With 2 factions emerging in India, one stressing economy is the hugest issue, other saying genocide, I did a poll, and here’s what I found:
Drastic Dropping Indian Economy with Poorly Paid Workers
First, let us talk about the economy that is causing heart palpitations in India with red bleepers blinking all over the nation afraid of the economic slump amid denial from governmental gurus with the smoke of genocide hovering on the horizon, is it a myth or a reality? Whispers that things may go the Sri Lankan way are haunting Indians.
While the Indian economy took a horrible blow in the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the disaster was created at the inception of demonetization. India was undergoing a severe economic slump even before the pandemic. Much has been talked about the slowdown, and how it followed demonetization and GST implementation.
The crisis has now made way for recovery, and India was not alone in facing it. The seriousness of India’s economic crisis is obvious when economic data reveals that the real growth in average incomes is slower than that in consumption and investments, and the nominal growth in company tax collection is slower than growth in nominal incomes.
Palaniappan Chidambaram, a brilliant economist who served as the Union Minister of Finance four times said at the recent Congress Chintan Shivir that the state of the Indian economy is a cause of ‘extreme concern’ and also stated that “taking into account global and domestic developments, it may be necessary to contemplate a reset of economic policies.”
Mr. Chidambaram said a slower rate of growth has been the “hallmark” of the present government in the last eight years, and the post-pandemic recovery has been “indifferent and halting”. He stated that the time is ripe for a comprehensive review of fiscal relations between the Centre and the States. The consequences of the poorly-drafted and unfairly-implemented GST laws brought in by the Modi government in 2017 are there for everyone to see.
India is facing the worst economic crisis in 30 years where the sale of PSUs was made to mostly business tycoons like Mr. Ambani and Mr. Adani at ridiculously low rates while their outstanding loans are waived off.
So in short, there is no money exchanged for the sales. The government has no money to pay government employees’ salaries while the common citizens have to bear the brunt of soaring inflation and rising taxes. In Tata, another shocker, the government transferred the loans of Air India to the people.
There is a steep dearth of jobs in most parts of India with one person doing the work of four people, and there is an increase in time in day-hour shifts while receiving peanuts for salary in extreme stress with overexertions and over expectations from employers who are exploiting the workers with low pay.
However, even with the spiraling economy, my small poll of 378 votes revealed that 42.1% were worried about the economy while 57.% were terrified about genocide. The fact is the world is talking about the impending genocide about to occur in India.
What is the most serious issue in India right now?
— Rita (@MukandRita) May 12, 2022
Here are some of the replies I got from my poll:
@Creyative2, “I think the economy is the serious issue, if one doesn’t have at least a running economy to support basic need, then thinks will go the 2nd option way.
NVNX @NavinX2 “The seeds of hatred that have been sown in India using religion, is a personal medium, it has always had destructive consequences in history. Every major religion did this in various places. This time Hinduism has been hijacked for politics.”
Alan Shaji Parangottu “You say genocide 😂. Wait till you witness the entry of worse economic conditions. Just remember how was our famines before independence. We may be able to control or educate abt communalism but what can we do when we even don’t have our daily bread & ppl turn into some beast”
ThatBloodyWriter, “Both options and two mild. A government which will turn India into a few thousand Sri Lankas in terms of the sheer scale of the disaster and bring it to the brink of partition.
Anup Sharma “For Genocide, peace, and harmony is destroyed, causing the economy to crash.”
John Samuel “Really serious issue is “Modi”..🤷♂️
Suresh, “Everything.”
Humans are crazy, “You bring peace in the country, the economy will follow. No country has gained from hate and gen0cide.”
Kaalandeathgod “Modi.”
Allen Pais, “Both are interconnected.”
Ash, “The only issue is @narendramodi. Period
Surendra Tiwari, “Most serious issue is only Modi.”
Waseem, “If the economy collapses, genocide will become reality sooner than expected.
Habib Mohiuddin, “#Tajmahal”
ZakCher@secularinc
@secularinc “Both.
Sudheer John✋ @sudheerjohn1 “Both.”
Syed Azmath @Teapot_Inc “Serious us Genocide, Important is Economy. It’s all about wordplay. Genocide of Muslim minority vs the Genocide of Indian economy. One aims at making India, a Muslim-free nation while the other aims at leaving no nation itself!!
Nadeem Irfan @NadeemIrfan18 “Nobody would be interested to invest in a country involved in #Genocide of #Economy 🙄🙄
Why is there an Indian Fear of Genocide
Professor Gregory Stanton, a genocide investigations scholar who had predicted the Rwandan genocide of 1994, has now warned of the possible repetition of a similar conflict in India, wherein Muslims could become the target.
‘Preparation for genocide is definitely underway in India…The next stage is extermination – that’s what we call a genocide,’ said Professor Gregory Stanton, the author of the 10 Stages of Genocide in a speech to US lawmakers in December last year.
Attacks on Muslims and Christians are Intensifying
Human rights analysts say that since Narendra Modi came into office, hate crimes against minorities have skyrocketed and attacks raged across India inflicted on Christians, Dalits, others, and mostly Muslims now.
There were authorities in Delhi who took nine bulldozers and raised down Muslim houses, and shops and destroyed parts of a mosque while the people were inside. Muslims are experiencing constant waves of violent attacks, their settlements burned down, and hate speech spewed at them with also lynching and killings.
