Why creat controvercies for the permnently settled Nation Issues.

August 2019 news about sermons of Sh.Mohan Bhagwat RSS Chief suggesting dialogue between Anti and Pro Reservation supporters to settle this issue once for all. The RSS chief and final word to BJP Government in India has started a new topic on reservation by opening conversation between Pro and Anti Reservation groups in India. The reservation issue is well settled issue as per the Indian Constitution. It is not a temporary provision like Art.370 and 35-A now remoddled / removed by Reorganization Of J&K State Act of 2019. In making Art. 370 Dr. Ambedkar the father of Indian Constitution was first to oppose its inclusion. But the reservation issue which spouted from roots in the neglect and worst typed atrocities perpetuated on Untouchable (Now Dalits or SCs, STs, OBCs) by their religious superior brothers (Brahmins,Khatriyas,Vaisyas) for centuries. Before 1947 Independence on 26th July 1902 Chhaterpati Sahu Ji Mahraj the Emperor Of Kohlapur ordered 50% reservation in services for Backward Classes and also Raja of Pangal ( Ruled July 11,1921to Dec.3 1926), Madras Presidency ordered reservation for Back warded Classes in 1921. Official records show in 1902 in Kohlapur State 98% Ministers were Brahmin whose population was only 3% of the total population of the Kingdom.
While presenting the miserable conditions of Indian Dalits on 27 January 1919, Dr. Ambedkar submitted a memorandum and gave evidence before the Southborough Commission. He submitted glaring instances of neglect of his people due to prevailing untochability based hate. He submitted that in the whole Bombay Presidency there was one B.A. and 6 or 7 matriculates among the depressed classes. The proportion of those who were literate in English was very small, but not much smaller than in the case of the backward classes. He also cited a case in which a Mahar caste woman was taken to the police court for selling watermelons. The Dalits had faced worst during Peshwa Rule when every Dalit had to carry an earthed pot in his/her front to spit or nose blowing and a broom in the back to as to broom their foot marks on the ground so that do Brahminsmay not get polluted. This is only one narration of atrocities during Hay days of Hinduism from long list of such atrocities . The foreign invaders including Muslim, the British Rulers did not had courage to touch Hindu religious atrocities on unfortunate human body reduced to living skeletons of untouchable for fear of revolt from Brahmins as they were getting ministrial staff from them to run their rules. Then only Brahmins had education other were kept out of bound from this facility. These facts were explained by Dr. Ambedkar in all committees formed by the British crown from1909 onwards and also in 3 RTCs.
This Reservation for untouchables was recognized as minimum support in the form of reservation to these unfortunate human reduced to skeletons by Hindu Laws. The GOVT. Of India Acts of 1909, 1919, 1935 recognized the untouchables as a minority Separate from Hindus like Muslims, Sikhs, Christians, Anglo-Indians and Others. 3 RTC’s held in London where over 200 delegates including Mahatama Gandhi participated. Many of these delegates are now Bharat Ratna Awardees The Communal Award of 1932 and Poona Pact of 1932 had roots in granting safe guards to Untouchables in the future constitution of India. Finally in the Constitution of India settled permanently the reservation for untouchables in services and politics. The Constitution drafting body had 292 elected men of wisdom (193 Hindus & 33 from Reserved Castes) deliberated this matter for 2 years,11 months and 17 days while making the constitution for free India leaving no room for further discussion between the pro and anti reservation communities.
Keeping unity of India dear to his bosom and taking the worries of Hindus shown about welfare of untouchable in free India as real and gentlemanly promises Dr. Ambedkar compromised with Hindus rejecting demands of his own Dalit colleagues like Soami Achhutanand, Gaddar Party leader Mangu Ram Magowalia and many other for Achhutestan,an independent home land for untouchables. Had Dr. Ambedkar fallen in line with other Dalit leaders in demanding Achhutastan for Dalits population 12.36%( OBC population excluded) of India pre-partition population their share would have been roughly as 826698 sq. Km of united India on the analogy that Muslims with population share of about 15.39% got 102948 sq.km as Pakistan( East and West). In that case Dalits would have been standing as citizens of Independent country of their own. The Hindu leaders should keep in view the sacrifices Of Dalits in creation of United India, which now a largest democracy on the global map. Majority among 200 participants in 3 RTCs and,193 Hindu Members of Indian Constitution making besides Hindu signatories of POONA Pact are ancestors to many present day Caste Hindu leaders. If these present day caste Hindu leaders own assets created by their ancestors they have no right to dispute their wisdom in granting Reservation to Dalits and to shrink from owning the liabilities created by past Hindu leaders even if they think it a liability.
The present day Hindus leaders should reframe racking up the long settled issues like reservation in services and politics by their ancestors in the larger interests of the unity, fraternity and individual dignity. I will therefore impress upon the present day Hindu leaders to stand by the promises made by their elders. Hindu leaders should own assets and liabilities of yesteryears men of wisdom as per cannons of law established for, secular, democratic republic of Indian Constitution. If they try to create hurdles in execution of settled rules the Dalits will be free to think of their ways to safe guard their interests. Our Dalit ancestors have burnt Hindu Law Constitution book “Manusmriti” in 1925 giving a secular, Democratic Constitution to free India where individual Dignity and Fraternity besides equality before law are paramount. In a society a big brother is big till he behaves and does not force the younger to challenge his authority. His misbehaviour is sever beloe to errode his authority. Hope a good sense prevails in the minds of Caste Hindus to not disturb peace in the Country. They must reign some distructive minds among them who go on issuing unfounded statements and creating ill will among our countrymen. Mind you blind Bhagtas have always created more problems than solving any.
Pl share if you like the idea to maintain communal harmony in this ancient Land of Buddha and ,Ashoka besides many other Great men of wisdom.

