Neo-Colonial Captive Minds

Neo-Colonial Captive Minds



By Devan Nair (Oct. 14, 2009)

(Devan Nair, former President of Singapore, has sent the following message to be posted to the ECIT egroup. As an intellectual, a follower of Sri Aurobindo, and student of the recent re-evaluation of the Aryan-Invasion Theory, his message is very interesting to ponder.)



The age of colonialism may be over, but not that of neo-colonial Captive minds in India as elsewhere in the former colonial territories. Nations struggled for and won political liberation from imperialist thralldom. But their tertiary institutions of higher learning hardly ever (with rare indigenous exceptions) displayed any compelling urge to free themselves from the restrictive, eurocentric disciplinary paradigms inherited from western universities, or to delve into their own unique native spiritual, cultural and intellectual resources that, even if not altogether annulled, were rendered more or less otiose. And it was precisely from the corridors of domestic academia that the dangerous and divisive infection of captive minds spreads to all fields of the public life of a once subject nation.

India is a prime example of a once great civilization with an Incredibly rich spiritual, literary, artistic, cultural and intellectual heritage, not to speak of production, manufacturing and medical expertise; a heritage that Indian academic and political leaders honor more in the breach than in the observance. Nationalist rhetoric and ritual genuflection, with an eye on the voting predilections of a volatile electorate, are the best the politicians seem capable of. Most worrisome of all is that the infection has affected the perceptions and self-appraisal of large sections of the Indian national collectivity itself, despite the intuitive pronouncements of great spiritual leaders of the Indian renaissance like Dayananda Saraswati, Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo.

In the highly praiseworthy cause of countering and arresting Trends inimical to India’s right development as a member of a global Community of nations, I am confident that your work is of crucial importance, not only for Indian and international practitioners of Indian insights (as in Auroville), but also for the Indian social/political/national collectivity itself. I am sure you will agree that our aim should be, not to denounce everything western, as there is much of great value in western achievements, particularly in the vital fields of modern science and technology, which are today inseparably part and parcel of the global heritage of mankind. On the contrary, your goal is to counter the threat to genuine globalization posed by the tendency in certain western academic quarters to denigrate eastern traditions, and to shamelessly appropriate, using different terminology and without due acknowledgement, the work of Indian pioneers in the important field, for instance, of the psychology of consciousness, and to present such clearly dishonest efforts as original western discoveries. That is intellectually dishonest, which deserves to be exposed and dissolved in the blinding glare of broad daylight. A genuinely global community of nations can and should only proceed on the basis of honest scholarship. Unmasking self-serving dishonesty in some areas of western or eastern scholarship is a service towards expediting the irreversible evolutionary process towards a genuinely united humanity.

To give just one illuminating illustration, we might mention the Nearly universal and quite uncritical acceptance by both Indian politicians and the generality of national and international academics, of the 19th Century myth of the “Aryan invasion of Dravidian India” and of the arbitrary classification of the population into Aryan and Dravidian ethnic types. The damage inflicted on the political perceptions of the population poses a threat to the very integrity of India as a unique political and cultural entity. Witness the two most dominant political parties of Tamil Nadu, the DMK and the ANNA DMK (the ‘D’ standing for ‘Dravida’). They swallowed hook, line and sinker the shallow, ill-researched “findings” of 19th Century European Indologists. Even India’s present national anthem perpetuates the Aryan/Dravidian divide by referring to ‘Dravida’. It was a wrong-headed decision to discard the original national anthem “Vande Mataram” (’Salutation to the Mother’ Ð for the land of Bharatmata was originally conceived, not as a merely secular/geographical abstraction, but as Mother India Herself). It was the mantric potency of “Vande Mataram” that ignited the fiery beginnings (1905-1910) of the Indian aspiration for complete independence from British rule after Lord Curzon’s partition of Bengal. And the man who picked it out from Bankim Chandra Chatterjee’s classic Bengali novel ‘Anandamath’ was no less a leader than Sri Aurobindo himself. To the surprise and consternation of the British Viceroy and his officials, thousand-throated cries of “Vande Mataram” rent the skies of India during the inspiring beginnings in those dramatic years of the national independence struggle.

And what of the real intentions of these 19th Century western Gentlemen still so greatly revered by several leading Indian academics? In a marvelous book “THE INVASION THAT NEVER WAS” by Michael Danino/Sujata Nahar, published by THE MOTHER’S INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH in Delhi (1996), the best known icon of 19th Century Indology Max Muller was effectively demolished in his own words; hoisted on his own petard, as it were. I quote directly from Michael Danino: “Even the celebrated Max Muller (whose research work, interestingly, was commissioned and generously paid for by the East India Company after he had been engaged by Macaulay), wrote to his wife ((ref. Friedrich Max Muller, Life and Letters, Vol.1; London: Longmans, 1902, p328): ‘This edition of mine and the translation of the Veda, will hereafter tell to a great extent on the fate of India and on the growth of millions of souls in that country. It is the root of their religion and to show them what The root is, I feel sure, is the only way of uprooting all that has Sprung from it during the last three thousand years.” So? The seemingly “impartial” scholar was in truth a Macaulayite tool for the accomplishment of grandiose imperial aims.

This plan misfired largely due to the great Indian savants (not academics, mind you!).The first to dispute the Aryan myth was Dayananda Saraswati. He rejected out of hand the whole 19th Century European view of the Veda. Here Michael Danino quotes Sri Aurobindo: “Dayananda seized justly on the Veda as India’s Rock of Ages. In the matter of Vedic interpretation I am convinced that whatever may be the final complete interpretation, Dayananda will be honored as the first discoverer of the right clues.” (ref: Sri Aurobindo, Centenary Edition 1972, Vol. 17, p. 334). Danino continues: “By the same token, Dayananda forcefully opposed the Christian missionaries’ vilification of India’s ancient culture, and engaged in public debates with some of them (with maulanas too), especially in Punjab where a wave of conversions had taken place.”

Danino proceeds to quote: “Dayananda’s performance in public debates not only stopped further conversions, but also gave birth to a new movement, ’shuddhi’ (purification) of those who had been enticed away from Hindu society …… It sent a wave of consternation through the missionary circles and restored Hindu confidence. In days to come, the missionaries became more and more reluctant to meet Dayananda in open forums.”

Writes Danino: “With Vivekananda’s deep knowledge not only of Hindu scriptures but of Western history and religions, he was quick to see the gaps in the Aryan edifice.” In a lecture in USA, Vivekananda remarked scornfully: “And what your European Pandits say about the Aryans swooping down from some foreign land snatching away the land of aborigines and settling in India by exterminating them is all pure nonsense, foolish talk. Strange that our Indian scholars too say ‘Amen’ to them…. And all these monstrous lies are being taught to our boys.” (Vivekananda Complete Works, Calcutta: Advaita Ashram, 1963; Vol. V, p. 534-535).

Danino goes on to write that in another lecture, this time in India, Vivekananda was in a more humorous mood, but mercilessly to the point: “Our [European] archaeologist dreams of India being full of dark-eyed aborigines, and the bright Aryans came from, the Lord knows where. According to some, they came from Central Tibet, others will have it that they came from Central Asia. There are patriotic Englishmen who think that the Aryans were all red-haired ……. If the writer happens to be a black-haired man, the Aryans were all black-haired. Of late, there was an attempt to prove that the Aryans lived on the Swiss lakes…. Some say now that they lived at the North Pole. Lord bless the Aryans and their habitations! As for the truth of these theories, there is not one word in our scriptures, not one, to prove that the Aryan came from anywhere outside India, and in ancient India was included Afghanistan. There it ends. And the theory that the Shudra caste were all non-Aryans ….. is equally illogical and equally irrational….. The whole of India is Aryan, nothing else…… And the more you go on fighting and quarrelling about all trivialities such as ‘Dravidian’ and ‘Aryan,’ and the question of Brahmins and non-Brahmins and all that, the further you are from that accumulation of energy and power which is going to make the future India.” (Vivekananda Lectures from Colombo to Almora; Calcutta: Advaita Ashram, 1992; p. 222, 230).

Coming to Sri Aurobindo’s immense contribution, Danino writes: “A systematic refutation of the Aryan invasion theory had to wait until Sri Aurobindo. In 1910, after he had worked for a decade to awaken the spirit of independence in India, and spent a year in prison, he learned that the British had finally decided to deport him under new draconian laws (they regarded him as ‘the most dangerous man we have to deal with at present”); leaving Bengal he sought refuge in Pondicherry, then a French possession. There, soon afterwards, he took up his study of the Veda….While reading the Sanskrit text, he also came to question the European scholars’ view of the Veda which, ‘like the majority of educated Indians,’ he had so far ‘passively accepted without examination.‘ (ref. Sri Aurobindo, The Secret of the Veda, Centenary Edition, vol. 10, p. 33-34). He soon realized that ‘If the modern interpretation stands, the Vedas are no doubt of high interest to the philologist, the anthropologist and the historian; but poetically and spiritually they are null and worthless. Its reputation for spiritual knowledge and deep religious wealth is the most imposing and baseless hoax that has ever been worked upon the imagination of a whole people throughout many millenniums. Is this, then, the last word about the Veda? Or is it not rather the culmination of a long increasing and ever progressing error?’” (Sri Aurobindo Archives and Research, Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, April 1985, p 27).

Danino: “With his usual keenness of vision, Sri Aurobindo wrote: ‘In India we have fallen during the last few centuries into a fixed habit of unquestioning deference to authority……. We are ready to accept all European theories, the theory of an ‘Aryan’ colonization of a Dravidian India, the theory of Nature-worship and henotheism of the Vedic Rishis…… as if these hazardous speculations were on a par in authority and certainty with the law of gravitation and the theory of evolution.’ (ref: Ibid., p 41). ‘So great is the force of attractive generalizations and widely popularized errors that all the world goes on perpetuating the blunder talking of the Indo-Aryan races, claiming or disclaiming Aryan kinship and building on that basis of falsehood the most far-reaching political, social or pseudo-scientific conclusions.’” (Sri Aurobindo, the Origins of Aryan Speech, in The Secret of the Veda, op.cit., p. 193).

“How prophetic’, writes Danino, “if we consider that this was written some twenty year before the growth of Nazism with its claims to ‘Aryan kinship’! In his Secret of the Veda, which started appearing from 1914, Sri Aurobindo called on his fellow countrymen not to be ‘haunted by the unfortunate misconstruction of the Veda which European scholarship has imposed on the modern mind.’” (The Secret of the Veda, op. cit., p 193).

Danino continues: “Taking a straight look at the original text, with no preconception, no a priori theory, Sri Aurobindo observed, ‘it did not take long to see that the Vedic indications of a racial division between Aryans and Dasyus and the identification of the latter with the indigenous Indians were of a far flimsier character than I had supposed.’” (ref: Ibid., p 36). ‘This division was “a conjecture supported only by other conjectures …… a myth of the philologists”. (ref: Ibid., p 40). “Sri Aurobindo added. ‘The indications in the Veda on which this theory of a recent Aryan invasion is built, are very scanty in quantity and uncertain in their significance. There is no actual mention of such an invasion’” (ref: Ibid., p. 24). “Above all, he wanted the Indians to develop their own independent judgment: ‘A time must come when the Indian mind will shake off the darkness that has fallen upon it, cease to think or hold opinions at second and third rank and reassert its right to judge and enquire in a perfect freedom into the meaning of its own Scriptures. When that day comes, we shall ….. question many established philological myths; the legend, for instance, of an Aryan invasion of India from the north, the artificial and inimical distinction of Aryan and Dravidian which an erroneous philology has driven like a wedge into the unity of the homogeneous Indo-Afghan race….(India’s Rebirth, Paris: Institut de Recherches Evolutives, 1993 , p 91-92) ‘”.

Continues Danino: “Some eighty years later, we know that the ‘wedge’, driven now not only by scholars but also by politicians, has only gone absurdly deeper. Yet Sri Aurobindo’s study of Tamil, which he did with the help of Subramania Bharati (the national poet of Tamil Nadu), led him to discover that the ‘original connection between the Sanskrit and Tamil tongues’ was ‘far closer and more extensive than is usually supposed’ and that they were ‘two divergent families derived from one lost primitive tongue’”. (Sri Aurobindo, The Secret of the Veda, op. cit., p 36). “The division between Indo-European and Dravidian languages had collapsed: ‘My first study of Tamil words had brought me to what seemed a clue to the very origins and structure of the ancient Sanskrit tongue.’” (ref: Ibid., p 46).

