MUMBAI MATTERS: Secularism as a political ploy
By Krishna Kumar
PUBLISHED: 21:56 GMT, 8 July 2013 | UPDATED: 21:56 GMT, 8 July 2013
After issuing threats for months, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar finally pulled the plug on his party's (JD-U's) alliance with BJP over the issue of the 'communal' Narendra Modi, the chief minister of Gujarat who has become the head of the BJP's poll committee.
Nitish Kumar is strongly against Modi becoming the PM; however he has no issues with LK Advani who is 'alleged' to be involved in the Babri Masjid's demolition; probably Nitish doesn't want to revisit the Babri Masjid issue; probably he also doesn't remember the riots of 1992 and 1993 that killed over 900 people in a place called Bombay.
The riots of 1992 that took place after the demolition of Babri Masjid led to such a social division in Bombay as it was known then that the character of the city changed forever. Then Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao, belonging to the Congress party, had pushed the party's government in Maharashtra to order a probe into the riots. The Congress government then ordered a probe by a judge of the Bombay High Court, Justice B N Srikrishna.
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