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By: V Sundaram, IAS, Retd.
February 10, 2007
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If the British government can be viewed as racist in the light of the
culturally cosmetic, socially trivial and politically insignificant Shilpa
Shetty affair, I can assert that the UPA government in New Delhi today is
no less "racist" towards the Hindu majority in India. I was amused by the
world-shaking statement of Minister of State for External Affairs Anand
Sharma to this effect: "Government of India have taken note of the alleged
racist attacks on Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty on a popular UK reality
TV show. We are seized of the matter. We are looking into all the aspects.
We will take appropriate action as required. The world knows that India
has throughout firmly rejected all forms of discrimination and racism."
In retrospect, this so-called principled stand of the Minister of State
for External Affairs, Anand Sharma, now looks infantile and stupid in the
light of Shilpa Shetty's subsequent withdrawal of the original allegations
of racism which she had made against her co-actors in the TV serial. Like
a typical UPA Congress Minister, totally devoid of intellectual integrity
or any sense of honor or public purpose, Shilpa Shetty has declared: "You
know, when I actually thought about it, I know it is not a racist thing. I
thought about it for a long time. It is not racist. I take that back. You
know people say things in a fit of anger. I stand corrected. I don't want
people to think and feel that way. So, even if I said it, I would like you
to please clarify and put this as a statement from my side if you can:
That I don't feel there was any racial discrimination happening from
Jade's end."
I was looking into the internationally accepted definitions of "Racism."
All of them uniformly point out that any form of discrimination against
any particular religion within a country or a State is a definite form of
condemnable and reprehensible "Racism". Even the United Nations has
adopted this approach. In Turkey, the Kurds have been the victims of
"Racism". In Iraq,the Shia Muslims have been the victims of social and
political "Racism." In Bosnia, we have the disgraceful phenomenon of
racial discrimination against the Muslims. Despite the fact of barbarous
racism, the saving grace in Turkey and Iraq is that Kurds and Shia Muslims
respectively are in minority.
In the light of this definition, I can adduce irrefutable documentary
evidence to show that the surrogate UPA government in New Delhi (under the
power without responsibility stranglehold of an Italian woman) is a
government which actively practices undeclared, unstated, undefined but
definitely politically promoted "Racism" against the peace-loving HINDUS
in majority in India. According to this nation-dividing and
nation-destroying racist philosophy of the Congress party, every Hindu in
India is a Landlord and every Muslim/Christian is a serf. Every Hindu is a
Guild-Master and every Muslim/Christian is a Journeyman. Every Hindu is an
oppressor and every Muslim/Christian is the oppressed. All this is done
not for social justice for anyone but for the electoral gains of the
Congress Party and the private fortunes of the Nehru clan. The degenerate
Congress Party today - a private limited company inherited by the Nehru
clan - often claims that it is promoting social justice and social
engineering by announcing newer and newer programmes from time to time for
the benefit of the so-called minorities, ignoring the fundamental rights
of the poor, lowly, lowliest and lost amongst the Hindus in majority in
India.
Nowhere in the world can we see the national disaster of a duly elected
government officially announcing and promoting a pernicious policy of
"Racism," particularly against the majority. Every Hindu in India knows
today that Manmohan Singh's or Sonia Gandh's heartless heart would be
gladdened or quickened by the phenomenon of their coming to face to face
with a devout Muslim or a devout Christian and totally disgusted by the
tragedy of their having to face a devout Hindu, regardless of region or
language or caste.Is this not political "Racism"? Is this not religious
"Racism"? Is this not "Racism" against the majority? I would be dismissed
as rabidly "Communal", "Saffron zed", "Non- secular", "Obscurantist",
"Superstitious", "Half-savage Hindu" by the Congress Party and its
spineless and supine leaders.
Let me give some concrete instances to substantiate my major charge of
"Racism against the majority" which I am raising against the UPA
government.
1. In the dastardly name of "Minority's" on paper and petty vote bank
politics in practice, that sworn enemy of Hinduism juvenile Jawaharlal
Nehru surreptitiously slipped in Articles 29 and 30 of the Constitution in
order to convert the Hindus in majority in India into serfs of the
"minority" in perpetuity.