“Sri Aurobindo’s study, however, led him to far more momentous results, for he recovered the long lost symbolism of the Veda, and brought to light the Rishis’ extraordinary experience.” These results, however, are of far greater value to living practitioners of Indian Yoga, than to academics, and recourse must be had to the major portion of Sri Aurobindo’s “Secret of the Veda” for that purpose.

I make no apologies for continuing with quotes from Danina, for The good reason that they cannot be improved upon. He next writes: “The Question we should now ask is: Are our latter day historians, who still swear by Marx or Max Muller, or both, and often have a poor knowledge of Sanskrit and India’s traditions, better equipped than a Swami Vivekananda or a Sri Aurobindo, with their depth of understanding and erudition, to tell us what the meaning of the Veda is and the conclusions we are to draw from it?…Yet it is not as if there were no scholars in India to agree with these great seers. We will cite here only two of these striking examples of genuine but ignored Indian scholarship.

“Some ten years after the serialization of the Sri Aurobindo’s ‘Secret of the Veda’, R. Swaminatha Aiyar, a Tamil administrator, linguist and mathematician, carried out extensive research on the so-called Dravidian languages, but not ‘without previously disposing of a large number of misconceptions and untenable theories about Dravidian languages and Dravidian culture, which have come into existence since the publication of Bishop Caldwell’s ‘Dravidian Grammar’. (Ref: R. Swaminatha Aiyar, Dravidian Theories (New Delhi: Motilal Banarsidas, 1987). “After a thorough scrutiny of the grammar and roots of these languages, his conclusions confirmed Sri Aurobindo’s own findings on the deep connection between Tamil and Sanskrit. Swaminatha Aiyar found most Dravidian verb forms of ‘Indo-Aryan origin,’ and that ‘the basic portion of Dravidian vocabularies consists of words of Indo-Aryan origin though ….. these words have been greatly corrupted and are very difficult of recognition.’ As N.S. Rajaram, also a mathematician and linguist from South India, remarks in a recent study, ‘Dravidian languages are strongly inflected like Sanskrit, and cases and declensions are also quite similar…. In some ways these so-called Dravidian languages have preserved ancient forms and usages from Sanskrit better than North Indian languages like Hindi.’” (N.S. Rajaram, The Politics of History, op. cit., p 175).

To continue with Danino. “B.R. Ambedkar is our second example. Known in India chiefly for his campaign in support of the lower castes (he himself was a Harijan) and his work on the Indian Constitution, it is often overlooked that in order to find out the truth of the European Theories about Aryans and non-Aryans, high and low caste, he did precisely what Sri Aurobindo exhorted Indians to do: he went to the source, and studied the Veda for himself, with an open mind. His conclusions are unequivocal, though regrettably they are largely ignored by those who profess to follow his lead and who more often than not make a strident use of the very theories he sought to demolish:‘The theory of invasion is an invention. This invention is necessary because of a gratuitous assumption that the Indo-Germanic people are the purest of the modern representatives of the original Aryan race. The theory is based on nothing but pleasing assumptions, and inferences based on such assumptions. The theory is a perversion of scientific investigation. It is not allowed to evolve out of facts. On the contrary, the theory is preconceived and facts are selected to prove it. It falls to the ground at every point.’ (ref: B. R. Ambedkar, quoted by D.B. Thengadi in The Perspective [Sahitya Sindhu Prakashan]).

My conclusions are:

1. The Vedas do not know any such race as the Aryan race.

2. There is no evidence in the Vedas of any invasion of India by the Aryan race and it having conquered the Dasas and Dasyus supposed to be the natives of India.

3. There is no evidence to show that the distinction between Aryans, Dasas and Dasyus was a racial distinction.

4. The Vedas do not support the contention that the Aryans were different in colour from the Dasas and Dasyus…..If anthropometry is a science which can be depended upon to determine the race of a people….. (then its) measurements establish that the Brahmins and the Untouchables belong to the same race. From this it follows that if the Brahmins are Aryans the Untouchables are also Aryans. If the Brahmins are Dravidians, the Untouchables are also Dravidians…..’

(B. R. Ambedkar, ‘Writings and Speeches’ [Bombay: Education Department, Government of Maharashtra, 1986-1990], Vol. 7, p. 85 and 302-303, quoted in Koenraad Elst’s Indigneous Indians, Agastya to Ambedkar, op. cit., p.410-411).

Danino completes this particular chapter of his book, thus: “Despite these remarkable protests, none listened; we Indians have long had the inexplicable habit of accepting change only if comes to us from the West. Yet in recent years, some voices have begun to be heard, both in the West and in India, asserting that the time has come to chuck out this worm-eaten theory once and for all. The cumulative evidence from all scientific branches of knowledge, especially archaeology, has become simply too overwhelming to be ignored, except for historians with dubious motives.”

Voila! as the French would say. I have done my bit of ‘nishkama karma’ (desireless action) for your more than worthwhile cause in respect of at least the demolition of the fictitious Aryan/Dravidian divide Indian politicians and a good number of India’s leading academics continue to subscribe to. There is no such thing as an “immortal bubble”. This bubble too will one day burst for good and be seen no more.

You have other challenges to meet head on, by way of dissemination Of your objectives to opinion in India itself, but also among the Indian diaspora in the West, particularly in the USA. In the psychological field, as in the study of yet another speculative discipline like Indology, Ken Wilber and his undoubted intellect may be safely left to the attention of formidable Indian and non-Indian practitioners of Indian spiritual practices (these, incidentally, are not speculative, but experiential disciplines in which seekers consciously ascend and descend what Sri Aurobindo called the “ladder of consciousness”). Don Salmon, for instance, is himself a master in the same field as Wilber. But he also possesses an additional SOMETHING ELSE of one who devotedly treads the path of the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo. Be assured that Mr. Wilber will by no means arrive at the stature of an Avatar. No barefaced plagiarist of ideas and conceptions ever did.

Warm regards and best wishes,

C. V. Devan Nair

MY TALK ON SEPT.26,2009

Samuel Rajashekhar Reddy diverted Hindu donations to temples so that hecan finance boondogles to the holy land

From: pat parthasarathy

Subject: [சிந்தனைகள்] Andhra CM Samuel Reddy's Christian Tours & Travels paid by Hindus
To: "sinthanai"
http://satyabhashnam.blogspot.com/2009/07/andhra-pradesh-christian-pilgrimages.html

Thanks to Rajeev Sriniwasan for the tweet tip. On July 21 2008, Minority Appeasement Department of Christian Rightist Government of Evangelic Christian Chief Minister Y Samuel R Reddy of Muslim Rightist Congress issued an Official Government Order (GO) 29 to waste tax payers money to send Christian Mythology followers on a free vacation to foreign fairytale land where their Mythological prophet is said to have born to a Virgin Mother (noun: a person who has not had sexual intercourse), Died, became alive again from dead and then got "crucified" as per their mythology. The text of this Government Order is so vitriolic and preaching Christian mythology that it doesn't look like that the order has been prepared by some "Secular" "Democratic" Government but by some "Theocratic" "Nonsecular" Christian State run by some Evangelic Catholic Church. The Government Order is available here and here. On June 25 2009, Christian Rightist government issued another GO 10 amending the GO 29 issued on July 21 2008.

As per the Christian Rightist Government's communal nonsecular discriminative order, रु २००००००० (~$415196.1802) of Tax Payers and Hindu Temple Daan (selfless donation) money will be wasted on these Christian escapades. Which is allot less than what Muslim Rightist Congress had spent on Muslims last year. According to government’s own official auditor Comptroller and Auditor General's (CAG) report, रु ५१४ crore or ५.१४ Billion (~$1.067 Billion) of Indian Tax Payers money and selfless donation of Hindus for Temples has been redirected as subsidy for Haj Charters while only रु ७८ crore or ७८० Million (~$16.1926 Million) for national fellowship for Scheduled Castes. This shows how serious this Muslim Rightist Congress government is about uplifting the so-called "lower castes". It is doing nothing but Muslim appeasement divisive politics and exploiting the people on the basis of castes while doing negligible in return. Who is suffering the most in all this? Hindus and the Indian Tax payers. Such gross mismanagement of funds as revealed in the CAG reports can be read here. Now they want to waste Tax payers money on similar divisive entitlement policies for Christians also,
"In the Budget 2008-09 an amount of Rs.2.00 crores has been provided under new scheme for assistance to Christian pilgrimage."

This pilgrimage covers a very large number of places connected with the life of
Jesus Christ in Israel. Mainly, they are:
a. Place of birth - BETHLEHEM
b. Place of Crucifixion, Death and Resurrection – JERUSALEM
c. Place of bringing up - NAZARETH
d. Place of Baptism - JORDAN RIVER
e. Places of preaching - around DEAD SEA and SEA OF GALILEE
f. Several other places connected with Christian faith.

Pilgrimage to Holy land is very sacred to all Christians and is a trip for Spiritual Rejuvenation. The pilgrimage covers several places of Worship, Tradition and Christian Rituals. At almost all the above places, churches are built and during visits, the pilgrims have opportunity to pray and worship besides two most important aspects of pilgrimage, i.e., Baptism and Eucharistic Celebration. Groups of about 50 pilgrims are being led by Travel agents who are well experienced and exposed to the above Christian holy places, traditions and Christian Practices. Ordinarily, the tour period is for a week (Israel Government issues visas only for 7 days). It is proposed to evaluate the standard tour packages being offered by travel houses now namely Jordan and Israel package, Egypt – Israel – Jordan tour package

With Rs. 2.00 crores had been budgeted by the Govt. in a year about year about 900 - 1,000 pilgrims in batches of 50-100 can visit the Holy land through this scheme sponsored by Government of Andhra Pradesh.

d. Rs.20,000 may be granted for each pilgrim by the Government of Andhra Pradesh., on par with Muslim Haj Pilgrims. Over and above this, the expenses are borne by the pilgrims themselves.
Not just that. So serious is this nonsecular Government that it has also created an itinerary already and wants to ensure that only "bonafide Christians" go on this Tax Payers sponsored Christian vacation. They have to ensure that those damn Hindus who will pay at least $415196 every year of their hard earned money to sponsor this Christian Tours & Travels don't take advantage of the system and go to visit the mythological birth & death place of mythological Christ instead of "bonafide Christians". Don't worry Samuel Reddy, we ain't interested.

As per this diktat by the Government, the tour operator will have to take a Pastor/Priest on every trip for free. Hallelujah!
Role of the travel company
c. A comfortable stay in Israel should be ensured – in any case not below room with double occupancy in a standard hotel.
d. All meals should be ensured i.e., breakfast, lunch and dinner including atleast five liter of packaged drinking Water.
e. Transportation along with Guide to take the pilgrims to places as per itinerary should be ensured.
f. All entry passes and tips for various services will be the responsibility of the Tour Operator and shall be borne by the tour operator only.
g. In case any pilgrim requires medical assistance, the same shall be ensured by the Tour Operator.
h. The travel Operator should provide free travel to one pastor/priest in every batch which will facilitate them to be guided, led in prayer/worship at each of the spots. Spiritual significance of the pilgrimage will be explained in depth by the priest.
i. Besides this, the Tour operator shall send a representative of the company as a tour leader to oversee all the arrangements, ensure safety and comfort of the Pilgrims. He will coordinate with all agencies, right from the time of starting till completion of the tour:
1. The Tour Operator will receive documents from the concerned Minority cell in the Secretariat i.e. an application, a copy of the valid Passport, and SSC Certificate, or MRO’s Certificate of a Baptism Certificate to confirm that the candidate is a Christian.
2. The Govt. share will be released after satisfactory completion of tour.
3. The Travel Company should settle all the Bills of the Pilgrims and give them a memorable Pilgrimage which is “all inclusive”

The Managing Director, (Christian Pilgrimage Cell),
A.P. State Minorities Finance Corporation, Ltd., Hyderabad.
5th Floor, Haj House Buildings, Hyderabad
Luckily, the courts in Bharat are still somewhat not pseudo-Secular and have put temporary brakes on fundamentalist Christian Samuel Reddy's communal nonsecular agenda of wasting Tax payers money on unethical & divisive religious entitlements.

State can’t fund pilgrimages: High Court by Times of India
Just two months before the Haj season is to begin, a verdict of the AP High Court on Wednesday, which held that the state cannot fund any pilgrimages, sent the YSR government into a tizzy.

