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Time Running out for Rao
Pension is said to be brewing once again in the town of Ayodhya. This time as a result of a threat by the Hindu zealots to launch a mass demonstration if they are not allowed to pray at the makeshift temple which they have built at the site on which the recently razed 16th century Babri mosque stood. According to reports, the Hindu priests and holymen are demanding public rights for worship at tne disputed site.
Much criticism, and justifiably so. have been heaved on the government of PV Narasimha Rao. for not having anticipated the plans of the RSS and other Hindu organisations. He tried to mitigate some of his critical lapses tty taking some tough actions afterwards, like banning the fundamentalist political organisations, arresting some of the leading figures of Hindu fundamentalist movement and dismissing four state governments ruled by the BJP. Clearly. Prime Minister Rao saw that to be the only option he had before him. both for the future of his party and more importantly for the survival of the principles on which modern India was founded. He had to meet head on the forces of communal-ism. With this in view, he can be credited to have moved, though belatedly, against Hindu fundamentalist forces. But given his personal traits, which always tended to seek a consensus, or at least a position of compromise, he did not move fast enough, decisively enough and far enough. For example, after having sent the security forces to take over the disputed site and having driven all the so-called ker sevaks' out of the demolished mosque site. Rao should have immediately removed, the makeshift temple and placed .H at the site where already some platforms were erected earlier as a part of the proposed Ram temple. For each extra day the makeshift temple was allowed to exist, its removal became more and more difficult.
The new demand of the BJP to allow the Hindus to pray in the disputed site. Is a cleaver move by the communal forces, the possibility of which the Rao government should have foreseen and should have quashed in the bud.
After winning the no-confidence move by the BJP. the Indian Prime Minister said that "It was time to create new history." He further said that for the first time all secular forces have become united against the communal forces. If it be so. it is indeed a good news. The big question is what will Mr Rao and his Congress Party do with this massive coalition. To paraphrase a Chinese proverb, embedded in every crisis, there lies an opportunity. The opportunity for Mr Rao. and for the Congress lies in going lor an all out offensive against the communal forces. The vast majority of the deeply religious Hindus, and the secular forces do not want the type of politics that they are being led into by the RSS. VHP. BJP and the others. Having being shocked into the awareness that the very integrity of India is being threatened. they would be willing to listen to the Congress and other like minded parties if the latter launches a massive campaign for strengthen-; ing the fundamental principles — of democracy । and secularism — on which modern India was 1 founded and principles that have served India well in making it tne Industrial and economic power that it has become. Middle class India would know well the price of chaos, destruction and communal violence. Through this campaign the Congress and its Left Front allies will* in all probability, emerge stronger.
But for all this to happen, the Initiative and the offensive must come from the Congress and especially the Prime Minister. He cannot continue to be seen only as reacting to events and not being able to take decisive action. The matter of concern is that time is not in Mr Rao's favour. He
I must act before it runs out.