Congress Party – Sushil Shinde

By O.P. Sudrania

(CHAKRA) Sushil Kumar Shinde is Home Minister of India and Congress MP. He is also said to be a ‘dalit’ like our esteemed Speaker – Ms Meira Kumar, Rambilas Paswan, infamous A. Raja, Mayawati UP chief minister etc. He has shamed the entire country in the eyes of global community, given an opportunity to the international terrorist like Hafiz Saeed, who is incriminated in Mumbai 26/11 blast that killed more than 170 innocent lives and injuring thousands. “The founder of Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) has described a $10m (£6.2m) bounty on his head – announced by the US on Tuesday…” reported by BBC.

Present UPA II consists of a conglomerate of multitudes of so called ‘secular’ parties because they are not communal Vis a Vis BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party – how communal it may sound). Let us examine its configuration especially in relation to ‘Saffron Vis a Vis Green moon and star parties).

The following data are from the source:

Current members for Lok-Sabha 2009

(1) Indian National Congress – 206 Seats (2) Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam – 18 Seats; (3) Nationalist Congress Party – 9 Seats (4) Rashtriya Lok Dal – 5 Seats (5) Jammu & Kashmir National Conference – 3 Seats (6) Jharkhand Mukti Morcha – 2 Seats (7) Indian Union Muslim League – 2 Seats (8) All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen – 1 Seats (Withdrew support on November 13, 2012) (9) Kerala Congress (Mani) – 1 Seats (10) Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi – 1 Seat.

Supporting parties for Lok-Sabha 2009

(1) Samajwadi Party – 22 Seat (2) Bahujan Samaj Party – 21 Seats (3) Rashtriya Janata Dal – 4 Seats (4) Janata Dal (Secular) – 3 Seats (5) Nagaland People’s Front – 1 Seats (6) Bodoland People’s Front – 1 Seats (7) Swabhimani Paksha – 1 Seats (8) Bahujan Vikas Aaghadi – 1 Seats (9) All India United Democratic Front – 1 Seats (10) Sikkim Democratic Front – 1 Seats

Indian Union Muslim League and All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen really do make it look secular because they are Islamist groups. I shall not divert by delving on the long saffron “Tikka” on forehead by Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, this in itself is a fictitious bewitching symbol to deceive the Hindu voters because they are not (stress) Hindus. How secular is the credentials of this present “United Progressive Alliance II” after their second term in 2009. Yet BJP is communal by their standards. This justifies the Shinde shit of Hindu terror implying saffron terror by priori since their Muslim votebank policy is biting them. Hence “Hindu Terror” bandwagon has to be beaten to befool the Muslims, not because of the real ghost of Hindu terror but a perceived ghost of Hindu terror. If it is not there, create one. It is aptly expressed in a Latin maxim: “A posse ad esse”, i.e. from the possible to the real.

Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM)

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangha is composed of the original sons of the soil historically, who are born, brought up and has fought their battles against the invading aggressors. Sometime ago Dr. Farooq Abdullah had remarked that the Moon and Star is now outmoded and Muslims have to look forward. He was made unholy in his communalised radical Kashmir valley.

Similarly, “Today, in a stormy Majlis Shura (Governing Council) meeting, Maulana Ghulam Muhammad Vastanvi ousted from his post of Mohtamim (Rector) of Darul Uloom Deoband. Following his ouster, Mufti Abul Qasim Nomani was appointed as Mohtamim. India is secular because of Hindus, said a Muslim leader. Still Shinde must see terror in Hindus because His Masters Voice wishes it so.

Vastanvi’s fault was, “Just after his appointment, he sparked a controversy, saying Muslims too benefited from the development initiative of the Gujarat chief minister. He was also allegedly quoted saying that Muslims should forget the infamous 2003 Gujrat riots which took thousands of innocent lives.””

“The demand was raised by State Janta Dal (U) president Ghulam Qadir Wani while addressing a meeting here today. He said “What is the meaning of joining Hindu and saffron color with terror? It is a downright insult of India’s spiritual, cultural and civilization heritage. Hindus has always been generous… India is secular because Hindus respect the other view,” he went on to demand his (Shinde’s) resignation. Still Shinde cannot look beyond his prism of Hindu terror. The entire world must be laughing at his psychic IQ. He cannot be awakened who is feigning to sleep!

