June 6, 2008

“Indian army wary of Role in Gujjar Stir” - thus runs a [Deccan
Chronicle, Hyderabad, of 28.05.2008] news report attributed to senior
Indian army circles in New Delhi. Gujjars in Rajasthan have been
agitating under leadership of a Col Kirori Singh Bhainsla (Rtd) for
inclusion in the Scheduled Tribe category. They want to move down from
the backward category [BC] into the Scheduled Tribe [ST] category.
Meenas, another Hindu community who are already in the ST category are
fiercely opposing the inclusion of Gujjars in the scheduled tribes
category as it would diminish their part of the cake of ST
reservations.
Fifteen Districts of Rajasthan and some districts in Haryana and Uttar
Pradesh and the national capital territory of Delhi experienced Rasta
and Rail Rokos and such agitations which turned violent. Police are
deployed and army units are standing by. If this were a single incident
in the whole of India, then there may not be much concern. Gujjars like
Jats, join the armed forces in large numbers. There are 30,000 of them
in the armed forces. They are preferred recruits among those who offer
to join the army. The armed forces being required to stand by and if
necessary to handle the agitators are worried. Their units contain
Gujjars and Gujjar soldiers will have to shoot down Gujjars; what if
they refuse? That is the worry. When our armed forces were used to
flush out the heavily armed militants holed up in the Golden temple in
Amritsar, the consequence was heart-wrenching. Sikh soldiers and
officers had to shoot down Sikh militants. Some Sikh soldiers deserted;
some resigned and some Officers got so outraged that some of them
became leaders of Sikh militants of the Khalistan [Sovereign Sikh
State] movement in Punjab.

We have in our Armed Forces some regional and even predominantly caste
regiments like the Mahars and the Goorkhas. If the Mahars in
Maharashtra are engaged in a civil agitation, then using the armed
forces which contain Mahar units will be problematic. Like wise if
there is a violent Dravidian movement in Tamilnadu say, against Hindi
or winding down reservations, then the use of our Armed Forces which
contain many Tamilians, may be problematic.

The spirit of nationalism and that India is ‘one nation’ is fast
collapsing among our people. There are caste-wise formations. Political
leaders regional as well as national, are patronizing such formations.
Different castes are wanting to be declared backward and more backward;
so backward that they should be included in scheduled tribe category.
Some forward castes like Kapus for example in Andhra Pradesh are
wanting to be included in the backward classes category; those castes
who are already listed as backward are opposing the inclusion. Among
the scheduled castes in Andhra Pradesh there are 54 sub-castes. As a
lion’s share of the reservations, is going to one caste, Mala, who have
mostly converted to Christianity but continue to declare themselves as
scheduled caste-Hindus. The far more numerous sub-caste madigas have
been carrying agitation, including fast undo death, for classification
of the scheduled castes according to sub-castes allocating reservations
to the sub-castes in proportion to their population. Government of
India had to appoint the Js Usha Mehra Committee to study this
classification (Vargikaran) demand. Its report appears to recommend
classification of the SCs; this report was denounced by the Malas. They
are engaged in counter-movements.

The Indian Armed Forces recruit soldiers purely by merit. The utmost
that they are conscious of proper representation is that they cast
their net over at least 10% of every states’ population for
consideration of recruitment. Only the fit among these nets are
selected. This is the only concession that the armed forces make for
seeing that the people from all the states are included in the
services. But now politics in the states is getting more and more
centered around caste groups. While Dr B R Ambedkar led movements for
annihilation of caste, politicians are invigorating caste consciousness
and solidarity through movements for inclusion of almost every caste in
BC, OBC, and ST categories and for “packages” of crores for relieving
backwardness and caste-specific financial corporations to advance
loans. These movements are some times becoming so violent as to require
deployment of armed forces.

