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An
Urgent plea to RSS, nationalist Leaders and patriotic Hindus
Subject:
A Plea to RSS for combating
the Congress led onslaught against Hindus in Gujarat elections. The Hindu unity
is a primary vehicle for ensuring national security, sovereignty, prosperity and
national integrity
Aadarniya
SarSanghchalak ji ,
Aadarniya
nationalist leaders,
Aadarniya
members of RSS Parivar,
Aadarniya
patriot and nationalist Hindus
"The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has decided to remain
“neutral” in the Gujarat elections. It has given freedom to its followers to
work for whichever party or candidate they like as long as they are not
“anti-Hindu" (Attachment A) In the current anti- Hindu environment the policy
of RSS neutrality goes a long way in helping the anti-Hindu forces. While the
former CM, Shri Keshubhai Patel and other BJP dissidents and Uma Bharti's
Bhartiya Jan Shakti party could not be considered as anti-Hindu but their
indifference towards the ruling team would without a doubt result in division of
Hindu votes, potentially aiding the emergence of an anti- Hindu Govt. led by the
Sonia-Singh Congress. Although we cannot believe that this is the goal of the
RSS but the outcome of its pronounced policy of neutrality is most certainly
going to result in the fragmented Hindu vote serving the interests of the
anti-Hindu Congress formation. Unless RSS has divorced itself from the policy of
defending and advancing the Hindu interests in general, this policy must be
reviewed, replaced and updated to meet the challenges posed by the ground
realities existing in today’s India and Gujarat and not those of the yester
years.
The validity of the RSS policy of keeping its hands off the
political arena is laudable under the normal circumstances. However, India’s
political domain is hardly normal these days. In view of the ongoing anti-Hindu
crusade spearheaded by the secularists, the RSS can not absolve itself from the
responsibility of providing unambiguous guidelines and directions to its members
and citizens in general in the delivery of their citizenship responsibilities.
That obligation also includes the all important task of choosing
competent representatives who respect the will of the majority for establishing
a state authority with representative character. Leaving them vulnerable to the
hostile and foreign inspired media, disgruntled dissidents and anti- Hindu
secularists defeats the very purposes, goals and philosophy for which the Sangh
was established.
1) Out of revenge, dissidents advise
voters to defeat Modi without telling them that such a tactic will result in the
reemergence of a corrupt and anti- Hindu Congress Govt.:
Gujarati papers have been carrying ads featuring Modi's old rival Keshubhai
Patel, representing an organization i.e., "the Sardar Patel Utkarsh Samiti", and
asking for a vote for change in Gujarat. This policy of self destruction is
being pursued to take revenge from Modi due to some insignificant personal
differences; consequently Keshubhai is “cutting off his nose to spite his face”.
How unfortunate that a former CM who should be first and foremost a
nationalist, avowedly a member of RSS and BJP supporting Hindu causes, for his
own petty interests elected to stab Hindus in the back by virtually inviting
anti- Hindus to take over Gujarat.
2) Nationalists must realize
that Modi’s defeat all but guarantees the rebirth and take over of Gujarat by a
corrupt and rabidly anti-Hindu Congress Govt. Yes
the same secularists who are:
a) violating the faith of 100 crores Hindus by
questioning the existence of Lord Ram and calling him a mythical being and by
demolishing Ram Sethu to further inflict injury upon the majority community;
b) letting states demolish the Hindu religious
infrastructure;
c) showing indifference on the arrest of our
most revered H.H. Kanchi Shankaracharya in Tamil Nadu;
d) appeasing terrorists rather than dealing
firmly with them;
e) enforcing religion based reservations and
Hajj subsidies for Muslims against a secular constitution and imposition of
Jazia on Hindus;
f) uncaring for masses as seen by large scale
farmers suicides;
g) unable to deal with China's nibbling on
Arunachal Pradesh;
h) remaining inactive and silent on cleansing of
Hindus from Kashmir;
i) entering far- reaching international treaties
without Parliament's and public consensus; and
j) concealing the fact and intensity of 30 per
cent of the total districts in the country which are infected either by
terrorism or Naxalism. Now these elements using the trickery of chameleon,
marching in the towns and cities of Gujarat with bleeding hearts, are looking to
make a kill.