MIM is a branded dynastic political party about this highly secular UPA II, initially started by the patriarch Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi who was Member of Parliament for six consecutive terms and resigned in 2004 in favour of his eldest son. It was the seventh straight victory of the All India Majlis-e Ittihad al-Muslimin (MIM) in the Hyderabad seat. The seat was previously occupied by his father, MIM supremo Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi, who decided to pass on the mantle of MIM leadership in favour of his eldest son. The Party since then retaining all the seven State Seats of the State Assembly from the constituencies of Charminar, Yakutpura, Chandrayangutta, Malakpet, Nampally, Bahadurpura, Karwan, andAsifnagar in the Old city and New city as well as the Hyderabad Central Lok Sabha constituency, all Muslim dominated.

A frantic search on net has not helped to learn more; perhaps their secular credentials must have been under smoke screen that Google and Yahoo have some difficulty with it. Recent arrests of both the Owaisis in communal hate speeches must be a grotesque reminder of their secular characteristics. They have been reported enough with an international outcry but Shinde Inc must not look on that side. Let me try my luck with another secular constituent.

Indian Union Muslim League:

“Though League is a powerful pro-Muslim community oriented party, it sticks to its secular credentials. It has decided to remain their allegiance to Indian Union after Independence, when the original Muslim League went to Pakistan. The IUML is the only Pro-Muslim party, which declared its allegiance and loyalty to India in post-independent India. The party has strongholds mostly in Kerala State districts like Kozhikode, Malappuram and Kasargod. They form the second largest party within UDF.

A particular faction of Muslims in Kerala is sometimes regarded as the supporters of Indian Union Muslim League. The supreme leader of the faction, Panakkad Sayed Hyderali Shihab Thangal, is the president of Kerala state unit of Indian Union Muslim League. This unofficial support is cause of the repeating election victories of Indian Union Muslim League candidates from Muslim dense districts.”

It further goes on communal violence in Kerala, its chief place of mischief.

*IUML members were accused of alleged involvement in communal riots in Marad & Later Supreme Court acquitted all IUML members as there is no proof of their involvement in this massacre. The Marad massacre was the killing of eight Hindus by a Muslim mob on 2 May 2003 at the Marad beach of the Kozhikode district, Kerala, India. The Judicial Commission of Inquiry by Justice Thomas P Joseph that probed the incident concluded that Indian Union Muslim League was directly involved in both conspiracy and execution of the massacre.

The commission affirmed “a clear communal conspiracy, with Muslim fundamentalist and terrorist organisations involved”. The courts later sentenced 62 Muslims to life imprisonment for committing the massacre in 2009.

The role of Indian Union Muslim Leader P. P. Modieen Koya and Mayin Haji (then Chairman Kozhikode Development Authority) was also highlighted in the report but later Supreme Court acquitted all as there is no solid proof of their involvement in this massacre and found them to be aware of the conspiracy beforehand.

On 5 August 2012, the State secretary (CPI-M) Pinarayi Vijayan accused Indian Union Muslim League workers (IUML) of causing death to a DYFI activist, at Thachangad during the hartal on 2 August 2012. Though he admitted that it was too premature to comment on the basis of the preliminary report of the post-mortem. Later the post mortem report confirmed the death was due to cardiac arrest.*

The following examples in this context should also be taken as a warning by democratic parties on both sides of the ideological divide that their ‘pragmatic’ association with fundamentalist and sectarian outfits is akin to digging a hole for themselves.”

He asserts, “Historically, Muslim sects in Pakistan chose to appease the “worthy of death” rhetoric against another minority because they saw it as an insurance policy for themselves. Perhaps they should listen to John F. Kennedy’s inauguration speech of 1961: “…remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.”

The tiger has already swallowed so many. Just look around: Shiite processions? Terrorized. Sufis shrines? Bombed. Christian leaders? Assassinated. Hindu girls? Kidnapped.”

Yet Hindus are training terrorist in camps, Mr Shinde must assert. I think his epistemology of English language can be blamed partly when he mixed up terrorists for territoreal, who heads the sensitive portfolio of Home Ministry of India. It is not his fault – Macaulayism at best. It is your fault if you do not understand what he said, because it is the media who distorted his words and opposition parties are exploiting for political mileage.

