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        Today I was hoping to elaborate on the disastrous pronouncement of Dr Manmohan Singh on the imperative national need for declaring Muslims as the super citizens of India to the strategic secular exclusion of all non-Muslim citizens from the Agenda of the Union Government. After reading this morning's major English media Newspapers I have been left gasping and breathless by the uncontrolled flood of portentous and irresponsible statements made not only by Dr Manmohan Singh but also by his esteemed Cabinet colleagues. My head is in a whirl. Should I write about Pranab Mukherjee's perspective plan to hand over certain bits of India to China or about the childish warning issued by the Union Minister of State for Home, Sriprakash Jaiswal to the kith and kin of the security personnel who lost their lives on 13 December, 2001 defending the Parliament against terrorists like Mohammad Afzal Guru. I am ashamed by the small-minded and wicked observation of Sriprakash Jaiswal who has said: 'Nobody should do anything against the Constitution'. He has warned the families of the security personnel killed during the attack on Parliament in 2001 who have returned the medals to the President yesterday, calling it unconstitutional. Sanjay Gandhi was the hangman for Indira Gandhi during the dark days of emergency from 1975 to 1977. Sriprakash Jaiswal seems to be the hangman for Sonia Gandhi today!

        In this context, I fully endorse the view of Capt Balakrishnan who has said very clearly that he will not be surprised if Sriprakash Jaiswal issues a statement with unconcealed fervour and elemental passion to this effect: 'I strongly recommend that our revered and cosmic 'Roman Mata' should move a Parliamentary Resolution for the imposition of a 'SECULAR JIZIYA' on these eight families for HAVING DARINGLY ACTED AGAINST THE TENETS OF 'NEHRUVIAN SECULARISM'. HOW DARE THEY ACT IN SUCH A MANNER?'

        Undeterred by the uncalled for warning by the Union Minister Jaiswal, the eight families of the victims marched to Rashtrapati Bhawan yesterday with great dignity and moral courage and returned the medals - Keerti Chakras, the dead were honoured with. Their medals were framed together, and returned to the office of the President. In their joint memorandum to President APJ Abdul Kalam, with whom Afzal's mercy petition is pending, the families of the slain securitymen said: 'We regard the gallantry medals a 'humiliation' in the light of the delay in the execution of the death-row convict. A pardon means making a mockery of the brave soldiers and civilians who laid down their precious lives while performing their duty for the nation. Hence we have decided to return the medals to the government given to our near and dear ones, which now seem to us like humiliation piled on us.' The memorandum presented by them was signed by ten people, including widows of two CPWD men and of a TV journalist who were killed in the attack.

        The families of the eight victims later told the media that they have lost faith in the sanctity of these medals. Jaywati Devi, who's husband, head constable Vijender Singh, took a bullet in his chest, had declared on Tuesday: 'Our martyrs' sacrifice will be futile if Afzal doesn't get the death penalty. We will be returning the medals to the President on Wednesday. The government is trying to insult us with these medals. We will take back these medals after Afzal is hanged'. Ganga Devi, widow of sub-inspector Nanak Chand said with anguish: 'We did not order execution of Afzal. It's the court that has ordered it. But this vile politics over his death sentence, which is being delayed, has led us to return these medals.' The Chairman of the All India Anti-Terrorist Front, M S Bitta, who led the affected families to Rashtrapathi Bhavan said, 'if the government has decided to make a joke of their sacrifice, then there is no point in keeping these medals'.

        Our tasteless, colourless, odourless, tactless and directionless Home Minister spoke with sanctimonious pseudo-secular humbug when he said that any mercy petition from a condemned Prisoner takes eight to nine years for final disposal. Afzal Guru has moved the Supreme Court for a curative review of the judgement awarding him the death sentence. Shivraj Patil covered himself with disgrace when he said that the families of the victims were being provoked by the BJP. The families rejected Patil's remarks in Parliament about them, which they said have left them sad, dazed and shocked.

