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        In my view the time has come to relay and broadcast the wake up call given by the Patriots' Forum, New Delhi, across the country to highlight the fraud being perpetrated on the Indian people by the UPA Government by using the petty, puerile, partisan and pernicious INJUSTICE (!)Sachar Committee's Report for winning a few seats in the on going Assembly Elections in UP. Prima facie, the mainstream English print media and TV media have joined hands with Justice Sachar and Dr. Sharrif to spread the vilest form of politically orchestrated falsehood far and wide in modern Indian history.

        In these columns yesterday, I had pointed out that Insolent INJUSTICE (!) Sachar Committee's Report contains innumerable instances of suppressio veri, suggestio falsi, which have been clearly documented and presented by the R K Ohri, IPS (Retd), Secretary General, Think-tank of the Patriots' Forum, New Delhi in their rejoinder to Sachar Committee. A copy of their Rejoinder was sent to Justice Sachar by R K Ohri, IPS (Retd), Secretary General, Patriots Forum, on 29 January 2007 and copies were endorsed to the Prime Minister, Minister for Minority Affairs, Home Minister and several government functionaries, as also Shri L K Advani, Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha. Justice Sachar was 'humbly' requested to clarify patented falsehood pointed by them and he was also requested to join for a discussion on any public platform. It is a matter of national shame and national disgrace that neither Justice Sachar, nor the Secretary of his Committee Dr Abu Saleh Sharrif, nor the Prime Minister's Office, nor the Minorities Minister, nor the Home Minister, nor the Home Secretary, have cared to send any reply till today (!) to the Rejoinder (which can stand any ordinary Judicial scrutiny based on Equity, Natural Justice, and Fair Play) presented by R K Ohri, Secretary General, Patriots' Forum on 29 January 2007. Are not these Islam-embracing and Hindu-hating VVIPs (!!), shining symbols of fraudulent and sanctimonious humbug, guilty of gross dereliction of their allotted public duties? Do they view public acts of shame as highly secular, non-communal and honourable and public acts of honour as highly non-secular, communal, and dishonourable?

        There was a symposium on 25 February 2007 at India International Centre to which Justice Sachar was invited. But he did not come, nor did he dare to send his Man Friday, Dr Abu Saleh Sharrif, who wrote that false document (containing worst deception ever practiced in the history of post independent India) to befool the somnolent Hindu leadership and take the gullible Hindus for a ride. I am presenting below a few extracts from the SUMMARY OF REJOINDER OF PATRIOTS FORUM:

        'In a country teeming with the poor and the indigent there could be no justification for appointing a Committee exclusively to look into the socio-economic and educational backwardness of one single community, namely the Muslims, who in terms of many human development indicators are better placed than the Hindus. In accordance with the Notification dated 9 March, 2005, the Sachar Committee had invited representations from all interested groups by issuing advertisements in newspapers. The Committee was further required to conduct 'an intensive literature survey to identify the published data, articles and research on relative social, economic and educational status of Muslims in India', as reiterated in Para 2 (a) of the aforesaid notification'.

        'Sachar Committee, however, failed on both counts. It took no notice of the detailed facts-packed Memorandum submitted by our Forum on 18 May 2006 (after the original one was lost in Committee's office) and despite a written assurance given to our Forum vide their letter dated 5 October, 2005, did not consider our Memorandum. Six reminders were never replied to. The Committee did not take into account many important documents, especially the 2 off-beat seminar papers read on 2 September, 2006, by Shri R K Ohri and Prof. Sanjay Kumar (Fellow of Centre for Study of Developing Societies) in a Seminar held in the prestigious Indian Institute of Public Administration which highlighted the fact that the Muslim community was not disadvantaged at all vis-a-vis Hindus. The findings of two researched seminar papers established that actually the proportion of 'very poor' people was higher among Hindus than among Muslims. This fact has been confirmed now by the latest survey conducted by NSS which showed that the poorest 10 percent population of India lives in rural areas on a pittance of Rs 9 per day. On pro rata basis it would mean that 74 percent of these les miserable happen to be Hindus. The proportion of the poorest in Hindu community comes to 13.6 percent, while among Muslims it is 10.5'.

