Susruta launch mobile medical service in Malkangiri
Malkangiri:25/11 (Visakeo)Utkal Biparna Sahayata Samiti backed Susruta has launched a mobile medical service in Maoists infected Orissa's Malkangiri district. RSS Khetra Pracharak(East) Sunilpada Goswami inaugurated the service and hoped that it would benefit thousands of tribal residing here.
RSS Saha Khetra Pracharak(East) Ajit Prasad Mohapatra and UBSS State chief Saroj Kar were among those present. Susruta is running seven service projects in Malkangiri, Kalahandi, Phulabani, Gajapati, Mayurbhanj and Kendrapara respectively.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
RSS Prachar Bibhaga meet on Nov 29
RSS Prachar Bibhaga meet on Nov 29
Bhubaneswar: 25/11(visakeo)The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh would host its All India Prachar Bibhaga(Publicity Division) meet here in the premises of the Utkal Biparna Sahayata Samiti in Mancheswar Industrial area of the State Capital from November 29 to 30.
RSS Saha Sarakaryabaha(joint secretary) Suresh Soni, Akhil Bharatiya Prachar Pramukha Manmohan Baidya, Central Executive Committee member Ram Madhav, Chief of Hindustan Samachar news agency, Srikant Joshi and several other noted nationalist journalists are expected to attend the meet, said RSS State spokesman Simanchal Khatua on Tuesday. An orientation camp would also be held for media persons. Prachar Praukhas of all States and district would attend the meet, he added. He also said that editors of various newspapers, magazines and periodicals will also attend the meet.
Bhubaneswar: 25/11(visakeo)The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh would host its All India Prachar Bibhaga(Publicity Division) meet here in the premises of the Utkal Biparna Sahayata Samiti in Mancheswar Industrial area of the State Capital from November 29 to 30.
RSS Saha Sarakaryabaha(joint secretary) Suresh Soni, Akhil Bharatiya Prachar Pramukha Manmohan Baidya, Central Executive Committee member Ram Madhav, Chief of Hindustan Samachar news agency, Srikant Joshi and several other noted nationalist journalists are expected to attend the meet, said RSS State spokesman Simanchal Khatua on Tuesday. An orientation camp would also be held for media persons. Prachar Praukhas of all States and district would attend the meet, he added. He also said that editors of various newspapers, magazines and periodicals will also attend the meet.
What a bunch of fools
http://www.dailypioneer.com/136213/What-a-bunch-of-fools-!.html
FORAY | Sunday, November 23, 2008
What a bunch of fools !
By Chandan Mitra
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh: Perpetrator or victim? Will the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad please make up its mind? Till some days back, we were informed by "sources" in the ATS, colourfully played up in sections of the media that the alleged Malegaon bombers' links led right up to the top of the Sangh Parivar hierarchy. In other words, senior RSS functionaries were suspected of hatching the so-called Hindu terror plot, but chose obscure organisations (read Abhinav Bharat) and little known religious personalities to execute their plan. So much so, that the name of a front-ranking RSS leader, namely Indreesh who was active in the Amarnath Shrine agitation in Jammu, was being volubly whispered in various circles as the ATS' next target.
If media gossip is to be believed, a full-proof plot had been hatched by the ATS in collusion with other investigative agencies to systematically implicate the RSS in the entire supposed conspiracy. Since the ATS' vivid imagination has been running riot from October 11 when Sadhvi Pragya was illegally detained, the RSS angle seemed a logical enough part of what most Hindu-minded people all along believed was a totally fabricated, politically directed investigation. But if the alleged Malegaon bombers' links could be traced to the RSS, it would have served the Congress well. Apart from putting the BJP on the back foot in the ongoing State and forthcoming general elections, it could have tarnished the Sangh's image forever.
But since the entire frame-up was a figment of the ATS's imagination anyway, the facts failed to quite add up. Unable to find any substantive evidence against the alleged bombers, the investigators began to lose the plot somewhere. The crude attempt to nail Lt. Col. Shrikant Purohit for the Samjhauta Express blasts evaporated sooner than methylated spirit poured on a saucer. The absurdity of a man first pilfering a whopping 60 kg of lethal RDX from army depots, then lifting it alone to throw the heavy bag into the Jhelum from a railway bridge for his cohorts to pick it up from the river downstream, set the country giggling in sheer disbelief. The Army, though, was not amused. Not only did it indignantly rebut the charge of pilferage, but also pointed out that the security forces neither stock nor casually throw around vast quantities of lethal explosives. Further, assuming that the RDX had indeed been pilfered wouldn't the Army itself raise a hue and cry and track down the thief?
Red-faced, the ATS quietly dropped the Samjhauta Express charge, penitently arguing that it was merely "exploring" such a possibility. By the time this retraction came, the Pakistani media went to town shouting from roof tops, "We told you so!" The Pakistanis were entitled to this jubilation for an Indian agency had ended up absolving them of the accusation of promoting terror in India. South Block was in jitters because the Government had cited the Samjhauta Express bombing as a definite instance of Pakistani hand in terror operations in this country. ATS had thus successfully made a laughing stock of India before the entire world, which now found Islamabad's insistence that jehadi terror in India is purely home grown more credible than New Delhi's claims in the past.
Even as the ATS was grappling with this self-goal came Sadhvi Pragya's affidavit in a Nashik court. Her account makes chilling reading and every Indian must hang his head in shame at those revelations. Although widely publicised in the Marathi media, the affidavit was predictably blacked out by the sneering, secularist national media. The Pioneer was the only English newspaper to reproduce it in full. The document outraged not only our regular subscribers but millions world over. Our website in fact crashed that day because of the relentless downloading of the affidavit not just in India but also by the Indian diaspora.
Her credible narrative pointed to unbelievable violations of human rights -- physical and psychological violence, disregard for the frailty of her medical condition, illegal detention for a fortnight before her formal arrest (which is when most of the excesses were committed) and denial of her right to legal aid as well as flouting of the Supreme Court's directive requiring a woman constable's mandatory presence during a woman suspect's interrogation. Human rights groups and bleeding-heart NGOs who feign so much outrage over Gujarat, allege Batla House was a fake encounter, and breast-beat over other so-called atrocities on minorities, did not even whimper. Had LK Advani not raised the issue last Tuesday and followed it up by referring to it in every public forum he attended, the unspeakable brutalities perpetrated on Sadhvi Pragya may never have come into the public domain.
Steadily cornered by a succession of boo-boos, the ATS has finally hit upon a new theory. Its latest leak suggests that the alleged Malegaon bombers actually intended to liquidate senior RSS leaders. The list includes the very same pracharak, Indreesh, who till a week ago was the supposed ideological fountainhead of the Hindu terror conspiracy! According to the new yarn, the "Hindu terrorists" decided to eliminate Indreesh and Mohan Bhagwat, RSS sarkaryavah (General Secretary) and No 2 in the organisation, apparently because of their "soft line" towards Muslims. This leads us squarely back to the question posed at the outset: Was the RSS masterminding this so-called terror plot, or was it the plotters' intended target? Surely, it couldn't be both. But then official investigative agencies are skilled at the art of concocting the most extraordinary tales. For example, the UC Banerjee Committee on the Godhra train attack happily concluded that the kar sevaks had become so possessed with the idea of committing mass suicide that they themselves set two bogies of Sabarmati Express on fire!
Although there seems not an iota of truth in the daily litany of (shifting) charges levelled by ATS "sources", it is possible that some hotheads are upset that the RSS has not called for a retributive counter-jihad against Islamists. The fact is that the RSS does not do such things and usually engages only in social service, specialising in education and disaster management. Are we supposed to believe that some people, part of the extended saffron parivar, had no understanding of the RSS' character and got agitated because the Sangh did not want to raise a standing army of Hindu vigilantes? The day may not be far off when demands for brain mapping of some officials of various investigative agencies and their political masters will start to be raised.
The ATS' objective, howsoever misplaced, is clear. Now that the BJP has decided to unmask the Government's conspiracy and the case of Sadhvi's torture has outraged public sentiment, it wants the BJP to back off. ATS thinks the BJP will be horrified that the ultra-Hindus wanted to kill RSS leaders and drop the issue like a hot potato. One is reminded of screen villain Ajit's inimitable dialogue in Yaadon ki Baraat: "What a bunch of fools!"
FORAY | Sunday, November 23, 2008
What a bunch of fools !
By Chandan Mitra
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh: Perpetrator or victim? Will the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad please make up its mind? Till some days back, we were informed by "sources" in the ATS, colourfully played up in sections of the media that the alleged Malegaon bombers' links led right up to the top of the Sangh Parivar hierarchy. In other words, senior RSS functionaries were suspected of hatching the so-called Hindu terror plot, but chose obscure organisations (read Abhinav Bharat) and little known religious personalities to execute their plan. So much so, that the name of a front-ranking RSS leader, namely Indreesh who was active in the Amarnath Shrine agitation in Jammu, was being volubly whispered in various circles as the ATS' next target.
If media gossip is to be believed, a full-proof plot had been hatched by the ATS in collusion with other investigative agencies to systematically implicate the RSS in the entire supposed conspiracy. Since the ATS' vivid imagination has been running riot from October 11 when Sadhvi Pragya was illegally detained, the RSS angle seemed a logical enough part of what most Hindu-minded people all along believed was a totally fabricated, politically directed investigation. But if the alleged Malegaon bombers' links could be traced to the RSS, it would have served the Congress well. Apart from putting the BJP on the back foot in the ongoing State and forthcoming general elections, it could have tarnished the Sangh's image forever.
But since the entire frame-up was a figment of the ATS's imagination anyway, the facts failed to quite add up. Unable to find any substantive evidence against the alleged bombers, the investigators began to lose the plot somewhere. The crude attempt to nail Lt. Col. Shrikant Purohit for the Samjhauta Express blasts evaporated sooner than methylated spirit poured on a saucer. The absurdity of a man first pilfering a whopping 60 kg of lethal RDX from army depots, then lifting it alone to throw the heavy bag into the Jhelum from a railway bridge for his cohorts to pick it up from the river downstream, set the country giggling in sheer disbelief. The Army, though, was not amused. Not only did it indignantly rebut the charge of pilferage, but also pointed out that the security forces neither stock nor casually throw around vast quantities of lethal explosives. Further, assuming that the RDX had indeed been pilfered wouldn't the Army itself raise a hue and cry and track down the thief?
Red-faced, the ATS quietly dropped the Samjhauta Express charge, penitently arguing that it was merely "exploring" such a possibility. By the time this retraction came, the Pakistani media went to town shouting from roof tops, "We told you so!" The Pakistanis were entitled to this jubilation for an Indian agency had ended up absolving them of the accusation of promoting terror in India. South Block was in jitters because the Government had cited the Samjhauta Express bombing as a definite instance of Pakistani hand in terror operations in this country. ATS had thus successfully made a laughing stock of India before the entire world, which now found Islamabad's insistence that jehadi terror in India is purely home grown more credible than New Delhi's claims in the past.
Even as the ATS was grappling with this self-goal came Sadhvi Pragya's affidavit in a Nashik court. Her account makes chilling reading and every Indian must hang his head in shame at those revelations. Although widely publicised in the Marathi media, the affidavit was predictably blacked out by the sneering, secularist national media. The Pioneer was the only English newspaper to reproduce it in full. The document outraged not only our regular subscribers but millions world over. Our website in fact crashed that day because of the relentless downloading of the affidavit not just in India but also by the Indian diaspora.
Her credible narrative pointed to unbelievable violations of human rights -- physical and psychological violence, disregard for the frailty of her medical condition, illegal detention for a fortnight before her formal arrest (which is when most of the excesses were committed) and denial of her right to legal aid as well as flouting of the Supreme Court's directive requiring a woman constable's mandatory presence during a woman suspect's interrogation. Human rights groups and bleeding-heart NGOs who feign so much outrage over Gujarat, allege Batla House was a fake encounter, and breast-beat over other so-called atrocities on minorities, did not even whimper. Had LK Advani not raised the issue last Tuesday and followed it up by referring to it in every public forum he attended, the unspeakable brutalities perpetrated on Sadhvi Pragya may never have come into the public domain.
Steadily cornered by a succession of boo-boos, the ATS has finally hit upon a new theory. Its latest leak suggests that the alleged Malegaon bombers actually intended to liquidate senior RSS leaders. The list includes the very same pracharak, Indreesh, who till a week ago was the supposed ideological fountainhead of the Hindu terror conspiracy! According to the new yarn, the "Hindu terrorists" decided to eliminate Indreesh and Mohan Bhagwat, RSS sarkaryavah (General Secretary) and No 2 in the organisation, apparently because of their "soft line" towards Muslims. This leads us squarely back to the question posed at the outset: Was the RSS masterminding this so-called terror plot, or was it the plotters' intended target? Surely, it couldn't be both. But then official investigative agencies are skilled at the art of concocting the most extraordinary tales. For example, the UC Banerjee Committee on the Godhra train attack happily concluded that the kar sevaks had become so possessed with the idea of committing mass suicide that they themselves set two bogies of Sabarmati Express on fire!
Although there seems not an iota of truth in the daily litany of (shifting) charges levelled by ATS "sources", it is possible that some hotheads are upset that the RSS has not called for a retributive counter-jihad against Islamists. The fact is that the RSS does not do such things and usually engages only in social service, specialising in education and disaster management. Are we supposed to believe that some people, part of the extended saffron parivar, had no understanding of the RSS' character and got agitated because the Sangh did not want to raise a standing army of Hindu vigilantes? The day may not be far off when demands for brain mapping of some officials of various investigative agencies and their political masters will start to be raised.
The ATS' objective, howsoever misplaced, is clear. Now that the BJP has decided to unmask the Government's conspiracy and the case of Sadhvi's torture has outraged public sentiment, it wants the BJP to back off. ATS thinks the BJP will be horrified that the ultra-Hindus wanted to kill RSS leaders and drop the issue like a hot potato. One is reminded of screen villain Ajit's inimitable dialogue in Yaadon ki Baraat: "What a bunch of fools!"
THREE LIES
THREE LIES
by Dr. Subramanian Swamy
Ms. Sonia Gandhi’s background as publicized by her and her Congress Party is based on three lies in order to hide the ugly reality of her life.
First, her real name is Antonia not Sonia. This was revealed by the Italian Ambassador in New Delhi in a letter dated April 27, 1983 [see Annexure-5] to the Union Home Ministry which letter has not been made public. Antonia is Sonia’s real name as stated in her birth certificate.
Sonia is the name given to her subsequently by her father, Stefano Maino [now deceased]. He had been a prisoner of war in Russia during World War II. Stefano had joined the Nazi army as a volunteer, as many Italian fascists had done. Sonia is a Russian not Italian name. While spending two years in a Russian jail, Sonia’s father had become quite pro-Soviet, especially after the liberating US army in Italy had confiscated all fascists’ properties including his.
Second, Sonia was not born in Orbassano as she claims in her bio data submitted to Parliament on becoming MP, but in Luciana as stated in her birth certificate. She perhaps would like to hide the place of her birth because of her father’s connection with the Nazis and Mussolini’s Fascists, and her family’s continuing connections with the Nazi-Fascists underground that is still surviving in Italy since the end of the War. Luciana is where Nazi-Fascist network is headquartered, and is on the Italian-Swiss border. There can be no other explanation for this otherwise meaningless lie.
Third, Sonia Gandhi has not studied beyond High School. But she has falsely claimed in her sworn affidavit [see Annexure-6] filed as a contesting candidate before the Rae Bareli Returning Officer in the 2004 Lok Sabha elections, that she qualified and got a diploma in English from the prestigious University of Cambridge, UK.
Earlier, in 1999 in her biographical data given under her signature to the Lok Sabha Secretariat and which was published in Parliament’s Who’s Who, she had made the same false claim [see Annexure-7].
But later she wrote to the Lok Sabha Speaker, after I had pointed it out to him in a written complaint of a Breach of Ethics of the Lok Sabha, that it was a “typing mistake”. This qualifies her for inclusion thus in the the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest typing mistake in history.
The truth is that Ms. Gandhi has never studied in any college anywhere. She did go to a Catholic nun--run seminary school called Maria Ausiliatrice in Giaveno [15 kms from her adopted home town of Orbassabo]. Poverty those days had forced young Italian girls to go to such missionaries and then in their teens go to UK to get jobs as cleaning maids, waitresses and au pair. The Mainos were poor those days. Sonia’s father was a mason and mother a share cropper [now the family is worth at least $ 2 billion: (see Annexure-10)].
Sonia thus went to the town of Cambridge UK and first learnt some English in a teaching shop called Lennox School [which has since 1990 been wound up]. That is her “education”--- enough English language to get domestic help jobs.
But since in Indian society, education is socially highly valued, thus to fool the Indian public, Sonia Gandhi wilfully lied about her qualifications in Parliamentary records [which is a Breach of Ethics Rules] and in a sworn affidavit [which is criminal offence under IPC, severe enough to disqualify her from being MP]. This also violated the spirit of the Supreme Court judgment requiring candidates to reveal their educational qualification on an affidavit [see Annexure-8].
These three lies indicate that Ms. Sonia Gandhi has something to hide, or has a hidden agenda for India to brazenly fool Indians for some ulterior purpose. We therefore need to find out more about her.
