January31, 2010
Riding on Hindu votes Congress robs all Hindus of jobs and education
By OP Gupta [IFS Retd]
I place below seven (A to G) bare facts which show that we Hindu
voters have been lacking in parental care and have contributed to
reducing our own children and grand children to second class status by
being careless and casual at times of voting.
The UPA Government in terms of Ranganath Misra Commission is planning
to reserve 15 per cent posts for minorities, and as Dr Manmohan Singh
has publicly asserted in December 2006 that the minorities have first
claim over government resources so SC Hindus will get 15 per cent of
remaining 8,500 posts i.e. 1,270 posts, OBC Hindus (including OBC
Muslims and Christians) will get 27 per cent of 8,500 i.e. 2,290 posts
and ST Hindus (including ST Christians) will get 7.5 per cent of 8,500
i.e. 630 posts.
The Misra Commission has made a false claim that the Muslims are
under-represented in services. Supporters of the Muslim reservation
often say that the Muslims are about 13 per cent of population but in
IAS, etc, their representation is much less at about 4 per cent so
they are under- represented in services and there should be
reservation for them to boost their share to 13 per cent. For getting
into class one services one has to be a graduate.
In the Indira Sawhney case, the Supreme Court had observed-"It is,
therefore, clear that economic criterion by itself will not identify
the backward classes under Article 16(4). The economic backwardness of
the backward classes under Article 16(4) has to be on account of their
social and educational backwardness. Hence, no reservation of posts in
services under the State, based exclusively on economic criterion,
would be valid under clause (1) of Article 16 of the Constitution."
It is painful to see how Jaichandi Hindu politicians right from the
days of the 1916 Congress-Muslim League Lucknow Pact till date in form
of the Sachar Committee Report, Ranganath Misra Commission, the
15-Point Programme, etc, have been systematically harming all Hindus
by concocting false justifications to reduce, bit by bit, promotional
avenues of all the Hindu civil servants and the educational,
employment and economic (E3) opportunities of all Hindu boys and
girls, including SC, ST, OBC and Leftist Hindu boys and girls, North
Indian or South Indian Hindus, all Hindu members of NSUI, ABVP, SFI,
etc, pushing them to second and third class status vis-à-vis minority
boys and girls.
The Hindustan Times of December 24, 2008 reported that the Parliament
was informed by the Manmohan Singh Government that as a result of
special efforts made by the UPA Government the share of minorities in
Central Sector jobs increased from 6.9 per cent in 2006-07 to 8.7 per
cent in 2007-08. It increased from 7.6 per cent in 2006-07 in the
Financial Sector [Banks, FIs, RBI] to 10.2 per cent; in the Armed
Forces from 5.5 pc to 8.9 pc and in the Railways from 2.7pc to 6.3pc
during the same period of one year.
Consequently, the percentage of Hindus in the Central Sector declined.
I place below seven (A to G) bare facts which show that we Hindu
voters have been lacking in parental care and have contributed to
reducing our own children and grand children to second class status by
being careless and casual at times of voting.
When I bring these facts to the notice of educated Hindus most of them
express shock on their being ignorant of these facts, and blame media
and Jaichandi Hindu politicians for this betrayal. But in my humble
opinion Hindu voters are themselves responsible for this plight of
their children who either abstain from voting or vote to anti-Hindu
parties like the Congress Party, NCP, Communist parties and Janata
parivar parties.
[A] First let us look into harm which the Ranganath Misra Commission
Report would inflict upon all the Hindu civil servants, Hindu students
and all the Hindu job seekers.
On December 18, 2009 the UPA Government tabled the Ranganath Misra
Commission Report on the table of the Parliament. It has recommended
reducing job opportunities of all Hindu officials and Hindu youth at
least by 15 per cent, reducing availability of college seats to all
sections of Hindu students by at least 15 per cent and disadvantaging
SC and ST Hindus by yoking them within their reservation quotas with
Muslims and Christians who enjoy better literacy rate.
