Is Ashutosh Varshney communal?
Assertion
Writing in a column in the Indian Express on 14 April 2014, Brown University Professor Ashutosh Varshney claims that
If Muslims vote en bloc, there is still a chance that they can frustrate Modi’s ascent to power.
Facts
Prof Ashutosh Varshney’s dislike for the BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi is well-known. Indeed, in an earlier article on Narendra Modi, Prof Varshney had made misleading claims about the RSS and Savarkar which resulted in a factual rebuttal by RSS spokesperson Ram Madhav.
In the present column however, Prof Varshney goes a step further and actually gives an explicit suggestion to the Indian Muslim community to vote en bloc against the BJP solely in order to stop Narendra Modi from becoming the Prime Minister.
If Prof Varshney was contesting elections as a candidate or if he was canvassing for a particular political party on the ground, his aforementioned statement would be treated as a violation of the Model Code of Conduct resulting in penal action.
Conclusion
It is one thing to have a personal preference for or against a certain party or ideology. However, specifically calling upon a particular community to vote against Narendra Modi purely because they are Muslims falls well within the definition of communalism.
It is quite clear from the above that Prof Ashutosh Varshney is communal.
IndiaFacts Fact Meter Verdict: True.
The other side of Brown University
http://www.davidkertzer.com/publications#c2
http://www.davidkertzer.com/publications
The other side of Brown University woth Prof David Kertzer . One aspect is Asutosh Varshney. Indians must be well read . So this post.
http://www.davidkertzer.com/books-edited
The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara. New York: Knopf, 1997.
The Popes Against the Jews: The Vatican’s Role in the Rise of Modern Anti-Semitism, 2001.
Prisoner of the Vatican: The Popes’ Plot to Capture Italy from the New Italian State. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004.
The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe.
Ya. Communal article. Not fit to call as Prof.
Failed to get tenure at Harvard, ouch, wandered the country forlorn and ended up in distinctly average Brown, after Michigan. Then made, adviser to idiot RG. But this piece of communal venality must bring him to the renewed attention of the numerous intelligence agents in Harvard, who masquerade as professors and re-open his rejected file.
American and British universities and their foul national media are notorious redoubts of genocidal hatred for Hindus. The Jews are out and Brahmins, supposedly the only Hindus in fact (according to racist Christianity), alleged to be pulling the wool over the eyes over everyone else, need to be exterminated. Never mind the 1.8+ million plus killed because of the US-led invasion of Iraq and still counting, but still leaving aside, Libya, Syria, etc. India is in their sights and Varshney and feeble-minded Sen might be straining extend a helping hand.
May be Professor is right; inians shoul hand over the management of india that is market to the “enbloc muslims” and all othgers can live happy