Lalit Shastri

The Indian National Congress, since the days of Jawaharlal Nehru, has systematically pursued policies that weakened the foundational civilisational strength of India by disproportionately favouring minority interests, particularly Muslim, while actively undermining the Hindu majority.

At the heart of this betrayal lies Article 25 of the Constitution. While it ostensibly guarantees freedom of religion, Nehru’s interpretation of it effectively privileged minorities. The Hindu majority — the cultural bedrock of India — found itself burdened with governmental interference in religious practices, even as minority communities were granted unrestricted freedoms to manage their religious affairs.

More egregious still are Articles 29 and 30. These provisions allow minorities exclusive rights to establish and administer educational institutions while Hindus, bizarrely defined as the ‘majority’, were left grappling with government regulations and discriminatory practices against their own cultural and religious educational institutions.

Nehru’s assault on Hindu religious autonomy became even more apparent with the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments (HRCE) Act, 1951. Under this Act, major Hindu temples, including Tirupati Balaji — among the most sacred pilgrimage sites — were brought under direct government control. Temple revenues, traditionally used for religious and charitable purposes within the Hindu community, were now appropriated by the State. Yet mosques, churches, and other minority religious establishments remained untouched. The message was stark: Hindu institutions were fair game; minority institutions were sacrosanct.

The betrayal deepened with the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991 — a sinister move disguised as promoting communal harmony. It froze the religious character of all places of worship as they existed on August 15, 1947, effectively legalising historical wrongs inflicted on Hindus during centuries of invasion, carnage, bloodbath, displacement of vast populations – the largest in human history – and forced conversions. With this Act, Congress ensured that Hindus could never reclaim their desecrated sites, even as other communities faced no such shackles.

The damage done during the Emergency (1975–77) under Indira Gandhi was even more devastating. With opposition leaders jailed and democratic processes suspended, the word “Secular” was cynically inserted into the Preamble of the Constitution — not as a genuine commitment to religious neutrality, but as a political tool to suppress Hindu identity while promoting minority appeasement. It was an act of political deceit, executed when the very custodians of democracy had been thrown behind bars.

Congress’s record in Jammu and Kashmir stands as further indictment. Article 370 cemented separatism, while open political support to secessionists, terrorists, and Hurriyat elements — especially under Rajiv Gandhi’s compromised leadership — emboldened anti-India forces. In the 1989 carnage, when Hindus were slaughtered and driven out of their ancestral homeland, the Congress remained mute spectator, failing to uphold the constitutional promise of security and dignity to all citizens.

The Congress’s dangerous trajectory continued during UPA-I and UPA-II (2004–2014), led by Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh. Rather than course-correct, they pandered even more blatantly to Islamist interests. The Waqf Act and its 2013 Amendment expanded the already bloated powers of Waqf Boards, allowing them to claim lands across India with little oversight, while no similar provision existed for Hindu religious bodies. This legislative weaponisation systematically dispossessed Hindus from their own lands.

What becomes clear is this:
The Congress is not merely blind — it is wilfully complicit. It has deliberately shut its eyes to the existential threat posed by Islamic terror, choosing instead to cuddle jihadi elements for votes and short-term political gains.

Today, Congress no longer even pretends to represent India’s civilisational ethos. It has morphed into a force that is diabolically anti-India and anti-Hindu. Its leadership has no emotional, cultural, or moral connect with the Hindu masses whose ancestors fought and preserved India’s identity against centuries of brutal assault.

The Congress cannot and must not be forgiven.
Its betrayal is too deep, its consequences too severe.
It stands exposed — not as a benign political party, but as a historical enabler of cultural erasure, civilisational distortion, and national disintegration.