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Say NO to Sachar and Ranganath. Say yes to Hindusthan.
- Organiser, 2010 Republic Day Special
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Say NO to Sachar and Ranganath. Say yes to Hindusthan.
The Republic Day Special of Organiser is titled: Shrinking E3 Space
of the Hindu -- Sachar to Ranganath. The articles in this Republic Day
special should be read by every citizen. These constitute an
effective alternative to the Sachar and Ranganath Reports and should
be studied carefully by the Legislative and Executive branches of the
Govt. of Hindustan, for implementing the recommendations made
therein.
S. Kalyanaraman
January 31, 2010
Editorial
Hindus: Deprived, Discriminated and Robbed
By R Balashankar
The Panchatantr is replete with stories in the deception of
appearance. The tale of the cuckoo is particularly fascinating in
this context. In the season of love the male and female cuckoo locate
a crow's nest just after mating and they time it in such a way as to
coincide it with that of the crows. Once they find the crow's nest,
the female cuckoo hides behind the green bushes while the male cuckoo
creates a diversion causing the unsuspecting crow to leave its nest
chasing the trouble-maker. The wily female cuckoo then pushes the
crow's eggs out of the nest and lays as many eggs of its own in the
nest and leaves the scene. When the eggs are hatched by the
unsuspecting crow, it cannot distinguish between its own black
fledglings and the black cuckoo chicks. Once they grow the parasitic
cuckoos cheerfully sing, snooking at the crow and leave the nest to
the everlasting angst of the poor crow as it realises its folly. But
the helpless crow is ever condemned to suffer the slight.
There is a lesson in this for the patriotic people of this country as
we celebrate yet another Republic Day in the shadow of the
shenanigans of Sonia Gandhi and her lackeys to divide and destroy the
Indian nation.
Sachar and Ranganath Reports are just the tools. To keep the Muslims
alienated from the national mainstream, separatist Muslim fringe
groups in the late eighties used to raise these demands. All the
nationalist parties then had frowned at such fundamentalist
assertions. Even the Congress Party under the late Rajiv Gandhi had
criticised them. But Sonia Congress has now adopted that divisive
Muslim charter of demands wholesale. This is a carbon copy of the
demands of pre-Partition Muslim League of Mohammad Ali Jinnah.
Arif Mohammed Khan, who left the Congress after his memorable speech
in the Lok Sabha on the Shah Banu issue, where he eloquently defended
the right of a Muslim widow, much to the chagrin of the fanatic lot
before whom his leader Rajiv Gandhi kowtowed, has succinctly
summarised the tragedy confronting India in his article in this
Republic Day Special. Where he advocates the theory of "One nation,
One people" as he opposes the idea of religious reservation, even as
he questions our assertions on the shrinking E 3 space of the Hindus.
He is right. We are not happy with the title we have given. But truth
is stranger than fiction.
How the Hindus feel deprived, how they are becoming aliens in their
own land, how a bunch of minority politicians disguising both their
name and intent, how the Republic is being wreaked from within by the
usurper gang, which has no love for this land is laid bare in great
detail in the opening piece by OP Gupta. He says, he is worried about
the future of his grandchild. Most Hindu parents are. If the present
trend is not arrested in a few decades India will become unliveable
for those who believe in the one nation concept. Most Hindu
youngsters find it more sensible to migrate to the West in search of
opportunities for education and career. A catalogue of the actions of
the UPA in the last six years will show that all its schemes smack of
a pathological hatred for the Hindu. It seems its whole agenda is to
erase the Hindu character of this country. Special affirmative
actions in the name of religions have a justification if India is a
constitutional Hindu theocracy. In a secular state such selective,
segmented approach violates the Constitution. Here opportunities must
visit equally, and equitably.
