Re: [IAC#RG] Law Commission seeks inputs on UCC

Dear Dr Kameswar Elangbam

I am gladdened that you had recognised that IAC is a non partisan, apolitical, powerful, courageous and highly patriotic group of Indians whose primary aim is nation state and country first without being hypocritical and double standard

I am touched that a person of your eminence has set the ball rolling and decided to make the arguments for UCC and please rest assured this matter will be debated thoroughly and publicly before IAC makes its submission. IAC has not decided its stand on UCC

If you still have any doubts that IAC does not listen to voice of
members, you may kindly revisit IAC's last such debate on "homosexuality"
http://www.iacwiki.in/index.php?n=Main.Homosexuality

However, simply posing rhetorical questions will get us nowhere.

The facts are that the present Central Govt is going into assembly elections in states where there are significant vote blocks of minority community. It suits some persons to polarise the votes and prop up many small parties to further split the vote. Therefore those parties with strong vote banks and dedicated cadres derive an advantage and get "waves" despite getting only about 25% to 30% of the vote.

Nonetheless, I will briefly answer your questions:

Q1) Let me ask you is there any country which practice laws against the constitution in the name of religious freedom.

A) This is irrelevant because the Constitution of India recognises that there is unity in our dIversity and it is India's Strength (not weakness) that we allow multiple religions to flourish as the Fundamental Right of every Citizen to practice and propagate his/her own religion. This unique feature of India is what distinguishes us from our neighbours like Pakistan .

My counter-query, do you want to make India into Pakistan by a UCC ?

Q2)  Any law which permits gender discrimination.

A2) UCC is already there in our country for every citizen who wants to avail it. However, these UCC laws are highly gender discriminatory and discriminate against men. Most of these UCC laws have been drafted by so-called feminist lawyers whose NGOs are funded by foreign Christian missionary organisations. So it is not clear to IAC why you are proposing that such gender discriminatory laws are retained and imposed on secular Indians. The Indian Penal Code is touted as a UCC law, then why do you have the obnoxious section 498A and UCC laws like Domestic Violence Act ?

Q3) Will the IAC experts suggest imposition of Sharia law for harshest punishment for rape, murder, thief, etc by instant justice to the accused by amputation, stoning, public hanging, public lashing etc to those whose freedom of religion is at stake.

A3) Such queries betray gross ignorance of the underlying arguments. IAC neither asks for Sharia law nor Chanakya niti (which is equally reprehensible) to be universally imposed on Indian citizens. IAC has repeatedly denounced all sants, babas, swamis, priests, maulvis, qazis and other self-appointed repositories of religion and strongly suggested they be strung up from the nearest lamp-post. Furthermore, IAC says that no religious book is a source of authority - whether it be the Veds or the Gita or the Koran or the Bible or the Talmud etc..

Q4)  Will you not comment about the anti national forces who enjoys the benefits of our country, eats shamelessly the taxpayers money, yet claims they are not Indians.

A4) Since the question is directed to me personally, I shall reply in my capacity as an "Acharya" of a major Indian religion with about 10 million adherents. a) If there is any controversy about my religion over my nation, I shall choose my religion without hesitation as my forefathers did before me b) The real controversy is between those who worship man-made idols and those who refuse to worship man-made idols. So on one side we have Brahmins, Sikhs, Muslims, atheists, non-caste "Hindus" and indigenous tribals (63% of India's population) versus lower-caste Hindus (especially the RSS 'banias') and Christians.

This is not a new debate I am raising since it goes to the very heart of "who is a Hindu ?"

So my counter-query to you - Do you worship idols ?

Q5)  Should we not up stand against those forces which are feared by the majority and so the consequences of India today and allow to continue in perpetuity.

A5) Sir, if you are referring to perpetuation of so-called "Sanatam Dharam", my personal answer is NO. We should embrace the essential good from all religions and reject what is divisive and false. We believe that every human has the capacity to distinguish right from wrong and to act accordingly (ie. Dharma / Righteousness). We do not accept that the State can snatch this precious "righteousness" away from us and arrogate it to itself, through laws or otherwise. Should it reach that stage, the 63% will reject the Constitution of India and there will be civil war and anarchy.
 

Respectfully

Sarbajit Roy

On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 9:49 AM, kameswar elangbam <dreksingh@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Sarbajit Roy,

I have been under under the impression that IAC is a non partisan, apolitical, powerful, courageous and highly patriotic group of Indians whose primary aim is nation state and country first without being hypocritical and double standard. I am extremely disappointed by the very fact of you and few others decided against UCC.
1) Let me ask you is there any country which practice laws against the constitution in the name of religious freedom.
2) Any law which permits gender discrimination.
3) Will the IAC experts suggest imposition of Sharia law for harshest punishment for rape, murder, thief, etc by instant justice to the accused by amputation, stoning, public hanging, public lashing etc to those whose freedom of religion is at stake.
4) Will you not comment about the anti national forces who enjoys the benefits of our country, eats shamelessly the taxpayers money, yet claims they are not Indians.
5) Should we not up stand against those forces which are feared by the majority and so the consequences of India today and allow to continue in perpetuity.

You need to be strong impartial and strife for removing these injustices prevailing for decades by the sheer stupidity of our past leaders and some present day vote bank politicians who may mortgage the country for power. If we consider ourselves unique speak out against past wrong doings regardless of being politically incorrect be so, in the larger interest of the country.

I am terribly disappointed I thought this is one such platform to do something for all countrymen irrespective of caste, religion and despite huge diversity.

Dr K S Elangbam