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BJP in the Telugu States
Dt: 1/6/16
BJP in the Telugu States
Dr T.H.Chowdary*
Sri Ram Madhav the General Secretary of the BJP has made a clear distinction between strategy and ideology ( Hansa India 1/6/16).
2. As a matter of strategy it is alright to be with the TDP in A.P so that whatever advantage as a partner in a ruling coalition can be used to strengthen the party. At the same time whatever are the failures of the coalition govt will also be on the BJP.
3. The TDP has no ideology either economic or cultural. It is like other regional parties proprietary and dynastic. The BJP will suffer grievously if it neglects the ideology. Man does not live by bread alone but he lives by ideas also . In the two Telugu states Hindus are terribly discriminated against by the governments in that while the Churches of Christians and Mosques of Muslims are not under government management & control, only Hindu temples are under the government s’ control . The properties and the resources of the temples being built up by the Hindu devotees are used blatantly for partisan purposes by the ruling parties. The TTD Board and the Trust Boards of other temples are stuffed with the supporters and patrons and financiers of the party in power. The functionaries of the temples , unlike the Pastors and Bishops; Imams and Mullahs and Maulvis are by dint of so called government officials are prevented from defending Hindu dharma against
evangelists and other conversion enterprises. Part of the offerings of Hindu devotees are being used in the discretion of the Chief Minister who could be ( and had been indeed) a Christian or even a Muslim. While the governments of the two Telugu states are constructing Urdu ghars and Shadi Khanas and Haj House and sending the minorities to their pilgrim centers with government money from the budgets, the Hindu devotees are having to buy tickets not only for travel but even to see their gods. Thousands of crores of rupees of the Hindu devotees are being ineffectually spent while with that money vidya and vaidyam ( education & health) and help to the poor can be reached so that the ideal of madhava seva through manava seva would be implemented by the resources of the temple. Promises for reduction of corruption, more development and effective distribution of welfare are all common to all parties.
4. In the two Telugu states the Unique Selling Point ( USP) of the BJP should be the liberation of temples from the management of parties which in effect are communal in that they are using the government resources to promote the religions of the minorities even at the cost of the Hindus . While the spiritual Hindu organisations are engaged in a movement for the liberation of temples , the BJP in the two Telugu States should come out boldly in support of them and make this an emotional as well as economic issue by the time of the next elections. It is as well to recall that Mannathu Padmanabha Pillai launched in the late 1950s a movement for the liberation of Kerala from the misrule and partisan rule of the communists and he succeeded in ending the rule of the godless communist party .
5. The temple liberation movement should be a parallel to Mannathu Padmanabha Pillai‘s in Kerala and BJP should actively patronise the Hindus’ movement for liberation of the temples from minority appeasing governments. (567 words)
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