Pseudo-Secularism

If you had a chance to read through my earlier posts, you would've come across the word pseudo-secularism in so many places... It's time to explain what I exactly meant by that phrase...

"Secularism is generally the assertion that certain practices or institutions should exist separately from religion or religious belief" -- Courtesy Wikipedia. As we all know India declares itself to be a secular country and often Indian National Congress and other parties boast of their secularist stand while accusing Bharathiya Janatha Party (BJP) for being anti-secular. Logically combining the above statements, the Indian National Congress says that it is totally independent of any religion or religious bias. Let's take a look at some facts...

The Haj Committee Act, 1959 says that Haj pilgrims chosen by the designated committee would be given subsidy for their religious pilgrimage. Ironically, no muslim country offers subsidies to this pilgrimage. At the same time, there is a 10 Rs registration tax applied on pilgrims to Amarnath.

There are constituencies reserved for minorities a.k.a Christians and Muslims... Quite obviously there are no constitutional privileges for the Hindus even though they are minorities in a lot of North Eastern and Northern states.

Somnath temple was reconstructed with funds from public (under the pressure of M.K. Gandhi post independence) while mosques in Delhi were re-constructed with Government funding.

Kashmir has intentionally been deprived of the major Hindu population and heights of injustice - a hindu cannot buy land in Kashmir.

We have a Government board that controls the revenues from Hindu temples across India and it is being used like revenue from any other Government sources. But churches and mosques can raise their funds and spend them at their will...

The examples are innumerable but my words and time are limited. So let me not dwell into these differences now. Suffice it is to say that the Indian National Congress (the party that ruled India for 50+ long years to change a developed country into a developing country), in the name of secularism has served as a pro-minority agency targeting on the minority vote banks and thriving on the divide and rule strategy established by the British.

I'm not against Christians or Muslims but the concept of secularism is now becoming synonymous to anti-Hindu and that is something I find difficult to digest. To put the whole concept in a word, I call it 'pseudo-secularism' - the false version of secularism.

When Narendra Modi was questioned by the press if muslims will have security in Gujarat, he said - "Every Gujarati will have security in my rule"!