Election Stunt? : Hindu Vedike Targets Minorities on Bangalore Walls


Election Stunt?  : Hindu Vedike Targets Minorities on Bangalore Walls 

Special Correspondent
Daijiworld Media Network - Bangalore

 
Bangalore, Mar 9: As elections near, it is evident  that several political and non-political parties gear-up to show their strength and pull their vote bank by various means. If some sections use tactics that fall within the 'ethics' , some others go beyond the limit where no ethics is applicable for them.

Christians and Muslims woke up to a  great shock on Saturday  as many of  the Bangalore walls were painted with anti- Christian and anti-muslim slogans.  Equally  surprising was that  none of the political parties have condemned or protested against this act of  'Hindu Jagarana Vedike' who are alleged to have  painted the slogans. Archbishop of Bangalore, Rt. Rev. Dr Bernard Moras was first one to raise his voice against such  a malicious act.

Archbishop Rev. Dr. Bernard Moras called on Governor Rameshwar Thakur urging him to take immediate steps to contain the spread of such venomous messages spewed against the Christian community.  "Such messages have been painted on the walls in prominent places in Bangalore branding Christians as terrorists and accusing Christians of trying to Christianize India through forcible conversions", The archbishop told the governor during  his 20 minute meeting with the Governor on March 7th at 5.30 pm at Raj Bhavan.




 
"These paintings on the walls will remain for a very long time to come and will create hatred and animosity between religious communities and will cause communalism to spread in this state.  Going by the organized manner in which these hate-campaigns are being done, I feel it will spread to other parts of Karnataka as well and disturb the peace of this state"  Archbishop Moras added.  The name of the Hindu Jagrana Vedike, allegedly behind this hate-campaign is painted on the walls.  The Archbishop sought the Governor's intervention in immediately effacing these messages and bringing the culprits to book.  He also expressed concern over the possible disturbances during the Holy Week services in April and asked for police protection. 
 

The Governor said that he was equally concerned and said "with some patience we can handle the matter". "It would be good if you could also bring the matter to the attention of the Chief Minister, Home Minister and the Chief Secretary" the Governor told the Archbishop after receiving a letter presented by the Archbishop.  The letter urged the Governor to intervene and cull the spread of communalism and hate-campaigns against Christians.  The Archbishop informed the Governor that attempts in the morning were made to contact the Chief Minister, Home Minister and the DG-IGP.  "Since they are out of station, we got in touch with you considering this as an urgent and important matter that requires immediate attention" the Archbishop said.  Later in the evening, letters were handed over to the offices of the Chief Minister, Chief Secretary, Home Minister, DG-IGP, and the Commissioner of Police.


Earlier, speaking to Daijiworld correspondent at his residence, the Archbishop said that "Such actions during the election time are really disturbing and every secular minded person  should condemn this. He also expressed concern , based on the allegation received about the deletion of names of many minority members from the voters list. He said every citizen who is eligible to vote must exercise their franchise . If they find their name missing from the voters list, they should bring the matter to the notice of  the Election Commission. It is understand that, up to March 31, 2009 people can apply for voter ID’s and they can also include their names, if found missing ,before said date.

  

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  • ANIL, BAHRAIN

    Thu, Mar 12 2009

    Dear Readers, It is sad to see people are becoming fanetic about religion. POLITICIANS ARE MAKE USE OF THESE ELEMENTS TO GET MILEAGE IN THE ELECTION. FEW YEARS BEFORE WE NEVER HAD SUCH PROBLEMS. WE HAVE CELEBRATED DIWALI, EID & CHRISTMAS TOGETHER. WE WATCHED RAMAYAN & MAHABHARAT TOGETHER. WHY NOW WE CANNOT LIVE OUR LIFE AS WE LIKE? ARE WE LIVING IN DEMOCRACY OR IN TALIBAN? SO PLEASE THINK & VOTE.

