Congress's Dangerous Ideology

Karnataka State Assembly elections May 2018. Congress finished a scrappy 5 year term and the people voted them out giving BJP a 104 seat mandate, 7 short of a simple majority. Congress performed badly and lost 43 seats compared to 2014 finishing 2nd with 78 seats. JD[S] the third party in the fray closed at 38, 2 seats lesser compared to their last outing. In summary, BJP emerged as the single largest party with 104 seats with Congress and JD[S] a distant second and third.

The state governor has invited BJP to form the govt, but longterm bitter foes and arch enemies JD[S] and Congress have swallowed their pride and shed their self respect to form an alliance in a bid to form the next government. Both put thogether can deliver a simple majority government of 116 MLA's but the crux of the matter is not mathematics but ideology. Their ideology is simple, we will now allow Modi to win, we will do anything and everything possible to defeat him and keep BJP out of power. Keeping up with this idelogy Congress the senior partner, a national level party and an incumbent with 78 seats has offered Kumarswamy of JD[S] with 38 seats the CM post in a bid to keep him away from BJP.

What does this say about Congress who has had a long running war with JD[S]. Congress is ready to ally and partner with anyone who will help it keep Modi and BJP out of power. So if in a election in Telangana or Andhra Pradesh if Congress falls short of a simple majority will they ally with Owaisi's and offer him the CM post just to keep Modi and BJP out. Watching today's alliance drama Congress will sleep with the devil to retain power or keep Modi out of power. This is Congress's dangerous ideology we have to be careful about.

It should not come as a surprise to anyone...Congress were in a pre-poll alliance with SDPI [PFI] the Islamic terrorist organization of Kerala, posing as a secular political outfit, trying to expand into Karnataka and Tamil Nadu with the help of Congress.

Its time we put Country before religion!

MA Convent a school in Allahabad UP has banned the singing of the National anthem for the last 12 years. As per the school management the explanation for the ban is given below.

Source: New Indian Express

The Principal and 7 teacher's have resigned while the school management has stuck its position using religious tenets and injunctions to support the ban of the National anthem in the school. The school management has been arrested in the meantime. MA convent is not a Christian run school.

Source: New Indian Express

Indian government and political class for the past 68 years have been unable to separate religion from politics and have used religion as a tool for appeasement and votes. Constitutionally we have applied the label of 'Secular' but are far from practicing it. Secularism in practice is a burden only the Hindus has to bear, while the rest are exempt from it.

In India freedom to practice ones religion has been taken to the extreme level where religion has been put before the country and national interest. This has gone on for the last 68 years in the name of minority appeasement and vote bank politics.

1. Banning of Satanic Verses to appease Mullah's and making freedom of expressing a one way street. India was the first and only non-Muslim secular country do so.

2. Minority appeasement governing foreign relations, specifically with Israel

3. Shah Bano case and special Muslim personal law for Muslims was instituted which actually sanctions and approved Sharia. First non-Muslim secular country to do so.

4. Permission to use loudspeakers to call the 'faithful' to prayers 5 times a day 365 days a year, starting at 5:00 am is allowed in India, the only non Muslim secular country to do so. Never mind the fact that Supreme Court has banned use of loud speakers after 11:00 pm to 7:00 am. On this point I want to point out that people who want to go to the mosque to pray can always set an alarm, they dont need to wake up the rest of the country. In Bangalore where I live 3 mosques use their loudspeakers simultaneously right next to a very famous and large cardiology hospital. 

5. Travel subsidy for religious pilgrimage to Mecca and Jerusalem. Hindus dont get any such special treatment. In fact religious charity is a big concept in the Islamic and Christian religions, the rich among them should be encouraged to contribute towards religious pilgrimage rather than a secular government subsidizing religious travel.

6. India is the only non Muslim secular country which allows and even funds Madarsa's which have become breeding ground for terrorist and radical thinking.

These are just few instances that come to mind. There are many instances where minority appeasement which has lead to a situation where religious minorities have placed religion before the country without paying heed to the fact that its the Indian nation and the constitution which allows for such freedom.

Its time the government of India applies the uniform civil code and ensures a standard policies for all citizens of India irrespective of religious belief. If India is a secular nation then lets apply the principals of secularism uniformly and fully to all.

1. Ban all religious institution Hindu, Muslim and Christian. Government should allow only secular schools private or government. Religious teaching should not be institutionalized but rather make it the prerogative of the individual or individual religious groups. 

2. Wearing religious symbols or dress code to school and work place should be banned.

3. Government should standardize the curriculum and secularize the content not leaning towards any religious group.

4. All schools should be provided and drilled in secular model of conduct. The operation of the school which includes dress code, prayer code, National anthem, oath of allegiance to the nation of India and its constitution among other things should be included.

5. Basic and compulsory military training for all students which instills identity and discipline among the youth.

6. Revoke breaks in work day for prayers or religious activities. Work place should be devoid of religious symbolism. 

These are just a few recommendations, this list can be extended to all walks of life. I welcome additional points in the comments section.

