Author: V. Sundaram
Publication: News Today
Date: February 22, 2008
URL: http://newstodaynet.com/col.php?section=20&catid=33&id=5229
Make no mistake. Y Samuel Rajasekara Reddy
is a known Seventh Day Adventist Christian committed to the cause of evangelical
destruction of Hinduism, Hindu Society and Hindu Culture. He has been using
the ever dying and transitory power of his high office with low evangelical
motives ever since he assumed office as Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh 4
years ago.
First he tried to initiate a process of Evangelical
Conversion through devious means by attempting to convert the whole Thirupathi
Venkatachalapathy Hill Temple Complex (together with all the sacred Hills
surrounding it) into a Seventh Day Adventist Christian Church Complex. This
led to massive public protests all over India and the world. And Y Samuel
Rajasekara Reddy was forced to withdraw not so much as to protect Lord Venkateshwara
of Thirupathi (Who requires no protection from mean mortals like Y Samuel
Rajasekara Reddy and Sonia Gandhi!) as to protect the temporary seals of his
Office as Chief Minister.
In these columns on 4 July 2006, I had brought
to public view the anti-Hindu and anti-National evangelical maneuveres of
this Chief Minister in these telling words:
'In Andhra Pradesh we have a Congress Government
under a Christian Chief Minister who takes instructions from an effete UPA
Government in New Delhi which is under the stranglehold of International Roman
Catholicism. The Andhra Pradesh Government has been using its official Agencies
for purposes of State-sponsored, State-aided and State-abetted Proselytism
in Andhra Pradesh in a shamelessly flagrant manner during the last two years.
Y. Samual Sekhara Reddy seems to be under the mistaken impression that he
behave like Henry VIII (1509-1547) of Tudor England and that he can take Andhra
Pradesh back to the 16th century using the International Roman Catholic might
of the UPA Government in New Delhi. ....... While religious conversions are
innately offensive, the rising political eminence of an Italian-born Roman
Catholic has generated a corresponding growth of aggressive Proselytism at
famous Hindu-pilgrimage and holy sites. Sonia Gandhi has reinforced the Missionary
muscle by sponsoring the rise of Christians in Congress Governments and Party
units on an unprecedented scale. Non-Christian Congress Chief Ministers have
been made to acquiesce in missionary activities and outrageously 'Leaky' welfare
schemes have been floated for the benefit of the tax-free NGO Industry, most
of which is Christian and anti-Hindu. ....... Y. Samuel Rajasekara Reddy is
actively promoting the physical and psychological encroachment upon the sacred
spaces of Hinduism in a planned manner through carefully planted Christian
Missionary Agencies.'
The legitimate fears expressed by me in July 2006 in these columns about the
calculated anti-Hindu machinations and maneuveres of Y Samual Rajasekara Reddy
have indeed come true today. The recent announcement of Andhra Chief Minister
to the effect that the Andhra Pradesh Government would subsidize the holy
pilgrimage to Bethlehem in Israel by Christians has to be viewed as abominable
and preposterous. In my view it should be immediately scrapped. The Congress
Government, headed by a Christian Chief Minister, has slyly used the Governor's
annual address to the State Legislative Council and Assembly to announce that
it will 'extend the Haj pilgrim scheme to Christian minorities also for their
religious visits to Christian holy lands in Israel'. It clearly brings out
the disgusting state of appalling ignorance that prevails in the higher echelons
of the State Government about the underlying principles of a secular state
defined under the Indian Constitution. This is nothing but craven and blatantly
discriminatory MINORITY APPEASEMENT POLITICS at its worst and this has been
done with focus only on the Parliamentary Elections to take place next year.
During the last two years, Samuel Rajasekara Reddy has taken a subterranean
disingenuous route to introduce job and education quotas for Muslims in order
to avoid legal scrutiny. And now through his Christian subsidy for pilgrimages
to Bethlehem and Jerusalem by plundering the public exchequer, he earnestly
hopes that he will be able to swing the votes of Christians, who comprise
1.5 per cent of the State's population, in favour of the Congress. Viewed
on a larger national canvas, Samuel Rajasekara Reddy's deplorable ploy is
only a logical extension of the Congress game of subsidy politics introduced
by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru after our independence on 15 August 1947. It was
Pandit Nehru who was responsible for introducing a communal and anti-secular
system of subsidy for Haj pilgrims, running counter to the letter and spirit
of the India Constitution in 1959. This system has been expanded year after
year to cover nearly 1.5 lakh of Muslims every year. India is the only country
in the world which gives the subsidy to the Haj Muslim Pilgrims. No Islamic
country in the world gives this benefit to the Muslims.
