New Government's Religion Policy

Muslim Murasu, June 2011

Government shows liberal and unilateral intervention in the appointments of chief Kazi in the state, Waqf committee and Haj committee. Four days extra holidays are granted for Muslims working in government offices for first day of Ramzan, shab-e-baraath, lailathul qadr and Mohideen urs. Administrators frenetically rush to convey greetings in media during occasions of Ramzan and Bakridh every year. Leaves are granted to go on holy pilgrimage.
Religion is beneficial to people. It emphasizes good values in life. People, electorate, are looking forward to a government that will give importance to religious preaching. Today individuals and trusts are helping in strengthening religious preaching. Government should set aside 200 crore rupees in its budget for religious preaching.
Exotic culture and western values are spreading among young boys and girls. Government should use Hindu swamijis, Muslim aalims and Christian pastors and try to spread and thrust good values in the state. Religious leaders should be honored in government events and programs and their good advices should be listened to. One hour religious discourse everyday should be made mandatory in schools, educational and research institutions. Student community roaming with single-minded objective of marks is becoming hordes of selfish beasts. Traditions of the land, mercy, kindness, friendliness, respect for parents, elders, guru and teacher are wobbling. Standards are going down. There are hundreds of thousands of engineering, medical, agricultural, media and technological graduates in the state. But the group that pays no attention to people’s welfare and social life is of no use.
Religious life will give eternal peace. Those who have spent more than 10 years in religious institutions, mosques, madrasas, temples and churches in state and district capitals can be leveraged. Religious scholars are living isolated lives. Government should properly honor spiritual people for the spirituality to spread. This will not amount to betrayal of the nation. This will bring down bribe and corruption. Hearts will transform for the better. Constitution allows religious preaching. Crimes are not going to reduce by installing thousands of police, intelligence force or judicial expansion. Religious leaders will herd people to good path with their pleasing advices.
Government can proactively record discourses in religious institutions, weekly Jumaa speeches and buy slots in TV channels and broadcast them live to the audience. Further they can be published in book form and distributed to libraries.