Indian Secularism engenders fissiparous tendencies

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Bangladeshis come under scanner
Saturday May 17 2008 11:13 IST Manan Kumar
http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=IEH20080517005202&Page=H&Title=Top+Stories&Topic=-536&
JAIPUR: Struggling to solve the riddle of Jaipur serial blasts, the Rajasthan Government has trained its guns on illegally- living Bangladeshis in various cities of the state.

After holding several marathon crucial meetings with the top police officials and Cabinet colleagues in the aftermath of the blasts, Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje Scindia on Friday passed orders to launch a massive verification drive and draw a list of the Bangladeshis living in the state.

All the district magistrates and Superintendents of Police have been given standing orders to prepare the list within 30 days and submit it to the state government. The newly-formed Special Task Force team, meanwhile, has begun interrogating 40 odd Bangladeshis picked up by the police.

The suspicion of involvement of HuJI linked Bangladeshi modules in Jaipur blasts gained credence after investigations, reported by this website's newspaper earlier, led to several vital clues like Bangladeshi cigarette packets and cigarette butts at the blast site, hand written notes in Bangla and the profile of the Bangla-speaking cycle purchaser.

According to rough estimates there are about 1.5 lakh illegal Bangladeshis living in Rajasthan, with main concentration in Jaipur and Ajmer.

'We have also told all the district administrations to begin the process of removing names of such people from the ration cards,' said Rajendra Rathore, Parliamentary Affairs Minister.

The district administrations have also been ordered not to believe if people from the targeted population claim that they are from West Bengal and verify their antecedents by sending police teams to their home towns and villages.

Investigations into the blasts progressed marginally on Friday as the police managed to identify eight out of ten bicycles that were used in the blasts.

'All cycles were purchased from different shops in Kishanpol area. We are in the process of releasing some more sketches based on the account of other shopkeepers,' said a senior police officer adding that ball bearings of cycles were used as pellets in the blasts.

 

[Saab]

A CPM candidate’s assets jump by 7,393 per cent

Of the 415 candidates in the 69 constituencies going to the polls on May 22 in the third and final phase of elections to the Karnataka legislative assembly, there are 36 candidates with a criminal record, 23 women, and total declared assets of Rs 650 crore, according to a report prepared by the Karnataka Election Watch committee of the Association of Democratic Reforms (ADR).

The BJP has 12 candidates with a criminal record, JDS 7, Congress 6, and other parties 11. There are 5 candidates who are charged with murder or attempt to murder. Several of them are charged with other violent crimes like assault with deadly weapons and so on.

Of the 23 women candidates, the JDS has 6, JDU 6, BSP 3, Congress 3, and BJP 2, and others 3. The total percentage of women in phase 3 is about 5.5% and is extremely low. None of the women candidates have any criminal cases against them. The average assets of women candidates is Rs 90 lakh.

In the first phase there were 17 women candidates and in the second phase 14 women candidates from the major parties. Which means, in all, the major parties which talk of 33 per cent reservation for women, could only put up 54 women candidates. In contrast, they put up 132 candidates with a criminal past.
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Congress candidates have declared assets of Rs 347 crore and average candidate assets of Rs 5.03 crore. BJP candidates have total assets of Rs 155 crores at an average of Rs 2.26 crore, JDS candidates have Rs 84 crore and an average of Rs.1.22 crore, and BSP candidates Rs 35 crore at Rs 0.52 crore.

The three major parties account for 89.2% of total candidate assets with average candidate assets of Rs.2.83 crores. Clearly, elections have become a rich man’s game. It is very difficult for Independent candidates to win and the major parties give tickets to candidates with very high level of assets.
There are 24 candidates who have “High Assets” over Rs 5 crore. The Congress has 13 candidates, BJP has 8, JDS 2, and BSP 1. There are 41 candidates who have declared very low assets of Rs 1 lakh or less. The total liabilities of all candidates were Rs 75.19 crore. The Congress candidates had liabilities of Rs.37.22 crore, BJP candidates Rs 15.79 crore, JDS candidates Rs 13.97 crore, and others Rs 8.21 crore.