Responding to two PILs challenging the government’s order allocating Rs 2 crore for Christians to undertake a pilgrimage to holy sites including Jerusalem, the division bench comprising Chief Justice Anil Ramesh Dave and Justice Ramesh Ranganathan set aside the GO No 29 issued on July 21, 2008. While petitioners Satish Agarwal and G Raghava Reddy wanted the GO to be quashed on the grounds that it was unconstitutional, the second PIL wanted similar facilities to be extended to Hindus going on a pilgrimage to Mansarovar, etc.

The bench, however, made it clear that though the petitioners questioned only the state sponsorship of pilgrimage to Jerusalem, their order was not limited to it. “Our order covers every religion. We will not allow the tax-payers money to be spent on such activities,” the Bench ruled.

Legal sources told TOI that this order would jeopardise AP’s Haj plans. In fact, after the Bench gave its verdict, additional advocate general A Satya Prasad had submitted to the court that Haj falls within the purview of the Haj Committee Act 2002, which is a central Act. “Hence, the court cannot pass an order without hearing the Centre on the issue,” he said. However, the Bench said it would consider this matter during further hearings.

For this year’s Haj, the state has been allotted a quota of 6,222 pilgrims with another 150 on the waiting list. Some lawyers were of the view that the HC order would not affect the Haj.. “The subsidy given for the pilgrimage to Mecca is a central subject and therefore it cannot be affected,” said Shafeeq Rahman Mahajir, a lawyer specialising on minority issues. The Centre spends about Rs 400 crore every year on pilgrims going on Haj from India.

But, state government legal sources said the HC order had wider ramifications. “While the state does not directly fund the Haj as such, it shortlists the pilgrims every year, and looks after all their arrangements including their boarding and lodging at the Haj House in Hyderabad. The state spends up to Rs 50 lakh every year in providing these facilities. Now, as per the HC order, we will not be able to do it,” said sources.
Christian Rightist Andhra Pradesh Government is now said to be exploring its options of taking the matter to Supreme Court. So why is the government so adamant on divisively appeasing Christians by giving them Job & Educational Reservation Quota on the basis of Religion and now these free vacations? We have to see the background of the man leading the government and his ideology.

Mr. Samuel Reddy is a second-generation fundamentalist Christian. His father, Mr. Raja Reddy came across Christian missionaries in Burma and soon converted to Christianity. It was in 1947 that the Church of South India was formed. Mr. Raja Reddy began to attend the Church Services of this congregation.



Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Fundamentalist Christian Mr. Samuel Reddy and family share the stage with CM's son-in-law Evangelist Christian Benjamin Anil Kumar at latter's proselytization rally to convert Hindus


The Church of South India is headquartered in Chennai with dioceses throughout South India. Any one could contact the Diocese of Krishna-Godavari [Machilipatnam-Bishop Rev. G. Dyvasirvadam - also Past Professor in Andhra Christian Theological College - an ecumenical Seminary in Gandhinagar, Hyderabad] or the Diocese of Nandyal [Nandyal-Bishop Rev. G.T. Abraham - also Past Professor in Andhra Christian Theological College, Gandhinagar, Hyderabad] to verify the antecedants as stated.

Mr. Y S V Reddy, the brother of Mr. Samuel Reddy is a fund-raiser and member of the local committee of the Bible Society of India headquartered in Bangalore with auxiliaries in each state. Likewise, Mr. Samuel Reddy's sister is into conducting Bible classes for women. Mr. Samuel's son-in-law Brother Benjamin Anil Kumar is a global evangelist speaker and has been alleged of carrying out mass conversions of Hindus through lurement by misusing the office of his father-in-law..

There have been suspicions voiced by many Civil Rights & Liberties groups over the alleged biases held by Samuel Reddy. They say that Chief Minister Samuel Reddy has used his position to bring Christian institutions into the decision making loop of the Tirumala Tirupathi Devasthanam, which governs Hinduism's most visited shrine and that he may even be facilitating a church to be built on the holy hills of Tirumula. Suspicions were aroused due to a sudden proliferation of churches along the roads leading to the holy shrine and a recent auction of Hindu temple land in Tirumula being hastily called off when it became known that Christian groups were attempting to make a bid.

Reddy belongs to a Protestant evangelical organization. As he belongs to Indian National Congress (INC) whose chief is Italian Roman Catholic Antonia Maino aka Sonia Gandhi, Hindu Civil Rights & Liberties organizations believe that he is trying to destroy the Hindu religion and Hindu holy places in Andhra Pradesh.

Mr. Samuel Reddy's nonsecular actions speak louder than the words of those who are concerned about his questionable support for the illegal & unethical mass conversions of Hindus by fundamentalist Christian organizations. Following articles, excerpts, pictures, etc. tell the scary tale of Andhra Pradesh where Church is the State.

Missionary agenda of YSR CM of Andhra Pradesh: From the Horse's Mouth by Nizhal Yoddha
For people who believe only in "evidences" here it is. its a collection of all the Government Orders (GO) by the Government of AP allotting funds to various Churches in AP. source of information is no secret either. It is the online portal of Govt of AP listing all the GOs it issued (the government portals are treasure houses of information; you just have to know how to dig out what you need). You can see the data in this page:

http://suryassk.googlepages.com/AP_GOs.htm

The following is the summary of the data from that sheet:
1. The GO portal is active only from February 2008, hence the data given is only of 1 year (ie., Feb 2008 to Jan 2009). Note that although vast, it is by no means comprehensive (ie., I have shown Govt 263.07 lakhs to Christian institutions. This amount is the minimum spent on them, not the maximum).

2. But even for a single year, an amount of 263.07 lakhs was given as aid to various Christian institutions.

3. More than 258 churches benefited from these grants for construction/renovation of churches.

4. An amount of 1316.54 lakhs was given as aid to various Muslim institutions through Wakf boards.

5. Not a single GO granting any aid to a Hindu temple can be found. This in spite of the fact that in AP, the Hindu temples are managed by the Endowments Ministry (put it simply they take all the money which the temples generate).

6. Govt takes away all the money which Hindu temples generate, but do not grant a single penny to any of its temples. It does not touch the money from Christian and Muslim institutions, but grants them huge amounts of money.

I have always argued that the "Missionary Charity" is just a myth ( http://ssksurya.blogspot.com/2006/05/questioning-myth-of-missionary-charity.html ) . These new evidence only reinforce my earlier points. I do not want to waste more words how the Christian CM of AP is perusing his missionary zeal not just through individual actions, but also through direct grants from the Government of AP. As I said, the facts speak louder. Let the reader judge for himself.
http://suryassk.googlepages.com/AP_GOs.htm by S Surya, Mumbai, India