Initially the Congress had distanced from his remarks by attributing to Shinde but later on they have jumped into the bandwagon to defend him as an afterthought.

The Conspiracy theories behind “Hindu Terror”:

This is a calculated transcript pre-empted and must be conceptualised by Ms Sonia Gandhi by herself since she is a born Catholic from Orbassano conservative village, Italy. She has known the power of Hindu nationalism and further doses must have received from her mother-in-law living under her shadow. It is variously quoted in media that she is fourth largest rich person in the world. Her assets are estimated from $2.2 to 11 Billion, while other sources quote in Indian currency to the tune of Rs. 20.80 Lacs Crores. She has never contested or denied it Vis a Vis Morarji Desai; who had sued his defamers in USA with the help of Mr Henry Kissinger despite his bad health in last days. She is also known to have links with the then KGB of USSR and Secret Vatican Intelligence Agency Opus Die proved documentarily, ISI of Pakistan, CIA of USA, even Mossad of Israel has been quoted, etc. In this report, they question the role of KGB, Mossad and LTTE in the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi since he had discovered her complicity in Bofors scandal along with Mr Ottavio Quattrocchi, Ms Sonia Gandhi’s Italian accomplice.

“Last section is from IB Chief Dharr’s book ‘Open Secret’ shows clearly that Sonia Gandhi is KGB agent. How KGB kills Lal Bahadur Shastri, Sanjay Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, Rajesh Pilot, Jitendra Prasad, Madhavrav Scindhiya…” Their sons have been made Ministers in UPA II cabinet to divert their attention from her crimes.

“The darkest of all conspiracies By B. R. Haran ‘The Pioneer’ Saturday, January 22, 2011details, “Hindu terror” and “Saffron terror” are terms concocted on the basis of weak evidence by a discredited, corrupt political elite which thinks nothing of sacrificing human lives for petty electoral gains. But how long can you fool all the people? Since the formation of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) in 2004 there has been a marked rise in the number of sleeper modules of jihadi organisations across India. The high priority accorded by UPA- 1 to the repeal of the Prevention of Terrorism Act, 2002, had a significant bearing on the career of Students’ Islamic Movement of India (SIMI).

This terrorist group, which acted on direct orders of the Lashkar- e- Tayyeba (LeT) found the latitude accorded by a pseudo-secular regime in Delhi to reinvent itself as “Indian Mujahideen”, “Deccan Mujahideen” and “Popular Front of India.”

All this amply delineates that a “conspiracy of Hindu terrorism” must be created for two reasons: One that a large section of Hindu population has been against the Indian National Congress right after independence in 1947. This found the anger of beleaguered first Prime Minister of India – Pandit Nehru, who dreaded them and assassination of Mahatma Gandhi gave him reprieve to suppress the growing Hindu nationalism to consolidate his position of secular credentials and Muslim votebank stock. This same scourge of anti-Hindu political trump card has been played to malign the Hindu society through a calculated instrument of media tirade incessantly being run through majority Indian press, which are controlled from outside the Indian borders as well as their foreign fundings detailed by Gautam Sen.

Judging from all these political and corruption and black money, the conspiracy of maligning the Hindu community for vested interests is understandable and is a necessary monster that has to be kept alive and moving.

Shinde’s lies exposed:

In an article in The New Indian Express, “True lies of Sushil Kumar Shinde”, By S. Gurumurthy, 24th January 2013, details as under:

LeT Culprit, say UN, US

“Qasmani Arif…chief coordinator of the relations of the [LeT] with other organisations…has worked with Lashkar-e-Tayyiba to facilitate terrorist attacks including…the bombing of February 2007 in the Samjhauta Express in Panipat (India).” This is what resolution [No 1267] of the Committee on Sanctions of the United Nations Security Council [UNSC] dated 29.6.2009 declares. Adding that Qasmani was funded by Dawood Ibrahim and he did the fundraising for the LeT and the al-Qaida, the UNSC said, “In exchange for their support, al-Qaida provided support staff for the February 2007 bombing of the Samjhauta Express in Panipat.” This resolution is available on the UN site. Two days later, on July 1, 2009, the United States Treasury Department said in its press release: “Arif Qasmani has worked with the LeT to facilitate terrorist attacks, including…Samjhota Express bombing.” The US named four Pakistanis, including Arif Qasmani as terrorists, under Executive Order No 13224. This press release is still on the US Treasury site. The United Nations Security Council and the US Treasury Department thus named the LeT, Qasmani and Dawood Ibrahim as accused in Samjhauta terror. This is just the beginning of the torrent of evidence pointing to the LeT and Pakistan.”

