To overthrow the oppression of the British Raj, Mohandas Gandhi launched his `Quit India movement.

Had he been alive today he would have launched a `Quit Hindutva movement against the suppression of civil rights and liberties by a blatantly communal regime which, in effect, is seeking to create a Partition II by driving Muslims out of India through the patently discriminatory Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC).

What form might such Quit Hindutva movement have taken? What could unite all those who are totally and unequivocally opposed to any attempt to divide this country on the basis of religion?

One possible scenario might involve all those who of whatever faith, Hindu, Sikh, Jain, Buddhist, Christian, and also self-professed atheists were to band together and in a demonstration of solidarity with their Muslim compatriots publicly declare themselves to belong to the Islamic faith.

Say if even ten per cent of the countrys total population of 1.2 billion were to do so.

Would this, or any government, be willing and able to expel millions of citizens who, taken together with Muslims, would constitute almost one quarter of the overall population?

No chance of such of movement, of course. For the simple reason that Mohandas Gandhi isnt here to inspire it, having been murdered by a Hindutva fanatic. His assassin must have been precient and had an inkling that the old man would be a formidable adversary of a future government hell bent on turning Hindustan into Hindutvastan.

DISCLAIMER : Views expressed above are the author's own.

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