Congress President Sonia Gandhi addressing a rally in Tumkur in the run up to the first phase of ?assembly elections in Karnataka had this to say
?”our opponents are levelling all kinds of allegations against us. But people know the truth. We cannot tolerate this charge against us of going soft on terrorism”.
Very well so what did Sonia Gandhi have to show by way of being hard on terror to the victims of the Mumbai 7-11, Malegaon, Hyderabad, New Delhi, Varnasi, Samjhauta Express, Ajmer Sharif Dargah, Mecca Masjid bomb blasts.
So let us see here – Indira Gandhi fell to the bullets of her bodyguards back in 1984 and that makes the Manmohan Singh led UPA Congress Government to be hard on terror. So for the 200 odd victims of Mumbai 7-11 Justice is served by taking comfort in the fact that 2 decades ago Sonia Gandhi’s mother-in-law was killed by terrorists.
So in effect what Sonia Gandhi is saying to the victims of all mass terror attacks that have occured during the Manmohan Singh UPA regime is that for 2 decades I put up with the loss of my mother-in-law and husband to terrorism and so should you !
Offstumped has extensively chronicled the pathetic Anti-Terrorism record of the Sonia Gandhi Manmohan Singh UPA Government.
As Karnataka goes to polls and the Congress ratchets up the rhetoric?it is worth remembering that
Sonia Gandhi went to a conference of Mullahs to announce the dilution of POTA
Congress President Sonia Gandhi addressing 28th All India General Session of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Hind (JUH) a national body of Muslim Clergy said – the Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA), which the community had viewed as anti-Muslim had been withdrawn and those arrested under its provisions had been released
Sonia Gandhi is guilty of a Conspiracy of Silence on the 7-11 Mumbai Blasts
If Sonia Gandhi?s deafening silence on the Mumbai Blasts explains the Manmohan Singh UPA Government?s delinquency, her remarks laced with political correctness and minority appeasement explain the overall attitude of the Congress in dealing with terrorism. Sonia Gandhi owes the nation an explanation for her silence on the Mumbai Blasts failing which one can only conclude that Sonia Gandhi has consistently put partisan political interest and minority appeasement above National Interest.
Filed under: Karnataka Polls 2008
[...] But then Sonia Gandhi seems to have unwittingly stirred the cauldron here by raising the issue of Terrorism. [...]
same old posts for the nth time… and every post linking to all the previous posts from multiple websites..
is this sm new strategy to get high google pagerank?
what about more proactive posts on what needs to be done from the right perspective? BJP is often accused of being just a reactive party and you are sort of providing the perfect evidence.
jujung – same old comment for the n+1th time. I dont see you commenting on any of the countless posts on Karnataka Polls raising a myriad issues. Is this a new strategy on your part to attract attention ?
What is reactionary force? Is it something shameful?
Reaction is a sign of life. Only dead can’t react. So there is no shame to be called as reactionary force.
All these phrase reactive forces, communal forces, fascist forces are nothing but hollow words. Communists use these hollow words when they have no other arguments. So don’t get upset for being labeled as “Reactionary”
Sudhir,
Don’t react. Respond.
Reactionism is Pavlovian. A negation of free will, in its essence. Definitely not a quality you wanna flaunt about, IMO.
BTW Yoss Boss, never mind the snide drive-by shooters. It is very necessary to keep counter-terror issue alive and ticking in fragile public memory. Esp when dhimmedia such as the CNN-IBN etc appear sworn to lull the audience with lullabyes like kirket and bollyw00d.
I see little mention let alone analysis of the abysmal UPA anti-terror record anywhere in the national stage or the regional public sphere.
OTOH, I do see subtle winks and nudges to ‘go-slow’ on terror investigations (HDD Gowda in B’lore, MIM’s Owaisi in Hyd, Mullayam in UP etc are on record doing this) and these barely create even a ripple?!?! This should’ve been prime-time scandalous, no? Apparently not in a country where a Jyoti basu can openly side with the aggressors in 1962 and get away with it.
New media (such as blogs, Advani’s website, the nationalinterest.in initiative etc) and new media people I sincerely hope are at the vanguard of an access, accountability and relevance revolution long overdue in the murky world of 4th estate wheels-n-deals. Dhimmedia’s power to set and drive an agenda – due to its chokehold on what to highlight and what to hide – is finally being broken. That alone is cause for celebration.
