Bharatiya Pragna - Dr. Th Chowdary

that every political party must put up 10% to 12%
Christians among its candidates for various elected
posts.
While at the time of framing the Constitution
Christian members of the Constituent Assembly
eloquently said that they would not want
any reservations because there were no castes
among them. But now Christian organisations and
churches are asserting that there are dalit Christians
and that all Hindus converted to Christianity
are carrying their castes with them; that
there are Reddy
Christians [great example
Dr Y
Rajashekhar Reddy
is a 7th Day
Adventist] Kamma
Christians, Brahmin
Christians, BC
Christians and dalit
Christians. Christians
are organizing very militant demonstrations and
conventions demanding reservations for dalit
Christians. Until they achieve this one they seem
to have been advising Hindu dalits who are converted,
to continue to enlist as scheduled caste
Hindus to avail of reservations. There are quite a
number of IAS and IPS officers who while being
Christians, fraudulently availed of the benefit of
reservations by falsely declaring that they are
scheduled castes.
Bands of Christian propagandists comprising
of young women and men are knocking at
doors, distributing Christian literature and inviting
people to convert. They are active in all localities
but more intensely in slum areas and in poor quarters
of towns and cities.
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The Christian missionaries activities
are a multi-national funded business
enterprises, use of radio and TV
channel time for propaganda and more
demonstratably, holding kutamis (assemblies)
where thousands are mobilised
from villages through retainers and resident
propagandists in the villages.
Giving gifts, interest-free loans, medicines
and promises of sending children abroad and finding
jobs for them are freely and openly brandied
to entice the needy and the unemployed and the
poor to convert to Christianity. In Villages churches
are fitted with loudspeakers and in the evening and
night Christian songs, all set to Hindu Bhajan tunes
and using Hindu idiom but proclaiming Christ and
Mary etc. are broadcast.
In Kandhamal district of Orissa alone
in the last few years there are 360 competing missionaries
converting Kui
language-speaking Pana
scheduled caste Hindus to
Christianity. The scheduled
tribe Kandhas are
hardly converted. They
are fiercely sticking to
their own faith and mode
of prayer. The Pana
scheduled castes are converted
to the extent of 70%. Scheduled castes
converted to Christianity are not entitled to reservations;
so they are agitating to be declared as
scheduled tribes.
That is opposed by the Kandhas. The
Christian population in Kandhamal in 1961 was
2%, in 1991 it was 6% and in 2007 it reached
27%! In 1995 the Kandha scheduled tribes versus
converted Pana scheduled castes conflict
lasted for more than two months and 50 people
were killed and many more wounded. The recurrence
in 2008 is continuation of the fight between
fraudsters on one side and defenders on
the other side.
The Supreme Court had ruled that every
citizen of India is free to profess, and propa-
November & December 2008 Bharatiya Pragna