Ignorant
29th July 2007, 09:58 AM
Pitting minorities against the nation
Sonia’s clandestine gift to her co-religionists ?
Hindu SC, ST, OBC to lose what Christians and Muslims gain
By R. Balashankar
This seems to be a Sonia Gandhi-driven devise to promote large-scale conversion from weaker sections of Hindu society. In the name of minority welfare the idea is to create quotas within quotas presently given to Hindu OBCs and Dalits. This means that Dalit Christians for instance will get proportionate quota within that meant for Hindu Dalits while the rest like Christians and Muslims will get a similar proportion from the quota meant for Hindu OBCs.
From banking to social welfare to public spending the UPA regime is obsessed with promoting minorityism and depriving the majority Hindus of their rightful share.
It has said that in the 27 per cent OBC quota, an 8.4 per cent sub-quota could be earmarked for the minorities with an internal breakup of 6 per cent for Muslims and 2.4 per cent for other minorities.
The UPA government’s instruction to banking institutions to issue loans on the basis of religious identity is a violation of the constitutional provision of advancement of socially and educationally backward classes or Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. The Supreme Court has on a number of occasions turned down the central government’s blind-folded adventurism on minority appeasement. Under the UPA’s scheme, the richest Muslim Indians like Azim Premji of Wipro will get preference on bank loans over other Indians, even an underprivileged poor farmer in a remote village.
From Sachar to Justice Ranganath Mishra report the UPA has devised a plot to fragment the country on caste and communal lines. Violating the Constitution, mocking at all established parametres of statecraft, the Manmohan Singh government has unleashed an unprecedented war of discrimination on the Hindu society.
The National Commission for Linguistic and Religious Minorities headed by Justice Ranganath Mishra has recommended a 15 per cent reservation for minorities.
The divisive agenda contained in the Ranganath Mishra report, submitted on the occasion of the third anniversary of the UPA government is a shameful charter of national disintegration. It divides the country into numerous mutually antagonistic vote blocs. From banking to social welfare to public spending the UPA regime is obsessed with promoting minorityism and depriving the majority Hindus of their rightful share.
The government is driven by, to put it mildly, narrow vote bank considerations, if it does not have more ulterior shenanigans. To encourage evangelical activism by clandestinely introducing reservation for converted Dalits, it is trying to snatch away benefits from those who truly deserve them like the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.
This seems to be a Sonia Gandhi-driven devise to promote large-scale conversion from weaker sections of Hindu society. In the name of minority welfare the idea is to create quotas within quotas presently given to Hindu OBCs and Dalits. What this means is that Dalit Christians for instance will get proportionate quota within what is meant for Dalits while other minorities like Christians and Muslims will get a similar proportion from the quota meant for OBCs.
Instead of encouraging minority communities to participate in national life as the mainstream and equal citizens the UPA is attempting to ghettoise them. This runs contrary to our constitutional scheme and established international conventions.
The Constitution grants minorities certain rights and privileges, but it also stresses equality and prohibits discrimination on the basis of religion. For instance, the UPA government’s instruction to banking institutions to issue loans on the basis of religious identity is a violation of the constitutional provision of advancement of socially and educationally backward classes or Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. The Supreme Court has on a number of occasions turned down the central government’s blind-folded adventurism on minority appeasement. Under the UPA’s scheme, the richest Muslim Indians like Azim Premji of Wipro will get preference on bank loans over other Indians, even an underprivileged poor farmer in a remote village.
The UPA's vote bank politics has graduated from helping Muslims to hurting Hindus. The 15 per cent quota it is proposing for Muslims and Christians will cover the entire minority population and this will come at the cost of reduced reservations for Hindu OBCs and Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. This dubious proposal, by a former Congress Rajya Sabha MP, Justice Ranganath Mishra is in fact more damning than Pakistan’s Ghori missiles aimed at Hindu society.
As such Muslims and Christians deserve no reservation. They are not economically or socially backward or deprived. They were the rulers of this country for centuries. They have huge financial muscle in the form of petro dollar and evangelical funds from hundreds of Islamic and Christian nations across the globe.
The educational backwardness of Muslims is a myth and mostly their own creation. Yet the UPA has the audacity to selectively squander on the poor Hindu tax payers money as if it has a mandate, or it belonged to its leaders' ancestral treasure. This is unacceptable and should be opposed by all Hindus, by all means and by launching a massive protest movement and refusing to implement them where ever they can.