3) “All
that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to remain silent and do
nothing” --
The great English Statesman and Parliamentarian Edmund Burke (1729-1797) rightly
said for all time. This is precisely what is happening in India today. RSS'
recent lack of guidance to its members on elections can be cited as such a case
of virtual silence. This is a sign of defeatist mentality. The crucial question
here to consider is: if RSS had become a formation of good men who shirk their
responsibility when there is time and opportunity to change the destiny of the
people it represents?
4) In a
recent lecture Satguru Sivananda Murthy says that "most of us are not happy with
what is going on in this country.
We are all
aware that something is going terribly wrong somewhere in different spheres of
our public life— which in particular includes political, administrative,
religious, spiritual, cultural and social “aspects of it. (attachment B). In a
bid to eradicate these shortcomings and inconsistencies he proposes promulgation
of a new Hindu Constitution.
It is imperative that activists and concerned citizens get
involved now and ensure upright and principled policy makers at the helm
of government, rather than miss the opportunity and let the community sulk,
suffer and complain later.
After independence the Hindus of India have been neglected
and relegated to the position of second class citizens being treated
as Non-Muslims and Non-Christians - an intolerable situation that must be
rectified. Some of the Muslims in India opted for a separate country namely
Pakistan for themselves. The Muslims who chose to stay in India enjoy special
privileges under the new Constitution and from the over zealous vote seeking
political parties.
5) Every time Hindu Dharma has been
outraged, Hindu leaders have chosen to remain silent spectators without raising
their voice
against those who, sitting in their highest offices of political power,
perpetrate the crime. They apply a lame excuse that political happenings are not
their cup of tea. Their reprehensible silence will be condemned like the
silence observed by great Acharyas like Bheeshma and Drona when a helpless
Draupadi was dragged to Kaurava Court and molested -- they all stood like dead
wood unable to protect the honor of a woman in distress.
6) The exaggerated doses of Islamic
propaganda on post Godhra riots must be countered:
Going by their incessant propaganda on Babri Masjid demolition and post Godhra
riots the Islamists paint a picture of injustice against Muslims in Hindu India
and cause multiple including psychological damage to Hindus. They must be
reminded of the Islamic inhumanities, genocide, kidnappings and atrocities
during the last thousand years against Hindus:
a) some three million, mostly Hindus massacred in East
Pakistan, now Bangladesh, and exodus of some 9 million Hindus to India as
refugees in early 1970's, when the Indian army had to intervene to rescue the
populace;
b) virtually exterminating and cleansing of Hindus from
Kashmir valley since 1989;
c) massacre of some 20,000 in Calcutta in August 1946 in
three days to force Congress to partition against Mahatma Gandhi's declaration
of "Partition against my dead body";
d) massacre of millions of Hindus during partition in 1947;
e) genocide of some 50- 100 million Hindus by some
estimates during 700 years of Islamic rule - the worst in the history of
mankind, and demolition, vandalizing and looting of tens of thousands of
temples and conversion into mosques; and
f) the recent incessant terrorist Jihajist attacks in
India.
7) temptation of bribery and class war by
Congress to get elected:
The Congress manifesto openly bribes
voters: Thus it says “If the Congress comes to power the party will give 25 kg
wheat, 10 kg rice, 4 kg dal, 5 kg sugar and 15 litre of kerosene free of cost to
20% of the poorest of poor every month”. The manifesto also promises to develop
the economic status of the minorities.
The anti- Hindu stance of the main stream media in India is
no secret. Furthermore, there are claims of foreign interests and investments
being involved against Modi. The palms of the BJP dissidents are also said to
have been greased for continuing the anti Modi crusade. These anti Gujarat
secularists and Islamists also mislead the US Govt. which consequently denied
the visa to Shri Modi for addressing a conference of NRI Gujaratis in America.
