● Year – 1 ● Issue – 5 ● April 2014 ● Buddhist Voice ● www.buddhistvoice.com ● Email: [email protected] 1 Content Editor’s Voice 3 World’s First International Columns Buddhist E-Magazine From The Critical Quest……………............... Goldy George 7 Land of Buddha Conscience Speaks………………... Vivek Sakpal 14 Motivational Guru Says...….……... Mahendra Ingle 17 April 2014 Year - 1 Issue - 5 Articles – Buddhism Chief Editor Buddha’s Teaching & Nationalism.. Prof. Sudhakar Pawar 18 Anil Yadavrao Gaikwad 10 Mistakes Meditation Practitioners Ven. Edo Shonin 22 Buddha Or Karl Marx …………… Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar 25 Editorial Committee Ms. Anita Bharati Articles - Social Issues Goldy George Dalits and Buddhism ……………… Pratap Tambay 30 Vidhya Bhushan Rawat Coup against Indian constitution….. Vidya Bhushan Rawat 31 Manas Jena Hindus: Alternative History- Banned Ram Puniyani 36 Mandelaism and Gandhism.............. 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Address for Correspondence Orientation Programme for Monks .. 62 Buddhist Voice Your Voice B-62, Yamuna, Sector - 3 Social Media Voice.......................... 63 Srishti Complex, Mira Road (East) Readers’ Voice……………………. 65 District Thane, Maharashtra State, India, Pin 401104 Contact +91-9321141819 Email : [email protected] For Private Circulation only. www.buddhistvoice.com The views & opinions expressed by the authors are their individual opinions & do not represent the views of the Editorial Team. ● Year – 1 ● Issue – 5 ● April 2014 ● Buddhist Voice ● www.buddhistvoice.com ● Email: [email protected] 2 Editor’s Voice Greetings on the occasion of 123rd Dr. Babasaheb during last ten years as compared to Gujarat. Ambedkar Jayanti –14th April, 2014. Modi’s role in the Gujarat riots or failure to control the riots during his tenors as Chief Minister has Yes, we are back, after a gap of 5 months. On always been looked with suspicion. During Modi’s account of few technical reasons, we could not interview with Mr. Karan Thaper3 for a TV Channel, release Buddhist Voice since November 2013. he avoided all the questions related to Gujarat Riots. Therefore, in case Mr. Modi becomes Prime Minster Its election time in India and the entire country is of India, the minorities in India fear that India may witnessing an election wave. The general elections in not remain a true secular country during his tenor. the country are being held in 10 phases. The If Modi voted to 2/3rd majority in this election, there country has voted in first five phases and remaining might be considerable damage to the basic structure five phases are on the way. It appears that the of the Parliamentary Democracy in India. No doubt, entire print, electronic, social and visual media is BJP or Mr. Modi will have to win at least 50% seats promoting BJP, sorry, Mr. Narendra Damodardas so that Mr. Modi can become the Prime Minister of Modi, the Prime Ministerial candidate of BJP. The India, else it will be difficult for BJP to garner any world’s largest parliamentary democracy is in support for Mr. Modi as PM from NDA partners or danger as the right wing wants to convert it into even within BJP. Presidential Form of Governance. It is, therefore, not shocking that Mr. Modi is being projected as the Falling Vote Share of the Ruling Parties and Prime Ministerial candidate and the votes are being Coalition asked on Mr. Modi’s name. There is no talk about It can be observed from the past elections that the party ideology. It is evident from BJP’s slogan “Ab ki winning party is slowly losing the actual vote base. Baar Modi Sarkar” that it is all about Modi and It can be observed that, of late, the winning party is nothing else. The entire election campaign is managing to get not more than 30% of the votes. In focusing on one man and that is Modi. BJP’s the 15th Lok Sabha, the average vote received by the campaign for election projecting Modi as Vikas MPs is about 25%. The 75% of the votes goes waste Purush1 (Man of Development) is misleading. Most of resulting in 75% of the voters remaining the reports, even published by biased media, clearly unrepresented in the Parliament. The following table shows that all the tall claims about the development gives statistics as how the winning party over the of Gujarat are not correct when we check the factual years is slowly losing their voter base. position. Many other states are ahead in progress No of Winning Seats Single % Seats Lok Sabha Year Seats of Party Won Largest Party Won LS % Votes 1st Lok Sabha 1952 489 Congress 45.00% 364 74.44% 2nd Lok Sabha 1957 493 Congress 47.80% 371 75.25% 3rd Lok Sabha 1962 