The Article 13 Of the Indian Constitution

The Article 13 Of the Indian Constitution is a powerful legal  provision where in all laws legally, religious enforceable prior to the adoption of the Constitution of free India were made inapplicable in India. Art.13 reads as

 Laws inconsistent with or in derogation of the fundamental rights

(1) All laws in force in the territory of India immediately before the commencement of this Constitution, in so far as they are inconsistent with the provisions of this Part, shall, to the extent of such inconsistency, be void ( Refers to laws existing prior to adopting this Constitution)

 Laws made after the commencement of the Constitution

(2) The State shall not make any law which takes away or abridges the rights conferred by this Part and any law made in contravention of this clause shall, to the extent of the contravention, be void

 This article 13 has now part 13(3),13(4) added by different amendments but these are to explain,  to enforce certain provisions of laws in certain circumstances..

 But the most powerful provision against the monopoly of religious laws or some other laws enacted for the convenience of the rulers was uprooted by the visionary wisdom of the Constitution framers. Baba Sahib Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar the father of Indian Constitution got all unnatural Laws null and void by writing the Constitution and also getting consent of other members.

  Now the public utterances of some political Parties leaders, their Masters, Militant Armies          ( Senas)  maintained by some religions under the garb of social activities,  of change of Constitution, burning of the Constitution in full Public view in the presence of the  Government Law enforcing  agencies is all due to this Article 13 Provisions indigestion. Because uptill this article exits in the constitution no religious Laws of dividing people on the basis of caste, sex, colour place of birth can do any harm to Indian nationals who may be  penniless or Billionaire , sweeper or religious preacher. Dreaming of establishing Ram Rajya to assassinate SHABUKS  by certain people is not possible .

 So all right thinking Indian need to resist with their full force any change or scrapping of the Constitution by any person, political party, religious agencies etc.  Good of  Bharta lies in enforcing Constitutional provisions in letter and spirit.

Indian Tolerance at its Nadir

                                            By:- Er. H. R. Phonsa     Dt:-14-9-2019

Nature created this world with interdependence of all creatures, plants, and utilities. Many plant seed do not spout if they are not circulated through digestive system of birds where as trees provide food and shelters to birds. Tolerance is key to maintain this divine association.  Long back in the process of human evolution, an idea of mutual understanding and necessity of inter dependence must have occurred in the minds of even primitive people.  It may have   developed in their bonds to live in small groups as this helped them to lend helping hands in times of need. On finding this a useful and practical way to live in harmony living groups, hamlets must have developed giving way to associated living. These community bonds formed societies giving rise to ancient civilisations.  Much is yet shrouded in mysteries about human journey from an ape to the present day man of global village. The world’s known oldest civilisations developed on the theme of brother hood and collective moving ,living and working .How the human mentality and psychology grew to produce  this big change is a matter of interest and subject  of further research to peep deep into it formation of civilisation as early as 3300 BCE. Since human is the only creature in this universe which fully developed brain having analytical sense of coordinating ideas,  analysingand materialising these into productive  action . The Human tolerance to the other’s view point and life styles must have worked in cementing humanity bonds among our great grand fathers. Tolerance not only between human but also for all living beings and non living things including services like water, atmosphere, earth etc. Man is assigned the roll of big brother. With the passage of time greed developed in the thinking of big brother and he at times becomes selfish, self centred and then destroyer. This indifferent attitude of man towards man and all other things  is pushing humanity towards extinction, if not arrested in time.

 We Indian claim to be one of the oldest 10 world’s  civilisation and possessing the oldest religious scriptures. This all must have been possible through the dedicated and unified working of our elders. Our older generations must have worked in unison having accommodating minds for the thoughts and actions of follow actors. What the man possesses today has been gained through utmost tolerance for the fellow men and women. Sadly with the development of idea of  self in the societies, human intellect developed giving rise to greed and selfishness. The sense of self and fear of shortage of resources plays a dominating roll. Human greed and selfishness increased instinct of animality in human. It is wisely said “Nature has enough to meet our needs but not our greed’s”.  From here the intolerance to other’s view point developed.  Development of Different Religions and specific religion scriptures’ further divided humans there by complicating matter further. Now world has are some 4,300 religions. Side stepping the issue of what constitutes a religious adherent divides religions into Churches, Denominations, Congregation, Religion bodies, Faith group, Tribes, Cultures, and movements (Paohow Popchavei  PhD, Quora). The world has witnessed  “ More religions More Confussion” as preists and religious peers use religion to spread hate against their follow religions.

