VHP wants minority commission and ministry scrapped

The Vishva Hindu Parishad has attacked the National Minorities Commission’s (NCM) move to set up a helpline for Muslims, saying both the commission and the minority affairs ministry should be scrapped. Incidentally, the ministry is under NDA’s lone muslim minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi.

A resolution to this effect was passed on Sunday at the conclusion of the two-day central governing council’s meet held at the Swaminarayan Temple at Vadtal in Gujarat. This was a formal reiteration of the demand the VHP first made on June 20.

“Such helpline projects a picture that atrocities against Muslims have reached such proportions that the extreme step of opening a helpline had to be taken up,” said VHP joint secretary Surendra Jain in a statement.

“Isn’t the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) more than enough to safeguard the rights of all the citizens of the nation,” Jain asked.

He demanded that the NHRC should be empowered while the minorities panel be scrapped.

The VHP resolution also said that Pakistanis and separatists have been using the analogy to justify the anti-national activities. It further said events unfolding in the world prove the point that the extent of rights Muslims enjoy in India cannot be matched with Muslims of Islamic nations. It said Christian organisations have also been following into the footsteps of the commission.

The VHP alleged that there was a political agenda behind such campaigns, even as most complaints (made by minorities) in the past have been proven to be baseless. “The SC in 2005 had directed the commission should take initiatives to end this antinational practice of minorityism. Instead, it is increasing the feeling of disintegration. By showing themselves victims, Jihadis and Christian Missionaries are trying to gain sympathy. Due to this, some selfish and short-sighted politicians dare to say stone-pelters are freedom fighters,” the resolution said.

Such helpline projects a picture that atrocities against Muslims have reached such proportions that the extreme step of opening a helpline had to be taken up VISHVA HINDU PARISHAD