The interim order given by the Supreme Court of India to 4 percent reservation in jobs to ‘backward classes of Muslims' given by the Andhra Pradesh government has unleashed a wave of jubilation among the self-claimed ‘secularists' and a minority section of the people although the matter has finally to be heard by a larger bench for final verdict on its constitutional validity.

The Supreme Court is the final arbiter in interpretation of the word and spirit of the Constitution. Whatever will be its ultimate verdict should be respected by one and all. Yet, the fact remains that our ‘secularist' political parties in their quest for electoral advantage are ending only in creating divisions within the Indian society. This action, by no stretch of argument, can be recognized as an act promoting our goal of one united nation. On the contrary, they are the practitioners of rank of communalism they otherwise profess to hate.

A nationalist in thought and action, takes the people of the country as one unit, a single unified nation. For him the people are one. He is not bothered about their caste, creed, sex or region. He feels about them all, he cares about them as a whole, not in parts. But for our brand of ‘secularists', the nation is not a one single unit, but divided into castes, creeds, sex and regions. They make hey by keeping the sun of their ‘secularism' shining by playing one caste against the other, one faith against the other, one sex against the other, and one region against the other. It helps them promote their political and electoral fortunes. For some of those not in the business of politics, it fetches them fortunes in the shape of hefty donations from within and mostly from abroad. The instancea are too many.

It is this brand of ‘secularists' which is responsible for fanning the fires of communalism and favoured the creation of Pakistan solely on the considerations of religion. But, surprisingly, this very herd of ‘secularists' has never shed even a single crocodile tear for the elimination of Hindus in that part of Pakistan which formed part of India before 1947 and where Hindu population today stands reduced to less than 2 percent of Pakistan population as against about 18-20 percent in 1947. But in India they shed a hundred tears, each day, for the minorities, primarily Muslims.

Last update : 30-03-2010 11:00

Keywords : Secularists see Poverty on Communal Lines, Amba Charan Vashishth

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