Riding on shoulders of those Hindu voters who either do not go to cast their votes or vote in favour of the Congress Party or INDIA bloc parties, Waqf Boards have increased area of land under waqf from about 50,000 acres in 1954 to over 940,000 acres by 2023 with well coordinated roles silently played by all Muslim Members of the Parliament across party lines. Land jihad is continuing unabated as a Muslim MP in October 2024 claimed that areas from Vasant Vihar, South Delhi up to Delhi airport are waqf properties. In January 2025 a Muslim Maulana claimed as per ZEE TV and Sudarshan TV that 55 acres of land on which Kumbh is organized in Prayagraj belongs to the Waqf. Roles played by Muslim MPs in strengthening Waqf are commendable from Muslim point of view but have strained social fabric of India and raised anxiety and unease among Hindu samaj. If someone claims to be inheritor of properties left behind by medieval Muslim rulers he should volunteer to bear the responsibility for atrocities committed by those rulers and pay reparations to Hindu samaj. Waqf Boards are now the third largest holder of land in India after the Indian Railways and the Defence. This increase in waqf area has been made possible by Hindu MPs of the Congress Party and the UPA parties who have been unlawfully and unconstitutionally tilting the law against we Hindus breaching fairness, equal treatment to all citizens, constitutionalism, secularism and basic structures of the Constitution of India which they had taken oath to defend. If we Hindus continue to vote for INDIA parties we and our children may have to surrender more land (as per Waqf Act 2013) to Waqf Boards in future. As per existing laws income and benefits of the Waqf properties can be used for benefits of only and only Muslims.
No waqf Boards are allowed in many Islamic countries as allowed by the Congress Party in India. There are many Islamic countries which do not allow any waqf property. Islamic Countries such as Turkey, Libya, Egypt, Sudan, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Tunisia, and Iraq etc do not have Waqfs. In Arab countries one does not see any dargah or mazaar. Some Muslim sects consider dargah, mazaars as un-Islamic. In the Islamic Republic of Pakistan sufi shrines are under frequent attacks. Blasts took place near the Data Dargah in Lahore in May 2019, and the Sehwan Sharif in Sindh in 2017 killing many Muslims. In Pakistan shia mosques are often under attack by sunni groups and vice versa. So things are much better in Hindu majority India for Indian Muslims.
It is good that the Modi Government has drawn attention of the people of India through the Waqf Bill 2024 to the land grabbing mechanism bestowed on the Waqf Boards by Congress Governments and keeping the Bill open for wider public debate by referring it to a Joint Parliamentary Committee. Shri Jagdambika Pal, Hon’ble Chairman, JRC is doing a sterling job by taking JRC team to different parts of India for face to face interactions with more people. As a matter of principle the Government of India is the final custodian of all waqf properties on Indian soil.
This paper focuses on anti-Hindu implications in the Waqf Act 2013 and in the Prevention of Communal & Targeted Violence Bill 2011 both formulated by the Man Mohan Singh Government, Congress Party and its UPA allies.
The Waqf Act 2013 is basically an anti-Hindu legislation to help waqf Boards grab more and more land from possession of non-Muslims on self declarations and self assessments of waqf Boards without ownership documents which is contrary to the basic structure of the Constitution of India and secular laws of India.
Waqf Boards have increased area under waqf from about 50,000 acres in 1950s to whopping 940,000 lakh acre in 2024 dispossessing many Hindus all over India of their lands which they considered their ancestral and had valid ownership documents, that too based on “Muslim laws and Islamic jurisprudence” which according to the Muslim Personal Law Act 1937 are applicable only to Muslims and are, therefore, diktats of Waqf Boards are not enforceable on Hindus and other non-Muslims. Therefore all decisions made by the Waqf Boards and the Waqf Tribunals based on Muslim laws adversely affecting Hindus and other non-Muslims ( Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, jains, Parsies, public sector undertakings, Sikhs, State Governments and Union Government, defence, railways etc) are null and void ab initio and en toto for want of jurisdiction. The Parliament of India has no competence to impose Muslim laws and Islamic jurisprudence on non-Muslims so what the Parliament itself cannot do its creatures (i.e. Waqf Boards) cannot do. Therefore non-Muslims adversely affected by the Waqf Board decisions from 1937 onwards may like to add this plea in their petitions before High Courts to take back their lands from Waqf Boards or petition in a Revenue court. The Waqf Boards have no competence to issue notices to non-Muslims and to send communications to Revenue Departments to dispossess non-Muslims. Where Waqf Boards think that a waqf property is in illegal possession of a non-Muslim, the Waqf Boards should approach the concerned civil court in that district. Where land has already been mutated by Revenue officials in favour of waqf Boards based on directions of waqf Boards, those affected non-Muslims may write to those Revenue officials to cancel such mutations as Revenue Officers lack competence to apply Muslim laws on non-Muslims.