        'The Committee, despite harping repetitively on its pet theme of Muslim poverty, dare not delve deep into the true reasons for this globally prevalent malaise, namely the high birth rate and poor female work participation, as established by our research. The intention obviously is to hide from the gullible public the knowledge about the politically inconvenient truth of abnormally high birth rate and poor female work participation in Muslim community'.

        More than 800 millions of deemed 'impotent' Hindus in absolute majority in India would like to democratically challenge the Anti-Hindu Government in New Delhi and ask the reasonable question as to who authorised the INJUSTICE (!) Sachar Committee not to give a public hearing to R K Ohri, IPS (Retd), Secretary General, Patriots' Forum, New Delhi and its Members during the last 2 years? If only the Members of this Forum had been Islamic terrorists from peace loving Pakistan or Bharat-embracing Bangladesh, they would have been treated as VVIPs and invited for a dialogue as a sacredly secular part of the on going Peace Process by all the busy bodies of Government of India.

        Shailesh Dobhal and Bhanu Pande in their article titled 'Hindu, Muslim equal in income' in Economic Times on 5 April 2007 have woken up the people of India to the following stark facts in these words:

        'Forget all half-baked opinions you may have heard on the economic state of religious communities in India. Truth be told, at the national level, Hindus and Muslims are closer than you thought as far as average household income, expenditure, savings and even ownership of select consumer goods go. In fact, in rural India, the gap between the two communities' narrows appreciably and even reverses in some cases in favor of Muslims. Not surprisingly, the Sikhs are the most prosperous lot in India, with highest household income, expenditure and ownership of cars, two-wheelers, TV sets and refrigerators. Christians and other smaller communities don't lag too far behind either'.

        Shailesh Dobhal and Bhanu Pande have come to this conclusion after taking note of the first ever exercise mapping the economic contours of different religious communities in India. Rajesh Shukla has presented the following statement relating to the Average annual household income (Rs At 2004-05 prices) in the light of the National Council of Applied Economic Research's (NCAER) data analysis from its National Survey of Household Income and Expenditure (2004-05). The survey collected primary data from a sample of approximately 63,000 households out of preliminary listed sample of 4,40,000 households spread over 1,976 villages (250 districts) and 2,255 urban wards (342 towns) covering 64 National Sample Survey (NSS) regions in 24 states/UTs.

        Shailesh Dobhal and Bhanu Pande have concluded that Marketers planning an ethnographic pitch to grab mindshare or policy makers preparing ground for affirmative action may do good to remember that an average Muslim household, at the national level, spends more than a Hindu one, with annual household routine expenditure (AHRE) at Rs 40,327 compared to Rs 40,009 for the latter. Sikh household AHRE is highest at Rs 60,475 with Christians at Rs 45,291. In rural India, Muslim AHRE (Rs 33,711) is higher than Hindu (Rs 32,555) and compares well with Christian (Rs 38,068).

        Penetration of cars is highest among Sikhs (17.3 per cent households), followed by Christians (10.95 per cent). In rural India and Muslim households have an edge on not just AHRE, but even car ownership (2.6 per cent versus 2.4 per cent of Hindu households). The only oddity in ownership between Hindus and Muslims is on television, with national penetration at 62.8 per cent and 54 per cent, respectively. Even rural Muslim household lag here with penetration of just 39.1 per cent compared to 52 per cent for the majority community.

        Justice Sachar Committee was a highly empowered Committee and it had the power to seek and obtain all possible assistance and information from all Ministries/ Departments and other bodies under the Government. The Committee thus was, for all practical purposes, an organ of the Indian State. And yet this disgraceful Committee, founded on the long established Congress principle of political jobbery and communal nepotism shown to chosen court favourites and eunuchs, functioned only as an election agent of the Congress party to gather Muslim votes. The wretched report on the Social, Economic and Educational Status of the Muslims of India that the Justice Sachar Committee has submitted with Islamic fervour, however, hardly reads like an objective Official Document expected of such a high body, in fact from any body of the State, high or low.