But the Communists are least concerned with all these things. What is their record in West Bengal where they have been continuously ruling for the past 30 years? When they came to power in1977 they declared with great fanfare that they would be implementing insurance scheme for landless labourers. But the money collected from them was not deposited with the Provident Fund Commissioner. Crores of rupees collected on this account had been misappropriated by them. The number of landless labourers in West Bengal stood at 73 lakhs. Among them only 9 lakhs were included in the above mentioned scheme. 63 lakhs were just ignored. This government has created another 24 lakhs landless labourers in the past ten years by forcefully grabbing their lands. What can be more disgraceful for the government that between August 7 to mid-October, about 40 food riots have been taken place. And what is the reason? In some of the districts rationed articles have not been distributed for the last 18 months and in some for the last 11 months. Ration dealers in collusion with ministers, bureaucrats, district magistrates, block development officers, legislators, rationing officers and distributors have sold out food-grains and other materials in black market. Food-riots are practically a revolt against the Left Front government and the most interesting part is that they are being instigated by the members of the Left Front themselves.
The fiercest form of the bankrupt ideology of Communism is appearing in the form of Maoist and Naxalite violence. Over 6,000 people have been killed in just over a decade in different parts of Bharat. But those who are at the helm of affairs think that their responsibility is over by issuing a statement every time there is an incidence of violence and call it the most barbaric and cowardly act. It is quite a rare occasion when any court has convicted and sentenced a terrorist. The case of Mohammad Afzal is a living example. Even after the Supreme Court gave him death penalty, the Central Cabinet recommended that the death sentence to be converted into life imprisonment and sent it to the Delhi Government for approval. The Delhi government has not replied yet. In Assam, the security forces were directed to abandon anti-ULFA operations to create a congenial atmosphere for peace talks. This was taken advantage of by ULFA who regrouped themselves and became stronger. The success of the Maoists in Nepal has encouraged the Naxalites in Bharat that they can also be successful. A central leader of the CPM had gone to meet the terrorist leader Prachanda in Nepal.
There is an adage in Hindi which means those who deserve thrashing cannot be brought to reason by mere talking. The weak-kneed policy of the Central Government has only emboldened the demonic forces. European countries like France, England etc. have enacted tough laws to deal with the terrorists but our Government, running with the external support of the Communists has repealed the POTA regulation, with the result that terrorism is raising its head again. Recently, in Ludhiana there was an explosion killing six and injuring 30 in a theatre where large number of labourers from Bihar had gathered to witness a picture in their own Bhojpuri language. The hand of Khalistanis is being suspected. Before that on September 1, a powerful bomb exploded in the vegetable market in Guwahati by the ULFA terrorists. The toll was two killed and 20 injured.
Not that only Hindus are being targeted. On October 11, a bomb exploded in Ajmer Sharief after Roja Iftar killing two and injuring 20. Before that also Samjhouta Express and the mosques in Malegaon, Hyderabad and Aurangabad were targeted and, those who were killed and injured were Muslims only. And recently on October 17, the traders who received parcels as presents were also Muslims. Outwardly they appeared to be CD-players but inside them were 36 detonators that had the capacity to cause immense damage within a radius of 200 meters. This only proves the terrorists whether Hindus, Muslims or Christian or those who claim to be followers of Sikh Gurus, are bereft of any religious values. Scores of examples can be quoted but the question is whether the government is at all serious in tackling the terrorists. If so, then they should enact tough laws without loss of time.
There is one mere problem and that is appeasement of the so-called minorities. At the out set we should realise that to call Muslims, Christians, Buddhists and Sikhs of our country as minorities is nothing but an extension of the British policy of ?divide and rule?. Minorities are those who were uprooted in their own countries and took refuge in this country, and, because they did not have any roots in this country, they might need certain rights to protect their identity. That way, only the Jews and the Parsees may be called minorities who came to Bharat two thousand and one thousand years ago from Israel and Iran respectively. But when during the drafting of our constitution a proposal was placed before them that because their number was so small that on their own they could not get elected to either the Central or the State legislatures, therefore, some seats could be reserved for them to be filled by nomination. The leaders of both the communities flatly refused and said they did not need any reservations and that they were quite happy with the national society. In no other country did we get such a considerate treatment as we got here. And we see that they did not suffer any disability what so ever. Our two Generals, Gen. Jacob and Gen. Manikshaw, one a Jew and the other a Parsee, brought victory to our country during wars. Who can forget the role played by Dadabhai Naroji and Madame Cama during our freedom struggle or the contribution of Jamsedji Nasarvan Tata in the industrial field?
