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)