Hindu parliamentarians belonging to the Congress Party, UPA and INDIA bloc cheated their Hindu voters in 1995 and in 2013 by doing (i) mischiefs of enabling or letting Waqf Boards to apply Muslim laws and jurisprudence to claims of non-Muslims on properties under non-Muslim possessions, (ii) exempting the Waqf Boards from the Law of Limitation Act, (iii) by providing that decisions of Waqf Tribunals shall be final and appeal against it in Courts were prohibited except in High Courts, (iv) that being a Muslim law based Tribunal staffed by all Muslims it has been wrongly given status of a civil court, waqf tribunals are in fact Sharia Tribunals , (v) that as per section 108(A) of the waqf Act 2013 decisions of the Waqf Boards shall have over riding effect notwithstanding anything inconsistent therewith contained in any other law for the time being in force or in any instrument having effect by virtue of any law other than this Waqf Act 2013. Thus Waqf board decisions have been elevated by the Congress Party to status of Mughal Badshahi firmans. And under section 28 of the Waqf Act 2013 the District Magistrate & Collector shall be responsible to implement the decisions of Waqf Boards in a time bound manner otherwise he has to pay penalty from his pocket. So a District Magistrate and his Revenue Officers land up implementing basically the Muslim Laws on non-Muslims which they are not competent to do.
Section 107 of the waqf Act 1995 reads: “107. Act 36 of 1963 not to apply for recovery of waqf properties.—Nothing contained in the Limitation Act, 1963 shall apply to any suit for possession of immovable property comprised in any waqf or for possession of any interest in such property.” Taking advantage of this section, the Waqf Boards are claiming land as waqf properties based on history books, personal diaries of Muslim rulers, nawabs etc. written hundreds years ago when we Hindus were living at mercy of Muslim rulers. As India became independent in 1947 old diktats collapsed irrevocably.
Section 40 of the Waqf Act 1995 reads: “40. Decision if a property is waqf property.—(1) The Board may itself collect information regarding any property which it has reason to believe to be waqf property and if any question arises whether a particular property is waqf property or not or whether a waqf is a Sunni waqf or a Shia waqf it may, after making such inquiry as it may deem fit, decide the question. (2) The decision of the Board on a question under sub-section (1) shall, unless revoked or modified by the Tribunal, be final.” So the Waqf Board is the complainant, the investigator, the judge in its own cause and the executioner which is against the basic structure of the Constitution of India. Separation of power is the basic structure of the Constitution. So the Hindu parliamentarians of Congress Party empowered Waqf Boards to claim a land to be waqf if it has reason to believe to be a waqf property, no ownership documents required. It is the High Court and judiciary which demand ownership documents from waqf Boards and courts do so under their own constitutional powers. Not many persons have funds to go to High Courts.
Section 83(4) of the Waqf Act 1995 as well as the Waqf Act 2013 reads: “ Every Tribunal shall consist of— (a) one person, who shall be a member of the State Judicial Service holding a rank, not below that of a District, Sessions or Civil Judge, Class I, who shall be the Chairman; (b) one person, who shall be an officer from the State Civil Services equivalent in rank to that of the Additional District Magistrate, Member; (c) one person having knowledge of Muslim law and jurisprudence, Member; and the appointment of every such person shall be made either by name or by designation.
