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Curb proselytism in Andhra Pradesh -V. Sundaram
In Andhra Pradesh we have a Congress gvernment under a Christian Chief Minister
who takes instructions from an effete UPA Government in New Delhi which is
under the stranglehold of International Roman Catholicism. The Andhra Pradesh
government has been using its official agencies for purposes of
State-sponsored, State-aided and State-abetted proselytism in Andhra Pradesh in
a shamelessly flagrant manner during the last two years.
    Y Samuel Rajasekar Reddy seems to be under the mistaken impression that
he can behave like Henry VIII (1509-1547) of Tudor England and that he can take
Andhra Pradesh back to the 16th century using the International Roman Catholic
might of the UPA government in New Delhi.
    A great champion of Sanatana Dharma and one who is known for her
fearless journalism, Sandhya Jain has rightly observed in a recent article
entitled 'Sacrilege at Tirupati Hills: 'The current initiative of Sri
Swarupanandendra Swami of the Visakhapatnam-based Sri Sarada Peetham to
mobilise Hindu seers to protect dharma in the face of rising depredations by
evangelists has not come a day too soon. While religious conversions are
innately offensive, the rising political eminence of an Italian-born Roman
Catholic has witnessed a corresponding growth of aggressive proselytising at
famous Hindu pilgrimages and holy sites. Sonia Gandhi has reinforced missionary
muscle by sponsoring the rise of Christians in Congress State governments and
party units on an unprecedented scale. Non-Christian Congress Chief Ministers
have been made to acquiesce in missionary activities, and outrageously 'leaky'
welfare schemes have been floated for the benefit of the tax-free NGO industry,
most of which is anti-Hindu.'Â
With his known hatred for Hinduism, Y Samuel Rajasekhara Reddy is unlikely
to ban physical and psychological
encroachment upon the sacred spaces of Hinduism. What is for Hindus, of cosmic,
significance and for proselytizers, of cosmic, significance, is that the Andhra
Pradesh government does not permit Panchayat elections in Tirumala in view of
its spiritual eminence and at the same time a Seventh Day Adventist Chief
Minister permits predatory monotheistic faiths with a proven criminal record of
international terrorism and violence for more than 1000 years to have a free run
of the Tirumala hills. The Governor of Andhra Pradesh should take serious note
of the blatantly anti-Hindu postures and policies of an Evangelical Chief
Minister in Andhra Pradesh and recommend to the President of India the
institution of appropriate proceedings for the prevention of inter-religious
wars in Andhra Pradesh and more particularly in Tirumala hills area.
    If Hindus in majority throughout India do not resist the diabolical
moves of Andhra Pradesh government and Sonia Gandhi, sooner than later we are
bound to have a significant Christian lobby in Parliament, through a
fraudulently conceived amendment altering the basic structure of the
Constitution of India. Sandhya Jain rightly concludes that an East Timor-like
situation could develop in any part of the country where Western Christian
nations have a geo-strategic or purely economic interest. Their lust for the
mineral-rich north-east predates independence and is fostered by insurgency
movements backed by various church denominations.
    Such fears are not unfounded even today. Four nuns were arrested from
the premises of Sri Venkateswara Ruia Government Hospital on charges of alleged
proselytism in the last week of June, 2006. According to hospital sources, the
nuns, who visited the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) funded government
hospital, asked the patients of their names and details to perform 'healing
prayers' in a local church last night. The hospital staff and attendants asked
the nuns not to indulge in such an act and leave the premises. On two earlier
occasions also, nuns had indulged in evangelical activities in Tirumala hills
and at the Sri Venkateswara University. By maintaining an attitude of
Christianity-coveting secular indifference, the Andhra Pradesh government has
so far remained neutral between the fire brigade and the fire.
    Taking note of the serious situation developing in Tirumala hills, His
Holiness Sri Sri Visweswara Theertha of Pejawar Mutt, Udipi appointed a Fact
Finding Committee in April, 2006, under the chairmanship of Justice G
Bikshapathy. This committee was requested to ascertain the factual position as
regards the activities of Non-Hindu religious communities in Tirumala and
Tirupathi and to furnish a report to His Holiness for considering the steps to
be taken to prevent undesirable activities of the Christian and other Non-Hindu
communities.
