Why do Hindus feel chilly due to conversion?

Why do Hindus feel chilly due to conversion?

                                                                        (Kanwal Bharti)

 

 

In 1993, the then Congress Government, in Centre, introduced the Religion Bill in Parliament to stop the use of religion in politics. Apparently, the purpose of Congress Government was to stop the temple movement of the BJP. But the opposite happened. The BJP and the Sangh Parivar had promoted the atmosphere of the entire nation with Hindutva by projecting the bill as a blow to Hinduism. They took out eleven thousand kilometres long Hindutva-yatra. Hindu newspapers spurred the issue further, many-many articles and stories were written, and the amazing definitions of Hinduism were given. At the same time, the Supreme Court also gave a historic verdict, defining Hinduism as desirable to the RSS. That bill was dropped. In 1999, the RSS and BJP attacked Christians and their churches in protest against the conversion of the whole country on the pretext of Sonia Gandhi. They raised huge falsehoods against Christians. In the same way, false propaganda was constantly carried out against Muslim madrasas, they were described as bases of terrorism. Behind this lie, the RSS and BJP had only one aim to keep Dalit castes as Dalits.

The real question is why the RSS and BJP are feeling chillies on conversion, for which the BJP government of Uttar Pradesh has passed the Prohibition of Conversion Ordinance 2020 against the conversion? It has become a law after the signature of the Governor, and conversion has become illegal in Uttar Pradesh. When Article 25 of the Constitution of India gives the freedom that a person can choose any religion as he wishes, then how did the owl sit against the conversion in the mind of the saffron chief minister of Uttar Pradesh? How did the cabinet pass this anti-constitution ordinance by swearing in the constitution? Article 25 also states that the state will not establish any religion of its own, nor will it encourage any specific religion. Then why is Yogi Adityanath, who is sitting on a chair swearing in the Indian Constitution, not of Manusmriti, looting the government treasury to encourage Hinduism by making it a state-religion? In fact, Yogi and his entire government should be sacked for this grossly anti-constitutional work, but who will sack when Saiyan Bhaye Kotwal? Yogi has the full support of the RSS and the Modi government at the Centre. The Governor is also a BJP member, she cannot be expected to reject the ordinance. This can now be stopped by the court only. If not stopped by the court, it will be very unfortunate, because the secular structure of the state created by the constitution will be destroyed. And in its place Hindutva will become the religion of the state, which will be disastrous for other religious minority communities and those who are Hindutva-affected communities.

There is a wave of happiness in the Uttar Pradesh BJP about the Yogi's anti-conversion ordinance. Yogi is being congratulated as if Yogi has won the battle of Pakistan. And on the face of Yogi, the mirror of defeating the Constitution is visible. But the truth is that the soul of Guru Gorakhnath is sending lakhs of curses to him, who shouted :

उत्पति हिंदू जरणा जोगी अकलि परि मुसलमांदी .

हिन्दू ध्यावै देहुरा मुसलमान मसीत.

जोगी ध्यावै परमपद जहाँ देहुरा न मसीत.

 

It means Jogi is a Hindu by birth, but a Muslim by wisdom. The Hindu meditates in the temple, and the Muslim worships in the mosque. But the jogi is the one who meditates on the Divine, where there is neither a mosque, nor a temple.

Yogi, the Chief Minister, says in praise of his anti-law Ordinance that those who convert will now face a sentence of up to ten years. He did not think at all, saying that religion is a personal matter of man. And personally, Brahmins and Thakurs have done the most religious conversion in history. Now why are the Brahmins and Thakurs not converting, because now they themselves are the ruling class in India. When they were not the ruling class, they entered every religion. And the religions they went in, took their caste system with them, and also corrupted them. If the Brahmins and Thakurs had not converted, they would have done a great favour to humanity.

Just as there is a provision in Manusmriti to give the lowest in the case of Dwijs and more punishment to the Shudras, similarly the ordinance of the Yogi Government provides for a punishment of up to five years in the case of conversion of the general class and a fine of Rs 15,000. But in the case of conversion related to the Dalit castes, a provision of 10 years sentence and fine of 25 thousand rupees has been made. It seems that the Yogi government has also taken this punishment from Manusmriti. This feature is of the Hindu varna system itself that it does not like equality in any area. This principle of inequality was actually created by Manu to oppress the Shudras. Yogi has also approved unequal punishments for suppressing Dalits on the same basis. After all, what trouble does the yogi have with the conversion of Dalits? The problem is what Manu had. The reason why Manu wanted to suppress the Shudras, for that reason the Yogi's Hindu government also wants to suppress the Dalits. In other words, because of which Manu did not want to give freedom to the Shudras, for that very reason also the Yogi's Hindutva does not want to give freedom to the Dalits. Like Manu, Yogis also want to take away the freedom of Dalits and keep them as Dalits.

