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The RSS Guru M.S. Golwalkar wrote: “the foreign races (Muslims and Christians) in Hindustan must either adopt the Hindu culture and language, must learn to respect and hold in reverence Hindu religion, must entertain no idea but those of the glorification of the Hindu race and culture... or may stay in the country wholly subordinated to the Hindu nation.”Golwalkar flayed the Indian Constitution and opposed the federal system of the government. He blamed Dr Ambedkar for not introducing anything “Bharatiya” in the constitution and called, him a ‘stooge’ of the British.The RSS opposed the Gandhian Policy of non-violence and the assassination of Gandhiji was a matter of rejoice for the RSS cadres. For the RSS “all Indians are Hindus.” The leading principles of the RSS are: “the stress on militarism, the doctrine of racial, cultural superiority, ultra nationalism infused with religious idealism, the exclusion of religious and ethnic minorities from the nation concept.” Those who oppose the RSS Hindutva ideology will be considered as ‘anti-Hindu and anti-national.’ lt was banned in 1948 by the Home Ministry under Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel for inciting hatred against the minorities, stockpiling weapons and so on.The RSS wants to establish a Hindu nation based on Hindutva ideology in a country which is multi-religious, multi-lingual and multi-cultural and if the RSS succeeds in achieving its aims, the long cherished secular and democratic fabric o
We are grateful to you for taking action on our previous submissions regarding the removal of Franco Mulakkal (FM) from the episcopacy of Jalandhar Diocese (JD), and subsequently for preventing the transfer of the five nun witnesses in the alleged rape case.The latest stink bomb to emerge from the same diocese is the 16 Crore Rupees (CR) cash haul from Antony Madessery (AM), a priest of that diocese a few days ago. This has again grabbed national headlines and brought shame and disgrace on the Catholic Community in India. Permit me a recap of the events.THE INCIDENT: On 29th March AM was caught by the Punjab Police with over 16 CR in cash. He claims that he had earlier deposited 14 CR in a bank, so the total amount involved is over 30 CR. By any standards this is a huge sum of money.THE JUSTIFICATION: AM claims that he is legally and canonically permitted to do what he is doing, just like the Ambanis, the country’s richest family. Bp Agnelo Gracias, the Apostolic Administrator, states that Sahodhaya, the firm through which AM operates, together with three other priests, has got the permission of the diocese.THE OBFUSCATION: AM has tried to obfuscate the main issue of his doing cash business amounting to 30 CR or more by claiming that the police “misappropriated” 6 CR of the cash seizure. He has also disputed the circumstances/ location from where the cash was seized. Significantly, he has not denied the amount of cash involved, which he claims is legitim
The BJP led NDA Government at the centre under the Prime Minister Narendra Modi has claimed in the last parliament session about ‘many achievements’ in the last four years rule. The claims such as eradication of corruption, controlling; black money, fee medical insurance for weaker sections, free cooking gas connection for “six crores houses in villages, built ten crores toiles, built more than three crores houses in rural areas, provide free electricity and water connection, more than thirty crores people belong to backward class and Dalits who had an opportunity to open bank accounts apart from other socio-economic and developmental programmes.Whereas the failures outweigh in many areas including some of the foretold promises by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi take ‘demonetization’ which was claimed that 90% of the black money in the country reached in the banks and thus all the black money converted into white money. Through ‘demonetization’ who was the actual beneficiary either black money holder or banks or the central government? Why the centre has committed to provide crores of rupees to the public sector banks for its functioning?At the time of coming to power at the centre Prime Minister Narendra Modi has assured to the people that those Indians abroad who have black money in the foreign banks should be brought back to India, from that each person in the country will get rupees 15 lakhs in their bank accounts! But it has become hollow promise
Targeted violence and hate crimes against the Christian community in India continued unabated in 2018. The Religious Liberty Commission (RLC) of the Evangelical Fellowship of India has recorded 325 incidents where Christians have been targeted using violence, intimidation or harassment. More than the numbers, what is disturbing is the sudden spurt of violence in a few districts of Uttar Pradesh, the country’s most populous province, and in Tamil Nadu in the extreme south of the subcontinent.With general elections due in April-May 2019, attempts at religious polarization are at an all-time high. Hate speeches have acted as a catalyst in the dividing of people along religious, ethnic and even linguistic lines. The small Christian community, 2.3% of the 1.30 billion population, which seems to be targeted mainly on the excuse of the issue of conversion, is also a collateral victim of the hate crimes against the much larger Muslim community, which is about 15%.An analysis of the data of the report by released by EFIRLC shows that over 40% of the documented incidents (132), took place in the state of Uttar Pradesh (UP) making it the state where Christians were targeted the most. The state of Uttar Pradesh is the most populous state of India and is home to almost 17% of the total population of the nation. Christians make up 0.18% of the total population of the state. We especially appeal to the State Governments of Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, to deal with stringently wit
The Article 26 of the Constitution of India reads as thus provides four sub-provisions of the Article 26 deal with four different variants of the same right to institutional management of the religious sect. The phrases ‘establish,’ ‘manage’ and ‘maintain’ are words that hold the rights of ownership and other associated bundle rights. If one has a right to establish and manage ‘its own’ affairs, then it follows that such management shall be devoid of external interference. By way of the Church Bill, the external interference is made from the government itself, thereby the very idea of a fundamental right being a negative right to be exercised against the State’s power to regulate and curb takes a hit. As the difference between negative and positive rights goes, the government is restrained from exercising its power in the first case, in the later the government is mandated to manifest its authority. Article 26 (a) and (b) must be considered as negative rights which bar the governmental power to interfere in the institutional management of religious sects.Similarly, (c) and (d) of Article 26 guarantee the right to own, acquire and administer religious institutionalized property.The only minimal scope of governmental regulation is mentioned at the end of Art.26 (d) wherein it is stated that administration of property shall be in accordance of law. Here, quite clearly, ‘law’ denotes the ordinary civil laws of the land like the Indian Contract Act, T