Grant-in-Aid Sanctioned by Government of Andhra Pradesh to various Christian Churches from Feb 2008 to Jan 2009
(Data collected from official portal for GO’s of Govt of Andhra Pradesh. Please refer to the site for the complete PDFs of the GO’s)
GO
NumberDateDescription
(as listed in the AP-GO website)Number of
Churches
Benefited Amount
(in lakhs)
76110/12/2008 Minorities Welfare Department – East Godavari District - Sanction and release of Rs..1.00 lakh towards Grant-in-aid for construction of Church at Peravaram Village, Yeleswara Mandal, East Godavari District – Orders – Issued.11.00
76010/12/2008 Minorities Welfare Department - Guntur District - Sanction and release of Rs.1.00 lakh towards Grant-in-aid for construction of Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church at Satulur Village, Nadendla Mandal, Guntur District – Orders – Issued.11.00
70724/11/2008Minorities Welfare Department – Nizamabad District - Administrative sanction of Rs.1,00,000/- towards Grant-in-aid for construction of Church at Annaram(V), Machareddy Mandal, Nizamabad District –Accorded – Release of amount - Orders – Issued.11.00
68118/11/2008Minorities Welfare Department – East Godavari District - Sanction of Rs.2.00 Lakhs towards Grant-in-aid for construction of Church at Burugupudi Village, Korukonda Mandal, East Godavari District – Administration sanction Accorded - Orders – Issued.12.00
67313/11/2008Minorities Welfare Department – West Godavari District - Sanction and release of Rs..2.00 Lakhs towards Grant-in-aid for construction of Navajeevana Sahavasa Samajam Church at Sriparru Village, Eluru Mandal, West Godavari District – Orders – Issued.12.00
67213/11/2008 Minorities Welfare Department – Krishna District - Sanction and release of Rs.5.00 Lakhs towards Grant-in-aid for construction of CSI St.Stephen’s Church at Nehrupet, Nuzvid Mandal, Krishna District – Orders – Issued.15.00
67113/11/2008Minorities Welfare Department -Kadapa District - Sanction and release of Rs.10.00 Lakhs towards Grant-in-aid for construction of new Church in the place of Old Church (CSI Church) at Vempalli Village and Manndal, Kadapa District – Orders – Issued.110.00
65130/10/2008Minorities Welfare Department – Nizamabad District - Sanction and release of Rs.6.00 lakhs towards Grant-in-Aid of for construction of (6) Six churches in Nizamabad District – Amendment - Orders – Issued.66.00
65030/10/2008Minorities Welfare Department - West Godavari District - Sanction and release of Rs.70,000/- towards Grant-in-aid for construction of Bible Mission Church at Siddantham Village, Penugonda Mandal, West Godavari District – Orders – Issued.10.70
64930/10/2008Minorities Welfare Department - East Godavari District - Sanction and release of Rs.1.00 lakh towards Grant-in-aid for construction of C.B.M.Church at Kaleru Village, Kapileswarapuram Mandal, East Godavari District – Orders – Issued.11.00
5984/10/2008Minorities Welfare Department - Adilabad District - Sanction and release of Rs.22,000/- towards Grant-in-aid for repairs of Believers Church at Kaghaznagar Mandal Headquarters at Adilabad District – Orders – Issued.10.22
5974/10/2008 Minorities Welfare Department – Adilabad District - Sanction of Rs.4.30 Lakhs towards Grant-in-aid for construction of (5) five Churches in Adilabad District – Administration sanction Accorded - Orders – Issued.54.30
5954/10/2008 Minorities Welfare Department – Hyderabad District - Sanction of Rs.2.30 Lakhs towards Grant-in-aid for construction of (3) three Churches in Hyderabad District – Administration sanction Accorded - Orders – Issued.32.30
5944/10/2008 Minorities Welfare Department - Warangal District - Sanction and release of Rs.3.00 lakhs towards Grant-in-aid for construction of (3) Three churches in Warangal District- Orders - Issued.13.00
5923/10/2008 Minorities Welfare Department – Nizamabad District - Sanction and release of Rs.60,000/- towards Grant-in-aid for repairs for (2) two Churches in Nizamabad District – Orders – Issued.20.60
5913/10/2008 Minorities Welfare Department – Nizamabad District - Sanction of Rs.3.00 Lakhs towards Grant-in-aid for construction of (3) three Churches in Nizamabad District – Administration sanction Accorded - Orders – Issued.33.00
5903/10/2008 Minorities Welfare Department - Nizamabad District - Sanction and release of Rs.6.00 lakhs towards Grant-in-aid for construction of (6) Six churches in Nizamabad District – Orders – Issued.66.00
58529/09/2008 Minorities Welfare Department – Nalgonda District - Sanction of Rs.1.00 Lakh towards Grant-in-aid for construction of Compound wall to Church of Christ at Koppole Village, Kethepally Mandal, Nalgonda District – Orders – Issued.11.00
57827/09/2008 Minorities Welfare Department - Mahaboobnagar District - Sanction of Rs.1.00 Lakh towards Grant-in-aid for construction of Church building at Wanaparthy, Mahaboobnagar District – Administration sanction Accorded - Orders – Issued.11.00
57727/09/2008 Minorities Welfare Department - Mahaboobnagar District - Sanction and release of Rs.4.00 lakhs towards Grant-in-aid for construction of ( 4) four churches in Mahaboobnagar District – Orders – Issued.44.00
57627/09/2008 Minorities Welfare Department – Medak District - Sanction of Rs.10.00 Lakhs towards Grant-in-aid for construction of (10) ten Churches in Medak District – Administration sanction Accorded - Orders – Issued.1010.00
57527/09/2008 Minorities Welfare Department - Medak District - Sanction and release of Rs.8.00 lakhs towards Grant-in-aid for construction of (8) Eight churches in Medak District – Orders – Issued.88.00
57427/09/2008 Minorities Welfare Department – Ranga Reddy District - Sanction of Rs.5.00 Lakhs towards Grant-in-aid for construction of (5) five Churches in Ranga Reddy District – Administration sanction Accorded - Orders – Issued.55.00
57327/09/2008 Minorities Welfare Department – Ranga Reddy District – Sanction and release of Rs.3.00 Lakhs towards Grant-in-aid for construction of (3) three churches in Ranga Reddy district – Orders – Issued.33.00
57227/09/2008 Minorities Welfare Department - Nalgonda District - Sanction of Rs.8.00 Lakhs towards Grant-in-aid for construction of (8) eight churches in Nalgonda district – Orders – Issued.88.00
56026/09/2008 Minorities Welfare Department – West Godavari District - Sanction of Rs.1.00 Lakh towards Grant-in-aid for construction of CSI Church at Vempalli Village, Lingampalem Mandal, West Godavari District – Orders – Issued.11.00
54919/09/2008 Minorities Welfare Department – Karimnagar District - Sanction of Rs.2.00 Lakhs towards Grant-in-aid for construction of (2) two Churches in Karimnagar District – Administration sanction Accorded - Orders – Issued.22.00
54819/09/2008 Minorities Welfare Department - Karimnagar District - Sanction & release of Rs.2.00 Lakhs towards Grant-in-aid for construction of (2)two Churches in Karimnagar District –Orders- Issued22.00
53615/09/2008 Minorities Welfare Department – Khammm District - Sanction of Rs.2.00 Lakhs towards Grant-in-aid for construction of (2) two Churches in Khammm District – Administration sanction Accorded - Orders – Issued.22.00
53515/09/2008 Minorities Welfare Department - Khammam District - Sanction and release of Rs.9.00 lakhs towards Grant-in-aid for construction of (9) Nine churches in Khammam District – Orders – Issued.99.00
53415/09/2008 Minorities Welfare Department – Nellore District - Sanction and release of Rs.3,30,000/- towards Grant-in-aid for repairs for (11) eleven Churches in Nellore District – Orders – Issued.113.30
53215/09/2008 Minorities Welfare Department – Nellore District – Sanction and release of Rs.5.00 Lakhs towards Grant-in-aid for construction of (5) five Churches in Nellore District – Orders – Issued.55.00
53115/09/2008 Minorities Welfare Department – Prakasam District - Sanction and release of Rs.30,000/- towards Grant-in-aid for repairs to Church, Israelpeta Village, Yerragondapalem Mandal, Prakasam District – Orders – Issued.10.30
53015/09/2008 Minorities Welfare Department – Prakasam District - Sanction of Rs.2.00 Lakhs towards Grant-in-aid for construction of (2) two Churches in Prakasam District – Administration sanction Accorded - Orders – Issued.22.00
52915/09/2008 Minorities Welfare Department – Prakasam District – Sanction and release of Rs.13.00 Lakhs towards Grant-in-aid for construction of (13) thirteen Churches in Prakasam District – Orders – Issued.1313.00
50311/9/2008 Minorities Welfare Department – Guntur District - Sanction and release of Rs.29.00 Lakhs towards Grant-in-aid for construction of (27) Twenty Seven Churches in Guntur District – Orders – Issued.2729.00
4456/9/2008 Minorities Welfare Department – Kadapa District - Sanction of Rs.4.00 Lakhs towards Grant-in-aid for construction of (4) four Churches in Kadapa District – Administration sanction Accorded - Orders – Issued.44.00
4446/9/2008 Minorities Welfare Department – Kadapa District - Sanction and release of Rs.14.00 Lakhs towards Grant-in-aid for construction of (14) Fourteen Churches in Kadapa District – Orders – Issued.1414.00
4426/9/2008 Minorities Welfare Department – Anantapur District - Sanction of Rs.5.60 Lakhs towards Grant-in-aid for construction of (7) seven Churches in Anantapur District – Administration sanction Accorded - Orders – Issued.75.60
4416/9/2008 Minorities Welfare Department – Anantapur District – Sanction and release of Rs.2.00 Lakhs towards Grant-in-aid for construction of (2) two Churches in Anantapur District – Orders – Issued.22.00
4406/9/2008 Minorities Welfare Department – Visakhapatnam District – Sanction and release of Rs.3.00 Lakhs towards Grant-in-aid for construction of (3) three Churches in Visakhapatnam District – Orders – Issued.33.00
4396/9/2008 Minorities Welfare Department – Vizianagaram District - Sanction of Rs.1.00 Lakh towards Grant-in-aid for construction of Church Building at Jagaram Village, Jami Mandal, Vizianagaram District – Orders – Issued.11.00
4345/9/2008 Minorities Welfare Department – Kurnool District - Sanction of Rs.2.00 Lakhs towards Grant-in-aid for construction of 2 (two) Churches in Kurnool District – Administration sanction Accorded - Orders – Issued.22.00
4335/9/2008 Minorities Welfare Department – West Godavari District - Sanction and release of Rs..30,000/- towards Grant-in-aid for repairs to Bible Mission Church, Siddantham Village, Penugonda Mandal, West Godavari District – Orders – Issued.10.30
4325/9/2008 Minorities Welfare Department – West Godavari District - Sanction of Rs.2.00 Lakhs towards Grant-in-aid for construction of (2) two Churches in West Godavari District – Administration sanction Accorded - Orders – Issued.22.00
4315/9/2008 Minorities Welfare Department – East Godavari District - Sanction of Rs.1.00 Lakhs towards Grant-in-aid for construction of (1) One Church in East Godavari District – Administration sanction Accorded - Orders – Issued.11.00
4305/9/2008 Minorities Welfare Department – East Godavari District - Sanction and release of Rs..10.00 Lakhs towards Grant-in-aid for construction of (10) ten Churches in East Godavari District –Orders – Issued.1010.00
4295/9/2008 Minorities Welfare Department – Krishna District – Sanction and release of Rs.20.00 Lakhs towards Grant-in-aid for construction of (20) twenty Churches in Krishna District – Orders – Issued.2020.00
4222/9/2008 Minorities Welfare Department – West Godavari District - Sanction and release of Rs..7.00 Lakhs towards Grant-in-aid for construction of (7) seven Churches in West Godavari District – Orders – Issued.77.00
4212/9/2008 Minorities Welfare Department - Kurnool District – Sanction and release of Rs.18.00 Lakhs towards Grant-in-aid for construction of (18) eighteen Churches in Kurnool District – Orders – Issued.1818.00
4161/9/2008 Minorities Welfare Department - Chittoor District - Sanction of Rs.2.50 Lakhs towards Grant-in-aid for construction of (3) three churches Chittoor district – Orders – Issued.32.50
4141/9/2008 Minorities Welfare Department - Chittoor District - Sanction of Rs.8.30 Lakhs towards Grant-in-aid for construction of (9) nine Churches in Chittoor District – Administration sanction Accorded - Orders – Issued.98.30
30927/06/2008 Minorities Welfare Department – Krishna District – Sanction of balance amount of Rs.3.00 lakhs towards Grant-in-aid for completion of CSI Church at Konayapalem Village of Chandarlapadu Mandal, Krishna District – Orders – Issued.13.00
28823/06/2008 Minorities Welfare Department – Guntur District – Sanction of balance amount of Rs.65,000/- towards Grant-in-aid for completion of construction of Yesu Christu Prardhana Mandiram Church at Kankanalapalli Village of Sattenapalli Mandal, Guntur District – Orders – Issued.10.65
20430/04/2008 Minorities Welfare Department – Guntur District - Sanction of Rs.1.00 Lakh towards Grant-in-aid for construction of Salvation Army Church at Vemuru Village and Mandal, Guntur District – Orders – Issued.11.00