JMTPs etc.
/Have a nice day, all.
@jujung
I just have to share this gem from jujung’s ‘blog’
http://thelonesailor.blogspot.com/2007/07/indian-attitudes-towards-terrorism.html
“Terrorism, considering so many more people die almost periodically every year due to rains/droughts, is not a significant issue for these sections and hardly anyone remembers/cares for such things by the time the elections come around!”
Basically, what ‘jujung’s argument is, we have so many people dying every year in India from rains/droughts anyway, why bother trying to protect people from terrorism ? Just feed those poor Indians to those jihadi wolves !
‘Flight of the mind’ from the ‘lone sailor’ indeed =)
Can you imagine, why he’d be mad at a ‘weak at terror tag’ blog =)
Sud has made valid point, if not for anything, atleast, the issue of terrorism has to be told to people all time and every time because they tend to forget these issues pretty quickly. PoTA was a good step, unfortunately it was both used and misused. Such anti-terror laws should have mechanisms where by police and intel guys aren’t given carte blanch. Also, at the same time there are many issues that need to be told to people – good governance/administration. In a democracy, it is the institutions that matter. Democracy thrives on feedback system. It is the autonomous institutions that act as feedback channels – independent EC, independent investigation agencies, independent ED etc etc.
But hardly any party ever talks abt this. Neither BJP nor Cong. BJP or right of centrists don’t want to talk abt corruption – Their closet also stinks big time. Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s wife – deliberately gave wrong PAN number, why? To avoid tax
. But how should the country run if people, especially leaders who profess being nationalists cheat their Motherland. Damn it, who cares ? right ? Crores worth of grains meant for poor through PDS scheme is diverted and sold in black market in MP (of course there are other states including that of comrades’ but this is just to give an example of the rot in BJP). The baniyas are supporters of BJP and obviously they don’t want to act on it.
Every body knows that Pramod Mahajan got kickbacks from Reliance when he was the Telecom minister. When NDA was ruling, the thousands of crore stamp paper racket happened. BJP certainly knows which bigwigs are involved, but will not act, why – political expediency takes precedence over ethical principles and national security. Let the BJP/RSS swear on Bhagavad Gita, well, let them swear on their mothers and tell that they don’t know which politicians had/have contacts with Dawood ? It is the attitude of tolerating corrupt that is causing unspeakable damage to the country.
I am an admirer of Modi’s financial integrity, his zeal, determination to see to it that there is discipline in governance but one particular aspect that surprises me is that he says central govt is not sanctioning funds for police reforms in Guj- around 60+ crores (correct me if am wrong). For a person who can pool in thousands of crores for other development purposes, what is preventing him from pooling in a few 100 crores for police reforms. Modi himself has said that political leaders are there to make things, which appear impossible/huge, happen.
For some, this issue could be not such a big issue but it shows an attitude, a trend in the making/existence. Bringing reforms in police is one of the most imp and urgent steps needed in the country. our police still go by the century old rule that make them work for the politicians instead of for the people. A simple reform like separating the police into law and order dept and criminal investigation (independent) dept and making them for the people instead of for politicians can cleanup the society of political rouges/thugs/murderers etc. Forget abt other parties, how many times have you come across BJP leaders ever talking on such issues ? Police are the imp tools in the hands of politicians, afterall they accomplish many things by terrorising the public and how can these people let go of that power ? Tell them it is in the long term interests of the country, they will tell you who cares?
But allz not lost, it is encouraging that LKA talks abt bringing reforms in education, health etc etc. But talking abt it is one thing, bringing into effect is another thing and implementation is (crucial) another thing. Let’s wait and see how well BJP and Co will do when they come to power in 2009. Let’s hope commies are routed thoroughly, they have done enough damage to the country in the last 4 yrs that it wud take another 40 to clean up(especially foreign policy regarding our neighbors, example, Nepal is no more a buffer state between India and China).
other than terrorism there are other issues that also need to be dealt with to make the foundations of the country strong, or else it will end up being just a cosmetic one.
