The citizens have been classified into majority and minority for providing special rights to minorities which is unnecessary as there is no discrimination against the minorities. In fact, in our constitution all citizens are equal having, Equality before Law (Art. 14), Prohibition of discrimination on grounds of religion, race, caste, sex, or place of birth (Art.15), Equality of opportunity in matters of pubic  employment (Art.16), Protection of certain rights regarding freedom of speech (Art. 1 9), and Protection of life and personal property (Art. 21). Therefore, legally there is no discrimination against anybody what to say of minority.

Thus the constitution provides both the Right of Freedom of Religion and the Right of Freedom of Expression. Hence there is no need again of Article 25 to guarantee 'The freedom of conscience and freedom of profession, practice and propagation of religion'. This has been added under pressure of Church. Speaking on behalf of the Drafting Committee, K.M. Munshi said Moreover I was a party. from the very beginning to the compromise with the minorities.... and / know that it was on this word the Indian Christian community laid the greatest emphasis, not because they wanted to convert people aggressively, but because-..,the word "propagate was fundamental part of their tenets.'

Again according to Article 26-28, the Hindus do not have the right to establish, impart and manage their religious education, if they are getting Govt. grant and affiliated to Govt. Organization, while such a restriction is not for minority educational institutions. Rather under Protection of interest of minorities they have been given "Right to establish and administrate their educational institutions "under Article 29-30. Hence Hindus despite of being in majority are denied those rights which are specially provided to the minorities. This is a clear case of discrimination against the Hindus. As a matter of fact, there should be one uniform curriculum, syllabus and school text books in our educational system throughout the country, and not different to different religious minorities. In a secular country, the education should definitely be secular and uniform. The Articles 29 and 30 encourage separatism and discrimination against the Hindus and support minorities. Hence, the Hindus should launch a national agitation to scrape or amend these Articles (25-30).

7. Oppose Pseudo-Secularism

The word "secular "has been added in our constitution-through 42nd amendment (31.9.1977). But no where it has been defined and explained. But, however, Dr. Radha Krishnan, the first vice.-President of India said in the parliament ........... The Indian state will not identify itself with or be controlled by any particular religion. We hold that no one religion should be given preferential status or unique distinction, that no one religion should be accorded special privileges in national life or international relations for that would be a violation of the basic principles of democracy and contrary to the best interest of religion and government." (Recovery of faith, N.Y. Harper Bro. 1955. p. 202). Hence the state should not give preferential treatment to any religious community.

According to the Chambers Dictionary (1 993 ed.) secular means ,,pertaining to present world, to things not spiritual, not ecclesiastical, not concerned with religion, not bound by monastic rules etc. " and secularism means 'the belief that the state, morals, education etc. should be independent of religion." Therefore, the secular state means a state whose administration and laws and bylaws are free from the control of religion and tenets of its Citizens and equality in law of all citizens for the state. Further Holyoake, the father of secularism, defines secularism as free thinking of an individual based on his/her consciousness. It is a form of conduct which inspires consciousness to dedicate itself for the service of mankind through free thinking. Hence, in a secular state, its laws should be based on equality, morality and consciousness of the citizens; and should not be strictly controlled by religious tenets of any of the communities living in the state. But Christianity and Islam do not allow free thinking to their followers and restrict them to be abided by their religious scriptures; and therefore, they oppose secularism. According to a Muslim theologian Prof. Musirul Huq, 'leaving aside a small section of Indian Muslims, the majority is by no means secular.'(p' 1) again "The Indian Muslims generally hold'Islam'as 'faith'and 'shariah'the practical exhibition of the faith to be insep arable ... Thus secularism and secular state are to be accepted or rejected on the basis of the'shariah'. The secular state as we have seen, has a precedent in Islamic history, and is therefore, acceptable, but secularism as a doctrine is believed to be incompatible with Islam.'(Islam in Secular India p.5). In view of this, Jamate-islami leaders protest against secularism "The Jam aat (Jamaat-l- Islami- Hind Auth.) has categorically stated that in the present circumstances, it wants the secular form of Government to Continue" (ibid.p.1 1) "The Jamaat however, is not alone in this ambivalence; the majority of the Indian 'Ulema'share this view. Many of them seem to believe that the state must remain secular but the Muslims should be saved from secularism. (ibid. 12).