Para 16.2.16 of the Misra Commission reads: "Since the
minorities-especially the Muslims-are very much under-represented, and
sometimes wholly unrepresented, in government employment, we recommend
that they should be regarded as backward in this respect within the
meaning of that term as used in Article 16 (4) of the
Constitution-notably without qualifying the word 'backward' with the
words "socially and educationally"-and that 15 per cent of posts in
all cadres and grades under the Central and State Governments should
be earmarked for them."
In the Indira Sawhney case, the Supreme Court had observed- "It is,
therefore, clear that economic criterion by itself will not identify
the backward classes under Article 16(4). The economic backwardness of
the backward classes under Article 16(4) has to be on account of their
social and educational backwardness. Hence, no reservation of posts in
services under the State, based exclusively on economic criterion,
would be valid under clause (1) of Article 16 of the Constitution."
So the Misra Commission recommendation is totally unlawful as it
suggests giving reservations to the Muslims by ignoring the
requirements of the Constitution and the Indira Sawhney case law.
All the Hindu officers serving under the Central Government or any
State Government should take note that the Misra Commission has
recommended reservation of 15 per cent of posts for religious
minorities in all cadres and grades under the Central and the State
Governments. Ten pc will be solely for the Muslim officials/candidates
and five pc for other minorities.
It means that from the date of implementation 15 per cent posts in the
grade of Secretary to Government of India, and other grades of
Additional Secretary, Joint Secretary, etc, shall get reserved for
minority officers which will block or retard career prospect of many
Hindu officers and may result into many Hindu officers serving under
their own junior minority religion officers. This would be happening
all over India and in all departments, central as well as provincial,
whether school teachers, lecturers, Deputy superintendents of Police,
engineers, deputy collectors, inspectors of police, customs, income
tax, public sector undertakings, etc.
So it is high time that all the Hindu officials and all those Hindus
who aspire to join public services should come out of their secular
slumber and open their eyes to see that it is Congress Party aided by
Communists and various parties (Mulayam Singh, Mayawati, Karunanidhi,
Sharad Pawar, Chandrababu Naidu, etc.) that is going to harm their
career interests permanently and irreversibly.
The Misra Commission has made a false claim that the Muslims are
under-represented in services. Supporters of Muslim reservation often
say that the Muslims are about 13 per cent of population but in IAS,
etc., their representation is much less at about 4 per cent so they
are under-represented in services and there should be reservation for
them to boost their per cent to 13 per cent. For getting into class
one services one has to be a graduate. Vide its table 3.6 Misra
Commission reports that graduation percentage of Muslims is only 3.6
pc. As only graduates can aspire for public services percentage of
Muslims in services at 4 per cent is fair and already more than
commensurate to their graduation percentage.
Further the Muslims are about 4 pc in services but 10 per cent jobs in
all cadres and grades are proposed to be reserved for them by the
Congress. It means that the Muslim officers will have much faster pace
of promotions vis-à-vis Hindu officers and will also occupy senior
positions for longer periods than the Hindu officers.
Shri Arif Mohammed Khan, a former Union Minister in the Rajiv Gandhi
Government has pointed out that 10 Muslim communities are already part
of the Scheduled Tribes and another 83 Muslim communities are included
in the OBC list. "Together," he maintains, "they constitute more than
70 per cent of total Muslim population leaving out only the Muslim
creamy layer." Similarly, a good chunk of the Christians are already
included in the Scheduled Tribes and the OBC category.
The Constitution of India as well as the Supreme Court has laid down
that social and educational backwardness are essential to become
eligible for getting reservation under Article 16(4). But Muslims as a
community enjoy better literacy rate than Hindus in 11 states and
better literacy rate than SC Hindus and ST Hindus on national level so
they are not entitled for any reservation as they are not
educationally backward.
