Author: S. Gurumurthy
Publication: Organiser
Date: September 9, 2001
All four of them were kidnapped,
over two years ago, in August 1999. By a leading purveyor of terrorism
in Tripura the National Liberation Front of Tripura. The Indian intelligence
knows that the American-powered Baptist Church, which keeps spreading the
poison of separatism among the Tribals of North East, fully backs this
terrorist outfit.
Now, after two years it has been
confirmed that the terrorists have snuffed out the kidnap victims. Both
the Central Government and the Tripura Government have confirmed their
death. But most Indians are unaware of the abduction earlier and of their
death now.
Why was this abduction the least
known? Why no screening headlines day after day? Why no stinging editorials
week after week? No biting criticisms from secular columnists. No statements
from secular intellectuals. No accusation from secular leaders or their
parties. No adjournment or other motions in Lok Sabha. No storming of the
well, no strangulation of the Rajya Sabha asking to dismiss the Tripura
Government. Why?
Simple. Though highly dedicated
social workers, the victims happened to be Hindus. Worse still, they were
all RSS men. But, not one of them is an ordinary RSS worker; every one
a responsible leader of die organization.
Shyamal Sengupta was the Secretary
of the RSS for the entire Eastern India. Sudhamoy Dutta was a full-time
worker of RSS in charge of the Agartala segment. Dinendra Nath Dey was
in charge of the organization in South Assam. And Subha Shankar Chakraborty
was a full time worker of the organization in charged of a district in
Tripura. They were kidnapped and killed precisely because they were fighting
the violent separatist elements in the North East like the National Liberation
Front of Tripura.
Since Independence, North East India
has become the hunting ground for different denominations of the Christian
churches for their religious head count through organized and un-resisted
conversions. Nowhere in the world churches of all denominations are allowed
to hunt the less informed people as in India; more importantly, as in the
North East. Most of the foreign churches carry their national flag. The
Anglican Church carries the British Flag. The Lutheran, the German flag.
The Baptist, the American flag. So do the Danish, Dutch and all other national
churches. They carry their flags and politics wherever they go. There is
more of politics, global politics, than Christianity in the work of most
national churches. The geopolitical designs of the US internalize the role
of the church. It is such geopolitical designs of the West during the cold
war, which handed over drugs and guns in the hands of the youth of the
North East. And this is what extended terrorism and separatism to other
in the most sensitive area of our country.
International aid money for religious
conversions to drug funds operate in this region to make the tribals believe
that they have nothing to do with India, as to disfigure India. The sermon
of most of the foreign national churches to the less informed tribals is
that they are distinct and separate. So they must become separate from
India. This is what these four kidnapped and killed patriots were resisting
and fighting against.
But it is workers like them who
rush to render relief to the victims of flood or drought, earthquakes or
other disasters. When the Russian and Saudian aircrafts had a mid-air collision
near Delhi, and all mutilated bodies, most of them Muslims, were strewn
around, it was the RSS workers who rushed first to the spot and took charge
of every thing including the cremation of the stinking flesh remains, and
restoration of the valuables. Even its worst detractors admit that be it
war times or at peace times, the work of the RSS has been commendable.
But their good work goes mostly unreported by the media. Nevertheless the
media puts them on the front page whenever it has to, for precisely the
wrong reasons. But any way they do not work to get the media attention.
Like in work, in their kidnapping and death administered by the terrorists
also, the four patriots have been denied recognition. But they did not
work or die to get the recognition of any.
Imagine it was the other way round.
Had the kidnapped and killed been Christian missionaries. Let it he just
one missionary, not four. What would the secular editors, newspapers, columnists
have not said. "Barbaric communalism at work" "secularism in danger" "fascism
in play" and what not. What would the secular political leaders and parties
not have done? Would they have allowed the Parliament to function? The
completely fabricated nun rape case in Jhabua in Madhya Pradesh had debilitated
the nation's mind for months and months. Thanks to the secular megaphones
in the media and politics, the whole world was made to believe that it
was some kind of pastime in India to rape nuns. Even after it was proved
to be a fabricated, not a single accuser withdrew his word. Not a single
newspaper expressed regret. Not a single political leader regretted his
hysterical conduct. Not a single political party expressed guilt at having
misled the nation. The less said about the Christian leaders, who took
millions of captive school children on to the streets to protest against
the false rape, the better. Now the court in Jhabua has explicitly ruled
that there was no communal rape. Most newspapers did not even report the
court verdict, thus serving the cause of secularism.
Even if the killed four had been
Islamic terrorists, there would be enough secular elite and editors who
would walk up to the Wagah border with candles in their hands to plead
for peace so that no more killings take place. It is a different matter
that they would not have the guts to walk in the streets of Srinagar and
Anantnag with the same message of peace. Their struggle for peace is conditioned
by 'assured protection, which the government can give at Wagah, not in
Kashmir.
This is the drift in the national
mind. This is what made V. P. Singh who was the Prime Minister (when the
Kashmiri Hindus were thrown out from their domicile of thousands of years
on to the streets of Delhi) not to visit the Kashmiri Hindus who had become
refugees in their own land of birth. They were at the refugee camps in
Delhi, a stone's throw away from the PM's office and home. He knew the
rule of Indian polity that it was un-secular to meet the Jihad victims
who belonged to the majority faith. He never saw them till he ceased to
be the PM and even after. It is not without reason that he is an unquestioned
leader of the secularists! It is this drift, which makes responsible editors
of newspapers to arrange meetings of the Jihad-advocating Kashmiri separatists
with the elite of India. Like V.P. Singh, they would not even meet the
victims of Jihad, much less arrange the meetings of the victims.
The logic is clear. It will be unsecular
to be seen with the victims who belong to the majority faith, but totally
secular to work with the Jihadis. With those who religious headhunt in
the North-East. Nothing is more indicative of a drifting mind. This is
what the four kidnapped patriots had fought to resist, and got kidnapped
and killed.
