Dr Togadia spends Hindu New Year with Hindus from Pak
New Delhi, April 11, 2013
Over 480 Hindus who were tortured
& faced genocidal brutalities in Pakistan
are staying in Delhi
for last few months. VHP & many other Hindu organizations have been helping
them with shelter, food, clothes, day to day needs, utensils, medicines etc.
More importantly Hindus from Pak need security & dignity in Bharat rather
than every month worrying about their visa extension. Govt of India has
extended their visa but only for a month. VHP & many Hindu organizations
have been making representation for Hindus from Pak to get citizenship status
with every right to education, health & all such securities.
While doing all this, another
significant aspect of human life gets missed out & that is their emotional
trauma. Little kids have seen their elder sisters & mothers being taken
away by the Isamists. Young small shop keepers have lost their hard earned
little income to extortion at the gun point. Even to celebrate Hindu festivals,
these Hindus had to be worried.
Today Hindu New Year. Dr Pravin
Togadia spent his time with these Hindu families from Pak. He gave the little
kids drawing books & colours & said, “After making basic needs like
food, shelter, clothes etc available to them, it is essential that the families
express themselves. At least kids can draw their feelings. Their childhood
needs to be made happy in Bharat.”
Hindu New Year sweets were also
given to them & Dr Togadia silently listened to the memories of the Hindus
from Pak. The old were in tears remembering glorious times before partition,
the middle ages with their lost precious years were hoping to get better lives
for their young sons & daughters; mothers had agony in their voice when
they told of the horrible abductions of their young daughters. Youth had new
dreams of a better life in Hindusthan which they say is their ‘Maa’.
Dr Togadia said, “My heart is
filled with all emotions – sorrow, agony, anger for what these great Hindus
faced & also joy that I am here with them for Hindu New Year. They did not
give up their Hindu Dharma despite such atrocities & hats off to them.
While minority in Bharat behaves as if they are the first class citizens of
Bharat & Hindu majority here is treated as the secondary citizens, in
Pakistan Hindu minority faces genocidal brutalities! They were forced to run
away to Bharat. In coming June, VHP will get the kids admitted in schools here.
The women will be helped with cottage industry type of work & the youth
will be given jobs in industries etc. No way these Hindus in Delhi
or from any other parts of Bharat (even in Rajasthan, Gujarat some Hindu
families have come in from Pakistan)
will go back to Pakistan.
While we demand Govt to care for them & make Pakistan (& Bangla Desh)
implement Nehru-Liaquat treaty to protect minority rights, we will do
everything possible to help them assimilate in Bharat with dignity &
respect. We will ensure ‘Hindu Ahead.”
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