As many as 69 candidates reported a very steep increase in total assets between the 2004 assembly elections and this election. The average increase in assets was a huge 339.5%.

# Prakash Ramachandra Shirolkar, the SHS candidate from Belgaum south, has seen his assets jump by 10,065 per cent in the last four years.

# Maruti Manapade, the CPM candidate from Gulbarga rural, has seen his assets jump by 7,393 per cent, from Rs 0 in 2004 to Rs 20 lakh in 2008.

# Ajaykumar Sarnayak, the Congress candidate from Bilgi, has declared an increase in assets between of 2,181 per cent.

# Rajkumar Patil Telkur, the BJP candidate from Sedam, has seen his assets jump by 1,990 per cent.
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KEW conclusion: The overall quality of candidates leaves much to be desired. The criminal records in particular are a little alarming. Unless this trend is checked, elections, democracy and overall governance will suffer. A lot of candidates are industrialists from the real estate, liquor, mining and other businesses. Unless business interests are aligned to citizen interests there is a clear conflict of interest. Would such representatives work for citizens’ interests or for their business interests? The average assets of candidates from the major parties were Rs 2.84 crores. A lot of candidates have reported huge increase in their assets from the previous elections. This means that elections are mostly open to the rich and that the stakes are very high and rising from election to election. The steep rise in assets also needs to be investigated so that public trust is restored.

(Karnataka Election Watch is part of a nationwide movement to improve democracy. It is a citizen led non-political, non-partisan effort. This time several NGOs activists and civil society organizations in Karnataka are participating in this effort.)

http://churumuri.wordpress.com/2008/05/18/a-cpm-candidates-assets-jump-by-7393-per-cent/

 

[Saab]

Sri Swapandas Gupta ----------------------------------------------------------------------

..The story of Incredible India is truly remarkable. It would be difficult discovering too many societies where a Government tries to cover up its pathetic helplessness by projecting the organised killings of the aam aadmi --commuters on suburban trains, scientists attending seminars, housewives shopping for Diwali and devotees worshipping at temples -- as karma and cruel fate. In normal democratic societies, the existence of well-organised terror networks would have prompted outrage. In India, it has prompted a curious response: A blend of capitulation and denial.

The capitulation has been shamefully brazen. In trying to dispel the assertion that terrorists don't deserve human rights, the UPA Government has gone out of its way to assert that terror suspects shouldn't suffer any discrimination. The architect of the Coimbatore bomb blasts, for example, turned his prison cell into a massage parlour before the authorities engineered his acquittal. The convicted perpetrator of the attack on Parliament idles away his time in prison with the full knowledge that the Government lacks the anatomical wherewithal to carry out the punishment awarded to him by courts.

For liberal India -- UPA represents its most disfigured face -- the important thing about terror is to deny its existence as far as possible...

India is confronted by home-grown, ideologically-driven terror. The Government doesn't want to admit it. Nor does it plan to act against it for fear of unsettling people who vote en bloc. It persists with its hypocrisy and double-speak on the cynical belief that the Kuffar-e-Hind is incapable of responding in a united way... www.dailypioneer.com ...

 

[Saab]

We are one India, one people

By: M V KAMATH

http://newstodaynet.com/col.php?section=20&catid=58

 

[malgova.mango]

Dear Sri Saab!

I think the problem is deeper, migratory low-skilled workers compete with the native workers and this is the root cause of the problem. The native low-skilled workers are protectorless from the law, so they seek protection from parties like Raj-thackeray. Here the problem is one of survival.

It is the same between TN and Karnataka, only the flaring point is water here.

If a small Bihari community get prosperous by setting up other industries, the marathis are going to accept them , but when they are going to compete with low-skilled workers , those affected are not going to be like us (TB) .

A good interstate migration policy is the need of the hour with support system for the survival of locals. Without addressing this, if one going to cry about unity, it is not going to work.

What do you say Sir?

Regards

 

[Saab]

Dear MMji,

Asking for State intervention is to give leash to the politicians. Advocating state intervension was the moth eaten secularist concept. We have to let the law of nature take its course. Demand leads to supply. Lack of demand cause the supply to dwindle. This is the law whether it is about commodities or about labour.