Poverty has no religion. To see religion in poverty is a sin. A crime
that no recourse to political expediency can hide. We have no doubt
that the UPA is out to create a class war in the country. Like the
British, the UPA is smelling its chance in a divided, weakened and
shattered India. One should not think, the Ranganath Misra Report
presented in Parliament during the winter session is the last in a
series of duplicitous vote bank ploy. That of course is the theme of
this Special. The UPA, however, is not stopping there. Its Minority
Affairs Minister, last week disclosed that the Union Finance Ministry
will soon write to the Kerala High Court, supporting the proposal to
introduce Islamic Banking in India. The court recently responding to
a petition of Dr Subramanian Swamy stayed a Kerala Government
proposal to set up Islamic Banks.
Addressing the social Editors' Conference in Delhi on January 19 the
UPA Rural Development Minister announced that all Muslims in India
will be included in the Below Poverty Line (BPL) list. This will
accrue them extra benefits, he said. The Minister says, this is
necessary so that the automatic inclusion in the BPL list would
ensure all benefits of central and state-sponsored schemes like
Indira Awas Yojna, NREGS, old-age pension, special loans etc. These
are over and above Sachar and Ranganath. In the normal course one
would have thought the fellow had gone crazy. And that he was either
out of his senses or had gone mad. No, in the milieu in which we live
such are the kind of pronouncements we hear from ministers whose only
reason for their being there is that they enjoy Sonia Gandhi's
patronage. Have not we heard a few years ago India's selected Prime
Minister pompously bragging that Muslims have the first right on
India's resources? This is the man who lost his sleep thinking of the
agony of the mother of a terror plot accused in Australia. Sad, that
he is yet to come out with a decent reaction to hundreds of racial
attacks on Indian students and taxi drivers in Australia in recent
months in which about a score of Indians have lost their lives. This
is the kind of selective amnesia and charlatan hypocrisy guiding this
regime. They are not interested in the progress of India or the
welfare of minorities.
What they want to do for the Muslims, these days they cloak under the
subtitle 'minority', so as to camouflage and deceive the Hindus. The
Muslims should be protesting for characterising all of them as living
below poverty line. No self-respecting community would accept that
sobriquet.
The UPA appointed committees on poverty have estimated the number of
poor people in the country at 700 million. The Saxena Committee
Report submitted to the Rural Development Ministry has estimated that
37 per cent of Indians are living below poverty line. There is no
need here to elaborate the point we made at the beginning of this
piece that the UPA's priority is not welfare and development of this
country. If that was the case it would not have been looking at
poverty from a purely religious paradigm. If all its schemes are
channelised to uplift only the 15 per cent minority will it let the
rest 22 per cent below the poverty line rot in poverty and disgrace?
Does it want 22 per cent of the Indian Hindus to go begging? And if
we accept Sonia Gandhi's Rural Development Minister's logic of all
the 15 per cent minority being categorised as BPL, only the Hindus
pay tax and their contribution is being looted by the UPA to make 22
per cent of Hindu brethren beggars. This is the atrocity, deprivation
we are discussing in this Republic Day Special. Time to expose the
cuckoo perched in crow's nest.
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January 31, 2010
An attempt to promote segmented loyalties
By Dr S Kalyanaraman
Sachar and Ranganath Misra have done a signal disservice to the
integrity and unity of the nation by promoting a sectarian view,
which will not achieve an integrally developed Bharat with equal
opportunities for everyone to realise his or her full potential.
If perverted reports like those of Justices like Sachar and Ranganath
Misra indulge in travesty of justice, who will save the law of the
motherland? Ours is a nation governed by the will of the people.
These justices may come and go, the nation is inexorably an essential
unity, adhering to only one global ethic- dharm. The people of
Hindusthan, Hindu and Muslims in particular, should reject both
Sachar and Ranganath Misra reports.
S GOLWALKAR was once asked: "Given the acute degree of social
disintegration present in today's India, how to promote unity and
integration?"