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  • Rolphy Almeida, Udupi/Bangalore

    Tue, Mar 10 2009

    Dear Mr. S. Shetty, M’lore, I admire your wisdom, and your true love for the nation and people of this country irrespective of religion. Nation comes first. Love, live and let live.

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  • Donald Pinto, Chickmaglore/Abu-Dhabi

    Tue, Mar 10 2009

    Present politicians are using divide & rule system . So be careful dear Indian citizens Vote carefully we don’t want our Indians as British rule Best of luck to our India let us just see the growth of India not disturbed by such slogans . Let us  save our India by rejecting bad  politics.

     

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  • S.Shetty, M'lore

    Tue, Mar 10 2009

    Dear Dr. Kiran Acharya, we cannot be blind & deaf to what is happening around to other religions. All these things need to be highlighted for everyone to know the injustice that has been taking place in our state by various groups sponsored mainly by the karnataka govt. I say sponsored by the BJP govt because firstly this has started only after they came to power. Secondly, they are the ones who have the authority to take action against Hindu Vedike or any group that disturbs peace, but no! they will not act! The Archbishop has done the right thing, if voices are not raised today, it will be too late to save Karnataka from being another burning "Orissa", "Kandhmal", we do not want this to happen!! All these years we never bothered to think to which religion our neighbours, friends belonged to. We went to each others houses happily. Today our parents are scared even if we talk or make friends with people of other religion? Why? Where is all this leading to? In which century are we living in? What is the use of our education? Wake up friends! before its too late, lets all be one and live as good human beings just as before and condemn boldly this type of wrong behavior irrespective of religion. Do not allow the politicians to take away our peace.

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  • nagesh nayak, bangalore

    Mon, Mar 09 2009

    hi lester pinto, because of RSS,VHP,BD,SRS,VHP,HJV,MR.MODI,PRAVEEN TOGADIA,& N NUMBER OF PATRIOTIC ORGANISATION & PERSONNEL ,HINDUISM IS EXISTING IN INDIA.

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  • ganesh kamath, mangalore

    Tue, Mar 10 2009

    Dear Christian/muslim brothers and sisters this is only jobless people can do.they dont know value of human beings, like nagesh nayak these culprits are making our state worst..

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  • Dr Kiran Acharya, Udupi/Udupi

    Tue, Mar 10 2009

    I think the readers and the respected Archbishop Rev. Dr. Bernard Moras are acting in the way predicted by the people who wrote the messages on the wall...in the process, they have got free publicity for the writings (which might have cost them less than 500 rupees?, but the publicity obtained now?)... Let us not make hasty comments which might inflame others.

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  • E. SALDANHA, KADRI MANGALORE

    Mon, Mar 09 2009

    THEY HAVE EYES YET THEY ARE BLIND. THEY HAVE EARS YET THEY ARE DEAF. THEY HAVE SENSE YET THEY DO SENSELESS THINGS. E. SALDANHA

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  • Nazeer , Abiu Dhabi

    Mon, Mar 09 2009

    Dear nagesh ....Are u working before in Bolllywood Like Johnny lever ,keep it up

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  • Abhinandan K., Bengaluru

    Mon, Mar 09 2009

    It's unfortunate that the micro minorities have been targetted yet again. This is not just an election gimmick but a propoganda of dividing people and creating enemity..very similar to HITLERS'S NAZI party's way of operations.

    The strategy adopted here is that of the infamous NAZI PROPGANDA MACHINE Mr.Joseph Goeblher who used to repeat one lie umpteen times in order to brain wash the moderate Germans. Watch out Indians!!!! we have NEO NAZIS who are promoting Extremism and internal terrorism under the garb of nationalism.

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  • Ronald, Udupi

    Mon, Mar 09 2009

    Dear Yeddi and Acharya, do you support such writing on public places? If not arrange to erase it. Otherwise people will consider that you are supporting such activities of communal disharmony.

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  • Rolphy Almeida, Udupi/Bangalore

    Mon, Mar 09 2009

    Let us Christians make it clear to everyone that forcible conversion is not our job, we are here only to spread the good news. We can also paint on the available space next to their writings on the wall and clarify that “Christians do not force anyone to convert to Christianity rather we believe in love and peace”. Let us see the reaction on this.