494 Congress 44.70% 361 73.08% 4th Lok Sabha 1967 520 Congress 40.80% 383 73.65% 5th Lok Sabha 1971 518 Congress 43.70% 352 67.95% 6th Lok Sabha 1977 542 Janata Party 41.30% 295 54.43% 7th Lok Sabha 1980 542 Congress 42.70% 353 65.13% 8th Lok Sabha 1984 542 Congress 49.10% 405 74.72% 9th Lok Sabha 1989 543 Congress 39.50% 197 36.28% 10th Lok Sabha 1991 543 Congress 36.50% 232 42.73% 11th Lok Sabha 1996 543 BJP 20.30% 161 29.65% 12th Lok Sabha 1998 543 BJP 25.60% 182 33.52% 13th Lok Sabha 1999 543 BJP 23.80% 182 33.52% 14th Lok Sabha 2004 543 Congress 26.50% 145 26.70% 15th Lok Sabha 2009 543 Congress 28.55% 206 37.94% In India, it is governance by 25% vote based emergence of regional parties and coalition party. This situation is likely to continue due to politics. ● Year – 1 ● Issue – 5 ● April 2014 ● Buddhist Voice ● www.buddhistvoice.com ● Email: [email protected] 3 Political Future of Ambedkarites unconcerned with the party cadres and give Let us talk about Ambedkarite leadership. Today, signals of defiance to the people. During her tenor the fragmentation of Dalit parties is the biggest as Chief Minister of the Uttar Pradesh, she worry for the Ambedkarite people. After the certainly lost touch with her real vote bank. It is Mahaparinirvana of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar, the also reflected in the distribution of the seats newly formed Republican Party of India (RPI) was during current election. Although most of the one of the significant opposition parties with good people from Uttar Pradesh do praise about the voter base during Nehru Government. However, law & order and quality of governance during her over the period, the dominant caste people have tenor as Chief Minister, she created a wall of managed to successfully divide the selfish and people from dominant caste between herself and spineless Dalit leaders. Despite Dalits having the traditional voters of BSP. Due to political sizable numbers as percentage of populations; compulsion, her second and third line of Dalits parties are unable to win any seat on their leadership is yet to come up. Ms. Mayawati has own due to division in their votes. In case of Dalit joined hands with Congress due to many reasons dominated constituency, Congress, BJP / Shiv best known to our readers. Sena are fielding Dalit Candidates who are not truly Ambedkarite and they are puppets in the Republican Party of India (A) led by Mr. hands of their respective party high command. Ramdas Athawale Even the coalition partners are fully exploiting Dalit Parties without offering any benefit worth Mr. Ramdas Athawale, in the past, has been with consideration. Divide and rule policy has been Congress and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) adopted by the parties mainly dominated by the post Dalit Panther days. He was also minister Dominant castes towards the Dalits or with blessings of Congress and NCP. However, Ambedkarite Parties. during the 2009 election, he lost due to reported conspiracy by NCP and Shiv Sena against him. Let us have look at the some of the prominent Mr. Athawale, one of the leading activists during Dalit Leaders and Parties having some popularity. the Namantar Andolan (fight for renaming Marathwada University, Aurangabad after Dr. Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) led by Ms. Babasaheb Ambedkar), has some base at grass Mayawati root level and people still like him due to his Once BSP appeared to be a big force and most of helpful nature. No doubt that he is an excellent the Ambedkarites felt that they have a strong organiser. Although, he is actually an intelligent leader like Manyawar Kanshiramji and Ms person, he always gives impression of being a Mayawati who can lead the Ambedkarite funny character as a political gimmick. Movement. After the death of Mr. Kanshiram in October 2006, Ms. Mayawati joined the hands with dominant caste people in her experiment of social reengineering to take advantage of caste During Dalit Panther days, he fought against the numbers. However, now it looks like she lost her communal forces including Shiv Sena. It is well- grip over the party and she also lacks clear vision known history that Shiv Sena was categorically about the political future of BSP. Some of the against the renaming of the Marathwada prominent leaders of BSP appear to be University after Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar and ● Year – 1 ● Issue – 5 ● April 2014 ● Buddhist Voice ● www.buddhistvoice.com ● Email: [email protected] 4 Ambedkarites from Maharashtra have suffered chances that he will win from Akola heavily due to Shiv Sena’s stand.