A few years ago, I wrote an article on this same blog on manufactured dissent and at that time it went viral and I am amazed that it is still being shared and read. Today, I write with sadness but with more cynicism on what the Breaking India forces will do to break up my beloved country.

I am more than convinced that the CAA had next to nothing to do with it. This was a strategy that went into action, when the BJP won with a bigger majority in 2019, than in 2014.

The manufactured dissent lobby got a rude shock. After their endless efforts both in India and abroad, how could a party that kept all its promises have won? That was just it— the BJP was not playing a smoke and mirrors game; they won because they kept their promises in the first term and obviously the people were happy with their performance. But the opposition was not.

Then came the issue of Article 370 and 35A and when this was resolved, the trouble started brewing, not between the inhabitants of J&K but the opposition. Congress has many sycophants, Indians and others in think tanks and media organisations abroad which they have carefully cultivated over 70 years from father to sons and daughters. They spoke for the dynasty; they were emboldened to the dynasty and if you were to just take a look at Sonia Gandhi’s kitchen cabinet, it was packed by them.

Some of them were associated with foreign NGOs, which were doing charity work in India, for active missionary organisations both Christian and Islamic to use money power to get tribals and others into their fold. And in other parts of India to convert the poor into Islam.

This was not the only agenda, some were associated with NGOs funded for Kashmiri rights, which of course did not include the Sikhs and Hindus, who faced ethnic cleansing in the 1990s.

Thus when PM Modi came to power with a larger mandate in 2019, these organisations with their political masters went into overdrive.

When CAA came in with majorities in both Houses of Parliament, the opposition was ready and prepared. So were their leaders. When Shaheen Bagh happened where women and children sat for an indefinite protest fed and paid by such forces, few Muslims leaders asked the question:

Why are we being used?

Even the most educated among them did not go to the Shaheen Bagh once to say the new Act has nothing to do with you. Yes, it was Congress leaders and AAP who egged on a spurious protest that had nothing to do with Muslims.

When the best Muslim universities in India, had students pelting stones at our security forces and burning buses. Not one Imam or Muslim leader went to support the government. In fact an MLA from the AAP went to incite the students further. Thus the scene was set by such politicians to divide India by slogans such as ‘ Jinnah Wali Azadi ‘ which brought back visions of 1947 and the massacre of Hindus and Sikhs.

We have Muslims who have been in the highest echelons of power and respected and admired by every Indian like President Abdul Kalam. He spoke up on the faults of Indian citizens on how they became the most law abiding citizens abroad but broke every rule in India. And was loved by all Indians Irrespective of caste creed or religion.

Does Pakistan have a Hindu in a high position who can be admired by all Pakistanis?

They do not and never will. We have Muslims on every major TV channel in India; not one Hindu in Pakistan. In Bollywood hundreds of the biggest stars are Muslims. Has any Muslim Bollywood star spoken for the CAA, which just gives citizenship to the most persecuted minorities in neighbouring Islamic states?

Why not? Do they not feel any compassion for the young girls being kidnapped at gunpoint and being forcibly married off to Pakistanis twice their age.

After the riots—-Where are Muslim celebrities taking out candle marches and making their voices felt on Twitter and social media? Where were our Muslim icons coming to Shaheen Bagh and talking to the woman to say you are wrong. This has nothing to do with you. Go back to your homes and take care of your children.

It is sad that a very influential Muslim who was my brother’s friend and went to the most prestigious school in India, had the gall to tell me that Madrassas were good places of learning for young Muslims. This is the whole problem with such people, had he been in a Madrassa he would not have reached where he was as a topper in the Indian establishment yet he had no problem disagreeing with me on the issue of young Muslim children who should be subjected to this kind of schooling. His response was they made very good teachers in other Madrassa. I guess the elite can get away without a conscience.

But I just wonder. Why aren’t more educated and well placed Indian Muslim voices speaking up against the Madrassa education and against the CAA? Why are they not in the forefront demanding that their clerics should allow every Muslim child get the best education the state offers? Why do they want Muslim children to be educated in Madrassa which makes them fit only for one thing- to be a cleric or a teacher. Doomed from the start to just one profession or fall by the wayside to do odd jobs.

Why not tell them about Abdul Kalam who made India proud. Why not insist that they should go to schools, where they can aspire to be a doctor, an astronaut or excel in Science.

They can attend religious classes on weekends to learn about their faith but why should it be the only thing that they ever learn?

I am truly disappointed in our Muslim brothers who don’t want to speak up. This country is theirs as well but their silence is deafening, except for a handful of courageous people.

Thus we have the Delhi riots that were brewing up since the Jamia attacks and Shaheen Bagh.

Much destruction and damage was done. Both Hindus and Muslims were killed. Both lost properties and shops.

Yet even today our politicians are indulging in blame games, while the Owaisi brothers and their lot are making speeches to divide India. In the US they would be in jail.

Today, I went to a book launch and I heard a diplomat who had served in Pakistan. He said that before 1971, the Pakistani Army and their officers were not so belligerent but after 1971, things changed and now they have realised that they can only destroy India from within and weaken it.

It made me think of the Khalistanis who get privileged treatment in Pakistan. The drugs Pakistan has poured into Punjab. The havoc they created in Kashmir and now the Delhi riots. It could not have been done without the help of the ISI, the opposition parties and leftist, all want power and are used to the divide and rule game.

The fact that the government of India was not prepared for this kind of viscous game is all the more disturbing. We obviously need much more intelligence and the will to act promptly and decisively, when we see the first signs.

Pakistan thinks it has 200 million Muslims in India who can become their pawn. They don’t hide their views. You can see it on Pakistani networks everyday – the common diatribe is our Muslims in India are suffering. We need to do something for them. From talking about Kashmiri Muslins their views have changed to a imagined genocide in India.

Yes, they are trying to break us up from inside with help from the Congress and others. Can we Indians for once unite? Can our government see through this diabolical game and bring in stringent actions for incitement and hate speech? If we want to survive as a democracy this is the only recourse left to us, even if the left liberals scream about freedoms being curtailed.

No one has the freedom to incite violence and break up a country. Not in India and not anywhere in the civilised world.