PS: one piece of advice to the ultra patriots (well, pseudo actually) in the right of center group – learn to differentiate between criticism and hatred commentary. Criticism, insulting are some of the essential elements in democracy, learn to live with it. If you have the habit of not differentiating then you end up being loser!!! An attitude has to develop in the minds of such people. To give an example about this – Aamir Khan joined NBA as symbolic gesture but the idiots in Gujarat threatened banning his movies. What the hell?? It is disappointing to see that even Modi succumbed to these bunch of morons who threatened to create law and order problems. If they wanted to snub Aamir Khan, they should have come out in public, media and shown the facts or invite him to public debate and prove him wrong and make him feel ashamed. If none of these work or if he refuses to debate, then don’t give a damn about him, just ignore him. These idiots neither have the brains nor balls and aren’t worth nothing, so why give importance to them? Another issue, before the screening of Parzania similar threats were given, why? are they feeling guilty of participating in post Godhra riots ? If not, then why ban ? Law and order problem ?? If the state govt can’t control a handful of thugs, why rule the state? Lot of cussing, fussing, complaining goes on about pseudo seculars making movies like Parzania? why complain ? If cong/comrade stooges have the right to make such movies you have the right to make movies on 1984 riots and expose cong. You have the right to make movies on emergency and it’s bad effects on the country, you can make movies on how communists tolerate B’desh migration and are threatening the security of the country, you have the right to make movies on how communists favor Chinese policies. If not for anything it will atleast show the public what congress’s first family stood for, it will show what the comrades stand for. Recently in Kerala, many farmers committed suicide, not because there weren’t rains but because they couldn’t harvest paddy on time and all their hardwork vanished when heavy rains came down. The farmers weren’t allowed to bring in outside workers or machinery, even from TN – courtesy communist associated unions. Why not make a touching movie on that? Aren’t the lives of a few farmers imp for the nationalists, sorry, ultra patriots? Show this movie to farmers in Kerala free of cost and make them realise what communists are upto. Don’t have brains ? then it’s your problem buddy, don’t complain. The fact that you lack intelligence doesn’t automatically make me unpatriotic
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Minor correction, BJP does talk abt EC, good thing but hardly abt independent CBI and/or ED.
Decratl….Your main argument is accurate…that we desi’s(Hindus) love to spin talk …in effect we are NATO ( NO ACTION TALK ONLY).
However, I feel you have gone a bit over board here…Modi and Police Reforms…do you know that if he has to spend that money on his own ( or by Gujarat govt or some other sponsors) is not allowed as per the IPS rules, even if he wants he cant do it, he needs approval from the Union Home Ministry??
Let me point out to you, that in Maharashtra which is MIS-ruled by the Congress, Mumbai Police has been begging for mordern armaments to counter terrorism, what happened nothing, inspite of Congress being at power at the centre and in Mumbai.
I agree with you that the BJP is a let down by not exposing the corrupt leaders admist its ranks and the other politicians having links with D company. I think you also missed the point that it is high time that RSS calls the shots in the BJP policies and openly declare that BJP is indeed its political wing.
Mumbai 7 – 11 blasts….Two months before the blasts the media went on air when a Tata Sumo was captured right in the heart of Mumbai full of AK 47 rifles, you know where IN THE MLA HOSTEL, the occupants stayed at the hostel for 2 WHOLE DAYS,now you tell me who can stay at the MLA HOSTEL, have heard any sound byte or read any thing about it ?????
I agree with your angst against such happenings but the point is WE CANT GIVE UP….Our votes are our only tools and lets hope that it counts one day.
This article was publised today by TOI:
Double standards on Sethu’
Swamy Alleges Religious Bias On Part Of Central Govt
Dhananjay Mahapatra | TNN
New Delhi: Attempting to embarrass the UPA government in the Supreme Court on Wednesday, Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy said though the Centre was dillydallying on declaring Ram Setu a national monument, it had been repeatedly writing to UNESCO to confer world heritage site status on the Majuli islands, where people believe Lord Krishna had once danced with his ‘gopis’.
“Ram Setu is believed even by the PMO to be intrinsically associated with the belief that Lord Ram had built it to go to Lanka to rescue Sita. The case is the same with the Tamil Nadu government, which had invited tourists to Rameswaram, where Lord Ram had once walked,” Swamy said. He pointed out that TN’s DMK government had invoked religion to seek permission for Jalli Kattu (bull-taming festival), but now the same government was insensitive to the demands of 100 crore Hindus who hold the Ram Setu sacred.
Swamy said the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation was forced to change the alignment of the Metro in South Delhi at an additional expenditure of Rs 558 crore because the Muslim community feared it could harm the Qutub Minar.
