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Thursday 20 June 2013

To opine on the policy of minorities, we must define who is minority in this nation. What has been the attitude of majority towards minorities in this nation is another important aspect of the subject.
In proper perspective, only those people, who had to take refuge in another nation because they were thrown out of their country by the invaders, can be called a minority. In this perspective, in Bharat, only Jews and Parsis can be termed as minorities in every sense. In the context of the above definition, Muslims and Christians, who are termed as minorities because of vote bank politics, can never be termed as minorities, because 99.99 % of them have not come from outside. Some generations back, due to the compulsions of situation, their forefathers, who were children of this very nation, changed their religion. In such situation, to call them minorities is in itself equivalent to promoting divisive politics.
Bharat is the only nation in the world, where in its original Hindu tradition; there are no compulsions in observance of religion. Every person is totally free to call God by the name of his choice, and worship him in his own preferred way. Because of this unique tradition, the Jews and Parsis who came here as refugees, never felt that they were aliens, and it is for this very reason that when they were offered special reservations for them in our Constitution, they not only refused it, but by their acts and deeds, proved that they have completely integrated themselves with the national mainstream.
This unique aspect of Hinduism is amply substantiated by many Supreme Court decisions.

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