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Amnesty & Human Rights Watch focus exclusively on human rights of non-Hindus, with exception of ‘dalits’. This excludes a large percentage of human rights violations on the mistaken assumption that rights violations in India can only take place by the ‘majority’ on the ‘minority’
Numbering at nearly 150 million, India may soon have the largest Muslim population in the world, which may also be considered a dominant minority in a land of minorities.
Article 29 & 30 of India’s constitution discriminates against Hinduism on the basis of religion. This constitutional loophole allows the state & central government to enact discriminatory laws, funding and programs which discriminate between citizens based on religious identity.
This loophole also allows the Supreme Court of India to grant discriminatory exemptions, like the RTE exemption to the government aided minority schools, to non-Hindus and dismiss Hindu appeals against discriminatory laws.
It is estimated that the governments have sold about 55% of the temple land. In some states, about 77% of the temple income is diverted to secular schemes like irrigation and anti-Hindu religious schemes like funding Madrassas and Churches.
Both, the Government and the Judiciary, have misused article 30 of the constitution of India and a host of other laws like RTE act, to skew the playing field in the private education sector against Hindus.
Central government allocated Rs. 17,232 crore i.e. $3.82 billion to non-Hindu schemes in the 12th five year plan 2012-2017. This amounts to an annual tax of Rs. 2757.12/taxpayer. A sizeable section of Christians and Muslims are tribal and OBC, respectively.
Therefore, in addition to Rs. 17232 crore, non-Hindus also receive equal benefit from Rs. 40,430 crore i.e. $8.98 billion allocated for welfare of targeted groups like Tribal, SC, OBC.
Central government as well as State governments of the many states have schemes specifically targeting the poor and needy of non-Hindu communities, while excluding the poor from Hindu community.
Central government schemes such as Naya Savera, Nai Udaan, Seekho Aur Kamao, Maulana Azad National Fellowship, Nai Manzil, and Nai Roshni are some of the examples.
127 Hindu leaders have been killed in the last 30 years in Tamil Nadu. The investigation of Tamil Nadu police into killings of Hindu leaders is lethargic, conviction is rare, media coverage sporadic and the government shows no zeal to ensure safety of Hindu leaders and activists.
Hundreds of Hindu temples have been confiscated and are mismanaged by the Tamil Nadu state government under Tamil Nadu Hindu Religious & Charitable Endowments Act XXII of 1959. Today, this draconian act controls 36425 temples, 56 mathas, 1,721 specific endowments and 189 trusts.
In the last 35 years, about 100,053 Indians died due to terrorism. 99.87% of these terror deaths have been due to terrorism with non-Hindu affiliation.
In the 25 year period between 1992 and 2017, at least 1,200 ancient idols from temples in Tamil Nadu have been stolen and smuggled out.
40 cases of targeted politically motivated attacks on Hindus has been documented in 2017 and 2018. In West Bengal alone, 331 people have been injured (44 of them hospitalized) in 139 incidents of violence related to panchayat polls in the state, and 1 person is missing.