“Why is a similar thinking not applied to Ram Sethu? Why cannot the government consider an alternative alignment for the Sethusamudram Project which would not harm Ram Sethu?” asked Swamy.
He said the PMO was convinced the Ram Setu was manmade and was connected to the mythological beliefs of the people as was the TN government, but the Centre’s stubborn stand to not change the alignment of the project was “extremely unreasonable”.
This article was publised today by TOI:
Why Karnataka Matters
The state is important for BJP’s national ambitions
Swapan Dasgupta
Those who watched the election results on Doordarshan in June 1991 may recall the bewilderment that greeted the Bangalore South constituency results. While the defeat of the Falstaffian former chief minister R Gundu Rao occasioned mirth, more extraordinary was the first national exposure of the winner: BJP candidate K Venkatgiri Gowda. Dressed incongruously in a jacket and tie, the LSE-educated economist declared nonchalantly that the BJP would form the government at the Centre. From where he stood, it made sense. In Bangalore South, the BJP had won the seat by improving its vote share by a whopping 37.3 per cent.
The colourful economist didn’t last too long in the BJP, but that June evening Gowda personified one of the most significant sidelights of an election dominated by mandir, Mandal and murder: the BJP’s entry into southern India. In 1991, the Ram Janmabhoomi euphoria helped the BJP win four seats in Karnataka and one in Andhra Pradesh. It was a modest beginning but its significance should not be underestimated. Ridiculed for long by the Left-liberal elite for equating Hindi and Hindu with Hindustan, the 1991 breakthrough in Karnataka was a major step in the evolution of the BJP as a truly national party. Since then the going has been good for the BJP in Karnataka.
The outcome of the assembly election later this month will decide whether or not it has now earned sufficient trust to move from being the largest party to becoming the majority party. The Karnataka assembly poll carries high stakes. Yet, the Congress has eschewed a high-profile campaign in favour of local activity centred on resourceful candidates. It is working surreptitiously for a consolidation of castes against the powerful Lingayats who are seen as the mainstay of the BJP.
The focus on election-eve philanthropy and social engineering is understandable. With high inflation and economic slowdown complementing an agricultural crisis, the election will test the extent to which anti-incumbency at the Centre debilitates the Congress in the states. The result will influence both the timing and the UPA government’s approach to the general election.
The BJP has about as much at stake as the Congress. First, there is the huge propaganda mileage to be derived from having the dour B S Yediyurappa as its first chief minister of a southern state. A 65-year-old politician from a farming family who has worked his way up from taluka-level activism in Shimoga district, Yediyurappa is a far cry from the “rootless cosmopolitanism” of boom town Bengaluru. Unlike most BJP leaders who have cut their
political teeth in either student politics or organisational work in sangh parivar outfits, Yediyurappa has built his political reputation as a farmers’ leader. If, as many opinion polls suggest, the BJP enjoys a lead over the Congress in rural Karnataka, it is primarily a result of Yediyurappa’s assiduous promotion of the party as a pro-farmer outfit. Even as finance minister of the H D Kumaraswamy government, he succeeded in identifying himself with populist solutions to the problems of rural indebtedness and cheap agricultural credit. Unfortunately for him, this political positioning and his personal sobriety don’t make for good TV.
Second, the BJP’s performance in Karnataka will be an important input into a question that the party has to confront periodically: whether to rely on emotive themes linked to Hindu nationalism or bank on issues related to governance and economic development. The two are, of course, not always mutually exclusive. Neither is there any consistent pattern to how the BJP has exercised its options at various times. In Gujarat, Narendra Modi’s charisma owed a great deal to his success in blending Hindutva with regional pride, a robust anti-terrorism line, moral uprightness and a passion for development. In Rajasthan, Vasundhara Raje has tried to combine claims of effective governance with the invocation of feminine pride in a traditional society. She has hardly flaunted Hindutva, except in a cultural way. In Madhya Pradesh, however, thanks to the intrusive ways of the local RSS, Shivraj Singh Chauhan has consistently overplayed the Hindu card, not least to compensate for a patchy record of governance.