There has been rising hate speech by BJP politicians that is noted to have skyrocketed by 500%. There are serial attacks on Christians and churches while burning Bibles and even killing Christians. Rising fake stories of forced conversions are being circulated. Last year on a single Sunday, there was a targeted attack on fifteen churches across India, people, including women, were brutally beaten in different places in India on Sunday, October 3, 2021. Over the last few years, there have been intensified attempts to subdue, frighten and even kill Christians.
Reports are not taken in and the violence or killings do not allude to religion. Recently, Pastor Yalam Shankar from Chhattisgarh was brutally killed on March 17, 2022, alluded to by the Maoists, but the Christians related to him are saying he got death threats from Hindu nationalists before he was killed.
Pastor Deva from Villupuram District in Tamil Nadu informed Persecution Relief that on 8th March around 11 PM he got a call from the local villagers that somebody has set ablaze the church building and not only churches but Bible are being set on fire.
Many simple village Christians are being thrown out of their villages, losing home properties everything simply because they are Christians. Persecution Relief in India helps Christians in trouble, sometimes to resettle in a different village and help them with medical and legal as well as financial help because sometimes, Christians lose everything, including property.
Some time back, the Hindutva leaders at the Haridwar conference called for Muslim genocide, and the police have failed to register cases or make arrests and those arrested are out as well.
Pooja Shakun in a very virulent speech at the Haridwar conference said, “We are ready to kill and go to jail,” she says. “If every 100 (Hindus) can kill 2 million of them, (Muslims) we will be victorious.”
The world is silently watching this and Mehdi Hasan TV host from Washington DC spoke on India’s fascism. United States Secretary of State, Antony Blinken said “The US is monitoring the rise in human rights abuses in India.” While India was defiant about this, they cannot brush it aside. USA and India stand together as partners because they are two world’s largest democracies, and to break that trust will slowly break relations, which will affect security, trade, and economy, and also the have reverse effects on the 3 million American Indians living abroad.
Over 100 ex-bureaucrats wrote to Prime Minister Modi to stop the politics of hate
The former civil servants expressed in the letter to Prime Minister Modi pleading to him to end the politics of hate.
The former civil servants also said they believe the threat is unprecedented owing to which not only is the constitutional morality and conduct at risk, the unique syncretic social fabric, “which is our greatest civilizational inheritance and which our Constitution is so meticulously designed to conserve, is likely to be torn apart”.
They appealed to Modi, asking him to take “heart” from his promise of ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas, Sabka Vishwas’.
“Your silence is deafening, end the politics of hate,” they say.
The Ten Stages of a Threatening “Smoke” of a Genocide Seen in India Now
Dr. Jaishankar External Affairs Minister recently told the European Union in their meeting, “No country will define to India about human rights violations.”
Is it an exaggeration that genocide is impending on the horizon? Read these ten points and assess the situation for yourself.
| Stage | Characteristics | Preventive measures | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Classification | People are divided into “them and us”. | “The main preventive measure at this early stage is to develop universalistic institutions that transcend… divisions.” |
| 2 | Symbolization | “When combined with hatred, symbols may be forced upon unwilling members of pariah groups…” | “To combat symbolization, hate symbols can be legally forbidden as can hate speech.” |
| 3 | Discrimination | “Law or cultural power excludes groups from full civil rights: segregation or apartheid laws, denial of voting rights”. | “Pass and enforce laws prohibiting discrimination. Full citizenship and voting rights for all groups.” |
| 4 | Dehumanization | “One group denies the humanity of the other group. Members of it are equated with animals, vermin, insects, or diseases.” | “Local and international leaders should condemn the use of hate speech and make it culturally unacceptable. Leaders who incite genocide should be banned from international travel and have their foreign finances frozen.” |
| 5 | Organization | “Genocide is always organized… Special army units or militias are often trained and armed…” | “The U.N. should impose arms embargoes on governments and citizens of countries involved in genocidal massacres, and create commissions to investigate violations.” |
| 6 | Polarization | “Hate groups broadcast polarizing propaganda…” | “Prevention may mean security protection for moderate leaders or assistance to human rights groups… Coups d’état by extremists should be opposed by international sanctions.” |
| 7 | Preparation | “Mass killing is planned. Victims are identified and separated because of their ethnic or religious identity…” | “At this stage, a Genocide Emergency must be declared. Full diplomatic pressure by regional organizations must be invoked, including preparation to intervene to prevent genocide.” |
| 8 | Persecution | “Expropriation, forced displacement, ghettos, concentration camps”. | “Direct assistance to victim groups, targeted sanctions against persecutors, mobilization of humanitarian assistance or intervention, protection of refugees.” |
| 9 | Extermination | “It is ‘extermination’ to the killers because they do not believe their victims to be fully human”. | “At this stage, only rapid and overwhelming armed intervention can stop genocide. Real safe areas or refugee escape corridors should be established with heavily armed international protection.” |
| 10 | Denial | “The perpetrators… deny that they committed any crimes…” | “The response to denial is punishment by an international tribunal or national courts.” |
From here, one can clearly see that the signs of genocide are no longer just a smoky threat along the horizon because there is no smoke without a fire burning, but denial from leaders and people in authority is the most dangerous part.