It is no coincidence that the foundation stone for the Ram temple is being laid on the one year anniversary of direct Indian rule in Kashmir Opinion | K S Dakshina Murthy
Nearly thirty years after a bigoted mob destroyed the Babri mosque in India’s northern Uttar Pradesh state, the foundation is being laid for the construction of a Hindu Ram temple on the same site – an epochal event that coincides with the rise of the political right, as well as the marginalisation of its secular constitution.
In addition, Jammu and Kashmir was stripped of its position as a state, divided into two, downgraded to that of a Union Territory, and humiliated by being left with reduced powers to boot. During the time of the first Indian government under prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, and later under Indira Gandhi, the dispute was all but forgotten. Those were the heydays of secularism - the ruling Congress avowedly sworn to it and the religious right firmly sidelined.
This was now 1986, and it stirred a veritable hornet’s nest. India’s religious right, which until then was held on a tight leash by a secular government, broke loose. Under its newly-anointed leader, Narendra Modi, the BJP used the issue of corruption to unseat the Congress in 2014, returning to power with an even more decisive win in 2019 .
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