Monday, June 24, 2019

Dinesh Kamath's Editorial 'US biased against BJP?' that was published in Newsband


US biased against BJP?
The ruling BJP accused the U.S. State Department of a “clear bias” against the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the party in The ‘2018 Report on International Religious Freedom’. The 2018 report had listed 18 attacks against “Non-Hindu and Dalit” victims, in which 8 people were killed in violence linked to cow protection. In addition, the report quoted various Christian NGOs that had documented 300-500 cases of alleged violence against Christian priests and churches nationwide.
Religion should be a unifying factor of all cultures. Religions have separated man - the Catholic, the Protestant, the Hindu, the Muslim and they are all saying, "We are all seeking one thing". Therefore freedom means negation of being conditioned by any culture or by any religion. We are concerned with peace, living in a world in which violence, the separation, the brutality is to end. The function of any serious religious person is to unify man through the factor of religion because religion is the only factor that unifies man.
Let us talk about the situation in US. If we fight over religion here they too fight over complexion. We fight over a man-made issue but they fight over an issue on which man has no hand. Just imagine what would have happen if US was as diverse in religion as India is.
Whenever needed, Modi and other BJP leaders have deplored violence against minorities and weaker sections. Modi government should ignore this Pakistani sponsored so called intellectuals (but basically those who do not want a strong government in India). Common citizens stand by Modi Government. The background should be checked and if proved they should be booked under sedition law.
US should stop destructively interfering in the local activities of our country. We have an elected government and that has been entrusted with the responsibility of running the country. It is their basic job. It has no business publishing such reports which basically increases hatred among communities. U.S will have to grow up to understand Hindutva & religious freedom which talk about our way of life.
This was bound to happen. One cannot fool the international Media.  In fact the Courts in India should also have been taken to task.  In many cases there was blatant attack on the individual freedom and liberty. The Judiciary which is entrusted with protecting the civil rights of citizens has failed miserably. In fact we cannot expect much too, with the CJI himself implicated in a Sexual harassment case.  The Indian story is now reduced to such trivialities - criminal feted by Ministers. Do we have any future, with the kind of politics we are seeing now?
US annual report on International Religious Freedom does not carry any conviction, so far as its Indian component is concerned, as it is not vetted and authenticated.  It only enumerates reports received from various sources without taking any responsibility for their veracity. It thus appear to be a mere tool in the diplomatic power-play rather than a real indictment. A kind of veiled blackmail to get better off the bilateral relations!
Americans do not know the ground realities in India. Congress ruled for the maximum period after Independence with the help of Muslim vote Bank and Christian vote bank and corrupt Hindu politicians and businessmen who used to fund the Party. This led to corruption in entire India. Whereever you put hand there is corruption. Violence in America is more serious than in India. In India it is controllable. Electronic media nowadays is simply biased. The innocent people whose vote was never considered by Congress has gone to BJP. BJP is not a Communal party. Since Congress is not in power, we yet have some reputation Internationally due to their past Nehru and Indira policies doing all the negative propaganda defaming India and the BJP Internationally.

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