M V R Sastry
It was a great pleasure and privilege to be part of Hindu intellectuals meet in IBIS Hotel, Aerocity New Delhi yesterday .Day and night long deliberations were fruitful. Outcome : A Hindu Charter of Demands.A big leap in the advance of Hindu cause.
Rahul Dewan of Srijan Foundation was the organiser and Hindu warrior @EqualRights20 was the prime mover. Hindu Charter of Demands went public at a presser in Delhi press club today. A milestone indeed. Hindu intelligentsia spoke out at last en bloc .
I was hesitant to attend because of other commitments. But I was persuaded by my good friend MNR . It was hectic schedule but thoroughly enjoyable. It was a pleasure to hear young men and women working in the grassroots driving home their point forcefully , in their own way.
Hindu Charter evolved out of brainstorming by 100 Hindu intellectuals from different walks of life is simple, straight and pragmatic. I myself had many apprehensions but am satisfied with the reasonable consensus on key issues .
I attended several Hindu elite conclaves. But this session of Hindu Charter of Demands HCD was remarkable in many ways . It was an initiative emanated from a handful of Hindu thinkers. With frugal means. They were not sure of how they would mobilise funds for minimum needs. The event took off very well .
There was no organizational backing. RSS and BJP brass certainly not in loop. It is a kind of amateur attempt at raising Hindu's voice to end it's Dhimmitude. Because no peers and icons involved , deliberations were frank and free.
HCD was an event conceived and organised in a hurry . Many stalwarts couldn't be roped in . Time , logistical other constraints. First shot being a hit , perhaps they would expand the reach and content in follow-up sessions. This timely effort deserves to be supported by all.
Sri Hanuman Chowdary , Smt Satyavani, Swami Paripurnananda and yours truly were from Hyderabad at the Delhi Hindu conclave.
All credit for HCD goes to @EqualRights20 .He is the one who has been stressing the need to amend articles 25 to 30 on every platform and in every interaction with every Hindu somebody. He was instrumental in persuading SP Singh to move constn amendment bill in LS . HCD too was his idea.He was instrumental in floating our subsequently defunct "Equal Rights" organisation in Hyderabad 3 years ago.
Eminent intellectuals JK Bajaj, RK Ohri, Bharat Gupta, Ratan Sarada, Tapan Ghosh , Madhu Kishwar , Rati Hegde , Sefali Vaidya , RK Khandal , Ramaharita, and K. Seshachalam were among those who participated in HCD exercise.
We should organiseren one such follow up event in Telangana and AP soon.
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Following is excerpts from the Press release :
Prominent Hindus ask government to end legal discrimination against the Hindu society.
New Delhi, Sep 22.
A group of around one hundred Hindus, including spiritual leaders, academics, authors , public intellectuals and concerned citizens, met in New Delhi and released a Charter of key Hindu Demands for the government of India. The demands were aimed at ending legal discrimination against Hindus by the state/government(?) and the promotion of Indian languages and culture for India’s economic and cultural development.
The key demands are as listed below
1. Granting equal rights to Hindus through the amendment of Articles 26 to 30 of the Constitution in order to remove the current constitutionally sanctioned discrimination against Hindus
2. Enactment of Foreign Contributions (Prohibition) Act by repealing the Foreign Contributions (Regulation) Act, 2010, in oreder to completely ban foreign contributions, except those by OCIs in their personal capacity (This needs to be updated)
3. Enactment of “The Freedom of Religion (Protection of Native Cultural and Religious Traditions, and Prohibition of Institutionalized Religious Conversion Activity) Act” by the Central Government
4. Abrogation of Article 370 , witdraw 35 A, Tripartite division of J&K into States of Kashmir, Ladakh and Jammu and delimitation (needs to be updated)
5. Amendment of Constitution to insert an enabling provision to provide for the expeditious grant of residency or citizenship to persecuted people of Indic faiths (Hindus, Buddhists, Jains and Sikhs) from any country
6. Enactment of “The Hindu Temple and Religious Endowments Act” by the Central Government:
7. Creation of an equal opportunity environment for Indian languages in all areas of endeavor
8. Protecting and promoting the Indigenous cow through state supported creation and propagation of (need to update)…Complete Ban on export of all types of meat/beef, and enactment of the Agricultural Cattle Preservation Act
9. Establishment of Haindava Samskruti Jeernoddhaarana Nigam (Hindu Culture Restoration Corporation) as a Central PSU with an initial seed capital of not less than Rs. 10,000/- Crores and annual grants of equal amount.
