NaMo had given a strong message in his first time that all were equals in his concept of development. He sought cooperation of all for benefits to be shared by all. Even hardened Muslims had begun to reevaluate him. Mayavati was surprised in 2017 that he ensured victory of his party candidates in predominantly Muslim localities. Then why did he go for the political initiatives that brought nothing except bundles of trouble.

Instead of attending to nursing the ailing economy to improve growth rate and reduce the menace of unemployment, he undertook the political tasks that are enshrined in the Sangh book. The amendment to the citizenship law brewed trouble only after his home minister Ameet Shah indicated he had more up his sleeve to cause misapprehensions in the Muslim minds. He publicly contradicted his home minister to claim no proposal was with his government to renew the citizens’ registration. He did not like naming as traitors and anti Indian elements all of those protesting against the government over the attempts by it to deprive a large number of them from citizenship. More than half the Muslims that migrated to Pakistan voluntarily returned to India after March 1948 for they preferred India than to live in Pakistan as rootless beings. They are not accorded citizenship but were living in India on permits.

NaMo also spent two decade as a trainee in the Sangh camp and yet retained his realistic approach. It was further consolidated after the world reaction to his miraculous mandate winning feat in 2014 elections to confirm that in modern times, no nation can survive in isolation. Strong reactions in support of protest the world over had made him worry over what his home minister was doing. He was thus gradually isolated in the Sangh dominated machinery. Though no positive evidence was available, it was obvious that he had under the pressure discarded his enthusiastic approach for accelerating the pace of economic development. The steps for realisation of dream programme of the BJP in the start of his second tranche were also under invisible pressure. The way Ajit Doval was rushed to console the violence affected families and thus make any move by Ameet Shah redundant tells much more than words can tell.

NaMo did not suffer communalization issues in his entire 60 months of his first term when Ameet Shah was holding reins of the party. But he got in the cabinet as the home minister to ferment troubles that even failure on the economic front had not.

The Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat also publicly disassociated the Sangh from naming the protest against the government more as activities than of traitors and anti nationalist. Addressing a rally at Ranchi, he also indicated huge distance of the Sangh with the BJP in its present avatar. Bhagwat had publicly indicated that the Sangh did not approve of the actions of the Modi government.

The Prime Minister Narendra Modi also indicated his distance with the home minister when the National security Chief Ajit Doval visited the violence raged parts of Delhi to assuage the feelings of the terror struck residents in the North East Delhi. The violence that took 27 lives and left 185 injured was not an evil generated violence merely by communal passion or communal tension. On the contrary communalism was absent from it as many Muslims found safe passage in Hindu homes. Yet it was unusual for the National Security chief to visit twice the affected areas. It indicated that the Prime Minister trusted his Security Adviser to home minister or his paraphernalia to act as peace maker.

The National Security Adviser has never visited the troubled spots in the country. The Home Minister who led the campaign for the party in the state assembly elections was thus prevented from visiting the troubled spot. The clear indication was the violent attack was led by the BJP leader who lost the last assembly election. His earlier vituperative speech and his tweeters inciting the young to teach a lesson to those protecting against the citizenship law amendment had provoked the local BJP Member of Parliament Gautam Gambhir to demand immediate action against the provocateur BJP leader.

Narendra Modi does not pretend to be a dictator benevolent or otherwise though he left an impression that he was not only first in the Council of his ministers but the sole arbiter. Yet he has to show his distance, for the first time, from his senior colleague. The Sangh chief has also not approved the tirades against those who are opposed to certain steps by the government. It raises the question who has motivated he NaMo government to go in step by step for imposition of the uniform civil code. The proposal for census to register citizens afresh seems to be part of it.

The reaction of the Prime Minister indicates that he is unwilling passenger on ride for changes in the citizenship criterion. The Sangh chief has indirectly disapproved the move. Then who pushed forward the move? No one be willing to shoulder the responsibility as it is a move that had cut the base of the party. The debacle in the Delhi assembly polls that the party faced came after the President endorsed the amended law.