India is in transition. We have old concept of 'bringing up' children wherein we decide what is best for the child and send him to the university to pursue a degree course. We make preferences such as Engineering, Medicine, Science, Arts - probably in that order. In any case a degree is important for without it the boy will have no status to marry and so on. This concept has so much pressure on the parents and the children in a world of uncertainty.

If the trend of this transition continues, then as in the west, the children would be taking the future in their hands and choose the kind of education they need and of which they are capable of assimilating and finance it by their own work and loan. By this time the family as we know would have completely collapsed.

This is capitalist concept. Capitalist concept is better than socialist concept where every one of us are slaves to some guy controlling the state.

Capitalism is extolled by the secularists for they are ignorant of the Dharmic concept of society and so they vigourously denigrate Dharma. They either whitewash or sweep under the carpet the pitfalls of the capitalist crisis of over production. Their political economy consists of (a) free enterprise (b) democracy in politics and (c) majority rule. The pitfalls of them are there is the inevitability of (i) the economic crisis; (ii) the inevitability of manipulation of the body politic by emotional appeal to extraneous linguistic and jingoistic and other various negative identities and (iii) the inevitability of nebulousness in the majoritarian rule. The trend of mass migration that cause the tension as we have seen is also part of the menace of capitalist political economy.

Also the capitalists ostensibly are against state intervention, however, they have quite often indulged in state intervention. Thus they are two faced. Both capitalism and socialism are cousins of the same oppressive social system that endangers Dharma.

The purpose of this thread as it indicates is to highlight and educate the dangers inherent in this concept.

 

[kunjuppu]

saab,

this is the first time i am hearing of an alternate to capitalism. ie dharmism.

can you please expound on it and how it will operate.

democratic capitalism as we practice it in india, inspite of its warts, has worked to the extent of peaceful transfer of power, constant escape valve for frustrustration.

how will dharmism compare to this? is the concept broad based so that the masses take on to it like fish to water? or is it something that is elitist, like administered by a select few, in which case there may not be any buyers.

please feel free to elaborate as much as you wish. thank you.

 

[Saab]

I don't mind giving some discourse on dharma which is an endless topic. It would be helpful if you know of some and practiced it.

Have you got anything to disagree with what I have said about capitalism and socialism?

 

[kunjuppu]

saab,

i think i misunderstood. sorry. i thought, that dharmism is an alternate form of government and/or values. much like socialism, anarchism, monarchy, dictatorship, maoism etc.

if you had meant rule per Hindu Dharma principles, i would be more interested in how it can be put forward in a manner that our vast 1 billion people can accept it, taking into consideration that we have multiple languages, religions and let alone castes and the urban/rural divide.

i believe that whatever produces results to bring india out of poverty should be adopted. at this point, i cannot see any alternative except democracy. there are many reasons to oppose the way it is practised in india but what i consider the main achievements are the orderly transfer of power and the constant safety valve it provides to the disaffected.

even the biggest scoundrel of politician goes begging for votes every 5 years and that accountability alone is a sobering fact. amartya sen has gone on record that the accountability is a key factor in ensuring that people are getting the basics.

africa is a classic example of autocracy. so is our neighbour pakistan. since we all have common genes, i would suspect, that an autocratic rule in india would be a disaster. we had a taste with indira gandhi. that is enough, i think.

the armed forces are for defending the country. they should not rule us. the sad fact is power corrupts. absolute power corrupts absolutely.

i hope the above somewhat indirectly addresses your query.

thank you.

 

[Saab]

kunjuppu,

You only reiterate what you think as the positives of this system that is hell-bent on destroying the Hindus. You have a blind eye for all its pitfalls. You are sold to it and I see no point in convincing you.

If you still think that I should, then tell me what you think of what I have said as follows:

Capitalism is extolled by the secularists for they are ignorant of the Dharmic concept of society and so they vigourously denigrate Dharma. They either whitewash or sweep under the carpet the pitfalls of the capitalist crisis of over production. Their political economy consists of (a) free enterprise (b) democracy in politics and (c) majority rule. The pitfalls of them are there is the inevitability of (i) the economic crisis; (ii) the inevitability of manipulation of the body politic by emotional appeal to extraneous linguistic and jingoistic and other various negative identities and (iii) the inevitability of nebulousness in the majoritarian rule. The trend of mass migration that cause the tension as we have seen is also part of the menace of capitalist political economy.

