KARNATAKA CONGRESS:  DIVIDE AND RULE

SIDDHU’S LINGAYAT LUNACY

It was the British who started the policy of  Divide and Rule  during their reign and succeeded to a great extent to manipulate the then fickle minded Indians to drum up support for their rule.

Seventy years later the evil of Divide and Rule doesn’t seem to disappear from India. Now it is the turn of the Indian National Congress of  Karnataka to try it to shore up their diminishing popularity by finding  an excuse to make it to power in assembly elections 2018.

India with already so may sects and castes, is sought  to be fragmented more by giving the Lingayat community in Karnataka the status of a separate  religion. The Lingayats are majority community in Karnataka and command big presence in politics of the State. Some Chief Ministers in the past have been from this community. So giving them separate status and then doling out favours to them seems to be the best way to gain favour of the community and thus their votes.

Already some from the community have welcomed the move. What’s worse, seers from the community have welcomed the move too. Right now the idea is in its infancy  Will it take the form of patidar movement in Gujarat and jats in Haryana remains to be seen.

Thus the battle lines for  Karnataka Assembly election 2018 are being drawn  right now. When our politicians can’t think of  anything impressive to add to their resume such crooked ideas come up.

This is how Congress intends to make India great – divide and rule- until the country shatters like pieces of glass.

Why just blame Khanaiya Kumar for Bharat tere tukde honge. Congress  should take credit for it too. For Khanaiya it took him from Bihar to Tihar. Where will it take the congress?