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I usually don't speak on Sikh issues as there are many others who know better.

But this needs to be highlighted.

Of late, Modi has been meeting Sikhs, visiting Gurudwaras, releasing books on Gurus and using Govt (IRCTC) to amplify his 'special relationship' with Sikhs. (1/n)

To understand Modi & his politics, one needs to put things into context.

For Sikhs to preempt future moves, it's imp to delve into the recorded beliefs of {Hindutva [RSS (BJP) ] }.

Modi joined the RSS at age 8 & turned full-time at 21. Here he's in RSS khaki shorts. (2/n)

Modi at 35 was an RSS pracharak (evangelist) & steeped in its ideology when deputed to BJP, its de facto political arm in 1985.

Then till now, Modi has been close to RSS. "I am proud of being a swayamsevak. The govt is working on the guidelines received from RSS", 2015. (3/n)

Modi as CM wrote of MS Golwalkar, 2nd Sarsanghchalak & RSS head for 33yrs, as "Pujniya Shri Guruji" (teacher worthy of worship) & called him as one of the most imp influences on his life.

MSG's views on Sikhs are noteworthy for their falsehoods. (4/n) https://caravanmagazine.in/vantage/modi-golwalkar-part-1

Narendra Modi on MS Golwalkar, translated by Aakar Patel - Part 1

In 2008, after his second assembly election win in 2007, Narendra Modi wrote a book titled Jyotipunj (which translates as “beams of light”) in which he retold the life stories of sixteen men who...

https://caravanmagazine.in/vantage/modi-golwalkar-part-1

Golwalkar:

1. Sikhs who assert their independent identity are anti-Hindu and communal

2. Sikhs are sub-sects of Hindu dharma - (repeats all across the book)

3. All the various sampradayas in the Hindu fold – the Shaiva, Veerashaiva, Madhwa, Vaishnava, Jain, Buddha, Sikh (5/n)

Golwalkar:

4. Sikh sect came into being to contain the spread of Islam in Punjab

5. Guru Nanak and his successors laid the foundation of the Hindu upheaval

6. all Sikhs should register themselves as Hindus (6/n)

A little detour on the main thrust of Golwalkar's arguments on Nazis, Jews, Women, Christianity and Untouchability in his books, read them yourself:

1. A Bunch of Thoughts: (link: https://www.thehinducentre.com/multimedia/archive/02486/Bunch_of_Thoughts_2486072a.pdf)

2. We or our Nationhood Defined: (link: https://sanjeev.sabhlokcity.com/Misc/We-or-Our-Nationhood-Defined-Shri-M-S-Golwalkar.pdf) (7/n)

Also from the RSS pantheon is Nanaji Deshmukh, here with Modi.

Deshmukh outlines his justification for massacre of Sikhs in 1984. "Sikhs invited these attacks on themselves. Genuine feeling of anger"

Modi Govt awarded him the Bharat Ratna in 2019. (8/n)

https://sikhsiyasat.net/sikh-genocide-1984-injustice-continues-november-1984-to-november-2019/

What about Modi himself on Sikhs?

1. Once Modi recounted a meeting with Dr Manmohan Singh. Surprised by the Dr's cordialness, Modi happened to look at a watch, “ki barah bajne wale the”, a trope against Sikhs many of us have faced our entire lives. (9/n) https://caravanmagazine.in/politics/rss-bjp-sangh-sikh-appeasement-1984

The BJP and the Sangh’s Sikh appeasement is electoral hypocrisy

Narendra Modi’s Sikh-love is another smokescreen deployed by the BJP and the Sangh Parivar to obfuscate their anti-Sikh history.

https://caravanmagazine.in/politics/rss-bjp-sangh-sikh-appeasement-1984

2. As Chief Minister, his Govt tried its best to take away the land of Sikh farmers who were settled in Kutch and Bhuj regions since 1965.

3. Modi says Hindu terror is a fallacy but his Govt has exclusive focus groups on Islamist & Sikh terrorism. (10/n) https://indianexpress.com/article/news-archive/gujarat/outsiders-in-kutchs-minipunjab-sikh-farmers-battling-for-their-land/

Outsiders in Kutch’s mini-Punjab: Sikh farmers battling for their land

784 Sikh farmers have been told that they are not entitled to their land.

https://indianexpress.com/article/news-archive/gujarat/outsiders-in-kutchs-minipunjab-sikh-farmers-battling-for-their-land/

No wonder the Akal Takht, the highest temporal body of the Sikhs, issued a directive in 2004 which still stands, barring Sikhs from dealing with the RSS and its underling, the Rashtriya Sikh Sangat. (11/n) http://www.panthic.org/articles/2490

Withdraw Akal Takht Sandesh or break Akali alliance : RSS

India’s right-wing Hindu nationalist organization, the RSS has once again, meddled in the internal affairs of the Sikhs when it asked the BJP to sever ties with the Akal Dal Badal if it does not...

http://www.panthic.org/articles/2490

As RSS, empowered by Modi, goes down its laundry list (370, Citizenship Amendment, UCC), Sikhs will have their moment of reckoning. The concerted effort to undermine & diminish the independent Sikh religion is clear.

Narendra Modi's past & present is not lost on anyone. (12/12)

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