Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Raveesh Kumar refuted the report's findings by saying religious freedom of minorities is guaranteed by the Constitution of India.
One has to be incredibly credulous to buy BJP spin masters’ argument that the government got rid of Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar for harmonious relationship with the judiciary.
Modi government had also made numerous efforts to establish peace with Pakistan but has now adopted a different path, militarily, to establish peace, adds defence minister.
As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.
My take::
CAA: I oppose CAB/CAA as a nationalistic national. When we know some are illegal immigrants, why should we presume persecution in their home country and grant not just refugee status, but straight away citizenship without even receiving an application or verifying their claims? We cannot afford to be so magnanimous. If at all possible, we should fight against any persecution and harassment in their country and strive to return them safe. Even Christian countries are not giving blanket citizenship to persecuted Christians from elsewhere. e.g., President Trump of USA promises to return ALL illegal immigrants irrespective of their being Christians or not. Repeal CAA and bring the law back to what it was. Let persecuted Hindus, Christians, Muslims etc from any country apply for citizenship on Individual merits.
UCC: I welcome UCC. But make the existing uniform but optional “Special Marriages Act” mandatory to all communities. That will suffice. No HUF or property inheritance rights to anyone. Everyone must work, and earn whatever wealth or position they can, and not be “namdharis” as mocked at by our beloved PM. e.g., a deceased senior doctor’s clininc will be passed on to the best doctor who claims a stake, not necessarily son or daughter. Of course, rules and guidelines could be provided to give precedence to the deceased person’s family unless it has no other property and has no able bodied earning member. A compulsory life insurance by every earning person may mitigate such crisis.
ACA: People can practice their religion but cannot propagate. If we allow propagation, how can we ensure there is no inducement, material or spiritual, present or future?. No new Gods or new religions after a cut off date.
Adivasis have different religious practices.Their Fogs aredifferent and their worship is different. They do not fit into the vedic or vaidic or santana dharma.
Uniform Civil Code (UCC), a central Anti-Conversion Act (ACA) and Citizenship (Amendment) Bill (CAB). Are the top priority concerns for for the intellectuals of this world. They will not write articles demanding rigorous and expeditious investigations of the Gandhis, Chidambarams, Patels and the likes for alleged loot which could have gone into improving the lives millions of citizens of this country.
They will oppose the AADHAR in every which way possible, because anonymity is the most effective protection against getting caught but will not answer a simple questions HOW IS IT POSSIBLE TO MANAGE WITHOUT MEASURING ?
They thrive in indiscipline under the guise of the Human rights, freedom of expressions and think they can fool people by going round in kurta pajama with an Arafat like gamcha and JHOLA.
They all love to be political advisers, because only incompetent politicians need political advisors.
They will only ask questions but never give a constructive suggestion to solve a problem.
For all their intellect they will shy away from suggesting that all religious activities should be confined to homes and within the compounds of the religious places not on the streets because they know which section will accept it with least resistance.
They will never spell out what exactly is the special status of Kashmir other than giving taxpayers money and not asking for accountability nor will they tell us how is the cultural identity of a Kashmiri is different from any other identity in the country?
Finally did Babur buy the land in Ayodhya ? OR was it just a land grab by an invader?
After the independence the identity as a Hindu grew just as the BPJ did. Thanks again to political advisers of the incompetent rulers. A competent ruler needs an adviser for everything from agriculture to finance to defence etc. but not for politics because that is his core competency.
Ayodhya is not a BJP-RSS trap, it is creation of the political advisors to incompetent leaders who were in fact the remote controls.
A very reasonable and clear article. However, so-called seculars will not accept. I think (1) Ayodhya should go to Hindus with a hefty fine on WQf board to re-build the Mandir. and (2) we do need the citizenship bill.