MHe replied: "Appeasing minorities by conferring upon them special
rights and privileges in order to promote social peace or harmony is
really paying the price for disintegration. Our politicians have
engaged in this unwelcome practice for long. The pashmina variety of
expensive shawl, for instance, is not produced by stitching fifty
different pieces together. It has to be carefully woven from one
fabric with much care. India's integration is only possible when it
has been attained organically and when Indians do not betray a
feeling of separate identity." (Golwalkar MS, 2005, Shri Guruji
Samagra Darshan, New Delhi, Suruchi Prakashan, Vol. 9: 173)
Sachar and Ranganath Misra have done a signal disservice to the
integrity and unity of the nation by promoting a sectarian view,
which will not achieve an integrally developed Bharat with equal
opportunities for everyone to realise his or her full potential.
While the Constitution of India enacted for Independent India was a
continuation of the 1935 Government of India Act, recognising
scheduled castes and tribes as sections of the samajam requiring
special attention for social advancement, the founding fathers were
clear that the nation should not be founded on religious lines. The
use of the term, 'minority' in Sachar and Ranganath Misra reports, is
thus an aberration and an attempt to divide the nation by religious
denominations.
Thus, the most dangerous foundations of the Sachar and Ranaganath
Misra reports are founded on treating the state as composed of
religious groupings.
Recommendations such as the ones to provide for 15 per cent
reservation in educational institutions and public/private sector
jobs to Muslims will cut into the quotas prescribed for SC's and ST's
and OBC's and will lead to unimaginable social upheaval, social
disintegration, pitting as they do, the Muslims against the SC's,
ST's and OBC's for the available educational and job opportunities.
This is hardly the way to provide for the nation's abhyudayam.
Economic criteria provide for an alternative, equitable basis for
making special provisions for the deprived sections of the samajam.
Muslims have to realise that they are citizens of the nation of
Hindusthan and should have absolute allegiance to the nation and get
involved in her abhyudayam. Shedding their have aloofness, they have
to join the mainstream of the samajam as equal partners in the
development enterprise. This calls for the spirit of camaraderie,
comradeship evidenced by Sitaram Sharma: "Sitaram Sharma, a primary
organiser of the local RSS, joins his family at the side of a (Sufi)
saint's tomb near Singhpur...There they place a garland or orange
flowers atop embroidered sheets draped on the concrete-surfaced
barrow of the tomb...One of the elder family members explains that
.. his family does this puja once a year in honour of this man who
once helped them." (Gottschalk, Peter, 2000, Beyond Hindu and Muslim,
London, Oxford University Press, p. 49)
Will the Muslim community reciprocate the spontaneous gesture of
citizens like Sitaram Sharma? This is the test for the Hindu Muslims
to reiterate their patriotism to the nation. Their religious beliefs
should not be a bar to this reiteration of patriotism in defence of
the motherland, this punyabhumi Bharatam.
Lessons of history are profound. The nation has to internalise the
lessons of history; in particular, the unique Islamic institution of
jihadi war, dhimmitude and destruction of Hindu temples, Buddhist
educational institutions as in Nalanda and Takshashila by some
barbaric rulers of the medieval times. The examples of Islamic states
in many parts of the world do not provide the confidence that non-
Muslims in such states are not treated as a depressed class, but are
given equal rights and treated humanely and with dignity. Hindu
Muslims have an extra burden to atone for these excesses of the
medieval barbarians. The acts of a Muslim majority state, Jammu &
Kashmir following the tenets of falsely interpreted Islamic doctrines
of governance do not give the confidence that Hindu Muslims whose
ancestors were Hindu have realised that their first allegiance should
be to the nation of Hindusthan and not allow religious fanatics to
dictate patterns of behaviour to the ordinary Hindu Muslims.
A nation has to be woven into a fabric woof by warp and everyone has
a role to play in this nation-building. It is a travesty of justice
that Justices Sachar and Ranganath Misra have failed to recognise the
fundamental requirement of adherence to the Constitution. Their
recommendations violate the basic features of the Constitution of
Hindusthan and should be rejected outrightly.