Honestly speaking Ulema's preach to oppose secularism and appeal Muslims to bring Islam and shariat in India. on 7th Feb. 1961, at Aurangabad lslami leader Said Ahmed said 'Will the Muslims after giving up their tenets of Islam be carried away by the wave of secularism or they will reverse the trend and establish an Islamic state here ..... we have to establish Islamic rule here after removing the secular state."

Not only in India, but through-out the world, the Muslims, in general, are anti-secularism. According to H.Times(23.1.96) "A Muslim spiritual leader of Taiakistan named Mufti Faithjis Sheriffova and three members of his family along with a follower were killed by the fundamentalist Muslims. simply because the Mufti was the supporter of Democratic secular state.' So the Muslims, both in faith and practice, do not believe in secularism until and unless they are helpless or in minority.

Similarly the Christians condemn secularism. At the Jerusalem Meeting, Dr. Rufus Jones says "No student of deeper problems of life can very well fail to see that the greatest rival of Christianity in the world today is not Mohammedanism, or Budhism or Hinduism or Confucianism, but a world wide secular way of life." (The Christian life and Message Internal. Miss. Counc. Rept. Vol 3.p. 284). Similarly Pope Leo 13 said "Secularism is condemnable."

Hence both Christians and Muslims expect the state to be secular, but they themselves do not accept secularism in their decisions. Despite of this, the political parties in power viz Congress, Janta Dal, Muslim League, CPM, CPI, SP, United Front etc. are going out of the way to grant them whatever just or unjust demands they make to achieve their political objectives even against the national interest. Is it secularism to acknowledge Muslim Personal Law, and to provide financial assistance of hundreds of crores Rs. every year to thousands of Muslim haj pilgrims Which is not provided even in any Islamic country, and is also against the tenets of Koran (3.97 )? Is it secularism to provide state tenetsto Muslim Madarsas and salary to Imams of Niasiids or ;reference in jobs to minorities in Government and semi government organizations; and to provide loans on low interest, and special coaching only to minority youths for IAS and other competitive examinations for Government Jobs? Is it an equality in law? Is it not discrimination against the Hindus? The surprising fact is that these minorities do not believe in secularism, yet they are provided all benefits with special preference at the cost of Hindus, and from the revenue, mostly contributed by the Hindus. On the other hand, Hindu acts according to his/her conscience with full free thinking in national interest. So, he is a real secular and certainly not a pseudo- secular as practiced by Congress, GPM, Janta Dal etc. during the last half century.

Besides this, uniformity in state Laws is another requirement of a secular state. But the Congress and other political parties in power had neither enacted uniform civil code as was expected from the government under Article 44 of the constitution during the last 5 decades nor it is willing now to enact as announced recently (27.10.95) by the Congress Government simply because the Muslims oppose it. Then is it secularism? It is pseudo-sec6larism. It is anti- nationalism and anti-Hinduism.

Again the irony is this that those who do not believe in secularism are awfully projected in press media as secularists, and the real secularists and nationalist Hindus are condemned as communal vis a vis anti-nationalists; while the fact is otherwise. It is the clear cut policy of Congress, CPM etc. of cutting down the rights and privileges of the Hindus and give them specially to the minorities. It is not secularism, but minoritism. The present secularism has deprived the Hindus of their legitimate rights, and will ultimately annihilate them. All unbiased, rational and judicious thinkers have totally rejected this monster of pseudo-secularism and the Hindus should condemn it enmass publicly. Therefore, the Hindus should agitate against the appeasement of the minorities and oppose pseudo-secularism and minoritism which is flourishing under the garb of so-called secularism.

Here the point of consideration is that when the Muslims and Christians do not believe themselves in secularism in its strict sense, then why grant so many discriminatory facilities and privileges to them in the name of secularism? Is it not a well planned strategy and discrimination against the Hindus and a favor to those who do not believe in secularism c,,' the constitution, and rather they be treated as anti-constitutionalists.

