Constitution of Bharata is ‘notoriously’ famous for granting privileges to ‘minorities’ without even defining who ‘minorities’ are in reality entitled to enjoy those privileges. Extending ‘minority-privileges’ without the framework of relevant definition of confinements amounts to throwing away money from balcony of the Constitution on a rowdy, milling crowd of aspirants and grabbed by those gifted with augmented muscular strength and nuisance-value. It may stun anyones conscience to hold and behold, an issue of such a huge significance escaped attention of even erudite scholars of the Constituent Assembly as well as a bevy of vociferous Justices of the Supreme Court that crawled when asked to bend during dreaded Emergency-1975 yet hyperactive to determine desirable height of ‘Dahi-Handi’ or holding mid-night hearing for a dreaded terrorist all these seven decades of post-1947 Bharata. While Constituent Assembly did not discuss the issue at all as they appeared to be too euphoric over just attained freedom from British occupiers of the nation while Judiciary zealously interpreting Constitutional Articles in the framework of British consciousness.
Now that even wealthy Jain community too, have demanded minority status and representation in the Commission, it is the most opportune moment to scrap National Commission of Minorities, delete the word Minority from the Constitution altogether. We had enough of sickening ‘Minority Business’ !!
Every glacial has to merge itself into some river otherwise it dries up. If a river does not merge into ocean, it shall meet the same fate. Then all these glacials and rivers are replenished by clouds which in turn, nourish their surroundings. If the eternal cycle is disrupted, entire planet shall be in a turmoil for survival. Sanatana Hinduism is a mighty ocean of multitudes of faiths. These temporarily individualised faiths rise, nourish a segment of humanity for a few decades, then disappear…only to re-appear in a modified manifest. If any faith is excessively individualised, bordering separatism and exclusivity, inevitably it turns into a cesspool and its demise is more than certain. Some of the faiths which emanated from the infinite ocean of Sanatana Hinduism, are today claiming to be more original than even Sanatana Hinduism !!! And their adherents claiming to constitute a different race altogether !! Probably they landed on the Planet Earth from Mars or may be, Saturn !! The saga has now attained ridiculous heights with members of RK Mission founded by Svami Vivekananda demanding minority status !!
A Government mandated to maintain the nation intact and work to achieve the goal of a compact national society, must NOT allow themselves to concede such an absurd demand. It is a sinister move designed to engineer a rupture in the unifying civilisational chord. Offering crutches to a community which has been in forefront of womens education and excellence in every discipline of human endeavour, is sheer derogation of their multi-dimensional historic achievements reinforcing voluble proponents of ‘Neo-Hinduism’ Theory in the so-called western academia ever conjuring and perpetuating image of an imaginary, fragmented Hindu society at war within itself. They can never accept the axiom that teeming diversities have prospered under the green-wood shade of a gigantic banyan tree of Hinduism providing shade and solace. It is high time to shut down the Pandoras Box of minority appeasement that was opened by the last Mughal Jawaharlal Nehru much to the detriment of the nation.
When there are several mechanisms already available in the country to address and redress grievances, why should the ‘Minority-Funda’ exist at all ?? Lone so-called minority community of Parsees never demanded any favour from the nation. Another outstanding example is of Sindhis. Both declared whole country as their state and worked hard for the betterment of all. Why minority status/benefits be conceded for Jains who are already so affluent and zealously guard their wealth to be retained within their community alone ? ‘Policy-Distortion’ of Minority-Appeasement must be rejected forever, deep in the graveyard reserved for Congress (I)TALIAN !!!
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