SONIA'S INTRODUCTION INTO INDIA
Ms. Sonia Gandhi upon learning enough English, became a waitress in Varsity Restaurant in Cambridge town. She first met Rajiv when he came to the restaurant in 1965. Rajiv was a student in the University, but could not cope with the academic rigour for long. So he had to depart in 1966 for London where he was briefly in Imperial College of Engineering as a student. Sonia too moved to London, and according my information, got a job with an outfit run by Salman Thassir, a debonair Pakistani based in Lahore, and who has a export-import company headquartered in Dubai but who spends most of his time in London. This fits the profile of a ISI functionary.
Obviously, Sonia made enough money in this job to loan Rajiv funds in London, who was living beyond his allowances [Indira herself had expressed anguish to me on this score in late 1965 when I was a young Harvard professor of economics. She had invited me to a private tea at the Guest House in Brandeis University where she was staying].
Rajiv’s letters to Sanjay filed in Delhi High Court by P.N. Lekhi [see Annexure-9] clearly indicate that he was in financial debt to Sonia because he requested Sanjay also in UK then, and who obviously had more access to money, to pay off the debt.
However, Rajiv was not the only friend Sonia was seeing those days. Madhavrao Scindia and a German by name Stiegler are worth mentioning as other good friends of Sonia. Madhavrao’s friendship continued even after Sonia’s marriage to Rajiv. Scindia in 1982 was involved in a traffic accident near IIT, Delhi main gate while driving a car at 2 AM. Sonia was the only other passenger. Both were badly injured. A student of IIT who was burning midnight oil was out for a cup of coffee. He picked them up from the car, hailed an auto rickshaw and sent an injured Sonia to Mrs Indira Gandhi’s house since she insisted in not going to a hospital. Madhavrao had broken a leg and in too much pain to make any demand. He was taken to hospital by the Delhi Police who had arrived a little after Sonia had left the scene.
In later years, Madhavrao had become privately critical of Sonia, and told some close friends about his apprehensions about her. It is a pity that he died in mysterious circumstances in an as yet uninvestigated aircrash of his private plane in the year 2001. Mani Shankar Aiyar and Shiela Dikshit were to be on that flight too, but were asked to stay behind at the last moment.
The circumstance under which Rajiv hastily married Sonia in a Church in Orbassano is controversial, but that was his personal matter which has no public significance. What however is of public significance is that Indira Gandhi who was initially dead set against the marriage for reasons known to her, relented to hold a registry marriage with Hindu ceremonial trappings in New Delhi only after the pro-Soviet T.N. Kaul prevailed upon her to accept the marriage in “the larger interest of cementing Indo-Soviet Friendship”. Kaul would not have intervened unless the Soviet Union had not asked him to.
SONIA'S KGB CONNECTIONS
Such has been the patronage from the beginning extended to Sonia Gandhi and her Italian family from the Soviets. When a Prime Minister of India’s son dates a girl in London, the KGB which valued Indo-Soviet relations, would naturally investigate her. They had, and found out that she was the daughter of Stefano, their old reliable Italian contact. Thus, Sonia married to Rajiv, meant deep access for the Soviets, into the household of the Indian Prime Minister. Hence cementing the Rajiv-Sonia relations was in the Soviet national interest and they went to work on it. And they did, through their moles in the Indira Gandhi camp.
After her marriage to Rajiv, the Soviet connection with the Mainos was fortified and nurtured by generous financial help through commissions and kick-backs on every Indo—Soviet trade deal and defence purchases. According to the respected Swiss magazine, Schweitzer Illustrate [November 1991 issue; see Annexure-10] Rajiv Gandhi had about $2 billion in numbered Swiss bank accounts—which Sonia inherited upon his assassination.
Dr. Yevgenia Albats, Ph.D[Harvard], is a noted Russian scholar and journalist, and was a member of the KGB Commission set up by President Yeltsin in August 1991. She was privy to the Soviet intelligence files that documented these deals and KGB facilitation of the same. In her book—“The State Within a State: The KGB in the Soviet Union”, she even gives the reference numbers of such intelligence files [see Annexure-11] which can now be accessed by any Indian government through a formal request to the Kremlin.
The Russian Government in 1992 was confronted with the Albats’ disclosure by the media. The official spokesperson of the government confirmed the veracity of the disclosure [which was published in Hindu in 1992; see Annexure-12]. The spokesperson defended such financial payments as necessary in “Soviet ideological interest”. Part of the funds were used by the Maino family to fund loyal Congress party candidates in the General Elections [see Annexure-13].
When the Soviet Union disintegrated in 1991, things changed for Ms. Sonia Gandhi. Her patron nation had been disbanded into 16 countries. The rump that became Russia was in a financial mess and disorder. So, Ms. Sonia Gandhi switched and became a supporter of another communist country much to the annoyance of the Russians.
The national security ramification of this ‘annoyance’ is now significant: The President of Russia today is Putin, a former dyed-in-the-wool KGB officer. Upon Dr. Manmohan Singh’s government taking office, Russia called back it’s career diplomat Ambassador in New Delhi and immediately posted in his place, as the new Ambassador, a person who was the KGB station chief in New Delhi during the 1970s.
In view of Dr. Albats revelation, it stands to reason that the new Ambassador would have known first hand about Sonia’s connections with the KGB. He may have in fact been her “controller” and local contact. The new Indian government today which is defacto Sonia’s, cannot afford to annoy him or even disregard Russian demands that come from him. The Sonia coterie will obviously seek to placate him so as not to risk exposure. Is this not a major national security risk for India and a delicate matter for the nation’s sovereignty?
Of course, all Indians would like good normal and healthy relations with Russia. Who can forget their assistance to us in times of need? Today’s Russia is the residual legatee of that Soviet Union which helped India. But just because of that, should we tolerate those in our government set up having clandestine links with a foreign spy agency? In the United States, the government did not tolerate an American spying for Israel even though the two countries are as close as any two countries can be. National security and friendship are as different as chalk and cheese.
In December 2001, I had filed a Writ Petition in the Delhi High Court with the photocopies of the KGB documents, and sought a CBI investigation which the Vajpayee Government was stoutly refusing. Earlier, Minister of State for CBI, Vasundara Raje[now Rajasthan CM], on my letter dated March 3, 2001, had ordered the CBI to investigate. But after Sonia Gandhi and her party stalled the proceedings of Parliament on this issue, the then Prime Minister Vajpayee overruled and cancelled Vasundara’s direction to the CBI.
The Delhi High Court in May 2002 issued a direction to the CBI to ascertain from Russia the truth of my charges. The CBI procrastinated for two years, and finally told the Court that without an FIR registered, the Russians will not entertain any such query. But who stopped the CBI from registering an FIR? The Vajpayee government! And why? Thereby hangs another tale.
The next hearing of the case is imminent. But now Sonia is in the driver’s seat, and the CBI has been reduced in independence even further.
SONIA'S CONTEMPT FOR LAWS OF INDIA
After Sonia married Rajiv, she and her Italian family aided by friend and Snam Progetti’s New Delhi resident Ottavio Quattrocchi, went about minting money with scant regard for Indian laws and treasures. Within a few years the Mainos rose from utter poverty to become billionaires [see Annexure-14].
There was no area that was left out for the rip-off. On November 19, 1974, as fresh entrant to Parliament, I had asked the then Prime Minister Ms. Indira Gandhi on the floor of the House if her daughter-in-law, Sonia Gandhi, was acting as an insurance agent of a public sector insurance company[Oriental Fire&Insurance], giving the Prime Minister’s official residence as her business address, and using undue influence to get insured the officers of the PMO, while remaining as an Italian citizen[thus violating FERA]. There was an uproar in Parliament, but Mrs. Indira Gandhi had no alternative but to cut her losses. She made a rare admission in a written reply a few days later that it indeed was so, and that it was by mistake, but that Sonia had resigned from her insurance agency[after my question]. But Sonia was incorrigible. Her contempt for Indian law continued to manifest.
The Supreme Court Justice A.C. Gupta Commission set up by the Janata Party government in 1977 came out with a voluminous report on the Maruti Company then owned by the Gandhi family, and has listed eight violations of FERA, Companies Act, and Foreigners Registration Act by Sonia Gandhi. She was never prosecuted, but can still be prosecuted because under Indian law, economic crimes are not subject to the statute of limitation.
In January 1980, Indira Gandhi returned as Prime Minister. The first thing Sonia did was to enroll herself as a voter. This was a gross violation of the law, enough to cause cancellation of her visa [since she was admittedly an Italian citizen then]. There was some hullabaloo in the press about it, so the Delhi Chief Electoral Officer got her name deleted in 1982. But in January 1983, she again enrolled herself as a voter even while as a foreigner [she first applied for citizenship in April 1983] (see Annexure-15).
More recently, A.G. Noorani is his book: Citizen’s Rights, Judges, and State Accountability records [page 318] that Ms. Sonia Gandhi had made available to a foreign national the secret papers of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru obviously illegally in her possession, and comments as follows:
“Sonia Gandhi has no right to hold them in her possession at all, let alone decide whom to accord permission for access to them”
Such is her revealed disdain for Indian laws and that is her mindset even today. She suffers from a neo-imperialist mentality.
SONIA GANDHI IS THE MODERN ROBERT CLIVE
The bottom line observed in Sonia’s mindset is that she can disregard Indian laws with impunity. If cornered or if she becomes vulnerable to prosecution, she can always run back to Italy. In Peru, President Fujimori who all along claimed to be “born Peruvian”, when faced with a corruption charge fled to Japan with his loot and reclaimed his Japanese citizenship. That is Sonia’s bottom line fall-back option too.
In 1977, when the Janata Party defeated the Congress at the polls, and formed the government, it widely known and published that Sonia with her two children abandoned Indira Gandhi, and ran to the Italian Embassy in New Delhi and hid there. Rajiv Gandhi was a government servant then[as an Indian Airlines pilot], but he too tagged along and hid in that foreign embassy ! Such was her baneful influence on him. Rajiv did snap out Sonia’s influence after 1989, but alas he was assassinated before he could rectify the situation.
Those close to Rajiv knew that he was planning set things right about Sonia after the 1991 elections. He held her to blame for all the financial scandals that led to his defeat at the 1989 polls. She knew of it too because he had told her on his trip to Soviet Union in February 1991. Ever wonder why Sonia’s closest advisers are those whom Rajiv literally hated? Ambika Soni is one such name. Ever wonder why she has asked the President of India to set aside on a mercy petition the Supreme Court judgment directing that Rajiv Gandhi’s LTTE killers be hanged, when she was not similiarly moved for Satwant Singh who killed Indira Gandhi or even recently for Dhanajoy Chattopadhyaya ? The explanation for this special consideration for the LTTE perhaps lies in what Rajiv had told her about their future. May be therefore Sonia feels obliged to the LTTE for the assassination. More on this later.
Those who have no love for India will not hesitate to plunder her treasures. Mohammed Ghori, Nadir Shah, and the British scum in the East India Company such as Robert Clive, made no secret of it. But Sonia Gandhi has been more discreet, but as greedy, in her looting of Indian treasures. When Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi were Prime Ministers, not a day passed when the PM’s security did not go to the New Delhi, or Chennai international airport to send crates and crates of Indian antiques and other treasures, unchecked by customs, to Rome. Air India and Alitalia were the chosen carriers. For organizing all this, Mr. Arjun Singh first as CM, later as Union Minister in charge of Culture, was her hatchet man.
Indian temple sculpture of gods and goddesses, antiques, pichwai paintings, shatoosh shawls, coins, and you name it, were transported to Italy to be first displayed in two shops [see Annexure-16] owned by her sister, Anuskha alias Alessandra Maino Vinci. These shops located in blue-collar areas of Rivolta[shop name: Etnica] and Orbassano [shop name: Ganpati] did little business because which blue collar Italian wants to buy Indian antiques ? The shops were there to make false bills, and thereafter these treasures were taken to London for auction by Sotheby’s and Christies.
Some of this ill-gotten money from auction went into the bank accounts of Rahul Gandhi in the National Westminister Bank and Hongkong & Shanghai Bank, London branches, but most of it found it’s way into the Gandhi family account in the Bank of America in Cayman Islands. Rahul’s expenses and tuition fees for the one year he was at Harvard, was paid from that Cayman Island account [see Annexures-17].
What kind of people are these Gandhi-Mainos that bite the very hand of Bharat Mata that fed them and gave them a good life? How can the nation trust or tolerate such greedy thieves of national treasures?
Since I failed to persuade the Vajpayee government to defend India’s treasures from plunder by the Mainos, I approached the Delhi High Court in a PIL. The first Bench of the court issued notice to the Government, but since the Indian government dragged it’s feet, the Court directed the CBI to seek Interpol’s and Italian government’s help. The Italian government justifiably asked for a Letter Rogatory for which a FIR is a pre-requisite. But the Interpol did oblige and submitted two voluminous reports on the shops which the Court directed the CBI to hand over to me. But CBI has so far refused, and has claimed privilege!
This question will be argued out at the next hearing of my PIL.
The CBI has also been caught lying in court by telling the judges that Alessandra Maino is a name of a man, and Via Bellini 14, Orbassano is a name of a village[not the street address of the Maino’s residence]. Although the CBI counsel had to apologise later to the court stating he had made a mistake, he has been promoted to Additional Solicitor General by the new government! Why was he appointed as the CBI’s counsel by the Vajpayee government in the first place? The Vajpayee-Sonia mutual assistance pact is thus in full view in this episode.
But the most sinister aspect of Sonia Gandhi’s links is her connection with terrorists. I am still working on it, but she has had long connection with the Habash group of Palestinians [PFLP], and has funded Palestinian families that lost their kith and kin in a suicide bombing or hijacking episode. This fact, Rajiv Gandhi himself told me and was confirmed to me [the funding aspect] by Yassir Arafat when I met him in Tunis on October 17, 1990 at the request of Rajiv Gandhi. Rajiv and I were good friends from 1978, but became very close friends after V.P. Singh had betrayed him in 1987. We met practically every day, mostly in the early hours from 1AM to 4AM, discussed, chatted and gossiped on every topic. It was at my suggestion that Rajiv made Chandrashekhar the PM. And contrary to public impression, he was not mainly responsible for fall of Chandrashekar government[of which I was a Minister].
Besides the Palestinian extremists, the Maino family have had extensive business dealings with Saddam Hussein [see Annexure-18], and surprisingly since 1984 with the LTTE [“the Tamil Tigers”]. Sonia’s mother Paola Predebon Maino, and businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi are the main contacts with the Tigers. The mother used the LTTE for money laundering and Quattrocchi for selling weapons to earn commissions. Sonia’s conduit to the LTTE has been and is through Arjun Singh who uses Bangalore as the nodal point for contact.
There is a string of circumstantial evidence pointing to the prima facie possibility that the Maino family may have contracted with the LTTE to kill Rajiv Gandhi. The family may have assured the LTTE that nothing would happen to them because they would ensure it is blamed on the Sikhs or the evidence so much fudged that no court would convict them[ the LTTE intercepted transcripts show this expectation of the LTTE]. But D.R. Karthikeyan of the CBI who led the SIT investigation got the support of Narasimha Rao, cracked the case, and succeeded in getting the LTTE convicted in the trial court, which conviction was upheld by the Supreme Court in 1999.
Although on the involvement of some members of the Congress Party in the assassination, DRK soft peddled it ignoring a number of leads perhaps because he did not want political controversy to put road blocks on his investigation as a whole.
The Justice J. S. Verma Commission, which was set up as the last official act of the Chandrashekhar government before demitting office on June 21, 1991, did find that the Congress leaders had disrupted the security arrangements for the Sriperumbudur meeting. The Commission wanted further probe into it but the Rao government rejected that demand. In the meantime under Sonia’s pressure, the Jain Commission was set up by the Rao government, which tried to muddy the waters and thus exonerate the LTTE. But the trial court judgment convicting the LTTE came earlier than the Commission could conclude, and that sinister effort therefore too failed.
Nowadays, Sonia is quite unabashed in having political alliance with those who like MDMK, PMK, and DMK praise Rajiv Gandhi’s killers. No Indian widow would ever do that. Such circumstances are many, and raise a doubt. My investigations into Sonia’s involvement in Rajiv’s assassination is therefore necessary. I am also author of a best seller titled Assassination Of Rajiv Gandhi—Unasked Questions and Unanswered Queries[published by Konark in 2000] in which I have given some indications of this possible conspiracy.
Is it not significant that the political career graph of Sonia Gandhi advances concomitantly with a series of assassinations and apparently accidental deaths?
How did Sanjay’s plane on June 23, 1980 nosedive to a crash and yet the plane fuselage failed to explode upon impact? There was no fuel ! How was that possible since flight register shows full tank before take-off ? Why was there no inquiry conducted ?
Is it not a fact that Indira Gandhi died because of loss of blood from the wounds and not directly due to a bullet impacting her head or heart ? Then is it not strange that Sonia had insisted that the bleeding Indira be driven to Lohia Hospital-- in the opposite direction to AIIMS which had a contingency protocol set up for precisely such an event ? And after reaching Lohia Hospital, did not Sonia change her mind and demand that they all drive to AIIMS thus losing 24 valuable minutes ?
The same kind of mystery surrounds the sudden deaths of Sonia’s other political roadblocks such as Rajesh Pilot, Jitendra Prasad, and Madhavrao Scindia. Such untimely deaths happened in the dark ages in Italy. Should we allow it to happen in India like dumb cattle going to slaughter?
WHAT PATRIOTIC INDIANS CAN DO
We have to ensure that the Maino clan does not stay in power. Dr. Manmohan Singh may be PM, which is a small relief, but he is not a fighter. The real power in government today is wielded by the Maino mafia gang. Can they be dethroned? I argue that they must be, for India’s integrity and democracy.
