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Organised Defence of Hindu Dharma From The Onslaught of Christian Missions In Andhra Pradesh
Dt: 9/2/18
Organised Defence of Hindu Dharma
From The Onslaught of Christian Missions
In Andhra Pradesh
Dr T.H.Chowdary*
Concerned with the large scale conversion of Hindus, mainly from dalits and the very poor form other castes and the construction of tens of thousands of Churches in the past 10-15 years, upto a dozen in some villages by different denominations of Churches and the fraudulent way the conversions are being done and the injustice being done to non-converted Hindu-dalits by the converted dalits appropriating for themselves most of the benefits meant for SCs ( like reservations in government jobs, admission to educational institutions, MLAs and MPs etc) by the converts not disclosing the fact of conversion but submitting false caste certificates, (given by their own likes, that is crypto Christian officers) scores of former Justice of High Courts, retired IAS & IPS officers, former Vice Chancellors and eminent intellectuals and professionals had come together and founded the Bharatiya Dharma Rakshana Samakhya (Samakhya) in the year 2012. The fraud that triggered the founding of this Samakhya is the declining of Christians as well as their proportion in the total population of the two Telugu States as recorded in census after censes as below but tens of thousands of Churches coming up and a Christian Chief Minister of the undivided Andhra Pradesh creating a separate A.P State Christian Minority Finance Corporation, funding the construction of Churches through that Corporation and subsidising the Christians for their pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Here is the fact about population:
Christian Population in Andhra Pradesh
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Year |
||||
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1971 |
1981 |
1991 |
2001 |
2011 |
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Total population mln |
43.5 |
53.6 |
66.5 |
76.2 |
84.5 |
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Christians mln |
1.8 |
1.43 |
1.2 |
1.1 |
1.1 |
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% of Christian population |
4.19 |
2.68 |
1.83 |
1.44 |
1.38 |
Source: Census of India
2. For the last decade or more I have been publishing articles in newspapers bringing out monographs and pamphlets about the aggressive and fraudulent conversion activities of Christian missions and the patronage of vote-courting regional parties as well as the Congress using tax monies to promote Christianity . The governments of these regional parties as well as the Congress had been granting budget money which merely construction of and repairs to Churches, construction of Urdu Ghars, Shadi Khanas etc. I had filed a PIL in the High Court of Hyderabad which was pleased to stay the spending of government money for construction of Churches and subsidising Christian pilgrimages. However the government went in appealed to the Supreme Court which merely directed the High Court to quickly dispose of the case but gave no other directive. I did not receive any relief. The vote -courting party governments are not only continuing the spending of budget money to appease Muslims and Christians but even had the legislatures pass resolution for 12% reservation for Muslims and so on.
3. The efforts of the Samakhya took a good turn in 2014 when in the separate Andhra Pradesh State a coalition of the TDP and the BJP formed the government . A BJP person, Sri P. Manikyala Rao became the Minister for Endowment Department that manages and administers the Hindus temples including the famous and most resource rich Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD) .
4. A retired IAS officer who was also Executive Officer of the TTD once, the late Sri PVRK Prasad a saintly person with great administrative abilities and scholastic qualifications was taken as chairperson of Hindu Dharma Parirakshana Trust ( HDPT). Sri PVRK Prasad was a wise person with great modesty benefiting a true scholar. He
5. He got the Endowment Department and the TTD to convene annual Dharmika Sadassus (Assemblies) in which the Adhipatis ( heads) of different Peethams and Muths of Hindu Panths / Sampradayas are participants besides active societies engaged in the defence and promotion of Hindu Dharma. All the programs advocated by the Bharatiya Dharma Rakshana Samakhya for the last several years got owned by the Endowment Department (ED)and the TTD through these Sadassus and resolutions of the Dharmika Sadassus are binding upon the TTD and ED . Here are the achievements so far:
6. Divya Darshan: Government of India has been subsidising the Haj pilgrimage of Muslims to the extent of hundreds of crores of Rupees of tax payers money. The governments of Telugu states had begun subsidising the pilgrimage of Christians to Jerusalem . The Samakhya proposed that the government of Andhra Pradesh should take 1000 Dalits, Girijans and other poor Hindus irrespective of caste on a conducted tour for darshan at seven prominent temples with the cost of that conducted Darshan borne by the Government of Andhra Pradesh just as it is bearing the cost of subsidies to Christians pilgrimages. The proposal was accepted and is being implemented with 1000 person from each district, every year being taken on a 5 day conducted devalaya darshan yathara. This is called divya darshan and was flagged off on 1st Jan 2017. The TTD gets every year over Rs. 2700 cr . Other temples in Andhra Pradesh get about Rs. 400 cr. The Chief Minister of A.P ruled that the expenditures on Divya Darshan should be met by the TTD/ Endowment Department. This is unfair because GOAP is subsidising Christians’ pilgrimage from the government’s budget.
