If the cardinal Rule that Religion must not mix with GOVERNANCE which is
directly related to Politics is observed, there would be no possibility of
any appeasement whatsoever. Governance of a state must restrict itself to
cover each and every individual citizen irrespective of whether s/he belongs
to any class/caste/religion on impartial basis thereby throwing out of the
window all sorts of appeasements, grants etc to religious or caste/class
groupings. This goes without saying that it implys that religions must
thrive or perish on their own without governments showering largeses on
these for whatever reasons. If you do for one, you have to do to everyone
and governments cannot be said to be in business to do this.
The weaker sections of the society is different. These should not be on
religious or caste basis but purely on economic basis. This too must be such
that these weaker sections are pumped with whatever resources required to
get them up to the level of competition which is universal. What this
entails is : If one is a scheduled caste and this individual seeks entrance
to the IAS examination, pump in whatever resources required for this
individual to be able to answer this examination without lowering the
standard of the examination to suit the level of the individual. If the
individual passes out, then give this individual the preference of selecting
for a job over everone else who has passed this examination.
In a country like India, subsidies for religious activities by the
governments should be totally banned, over and out, irrespective of whether
the governments are of Congress, the BJP or whatever. Does this nation have
the heart to do this? I wonder! However, it is a different story altogether
with Goasuraj where even the funds collected within the constituency by the
grass-root committee may be spent on anything and everything but not a
farthing on any religious activity. Period.
Afterall, religions have been the bane of mankind. Rather than improving the
understanding between different peoples, religions have created suspicions
and distrusts leading to wars and destruction. Mankind must learn to keep
religions in their places, confined and compartmentalised and they must
suffer the brunt when they get out of hand and conflict with one another.
Here, the governents must move in and put these in their sweet places back
again even with severe punishments.
We should be in the outer world for this to happen. :-)
And BTW let us stop talking of what the Congress is doing and what the BJP
has done. Let us find a newer solution outside of these two incorrigibles
who have lead this country to the edge of the precipice.
floriano
goasuraj
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sandeep Heble" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 6:57 PM
Subject: [Goanet] Appeasements, Haj Pilgrimage, Congress and the BJP
Dr Anand wrote earlier on Goanet:
How about telling the Congress to stick to their constitution ?
Havethey not engaged in minority communalism ( not to mention
unimaginable corruption ) in every term they have been in power ?
That's OK , is it
I can say from personal experience that in todays Goa ( and India ) ,
thanks to the minority appeasement / vote bank policies of the
Congress and the reservation schemes for certain communities
> being born a Hindu is bad enough ... being born a Brahmin Hindu > is
> the ultimate disadvantage........................
