Editorial for BP
DALIT MINORITIES AND RESERVATIONS
Firstly, the word Dalit is an invention of the last few decades by enemies of Hinduism. There is no such class of people to whom Reservations are to be extended as per the Indian Constitution. By use of this word, Dalit for the Scheduled Castes, the enemies of Hinduism are day and night demonizing Hinduism itself.
In order to ameliorate the discriminations and disadvantages inflicted upon the Scheduled Castes, Hindus have very gladly and voluntarily and in great repentance for the past misdeeds agreed to provide for Reservations in the Constitution and extend them decade, after decade despite the founding fathers envisaging them only for a decade; that is, until 1960.
Muslims are also claiming that there are Dalits, that is untouchability still existing among them as untouchables and oppressively discriminated against. That speaks of the ugly and distasteful practice of Islam in India in preserving the Dalit status among Hindu converts to that religion. It would also suggest that it was by force and not by the promise and practice of castelessness and equality irrespective of birth, that Islam gained converts in India.
The proselytizers for Christianity in India have been giving out that in Christianity there are no castes and all people are equal in birth and will have equal opportunity for advancement. Christianity is hundreds of years old in India. 75% to 80% of Christians in our country are the progeny of Scheduled Caste converts. For the leaders of Christian churches and religion to demand that there are Dalits among Christians and for generations to boot, is admission of the falsehood and fraud they committed in converting the illiterate, the uninformed and indigent Scheduled Caste Hindus. There is an organisation of ‘Dalit Christians’ which are demanding Reservations for themselves for offices in the church and for positions in the church -- founded and managed educational institutions and hospitals and their numerous NGOs. Christians have not introduced, in fact they do not admit of, Reservations for Dalit Christian in the Christian organizations. But they want that Dalit Christians should enjoy the privilege of Reservations meant for Scheduled Castes among Hindus. This is duplicity amounting to culpability.
Christians accusing Hinduism of imposing untouchability among its people is mischievous, though true. White, European origin Christians in South Africa have been practising untouchability for hundreds of years till 1994 in South Africa. The Afro-Americans, that is black Christians had been subjected to slavery by the white Christians, in the US and earlier, in other countries also. Even today in the USA, the black Afro-American Christians suffer far worse discrimination from white Christians than Scheduled Caste Indians in India, form Hindus of other castes.
The demand for extending Reservations to SC converts to Christianity and Islam amounts to defrauding and dispossessing the people of Scheduled Castes among Hindus, the erstwhile fraternity of the converts to Christianity. That is why Gandhiji as well as Dr B R Ambedkar said that the moment a Hindu convert to Christianity, he ceases to be an Indian and Swamy Vivekananda said that a convert is not one less to Hinduism but one more enemy of Hinduism. In India the Scheduled Caste persons converted to Christianity are advised by the proselytizers not to register or disclose this fact to the government, so that these crypto-Christians can continue to get the benefit and privilege of Reservations. One survey among SC employees of the secretariat of the Government of Andhra Pradesh revealed that 85% of the so-called Scheduled Castes who got jobs in government in that capacity are in fact practising Christians and now those who retired from among them are leaders of the movement demanding extensions of Reservations to Dalit Christians. In Andhra Pradesh, according to successive censes, the promotion of Scheduled Castes among the population has come down from a peak of over 4% to 1.44$ by 2001. This is because of the wide spread fraud and falsehood of the converters in their operations. Their aim is now to get the Constitutional amendment for extension of Reservations to Dalit converts and when it is done, we would see that the proportion of the Christians among the population would go up from about 2% to over 10% as the Christian leaders in Andhra Pradesh have been publicly asserting.
Muslims are also included in this campaign because they can be fiercely mobilized, enraged and made militant and violent in their demands. Also, the wreckers of Bharat and the enemies of Hinduism want to unite all sections of Hindus’ enemies. They are even trying to rope in the Jains to demand that they are not Hindus.
It is unfortunate that so learned a person like Js Js Ranganatha Misra has accepted to be the Chairman of this mischievous commission. This is the manner in which ‘enlightened’, ‘eminent’, ‘philosophical’ and ‘learned’ Hindus are lending themselves to Hinduism’s enemies for their degradation and destabilize and destroy Hinduism and Bharat. From the time of Jayachand who lent himself to Mohammed Ghori to destroy Prithvi Raj, we have not been not having less but more and more ‘Hindus’ lending themselves to Hinduism’s enemies for the destruction of our society and our country and for it division and disintegration.
This new peril should dispel innocent understanding of motives and purposes of the Evil Quartet (Marxists, Missionaries, Maycaulayans, and Muslims [Islamic jihadist])-, that is ruling and of course, ruining India.
It is in this light that we have to see the audacious boldness of the Christian organizations desecration of and aggression on Hinduism’s places of veneration. In one of our most holy places, Tirumala-Tirupati, the Christian Vice-Chancellor – has opened the flood gates of Christian proselytizing propaganda among students. These gangs have gone to the extent of replacing the pictures of Lord Venkateswara by those of Jesus and Mary a colluding government has issued an order that only two out of the seven hills, Saptagiri belong to Tirumala Devastanam and that the rest belong to the government, there by paving the way for Christian proselytization and Christian structures on and around those hills over which the Hindu pilgrims pass to Lord Venkateswara's temple. And this audacious act even while it is being condemned and oppressed is repeated in the Thousand-pillar Mantapa in Tirupati where the proselytizers affixed pictures of Jesus and Mary and posters of Christian literature to the pillars. There will be increasing number of such aggressive actions and when these are opposed, those reactions will be characterized as aggression on and oppression of Christian minorities by intolerant Hindus. The defender of religious freedom and their champions, the enemies of Hinduism will demonize Hindus on an international scale.
Bharatiyas must realize the enveloping and intensifying aggression and organize determined resistance everywhere and since this business of proselytization is marketed, it should be exposed as trafficking in religions rather than propagation of religions. Every organisation whose whole purpose is religious conversion must be deprived of the Constitutional right under Articles 25 to 30 of the Constitution.
Vox Populi
Clearly, there seems to be something hanky-panky about Sonia Gandhi’s claims as to her educational qualifications. In 2004 Parliamentary elections, she furnished in what is a sworn affidavit filed before Rae Bareilly Returning Officer her qualification as diploma in English from the Prestigious University of Cambridge (UK). But according to Dr. Subramanian Swamy’s information based on inquiries with reliable sources, this statement of hers in untrue. Therefore, he filed a case of perjury in Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court alleging that she violated section 125A of Election Law and also section 177G of Indian Penal Code. After a couple of hearings on May 15 and May 23, 2006, the case as of now is under the Court’s consideration. In the meanwhile, much water has flowed under the bridge. On March 23,2006, she resigned as MP for famous reasons of illegally holding Offices of Profit. In the by-election held in May 2006, she was once again confronted with requirement of furnishing her educational qualifications. This time she mentioned the particulars modifying her earlier 2004 version. Obviously, this might have been the impact of the perjury case already running in the court. According to the latest version as given in May.2006 affidavit, she just holds a certificate in English from Lennox Cook School, City of Cambridge(UK). Considering the change in her stance, Dr. Swamy, in a supplementary affidavit filed before the HC, contended that the modification effected by her tantamounts to her admission of his charge of perjury against her. The next hearing of the case is not yet scheduled. The Lennox Cook School, which is now defunct, was not even listed under educational institutions. It was actually listed under ‘Shop establishments’.
As the numero uno of Indian politics and as the representative of India’s illustrious First family, what role-model is Sonia setting up?
- M Geetanjali, Hyderabad