Author: Shyam Khosla
Publication: Organiser
Date: December 5, 2004
URL: http://www.organiser.org/dynamic/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=53&page=6
Anti-Hindu forces are determined
to pursue their divisive policies and actions. They are at work all the
time spreading canards about Hindu nationalism and making all out efforts,
each in its own way, to weaken the Hindu society. Their aim is political
domination and personal glorification, even if national unity and glory
of India is the cost. V.P. Singh's dream of emerging as the Messiah of
the backward communities led to Mandalisation of the society. It divided
the society deep down the middle as no other action of concept did. The
jinn unleashed by him under the garb of social justice played havoc with
social harmony and caused social strife that refuses to die down. The distorted
version of secularism, propounded and practiced by the Congress, communists
and other 'secularists', is yet another divisive instrument that marginalised
Hindus and filled them with anger over being treated as second-class citizens
in their own land. Whether it was the Shah Bano case or the Godhra carnage
and the communal strife that broke out in its wake or Islamic terrorism,
the anti-Hindu contours of 'secularism' were manifest. The kid gloves with
which the 'secularists' dealt with terrorism in J&K and in other parts
of the country and the Congress party's secret understanding-"votes for
lifting the ban on PWG"-with communist terrorism in Andhra Pradesh are
some of the deep causes of concern for the nationalists.
The latest in the series of attacks
on Hindu icons is the arrest of Sri Jayendra Saraswati, the Shankaracharya
of Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam, for "conspiring to kill a former employee",
and the shabby treatment meted out to the Swami by the Tamil Nadu police.
Besides being a spiritual and religious leader that is revered by millions
and millions of Hindus across the country and outside, he is a holy man
with traditional values and modern ideas. He was the one who reached out
to the depressed and deprived sections of the society. When there was resistance
to entry of Harijans in temples, he took idols to Harijan bastis saying
if they could not go to the Lord, He will come to them. The number of hospitals
he built for the poor and the needy, the number of schools he opened for
the vast multitude of under-privileged children, the countless dilapidated
temples he restored, all stand testimony to his vision and dedication to
the cause of the society and dharma. He was the bedrock of Hindu resistance
against the Dravidian movement launched by separatists. He was the voice
of Hindus after the mass conversion of Harijans to Islam in Meenakshipuram
and the one who addressed the concerns of the Harijans. He played a major
role in creating public opinion against fraudulent conversions by missionaries.
He had to pay the price for his
services to the Hindu causes. Anti-Hindu elements ganged up to malign the
Swami to undermine his stature as a Hindu spiritual leader. That the Swami
has been falsely implicated in a murder case is evident from the evidence
given by the two accused in the case that told the court that they had
been tortured while in police custody to falsely implicate the Acharya.
Jayalalithaa, the egoist, is obviously behind the deep-rooted conspiracy
to destroy the immense respect and popularity the seer enjoys. However,
certain elements in the police department are so rabidly anti-Hindu that
they seem to have gone beyond their brief to heap insults on the Shankaracharya
by arresting him on the eve of Diwali and leaking "clinching evidence"
against the Swami, whereas they have yet to get hold of the killers. It
is ridiculous to say the "law will take its own course" while the statements
made in the court by two of the accused show how the law is being abused
to malign Hindu leaders. The Tamil media, particularly the channels owned
by the two major Tamil parties, is playing the dirty game to the hilt to
serve its narrow partisan ends. Nakeeran Gopal, who was close to Veerappan,
is in the forefront of this vicious campaign. Does one need a better proof
of the involvement of criminal and anti-Hindu forces in the conspiracy
to malign the Hindu icon?
Hindu nationalism is a concept and
belief that commands total commitment to Hindu ethos, national unity, territorial
integrity and the glory of Bharat-mata. It transcends narrow religious,
caste, linguistic and territorial loyalties as was proved beyond a shadow
of doubt during the Ayodhya movement. The temple at Ayodhya is one of its
symbols. The concept is too wide to be identified with only one or two
symbols. It encompasses countless icons and issues that fortify Hindu unity,
identity and causes. It is for the Hindu nationalists to work in unison
to frustrate the onslaught from 'secularists' and communists, Jehadis and
separatists.
