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Lok Sabha elections were held and the results were shocking in many ways. Now Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen has targeted BJP. He said that the results of the current Lok Sabha elections indicate that India is not really a 'Hindu nation'. Here it is worth mentioning that Sen has reached Kolkata from America hours before the counting. He also expressed displeasure over the alleged tendency of putting people in jail without trial.
Speaking to a Bangladeshi news channel at the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport, Amartya Sen said that India is not a Hindu nation, as the election results make clear. He said that we always expect change after the elections. What happened before (during the BJP-led central government), the method of putting people in jail without any case and increasing the gap between the rich and the poor is still continuing. He said that this should stop.
Well-known economist Amartya Sen said that like the previous cabinet, the new cabinet will also have
There is also a need for political openness, especially when India is a secular nation with a secular constitution. “I don't think the idea of turning India into a 'Hindu nation' is correct,” Sen, 90, said. He also said the new Union Cabinet is the same as before. He said ministers have the same portfolios as before. Politically powerful people are still powerful despite minor changes.
when I was a kid…
Sen also recalled that during his childhood when India was under British rule, people were put in jail without any case. “When I was young, many of my uncles and cousins were put in jail without trial,” the Nobel laureate said. “We hoped that India would be free from this. The Congress is also guilty of not stopping. They did not change it…but it is happening more under the current government.”
What did he say on Ayodhya Ram Temple?
The BJP lost the Faizabad Lok Sabha seat despite the construction of the Ram temple in Ayodhya, which Sen described as an attempt to hide the country's true identity. “Spending so much money to build the Ram temple… portraying India as a Hindu nation, which should not have happened in a country of Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore and Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. This shows an attempt to ignore India's true identity and must be changed.” Sen also said unemployment is rising in India and sectors like primary education and primary health care are being neglected. (PTI inputs)
