1. secularism ~ issues in effective implementation

2. secular is nationalist ~ anti-secular is
anti-national
•non-secular aggressors : why insulated
•minorities : who will be ? are you next ?
•fight fire… before it gets to your door
•fractured society dies : survival at stake
•held together or … hold together ?
•USSR…USA…politics, fiscal colonization...

3. the worms get trampled
• the powerful survive with honour as a nation
• anti-secular groups, empowered, weaken secularism
• hostility to secularism : to national unity, integration
• preventing erosion : participative politics : worm no more
• purify water : dilute with clean : same with politics
• swot, but after the view from the top…

4. supreme court judgments :
secularism ~ basic structure
• judgements declare the law : THE LAW IS ON OUR SIDE !!
• 2002 8 SCC page 481 secularism is basic structure of constitution
• 2002 7 SCC page 368
• 2002 5 SCC page 294
• 2002 2 SCC page 725
• 2001 1 SCC page 582
• 1998 4 SCC page 626
• 1997 3 SCC page 261
• 1997 9 SCC page 662
• 1996 8 SCC page 525
• 1994 3 SCC page 1
• 1992 SCC Supp 3 page 217
• 1991 4 SCC page 699
• 1975 SCC Supp page 1

5. supreme court judgments :
rule of law ~ basic structure
• having seen what the law is, hear RULE OF LAW HAS TO PREVAIL !
• 2001 1 SCC page 582 rule of law is basic structure of constitution
• 2002 8 SCC page 481
• 2002 7 SCC page 368
• 2002 2 SCC page 725
• anti-secular is anti-national, violates constitution
• no constitution violator to hold office or contest

6. … can anything be
done ? …
• poor politics ~ undesirable records
• criminal record noted ?
• now how about secular record ?
• reconcile conflicts  one goal
• assert with strategic intent, initiative
• redefine indianness : non-secular 
non-indian  anti-national

7. basics of
secularism
• foisted anti-secularism symbols OUT
• legal process to remove all
• proceedings : full media scrutiny
• issue + judiciary trial : “rule of law” ?
• political evolution : institutions’ strength
shapes future statesmen
• Institutions, working distorted, facilitate
emergence of anti-national “leaders”

8. use dreams to create a…
new reality…
• consolidate fall-out of SC verdicts
• assert with strategic political intent
• indianness+citizenship complete armoury
• remember : the law is on our side !!
• don’t just respond to anti-constitutional
destructive agenda
• take charge of our country : let them
respond to valid secular agenda

9. need of the
hour
• create secretariat, “federate”
• right to information : reports of public
events on internet : publicize at
government cost
• its not hindu or muslim : our country our
children ten years down the road
• ban constitution-violators from elections
• declare party against secularism anti-
national, anti-constitution : watch list 5

10. root is basic read:
writing
• insignificant driver, dhobi…
• world-view by private belief : be, it is
• their political choices matter > ours
• one with the law is not majority
except in court
• streets… elections… numbers rule

11. alienation and…
bridges…
• us and them : “we are the whole” illusion
• exclusionist : we build walls not bridges !
• push glass-cage-outsiders into think-tanks
• they don’t have to win elections !!
fundamental !
grassroots !! foundation !!!

12. S W O T …
Strengths
• tradition of religious cultural heritage
• pluralist indian pride abroad
• universal condemnation of fascism
• acceptability in international fora
• clear siege-of-secularism awareness

13. more strengths
• intellectual political willingness : try afresh
• maturing polity seeks stability, growth
• threat perception : “generation next” ?
• perceptible willingness to speak up, be
counted for secularism
• growth of judicial activism, responsiveness
• awareness of secular vote value

14. yet more
• judgments securing constitutional
guarantees and freedoms
• enhanced power of media and
press, electronic record keeping
• right to information : increasing
access to public records
• ability to see through foreign power
games and economic domination

15. S W O T …
Weaknesses
• no unified approach or command
• holier-than-thou ego clashes, judgmental
attitudes and differences
• “glass cage” syndrome
• intellectuals safer but generally dreamers,
unrealistic armchair critics
• no soldiers, no exposure to “street politics”
• no grassroots work in schools etc.