In the run-up to the Lok Sabha election, the BJP may have to confront some home truths. For a start, barring either a dramatic rise in terrorism or some astonishing act of UPA stupidity, identity politics may end up as an exclusive feature of the Bahujan Samaj Party. The BJP may be inclined to invoke Hindutva but neither its coalition partners nor the voters may be terribly interested. Nor is there any reason to believe that a national campaign built on pan-Indian themes will capture the imagination, unless there is an iconic face like Modi to back it.
The past two years have shown that the BJP central office no longer commands the same respect and authority it earlier did. Indifferent organisational management has triggered resistance and rebellion in states such as Jharkhand, Bihar and Maharashtra. These are unlikely to be satisfactorily resolved as long as the party centre is seen to be lacking ability and a sense of fair play. Consequently, the BJP’s ability to take advantage of the anti-incumbency gale blowing across India may turn out to be quite uneven.
Like India, the BJP is becoming more and more federal. In the short term this shift may yield mixed results — the high of Karnataka and the low of Delhi-controlled Uttar Pradesh. Unregulated, it could alter its basic personality.
The writer is a political commentator .
Modi says Cong has a ‘hidden agenda’ in K’taka
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/modi-says-cong-has-a-hidden-agenda-in-ktaka/64745-3-2.html
Guys watch this video on Book release fucntion for Hindus under siege – the only way out by Dr. Subramanian Swamy:
http://video.aol.com/video-detail/hindus-under-seizethe-way-out-an-introductory-speech-by-the-author-dr-subramanian-swamy/4154565414
Hindus under siege: The way out
By Dr. Subramanian Swamy
http://www.savetemples.org/images/pdfs/talk_press_release.pdf
Jiggs,
I do agree that if any law in a state has to come into existence then it has to be ratified in the centre. After pushing the state law at the door steps of the centre, the state can’t wash off it’s hands saying, it isn’t its business anymore, that would be just another excuse for lack of will, determination. others will not do the job for BJP, they have to force them to do it. Afterall it’s for the sake of one’s own state, use any and every means to achieve it. BJP is there in the centre as the opposition party, it has it’s partners too, why wasn’t a strategy worked out by the central and state commands of the BJP/RSS to see to it that UPA is embarrassed in the Parliament until it takes positive steps. As for Cong not helping even Maharashtra, why worry abt Maha state cong, when people realize, they will kick them out. First BJP has to worry abt it’s own interests, which it claims is for the country.
After the UP election debacle in UP, the RSS pointsman Rajnath Singh scuttled every move to debate on the reasons for failure, RSS simply didn’t have the guts to face facts. RSS blindly went overdrive abt Hindutva, people simply trashed them. RSS is not realizing and not bothering to learn (this is why I say differentiate b/w criticism and hatred commentary and be open to criticism)from past mistakes, times are changing, Hindutva can’t be the means, it is the end – a never ending journey. People living on this side of Sindhu are Hindus- culturally, not religion wise. So, there shouldn’t be a problem if someone is a Muslim, Christian etc etc religion wise but culturally a Sindu/Hindu….the aim of the so called nationalists, this is a msg for anybody- cong supporter or BJP supporter or any other nationalists, that take care of country and make it strong and it will take care of your identity – your culture. (they ought to differentiate between tradition and culture!!!, from personal experience I can say not many know the difference between Sanskriti and Sampradhay(correct me if I have made a wrong translation).
As for your other piece, “why Karnataka matters”, Yediyurappa is an ass, his financial integrity is no where near that of Modi or that of Biju Patnaik or a few others. Swapan is trying to portray him as if he is son of soil, carrying part of Satya Harishchandra’s DNA. He is just carrying a deadly mutated DNA. Everybody in Shimoga knows what he did to his father in law and how he is playing Lingayat card!!.
If there is will/determination on the part of RSS/BJP, it can come make things happen or else they will be condemned to rule in the next term like what UPA is going thru now- the regional satraps will demand a larger share of power than they deserve and slowly BJP will lose it’s status as a national party. Show the public what development means, show them examples of how farmers (may be in Guj) have been happy- no transportation, water, fertilizer, seeds, middlemen etc problems to other state farmers, take farmer leaders from other states on free trips to developed places….ppl haven’t seen what is development and thatz why they don’t take it seriously, dont give them what they ask for, show them whatz good and how to choose the good one for themselves.
Hmnnn..Decratl….I think you are right….the buck stops with the BJP on how it must improve its internal party structure.
However, I still feel that RSS will have to come up with some plan to govern the BJP.