WE HAD NEVER EVER HEARD OF NEHRU OR RAJAJI -BOTH TALL INTELLECTUALS – VISIT A TEMPLE OR SPORT ANY MARK ON THEIR PERSON TO IDENTIFY THEMSELVES WITH ANY RELIGION . BOTH WOULD HAVE MADE NAME AS AUTHORS AND INTELLECTUALS EVEN WITHOUT THE STANDING THAT POLITICS GAVE . RAJAJI HAS WRITTEN NOT ONLY GREAT BOOKS ON RAMAYANA AND MAHABHARTA , BUT HAS ALSO AUTHORED GREAT COMMENTARIES ON BHAGAVAD GEETE, UPANISHADS , ETC . IT WAS A VIRTUAL ILL-EDUCATED -LIKE TODAY;S BJP’S DUOPOLY – INDIRA GANDHI WHO MIXED HER RELIGION WITH HER POLITICS AND GAVE THE BJP AND ITS PROGENITOR THE RSS AN UNDUE AND UNWORTHY SPACE IN POLITICS . THE CONGRESS CONSIDERING ITS HOARY TRADITION MUST NOT PLAY THE IMMORAL POLITICS THAT IS ON DISPLAY IN THE LAST SIX YEARS-BLATANT COMMUNALIZATION AND PURCHASE OF LEGISLATORS AS IF THEY ARE CHATTELS ARE THE CURRENT CREDO OF THE BJP. ONE HOPES, FOR THE SAKE OF INDIA, THE MODI-SHAH’S BJP IS DRIVEN BACK AND CONSIGNED TO THE DUSTBIN OF NOT-SO-PROUD HISTORY OF THE COMMUNAL POLITICS OF INDIA
A very reasonable and clear article. However, so-called seculars will not accept. I think (1) Ayodhya should go to Waqf board with a hefty fine on BJP to re-build the Mosque. and (2) we do need the citizenship bill.
A nuanced and Pragmatic approach .Instead of leaving it at article stage it would be nice if Yogendraji takes initiative along with non dogmatic persons like Shekhar Gupta and builds a civil society iniative around his proposal.Politics is not just forming or running government but alsomobilising timely intiatives.
All liberal, left leaning, pseudo sickulars must be aghast after reading this article. But if what Yogendra wrote is the one he honestly believes in, then he will be aghast to know that he will be declared as a Hindu by RSS! I am with him on various issues he dealt with except CAB. On CAB, the position is a nuanced one and can be easily misunderstood. CAB is not excluding only one community for the sake of others but it is for those who are persecuted and feel that they have nowhere else to go other than India, being the natural sanctuary for such people in dire distress. There is nothing to read beyond that in CAB. Hypothetically, let us say if there is any Muslim wanting to enter India from say Pakistan, that specific case will be looked into through usual humanitarian angle and applicable international conventions. But for others, we ought to have a specific legal obligations on the State to protect the safety of the persecuted ones.
The way Yogendra has come out with his ideas in this article augurs well for a civil dialogue between BJP and the opposition. Any other way to deal with this by the opposition will be handing over the narrative to BJP and create unnecessary bitterness all around. Modi and Shah will get it finally anyway.
In case of Art 370, Congress could have played a mature role and helped government to sort out the fall out of the decision, thereby making it a national cause and denying solely credit to BJP. After all, Congress also agreed to the revocation of Art 370 though not the way it was done. By playing a constructive role, it could have contributed to the national interest. But they messed up. Let us hope now that Congress behaves maturely in the upcoming winter session of the Parliament..
Unfortunately, we don’t have anyone like Madhu Limaye, George or Vajpayee, who would study, articulate and speculate the impacts and then take a stand not even hesitating to praise and stand by the govt if it deserved so.
We don’t have even any one like Chandrashekhar or Mohan Dharia in the ruling party too who will put the things to rigid scrutiny in the party itself.
We don’t have even anyone like Kishan Patnayak or Khusbant Singh or Raghuvir Sahay who will act like strong opinion makers notwithstanding who are there at the helm of affairs.
Of late we have made ourselves to live in somewhat highly polarised atmosphere created by all of us though going on blaming only political class.
If at all we take some pain to stretch our memory, we will find that most of the things that BJP govt has done or proposed to be done have been discussed and pondered over right from Nehru days within Congress and its successive govts. That these could not be done depended on too many factors and circumstances.
Take the simple example of Aadhar and constitution of UIDAI (a Congress baby) – originally thought over as a multipurpose solely and only citizenship identification proposed to have been made compulsory for virtually everything. Hon’ble Supreme Court didn’t allow it to be so is altogether a different story.
What Yogendra ji proposes is very wise and ideal situation where objections and dissents should be based on solid ethos and real liberal outlay. But it is unlikely to happen as we have become people telling only Yes or No – no mid way at all!