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A further update from Tufail Ahmed article in Firstpost on how a secular govt. cannot and should not fund minority institutions dated 9/08/2016

Source: Tufail Ahmed, Firstpost

The great Sikh Holcaust of 1984

By the afternoon 31^st October 1984 crowds were assembling at AIIMS and roughed up a few Sikhs in the vicinity. The convoy of President Giani Zail Singh who was arriving into Delhi was stoned. After paying homage to Mrs. Gandhi he drove to the Rashtrapati Bhavan and without consulting the cabinet of ministers or chief ministers swore in Rajiv Gandhi as the Prime Minister. Rajiv Gandhi chose to keep the ministry of external affairs and Defense portfolio.

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Footnote by Khuswant Singh: In an interview to Onlooker magazine of Bombay, Zail Singh said that if he had appointed any of the three senior cabinet ministers Pranab Mukherjee, PV Narasimha Rao or PC Sethi there was ‘every possibility of a split in Congress party, which would not be in the interest of the country. I also wanted to repay my debt to the Nehru Gandhi dynasty I was after all a protégé of Nehru. I thought Rajiv Gandhi had a modern mind, a clean image and pleasant personality and was known all over the country and abroad.’

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As the charged AIIMS mob ‘fanned’ into neighboring locality the police did nothing to check them. By sunset Sikh owned shops in Connaught place were being looted and set on fire. Huge crowds watched the scene, the police, which was present in large numbers, remained passive spectators. Taxis, trucks, three wheelers and scooters driven by Sikhs were wrecked and set alight. Clouds of smoke billowed from different localities (anybodies guess whose houses were on fire).

Neither the central government showed any eagerness to grapple with the situation. It transpired that the Delhi administration was taking orders from leaders of the local Congress party and in states where Congress was in power were asked not to interfere: the Sikhs had to be taught a lesson they would not forget. The initial outburst that which could have been contained was meticulously fanned into vast conflagrations across north India. Violence against the Sikhs was confined to Congress governed states master minded by local Congress leaders and some Congress members of Parliament.

Operation ‘Teach the Sikhs a lesson’ was put in motion on the night of the 31^st of October. Rumours were spread that Sikh celebrated the murder of Mrs. Gandhi by dancing bhangra, illuminating homes and distributing sweets. This was followed by rumours that trainloads of murdered Hindus by Sikhs had arrived from Punjab in Delhi. Another rumour spread was that Sikhs had poisoned Delhi’s drinking water.

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Footnote by Khuswant Singh: Independent organisations who carried out investigations later proved that this was in fact a lie, instead police vans had gone about announcing through loudspeakers such rumours in certain localities to incite the people.

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Meanwhile Doordarshan controlled by the govt. regularly broadcasted Mrs. Gandhi’s body lying in state along with a grieving Rajiv Gandhi and shots of agitated crowds, which bellowed ‘khoon ka badla khoon se lengey’. As a young boy I do remember these slogans audible on TV.

Having prepared the ground, Congress party workers commissioned trucks to bring in villagers from the outlying villages armed with iron rods and gasoline. They were assured police non-interference. It did not need much inducement to egg poor villagers to help themselves to Sikh property. Rape was an additional bonus for these depraved Congress animals.

Sikhs known for marital prowess and owning at least a ‘kripan’ or a sword still had no chance of putting up a resistance, unlike Muslims who live in miserable ‘ghettos’ Sikhs lived amongst Hindus as brothers, blood brothers even. Barely 7.5% of Delhi population they knew not whom to turn for help.

Congress party workers armed with election voting list and addresses made the task of identifying Sikhs easier, directing rioters to arson murder and rape of Sikhs. Thus the saddest period of Indian history where brother turned on brother as written in the Gita marking the advent of ‘Kaliyuga’ on Bharatvarsha was scripted. 

Thus, the killing of Sikh brothers began in earnest from the morning of the 1^st of November, continued unabated till the end of the funeral of Mrs. Gandhi on the 3^rd of November.

100 Sikh Gurudwaras were burnt or destroyed.

Thousands of Sikhs businesses factories and shops were destroyed.

Young Sikh women were gang raped.

Sikhs between the age group of 15 and 50 were brutally murdered (close your eyes and imagine 15 year old kids of our brothers being beaten, dragged to their death as they cry and plead for mercy)

Trains and buses were halted and Sikhs dragged out and killed in plain sight of other passengers. Amongst the Sikhs killed were officers of the armed forces in uniform. Sikhs were made to wear flaming garlands of burning tires.

Government controlled media put the deaths under 400 where as number of Sikh widowed were over 1000 in one particular locality. Besides Delhi Sikh killings took place in Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan, MP and UP. Worst hit cities were Lucknow, Kanpur, Ranchi and Rourkela. The figure of 10,000 Sikhs killed in Delhi alone would not be an exaggeration (the figure is so devastating considering that I am struggling to get 2000 signatures on a petition. Don’t look at 10,000 as an absolute number start counting and you will see the number of mutilated dead bodies)

Romesh Thappar of the Seminar estimated a murder of 8000 Sikhs in Delhi alone including 30 army officers in uniform-Illustrated Weekly of India 23-9 December 1984.

