When former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said "Minorities have the first right to national

resources," the watershed moment for exploitation of minorities at the expense of majority had arrived.
It was minorityism in the worst form. No other statement by any top youth leadership in India was so
stark in its open pandering of the minorities.

But it was not spoken out of any concern for their socio-economic condition in India. Congress party
would have nothing of it. It was cold calculation by the "grand" old party targeting two levels. Level One:
majority Hindus, who are woefully uncreative to their marginalization and wily hilly but always will cast
their vote to the Congress, which party was always sure of. Level Two: motley of minorities which
Congress party ruthless exploits against the majority Hindus by pretending to be their saviour.

That not only seals the vote bank in favour of Congress, but always assured that the communities
remain divided, weakened, hence turn to Congress for their salvation or welfare. The feeling in the
minority community of being preferred over the majority puts it in the position of an adversary rather
than a partner in country's march towards progress.

The bottom-line is – head or tails, Hindus will lose, as majority they are "transgressors" and "minorities"
are the "receiving ends, exploited, or marginalised." To correct this "discrimination" against the
minorities, the system have been configured to work against the majority Hindu and in favour of
minorities. In short, this is what is minorityism – the potential weapon of keeping Hindus on the margins
and bringing other among the beneficiaries. rnIn view of this potential and unending conflict between
majority and minority, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today rejects minorityism and believes in
equality for all and appeasement of none. But then, though BJP led government is as young as four years
only, the rot set by the Congress party is still much older and deeper in the system. It becomes more
difficult to extricate it in a federal system. There are still state governments of different parties and
many of these still are in control of system that is essentially tuned against Hindus.

For instance there are many states and Union Territories where Hindus are in minority. These are
Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Lakshadweep, Mizoram, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh and
Manipur.

But even here the majority non-Hindu communities are siphoning the benefits meant for minority which
is Hindu community. Only recently, a petitioner advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay had filed a PIL in this
regard in the Supreme Court seeking direction to these eight states to declare Hindus as minority, so
that their benefits are not wrongfully passed to majority communities there But SC put the ball in the
National Commission for Minorities and asked petitioner to go there.

Some of the facts placed in record before the Supreme Court by the petitioner are eye opening The
Central Government offered 20,000 scholarships in field of technical education for minority students. In
Jammu & Kashmir, Muslims are 68.30 per cent and government allotted 717 out of 753 scholarships to
Muslim students, but none to Hindu students.

The petitioner also cited the 2011 Census, which says that Hindus are minority in these states. in terms
of percentage: Lakshadweep (2.5), Mizoram (2.75), Nagaland (8.75), Meghalaya (11.53), Jammu &
Kashmir (28.44),Arunachal Pradesh (29), Manipur (31.39) and Punjab (38.40). Muslims are majority in
Lakshadweep(96.20) and Jammu & Kashmir (68.30), and there is significant Muslim population in Assam
(34.20), West Bengal (27.5), Kerala (26.60), Uttar Pradesh(19.30) and Bihar (18).

Hindu Human Rights Report published by Garuda Prakashan lays threadbare the incidents of violation of
rights of Hindus between 2015 and 2016. These violations are not reportable because Hindus are not
declared a minority. There is a legalized discrimination of Hindus and their interests by different
branches of Government at Centre and States, viz. confiscation of temple assets and control over temple
and administration, discriminatory government scheme targeting Hindu communities are some of the
examples.

Where do we go from here? An all inclusive, tolerant, secular, ancient Hinduism and Hindus in fact are
getting marginalized in their own land. Those who accommodated everyone over centuries are getting
pushed to the margins. As the trend goes on, one should not surprised at the rising voice of Hindu
Rashtra, something that it always was. After going through horrifying suffering and extermination over
millennia, Israel has declared itself a Jewish Nation State earlier this month.

Why not we, the Hindu Rashtra?