The question arises as to whether casteism will also infect our armed
forces and therefore subvert their loyalty to the nation. Our armed
forces are trained, drilled and psychologically indoctrinated to think
of themselves as one nation, as one people and to be prepared to die in
defence of the state and nation. But if units of the armed forces are
often used to suppress casteist and communal agitations, will their
loyalty to the nation get subverted and undermined by caste and
religious solidarity? We have already seen this in regard to Sikhs. Now
are we going to see this again in connection with agitation of Gujjars
and later on, some other castes in some other state? This must be the
greatest worry to every patriotic Indian. Unfortunately almost all our
politicians are showing degenerated minds. It appears that the BJP had
promised to Rajasthan’s Gujjars during the 2003 elections to the
Legislative Assembly that if returned to power, they would include
Gujjars in the scheduled tribe category. The Congress in Andhra Pradesh
had been promising to Kapus that if they support the Congress, the
Congress government would include Kapus in the B C Category. These
unscrupulous promises to gain power are what are destroying the Hindu
society. The Hindu society is already subject to onslaught by three
fundamentalist forces –Christian and Islamic religious fundamentalisms
are engaged in conversion and conquest respectively; Communists’
political theology is in league with forces that want to obliterate
Hinduism. As if these three very well funded transnational onslaughts
are not enough, now greedy dynasty-building politicians from among
Hindus are a accentuating caste divisions to destroy whatever remains
as a Hindu community; as the Indian nation.

In Chhattisgarh, the ‘local’ Hindi-speaking people prevented two
hundred Telugu-speaking people from Andhra Pradesh from appearing in
the recruitment examination conducted by a Central Government
corporation saying that they are non-locals. Biharis appearing for
recruitment in South Central Railways in Hubli [Karnataka] and
Secunderabad, (A P) were obstructed by the local people. In Assam there
has been raging agitation against non-Assamese working there to the
extent that Hindi and Bengali-speaking people are being killed.

Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, in his last speech as the President of India,
lamented that there is a “deficit of leaders with noble minds”. This
deficit was being built up since several decades. Indira Gandhi
unabashedly subverted Indian laws and Constitution for personal and
Dynastic power. We had evidence of that during the fascist Emergency
imposed in 1975-‘77. Since then, politics have become competitive
populism; appeasing to language, regional, caste and religious
groupings. Earlier, it was only Muslims who were separatist but now
Christians are also separatists [eg. Nagaland, Manipur and Mizoram] and
both these are supported by some brands of communist parties and
'seculars'.

Kulapati K M Munshiji in his small book, ‘Warnings of History’, and
Rajaji in his several writings warned the nation of what precisely is
happening now. Munshiji spoke of three essentials for a people to
consider themselves as a nation: Common memory of heroes and their
achievements, will to unity and habitual urge to collective action.
During our movement for freedom, great leaders were promoting all these
three ideas. They were educating people in our common nationhood.
Rajajji sensed the creeping degeneration in the Congress, especially
under Jawaharlal Nehru’s brand of populist socialism. Dr B R Ambedkar
in his several studies pointed out that unlike Muslims and Christians
who are distinct communities and who act in the name of their
community, Hindus are not one community but that they are something
like a federation of thousands of castes having only cultural unity. If
that cultural unity is fostered and caste gets sublimated and
insignificant by education which gives mobility across professions, our
nationhood gets stronger to overcome divisiveness due to caste,
language and region. Unfortunately, politicians deficient in noble mind
are invoking and invigourating saste consciousness for electoral gains.
The consequence is the emergence of many antagonisms within who are
called Hindus. Dr B R Ambedkar very boldly pointed to the unfitness of
the Congress to rule the country. In a letter to Sushri Sharada, his
future wife, soon after the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi, he wrote:

“Mr Gandhi had become a positive danger to his
country. He had choked all the thoughts. He was holding together the
Congress which is a combination of all the bad and self-seeking
elements in society who agreed on no social or moral principle
governing the life of society except the one of praising and flattering
Mr Gandhi. Such a body is unfit to govern the country”.

We have he same mindset namely, sycophancy among
followers of not only the Congress Party but also those of the
casteist, regional, proprietary parties all over India. In his speech
in the Constituent Assembly on the occasion of adoption of the
Constitution, Dr B R Ambedkar said that if political parties and
leaders place, communal, regional, linguistic, caste and religious
interests above that of the nation, then we will lose Independence,
this time for ever unlike in the past.

That the highest in the Indian armed forces are getting concerned about
caste loyalties that might prevail in the soldiers in the context of
caste-based agitations like Gujjars is ominous. Dr B R Ambedkar only
thought of not having Muslims in an united India’s army as their use
against a Muslim country’s war on India was opposed by the Khilafatists
and later, by the Muslim League. Sri V P Menon, [who was Secretary of
the States Minority of the GoI] in his book, ”Integration of Indian
States” recorded the facts of Muslim soldiers in the army of the
Maharaja of Jammu & Kashmir turning traitors and killing their
Hindu brother-soldiers and en-mass joining the Pakistan’s raiders. If
our political leaders do not take note of the anguished thoughts of the
senior echelons of our armed forces, casteism will destroy even the
Armed Forces as a national unit. Will our politicians heed and learn
from history? (1,720 words)