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  • Browny-Kuwait, Kuwait

    Mon, Mar 09 2009

    Mr. Nagesh Nayak, Please keep faith in God. Your faith in Hindu Religion must be strong then no other religion will touch you. If you do good, I'm a Christian I'll follow you.

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  • Natasha, India

    Mon, Mar 09 2009

    The constitution gives us full right to stand up for what we believe in and as minorities Christians and Muslims and other minority religions should stand up and raise their voices against such groups/parties because who knows one day they'll tell us all 'LEAVE INDIA'

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  • Shreedhar Shenoy, Mangalore/UK

    Mon, Mar 09 2009

    "Without naming the Political Party!". We have a national party which is actually the Political wing of Indian Terorism(Indian Taliban). Which is directly supporting these factial elements. It is every Indians birth right to weed out such Political Party and let us build a SECURE and SECULAR Inida. Remember our voting power is much more stronger and we can and we will curb these factial elements !!!

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  • Jude, Mangalore Dubai

    Mon, Mar 09 2009

    It is better to ignore this nonsense. the aim of these rabid organizations is to spread hatred. They are desperately trying to gain attention by their activities. Their aim now is to create disturbances during elections, so as to polarize people just like in Gujarat and gain from it. I think the people of Karnataka are intelligent enough to see through their intentions. Please be aware that there will be more such instigations and attacks in the days and weeks to come. There is no point in approaching the governement and the police, as no action will come from that end. The people need to stand united, just as our women folk in Bangalore.

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  • Nelson, Mangalore

    Mon, Mar 09 2009

    Daiji you have done a noble task by exposing the mind of fanatics and politically motived people to the world. In fact it is their desperate move to accept thier own down fall. Whatever they may say they can not undo the reality. Lots of appreciatation to Bishop Bernad Moras for acting timely.

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  • Joseph F. Gonsalves , Bannur Puttur/Mangalore

    Mon, Mar 09 2009

    I blame the bjp government for this provocative writings by Hindu Jagarana Vedike who are let loose to perform such activities. They are set free and not given shock treatment by the police. Police are interested to arrest innocents, provide shock treatment to innocents, receive bribe from innocents and beat the innocents even they arrest innocents as terrorists. Mr. Yeddurappaa’s famous dialogues 1) Yaare aagli avarannu naavu goonda kayidyalli bandhistev. 2) Central Government’s of Step Motherly Treatment.

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  • Shareef Moideen, Mangalore/ Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

    Mon, Mar 09 2009

    Ravi Kadri, there is limit for the patience, we cannot sit and watch the atrocities of the saffron brigades. We are not second class citizens of India Christians & Muslims are loyal and patriotic as much as the Hindus in India. If Government of Karnataka doesn’t take firm action against the culprits, then no one can stop Karnataka being another Gujarat.

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  • HARISH SHETTY, MANGALORE/DUBAI

    Mon, Mar 09 2009

    My dear christian/muslim brothers and sisters, this is just nothing but politics, now elections are ahead we can expect this type of political gymmics, dont give more attention to this type issues which cannot be controlled or curbed by making issues,on the other hand it would favour those who are waiting at the wings. we can win this battle only by, being patient, harmony and love.

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  • Ronald Mathias, Mangalore / Bahrain

    Mon, Mar 09 2009

    Mr. Ravi Kadri, are you HINDU or..your are belonging to HJV, B'Dal, Rama Sene or you are planning to form a any NEW..Hindu organisation..which spoils the name of GOOD and BROAD minded hindu brothers and sisters....!!!

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  • A.I.DIAS, BARKUR/MUMBAI.