Also the capitalists ostensibly are against state intervention, however, they have quite often indulged in state intervention. Thus they are two faced. Both capitalism and socialism are cousins of the same oppressive social system that endangers Dharma.

 

[Saab]

Oil firms are weeks away from bankruptcy

Murali Gopalan
DNA
Wednesday, May 21, 2008 03:27 IST

UPA government is destroying oil companies for narrow electoral reasons

MUMBAI: There was no diesel for a day at a gas station in north India recently. The public sector oil companies are slowing down the issue of new gas connections to households. The private sector oil companies are closing down petrol pumps and exporting petrol and diesel. Kerosene is not easily available in the public distribution system; the open market rate is around Rs30 a litre when the official rate is under Rs10.

If you think these are isolated events, think again. A fuel shortage looms ahead of the nation as the oil companies rapidly head towards bankruptcy. With international crude oil prices hovering around $129 a barrel, the country’s three oil marketing companies – IndianOil, Bharat Petroleum, and Hindustan Petroleum – are collectively looking at losses of Rs200,000 crore this year. These losses belong to the budget, but finance minister P Chidambaram doesn’t want his own copybook ruined. If these numbers were added to this year’s Union budget, Chidambaram’s fiscal deficit – the borrowings needed to finance government government expenditure – would bloat from a fictitious 2.5% of gross domestic product (GDP) to more than twice that figure.

Under the subsidy sharing formula designed by the government, the Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), the country’s main oil producer, along with gas pipeline company Gail is supposed to share one-third of the oil marketing companies’ losses. But ONGC’s turnover for 2007-08 will be around Rs65,000 crore – one-third of the projected losses. Loss-sharing can thus wipe out ONGC as well.

In less than two months from now, some oil companies will be plain and simple broke as they exhaust their borrowing limits of Rs90,000 crore. They have already notched up borrowings of around Rs70,000 crore when their combined net worth is just over Rs54,000 crore. The only reason they are still able to borrow is because they are owned by the government, and governments are not expected to default.

By early July, they will simply have no cash to run their business and some of them will find it difficult to pay staff salaries. “It is like a time bomb ticking away. If the prices of petro-products are not increased immediately, they will just sink without a trace,” top industry sources said.

What is worse, global suppliers of crude and petro-products are not going to honour contracts unless money is paid upfront, which means the country could be looking at a frightening scenario of a fuel shortage.

Losses on the sale of diesel, petrol, liquefied petroleum gas (cooking gas) and kerosene are already Rs550 crore a day. What has been especially worrying is the alarming rise in the consumption of diesel. Sources say that diesel consumption has grown 25% since January this year. With world prices of the fuel closer to $160 per barrel, imports will soon have to be reduced.

Private sector refiners like Reliance and Essar are exporting diesel because it is not viable to sell in the local market. Reliance Petroleum has closed down all its 1,432 gas stations.

A spokesman for Essar Oil said the company continued to operate its 1,000-and-odd outlets, but at a reduced scale. According to him, both petrol and diesel are retailed at roughly Rs9 more than the public sector companies. Clearly, few people will buy fuel when the state oil companies are giving them the same stuff cheaper.

However, the public sector oil companies cannot continue to bleed indefinitely. If they are unable to buy any more diesel abroad due to a shortage of cash, user industries like power, shipping, transport (rail and road) and telecommunications could face a crunch. There could be havoc if the crisis extends to petrol, LPG and even a fuel like kerosene, which is used in the aviation sector.

To compensate oil companies for the losses, the government issues them oil bonds. But these bring in additional losses of their own. To raise money, the oil companies have to sell these bonds at a loss. It’s a no-win situation.

 

[malgova.mango]

Dear Sri Kunjuppu!

Power didn't corrupt. It only highlights the corruption character in the personality.