No doubt that Christians in Andhra Pradesh
are delighted by the announcement of Christian Subsidy by the Andhra Pradesh
Chief Minister and Christian community leaders in New Delhi have lost no time
in demanding that the Congress-led UPA Government should embrace Mr Reddy's
policy of Christian subsidy and convert it into a 'national scheme'. Their
point view is that if Muslims are entitled to subsidy for going on Haj, then
there is no reason why Christians visiting the Church of Nativity should have
to bear the entire expenditure.
It is a known fact that all the Hindu temple
funds in all the States of India are being appropriated by the Government
and almost wholly diverted for the benefit of minorities like the Muslims
and Christians. This inequitable anti-Hindu system has been created through
the Hindu Religious Endowments and Charitable Trusts Act. Keeping this in
view Dr Subramanian Swamy has sent a letter to Karunanidhi yesterday (21 February
2008) in which he has spoken on behalf of the Hindus of Tamil Nadu and India
as follows: 'I write to enquire why your Government has not enacted an ISLAMIC
MOSQUES RELIGIOUS ENDOWMENTS AND CHARITABLE TRUSTS ACT and a similar Act for
CHRISTIAN CHURCHES, on the pattern of the Hindu Religious Endowments and Charitable
Trusts Act. As you know, the Supreme Court and various High Courts in their
Judgements have opined that there is NO CONSTITUTIONAL BAR to enacting such
legislation. Hence, I am putting your Government on notice that I be informed
whether your Government proposes to bring such a BILL for passage soon, but
if not, why not? I shall be obliged if you can send me a written reply at
the earliest, but not later than two weeks from the receipt of this letter.'
It is public knowledge that Karunanidhi treated
Dr Subramanian Swamy's letter on the imperative public need for the prevention
of State destruction of Rama Setu Bridge sent last year, with his known anti-Hindu
hatred and contempt. Against this background, Dr Subramanian Swamy can never
hope to get any fair treatment or justice from the Government of Tamilnadu.
He has to seek his justice only through the Supreme Court of India. Have not
the Tamilnadu Government shown that the 'Jallikattu' issue is more important
and sacred than the 'Rama Setu' issue? Strange indeed, if not totally perverse,
are the wayward ways of Anti-Hindu Dravidian Rationalism!
Subsidizing Islamic and Christian pilgrimage
is not the job of a secular State and- despite the mischievous and organized
efforts of Sonia-Congress Party - India still remains a secular state and
public funds are not meant to promote the quest for spiritual fulfillment.
The original sin was committed by the Congress when, in the guise of 'minority
welfare', it introduced what has now come to be known as 'Haj subsidy', an
annual drain on the public exchequer to the tune of more than Rs 300 crores.
True pilgrims, irrespective of their faith,
do not depend on Government subsidy; indeed, a faithful Muslim, Hindu or Christian
would spurn such official 'assistance'. No purpose, therefore, is going to
be served by handing out cash, in whatever form, for undertaking pilgrimage,
other than promoting vote-bank politics through questionable patronage at
the tax-payer's expense. I am of the view that all subsidies for pilgrimage,
whether undertaken by Muslims, Hindus or Christians, should immediately be
withdrawn. If the faithful feel the urge to visit their holy places, they
will do so, as is the practice and custom in other countries where there is
no such political subsidy system. Let the state focus on secular affairs.
Samuel Rajasekara Reddy's recent scheme for
Christianizing the State of Andhra Pradesh, through Christian subsidy, is
a very dangerous move which is only a sub-agendum of his Italian Boss, whose
hidden agenda is the De-Hinduising of Bharat. As B.R. Haran puts it: 'Immediately
after forming the Government, Samuel Reddy focused on making the divine Hindu
Religious pilgrimage center Thirumala-Thirupathi as a picnic spot and a tourism
centre by building amusement parks and other things required for spoiling
the sanctity of the seven hills. He was forced to withdraw this sacrilegious
venture due to the statewide agitation carried out by all Hindu organization.
He also turned a blind eye to the attempted conversion activities by Churches
and Missionaries particularly at Hindu pilgrimage centers like Thirupathi,
Badrachalam, Simmachalam and Kalahasthi etc. …. The Christian Chief Minister
also attempted to give away the Temple lands to Churches at subsidized rates,
which again was stayed by the Andhra Pradesh High Court due to the timely
legal action taken by the Devalaya Parirakshina Samithi. The Christians in
India are not very particular about Jerusalem and they do not attach much
importance to it and they have never demanded any subsidies for such rare
trips. As the Christians in India are converts, converted by deceit, force
and allurement, most of them do not even know the so-called history of Jesus,
whether he really existed or not, etc. Also most of the Indian Christians
are well off and very few prefer to visit Jerusalem or Vatican and they do
it on their own. So, this move of granting subsidies to Christian pilgrimage
by the AP Chief Minister is nothing short of 'bribing' for 'votes', which
is uncalled for and unwarranted. This move is bound to create ugly ramifications
in the society and hence deserves to be nipped in the bud.'