This being the situation, how can the statement of our Prime Minister be justified that the minorities have the first claim on the resources of our country? In giving compensation also to the families of those killed, the government perpetrates discrimination. For the Pakistanis killed in Samjhouta Express explosions, the compensation given was 10 lakhs per person, for the Muslims killed in Malegaon, Hyderabad etc. it was five lakhs per person whereas for those Hindus who were killed in Mumbai explosions the compensation was two lakhs, meaning thereby that the lives of Hindus are cheaper than those of the so-called minorities. The Leftist Government in West Bengal, with their eyes on the fourth-coming panchayat elections, has declared that 30 per cent of the budgetary allocation will be earmarked for the minorities, they will be trained at government expenses for recruitment in the Police force in large numbers, new minority schools will be established and a lenient view will be taken about the madarsas. Is this not a crass appeasement of the minorities and discrimination of the worst order? The so-called minorities in West Bengal form 28 per cent of the population and of them 25.25 per cent are Muslims. Of the 50 Muslim majority districts in the country, 12 belong to the West Bengal alone. Over and above that there are the recommendations of the Sachar Committee, which recommends reservation of seats in institutions of higher education. Is this not a shameful example of minority appeasement? On the other hand, those who are converted to either Christianity or Islam from Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and other backward communities have started demanding reservations for them in the government services. Is it not an encroachment on the privileges of the SCs, STs and OBCs of the Hindu society?
It should be remembered that the demand that the provisions of reservations for the SCs, STs and OBCs as enshrined in the Constitution, should be extended to the Christian and Muslim converts also, has been rejected by the Supreme Court in a number of public interest litigations. It has held that the reservation policy has been adopted to remove the social disability inflicted because of the caste-system prevailing in the Hindu society. Any Hindu converted to either Islam or Christianity is thrown out of the Caste system. To covert a man to their faith the Christian fathers take recourse to the plea that there is no caste discrimination in the Christian society. Will the church leaders, before demanding reservation for Dalit Christians, declare that they do have caste discrimination in their society? From the regulation of the Government of India 1935 to Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe regulation, 1950 and the orders promulgated from time to time afterwards also are very clear about this point. This matter was thoroughly discussed by our Constitution makers and they had rejected the extension of privileges to converts. In 1936 also the British Government has rejected the demand for reservation for converted Christians.
If this demand for reservation for converts is accepted then most of the reservations will be cornered by them with the help of enormous foreign funds being pumped into our country from abroad. The greatest obstacle experienced by the Christian missionaries and Muslim moulavis in their task of proselytisation will be removed and the pace of conversion will enormously increase, creating problems for the unity and integrity of our Nation. The leaders and public representatives of SCs and STs should realise this danger and see through their hidden game plan and come forward to thwart their mischief. In addition to that those of them who have come above the poverty line should come forward to renounce those privileges for themselves and their dependents so that their brethren who are still below the poverty line may get the benefit of reservations. Reservation after all is akin to crutches which are taken recourse to when due to some accident we begin to limp. Once the disability is removed the crutches are discarded.
On the Economic front the Sensex reached the 19,000 mark recently. This was taken to be a measure of our economic progress and they patted their backs. But all this is being manoeuvered with help of foreign funds. The money of terrorists and of those engaged in narcotics trade is also playing its role. This money was pumped into our economy in the name of ?Participatory Fund?. The Reserve Bank of India got concerned about it and imposed a restriction on further flow of foreign investment into the above fund and has ordered that in the next 18 months the remaining foreign investment should be completely exhausted. The result is, the Sensex has started falling.