    The report of this committee was handed over to Sri Sri Visweswara
Theertha Swami of Pejawar Mutt at Bangalore on 3 July, 2006. Commenting on the
report of this Committee, Pejawar Swami condemned the evangelistic activities
in Tirumala Hills highlighted by the Fact Finding Committee. He stated: 'Every
religion must work with its own precincts. The trustees and employees of
temples must be Hindus and the government should take action against
missionaries who are propagating Christianity within the Tirumala Temple
premises. Temple funds should be used for the propagation of Hinduism. At the
moment they are being used to send people to Mecca'.
    The following are the major findings and recommendations of the Fact
Finding Committee appointed by Pejawar Swami:
    (i) Members of the Christian community distributed religious pamphlets
and copies of Bible to the students who were returning after writing the EAMCET
examinations conducted at various centres in Tirupathi in May, 2006. Some
student organizations protested against these activities. Police had to
intervene to maintain law and order.
    (ii) On 9 April, 2006, two Christians by name Balaraju (pastor) and Babu
while coming down from Tirumala to Tirupathi in bus distributed pamphlets
propagating Christianity to the pilgrims travelling in that bus.
    (iii) As per Rule 197 of APCHR and E Act 1987 the population living in
Tirumala shall adhere to the norms and shall follow the sentiments of Hindu
Religion. As such thorough probe has to be taken up to verify the antecedents
of Non-Hindu employees who are working in TTD. The identified employees and
their families shall be shifted from Tirumala.
    (iv) Some of the family members of the TTD employees such as wife,
children are practicing Christian ideology and inviting the Pastors to conduct
prayers in their houses at Tirumala. The above aspect may be carefully examined
and steps taken to prevent the above activities in Tirumala.
    (v) Two Christians viz. David (pastor) and Kumar, were found propagating
Christianity in Tirumala and they were handed over to police. The police seem to
have registered a case and kept them for two days on remand.
    (vi) On 21 May, 2006, Special Officer Sri Dharma Reddy held press
conference in which he stated that no Christian religious propaganda was going
on in Tirumala. It is evident that he is not taking a serious view of these
objectionable activities of the Christians at the holy place of Tirumala.
    (vii) Rule 198 of APCHR & E Act 1987 in which anti-Hindu activities have
been prohibited at Tirumala may be enforced ruthlessly without fear or favour.
    (viii) Educational institutions at Tirupathi were established on TTD
land and with TTD funds. It has been brought to the notice of the Committee
that in the colleges and hostels at Tirupathi, Christian religious propagation
is rampant. The Christian students themselves are acting as propagators. Sri
Deva Sangeetham, Principal of S V University College is openly indulging in
propagating and converting the students to Christianity by making them go to
Church, reading Bible and creating disaffection towards Hindu religion. After
Sri Deva Sangeetham has taken charge as Principal, the practice of garlanding
the portrait of Lord Venkateswara was stopped.
    (xi) After Veena Noble Das took charge as Vice-chancellor of Padmavathi
Mahila University, she got removed the photos of Lord Venkateswara and Goddess
Padmavathi from all the institutions of the Mahila University and she also got
removed the portrait of Lord Venkateswara from her office and discontinued the
practice of garlanding the portraits of Lord Venkateswara and Goddess
Padmavathi everyday. Instead she kept a portrait of Jesus Christ and the Cross
on her office table. She is sending batches of students in the University buses
to the church. It is also stated that in the Mahila University, the students are
not allowed to have tilak on the forehead now-a-days and that students putting
tilak are being discriminated.
    What is happening in Andhra Pradesh can only be summarized in the words
of John E Remsburg: 'The Bible is, for the most part, the crude literature of
the people who lived 2000 years, and more, ago. Certain principles of right and
wrong they recognized, but the finer principles of morality were unknown to
them.'
    They were an ignorant people. An ignorant people is generally a
religious people and a religious people nearly always an immoral people. They
believe that they were God's chosen people 'favourites' and that because of
this they had the right to rob and cheat, to murder and enslave the rest of
mankind.