In Indian democracy, other than by losing majority, only a shocking scandal can unseat a government. Today’s priority is however not for toppling the Congress government as such, since Manmohan Singh is a decent and scholarly person, but in driving the Maino clan out of India. If the only way that can be done is by toppling the Singh government, then so be it. But the successor government should be such that it will not protect Sonia and her clan as Vajpayee’s did.
It will although not be long before Sonia will give Manmohan Singh marching orders, and he will march out meekly. We should not expect him to resist. Thus time with patriotic Indians is limited.
With Sonia’s defacto government in place, it is also unrealistic to expect that I can get an early victory in the courts on the KGB and antique smuggling cases. The most potent scandal at hand, therefore, that can dislodge the Maino clan[including Rahul and Priyanka] lies in exposing their existing Italian citizenship. That will galvanise the people.
In 1992, Sonia had revived her citizenship of Italy under Article 17 of the Italian Citizenship Law [Act 91 of 1992]. Rahul and Priyanka were born Italian citizens because Sonia was Italian when she gave birth to them[Italian law based on jure sanguinis]. (see Annexure-19) Hence, they continue be Italians since they have never renounced their citizenship upon becoming 21 years old. Both, Rahul and Priyanaka have been traveling abroad on Italian passports. They may now acquire Venezuela passports too, since Rahul Gandhi’s would be wife, Veronica, is a Venezuelan. That means one more foreign bahu for us tolerant Indians. The Maino-Gandhis are certainly getting Indian society globalised in their own selfish way.
To end Bharat Mata’s shame and pain, what can patriotic Indians do in a democracy?
As a first step there is an urgent need to document the facts about their citizenship on notarized paper, for which we need to set up a network in London, Milan, Hongkong, and in Venezuela. Those persuaded by my above stated facts and arguments may join in and help set up this network. Other steps can come later once this is accomplished.
by Dr. Subramanian Swamy
Ms. Sonia Gandhi’s background as publicized by her and her Congress Party is based on three lies in order to hide the ugly reality of her life.
First, her real name is Antonia not Sonia. This was revealed by the Italian Ambassador in New Delhi in a letter dated April 27, 1983 [see Annexure-5] to the Union Home Ministry which letter has not been made public. Antonia is Sonia’s real name as stated in her birth certificate.
Sonia is the name given to her subsequently by her father, Stefano Maino [now deceased]. He had been a prisoner of war in Russia during World War II. Stefano had joined the Nazi army as a volunteer, as many Italian fascists had done. Sonia is a Russian not Italian name. While spending two years in a Russian jail, Sonia’s father had become quite pro-Soviet, especially after the liberating US army in Italy had confiscated all fascists’ properties including his.
Second, Sonia was not born in Orbassano as she claims in her bio data submitted to Parliament on becoming MP, but in Luciana as stated in her birth certificate. She perhaps would like to hide the place of her birth because of her father’s connection with the Nazis and Mussolini’s Fascists, and her family’s continuing connections with the Nazi-Fascists underground that is still surviving in Italy since the end of the War. Luciana is where Nazi-Fascist network is headquartered, and is on the Italian-Swiss border. There can be no other explanation for this otherwise meaningless lie.
Third, Sonia Gandhi has not studied beyond High School. But she has falsely claimed in her sworn affidavit [see Annexure-6] filed as a contesting candidate before the Rae Bareli Returning Officer in the 2004 Lok Sabha elections, that she qualified and got a diploma in English from the prestigious University of Cambridge, UK.
Earlier, in 1999 in her biographical data given under her signature to the Lok Sabha Secretariat and which was published in Parliament’s Who’s Who, she had made the same false claim [see Annexure-7].
But later she wrote to the Lok Sabha Speaker, after I had pointed it out to him in a written complaint of a Breach of Ethics of the Lok Sabha, that it was a “typing mistake”. This qualifies her for inclusion thus in the the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest typing mistake in history.
The truth is that Ms. Gandhi has never studied in any college anywhere. She did go to a Catholic nun--run seminary school called Maria Ausiliatrice in Giaveno [15 kms from her adopted home town of Orbassabo]. Poverty those days had forced young Italian girls to go to such missionaries and then in their teens go to UK to get jobs as cleaning maids, waitresses and au pair. The Mainos were poor those days. Sonia’s father was a mason and mother a share cropper [now the family is worth at least $ 2 billion: (see Annexure-10)].
Sonia thus went to the town of Cambridge UK and first learnt some English in a teaching shop called Lennox School [which has since 1990 been wound up]. That is her “education”--- enough English language to get domestic help jobs.
But since in Indian society, education is socially highly valued, thus to fool the Indian public, Sonia Gandhi wilfully lied about her qualifications in Parliamentary records [which is a Breach of Ethics Rules] and in a sworn affidavit [which is criminal offence under IPC, severe enough to disqualify her from being MP]. This also violated the spirit of the Supreme Court judgment requiring candidates to reveal their educational qualification on an affidavit [see Annexure-8].
These three lies indicate that Ms. Sonia Gandhi has something to hide, or has a hidden agenda for India to brazenly fool Indians for some ulterior purpose. We therefore need to find out more about her.
SONIA'S INTRODUCTION INTO INDIA
Ms. Sonia Gandhi upon learning enough English, became a waitress in Varsity Restaurant in Cambridge town. She first met Rajiv when he came to the restaurant in 1965. Rajiv was a student in the University, but could not cope with the academic rigour for long. So he had to depart in 1966 for London where he was briefly in Imperial College of Engineering as a student. Sonia too moved to London, and according my information, got a job with an outfit run by Salman Thassir, a debonair Pakistani based in Lahore, and who has a export-import company headquartered in Dubai but who spends most of his time in London. This fits the profile of a ISI functionary.
Obviously, Sonia made enough money in this job to loan Rajiv funds in London, who was living beyond his allowances [Indira herself had expressed anguish to me on this score in late 1965 when I was a young Harvard professor of economics. She had invited me to a private tea at the Guest House in Brandeis University where she was staying].
Rajiv’s letters to Sanjay filed in Delhi High Court by P.N. Lekhi [see Annexure-9] clearly indicate that he was in financial debt to Sonia because he requested Sanjay also in UK then, and who obviously had more access to money, to pay off the debt.
However, Rajiv was not the only friend Sonia was seeing those days. Madhavrao Scindia and a German by name Stiegler are worth mentioning as other good friends of Sonia. Madhavrao’s friendship continued even after Sonia’s marriage to Rajiv. Scindia in 1982 was involved in a traffic accident near IIT, Delhi main gate while driving a car at 2 AM. Sonia was the only other passenger. Both were badly injured. A student of IIT who was burning midnight oil was out for a cup of coffee. He picked them up from the car, hailed an auto rickshaw and sent an injured Sonia to Mrs Indira Gandhi’s house since she insisted in not going to a hospital. Madhavrao had broken a leg and in too much pain to make any demand. He was taken to hospital by the Delhi Police who had arrived a little after Sonia had left the scene.
In later years, Madhavrao had become privately critical of Sonia, and told some close friends about his apprehensions about her. It is a pity that he died in mysterious circumstances in an as yet uninvestigated aircrash of his private plane in the year 2001. Mani Shankar Aiyar and Shiela Dikshit were to be on that flight too, but were asked to stay behind at the last moment.
The circumstance under which Rajiv hastily married Sonia in a Church in Orbassano is controversial, but that was his personal matter which has no public significance. What however is of public significance is that Indira Gandhi who was initially dead set against the marriage for reasons known to her, relented to hold a registry marriage with Hindu ceremonial trappings in New Delhi only after the pro-Soviet T.N. Kaul prevailed upon her to accept the marriage in “the larger interest of cementing Indo-Soviet Friendship”. Kaul would not have intervened unless the Soviet Union had not asked him to.
SONIA'S KGB CONNECTIONS
Such has been the patronage from the beginning extended to Sonia Gandhi and her Italian family from the Soviets. When a Prime Minister of India’s son dates a girl in London, the KGB which valued Indo-Soviet relations, would naturally investigate her. They had, and found out that she was the daughter of Stefano, their old reliable Italian contact. Thus, Sonia married to Rajiv, meant deep access for the Soviets, into the household of the Indian Prime Minister. Hence cementing the Rajiv-Sonia relations was in the Soviet national interest and they went to work on it. And they did, through their moles in the Indira Gandhi camp.
After her marriage to Rajiv, the Soviet connection with the Mainos was fortified and nurtured by generous financial help through commissions and kick-backs on every Indo—Soviet trade deal and defence purchases. According to the respected Swiss magazine, Schweitzer Illustrate [November 1991 issue; see Annexure-10] Rajiv Gandhi had about $2 billion in numbered Swiss bank accounts—which Sonia inherited upon his assassination.
Dr. Yevgenia Albats, Ph.D[Harvard], is a noted Russian scholar and journalist, and was a member of the KGB Commission set up by President Yeltsin in August 1991. She was privy to the Soviet intelligence files that documented these deals and KGB facilitation of the same. In her book—“The State Within a State: The KGB in the Soviet Union”, she even gives the reference numbers of such intelligence files [see Annexure-11] which can now be accessed by any Indian government through a formal request to the Kremlin.
The Russian Government in 1992 was confronted with the Albats’ disclosure by the media. The official spokesperson of the government confirmed the veracity of the disclosure [which was published in Hindu in 1992; see Annexure-12]. The spokesperson defended such financial payments as necessary in “Soviet ideological interest”. Part of the funds were used by the Maino family to fund loyal Congress party candidates in the General Elections [see Annexure-13].
When the Soviet Union disintegrated in 1991, things changed for Ms. Sonia Gandhi. Her patron nation had been disbanded into 16 countries. The rump that became Russia was in a financial mess and disorder. So, Ms. Sonia Gandhi switched and became a supporter of another communist country much to the annoyance of the Russians.
The national security ramification of this ‘annoyance’ is now significant: The President of Russia today is Putin, a former dyed-in-the-wool KGB officer. Upon Dr. Manmohan Singh’s government taking office, Russia called back it’s career diplomat Ambassador in New Delhi and immediately posted in his place, as the new Ambassador, a person who was the KGB station chief in New Delhi during the 1970s.
In view of Dr. Albats revelation, it stands to reason that the new Ambassador would have known first hand about Sonia’s connections with the KGB. He may have in fact been her “controller” and local contact. The new Indian government today which is defacto Sonia’s, cannot afford to annoy him or even disregard Russian demands that come from him. The Sonia coterie will obviously seek to placate him so as not to risk exposure. Is this not a major national security risk for India and a delicate matter for the nation’s sovereignty?
Of course, all Indians would like good normal and healthy relations with Russia. Who can forget their assistance to us in times of need? Today’s Russia is the residual legatee of that Soviet Union which helped India. But just because of that, should we tolerate those in our government set up having clandestine links with a foreign spy agency? In the United States, the government did not tolerate an American spying for Israel even though the two countries are as close as any two countries can be. National security and friendship are as different as chalk and cheese.
In December 2001, I had filed a Writ Petition in the Delhi High Court with the photocopies of the KGB documents, and sought a CBI investigation which the Vajpayee Government was stoutly refusing. Earlier, Minister of State for CBI, Vasundara Raje[now Rajasthan CM], on my letter dated March 3, 2001, had ordered the CBI to investigate. But after Sonia Gandhi and her party stalled the proceedings of Parliament on this issue, the then Prime Minister Vajpayee overruled and cancelled Vasundara’s direction to the CBI.
The Delhi High Court in May 2002 issued a direction to the CBI to ascertain from Russia the truth of my charges. The CBI procrastinated for two years, and finally told the Court that without an FIR registered, the Russians will not entertain any such query. But who stopped the CBI from registering an FIR? The Vajpayee government! And why? Thereby hangs another tale.
The next hearing of the case is imminent. But now Sonia is in the driver’s seat, and the CBI has been reduced in independence even further.
SONIA'S CONTEMPT FOR LAWS OF INDIA
After Sonia married Rajiv, she and her Italian family aided by friend and Snam Progetti’s New Delhi resident Ottavio Quattrocchi, went about minting money with scant regard for Indian laws and treasures. Within a few years the Mainos rose from utter poverty to become billionaires [see Annexure-14].
There was no area that was left out for the rip-off. On November 19, 1974, as fresh entrant to Parliament, I had asked the then Prime Minister Ms. Indira Gandhi on the floor of the House if her daughter-in-law, Sonia Gandhi, was acting as an insurance agent of a public sector insurance company[Oriental Fire&Insurance], giving the Prime Minister’s official residence as her business address, and using undue influence to get insured the officers of the PMO, while remaining as an Italian citizen[thus violating FERA]. There was an uproar in Parliament, but Mrs. Indira Gandhi had no alternative but to cut her losses. She made a rare admission in a written reply a few days later that it indeed was so, and that it was by mistake, but that Sonia had resigned from her insurance agency[after my question]. But Sonia was incorrigible. Her contempt for Indian law continued to manifest.
The Supreme Court Justice A.C. Gupta Commission set up by the Janata Party government in 1977 came out with a voluminous report on the Maruti Company then owned by the Gandhi family, and has listed eight violations of FERA, Companies Act, and Foreigners Registration Act by Sonia Gandhi. She was never prosecuted, but can still be prosecuted because under Indian law, economic crimes are not subject to the statute of limitation.
In January 1980, Indira Gandhi returned as Prime Minister. The first thing Sonia did was to enroll herself as a voter. This was a gross violation of the law, enough to cause cancellation of her visa [since she was admittedly an Italian citizen then]. There was some hullabaloo in the press about it, so the Delhi Chief Electoral Officer got her name deleted in 1982. But in January 1983, she again enrolled herself as a voter even while as a foreigner [she first applied for citizenship in April 1983] (see Annexure-15).
More recently, A.G. Noorani is his book: Citizen’s Rights, Judges, and State Accountability records [page 318] that Ms. Sonia Gandhi had made available to a foreign national the secret papers of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru obviously illegally in her possession, and comments as follows:
“Sonia Gandhi has no right to hold them in her possession at all, let alone decide whom to accord permission for access to them”
Such is her revealed disdain for Indian laws and that is her mindset even today. She suffers from a neo-imperialist mentality.
SONIA GANDHI IS THE MODERN ROBERT CLIVE
The bottom line observed in Sonia’s mindset is that she can disregard Indian laws with impunity. If cornered or if she becomes vulnerable to prosecution, she can always run back to Italy. In Peru, President Fujimori who all along claimed to be “born Peruvian”, when faced with a corruption charge fled to Japan with his loot and reclaimed his Japanese citizenship. That is Sonia’s bottom line fall-back option too.
In 1977, when the Janata Party defeated the Congress at the polls, and formed the government, it widely known and published that Sonia with her two children abandoned Indira Gandhi, and ran to the Italian Embassy in New Delhi and hid there. Rajiv Gandhi was a government servant then[as an Indian Airlines pilot], but he too tagged along and hid in that foreign embassy ! Such was her baneful influence on him. Rajiv did snap out Sonia’s influence after 1989, but alas he was assassinated before he could rectify the situation.
Those close to Rajiv knew that he was planning set things right about Sonia after the 1991 elections. He held her to blame for all the financial scandals that led to his defeat at the 1989 polls. She knew of it too because he had told her on his trip to Soviet Union in February 1991. Ever wonder why Sonia’s closest advisers are those whom Rajiv literally hated? Ambika Soni is one such name. Ever wonder why she has asked the President of India to set aside on a mercy petition the Supreme Court judgment directing that Rajiv Gandhi’s LTTE killers be hanged, when she was not similiarly moved for Satwant Singh who killed Indira Gandhi or even recently for Dhanajoy Chattopadhyaya ? The explanation for this special consideration for the LTTE perhaps lies in what Rajiv had told her about their future. May be therefore Sonia feels obliged to the LTTE for the assassination. More on this later.
Those who have no love for India will not hesitate to plunder her treasures. Mohammed Ghori, Nadir Shah, and the British scum in the East India Company such as Robert Clive, made no secret of it. But Sonia Gandhi has been more discreet, but as greedy, in her looting of Indian treasures. When Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi were Prime Ministers, not a day passed when the PM’s security did not go to the New Delhi, or Chennai international airport to send crates and crates of Indian antiques and other treasures, unchecked by customs, to Rome. Air India and Alitalia were the chosen carriers. For organizing all this, Mr. Arjun Singh first as CM, later as Union Minister in charge of Culture, was her hatchet man.
Indian temple sculpture of gods and goddesses, antiques, pichwai paintings, shatoosh shawls, coins, and you name it, were transported to Italy to be first displayed in two shops [see Annexure-16] owned by her sister, Anuskha alias Alessandra Maino Vinci. These shops located in blue-collar areas of Rivolta[shop name: Etnica] and Orbassano [shop name: Ganpati] did little business because which blue collar Italian wants to buy Indian antiques ? The shops were there to make false bills, and thereafter these treasures were taken to London for auction by Sotheby’s and Christies.
Some of this ill-gotten money from auction went into the bank accounts of Rahul Gandhi in the National Westminister Bank and Hongkong & Shanghai Bank, London branches, but most of it found it’s way into the Gandhi family account in the Bank of America in Cayman Islands. Rahul’s expenses and tuition fees for the one year he was at Harvard, was paid from that Cayman Island account [see Annexures-17].
