06-17-2006, 07:17 PM
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Chairman
NCRLM, Gate 30, II Floor
Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium
New Delhi 110003Â
Sub: <b>Please donât finance conversions</b>
Dear Justice R Mishra
This is to urge you strongly to kindly reject the motivated and ill-considered proposal to extend privileges provided under the Constitution for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes to converts to non-Hindu faiths.
      The demand by Christian groups for special privileges to so-called 'Christian Dalits' are a fraud on the Dalits and a ruse to finance conversions to Christianity through the public exchequer. The Supreme Court in a landmark judgment of 1977 (Chief Justice AN Ray) had noted that, "if a person purposely undertakes the conversion of another to his religion, that would impinge on the freedom of conscience guaranteed to all citizens of the country alike".
      You would be aware that the Christian missionaries spread serious disaffection in society by their blasphemy against Hindu divinities, and divide society into warring factions by promoting ill-will and distrust amongst various groups, so as to win converts. A key argument made in this process is that they are promoting equality and the brotherhood of man. Yet this equality vanishes the moment the low caste converts leave their old family, culture and social group behind and seek to enter the churches as equals. Then they are given separate churches and even cemeteries! And now the responsibility for all this evil perpetrated by the church is placed at the door of Hindu society which is doing much to mitigate the lot of these groups.
       The church is keeping all its foreign funds for further evangelization, rather than the economic upliftment of the converted from poor sections of society. Thus, it willfully aggravates social unrest and inequality.
Any extension of privileges guaranteed under the Constitution to a Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes to converts will doubly reward Church duplicity. It will be nothing short of State sponsored or State financed evangelization, which is blatantly unconstitutional. It will completely destroy the social fabric of the nation and will divide the nation on communal lines. In this regard, one is compelled to ask to what extent the Catholic affiliation of UPA chairperson Ms. Sonia Gandhi is responsible for the consideration of such a disastrous proposal at this moment in history.
      It is well known that the term 'Dalit' is a political invention with no sanction in Indian tradition. 'Dalit' theology is specifically by Christian evangelical and proselytizing groups funded by America , whose administration is taking undue interest in India âs internal matters, to which UPA is a silent spectator.
In the name of national unity and integration, I urge the Hon'ble Commission to reject any moves to provide for special privileges to converts to Christianity.
(Sandhya Jain)
Columnist
The Pioneer
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Chairman
NCRLM, Gate 30, II Floor
Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium
New Delhi 110003Â
Sub: <b>Please donât finance conversions</b>
Dear Justice R Mishra
This is to urge you strongly to kindly reject the motivated and ill-considered proposal to extend privileges provided under the Constitution for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes to converts to non-Hindu faiths.
      The demand by Christian groups for special privileges to so-called 'Christian Dalits' are a fraud on the Dalits and a ruse to finance conversions to Christianity through the public exchequer. The Supreme Court in a landmark judgment of 1977 (Chief Justice AN Ray) had noted that, "if a person purposely undertakes the conversion of another to his religion, that would impinge on the freedom of conscience guaranteed to all citizens of the country alike".
      You would be aware that the Christian missionaries spread serious disaffection in society by their blasphemy against Hindu divinities, and divide society into warring factions by promoting ill-will and distrust amongst various groups, so as to win converts. A key argument made in this process is that they are promoting equality and the brotherhood of man. Yet this equality vanishes the moment the low caste converts leave their old family, culture and social group behind and seek to enter the churches as equals. Then they are given separate churches and even cemeteries! And now the responsibility for all this evil perpetrated by the church is placed at the door of Hindu society which is doing much to mitigate the lot of these groups.
       The church is keeping all its foreign funds for further evangelization, rather than the economic upliftment of the converted from poor sections of society. Thus, it willfully aggravates social unrest and inequality.
Any extension of privileges guaranteed under the Constitution to a Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes to converts will doubly reward Church duplicity. It will be nothing short of State sponsored or State financed evangelization, which is blatantly unconstitutional. It will completely destroy the social fabric of the nation and will divide the nation on communal lines. In this regard, one is compelled to ask to what extent the Catholic affiliation of UPA chairperson Ms. Sonia Gandhi is responsible for the consideration of such a disastrous proposal at this moment in history.
      It is well known that the term 'Dalit' is a political invention with no sanction in Indian tradition. 'Dalit' theology is specifically by Christian evangelical and proselytizing groups funded by America , whose administration is taking undue interest in India âs internal matters, to which UPA is a silent spectator.
In the name of national unity and integration, I urge the Hon'ble Commission to reject any moves to provide for special privileges to converts to Christianity.
(Sandhya Jain)
Columnist
The Pioneer
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