The UPA has to be forced to retract and bow before public pressure. For it hurts us all, above all our nationhood and sovereignty. They are deliberately communalising our polity, but for telling this truth they call us communal!
That a former Judge of India should have prepared and presented recommendations which violate the letter and spirit of the Constitution of India is a sad irony. “We recommend that Para 3 of the Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order 1950 - which originally restricted the Scheduled Caste net to the Hindus and... to Sikhs and Buddhists, thus excluding from its purview the Muslims, Christians, Jains and Parsis—should be wholly deleted by appropriate action so as to completely de-link the SC status from religion and make the Scheduled Castes net fully religion-neutral,” the report said. This is a fantastic nonsense and a white lie.
Ever since the UPA government came to power, it has been displaying unconcealed urgency in promoting the interest of minorities, Muslims and Christians. This move too is an unconcealed ploy to satisfy the demands of the church to extend reservations to the converted Christians, a move that has been opposed by all nationalist forces every time the issue came up.
In the minority institutions, the government does not have a say. But in the non-minority institutions, which are obviously government run or aided Hindu-run institutions, the government wants to impose reservations strictly on religious lines.
The UPA government’s appointments to various positions have been done on religious considerations, with many crypto Christians occupying constitutional positions and ministerships. Ambika Soni the Culture and Tourism Minister and Navin Chawla are some such examples. An essential aspect of the Sonia coterie is that it is dominated by anti-Hindus and non-Hindus.
Islam and Christianity are religions which claim that there is no caste system in them. In fact, several tribals and Dalits also convert to these religions to overcome the caste stigma in their native religion. Also the empowerment measures adopted by the government for the Dalits and OBCs have been a factor in arresting religious conversions. By removing this restraint, the country would be laid open to the missionaries of both the religions for conversion.
The Commission was constituted in March 2005 with a mandate to suggest criteria for identifying socially and educationally backward classes among the minorities and recommend possible welfare measures, including reservation in educational institutions and government employment. The objective of the Commission’s report is to ensure 15 per cent representation to the minorities in government jobs and educational institutions.
“Since the minorities—specially the Muslims—are very much under-represented and sometimes completely unrepresented in government employment, we recommend that they should be regarded as backward in this respect within the meaning of that term as used in Article 16(4) of the Constitution—notably without qualifying the word ‘backward’ with the words socially and educationally—and that 15 per cent of posts in all cadre and grades under central and state government should be earmarked for them.”
“The breakup within the recommended 15 per cent earmarked seats in institutions shall be 10 per cent for Muslims and the remaining 5 per cent for the other minorities,” the report said.
However, if the Muslims cannot avail 10 per cent quota, the rest should go to the non-Muslim minorities and “in no case shall any seat within the recommended 15 per cent go to the majority community”, the report said.
It has said that in the 27 per cent OBC quota, an 8.4 per cent sub-quota could be earmarked for the minorities with an internal breakup of 6 per cent for Muslims and 2.4 per cent for other minorities.
The basis of the breakup is the presence of 8.4 per cent from the minority communities in OBC category among whom the Muslims are 73 per cent in total minority population.
Arguing for treating all such categories in one social frame, the report said, “We further recommend that all those groups and classes among Muslims and Christians whose counterparts among Hindus, Sikhs and Buddhists are included in the central or state Scheduled Caste lists should also be covered by the Scheduled Caste net.”
The Commission says that if any such castes among Muslims and Christians are now included in an OBC list, it should be deleted from there and should be transferred to the SC category.
The Commission has concluded that the cause of socio-economic backwardness among the minorities is their educational backwardness, and suggested reservation for seats for them in educational institutions.
“We strongly recommend that at least 15 per cent seats in all non-minority educational institutions should be earmarked by law for minorities,” the report says.
Under the economic incentives, the Commission has recommended earmarking 15 per cent of central developmental funds for the minorities on the lines of Prime Minister’s 15-point programme with a breakup of 10 per cent for Muslims and 5 per cent for other minorities.
Commission chairman Justice Mishra and members, Professor Tahir Mahmood and Mohinder Singh, submitted their two-volume report to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on May 21.
The report was submitted with a dissenting note from its Member Secretary Ms. Asha Das, an IAS officer.
The government is wantonly seeking to pit the minorities against the rest of the people of India. For, the Ranganath Mishra Committee report is nothing short of a proxy war on the people.