        The humanitarian concern that is being shown to Afzal Guru is not being shown by the Union Home Minister and his Deputy to the families of the security personnel who laid down their lives to defend our Parliament against the terrorists. The UPA government believes in Muslim appeasement at all costs. Mahatma Gandhi was the man who sowed the seeds of this Muslim appeasement policy at the time of Khilafat Movement in 1920-21. Dr B R Ambedkar had made it clear in these relevant words: 'Gandhi has never called the Muslims to account even when they have been guilty of gross crimes against Hindus. It is a notorious fact that many prominent Hindus who had offended the religious susceptibilities of the Muslims either by their writings or by their part in the Shuddhi movement have been murdered by some fanatic Musalmans. The leading Muslims never condemned these criminals. On the contrary, they were hailed as religious martyrs. This attitude of the Muslims is quite understandable. What is not understandable is the attitude of Mr. Gandhi.' The same argument of Dr Ambedkar applies to Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, Dr Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi.

        On 23 December 23, 1926, Swami Shraddhananda was murdered by one Abdul Rashid. The Swami was recovering from an attack of pneumonia and was in bed when the miscreant entered his home and killed him with a dagger. Perhaps, as a tribute to the murder, Rashid's community in Delhi collected a substantial fund for his defence in the law courts. Congressman Asaf Ali, in whose memory a prominent road has been named in Delhi, defended him in court. Despite Asaf Ali's best efforts, Rashid was sentenced to death and hanged in due course. It was reported at that time that for earning merit for the soul of Abdul Rashid, the murderer of Swami Shraddhananda, in the next world, the students and Professors of the famous Theological College of Deoband finished five complete recitations of the Koran. At the Guwahati session of the Congress in 1926, Gandhi's perverted response to Rashid's act of crime surprised many people. To quote the words of Pattabhi Seetharamaiah who was present at that session: 'Gandhi expounded what true religion was and explained the causes that led to the murder. Gandhi said: 'Now you will perhaps understand why I have called Abdul Rashid a brother and I repeat it'. I do not even regard him as guilty of Swami's murder. Guilty indeed are those who excited feelings of hatred against one another''.

        It was Mahatma Gandhi who sowed the seeds of total conceptual and operational confusion about pseudo-secularism afflicting the nation of India today. In order to prove this point, I have to quote Mahatma Gandhi's words once again on the same issue: 'Let every Musalman also understand that Swami Shraddhanandji was no enemy of Islam, that his was a pure and unsullied life and that he has left for us all the lessons of peace written in his blood'.

        Before partition of India and our independence we had a Muslim Pakistan and near-Muslim India. After independence, thanks to the vision of Pan-Islamic Nehru, we devoutly devoted ourselves to the task of transforming this Dar-ul Hindu Harab into Dar-ul Islamic secularism. And we went about it with missionary zeal. We drew up a Constitution with built-in clauses favouring Muslims. When that was not enough, our Prime Minister Nehru made it explicitly 'secular' to make it implicitly Islamic. This he did by mischievously introducing Articles 29 and 30 in the Indian Constitution only to promote the cause of Islamic communalism. Nehru had taken only a Post-Graduate degree in his anti-Hindu brand of Islam-embracing secularism. Indira Gandhi took a D Sc degree in this field by amending the Constitution several times in order to divide the Hindus of India. This work has been taken to its logical conclusion by the UPA government through its Justice Sachar Committee Report. By his recent declaration, Dr Manmohan Singh has clearly given a signal to all the non-Muslims that they are only III Class citizens in India.

        How I wish Dr Manmohan Singh had taken care to read the complete works of Dr Ambedkar who showed a clairvoyant vision about the evil intentions of Mohammed Ali Jinnah and the Indian Muslims as early as in 1940. To quote his words: 'Past experience shows that Hinduism and Islam are too irreconcilable and too incompatible to permit Hindus and Muslims ever forming one single nation or even two harmonious parts of one whole. Those differences have the sure effect of not only keeping them at war, the differences are permanent and the Hindu-Muslim problem bids fair to be eternal. To attempt to solve it on the footing that Hindus and Muslims are one or if they are not one now, they will be one hereafter, is bound to be a barren occupation - as barren as it proved to be in the case of Czechoslovakia. On the contrary, time has come when certain facts must be admitted as beyond dispute, however unpleasant such admission may be. In the first place, it should be admitted that every possible attempt to bring about union between Hindus and Muslims have been made and that all of them have failed'.

        No one in the UPA government today can dare to dismiss the above observations of Dr Ambedkar as communal and saffronized. If that be true, then the unanswerable question will be why did a pseudo-secular, Islam-embracing and Hindu-hating Prime Minister like Pundit Jawaharlal Nehru make Dr Ambedkar the first Law Minister of independent India?