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Justice Sachar Committee's gigantic political fraud-IV

V SUNDARAM

        JK Bajaj, an outstanding scholar and brilliant searcher, has produced an unanswerable critique of the fraudulent 'Injustice' 'Not-In-Justice' 'Never-In-Justice' 'Avoid Justice At All Costs' Sachar Committee Report under the title 'A Resurgent Muslim Community Asserts Itself: Sachar Committee provides the Forum'. I have no doubt that the anti-national, anti-Hindu, anti-Sanatana Dharma pseudo-secular vermin (not men !) mafia of print and electronic mass media in India would be scared away by the simple but brutal truths which can stand any judicial scrutiny even in III Class Court Of Law, so effectively brought out by J K Bajaj. In this context, it is my bounden national duty to remind our readers that it was J K Bajaj who had teamed up with A P Joshi and M D Srinivas who produced a landmark book under the title 'Religious Demography of India' in 2005, completely incorporating the data and information from the latest Census of India conducted in 2001. This book was published by Centre For Policy Studies, Chennai. Even a cursory reading of this book will clearly show that several parts of India would become Mini Pakistans like the Marxist planted Malappuram District in Kerala by 2100. The top men in the surrogate UPA Government in New Delhi and the petty men in the pseudo-secular mafia of mass media in India — all established measureless liars and Sonia-courtiers — are more worried about the introduction of 'Surya Namaskara' in schools in Madya Pradesh than about the ongoing dismemberment of India ( ! ) through the ruthless process of creation of more and more Mini Pakistans now being monitored closely every day and every moment from the PMO's office in New Delhi!

        I fully endorse the view of J K Bajaj, a fearless and outstanding scholar and researcher in this context: 'The Sachar Committee seems to have modelled itself on the lines of a non-governmental sectional advocacy group. Like most such NGOs, the Committee has selectively used and interpreted the enormous data it commanded to present the worst possible picture of the supposed disadvantage suffered by the object of its advocacy, in this case the Muslims of India. Where the data proves inflexible to such manipulation, and obviously shows an advantage in favour of the Muslims rather than disadvantage against them, the Committee offers peculiar interpretations or begins casting doubts on the data and suggests further study. Like the sectional advocacy NGOs, the Committee is so committed to the interests of its own object group ( Muslims only! ) that it sees all other groups in the society as competitors. Throughout the Report, the Committee seems to be minutely searching for instances where some other groups may have done somewhat better than the Muslims. Even in instances where the data indicates Muslims doing very well, the Report records a grouse that some other group, sometimes the Scheduled Castes, sometimes the Other Minorities, and almost always the Upper Caste Hindus, has done even better. The Committee does not even care to refrain from making snide remarks about the ways of other social and religious groups; the Report is littered with such uncharitable, and mostly irrelevant, remarks about Hindus'.

        I am summarising below the more important aspects of the condition of Muslims that the shameless Sachar Committee has looked at and the way it has handled the mischievously chosen data in these cases.

        POPULATION OF MUSLIMS

        The Sachar Committee begins by studying the population size, distribution and health conditions of Muslims in India. The significant aspects of this analysis are the following

        (a) Rising Share of Muslims in the Population

        One of the most significant facts about Muslims in India is that their population has been growing much faster than other communities. According to the census data compiled by the Committee, in the 40 years between 1961 and 2001, the population of Muslims has grown by 194 percent, while the total population of India has grown by only 134 percent. Consequently, the share of Muslims in the population has risen from 10.7 percent in 1961 to 13.4 percent in 2001. While presenting this data, the Sachar Committee emphasises the fact that during the last decade the absolute decline in the decadal growth in the Muslim population has been more than that of the total population; Muslim growth has come down from 32.9 percent in the previous decade to 29.5 percent during the last decade. I call this quasi-criminal political manipulation of statistics.

        The more important fact that emerges from the Census Data and which has been has been politically ignored with Islamic fervour is the growing gap in the growth rate of Muslims Vs Non-Muslims as percentage of the total population. This gap was of the order of about 15 percent in 1951-1961, it widened to about 25 per cent during 1961-71 and 1971-1981, and during the last two decades of 1981-1991 and 1991-2001, it has widened further to nearly 50 percent. The yawning gap in the growth of Muslims and others is very clearly visible in the Figure 3.1 that the Committee has provided; yet the Committee makes a patently wrong statement that the growth differential between Muslims and others has narrowed.