TOTAL=258263.07

Grant-in-Aid Sanctioned by Government of Andhra Pradesh to various Wakf boards from Feb 2008 to Jan 2009
(Data collected from official portal for GO’s of Govt of Andhra Pradesh. Please refer to the site for the complete PDFs of the GO’s)
GO
NumberDateDescription
(as listed in the AP-GO website)Amount
(in lakhs)
159/1/2009 WAKF – Grant-in-aid – Nizamabad District – Sanction of Rs.1,50,000/- towards Grant-in-aid for Construction of Islampur Mosque at Nadipally Village, Dichpally Mandal, Nizamabad – Accorded - Orders – Issued.1.50
149/1/2009 WAKF – Grant-in-aid – Hyderabad District – Sanction of Rs.1,50,000/- towards Grant-in-aid for Construction of 2nd floor for Masjid-e-Noor at Chennareddynagar Amberpet, Hyderabad – Accorded - Orders – Issued. 1.50
102/1/2009 WAKF – Grant-in-aid – Kurnool District – Sanction of Rs.1,50,000/- towards Grant-in-aid for Construction of Mosque in Sy. No. “26” Satyanarayana Nagar, Salkapuram Village, Kallur Mandal, Kurnool District – Accorded - Orders – Issued.1.50
21/1/2009 WAKF – Grant-in-aid – Kadapa District – Sanction of Rs.10,50,000/- towards Grant-in-aid to (7) Wakf Institutions in Kadapa District – Accorded - Orders – Issued.10.50
81229/12/2008 Wakf – Grant-in-aid – Krishna district – Sanction of Grant –In –Aid for Construction/ renovation/ extension of certain Wakf institutions at Gudivada Town and Vuyyur village and Mandal in Krishna District - Administrative sanction for an amount of Rs. 8,50,000/- – Accorded - Orders – Issued.8.50
80529/12/2008 WAKF – Grant-in-aid – Kadapa District – Sanction of Rs.77,02,000/- towards Grant-in-aid for Construction, Repairs, Renovation, Extension of (65) Wakf institutions in Kadapa District – Accorded – Amendment- Orders – Issued.77.02
79023/12/2008 WAKF – Grant-in-aid – Nizamabad District – Sanction of Rs.19,70,000/- towards Grant-in-aid for Construction, Repairs, Renovation, Extension of (3) Wakf institutions in Nizamabad District – Accorded - Orders – Issued.19.70
77218/12/2008 WAKF – Grant-in-aid – Khammam District – Sanction of Rs.3,00,000/- towards Grant-in-aid to (2) Wakf Institutions in Khammam District – Accorded - Orders – Issued.3.00
77118/12/2008 WAKF – Grant-in-aid – Kadapa District – Administrative sanction of Rs.12,58,000/- towards Grant-in-aid for Construction, Repairs, Renovation, Extension of (8) Wakf institutions in Kadapa District – Accorded - Orders – Issued.12.58
77018/12/2008 WAKF – Grant-in-aid – Kadapa District – Sanction of Rs.3,32,500/- towards Grant-in-aid to (2) Wakf Institutions in Kadapa District – Accorded - Orders – Issued.3.33
76917/12/2008 WAKF – Grant-in-aid – Nalgonda District – Administrative Sanction of Rs.1,50,000/- (One lakh and fifty thousand only ) towards Grant-in-aid for Construction of Masjid at Amaravaram Village and Miryalaguda Constituency, Nalgonda District – Accorded - Orders – Issued.1.50
76816/12/2008 WAKF – Grant-in-aid – Medak District – Administrative Sanction of Rs.1,50,000/- (One lakh and fifty thousand only ) towards Grant-in-aid for Construction of compound wall to Muslim Graveyard at Ismailkhanpet Village and Sangareddy Mandal, Medak District – Accorded - Orders – Issued.1.50
76512/12/2008 Wakf – Grant-in-aid – Guntur district – Sanction of Grant –In –Aid for construction of Masjid at Tumurukota (V),Rentachintala Mandal Guntur District.- Administrative sanction for an amount of Rs. 2,00,000/- – Accorded - Orders – Issued.2.00
7598/12/2008 WAKF – Grant-in-aid – Mahabubnagar District – Sanction and Administration Sanction of Rs.4,50,000/- towards Grant-in-aid for Construction, Repairs, Renovation, Extension of (3) Wakf institutions in Mahabubnagar District – Accorded - Orders – Issued.4.50
7588/12/2008 WAKF – Grant-in-aid – Kurnool District – Sanction of Rs.17,70,000/- towards Grant-in-aid for Construction, Repairs, Renovation, Extension of (17) Wakf institutions in Kurnool District – Accorded - Orders – Issued.17.70
7578/12/2008 WAKF – Grant-in-aid – Chittoor District – Sanction of Rs.24,00,000/- towards Grant-in-aid for Construction, Repairs, Renovation, Extension of (30) Wakf institutions in Chittoor District – Accorded - Orders – Issued.10.00
7566/12/2008 WAKF – Grant-in-aid – Kadapa District – Administrative Sanction of Rs.10,00,000/- lakhs towards Grant-in-aid for reconstruction of existing Jamia Masjid at Rameswarampeta Village of Proddatur town, Kadapa District – Accorded - Orders – Issued.10.00
7536/12/2008 WAKF – Grant-in-aid – Mahaboobnagar District – Administrative Sanction of Rs.10,00,000/- lakhs towards Grant-in-aid for Completion of balance work to Jame Masjid at Nagarkurnool, Mahaboobnagar District – Accorded - Orders – Issued.10.00
7516/12/2008 WAKF – Grant-in-aid – Mahaboobnagar District – Administrative Sanction of Rs.25,00,000/- lakhs towards Grant-in-aid for Construction of Idgah Wakf-E-Rahmania Wanagattu, Mahaboobnagar District – Accorded - Orders – Issued.25.00
7456/12/2008 WAKF – Grant-in-aid – Kadapa District – Sanction of Rs.10,00,000/- lakhs towards Grant-in-aid for Construction of Compound wall and improvement to Edgah-Al-Edduzzaaha-Aur-Eddulfitar at Lakkireddypalli(V) & (M), Kadapa District – Accorded - Orders – Issued.10.00
7436/12/2008 WAKF – Grant-in-aid – Kadapa District – Administrative sanction of Rs.15,00,000/- towards Grant-in-aid for Construction, Repairs, Renovation, Extension of (3) Wakf institutions in Kadapa District – Accorded - Orders – Issued.20.00
7342/12/2008 WAKF – Grant-in-aid – Adilabad District – Administrative Sanction of Rs.20,00,000/- lakhs ( Twenty lakhs only ) towards Grant-in-aid for Civil and Electrical repairs of Jama Masjid, Khagaznagar, Adilabad District – Accorded - Orders – Issued.20.00
7332/12/2008 Wakf – Grant-in-aid – Guntur district – Sanction of grant-in-aid for construction of Edga at Macherla Town in Guntur district - Administrative sanction for an amount of Rs. 6,00,000/- – Accorded - Orders – Issued6.00
7311/12/2008 WAKF – Grant-in-aid – KadapaDistrict – Sanction of Rs.8,75,000/- towards Grant-in-aid to (2) Wakf Institutions in KadapaDistrict – Accorded - Orders – Issued.8.75
7291/12/2008 WAKF – Grant-in-aid – Kadapa District – Sanction of Rs.1,50,000/- towards Grant-in-aid for Construction of new Mosque in place of Gadda Mosque, Jammalamadugu, Kadapa District – Accorded - Orders – Issued.1.50
72726/11/2008 WAKF – Grant-in-aid – Kadapa District – Administrative Sanction of Rs.5,00,000/- lakhs towards Grant-in-aid for Construction of certain works of Eidgah , Kadapa District – Accorded - Orders – Issued.5.00
72626/11/2008 WAKF – Grant-in-aid – Medak District – Sanction and administrative sanction of Rs.32,00,000/- towards Grant-in-aid for Construction, Repairs, Renovation, Extension of (32) Wakf institutions in Medak District – Accorded – Amendment- Orders – Issued.32.00
72526/11/2008 WAKF – Grant-in-aid – Kadapa District – Administrative Sanction of Rs.5,00,000/- lakhs towards Grant-in-aid for Construction of compound wall to Muslim Burial Ground at Chinnamandem Village and mandal , Kadapa District – Accorded - Orders – Issued.5.00
72426/11/2008 WAKF – Grant-in-aid – Nizamabad District – Sanction of Rs.18,20,000/- towards Grant-in-aid for Construction, Repairs, Renovation, Extension of (12) Wakf institutions in Nizamabad District – Accorded - Orders – Issued.18.20
66511/11/2008 WAKF – Grant-in-aid – Mahabubnagar District – Administrative Sanction of Rs.10,00,000/- lakhs towards Grant-in-aid for Construction of Expansion of existing Wazu Khana and construction of residence quarters for Imam Saheb and Mouzzan Sahab in Jamia Masjid, Mahabubnagar District – Accorded - Orders – Issued10.00
66411/11/2008 WAKF – Grant-in-aid – KadapaDistrict – Sanction of Rs.12,00,000/- towards Grant-in-aid to (2) Wakf Institutions in KadapaDistrict – Accorded - Orders – Issued12.00
66311/11/2008 WAKF – Grant-in-aid – Nizamabad District – Administrative Sanction of Rs.5,00,000/- lakhs towards Grant-in-aid for Construction of Edgah at Peddakodapgal(V) of Bichkunda(M), Nizamabad District – Accorded - Orders – Issued.5.00
66211/11/2008 WAKF – Grant-in-aid – Karimnagar District – Administrative Sanction of Rs.10,00,000/- lakhs towards Grant-in-aid for Construction of 1st Floor over the existing premises of Jame Masjid, Jagtial, Karimnagar District – Accorded - Orders – Issued.10.00
66010/11/2008 WAKF – Grant-in-aid – Medak District – Sanction and administrative sanction of Rs.40,16,000/- towards Grant-in-aid for Construction, Repairs, Renovation, Extension of (35) Wakf institutions in Medak District – Accorded – Amendment- Orders – Issued.40.16
6556/11/2008 WAKF - Hyderabad – Secretariat Buildings - Sanction of Grant-in-aid for Re-construction of Mosque situated in the premises of Secretariat, beside “C” Block, Hyderabad – Sanction of an amount of Rs.34,00,000/- - Accorded – Orders - Issued.34.00
64829/10/2008 WAKF – Grant-in-aid – Hyderabad District – Sanction of Rs.1,50,000/- Grant-in-aid towards Jama Masjid Shujaiya situated at Charminar, Hyderabad for the purpose of Scratching, Screening out the loose lime particularly from the roof,minars and pit walls - Accorded - Orders – Issued.1.50
64727/10/2008 Wakf – Grant-in-aid – Krishna district – Sanction of Grant –In –Aid for completion of new Makka Masjid at Gottumukkala Village, Kanchikacharla Mandal of Krishna District.- Administrative sanction for an amount of Rs. 80,000/- – Accorded - Orders – Issued.0.80
64423/10/2008 WAKF – Grant-in-aid – Ananthapur District – Administrative Sanction of Rs.1,50,000/- lakhs towards Grant-in-aid for Construction of Compound Wall to Gutta Masjid at Kothacheruvu Village & Mandal, Ananthapur District – Accorded - Orders – Issued.1.50
64323/10/2008 Wakf – Grant-in-aid –Guntur District – Sanction of Grant-in-aid for construction/ renovation / extension/ repairs etc., to four Wakf institutions in Guntur district– sanction for an amount ofRs. 6,00,000/- – Accorded - Orders – Issued.6.00
64022/10/2008 Wakf – Grant-in-aid– Guntur district–Administrative sanction of Rs.6,90,000/- as grant-in-aid towards construction/renovation / extension / repairs etc., to six (6) Wakf institutions in Guntur district - Accorded - Orders – Issued. 6.90
63518/10/2008 Wakf – Grant-in-aid – Krishna District – Sanction of Grant-in-aid for construction of 1st floor repairs and renovation of the Masjid –E-Imam –e -Zaman at Inagudurupet, Machilipatnam, Krishna District – Administrative sanction for an amount of Rs 80,000/- – Accorded - Orders – Issued.0.80
63418/10/2008 Wakf – Grant-in-aid – Nellore district – Administrative sanction of Rs.5,40,000/- as grant-in-aid towards construction/renovation / extension / repairs etc., to five (5 ) Wakf institutions in Nellore district - Accorded - Orders – Issued5.40
63318/10/2008 Wakf – Grant-in-aid – Guntur District – Sanction of Grant-in-aid for construction of compound wall with gate to the burial ground at Chirravuru (V), Tadepalli (M), Guntur District – Sanction for an amount of Rs. 1,50,000/- – Accorded - Orders – Issued1.50
63016/10/2008 WAKF – Grant-in-aid – Ananthapur District – Sanction of Rs.3,00,000/- towards Grant-in-aid to (2) Wakf Institutions in Ananthapur District – Accorded - Orders – Issued.3.00
61813/10/2008 WAKF – Grant-in-aid – Ranga Reddy District – Sanction of Rs.3,00,000/- towards Grant-in-aid to (2) Wakf Institutions in Ranga Reddy District – Accorded - Orders – Issued.3.00
61410/10/2008 Wakf – Grant-in-aid –West Godavari District – Sanction of Grant-in-aid for construction of Compound wall to Muslim Burial grounds at Kapavaram (V) and Dommeru (V) in Kovvur(M), West Godavari District– Total Administrative sanction for an amount of Rs. 3,00,000/- - Accorded - Orders – Issued. 3.00
61310/10/2008 Wakf – Grant-in-aid – Esat Godavari District – Sanction of Grant-in-aid for repairs, maintenance, and renovation of Shia Masjid at Nagaram (V), Mamidikuduru (M), East Godavari District – Administrative sanction for an amount of Rs. 80,000/- – Accorded - Orders – Issued.0.80
6078/10/2008 WAKF – Grant-in-aid – Kadapa District – Sanction of Rs.77,02,000/- towards Grant-in-aid for Construction, Repairs, Renovation, Extension of (65) Wakf institutions in Kadapa District – Accorded - Orders – Issued.0.77
6056/10/2008 Wakf – Grant-in-aid –East Godavari District – Sanction of Grant-in-aid for construction of Masji-E-Kouser at Sataelite City, Rajahmundry Rural, East Godavari district– Administrative sanction for an amount of Rs. 1,50,000/- – Accorded - Orders – Issued.1.50
6046/10/2008 Wakf – Grant-in-aid –Krishna District – Sanction of Grant-in-aid for construction of Muslim Burial Ground at New Mallaiahpalem (V), Gudivada Mandal in Krishna district– Administrative sanction for an amount of Rs. 1,50,000/- – Accorded - Orders – Issued.1.50
6016/10/2008 Wakf – Grant-in-aid –Prakasam district – Administrative sanction of Rs. 2,30,000/- as grant-in-aid towards construction/ renovation/extension/repairs etc., to two (2) Wakf institutions in Prakasam district – Accorded - Orders – Issued 2.30
5994/10/2008 WAKF – Grant-in-aid – Kadapa District – Administrative Sanction of Rs.10,00,000/- lakhs ( Ten lakhs ) towards Grant-in-aid for renovation of Mosque in Buqthiyar Khan Masjeed, Trunk Road, Rayachoti Town, Kadapa District – Accorded - Orders – Issued.10.00
5893/10/2008 WAKF – Grant-in-aid – Chittoor District – Sanction and administrative sanction of Rs.39,02,000/- towards Grant-in-aid for Construction, Repairs, Renovation, Extension of (42) Wakf institutions in Chittoor District – Accorded - Orders – Issued.39.02
5883/10/2008 Wakf – Grant-in-aid – Guntur district – Sanction of grant-in-aid for construction of New Mosque at Nizampatnam (V) in Guntur district - Administrative sanction for an amount of Rs. 6,00,000/- – Accorded - Orders – Issued6.00
56427/09/2008 WAKF – Grant-in-aid – Warangal District – Sanction and administrative sanction of Rs.55,60,000/- towards Grant-in-aid for Construction, Repairs, Renovation, Extension of (50) Wakf institutions in Warangal District – Accorded - Orders – Issued.55.60
55625/09/2008 WAKF – Grant-in-aid – Ananthapur District – Administrative Sanction of Rs.20,00,000/- lakhs towards Grant-in-aid for Construction of Mosque at Tadipatri Town, Ananthapur District – Accorded - Orders – Issued.20.00
55525/09/2008 WAKF – Grant-in-aid – Ananthapur District – Administrative sanction of Rs.11,50,000/- towards Grant-in-aid for Construction, Repairs, Renovation, Extension of (10) Wakf institutions in Ananthapur District – Accorded - Orders – Issued.11.50
55119/09/2008 WAKF – Grant-in-aid – Kurnool District – Sanction of Rs.1,50,000/- towards Grant-in-aid for Construction of Mohammadia Mosque at Chinnarajupalem Village, Banaganapalle Mandal, Kurnool District – Accorded - Orders – Issued.1.50
55019/09/2008 WAKF – Grant-in-aid – Ranga Reddy District – Sanction of Rs.80,000/- towards Grant-in-aid for Construction of boundary wall to Masjid-e-Arafath at Gareebnagar, Vikharabad Mandal, Ranga Reddy District – Accorded - Orders – Issued.0.80
54617/09/2008 WAKF – Grant-in-aid – Khammam District – Sanction and administrative sanction of Rs.13,75,000/- towards Grant-in-aid for Construction, Repairs, Renovation, Extension of (12) Wakf institutions in Khammam District – Accorded - Orders – Issued.13.75
54517/09/2008 WAKF – Grant-in-aid – Adilabad District – Sanction and administrative sanction of Rs.73,25,000/- towards Grant-in-aid for Construction, Repairs, Renovation, Extension of (49) Wakf institutions in Adilabad District – Accorded - Orders – Issued.73.25
53716/09/2008 WAKF – Grant-in-Aid – West Godavari District – Sanction of additional funds for construction of compound wall to Muslim Burial ground at Pasalapudi (V), Undrajavaram (M), West Godavari District - Administrative sanction for an amount of Rs. 1,50,000/- – Accorded - Orders – Issued. 1.50
4234/9/2008 WAKF – Grant-in-aid – Nalgonda District – Sanction of Rs.12.00 lakhs towards Grant-in-aid for Construction, Repairs, Renovation, Extension of (8) Wakf institutions in Nalgonda District – Accorded - Orders – Issued.12.00
40929/08/2008 Wakf – Grant-in-aid – Guntur district – Administrative sanction of Rs.12,81,000/- as grant-in-aid towards construction/renovation / extension / repairs etc., to three (3) Wakf institutions in Guntur district - Accorded - Orders – Issued. 12.81
3818/8/2008 WAKF – Grant-in-aid – Medak District – Sanction and administrative sanction of Rs.32,00,000/- towards Grant-in-aid for Construction, Repairs, Renovation, Extension of (32) Wakf institutions in Medak District – Accorded - Orders – Issued.32.00
3776/8/2008 WAKF – Grant-in-Aid – Krishna District – Sanction of Additional funds for re-construction of Minar Mosque at Kowthavaram, Varapu Village, Gudlavalleru (M), Krishna District - Administrative sanction for an amount of Rs. 2,20,000/- – Accorded - Orders – Issued. 2.20
35323/07/2008 WAKF – Grant-in-Aid – Anantapur District – Administrative sanction of Rs.20.20 lakhs towards Grant-in-Aid for Construction, Repairs, Renovation, Extension etc., to (16) Wakf Institutions in Anantapur District – Accorded - Orders – Issued.20.20
34523/07/2008 WAKF – Grant-in-Aid – Medak District – Sanction and administrative sanction of Rs.40.16 lakhs towards Grant-in-Aid for Construction, Repairs, Renovation, Extension of (35) Wakf Institutions in Medak District – Accorded - Orders – Issued.40.16
34322/07/2008 WAKF – Grant-in-aid – Nalgonda District – Administrative sanction of Rs.25.33 lakhs towards Grant-in-aid for Construction, Repairs, Renovation, Extension etc., to (23) Wakf Institutions in Nalgonda District – Accorded - Orders – Issued.25.33
33217/07/2008 Wakf – Grant-in-aid –Guntur District – Sanction of Grant-in-aid for construction/ renovation / extension/ repairs etc., to sixty five (65) Wakf institutions in Guntur district– Administrative sanction for an amount of Rs. 75,17,000/- – Accorded - Orders – Issued.75.17
33117/07/2008 WAKF – Grant-in-aid – Kurnool District – Sanction and administrative sanction of Rs.35,30,000/- towards Grant-in-aid for Construction, Repairs, Renovation, Extension of (31) Wakf institutions in Kurnool District – Accorded - Orders – Issued.35.30
33017/07/2008 WAKF – Grant-in-aid – Mahaboobnagar District – Sanction and administrative sanction of Rs.36.60 lakhs towards Grant-in-aid for Construction, Repairs, Renovation, Extension of (30) Wakf institutions in Mahaboobnagar District – Accorded - Orders – Issued.36.60
32917/07/2008 WAKF – Grant-in-Aid – Ranga Reddy District – Sanction of Grant-in-Aid for Construction and Extension of Jama Masjid at Dharoor Village & Mandal – Administrative sanction for an amount of Rs.13,00,000/- – Accorded - Orders – Issued.13.00
32611/7/2008 C.M. ANNOUNCEMENTS - WAKF – Grant-in-Aid – Adilabad District – Sanction of Grant-in-Aid for Construction of compound wall to Idgah at Bhainsa Village & Mandal – Administrative sanction for an amount of Rs.15,00,000/- – Accorded - Orders – Issued.15.00
3238/7/2008 Wakf – Grant-in-aid – Guntur district – Administrative sanction of Rs. 3,20,000/- as grant-in-aid towards construction/renovation / extension / repairs etc., to four (4) Wakf institutions in Guntur district - Accorded - Orders – Issued. 3.20
3228/7/2008 Wakf – Grant-in-aid –Krishna District – Sanction of Grant-in-aid for construction of Mosque at Gaddamanugu (V), G. Konduru Mandal in Krishna district– Administrative sanction for an amount of Rs. 1,50,000/- – Accorded - Orders – Issued.1.50
30026/06/2008 WAKF – Grant-in-Aid – Nizamabad District – Sanction of Grant-in-Aid to (2) Wakf Institutions in Kamareddy town, Nizamabad District – Administrative sanction for an amount of Rs.16,70,000/- – Accorded - Orders – Issued.16.70
29725/06/2008 Wakf – Grant-in-aid –East Godavari District – Sanction of Grant-in-aid for construction / Renovation / Extension / Repairs etc., to two (2) Wakf institutions in East Godavari District – Administrative sanction for an amount of Rs. 1,60,000/- - Accorded - Orders – Issued. 1.60
29625/06/2008 Wakf – Grant-in-aid – Prakasam District – Sanction of Grant-in-aid for construction/ renovation / extension/ repairs etc., to four (4) Wakf institutions in Prakasam district– Administrative sanction for an amount of Rs. 3,20, 000/- – Accorded - Orders – Issued.3.20
29224/06/2008 Wakf – Grant-in-aid –East Godavari District – Sanction of Grant-in-aid for construction/ renovation / extension/ repairs etc., to nine (9) Wakf institutions in East Godavari district– Administrative sanction for an amount of Rs. 12, 80, 000/- – Accorded - Orders – Issued. 12.80
28217/06/2008 WAKF – Grant-in-Aid – Kadapa District – Sanction of grant-in-aid for improvements of Muslim Burial Ground at Nakash area of Kadapa town – Action of Collector in having administrative sanction for an amount of Rs.16.00 Lakhs – Ratified - Orders – Issued.16.00
28117/06/2008 WAKF – Grant-in-aid – Karimangar District – Sanction and administrative sanction of Rs.25,80,000/- towards Grant-in-aid for Construction, Repairs, Renovation, Extension of (20) Wakf institutions in Karimangar District – Accorded - Orders – Issued.25.80
2527/6/2008 WAKF – Grant-in-Aid – Karimnagar District – Sanction of Grant-in-Aid towards Construction of compound wall to Edgah at Jagtial town, Karimangar District – Administrative sanction for an amount of Rs.10,00,000/- – Accorded - Orders – Issued.10.00
2504/6/2008 WAKF – Grant-in-Aid – Hyderabad District – Sanction of Grant-in-Aid for Raising height of compound wall to Graveyard at D. Hzt. Dargah Ali Shah, Osmanpura, Hyderabad – Administrative sanction for an amount of Rs.1,50,000/- – Accorded - Orders – Issued.1.50
2474/6/2008 Wakf – Grant-in-aid –Visakhapatnam District – Sanction of Grant-in-aid for construction/ renovation / extension/ repairs etc., to Six (6) Wakf institutions in Visakhapatnam district– Administrative sanction for an amount of Rs. 7,60,000/- – Accorded - Orders – Issued.7.60
2464/6/2008 WAKF – Grant-in-aid – Ranga Reddy District – Administrative sanction of Rs.15,60,000/- towards Grant-in-aid for Construction, Repairs, Renovation, Extension of (11) Wakf institutions in Ranga Reddy District – Accorded - Orders – Issued.15.60
2454/6/2008 WAKF – Grant-in-aid – Nizamabad District – Administrative sanction of Rs.70,60,000/- towards Grant-in-aid for Construction, Repairs, Renovation, Extension of (58) Wakf institutions in Nizamabad District – Accorded - Orders – Issued.70.60
23720/05/2008 Wakf – Grant-in-aid –Prakasam District – Sanction of Grant-in-aid for construction/ renovation / extension/ repairs etc., to nine (9) Wakf institutions in Prakasam district– Administrative sanction for an amount of Rs. 8,14, 000/- – Accorded - Orders – Issued.8.14
23619/05/2008 Wakf – Grant-in-aid – Nellore district – Sanction of grant-in-aid for construction/renovation / extension / repairs etc., to three (3) Wakf institutions in Nellore district - Administrative sanction for an amount of Rs. 3,80,000/- – Accorded - Orders – Issued 3.80
23519/05/2008 Wakf – Grant-in-aid – Nellore district – Sanction of grant-in-aid for construction/renovation / extension / repairs etc., to nine (9) Wakf institutions in Nellore district - Sanction for an amount of Rs. 11,90,000/- Accorded - Orders – Issued. 11.90
23419/05/2008 WAKF – Grant-in-Aid – Kadapa District – Sanction of Grant-in-Aid for construction of Mosque in place of old Jamia Mosque and attached compound wall to Muslim Burial ground at Muddanur Road, Yerraguntla Mandal, Kadapa District - Administrative sanction for an amount of Rs. 21,00,000/- – Accorded - Orders – Issued.21.00
23116/05/2008 Wakf – Grant-in-aid – Krishna district – Sanction of grant-in-aid for construction/renovation / extension / repairs etc., to twelve (12) Wakf institutions in Krishna district - Administrative sanction for an amount of Rs. 16,10,000/- – Accorded - Orders – Issued. 16.10
22014/05/2008 WAKF – Grant-in-Aid – Nellore District – Sanction of Grant-in-Aid for repairs and re-construction of Masjid at Kulluru Village, Kaluvaya Mandal, Nellore District - Administrative sanction for an amount of Rs. 2,50,000/- – Accorded - Orders – Issued.2.50
19928/04/2008 Wakf – Grant-in-aid –West Godavari District – Sanction of Grant-in-aid for construction/ renovation / extension/ repairs etc., to Eleven (11) Wakf institutions in West Godavari district– Administrative sanction for an amount of Rs. 15,10, 000/- – Accorded - Orders – Issued.15.10