What kind of people are these Gandhi-Mainos that bite the very hand of Bharat Mata that fed them and gave them a good life? How can the nation trust or tolerate such greedy thieves of national treasures?
Since I failed to persuade the Vajpayee government to defend India’s treasures from plunder by the Mainos, I approached the Delhi High Court in a PIL. The first Bench of the court issued notice to the Government, but since the Indian government dragged it’s feet, the Court directed the CBI to seek Interpol’s and Italian government’s help. The Italian government justifiably asked for a Letter Rogatory for which a FIR is a pre-requisite. But the Interpol did oblige and submitted two voluminous reports on the shops which the Court directed the CBI to hand over to me. But CBI has so far refused, and has claimed privilege!
This question will be argued out at the next hearing of my PIL.
The CBI has also been caught lying in court by telling the judges that Alessandra Maino is a name of a man, and Via Bellini 14, Orbassano is a name of a village[not the street address of the Maino’s residence]. Although the CBI counsel had to apologise later to the court stating he had made a mistake, he has been promoted to Additional Solicitor General by the new government! Why was he appointed as the CBI’s counsel by the Vajpayee government in the first place? The Vajpayee-Sonia mutual assistance pact is thus in full view in this episode.
But the most sinister aspect of Sonia Gandhi’s links is her connection with terrorists. I am still working on it, but she has had long connection with the Habash group of Palestinians [PFLP], and has funded Palestinian families that lost their kith and kin in a suicide bombing or hijacking episode. This fact, Rajiv Gandhi himself told me and was confirmed to me [the funding aspect] by Yassir Arafat when I met him in Tunis on October 17, 1990 at the request of Rajiv Gandhi. Rajiv and I were good friends from 1978, but became very close friends after V.P. Singh had betrayed him in 1987. We met practically every day, mostly in the early hours from 1AM to 4AM, discussed, chatted and gossiped on every topic. It was at my suggestion that Rajiv made Chandrashekhar the PM. And contrary to public impression, he was not mainly responsible for fall of Chandrashekar government[of which I was a Minister].
Besides the Palestinian extremists, the Maino family have had extensive business dealings with Saddam Hussein [see Annexure-18], and surprisingly since 1984 with the LTTE [“the Tamil Tigers”]. Sonia’s mother Paola Predebon Maino, and businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi are the main contacts with the Tigers. The mother used the LTTE for money laundering and Quattrocchi for selling weapons to earn commissions. Sonia’s conduit to the LTTE has been and is through Arjun Singh who uses Bangalore as the nodal point for contact.
There is a string of circumstantial evidence pointing to the prima facie possibility that the Maino family may have contracted with the LTTE to kill Rajiv Gandhi. The family may have assured the LTTE that nothing would happen to them because they would ensure it is blamed on the Sikhs or the evidence so much fudged that no court would convict them[ the LTTE intercepted transcripts show this expectation of the LTTE]. But D.R. Karthikeyan of the CBI who led the SIT investigation got the support of Narasimha Rao, cracked the case, and succeeded in getting the LTTE convicted in the trial court, which conviction was upheld by the Supreme Court in 1999.
Although on the involvement of some members of the Congress Party in the assassination, DRK soft peddled it ignoring a number of leads perhaps because he did not want political controversy to put road blocks on his investigation as a whole.
The Justice J. S. Verma Commission, which was set up as the last official act of the Chandrashekhar government before demitting office on June 21, 1991, did find that the Congress leaders had disrupted the security arrangements for the Sriperumbudur meeting. The Commission wanted further probe into it but the Rao government rejected that demand. In the meantime under Sonia’s pressure, the Jain Commission was set up by the Rao government, which tried to muddy the waters and thus exonerate the LTTE. But the trial court judgment convicting the LTTE came earlier than the Commission could conclude, and that sinister effort therefore too failed.
Nowadays, Sonia is quite unabashed in having political alliance with those who like MDMK, PMK, and DMK praise Rajiv Gandhi’s killers. No Indian widow would ever do that. Such circumstances are many, and raise a doubt. My investigations into Sonia’s involvement in Rajiv’s assassination is therefore necessary. I am also author of a best seller titled Assassination Of Rajiv Gandhi—Unasked Questions and Unanswered Queries[published by Konark in 2000] in which I have given some indications of this possible conspiracy.
Is it not significant that the political career graph of Sonia Gandhi advances concomitantly with a series of assassinations and apparently accidental deaths?
How did Sanjay’s plane on June 23, 1980 nosedive to a crash and yet the plane fuselage failed to explode upon impact? There was no fuel ! How was that possible since flight register shows full tank before take-off ? Why was there no inquiry conducted ?
Is it not a fact that Indira Gandhi died because of loss of blood from the wounds and not directly due to a bullet impacting her head or heart ? Then is it not strange that Sonia had insisted that the bleeding Indira be driven to Lohia Hospital-- in the opposite direction to AIIMS which had a contingency protocol set up for precisely such an event ? And after reaching Lohia Hospital, did not Sonia change her mind and demand that they all drive to AIIMS thus losing 24 valuable minutes ?
The same kind of mystery surrounds the sudden deaths of Sonia’s other political roadblocks such as Rajesh Pilot, Jitendra Prasad, and Madhavrao Scindia. Such untimely deaths happened in the dark ages in Italy. Should we allow it to happen in India like dumb cattle going to slaughter?
WHAT PATRIOTIC INDIANS CAN DO
We have to ensure that the Maino clan does not stay in power. Dr. Manmohan Singh may be PM, which is a small relief, but he is not a fighter. The real power in government today is wielded by the Maino mafia gang. Can they be dethroned? I argue that they must be, for India’s integrity and democracy.
In Indian democracy, other than by losing majority, only a shocking scandal can unseat a government. Today’s priority is however not for toppling the Congress government as such, since Manmohan Singh is a decent and scholarly person, but in driving the Maino clan out of India. If the only way that can be done is by toppling the Singh government, then so be it. But the successor government should be such that it will not protect Sonia and her clan as Vajpayee’s did.
It will although not be long before Sonia will give Manmohan Singh marching orders, and he will march out meekly. We should not expect him to resist. Thus time with patriotic Indians is limited.
With Sonia’s defacto government in place, it is also unrealistic to expect that I can get an early victory in the courts on the KGB and antique smuggling cases. The most potent scandal at hand, therefore, that can dislodge the Maino clan[including Rahul and Priyanka] lies in exposing their existing Italian citizenship. That will galvanise the people.
In 1992, Sonia had revived her citizenship of Italy under Article 17 of the Italian Citizenship Law [Act 91 of 1992]. Rahul and Priyanka were born Italian citizens because Sonia was Italian when she gave birth to them[Italian law based on jure sanguinis]. (see Annexure-19) Hence, they continue be Italians since they have never renounced their citizenship upon becoming 21 years old. Both, Rahul and Priyanaka have been traveling abroad on Italian passports. They may now acquire Venezuela passports too, since Rahul Gandhi’s would be wife, Veronica, is a Venezuelan. That means one more foreign bahu for us tolerant Indians. The Maino-Gandhis are certainly getting Indian society globalised in their own selfish way.
To end Bharat Mata’s shame and pain, what can patriotic Indians do in a democracy?
As a first step there is an urgent need to document the facts about their citizenship on notarized paper, for which we need to set up a network in London, Milan, Hongkong, and in Venezuela. Those persuaded by my above stated facts and arguments may join in and help set up this network. Other steps can come later once this is accomplished.
Sunday, November 23, 2008
A pernicious नेक्सुस Maoists, evangelists and jehadis
A pernicious nexus
Maoists, evangelists and jehadis
By Dr Babu Suseelan
Proselytising Christism, Marxism and jehadi Islamism are totalitarian and rigid empire-building political systems for invasion, expansionism, plunder, oppression, exploitation and destruction of “non-believers” and their traditional cultures and dogmas. These “closed” systems compete and oppose one another in many parts of the world. However, in India they seemed to have become strange bedfellows and have made an unholy alliance against Hindu systems of philosophy and pluralistic spiritual traditions.
Their use of a veneer of noble values, political philosophy, falsely presented secularism and beliefs about equality in human existence and dualistic perspectives conceal their tenacious and inflexible dogmas that are often taken for granted as benign and even pious when it comes to religions. There is a widespread blind spot for their historical track record of unjust and oppressive as well as violent tactics full of genocides and widespread deceits and destruction of their host societies and their cultures, religions and even their languages over the centuries. We Indians generally are unaware of their hidden agendas and ulterior motives. Our Indian politicians lump them as benign “religions” to be given all concessions in a secular country or respect them as political systems, communities, or parties needing special representation in a democracy to win the vote banks for the UPA (Indian National Congress) and inadvertently or many a times knowingly accord them special status and opportunities for expansion.
Hindus and the so-called “secularists” forget the Christists’, Islamists’ and Communists’ past history, their track record of deception and violence, their current designs and future plans for wiping out Hindus and eventually the entire secularist pluralistic majority. The word “Hindu” is abhorred and vilified in their own country and Hindus are hated by their own brothers who pride themselves as “secularists” and not “Hindus” though going to the same Hindu temples and offering same prayers as the other Hindus, but feeling ashamed to say they are Hindus in their own country. Such schizophrenic existence of the Hindus is now ubiquitous. The “secular” media has created a terrible inferiority complex among the Hindus by focusing microscopically on and magnifying the shortcomings and evils of Hindu society as if other societies do not have their own defects and social evils although they are in fact of gigantic proportions and historically, viciously and virulently destructive towards other groups of peace loving people. By promoting such anti-propaganda against Hindus the secular English media in India and the UPA Government have facilitated the creation of a criminal nexus against Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists and Jains in India but this axis is also operating around the world.
The goal of this organised nexus is to eliminate Hindus and Buddhists from political power from Fiji, Nepal, Bhutan, Burma, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and Sri Lanka, and eventually from India. Their unholy alliances hire psychological warfare experts to subvert and sabotage Hindu and Buddhist nationalism and to create social crisis and political turmoil within their societies using their broadmindedness and liberal political philosophy itself as a weapon against them and weaken their strongholds in a systematic and sustained manner for decades. They conduct in depth sociological, cultural anthropological, demographic, geographic and socio-economic study of various communities for decades in their targeted countries before planning their strategies for planting churches, for example, or for building mosques in strategic locations, for example, near railway stations, near important crossroads or even police stations or the holy places of the other groups, etc. from where they could exercise power or control when the time requires it or to sabotage the pilgrimages or gatherings of the other groups to be eventually dominated by them by design.
They develop nationwide or regionwide organised intervention policies and programmes, designed to create tensions and violence for the promotion and maintenance of so-called Western Christian values, Islamists’ values or communism. The crisis we witness in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Fiji, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Burma is the creation of this criminal gang whether they work together or singly in any domain. Their goal is to create fear, helplessness and hopelessness among the native people, make them powerless or at least feel powerless and to estrange them from their own indigenous spiritual tradition and to enslave them with the rigid, closed Christian dogma, Islamic dogma, Sharia Law or make them adopt communism as a political philosophy. In effect the populations influenced by these elements become loyal to foreign masters, whether they are white Christians, Saudi Muslims or Chinese or Russian Maoists or Marxists.
White missionaries and their stooges finance, direct and manage some of the Maoists-anarchists (as their hired goondas or mafia) as their subversive agents to create crisis and to replace traditional ways with Christian values. The Christian-Marxist-Anarchist alliance has significant implications for Hindus and Buddhists. The strangest alliance is that of the Christists and the Islamists to come together as minorities with common enemy which they view as the Hindu majority in India. The Christists have never shown the courage to subvert any Islamists’ strongholds, such as Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and even Iraq but they are using lame “democratic” arguments to expand their empire in India appealing the secular-minded to respect their “freedom of religion” rights and view it as the same as “freedom to engage in conversions of masses,” telling some of the uninformed Hindus that they were not or never were part of the Hindu society. They will never get away with such tactics in any Muslim majority country and they know it quite well no matter how much noise they make against the Muslims in the Western world and empathise and side with Muslims against the Hindus in the Western world using the slogans of Human Rights movement which is exactly 180 degrees opposite of the true facts if any injustice and violation of human rights is closely examined from historical perspective and dimensions.
They abuse the caste, creed and Vanvasi politics to divide and rule. This state of affairs constantly promoting subversions needs to be seen as a reality and not just a paranoid view of these elements. The nexus has its own sociopathic and violent well funded ways that are mainly subtle but vast and only the tip of the iceberg is visible when violence emerges against the majority populations of these countries or when the political upheavals take place as in Nepal. It would be easy to dismiss and say the Maoists will not be colluding with the Christists. It would be easy to say that the Christians will not choose to be communists who detest all religions. In reality these axis operate on the basis of transient alliances against the common “enemy,” that is the majority which is not yet wising up to their tactics and resisting their empire building efforts and grabbing of large real estates within India to be controlled by foreign elements using foreign infusion of funds. An obvious example is the state of Kerala which was originally the Hindu dominated state of Travancore in the 1940’s and now boasting majority Muslim and Christian domination as regards wealth and political power but electing a Communist Government ruled by Christian leaders. Even the most popular news agency of Manorama in Kerala is owned and controlled by the Christists with strong communist leanings.
This is a new form of neo-colonialism that can be defined as spreading the influence or control over large sections of the world populations from the “Western White Christian alliance of denominations” under the guidance of the evangelists, Islamists control operating from Saudi Arabia and Pakistan (ISI) and Maoists mostly from China. The sooner the Hindu majority recognises this plot and has effective proactive strategy to prevent erosion of its majority by these elements, stronger will emerge the Indian nation. The erosion, if allowed to fragment and weaken India and its majority Hindu society economically as well militarily through such subversion, India stands to lose its opportunity to emerge as a future super-power. That is exactly what these elements do not want. They do not want India to emerge as a super-power.
Instead of viewing the pluralistic and open systems of Hindu majority of India which by its very nature has always been “secular” for millennia they view the new secular majority as their own new invention and influence over the educated Hindus who have a secular attitude and way of life. They view the wised up Hindus as a major threat to their expansionist schemes. They approach the uneducated and uninformed poor sections of the Hindu society to pitch them against the educated to create unnecessary antagonism between the two groups which given time, education and economic progress would naturally become equal eventually. The Christists and Islamists do not want China to be the waking giant but they cannot use the same tactics they use in India, as China is not as soft a target as India any more. China restricts the political subversive movements within its own territory by nipping them in the bud. China, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the other elements would like to keep India fragmented and weak with its resources spent in dealing with the internal strife, skirmishes and even wars than to see it emerge as a strong power. That is what perhaps explains the rationale for the emergence of this nexus. The recognition of this nexus and strategic proactive efforts to resist and defeat its eroding design for destruction of the Indian society is crucial for the survival and economic progress of India.
Maoists, evangelists and jehadis
By Dr Babu Suseelan
Proselytising Christism, Marxism and jehadi Islamism are totalitarian and rigid empire-building political systems for invasion, expansionism, plunder, oppression, exploitation and destruction of “non-believers” and their traditional cultures and dogmas. These “closed” systems compete and oppose one another in many parts of the world. However, in India they seemed to have become strange bedfellows and have made an unholy alliance against Hindu systems of philosophy and pluralistic spiritual traditions.
Their use of a veneer of noble values, political philosophy, falsely presented secularism and beliefs about equality in human existence and dualistic perspectives conceal their tenacious and inflexible dogmas that are often taken for granted as benign and even pious when it comes to religions. There is a widespread blind spot for their historical track record of unjust and oppressive as well as violent tactics full of genocides and widespread deceits and destruction of their host societies and their cultures, religions and even their languages over the centuries. We Indians generally are unaware of their hidden agendas and ulterior motives. Our Indian politicians lump them as benign “religions” to be given all concessions in a secular country or respect them as political systems, communities, or parties needing special representation in a democracy to win the vote banks for the UPA (Indian National Congress) and inadvertently or many a times knowingly accord them special status and opportunities for expansion.
Hindus and the so-called “secularists” forget the Christists’, Islamists’ and Communists’ past history, their track record of deception and violence, their current designs and future plans for wiping out Hindus and eventually the entire secularist pluralistic majority. The word “Hindu” is abhorred and vilified in their own country and Hindus are hated by their own brothers who pride themselves as “secularists” and not “Hindus” though going to the same Hindu temples and offering same prayers as the other Hindus, but feeling ashamed to say they are Hindus in their own country. Such schizophrenic existence of the Hindus is now ubiquitous. The “secular” media has created a terrible inferiority complex among the Hindus by focusing microscopically on and magnifying the shortcomings and evils of Hindu society as if other societies do not have their own defects and social evils although they are in fact of gigantic proportions and historically, viciously and virulently destructive towards other groups of peace loving people. By promoting such anti-propaganda against Hindus the secular English media in India and the UPA Government have facilitated the creation of a criminal nexus against Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists and Jains in India but this axis is also operating around the world.
The goal of this organised nexus is to eliminate Hindus and Buddhists from political power from Fiji, Nepal, Bhutan, Burma, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and Sri Lanka, and eventually from India. Their unholy alliances hire psychological warfare experts to subvert and sabotage Hindu and Buddhist nationalism and to create social crisis and political turmoil within their societies using their broadmindedness and liberal political philosophy itself as a weapon against them and weaken their strongholds in a systematic and sustained manner for decades. They conduct in depth sociological, cultural anthropological, demographic, geographic and socio-economic study of various communities for decades in their targeted countries before planning their strategies for planting churches, for example, or for building mosques in strategic locations, for example, near railway stations, near important crossroads or even police stations or the holy places of the other groups, etc. from where they could exercise power or control when the time requires it or to sabotage the pilgrimages or gatherings of the other groups to be eventually dominated by them by design.
