What strikes one the most after reading all the websites of the NCM and the Ministry of Minority Affairs is that neither have mounted any campaign, spent any amount or conducted any programme, if only jointly with any organisation, to bring the minorities into the mainstream. To impress upon them the need to abide by the minimum of common codes of the Constitution, to be part of the major celebrations of the majority communities. To tell them that lamp lighting, National Anthem, National Flag, Vande Mataram and Saraswati Vandana, are our nationalist traditions that cut across religion. Both the minority set up feed on the ?victim syndrome? of the minorities, especially Muslims.
Some of the claims of the Commission are laughable. The NCM claims that it succeeded in shifting the winter holiday of the Kendriya Vidyalayas from January every year to December end. It does not explain how this falls under benefiting the minorities. It is assumed that the NCM means that the holidays now coincide with Christmas. Christians account for about 2 per cent of the population and in some state are negligible. And Kendriya Vidyalayas are located nation-wide.
There is a list of police cases where the NCM has intervened to protect/save/get justice for Muslim youth. This prompts the demand for the setting up of a National Commission for the Majority so that when police high-handedness happens, as they do daily, on non-minorities, they can be rescued.
NCM intervened on behalf of numerous Muslim and Christian educational institutions, purely business ventures, for land allotment and grants.