Actually the initial mistake was committed when the first Prime Minister of our country Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru, disregarding the advice of Mahatma Gandhi to make villages the centre-point of our economic planning, made the country tread the western path of development. The western developmental path is centralised, high energy consumptive, capital intensive, labour displacing and eco-distructive. The path suggested by Mahatma Gandhi was de-centralised, low energy consumptive, using small capital, labour-intensive and eco-friendly. Today in the West itself, renowned scholars looking into the future, have started challenging the present developmental path. They have warned that if tinkering with environment is not stopped, the very existence of mankind will be jeopardised. A competition is on to dominate the world markets and towards that end stockpiles of weapons of mass-destruction have been created. The whole world appears to be on the brink of world-war. One spark is sufficient to trigger off the third world war which may take a tall of 200 crore people with immense damage to environment. Bharat will also be affected because of Pakistan and China. But the task of giving the message of peace to the world in future will have to be done by Bharat only because it alone possesses the spiritual philosophy which says that the same Atman, the Ultimate Reality is pervading the Whole Universe, whether men and animals, trees and plants, worms and flying creatures. It is because of this that Bharat can declare?
Sarve bhavantu sukhinaha
Sarve santu niramayaha
Sarve bhadrani pashantu
Ma kashchit dukkhabhaga bhavet.
?Let everybody be hale and hearty, let everybody enjoy all good things in life and let nobody experience any pain.?
For that, however, the Hindu society will have to become consolidated and strong by rising above all sorts of differences. Fortunately we are getting some good indications also. We all know that the Britishers followed the ?divide and rule? policy to fulfill their imperialistic objectives and with that end in view they divided the society into Aryans and Dravidians, aboriginals and immigrants, Brahmins and non-Brahmins, touchables and un-touchables etc. It is unfortunate that even after 60 years of our Independence the same wrong history is being taught to us. Swami Vivekananda said before an audience in the Madras city as the 19th century was drawing to a close??Do not believe such silly things as there was a race of mankind in South India called the Dravidians who were black, differing widely from one race in North India called Aryans who were bright. Not knowing where the Aryans can from of late there was an attempt to prove,? he laughed and said, ?Aryans lived on the Swiss lakes.? This theory which was trotted out in the name of Max Muller, has obsessed the Indian mind since then, so much so, that we are unwittingly call our brothers living in forests as ?adivasis? i.e. aboriginals, there by lending credence to the theory that we came from outside.
Weeks back the BBC website came out with the startling disclosure that??there is now ample evidence to show that Max Mullar and those who followed him were wrong. Modern historians of the area no longer believe that such invasions had such great influence on Indian history. It is generally accepted that Indian history shows a continuity of progress from the earliest times to today.?
Recently on September 13, 2007 the United Nations ?Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples? was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly. A group was working on it since 1982 and the final draft was first adopted in U.N. Security Council and then adopted by the General Assembly. 143 countries voted in favour and four against with 11 abstaining. Those who voted against were Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States. In the Security Council in an explanation of vote before the vote, the Indian representative Ajeya Malhotra said ?India has been consistently favouring the rights of indigenous peoples. With regards to the right of self determinations this is understood to apply only to peoples under foreign domination and not to a nation of indigenous persons.?
When I told the same thing in a programme at Ranchi recently, the next day the church-inspired organisations opposed it. They did dub the R.S.S. as communal but also indicted the Central Government that it was out to curb their rights. Be it so. Our national mainstream of Bharat has been flowing since the hoary past in which so many streams and rivulets had been mingling acquiring holiness the same way the waters flowing into the Ganga are purified. Keeping intact the purity of our national stream we have to gather strength to purify the whole world.
So many scholars of our country are today engaged in unravelling the true history of our country with the help of literary and archaeological proofs. The most important discovery is that of vanished river Saraswati. The NASA pictures first of all gave evidence of the underground Saraswati flowing from Shivalik ranges in the Himalayas to Gulf of Cambay in Gujarat. One of our senior leaders? late Shri Moropant Pingle made a month-long journey from Shivalik to Cambay accompanied by Dr. V.S. Wakankar and many historians, geologists and literary people.