They develop nationwide or regionwide organised intervention policies and programmes, designed to create tensions and violence for the promotion and maintenance of so-called Western Christian values, Islamists’ values or communism. The crisis we witness in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Fiji, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Burma is the creation of this criminal gang whether they work together or singly in any domain. Their goal is to create fear, helplessness and hopelessness among the native people, make them powerless or at least feel powerless and to estrange them from their own indigenous spiritual tradition and to enslave them with the rigid, closed Christian dogma, Islamic dogma, Sharia Law or make them adopt communism as a political philosophy. In effect the populations influenced by these elements become loyal to foreign masters, whether they are white Christians, Saudi Muslims or Chinese or Russian Maoists or Marxists.
White missionaries and their stooges finance, direct and manage some of the Maoists-anarchists (as their hired goondas or mafia) as their subversive agents to create crisis and to replace traditional ways with Christian values. The Christian-Marxist-Anarchist alliance has significant implications for Hindus and Buddhists. The strangest alliance is that of the Christists and the Islamists to come together as minorities with common enemy which they view as the Hindu majority in India. The Christists have never shown the courage to subvert any Islamists’ strongholds, such as Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and even Iraq but they are using lame “democratic” arguments to expand their empire in India appealing the secular-minded to respect their “freedom of religion” rights and view it as the same as “freedom to engage in conversions of masses,” telling some of the uninformed Hindus that they were not or never were part of the Hindu society. They will never get away with such tactics in any Muslim majority country and they know it quite well no matter how much noise they make against the Muslims in the Western world and empathise and side with Muslims against the Hindus in the Western world using the slogans of Human Rights movement which is exactly 180 degrees opposite of the true facts if any injustice and violation of human rights is closely examined from historical perspective and dimensions.
They abuse the caste, creed and Vanvasi politics to divide and rule. This state of affairs constantly promoting subversions needs to be seen as a reality and not just a paranoid view of these elements. The nexus has its own sociopathic and violent well funded ways that are mainly subtle but vast and only the tip of the iceberg is visible when violence emerges against the majority populations of these countries or when the political upheavals take place as in Nepal. It would be easy to dismiss and say the Maoists will not be colluding with the Christists. It would be easy to say that the Christians will not choose to be communists who detest all religions. In reality these axis operate on the basis of transient alliances against the common “enemy,” that is the majority which is not yet wising up to their tactics and resisting their empire building efforts and grabbing of large real estates within India to be controlled by foreign elements using foreign infusion of funds. An obvious example is the state of Kerala which was originally the Hindu dominated state of Travancore in the 1940’s and now boasting majority Muslim and Christian domination as regards wealth and political power but electing a Communist Government ruled by Christian leaders. Even the most popular news agency of Manorama in Kerala is owned and controlled by the Christists with strong communist leanings.
This is a new form of neo-colonialism that can be defined as spreading the influence or control over large sections of the world populations from the “Western White Christian alliance of denominations” under the guidance of the evangelists, Islamists control operating from Saudi Arabia and Pakistan (ISI) and Maoists mostly from China. The sooner the Hindu majority recognises this plot and has effective proactive strategy to prevent erosion of its majority by these elements, stronger will emerge the Indian nation. The erosion, if allowed to fragment and weaken India and its majority Hindu society economically as well militarily through such subversion, India stands to lose its opportunity to emerge as a future super-power. That is exactly what these elements do not want. They do not want India to emerge as a super-power.
Instead of viewing the pluralistic and open systems of Hindu majority of India which by its very nature has always been “secular” for millennia they view the new secular majority as their own new invention and influence over the educated Hindus who have a secular attitude and way of life. They view the wised up Hindus as a major threat to their expansionist schemes. They approach the uneducated and uninformed poor sections of the Hindu society to pitch them against the educated to create unnecessary antagonism between the two groups which given time, education and economic progress would naturally become equal eventually. The Christists and Islamists do not want China to be the waking giant but they cannot use the same tactics they use in India, as China is not as soft a target as India any more. China restricts the political subversive movements within its own territory by nipping them in the bud. China, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the other elements would like to keep India fragmented and weak with its resources spent in dealing with the internal strife, skirmishes and even wars than to see it emerge as a strong power. That is what perhaps explains the rationale for the emergence of this nexus. The recognition of this nexus and strategic proactive efforts to resist and defeat its eroding design for destruction of the Indian society is crucial for the survival and economic progress of India.
VKA delegation meet Kandhamal district administration
VKA delegation meet Kandhamal district administration
Bhubaneswar: (Visakeo),23/11 Vanavasi Kalyan Ashram State general secretary Dr Laxmikant Dash met Kandhamal Collector Dr Krishna Kumar and Superintendent of Police S Praveen Kumar urged them to stop indiscriminate arrest of innocent villagers. Dr Dash requested the district administration to take steps to bring back complete normalcy in Kandhamal and ensure no police excess on the Kandh tribals as in Rudangia, where six villagers were badly injured in police lathi charge.
“We have urged the administration to take steps, so that villagers staying in dense forest, could return back to their villages,” Dr Dash said in a statement on Sunday. He also demanded release of innocent tribals, who are languishing in various jails of South Orissa in connection with the communal violence. Arrested persons have no role in the violence, but the police coming under pressure, arrested them, Dr Dash charged. He also demanded adequate security measures for those, who are under threat.
"Police inaction against them had encouraged the miscreants belonging to one community to target the Hindus," he said. Both the Collector and SP assured us to stop indiscriminate arrest in the district, he added. Dr Dash also appealed to the Kandh tribals to return back to their respective villages. Meanwhile, he also reiterated that if the State Government failed to arrest the killers and conspirators of Swami Laxmananda Saraswati and four his disciples, VKA would further intensify the demands to arrest them.
By Golakha Chandra Das
Bhubaneswar: (Visakeo),23/11 Vanavasi Kalyan Ashram State general secretary Dr Laxmikant Dash met Kandhamal Collector Dr Krishna Kumar and Superintendent of Police S Praveen Kumar urged them to stop indiscriminate arrest of innocent villagers. Dr Dash requested the district administration to take steps to bring back complete normalcy in Kandhamal and ensure no police excess on the Kandh tribals as in Rudangia, where six villagers were badly injured in police lathi charge.
“We have urged the administration to take steps, so that villagers staying in dense forest, could return back to their villages,” Dr Dash said in a statement on Sunday. He also demanded release of innocent tribals, who are languishing in various jails of South Orissa in connection with the communal violence. Arrested persons have no role in the violence, but the police coming under pressure, arrested them, Dr Dash charged. He also demanded adequate security measures for those, who are under threat.
"Police inaction against them had encouraged the miscreants belonging to one community to target the Hindus," he said. Both the Collector and SP assured us to stop indiscriminate arrest in the district, he added. Dr Dash also appealed to the Kandh tribals to return back to their respective villages. Meanwhile, he also reiterated that if the State Government failed to arrest the killers and conspirators of Swami Laxmananda Saraswati and four his disciples, VKA would further intensify the demands to arrest them.
By Golakha Chandra Das
Saturday, November 22, 2008
VHP DEMANDS SUSPENSION & NARCO OF ATS OFFICERS FOR SOLICITING SENSITIVE MILITARY SECRETS FROM LT COL FORCIBLY & WITH TORTURE
VHP DEMANDS SUSPENSION & NARCO OF
ATS OFFICERS FOR SOLICITING
SENSITIVE MILITARY SECRETS FROM LT COL
FORCIBLY & WITH TORTURE
New Delhi,Bhubaneswar(visakeo) 22nd November, 2008
Mumbai ATS arrested Lt Col implicating him in imaginary cases. Now Lt Col, a serving senior officer has filed a written complaint to the Hon. Court in Pune complaining of the most inhuman ways of torture by ATS. Obviously ATS has no legal right to behave inhumanly to anyone & the least to the suspended (due to the conspiratory case by UPA) by a serving Army man. It is not only illegal but tantamount coercing the SERVING SENIOR Indian Army officer of Military Intelligence to divulge the very sensitive, classified & confidential data related to the safety & security of India.
VHP demands, “The way Mumbai ATS has been extra-ordinarily interested in getting the Serving Military Intelligence Lt Col’s laptop & mobile phones clearly indicated their malafide intentions in arresting him. Then the way they tortured him, as per his own application in the court & his family’s observations, the UPA, MH Govt & therefore, Mumbai ATS were least interested in any investigation in any terrorist activity. The ATS that has not even a single team working on the horrific Mumbai train blast that killed over 150 people, that same ATS got 17 teams suddenly working at the outset of various elections to investigate Malegao blasts where 6 people were killed & yes, where Congress President & Home Minister personally had distributed hefty cheques the very next day of the blasts. Then the NSA & IB Director briefed the Leader of Opposition on the same probe as directed by the PM. These same people never took any trouble to brief the nation or the Leader of Opposition on Mumbai Train Blasts!
All these acts of omission & addition by UPA, MH govt & ATS clearly show an unusual interest of UPA to get hold of some very sensitive secret information that might have been known to & given by Lt Col of Military Intelligence. This is very dangerous trend that ATS has set especially in the wake of cross border terrorism by jehadis & Pakistan.
If one govt Law enforcement agency like police alleges that an army man has done a crime & goes ahead with his Narco torturing him for forced confessions then if a serving Lt Col, an officer of another govt agency responsible for the nation’s security alleges that he was tortured by the police into divulging sensitive information about the nation’s security then even his charges should be investigated, Govt must show equality by suspending the said ATS men & doing their Narco booking them under not only under Human Rights Violation but also under the Official Secrets Act & Treason. This will ensure prevention of misuse of such enforcement powers by the police & by the govts. It must also be a matter of grave concern of the Army & the nation in general that their serving senior officer is being tortured & forced to divulge sensitive national security secrets.
ATS OFFICERS FOR SOLICITING
SENSITIVE MILITARY SECRETS FROM LT COL
FORCIBLY & WITH TORTURE
New Delhi,Bhubaneswar(visakeo) 22nd November, 2008
Mumbai ATS arrested Lt Col implicating him in imaginary cases. Now Lt Col, a serving senior officer has filed a written complaint to the Hon. Court in Pune complaining of the most inhuman ways of torture by ATS. Obviously ATS has no legal right to behave inhumanly to anyone & the least to the suspended (due to the conspiratory case by UPA) by a serving Army man. It is not only illegal but tantamount coercing the SERVING SENIOR Indian Army officer of Military Intelligence to divulge the very sensitive, classified & confidential data related to the safety & security of India.
VHP demands, “The way Mumbai ATS has been extra-ordinarily interested in getting the Serving Military Intelligence Lt Col’s laptop & mobile phones clearly indicated their malafide intentions in arresting him. Then the way they tortured him, as per his own application in the court & his family’s observations, the UPA, MH Govt & therefore, Mumbai ATS were least interested in any investigation in any terrorist activity. The ATS that has not even a single team working on the horrific Mumbai train blast that killed over 150 people, that same ATS got 17 teams suddenly working at the outset of various elections to investigate Malegao blasts where 6 people were killed & yes, where Congress President & Home Minister personally had distributed hefty cheques the very next day of the blasts. Then the NSA & IB Director briefed the Leader of Opposition on the same probe as directed by the PM. These same people never took any trouble to brief the nation or the Leader of Opposition on Mumbai Train Blasts!
All these acts of omission & addition by UPA, MH govt & ATS clearly show an unusual interest of UPA to get hold of some very sensitive secret information that might have been known to & given by Lt Col of Military Intelligence. This is very dangerous trend that ATS has set especially in the wake of cross border terrorism by jehadis & Pakistan.
If one govt Law enforcement agency like police alleges that an army man has done a crime & goes ahead with his Narco torturing him for forced confessions then if a serving Lt Col, an officer of another govt agency responsible for the nation’s security alleges that he was tortured by the police into divulging sensitive information about the nation’s security then even his charges should be investigated, Govt must show equality by suspending the said ATS men & doing their Narco booking them under not only under Human Rights Violation but also under the Official Secrets Act & Treason. This will ensure prevention of misuse of such enforcement powers by the police & by the govts. It must also be a matter of grave concern of the Army & the nation in general that their serving senior officer is being tortured & forced to divulge sensitive national security secrets.
STATEMENT ISSUED BY SRI MADAN DAS, SAHA SARKARYAVAH, RSS
STATEMENT ISSUED BY SRI MADAN DAS,
SAHA SARKARYAVAH, RSS
ON 22-11-08 AT NEW DELHI
The investigations by the Anti Terrorist Squad of the Maharashtra Police into the bomb blast at Malegaon in Maharashtra are mired in controversy right from day one. In view of the claims by the investigating agency that certain Hindu groups were involved in the blasts it was expected that the case would be handled in a professional and thorough manner. However we are pained to note that more than month-long investigations have left a very bad taste inviting criticism from everyone including several security experts.
Ever since this turn of events took place in the Malegaon case there has been an unrelenting cacophony about the rise of so-called ‘Hindu Terror’ and the involvement of the RSS and other Hindu organizations in terrorist activities not only at Malegaon but also at several other places. It is an article of faith for the RSS that it will never sponsor or support any form of terrorism. Being a law abiding organization committed to peace and justice we took a principled stand that the investigations into the case must be conducted thoroughly and professionally and truth brought out.
What we objected to and continue to do so is the campaign that there exists something called Hindu Terror vis-à-vis Jehadi terror. The purpose of this campaign is to support, if not justify, the actions of the Jehadi terrorists and hide the failure of the government in combating terrorism. We would like to caution the Government, political parties and media that political expediency on terror would prove costly for the larger interests of national security and integrity.
Now the ATS has brought in the new dimension of a conspiracy by the Malegaon accused to eliminate the senior Sangh leaders Sri Mohanrao Bhagwat, General secretary and Sri Indresh Kumar, Member, National Executive. We would have liked the ATS to further probe this matter. In stead it chose to leak the matter in bits and pieces to sections of media. The governments are obliged to ensure protection of all citizens. Hence this kind of information, if it was available with the government, should have called for immediate action. There was no such initiative from the government side. It gives credence to the suspicion that this information is a part of a design to divert nation’s attention from the massive failure of the agencies in the Malegaon probe.
Deliberate and partial leakage of Narco reports of the suspects making wild and baseless insinuations like the senior RSS leader Sri Indresh Kumar’s involvement with the ISI are also a part of this greater design. We would like to categorically rubbish these claims of the suspects. Sri Indresh Kumar is a senior and dedicated Pracharak of the RSS. He had held various important positions in the RSS and at present undertaking several activities under the guidance of the RSS leadership. All allegations against him are totally baseless and deserve nothing but contempt.
The Sangh leaders, including the Chief and the General Secretary, are constantly on the move and are easily accessible. Many people come to meet them and share their views on various issues. Merely because someone had come and said something doesn’t really mean anything.
Evidently all this propaganda smacks of a sinister design to drag the RSS into some baseless controversy and divert public attention from the misdeeds of the government and the investigating agencies in the name of Malegaon blast case.
We urge that the government and media put an end to this diversionary tactics and focus on the terror which has assumed serious proportions.
I urge the countrymen to understand that this campaign is politically motivated and intended to damage the reputation of the Hindu organizations and Hindu saints. I call upon the countrymen to call the bluff of the lies being rolled out by the ATS and the government day in and day out.
SAHA SARKARYAVAH, RSS
ON 22-11-08 AT NEW DELHI
The investigations by the Anti Terrorist Squad of the Maharashtra Police into the bomb blast at Malegaon in Maharashtra are mired in controversy right from day one. In view of the claims by the investigating agency that certain Hindu groups were involved in the blasts it was expected that the case would be handled in a professional and thorough manner. However we are pained to note that more than month-long investigations have left a very bad taste inviting criticism from everyone including several security experts.
Ever since this turn of events took place in the Malegaon case there has been an unrelenting cacophony about the rise of so-called ‘Hindu Terror’ and the involvement of the RSS and other Hindu organizations in terrorist activities not only at Malegaon but also at several other places. It is an article of faith for the RSS that it will never sponsor or support any form of terrorism. Being a law abiding organization committed to peace and justice we took a principled stand that the investigations into the case must be conducted thoroughly and professionally and truth brought out.
What we objected to and continue to do so is the campaign that there exists something called Hindu Terror vis-à-vis Jehadi terror. The purpose of this campaign is to support, if not justify, the actions of the Jehadi terrorists and hide the failure of the government in combating terrorism. We would like to caution the Government, political parties and media that political expediency on terror would prove costly for the larger interests of national security and integrity.
Now the ATS has brought in the new dimension of a conspiracy by the Malegaon accused to eliminate the senior Sangh leaders Sri Mohanrao Bhagwat, General secretary and Sri Indresh Kumar, Member, National Executive. We would have liked the ATS to further probe this matter. In stead it chose to leak the matter in bits and pieces to sections of media. The governments are obliged to ensure protection of all citizens. Hence this kind of information, if it was available with the government, should have called for immediate action. There was no such initiative from the government side. It gives credence to the suspicion that this information is a part of a design to divert nation’s attention from the massive failure of the agencies in the Malegaon probe.
