Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) has condemned the passing of a resolution in a Dharam Sansad held at Prayagraj in February this year to make India a “Hindu Rashtra” and floated the idea of a constitution.
In a press release, NPCC president K Therie claimed that the first draft of the constitution of Hindu Rashtra or Hindu nation stated that Varanasi would replace New Delhi as the country’s capital. Besides, there was a proposal to build a Parliament of Religions in Kashi (Varanasi), while also proposing that Muslims and Christians would enjoy all the rights of a common citizen barring the right to vote. Further, every citizen would be given compulsory military training and agriculture would be made completely tax-free, he added.
He strongly condemned the draft that attempted to smother fundamental rights of Christians, Muslims and other minorities. He alleged that the serious endeavour to establish a Hindu nation with the contribution of seers and scholars had once again underlined the groundwork being executed to establish a Hindu nation with little or no regard for Christians, Muslims and other minorities.
Therie wondered how they could propose to strip citizens of their voting rights because they were minorities, asserting that such feudal ideas had no place in the world arena. Under the current regime, he feared that Christians, Muslims and other minorities would be reduced to soldiers and peasants.
He declared that Nagaland could not be a part of such a constitution and called upon secular-minded MLAs and MPs to wake up and defend secularism by withdrawing their support and denouncing the draconian draft
