Urging the BJP led government at the Centre to give up such communal and linguistic chauvinist approach and concentrate on their promises for ‘development’ given during election time, the DMK General Council called upon all political parties and other movements, believing in secularism, unity in diversity and integrity of the nation, to bury their regional aspirations and political differences and come forward to collectively oppose the communal danger to the nation due to the actions of the BJP government at the Centre.
In a resolution adopted at the General Council meeting on Jan 9 held at Kalaignar Arangam in Anna Arivalayam in Chennai, it was stated that over and above the Constitution referring India as a sovereign nation it was called as a sub-continent, with linguistic States to preserve and protect the rights of people speaking various languages and their linguistic national identity and with a secular administration for various religions.
The preamble of the Constitution states India as a sovereign, socialist, secular democratic republic. The Constitution adopted by the Constituent Assembly and various amendment adopted by Parliament upheld secularism. Honouring the Supreme Court verdict that basic principles of the Constitution including secularism should not be tampered with, all the governments that had come at the Centre so far had functioned.
At the time of independence, the contradictory communal stands among important leaders in two fields of Indian National Congress and Hindu Maha Sabha, and political and social conflicts of Muslim League and Islamic leaders with them led to partition of the nation, as a result of which till date there were threats to the unity and integrity of the country continuing now and then. In this situation, the open communal attitude of the present Central government of the BJP is not only acceptable to all but also cause concern.
The DMK, which reposes full faith in the Constitution, never gave up its secular principle even when there were necessity and compulsion to change its political stand. In particular, in 1999 when the political circumstances necessitated the DMK to align with the BJP, a Common Minimum Programme was prepared for the NDA government on the demand of constituent parties, in which Murasoli Maran played an important part in the drafting. On his insistence an undertaking was given the BJP’s basic political principles of abrogating Article 370 giving special status to Jammu and Kashmir, constructing Ram temple at Ayodya and Uniform Civil Code would not be pressed for. As long as the DMK was part of the NDA government, it never compromised on any of the assurances in the CMP. The party, whether it was in power or not in the State and Centre, never hesitated to defend secularism and protect minorities. When the NDA was formed in 1999, a programme of action based on ‘secularism, federalism and respect to the feelings of all Indian people’ was declared. But on the contrary, due to the contradictory approach of the Centre on issues like Ayodya, the ADMK regime misusing POTA, ignoring the setting up of Cauvery Board and refusal to accept Tamil as one of the official languages at the Centre, the DMK quit the NDA.
The government of Narendra Modi, who assumed as Prime Minister swearing by the Constitution after the victory in 16th Lok Sabha elections, in the beginning announced various development projects. Further, when they attempted to bring some unwelcome measures, they withdrew accepting our arguments. Though we were about to appreciate it, the reactionary measures announced by some Union Ministers worried us.
Particularly, not only they had given up secularism but creating condition for attempting to convert India into ‘Hindu Rashtra’. Similarly, against the assurance of the first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and PMs later, the Modi government following conflicting attitude in language policy also amounts to injustice to non-Hindi speaking people and those who did not accept Sanskrit.
In particular, responsible Union Ministers, BJP’s guiding force RSS and Hindu Maha Sabha leaders and the other Parivar outfits are openly speaking and issuing statement like
“All people in India are Hindus”
“Those who are not born to Rama are illegimate”
Bhagavat Gita is national scripture
Gandhi’s assassin Godse is a patriot
Godse should have fired at only Nehru instead of Gandhi
Godse busts should be set up all over the country
Observing Christmas day as Good Governance day
Attempt to teach Sanskrit in Kendriya Vidyalayas
Celebrating Sanskrit Week in CBSE schools
Removing English and using only Hindi in circulars for hostel students of Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi
As such open communal and language imposition actions and degrading other religions and languages will disturb peace and development of the nation against unity and secularism of the country, we have been pushed to the position of losing confidence in then due to such approaches of the BJP government. Such actions of the BJP government are deplored.
