The nation heaved a sigh of relief as almost 41 Hindu workers trapped in the tunnel were rescued safely by the Muslim rat-miners flown from Delhi. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami played with the lives of the tunnel workers as the tunnel was being built on a geological faultline and had no emergency exit! By now, the world knows that Narendra Modi does not have feelings and has no regard for human lives. The Gujarat Genocide and Manipur Massacre are examples of Modi’s heightened disregard for human lives. To make matters worse, Modi did not give some time to the rescued workers to recover from the trauma. The propagandist that Modi is, he had a meeting with the workers for a photo opportunity. The opportunist politician Modi must be cursing his fate that the workers could not be rescued earlier as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Modi himself had planned to use the rescue drama with pictures and his speeches during the campaign for the Assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh, Chhatisgarh, Rajasthan, and Telangana to project Modi as a ‘savior!’, which he is not! Modi sprints away to Dubai for another photo opportunity at COP 28 and to beg for a subsidized rate for petrol from the Arab nations. At COP 28, the international community must ask Modi to stop playing with the ecology of the Himalayas and the climate. Otherwise, many neighboring nations, including India, will be prone to landslides, earthquakes, deforestation, etc.
The ill-fated tunnel, which almost swallowed the 41 workers, is part of a $1.5 billion project. It is touted as one of the most ambitious projects of Prime Minister Modi. It is aimed at connecting the four Hindu pilgrimage centers in Uttarakhand through an 890-km network of roads. Environmental experts have criticized the unfeasible and dangerous Char Dham Project. Some work was halted after hundreds of houses were damaged along this route. It is an open secret that Narendra Modi is a frenzied Hindu fanatic who is devoid of scientific temper and reasoning. He pressurized and reportedly threatened the project officials to complete the project at whatever ‘human cost!’ From Joshimath to Almora, the houses of common people have developed cracks. Huge floods ravaged Uttarakhand recently. There was no stopping Modi! The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) will be auditing 29 tunnels being built across India.
It is significant to recall that some months ago, after a fake case of the so-called Love Jihad, Muslims of Uttarakhand were given three days to leave Uttarkhand by the Hindu extremists and the BJP leaders. They were allegedly threatened with genocide. Nature intervened then. Those who threatened Muslims perished along with their houses in the floods. But the Hindu extremists and the BJP did not take any lessons of wisdom from the floods. The RSS hothead Pushkar Singh Dhami, who joined the organization of hate at age 12 was going in full gear with the so-called Uniform Civil Code (UCC). Then came, the tunnel episode.
Both Narendra Modi and Pushkar Singh Dhami rant Muslim hate even in their dreams but they needed Muslims to rescue the Hindu brethren holed up in the tunnel. The Muslim rat-miners led by Waqeel Hasan and some of their Dalit friends risked their lives and rescued the tunnel workers within 48 hours. When these rat-miners landed at the site they were allegedly threatened that the mission save should not fail and that they should not demand any wages for the work as it is ‘their responsibility to save their Hindu masters in a Hindu Rashtra.’ The Muslim and Dalit rat-miners were made to worry about the burning down of their slums in Delhi if the mission failed. Despite the alleged grave threats to their lives and their families’ existence, the rat-miners were dedicated in their work to rescue their Hindu brothers to safety.
Thankfully, Hindu – Muslim bonds are still intact in our country though chipping at places. The tunnel incident has brought Muslims and Hindus closer than ever. Narendra Modi and his stooges should stop baying for Muslim blood and foster communal harmony. The rat-miners Waqeel Hasan, Feroz, Munna Qureshi, Rashid, Irshad, Naseem, Naseer, Ankur, Jatin, Saurabh and Devender deserve the nation’s salute and they must be showered with Bharat Ratna awards!
