Saturday, December 5, 2009

Commonwealth Games - Celebration of Slavery

Rs.1620 Crore being spent, media concentration, talk of the town. On 22nd September, our prime minister Mr. .Manmohan Singh claimed Commonwealth Games as the PRIDE of the NATION. It was really surprising on our PM’s knowledge & understanding stating commonwealth games as NATION’s PRIDE. I can understand that the illiteracy rate in India is 34% whereas the statement of PM should have been for all the Indians.

Let’s understand what is Commonwealth?

Origin of Word Commonwealth:

First time the word “COMMONWEALTH” was used by Mr. Roseberry, who was Lord of Canada, in 1884, as some of the British colonies were being sovereign, he called all those states as Commonwealth of Nation. The concept was formally passed as an act in British Parliament on 11th December, 1931.

So we can comprehend that the basic reason for making Commonwealth of Nation by British was to satisfy their ego of being a ruler even though their colonies were becoming independent. The Commonwealth of Nation was earlier known as BRITISH COMMONWEALTH.

The Membership:

At present there are 53 countries as member of Commonwealth and most of them are former British colonies or their dependencies. Thus the membership criteria of Commonwealth are that the nation should have been slave of British Monarchy directly or indirectly. The London Declaration Clearly states that a republic country can be member of Commonwealth provided that they recognize the MONARCH (Queen or King of UK) as the Head of Commonwealth; the London Declaration was specially made for keeping India as Member of commonwealth.

The declaration stated “The Government of India have ... declared and affirmed India's desire to continue her full membership of the Commonwealth of Nations and her acceptance of the King as the symbol of the free association of its independent member nations and as such the Head of the Commonwealth”

The Head:

Any Organization is represented by its head, as in case of our country, our President represents our country, and as he / she is elected indirectly by the people (Electoral collage) of India, we call our country as democratic and sovereign. There is no hierarchy system in being President of India. In same way, lets talk about any organization such as SAARC ( South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation ) or any International Organization, like NAM ( Non aligned Movement ). The SAARC secretary is elected in alphabetic order for three years terms. The NAM is run by Secretary General who is elected by all the members.

As affirmed above the overall purpose of Britishers is to show their supremacy as ruler, thus the head of COMMONWEALTH is not elected, she is Queen Elizabeth II of United Kingdom for life time, and she took over as Head of Commonwealth from George VI after his death, who was King of United Kingdom. This clearly shows that COMMONWEALTH is not a democratic organization and all the members of Commonwealth have to accept the head as they were while as slave.

Status of all Nations:

The Motto of commonwealth games is Humanity, Equality & Destiny. Let’s take “Equality” and see where as India we stand in the eye of the Queen Elizabeth – The Head of Commonwealth.

There are 53 countries as member of commonwealth, then how many team will participate in Commonwealth Games 2010 ? This is not simple answer, 71 teams will participate in Commonwealth Games 2010. So the number of member nation and their team are not equal? The reason is very clear, Queen treats its colonies equally; even Indian team is treated as equal to team of Scotland, Wales, England, and Ireland.

The states of United Kingdom are equivalent to any other sovereign countries. It’s something like in SAARC countries meet, UP, Bihar and other states of India are sharing desk with Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Maldives and Sir Lanka.

This is the equality in the eyes of British for other sovereign nation; they still treat them as colonies in Commonwealth Games.

Relationship:

The bridge of relationship between any two countries are its ambassador, but have we ever thought why we sometime call ambassador and sometime High Commissioner ?

The dictionary meaning of Ambassador is “a diplomat of the highest rank; accredited as representative from one country to another” & Commissioner means “a government administrator”

Thus representative of a sovereign country in other sovereign country is called Ambassador, whereas High Commissioner is a government administrator between the commonwealth countries. This is again to dilute the sovereignty of a country and to mentally realize them that once we were slave of British.

Thus an ambassador to Pakistan will be called as High Commissioner, whereas same diplomat if transferred to United States will be called as Ambassador.

The overall purpose of making a Commonwealth Organization of British is to mentally rule the commonwealth Nation and to make them realize that they were once slave.

Celebrating Slavery:

Israel is the only country which is not member of Commonwealth nation till date, even though it was ruled by British.

It is well said; to get respect from others, first respect self.

If this is the Pride of Nation as per our Prime Minister then the citizen of this country should think, where do we really stand? Are we celebrating slavery as Commonwealth Games 2010?