My own feeling is that Shinde is completely ignorant and at the same time running himself in the set timeline drawn by his God master/mistress. This lie has been earlier spoken by Rahul Gandhi and P. Chidambaram also. Rahul’s lie was exposed through WikiLeaks Cables, later confirmed by the ex-US Ambassador to India, viz Timothy Roemer that growth of “radicalised Hindu groups” which create religious tensions in India could pose a bigger threat to the country than activities of groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).

Thus it is a calculated premeditated planned strategy to shield themselves from their own black money and scandalous scams exposed during the regime of UPA government, e.g. cash for vote, 2 G by A. Raja, Hasan Ali Khan scandal for black money laundering, Coalgate, Chief Vigilance Commissioner P.J Thomas, Commonwealth Games scandal by Suresh Kalmadi, Adarsh Society scam, Devas-Antrix deal, Abdul Kalim Telgi stamp scam, Satyam scam, Bofors scam, Fodder scam (chara ghotala) of Bihar, IPL scam involving Lalit Modi and Shashi Tharoor, Hawala scandal also involved money transferred to militants of Hijbul Mujahideen in Kashmir, Harshad Mehta and Ketan Parekh stock exchange scam, etc. Their lunger (Punjabi feast) of scams has not stopped, everyday a new one surfaces. While this scam tainted UPA was having a breather, Delhi gangrape case rocked the entire country after the public pitch raised by Anna Hazare and Arvind Kejriwal teams, followed by Baba Ramdev. Shinde was castigated for his remarks against the Delhi rape case comparing them to Maoists.

Income tax raids, CBI misuse are two strong instruments that are regularly targeted to raid their opponents to either silence their voices or exposing the black money stashed by misuse of power and authority in crores as the unaccounted money beyond the known sources of their income. A war cry against corruption and rising inflation that is breaking the backbone of common people are some of the reasons for these diversionary dangerous politics with their long term divisive and disruptive politics of Hindu terrorism.

Whatever be the cause or culprit, it is an ample proof of governance deficit, which UPA government has to burden and share and answer for. All these everyday unpardonable and treasonable scandals with their fast declining vote bank especially in Muslims is the chief reason to raise their pitch for a fictitious ghost of Hindu terrorism to woo the Muslim votes. This is a scandalously dangerous negationist politics to pave the way for divisive cynicism. It must be condemned and exposed at every level and platforms.

(Dr. O. P. Sudrania is a senior retired teacher in surgery and a medico-legal counsellor; now also engaged in research of spiritual and socio-political analytical science as a part of service to humanity. He retired as Emeritus Professor in Surgery from Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. )

(CHAKRA) The current upheaval in India over the brutal gangrape in Delhi on the night of December 16 Sunday has evoked a spontaneous uprising all over the country that has not been witnessed so far in the history after independence in last sixty five years. Even the top leaders like ministers in UPA II have remarked at such outrage, “He admitted that the developments of the last one week showed a “new phenomenon” of “flash mobs” resorting to protests and that the government was not fully prepared to deal with such situations.”  The Hindu reported Mr P. Chidambaram uttering in a press conference in New Delhi on Wednesday, 26 December 2012.  I only presume that the Indian polity post independence had carried forward the colonial baggage of taking people for granted and astride, which is being rightly questioned and called into action in the garb of these street protests.

Earlier in April 2011, Anna Hazare with a team of activists e.g. Arvind Kejriwal, Kiran Bedi, Manish Sisodia etc and now joined by retired military chief General V K Singh had started a public movement or call it a crusade, in the name of ‘Corruption’ that caught these leaders in their high rising luxurious posh offices and inaccessible priceless palatial bungalows, never did they dream of. These movements were initiated by these few anonymous figures in Delhi once again after the era of Late Jayprakash Narayan in Bihar in mid 1970s during the regime of Indira Gandhi.