Blinded by their lust for power and hatred for a dynamic,
truthful and straight forward personality, now a Congress leader has promised to
send Shri Modi to gallows by way of a trial, if anti-Hindu secularists come to
power in the state. Never in the history of Indian elections has any opposing
party made such a preposterous; unreal and venomous promise. That is exactly
what Congress leaders have done to cater to the instincts, wishes and desires of
the Islamists, Jihadists and terrorists.
8) The following comments by RSS
Sarsanghachalak Shri K.S. Sudarshan, while releasing the book "Saffron Surge"
are extremely relevant to the unity in Gujarat : “Howsoever good discourse we deliver, unless it
is backed by shakti (strength) no one will listen to it. The Hindu society has
everything to give to the world but what it lacks is unity. The system of
governance that we followed even after Independence too further divided us. We
must think about what unites us and what divides us”.
The indifference by the RSS parivar during the
2004 Parliament elections, may have taught BJP a lesson. It might have satisfied
some egoes but at a heavy cost of under cutting Hindutva and the RSS parivar. It
has been a disaster for Hindus and the country under the UPA regime as indicated
earlier. In retrospect, the BJP should have been persuaded through protest as in
the case of non BJP governments. A similar non- involvement now could lead to a
Congress victory again. Such a backward march could assuredly bring about more
brazen acts against Hindus and against the many nationalist and
patriotic policies that RSS and nationalists espouse.
We could only make an appeal to the BJP dissidents and
others who feel slighted that in the larger interests of Hindu India they should
demonstrate the spirit of forgiveness and utilize their energy towards building
a united Hindu alliance. Which in turn will become instrumental in achieving the
much needed victory for establishing a true Hindu nationalist regime in Gujarat.
We also hope that RSS could bring workers from other states to Gujarat for help
in elections as they did many years ago in UP, when RSS workers came from
Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, etc. and the BJP won big.
9) An appeal to RSS
, national leaders and patriotic Hindus:
May we request that RSS provide guidance to their members and public to vote
strategically for electing a nationalist Govt. that will uphold precepts of
dharma, and reject the motivations of anti- Hindu alliances. The Hindus must be
reminded the election is not like a fun cricket match, but has serious
consequences. It impacts national security, sovereignty, prosperity and national
integrity - all so vital to masses and the country. Above all the outcome of the
elections in Gujarat is likely to have a tremendous impact upon the solidarity
of the Hindu samaj.
Notice must be taken of the stern warning
administered by the former CM of J&K, Farooq Abdullah, that -"if innocents
continue to be killed and women are raped, the sadbhavana (goodwill) campaign
will be of zero effect and the people might be forced to rethink about the
accession (of the J&K state to India in 1947) ". Earlier he had unmistakably
stated that the accession of Kashmir with India was a mistake.
Yet in another public speech he had warned that he
will spearhead a movement for the second partition of India if BJP abolished or
altered section 370 of the Indian Constitution. These threats of renunciation of
accession and disintegration of India may become a reality if the Jihadist
collaborator- weak Congress/ UPA Govt. - continues in power. It should also
serve as a strong and timely warning to RSS, Hindu organizations and the Gujarat
dissidents to sink their differences for the sake of national solidarity and
join in a unified front to work for a strong Hindu national Govt. capable of
defeating the disruptive and disintegrative forces at work in India.
The forthcoming Gujarat elections must not be taken
casually, since they may have far reaching consequences upon the over all
functioning of the secularist regime. Some analysts even dare to predict that if
the BJP wins big in Gujarat that could prevent the surrender of India’s
sovereignty in the nuclear field to a foreign power as envisaged by the
agreement accepted by the Sonia-Singh regime. BJP on the other hand is committed
to renegotiate the nuclear deal with USA on the basis of equality. The
rejection of the congress designs in Gujarat may also compel and bring about a
necessary change in the attitude of the UPA making it humble and more responsive
towards the wishes and desires of the general public.
