Thread by @annavetticad

"Wherever #Muslims live, they don’t like to live in co-existence with others" - #AtalBihariVajpayee as PM said this in 2002 in which the Gujarat 'riots' were followed by attacks on Muslims across the state for a year. Full text of his speech👇(Contd)
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As this profile says, "#Vajpayee reached a new low with the Gujarat pogrom that took place under Modi’s CMship. ..Not only did he not remove #Modi from his post; he emulated him by presenting the carnage as an understandable reaction by #Hindus." (Contd)
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Vajpayee's mask of genteelness was carefully constructed to fool most of the liberal media, public & politicians, who either fell for it or used it to mask their own opportunism when aligning with him, despite knowing his commitment to #RSS' hate politics. #AtalTunnel (Contd)

Via @IndiaToday: 3 instances of #Vajpayee intentionally dropping his mask. This was not his personal PR alone, it was RSS' strategy too. Many liberal journalists and politicians played along, thus enabling the rise of fascism in India. (Contd)
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#AtalTunnel should be a term for the #tunnelvision of liberal journalists & netas who deify #AtalBihariVajpayee, the life-long RSS man who strategically wore a mask with the long-term goal of easing India slowly,incrementally into the more blatant expressions of hate we see today