An open letter to Prime minister Manmohan Singh
Dear Honorable Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh:
Namaste. We, the Concerned Community of Indian origin,
welcome you to United States of America and wish you a pleasant and
successful trip. We like to submit this petition to you to express our
deep concern about the danger to the national security and integrity of
India due to Terrorism, Missionary Conversions and Appeasement politics.
Terrorism: Though India has been the victim of terrorism for
many centuries, ferocity and frequency of the home grown terrorism aided
and abetted by certain foreign powers has increased at an alarming rate
during the UPA rule. Shekhar Gupta in Indian Express dated Aug. 2, 2008
has aptly said: "These four and half years are the worst in India's
history of fighting terrorism. It is a spectacular period of mayhem when
not one terrorist has been caught, not one major case solved. Even by
the modest standards that Shivraj Patil's home ministry may have set for
itself, this is a spectacularly disastrous record. "
Today, India faces terrorism from three quarters, Islamic
Jihadi organizations like SIMI, Naxalites of various hue and
fundamentalist Christian outfits from the North Eastern states. Only
country that exceeded India in both in terrorist victims and terrorist
attacks is the war torn country Iraq. What is alarming is the
indifference, inaptitude, politicization and softness your
administration has shown in tackling terrorism. To quote Shekhar Gupta
again: "The talk of Naxalism in a week when two of our most important
cities saw serial-bombings and a third had 23 unexploded bombs
recovered, is not a digression. It underlines the unmoving,
thick-skinned, incompetent and pusillanimous response to terror from
this government. ...Ask senior police officers there, even Congress
chief ministers if they'd dare to speak the truth and they will tell you
how they pulled away in fright, under pressure from the Centre for
targeting and upsetting Muslims (voters) in their investigations.. And
if it is not guilty of communalizing our internal security policy, how
does it explain sitting on special anti-terror laws in all BJP-run
states when exactly similar ones have been passed for the Congress
states? If these laws are good, or necessary, then citizens in BJP-run
states have as much need and right to get their protection as those in
the Congress states. "
It is a matter of great shame that some of your ministers
like Laloo Prasad Yadav, Ram Vilas Paswan have publicly criticized the
police and supported SIMI terrorists. They have even visited the house
of Chief architect of these bombings Abdul Bashar in Azamgahd in U.P.
Would cabinet members of President Bush go to Osama Bin Laden's family
to express sympathy? Should you not sack them from your cabinet?
Even your expression of sympathy is baffling to us. You
agonized and said you lost sleep over the arrest of Mohammad Hanif in
Australia for his alleged involvement in the blasts in UK, but you have
never lost sleep during entire last 4.5 years for the victims of
terrorism who lost their sons, their daughters, fathers and mothers and
worse many more who were severely injured. Is the value of citizen's
life depends upon the vote bank they belong to? Can you kindly clarify
whether your administration is with the terrorists or against the
terrorists?
Religious Conversions by Missionaries: The recent communal
violence in Orissa is the direct result of the fraudulent, deceptive and
aggressive conversion activities of the Christian missionaries
throughout India funded from Europe and America. Mahatma Gandhi is
passionately against missionary conversions and called it the deadliest
poison. He said missionaries denationalize and create hatred among
religions. He saw in it imperialism in another form. His insight is
evident to all of us during recent Orissa riots after 84 year old Swami
Laxmananda was assassinated with AK-47's and axes because of his
development efforts with tribals for last 40 years that brought them
into Hindu fold and feel proud of their culture. As Swami Dayananda
Saraswati said, "Conversion is not merely violence against people; it is
violence against people who are committed to non-violence." If you and
your government sincerely believe and respect Mahatma Gandhi, please
follow his advice: "If I had power and could legislate, I should stop
all proselytizing." (Gandhi Nov 5, 1935)".
Appeasement Politics: A truly democratic government will
treat all citizens of the country in fair and equal manner irrespective
of religion, caste, creed or color. However, your government has
followed a policy of appeasement of a few religious based minorities for
vote bank politics and thereby damaged badly the basic fabric of the
Indian democratic polity. It even attempted to carry this to armed
forces of the country based on the Sachar recommendations that would
have deeply divided it. For preserving the unity of country, we request
that all special quotas be strictly based on economic grounds only.
Your administration policies in dealing with Kashmiri
separatists in North, infiltration from Bangla Desh in the East,
missionary aggression in North East, illegal missionary conversions in
South together with Naxalism presence in one-third of the country will
end up dividing country into pieces. Today, we have the shameful episode
of half million Kashmiri Hindus living as refugees in their own country
in sub-human homes for last 18 years. Is such fate waiting many more
Indian Citizens? Or, are the ravages of partition period waiting again?
Sir, any government indulging in the policy of 'Divide and
Rule' and 'Vote bank politics' to stay in power will destabilize the
country and lead to further partition of India. For many centuries all
communities in India have lived together peacefully and prospered. Let
not the history blame you and your party for the destruction of the
ancient Indian civilization and its ethos, traditions and culture. We
sincerely hope and wish that as an enlightened intellectual, you will
work towards the goal of building an egalitarian society based on
equality, justice and liberty for all and make India a prosperous and
powerful country.
Hindi human rights watch.
