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2014 polls: Local clashes likely to be nurtured & unleashed as a matter of strategy
Sep 22, 2013, 02.34AM IST

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Community honour, as represented in the dignity and bodily integrity of women, was among the themes constantly played on to sharpen the growing estrangement. A further twist was imparted by rumours made up in the Hindutva ideological factory of a "love jihad" launched by attractive young Muslim boys equipped with the full range of the tools of enticement - modish clothes, mobile phones and sweet talk - to entangle young girls of the other faith. In a region of the "vanishing female", where the sex ratio is believed to have fallen to near critical levels, this was an ideological ploy of insidious power.
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These ideological agendas are now wedded to the power of new modes of communication, evident last year in the riots that engulfed Assam's Bodoland areas and the subsequent mass flight of people of Northeastern origin from some of India's most cosmopolitan cities. The official response then was to ban and block, showing yet again a conspicuous lack of the political statesmanship and administrative will to use these modes of communication for the good. Muzaffarnagar again spotlights that dilemma: it is easy to press the best of modern technology to mischievous purposes, far more difficult to combat its effects.

The writer is a freelance journalist

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Sort by: Newest | Oldest kktotlani Totlani (Jaipur) 22 Sep, 2013 08:54 AM Digvijaya Singh famously tweeted that "All non-BJP ruled states have to be careful about riots now" hinting that as opposition it may cause riots to polarise. Does that mean UP/MP/WB/CHHATISGARH riots were done by Congress which is in opposition at present? Given that Digvijaya Singh is former CM and Gen Secretry of Congress, he must be aware of how congress' strategies.

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