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has cited 'Love-Jihad' as the reason behind bringing the ordinance against conversion, while the truth is that Love-Jihad is a myth; No existence of this has been found yet. All the incidents of love marriage between a Hindu young man and a Muslim woman or between a Muslim young man and a Hindu woman are all common human love incidents. No investigative agency found evidence of Muslim jihad being involved in them. However, most of the incidents of love and marriage of Hindu-Muslim women have taken place in the BJP and RSS camp. Families of veteran BJP leaders like Murli Manohar Joshi, LK Advani, Praveen Togadia, Ashok Singhal, Ram Lal have marred in Muslim families. Why did the BJP and RSS not raise the question of love jihad there? Why does the RSS and BJP see love-jihad only in the case of Dalit castes only?

Actually, jihad is a pretext, the real purpose is to stop the conversion of Dalits. If this was not the case, then why did the Yogi ban the mass conversion in the ordinance, under which there is a provision of 10 years jail and a fine of Rs 50,000?  I think the reason for this is that after the recently Hathras incident, some Dalits in Ghaziabad left Hinduism and adopted Buddhism. When this incident of Buddhist conversion was published in newspapers, the converted Dalits, who belonged to the Balmiki community, were greatly harassed by the officials of the district administration. In the past too, RSS organizations had forced their return to Balmikis who had adopted Christianity. Now when they want to adopt Buddhism, then the Yogi government of RSS and BJP made a provision to stop it in the ordinance. This clearly means that the Hindutva forces do not accept the conversion of Dalits to Buddhism. It means they do not want spiritual upliftment of Dalits. These forces want the poor people of the Dalit castes to remain Dalits all their lives, and rot in the hell in which they are living. It is not only against the Constitution, but it is also a fascist dictatorship blocking the spiritual development of a particular class. Now this ordinance has become law, it will be the most dangerous, ugly and hateful law to suppress the freedom of Dalits.

BJP and RSS have already separated the Balmiki community from Ambedkarite Dalits in the name of Mahadalit. However, in spite of this, the teachings of Dr. Ambedkar are going on, and educated Balmikis are getting influenced by him and are getting out of the Brahminical structure of Hindutva. The Buddhist conversion in Ghaziabad was the result of the same, which scared the Hindutva ruling class into thinking that if the Balmiki community became equipped with Dr. Ambedkar's consciousness, and became Buddhist, who would clean the gutters, and who would clean filth. It is for this reason that BJP governments neither want their higher education nor their rehabilitation. Does the Yogi government only want that the physical and social development of the Dalit castes should not happen, and only the upper castes continue to develop everywhere, and that they are entitled to all the freedoms?

The ordinance states that a person or persons desirous of conversion will have to inform the District Magistrate two months in advance and obtain his permission to change his religion. Is it conceivable that a magistrate would risk offending the government by giving permission? He will never give permission, but will only send the applicant to jail.

(27/11/2020)

 

 

 

Hinduism under the pretext of Valmiki Jayanti - Kanwal Bharati

Hinduism under the pretext of Valmiki Jayanti

(Kanwal Bharati)

 

The Yogi government of Uttar Pradesh's saffron party has decided to celebrate Valmiki-Jayanti (31 October) at the government level in each district to compensate for the political loss caused by the Hathras incident. The order issued by the state government's chief secretary, RK Tiwari to the divisional commissioners and district officials, states that along with other programs at sites and temples related to Maharishi Valmiki, lamp lighting, lamp-donation and continuous eight, Twelve- or twenty-four-hours recitation of Valmiki-Ramayana and a program of bhajan etc. should also be done. Surely it is such a vicious trick to woo Valmikis, who shoots two targets with one stone. The first target is that the Adi poet Valmiki, who is regarded as a cleaning worker or a scavenger community as his god, though it has been imposed on him by the RSS itself, will be happy with the decision of the Yogi government that the government should give so much respect to their god It has been, while this government had ended Valmiki-Jayanti holiday. The second goal is that through this event, the work of scavengers will be linked to RSS Hindutva. The text of Ramayana means the recitation of the story of Rama and Ravana, that is, to tell that Vishnu himself was born as Rama and killed the anti-religious Ravana and other Rakshas (demons). Then they will be told that the scavenger community is the protector of religion, the protector of society and the protector of the nation. They will not be told that the scavenger community should also come into the mainstream of development by becoming doctors, engineers and professors, and for this they need to leave the dirty profession of scavenging and become well educated.

       Yogi knows very well what is the situation in the education of Valmiki community? They also know that in the name of government job, only the post of scavenging worker in municipalities is for them. The broom itself has been their destiny. Are they for this destiny? Do they not have the right to be highly educated? The BJP provided a separate reservation for them, because by doing this it cleverly separated the scavenging workers from the Dalits who are Ambedkarites, so that they too do not become Ambedkarites. But the BJP government did not take any step towards the development of their education. But why? When they will not have education, is the provision of separate reservation not to fool them?

