Gujarat Police Attacks like a Millitant on Innocent People, including Women, Aged Ones

Please view the Videos of Police Brutality at

http://blip.tv/file/2961299 And http://blip.tv/file/2934753

I was shocked to watch on all TV channels on 27th November 2009 the barbarous attack and the vandalism of Gujarat Police on the Samabrmati Ashram of Asaram Bapu. I started wondering whether we are living in a democratic country or under a dictatorship.

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I am not a follower of Asaram Bapu, but as a Hindu I revere all Sadhus and Sants. During the course of my profession as Editor of Hindu Voice, I have come across many Sadhaks of Asaram Bapu. I can certify that they can not even hurt a fly, leave alone entering into violence. Then how did the Gujarat police treat them like hardened criminals, beating them mercilessly and dragging them to police van by holding their hair?

This is not to say that the police should not act against criminals. The law should take its course. They have every right to raid the Ashram and arrest suspected criminals, if any. But, is the police justified in attacking the Ashram properties – like breaking window panes, doors, etc. – all unlawful acts? Is the police authorised to beat the inmates mercilessly and drag them by holding their hair? I would request readers to visit www.ashramnews.org for some of the heart-rendering photographs of police brutality.

All our fake secularists seem to be enjoying the entire episode because a so called Hindu CM is trying to demolish a Hindu institution. That is why they have not talked of Human Rights Violation, Police brutality, etc. in this case. Otherwise, activists like Teesta Setalwad would have pounced on Narendra Modi immediately. Now they are nowhere to be seen. They are enjoying the weird scene of a so called Hindu CM attacking another Hindu Sadhu and his Ashram, and this is exactly what they want – Hindus to fight among themselves.

Hindu Organisations are maintaining a strange silence. And common Hindus are just dumbfounded. They are not able to understand what and why this is happening.

It is apparent that the Gujrat CM Narendra Modi is following the path of his mentor – Mr. L.K. Advani – i.e. betraying Hindus after getting their votes and coming to power. So far I was holding him in high esteem. I have even written editorials describing him as the modern Sardar Patel – the Iron man of India. But after this attack on Asaram Bapuji’s Ashram and the demolition of hundreds of temples in Ahmedabad earlier, I consider him as a Coward. He seems to select soft targets to establish his secular credentials – probably to get a US visa! He is behaving like a dictator, even with his own followers and supporters. I know, Asaram Bapuji has never talked anything against Narendra Modi. On the contrary, both maintain cordial relations. At least that is what others think. Then why this sudden undeclared war on the Sant and his Ashram?

Has Narendra Modi joined hands with anti-Hindus and Missionaries to finish off Asaram Bapu? What has he (Bapu) done to invite this type of barbaric treatment? Has he (Bapu) done anything against Maa Bharati, Sanatan Hindu Dharm, Hindu Sanskruti, Hindu Unity or Hindus? On the contrary, Bapuji was promoting Sanatan Hindu Dharm through his Ashram. It seems power has gone into his (Modi’s) head and has corrupted him completely. Or, is he playing into Missionaries’ hands?

I am surprised that none of the Hindu Sants and Dharmagurus have raised their voice against the unilateral actions of Narendra Modi and the vandalism of Gujarat Police on Asaram Bapu’s Ashram and the Sadaks. When there was a need, they took the help of Asaram Bapu. When the Dharma Raksha Manch Meeting was held in Mumbai a few months back, Bapuji was the president of that meeting. When such a revered Sant is attacked, how are they remaining silent? Is this the way to show Hindu unity?

BJP leaders should learn a few lessons on vote bank politics from their competitors. Chief Ministers of Congress, Communists and DMK never take action against their supporters, even if they are involved in murder or anti-social or anti-national activities. And this is how they come to power again and again – by carefully nursing their vote bank. But here is a BJP Chief Minister, frantically trying to prove his secular credentials by antagonising his own vote bank, even when there is no evidence of any crime. If this is not idiocy, what it is? In doing so, Narendra Modi is digging his own grave.

Harassing our Sadhus and Sants is dangerous for any politician. Jayalalitha arrested Kanchi Shankaracharya Jayendra Saraswati Swamiji on manufactured charges (Condemning his arrest, Asaram Bapu sat on a Dharna in front of Parliament, along with many other dignitaries). We know her fate now. If she had not done so, she could still be the CM of Tamil Nadu. But the arrogant lady failed to read the writings on the wall. Modi too is following in her footsteps. It is Vinasha Kale Vipareet Bhuddi. May Ishwar give him sadbuddhi.

It has become a fashion with politicians that when they want to prove their secular credentials, they attack one Hindu institution or the other. They never touch a Moulvi or a Father or a Masjid/Madrasa or a Church, even if there are evidence against their crimes. They become courageous only against Hindu Sants. Jayalalitha got the Kanchi Shankaracharya arrested on false grounds. Sometime back, the Maharashtra government raided the Ashram of Sanatan Sanstha, and was contemplating banning the organisation. Last year, the DMK Govt. in TN was trying to arrest the revered Swami Dayanand Saraswati of Arsha Vidya Gurukulam, Coimbatore, for opposing installation of the statue of atheist EV Ramasamy Naicker in front of the Srirangam (Trichy) temple. Now the Gujarat CM too, the so called Hindutva Mascot, is harassing Sant Asaram Bapu and vandalising his Sabarmati Ashram.

The lesson to be learnt for Hindu Sadhus and Sant is that the boundless tolerance of Hindus is taken as a weakness by our ‘secular’ politicians. Therefore, all Sants and Dharmagurus should make their followers politically aware and strong. When every Maulvi and Father talks of politics to their followers, Hindu Sants refrain from doing so. They should create a Hindu vote bank and advise their followers to cast their votes in every election in favour of only those candidates who will work for the protection and promotion of Sanatan Dharm and Hindu Sanskruti. Anti-Hindu politicians should be thrown out. Only a politically active Hindu society can save our Mother Land and provide a peaceful atmosphere for our Sadhus and Sants to carry on their activities. All Sadhus and Sants should unite, in the interest of our Nation and themselves, and give Hindus a united voice.