A relevant question arises waqf Boards and Tribunals decide disputes with reference to which laws. The natural reply shall be that the Waqf Boards and Tribunals decide cases with reference to the "Muslim law and jurisprudence”, and statutory presence of a person having knowledge of Muslim law and jurisprudence in the Tribunal as a full member as per section 83(4) of the 2013 waqf Act confirms this natural reply. The Waqf Bill 2024 proposes to delete requirement of one person having knowledge of Muslim law and jurisprudence being there in a Waqf Tribunal but it may not make much difference as the operating law of the Waqf Tribunals shall still remain the same that is the Muslim law and jurisprudence which are not applicable to non-Muslims.
Section 83 (5) of the Waqf Act 1993 reads : “The Tribunal shall be deemed to be a civil court and shall have the same powers as may be exercised by a civil court under the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908), while trying a suit, or executing a decree or order”. In my view our Parliament has no competence to confer status of a civil court on a Tribunal which functions not under secular laws but under the Muslim law and jurisprudence, which is an entity created to cater interest of only one religious community. Conferring a civil court status on Waqf Tribunals which are guided by the Muslim laws and Jurisprudence is against the secularism which is a basic structure of the Constitution of India, and the Supreme Court in the famous Keshvanand Bharti case has held that the Parliament cannot amend or bend the basic structures of the Constitution of India. The Parliament cannot impose Muslim laws and jurisprudence and alamgiri fatwas on non-Muslims in India that too through an entity created by it. What the principal cannot do, its creatures cannot do is a well known settled law in India.
Forcing Muslim laws and Islamic Jurisprudence on non Muslims through Waqf Act is an act unbecoming of a parliamentarian of secular India so membership of all those members of the Parliament who passed the Waqf Act 1995 and 2013 be terminated, their pensions and perks be withdrawn and where retired their parliamentary pensions and perks be withdrawn. They should not be allowed free entry to the Parliament complex.
What is a Muslim Law? It has not yet been codified by the Indian Parliament. So the Muslim law and Islamic jurisprudence as used by the Waqf Boards are in reality Sunni laws promulgated by Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb who had got Kashi Vishwanath Temple demolished in September 1669 AD. These are known as fatwa-e-alamgiri belonging to hanafi Sunni school of law. In Islamic laws generally evidences given by kaafirs are not admissible against Muslims, kaafirs have no rights to succession and inheritance, kaafirs have no rights to life and property unless they paid zazia, marriage between kaafirs is not recognised under Islamic laws etc. Shia Muslims do not follow fatwa-e-alamgiri, shia Muslims have their own laws known as jafaria laws. Is it not shocking that riding on shoulders of Hindu voters of UPA, INDIA Bloc the Waqf Boards have been deciding cases against we Hindus by invoking fatawa-e-alamgiri. If Hindu voters do not change their voting pattern their children may forfeit their own lands to Waqf Boards sooner than later.
The Waqf Act 1995 and 2013 as these exist have created wide gulf between Muslims and non-Muslims on one hand, and friction among different 73 sects of Islam on the other hand. To remove such social frictions the waqf boards should be made private charitable trusts and every sect of Islam can have its own waqf registered with Charity Commissioners so that there are no intra-sect conflicts in future. Waqf Boards are sectarian bodies so these cannot be allowed to use State emblem of three lions on their letter heads. The national level body of each of 73 sects of Islam should be headed by a nominee of the Central Government and provincial level bodies by a person nominated by the State government and in boards there should be women and some non-Muslims too. Sufi dargahs should have their own waqf bodies. The Waqf Bill 2024 provides for separate waqfs for Bohra and Ismaeli Muslims and inclusion of women and non-Muslims in waqf Boards.
The property endowed or being endowed in the waqf must have been owned by the waqif (the person setting up the waqf) or acquired with the waqif’s own funds. It should not involve borrowed money or property that the waqif did/does not own outright. One can donate a land only if he owns it absolutely. So the concept of waqf by usage, or, waqf created by emperors or nawabs out of public funds or State properties are untenable. Waqf by usage promotes culture of illegal occupation of land by putting up mazaars etc which further widens the gulf among communities. Therefore in order to smoothen inter community harmony it is essential that a committee of five persons comprising two retired High Court judges and three retired Revenue officers, all non-Muslims be constituted in every State and UT to look into all waqf properties to ensure that these were endowed by actual rightful owners of properties supported by ownership documents to waqf. If all Muslim staffed Waqf Boards are lawful so also all non-Muslim committees are lawful. Properties left behind by two nation theory Muslims who migrated to East & West Pakistan are evacuee properties under exclusive control of the Union Government of India and should not be mixed with waqf properties. Waqf created only by Indian Muslim citizens can be recognised as a waqf in India.