Anna movement as it is called widely, was frittered ultimately by deceive and divide technique but it did serve a definite purpose, the purpose of a reawakening call in the vast number of oppressed people in the country without any hope, hope for living, hope for any apostolic deliverance coming like bursting of clouds. Although the so called governing class in India had taken the people for granted, Anna reaction may have been contributory to this spontaneous outrage by the young, the elderly, the male, the female alike without any provocation or instigation. Perhaps the police force also got caught in the same euphoria reminiscent of imperial mentality. No wonder that the entire higher echelons are caught in their frenzy of ‘damn care’ attitude and the Delhi police commissioner Neeraj Kumar did his best to interfere in the genuine investigation and even did not hesitate to humiliate the magistrate who was called in to record the testimony of the victim before being flown out. It is out of conception that such unholy events took place right under the nose of the double capital of governments harnessed in the same place – Delhi, the strongest powerhouse of the nation. There was an unfortunate fatal incident of death of a cop on duty in the middle of this fracas by the peaceful protesters, the police department tried their best to implicate this death to the protesters needlessly; only to further expose their insensitivities and callous manhandling of these young boys and girls physically, by lathicharge, water cannons, teargas shells and thrashings that was inconceivable. All this shabby administration by undue excessive force reflected in the intemperate and ‘who cares’ outdated imperial mentality.  It was highly despicable. The entire media were agog with the manner in which the peaceful protests have been mishandled.

The victim of the inhuman brutal gangrape in Delhi was admitted in government run Safdarjung Hospital on the night of 16 December 2012 in a serious condition. She received emergency medical care in ICU and had three surgeries carried and also sustained cardiac arrest once or twice. Her physical status kept waxing and waning in a serious state. Finally she was transferred on 27 December Thursday in the middle of the cold wintry foggy night in an Air Ambulance to Singapore to bear with the stress of that arduous journey, many including some senior experienced Delhi surgeons like Dr Samiran Nundy contended that her transfer to Singapore was triggered by reasons other than medical.

Did the UPA government, smeared into a multitudes of controversies and governance deficit issues one after the other, got panicked by the unprecedented show of live demonstrations on the street, as were also seen after the treacherous barbaric 26 November attach on Mumbai Taj orchestrated by the rogue Pakistani ISI agents via their infamous nonstate actors as they call them to hide their shabby guilt.

This young 23 year old brilliant dynamic girl belonged to a poor village family who can barely meet their daily ends. The family told, “Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar who visited When their daughter was fighting for her life in a Delhi hospital that they hardly have enough to eat at home. Their meals, they reportedly told her, are often “roti and namak” (bread sprinkled with salt for flavour).”  Yet her cacass of vibrant spirit prompted the 80 year young PM M. M. Singh and his sixtysix year young supposedly cervical cancer afflicted boss Ms Sonia Gandhi aka Antonia Edvige Albina Maino to go to IGI Airport, Delhi in the late night at about 3am to receive her when she was brought back by special Air India flight. One wonders curiously, “How come this anonymous village bud became so VIP in her valiantly fought undignified death”?

Then again, “She was cremated in Delhi against the surrounding mystery in Dwaraka after the plane was received at 4.15 am in the midst of the thick foggy sombre night hours with bare minimum visibility, the plane was taken to its technical area and her funeral planned under the highest secret mysterious circumstances with heavy police and security guard, remain a burning question mark the government has to clarify to the people and the nation”. Initially the ceremony was officially planned at 6 am but delayed for Hindu rites to be carried out after the Sunrise, ultimately at 07.30 am.

Minister of State for Home Affairs R P N Singh, West Delhi MP Mahabal Mishra, Delhi BJP chief Vijender Gupta were present at the cremation. Why was it hushed within a few limited hours under tight security and secrecy remain best known to the Delhi and UPA Governments without a plausible cause? Ajmal Kasab was one with in similar circumstances! It is highly impropriety and further humiliating her sacred and valiant undeserved end.

