I have been left with no option but to expose the rakshasas who organised Diwali at 10 Downing Street on 29th October. This tradition of Diwali at Number 10 has now been longstanding. However, in all these years it has never served non-vegetarian food to their guests. However, with the new Labour government in charge, and with the new Prime Minister living at 10 Downing Street – it seems gone are the days of showing respect to the faith of a billion Hindus.
I am aware that leaders of organisations such as the Hindu Forum of Britian, BAPs, ISKCON and many others were invited and in attendance. I have been made aware that Vedic slokas and strotras were recited. It begs the most obvious question, how on earth did anyone at Number 10 think it was acceptable to start offering non-vegetarian food? I spoke to a few of my friends from the Jewish and Muslim communities, even they were flabbergasted. In their words, it’s a bit like offering pork whilst celebrating Eid or Hanukkah at 10 Downing Street. It just would not happen, and if it did, all hell would break loose.
Yes our Prime minister, Keir Starmer stood at the podium, having lit the diva, to go on and lecture the good Hindus in attendance about the significance of light over darkness. Maybe the darkness that is infesting the Labour Party and in Number 10 needs to be cleansed first.
INSIGHT UK, a social movement of British Hindus and Indians said on X: ‘The choice of menu at the Diwali celebration hosted by the Prime Minister himself, displays an appalling lack of understanding or respect for the religious traditions associated with the festival of Diwali’.
Anil Bhanot, the managing trustee of Hindu Council UK said: ‘Our HCUK Chair Krishna Bhan wrote to Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government to ask why we were not invited at all’?
Smt Trupti Patel, President of the Hindu Forum of Britain was attending the event and was dismayed when a plate of non-veg food was presented to her. She left the event in disgust and thereafter wrote a letter to the Prime Minister. In it she said, ‘On Behalf of all member organisations of the Hindu Forum of Britain I need to register our total disgust with how Diwali was celebrated at 10 Downing Street this year. I have received numerous complaints from many who were present at the celebration and saw non vegetarian food being served, and I have also received written complaints on this matter.’
Mr. N.C. Guragol who describes himself as a proud British Indian and a Hindu has written a letter to Dr Subrahmanayam Jaishankar the Honourable Minister for External Affairs of India. In it he makes some very interesting observations including, ‘rather than personally overseeing this important Diwali event at the British Prime Minister's residence, Mr. Vikram Doraiswami delegated the responsibility to a private organisation’. IF this is true, then it seems Number 10 and the Indian High Commission (HCIL) are responsible for the Diwali event jointly. Which then begs an even bigger question, how did they manage to oversee such a catastrophic error of judgement between them?
I have written to Seema Malhotra MP and HE Vikram Doraiswami seeking clarification. Their silence so far is quite deafening.
Hindus in Labour have been bragging about Keir Starmer and how this new Labour Party is working positively for India, Indians and Hindus. On the evidence we witness, it’s the same old Labour Party. Their anti-Hindu precept seems to run in their DNA.
I challenge the Prime Minister to issue a full apology without any excuses or reservations. I also offer to meet him in person so he may provide his aspirations for Indians and Hindus. To date he appears to have rejected the advice of good Hindus. It seems he has an inner circle of compromised Hindus as advisers. And now he has learnt the hard way those individuals and organisations neither represent us, nor do they have the wisdom to offer any sound advice.
I hope for the sake of our Dharma, ALL our Hindu organisations and Sampradyas boycott ALL government events until there is a full unreserved apology. If Hindus cannot stand up for their Dharma, then on what basis do these people and organisations call themselves the custodians of our faith traditions?
Lord Krishna said, ‘paritrāṇāya sādhūnāṁ vināśhāya cha duṣhkṛitām
dharma-sansthāpanārthāya sambhavāmi yuge yuge’.
Translation: ‘paritrāṇāya - to protect; sādhūnām - the righteous; vināśhāya - to annihilate; cha - and; duṣhkṛitām - the wicked; dharma - the eternal religion; sansthāpana-arthāya - to reestablish; sambhavāmi - I appear; yuge yuge - age after age’
Surely you and I also have a duty to uphold Dharma whilst we await the Yuga Avatar.