Dr. Jagan
Kaul
Krishan Bhatnagar
Hindu Jagran Forum (USA)
December 06, 2007
Attachment A
Sangh not for
Modi, cadres free to be
RADHIKA RAMASESHAN
Telegraph, Dec 04, 2007
Ahmedabad, Dec. 3: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has
decided to remain “neutral” in the Gujarat elections. This means its workers are
free to work for whichever party or candidate they like as long as they are not
“anti-Hindu”.
Narendra Modi will especially be banking on the Sangh workers because Vishwa
Hindu Parishad president Ashok Singhal’s indirect go-ahead to his organisation
to work for the chief minister has not galvanised its workers.
“In 2005, at a meeting in Chitrakoot, the RSS decided it would not take part in
any election. That position remains firm today, in Gujarat and other places. But
a swayamsevak (Sangh volunteer) is independent — he can take part in any
activity,” said Pradip Jain, the Sangh’s authorised spokesperson in Gujarat.
In 2002, the Sangh had held several “Hindu jagran (awakening)” meetings in the
run-up to the elections. Its pracharaks (propagandists) canvassed for the BJP in
public forums without the candidates being present to retain the appearance of
neutrality. This time there would be no jagran meetings, said Jain, a managing
trustee of the Vishwa Samvad Kendra, the Sangh’s publicity front. He refused to
say whether the Sangh was keeping away from the polls because of its reported
problems with Modi.
The Gujarat BJP is still assessing the possible fallout of the Sangh’s refusal
to participate. Sources said it could hit the party hard in the Saurashtra
region, which has 58 Assembly seats and where Modi is grappling with infighting
and rebellion. They added that since the Sangh had left poll participation to
the “conscience” of the swayamsevaks, Modi had injected large doses of
“Hindutva” into his campaign. He wants to assure the Sangh that he has not
deviated from its ideology.
As for the Parishad’s lukewarmness, its local chief, Kaushik Mehta, was
unavailable for comments. But Parishad sources said that in Gujarat, only one
person mattered and he was Praveen Togadia, the general secretary. Togadia fell
out with Modi long ago and is believed to be backing the Patel dissidents and
the loyalists of former chief minister Keshubhai Patel. “Just as Uma Bharti’s
conciliatory gesture (towards Modi) had no effect on her party here, Singhal’s
appeal is a call to the deaf. If it had come from Togadia, it would have meant
something else,” a source said.
Jain, asked if the Sangh’s decision could hurt the BJP’s prospects, said: “The
RSS is not a political organisation; it is a social organisation. The Bharatiya
Mazdoor Sangh has more members than the BJP, and the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi
Parishad (the Sangh’s student arm) is the largest union in India. Yet the BJP
gets the media attention because it’s a political party.” He said that the 2005
decision was taken keeping in mind the overall national situation.
“The Sangh will not make an exception for Gujarat. It does not function in that
manner,” Jain added.
“Elections are one part of democracy but the national consciousness is driven
and shaped by a host of other factors. Politics will get the importance it
deserves from the Sangh but we also have the nation to think of.”
http://www.telegraphindia.com:80/1071204/asp/nation/story_8625939.asp
Attachment B
A
Dharmacharya’s clarion call for a new Hindu Constitution
12/4/2007 12:16:25 AM By Shri V. Sundaram in NewsTodaynet
Haindavakeralam.org
Satguru Sivananda Murthy spoke very eloquently at the
PS Secondary School Auditorium in Mylapore three weeks ago about the imperative
national need for a new Hindu Constitution for India, which takes due note of
Sanatana Dharma, Hinduism, Hindu way of life, Hindu culture and Hindu society.
During the course of his talk he made it clear that the only thing that the
Hindus of India have to fear today is fear itself. Unlike most Hindu
Dharmacharyas who choose to remain diplomatically (if not politically!) neutral
on the issues of life and death affecting the majority Hindus of India, Satguru
Sivananda Murthy is forthright and fearless in his espousal of Hindu causes.
When the people supposed to be great fail to perform the right act in the right
time, righteousness declines and unrighteousness ascends. Mahakavi Bharathi in
his ‘Paanjali Sabatham’, condemning the silence observed by great Acharyas like
Bheeshma and Dhrona when a helpless Draupati was dragged to Kaurava Court and
molested, says they all stood like “Pettai Marangal” i.e. dead wood unable to
protect the honour of a woman in distress.