Deliberate and partial leakage of Narco reports of the suspects making wild and baseless insinuations like the senior RSS leader Sri Indresh Kumar’s involvement with the ISI are also a part of this greater design. We would like to categorically rubbish these claims of the suspects. Sri Indresh Kumar is a senior and dedicated Pracharak of the RSS. He had held various important positions in the RSS and at present undertaking several activities under the guidance of the RSS leadership. All allegations against him are totally baseless and deserve nothing but contempt.
The Sangh leaders, including the Chief and the General Secretary, are constantly on the move and are easily accessible. Many people come to meet them and share their views on various issues. Merely because someone had come and said something doesn’t really mean anything.
Evidently all this propaganda smacks of a sinister design to drag the RSS into some baseless controversy and divert public attention from the misdeeds of the government and the investigating agencies in the name of Malegaon blast case.
We urge that the government and media put an end to this diversionary tactics and focus on the terror which has assumed serious proportions.
I urge the countrymen to understand that this campaign is politically motivated and intended to damage the reputation of the Hindu organizations and Hindu saints. I call upon the countrymen to call the bluff of the lies being rolled out by the ATS and the government day in and day out.
Friday, November 21, 2008
Andhra प्रदेश SAMACHAR
Andhra Pradesh
SAMACHAR
DAILY NEWS
Organize by SAMACHARA BHARATI (AP Vishwa Samvad Kendra)
Email : samaachaarabhaarati@yahoo.com, vskap1@gmail.com
18 November 08
Narco tests lose credibility
Hyderabad, Nov. 17: Narco analysis tests have lost their credibility with the police top brass because of the apparent false leads they threw up in the Macca Masjid blast case. Based on the narco analysis tests, the city police had "solved" the Macca Masjid blast case and had claimed that the HuJI leader Shahed alias Bilal had planned the attack and Lashkar e-Tayyaba operative Abu Hamza had planted the bombs.
This assumption was based on the confessions of one suspect, Imran, who had undergone a narco test. But the Central Bureau of Investigation did not take up these charges seriously and no arrests were made based on the report of the city police. The Delhi CBI superintendent of police, Mr R.S. Dhankar, who is heading the Macca Masjid blast probe, told this correspondent that narco analysis tests do not even have one per cent authenticity.
"We haven't found any evidence of those revelations mentioned in the narco reports," he said. "The city police sent us a report. But we have not made any arrests," Mr Dhankar added. The Special Investigation Cell formed by CCS after Macca Masjid blasts conducted narco analysis tests on suspects Imran, Shoiab Jagirdhar and Rafi alias Shaik Abdul Kaleem at the forensic science laboratory in Bengaluru.
"Around 169 countries have banned such tests," said the Andhra Pradesh forensic science laboratory director, Mr O. Narasimha Murthy. "There is lot of controversy about them," he said. The city police is now confining itself to polygraph tests.
From DECCAN CHRONICLE, 18, November 2008
Custody for Sadhvi Pragnya, others extended
Rahi Gaikwad
Suspects file a slew of petitions
Nashik: A Nashik court on Monday extended the judicial custody for eight Malegaon blast suspects — Pragnya Singh Thakur, Shiv Narayan Kalsanghra, Shyam Bhawarlal Sahu, Ajay Rahirkar, Jagdish Mhatre, Rakesh Dhawde, Sameer Kulkarni and Ramesh Upadhyay — till November 29.
A host of applications from the suspects asking for meetings with relatives and right to liberty, copies of remand statements alleging custodial torture and two pertaining to narco tests were filed in the court. They will be heard on November 29.
Ramesh Upadhyay alleged that three postcards he sent to his friends seeking legal representation were not despatched by the Anti-Terrorism Squad. This restricted his right to liberty. He said basic necessities such as soap were also not allowed.
The court allowed the presence of a lawyer during the interrogation of blast suspect Sudhakar Dwivedi alias Dayanand Pandey.
An application moved by lawyer Kishore Vig said that Dwivedi was being tortured in custody and he faced a threat to his life. Mr. Vig argued for the rights of the accused and protection against police pressure. He cited the D.K. Basu judgment of 1997 in the Supreme Court, which laid down certain guidelines for custodial treatment of the accused — Section 161 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (Cr.PC) pertaining to examination of witnesses and Article 20 (3) of the Constitution which states that "no person accused of any offence shall be compelled to be a witness against himself."
Mr. Vig, therefore, asked for either a lawyer or a relative to be present.
Chief Judicial Magistrate H.K. Ganatra ruled that a lawyer be allowed to be present "whenever it is asked by the accused and whenever necessary." This also covered narco tests as they were part of interrogation, Mr. Vig later told the media.
Concern over attacks on students
VHR to lead delegation of State MPs to New Delhi and meet Pranab Mukherjee
Only brilliant students from Andhra Pradesh being targeted: VHR
The U.S. police are just handing over bodies; a permanent solution is needed
HYDERABAD: The attack on Pulluri Sashanka, a native of Warangal district, studying in the United States has raised disturbing questions about the safety of students from Andhra Pradesh there.
Coming a fortnight after the killing of city girl Arpana Jinaga, working with the EMC Corporation, this is the sixth in the string of attacks on migrant youth from the State (including one in the UK) in less than a year. Mr. Sashanka had a providential escape from death and declared out of danger unlike six others who were brutally murdered in separate attacks.
Excellent record
A common threat that runs through all these ghastly incidents is the excellent academic track record of the victims. For instance, one of them Arpana Jinaga, figured in the list of top 20 chip designers after a contest, becoming the first Asian to get the honour.
Congress MP V. Hanumanth Rao, who has been voicing serious concern over the issue, is leading a delegation of the State MPs to External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee and his deputy Anand Sharma on November 19.
"It is a serious issue and only brilliant students from Andhra Pradesh are being targeted. The US police are just handing over bodies when there is need for a permanent solution," he told The Hindu, adding he would raise the issue in the Parliament when it resumes its proceedings from December 10.
From the day when Allam Kiran Kumar and Chandrasekhar Reddy, pursuing doctorates in chemistry and biology respectively, were shot dead inside the former's apartment on the Louisiana State University (LSU) campus at Baton Rouge on December 13, 2007, the spree of incidents is continuing. But the motives and people behind the killings continue to remain a mystery.
Reasons unknown
'Home invasion' is said to be the reason behind killing of Kiran Kumar and Chandrasekhar Reddy.
But the reasons behind the mysterious death of A. Srinivas of Korutla in Karimnagar district pursuing his Master's in internal medicine at Scranton-Temple Research Programme at Mercy Hospital in Scranton near Pennsylvania on March 1 remains unknown.
This was followed by the killing of Vijayawada girl V.S. Jyotirmayee at her apartment at Handsworth in Birmingham, UK, on May 6 and the shooting down of Soumya Reddy and her cousin Vikram Reddy near the Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville on September 14. Arpana was killed in her Valley View apartment at Redmond – Woodsville Road, Seattle on November 1, but her parents learnt about her death only on November 4.
Independent tribunal for terror cases mooted
Staff Reporter
'Muslims being linked to bomb blasts even before investigations are done'
Efforts on to provide legal aid to those facing false charges
HYDERABAD: Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) on Monday demanded that the government constitute an independent tribunal for investigating terror-related cases, police atrocities and encounters during the last one decade.
At a press conference here, JIH national president Maulana Syed Jalaluddin Omri said, there was increasing sense of insecurity among minorities, especially Muslims with the police foisting false cases on them after the bomb blasts in different parts of the country. Muslims were directly linked to a bomb blast occurring either in a mosque, marketplace or other public places even before proper investigation was done, he alleged.
Mr. Jalaluddin said, efforts were also on to provide legal aid to those who were facing false charges in connection with bomb blasts that took place across the country. The JIH demanded the Centre to fulfil its electoral promise of enacting an anti-riot legislation which should be in accordance with the recommendations of National Commission for Minorities along with recommendations made by different Commissions that earlier probed such riots.
Senior political analyst Amresh Mishra, sought an explanation from the Andhra Pradesh government for harassing innocent Muslims in connection with the Mecca Masjid blast case.
From THEHINDU, 18, November 2008
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DAILY NEWS
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18 November 08
Narco tests lose credibility
Hyderabad, Nov. 17: Narco analysis tests have lost their credibility with the police top brass because of the apparent false leads they threw up in the Macca Masjid blast case. Based on the narco analysis tests, the city police had "solved" the Macca Masjid blast case and had claimed that the HuJI leader Shahed alias Bilal had planned the attack and Lashkar e-Tayyaba operative Abu Hamza had planted the bombs.
This assumption was based on the confessions of one suspect, Imran, who had undergone a narco test. But the Central Bureau of Investigation did not take up these charges seriously and no arrests were made based on the report of the city police. The Delhi CBI superintendent of police, Mr R.S. Dhankar, who is heading the Macca Masjid blast probe, told this correspondent that narco analysis tests do not even have one per cent authenticity.
"We haven't found any evidence of those revelations mentioned in the narco reports," he said. "The city police sent us a report. But we have not made any arrests," Mr Dhankar added. The Special Investigation Cell formed by CCS after Macca Masjid blasts conducted narco analysis tests on suspects Imran, Shoiab Jagirdhar and Rafi alias Shaik Abdul Kaleem at the forensic science laboratory in Bengaluru.
"Around 169 countries have banned such tests," said the Andhra Pradesh forensic science laboratory director, Mr O. Narasimha Murthy. "There is lot of controversy about them," he said. The city police is now confining itself to polygraph tests.
From DECCAN CHRONICLE, 18, November 2008
Custody for Sadhvi Pragnya, others extended
Rahi Gaikwad
Suspects file a slew of petitions
Nashik: A Nashik court on Monday extended the judicial custody for eight Malegaon blast suspects — Pragnya Singh Thakur, Shiv Narayan Kalsanghra, Shyam Bhawarlal Sahu, Ajay Rahirkar, Jagdish Mhatre, Rakesh Dhawde, Sameer Kulkarni and Ramesh Upadhyay — till November 29.
A host of applications from the suspects asking for meetings with relatives and right to liberty, copies of remand statements alleging custodial torture and two pertaining to narco tests were filed in the court. They will be heard on November 29.
Ramesh Upadhyay alleged that three postcards he sent to his friends seeking legal representation were not despatched by the Anti-Terrorism Squad. This restricted his right to liberty. He said basic necessities such as soap were also not allowed.
The court allowed the presence of a lawyer during the interrogation of blast suspect Sudhakar Dwivedi alias Dayanand Pandey.
An application moved by lawyer Kishore Vig said that Dwivedi was being tortured in custody and he faced a threat to his life. Mr. Vig argued for the rights of the accused and protection against police pressure. He cited the D.K. Basu judgment of 1997 in the Supreme Court, which laid down certain guidelines for custodial treatment of the accused — Section 161 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (Cr.PC) pertaining to examination of witnesses and Article 20 (3) of the Constitution which states that "no person accused of any offence shall be compelled to be a witness against himself."
Mr. Vig, therefore, asked for either a lawyer or a relative to be present.
Chief Judicial Magistrate H.K. Ganatra ruled that a lawyer be allowed to be present "whenever it is asked by the accused and whenever necessary." This also covered narco tests as they were part of interrogation, Mr. Vig later told the media.
Concern over attacks on students
VHR to lead delegation of State MPs to New Delhi and meet Pranab Mukherjee
Only brilliant students from Andhra Pradesh being targeted: VHR
The U.S. police are just handing over bodies; a permanent solution is needed
HYDERABAD: The attack on Pulluri Sashanka, a native of Warangal district, studying in the United States has raised disturbing questions about the safety of students from Andhra Pradesh there.
Coming a fortnight after the killing of city girl Arpana Jinaga, working with the EMC Corporation, this is the sixth in the string of attacks on migrant youth from the State (including one in the UK) in less than a year. Mr. Sashanka had a providential escape from death and declared out of danger unlike six others who were brutally murdered in separate attacks.
Excellent record
A common threat that runs through all these ghastly incidents is the excellent academic track record of the victims. For instance, one of them Arpana Jinaga, figured in the list of top 20 chip designers after a contest, becoming the first Asian to get the honour.
Congress MP V. Hanumanth Rao, who has been voicing serious concern over the issue, is leading a delegation of the State MPs to External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee and his deputy Anand Sharma on November 19.
"It is a serious issue and only brilliant students from Andhra Pradesh are being targeted. The US police are just handing over bodies when there is need for a permanent solution," he told The Hindu, adding he would raise the issue in the Parliament when it resumes its proceedings from December 10.
From the day when Allam Kiran Kumar and Chandrasekhar Reddy, pursuing doctorates in chemistry and biology respectively, were shot dead inside the former's apartment on the Louisiana State University (LSU) campus at Baton Rouge on December 13, 2007, the spree of incidents is continuing. But the motives and people behind the killings continue to remain a mystery.
Reasons unknown
'Home invasion' is said to be the reason behind killing of Kiran Kumar and Chandrasekhar Reddy.
But the reasons behind the mysterious death of A. Srinivas of Korutla in Karimnagar district pursuing his Master's in internal medicine at Scranton-Temple Research Programme at Mercy Hospital in Scranton near Pennsylvania on March 1 remains unknown.
This was followed by the killing of Vijayawada girl V.S. Jyotirmayee at her apartment at Handsworth in Birmingham, UK, on May 6 and the shooting down of Soumya Reddy and her cousin Vikram Reddy near the Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville on September 14. Arpana was killed in her Valley View apartment at Redmond – Woodsville Road, Seattle on November 1, but her parents learnt about her death only on November 4.
Independent tribunal for terror cases mooted
Staff Reporter
'Muslims being linked to bomb blasts even before investigations are done'
Efforts on to provide legal aid to those facing false charges
HYDERABAD: Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) on Monday demanded that the government constitute an independent tribunal for investigating terror-related cases, police atrocities and encounters during the last one decade.
At a press conference here, JIH national president Maulana Syed Jalaluddin Omri said, there was increasing sense of insecurity among minorities, especially Muslims with the police foisting false cases on them after the bomb blasts in different parts of the country. Muslims were directly linked to a bomb blast occurring either in a mosque, marketplace or other public places even before proper investigation was done, he alleged.
Mr. Jalaluddin said, efforts were also on to provide legal aid to those who were facing false charges in connection with bomb blasts that took place across the country. The JIH demanded the Centre to fulfil its electoral promise of enacting an anti-riot legislation which should be in accordance with the recommendations of National Commission for Minorities along with recommendations made by different Commissions that earlier probed such riots.
Senior political analyst Amresh Mishra, sought an explanation from the Andhra Pradesh government for harassing innocent Muslims in connection with the Mecca Masjid blast case.
From THEHINDU, 18, November 2008
India's Intellectual Zombies
India's Intellectual Zombies
By Dr Babu Suseelan
For centuries Hindu society has been active in producing intellectuals, philosophers, psychologists, scientists, political theorists, artists, poets, spiritual leaders and life scientists. Islamic invasion, Christian colonialism, destruction of Sanskrit education and Marxist influence had a disastrous influence on Hindu society. The social and psychological conditioning suffered by Hindus lead frequently to the erosion of cultural identity and the depersonalization of individuals. It is therefore, not surprising that the production of intellectuals dwindled. The repercussions of long period of Islamic oppression and colonization , in the wake of social and cultural disintegration and the trauma suffered by Hindus as a whole, persist even today. Everybody seem to agree that Hindu civilization is now facing a crisis. Entrenched forces from within and without have joined together to de-structure or destroy our thoughts , beliefs, practices and values.
Hinduism has never been a unified, monolithic movement and there has been a great deal of disagreement among Hindus as to how to protect themselves and their interests. There are several Hindu spiritual organizations, and cultural movements in different parts of India. Unfortunately politically, spiritual movements has not resulted in an overreaching Hindu strategy in politics, in the media, in academics, and other areas of social-political life.
It is time for Hindus to join together, to discover its causes and to assume the responsibility of formulating a solution. It is time to rally our values, our self-esteem and fight for our moral ideals with full, righteous confidence. The intellectual group is one that manifests a collective capacity for dealing with the wide-ranging needs and problems in national life. Intellectuals of a nation are expected to maintain connections with the country’s past culture, present social, economic, and political groups and concerns itself with renewing and maintaining internal strengths. But this is not what we see today in India. In India, the anti-Hindu mafia has become the “gate keepers” of Indian minds. The anti-Hindu intellectual zombies have entrapped the members in a servitude and set in motion a malignant process by creating powerlessness in the majority communities. They join together with our enemies from within and without to demean and discredit the culture, and its perennial philosophy that sustains the social bonds for centuries. Our intellectual zombies are competing with our enemies to make Hindus more powerless and prevent them from acquiring skills and self-esteem to regain lost strength and acclaim. Indeed, the greatest threat to India and Hindus today is the political opportunism of the phony secular intellectuals who are inclined to promote Islamo fascism and dismissing or understating internal and external threats. If we ask our moral relativists, agnostics, secularists, liberals and media pundits--they will come up with sticky puddle of stale syrup of tolerance, love, global programs, universalism, and coexistence with Jihadi terrorists, Marxist murderers and crusaders. India’s intellectual zombies had become apologists for the Islamo fascists, Marxists and underground Maoists. They want to replace Hindu tradition, and its eclectic philosophy with the reductionist dogmas of Islam, Marxism and deconstruction. They have sold our nation for a price and joined with our adversaries and engage in “the socialization of the anti-social, or acculturation of the anti-cultural, or the legitimization of the subversive” under the influence of modernism. Intellectual discourse is corrupted by moral relativism, leftist cultural criticism and subversive modernism. By blurring the lines between good and evil, right and wrong, spirituality and fanaticism, these intellectual zombies have rendered our society more vulnerable to evil influences. The general public are increasingly ill equipped to recognize, much less respond to, the evil forces that threatens India from within and without.
