The Hindu Nationalist Party Turned Secular: VOTE HAS BEEN SET UP UNDER THE VOTING SYSTEM OF THE SITE FOR MEMBERS TO GIVE THEIR OPINION ON THIS.

While your anger and frustrations on these favored individuals (BABAs) is well motivated but it falls on deaf ears of the believers. While we the followers of Arya Samaj feel strongly against these preachers, but what good is it to preach the choir?

Why must we blame this on the believers when our own chosen leaders have betrayed us, shamelessly. We the 'Hindus' (if there honestly there is pure term as 'Hindus") cannot find a common string to bind us, even our own 'blood' ('Hindu" brethren) Will continue to undermine us.

Most people live for the moment. they go and pray to every stone, individual of notoriety to fulfill some wish. They forget that when you keep your wish and need to the forefront, you will devote energy to accomplish that very need. More than 50% of the time your efforts will bear fruit and as such you believe in the last 'temple' that you prayed at and develop "?faith"

Most eduacted people are swayed by such beliefs. When stressed people look for an easy way out. Our superstitions engrained so deeply in our culture, not only in india but the world over are near impossible to revert. Realise, perceptions are realities. If people beileve that a particular 'Baba" is an incarnation, then he is!!! Say an untruth enough times, it becomes the truth. There are plenty examples here in USA where the TV Evangelists raise money by the millions in the name healing people by their prayers.

Very few of these people have chosen to spend these windfalls for the upliftments of the downtroden. Unless and untill the well-to-do, by their own will start helping those that are struggling there will conversions to Christianily and Moslem faith whose missionaries are well funded.

When we 'Hindus' cannot accept each other, why should not the wonderers be misled into various directions. It is most complex matter that has no simple answers.

While seeking to usher in Democracy in the true sense of the word it is more important to raise the level of awareness of the majority of the population about the practicability and the need for it, than trying to devise the exact mechanism of it, which can vary from place to place and can always be improved upon.

It is proposed that a 'Association of Independents Web Platform' be set up by the WDDM to facilitate this raising of awareness by performing the following functions, while acting as a nidus for action on the ground, throughout the world:
1) To face political parties, which have failed to provide True Democracy, by putting up candidates on an independent basis during elections. This can be done by choosing from (among the willing) members of various electoral constituencies registered on the platform, through a fair process (eg. Triplet system).
2) To familiarize the people about the procedures of Initiative and Referendum by practising the same on the Platform with respect to issues concerning their places of living (Citizen's Forum). When the independent candidates put up by the platform successfully enter the legislative bodies, the I&R results of the platform can actually influence the government of the day.
3) To educate the younger generations (through the above two processes) about the possibility of a New Political System that stands for the best of values: freedom of expression, equality of all and the people becoming their own masters, not subjected to any ideology or line of thinking.

While it is important to continue discussions as at present to deepen our understanding about various issues, it is crucial that a workable plan is put in place as soon as possible since forces opposed to True Democracy would otherwise become more dominant than ever before in these times of moral, economic and social crises.

A VOTE HAS BEEN SET UP UNDER THE VOTING SYSTEM OF THE SITE FOR MEMBERS TO GIVE THEIR OPINION ON THIS.

But we must keep searching!!!!

The Hindu Nationalist Party Turned Secular:

 

We should now have a look on the other activities of the NDA government during its tenure that lasted for 6 years. As a matter of fact, the BJP is a direct successor of The Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS), founded in 1951 by Dr Syama Prasad Mookherjee and it was considered the political wing of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). After the murder of Dr Mookherjee in custody in 1953, the BJS lasted for 24 more years, but never seriously challenged the power of Indian National Congress It is well known that in 1980, a group of top leaders of BJS, including Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Lal Krishna Advani, formed the new party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the RSS duly recognized this new party as its political organ. So, it is not difficult to understand that “Hindutva” was the fundamental basis of BJP and its ultimate goal was to make India a “Hindu Rastra”.

 

So, before the Lok Sabha elections in 1998 and 1999, the BJP declared the followings as its professed goals. :

1.    No special treatment for any religious group or BJP would never resort to appease the Muslims for securing their votes.

2.    The Repeal of Article 370 of the Constitution, which prevents non-Kashmiris, including Hindus who have fled the area due to increasing terrorism, from owning property in the state of Jammu and Kashmir.

3.    The Promulgation of a Uniform Common Civil Code, which create only one personal and civil law code for Hindus, Muslims and Christians.

4.    A Ban on Cow Slaughter, to honor the Hindu tradition of not consuming the flesh of cow, and prohibiting the consumption of beef.

5.    A Complete Ban on Religious Conversions

6.    The Construction of the Ram Janmabhoomi temple in Ayodhya,.

7.    To achieve the full territorial and political integration of Jammu and Kashmir with India. Presently over 40% of the territory is under the control of Pakistan and China.

8.    Identification of Bangladeshi Muslim infiltrators and send them back to Bangladesh and at the same time taking proper steps to stop infiltration of Bangladeshi Muslims to West Bengal..

9.    Rehabilitation of the Kashmiri Pundits, who have been evicted from their home land Kashmir and living as refugees in the refugee camps in Delhi.

