Web India: Shillong: Thursday, July 06, 2017.
UPA's
presidential nominee and former Lok Sabha Speaker, Meira Kumar today said that
there should not be differentiation between people in the name of religion and
this tendency of polarising people in the name of religion is going to spell
disaster for the country.
"It will
plunge India into darkness. We (UPA) represent the forces which believe in
secularism. I am fighting it on behalf of very sacred ideology which represents
most of the people in India," Ms Kumar told reporters here in
Meghalaya.She also said the forces she represents also strongly believe in ending
caste system, poverty and believe in bringing transparency.
"We were
the first one who brought the RTI Act. We believe that women should be included
in the main stream," Ms Kumar added.Earlier, Ms Kumar asked legislators in
Meghalaya to listen to their inner voice of conscience on whom to vote as their
next president.
"I think
that the inner voice of conscience carries much more weight than numbers
do," Ms Kumar said while addressing the legislators at the Annexe hall of
the Meghalaya Assembly."When people decided on moral grounds, on grounds
of principles, on ethics and on philosophy which are sacred and also to listen
to their inner voice of conscience then numbers also start supporting,"
the former diplomat-turned politician said.Exhorting Meghalaya legislators to
script the "right history", Ms Kumar said, "This is one of the
rare occasion we are going to script right history otherwise the coming
generation would asked us why at that time when you got the opportunity to
challenge the ideology which was disrupting and destroying the fabric of India
and why didn't you rise to the occasion.
"Ms
Kumar also said this is the chance one have make a history and to act in the
best interest of the country for its progress and identity and for the ideology
one stands for and for the next generation. The former Speaker said this
presidential election has been turn into a battle of ideology and that the need
has arisen because of the atmosphere in the country which has begun to threaten
the secular fabric of the nation.
"Presently,
there is danger of communal harmony, social justice, inclusiveness,
transparency," Ms Kumar said that in a vast country like India, where
there are so many religions, ethnic groups, cultures and there are different
ways of living which is the beauty of the country.
"Those
who are in positional powers their effort should always be to promote this
harmony and not to disrupt it," she said.Ms Kumar said an atmosphere has
been created to communalise in the name of what food one should eat, in the
name of one what should say, in the name of how one should live and
conduct."There are people who are doing these but the leaders like to
distant themselves and failed to understand how given their tremendous majority
in the parliament, they are only talking and trying to distant themselves and
there is no action on the ground," she said. UNI RRK RN 2030
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