Criticising Modi for everything has become rather a fashion – mocking Rahul our habit. But where do we go after all?
More than political class the intellectuals, opinion makers and pressure groups are to be blamed who are just failing to enlighten and guide the common men take prudent stand and decide wisely.
Can we at least ponder over?
Where were you all pseudo-secularists when pandits were driven away from their place, j& k and were forced to live on refugee- life in their own country? We’re you counting the stars or singing duets with other pseudo-secularists as long with communists and KHANGRESS serfs?
Its time now to shut down these leftist media. These anti national media has no space now in india….Whats the problem you are having with nrc.. Uniform civil code and anti conversation laws..people in India are now more aware of your anti india mentality… These jehadi and anti hindu mentality media’s will be banned from india soon
CAB should be rightly opposed. Can’t imagine s democracy where religion becomes basis of citizenship. Where are all the nitwit Hindus who have acquired US citizenship?
So instead of falling into Bjp/Hindutva trap Mr. Yoge dra Yadav wants the so called secular parties to walk right into it willing and openly so that no one can blame them of opposing unjust laws and compromised ideas.
Is it not surprising that it took more than five years to find that these were the traps of the Sangh Parivar. It is the condition of mindsets of those who claim to be progressive/ left and liberals but keep pursuing their vested interests and deceive the gullible masses. The difference is that they are not still willing to come out of self-denial mode as they are deprived of the state patronage. Still aware that the learned established writer of this post won’t respond to this comment and would rather conveniently dismiss the comment as the work of a troll or a bot.
So instead of falling into BJP-RSS trap, Yogendra Yadav and his type of Sickulars want voters to fall into the trap set by him and the Sickulars. This is not going to happen unless Sickulars’ mind is treated with anti dot to the lies and fake news spreading genes. Sickulars want to sell garbage to aspiring Indians. People excluding Modi haters can see through the trap laid down by the sickulars. People are wise to differentiate between what’s good for them and what’s bad for them. While Modi continuously repose trust in people’s wisdom, Sickulars continuously ridicule people for applying their choices wisely.
My take::
CAA: I oppose CAB/CAA as a nationalistic national. When we know some are illegal immigrants, why should we presume persecution in their home country and grant not just refugee status, but straight away citizenship without even receiving an application or verifying their claims? We cannot afford to be so magnanimous. If at all possible, we should fight against any persecution and harassment in their country and strive to return them safe. Even Christian countries are not giving blanket citizenship to persecuted Christians from elsewhere. e.g., President Trump of USA promises to return ALL illegal immigrants irrespective of their being Christians or not. Repeal CAA and bring the law back to what it was. Let persecuted Hindus, Christians, Muslims etc from any country apply for citizenship on Individual merits.
UCC: I welcome UCC. But make the existing uniform but optional “Special Marriages Act” mandatory to all communities. That will suffice. No HUF or property inheritance rights to anyone. Everyone must work, and earn whatever wealth or position they can, and not be “namdharis” as mocked at by our beloved PM. e.g., a deceased senior doctor’s clininc will be passed on to the best doctor who claims a stake, not necessarily son or daughter. Of course, rules and guidelines could be provided to give precedence to the deceased person’s family unless it has no other property and has no able bodied earning member. A compulsory life insurance by every earning person may mitigate such crisis.
ACA: People can practice their religion but cannot propagate. If we allow propagation, how can we ensure there is no inducement, material or spiritual, present or future?. No new Gods or new religions after a cut off date.
“Hinduism and many adivasi religions do not have a hard boundary and are therefore vulnerable to institutionalised poaching.”
oh, that sneaky way to divide tribals from Hindus.. usual leftist tactics. What exactly Mr YoYa mean by “adivasi religions”?
Adivasis have different religious practices.Their Fogs aredifferent and their worship is different. They do not fit into the vedic or vaidic or santana dharma.
Uniform Civil Code (UCC), a central Anti-Conversion Act (ACA) and Citizenship (Amendment) Bill (CAB). Are the top priority concerns for for the intellectuals of this world. They will not write articles demanding rigorous and expeditious investigations of the Gandhis, Chidambarams, Patels and the likes for alleged loot which could have gone into improving the lives millions of citizens of this country.
