Overview
- Madani argues Congress adopted a soft policy toward religion-based politics, allowing communal elements to grow during its years in power.
- He contends that a firm stand 77 years ago would have prevented Congress’s later ouster and averted what he describes as national deterioration.
- Calling Gandhi’s assassination the killing of secularism, he asserts communal forces were responsible and that decisive action was avoided.
- He says Jamiat leaders secured a pre-Independence written assurance for a secular Constitution and claims some Congress figures later questioned that commitment after Partition.
- Jamiat’s repeated pleas for stricter action were ignored, Madani claims, and CPI(M) leader Hannan Mollah has echoed that Congress sometimes compromised its stance.