Sonia’s clandestine gift to her co-religionists ?
Hindu SC, ST, OBC to lose what Christians and Muslims gain
By R. Balashankar
This seems to be a Sonia Gandhi-driven devise to promote large-scale conversion from weaker sections of Hindu society. In the name of minority welfare the idea is to create quotas within quotas presently given to Hindu OBCs and Dalits. This means that Dalit Christians for instance will get proportionate quota within that meant for Hindu Dalits while the rest like Christians and Muslims will get a similar proportion from the quota meant for Hindu OBCs.
From banking to social welfare to public spending the UPA regime is obsessed with promoting minorityism and depriving the majority Hindus of their rightful share.
It has said that in the 27 per cent OBC quota, an 8.4 per cent sub-quota could be earmarked for the minorities with an internal breakup of 6 per cent for Muslims and 2.4 per cent for other minorities.
The UPA government’s instruction to banking institutions to issue loans on the basis of religious identity is a violation of the constitutional provision of advancement of socially and educationally backward classes or Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. The Supreme Court has on a number of occasions turned down the central government’s blind-folded adventurism on minority appeasement. Under the UPA’s scheme, the richest Muslim Indians like Azim Premji of Wipro will get preference on bank loans over other Indians, even an underprivileged poor farmer in a remote village.
From Sachar to Justice Ranganath Mishra report the UPA has devised a plot to fragment the country on caste and communal lines. Violating the Constitution, mocking at all established parametres of statecraft, the Manmohan Singh government has unleashed an unprecedented war of discrimination on the Hindu society.
The National Commission for Linguistic and Religious Minorities headed by Justice Ranganath Mishra has recommended a 15 per cent reservation for minorities.
The divisive agenda contained in the Ranganath Mishra report, submitted on the occasion of the third anniversary of the UPA government is a shameful charter of national disintegration. It divides the country into numerous mutually antagonistic vote blocs. From banking to social welfare to public spending the UPA regime is obsessed with promoting minorityism and depriving the majority Hindus of their rightful share.
The government is driven by, to put it mildly, narrow vote bank considerations, if it does not have more ulterior shenanigans. To encourage evangelical activism by clandestinely introducing reservation for converted Dalits, it is trying to snatch away benefits from those who truly deserve them like the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.
This seems to be a Sonia Gandhi-driven devise to promote large-scale conversion from weaker sections of Hindu society. In the name of minority welfare the idea is to create quotas within quotas presently given to Hindu OBCs and Dalits. What this means is that Dalit Christians for instance will get proportionate quota within what is meant for Dalits while other minorities like Christians and Muslims will get a similar proportion from the quota meant for OBCs.
Instead of encouraging minority communities to participate in national life as the mainstream and equal citizens the UPA is attempting to ghettoise them. This runs contrary to our constitutional scheme and established international conventions.
The Constitution grants minorities certain rights and privileges, but it also stresses equality and prohibits discrimination on the basis of religion. For instance, the UPA government’s instruction to banking institutions to issue loans on the basis of religious identity is a violation of the constitutional provision of advancement of socially and educationally backward classes or Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. The Supreme Court has on a number of occasions turned down the central government’s blind-folded adventurism on minority appeasement. Under the UPA’s scheme, the richest Muslim Indians like Azim Premji of Wipro will get preference on bank loans over other Indians, even an underprivileged poor farmer in a remote village.
The UPA's vote bank politics has graduated from helping Muslims to hurting Hindus. The 15 per cent quota it is proposing for Muslims and Christians will cover the entire minority population and this will come at the cost of reduced reservations for Hindu OBCs and Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. This dubious proposal, by a former Congress Rajya Sabha MP, Justice Ranganath Mishra is in fact more damning than Pakistan’s Ghori missiles aimed at Hindu society.
As such Muslims and Christians deserve no reservation. They are not economically or socially backward or deprived. They were the rulers of this country for centuries. They have huge financial muscle in the form of petro dollar and evangelical funds from hundreds of Islamic and Christian nations across the globe.
The educational backwardness of Muslims is a myth and mostly their own creation. Yet the UPA has the audacity to selectively squander on the poor Hindu tax payers money as if it has a mandate, or it belonged to its leaders' ancestral treasure. This is unacceptable and should be opposed by all Hindus, by all means and by launching a massive protest movement and refusing to implement them where ever they can.