In its para 12.3 the Misra Commission itself states: "Analysis of
literacy rate reveals that Muslims were better off than Scheduled
castes and Scheduled tribes."
According to the 2001 census, the Sachar Committee and the Misra
Commission [table 3.5, paras12.3, 18.5, etc.] Christians have higher
literacy rate [80 per cent] as compared to other religious minorities
as well as the national percentage of 65 per cent. Christians have
higher literacy rate than the Hindus. Christians have higher per
capita income too. So Christians too cannot claim to be backward in
any sense.
In eleven states, Muslim males have higher literacy rate than Hindu
males. These states are Andhra Pradesh, Andaman & Nicobar,
Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Kerala, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra,
Orissa, Puducherry and Tamil Nadu.
In thirteen states, the Muslim women enjoy higher literacy rate than
the Hindu women, these are Andhra Pradesh, Andaman & Nicobar,
Chhattisgarh, Daman & Diu, Dadra & Nagarhaveli, Gujarat, Jharkhand,
Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa, Puducherry and Tamil
Nadu. [Statements 8a and 8b, Census Report 2001].
The Sachar Committee [page 53] also admits that in ten states literacy
rate among the Muslims are higher than even that of the upper caste
Hindus and also higher than SC/ST Hindus.
Let us examine how many jobs the Hindus are going to lose in terms of
Misra Report. Till 2009, SC Hindus were entitled to get 1,500 posts
out of every 10,000 posts in Government sector, OBC Hindus were
entitled to 2,700 posts and ST Hindus were entitled for 750 posts.
The UPA Government in terms of Ranganath Misra Commission is planning
to reserve 15 per cent posts for minorities, and as Dr Manmohan Singh
has publicly asserted in December 2006 that since minorities have
first claim over government resources so SC Hindus will get 15 per
cent of remaining 8,500 posts i.e. 1,270 posts, OBC Hindus [including
OBC Muslims and Christians] will get 27 per cent of 8,500 i.e. 2,290
posts and ST Hindus [including ST Christians] will get 7.5 per cent of
8,500 i.e. 630 posts.
The upper castes Hindu candidates till 2009 were eligible to compete
for 5,050 posts out of every 10,000 posts but now under Manmohan
formula they can compete only for 4,310 seats. And wonder of wonder is
that this reduction in E3 space of all categories of Hindu applicants
will be achieved on strength of those Hindus who gave their notes and
votes to the Congress Party or to other Jaichandi parties.
The Misra Report Para 16.2.7 reads:" As by the force of judicial
decisions the minority intake in minority educational institutions
has, in the interest of national integration, been restricted to about
50 per cent, thus virtually earmarking the remaining 50 per cent or so
for the majority community-we strongly recommend that, by the same
analogy and for the same purpose, at least 15 per cent seats in all
non-minority educational institutions should be earmarked by law for
the minorities as follows:
(a) The break-up within the recommended 15 per cent earmarked seats in
institutions shall be 10 per cent for the Muslims (commensurate with
their 73 per cent share of the former in the total minority population
at the national level) and the remaining 5 per cent for the other
minorities.
(b) Minor adjustments inter se can be made in the 15 per cent
earmarked seats. In the case of non-availability of Muslim candidates
to fill 10 per cent earmarked seats, the remaining vacancies may be
given to the other minorities if their members are available over and
above their share of 5 per cent; but in no case shall any seat within
the recommended 15 per cent go to the majority community.
(c) As is the case with the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes at
present, those minority community candidates who can compete with
others and secure admission on their own merit shall not be included
in these 15 per cent earmarked seats."
As and when it is implemented, Hindu students with marks better than
minority candidates may start getting admissions refused even in
non-minority institutions managed by Hindu organisations such as Vidya
Bharati, DAV Colleges, etc. At present out of every 10,000 engineering
seats in non-minority institutions OBC Hindu students get 2,700 seats
reserved for them, 1,500 seats for SC Hindus and 750 for ST Hindus.
