Hindus persecuted in Pakistan and Bangladesh about to find a home in India.

The long-drawn struggles of Omendra Singh Ratnu of Rajasthan and Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga of Delhi are about to draw to a happy close. The Vishwa Hindu Parishad’s Rakesh Ranjan, Santosh Rai, Chandra Prakash et al, and advocate Bhim Singh,who got a stay on the order of deportation of Pakistani Hindu refugees from the Delhi High Court on 21 December 2011, will be happy, too.

But the most relieved of them all will be the few lakh refugees who escaped that hellhole of persecution called Pakistan, using tourist visas with the intention of never returning from India. Swarajya caught up with some of them living in mud and bamboo huts next to Gurudwara Majnu ka Tila (Maharana Pratap Camp), Sector 11 of Rohini and Adarsh Nagar of Jahangirpuri.



Former government employee Chaudhary Nahar Singh, who worked tirelessly to ensure that 940 refugees got some accommodation in Delhi when the UPA government was about to deport them in 2011, sounds satisfied with his work today. When Hindu organisations in this country were yet to put up organised resistance against the senseless attempts of the former administration to deport persecuted people, Singh had offered his own house to shelter hundreds of refugees.

Overall, an estimated two lakh Hindus have fled Pakistan and Bangladesh and sought shelter in this country. At the time of Partition, there were about three crore Hindus in East and West Pakistan. They are now reduced to a small fraction of that number in Pakistan and Bangladesh.

Hari Om Sahu of the VHP, who has been working for the uplift of these refugees by arranging for their employment, food, education of children, and health facilities for all, is happy that the inmates of the camp in Rohini have begun earning decently. This list is not exhaustive; there are many other unsung, heroic volunteers who worked for the cause.