This entire filthy episode has evoked a worldwide condemnation and condolences with the head of the nation plunging in shame. There were heavily emotionally charged rhetorics with all claiming, “We also have daughters, sisters, wives etc only under duress of the volcanic public anger piercing the hearts of the ruling classes with a trembling fear of unprecedented mass unrest they had witnessed in last few years. Time will tell, if it is sense of democracy forced down the gullet of callous insensitive elected representatives of the people, by the people and also for the people as envisioned by eponymous US late President Abraham Lincoln. Better late than never.

 (Dr. O. P. Sudrania is a senior retired teacher in surgery and a medico-legal counsellor; now also engaged in research of spiritual and socio-political analytical science as a part of service to humanity. He retired as Emeritus Professor in Surgery from Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. )

Caste or Class Systems versus India in Global Perspective – CHAPTER TWO

In a blazing and scathing opinion article, Soroor Ahmed chronicles his hate filled appetite in a highly casteist article – Fast and Furious; wherein he has grotesquely exercised his wit in selective sectarian bash following recent results of some Indian educational institutions. He hails from a caste ridden state of Indiawhere the first thing they want to know is your Caste – biraadari. His portrayal of the social bias could have been better projected constructively to emulate by his own Caste people than casting aspersions on others who are using their wits to rise above the normal social mores of an uneducated background and that too without any outside state support like grants, subsidies, reservations, quotas, preferences etc. I wish he could have exhorted his caste boys and girls to follow the suit of these brilliant youngsters. But Ahmed failed bitterly on this count, instead indulged in jealous venomous remarks which were unnecessary, grotesquely undesirable and superfluous in this shrinking but sensitive global scenario.

I am not quite sure, nor am I interested to know, but his writing indicates that he may belong to one of the subsects of Shia Muslim groups. Bihar is one of the eastern states inIndiawhich is typically beseeched with this caste monster. No doubt that Soroor Ahmed coming from such casteist milieu has used his literary intelligence in down grading his pious profession of responsible journalism derogatorily. This is highly unfortunate and unbecoming. Such literary work is neither paying for the individual nor does it help the society. It may project a profanely negative image. With such divisive and vested interests within the meritocratic elites, it is difficult to get rid of the caste stigma from Indian social life, be it Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Buddhists or any other subsects, as a matter of fact. Ahmed could have utilised this opportunity to emulate by his own caste for better to rid them of intolerance, hate, jihad, kafirism, and the infamy it has attracted globally. Perhaps Macaulayism is working at his best.

The educational backwardness is an issue that state should have cared for those societies who are backward on that count. Muslims are given too much assistance despite their failure to use the resources constructively. Globally Muslims own the World’s majority riches, if they could use it constructively instead of promoting jihadi ideas, intolerance and extremist groups world over. These meritorious students, whom Ahmed is envious about, are the beacons for others to walk their trail. To join ‘trade’ is certainly far better than joining a ‘dirty trade’ in Muridke orBahawalpur.

Quoting him, “But what is more important than Haryana is that these girls and boys come from different trading communities of the country. Surnames like Agrawal, Gupta, Jain, Mittal, Jindal and the like are often found to adorn the merit lists of various exams. These students are posing a big challenge to those from castes like the Brahmin or the Kayastha, who were, till recently, considered more educated than the others. If the Brahmins, Reddys and students from the other backward classes of south Indian states, especially Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, continue to perform well in various exams, uppercaste students, especially of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar andWest Bengal, are losing the race somewhat. And they are yielding ground to candidates coming from business communities, especially of Haryana,Chandigarh, Punjab andDelhi. However, inBiharand east UP, Bhumihars have, of late, been doing relatively better.

Unlike several other upper and backward castes, Marwaris, Jains and other trading communities have an all-India presence. In states like Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra,Delhi, evenChandigarh, they constitute a considerable part of the population. However, the trend of trading communities going for higher education is not confined to just one or two pockets in the country. It is almost an all-India phenomenon now.”

He continues further unabashedly posing his apology in favour of his perhaps own caste/religion, “Simplicity is not the hallmark of the trading communities of Hindus or Jains. But Bohra and Khoja (both are Muslim Shia castes – Author) traders and industrialists are known for such qualities. Azim Hashim Premji is an example.”