TOTAL= 1316.54

Christian Communal Socialism Congress Style by Offstumped
Y.S. Rajashekar Reddy’s evangelist son-in-law has been accused of misusing Government Machinery in launching himself as an alternative to another tele-evangelist KA Paul. The Indian Express has carried a detailed story on this. The most interesting part of the story is how a case of telecom fraud against YSR’s son-in-law has been conveniently covered up while the man himself has been busy spreading the “good news”.

A sampling of videos on YouTube belonging to the Ministry run by the son-in-law reveals that this is very much a YSR family enterprise with YSR’s mother euologised as the patron maternal figure, YSR’s sister giving divine testimony and pious anchors from the Televangelical channel praying for the “State and its officials”..

The whole story can probably be dismissed away as family soap opera but for the brazen manner in which YS Rajashekar Reddy aided by his son-in-law have been promoting Christian Communal Socialism.
Andhra CM son-in-law's mammoth religious meet draws flak
Evangelist Anil Kumar's debut in Secunderabad bore all the hallmarks of a gala event. A sprawling parade ground packed with nearly 1.5 lakh people, a 250-member choir and guests including Chief Minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy, his wife and only daughter. So why are the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Telugu Desam Party crying foul over the Evangelist's religious sessions? For Anil Kumar is YSR Reddy's son-in-law, and the Opposition parties have started questioning how Anil Kumar's mammoth congregations were funded.

Very few people were aware of who Anil Kumar was till hundreds of huge hoardings, welcoming people to his 'Grand Christmas celebrations', sprung up all over the twin cities of Hyderabad-Secunderabad. After it was revealed that Anil Kumar was the chief minister's son-in-law, the TDP and BJP demanded an inquiry into the source of funding for such large-scale publicity, insisting that ill gotten money was being used to promote the Evangelist.

While Anil Kumar avoided the media, YSR quipped, "What is wrong in it," when asked about the publicity machinery being used to promote his son-in-law. Anil Kumar told the congregation that he had experienced many miraculous changes in his own life after he adopted Christianity. Reddy, his wife Vijaya and daughter Sharmila also addressed the congregation.. While the chief minister restricted himself to extending Christmas greetings to the people, his daughter stole the show with her spirited speech. She drew huge applause when she quoted a passage from the Bible, "God gives us power but we should rejoice in God". Though Brother Anil Kumar has held such congregations at many places across the state including Rajahmundry and Warangal, this was the first time that he held such a session in Hyderabad and Secunderabad.

