HINDUTVA - Indian Social Institute

VHP resents pruning of SC, ST quotas (26)
KADAPA, April 26, 2012: Viswa Hindu Parishad functionaries staged a dharna in front of Kadapa
Collectorate on Wednesday decrying reduction in the 27 per cent reservation for OBCs, SCs, STs and
open categories in education and employment to 20 per cent and diversion of the quota to minorities.
VHP State vice-president B. Ramakrishna Reddy and Bajrang Dal Pramukhs Sivasankara Reddy and
Rana Pratap, who led the protest, demanded that the government withdraw the reservation earmarked for
Muslims by weaning away 45 per cent quota from OBCs and tender an apology to people. They also
asked for a concrete assurance that SC reservations would not be diverted to Christians. They demanded
Muslims be excluded from OBC reservations and said that the diversion of education and employment
facilities meant for SC, ST, PBC to Muslims and Christians would be resisted by the VHP. They alleged
misinterpretation of the recommendations of the Ranganath Mishra Commission and Rajenda Sachar
Committee to consider Muslims as poorer sections. VHP Kadapa city president Venugopal, secretary
Ramaswamy, treasurer V. Srinivasulu and joint secretary Siva Reddy participated. (The Hindu 26/4/12)
Call to save Indian culture, religion from disaster (26)
HYDERABAD, April 27, 2012: A meeting held to celebrate Sankara Jayanti at the NTR Stadium here on
Thursday evening saw three religious heads practising different disciplines and practising Hinduism
urging people to come together on a common platform to save culture, religion and tradition from disaster.
Terming it the first-ever meeting with three Hindu religious heads sharing the dais, it aimed at showcasing
Hinduism as a ‘sampradaya' (tradition) and driving home the message that ‘Hindutva' was something
more than being a religion, said Swami Paripoornananda Saraswathi of Sree Peetham, Kakinada. In the
presence of Swami Tridandi Srimannarayana Ramanuja Chinna Jeeyar and Swami Sugunendra Teertha
of Puthege Math, Udipi, he said this was a step to bring practitioners of different Hindu disciplines
together. He expressed happiness that Hyderabad was taking the lead in what he termed a revolution
with ‘Bharateeyam' in every heart. Speaking in Sanskrit, Swami Sugunendra Teertha said it was the
mother of all languages and regaled the audience by recalling the similarities of words in Sanskrit and
English - ‘Maatha' (Mother), ‘Pitha' (Father) and the like. He said Indianism was the need of the hour. The
Chinna Jeeyar said while Sankara Jayanti was celebrated on April 26, Ramanuja Jayanti fell the next day
itself. Adi Sankaracharya and Ramanujacharya shared the same ‘Nakshatra', he recalled. (The Hindu
27/4/12)
Convicted Abu Azmi says Maharashtra govt is anti-Muslim (26)
Mumbai: Samajwadi Party leader Abu Asim Azmi on Tuesday lashed out at the state government, saying
it was against the minorities. Azmi’s tirade came a day after a local court sentenced him to two years’
imprisonment for delivering a hate speech 12 years ago. The sentence was suspended to give Azmi and
others time to appeal in the sessions court. Azmi held the Congress-NCP government responsible for the
judgment. He said judgments are made on the basis of evidence provided by the police, who are under
the state government, and based on such evidence, Muslims are found guilty while others go scot-free.
“Bal Thackeray (Shiv Sena leader) and Raj Thackeray (MNS leader, earlier with the Shiv Sena) have
made hundreds of speeches inciting hatred and communal violence. Why has the government never
taken action against them?” he asked. Azmi said the entire case smacked of politics. “When the then CM
Vilasrao Deshmukh asked the local police, they said there was no case. But after (the then leader of the
Opposition from the Shiv Sena) Narayan Rane did not allow the assembly to function for 11 days, the
government forced the police to file a case. After that, the police produced a CD of my speech in the
court, and said my speech was communal,” he said. “Where did that CD come from?” he asked. A press
release from the Samajwadi Party said that in his speech, Azmi had said that after the 1992 riots, the
situation in Mumbai was not good, that the police were harassing Muslims, that loudspeakers in mosques
and namaz on the roads had been stopped, and that maulvis (priests) in mosques were being
questioned. He said his speech was never against the country but against injustice to Muslims. Azmi said