The Jallianwala Bagh record of British Raj was put to political shame on 14 September, 2007 when the Central Government filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court to the effect that
?Lord Rama is a myth. Tulsi Das’s Ramcharitmanas is only a mythological text, etc. etc.? Thus the Central Government gave a death blow to the cherished feelings, emotions and sentiments of millions of Hindus in India and abroad for whom Lord Rama is an incomparable God and a timeless Hero. Islam-embracing, Christianity-coveting and Hindu-hating UPA Government, very much like the regime of Lt Governor Sir Michael O’Dwyer, the Governor of the Punjab at the time of Jallianwala Bagh massacre in 1919, has been implementing a similar programme of cultural and spiritual genocide against the innocent Hindus of India ever since it came to power in May 2004. Taking hourly instructions from Sonia Gandhi, our effete Prime Minister has been nominally in-charge of this cultural pogrom of the Hindus with active assistance from all the Communist Parties, the DMK, the RJD, the LJS and others forming part of the UPA coalition in New Delhi. I am only reminded of the savage attack made by Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer, Army Commander of Jullundur who ordered his men to shoot indiscriminately against more than 20,000 Indian patriots at Jallianwala Bagh in Amristar town on 13 April, 1919. With the same spirit of calculated vengeance, Sonia Gandhi, showing no allegiance to the Indian Constitution, is using the servile trio of Union Minister for Law (lessness?) H.D. Bhardwaj, Union Minister for (Non or un?-) Culture, Ambika Soni and the Union Minister for Sh(k)ipping and Transport, T R Baalu to launch her favourite programme of attacking the Hindus and their sentiments through the destruction of the Rama Sethu Bridge using the cover of the Sethu Samudram Canal Project (SSCP).
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Butchers of Lord Rama
Today with impeccable (!)
academic credentials. |
After completing the massacre at 5.15 p.m. at Jallianwala Bagh on 13 April, 1919, General Dyer declared Martial Law and passed the famous CRAWLING ORDER. In the hours when Indians were allowed out of their houses, between 6 in the morning and 8 at night, they had to crawl. This was enforced at bayonet point. People had not so much to crawl as to wriggle along on their bellies. Even the smallest violation during the enforced act of crawling was punished by flogging. The anti-Hindu trio in the UPA Government referred to above is restlessly engaged in enforcing a State-sponsored programme of making all the Hindus of India crawl on their bellies even for their constitutional and human rights. The disgraceful Sachar Committee is a classic instance in point. In the murky mire of Indian politics today, most of our politicians have no more independence in politics than there is in jail. A political war in India is one in which everyone shoots from the lip. The UPA Government’s political machine is a united minority against a divided majority. For petty politicians like Ambika Soni, T R Baalu and Karunanidhi, politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies. In my view, the barbarously stupid affidavit filed by the ASI in the Supreme Court opened the surest road to total national destruction in this glorious era of ever-widening vistas of globalisation of business and universalization of knowledge.
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General Dyer The
Butcher of
Jallianwala Bagh |
There was only one Gen Dyer who acted on behalf of the British Government against the people of India at Jallianwala Bagh in 1919. Tragically for Indians as a whole and more particularly for the hapless Hindus today, there are countless Union Cabinet Ministers (Gen. Dyers in spirit) in waiting and in combat readiness to take marching orders from Sonia for the cultural (Hindu) decimation of India as a Nation. After all she is fighting against whom? Our own men!! By our own men!! Through our own men!!! All for the sake of her benefit and her family!!! Although the motive behind this is not revealed in black and white, it is well-known that her hidden agenda is to destroy Hinduism in Hindustan at any cost. That is why I have viewed the recent categorically anti-Hindu affidavit filed by the ASI in the Supreme Court of India as ‘anti-Hindu visitation of Jallianwala Bagh’. General Dyer fired more than 1500 rounds of bullets on that fateful day on 13 April, 1919. Sonia and her company today are launching a multi-pronged, multi-programmed, multi-dimensional State-sponsored and State-aided assault on Hindus and Hinduism in general and Lord Rama and Rama Sethu in particular. In order to appreciate the ruffled, frayed and hurt feelings of millions of Hindus in India and abroad, it will be instructive and useful to delve deep into the history of Jallianwala Bagh massacre in 1919. All the Hindus of India, shattered and battered by the pseudo-secular anti-Hindu programmes and polices of the UPA Government in New Delhi, are, I am afraid, being compelled to derive their total inspiration to wage a non-violent civil disobedience movement to lead a life of dignity on par with the privileged citizens belonging to the minority religions which are being fully supported by the might of the Central Government. I am only expressing my deep concern about the inevitability of this possibility in the event of Central Government continuing to maintain the same anti-Hindu stance in all their major programmes and policies.
