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Hindu Mahasabha leader advocates forced sterilization to restrict Muslim, Christian population
PTI | Apr 12, 2015, 12.09 PM IST
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JIND: A leader of Hindu Mahasabha on Saturday stoked a controversy saying Muslims and Christians must undergo sterilization to restrict their growing population which was posing a threat to Hindus.
"The population of Muslims and Christians is growing day by day. To rein in this, Centre will have to impose emergency, and Muslims and Christians will have to be forced to undergo sterilization so that they can't increase their numbers," vice-president of All India Hindu Mahasabha, Sadhvi Deva Thakur told reporters here.
She also exhorted Hindus to have more children and increase their population so as to have an effect on the world.
In another controversial remark, she said idols of Hindu gods and goddesses should be placed in mosques and churches.
Thakur also came out strongly in support of installing a statue of "patriot" Nathuram Godse in Haryana.
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Impose Emergency and sterilise Muslims, Christians forcibly, says Hindu Mahasabha leader
Saturday, 11 April 2015 - 10:41pm IST | Place: Jind (Haryana) | Agency: PTI
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-impose-emergency-and-sterilise-muslims-christians-forcibly-says-hindu-mahasabha-leader-2076735
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Daily News and Analysis
Singhvi questions BJP's silence over 'communal' remarks by Sena, Sadhvi
Monday, 13 April 2015 - 9:25am IST | Place: New Delhi | Agency: ANI
Condemning the remarks of the Shiv Sena and Hindu Mahasabha leader Sadhvi Deva Thakur, Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi has questioned the silence of the BJP-led government at the Centre over their utterances.
Condemning the remarks of the Shiv Sena and Hindu Mahasabha leader Sadhvi Deva Thakur, Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi has questioned the silence of the BJP-led government at the Centre over their utterances.
"In 1day, Sadhvi says there be compulsory sterilisation of minorities & saamna says Muslims be disenfranchised. Do these ppl deserve india?" Singhvi said on Twitter.
"why Hv such divisive communal inflammatory comments increased in 1 yr? Why only silence or Genl Denial bt no concrete action by Modi/bjp," he added.
Singhvi further said that their ilk diminished the idea of India through such an approach.
"do such ppl ustand the idea of india, our proud demo, tht v r not a talibanised nation, tht they diminish india daily by this approach!," he said.
The Shiv Sena had earlier drawn flak for demanding that voting rights of Muslims should be revoked as the community has often been used to play vote bank politics.
Sadhvi Deva Thakur also came under sharp criticism for advocating forced sterilizations for Muslims and Christians, who she claimed were posing a threat to Hindus in the country.
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Hindustan Times
PM Modi's colleagues need to mind their words
Hindustan Times, New Delhi| Updated: Apr 13, 2015 21:40 IST
Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut has stirred a controversy by his article in party's mouthpiece, Samna, where he has written that Muslims' voting rights should be withdrawn to put an end to vote bank politics. (ANI Photo)
It is particularly dispiriting to see that soon after Prime Minister Narendra Modi reaffirmed his faith in democratic values at Paris, some of his NDA colleagues and affiliates in the Sangh parivar were advertising their appalling views for all to witness.
Addressing Unesco on April 10, Mr Modi stated that his government “will ensure that every citizen, of every faith, culture and creed has an equal place in our society”.
He said the strength of every nation “is determined by joined hands of every citizen” and noted that progress should be judged “not just by the cold statistics of growth, but by the warm glow of belief and hope on human faces”.
His colleagues evidently do not agree.
The PM’s message was undercut by a series of outrageous comments from important figures in the Sangh parivar. Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut, writing in the party mouthpiece Saamana, used extremely offensive language against political opponents and openly argued for taking away the voting rights of the Muslims, because they ‘play vote bank politics’.
BJP MP Sakshi Maharaj called for a strict family planning law and said those avoiding sterilisation should not have the right to vote.
And on April 11, Sadhvi Deva Thakur, vice-president of the Hindu Mahasabha, called for imposition of Emergency and forcible sterilisation of Muslims and Christians so that “they can’t increase their numbers”.
The sadhvi also suggested that idols of Hindu gods and goddesses be installed in mosques and churches.
These are very grave developments — only those who have an utter disregard for India’s future will ignore them.
The Shiv Sena may be insecure about losing ground to the BJP in Maharashtra but attempting to recover support by targeting minorities is unacceptable. Mr Raut’s comments, alongside those of Sakshi Maharaj and the sadhvi, are forms of hate speech that are liable for prosecution in many democratic societies.
But owing to India’s institutional weaknesses, charges in such instances are either rarely filed or are not cases followed through owing to the political clout of the offenders.
In the end, such rhetoric achieves the purposes for which it was spouted — to poison minds, generate local tensions and sharpen political preferences in favour of those projecting themselves as protectors of groups.
What is particularly worrying is that this is the new normal. Shocking statements circulate in the public sphere without sustained censure. The intelligentsia and the news cycle take an interest for a while and move on to the next spectacle while minorities absorb the implications and feel perpetually threatened and intimidated.
The government’s development rhetoric does not sit easily with the lack of attention to the social divides that are being actively created.
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