GRAB MORE & MORE LAND AS WAQF PROPERTIES
In October 2024 Shri Badruddin Ajmal, a sitting Member of Parliament from Dhubri, Assam publically claimed that the area around Vasant Vihar in South Delhi extending up to the Delhi Airport were waqf property. He also claimed that the Parliament House buildings and its surrounding areas in New Delhi were all waqf properties. [INDIA TODAY and HindustanTimes 17.10.2024]. It is a wakeup call for all Hindus living in Delhi to be hyper active on election days to defeat pro-Waqf candidates. Hindu voters of Delhi should not take his statement lightly as he is a responsible type MP. The Zee TV had carried a report that the Delhi Waqf Board has claimed that five Hindu temples in Delhi were built on waqf land though temple managements claim to have all ownership documents. In Delhi the Man Mohan Singh Government in 2013 had gifted 123 properties to the waqf Board which were under the government control. The Modi Government has reclaimed these 123 properties.
In Varanasi, my home town, it was reported that the waqf Board has claimed that the Uday Pratap College was on waqf land so either college should vacate it or pay rent to be decided by the waqf Board. The UP College is spread over 100 acres of land. It is about 120 years old college. Section 104(B)(i) of the waqf Act 2013 reads: “ if any waqf property has been occupied by the Government agencies it shall be returned to the Board or the mutwalli within six months from the date of order of the Tribunal or pay rent as decided by the Tribunal.” And the Waqf Act 2013 as passed by Hindu MPs of the UPA have made waqf decisions to over ride every other law under section 108(A) so the necessity to amend the Waqf Act 2013 and the economic necessity of Hindus not to vote to INDIA bloc parties in all coming elections so as to save Hindu lands from being taken away by waqf Boards.
It is reported that in Lucknow the Sunni Waqf Board has claimed a 250 years old Shiva temple and its land in Sadatganj as waqf property based on affidavit of a Muslim person that it was a Waqf property. Laxmanpur temple or tilewali mosque controversy in Lucknow also refers. In Kannoj, UP a temple premises has been claimed as waqf property. In January 2025 Muslims claimed that Mahakumbh in Prayagraj takes place on 55 acres of waqf land.
In January 2025 it was reported that in Rajkot, Gujarat some Muslims destroyed shops of Hindus claiming that shops were on waqf land whereas shop keepers say that shops are on PWD land.
In Karnataka waqf Board recently claimed over 1500 acres of ancestral land of Hindu farmers in Honvada village in Vijaypura district and farmers received notices from Tehsildar for 1500 acres having been transferred to waqf Board on 04.10.2024 in revenue records i.e. farmers’ names have been removed from owners column in revenue records. Hindu farmers of Dharwad and Kalaburagi were also adversely affected. Later Shri Siddaramaiah Hon’ble Chief Minister announced that his government will cancel waqf board orders and restore land to farmers in revenue records but a Chief Minister has no authority to cancel decisions of a Waqf Board in light of the section 108(A) of the Waqf Act 2013 as passed by Dr Man Mohan Singh Govt. Perhaps Shri Siddaramaiah has not been informed correctly. To save their land from the waqf Board Hindu farmers of Karnataka shall have to change their voting preference and should not abstain from casting their votes and must vote to NDA candidates. Fight for protecting Hindu land and reclaiming from Waqf Boards has to be waged right from voting booths.
In November 2024 it was reported that the Karnataka waqf Board has claimed 17 properties inside the Bidar fort as waqf properties.
In Fatua and Govindpura villages of Bihar near Patna the Waqf board has claimed land of villages which are predominantly Hindu villages. Waqf Board is reported to have sent notices to Hindu villagers to vacate in 30 days. Hindu voters of Bihar must open their eyes to protect their own land before it is gone.