The Rowlett Act was a law passed by the British Raj in India in March 1919. Mahatma Gandhi was extremely critical of the Rowlett Act and wrote to the Viceroy informing him that he intended to start a campaign of civil disobedience in March/ April 1919. On 29 March 1919, a meeting was held at Jallianwala Bagh. Dr Satyapal and Dr Kitchlew were expected to address the meeting. The police served an order on both of them prohibiting their speeches. The hartals on March 30 and April 6, 1919 at passed off peacefully. Brigadier General Dyer reached on 11 April 1919. From that moment he behaved as if the city was under Martial Law, though it was not formally declared till 15 April, 1919.
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A crawling Hindu of yesterday
(1919) and today (2007) |
On 13 April, 1919, people from all over the Punjab flocked to . More than 20,000 men, women and children assembled in the Jallianwala Bagh. Even before their arrival, Gen. Dyer had issued a curfew and banned any procession. At 4 pm on that day, he took a tour of city to see if his order was being obeyed. He took with him an escort of 50 men armed with rifles. Half of them were Gorkhas. At 5.00 p.m. he arrived at the Jallianwala Bagh. Enraged by the public meeting taking place there he deployed 20 of his men to the left and 20 to the right. Without any warning Gen. Dyer gave the order to fire?he had done this within 30 seconds of his arrival there. People in panic ran helter-skelter. At 5.15 pm when Gen. Dyer ordered his men to shoulder their arms and march off, they left behind them 381 corpses and more than 1600 wounded. An eyewitness said:
?The corpses were 10 to 12 feet high in some places?. After that came the Martial Law and the inhuman enforcement of the ‘Crawling Order’. Right across Punjab, a reign of terror was let loose. Sir Winston Churchill, then a Cabinet Minister in Lloyd George’s Government in England, condemned Gen Dyer for his inhuman action. Churchill said:
?The Crawling Order violated every cannon of civilization. ... One treacherous fact stands out: The slaughter of nearly 400. That is an episode which appears to me to be without precedent or parallel in the modern history of the British Empire.? All the Hindus of India have been provoked by the irresponsible Anti-Lord Rama Affidavit filed by the Government of India recently. They are in a mood for agitation. To conclude in the inspiring words of David Frawley (Vamadeva Shastri): ?There are those who may fear that an intellectual Hindu Kshatria may promote a new Hindu Fundamentalism and result in an oppression of minorities in India. The Hindu Kshatria tradition is not one of aggression, but of protection, not of forcing conversion to a religion but upholding the Dharma. It is a tradition of holding to truth and promoting a culture in which freedom to pursue truth, not only in the outer world, but also in the religious realm, is preserved. Is this not what the Global Age really requires? It is time for that Kshatria to arise again. The extent that it does will be the measure of the future of India and perhaps of any Dharmic Revival in this Adharmic world.?
Let us hope that this call is heeded! Who is there to answer it? Let them stand forth. Hindus of India unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains! ARISE, AWAKE AND STOP NOT TILL THE GOAL IS REACHED!!
(The writer is a retired IAS officer)
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