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Curb proselytism in Andhra Pradesh -V. Sundaram
In Andhra Pradesh we have a Congress gvernment under a Christian Chief Minister
who takes instructions from an effete UPA Government in New Delhi which is
under the stranglehold of International Roman Catholicism. The Andhra Pradesh
government has been using its official agencies for purposes of
State-sponsored, State-aided and State-abetted proselytism in Andhra Pradesh in
a shamelessly flagrant manner during the last two years.
    Y Samuel Rajasekar Reddy seems to be under the mistaken impression that
he can behave like Henry VIII (1509-1547) of Tudor England and that he can take
Andhra Pradesh back to the 16th century using the International Roman Catholic
might of the UPA government in New Delhi.
    A great champion of Sanatana Dharma and one who is known for her
fearless journalism, Sandhya Jain has rightly observed in a recent article
entitled 'Sacrilege at Tirupati Hills: 'The current initiative of Sri
Swarupanandendra Swami of the Visakhapatnam-based Sri Sarada Peetham to
mobilise Hindu seers to protect dharma in the face of rising depredations by
evangelists has not come a day too soon. While religious conversions are
innately offensive, the rising political eminence of an Italian-born Roman
Catholic has witnessed a corresponding growth of aggressive proselytising at
famous Hindu pilgrimages and holy sites. Sonia Gandhi has reinforced missionary
muscle by sponsoring the rise of Christians in Congress State governments and
party units on an unprecedented scale. Non-Christian Congress Chief Ministers
have been made to acquiesce in missionary activities, and outrageously 'leaky'
welfare schemes have been floated for the benefit of the tax-free NGO industry,
most of which is anti-Hindu.'Â
With his known hatred for Hinduism, Y Samuel Rajasekhara Reddy is unlikely
to ban physical and psychological
encroachment upon the sacred spaces of Hinduism. What is for Hindus, of cosmic,
significance and for proselytizers, of cosmic, significance, is that the Andhra
Pradesh government does not permit Panchayat elections in Tirumala in view of
its spiritual eminence and at the same time a Seventh Day Adventist Chief
Minister permits predatory monotheistic faiths with a proven criminal record of
international terrorism and violence for more than 1000 years to have a free run
of the Tirumala hills. The Governor of Andhra Pradesh should take serious note
of the blatantly anti-Hindu postures and policies of an Evangelical Chief
Minister in Andhra Pradesh and recommend to the President of India the
institution of appropriate proceedings for the prevention of inter-religious
wars in Andhra Pradesh and more particularly in Tirumala hills area.
    If Hindus in majority throughout India do not resist the diabolical
moves of Andhra Pradesh government and Sonia Gandhi, sooner than later we are
bound to have a significant Christian lobby in Parliament, through a
fraudulently conceived amendment altering the basic structure of the
Constitution of India. Sandhya Jain rightly concludes that an East Timor-like
situation could develop in any part of the country where Western Christian
nations have a geo-strategic or purely economic interest. Their lust for the
mineral-rich north-east predates independence and is fostered by insurgency
movements backed by various church denominations.
    Such fears are not unfounded even today. Four nuns were arrested from
the premises of Sri Venkateswara Ruia Government Hospital on charges of alleged
proselytism in the last week of June, 2006. According to hospital sources, the
nuns, who visited the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) funded government
hospital, asked the patients of their names and details to perform 'healing
prayers' in a local church last night. The hospital staff and attendants asked
the nuns not to indulge in such an act and leave the premises. On two earlier
occasions also, nuns had indulged in evangelical activities in Tirumala hills
and at the Sri Venkateswara University. By maintaining an attitude of
Christianity-coveting secular indifference, the Andhra Pradesh government has
so far remained neutral between the fire brigade and the fire.
    Taking note of the serious situation developing in Tirumala hills, His
Holiness Sri Sri Visweswara Theertha of Pejawar Mutt, Udipi appointed a Fact
Finding Committee in April, 2006, under the chairmanship of Justice G
Bikshapathy. This committee was requested to ascertain the factual position as
regards the activities of Non-Hindu religious communities in Tirumala and
Tirupathi and to furnish a report to His Holiness for considering the steps to
be taken to prevent undesirable activities of the Christian and other Non-Hindu
communities.