In Chhattisgarh Jhabua many scheduled tribe Hindus are reported to have lost their lands to waqf Board.
In Kochi Kerala Waqf Board has claimed vast land in Munambam over which about 600 poor Hindus and Christians had their homes over decades. The Waqf Board has claimed ownership of Thaliparamba town in Kerala including 600 acres in the city centre. In Kerala waqf Board has claimed a land under possession of the Defence also.
In Latur, Maharastra the Waqf Board has claimed ownership of about 300 acres land belonging to about 103 Hindu farmers who claim that the land is their ancestral property. Waqf claims have been made in other cities of Maharastra.
In a video Shri Abu Azami of Samajwadi Party, Mumbai is seen claiming that the residence of Shri Mukesh Ambani, Chairman Reliance Group is built on waqf property and offering tenancy to Mukesh Ambani at rent to be decided by the waqf Board. This is happening to the richest Hindu of India.
In 2013 the Madhya Pradesh Waqf board declared the tomb of Shah shuja, Bibi Masjid and a palace in the fort of Burhanpur as waqf properties which the Madhya Pradesh High Court rejected in August 2024 ruling that these were properties of the Government of India.
One may recall sometimes back the UP Waqf board had declared the Taj Mahal in Agra as waqf property and Muslims go there to offer namaj in Taj Mahal compound. The Hindu (August 12, 2005) in an article captioned the Imperial Waqf has quoted Padshahnama written in 1650 AD by Abdul Hamid Nagori to say that 30 villages in pargana of Agra and their revenue were placed under waqf and that names of all such villages are listed in this book. So Hindus of such villages in western UP named in Padshahnama should be on extra-alert on election days to defeat pro-waqf candidates. In independent India such villages cannot be treated as waqf as Shahjahan and Aurangzeb did not own any property out of their personal earnings, and old political acts automatically lapsed in 1947 after independence.
In West Bengal the Raj Bhavan in Kolkata has been claimed to be waqf property by Sidiqulla chaudhary, a Minister in the Mamata cabinet. He further claimed all areas from Dharmatalla to Alipur street are waqf properties. Mr Sidiqulla has claimed so riding on shoulders of Hindu voters of TMC.
Waqf Boards claimed that Kashi Vishwanath temple complex (gyanwapi) is a waqf property. Emperor Aurangzeb did not own this land out of his personal income.
Thiruchenthurai Village, Tamil Nadu: A farmer Rajagopal from Tamil Nadu was unable to sell his agricultural land to repay a loan because the Waqf Board claimed his entire village, Thiruchenthurai, as its property. The requirement for a no objection certificate (NOC) from the waqf board to sell his own property caused financial and emotional distress and brought it to public notice. The Waqf Board claimed that village was historically donated as waqf by Nawab Anwardeen Khan in 1956. Was Nawab owner of entire village land, where are ownership documents, did nawab buy village with his self earned money?
Bengaluru Eidgah Ground Case: In the case of Bengaluru Eidgah ground, even though there was no title transfer to any Muslim organisation as per the government, Waqf’s claims that it was a Waqf property from the 1850s. Congress Members of Parliament have exempted the Waqf Boards from the Law of Limitation Act and illegally allowed waqf by usage concept.
Surat Municipal Corporation Case: Recently, the Gujarat Waqf Board had staked claim to the Surat Municipal Corporation building. As per Waqf Board, back during the Mughal era, the Surat Municipal Corporation building was a sarai and used during the Hajj travels.
Islands in Bet Dwarka: Divya Bhaskar had reported that the Waqf Board had written an application to Gujarat High Court staking claim on the ownership of two islands in Bet Dwarka in Devbhoomi Dwarka.
Many old forts and buildings have been declared as protected monuments under the protection of the Archeological Survey of India and the ASI protected buildings are excluded from the 1991 Places of Worship Act. The ASI protected buildings and monuments can never be treated as waqf properties.