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Footnote by Khuswant Singh: The only people who came out in support of Sikhs were Punjabi Hindus and BJP and RSS party workers and other Hindu organisations.

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Over 50,000 Sikhs were lodges in refugees camps (again after 1947) in Delhi and some 30,000 families not individuals fled to the Punjab so at least multiply by 4, which is equal to 120,000 people.

Could all of this have been avoided? Rajiv Gandhi PM responsible for Defense was fully apprised of the situation and the extent of violence. On the 31^st of October he called a meeting with the Lt. Governor of Delhi, the Commissioner of Police and ML Fotedar and at this meeting a police official expressed a view that the army should be called otherwise there would be a holocaust. No attention was paid to his suggestion. Same evening PV Narasimha Rao assured Atal Behari Vajpayee that everything would be brought under control but thing just went bad to worse between 31^st October and 3^rd November and the events and massacres as mentioned above took place. Rajiv Gandhi appealed for peace on radio and television but he took no decision to impose curfew.  

For a minute lets compare this with Gujarat riots of 2002 and the decision taken by the leadership.

Section 144 of the IPC, which prohibits assembly of 4 or more persons, was promulgated and curfew imposed on 1^st November 1984. Rampaging mobs defied curfew and the police as they went about their killing business; the police stood as mute witness and in fact promoted the violence and loot and participated in sharing the loot. Shoot at sight order were given but not a single round was fired not a single rioter was killed (approximately 500 Hindus were killed by police fire in Gujarat 2002). On the 3^rd of November army was deployed only to provide security to foreign dignitaries arriving for the funeral. By then Congress’s blood lust for Sikhs was over.

On the 19^th of November 1984 the birth anniversary of Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi became infamous statement condoning the murder of Sikhs ‘when a mighty banyan tree falls the earth beneath it is bound to shake’. Rajiv Gandhi had no words of sympathy for the families of the murdered.

1809 people arrested were set free on the intercession of the Congress party. The government refused to institute an enquiry into the Sikh holocaust on the plea that it would be counter productive.

Footnote: In allegation made by Unnikrishnan, MP, that Congress workers were involved in the killing the PM Rajiv Gandhi replied ‘ You have been perpetuating this canard with ulterior motives’ When questioned on this subject by a reporter during Rajiv Gandhi’s campaign in Amethi he replied ‘We have asked the commissioner of police to go into the question and since this police outfit has been checked up they are expected to their job’. The journal did not accept this version and wrote. It is purely out of political compulsion that Rajiv Gandhi refused to order a judicial enquiry into the communal riot in Delhi and the other places as it might have led to the indictment of some members of his own party’.

 There were people in India then who believed that a crime of such magnitude if were to swept under the rug especially if it concerned Sikh brothers who have bled for the country on many occasions then it would be injustice at the highest level. Many non-governmental and Hindu organisations started an independent enquiry and to remove bias in the eyes of the people did not include Sikh representative on board. Their findings was published under the name ‘Who are the Guilty’ They were bold enough to include a number of Rajiv Gandhi’s cabinet ministers like HKL Bhagat (which the govt declined to persecute due to feigned ill health. He subsequently died a natural death mourned by none), Jagdish Tytler, Sajjan Kumar (who till recently as 2009 were being considered for party tickets) and Dharam Kumar Shastri. Other politicians included members of, Delhi Municipal Corporation, Metropolitan council and few youth Congress leaders. 13 Police officers and many constables were charged and a challenge was thrown to these men and their parties to take the charging organisation to court on charges of criminal libel. Not one dared to pick up the gauntlet including the much-esteemed Congress party.

This report was followed by another report by a high-powered commission of enquiry headed by retired CJ of the Supreme Court SM Sikri. The commission published its findings by 18^th January 1985. It concluded that ‘the brutal killing of Sikhs sparked by the assassination of Indira Gandhi strongly suggested that the objective was ‘Teach the Sikhs a lesson’. The avoidable and abysmal failure of the administration and the police, instigation by dubious political elements, equivocal role of the media and inertia and apathy shown by the official machinery all lead to the blood bath that followed.

Unashamed the Congress leadership ignored the commission findings and maintained in Parliament that official judicial enquiry will make the position of the Sikhs in Delhi untenable.  But due to political pressure Rajiv Gandhi accepted a official judicial enquiry under Justice Rangnath Mishra one-man commission who went about absolving Congress role in the massacre of Sikhs.

Soli Sorabjee provided 6000 affidavits and over a hundred witnesses against politicians and policemen who participated in the murder of Sikhs. While all accusers were subject to cross-questioning not a single cross examination and affidavits verification was allowed on people who deposed on behalf of the Congress. Submission of important police reports was refused. The whole procedure got so murky and political that the Chief Justice Of India withdrew from the commission.

Quoting Justice Tarkunde ‘we did not feel there was any point in our participation any more. This has been a one sided investigation. We were never given a chance to participate in it as we had been promised’

The full text of the Rangnath Mishra report was never released to public. It only estimates the number of people killed and the actions of the police. By action it did its job of exonerating the Congress party and politicians. It recommended appointing another commission to prosecute the people against whom charges have been laid.

After the killing of thousands of Sikhs not one person has been punished till date.