    The report of this committee was handed over to Sri Sri Visweswara
Theertha Swami of Pejawar Mutt at Bangalore on 3 July, 2006. Commenting on the
report of this Committee, Pejawar Swami condemned the evangelistic activities
in Tirumala Hills highlighted by the Fact Finding Committee. He stated: 'Every
religion must work with its own precincts. The trustees and employees of
temples must be Hindus and the government should take action against
missionaries who are propagating Christianity within the Tirumala Temple
premises. Temple funds should be used for the propagation of Hinduism. At the
moment they are being used to send people to Mecca'.
    The following are the major findings and recommendations of the Fact
Finding Committee appointed by Pejawar Swami:
    (i) Members of the Christian community distributed religious pamphlets
and copies of Bible to the students who were returning after writing the EAMCET
examinations conducted at various centres in Tirupathi in May, 2006. Some
student organizations protested against these activities. Police had to
intervene to maintain law and order.
    (ii) On 9 April, 2006, two Christians by name Balaraju (pastor) and Babu
while coming down from Tirumala to Tirupathi in bus distributed pamphlets
propagating Christianity to the pilgrims travelling in that bus.
    (iii) As per Rule 197 of APCHR and E Act 1987 the population living in
Tirumala shall adhere to the norms and shall follow the sentiments of Hindu
Religion. As such thorough probe has to be taken up to verify the antecedents
of Non-Hindu employees who are working in TTD. The identified employees and
their families shall be shifted from Tirumala.
    (iv) Some of the family members of the TTD employees such as wife,
children are practicing Christian ideology and inviting the Pastors to conduct
prayers in their houses at Tirumala. The above aspect may be carefully examined
and steps taken to prevent the above activities in Tirumala.
    (v) Two Christians viz. David (pastor) and Kumar, were found propagating
Christianity in Tirumala and they were handed over to police. The police seem to
have registered a case and kept them for two days on remand.
    (vi) On 21 May, 2006, Special Officer Sri Dharma Reddy held press
conference in which he stated that no Christian religious propaganda was going
on in Tirumala. It is evident that he is not taking a serious view of these
objectionable activities of the Christians at the holy place of Tirumala.
    (vii) Rule 198 of APCHR & E Act 1987 in which anti-Hindu activities have
been prohibited at Tirumala may be enforced ruthlessly without fear or favour.
    (viii) Educational institutions at Tirupathi were established on TTD
land and with TTD funds. It has been brought to the notice of the Committee
that in the colleges and hostels at Tirupathi, Christian religious propagation
is rampant. The Christian students themselves are acting as propagators. Sri
Deva Sangeetham, Principal of S V University College is openly indulging in
propagating and converting the students to Christianity by making them go to
Church, reading Bible and creating disaffection towards Hindu religion. After
Sri Deva Sangeetham has taken charge as Principal, the practice of garlanding
the portrait of Lord Venkateswara was stopped.
    (xi) After Veena Noble Das took charge as Vice-chancellor of Padmavathi
Mahila University, she got removed the photos of Lord Venkateswara and Goddess
Padmavathi from all the institutions of the Mahila University and she also got
removed the portrait of Lord Venkateswara from her office and discontinued the
practice of garlanding the portraits of Lord Venkateswara and Goddess
Padmavathi everyday. Instead she kept a portrait of Jesus Christ and the Cross
on her office table. She is sending batches of students in the University buses
to the church. It is also stated that in the Mahila University, the students are
not allowed to have tilak on the forehead now-a-days and that students putting
tilak are being discriminated.
    What is happening in Andhra Pradesh can only be summarized in the words
of John E Remsburg: 'The Bible is, for the most part, the crude literature of
the people who lived 2000 years, and more, ago. Certain principles of right and
wrong they recognized, but the finer principles of morality were unknown to
them.'
    They were an ignorant people. An ignorant people is generally a
religious people and a religious people nearly always an immoral people. They
believe that they were God's chosen people 'favourites' and that because of
this they had the right to rob and cheat, to murder and enslave the rest of
mankind.
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