Urging the BJP led government at the Centre to give up such communal and linguistic chauvinist approach and concentrate on their promises for ‘development’ given during election time, the DMK General Council called upon all political parties and other movements, believing in secularism, unity in diversity and integrity of the nation, to bury their regional aspirations and political differences and come forward to collectively oppose the communal danger to the nation due to the actions of the BJP government at the Centre.
In a resolution adopted at the General Council meeting on Jan 9 held at Kalaignar Arangam in Anna Arivalayam in Chennai, it was stated that over and above the Constitution referring India as a sovereign nation it was called as a sub-continent, with linguistic States to preserve and protect the rights of people speaking various languages and their linguistic national identity and with a secular administration for various religions.
The preamble of the Constitution states India as a sovereign, socialist, secular democratic republic. The Constitution adopted by the Constituent Assembly and various amendment adopted by Parliament upheld secularism. Honouring the Supreme Court verdict that basic principles of the Constitution including secularism should not be tampered with, all the governments that had come at the Centre so far had functioned.
At the time of independence, the contradictory communal stands among important leaders in two fields of Indian National Congress and Hindu Maha Sabha, and political and social conflicts of Muslim League and Islamic leaders with them led to partition of the nation, as a result of which till date there were threats to the unity and integrity of the country continuing now and then. In this situation, the open communal attitude of the present Central government of the BJP is not only acceptable to all but also cause concern.
The DMK, which reposes full faith in the Constitution, never gave up its secular principle even when there were necessity and compulsion to change its political stand. In particular, in 1999 when the political circumstances necessitated the DMK to align with the BJP, a Common Minimum Programme was prepared for the NDA government on the demand of constituent parties, in which Murasoli Maran played an important part in the drafting. On his insistence an undertaking was given the BJP’s basic political principles of abrogating Article 370 giving special status to Jammu and Kashmir, constructing Ram temple at Ayodya and Uniform Civil Code would not be pressed for. As long as the DMK was part of the NDA government, it never compromised on any of the assurances in the CMP. The party, whether it was in power or not in the State and Centre, never hesitated to defend secularism and protect minorities. When the NDA was formed in 1999, a programme of action based on ‘secularism, federalism and respect to the feelings of all Indian people’ was declared. But on the contrary, due to the contradictory approach of the Centre on issues like Ayodya, the ADMK regime misusing POTA, ignoring the setting up of Cauvery Board and refusal to accept Tamil as one of the official languages at the Centre, the DMK quit the NDA.
The government of Narendra Modi, who assumed as Prime Minister swearing by the Constitution after the victory in 16th Lok Sabha elections, in the beginning announced various development projects. Further, when they attempted to bring some unwelcome measures, they withdrew accepting our arguments. Though we were about to appreciate it, the reactionary measures announced by some Union Ministers worried us.
Particularly, not only they had given up secularism but creating condition for attempting to convert India into ‘Hindu Rashtra’. Similarly, against the assurance of the first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and PMs later, the Modi government following conflicting attitude in language policy also amounts to injustice to non-Hindi speaking people and those who did not accept Sanskrit.
In particular, responsible Union Ministers, BJP’s guiding force RSS and Hindu Maha Sabha leaders and the other Parivar outfits are openly speaking and issuing statement like
“All people in India are Hindus”
“Those who are not born to Rama are illegimate”
Bhagavat Gita is national scripture
Gandhi’s assassin Godse is a patriot
Godse should have fired at only Nehru instead of Gandhi
Godse busts should be set up all over the country
Observing Christmas day as Good Governance day
Attempt to teach Sanskrit in Kendriya Vidyalayas
Celebrating Sanskrit Week in CBSE schools
Removing English and using only Hindi in circulars for hostel students of Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi
As such open communal and language imposition actions and degrading other religions and languages will disturb peace and development of the nation against unity and secularism of the country, we have been pushed to the position of losing confidence in then due to such approaches of the BJP government. Such actions of the BJP government are deplored.
Urging the BJP led government at the Centre to give up such communal and linguistic chauvinist approach and concentrate on their promises for ‘development’ given during election time, the DMK General Council called upon all political parties and other movements, believing in secularism, unity in diversity and integrity of the nation, to bury their regional aspirations and political differences and come forward to collectively oppose the communal danger to the nation due to the actions of the BJP government at the Centre.
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