Kharge: Hinduism on path to extinction due to untouchability

Kalaburagi: AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge said Hinduism was on the path of extinction due to what he described as caste discrimination and untouchability.Presiding over the 70th ‘Dhamma Chakra Pravartana Day’ (the day of the great conversion to Buddhism) organised by the Siddhartha Vihara Trust on the occasion of Vijayadashami at the Buddha Vihara here on Tuesday, he said Ambedkar had cited injustice and untouchability in Hinduism to declare in 1935 that he was born a Hindu but would not die a Hindu.‘Police aren’t RSS slaves’: Priyank Kharge tells Hindu outfit to seek permission for Vijayadashami marches"Casteism has not been eradicated from the country even today. In Uttarakhand, the very spot where I delivered a speech was washed clean two days later. Had it been washed immediately, one might have assumed it was simply to clean away dirt. But what kind of blind superstition is it to wash it two days later? Is this not a form of mental torture," Kharge wondered."You invite Martin, Mohammad, but not Mallikarjun. Why do you exclude my people? You don’t provide us water or education? Are we not human beings? Is this not the very reason why divisions emerged within Hinduism?" Kharge asked.Kharge has two letters for PM Modi and three big concerns: SIR, delimitation, women’s quota"People were kept in bondage in the name of religion. Ambedkar showed the path to liberation to all of them by embracing Buddhism. He chose India’s ancient religion of Buddhism precisely because adopting a religion originating from a foreign country might have posed a threat to the nation’s unity" Kharge said.

Source: Deccan Herald