But simplicity is like beauty which lies in the eyes of the beholder. It does not have a set definition. Ahmed should have recapped himself that the Muslims have a global presence as well as a cause for global worry. He has trampled on a subject that is ab initio non causa pro causa. It would at best promote more hatred than fellowship. Even the word ‘Brotherhood’ has been tarnished in the global perspective due to its (mis)use by some groups who are known to have links to extremists.

How many Azim Hashim Premji has been produced to toe their exemplary line? Even he cannot escape the influence of proximity of the peace loving trading communities in Hindus. In contrast, the 57 nations in OIC have shown it by paradigm in utter lack of such luminaries like Azimji. Everything in the society is a trade when there is a transaction of money. Ahmed needs to update himself with the very basics of economics before misusing the words like ‘trading’. Take the money out of trade, politics, worship, administration, education and journalism, “What will be left”?  It is this corrupted mindset that is more to blame than the malice of caste itself in the Indian communities or globally de facto. I am sure he could better utilise his wit in promoting the caste and communal harmony, instead otherwise.

His full opinionated article for its worth, can be read here.

In fact in the name of reservations for various castes, it has created a backward affluent class who in themselves are the perpetrators of the same ailment of caste in the society for their vested interest. They know that as long as this witch hunt can be kept vibrant and alive, this is a milking cow for them in all aspects; votes, money and its all other antecedent benefits in kind e.g. lucrative jobs, perks and political lubrications etc. This amounts to a polluted and convoluted narrow social engineering by targeting a peace loving innocent and unaware class.

“Pictorial presentation of Gandhi visiting Chennai”

Gandhi visiting Chennai (erstwhileMadras) in 1933 on an India-wide tour for Harijan causes. His speeches during such tours discussed the discriminated castes ofIndiaand appealed for the eradication of untouchability. Peruse here.

Harijan was a term used by Gandhi for Dalits. Gandhi said it was wrong to call people ‘untouchable’, and called them Harijans, which means children of God. It is still in wide use especially in Gandhi’s home state ofGujarat.

The term can also be attributed to Dalits of Pakistan called the haris, who are a group of mud-hut builders.Pakistan is an “Islamic Republic of Pakistan” riddled with all its ills of variety of violent dogmatic societal feudal castes and sub-castes. Irony is that they feel no compunction or contrition about it.

Gandhi’s publications:

Harijans were also several weekly newspapers published by MahatmaGandhi. He created three publications, Harijan in English (from 1933 to 1948), Harijan Bandu in Gujarati, and Harijan Sevak in Hindi. These newspapers found the Mahatma concentrating on social and economic problems.

One has to appreciate that Vedic tradition aka Hinduism being the oldest known system of civilisation on the earth in human society, some instant noble wo/men must have thought of creating a system to bind the emerging human race together. This benevolent cause must have led them to penance to study to evolve the divine subtle knowledge to domesticate the then initial wild tribes with no civilisation to follow or adhere to. Thus the evolution of Vedic knowledge via Smrtis took place. There couldn’t have been any caste based discrimination in such a nascent society.

A Wikipedia source describes, “The Caste System in India is a system of social stratification, social restriction and a basis for affirmative action inIndia. Historically, the caste system inIndia defined communities into thousands of endogamous hereditary groups called J?tis.

The J?tis were grouped by the Braahminical texts under the four well known social categories, (the varnas): viz Braahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, and Shudras. Certain people were excluded altogether, ostracized by all other castes and treated as untouchables also called “Dalits” today.”

Caste is commonly thought of as an ancient fact of Hindu life, caste systems have been also observed among other religions in the Indian subcontinent as well as in other parts of the world. Various contemporary scholars have argued that the caste system was constructed by the British colonial regime. Caste is neither unique to Hindu religion nor to India; caste systems have been observed in other parts of the world, for example, in Muslim community of Yemen, Buddhist community of Japan and Christian colonies of Spain. The latter is similar to the caste system reported in the Igbo-Osu Christian community inAfrica.