Moreover, if the Government is really honest to implement the constitution regarding secularism, the leaders should first initiate uniform secular education, make uniform civil code, no religious education at Government cost to any one, stop appeasing the minorities, refuse to offer lftar parties, stop Hajj subsidy and avoid all sorts of discriminations based on caste, creed and religion. And if they do not amend their ways, the only alternative left to Hindus is to oppose tooth and nail this monster of pseudo-secularism. The Hindus must not tolerate any discrimination any more under the name of secularism. The truth is that it is this political discrimination which is deliberately pushing the Hindus towards a civil war which the Hindus will have to opt unwillingly for their own survival in this only land as their abode.

8. Expel  Bangladeshi Infiltrators

Muslims of Bangladesh and Pakistan though are not waging a direct war with India, but have planned to capture India by demographic aggression and increasing Muslim population here through regular infiltration. According to this plan, Muslims from these countries have been infiltrating into and settling down in India, ever since the independence of India in 1947. And our selfish, short sighted and vote greedy leaders, unaware of Muslims political psychology and strategy are resorting to all means to see them settled in India, facilitating them through providing ration cards, houses, land, properties, arranging loans and employment and even marriages with Indian Muslims. What a shame, that the leaders who were entrusted with the responsibility of defense of the nation are practicing treachery with the people goaded by their petty political aims. The Home Ministry has openly acknowledged in the parliament that 'There are many other reasons besides religious and economic factors of the continuous infiltration of Bangladeshi nationals into /India(Panch-Janya 3.9.95). About two crores of Muslims have come from Bangladesh alone, and have settled in Assam, West Bengal, Bihar, Delhi, Bombay and other places. As a result of this, ten districts of Assam, six of Bengal and many of Bihar have become Muslim majority districts, which is increasing the possibility of the emergence of an Islamic state in India itself. The ex-governer of West Bengal, Shri T.V. Rajeshwar has warned the nation to that effect. (H.T. Delhi 8.3.96). But the Congress, C.P.M., Janta Dal and United Front governments, always eyeing on their vote bank and greedy for the state power, have turned a blind eye to these anti- national and unconstitutional activities and goings on. I believe that the process of infiltration of Bangladeshis will continue at least till such time when the North-East region of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh become Muslim majority regions and a third Islamic state is carved out in India. It is a matter of growing concern which needs immediate action. Some suggestions are as below:

a) The government should make a firm determination to resolve this problem, and enforce strictly the Foreign Nationals Act.

b) The government should forcibly turnout all non-Indian Muslims who have infiltrated into India after 1950.

c) Even the short term visa to Bangladeshi Muslims should be discontinued, and those persons whose visa term has expired should be sent back.

          d) All the routes of illegal entry should be effectively blocked.

e) When Muslim countries like Pakistan, Malaysia, Saudi Arab are strictly blocking Muslim infiltration, then the Govt. of India should be all the more strict with Bangladeshis who infiltrate into India with political aims.

f) People caught while infiltrating should be sentenced to a minimum of ten years imprisonment because after partition the infiltration from Pakistan and Bangladesh is an offence as applicable to any foreigner.

g) Infiltrating Bangladeshi Muslims should not be granted India's citizenship, even though they may be in possession of ration cards etc.

h) No Indian citizen should provide any kind of employment even on daily wages etc. to any foreign (Bangladesh, Pakistan or Afghan) Muslim man, woman or child; and all those persons, institutions or contractors who provide them employment should be considered offenders and be strictly dealt with. The trade and industry of such persons should be confiscated and they should be sentenced to a minimum imprisonment of seven years, because providing employment to foreigners should be deemed a cognizable offence. Law should be enacted to that effect, if does not exist.

i) The government should raise this national issue in the U.N.O:  pressurize the Bangladesh government for taking the infiltrators back, and additionally start a publicity campaign against Bangladesh government for this strategic long term policy of concentrating Muslims in India.

