PONDA: On the second day of the All India Hindu Convention underway at Ramnathi in Ponda, prominent Hindus expressed their views on 'Condition of foreign Hindus and remedies thereon'.

Hindus, who attended the convention, demanded that the Hindus from Bharat (India) should become active for foreign Hindus.

Swami Kumaranand, Hindu Dharmaguru from Malaysia and Sri Lanka, said the Hindus in Bharat themselves can establish the 'Hindu Nation'. "To achieve this, the Hindus should awakeand elect dharma-based rulers," he said.
He further said that minority Hindus in foreign countries fight for their rights; however, the majority of Hindus in Bharat do not fight for their rights. "This is a strange riddle. The Bharatiya rulers can take prompt decisions on matters related to cricket, films and wealth; however, they do not take decision on Hindu problems," he added.
The account of alleged atrocities on Hindus in Bangladesh was presented by Ravindra Ghosh of 'Bangladesh Minority Watch' through slide-show and video-audio cassette.

"Fanatic Muslims are heaping inhuman atrocities on minority Hindus in Bangladesh. Hindu girls are kidnapped and converted. Fanatic Muslims force Hindu girls into marriage. The girls are also raped and killed," he alleged, narrating examples.

"While Hindu houses and temples were razed, the rulers, the police and the administration cannot stop these atrocities. The Hindu population that was 28 per cent at the time of partition is now just 8.5 percent," Ghosh said.
He expressed anguish that despite taking up the issue with the UN, no one takes cognizance of this. He said that he feared in future, the Hindus in Bangladesh will be wiped out.

"The three-and- half crore Hindus in Bangladesh have been displaced and have migrated to Bharat. Now there are only 2 crore Hindus in Bangladesh. Both do not get necessary facilities in Bharat and Bangladesh. No one addresses their issues. The Bangladesh Hindus should have their own homeland," demanded Upanand Brahmachari, editor of website 'Hindu Existence' while giving the review of the mission of 'Nikhil Bangiya Nagarik Sangh'.

He said, "The number of Rohingya Muslims displaced from Myanmar is counted; but the displaced Hindus in Bangladesh are not counted." He demanded that the Hindus be declared displaced and given rights as per international law." Jagadbahadur Thapa of 'Hindu Rashtra Nepal Vedic Samyawadi Sanghatana' said that Nepal, where the Hindus are 81 percent has been declared a secular nation by the communists in the interim constitution.

To oppose this, the Hindu Rashtra Nepal Vedic Samyawadi Sanghatana will stage a 'Nepal Bandh' agitation from June 26 to June 28.

"If the government fails to take cognizance of this, we will stage an agitation and bandh for an indefinite period," Thapa said.

"The Hindus in Bharat should help us for this. In every temple in Bharat, the bell should be rung for one hour. We will never accept the secular constitution. Nepal was a Hindu nation earlier, is so now, and will remain so in future also," said Thapa.

While narrating the problems of Tamil Hindus in SriLanka, Arjun Sampath, founder of 'Hindu Makkal Katchhi' in Tamil Nadu said the Tamils in Sri Lanka are not only Tamils, but are Hindus first. "The media mentions them as Tamils and creates misunderstanding. Sri Lanka is not only anti-Tamil Hindus, but also an enemy of India," he said.

"Sri Lanka has been consistently helping Pakistan. In a war between Pakistan against Bharat, Sri Lanka had helped Pakistan. Now China is rendering economic and military help to Sri Lanka. Bharat also provides military help to Sri Lanka. The Hindus should now help the Tamil Hindus in Sri Lanka,"Sampath said.

The Superintendent of Excise and Customs, New Delhi, Nahar Singh, furnished information on the condition of Hindus in Pakistan.

Ashwinikumar Chhrungu of Panun Kashmir Sanghatana expressed concern over the problems of Hindus in Kashmir.

Source: The Times of India, dt. Jun 8, 2013.