Our land has seen many a rulers blessed with social responsiblity. The King saw the subjects as his own children and conducted governance. The ministers with responsiblity advised the kings. The holy scriptures were the guide they used.

There the power didn't corrupt them. It just makes them more resposible.

The story of Kings Rama, Janaka, and many others are shining examples.

We owe many good unique features like our sensitivities to other living things, our devotion to Lord, our festivals whatever reminiscent were because of the goodworks of those and untold kings.

The sacrifices or yagyas stopped, so that affected the distribution of the wealth. The culture started to decay. If one order disappear, then some other order have to appear.

So came the culture of exploitation, where success is by seducing others, that's the reason we are bombarded with so many advt. telling us that one would only be happy only if one have this and that.

The leader seduce the subjects, you elect me you will get this and this to enjoy, your life style will change etc, etc... If the subject is uncomfortable with the inborn duties, the leaders tell them forget the duties, vote for me i'll give everything free, so he promises to give color tv free, sarayam free, rice 2 re only/kg and topping it all if you vote for the candidate you get some 200rs free. This is democracy in india sir.

Whoever is the master of seduction he is clearly the winner in this modern order. After you seduce what? you began to exploit.

I don't see any other meaning or pupose of this order...

Regards

 

[malgova.mango]

Dear Sri Saab!

The locals workers are affected, they feel clearly threatened by the migrant workers now they can't cut their pay just simply because a bihari is willing to work half his salary. It is hurting their rice bowl. To say supply and demand of market force and natural cure will not work, because the affected one's are humans with emotions they are justifiably right in there demands. They are born there and they have a right for living there, if it is threatened . What or how you expect them to react?

Another thing is linking this issue with patriotism seems very disconnected. The root is survival.

Just to express in the words of "Kannadasan" .... ( I don't know from where he stealed this)

"Paramasivan kazhuthil eruntha pambu kettathu Garuda Sowkyama?
Yarum Irukkum edatthil erunthu vittal ellam sowkiyame
Garudan sonnathu athil
Artham Ullathu...."

Regards

 

[Saab]

Dear MMji,

மரம் பழுத்தால் வவ்வாலை வா என்று கூறி இறந்தழைப்பார் யாவரும் அங்கில்லை
சுரந்தமுதம் கற்றாதரல் போல் கரவாதளிப்பரேல்
உற்றார் உலகத்தவர்!

You see crows and dogs come in droves to eat the carcasses. Some of them fight among themselves too.

The same Guna is in the humans too. Please don't get carried away by the preachers of 'civilization'. Ask them why the citadels of civilizations have been colonizing the world. Ask them why the U.S. and the U.K. went into Iraq.

Regards,

 

[malgova.mango]

Dear Sri Saab!

Sorry I couldn't relate to your post. Where or what made you to think I'm carried away Sir?

As far the occupation of Iraq, it is a political game- SH openly challenged the super powers and paid the price. Whatever it is, the suffering of the Iraqis is heart breaking and the violence should end. Recently read an article in Kumudam where an Iraqi women came here for some medical treatment with her family. They narrated the suffering they are going through under the US occupation.

Regards

 

[kunjuppu]

Dear MMji,

Capitalism is extolled by the secularists for they are ignorant of the Dharmic concept of society and so they vigourously denigrate Dharma. They either whitewash or sweep under the carpet the pitfalls of the capitalist crisis of over production. Their political economy consists of (a) free enterprise (b) democracy in politics and (c) majority rule. The pitfalls of them are there is the inevitability of (i) the economic crisis; (ii) the inevitability of manipulation of the body politic by emotional appeal to extraneous linguistic and jingoistic and other various negative identities and (iii) the inevitability of nebulousness in the majoritarian rule. The trend of mass migration that cause the tension as we have seen is also part of the menace of capitalist political economy.