2. After declaring India as a secular State, Pandit Nehru introduced Haj
subsidies for the Muslims in 1959. We do not have Haj subsidies in any
other Islamic or non-Islamic country in the world. Every self-respecting
Muslim in those countries, would deem it as a loss of honor and dignity to
accept any financial assistance from their governments for this kind of
religious pilgrimage. For the Muslims of India, it is a matter of
privilege and special favor or at any rate minority rights. What is more,
there is no distinction between the rich and the poor among the Muslims,
insofar as the grant of this subsidy is concerned. In this context, the
poor Hindus of India from Kashmir to Kanyakumari and from Rann of Kutch to
the Bay of Bengal, would like to pose some simple and straight questions
to the UPA government in general and Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi in
particular: "What crimes or sins we have committed as Hindus not to
qualify for subsidies to visit places of pilgrimage like Kasi, Manasarover,
Haridwar, Rishikesh, Badrinath, Kedarnath, Dwaraka, Puri, Kancheepuram,
Madurai, Srirangam, Rameswaram, Kanyakumari, etc.? Are we in minority in
India? Are we not discriminated against on the ground of the religion of
our forefathers from times immemorial? Are you suggesting that we would
instantaneously qualify for these subsidies only by converting ourselves
voluntarily and cheerfully to Islam? If your answer is yes, are you
working for the Islamisation of India? Are you being guided by the Mullahs
of Deoband or the Imam of Jumma Masjid ? Or by Their Majesties and
Graciousness, Their Serenities, Royal Highnesses and the like in the
Middle East or like the displaced or deposed Nawabs and others of their
ilk in different parts of India?"
3. Was it not an announcement of religious discrimination against the
Hindus in majority - the recent policy pronouncement of Manmohan Singh
that government of India will always follow the philosophy of "Muslims
First" in the matter of apportionment of development funds? As a
responsible Prime Minister, is he not taking India on the treacherous path
of fragmenting the country on communal lines just in order to corner some
Muslim votes in different parts of India?
4. Is the Union Finance Minister, trying to introduce the new phenomenon
of "COMMUNAL LOANS" by asking the Banks to refashion and restructure their
lending policy by earmarking 15 per cent of the priority sector loans
exclusively for the minorities? Will it not throw open the gates of all
the Banks in India to the Mullahs and the Moulvis to bring to bear their
religious influence even on routine technical and financial matters
relating to loans and advances in the banking sector?
5. Having declared India a "secular" country under the Indian
Constitution, will it not be illegal on the part of government of India to
talk of religious minorities? Will it not amount to official acceptance of
a policy of "Racism" based on religious discrimination against the Hindus
in India -like the kind of State-sponsored discrimination against the
Kurds in Turkey and the Shias in Iraq?
6. Was not Sonia Gandhi practicing "Racism" against the Hindus in majority
in India when she described the RSS as a rightist organization with a long
track record of stoking the religious prejudices, inflaming the religious
passions and polarizing the Indian society? Was she not aware of the
Supreme Court verdict to the effect that the RSS is a purely
socio-cultural organization meant for the promotion of Hindu unity and
Hindu solidarity? Does she not have contempt for this considered verdict
of the Supreme Court?
7. Soon after the Mumbai train blasts, Sonia Gandhi visited Mumbai and
declared that "the feelings of the minority Muslims should not be hurt,"
in spite of being fully aware of the fact that these acts of terror were
perpetrated by the Muslims with the full backing of ISI in Pakistan. Has
she ever spoken once about the hurt feelings of the Hindus in India? Was
she ever worried about the innocent Hindu men, women and children who were
burnt alive in a Railway Carriage at Godhra in Gujarat? Is not the UPA
government treating the peaceful and law abiding Hindus of India as the
Jews in Nazi Germany?
When Shilpa Shetty was subjected to imaginary racism in England recently,
the government of India at least posed in such a manner as to show that
they were concerned about it. When the silent Hindus of India are
subjected to the State-sponsored tyranny of undeclared "racism," where are
they to go for succor and relief? To the International Court of Justice?
To the United Nations? Or to the nearest Church? Or to the nearest Mosque?
These are the relevant questions for all the Hindus in India today.
V Sundaram, IAS, Retd.
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