After Misra Report is implemented 1,500 seats would first get reserved
for minority students, 27 pc of remaining 8,500 seats i.e. 1,250 for
OBCs and 630 for STs. So there shall be reduction of seats for all
Hindu students.
Marxist Hindus, NSUI Hindu students shall also suffer forced shrinkage
of their E3 space.
[B] Hindu students with better marks are being denied admissions into
nurseries, schools, colleges and universities run by minorities,
whether aided out of taxes collected from Hindus or unaided. For
example, cut-off marks for Christian students for admission into St.
Stephen's College, Delhi University and cut-off marks for Sikh
students into the Khalsa College, DU and cut-off marks for Muslims in
Jamia Hamdard University is lower than those for the Hindu students.
Same is the case all over India in all districts.
Hindus are generally under-represented in the staff of minority
institutions, and, posts of principals, etc, are generally reserved
for non-Hindus. For example the rule of St. Stephen's College Delhi
stipulates that a Hindu cannot be its principal and Vice principal
though it receives annual grant of crores of rupees from the
Government out of taxes collected from the Hindus. Hindu candidates
with better CVs are generally denied jobs in these institutions. More
than 90 pc teaching staff of the Aligarh Muslim University are
non-Hindus.
Hindustan Times [July 10, 2008] and The Indian Express [July 18, 2008]
reported that St. Stephen's College, Delhi gives preference to
Christian candidates in appointments. MS Frank, the then acting
Principal insisted appointing only Christians. The Supreme Council of
this college clarified that a Christian candidate who met the minimum
qualifications shall be given preference over non-Christian candidates
in matters of appointments. Similar ill-treatment is handed down to
the Hindus all over India by all other minority institutions. Hindus
have invited this ill treatment of their own by giving their votes to
the Congress and the Communist parties.
These institutions quote Supreme Court decisions to justify the second
class treatment of all Hindus in matters of admission and employment.
In nutshell the Supreme Court has ruled that Hindus do not enjoy
equality rights guaranteed by the Article 14 of the Constitution in
the minority institutions whether aided or unaided. In other words
according to the Supreme Court Article 14 of the Constitution is not
uniformly applicable everywhere and to everyone. This is a flawed
interpretation of the Constitution by Supreme Court.
[C] The Constitution of India [Articles 15 and 16] guarantees 15 per
cent reservations for SC Hindus and 7.5 per cent reservations for ST
Hindus but they are denied these constitutionally guaranteed rights in
admissions as well as in employment in minority institutions with
silent support and connivance of Jaichandi Hindu politicians.
The OBC Hindus have been given 27 per cent reservations in academic
institutions but the Manmohan Singh Government has framed rules in
such a way that OBC Hindus are denied this constitutionally guaranteed
reservation all over India in all minority institutions.
The point is that as the Constitution is in force on every square inch
of India so these reservations must be available to SC, ST and OBC
Hindus in all minority institutions all over India. At present some
Articles of Constitution are applicable at one place but not at other
places. The selective application of the Constitution is flawed and
has to be opposed.
The National Commission for Scheduled Castes headed by Congressman
Shri Buta Singh also favours giving 'reserved' status to Dalit
converts to Christianity and Islam but does not want them to be
included in the 15 per cent SC quota and wants to further reduce seats
available to general class Hindus so as to create a new quota for
Dalit converts. [Times of India, July 14, 2007]. So general category
Hindus will get size of their cake further reduced if they continue to
vote for any Jaichandi party in any election.
Hindu students get student loans at higher interest rate of about 10
per cent to 12 per cent per annum but minority students get student
loan at 3 per cent per annum from the National Minority Development &
Finance Corporation under the Union Ministry of Finance. For
confirmation please visit www.nmdfc.org. This discrimination against
Hindu students has been made possible by those Hindus who vote to the
Congress Party or to any UPA party.