Incidentally, Anil Kumar is being promoted as an Evangelist at a time when the ruling Congress is embroiled in a running feud with another internationally famous evangelist K A Paul, who is facing legal problems in the state. "Rajasekhara Reddy is promoting Anil Kumar so that he can become more popular than K A Paul," alleged TDP leader N Rajakumar.
Video Testimony of "Brother" Benjamin Anil Kumar (anti-Hindu documentary filmed in a Hindu temple): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF_Gz2WHorw

Incriminating photograph of YSR, wife, daughter and son-in-law "Brother" Anil Kumar (aka 'Benjamin') Komanapally at this Evangelical rally: ‘All you have to do is believe in Him’ by New Indian Express
They came dressed in their Sunday best to listen to the first family of Andhra Pradesh. Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, his sonin- law Brother Anil Kumar `Benjamin’ Komanapally, daughter Sharmila Reddy and wife Vijaya Rajasekhara Reddy, all spoke at the `Grand Christmas Celebration’.

The day marked the culmination of the three-day festival. An estimated 1.5 lakh people turned up at the Parade Grounds, filled to capacity by the time Anil Kumar took the colourfully-decorated stage. Before he spoke, however, his wife Sharmila urged the audience to introspect on their lives and make time for God. She quoted her dad’s favourite verses from the Bible, `God gives us power, but we should rejoice in God’. In between the speeches, a 250-strong choir sang and danced to popular Christian numbers. A row of lights supported by two huge cranes located behind the stage illuminated the stage. A laser show on Christ’s life was a hit with the crowd.

Brother Anil Kumar spoke for an hour about the importance of accepting God into one’s life. He claimed that miracles had occured in his life since he accepted Christ. He also claimed, ``No doctor has a solution for AIDS, but there is a supernatural doctor and all you have to do is believe in Him.’’ The Chief Minister drew the maximum applause when he stepped on to the stage. In his brief remarks, he wished everyone a merry Christmas
Yeah all you have to do is believe in him, after that you rape, murder, rob it doesn't matter. Even if you have AIDS, it doesn't matter just believe in Christ and it will be cured. What kind of superstitious bullsh*t is this?

Photograph of "Brother" Anil Kumar (aka 'Benjamin') Komanapally preaching at his rally: more on mitrotsavam i.e. winter solstice i.e. not X'mas

In the end, all I can say is look at the kind of culture that this Christian Rightist CM comes from and the ideology that he propagates: Christist CM of Andhra stoops to lowest possible level: Insults Chandrababu Naidu's mother
The Andhra Pradesh Assembly witnessed an unprecedented clash between the ruling Congress party and almost the entire Opposition when Chief Minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy, in an intemperate outburst against leader of Opposition N Chandrababu Naidu, dragged Naidu's mother into the debate.

Replying to the allegations of serious irregularities in mining activity in the Obulapuram area of Anantapur by the company of Janardhan Reddy, Rajasekhara said that he would expose Naidu in such a way that he would regret his birth.

"What I am saying now is only a preamble. There are a lot of things to say. After I complete what I have to say, Chandrababu, you will, in fact, regret why unnecessarily you came into your mother's womb and you will feel that it would have been better if you were not born at all. What are you talking! I will expose you," the Chief Minister said as the entire House was left stunned for some time before the TDP benches burst into protest.

The outburst, which left almost all the Opposition members shocked and pained, came after the Question Hour when the TDP members tried to raise the issue of alleged siphoning off of minerals from Obulapuram mining area, the scene of a protest by the TDP since Saturday.
In what part of Christian Mythology did Christ give a sermon to abuse someone's Mother is beyond me? Totally unbecoming of a Chief Minister or any Public "Servant".

Other Sources:
Indian Politician Profile Samuel Reddy
4 व्यक्तियों ने 5.0 रेट किया [?]
Labels: andhra prasdesh, christian evangelic, communal, congress, corruption, myth mythology, nonsecular, samuel reddy, Talibanisation, terror
..........................................................
also
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: jayasree saranathan
Subject: Non-random-Thoughts : YSR Reddy’s horoscope analysed!
To: npartha@gmail.com
jayasree saranathan has sent you a link to a blog:

Blog: Non-random-Thoughts
Post: YSR Reddy’s horoscope analysed!
Link: http://jayasreesaranathan.blogspot.com/2009/09/ysr-reddys-horoscope-analysed.html

.........................................................................................................................

3. ---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Prakaash.M.Swami
Subject: YSR for distribution
To: npartha@gmail.com

Subject: Re: VNN Breaking news
From: utsavc@gmail.com
To: vinnamat@googlegroups.com
CC: biplabpal2000@gmail.com

Y Rajashekhar Reddy's nephew (his sister's son), Prakash Sebastian Reddy was my senior roommate when I first came to the US in 99.

We became friends and over a period of 1 year, and I got to know this guy and through him his family.

Prakash used to go every Sunday to the church (Seventh day adventist) and from there to meetings. One day I accompanied him and realized the
extent of conversion activity that YSR (then the opposition leader in AP) and his huge network was involved in..

He would openly talk of converting Andhra to Christianity and used to personally arrange shipment of thousands of dollars worth of Bibles
and Evangelist literature to India. He was proud that his forefathers had converted to Christianity during British time to maintain their
huge land holdings and expand missionery activities, and had no qualms about using every trick in the trade to achieve more converts.
What amazed me most was the complete honestly and openness with which he used to talk and he had no qualms about expressing his complete
dislike and hatred for anything Hindu.
........................................................................................................................

4. A comment on YSR's death posted in the link below.
http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?Title=Why+Naidu,+Chiru+couldnt+attend+YSRs+burial&artid=CsWHIt1|YNg=&SectionID=b7ziAYMenjw=&MainSectionID=fyV9T2jIa4A=&SectionName=pWehHe7IsSU=&SEO=chandrababu%20naidu%20chiranjeevi%20chiru%20YSR%20reddy%20AP%20aIn biological terms - an organism that derives nutrition & strength from itshost, acts like its host only to suck its strength out is called - aParasite. Christianity has adopted everything that Hindus hold dear, theyhave borrowed vigraha aradhana (roughly translated as idol worship), theyhave borrowed hindu customs, hindu names, they have even borrowed massiveideas from the vast hindu literature only to misuse them and insult theirhosts while poisoning the local culture and ensuring hinduism dies from lackof nourishment. YSR was one such parasite and there are thousands more likehim. However, Karma ensures that those who live violently would die asimilar death - like YSR, Graham Staines, the Christian murderers of SwamiLaxmananda Sarasvati and a lot others. Those whose bad karma is not yet ripewill however, live another life only to die like dogs on a highway. Karma isnot a barbarian philosophy - it is planting churches that is barbarian -straight from the barbarian lands........................................................................................................................

Ghar Vapasi

FYI

This was posted to a Hindu group. I don't how true or overstated it is. - Viji
Forwarded
we are working on it.......We donot want to show too many ghar vapsi cases in the public lest it becomes common knowledge and the anti hindu media calls it "saffronization".....Ghar vapsi rate of conversion is twice as high as conversion from hindu dharma.....

It is only the states of AP, Tamil nadu, Kerala, Bengal and NE where conversion is not checkmated enmasse but that loophole is being plugged as I type...

haindavakeralam.com gives you stories from south Indian states where mass reconversions are happening led by not one but thousands of individuals and organizations...

Swapan Das Gupta pontificates on NRIs - the question is why

Kosla Vepa says: August 19, 2009 at 05:51 AM IST

This is an interesting column, but i feel Swapan ji is scraping the bottom of the barrel, when he feels constrained to write about a group of people who have been generally exemplary in their conduct. I never did cotton on to the term NRI even when it first appeared 30 odd years ago. It seemed to imply a preocccupation with matters Indian. It is my opinion that few of the NRIs really had the time after a busy day and a long commute to concern themselves about India . My working days were 13 hours long including the commute, believe me that does not leave a lot of itme for 'pondering on the problems of India, much less indulge in 'do gooding' Furthermore if indeed the wily NRI is concerned about India why is it such a crime. After all he or she could be a lot worse . He could be a terrorist, but i forget there was a time when it was considered gauche and uncouth to call a killer of women and children a terrorist. Militant was oK but terrorist was not ok.

I used to be asked the question during the early years 'what was my life like' . i USED To reply that it was not all that different from living in one of the big metros of India. But my attempts to put life in perspective were not believed. if the NRI has fallen from grace it is because the resident Indian has put him or her up on a pedestal in the first place . It is merely a reflection of the coming of age of the resident indian and the fact that the middle class Indian has become far more confident with his affluence. But i too realize that generalizations are tempting and that in general the Indian, resident or otherwise is a very unique individual (in a land that celebrates individuality), that there are as many types of NRIs as there are Indians living in India , and that finally there are a greater variety of indians with far more drastic differences than there are between NRIs and their resident brethren.
Swapan ji, you can confide in me , i wont tell a soul, who was the NRI that got you so riled up ?


Swapan Dasgupta's Most Read Posts
Learn from past, focus on China How the Non-Resident Indian has fallen from grace A truth nobody will ever admit Scottish lessons in blending old and new with flair
See All

Swapan Dasgupta's Highest Rated Posts
Learn from past, focus on China
(4.6 out of 5)
Scottish lessons in blending old and new with flair
(4.2 out of 5)
A truth nobody will ever admit
(4.1 out of 5)
How the Non-Resident Indian has fallen from grace
(2.9 out of 5)

About Author

Well-known journalist and political commentator Swapan Dasgupta has worked for many leading Indian publications, including The Times of India. He thinks the Right is an endangered community in India's English-language media. "Right & Wrong" is one of the few voices of the community.

Browse by Topic

ayodhya china greencard independence india indian internal affairs jallianwalabagh liberhan nehr nri scotland travel whisky

HINDUS’ FATEFUL HOUR: ACT BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE Dr. Babu Suseelan

