Gandhi Jayanti Irrelevant.
Tomorrow 2nd October is Gandhi Jayanti. To mark this day India declared tomorrow as holiday. This shows the importance India and Indians give to Gandhiji even after his 139th birthday. Is Gandhiji having relevance anymore and are his teachings and principles viable now in the current turmoil we are facing in India? I think not and I think his teachings have no value and relevance anymore. This end to his teachings came not only immediately after his death but soon after the independence of India when he was put behind the curtains by the very Congressmen headed by his right hand man Nehru after gaining all the benefits from his frail self and mighty intelligence. We have discarded his teachings and embraced the teachings and principles of Hitler, Mussolini, Saddam Hussein and devil. That we rejected his teachings are known from the fact that Gandhi’s own co-religionists have disgraced their own religion and Gandhism in India and embraced Criminalism. The attacks on innocent and peace loving Christians in India by the Hindu fanatics is a great slap on the principles of Gandhiji. On 2nd October we as traitors will be paying lip service to the sacrifices and principles of Gandhiji by showering eulogy on him. But is it important to praise Gandhiji without imbibing his principles of non-violence?
By killing innocent Christians, why innocents only, by killing and destroying others, Hindu fanatics are doing disservice to Gandhiji and for all the sacrifices he made for the cause of India and Indians. Indians are not only Hindus. Other religious communities in India are also Indians and Indian Christians are very much a part of India. I am surprised how overwhelming majority of Hindus is keeping their silence over the atrocities committed on their Indian Christian brothers and sisters. Non–violence is the major principle of Hinduism and making its use Gandhiji shook the British Empire into surrender. I cannot understand how my Hindu brothers are accepting the modus operandi in violence of killing Christians in India by their fellow Hindus! When I observe their silence I feel they accept the butchery of Christians by the Hindu fanatics.
Gandhiji always supported the weaker section and minorities. He once said in one of his writings that "the society that ill treats its weaker segment is a sick society". This sick society is the Hindu fanatic society which requires medical treatment. The Government of India under Dr. Sing and Sonia Gandhi is a weak Government. There will be under this Government more threats for Christians because Hindu fanatics have already noticed the weakness in our Government at the Centre and in the States. We must spit at the Government officials and Ministers when they make eulogy of Gandhiji’s principles on 2nd October. They have no right to talk in praise of Gandhiji. They have killed Gandhiji’s principles by allowing Hindu fanatics to kill and destroy Christians in India. We must not attend Gandhi Jayanti functions where these people are going to preside. We must tell them loudly and openly that “STOP CELEBRATING GANDHI JAYANTI BECAUSE YOU ARE TRAITORS WHILE GANDHIJI IS NOT. YOU ARE TOO SMALL TO TALK ON GANDHIJI WHO WAS TOO BIG FOR YOU. YOU ARE NOT WORTHY TO TAKE THE NAME OF GANDHIJI ON YOUR UNWORTHY TONGUE”.
Those in the Central Government and in the State Governments who are guilty of allowing atrocities against Christians will be making a mockery of Gandhiji if they celebrate Gandhi Jayanti on 2nd October i.e. tomorrow. They are not worthy of Gandhiji.
A. Veronica Fernandes,
Kuwait.