    Mon, Mar 09 2009

    OUR NATIONAL SLOGAN IS BROTHERS & SISTERS. THIS TYPES OF POSTERS WILL INCREASE THE ENIMITY BETWEEN US. THE CONCERNED PEOPLE SHOULD TAKE THE INITIATIVE TO CONTROL THIS TYPE OF NUISANCE. WE PRAY TO GOD TO SHOWER THE LOVE, PEACE AMOUNG OUR BROTHERS, SISTERS & NEIGHBOURS. JAI BHARAT.

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  • Mohammed Riyaz, kodi kundapur /Saudi Arabia

    Mon, Mar 09 2009

    In the name of religion, today we are forgetting that we are all Indians. Strong action should be taken against those whoever painted these walls.

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  • Barbara Bayer, Muscat, Oman

    Mon, Mar 09 2009

    Dear Fellow Hindu brothren, please do not be afraid, Christians or Muslims are not here to attack you or outsmart your integrity. Why this political gimmics. God forbit when you face a grave crisis, believe me those that are instigating you with these negatives will never be seen or will come forward to help you. It will the very brothers & sisters of the communities you are attacking who will be the first ones to reach out to stand by you. Please India is a peace loving country where for years all religion have co-existed and partaken in every celebrations irrespective of which religion they belong. Why are we after religion. All religions teach us love, peace, understanding, caring for one another, comforting. Of what use are those great books if we do not value the teachings. We Christians or Muslims don't bais any religion for we believe each and every human being is God's very own creation, hence we can only love, care and share with one another and not hate anyone. God Bless India and God fill the people with wisdom, understanding and love for one another...

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  • Padmanabha Shenoy, Udupi / Saudi Arabia

    Mon, Mar 09 2009

    I feel this is one of the Election campaign. Everyone knows that Christians have done lot of social service to the country without harming anyone. So let us just ignore this writings.

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  • Lydia Lobo, Kadri

    Mon, Mar 09 2009

    A case must be filed against HJV and must make them to submit the number of forced conversions they come accross, especially to Christianity. Also must ask them the explanation for Dalit killings upon attempts to enter temples as well as on episodes of making Dalits drink/bathe in cow urine to obtain purification.

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  • william, udupi

    Mon, Mar 09 2009

    Dear Ravi Kadri - The christians have only done good to the country - be it education or community values plus adhering to the law of the land. Please tell our Hindu bretheren not to spread religion of Hate - By the way ask them who is a HINDU (Definition of Hinduism) I feel the day the caste system is iradicated in total then only Hinduism will be applauded by the entire world.

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  • Abdulla Madumoole, Abu Dhabi, UAE

    Mon, Mar 09 2009

    I strongly feel that we should play down these kinds of rogue activities of some insane minded people, who are definitely in minority. We should not give much publicity to these trouble mongers who expect cheap publicity for their dirty acts.

    While expressing our anger here, we should also note that we may inadvertently hurt the sentiments of our majority Hindu brothers. So, what I feel is we should altogether ignore such things. Be assured that if dog barks, sky will not fall down.

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  • Naveen Shetty, Mangalore

    Mon, Mar 09 2009

    The 'Hindu Jagarana Vedike' with the support of political parties is trying to repeat the Gujrat Model to garner the votes before the elections. It is sad that these things are happening at Karnataka which is recognised as Sillicon Valley of India. The people who are involved with these kind of acts are doing more harm to Bangalore and its people.

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  • M.M.Alva, Mangalore

    Mon, Mar 09 2009

    14 times defected politician and Champion of defectors Mr. S.Bangarappa adversly commented about Ramachandra Mutt and Swamiji. In 2004 he was a BJP candidate in Shimoga. Now he is a Congrees Candidate in Shimoga. Is Bangarappa 's statement is acceptabale to Hindus? No congress leaders comented about his controversial statement???

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  • Manohar Dsouza, Mangalore/Bahrain

    Mon, Mar 09 2009

    This appears to be more of politics than religion. However, the fact remains that a hate campaign has been unleashed against the Christian minorities by some saffron organizations in Karnataka and unfortunately the Government is openly encouraging such a campaign.