The UPA has to be forced to retract and bow before public pressure. For it hurts us all, above all our nationhood and sovereignty. They are deliberately communalising our polity, but for telling this truth they call us communal!
That a former Judge of India should have prepared and presented recommendations which violate the letter and spirit of the Constitution of India is a sad irony. “We recommend that Para 3 of the Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order 1950 - which originally restricted the Scheduled Caste net to the Hindus and... to Sikhs and Buddhists, thus excluding from its purview the Muslims, Christians, Jains and Parsis—should be wholly deleted by appropriate action so as to completely de-link the SC status from religion and make the Scheduled Castes net fully religion-neutral,” the report said. This is a fantastic nonsense and a white lie.
Ever since the UPA government came to power, it has been displaying unconcealed urgency in promoting the interest of minorities, Muslims and Christians. This move too is an unconcealed ploy to satisfy the demands of the church to extend reservations to the converted Christians, a move that has been opposed by all nationalist forces every time the issue came up.
In the minority institutions, the government does not have a say. But in the non-minority institutions, which are obviously government run or aided Hindu-run institutions, the government wants to impose reservations strictly on religious lines.
The UPA government’s appointments to various positions have been done on religious considerations, with many crypto Christians occupying constitutional positions and ministerships. Ambika Soni the Culture and Tourism Minister and Navin Chawla are some such examples. An essential aspect of the Sonia coterie is that it is dominated by anti-Hindus and non-Hindus.
Islam and Christianity are religions which claim that there is no caste system in them. In fact, several tribals and Dalits also convert to these religions to overcome the caste stigma in their native religion. Also the empowerment measures adopted by the government for the Dalits and OBCs have been a factor in arresting religious conversions. By removing this restraint, the country would be laid open to the missionaries of both the religions for conversion.
The Commission was constituted in March 2005 with a mandate to suggest criteria for identifying socially and educationally backward classes among the minorities and recommend possible welfare measures, including reservation in educational institutions and government employment. The objective of the Commission’s report is to ensure 15 per cent representation to the minorities in government jobs and educational institutions.
“Since the minorities—specially the Muslims—are very much under-represented and sometimes completely unrepresented in government employment, we recommend that they should be regarded as backward in this respect within the meaning of that term as used in Article 16(4) of the Constitution—notably without qualifying the word ‘backward’ with the words socially and educationally—and that 15 per cent of posts in all cadre and grades under central and state government should be earmarked for them.”
“The breakup within the recommended 15 per cent earmarked seats in institutions shall be 10 per cent for Muslims and the remaining 5 per cent for the other minorities,” the report said.
However, if the Muslims cannot avail 10 per cent quota, the rest should go to the non-Muslim minorities and “in no case shall any seat within the recommended 15 per cent go to the majority community”, the report said.
It has said that in the 27 per cent OBC quota, an 8.4 per cent sub-quota could be earmarked for the minorities with an internal breakup of 6 per cent for Muslims and 2.4 per cent for other minorities.
The basis of the breakup is the presence of 8.4 per cent from the minority communities in OBC category among whom the Muslims are 73 per cent in total minority population.
Arguing for treating all such categories in one social frame, the report said, “We further recommend that all those groups and classes among Muslims and Christians whose counterparts among Hindus, Sikhs and Buddhists are included in the central or state Scheduled Caste lists should also be covered by the Scheduled Caste net.”
The Commission says that if any such castes among Muslims and Christians are now included in an OBC list, it should be deleted from there and should be transferred to the SC category.
The Commission has concluded that the cause of socio-economic backwardness among the minorities is their educational backwardness, and suggested reservation for seats for them in educational institutions.
“We strongly recommend that at least 15 per cent seats in all non-minority educational institutions should be earmarked by law for minorities,” the report says.
Under the economic incentives, the Commission has recommended earmarking 15 per cent of central developmental funds for the minorities on the lines of Prime Minister’s 15-point programme with a breakup of 10 per cent for Muslims and 5 per cent for other minorities.
Commission chairman Justice Mishra and members, Professor Tahir Mahmood and Mohinder Singh, submitted their two-volume report to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on May 21.
The report was submitted with a dissenting note from its Member Secretary Ms. Asha Das, an IAS officer.
The government is wantonly seeking to pit the minorities against the rest of the people of India. For, the Ranganath Mishra Committee report is nothing short of a proxy war on the people.