On August 27, 2009 the Manmohan Singh government decided that any
student whose parents' income is below Rs 4.5 lakh per annum will get
full interest subsidy on his student loan for professional course
during the course period. But after the course is over a Hindu student
has to pay interest at same higher rate of 10 to 12 whereas a minority
student will pay at 3 per cent.
[D] Hindu youths get loans from commercial banks to start a new
business at 15 per cent to 18 per cent interest and has to arrange
'margin money' of 15 per cent to 40 per cent of project cost from his
private sources, balance comes from the bank. But a minority youth has
to put in only 5 per cent of project cost as margin money from his
private source, other 35 per cent is given by the National Minority
Development and Finance Corporation at 3 per cent interest, and
remaining 60 per cent of finance is given by commercial banks at two
percentage points less than general lending rate for Hindus.
On March 13, 2007 the then Finance Minister P Chidambaram had told the
Rajya Sabha that of the total priority sector lending, loans to
minorities had increased by 33 per cent to Rs 45,490 crore on March
31, 2006 as against Rs 34,654 crore when the UPA Government took
office in May 2004.
So, Hindu businessmen will increase their own difficulties in getting
bank loans by financing the elections of Congress Party and other UPA
parties.
This second class treatment in banking sector has been invited by
those Hindus who give their votes to the Congress Party or to any
Jaichandi Party.
[E] The Manmohan Singh Government has directed that all minority
students admitted to 70 top institutions of India like IIMs, IITs,
etc, will get their total fees paid by the Government but Hindu
students, whether Leftist or Rightist, whether North Indian or South
Indian, whether member of NSUI or SFI have to pay their fees.
If a minority student decides to join any coaching centre to prepare
for admission into colleges or Public Service Examinations or jobs in
government and private sectors he gets total fees of coaching centre
paid by the government but a Hindu student or his parent has to pay
the fees of coaching centre. Details may be seen at
www.minorityaffairs.gov.in.
At pre-matric and at post-matric level a minority student will get
scholarship from class I onwards if he has secured not less than 50
per cent marks in the previous year examination but such facility is
not there for all Hindu students. The SC, ST and OBC Hindu students
have to have more than 60 per cent marks for being eligible for any
scholarship though Muslims, Christians etc enjoy higher literacy
rates. Further SC, ST and OBC Hindu students get scholarships from
class VI onwards.
[F] It may come as total surprise to many Hindus that there are many
posts under the Government which are paid out of taxes collected from
the Hindus but a Hindu howsoever Liberal or Marxist he may be, he is
legally debarred from holding such posts, such as posts of the
Chairman of National and Provincial Minority Commissions, Principal of
St. Stephen's Delhi, [and similar minority institutions running into
thousands and thousands all over India] etc.
Under Section 3 of the National Minority Commission Act, a Hindu
cannot be its Chairman and at least five of its seven members
including Chairman shall have to be from amongst the minority
communities. This law was enacted by PV Narsimha Rao government.
Section 4 of the National Commission for Minority Educational
Institutions Act 2004 passed by the Manmohan Singh Government
stipulates that only persons from minority communities shall be
eligible to be appointed as Chairman and members of this Commission.
Hindus have been totally excluded from this Commission.
As representation of Hindus in Sachar Committee, Ranganath Commission,
etc, have been below their demographic strength it is obvious that
these lack democratic weight.
