Like many in India, Karan Thapar of late realises and acknowledges the hypocracy of Congress Party. Mr. Thapar,
in this
article, clearly brings out the true colour of Mrs. Sonia Gandhi and her Congress Party. Congress Party, which has opposed the Hindutva Policy of the BJP and its allies, plays the role of Brutus and stabbed as many as 10,000 Himachal Pradesh christians by passing an anti-
conversion bill in Himachal Pradesh.
Mr. Thapar wonders then the reason behind their opposal for Mrs. Jayalalitha''s same anti-conversion Bill. Further he wonders why did Mrs. Gandhi didnot reply the repeated representations from the Indian Christian community
Archbishop Concessao wrote: “This is certainly the last thing that the citizens, particularly the minorities, expected from the Congress … (it) contradicts the integrity and the stand of Congress on this issue”. In his letter Abraham Mathai, the vice president of the Maharashtra Minorities Commission, said: “I request you to use your good offices with the Himachal Pradesh government to withdraw this Bill which seeks to strangulate the spirit of freedom.”(AS QUOTED IN HIS ARTICLE).
Further Mr. Thapar writes that her later reply to them,
In July 2006, when John Dayal of the All India Christian Council wrote to Sonia Gandhi about the anti-conversion acts passed by BJP governments, she replied: “The Congress party’s views on this are well-known. However these are enactments passed by state legislatures where the Congress is in Opposition. The Congress has opposed them strongly.”(AS QUOTED IN HIS ARTICLE).
clearly shows how distant she has become to the chiristian community from which she had come by calling herself a Hindu.
All these above facts show how typically an Indian Politician she is and what is the real condition of Indian Secularism and how dependant it is on the Indian Vote Bank .