habbir Ali, the Minister for Minority (Muslim)
Welfare and Electricity in the Government of Andhra Pradesh while
inaugurating on Tuesday the 22nd April center for Education Development
of Minorities told the Muslim students, ‘Write the EAMCET exam. Do not
be hesitant in joining the MBBS and engineering courses. Don’t worry if
you cannot pay the fees. They will be paid by the Government of Andhra
Pradesh. It will fully bear the cost of all fees for all Muslims in the
state just as it is bearing the costs of the fee for scheduled castes
and scheduled tribes and Backward Castes. The government will reimburse
all the fees for all Muslims. We are going to write to the colleges
that they should not ask for any fee from Muslims. This facility will
be created from the educational year 2008-2009’. He unveiled the
coaching material to be distributed to Muslim students.

Dear Hindus, if you still have any awareness that you are Hindus, that
you belong to this land, that it is from your labour and taxes that
this country is built, you must not take this Muslim rule in Andhra
Pradesh lightly. It is only in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait and such Islamic
states that from the oil monies Muslim students’ fees are paid. Not in
Pakistan not in Bangladesh not in Egypt not in Indonesia or Malaysia
are the fees for Muslims students paid by the governments of those
Muslim countries. But here in India the fees for Muslim students will
be paid from the tax monies of Hindus for 95% of the tax monies of the
governments in India are from Hindus. Muslims ruled and looted our
country for hundreds of years in several parts. In Andhra Pradesh there
was total Moslem rule until 17.9.1948 when Sardar Patel, despite
Nehru’s coolness, liberated this state from Muslim rule from Razakars
and saved Hindus from being subjects of an Islamic state. We may recall
that the Nizam of Hyderabad donated one million pounds to Pakistan as
its birthday gift. Later he instructed a bank in England to transfer
another million Pounds to Pakistan. But before it was effected,
Hyderabad was liberated and Sardar Patel was able to stop the payment
of the India’s money to Pakistan).

Dr Y S Rajashekhar Reddy, a 7th Day Adventist Christian Chief Minister
of the state very proudly and loudly and publicly declared that his is
a government of minorities. Sri Shabbir Ali is even more stridently
implementing the minority rule in this state. While Christians are
being helped clandestinely and in dose after dose, Shabbir Ali is seems
to have been given freedom to use the tax monies of the 'secular'
government for feeding and breeding (Shabbir Ali announced that the
GOAP would fund the mass marriages of Moslems!) and educating and
profiting the minority (Muslims). This means that less than 20% of the
people of Andhra Pradesh who are declared as forward castes are having
to bear the burden.

Muslims and Christians are allowed to have limitless number of
Engineering, Medical, Dental, MBA, MCA, Law and B Ed colleges. Not only
they are not able to fill up these colleges with Muslims and
Christians. They are selling seats to Hindus. In addition to this
profiteering, they will get free education at the cost of Hindus. Is
this not amounting to slavery of Hindus to Muslims? This is perpetrated
by the 'secular' ruling party which itself is ruled by a person of
foreign origin professing a foreign faith. Hindus are losing
Independence. We are gong to lose our identity. This is by gradual
steps implemented with our unquestioning consent. Suppose a frog is
kept in water and the water is gradually heated to boiling point. The
frog would never attempt to jump out of the water getting hot, hotter
and hotter. It gets cooked and would die. Suppose a live frog is thrown
into very hot water. It would immediately jump out and save itself.
Hindus are now like the frog which thinks it is in safe water, even
while it is getting heated and heated and it ultimately dies. If
Pakistan attacks India or some other country invades India we would try
to jump out to defeat the invader (like the frog in boiling water
jumping out). It is tragic that Hindus are destroying themselves by
mobilizing into conflicting caste formations. Inspiration,
philosophical justification and financial resources for these caste
conflicts are being supplied clandestinely by our enemies.

Hindus must awake to the danger of being once again ruled and ruined by
a minority with a separatist, exclusivist, divisionist, Pakistan
mind-set. Men of that mind set are already ensconced in the Union
Ministries of External Affairs and Home! Hindus must consider the
wisdom expressed in the words of the great statesman Winston Churchill:

IF YOU WILL NOT FIGHT.....

"If you will not fight for the
right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight
when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the
moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and
only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you
may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is
better to perish than to live as slaves."

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