Sheikh al-Qaradawi, head of the European Fatwa Council, in an
inflammatory sermon on February 3, 2006 in the wake of Danish
cartoons said: "Allah has also made the prophet Muhammad into an
epitome for religious warriors (Mujahideen) since he ordered Muhammed
to fight for religion." Why should there be a fight for religion? In
the context of Hindusthan, if there is a justification for fight for
religion, it is for the Hindus to demand the restoration of every
temple destroyed by the Muslim invaders. Why should the Islamic ulema
indulge in such inflammatory rhetoric poisoning the minds of peace-
loving Muslims the world over? Hindu Muslims should introspect and
decide on the role to be played by the ulema in dictating political
behaviour of ordinary citizens. In his last sermon to his people at
Mount Arafat on 632CE (10 AH), Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) stated: "All
mankind is from Adam and Eve, an Arab has no superiority over a non-
Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; also a white
has no superiority over a black nor a black has any superiority over
white except by piety and good action."
The terms such as 'minority', or 'religious minority' have no place
within the framework of the Constitution of Hindusthan founded on
dharm. Dharma is that which leads to abhyudayam (development) and
nihshreyas (self-liberation). This is beyond religion, the very
foundation for a just and equitable society in which people of all
faiths can live in harmony and participate in the yajna, the great
yajna for achieving developed Hindusthan.
Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, Chief Minister of West Bengal, observed that
the Sachar Committee report ignores the Muslim peasantry who
benefited from the state's land reforms programme. Both Sachar and
Ranganath Misra have ignored the basic fact of life in Hindusthan
that the artisan and merchant guilds represent the organised private
sector of the nation and there is no need to single out Hindu Muslims
as a particular guild deserving of special attention, be they the
zari workers of Varanasi, braziers of Moradabad, the leather-workers
of Vellore, the glass workers of Ferozabad, or the weavers of
Bhiwandi. Poverty is not religious-denomination specific. Poverty is
endemic result many factors not excluding the social devastation
caused by the colonial regime which excelled in implementing the
divide-and-rule policy. Anecdotes do not make a policy. Can it be
said that Hindu Muslims form an elite group citing Bollywood as the
home of many wealthy actors whose religious affiliation is Hindu
Muslim? This is an example of a misleading statistic. Hindu Muslims
occupy a pride of place in the nation and it is their responsibility,
their dharm to proclaim their allegiance to Hindusthan, first and
foremost and they are certainly entitled to equal treatment under the
law and equality of opportunity enshrined in the Constitution.
Sachar Committee's response to their first term of reference is
unconstitutional and is cited below:
Term of Reference No. 1 (original)
Criteria for identifying socially and economically backward classes
among the religious and linguistic minorities 16.15. We recommend
that in the matter criteria for identifying backward classes there
should be absolutely no discrimination whatsoever between the
majority community and the minorities; and, therefore, the criteria
now applied for this purpose to the majority community -- whatever
that criteria may be - must be unreservedly applied also to all the
minorities.
This in effect is a recommendation to create two sets of citizenships
in the nation and virtually declares Hindus Muslims to be scheduled
castes which violates the very framework of the Constitution which
has clear and unambiguous definitions of the terms: SC and ST.
If perverted reports like those of Justices like Sachar and Ranganath
Misra indulge in travesty of justice, who will save the law of the
motherland? Ours is a nation governed by the will of the people.
These justices may come and go, the nation is inexorably an essential
unity, adhering to only one global ethic-dharm. The people of
Hindusthan, Hindu Muslims in particular, should reject both Sachar
and Ranganath Misra reports.
It is the dharm of Hindu Muslims to preserve and foster the integrity
and unity of the nation of Hindusthan.
(The writer is director of Saraswati Shodh Sansthan.)
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