They will oppose the AADHAR in every which way possible, because anonymity is the most effective protection against getting caught but will not answer a simple questions HOW IS IT POSSIBLE TO MANAGE WITHOUT MEASURING ?
They thrive in indiscipline under the guise of the Human rights, freedom of expressions and think they can fool people by going round in kurta pajama with an Arafat like gamcha and JHOLA.
They all love to be political advisers, because only incompetent politicians need political advisors.
They will only ask questions but never give a constructive suggestion to solve a problem.
For all their intellect they will shy away from suggesting that all religious activities should be confined to homes and within the compounds of the religious places not on the streets because they know which section will accept it with least resistance.
They will never spell out what exactly is the special status of Kashmir other than giving taxpayers money and not asking for accountability nor will they tell us how is the cultural identity of a Kashmiri is different from any other identity in the country?
Finally did Babur buy the land in Ayodhya ? OR was it just a land grab by an invader?
After the independence the identity as a Hindu grew just as the BPJ did. Thanks again to political advisers of the incompetent rulers. A competent ruler needs an adviser for everything from agriculture to finance to defence etc. but not for politics because that is his core competency.
Ayodhya is not a BJP-RSS trap, it is creation of the political advisors to incompetent leaders who were in fact the remote controls.
A very reasonable and clear article. However, so-called seculars will not accept. I think (1) Ayodhya should go to Hindus with a hefty fine on WQf board to re-build the Mandir. and (2) we do need the citizenship bill.
WE HAD NEVER EVER HEARD OF NEHRU OR RAJAJI -BOTH TALL INTELLECTUALS – VISIT A TEMPLE OR SPORT ANY MARK ON THEIR PERSON TO IDENTIFY THEMSELVES WITH ANY RELIGION . BOTH WOULD HAVE MADE NAME AS AUTHORS AND INTELLECTUALS EVEN WITHOUT THE STANDING THAT POLITICS GAVE . RAJAJI HAS WRITTEN NOT ONLY GREAT BOOKS ON RAMAYANA AND MAHABHARTA , BUT HAS ALSO AUTHORED GREAT COMMENTARIES ON BHAGAVAD GEETE, UPANISHADS , ETC . IT WAS A VIRTUAL ILL-EDUCATED -LIKE TODAY;S BJP’S DUOPOLY – INDIRA GANDHI WHO MIXED HER RELIGION WITH HER POLITICS AND GAVE THE BJP AND ITS PROGENITOR THE RSS AN UNDUE AND UNWORTHY SPACE IN POLITICS . THE CONGRESS CONSIDERING ITS HOARY TRADITION MUST NOT PLAY THE IMMORAL POLITICS THAT IS ON DISPLAY IN THE LAST SIX YEARS-BLATANT COMMUNALIZATION AND PURCHASE OF LEGISLATORS AS IF THEY ARE CHATTELS ARE THE CURRENT CREDO OF THE BJP. ONE HOPES, FOR THE SAKE OF INDIA, THE MODI-SHAH’S BJP IS DRIVEN BACK AND CONSIGNED TO THE DUSTBIN OF NOT-SO-PROUD HISTORY OF THE COMMUNAL POLITICS OF INDIA
Fully agree
A very reasonable and clear article. However, so-called seculars will not accept. I think (1) Ayodhya should go to Waqf board with a hefty fine on BJP to re-build the Mosque. and (2) we do need the citizenship bill.
A nuanced and Pragmatic approach .Instead of leaving it at article stage it would be nice if Yogendraji takes initiative along with non dogmatic persons like Shekhar Gupta and builds a civil society iniative around his proposal.Politics is not just forming or running government but alsomobilising timely intiatives.
All liberal, left leaning, pseudo sickulars must be aghast after reading this article. But if what Yogendra wrote is the one he honestly believes in, then he will be aghast to know that he will be declared as a Hindu by RSS! I am with him on various issues he dealt with except CAB. On CAB, the position is a nuanced one and can be easily misunderstood. CAB is not excluding only one community for the sake of others but it is for those who are persecuted and feel that they have nowhere else to go other than India, being the natural sanctuary for such people in dire distress. There is nothing to read beyond that in CAB. Hypothetically, let us say if there is any Muslim wanting to enter India from say Pakistan, that specific case will be looked into through usual humanitarian angle and applicable international conventions. But for others, we ought to have a specific legal obligations on the State to protect the safety of the persecuted ones.