There are many more such cases where properties under the State Government offices and the Military have been claimed as waqf properties. Setting up mazars here and there on highways, railway stations, old forts, in deserted areas or within forests is a new tactics to claim land later as waqf properties by usage. Hindu voters should not vote for such candidates who will stab them after landing in the Parliament. Above examples show that land grabbing by Waqf Boards is pan India phenomena both against rich and poor Hindus so in order to prevent it the voting behaviour of all Hindu voters must change in favour of BJP/NDA.
WAQF DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
The Manmohan Singh Govt set up the National Waqf Development Corporation (NAWADCO) on 31.12.2013 with a capital of Rs 500 crore from government fund and a Rs 100 crore paid up capital. All the money in this corporation was invested from government exchequer. This corporation will invest funds to make commercial malls, shops on waqf land which will be given only to Muslims and whatsoever profit this corporation will make or all the capital of this corporation will be spent only on Muslims. This is written in the objectives of this corporation. This anti-Hindu act was done by riding on shoulders of Hindu voters of the Congress Party.
AVOIDANCE OF COMMUNAL VIOLENCE BILL 2011
As the Waqf Act as drafted and passed by the Congress Party controlled Parliament in 2013 was designed to enable waqf boards to grab land from non-Muslims, the Avoidance of the communal Violence Bill 2011 was designed to arrest any Hindu without warrant on complaint of minorities. It made mandatory for Police officers to arrest any Hindu against whom any minority made a complaint, first arrest that Hindu and keep him in jail till a court gave bail which forced many Hindu voters to move away from the Congress Party and its allies in the 2014 Parliamentary election paving the way for the NDA government under Prime minister Modi from May 2014. It was admitted by the AK Anthony Committee that the main reason for defeat of the Congress Party was the wide spread impression in the Hindu community was that the Congress Party was tilted against the Hindu community.
SALIENT ANTI HINDU FEATURES OF Avoidance of Communal Violence Bill 2011
1. A Hindu against whom any Muslim/Christian/minority makes any complaint shall be presumed in law to be guilty by Police & Courts till that Hindu proves himself to be innocent. [Sec 70, 71,& 73]
2. An accused Hindu shall have to be immediately arrested as all offences under this Bill are non-bailable & cognizable [Sec 56]
3. This law can be invoked only by a minority against Hindus whether living in India or abroad.
4. Accused Hindu shall not be informed who has complained against him [sec 38]
5. A minority is not required to give any additional evidence to support his complaints against Hindus [sec 70, 71 & 72] other than his complaint
6. A Hindu refusing to do business with any minority shall be immediately arrested [Sec 3(f) (i)].Taking advantage of such anti-Hindu laws a minority can force a Hindu to sell/rent his property and even surrender his daughters to minorities.
7. A minority cannot be punished for making even false complaints/statements against Hindus [sec 40]
8. All Hindus whether living in India or abroad shall stand deprived of their Human Rights by this law as proposed by Dr Man Mohan Singh Government.
Details of the Avoidance of Communal Violence Bill are available at www.opguptabrm.blogspot.com
It is feasible for the BJP and the NDA to win more than two third majority in the Parliamentary elections as well as in the forthcoming State Assembly elections in Bihar and UP by attracting more Hindu voters by proper policies timely put in place. Compared to scandal hit days of the UPA Government of Dr Man Mohan Singh, the strongest point in favour of the Modi Government is absence of corruption cases against Shri Modi and his all Ministers. Result of the 2024 Lok Sabha election shows that mere development (roads, airports, hospitals, universities, ports , manufacturing units, GDP Growth etc.) is not adequate to win even the simple majority, and, that the Modi Government is lagging behind its opponents in information war, weak in presenting its own sterling achievements to voters in time and, weak in explaining at grass root levels to Hindu voters content & depth of anti-Hindu policies of the UPA era and the INDIA bloc parties as to how these have hurt Hindu samaj and how will continue to hurt in the future if Hindus did not change their voting pattern in time.