We are demanding that the expenditure on divya darshan must be reimbursed by the government from its budget as long as funds Muslims’ or Christians religious activities like the construction of Churches, subsidies to Christian pilgrimages construction of Christ and Haj houses, Urdu ghars and Shadi khanas meant for minorities. Our he struggle will go on . This divya darshan is one of the means by which we want to stem the conversion of the poor to Christianity .
7. Dharma Prabodhaks: In order to counter the activities of Pastors and gangs of Christian missionaries, at the instance of Samakhya, the GOAP and its Endowment Department have accepted our proposal that every Mandal ( Taluka/Tahsil) shall have a Dharma Prabodkhaks. Out of the 600 and odd Mandals in A.P, more than 400 Mandals are now having Dharma Prabhodkas. They are given one moth’s training about the fundamentals of Hinduism, the attacks it is being subjected to, especially by Christian missionaries and secularists. They are paid honorarium of Rs. 8000 per month for the time being. They are part time functionaries. They are assigned tasks designed to defend Hinduism, to bring the knowledge and superiority of Hinduism among people, especially the poor and dalits and girijans all fishermen communities (specially targeted) along the coast of Andhra Pradesh for conversion.
8. Construction of Temples: We are able to get the government (Endowment Department and the TTD) to construct 500 Hindus temples (mainly Rama temples) every year in Dalit wadas, Girijan gramas and slums in towns and cities. The choice is given to the dalits and girijans as to which god or goddesses or gram devata the temples should be for.
For each temple there is permission from the local body ; a society is registered and means are secured for them to continue the conduct of pujas, festivals and so on. Each is equipped with public address system both for bhajans and their broadcast.
Dalits and girijans an d fishermen others are being trained as Archakas of these temples. The spiritual equality as propounded by the great Seer Ramanjuan a thousand years ago, is being promoted.
The consecration / prana prathistha of idols, rituals for them are all done by the Dalits and Girijans themselves – with assistance from the traditional Brahmana priests.
10. Bhajan Mandals: 3000 Bhajan gurus had been trained and they are deployed in important temple towns to train other bhajan gurus. Bhajan Mandals are formed by Dharma Prabhodaks. The Bhajan Mandals are given all necessary instruments and literature. Competitions are held at the district and state level in order to build up enthusiasm for more and more Bhajan Mandals which will create a sense of all Hindus irrespective of caste becoming one community .
11. Sandhya Gurukulas : Important temples are chosen as centers for promoting right knowledge of Hindu Dharma among people . On Sundays, in the forenoon at these Sandhya Gurukulas a learned person give a pravachan . It is followed by bhajan and distribution of prasadam . It is through these discourses that the essentials of Hindu dharma are understood and traditional practices.
Outsourcing all these activities are “outsourced” to the Samarasata Foundation (SRF) which was brought into being with the specific objective of defending Hinduism from Christian missionary activity and the enmity of secularists and Marxists and their disparagement of Hinduism. This The functionaries of SRF are dedicated people. This is funded by voluntary contributions. The Activities mentioned above are funded by Endowment Department and TTD.
Strict accounting is done . This is a missionary activity; a mission for the defence and promotion of Hindu dharma especially among the vulnerable sections.
12. The Samakhya is seized with the problem of the dalit converts appropriating all the benefits meant for the Hindu and Buddhist Dalits by the converts to Christianity among them. We are interrogating the MLAs and MPS and even government officers who by producing false caste certificates, have become government and officers, MLAs and MPS as well as members of Mandal and Zilla Parishats . The task is quite difficult. Christians are turning violent. The converts to Christianity are obstructing the construction of Ramalayas in Dalitwadas in a number of villages and towns. In order to stop this the Dalit and other caste people are invoking atrocities Act – atrocities being committed by Christians on Hindu Dalits.
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