        (b) Higher Muslim Fertility

        The Committee, of course, finds that Muslims have the highest fertility amongst all major religious groups. One of the common measures of fertility is Total Fertility Rate (TFR), which measures the average number of live births by a woman over her lifetime. The TFR for Muslims is higher than the average by 0.7 to 1 points according to different data sources. The second National Family Health Survey, NHFS-2, estimates the TFR for Muslims at 3.6, while it is 2.9 for the total population of India, 2.8 for Hindus, 2.4 for Christians and 2.3 for Sikhs. The gap for Muslims and others is even higher according to the estimates of Census 2001.Thus even according to the best case political scenario sketched by the Islam-embracing Sachar Committee, the Muslim share in the Indian population is going to be twice what it was in 1951 following Partition. The Committee, of course, does not find it to be a matter of any concern. It refers to the often asked question about the time when the Muslim population will become the largest group, given the differential in the growth of Muslims and others. And the Committee offers the counter proposition: 'how does it matter which population is the largest?' J.K.Bajaj sums up with saffronized communal and pagan sarcasm (!!) : 'So, we have this Sachar Committee, with a self-image of a Muslim advocacy group and carrying the authority of the Indian state, telling the nation that it does not matter whether the mainstream of Indian civilisation survives or is extinguished as the mainstream'. Thus behind the sworn deadly enemy of Hinduism in general and all the silent Hindus of India in particular In-Justice Sachar — this repository of some of the most virulent hatreds that have ever corroded the human breast — looms large the defacto political authority of non-Hindu Sonia Gandhi and voluntarily embraced dejure imbecility of Dr.Manmohan Singh.

        (c) Lower Muslim Mortality

        The fact that Muslims have relatively high fertility is fairly well-known. What is not so well-known is the related fact that they also have relatively lower mortality. According to the data of the second National Family Health Survey (NFHS), Infant Mortality (IMR) amongst Muslims is 77 compared to 90 per thousand for the Hindus. This differential exists both in urban areas; urban IMR for Muslims is 51 compared to 64 for the Hindus; the corresponding numbers for rural areas are 90 and 97. Muslims show even more marked advantage in mortality amongst children below 5 years of age (U5MR). And, these lower mortality rates for Muslims are seen in all regions of India except the northeast.

        Thus on all measures of survival, Muslims seem to be doing better than others in India. They have higher fertility, lower infant mortality, lower child mortality, lower maternal mortality and better life-expectancy. And, their advantage on the measures of survival seems to have distinctly improved during the 1990s. The Sachar Committee is politically surprised, if not disturbed at this distinct advantage that Muslims have in terms of survival, in spite of their economically and otherwise disadvantaged position, which the Committee holds to be 'given' and has to be made known to the private political household of Sonia Gandhi and the public household of Dr.Manmohan Singh!

        As an officially paid spokesman of the dying Congress Party, Justice Sachar, politically aided by his Muslim advisers, talks like a prospective Congress candidate contesting in a Muslim majority constituency in the on-going Assembly Elections in UP!! Am I talking through my hat? No, definitely not. Let us hear the thawing words of Justice Sachar whose noble heart is moved to flights of pity and compassion by the pathetic plight of Muslims in India (which does not even exclude Union Cabinet Mister Antulay and Chief Minister Gulam Nabi Azad!): '....the Muslims carry a double burden of being labelled as 'anti national' and being 'appeased' at the same time; that for a large number of Muslim women in India today, the 'safe' space is within the boundaries of the home and community; that 'whenever any incident occurs Muslim boys are picked up by the police; that Muslims live with an inferiority complex as' every bearded man is considered an ISI agent; that social boycott of Muslims in certain parts of the country has forced them to migrate from places where they lived for centuries; that the perception of being discriminated against is overpowering amongst a wide cross-section of Muslims resulting in collective alienation; that the education system appears to have given up on Muslim girls; that the 'communal' content of school textbooks as well as the school ethos has been a major concern for the Muslims; and so on and so on'.

        That a high level Government Committee should indulge in such an elaborate listing of mere hearsay and rumours, to say the least is not only strange, but wickedly partisan, officially reprehensible and socially condemnable.

        (concluded)

        (The writer is a retired IAS officer)

        e-mail the writer at vsundaram@newstodaynet.com


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