One of the tragic errors of India is that too many of its best minds believe as they did in the past-that the solution is to rely on more tolerance, inaction and passivity. They are neither humanist or nationalists. Their goal is to demolish Hindu values and to put barriers on Hindu spirituality and place as many obstacles as possible in the way of Hindutva. Their response against Islamic terrorism goes against the commonest of commonsense and only serve to protect anti nationalists. They are significantly out of touch with reality. Like most psychotic people they avoid complex social problems, afraid of decision making and promote policies that recommends tolerance of intolerant dogmas and their bizarre behavior. The exact opposite is true. What we need most urgently is to recognize that our tolerant culture cannot exist without a philosophy of confrontation of intolerant ideas.
Our present state of cultural disintegration and political oppression is maintained and prolonged by intellectual zombies, posturing as intellectual leaders. India’s intellectual zombies are living in a fantasy world embracing “all religions are the same”, and tolerance of intolerance is a positive virtue . They generally consist of frustrated, alienated and misguided intellectual zombies who serve as catalysts, inciting, and actualizing the prevalent sentiment of Hindu hatred. They also endorse extra privileges for Muslims and provide a sort of moral justification for Hindu oppression. These modern intellectual zombies have succeeded in misdirecting the public and have extinguished the flame of protest, and they have no answer to halt the triumphant advance of brute Jihadis and Marxist murderers. They have no answer to those voices demanding freedom from oppression, liberty from bogus secularism and reason from political idiosyncrasy.
FUMBLED STRATEGY
One of the greatest challenges facing our intellectuals today is objectively examining the roots of the present social-political-pathology and malady afflicting Hindu society and developing a strategy that will lead to a lasting solution of our predicament. The inability to grasp the roots of Islamic terrorism, coercive religious conversion and social disturbances is the result of moral relativism, agnosticism and non-judgmental attitude prominent in India’s liberal thought.
A political ideology directed by bogus secular political leaders whose purpose is to help and empower our enemies is deceptive. In India, these intellectual mafia’s commitment for Hindu bashing has reached a new pinnacle with the national ascendance of Italian born Sonia as the leader of the Congress party. The Congress party’s snobbery and insensitivity to Hindus has created a pseudo-secular culture whose leaders appear unwilling or unable to communicate with the majority Hindus. They are unable to communicate in the cultural language of the majority.
How should Hindus revitalize its strategy? Hindus must better educate and explain the Islamic threat to the general audience. Education at all levels should indicate Hindus in the history, philosophy, mechanics, virtues, responsibilities, and achievements of Hindus. Tolerance and diversity need not mean acceptance of oppression and tyranny. India’s intellectual zombies offer misbegotten solutions, ignore inconvenient facts and hide behind Islamic mafia and promote meaningless universalism. The universal pretensions cannot be used without addressing the proper scale of coercive religious conversion, psychological warfare by foreign agencies, subversive activities of anti-national groups and Jihadi terrorism. Instead of putting the blame where it belongs, India’s intellectual zombies, when confronted with social-political problems, invent fantasies to keep the public in darkness. Real problems confronting India and Hindus are too scary for intellectual zombies to comprehend.
Identifying with your adversary without proper reflection is an exaggerated tendency toward grandiosity. It is an expression of narcissism, one of the deepest wellsprings of India’s liberal tendencies towards unreality. The self-defeating belief system, lead to unreality-to the feelings that somehow Muslims will become fair-minded and do justice. India’s intellectual zombies are in self-delusion that virtually gets in the way of reality, clouding their judgments on important matters leading to bad decisions. Unreality, self-delusion, and denial are the hallmarks of their disease and treatment. It is a treatment in that it promotes adjustment to harsh reality of Islamic violence and terrorism. This treatment of escapism, denial, and self-blame are worse than the disease. It is this collective disease of India’s intellectual zombies, the unhealthy side of reality that is badly in need of treatment.
This liberal unreality, denial, escapism, appeasement and irrational tolerance is narcotic. While each dose “cures” the pain of harsh reality or previous abuse, it further strengthen the disease. Escape from reality, and hiding behind a thick wall of denial, may provide India’s intellectual zombies a brief respite from cruel reality of Islamic atrocities and promote a false adjustment to the cruel world of Islamists. But it is not a true or effective cure for Islamic brutality, hostility and demand for extra privileges.
The most human quality we have is our ability to conceptualize, rationalize and act. As a nation, our greatest hope for improving ourselves and becoming better is to use our mind and capacity to think. It takes intellectual capacity to think and makes change for the better. Why, even after physical independence, Indians shape their reality, interpret or appraise events to please their long term oppressors and tormentors? Why intellectuals shape their thought to justify evil deeds of Muslims, Marxists and phony secularists? Why they downplay external threats or turn off unpleasant internal disturbances created by anti-national elements? It is strange that alienated intellectuals, leftist academicians and phony secularists develop an unconscious cravings and urges to feel good, to feel wonderful or to feel exalted delight in front of adversaries and tormentors. They restructure their thoughts and develop self-defeating behaviors to please their oppressors. They have limited intellectual competencies to handle conflicts and social problems created by Islamic fascists, subversive agents, and psychological warfare operatives. It is difficult for them to assertively handle social conflicts or to say “no” to social pressure to participate in self-destructive behaviors. They often lack the skills to question unhealthy and disastrous policies and activities of our enemies.
For any dangerous social or political challenge or problem situation, India’s intellectual zombies come up with automatic anti Hindu thoughts including blame game. These automatic Hindu blame game that pop up quickly are not rational or evaluative in nature. This self-destructive behavior of intellectual zombies is reinforced by few bread crumbs thrown at them, and few applauses by Jihadis, subversive agents and the bogus secular crowd.
WHAT IS TO BE DONE?
The intellectual zombies that champions the adversary culture now dominate the cultural establishments-the publishing houses, media, museums, book publications, government public relations, television, theater, the cinema, the academia, and the national educational institutions. They promote cultural-moral relativism and mindless universalism. This “relativism of truth and values” has corrupted the moral character of India. India’s phony intellectuals and bogus secular politicians are not attuned to the values of freedom, equality, individual rights, spiritual culture, peace, progress and justice. These alienated, self-serving intellectuals are no longer committed to liberty, fairness, equal opportunity, openness and prosperity. They are busy promoting freedom for Islamic tyrants, strengthening conversion gangs and assisting subversive groups. Silencing of Hindus and the suppression of all inclusive, tolerant, and uplifting Hindu ideas is their pastime.
Hindu organizations should identify Hindu intellectuals and channel resources toward formulating and promoting Hindu vision of public policy. Hindu intellectuals should penetrate community intellectual institutions such as journals, theater companies, study groups, book publishers, electronic media and music clubs. Vital intellectual institutions should be established to create a culture that thinks critically and discuss ideas and philosophies that shape government policies, education and social policy.
Pseudo secular forces have joined with our enemies to restrict the terms of public debate. Hindu intellectuals should address specific issues and concerns that cut across Hindu communities around the globe. In the public sphere, the culture and values of the pluralistic, all inclusive Hindu values should help fashion public policies and political goals.
Only Hindu philosophy points to theoretical systems that yield needed understanding of human beings and their psycho-social-cultural environments. In order to survive in this world of communication, political realities, information warfare, media manipulation and psychological warfare operations, Hindus need to design an action agenda for turning Hindutva into proactive realities in the public field.
By Dr Babu Suseelan
For centuries Hindu society has been active in producing intellectuals, philosophers, psychologists, scientists, political theorists, artists, poets, spiritual leaders and life scientists. Islamic invasion, Christian colonialism, destruction of Sanskrit education and Marxist influence had a disastrous influence on Hindu society. The social and psychological conditioning suffered by Hindus lead frequently to the erosion of cultural identity and the depersonalization of individuals. It is therefore, not surprising that the production of intellectuals dwindled. The repercussions of long period of Islamic oppression and colonization , in the wake of social and cultural disintegration and the trauma suffered by Hindus as a whole, persist even today. Everybody seem to agree that Hindu civilization is now facing a crisis. Entrenched forces from within and without have joined together to de-structure or destroy our thoughts , beliefs, practices and values.
Hinduism has never been a unified, monolithic movement and there has been a great deal of disagreement among Hindus as to how to protect themselves and their interests. There are several Hindu spiritual organizations, and cultural movements in different parts of India. Unfortunately politically, spiritual movements has not resulted in an overreaching Hindu strategy in politics, in the media, in academics, and other areas of social-political life.
It is time for Hindus to join together, to discover its causes and to assume the responsibility of formulating a solution. It is time to rally our values, our self-esteem and fight for our moral ideals with full, righteous confidence. The intellectual group is one that manifests a collective capacity for dealing with the wide-ranging needs and problems in national life. Intellectuals of a nation are expected to maintain connections with the country’s past culture, present social, economic, and political groups and concerns itself with renewing and maintaining internal strengths. But this is not what we see today in India. In India, the anti-Hindu mafia has become the “gate keepers” of Indian minds. The anti-Hindu intellectual zombies have entrapped the members in a servitude and set in motion a malignant process by creating powerlessness in the majority communities. They join together with our enemies from within and without to demean and discredit the culture, and its perennial philosophy that sustains the social bonds for centuries. Our intellectual zombies are competing with our enemies to make Hindus more powerless and prevent them from acquiring skills and self-esteem to regain lost strength and acclaim. Indeed, the greatest threat to India and Hindus today is the political opportunism of the phony secular intellectuals who are inclined to promote Islamo fascism and dismissing or understating internal and external threats. If we ask our moral relativists, agnostics, secularists, liberals and media pundits--they will come up with sticky puddle of stale syrup of tolerance, love, global programs, universalism, and coexistence with Jihadi terrorists, Marxist murderers and crusaders. India’s intellectual zombies had become apologists for the Islamo fascists, Marxists and underground Maoists. They want to replace Hindu tradition, and its eclectic philosophy with the reductionist dogmas of Islam, Marxism and deconstruction. They have sold our nation for a price and joined with our adversaries and engage in “the socialization of the anti-social, or acculturation of the anti-cultural, or the legitimization of the subversive” under the influence of modernism. Intellectual discourse is corrupted by moral relativism, leftist cultural criticism and subversive modernism. By blurring the lines between good and evil, right and wrong, spirituality and fanaticism, these intellectual zombies have rendered our society more vulnerable to evil influences. The general public are increasingly ill equipped to recognize, much less respond to, the evil forces that threatens India from within and without.
One of the tragic errors of India is that too many of its best minds believe as they did in the past-that the solution is to rely on more tolerance, inaction and passivity. They are neither humanist or nationalists. Their goal is to demolish Hindu values and to put barriers on Hindu spirituality and place as many obstacles as possible in the way of Hindutva. Their response against Islamic terrorism goes against the commonest of commonsense and only serve to protect anti nationalists. They are significantly out of touch with reality. Like most psychotic people they avoid complex social problems, afraid of decision making and promote policies that recommends tolerance of intolerant dogmas and their bizarre behavior. The exact opposite is true. What we need most urgently is to recognize that our tolerant culture cannot exist without a philosophy of confrontation of intolerant ideas.
Our present state of cultural disintegration and political oppression is maintained and prolonged by intellectual zombies, posturing as intellectual leaders. India’s intellectual zombies are living in a fantasy world embracing “all religions are the same”, and tolerance of intolerance is a positive virtue . They generally consist of frustrated, alienated and misguided intellectual zombies who serve as catalysts, inciting, and actualizing the prevalent sentiment of Hindu hatred. They also endorse extra privileges for Muslims and provide a sort of moral justification for Hindu oppression. These modern intellectual zombies have succeeded in misdirecting the public and have extinguished the flame of protest, and they have no answer to halt the triumphant advance of brute Jihadis and Marxist murderers. They have no answer to those voices demanding freedom from oppression, liberty from bogus secularism and reason from political idiosyncrasy.
FUMBLED STRATEGY
One of the greatest challenges facing our intellectuals today is objectively examining the roots of the present social-political-pathology and malady afflicting Hindu society and developing a strategy that will lead to a lasting solution of our predicament. The inability to grasp the roots of Islamic terrorism, coercive religious conversion and social disturbances is the result of moral relativism, agnosticism and non-judgmental attitude prominent in India’s liberal thought.
A political ideology directed by bogus secular political leaders whose purpose is to help and empower our enemies is deceptive. In India, these intellectual mafia’s commitment for Hindu bashing has reached a new pinnacle with the national ascendance of Italian born Sonia as the leader of the Congress party. The Congress party’s snobbery and insensitivity to Hindus has created a pseudo-secular culture whose leaders appear unwilling or unable to communicate with the majority Hindus. They are unable to communicate in the cultural language of the majority.
How should Hindus revitalize its strategy? Hindus must better educate and explain the Islamic threat to the general audience. Education at all levels should indicate Hindus in the history, philosophy, mechanics, virtues, responsibilities, and achievements of Hindus. Tolerance and diversity need not mean acceptance of oppression and tyranny. India’s intellectual zombies offer misbegotten solutions, ignore inconvenient facts and hide behind Islamic mafia and promote meaningless universalism. The universal pretensions cannot be used without addressing the proper scale of coercive religious conversion, psychological warfare by foreign agencies, subversive activities of anti-national groups and Jihadi terrorism. Instead of putting the blame where it belongs, India’s intellectual zombies, when confronted with social-political problems, invent fantasies to keep the public in darkness. Real problems confronting India and Hindus are too scary for intellectual zombies to comprehend.
Identifying with your adversary without proper reflection is an exaggerated tendency toward grandiosity. It is an expression of narcissism, one of the deepest wellsprings of India’s liberal tendencies towards unreality. The self-defeating belief system, lead to unreality-to the feelings that somehow Muslims will become fair-minded and do justice. India’s intellectual zombies are in self-delusion that virtually gets in the way of reality, clouding their judgments on important matters leading to bad decisions. Unreality, self-delusion, and denial are the hallmarks of their disease and treatment. It is a treatment in that it promotes adjustment to harsh reality of Islamic violence and terrorism. This treatment of escapism, denial, and self-blame are worse than the disease. It is this collective disease of India’s intellectual zombies, the unhealthy side of reality that is badly in need of treatment.
This liberal unreality, denial, escapism, appeasement and irrational tolerance is narcotic. While each dose “cures” the pain of harsh reality or previous abuse, it further strengthen the disease. Escape from reality, and hiding behind a thick wall of denial, may provide India’s intellectual zombies a brief respite from cruel reality of Islamic atrocities and promote a false adjustment to the cruel world of Islamists. But it is not a true or effective cure for Islamic brutality, hostility and demand for extra privileges.
The most human quality we have is our ability to conceptualize, rationalize and act. As a nation, our greatest hope for improving ourselves and becoming better is to use our mind and capacity to think. It takes intellectual capacity to think and makes change for the better. Why, even after physical independence, Indians shape their reality, interpret or appraise events to please their long term oppressors and tormentors? Why intellectuals shape their thought to justify evil deeds of Muslims, Marxists and phony secularists? Why they downplay external threats or turn off unpleasant internal disturbances created by anti-national elements? It is strange that alienated intellectuals, leftist academicians and phony secularists develop an unconscious cravings and urges to feel good, to feel wonderful or to feel exalted delight in front of adversaries and tormentors. They restructure their thoughts and develop self-defeating behaviors to please their oppressors. They have limited intellectual competencies to handle conflicts and social problems created by Islamic fascists, subversive agents, and psychological warfare operatives. It is difficult for them to assertively handle social conflicts or to say “no” to social pressure to participate in self-destructive behaviors. They often lack the skills to question unhealthy and disastrous policies and activities of our enemies.
For any dangerous social or political challenge or problem situation, India’s intellectual zombies come up with automatic anti Hindu thoughts including blame game. These automatic Hindu blame game that pop up quickly are not rational or evaluative in nature. This self-destructive behavior of intellectual zombies is reinforced by few bread crumbs thrown at them, and few applauses by Jihadis, subversive agents and the bogus secular crowd.
WHAT IS TO BE DONE?
The intellectual zombies that champions the adversary culture now dominate the cultural establishments-the publishing houses, media, museums, book publications, government public relations, television, theater, the cinema, the academia, and the national educational institutions. They promote cultural-moral relativism and mindless universalism. This “relativism of truth and values” has corrupted the moral character of India. India’s phony intellectuals and bogus secular politicians are not attuned to the values of freedom, equality, individual rights, spiritual culture, peace, progress and justice. These alienated, self-serving intellectuals are no longer committed to liberty, fairness, equal opportunity, openness and prosperity. They are busy promoting freedom for Islamic tyrants, strengthening conversion gangs and assisting subversive groups. Silencing of Hindus and the suppression of all inclusive, tolerant, and uplifting Hindu ideas is their pastime.
Hindu organizations should identify Hindu intellectuals and channel resources toward formulating and promoting Hindu vision of public policy. Hindu intellectuals should penetrate community intellectual institutions such as journals, theater companies, study groups, book publishers, electronic media and music clubs. Vital intellectual institutions should be established to create a culture that thinks critically and discuss ideas and philosophies that shape government policies, education and social policy.
Pseudo secular forces have joined with our enemies to restrict the terms of public debate. Hindu intellectuals should address specific issues and concerns that cut across Hindu communities around the globe. In the public sphere, the culture and values of the pluralistic, all inclusive Hindu values should help fashion public policies and political goals.