In pursuance of the 2004 Congress manifesto, on March 10, 2006, the
Lok Sabha passed the National Commission for Minority Educational
(Amendment) Bill according to which the provincial governments will
have to give no objection certificate within 90 days of application
for setting-up an institution by religious minorities, or, else the
government will have to specify reasons for refusal. The aggrieved
party will have right to approach the Commission which, in turn, will
take a final decision in consultation with the State. Composition of
even this Commission is not representative to the total exclusion of
Hindus and the wonder is that Hindus, howsoever Secular or Leftist,
are debarred from being made even a member of this Commission by an
Act of the Parliament passed in November 2004. However, if no reasons
are given by a State government for not giving the NOC within 90 days,
it would be deemed as the approval of the State .The Act also provides
for the right of minority institutions to seek affiliation to any
university of their choice listed in this Act. The Bill was supported
by all UPA partners including the Left parties, Samajwadi Party of
Shri Mulayam Singh and the Bahujan Samaj Party, etc. It was criticised
by the Bhartiya Janata Party and Shiv Sena. So, a Muslim institution
in a far off place, say, Jhumri Taliya in Jharkhand can demand
affiliation to any named central university of its choice and its
students will get degrees of that central university and thus, will
enjoy better marketability in the employment market whereas a Hindu
student of the same region will have degree of a provincial university
having less marketability in the employment market. Thus, with votes
of Hindu parents, Shri Arjun Singh the then HRD Minister and the UPA
Government placed Muslim and Christian students at higher and better
pedestal in the employment market than Hindu students. Those Hindu
parents in rural areas who voted for the Congress Party and its
Jaichandi allies in the 2004 and 2009 elections have thus actually
harmed the future of their own children.
Right from sixties the educational, employment and economic [E3]
opportunities for Hindu youngsters were being reduced bit by bit by
all the previous Congress Governments and pace of this reduction has
been accelerated by the Manmohan Singh Government. And irony is that
this harm to Hindus was and is being done on the strength of those
Hindu voters who either innocently vote the Congress Party or its UPA
partners or abstain from voting.
[G] To reduce the percentage of Hindus and to increase the percentage
of minorities in the government sector the UPA government has ordered
inclusion of minority members in all Selection Boards and Departmental
Promotion Committees [DPCs].
The circular to induct religious minority members in Selection Boards
was issued during Prime Ministership of Rajiv Gandhi vide OM
No39016/6(s)/87-Estt(B) dated June 10, 1987 and during the Prime
Ministership of Vishwanath Pratap Singh, another secular veteran vide
OM 39016/6(S)89-Estt(B) dated 16th August 1990
In January 2007 the Department of Personnel and Training, Government
of India, sent a note to all "heads of departments, public sector
banks and financial institutions, quasi-Government organisations,
autonomous bodies, etc. and all appointing authorities," asking them
to "scrupulously observe" guidelines to make selection panels more
representative. All selection panels recruiting ten or more vacancies
must have one member belonging to a minority community. This circular
instructs to give special considerations to minorities in all
appointments, so danger bell is ringing loud and clear for all Hindu
job seekers whether they are Leftists or Rightists, whether upper
caste or lower castes that despite their better profiles they may not
be selected.
At present Hindus constitute over 95 per cent in all services and the
Manmohan Singh Government with the help of Hindu voters is trying to
reduce the Hindu percentage in government and public sector
undertakings to less than 85 per cent.
Thus, it is clear that Jaichandi Hindu politicians have treacherously
created such a system in which a minority is eligible to apply for
each and every post paid by the State but not a Hindu. A minority
student gets student loan and commercial loans at rates lower than a
Hindu. A minority student with more than 50 per cent marks gets
scholarship but not all Hindu students with more than 50 per cent
marks. In minority run institutions a Hindu is given step brotherly
treatment in matters of admissions and employment but in government
run and Hindu run institutions a minority candidate has to be treated
at par with Hindus and to ensure that a minority is treated on par
there are national and provincial minority commissions headed and
dominated by minorities.
Hindu voters who do not want to harm the career prospects of their own
or of their children and grandchildren must never cast their votes in
favour of any Jaichandi Hindu politician or any Jaichandi party.
(The writer served as Ambassador/High Commissioner to many countries
and belongs to the 1971 batch of the Indian Foreign Service. He can be
contacted at www.opgupta.org and, opg4444@yahoo.co.in)
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