         j) All the Bangladeshis should be taken into custody and camps pending       completion of formalities of sending them back. This is to be under-taken to restrict their movement, and then they should be handed over to UN Refugee Commission and not to leave on border.

k) All the ration cards issued to Bangladeshis should be taken backfrom them.The government should confiscate theirproperty if they have bought some in India and their names should be struck off from the electoral rolls, if included.

l) No writ petition of Bangladeshi Muslims be entertained or heard in Indian courts.

m) If the government has a strong will, it is very easy to check and identify the infiltrators. Settlement of foreigners is a crime against the nation.

n) Persons, leaders and government servants patronising or otherwise, protecting Bangladeshi Muslims should be tried for treason and a national campaign should be started by public and NGOs to condemn and force out of power those political parties which patronise them.

o) Bangladeshi Muslims should not have the right to vote, and the election of all those leaders, in Panchayat and Municipalities, and of M.L.As and MPs be declared void and unconstitutionp-I who have been elected by manipulation.

p) Continuous influx of Bangladeshi Muslims is imbalancing the ratio of Hindu-Muslim population in the states, and the interests of Hindus are being sacrificed. Therefore, the Hindus should fight it out as crusaders in the anti-infiltration campaign, this being a question of their life and death. They should initiate a mass agitational campaign, because that alone will stop the Bangladeshisation of India, otherwise another new Islamic state will be carved out in India as a result of this problem (See also Is India Going Islamic, and Demographic Aggression Against India: Muslim Avalanche from Bangladesh, both by Baijit Rai).

9. Adopt Social Reforms

Undoubtedly, like other world religions, some distortions have crept into the Hindu Dharma also being the oldest and most ancient religion of the world. Consequently several social evils have taken deep roots in the social set up of the Hindus which have been exaggerated during the Muslim and British rule. However social evils like birth based caste system, social discrimination as high and low castes, untouchability, dowry system, child marriage, prohibition in widow marriage, oppression and torture on women etc. which are still rampant in the rural life of Hindu society, are unauthentic and unacceptable as per Hindu scriptures. This is why great saints and social reformers, down from the ages, as Lord Mahaveer, Lord Buddha, Adi Shankaracharya, to Ramanand, Kabir, Guru Nanak, Raja Ram Mohan Rai, Swami Dayanand, Swami Vivekanand, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, Mahatma Gandhi, Mahatma Phule, Dr. Hedgewar etc. have univocally opposed these social evils v,-ry strongly and tried to introduce social reforms. In fact, most of these evils are the contributions of the Muslim rule which were inflated during the British rule. These were highly exaggerated and publicised by them to work their way for the conversion of Hindus to Islam and Christianity. The Hindu Dharma Shastras and the Hindu Society have never termed any of its member as down trodden, the deprived or the Dalit. Even the Shudra varna of the ancient period was considered Arya, the respectable as accepted by Dr. Ambedkar also. However, the varna system and shudra varna do not exist now, and the present day scheduled castes, scheduled tribes or other Backward classes are in no way related to the Shudra varna of ancient times. The ancient system of social classification is based on varna i.e on the nature, qualities and actions (Karmana varna Vyavastha) of a person bears no relationship whatsoever wi- th the present day birth based classification (Janmna Jati- Vyavastha). The Hindu Dharma does not approve birth based caste system what to say of discrimination. It is absolutely based on love, equality and respect. The Veda says "Among men none is big or small. All are equal and brothers. All should strive for the highest temporal and eternal glory." (RV. 5-60.5). '7t injures upon Brahman (educational class), Kashatriya (warrior class), Vaishya (trading class) and Shudras (service class) to live in amity and harmony.' (Yaju. 18.48).

