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Revision as of 00:30, 10 October 2006 by Hkelkar (talk | contribs) (→Links: Qualified per WP:RS)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Udit Raj (born Ram Raj 1st Jan 1958, Ramnagar, Distt. Allahabad) studied for BA at Allahabad University. He was selected for the Indian Revenue Service in 1988 and is serving as the Joint Commissioner of Income Tax at New Delhi. He is a prominent Dalit activist along with Kancha Ilaiah. He has been accused of being an anti-Hindu .
He formed Indian Justice Party, The All India Confederation of SC/ST Organisations on 2nd October 1997 and in 1996 founded the Lord Buddha Club.
Udit Raj has started formed partnerships with Christian organizations including the Indian Social Institute and the All India Christian Council. He has worked with prominent Christian leaders like Mr. John Dayal and Dr. Ambrose Pinto and with Muslim leaders like Maulana Mahmood Madani, general secretary of the Jamiat-e-Ulama-e-Hind.
On October 27, 2002 Udit Raj organized a controversial conversion ceremony in which thousands of Dalits "converted' to Buddhism, Islam, and Christianity.
He has organized other conversion events including one at Chennai on Dec. 6, 2002.
Raj has worked with Christian groups to promote movement away from Hinduism towards Christianity.
Controversy
Raj has been accused by several Hindu groups such as the Hindu American Foundation for having intensely anti-Hindu views and sentiments. He has been accused of being part of the missionary agenda to foment social unrest in India by turning segments of the population against Hindus. Regarding Hinduism he has written: "For a Hindu priest, a leper, a beggar and a widow are hateful objects who need to be punished because of the “curse of their past life”. (from a letter posted on Bahujan group, Feb 9, 2004).
About his marriage to a very light-skinned Seema Raj, from an upper caste (Khatri), he said "I am very dark, almost black, but my wife is as fair as an English woman and I must say that although ours was a love marriage in which her intrinsic qualities mattered more than looks, I found her fair skin very attractive" . They have two children Abhiraj and Saveri.
References
- ^ HAF Appreciates Congressional Hearing on Dalit Rights; Concerned by Biases
- Black is blemish in India,aljazeera.net