       What are the unbroken recitations and hymns of the Ramayana? What do they mean? Is this not the same type of 'hang' as in the decades after independence, Brahmins created a new hang called 'Kirtan' to strengthen the roots of their religion, i.e. Brahmanism. I remember, this kirtan was also done in our colony. My age was ten or twelve years old then. It was an uneducated colony, so I also liked kirtan. Yesterday, in the house of Jagdish, today in our house, then this kirtan used to happen in Ramlal's house the day before. Why did this happen? It was not my age to know the implications of this. But when I read Chandrikaprasad Jigyasu's book 'Ishwar and His Guddes' in 1975, I understood why the Brahmins took the hang of this Kirtan? If there is a revolution against Brahminism in any of the constituents of the Dalit classes, then Brahminism becomes restless and immediately starts a counter-revolution to suppress it. At that time, the Brahmins feared that there would be no revolution of Dr. Ambedkar among the Dalit-backward classes, so they took the hang of the Kirtan and started an undertaking to add the Dalit classes to Hinduism. Jigyasu wrote - "There is a boom of kirtan in the whole country. City-to-city, village-to-village, home-to-home kirtan-mandalis continue from one end of the country to the other. The custom of Ghar-Ghar Kirtan and Akhand Kirtan is going on. And by making Hare Rama Hare Krishna's rote, the shaken roots of the Brahmanshahi religious empire are strengthened by making the innocent people blind devotees of the Gudde gods of Brahmins.

       However, in order to keep the Valmiki community connected with Hindutva, many RSS organizations like Bharatiya Valmiki Dharma Samaj (Bhavadhas) and Adi Dharma Samaj (Adhas) are doing equal work among them, which is working in the spirit of RSS, but some Ambedkarite organizations are also working among them, who are motivating them to give up their dirty scavenging profession, teach children and join the ideology of Dr. Ambedkar. They also teach them that Maharishi Valmiki was a Brahmin, who was a feudal poet, he has no connection with the scavenger society. They explain to them that as long as you keep Valmiki as your God, there will be no upliftment of you, so the sooner you leave Valmiki, become an Ambedkarite. Valmiki does not ask you to be educated, they just ask you to follow in the footsteps of Shri Ram, who protects Brahmins. But Dr. Ambedkar asks you to educate, agitate and organise  for their rights. As a result of this, a parallel revolution is also going on in the Mehtar commu,nity against the so-called religion being run in the name of Valmiki. After the Hathras-scandal, this Ambedkarite stream strongly polarized against the Bharatiya Janata Party in the Mehtar community, which alerted the RSS, and since then became active in undertaking to keep the sweeper community connected to Hinduism. In Uttar Pradesh, celebrating Valmiki-Jayanti at government expenses in Mehtar settlements on 31 October and doing a unbroken recitation of Ramayana is under the same undertaking.

       There is no objection in assuming that there should be a recitation of Valmiki's Ramayana on Valmiki-Jayanti. But the objection is on why the recitation of Ramayana should be in the Mehtar settlements itself. Why is this recitation not happening in the Hindu colonies of the upper castes? Is it only the scavenger community that needs Ramayana recitation? There are many other castes among the Dalits, but what is the reason that the Dalit love of the RSS and the BJP is manifesting on the sweepers? Is it because other Dalit castes do not consider Valmiki as God? Or because they don't do the scavenging occupation? Obviously, upper caste Hindus need scavengers, to clean toilets, to clear roads, and to clean sewers and gutters? India is the only country in the world, where cleaning of gutters is done by scavengers, the way they enter and clean them is life-threatening and till now several hundred people have died by entering the gutter. In other countries, gutter cleaning is done by machines, but in India, scavengers are made to work because the machine is expensive, while the scavenger is a very cheap labour, whose death is not even the responsibility of the government. Therefore, it is very important for the Caste-Hindus to remain uneducated and poor of the Mehtar community, because they can get out of the Hindu fold by being educated.

It is time for introspection for the people of our Valmiki community, especially the educated. Does the recitation of Ramayana need them? Will listening to the recitation of Ramayana solve their social and economic problems? How long will they ignore their problems? Do they want to be scavengers for generation to generation? If not, think about what they need for a better future -- broom or education? If they want to make a better future for themselves and their future generations, then abandon the broom, and adopt education. In every situation, teach your children, do not put them in dirty profession.

I will also appeal to my Dalit brothers to stop going to the Shakhas' of the RSS. This is not your friendly organization, but an organization that ruins you and your future. It is an organization of Brahmins, working to establish a Hindu state in India. The aim of this organization is to strengthen the Brahmin religion based on Varna-system and destroy its opponents. Its opponents are Christians and Muslims, against whom it incites hatred among Dalits. People come out of the Sangh Shakhas not as humans, but as communal goons attacking against Christians and Muslims. It is also important to keep in mind that the RSS is also primarily an anti-Dalit organization. It is strongly opposed to the education of Dalits, their reservation and their economic uplift. As long as Valmiki society is not free from the net of RSS, it cannot develop itself independently.