Overview
- Madani alleges that during its years in power the party avoided strict legal action against religion-based hate politics, allowing such groups to strengthen.
- He writes that crushing communalism immediately after Mahatma Gandhi’s 1948 killing could have averted later "destruction."
- He describes Gandhi’s assassination as the "killing" of India’s secularism and faults leaders of the era for failing to act.
- He cites a pre-Independence assurance to Jamiat that a secular Constitution would protect minorities, saying subsequent policies undermined that promise.
- He says Jamiat repeatedly pressed for tougher measures but was ignored, and links the party’s later ouster from power to those choices; no immediate response from the party was reported.