The way Yogendra has come out with his ideas in this article augurs well for a civil dialogue between BJP and the opposition. Any other way to deal with this by the opposition will be handing over the narrative to BJP and create unnecessary bitterness all around. Modi and Shah will get it finally anyway.
In case of Art 370, Congress could have played a mature role and helped government to sort out the fall out of the decision, thereby making it a national cause and denying solely credit to BJP. After all, Congress also agreed to the revocation of Art 370 though not the way it was done. By playing a constructive role, it could have contributed to the national interest. But they messed up. Let us hope now that Congress behaves maturely in the upcoming winter session of the Parliament..
Unfortunately, we don’t have anyone like Madhu Limaye, George or Vajpayee, who would study, articulate and speculate the impacts and then take a stand not even hesitating to praise and stand by the govt if it deserved so.
We don’t have even any one like Chandrashekhar or Mohan Dharia in the ruling party too who will put the things to rigid scrutiny in the party itself.
We don’t have even anyone like Kishan Patnayak or Khusbant Singh or Raghuvir Sahay who will act like strong opinion makers notwithstanding who are there at the helm of affairs.
Of late we have made ourselves to live in somewhat highly polarised atmosphere created by all of us though going on blaming only political class.
If at all we take some pain to stretch our memory, we will find that most of the things that BJP govt has done or proposed to be done have been discussed and pondered over right from Nehru days within Congress and its successive govts. That these could not be done depended on too many factors and circumstances.
Take the simple example of Aadhar and constitution of UIDAI (a Congress baby) – originally thought over as a multipurpose solely and only citizenship identification proposed to have been made compulsory for virtually everything. Hon’ble Supreme Court didn’t allow it to be so is altogether a different story.
What Yogendra ji proposes is very wise and ideal situation where objections and dissents should be based on solid ethos and real liberal outlay. But it is unlikely to happen as we have become people telling only Yes or No – no mid way at all!
Criticising Modi for everything has become rather a fashion – mocking Rahul our habit. But where do we go after all?
More than political class the intellectuals, opinion makers and pressure groups are to be blamed who are just failing to enlighten and guide the common men take prudent stand and decide wisely.
Can we at least ponder over?
Where were you all pseudo-secularists when pandits were driven away from their place, j& k and were forced to live on refugee- life in their own country? We’re you counting the stars or singing duets with other pseudo-secularists as long with communists and KHANGRESS serfs?
Its time now to shut down these leftist media. These anti national media has no space now in india….Whats the problem you are having with nrc.. Uniform civil code and anti conversation laws..people in India are now more aware of your anti india mentality… These jehadi and anti hindu mentality media’s will be banned from india soon
CAB should be rightly opposed. Can’t imagine s democracy where religion becomes basis of citizenship. Where are all the nitwit Hindus who have acquired US citizenship?
So instead of falling into Bjp/Hindutva trap Mr. Yoge dra Yadav wants the so called secular parties to walk right into it willing and openly so that no one can blame them of opposing unjust laws and compromised ideas.
kuddos to you sir.
Is it not surprising that it took more than five years to find that these were the traps of the Sangh Parivar. It is the condition of mindsets of those who claim to be progressive/ left and liberals but keep pursuing their vested interests and deceive the gullible masses. The difference is that they are not still willing to come out of self-denial mode as they are deprived of the state patronage. Still aware that the learned established writer of this post won’t respond to this comment and would rather conveniently dismiss the comment as the work of a troll or a bot.
So instead of falling into BJP-RSS trap, Yogendra Yadav and his type of Sickulars want voters to fall into the trap set by him and the Sickulars. This is not going to happen unless Sickulars’ mind is treated with anti dot to the lies and fake news spreading genes. Sickulars want to sell garbage to aspiring Indians. People excluding Modi haters can see through the trap laid down by the sickulars. People are wise to differentiate between what’s good for them and what’s bad for them. While Modi continuously repose trust in people’s wisdom, Sickulars continuously ridicule people for applying their choices wisely.
Given global reactions, including on Capitol Hill, a national NRC is almost certainly off the table now.
CAB is misunderstood by the writer.