The great English Statesman and Parliamentarian Edmund Burke (1729-1797) rightly
said for all time: “All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to
remain silent and do nothing”. This is precisely what is happening in India
today.
I fully endorse the view of
Prof. Sadhu Rangarajan: “Every time Hindu Dharma has been outraged, the
Dharmacharyas have chosen to remain silence spectators not ready to raise their
voice against those who, sitting in their highest offices of political power,
perpetrate the crime. And the Dharmacharyas have a lame excuse that political
happenings are not their look out and Bhagavan is there to take care of the
country. They have all to look after only the interests of their own Mutts,
Missions, followers and the Ashram properties.”
I was intellectually and emotionally overwhelmed by the moral and spiritual
force of the utterances of Satguru Sivananda Murthy on that day. Almost everyone
present in the audience felt the same way. Hearing him speak with such passion
for Hindu causes, I felt that the Swamiji is only giving a cubic content to the
beautiful message of Lord Krishna to Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita.
Lord Krishna says in the Bhagavad Gita:
“Yadyadaacharati shreshthaha tattadevetaro
jannah Sa yat prmaanam kurute
lokasthatanuvartate”
(Sanskrit Transliteration)
The meaning of the above verse in Sanskrit is this:
“Whatever action a great man
performs, common men follow. And whatever standards he sets by exemplary acts,
all the world pursues”.
Satguru Sivananda Murthy said that most of us are not happy with what is going
on in this country. We are all aware that something is going terribly wrong
somewhere in different spheres of our public life—political, administrative,
religious and spiritual, cultural and social. Today we are living in a world of
aimless and arid Intellectualism where the mind is more active than the heart.
In this sadly inhuman situation, we have to meet the restless questioning mind
with an impassioned answering mind backed up by a true feeling heart. Basically
our understanding of our national problems, our religion and culture must be
deep and penetrating—intensely felt by ourselves in such a manner that it
becomes a spring board for swift and effective action.
We must learn to feel through our minds and
think through our hearts.
Whenever some Americans ask me: “Swamiji when do you think the backwardness of
India will disappear?” I never hesitate to tell them that India is not backward.
Now to make the Americans understand I can’t quote the esoteric verses from the
Vedas and the Upanishads because they are irrelevant to them. They seem to be
steeped in materialism and materialistic welfare and therefore it becomes
necessary for us to counter their arguments through equally shallow
materialistic viewpoints. To such
materialistic Americans, I would often say: “More than 50,000 Indian Medical
Doctors are working in the Universities and Clinics of America. Nearly 250,000
Indian Engineers are working in different branches of service and manufacturing
industry in America. India has never imported a single American Doctor or
American Engineer. Who is backward? How do you say India is backward?” In other
words, crudely materialistic explanation has to meet four-square the
materialistic questioning of the West.
The Constitution of India says ‘India that is Bharat’—that
is how and where the Indian Constitution starts. Babu Rao Patel, a great
nationalist and an independent minded journalist, always used to say “India that
was Bharat”. The founding fathers of our Constitution gave a death blow to
Sanatana Dharma, Hinduism, Hindu Religion and Hindu Society when in the Preamble
to our Constitution they referred to ‘India that is Bharat’. For them, Age-old
Bharat, rooted in time-honoured history and holy tradition was a nominal and
unspiritual entity. Their artificial and lifeless ‘India’ was a ‘substantive’,
‘political’, ‘pseudo-secular’ and solid electoral votebank entity.
We got our independence on paper on 15 August, 1947. The main questions we
should ask in this context are: a) Who got this independence? b) Was it the
independence of the British subjected India? c) Was it the independence of
ancient India, medieval India, or modern India? One thing is very clear. Men
like Jinnah and Nehru displayed a great sense of urgency and anxiety to assume
positions of power even without a clear vision of plan or action as to what we
would like to do with Pakistan or India of our own after independence from
British Rule. The fact of the matter is after independence a portion of the
Muslims in India got a separate nation for themselves in Pakistan. The Muslims
who chose to stay in India came to enjoy special privileges under the new
Constitution. The Hindus of India lost their ancestral Nation in Pakistan, And
the Hindus of India, unfortunately, were relegated to the position of second
class citizens in their capacity as Non-Muslims or Non-Christians.
