The last bastion to fall.

"I don't want to exaggerate, but there are a few disturbing developments in the India Army that are matters of concern," wrote Karan Thapar. The first was "an aarti being played at a ceremonial parade at the Artillery Regimental Centre, while soldiers clapped along behind a box with OM painted on it". Till today, all religions have been treated equally in the Indian Armed Forces. The second was a tweet from the Srinagar-based Chinar Corps which extended "heartiest birthday greetings" to the prime minister and also said, "True leadership is not about a Title or Designation. It is all about Impact, Influence and Inspiration." The armed forces have been apolitical so far. "It is customary for a nation to have an army but extremely rare for a political party to have one. China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) is an exception, as it owes its allegiance to the Communist Party of China," wrote Maj Gen (Retd) Prof GG Dwivedi. On 30 December 2014, President Xi Jinping said, "PLA remains the Party's army, and must maintain absolute loyalty to political masters." Will the Indian Armed Forces become the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP's) army? The third was, "On December 4, the CDS (Chief of Defence Staff of the Indian Armed Forces, wikipedia), General Bipin Rawat, chose to visit a college run by the Goraknath Math, in company of Yogi Adityanath, rather than attend Navy Day in Delhi, where he ought to have been. This is what General Panag wrote: 'General Rawat's...presence at an institution run by a religious/political organisation and paying obeisance at a religious place in (the) company of the Mahant, who is also a controversial political leader, does not augur well for the military and the nation." The government intends to change the present system of promotion of senior officers of the armed forces from seniority to one of merit. Who will decide merit? Politicians in power. "But this must be weighed against two drawbacks: (a) the selectee would consider himself beholden to the politico-bureaucratic establishment, undermining his own credibility within the service; and (b) high-level military decisions may be skewed to please politicians," wrote Retd Chief of the Indian Navy Arun Prakash. Not just the army. The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) mouthpiece Panchjanya recently accused "Indian IT giant Infosys of destabilising the Indian economy to help 'Naxals, Leftists and tukde tukde gang'," because of problems in its software for the new e-filing income tax portal, The Wire. Former director of Infosys, Mohandas Pai said that "those at Infosys and other IT firms are technologists and not deep domain experts on matters related to tax". Economic Times (ET). However, "the IT major could have roped in CAs from ICAI to test the portal's efficacy from the end user point of view". To add to the paranoia of the Hindutva fanatics, a group of people based in the US organised a conference titled "Dismantling Global Hindutva". To 'Dismantle' means to 'take apart', which could be taken to mean minute examination, or to mean destruction. "The conference is held during a time when a Hindu supremacist regime is in power in India, and so this conference will also throw light on what Hindutva does when it has captured power by closely scrutinising both its official policies, and its unofficial policies like creating impunity for Hindutva violence and setting up a massive propaganda machinery," the anonymous organisers were quoted as saying. "Some of the prospective speakers have been trolled and even subjected to rape and death threats," The Wire. Prof Apoorvanand and Gauhar Raza wrote that "bullying by the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) and the local police must not be treated lightly". ABVP is the student wing of the BJP. "From Kerala to Haryana, there are numerous stories of disrupted and aborted seminars, film screenings and classrooms and censoring of syllabi, either directly by the ABVP or at their behest by authorities." We already have Islamic State. Will we have a Hindutva State as well?