The earthenware pots, samples of underground waters and the folk-tales gathered in this journey enabled the scholars that the mighty river Saraswati, described as ambitame naditame (the great mother, the great river), used to flow in so many streams through today'swestern Rajasthan and eastern Pakistan and joined the Gulf of the Cambay where the sea ports of the Lothal and Dholavira were flourishing. Hundreds of the ramanants of towns like Harappa and Mohonjodaro were found on the banks of the Saraswati. Till now the Harappan civilization was considered to be pre-Aryan immigration. It was during the time of the Mahabharat that the Saraswati began to vanish because of tectonic upheaval in the glacier feeding the river. Because of that the stream of the Saraswati got mingled in the Yamuna. It is because of this that at the confluence of the three rivers Ganga, Yamuna and Saraswati, Saraswati is said to invisible. Today the spot in Haryana from where the Saraswati originates, has been discovered and efforts are on to revive the river. Today, it has been made to flow upto Jagadhari in Haryana. This discovery of Saraswati together with other evidences has led to the fixing of the date of Mahabharat war 5,145 years from now. The war took place 36 years before the beginning of Kali era, which has been fixed at 5,109 years from now, i.e. 3,102 B.C. That also is the year of departure of Bhagwan Shrikrishna for his heavenly abode. It is very sad to say that Dr. Swarajya Prakash Gupta, who played a very important role in this matter, is no more with us today. But he laid a firm foundation stone for rewritting Bharatiya history.
Our scientist has proved our eminence in different fields of science. Of them the most important is Rishi-farming or Natuecho farming. It is based on the postulation that nobody tills land or provides manures and pesticides in the forests still the forests grow and flourish and provide sustainance to all the living creatures along with human beings. Dr. Dabholkar of the Kolhapur based his experiments on this principle and attained success. Today, he is no more but inspired by him Deepak Suchade has proved in a place called Bajawada near Nemawar and Harda in Madhya Pradesh, that in circle of 10 m. diameter a family of 5 persons not only can enjoy full nutritious meals but can also earn Rs. 10,000 per year.
The circular plot is divided into three parts.
First part is of two meter diameter from the centre of the radious of the circle; we can plant 1) Papaya-4, 2) Banana-4, 3) Corn-16, 4) Pineapple-8, 5) Sweet Potato, 6) Landi Paper.
Second circle, with seven equal partition will be planted with crops which consumed daily as well as produce also come in repetition by four to seven days. Like dhania, methi, palak, cucumber, phudina, kadi patta, tulas, gavti cha, tomato, brinjals, chilli, etc.
Outer circle will be planted with the crop which comes once and to be harvested or which takes long time to yield, like sugarcane and red bit. All herbal plants required to maintain the health of the family, about fifteen of such, dudhi, turiya, galaka, carrot, chavali, tur, ground nut, etc.
The aim is that the family will have all necessary nutrition and children can enjoy raw diet in the absence of mother while she goes for work in the field.
Scientist Shri Satishchandra of Bangalore has discovered after a deep study of the Vedas that the Vedic suktas are nothing but descriptions of technologies. He has been able, on that very basis, to tap electricity direct from space. Shri Ravi Prakash Khemka of Chennai has manufactured powerhouses by amalgamating solar energy with cell technology. Power house of 500 watts costs Rs. one lakh and of one kilowatt two lakhs. No need to erect electric poles and draw electric wires. Just fix a panel on the roof top and become care free for the next 10 to 12 years. These are all positive developments. The only need is that we have to discover our own capabilities. Let us stop looking towards others.
Let us discover our own capabilities and have a firm determination.
Lions do not go to eat others? prey.
We have creative power in one hand and destructive in the other.
All glow in the light of glory whereas we glow in darkness.
Let there be dreams of glorious future in our eyes and speed of storms in our feet.
We challenge all to stop this rising tide of national upsurge
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