Shri Ram Sena

PRESS STATEMENT OF SHRI ASHOKJI SINGHAL
INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT-VHP

Subject: COUNTRYWIDE 2-HOUR CHAKKA JAM ON 13TH AUGUST TO PRESS FOR RESTORATION OF AMARNATH LAND TO & ENSURING AUTONOMY FOR
AMARNATH SHRINE BOARD


COIMBATORE Camp, August 11, 2008:

The Hindu Bharat is behind the people of Jammu in their fight for the restoration of the land to the Amarnath Shrine Board and ensuring autonomy for the Shrine Board to manage the affairs of the Yatra and rituals at the Shrine. We warn the Government of India not to try to appease the Jihadis who are out to partition the country again. The whole country will lay down its life but never allow the re-vivisection of the country.

The Hindus in the entire country are united on this issue of Amarnath Shrine. They have already exhibited their solidarity through the programme of "Bharat Bandh" on 03.07.2008. The Government of India cannot take the Hindus for granted and impose their dictates on them. The Government should remember that the agitation in Jammu is a mass movement of the Hindus under the guidance of Shri Amarnath Yatra Sangharsh Samiti. No political party or group can own the agitation. The mass agitation of the Hindus of Jammu region is a result of long drawn discrimination against the Hindus of Jammu. The Shrine Board issue came as a breaking point and took a turn of massive Hindu reaction. Today is the 47th day and there are no signs of ceasing of the movement and it will continue until the demands are met.

The Hindus have absolute rights to safeguard, administer and provide facilities to the pilgrims of Amarnath Shrine. Hindus are a minority in the Jammu & Kashmir State, and as such have rightful claims to the minority rights as guaranteed by the Constitution of the land that have been confirmed by the Supreme Court of India for each State separately. Hindus have to constitute the Shrine Board without the interference of the Government.

The Muslims in the entire length & breadth of Bharat have been enjoying fullest freedom to administer their Waqf property, their institutions, colleges and their pilgrimages without any interference from the Government. The Government of India has to answer the country as to why they have been spending hundreds of crores of rupees to subsidize Haj pilgrimages to Mecca, build & maintain Haj Houses all over the country and pay thousands of Imams in this country from the Hindu tax payers' money? They have no explanation to give to Hindus about this blatant discrimination.

If the Government of India d oes not restore the Amarnath Shrine Board according to the wishes of the Sangharsh Samiti and restore the entire 40 hectares of land to the Shrine Board, the entire country will be engulfed in a mass Hindu movement. The Shri Amarnath Yatra Sangharsh Samiti has decided to hold a two-hour CHAKKA JAM (Road Roko/Jam the Wheels) on the 13th of August, 2008 from 09.00 A.M. to 11.00 A.M. to enlist the country's solidarity with the movement.

If the tiny RAM LALA could shake the entire country, the Amarnath Shiva, Ramsetu and the Rameswaram Shiva have the capacity to shake the entire country. It is not a matter of superstition, it is a matter of faith of the 100 crore Hindus that the so-called secularists.