In this contest Swami Vivekanand provides the solutions of our social problems in the following words:-

"The solution is not by bringing down the higher but by raising the lower up to the level of the higher ..... The ideal at one end is the Brahmana, and the ideal at the other end is the Chandala, and the whole work is to raise the Chardala up to the Brahmana ...... The plan in India is to make everybody Brahmana, the Brahmana being the ideal of humanity. If you read the history of India, you will find that attempts have always been made to raise the lower class.' (Caste Culture and Socialism p.8-9N

Again Swami Ji says : "The present caste is not the real jati, but a hindrance to its progress. Let jati have its sway,- break down every barrier in the way of caste and we shall rise ------ Therefore, my friends, it is no use fighting among castes. What good will it do? It will divide us all the more, defraud us all the more." The great Swami asked the Brahmanas 'Arise and show your manhood. your Brahmanhood, by raising the non-Brahmanas around you, not in the spirit of a master, not will the rotten canker of egotism crawing with superstitions and the charlatanry of East and West, but in the spirit of a servant." (p. 67). "Our mission is for the destitute, the poor and the illiterate peasantry and laboring class"...... "The poor, the down trodden the ignorant, let these be your God.' (p. 60) Swami Ji says "You have read - "Look upon your mother as God, look upon your father as God." (Taitt. Up. 1. 1 1.2 ) But / say,  The poor, the illiterate, the ignorant, the afflicted, let these be your God. Know that service to these alone is the highest religion. (Ranade p.93)

To the non-Brahmanas, he says "who told you to neglect spirituality and Sanskrit leaning?".'..... "why do you not become Sanskrit scholars? Why do you not spend millions to bring Sanskrit- education to all the castes in India? That is the question. The moment you do these things, you are equal to the Brahmana

-"I tell you men who belong to the lower castes, the only way to raise your condition is to study Sanskrit and this fighting and writing and frothing against the higher castes is in vain; it does no good, and it creates fight and quarrel, and this race, unfortunately already divided, is going to be divided more and more. The only way Io bring about the leveling of caste is appropriate the culture, the education, which is the strength of the higher castes. That done, you have what you want (ibid.p.68)" Therefore the Hindus should follow the message of Swami Vivekanand and others, and discard every social evil that has crept in to Hindu society by adopting the following measures.

a) All Hindus should follow the dictum of the Vedas; and reject birth-based caste system and discrimination, if -any, remove 

untouchability and follow the tenets of equality and mutual love of the Vedas; because there is no mention of these social evils in these scriptures which are the authentic texts of the Hindus. 

b) The evil of casteism (caste system) and caste based discrimination is mainly due to interpolation of caste-discriminatory verses in some Hindu scriptures which is not in the Vedas. Birth-based caste system and caste discrimination is not a part of pure Hindu Dharma. I assure one and all that it is unauthentic, unacceptable and is the latter addition by selfish people. The Hindu Dharmacharya's and scholars should make special efforts to remove all such interpolations from the Hindu scriptures as has been done by Dr. Surendra Kumar in case of Manusmriti.

c) Many self-contradictory, illogical and irrational statements have crept in the present editions of many Dharma Shastras, Smrities and other Hindu texts, which are unauthentic, unacceptable and contrary to the Vedas; and are therefore, worthy of rejection by one and all. We should, therefore, eschew such statements and avoid hatred, discrimination and jealousy among our own brothers and sisters.

d) According to Mahabharat (Sh.P. 188.10) "There is neither speciality nor discrimination among the varnas, because the entire creation is the work of one God. Intact initially, there was only one vama; later on they were expanded into four due to the special needs and practical requirements of a prosperous society." Hence we should not discriminate anyone as low or high.

e) Again, we should not discriminate on the basis of caste, creed, sect or any other criteria because in Hindu Dharma all human creatures have been treated as belonging to one human class. (Manusyasch eik vidhi, Sankhya Darshan) i.e. "all people are alike. '

f) Every Hindu, and particularly every religious preacher of Hindus Dharma should take a vow to end untouchability and remove discrimination of high and low caste.

g) People should meet one another on equal footing in social and religious festivities, have community lunches and develop intimate fellow feelings.

h) At each social gathering and occasion, try your best to remove the misconceptions  that the pre-sent social evils are the origin of authentic Hindu Scriptures.

..... continued in Part III of What Hindus Should do by: Dr. Paliwal PhD 

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