HINDUS’ FATEFUL HOUR: ACT BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE
Dr. Babu Suseelan
Hindus in India, especially in Kerala, Kashmir, Assam, Tamil Nadu, and Andhra Pradesh are heading for disaster. Jihadi terrorism, coercive religious conversion, economic deprivation, cultural pollution, phony secularism and powerlessness and a feeling of hopelessness—these are only few in the complex web of problems confronting Hindus. In Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and West Bengal the anti Hindu governments are extorting billions of rupees-worth of Hindu wealth. Because its total onslaught on Hindus, these anti-Hindu governments wrought complete havoc on Hindu culture and halted/or retrogressed the onward march of Hindu civilization.
For several years, western intelligence agencies and missionaries have been financing, directing and managing the Dravidian movement in Tamil Nadu. Their goal is to destroy Hindu culture and the Indian political-economic-social-spiritual and educational values and to erase the memory of Hindu culture from the annals of Indian history. Western subversive agents in the guise of academicians and religious leaders as well as psychological warfare experts use planned communication techniques to influence Tamil people’s attitude and behavior-to create target groups behavior, emotions and attitudes that support the attainment of devious objective-the creation of a separate Tamil Elam. The form of communication they use to spread disinformation covertly and overtly by word of mouth or through any means of multimedia is against Hindus and to balkanize India.
In Tamil Nadu, under the anti Hindu DMK government, missionaries with foreign support disseminate anti-Hindu information by face-to-face communication, audio-visual means (TV) audio-media (Radio), visual media (leaflets) and/or posters. The weapon is not how it is sent, but the message it carries and how the message affects the minds of Tamil Hindus. The ultimate objective is to convert Hindus and force them to take actions against Hindu value system and to establish a separate Tamil nation favorable to Christians.
In Andhra Pradesh, the Seventh Day Adventist Missionary leader Samuel R. Reddy, the Chief Minister is heading A-team for intellectual/political/cultural subversion in the state. Their hidden and ulterior goal is to reduce the moral efficiency within Hindu organizations, promote confusion, chaos and create social crisis among Hindus. The Seventh Day Adventist movement is closely associated with foreign intelligence agencies to destabilize India and to convert Hindus. The Seventh Day Adventist leader and Chief Minister Samuel R. Reddy is promoting mass dissension and defections in Hindu Temple society and intimidate its leaders in order to loot temple wealth including precious jewelry worth billions of rupees from the Thirumala Thirupathy Sri Venkateswara Temple, the richest in the world.
What is going on? We know converted Muslims and Christians, the Marxist party, and the bogus secular anti Hindu Congress party headed by the Italian Catholic Sonia is betraying Hindus and India. They behave like a social virus in the body of Hindus. They infect collective consciousness and mutate producing complex illnessess and social decay. When measured by the standard of present political realities, general Hindu attitude and amused indifference seems suicidal.
Hindus are paying heavily for the failure to perceive and deal with these life threatening problems. The severity and interrelatedness of these problems that singly and in combination threaten Hindu existence, culture, spiritual tradition and the future. Compounding the difficulty is that certain problems are such magnitude and that they are no longer solvable unless Hindus are united, become politically active and assertive using all available means including positive violence. Indeed, the Hindu tendency towards indifference and apathy-a propensity most clearly in evidence in their refusal to react vehemently against Jihadi terrorism, deceptive religious conversion, Hajj subsidy for Muslims to visit Saudi Arabia and to participate in animal slaughter and the takeover of Hindu temples. This deadly indifference is due to obsequious sycophancy.
Hindus have defined themselves as pacifists and secularists. How we interpret our history of brutal Islamic invasion, Christian colonialism, oppression, subjugation, Jihadi terrorism, Christian conversion and political exploitation by the bogus secularists-deeply affects how we understand modern conflicts and social crisis created by the dark hands. If we accept passivism, and practice tolerance of intolerance, when there is no reason to be believed it is beneficial, it is just credulous. And if Hindus will not reject something when there is no reason to believe in it, we are escaping from freedom to slavery. This way of thinking is completely deadly, or put it another way, don’t be so open-minded that we may fall into a deep it. A quote from Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s (noble prize winner for literature) acceptance speech in 1970 amplifies the deadly danger of passivity. “There are many people in today’s world elect passivity and retreat, just so as their accustomed life might drag on a bit longer, just so as not to step over the threshold of hardship today and tomorrow, you ‘all see, it will be all right. (But it will never be alright). The price of cowardice will only be evil; we shall reap courage and victory only when we dare to make sacrifices”.
Hindus are unaware of the ulterior motives of missionaries and the workings of Muslim and Christian politics as well as the evil designs and criminal thinking of phony secular politicians. They simply do not know that in the national and international arena, decisions are influenced by the forcefulness with which demands are made. For Hindus, weakness is psychological. What is needed is strengthen the will, free them from submissiveness and march ahead with a fighting spirit. Inspiring slogans must be impressed on the national consciousness so as to rouse the people to the bold deeds that would make history.
The best hope for Hindus for the future is a radical social revolution from which Hindus can gain a fresh understanding of our past, present and future and their role in the scheme of things. If Hindus can free themselves from the psychological and political chain created by bogus secularists, Muslim mafia and the missionary mischief mongers—and unite, they can contribute-no matter, to the good of Hindus and for our motherland in these troubled times.
Adequate Hindu response to the threats and challenges at this decisive turn in our history must not be delayed much longer. The danger that current crisis may become much graver is very real. It is absolutely unjustifiable to neglect any longer the immense opportunities Hindus have as a consequence of Hindu awareness created by organizations such as RSS, VHP and Bjarang Dal. Hindu leaders and laymen must prompt that awakening to do more before it is too late.
Hindus need a bold will. A bold will can shatter the fetters of circumstances and overcome all obstacles. The strength of collective will can overcome all obstacles. Proud Hindus with self-esteem can rebel against current crisis and determine their own destiny. We need to act before it is too late.

China Should break up the Indian Union, suggests a Chinese Strategist

an approach of panic towards such outbursts will be a mistake, but also
ignoring them will prove to be costly for India.
http://www.c3sindia.org/india/719

CHENNAI CENTRE FOR CHINA STUDIES

China Should break up the Indian Union, suggests a Chinese Strategist

D.S.Rajan, C3S Paper No.325 dated August 9, 2009

Almost coinciding with the 13th round of Sino-Indian border talks (New
Delhi, August 7-8, 2009), an article (in Chinese language) has
appeared in China captioned “If China takes a little action, the
so-called Great Indian Federation can be broken up” ( Zhong Guo Zhan
Lue Gang, www.iiss.cn , Chinese,8 August 2009). Interestingly, it has
been reproduced in several other strategic and military websites of
the country and by all means, targets the domestic audience. The
authoritative host site is located in Beijing and is the new edition
of one, which so far represented the China International Institute for
Strategic Studies (www.chinaiiss.org).

Claiming that Beijing’s ‘China-Centric’ Asian strategy, provides for
splitting India, the writer of the article, Zhan Lue (strategy), has
found that New Delhi’s corresponding ‘India-Centric’ policy in Asia,
is in reality a ‘Hindustan centric’ one. Stating that on the other
hand ‘local centres’ exist in several of the country’s provinces
(excepting for the U.P and certain Northern regions), Zhan Lue has
felt that in the face of such local characteristics, the ‘so-called’
Indian nation cannot be considered as one having existed in history.

According to the article, if India today relies on any thing for
unity, it is the Hindu religion. The partition of the country was
based on religion. Stating that today nation states are the main
current in the world, it has said that India could only be termed now
as a “Hindu Religious state’. Adding that Hinduism is a decadent
religion as it allows caste exploitation and is unhelpful to the
country’s modernization, it described the Indian government as one in
a dilemma with regard to eradication of the caste system as it
realizes that the process to do away with castes may shake the
foundation of the consciousness of the Indian nation.

The writer has argued that in view of the above, China in its own
interest and the progress of whole Asia, should join forces with
different nationalities like Assamese, Tamils, and Kashmiris and
support the latter in establishing independent nation-states of their
own, out of India. In particular, the ULFA in Assam, a territory
neighboring China, can be helped by China so that Assam realizes its
national independence.

The article has also felt that for Bangladesh, the biggest threat is
from India, which wants to develop a great Indian Federation extending
from Afghanistan to Myanmar. India is also targeting China with
support to Vietnam’s efforts to occupy Nansha (Spratly) group of
islands in South China Sea. Hence the need for China’s consolidation
of its alliance with Bangladesh, a country with which the US and Japan
are also improving their relations to counter China. It has pointed
out that China can give political support to Bangladesh enabling the
latter to encourage ethnic Bengalis in India to get rid of Indian
control and unite with Bangladesh as one Bengali nation; if the same
is not possible, creation of at least another free Bengali nation
state as a friendly neighbour of Bangladesh, would be desirable, for
the purpose of weakening India’s expansion and threat aimed at forming
a ‘unified South Asia’.

The punch line in the article has been that to split India, China can
bring into its fold countries like Pakistan, Nepal and Bhutan, support
ULFA in attaining its goal for Assam’s independence, back aspirations
of Indian nationalities like Tamils and Nagas, encourage Bangladesh to
give a push to the independence of West Bengal and lastly recover the
90,000 sq km. territory in Southern Tibet.

Wishing for India’s break-up into 20-30 nation-states like in Europe,
the article has concluded by saying that if the consciousness of
nationalities in India could be aroused, social reforms in South Asia
can be achieved, the caste system can be eradicated and the region can
march along the road of prosperity.

The Chinese article in question will certainly outrage readers in
India. Its suggestion that China can follow a strategy to dismember
India, a country always with a tradition of unity in diversity, is
atrocious, to say the least. The write-up could not have been
published without the permission of the Chinese authorities, but it is
sure that Beijing will wash its hands out of this if the matter is
taken up with it by New Delhi. It has generally been seen that China
is speaking in two voices – its diplomatic interlocutors have always
shown understanding during their dealings with their Indian
counterparts, but its selected media is pouring venom on India in
their reporting. Which one to believe is a question confronting the
public opinion and even policy makers in India. In any case, an
approach of panic towards such outbursts will be a mistake, but also
ignoring them will prove to be costly for India.

(The writer, D.S.Rajan, is Director of Chennai Centre for China
Studies, Chennai, India, email: dsrajan@gmail.com).

A great Chinese Indologist’s death goes unnoticed in India

A great Chinese Indologist’s death goes unnoticed in India

Jaswant Singh

Ji Xianlin was doubtless an outstanding scholar.

http://www.hinduonnet.com/2009/07/31/images/2009073155721101.jpg Ji
Xianlin’s greatest scholarly accomplishments were in the realm of “the
history of Indian Buddhism and comparative linguistics.”

Just the other day Mathew Rudolph sent me a mail from the U.S.
informing me of the death of Ji Xianlin. He was a greatly venerated
Chinese scholar who had “secretly translated the Sanskrit-Hindu text
of the Ramayan into Chinese during the Cultural Revolution”. Ji
Xianlin died on July 11 at the age of 98.

This news saddened me greatly, and for a variety of reasons. Foremost
amongst them was, of course, the passing away of such a great scholar.
He was foremost amongst those responsible for keeping alive the
delicate plant of “South Asian studies in China between the
Sino-Indian War of 1962 and the revival of popular Chinese interest in
India in the late 1990s.”

What I found as even more remarkable was the spontaneous outpouring of
popular grief and the official Chinese sentiment at Ji’s passing away.
Obviously this grief cannot be attributed to Ji’s lifelong connection
with India, but his great scholarship of Indian languages was
renowned, and I do not know that for those Chinese who think of Ji and
India together “it is largely the romantic view of India as the land
of Buddha’s birth.” Also, certainly for some Chinese, “the spiritual
elements of ‘Hindu mythology’ and thought”.

Timothy B. Weston of the University of Colorado, paying his tribute,
writes to say: “It has been moving to watch the response in China to
the July 11 death of renowned scholar, Ji Xianlin (1911-2009). While
Ji’s unsurprising departure at the ripe old age of 98 has not brought
quite the same flood tide in China as [say] Michael Jackson’s
unexpected death a few weeks earlier at age 50 [did] in the United
States” (or around the world) the manner in which this venerable
scholar is being remembered in Beijing is truly remarkable. The
Communist Party paid handsome tributes and leaders followed suit. Long
lines of people wishing to “pay their last respects waited for hours
to gain entrance to a memorial ceremony held on the Beijing University
campus where Ji taught”. The press was full of tributes “to the man
from academe.”

This is the other aspect that saddens me; the knowledge that Ji’s
death went almost entirely unnoticed in India. I certainly came across
no reference to it. And this made me reflect whether an “elderly
Indian scholar” would receive similar attention (or any) in India?

Ji was doubtless an outstanding scholar. His career was “noteworthy
for its singular achievements and cosmopolitan dimensions.” Originally
a student of Western literature at Quinghua University, Ji travelled
to Germany in 1935 for study. At the “University of Gottingen he moved
in a new direction, choosing to major in Sanskrit and other ancient
Indian languages under the direction of Ernst Waldschmidt and Emil
Sieg.” Ji received his Ph.D. in Germany and after World War II
returned to China where he took a position at Beijing University and
founded the Department of Eastern Languages. He chaired that
department for the next three decades and built it into one of the
most important academic departments and China’s premier centre for the
study of Eastern languages.

Ji’s greatest scholarly accomplishments were really in the realm of
“the history of Indian Buddhism and comparative linguistics.”
According to his former student Zhang Baosheng, now a professor in the
Department of Foreign Languages at Beijing University, Ji’s academic
achievements “represented the next wave of greatness within the long,
proud tradition of Chinese evidential scholarship.” Whereas Chen
Yinke, Ji’s patron and celebrated historian, used “literary works as a
means of verifying history”, Ji pioneered a method of “using
comparative linguistics to verify historical events and to track
changes over time.” Ji’s scholarly findings over the course of his
career won for him “academic prizes in India, Iran and Japan”.

In his later years, Ji had become a “living symbol of the ideal
Chinese scholar, and as such of a type of person who it is ever more
difficult to find in today’s fast-paced, money-crazed Chinese
society.” Here was a man who had been born and raised in “the old
society, who knew the classics, who had attained great fame and yet
who did not attempt to convert his glory into power, wealth, or
celebrity, who in fact talked down his achievements and continued to
work hard at his research as long as he was able.” He was not a
Confucian philosopher but he did come to be seen as a “Confucian sage”
who personified the committed life of the scholar. His integrity and
wisdom, not just his outstanding scholarly achievements, led to his
being recognised as a “national treasure,” though he himself rejected
such labels.

I pay my homage to this great Indologist from China.

(The writer is a Lok Sabha MP for the Bharatiya Janata Party and a
former External Affairs Minister.)

http://www.hinduonnet.com/2009/07/31/stories/2009073155721100.htm