During 2011-13 this writer on invitation of various organizations addressed meetings of Hindu samaj in Delhi, Varanasi, Kanpur, Prayagraj, Indore, Bhopal, Surat, Ahmadabad, Patna, Jaipur, Mohali, Guwahati, Bhubaneshwar, Panchkula , Gurugram etc to sensitise Hindu community about anti Hindu provisions of the Communal Violence Bill 2011 which added to swing in favour of the NDA. Many Hindu voters were shocked and surprised to know anti-Hindu policies of the UPA parties and used to ask many lively questions after lecture to satisfy their anxiety. Consequently in the 2014 Parliamentary election there was positive swing of 12.2% in favour of BJP and negative swing of 9.24% against the Congress Party. In the 2014 election a good number of Hindus moved away from the Congress Party forcing the Man Mohan Singh government out of office. The AK Anthony Committee also concluded that anti-Hindu policies of the Man Mohan Singh Govt were responsible for the 2014 defeat of the Congress Party.
In the Maharastra Assembly election 2024 some percentage of Hindu voters moved away from Congress, Sharad Pawar and Uddhav Thakre combine to the NDA fold due to former’s electoral commitment to reserve 10% of state jobs to Muslims. No Hindu voter wants to reduce job opportunities for his children in favour of Muslims. Therefore BJP got unprecedented electoral victory.
In coming elections the Hindu vote shall be the deciding factor. Political salvation for the NDA bloc is in further consolidation of Hindu votes on social and economic grounds which the INDIA bloc is trying to fragment by raising demand for caste census though birth based caste among Hindus is neither sanctioned by Rig Veda ( 5.60.5) nor caste is defined in the Constitution of India. In Vedic era Varna meant one’s profession which changed as one changed his profession. Even Manusmriti (shloka 10.65) sanctions social migration of individuals from shudra (i.e. unskilled & illiterate) to Brahmin (teachers and priests) varna by their own efforts (ie education and training); that Varna was thus not birth based. Even Jawaharlal Nehru in his book (Glimpses of World History pages 24 and 431) has written that notion of birth based caste was not there in Vedic times and was introduced during Mughal and Portuguese periods.
The BJP polled more votes in 2024 than in 2019 but vote share in 2024 parliamentary election marginally declined from 37.7% in 2019 to 36.6% in 2024 and number of Lok Sabha seats declined steeply from 303 to 240. In 2019 parliamentary election BJP got 227.076 million votes and in 2024 got 235.973 million votes. In 2024 the BJP won 29 out of 84 SC seats as against 46 won in 2019. The BJP won 24 out of 47 ST seats in 2024 as against 31 won in 2019. Victory margins of Shri Narendra Modi in Varanasi parliamentary constituency declined from 479,000 in 2019 to only 152,513 in 2024 despite such a massive development works delivered in Varanasi as well as all over India. This decline in my view is primarily due to slack publicity of government achievements and slackness in spreading message of Hindu samarasata deep among Hindu masses. Samarasata and Hindutva emaphasise that all Hindus are one, no one is inferior by birth or superior by birth, all prosper by uniting which is the Vedic commandment under RV(5.60.5) “They are brothers, of whom no one is the elder, no one is younger, but who grew up together for their mutual prosperity.” Atharva Veda (3.30.6) commands: “Your drinking saloon be the same, in common your share of food, in the same harness do I join you together, united like spokes in a navel.” Atharva Veda (30.30.7) says “United, like minded I make you of one bunch……” Further details at www.hindusamarasata.org
This is what Modi is saying “ek hai to safe hai” or Yogi is saying “ batoge to ktooge” in language of the day. In saying so they are not spreading hate against any community but are only reiterating in simple Hindi the Vedic commandments to remain united for collective prosperity of all followers of Vedas. RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat ji has also been calling for unity and samarasata among all Hindus as per these Vedic commandments of unity and social harmony.
The Delhi Police has rightly started action to detect and deport illegal Bangladeshi and Rohingya Muslims who are armed with illegally obtained Indian ID documents. There are other more effective administrative means to identify and flush them out of Indian voter lists all over India, that too by federal agencies. As and when illegals are removed from voters lists election tally of the NDA will go over two third majority mark. Micro management of policies to suit small segments of voters have to be done, there is no dearth of such micro management policies. For example, the burden to deduct TDS of 1% on purchase of properties on installment basis under Incometax Act be shifted from senior citizen buyers to builders and penalties paid be waived off and refunded as senior citizens are not good in handling computers and it is not safe for senior citizens to
(Retd) Ambassador OP Gupta
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