According to the 2011 census, 79.8% of the population of India practices Hinduism ( SCs(22.2% )STs9%),OBC 42.8% included) and 14.2% adheres to Islam, while the remaining 7.37% adheres to other religions (Christianity, Sikhism, Buddhism, Jainism, Parsis and Iranis , Baha'i and some other ethnically-bound faiths .Many other world religions also have a relationship with Indian spirituality. Hindus are again subdivided into innumerable sub castes as with OBC’S (3743), SC’s (2000) and ST’s (1000) Sub Castes or 6743  castes.   Ramani’s Blog lists 308 castes in Islam which has population of 177 Million in India alone (Indian censes 2011). All these religious faiths revolve around numerous ways to reach out to God through various God realization routes. These religious beliefs preach different worships and different ways of worship to realize God Almighty. But at times this proves a great hurdle in human unity. In efforts to create sectoral   unity humanity is looser.  If anybody argues or disbelieves a particular belief he or she is declared as atheist (Nastic).  Some religious preachers and god men of these religious faiths are on record to spread hatred towards men of other faiths so create intolerance. There goes a saying that the religions hatred resulted in deaths of more men than total killing in all wars in this world. If we preach as one Creator of this universe, then all His creations are blood relations. If God is One, goal to reach Him should also be one, routes may be different. Then where is the possibility of believers of one faith being dearer to God than persons believing in another faith.  In general more the faiths and religious beliefs more are hate and intolerance generating centres.

 Any particular typed species  created by nature has similarities or close resemblances subject to weather Vagaries.  So is human race. Place of birth, economic and social status make but little difference except skin colour.

 There is no difference but variety in creation of nature. Against this every religion has its own laws which have few or no resemblances with any other religion.  It the creation of greed of man which created differences generating hate misconceptions and hostility. This causes differences so generate intolerance.    True religious ignorance plays a great part. Denesh Binjola has rightly said “In India, greedy people offer partnership to God for better profits. Is it not the height of ignorance?”          ( Quora).  Human by nature are selfish with varying intensity from person to person. More instincts of animalism (preoccupation with body and satisfying its needs, lacking spirituality) in a person more selfish and intolerant the person shall be.

Indian civilisation is one of the oldest. The Hindus claim to possess the oldest religious books in the form of four  Vedas( 1900 to 1100BCE) meaning “knowledge”. It also has More than 200  Upnishadas-18 Smirities, 18 Maha Puranas (Great Puranas) and 18 Upa Puranas (Minor Puranas). Despite all this Hindus hate major chunk of their religious brethren  called Untouchables( OBC’S) and out caste( SC’S and ST’s) so generate ill will and intolerance. Excesses on these unfortunate are committed all over India in the name of religion, Cow protection, to maintain purity of worshiping place, but no sane Hindu comes to their rescue and to wipe off their agony tears. India scared Book the Indian Constitution granting dignity with equality in status and opportunity to Dalits is burnt, status of Dalit icons are broken, defaced, their bridegrooms are insulted, rape on their fair sex including minors are being carried in public view many a times in the presence of govt. agencies is causing a great deal of uprising in over74% of the Indian Dalit population. With the passage of time and spread of education among dalit- mulnivasies the sense of self respect is spouting in them, so the atrocities committed on themare being resisted and aired by them.  This results into more organised atrocities and more intolerance on both sides. The overall control over Indian political   system, bureaucracy, judiciary and media by a few upper caste Hindus generate and support intolerance between different sections of the society which need to be arrested with judicious hands.

Different religious faith revelries in India are on the rise .  Many religious and political thoughts are playing a great roll to achieve their selfish goals.  To counter this, human race will have to act untidily. Man will have to control the worst human enemies like ego, lust, sexual instincts, attachment and greed. We have to develop more of   the humility, chastity, Character, sacrifice and goodwill. The men in authority whether in religion, government, politics media must think of uniting and  means to persevere  the human race for its safe future.

 To sum up in a simple but  distinctive manner Former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the occussion of 75^th birth anniversary of Rajiv Gandhi other   former Prime Minister said “unpleasant trends” of growing intolerance, communal polarisation and incidents of violent crimes propelled by hatred of certain groups would damage our polity.

he  continues saying that these  these trends were repugnant to promotion of peace, national integration and communal harmony, which were cherished objectives enshrined in our Constitution.. He advised all Indians to work to arrest these trends of a few.

By:- Er. H. R. Phonsa

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