16. more
weaknesses
• plans, trained people, organization,
acceptable “heads”… all missing
• low ability to organize funds, use
coherently : little interactive working
• exclusion of other types : “if unlike us, not
of us” reliance on appearance
• known names’ general inability to “carry”
masses, lack of appeal/identification

17. even more
• lack of sustained interest, momentum; no
pro-active agenda as a national
community, projection of future needs,
contingency plans
• no organized legal steps to restrict “mob-
oriented” disruptions of civic life and
freedoms : each lapse reinforces and
“validates” wrong views
• no charismatic leaders whom the masses
will follow on trust born of credentials

18. SWOT …
Opportunities
• participation an absolute must : do or die
• throw up tall vote-able leaders : get in !!
• citizen, especially youth, needs change,
seems ready ~ existing leaders seem stale,
unable to deliver, undemocratic :
“common worker will never rise to the top
even if the most capable” mindset
• opportunity for emergence of a “by us, of
us, for us” organisation : HH

19. more
opportunities
• others rate present silent secular
group “leadership” as uncertain,
vacillating, “purchasable” vote-
bank : this must be overcome !
• pr skills, media savvy approach now
possible : sell idea, reap dividends
• secular groups on siege notice
more and more willing to speak up

20. and more
• increasing educated youth fertile
breeding ground for ideas
• youth : issues, to feel instrumental in
creating world as they want it : fires
imagination : “its your life ! take
charge !! shape it yourselves !!”
• there is a vacuum to be filled and
we can, will do it – we have to do it

21. SWOT …
Threats
• vested interests’ resistance to
emerging power centres
• resistance : non-lineage political
infancy
• uncertainties of staying power, funds
• absence of organized fund raising /
use of money, uncertain results
• inexperience, untested skills

22. more threats
• disinterest in dirt : no cadre, no training
• image-label concern : “appeasement”
• no sense of destiny, charisma, ideologue
• jalwa-e-toor to hai, moosa hi nahin… ?
• issues today : tomorrow’s projections ?
• contact-campaigns absent
• momentum : knee jerks to be replaced

23. even more
threats
• caught-in-the-daily-grind disables greater
participation, we wear blinds
• 100 secularists to every 10 anti-nationals :
but we won’t deal in coal !!
• little thought on how to federate body
combining strengths, enabling concerted
effort, better resource allocation,
facilitate casting national secular blanket

24. …unifying groups
difficult…?
• 1. create, 2. join-mould, 3. join-take over
• 2 or 3 remote, disrupt existing harmony
• create organization ~ cerebral approach
• plan for ten years; after five, re-evaluate
• create capable body of advisors
• equip in capability, commitment, quality
• work on destiny : loh wa qalam tere hain

25. enter the virtual
office
• equipment of individuals a “virtual” office,
enhanced when money available
• manpower takes time, effort, screening :
must be worthwhile for “targets”
• anyone who is good will be busy, have to
be induced
• talent will have to be asked to work for us,
need to be paid well

26. virtual  real 
lucre
• it is OUR project, not theirs : create a
“corporate” they serve for money
• if paid well, at the level they are
now, they will do it, for then they
earn the same and evolve into
instruments of social change

27. the road map step, -
wise
1. creation of body, 2. development into
political party, 3. supporting candidates
of similar values, 4. helping in elections, 5.
using hands-on experience for own
candidates, 6. contesting elections, 7.
absorbing initial losses, 8. forging alliances
to get seats 9. ensuring voice in decision
making 10. in crises secular voices decide
State response so aberration is avoided
11. use of judiciary as safety net

28. Creating THE NEW ORDER
Hindustaan Hamaara (a Political Initiative)
• India is ours too; a political presence
a must, this is our initiative : H H P I
• Inclusive of all : a-c-h-p-m-s…
• HH  people of various faiths acting
together to ensure Constitutional
safeguards secured  interventional
legal process  political activism of
representatives of all

29. The body plan of the organization

30. how decisions can be reflective of
the views of all constituents

31. exemplified practical operation

32. convergence to secure representation of various views

33. hindustaan hamaara political initiative ~ main structure

34. sub-committees – indicative

35. functional areas of working - indicative

36. symbol, design, colour : illustrative : name obvious, hand writing destiny, identity
symbolized by flying standard, saffron-green-blue… representing various groups,
light-your-way symbol can be replaced with something more electorate-acceptable

37. same considerations, added focus on “coming together
as partners in progress”, symbol changed

38. same thought,
rearranged

39. some aspects… …
o redefine tradition rejecting foreign
elements : fascism, intolerance alien :
secularism, tolerance, pluralism traditions
of India !
o whom to take first step ?
o organisations ? data bank ? contacts…
o exclude ? “threats” ? watch lists !!
o destructive view also heard, considered

40. and more
aspects…
o identification process – decision
making structure
o what in context of exclusions would
be our own acceptability ?
o anything else ???? ... let the
federated structure roll , for…
o … we will be acting in furtherance
of what the constitution enshrines !

41. the last word
…to be secular is to be a
nationalist Indian ~
to be anti-secular is to be anti-
national, against our constitution
shafeeq rehman mahajir advocate : 9246151357 mobile
040-23319120 / 55506165 office 040-23328300 residence
hyd2_mahajir@sancharnet.in brainstormlegal@rediffmail.com
6-3-628/6 anandnagar khairatabad hyderabad 500004 a.p. india

42. •Ends ! Thank you for your
attention !!
Shafeeq Rehman Mahajir
Brainstorm Legal, advocates