NEW DELHI: Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Friday flagged human rights violations against Hindus in India's neighbourhood and questioned the global silence , saying being "too tolerant" against such transgressions was not appropriate. Questioning the "deafening silence" of the "so-called moral preachers, custodians of human rights", Dhankhar said they stand exposed.
"They are mercenaries of something which is totally antithetical to human rights," Dhankhar said addressing the foundation day celebrations of National Human Rights Commission .
He added we are "too tolerant" and being too tolerant to such transgressions is not appropriate. "Think if you were one of those," he said asking the people to reflect.
"Look at the kind of barbarity, traumatised experience of boys, girls, and women," the VP said, adding that religious places were being subjected to sacrilege. However, he didn't name any country.
The vice-president also cautioned that some pernicious forces were trying to show India in a "bad colour" and called for a "counter-attack" to neutralise such attempts. He also said that India does not like to be sermonised or lectured on human rights.
He described the Partition, imposition of Emergency and the 1984 anti-Sikh riots as traumatising events which "stand as sombre reminder of fragility of liberty".
He said there are "pernicious forces, that seek to unfairly taint us" & these forces have a "sinister design" to use international fora to question our human rights record.
He said there was need to neutralise such forces and they should be neutralised "by actions which exemplify, if I may say in Indian context, 'pratighat' (counter-attack)".
The vice-president said these forces have devised indexes and rank everyone in the world to show "our nation in bad colour". He hit out at hunger index, which ranked India poorly, saying during the Covid pandemic, the govt supported over 80 crore people with free ration regardless of their caste and creed.
The VP said the "sinister forces" are driven by an agenda which is "fiscally fuelled" by people who seek to make a name for themselves. "Time to shame them. They try to create havoc with the economic system of the country."
Underlining the safety of minorities in India, he said the country is way ahead of others when it comes to preserving human rights, particularly those of minorities, the marginalised and vulnerable sections of the society.
He also noted that at the domestic front, some were trying to use human rights to further their political agenda.
"They are mercenaries of something which is totally antithetical to human rights," Dhankhar said addressing the foundation day celebrations of National Human Rights Commission .
He added we are "too tolerant" and being too tolerant to such transgressions is not appropriate. "Think if you were one of those," he said asking the people to reflect.
"Look at the kind of barbarity, traumatised experience of boys, girls, and women," the VP said, adding that religious places were being subjected to sacrilege. However, he didn't name any country.
The vice-president also cautioned that some pernicious forces were trying to show India in a "bad colour" and called for a "counter-attack" to neutralise such attempts. He also said that India does not like to be sermonised or lectured on human rights.
He described the Partition, imposition of Emergency and the 1984 anti-Sikh riots as traumatising events which "stand as sombre reminder of fragility of liberty".
He said there are "pernicious forces, that seek to unfairly taint us" & these forces have a "sinister design" to use international fora to question our human rights record.
He said there was need to neutralise such forces and they should be neutralised "by actions which exemplify, if I may say in Indian context, 'pratighat' (counter-attack)".
The vice-president said these forces have devised indexes and rank everyone in the world to show "our nation in bad colour". He hit out at hunger index, which ranked India poorly, saying during the Covid pandemic, the govt supported over 80 crore people with free ration regardless of their caste and creed.
The VP said the "sinister forces" are driven by an agenda which is "fiscally fuelled" by people who seek to make a name for themselves. "Time to shame them. They try to create havoc with the economic system of the country."
Underlining the safety of minorities in India, he said the country is way ahead of others when it comes to preserving human rights, particularly those of minorities, the marginalised and vulnerable sections of the society.
He also noted that at the domestic front, some were trying to use human rights to further their political agenda.
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