After Dabholkar, now its Govind Pansare. Maharashtra has witnessed the killings of two progressive personalities in a short span of 18 months, yet the government has been unsuccessful to do anything. The increasing attacks on the rationalists has created a hostile atmosphere for those who think rationally and fearlessly raise voice against the wrongs in the society. Right wing extremism has been reaching heights ever since the present government has come to power. With the politics being decided by the media, the Left wing has been constantly victimized by the media for the past few years. Maharashtra, which had seen a trade union upsurge in the 1960s is now in the hands of the pro-corporates and has seen a complete shift from the Left to the Right. RSS has been marching through the whole of India in the past few years and it seems to be alarming that this cancer which is growing in India will make the upcoming youth more impotent towards rational thinking and will be injected with strong fundamentalism from their childhood itself. The Adanis and Ambanis will enjoy more power and constant suppressing of voices like Dabholkar and Pansare will make the common people more prone to the unending autocratic rule of the Right. Growing number of Shakhas is the evidence for that. An era will come when people will fear to even think (leave aside the guts to speak) in their own way unafraid. Fascicm is growing everywhere in India and who knows India might witness another Benito Mussolini or Adolf Hitler.
Times are not far when the masses will come to streets to overthrow the fascists and India will come under the leadership of rational voices.
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