Some solid and irrefutable
facts of history relating to our freedom struggle cannot be ignored.
During the entire period of our struggle for freedom starting from the Sepoy
Mutiny of 1857 till the arrival of Mahatma Gandhi on the Indian National scene
in 1919 and later during the Gandhian period from 1920 to 1947, the number of
people who got killed by the British Government was very much less than the
number of Indians (mostly Hindus) who got killed in the first four months of
India’s ‘partition’ under Nehru’s maladministration after 15 August, 1947. I was
myself an eye witness to the partition riots in Delhi in August, 1947 when
thousands of Hindus were killed in the Capital City itself. The untold
sufferings of the Hindu refugees who were driven out of Pakistan and who came to
squat on the streets of New Delhi and Delhi can never get erased from public
thoughts and memories.
In my view, the sad fact is that on 15
August, 1947, Bharat that was India did not get its independence. It continued
to be subjected to a New Republic called India. Thus our ancient India was
subordinated to this newly created pseudo-secular anti-Hindu, pro-Muslim and
pro-Christian Indian Republic. We should realise that India is not ‘Bharat’ but
an artificial entity based on a pseudo-secular anti-Hindu philosophy called
‘Indian Constitution’.
In this so called anti-Hindu New Republic, the Muslims
and the Christians (State-sponsored minorities!) enjoy special privileges and
special rights under Articles 25 to 30 of the Indian Constitution. It has become
a routine affair that whenever and wherever the Hindus protest against
destruction of their temples by Islamic terrorists, the Government views it as
an unprovoked, uncalled for and unjust Hindu fundamentalist reaction! The
pseudo-secular mafia of mass media plays a leading stellar role in this
dastardly anti-Hindu drama. The foundation for this ‘drama’ was laid by Pundit
Nehru when he told Sardar Vallabhai Patel in 1949 to desist from taking any
action to rebuild the Somnath Temple which was destroyed by Mohammed of Gazni in
the 11th century and later by successive Muslim invaders. In the minds and
hearts of Nehru and other Congress Leaders, the glorious heritage of ancient
Bharat Varsha and Bharat Bhoomi had no place whatsoever and therefore they went
about the task of destruction of Hindu India founded upon Sanatana Dharma with
great pseudo-secular finesse and fervour derived from their brief autocratic
authority.
We Hindus in majority in India today should come together to drop a new
Constitution for Hindustan which creates a new Nation founded upon our ancient
traditions of Sanatana Dharma, Hinduism and Hindu way of life. We have to raise
ourselves from the present disgraceful condition of second class non-Muslim
citizens to the highest status of first class proud Hindu citizens of this
ancient land. I call upon all patriotic Hindus—Lawyers, Civil Servants,
Educationists and other Professionals—to give a serious thought for drawing up a
‘New Constitution’ for Hindustan which gives the same privilege status to the
Hindus in majority as has been given to the Minority Muslims and Minority
Christians under the existing pseudo-secular and anti-Hindu present
Constitution.
The New Constitution for Hindustan should create a new Hindu Nation-State
which will be founded on Hindu ideals; which will conduct its affairs in
accordance with Hindu-values; which would work for the all-round resurgence of
the Hindus; which will protect Hindu-Interests not only in India but in the
whole world; which will represent Hindu culture abroad; which will promote and
propagate Hindu ethos in the world; which will create in our younger generations
a sense of pride and self-respect in their Hindu Nationality. Such a state we
have to establish in our Mother Land. Swami Vivekananda has tirelessly reminded
us that the glory of Sanatana Dharma gives us the inspiration and
self-confidence that we Hindus are not inferior to any Nation anywhere in the
world in any sense. It is our sacred duty to create such a Hindu Nation in the
immediate future.
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