.
It was a great pleasure and privilege to be part of Hindu intellectuals meet in IBIS Hotel, Aerocity New Delhi yesterday .Day and night long deliberations were fruitful. Outcome : A Hindu Charter of Demands.A big leap in the advance of Hindu cause.
Rahul Dewan of Srijan Foundation was the organiser and Hindu warrior @EqualRights20 was the prime mover. Hindu Charter of Demands went public at a presser in Delhi press club today. A milestone indeed. Hindu intelligentsia spoke out at last en bloc .
I was hesitant to attend because of other commitments. But I was persuaded by my good friend MNR . It was hectic schedule but thoroughly enjoyable. It was a pleasure to hear young men and women working in the grassroots driving home their point forcefully , in their own way.
Hindu Charter evolved out of brainstorming by 100 Hindu intellectuals from different walks of life is simple, straight and pragmatic. I myself had many apprehensions but am satisfied with the reasonable consensus on key issues .
I attended several Hindu elite conclaves. But this session of Hindu Charter of Demands HCD was remarkable in many ways . It was an initiative emanated from a handful of Hindu thinkers. With frugal means. They were not sure of how they would mobilise funds for minimum needs. The event took off very well .
There was no organizational backing. RSS and BJP brass certainly not in loop. It is a kind of amateur attempt at raising Hindu's voice to end it's Dhimmitude. Because no peers and icons involved , deliberations were frank and free.
HCD was an event conceived and organised in a hurry . Many stalwarts couldn't be roped in . Time , logistical other constraints. First shot being a hit , perhaps they would expand the reach and content in follow-up sessions. This timely effort deserves to be supported by all.
Sri Hanuman Chowdary , Smt Satyavani, Swami Paripurnananda and yours truly were from Hyderabad at the Delhi Hindu conclave.
All credit for HCD goes to @EqualRights20 .He is the one who has been stressing the need to amend articles 25 to 30 on every platform and in every interaction with every Hindu somebody. He was instrumental in persuading SP Singh to move constn amendment bill in LS . HCD too was his idea.He was instrumental in floating our subsequently defunct "Equal Rights" organisation in Hyderabad 3 years ago.
Eminent intellectuals JK Bajaj, RK Ohri, Bharat Gupta, Ratan Sarada, Tapan Ghosh , Madhu Kishwar , Rati Hegde , Sefali Vaidya , RK Khandal , Ramaharita, and K. Seshachalam were among those who participated in HCD exercise.
We should organiseren one such follow up event in Telangana and AP soon.
....
Following is excerpts from the Press release :
Prominent Hindus ask government to end legal discrimination against the Hindu society.
New Delhi, Sep 22.
A group of around one hundred Hindus, including spiritual leaders, academics, authors , public intellectuals and concerned citizens, met in New Delhi and released a Charter of key Hindu Demands for the government of India. The demands were aimed at ending legal discrimination against Hindus by the state/government(?) and the promotion of Indian languages and culture for India’s economic and cultural development.
The key demands are as listed below
1. Granting equal rights to Hindus through the amendment of Articles 26 to 30 of the Constitution in order to remove the current constitutionally sanctioned discrimination against Hindus
2. Enactment of Foreign Contributions (Prohibition) Act by repealing the Foreign Contributions (Regulation) Act, 2010, in oreder to completely ban foreign contributions, except those by OCIs in their personal capacity (This needs to be updated)
3. Enactment of “The Freedom of Religion (Protection of Native Cultural and Religious Traditions, and Prohibition of Institutionalized Religious Conversion Activity) Act” by the Central Government
4. Abrogation of Article 370 , witdraw 35 A, Tripartite division of J&K into States of Kashmir, Ladakh and Jammu and delimitation (needs to be updated)
5. Amendment of Constitution to insert an enabling provision to provide for the expeditious grant of residency or citizenship to persecuted people of Indic faiths (Hindus, Buddhists, Jains and Sikhs) from any country
6. Enactment of “The Hindu Temple and Religious Endowments Act” by the Central Government:
7. Creation of an equal opportunity environment for Indian languages in all areas of endeavor
8. Protecting and promoting the Indigenous cow through state supported creation and propagation of (need to update)…Complete Ban on export of all types of meat/beef, and enactment of the Agricultural Cattle Preservation Act
9. Establishment of Haindava Samskruti Jeernoddhaarana Nigam (Hindu Culture Restoration Corporation) as a Central PSU with an initial seed capital of not less than Rs. 10,000/- Crores and annual grants of equal amount.
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