The Bharatiya Janata Party-led Centre’s ‘politics of polarisation’ — to divide people on religious and ethnic lines, provoke violence and rule — has resulted in the many horrors now being witnessed in Manipur, observed political scientist and human rights activist G. Haragopal.
And not only Manipur, but conflicts based on religion, caste, by patriarchy and male dominance have come back and are being promoted all over the country, he said.
Delivering at a talk on ‘Manipur Horrors’, organised by Media Education Foundation India here, he said the country under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, with increased centralisation of power, neo-liberal legislation to encourage monopoly capitalism, and the belief that country can be governed by dividing people, has become more unequal.
