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Editorial Inevitable Hindu assertion The most significant aspect of the massive World Hindu Conference at Prayag last week was its resolve to guide the future political agenda of the nation for a restatement of its Hindu character. A resolution adopted at the conference said, the reason for India?s underdevelopment is the absence of Hindu political power. The UPA government is basically anti-Hindu and is indulging in anti-national activities by promoting divisive interests, said Ashok Singhal, the VHP international president. He suggested the creation of a strong Hindu vote-bank to make a positive change in the country's political discourse. Most political parties behave as if there is no Hindu vote. All programmes and election manifestos promote casteism, regionalism and communalism. But it is seldom that elections are fought on a nation-building agenda. It is in this context that the call for Hindu unity and creation of a vote-bank for national reconstruction assumes significance. In a democracy power is all about flexing the political muscle. The anti-Hindu forces in the country have perfected the art of weakening the nationalist constituency by cynically manipulating the caste equations and promoting the theory that sectional identities are more powerful than the whole. They believe that engineering the communally sensitive Muslim vote is all that matters in the Indian power play. The daily parade of largesse for Muslims from the national exchequer ever since the UPA advent at the centre has no other explanation. The people of the country should have equal rights on national resources. After all it is the tax-payers? money that Manmohan-Sonia regime is bartering away for Muslim appeasement as if they are unzipping their protected personal wallet. The country, the tax-payer, essentially the majority community, has a right to question as to how and where their remittances are being spent. Every time sectional interests are pandered to, it is depriving the majority community of its rightful share. Look at the persistence of Manmohan Singh government with his 15-point programme for Muslims. Equally frustrating is the Andhra Congress government?s persistence on Muslim quota, though both the High Court and the Supreme Court have repeatedly ruled it unconstitutional. Now the plan is to introduce four per cent reservation instead of the earlier five per cent which was crossing the 50 per cent quota limit. It is relevant to cite a recent case of majority assertion in Britain to drive home our point. A story in The Guardian Weekly said: A threat by the Church to withdraw its share of 10.25 million pounds from the British Airways forced the airlines to rescind on an order banning the wearing of cross in the necklace, visibly while in uniform. The row was kicked off by a woman employee who was insisting on wearing a crucifix prominently on her neck. The ban was described as part of efforts to be more secular and not to encourage religious symbols. But the Archbishop of Canterbury found the ban ?deeply offensive,? and supported the lady. The Church?s Ethical Investment Advisory Group called a meeting to review the BA investment after the Archbishop?s comments. Prime Minister Tony Blair, in a diplomatic remark, advising the BA to back off told its chairman that there were battles that were really, really worth fighting and there were battles that were really, really not worth fighting. Already several customers had called the BA and threatened to boycott the airline if it persisted with the ban. The lady whose case started the row has refused to go back to her duty unless ?Christians were allowed their place in the workforce.? In India, politicians take the majority Hindus for all sorts of insults and humiliation because we have not so far reacted as a community. Hindus, as the largest stake-holders of this country, have a duty and a right to protect, preserve and defend their essentially Hindu cultural heritage. The kind of separatism the UPA is encouraging in the name of development of Muslims is objectionable, unconstitutional, arbitrary, to say the least. Selecting 100 wholly Muslim areas in the country for special budgetary allocation, special and compartmentalised health and educational institutions, Islamic banking funded by the Planning Commission, segregated budget provisions for Muslims and, as The Pioneer reported the other day, introducing communal quota in development schemes like Indira Awas Yojna, Sampoorna Gramin Rojgar Yojna and Swarna Jayanti Gram Swarojgar Yojna smack of a sinister design to divide and weaken the country. Such anti-national acts should be resisted and stopped before they assume Frankenstein proportions to reduce the nation to the status of a banana republic. The problem is the UPA is presided over by a nominated and alien oligarchy unrepresentative of the will of the people. It has no mandate for inflicting its divisive agenda on the nation. To stop it the patriotic forces in the country have to stand up and assert as one man.

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