BJP’s divisive politics threat to very idea of India, says Bajwa

CHANDIGARH: Tript Rajinder Singh Bajwa, Minister for Rural Development and Panchayats, Housing and Urban Development, on Tuesday slammed the Narendra Modi government and the Sangh Parivar for trying to drag the country back by 70 years and tearing apart the country’s delicate social fabric by thrusting hegemony.

(From left) Social activist Nanak Singh Nishter and Dr Kuldip Singh Dhir being honoured by Punjab Minister Tript Rajinder Singh Bajwa during a function in Chandigarh on Tuesday. Sikh Education Society president Gurdev Singh is also seen in the picture. TRIBUNE PHOTO: MANOJ MAHAJAN

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, May 8

Tript Rajinder Singh Bajwa, Minister for Rural Development and Panchayats, Housing and Urban Development, on Tuesday slammed the Narendra Modi government and the Sangh Parivar for trying to drag the country back by 70 years and tearing apart the country’s delicate social fabric by thrusting hegemony.

Speaking at a function to commemorate Panthic leader Jathedar Gurcharan Singh Tohra organised by the Sikh Education Society at Sri Guru Gobind Singh College, Sector 26, here, Bajwa said the politics that had been unleashed by the BJP and its parent body, Sangh Parivar, since the formation of the Modi government posed a serious threat to the very idea of India.

In this context, he recalled the socio-political philosophy of Jathedar Tohra who had a deep insight into plurality of India and was the one Akali leader who was clear that the country could be kept united only by respecting and accommodating the diversity that characterise this vast country.

He said the philosophy practiced by Tohra had become all the more relevant today at the time when India faced the threat to its very survival from the policies and politics unleashed by the Sangh Parivar. He called upon the teaching community to create awareness among students about diversity and plurality of India.