HINDUS OF INDIA, PLEASE WAKE UP! IT IS NOT THE JUDICIARY BUT THE LEGISLATURES ALONE THAT CAN REALLY HELP REALISE THE CAUSE OF YOUR TEMPLES!
Suhrith Parthasarathy’s article in THE HINDU Hindu today (April 22) is a well written early-warning to ordinary people like me that the prime objective of the Hindus of India to win full freedom for their temples and places of religious worship from Government —- and from the society of venal, so-called “secular” politicians too — does not lie in pursuing judicial means . There is only one hope for them….. It can only be secured through an act of the legislature.
His article clearly shows that the fraternity of “Constitutionalists” in India will do everything they can to stoutly defend to their very last breath their diehard position that the Temple and the State cannot be separated, and that so long as Article 25 and 26 of the Indian Constitution continue to be read and interpreted according to the way they have, in their own wisdom, specially determined and interpreted to be, the Hindu temple cannot .. and should not … be freed from governmental regulation and interference .
A new law to bring amendments to the constitution and ushering in such untrammelled religious freedom for the Hindu is the only way out for the majority community in this country to win their cause.
Even in 2024, in the unlikely event of the Hindu party of BJP winning a landslide majority in both Parliaments — and succeeding in enacting too a new law to liberate temples from the clutches of the government — I for one fear that Constitutional pundits and activists like Suhrith Parthasarathy and his tribe will immediately challenge then such amendments to law in the Supreme Court again. They will go crying hoarse that the amendment is violative of their holiest of “holy cow” legal-gospels viz.:, “the basic structure of the Indian constitution “!
That legal challenge will be supported of course by a motley crowd of shrill champions of “secularism” in India — who today regularly make a cottage-industry out of their pet cause of “defending the constitution” … Prashant Bhushan will lead it … and be ably followed by intellectuals such as for example Karan Thapar , Barkha Dutt , Ramachandra Guha … why even T M Krishna and Kamal Hassan perhaps … in fact by the whole of the Lutyens Delhi brigade that has its chapters and affiliates today spread all across India , including Chennai.
Sushrith Parthasarathy’s article helps me really understand where the battle lines are being drawn in the long and tortuous battle that lies ahead of the Hindus of India to win for themselves their fundamental right of worship and their right to self-manage their own temples . The civilisational and cultural divide that looms large today in our country could not have been more starkly portrayed than by this article penned by one of the most brilliant and articulate young legal minds in Chennai today .
Suhrith Parthasarathy I must say I am personally really very fond of… He is a damned good constitutional lawyer , there’s no doubt about it .. but it’s his clients who I find that I don’t and won’t want to care a damn for.
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