But after assuming power, the NDA government did not take any initiative to implement any of the above promises. On the contrary, during his visit to Jammu and Kashmir, the Prime Minister Sri Vajpayee assured the Kashmiri Muslims that, so long he is the Prime Minister, the Article 370 would continue. During election campaign BJP promised that it would never indulge in appeasement of the Muslims. But after assuming power, NDA government increased Hajj subsidy for the Muslims and hiked the salary of the imams. Previously the Muslims pilgrims intending to go to Mecca to perform Hajj, had to travel to Mumbai and from Mumbai they used to fly to Jeddah at subsidized rate. But the NDA government arranged flights from all the major cities of India to Mecca and built rest houses, specially for the Hajj pilgrims, in all the major cities of the country.

While it was expected that the NDA government, after assuming power, would strive hard to implement the above mentioned national agenda and hence to consolidate Hindu votes, but on the contrary, it displayed a strong inclination to acquire Muslim votes by appeasement of the Muslims. They floated the idea that all Muslims are not anti-nationals and there also exists a large group of good as well as nationalist Muslims, who are to be brought under the banner of BJP. Which was as ridiculous and bogus as saying, “All cobras are not bad and there are good cobras as well.” On the basis of this newly invented ridiculous, baseless and bogus ideology, they started to appease the Muslims in a big way, especially in 2000-2001, when Bangaru Laxman became the president of the Party. It is needless to say that from this time onwards, the Hindus started not only to reject, but to hate BJP and its leaders.

As mentioned above, prior to the 1999 election, BJP promised to identify every Bangladeshi Muslim infiltrator and send them back to Bangladesh. But after assuming power, the NDA government, according to their newly adopted policy of Muslim appeasement, took no step in this direction. On the contrary, it adopted a serious anti Hindu step in this context. Previously, the Hindus who, being persecuted by the Muslims, were coming to India from Bangladesh were treated as refugees. But NDA government deprived the Hindus from this facility (which is the standing policy of the UN) and started to treat the Hindus as infiltrators, like the Muslims. In one incident, a Hindu housewife, to save her life from the Muslim goons of Bangladesh, was crossing the border by swimming a canal and the Indian security forces gunned her down. Due to this step-motherly attitude of the NDA government towards the Bangladeshi Hindus, lakhs of Bangladeshi Hindus are still not getting refugee status and hence any assistance from either the state or the Central government.

Another important promise made by BJP was implementation of the uniform civil code for all the citizens on India, irrespective of religion or other differences. In this context, it is important to note that, a verdict of the Supreme Court in mid-2003 upheld the necessity of enforcing ‘common civil code’ in India, which could liberate India's Muslim women from the shameful gender discrimination like polygamy and oral divorce. But the NDA government, in tune with its new policy of Muslim appeasement, did not take any initiative in this direction, because such a step would have displeased the orthodox Muslim clerics.

Most importantly, the NDA government remained not only silent regarding the construction of temple at Ayodhya, but opposed any attempt or any movement for temple construction. During its tenure Vishwa Hindu Parishad gave a call for a demonstration of the activists at Ayodhya. But to frustrate the effort, NDA government promulgated an ordinance so that police can arrest anyone found to purchase a railway ticket for Ayodhya anywhere in the country. In Kolkata, many VHP workers were arrested and put into police custody, while they were found to purchase railway ticket for Ayodhya at Howrah and Sealdah railway stations. It is really surprising that the NDA government took such step against the people who voted it to power.

When the author of this article asked a BJP leader about this affair, he said that most of the allies of the NDA are secular minded and hence if the government wanted to move forward any issue concerning the Hindus, they would withdraw their support leading to a fall of the NDA government. The question naturally arises – Did the Hindus voted BJP to rule for a full term at the sacrifice of the Hindutva issues? The leaders of BJP failed to understand that, had the government fallen due to an initiative of the BJP to fulfill its pre-election promises, the Hindus would have voted BJP again, perhaps more profusely, and help form the government. But our leaders preferred to remain in power at the sacrifice of its pre-poll promises and thus earned distrust of the Hindus. Many Hindus began to call BJP as “Biswasghatak Janata Party”.

Thus, without caring for the sentiment of the electorate, who voted it to power, BJP or the NDA government dumped all its nationalist agenda into the cold storage and at the fag end of its tenure started to build roads, as if the voters had voted it to power for making roads. Prime Minister Sri Atal Bihari Vajpayee was, perhaps, confident that the said road building and the economic reforms he had undertaken, would return him to power again. But the poll results 2004 election reflected that he was wrong. He learned the bitter lesson that the Hindu voters did not make him the Prime Minister of India for making roads and bringing economic reforms.  

During the 5 year period from 2004 to 2009, BJP has left no stone unturned to expose itself a truly secular party through complete renunciation of its Hindu identity. Its leaders failed to grasp that it drew strength and status from Hindu society alone and it was the Hindus who voted it to power. They failed to learn a lesson from the debacle of 2004 election. So, in stead of Hindutva agenda, they depended on good governance and development to win the 2009 election and kept silence about the most cherished Hindu issues like temple building in Ayodhya, scrapping of Article 370, enforcement of common civil code and so on.