The defining core of us all is saffron — a Hindu India gave shelter to all the persecuted people of the world. We are a Hindu majority nation, hence we are the most democratic and secular. Attack this ethos, and you weaken the threads that hold India together. The pluralism, and a society that believes in a million fragrances of as many flowers of faith, can exist only in a Hindu majority framework — our neighbours would stand testimony to this.
Saffron is not just the first colour in our tricolour, it’s the colour of Mother India. Hindu nationalism was always identified with Bharat’s aspirations and her soul. Sri Aurobindo said that Sanatan Dharma, the eternal values denoted by Indian civilisation, is our nationalism. Nothing in India can be defined by taking Hindu dharma, the Sikh gurus, Mahavira or Buddha out of the Indian soul. They are all saffron.
You attack saffron only to attack Hindus. Colours are sacred. Union home minister P. Chidambaram should try attacking green. He will have to run for his life. They take only Hindus for granted.
The defining core of us all is saffron — a Hindu India gave shelter to all the persecuted people of the world. We are a Hindu majority nation, hence we are the most democratic and secular. Attack this ethos, and you weaken the threads that hold India together. The pluralism, and a society that believes in a million fragrances of as many flowers of faith, can exist only in a Hindu majority framework — our neighbours would stand testimony to this.
Mr Chidambaram was very clear when he used the word “saffron terror”. He wanted to wriggle out of the Sonia-Digvijay attack syndrome, and to prove his loyalty to them he had to attack his own dharma. He wanted to convey that because some of those caught in the alleged terror acts were Hindus, their actions can be termed as Hindu terror, and later he called it “saffron terror”. Hindu dharma has no exhortations to the youth to die for a sinful cause and get rewarded.
Should we say that because of a “tandoor case” involving a Congress leader, every rape and murder case should be known as “Congress terror”? We never termed terrorism in Punjab as Sikh terror. What an irony that a politician should have to plumb such depths to stay on in the corridors of power. Like it happened during Ghazni’s time or during the British, royalty would bestow “knighthoods” only on the yielding satraps. Bhagat Singh was hanged on the 
testimony of those Indians who were rewarded by the British. It hurts that even after centuries of resistance to foreign invaders, Hindus are made to feel low in their own nation.
Indira Gandhi would have never allowed this; she firmly showed her adherence to Hindu values. Under Mrs Sonia Gandhi’s rule, everything Hindu is being insulted and denounced.
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