That info. on Yedurappa is also interesting.
Thanks anyways.
There was a disconnect between Modi and Sangh parivar during the elections in Dec/07. There were even a few instances of some Sangh parivar ppl campaigning against Modi (and the pseudosecular media blew it out of proportion for their benefits but it didn’t work out. Anybody would have done that – take care of your self interests!!).
If we go by grapevine, one of the reasons was that Modi put brakes on Sangh parivar’s interest in govt coffers!!!. Also, it seems Modi sidelined extreme right wing characters.
Anyways, I hope RSS/BJP learns from mistakes. A good start is needed, Guj is already there and so now it has to start in another state (certainly not post Godhra type) headed by a person who has unquestionable integrity and character. If BJP/RSS wants to survive for long it has to realise that it’s identity cannot be through few individuals. If some ppl like ABV, LKA, Modi aren’t there BJP can only keep dreaming to win LokSabha. Ppl have to gain confidence that it is the party as a whole that matters and that stands for something, for that they have to have a large number of noncorrupt ppl. To get rid of corrupt ppl in the party there are many strategies that can be followed without rocking the cart, you can kill the snake without breaking the stick (and for obvious reasons it can’t be discussed in public
)!!!!) For that RSS has to stop wasting its resources on moral policing, Muslim phobia, conversion phobia, defending silly sentiments and also useless thugs involved in vandalism, rioting and such anti-social activities and start behaving and acting like a mature political entity. RSS can pull strings harder in BJP only if it has few or no mistakes and also offers logical and rational alternatives or else BJP will RSS’s strings. I hope offstumped gives some gems for the decision makers in the sangh parivar though it may not want to publish in public for obvious reasons for example, political opposition against Cong is ok but it shouldn’t degrade to personal enimity. Both parties have to come to some kind of understanding and see to it that the CPI(M) and the regional parties are eliminated or else these two will have troubles saving their own turfs.
PS: of course, all these +ve statements abt Modi doesn’t mean I agree with what happened–pre and post Godhra or that I blindly agree with his reasoning behind what happened. I still hate that incident and consider it was unnecessary.
Here is an interesting article by K Subhramanyam on IE. You can agree or disagree with his personal opinions but he has made some valid points, thatz what I feel. (For those of offstumped readers who may not be aware, I vaguely remember (but don’t quote me on this
)…..) having read that before Indo Pak war in 71, Subhramanyam itseems had remarked that it would cost India less to go to war with Pakistan and win than to handle refugees from East Pakistan). He is knowledgeable, a strategist and probably more nationalist than most politicians in the country. There is a subtle message in each of his statements, it’s upto the readers to decipher them!!!
http://www.indianexpress.com/story/307671._.html
decratl….KS is one of the best defence strategists in the country no question of about it…
What bugs me is that if the 123 deal is whistle clean, then why is the BJP opposing it?
BJP is not kind of a party who would stand by the word OPPOSITION PARTY and oppose any thing and every thing dished out by the secularists?
Cmon, this is the party which supported Indira Gandhi wholeheartedly in creation of Bangladesh ( When ABV was the Oppo leader in the house and he praised IG as MAA Durga)
There must be a reason for this vehemant opposition by the BJP.
Re. Modi and RSS…Relations soured during 2004 Lok Sabha elections when Modi announced that subsidies on Electricity, Fertilsers will be reduced and that Farmers in Gujrat will have to eventually afford to pay for it. This started the RSS backed Bhartiya Kisan Sangh to oppose Modi, result, BJP lost 10 Lok Sabha seats to Congress and other regional satraps.
Modi also reigned in VHP/BD pointsman Praveen Togadia by stopping him giving his virulent speeches, this added insult to injury not to the RSS but the sangh parivar.
However, RSS backed Modi in a major way when he cleaned the state party machinery before elections. By cleaning I mean he side tracked all CORRUPT Gujrati MLA/C and gave tickets to 40 new faces.
The dissent in Gujrat BJP is nothing but the sacked corrupt MLA / C.
Modi went against all advice that the sacking of these corrupt yet powerful politicians will result in terrible backslash to the BJP.
However, with the blessings of the RSS he went ahead and we all know the result.
I agree that at some point the RSS was worried about the growing persona of Modi and some statements to effect were released to the media, however, the Modi style of governance has won hearts all over the country. CMON MAN THIS IS THE FIRST TIME IN THE HISTORY OF INDEPENDENT INDIA WHEN A POLITICIAN HAS DESTROYED THE WORDS ANTI INCUMBENCY….
