Editorial for BP
Whither Andhra Pradesh (and India) Are Hurtling?
In a determined bid, side-stepping the High Court verdicts through repeated appeals, the A P government has been implementing 4% reservations for Muslims in professional colleges in spite of the State’s Muslims having a large number of colleges where the admission capacity is in excels of the Muslim candidates appearing in the common entrance test (EAMCET) at the State level. In two years, (despite the proceedings in the courts) at an Iftaar party given by the Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee in Hyderabad, the Chief Minister declared that 23,000 Muslim students benefitted by the 4% reservation in colleges for medicine engineering, MCA and MBA courses. Similar numbers entered the government service. The amount of scholarship meant for Muslims went up from Rs.4 crores four years ago to Rs.80 crores this year. No Muslim student is to pay any fee, in any of the professional colleges, government itself will pay; 12 pre-metric, 16 post-metric hostels and 12 English medium schools were built for Muslims this year. All loans owed to the government by Muslims for Rs.1 lakh and less had been written-off. The Maulana Abul Kalam Ajad National Urdu University in Hyderabad would offer Urdu medium courses in its polytechnics and engineering colleges in Hyderabad, Bengaluru, and n Bihar. This is a privilege not extended to any Tamil, Telugu ro even Hindi university in India and also reversion to pre-September 17 1948 Nizam states Urdu as medium of teaching in the entire state from primary upto and including University state, even for engineering, medicine, law etc. There is no limit to the number of Muslim professional colleges for engineering, medicine, MBA, MCA, pharmacy and dentistry.
If Muslims could be pleased with such bounties, how can Christians be left out? So, as no where else in the country, the Government of Andhra Pradesh is subsidizing the pilgrimage of Christians at Rs.20,000/- per person for between 900 and 1000 persons this year (2008-‘09) and this is officially advertised in newspapers as “Innovative Scheme – Introducing First Time in the World’s History”. The marriage of 470 Christian couples will be performed at the government expense of Rs.15,000 per couple for the first batch on the 20th of November 2008 and this amount will come from the tax moneys from the budget of the Government of Andhra Pradesh, which is required to be 'secular'. A similar scheme will be adopted for the marriage of Muslims. The Congress government proudly claims that while the TDP government spent only Rs.80 crores for Muslims’ welfare during its 9 years rule, the Congress government spent Rs.200 crores within four years. By these special pleasing measures, the 'secular' Congress party hopes that about 15% Muslim and 10% to 12% (unofficial; officially 1.44%) Christian votes in the state would be garnered by it. And if it can get about 10% to 12% from Hindus, it is sure to get a thumping majority. The Congress party is thus resorting to the scheme of government party funding, that is buying, votes for itself, for elections.
Determined investigations at least this time, into the bombings in Ahmadabad, Delhi and Bengaluru are showing that Hyderabad is the center from where all the jihadi bombings are planned and executed. Some time ago, it was the ISI agents’ plants that were waging the jihad in India. But now it is the home-grown outfits, with sources of funds yet to be established, that are waging the jihad. The old city of Hyderabad is now more or less under the control of successors to the notorious Razakars of the pre-1948 September Nizam’s Muslim-ruled state. Arrests of suspected criminals, demolition by authorities of buildings being illegally constructed, rescue of child-labour are all obstructed, resisted and prevented by incited mobs collected within minutes of actions of law-enforcement and security authorities, which is evidence of a well-organised and growing network for parallel governance. Senior retired police officers of the rank of Director General, had over TV media lamented that despite their having information as to where the terrorists are hosted, and who are facilitating them, they could not take action because of orders from ‘higher ups’, that is there is no political-will to destroy terrorism and nurture of terrorists in the state. Above-ground militants’ organisations are able to thwart expression of any inconvenient opinion. For example, when a Taslima Nasreen’s book was to be released at a public meeting, she was pounced upon by the Razakarist militants. Instead of those law-breakers and public disorder-creators being charge-sheeted, the organisers were put on the defensive. Ahmediyas, an Islamic Sect proscribed in Pakistan, but suffering no such disability in India wanted to have a public meeting in Hyderabad. Permission was first given but cancelled when the Razakarsist terroristic organisation threatened to disrupt it.
All political parties, excepting the BJP are competing with one another to promise more and more welfare and more and more reservations, not only for Muslims and Christians but several castes among Hindus. Parties in the Legislative Assembly unanimously voted a resolution calling upon the government of India to bring in legislation for reservations for BCs in the Legislative Assembly and Council. This will be but a prelude for reservations for Muslims and Christians and eventually, for separate electorates for “minorities”, scheduled castes, scheduled tribes, and BCs as the foreign colonial British government contemplated and implemented to some extent in the 1930s, to disrupt the Indian nation and prepare it for disintegration into several independent states.
The fears that were expressed by Dr B R Ambedkar and Dr Rajendra Prasad on the occasion of adopting the Constitution of India are worth recalling to realize where we are heading.
Dr B R Ambedkar’s speech after writing the Constitution
“……… my mind is so full of the future of our country that I feel I ought to take this occasion to give expression to some of my reflections thereon. On 26th January 1950, India will be an Independent country. (Cheers) What would happen to her Independence? Will she maintain her Independence or will she lose it again? This is the first thought that comes to my mind. It is not that India was never an Independent country. The point is that she once lost the Independence she had. Will she lose it a second time? It is this thought which makes me most anxious for the future. What perturbs me greatly is the fact that not only India has once before lost her Independence, but she lost it by the infidelity and treachery of some of her own people. ……………..
Will history repeat itself? It is this thought which fills me with anxiety. This anxiety is deepened by the realization of the fact that in addition to our old enemies in the form of castes and creeds, we are going to have many political parties with diverse and opposing political creeds. Will Indians place creed above country? I do not know. But this much is certain that if the parties place creed above country, our Independence will be put in jeopardy a second time and probably be lost forever…….”
Source: The Makers of Indian Constitution – Myth and Reality by Sheshrao Chavan
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan publication
Dr. Rajendra Prasad the President of the Constituent Assembly and future Rastrapathy observed, “ if the people who are elected are capable and men of character and integrity they would be able to make the best even of defective Constitution. If they are lacking in these, the Constitution cannot help the country .”
If this present dispensation of the UPA rule under the command of Sonia Gandhi does not end, and unless we don’t recapture the spirit of Indian nationalism instilled by Swamy Vivekananda, Lokamanya Tilak, Aurobindo Ghosh and Sardar Patel and Subhas Chandra Bose, it appears that we will be fast progressing towards a disaster, “minorities” uniting by religion to rule over “majority” divided by caste, which we must avert.