly explains the way the Hindu right frames its history and envisions the nation. It also shows that their delusional belief in the ‘Akhand Bharat’ project’s merits never wavers. Needless to say, delusional thinking has led Rajnath Singh to believe they can annex or conquer Sindh.
Yasin Abro (Karachi)
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