The RSS must retain its role as the parent Hindu pariwar organization,if you mean the muslim / conversion phobia is the RSS fights in Kannur, then I differ with you. That is required to protect Hinduism, We cant shut our eyes towards the aggressive machinations by the Christian Missionaries and Muslims.
What I meant by RSS taking a larger role is by it can call the shots by appointing the correct people like Modi who in turn can clean the party completely.
Re. Godhra…Again I differ with you.
As for nuke deal, to the best of my knowledge all I can say is it is just politics – MMS is not as shrewd a politician as, say, PVN. From the beginning of the deal itself, MMS should have kept the imp honchos of BJP in the loop, he didn’t do it. We don’t know if he wanted to and even if he wanted to Sonia wouldn’t have allowed (which is mostly the case) and this obviously creates personal animosity rather than just political opposition. LKA even said that by bringing in a legislation in our country we can insulate ourselves from the effects of Hyde act, this means, he is fully aware of all the benefits of the nuke deal. He is also aware that in future also Hyde act (or similar one) is going to remain. LKA, as an opposition leader carries some status with him and when he is repeatedly snubbed, he obviously loses patience and so would obviously not let the credit go to Sonia who in turn would use to prop up Rahul’s case in the 2009 elections. This is just simple politics.
ArunShourie(a good man no doubt) might tell we have enough uranium deposits etc etc but he also knows but doesn’t tell that by the time these U is extracted and is made usable it would be another 10 years. What matters now is the time, if u miss this train, u might as well be able to catch another train or u may not be able to catch, even if u catch another, it will not be the same as the one u were supposed to catch. Time is essence in international relations.
As for ABV calling IG — Durga etc…..they were just political opponents and didn’t have personal enmity. Even LKA, PVN belong to that category but today the situation has deteriorated far too much and for bad – for India. There aren’t many statesmen left!!
Togadias and Bajarangis have to be first sidelined and then pushed into extinction. They will cause more harm than any good. That idiot like Bajarangi today behaves as if he is one who decides which girl has to marry whom, tomorrow will he start telling when people should have sex?? and how many times couple can make love ? nonsense.
As for Modi Vs RSS, yeah I did read abt all these.
As for conversions, Muslim phobia, am not saying close eyes, all am saying is RSS doesn’t have to do it. logical extension of that statement is outsource it to smarter people, somebody who can achieve what we want. RSS/BJP has to get sophisticated. They can’t behave like cave men!!. Even if missionaries were involved in conversions, the way to handle it is different, instead if sangh parivar thugs go and beat up nuns or do such things- it will be portrayed as beating up helpless women – which is against our culture (again, am not talking abt Hindu religion, all am saying is it is against Hindu culture!!). THis is double waste, one is negative publicity, second wastage of resources on useless thugs and their defense in courts etc etc.
RSS has to take up some human development program for its lower cadres, it may not be a bad idea to send some brilliant brains to top notch institutions, if not for anything, atleast to make friends, who will be helpful in future. All these are investments. But I doubt if RSS believes in it.
decratl….Mate…we can go on and on….I still differ with your views on RSS, however, I understand what your are trying to say.
Let’s hope for the best to come by and that both RSS / BJP clean up their act and be what we all want them to be…
Here a good one on the Nuke deal on rediff, read on:
http://in.rediff.com/news/2008/may/09iaea.htm
Deve Gowda forced to leave Hassan, read on :
http://in.rediff.com/news/2008/may/10kgovt.htm
Article by Dina Nath Mishra:
Bleak future faces the Congress
http://www.dailypioneer.com/columnist1.asp?main_variable=Columnist&file_name=mishra%2Fmishra222%2Etxt&writer=mishra
Congress is the Mother of all Terrorism in Bharat. A few examples, who created Bhrindanwale? Who trained Prabhakaran, LTTE leader, in Indian Military Academy? Who created ULFA in Asom, to destroy AGP? Who created IMDT law in Asom to protect illegal Jiahdi Bangladeshis? Who took suport of naxalites in Andra Pradesh in last assembly elctions? Who removed anti-terror law POTA, to facilitate Jihadis to kill us? And the list goes on. Congress and Terrorism are synonymous.