Also the capitalists ostensibly are against state intervention, however, they have quite often indulged in state intervention. Thus they are two faced.

saab,

let me try again, if you don't mind.

first para: i agree with you 100% re a, b, c. i agree with you 100% re i, ii, iii.
i agree with you as you describe, the limitations and the corruptions of either capitlalism or socialism.

i agree with you on para 2, except the last sentence..Both capitalism and socialism are cousins of the same oppressive social system that endangers Dharma.

i can even extrapolate that capitalism and socialism are cousins, but i do not understand how they endanger Dharma. i shall be very interested, if you could expound
- in practical terms, what is Dharma as you think, can be practised in modern times
- how do you convince our population to accept it
- how is going to benefit the poor and the oppressed of our society
- anything more of a feasibile nature that can be put to practise and acceptably replace our democracy

unless there is widespread acceptance of a method, how can it be put to practice?

thank you.

 

[kunjuppu]

malgova,

i agree with your assessment.

however we live in this imperfect environment. maybe if we participate in the process we can alleviate some of its defects? even more so, ensure that we present ourselves in a positive light as a community, and atleast ensure that the weaker sections of us are provided some state help?

the vast majority of us are middle class and by and large, do not depend on the government. we can probably get away by boycotting its due processes. but i think we owe it to our weaker sections such as the chavundi so that they can uplift their lot.

also, the examples of yore are our puranas. it is more a faith based than one for historical records. even 1000 years ago, do we know how the common man lived, based on documents, letters or records? that would help us.

even then, i don't think that there is a historical precedence for modern times with its fast changing technologies. today asia is in a race with europe and north america for technological dominance. tomorrow it will be south america and a sometime later africa. while we have these external factors, can we afford to have soft underbellies of discontent within our own country? or even within our own community?

 

[Saab]

Dear MMji,

Sorry I couldn't relate to your post.

I can understand. No problem.

I had made a correction to the Tamil stanza. Does it make sense now?

 

[malgova.mango]

Dear Sri Kunjuppu!

For your para 1
Please understand as a followers, we have our own limitations, we can't change our acts or scriptures to please others. It is not our duty to please others, are present ourself to be seen in positive lights.

But I understand your spirit, that you want to bring some help to the needy within current setup and you are suggesting that by doing away with whatever dharma especially related to Jathi, we are following we could be seen in positive light. Is it ? or did I get anything wrong?

Whatever it is , to repeat in other words, by only taking proper refuge in dharma the other 3 pursuits can be successfully fulfilled. I do suggest that you read the works of "Mahaperieva" especially on the Jati system , just to get a balance in your perspective before we proceed.

Para 2 - Could you elaborate your understanding on Chavundi ?

Para 3 - Puranas are sathyams to me , I've dedicatedly written many posts in a thread in religion section under "Another interesting legend...." please give a read and then talk to me. I respect your value for documented history - Itihasa means "It happened thus" . Please don't tell me that you don't believe , King Rama and King Janaka as historical figure but a mere fiction...

Para4
Is there no technological advance in our Vedic society? Many asthras, vimanas are talked about in Vedas. Did you meant to say, there is no place for modern technologies , if we followed our native culture? We are not against science. "Vedaa shastrani Vignanam, e tat sarvam janardhanath" says Vishnu sahasranamam. We would have improved many technologies with a good governance and better allocation of jobs. Please read the article posted by Saab, on the English man observation of India that he talked about in the parliment.

This Jati complex is a calculated creation to pull us down.

Regards

 

[Saab]

Kunjuppu,

Since you agree with me what would be your solutions to the problems for all problems must have their solutions.

 

[Saab]

MMji,

As far the occupation of Iraq, it is a political game- SH openly challenged the super powers and paid the price.

Actually before he was overthrown Saddam conceded to every demand of Bush. The international nuclear watchdog also confirmed that there were no nuclear weapons in Iraq. The guy who headed the international verification agency swore before the Security Council that every allegation of the U.S. was verfied and proved to be wrong. Yet the U.S. and U.K. blasted their way into Iraq.

Now you tell me why they went into there?

If you read my post with the Tamil poem from naaladiyaar again perhaps, (I repeat perhaps,) you would understand.