“Since 1950, Indiahas enacted and implemented many laws and social initiatives to protect and improve the socio-economic conditions of its Dalit population. By 1995, of all jobs in India, 17.2 percent of the jobs were held by Dalits, greater than their proportion in Indian population. Of the highest paying, senior most jobs in government agencies and government controlled enterprises, over 10 percent of all highest paying jobs were held by members of the Dalit community, a tenfold increase in 40 years. In 1997, Indiademocratically elected K.R. Narayanan, a Dalit, as the nation’s President. In last 15 years, Indians born in historically discriminated minority castes have been elected to its highest judicial and political offices. The quality of life of Dalit population in India, in 2001, in terms of metrics such as access to health care, life expectancy, education attainability, access to drinking water, housing, etc. was statistically similar to overall population of modern India.” More here.

It must be appreciated that the word “Caste” has no semblance with the Indian society as understood today and it is not a correct translation for the prevailing social divisions in the Indian society. There is nothing equivalent to it in the contemporary Indian scriptures. J G Arora expresses it, “There is a misconception in some minds that Hindu scriptures sanction the caste system. But being based on Vedas, Hinduism does not permit any caste system, whatsoever.”

As Hindu American Foundation (HAF) has aptly suggested that this word caste may have been originally used by the Portuguese invaders as “Castas” in their tongue to denote the various classes in the instant indigenous culture, but it does not reflect the costumes of the Indian Hindu society and its civilisation. The reasons are obvious due to the very differing core values in the respective societies. HAF’s document on “Hinduism: Not Cast in Caste – Seeking an End to Caste-based Discrimination”; is worth perusing. Perhaps the word ‘Castas’ was later on Anglicised during the British occupation period into ‘Caste’! HAF has raised the pitch of its concern on Caste which the others in global societies have been misusing by creating social divisions to give the dog a bad name and then after kill it. More here.

Votebank Politics and Politicisation of Castes:

Indian politicians have tried to misuse the caste as trump card for their narrow sectarian votebank gimmicks right from the Nehruvian era. Some glaring examples of such a myopic short term political manoeuvrings are given hereby.

The Mandal Commission protests of 1990 were against giving government jobs to certain castes on basis of birth rather than merit of the candidate. These protests closed roads, highways, transportation services, government services, schools, and businesses ofIndia. Anti-reservationists protested. Student protests were planned publicly, and in advance. Protest events were photographed for many published articles of newspapers locally and nationally. Protests began during the year when the eleven-year-old Mandal Commission was opened to bring into effect new government employment opportunities, reservation for backwards classes.

Between the failure to effectively control the political cost of the protests escalating enough to close parts of the nation, and an eleven-year-old human rights improvement project, were causes that ultimately led to accepting the resignation of the Janata Dal party’s Prime Minister of India, V. P. Singh. Most likely, the protests were comparable to globally largest, unified national demonstrations of a labour union strike combined with a version of a race riot.

These protests were widespread and enjoyed support of common people. “There is reason to believe that the students’ protests in 1990 would not have been so ferocious if it were not for the covert support extended to them by certain political parties, such as the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party.” More can be read here.

BJP offers free food to poor villagers as part of a public kitchen campaign

Ranchi, Jarkhand (CHAKRA) — The BJP Party has given support to the Vishwa Hindu Parishad  (VHP) supporters who are protesting against the demolition of 39 Hindu temples which are constructed on government land.

The shutdown of such a sponsorship has been openly stated by the VHP party which the backing of BJP officials.  Raghubar Das, the state BJP president said he is shocked to see that temples will be demolished at a large scale in the state. Thus he has stated his party’s moral support to the VHP’s fight against such destruction.

Uday Shankar Ojha, president of the Mahavir Mandal, another religious organization, stated that the group has demanded a shutdown of such a sponsorship by September 24^th.

Many of the 30 temples have been constructed over 50 years ago and are regularly visited by thousands of people.  The Hindu community is outraged and upset after hearing such news regarding a place of worship where they go to seek peace within.

Many Hindu critics are okay with the Government’s decision to demolish Hindu Temples on Government land if houses of worship from all religions are treated equally. This comes after there has been exceptions made for Christian churches and Muslim mosques from being demolished on Government land. Critics say this isolates Hindu temples and is a form of religious discrimination against the Hindu community.

The fight to withhold the destruction of temples will continue until the protesters win and are served justice.  Protests are to continue over the weekend until a response from government officials is received.