Missionary agenda of YSR: From the horse's mouth
There are always allegations about the missionary zeal of the Christian Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Y.S Rajasekhara Reddy or commonly known as YSR. But many times due to absence of hard evidence, these are often discarded as nothing more than chest-thumping.
For people who believe only in “evidences” here it is. I have collected all the Government Orders (GO) by the Government of AP allotting funds to various Churches in AP. My source of information is no secret either. It is the online portal of Govt of AP listing all the GOs it issued (the government portals are treasure houses of information; you just have to know how to dig out what you need). You can see the data in this page:
http://suryassk.googlepages.com/AP_GOs.htm
People are welcome to cross-check the information I have given from the GO portal (it also have the scanned forms in PDF form for more info if you wish) if they find what I wrote here hard to believe.
The following is the summary of the data from that sheet:
1. The GO portal is active only from February 2008, hence the data I have given is only of 1 year (ie., Feb 2008 to Jan 2009). Note that although vast, it is by no means comprehensive (ie., I have shown Govt 263.07 lakhs to Christian institutions. This amount is the minimum spent on them, not the maximum).
2. But even for a single year, an amount of 263.07 lakhs was given as aid to various Christian institutions.
3. More than 258 churches benefited from these grants for construction/renovation of churches.
4. An amount of 1316.54 lakhs was given as aid to various Muslim institutions through Wakf boards.
5. Not a single GO granting any aid to a Hindu temple can be found. This in spite of the fact that in AP, the Hindu temples are managed by the Endowments Ministry (put it simply they take all the money which the temples generate).
6. Govt takes away all the money which Hindu temples generate, but do not grant a single penny to any of its temples. It does not touch the money from Christian and Muslim institutions, but grants them huge amounts of money.
I have always argued that the “Missionary Charity” is just a myth. These new evidence only reinforce my earlier points. I do not want to waste more words how the Christian CM of AP is perusing his missionary zeal not just through individual actions, but also through direct grants from the Government of AP. As I said, the facts speak louder. Let the reader judge for himself.
PS: Special thanks to my friend Sandeep Verma and blogger barbarianindians for getting my attention to this aspect.
For people who believe only in “evidences” here it is. I have collected all the Government Orders (GO) by the Government of AP allotting funds to various Churches in AP. My source of information is no secret either. It is the online portal of Govt of AP listing all the GOs it issued (the government portals are treasure houses of information; you just have to know how to dig out what you need). You can see the data in this page:
http://suryassk.googlepages.com/AP_GOs.htm
People are welcome to cross-check the information I have given from the GO portal (it also have the scanned forms in PDF form for more info if you wish) if they find what I wrote here hard to believe.
The following is the summary of the data from that sheet:
1. The GO portal is active only from February 2008, hence the data I have given is only of 1 year (ie., Feb 2008 to Jan 2009). Note that although vast, it is by no means comprehensive (ie., I have shown Govt 263.07 lakhs to Christian institutions. This amount is the minimum spent on them, not the maximum).
2. But even for a single year, an amount of 263.07 lakhs was given as aid to various Christian institutions.
3. More than 258 churches benefited from these grants for construction/renovation of churches.
4. An amount of 1316.54 lakhs was given as aid to various Muslim institutions through Wakf boards.
5. Not a single GO granting any aid to a Hindu temple can be found. This in spite of the fact that in AP, the Hindu temples are managed by the Endowments Ministry (put it simply they take all the money which the temples generate).
6. Govt takes away all the money which Hindu temples generate, but do not grant a single penny to any of its temples. It does not touch the money from Christian and Muslim institutions, but grants them huge amounts of money.
I have always argued that the “Missionary Charity” is just a myth. These new evidence only reinforce my earlier points. I do not want to waste more words how the Christian CM of AP is perusing his missionary zeal not just through individual actions, but also through direct grants from the Government of AP. As I said, the facts speak louder. Let the reader judge for himself.
PS: Special thanks to my friend Sandeep Verma and blogger barbarianindians for getting my attention to this aspect.
posted by Surya S at 12:00 AM
2 Comments:
It's just in the morning the very today that this topic came up while I was talking to one of my colleagues. And I said exactly the same as you did: there is a great endowments department to take away all the money from temples, but the very department dares not touch churches or mosques. It's only that I did not have any proof to show, like the one you showed! Great job, dear Surya.
ఎంత దారుణం. ఇటువంటి విషయాలు ప్రముఖంగా వార్తాపత్రికల మూలంగా ప్రజలందరికీ తెలియాలి. అప్పుడైనా వై యస్ ఆర్ గారు దారిలోకొస్తారేమో. లేకపోతే మా పార్టీ గెలిచింది కాబట్టి మేం ఏం చేసినా రైటే అంటారేమో.
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