 

[kunjuppu]

Kunjuppu,

Since you agree with me what would be your solutions to the problems for all problems must have their solutions.

saab,

i am with winston churchill on this one. inspite of all its warts and imperfections, democracy through universal franchise, is still the best method developed to rule any country.

saab, all other alternatives such as absolute monarchy, theocracy or dictatorship, does not appear to work in my view. especially for india in this century with its 1 billion people with so many divisions.

which is why, i became excited when you mentioned the dharmisism. i would like to know more about it as a viable alternative to our democracy and how in your view it can be initiated and get a popular following. i am quite sure that you have given much thought to it, and thought out the process to come up with some concrete ideas and methods.

please let me know.

thank you.

 

[Saab]

On Jaipur, a familiar refrain
Wednesday May 21 2008 09:35 IST S Gurumurthy
When Congress president Sonia Gandhi visited terror-hit Jaipur on May 15, she repeated the stale phrase, “it is a crime against humanity”. Standing by her side, Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil repeated the equally stock rhetoric of “zero tolerance” of terror! Thus ended, with the traditional expression of compassion and pity for the victims, the ritual of the battle cry.

Islamic terror hit Jaipur on May 13, 2008. But, after the UPA government came to power in May 2004, there have been nine other major terror attacks, including temples in Varanasi and Ayodhya, in Mumbai and Malageon, in which hundreds died and thousands were injured. In every one of them, the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) was found involved. The story here shows how considerate the UPA and Sonia Gandhi have been of SIMI,which perpetrated such “crimes against humanity”. But, before that, a short brief on SIMI.

SIMI has a long history of preaching hatred against Hindus and India, and of practising terror against both. A click of the mouse yields tons of information about SIMI through Google. It hates the very notion of India, vows to terminate the “sin” of idol worship and remains in a perpetual state of jihad. It glorifies no one other than Prophet Mohammed, respects no one other than Osama bin Laden, praises none other than Maulana Masood Asher, the founder of Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM),which wages war against India, and the hijackers of the Indian Airlines flight IC814 to Kandahar.

It trivialises Mahatma Gandhi and trashes Pandit Nehru and Indira Gandhi. It is the Indian arm of JeM, Lashker-e-Toiba (LeT) and Harkat-ul-Jihad Islam (HuJI) — the leading terror merchants of Pakistan and Bangladesh. It is globally linked to Islamic outfits like the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (Riyadh), the International Islamic Federation of Students Organisations (Kuwait), the Consultative Committee of Indian Muslims [Chicago] and the various students wings of the Jamait in Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal.

Formed in 1977, and generously funded by the Islamic world, SIMI was the most potential indigenous terror factory by the early 1990s. The Intelligence Bureau had a huge dossier on SIMI as the year 2000 turned. As early as 2001, the Delhi police described SIMI as “the most potential enemy within”. The Kanpur police went further. It was not just potential, but “a clear and present danger” to national security. (see India Today 2.4.2001). In his interview to the weekly, its secretary general openly expressed hate for India, Gandhi, Nehru, and Indira; declared love for bin Laden and professed respect for the Jamait chief of Pakistan. By early 2001 no one had any doubt about its character.

In end-September 2001, the NDA government outlawed SIMI and convened a joint session of Parliament in early 2002 to pass the Prevention Of Terrorism Act (POTA) How did Sonia Gandhi and her party respond? “Lopsided”, “ill-timed”, “not in national interest”—this was how Sonia’s trusted party general secretary Ambika Soni described the ban on SIMI. Prakash Jaiswal, the president of her party in Uttar Pradesh then, said: “The Vishwa Hindu Parishad is a greater threat to national security than SIMI”.

Inside Parliament, Sonia Gandhi opposed both POTA and the ban. But, her party's chief ministers having pleaded for such a law, her party had to do a U-turn. When asked about the somersault, the party spokesman simply replied, “The official view is that no such national law is needed and this is binding on all chief ministers.” So the final was that the ban on SIMI was wrong and that the POTA was against minorities. This was in the NDA years, 2001 and 2002.

Now come to UPA rule. Between May 2004 and May 2008, SIMI has struck some 10 times, killing hundreds and injuring thousands. Yet the UPA government allowed the ban on SIMI to expire in September 2005, and legalised — yes legalised — its activities. What about Sonia? On May 31, 2004, she became chairperson of the National Advisory Council (NAC),whose main function was to oversee the implementation of the UPA’s Common Minimum Programme (CMP).