    There will be a heavy long term price to pay for all such actions. We all know that BJP is a fascist communal party which is trying to garner the majority votes by creating a communal and religious divide. It appears that they are following all the bad practices of the British Raj. If there are really conversions going on in Karnataka and that they are a threat why does not the Government publish facts and figures. We would all like to know the percentage increase in the Christian population of Mangalore and Karnataka.

    Readers please note that BJP does NOT REPRESENT the mainstream Hindus but BJP only misuses Hinduism to gain votes. Therefore, any healthy and true criticism against the BJP should not be construed as an attack against any religion. Majority of my friends are Hindus and I have great respect for Hindus and Hinduism. BJPs main achievement in Karnataka so far is that they succeeded in branding us with a Taliban image and brought us international notoriety.

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  • nagesh nayak, bangalore

    Sun, Mar 08 2009

    WHATEVER WRITTEN ON BANGALORE WALLS ARE 100% CORRECT.WHY FR.MORAS KEPT MUM WHEN CONVERSION ACTIVITIES WAS RAMPANT IN TIRUMALA HILLS.

    SHRI VISHWESHWARA TEERTHA SWAMIJI OF UDUPI OPPOSED & RAISED VOICE AGAINST CONVERSION. WHEN MINORITIES ACTS AGAINST BJP THEN WHAT IS THE HARM IF HINDUS SUPPORT BJP.

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  • Lester Pinto, Mangalore-Chennai

    Mon, Mar 09 2009

    I have the highest regard for the Hindu community but not their outfits like VHP, BD, SRS and HJV. In fact, most of my family friends are Hindus and Muslims. I fail to understand why these outfits are trying to divide the country citing reasons which are not at all true. I request all my Hindu brethren to kindly put some sense into the heads of these senseless fanatics and restore our country to its original glory.

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  • Sequeira R , Abu Dhabi-Mangalore

    Mon, Mar 09 2009

    Is it not a violations of code of conduct for election? Concerned citizens should bring it to the notice of election commision and demand action

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  • Fr Roque D'Souza, St Joseph's Jeppu, Mangalore

    Mon, Mar 09 2009

    Dear Daiji, thanks for highlighting this item. Abp Moras owes our gratitude for the timely action to counter this malicious campaign. Of course, HJV and Sangh Parivar would hate him now all the more. Dear Ravi Kadri, kindly know that this is not the time to keep silent. It would mean consent & collaboration with evil forces working against our Nation and our Constitution. It is clear that fundamentalist forces are using the hate campaign to polarize the Hindus against the Christians and Muslims. It needs to be condemned by all right thinking people and all who respect our Constitution.

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  • Vinay, Mangalore

    Mon, Mar 09 2009

    In the name of religion, today we are forgetting that we are all Indians. Strong action should be taken against those whoever painted these walls. This is nothing but talibanization.

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  • Eric Coelho, Mangalore/Ajman

    Mon, Mar 09 2009

    The HJV considers Muslims and Christians as Terrorists. Do they know that Terrorist has no religion and without notice they attack. In the same way HJV has put this Wall Paintings in the Nights without anybody's notice. This is Terrorism. Before talking of Christians and Muslims, HJV should realise that the last few months attacks done by Hindu Outfits on Minorities was in fact Terror.

    In fact every minority expected that once BJP comes to Power there would be problems and it has come true. Anyway the coming Lok Sabha Election will prove. It is time to Kick out the BJP and  Fanatic OUtfits.

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  • vincy, shamboor/Bangkok

    Mon, Mar 09 2009

    Dear Ravi and readers,I agree with you,,any comments may affect the peace and harmony of Daiji too. But do you think the Governor has no powers??How he can say that "It would be good if you could also bring the matter to the attention of the Chief Minister, Home Minister and the Chief Secretary". Is he only a rubber stamp.?

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  • Ravi Kadri, Mangalore

    Mon, Mar 09 2009

    Dear Readers, For the sake of peace & harmony of our country, please refrain from making any comments which hurt others religious sentiments.

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