Articles
Appeal Of Concerned Hindus To The Nation
Dt: 20/9/2018
Appeal Of Concerned Hindus To The Nation
( Intellectuals, Legislators, Members of Parliament, Leaders of Political Parties
And All Bharateeyaas / Indians )
We have a noble Constitution which among others, has secularism, equality of all citizens before law and freedom of expression and belief for every citizen as basic features. However, over time the implementation of the Constitutions’ provision has resulted in severe discrimination against the majority community called Hindu and increasing privileges and special benefits to religious minorities; both of which are denied / withheld -unavailable to Hindus. Through this appeal we are seeking justice to Hindus and equal treatment for them as for religious minorities; we are appealing to the government to implement true secularism in regard to laws, rules, programs of welfare and development without favouring some religions and their followers while discriminating against Hindus and their institutions. Listed below are the issues that require immediate remedial actions.
Ø Hindus’ temples to be freed from government administration and management:
In several States especially in South India only Hindus’ temples are under government administration and management . The Churches of Christians and the Mosques of Muslims are totally left free to be managed by the followers of those religions. This is an adverse discrimination again Hindus with evil consequences like their Trust Boards becoming the rehabilitation centers or as rewards for the ruling party members supporters and financiers. Some of the members of the trust board as well as employees like Executive Officers are non-Hindus. An attempt is made to identify the non-Hindus and transfer them or remove them from employment for giving false certificates, they have gone to the courts with the plea that since it
is the secular government which is managing the temples every citizen irrespective of their religion is entitled to be employed as Executive Officers and in other ranks. These are acting as subversives facilitating the diversion of immovable and movable properties and resources to organisations and individuals of predatory religions engaged in the conversion of Hindus to their religions. Governments divert the rich resources of temples like those in Tirumala for non-Hindu purposes. The government takeover only such temples which have got good income leaving the rest uncared. Thousands of them are languishing and collapsing.
We therefore demand that the governments should disengage themselves from administering and managing Hindus temples and for this purpose a law on the lines of the Sikh Gurudwara Prabandhak Committees Act with due changes may be enacted. The governments should announce a sunset data ( like the British government announcing that they would handover India to Indians by 15th of Aug 1947) and invite Hindus and their organisations to come out with suggestions for the proposed Act.
State funds for the sustenance and promotion of Islam and Christianity Institutions / Practices :
Some state governments are paying salaries to Imams and Muezzins. The funds may be channelled through the Minority Welfare Department which itself get the amount from the budget of the government. The madrasas which are purely religious schools teaching Arabic and Koran primarily are also funded by some state governments, possibly through the Minority Welfare Department . State governments are funding the maintenance and repair of mosques. Like the undivided A.P and now A.P are constructing Haj Houses ( the latest is in Andhra Pradesh in Vijayawada at a cost of Rs. 80 cr and a second one in Kadapa in A.P ), Shadi Khanas and Urdu Ghars meant for Muslims separately are also from government funds.
Till recently Government of India has been subsidising Muslims Haj pilgrimage from government funds to the extent of hundreds of crores of rupees . Incompliance with the Supreme Court’s ruling such funding is getting wound down. State governments in undivided A.P and now in Telangana , Andhra Pradesh are funding the construction of Churches and subsidising Christians pilgrimage to Jerusalem and the Holy Land again through the State Christian Minority Finance Corporation . It appears that some state governments like Madhya Pradesh are subsidising Hindu pilgrimages. Using funds from the budgets of governments supporting religion and religious activities and institutions is violation of Article -27 of the Constitution. Although the Article -27 says that no citizen should be compelled to pay a specific tax to support any religion, it is difficult to establish the source of the funds mentioned above to any specific tax but the amounts being considerable and are included in the overall tax revenues of the government . We demand that either all the funding mentioned above should cease or Hindus’ institutions and pilgrimages should also be funded the amounts to be proportion to the population vis-à-vis that of the Muslims and Christians .