On national security, the CMP had said there would be no compromise in the fight against terror. During the 20 months of its existence, the NAC held 22 meetings, produced 63 concept papers, addressed over 30 communications to the government, but the only subjects that NAC totally forgot — yes forgot — were “national security and terror”! Not a word on the Varanasi or Ayodhya attacks. What then were the other concerns of the NAC — that is, Sonia? Read the list. Right to Information Act, National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, National Rural Roads Project, Midday Meal Scheme, Universal Primary Education, Integrated Child Development Scheme,Watershed Development, Tribal Development and the like — all populist, to add value to her image.

As SIMI is identified with the Muslim vote bank, NAC and Sonia were deafeningly silent on the subject. It is no accident. Even in her personal website, www.soniagandhi. org,which has over 430 pages of discourse on a variety of subjects, the only subjects she forgets are, coincidentally again, national security and terrorism.

What about the Prime Minister? He claimed that he spent a sleepless night when Muhammed Hanif, whose brother Shakeel was a suspect in the attempted terror attack on Heathrow airport in London, was detained in Australia. Obviously, he had no such problems when SIMI tore up India repeatedly and maimed and killed thousands under his nose.

Now fast forward to 2008. Prakash Jaiswal, the same gentleman who as UPCC president certified in 2001 that SIMI was not as anti-national as the VHP, told Parliament on April 21 — this time as Union Minister of State for Home — that SIMI, which has links with LeT, was indeed a threat to national security! He also added that over 180 SIMI activists had been arrested since the ban and that raids yielded arms, ammunitions, and hate literature. The Congress and Sonia were forced to eat their words on SIMI as the UPA government had to re-impose the ban on SIMI in February 2006, but not before allowing it to grow as the most powerful indigenous Islamic terror outfit.

Leave SIMI, take the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Even before she defended SIMI, Sonia sought a pardon for the killers of her husband and former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. He was leader of the Opposition when he was assassinated by the LTTE. So the victim of LTTE terror was not just Sonia but also India as a nation and the Congress as a party.

Yet she saw it as her personal prerogative to seek a pardon. Recently, her daughter Priyanka Vadra even made a mysterious visit to Vellore jail to meet one of the killers of Rajiv Gandhi to declare the family's compassion for the killers.

If Sonia could pardon the terrorists who killed Rajiv Gandhi, the human rights industry asks now, why not pardon Mohammed Afsal, who nearly blew up Parliament, even though the Supreme Court has decided that “he is a menace to the society whose life shoud be extinct to satisfy the collective conscience of the society”.

QED: It is pardon and compassion for the terrorists and sympathy and pity for the victims that marks the UPA government policy to tackle terror.
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[Saab]

kunjuppu,

It is neither dharmism nor dharmissism. It is just dharma!

You are quite comfortable with the state of affairs as they are. Of course you are also far away in a foreign land where dharma isn't the catch word. I am really looking for someone who is feeling sick of the system in India and is in search of an alternative with whom I can have a meaningful conversation.

Is Dharma universal? Of course it is! However we can have it revived in India rather than in Canada for that matter.

Secularism is a byproduct of Christian way of life in the west. It is held as panacea to the world-wide ills only after the world got 'integrated' by colonialism and the globalisation of the neo-colonialism. The motive force of such integration viz. colonialism and neo-colonialism are antithetical to Dharma. For such of those who take the premise of fait accompli aren't the ones whose intentions are serious for the consideration of dharma as the alternative either as relevant or as efficient.

Thanks

P.S: If you are still curious my suggestion would be to investigate how dhaarmic system had had its political economy in the past. You can then find out in the major features are still valid.

 

[malgova.mango]

Sri Saab!

I've probem in understanding the 2nd line .

I couldn't connect your that post with the migration woes.

As far Iraqi occupation. I think what pushed them is the open rejoicing of SH in the collapse of Twin towers. They decided his fate then itself.

But what they are doing there still is a mystery. I don't think they are there for oil. With Financial market under there control , they could easily buy the oil rather than occupy and exploit.

Regards