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Articles: My Thoughts | Cry for a Hindu Nation
- Miss swatireddy swati
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India is a wretched land of constitutional discrimination against the Hindus in overwhelming majority in our nation. The first hallmark of an independent nation is that it would have an independent State, and would be recognized by other countries as a nation. Its State has to run its affairs in accordance with the hopes, aspirations, ethos, ideals and culture of the nation. It should represent the nation before the world, promote the image of the nation and welfare of its members, and spread the glory of its national culture. Such a State would create consciousness of national honor, national pride and national heritage in the young and old generations.
Such a State would never permit the rights and status of its nationals to be inferior to those of any minorities, aliens and non-nationals. The grim tragedy of post independent India after 1947 has been that none of these characteristics of the State hold good for the Hindus in overwhelming majority.
As Abhas Chatterjee puts it with magisterial clarity and conviction: 'Forget about other countries, the Indian State itself has not yet recognized Hindus as a nation. And since the State power in India has itself never taken any such initiative, the question of other countries recognizing Hindus as a nation does not arise at all.'
Thanks to the vicious policy of minority vote bank politics pursued for 60 years after 1947, the Indian Constitution in effect gives less rights to the Hindus than to the minorities in several matters. For example, under Article 30 of the Constitution, minorities have got the most precious right of running educational institutions in accordance with their own cultures and values, but Hindus have been denied this right. In my view, this is State-sponsored, State-guided and State-imposed discrimination of the vilest kind. Does it not patently show that the Indian State is more liberal in advancing the cause of propagation of alien cultures like Christianity and Islam than the propagation of Hindu culture?
According to the Indian State, Adi Shankara, Ramanuja, Guru Nanak, Guru Gobind Singh, Gauthama Buddha, Maha Veera and all the Vedic saints, sages and seers, on account of their birth and belief, should enjoy a 'second class status' compared with Prophet Mohammed or Jesus Christ.
In some of the States in India, a particular non-Hindu community is numerically predominant. In such States, the State government has been granted special rights under the Indian Constitution. Article 370 applicable to the State of Jammu and Kashmir is a case in point. Similar provisions have been made applicable to Nagaland under Article 371-A and Mizoram under Article 371-G.
In all these specially favorite areas of the Union Government, Laws made by India's Parliament would not be applicable unless their own State Legislatures endorse them. In other words, States with a preponderance of the minorities will have greater autonomy in day-to-day administration than the States where Hindus are in absolute majority.
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