Only Hindu philosophy points to theoretical systems that yield needed understanding of human beings and their psycho-social-cultural environments. In order to survive in this world of communication, political realities, information warfare, media manipulation and psychological warfare operations, Hindus need to design an action agenda for turning Hindutva into proactive realities in the public field.
Why are Hindus angry?
Why are Hindus angry?
18 Nov 2008,
Tarun Vijay
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Columnists/Tarun_Vijay_Why_are_Hindus_angry/articleshow/3726631.cms
In Srinagar, a Muslim women's organization – the Dukhtaran-e-Millat – vows to impose the strict Islamic code on women through violence and declares that it is in the interests of women. The leader of this outfit, Asiyah Andrabi, was jailed several times for working against the nation and for being a conduit for money to jihadi groups who used that help to kill Hindus and create disaffection among people against India. The US State Department Report of 1995 held a Dukhtaran-e-Millat activist responsible for a parcel bomb blast at the BBC office in Srinagar in which one person was killed and two injured.
The DeM has recently been linked to certain money laundering cases. Andrabi was booked under POTA (Prevention of Terrorism Act) for receiving ISI money through hawala channels. Whenever she speaks against India, there is no emotion or any sense of regret.
She was never subjected to a narco test nor did the media feel anything bad about her. Instead, women's groups interviewed her, called her the "new face of Muslim feminism", and glossy magazines splashed her interviews with a tinge of revolutionary romanticism.
For Indian seculars, the Srinagar crowd working against India brings added fizz, a thrill and a heroism that has to be "understood" rather than condemned. Serious academic columns are published saying that if they are so passionately and aggressively pursuing separatism, why shouldn't we give the Kashmir valley to them?
It's only when a lady monk is killed in Kandhamal or arrested in Nashik and appears to be wearing saffron rather than green that expressions become stern, the law becomes the guiding force, narco tests are immediately ordered and before anything can be even remotely established, the person is pronounced guilty. No women's organization comes out openly to say she is a woman and hence the police must protect her honour and religious obligations at all cost.
Her father says she is innocent. No one gives any importance to that statement.
She cooperates during the narco test and nothing incriminatory is proved. The police say she practices yoga, hence the narco test didn't work.
The bike, the RDX, the targets – nothing is proved. Yet, she is tortured in police custody.
The women's commission that swung into action when an item girl used it to get cheap publicity and hot assignments maintains a studied silence.
The Human Rights Commission remains unfazed and the red sirens of the Marxist class look the other way. They had been demanding a pardon for Afzal although the Supreme Court convicted him. But the issues involved were of secular nature; hence they had to speak.
Nobody still knows what Pragya actually did or didn't do. She has to be severely dealt with just because the colour she wears is not registered as secular in the government's registry of protection where rapists, extortionists and scandalous criminals get a cabinet berth and a murder accused jailbird becomes a chief minister for being on the correct side politically.
First they said an army officer used 60 kg of RDX to blow up the Samjhauta Express. Then the denial comes; no RDX was used, it was ammonium nitrate, oh no perhaps IEDs. Then the Mecca Masjid blasts are linked with Malegaon, then the Hyderabad police issue an official statement that nothing has been found to link the two. The motorbike, the disfigured numbers on the chassis, the absconding person, the real mastermind, the saffron terror guru ... Remember when the Kanchi Shankaracharya was arrested, what kind of charges were levelled against him? Rape, murder, financial fraud and womanizing. And women came foreword to issue statements about how they were "lured". What happened afterwards? Even "nothing" won't convey the nothingness of the entire plot.
But the damage to the great seat of Hindu reverence had been done.
After Kanchi and the Kandhamal murders, a new tool in form of Hindu terrorism has been crafted to make the Batla House terror gang happy.
Not a single Hindu will ever condone terrorism. It's not in our genes. Our blood group in this matter is different. If someone does it he is guilty of doing an un-Hindu act. Anyone caught and proven guilty must be severely dealt with. But why humiliate a majority community that defines the character of the nation for election gains?
Words, cacophony, a celebrative secular media's new 24-hour preoccupation – lynch the saffron, light the party fire.
Just one incident and look how Batla House terrorism, Jamia's protective belligerence, Assam blasts, Pakistani flags carried in Bodo areas by Muslim infiltrators, the Ram Setu destruction and affidavits that humiliate Hindus, everything got under cover. Only the newly manufactured "Hindu terrorism" is reigning in the national debate as a new fashion statement.
The invention of "Hindu terrorism" helped the government get out of a defensive shell and be extraordinarily active to crack a whip against "bad elements".
It had never displayed this action-oriented thrill when the Delhi blasts occurred or the Jaipur blasts claimed more than 60 lives. No Maulana was arrested or caricatured in the media as the bloody green terror guru or ghastly Islamic terrorism.
No, they said, terror has no religion hence these blasts, though done with a holy book surrounded by AK47s, and long quotes from it to justify the blasts and the killings of Hindus shouldn't be sourced to religion. These must not be explained away as Islamic terror, but just the work of some misguided people who are giving a bad name to a peaceful, brotherly way of worship.
Fine.
But when they see saffron, everyone loves to tie them with the speeding bus of law enforcement and constitutional propriety and beat them black and blue to prove a secular manliness of dhimmitude variety.
Pragya says she was tortured in police custody but no one took any notice of that. Why?
Even the most dreaded women criminals have been accorded human rights protection. Pragya is no criminal, she doesn't advocate violence against the state, she is not a traitor, she doesn't impose any kind of obscurantist code on women nor does she use acid, like Andarabi, to make other women fear her dictates. She has not said she is out to kill others to bring about any kind of religious order. But she is tortured and no one says it a gross violation of human rights. Is she not to be given the protection that every woman is entitled to?
Those who write against the nation, insult our heritage and support secession, get applauds and awards. But those who die for the nation and protect the civilisational flow are tortured in police custody.
That's the brevity and power of a state that's in reality headed by a woman and is being actually run by another.
More than 60,000 Hindus have been killed by Islamic jihadis, in the name of their religion and not a single Hindu stood up to say: Enough is enough, I will now see the wicked are punished and innocents are protected.
There is a list of more than 200 Hindu temples razed or desecrated in the Kashmir valley. No Hindu Kashmiri vowed to establish a Hindu terror group to take revenge because the state apparatus has failed to provide them safety.
Seema, a six-year-old girl, was found lying unconscious in a pool of blood in Doda when Islamic terrorists came to her house in the thick of night at 2.30 am, woke up her father, mother and her 11-year-old brother, killing them after brutal torture. They used big knives to cut them into pieces.
Still no Hindu terror group was formed to teach them a lesson.
A two-and-a-half-year old boy who was crying for milk as his mother was shot dead by Islamic terrorists in Wandhama attracted the attention of the jihadis and the bullets silenced him too.
Even then, Hindus didn't become terrorists.
The great socialist leader Ram Manohar Lohia use to say – India has three dreams – Ram, Krishna and Shiva. The abodes, the principal temples of the global Hindus dedicated to these three dreams of India were destroyed and desecrated by Islamic invaders. Go to Google and see how the Shiva temple in Kashi has been turned into a mosque in such a style that the pillars of the old Hindu temple remain clearly visible to show Hindus that here was once the temple they used to worship, which has been converted into a mosque.
Yet for the last four centuries no Hindu has turned a terrorist to take revenge in Kashi.
Now when elections are underway, the government is in shambles showing utter unworthiness to govern and protect patriotic people. Suddenly every single person arrested for terrorism is a saffron, a Hindu and nothing is appearing on the channels or in Sunday magazine features except the "grave danger of Hindu terrorism" and the army getting the saffron "tilak" of terror.
Even the Ghaznis, Ghauris and Abdalis haven't done so much of character assassination of a majority community as this government has done just to garner a few Muslim votes.
Is it fair?
Will it not create a reaction among those who have been chanting mantras of global peace and fraternity and praying for the welfare of all, irrespective of faith or colour? Pushed to a corner, restricted from crying and blackholed like the Jews during the Nazi regime, will it not be a bit too naive to expect that Hindus will remain silent and offer their necks for the secular sacrificial ritual of election gains? Their temples are bombed, their children are killed, their property is looted, their orchards are burnt, their motherland is disfigured and assaulted, yet the state declares a war on their sensitivities, the media muffles their voice and bans all for a for them to express their views. On the contrary, it shows the victims as aggressors, humiliating them in the eyes of the real attackers.
Nature abhors such Siberian gags. Peace is strengthened by justice alone.
The way Pragya has suddenly become a hero must make sane people sit up and take note of the wave passing through the Hindu heartland. Tsunamis don't send advance emails before they strike.
The author is the Director, Dr Syamaprasad Mookerjee Research Foundation.
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18 Nov 2008,
Tarun Vijay
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Columnists/Tarun_Vijay_Why_are_Hindus_angry/articleshow/3726631.cms
In Srinagar, a Muslim women's organization – the Dukhtaran-e-Millat – vows to impose the strict Islamic code on women through violence and declares that it is in the interests of women. The leader of this outfit, Asiyah Andrabi, was jailed several times for working against the nation and for being a conduit for money to jihadi groups who used that help to kill Hindus and create disaffection among people against India. The US State Department Report of 1995 held a Dukhtaran-e-Millat activist responsible for a parcel bomb blast at the BBC office in Srinagar in which one person was killed and two injured.
The DeM has recently been linked to certain money laundering cases. Andrabi was booked under POTA (Prevention of Terrorism Act) for receiving ISI money through hawala channels. Whenever she speaks against India, there is no emotion or any sense of regret.
She was never subjected to a narco test nor did the media feel anything bad about her. Instead, women's groups interviewed her, called her the "new face of Muslim feminism", and glossy magazines splashed her interviews with a tinge of revolutionary romanticism.
For Indian seculars, the Srinagar crowd working against India brings added fizz, a thrill and a heroism that has to be "understood" rather than condemned. Serious academic columns are published saying that if they are so passionately and aggressively pursuing separatism, why shouldn't we give the Kashmir valley to them?
It's only when a lady monk is killed in Kandhamal or arrested in Nashik and appears to be wearing saffron rather than green that expressions become stern, the law becomes the guiding force, narco tests are immediately ordered and before anything can be even remotely established, the person is pronounced guilty. No women's organization comes out openly to say she is a woman and hence the police must protect her honour and religious obligations at all cost.
Her father says she is innocent. No one gives any importance to that statement.
She cooperates during the narco test and nothing incriminatory is proved. The police say she practices yoga, hence the narco test didn't work.
The bike, the RDX, the targets – nothing is proved. Yet, she is tortured in police custody.
The women's commission that swung into action when an item girl used it to get cheap publicity and hot assignments maintains a studied silence.
The Human Rights Commission remains unfazed and the red sirens of the Marxist class look the other way. They had been demanding a pardon for Afzal although the Supreme Court convicted him. But the issues involved were of secular nature; hence they had to speak.
Nobody still knows what Pragya actually did or didn't do. She has to be severely dealt with just because the colour she wears is not registered as secular in the government's registry of protection where rapists, extortionists and scandalous criminals get a cabinet berth and a murder accused jailbird becomes a chief minister for being on the correct side politically.
First they said an army officer used 60 kg of RDX to blow up the Samjhauta Express. Then the denial comes; no RDX was used, it was ammonium nitrate, oh no perhaps IEDs. Then the Mecca Masjid blasts are linked with Malegaon, then the Hyderabad police issue an official statement that nothing has been found to link the two. The motorbike, the disfigured numbers on the chassis, the absconding person, the real mastermind, the saffron terror guru ... Remember when the Kanchi Shankaracharya was arrested, what kind of charges were levelled against him? Rape, murder, financial fraud and womanizing. And women came foreword to issue statements about how they were "lured". What happened afterwards? Even "nothing" won't convey the nothingness of the entire plot.
But the damage to the great seat of Hindu reverence had been done.
After Kanchi and the Kandhamal murders, a new tool in form of Hindu terrorism has been crafted to make the Batla House terror gang happy.
Not a single Hindu will ever condone terrorism. It's not in our genes. Our blood group in this matter is different. If someone does it he is guilty of doing an un-Hindu act. Anyone caught and proven guilty must be severely dealt with. But why humiliate a majority community that defines the character of the nation for election gains?
Words, cacophony, a celebrative secular media's new 24-hour preoccupation – lynch the saffron, light the party fire.
Just one incident and look how Batla House terrorism, Jamia's protective belligerence, Assam blasts, Pakistani flags carried in Bodo areas by Muslim infiltrators, the Ram Setu destruction and affidavits that humiliate Hindus, everything got under cover. Only the newly manufactured "Hindu terrorism" is reigning in the national debate as a new fashion statement.
The invention of "Hindu terrorism" helped the government get out of a defensive shell and be extraordinarily active to crack a whip against "bad elements".
It had never displayed this action-oriented thrill when the Delhi blasts occurred or the Jaipur blasts claimed more than 60 lives. No Maulana was arrested or caricatured in the media as the bloody green terror guru or ghastly Islamic terrorism.
No, they said, terror has no religion hence these blasts, though done with a holy book surrounded by AK47s, and long quotes from it to justify the blasts and the killings of Hindus shouldn't be sourced to religion. These must not be explained away as Islamic terror, but just the work of some misguided people who are giving a bad name to a peaceful, brotherly way of worship.
Fine.
But when they see saffron, everyone loves to tie them with the speeding bus of law enforcement and constitutional propriety and beat them black and blue to prove a secular manliness of dhimmitude variety.
Pragya says she was tortured in police custody but no one took any notice of that. Why?
Even the most dreaded women criminals have been accorded human rights protection. Pragya is no criminal, she doesn't advocate violence against the state, she is not a traitor, she doesn't impose any kind of obscurantist code on women nor does she use acid, like Andarabi, to make other women fear her dictates. She has not said she is out to kill others to bring about any kind of religious order. But she is tortured and no one says it a gross violation of human rights. Is she not to be given the protection that every woman is entitled to?
Those who write against the nation, insult our heritage and support secession, get applauds and awards. But those who die for the nation and protect the civilisational flow are tortured in police custody.
That's the brevity and power of a state that's in reality headed by a woman and is being actually run by another.
More than 60,000 Hindus have been killed by Islamic jihadis, in the name of their religion and not a single Hindu stood up to say: Enough is enough, I will now see the wicked are punished and innocents are protected.
There is a list of more than 200 Hindu temples razed or desecrated in the Kashmir valley. No Hindu Kashmiri vowed to establish a Hindu terror group to take revenge because the state apparatus has failed to provide them safety.
Seema, a six-year-old girl, was found lying unconscious in a pool of blood in Doda when Islamic terrorists came to her house in the thick of night at 2.30 am, woke up her father, mother and her 11-year-old brother, killing them after brutal torture. They used big knives to cut them into pieces.
Still no Hindu terror group was formed to teach them a lesson.
A two-and-a-half-year old boy who was crying for milk as his mother was shot dead by Islamic terrorists in Wandhama attracted the attention of the jihadis and the bullets silenced him too.
Even then, Hindus didn't become terrorists.
The great socialist leader Ram Manohar Lohia use to say – India has three dreams – Ram, Krishna and Shiva. The abodes, the principal temples of the global Hindus dedicated to these three dreams of India were destroyed and desecrated by Islamic invaders. Go to Google and see how the Shiva temple in Kashi has been turned into a mosque in such a style that the pillars of the old Hindu temple remain clearly visible to show Hindus that here was once the temple they used to worship, which has been converted into a mosque.
Yet for the last four centuries no Hindu has turned a terrorist to take revenge in Kashi.
Now when elections are underway, the government is in shambles showing utter unworthiness to govern and protect patriotic people. Suddenly every single person arrested for terrorism is a saffron, a Hindu and nothing is appearing on the channels or in Sunday magazine features except the "grave danger of Hindu terrorism" and the army getting the saffron "tilak" of terror.
Even the Ghaznis, Ghauris and Abdalis haven't done so much of character assassination of a majority community as this government has done just to garner a few Muslim votes.
Is it fair?
Will it not create a reaction among those who have been chanting mantras of global peace and fraternity and praying for the welfare of all, irrespective of faith or colour? Pushed to a corner, restricted from crying and blackholed like the Jews during the Nazi regime, will it not be a bit too naive to expect that Hindus will remain silent and offer their necks for the secular sacrificial ritual of election gains? Their temples are bombed, their children are killed, their property is looted, their orchards are burnt, their motherland is disfigured and assaulted, yet the state declares a war on their sensitivities, the media muffles their voice and bans all for a for them to express their views. On the contrary, it shows the victims as aggressors, humiliating them in the eyes of the real attackers.
Nature abhors such Siberian gags. Peace is strengthened by justice alone.
The way Pragya has suddenly become a hero must make sane people sit up and take note of the wave passing through the Hindu heartland. Tsunamis don't send advance emails before they strike.
The author is the Director, Dr Syamaprasad Mookerjee Research Foundation.
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Tarun Vijay
Director, Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee Research Foundation
(centre for civilisational values and policy research)
11 Ashok Road, New Delhi 110001
tel. no.-011-23382569,23382234.
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Dec 25 bandh call justified, Samiti
Bhubaneswar:(Visakeo) Swami Laxmananda Saraswati Sradhanjali Samiti on Wednesday argued that the bandh call on December 25 was logical and justified if the State Government fails to nab the killers of Swamiji and his disciples by December 15.
Samiti’s while reacting to the visit of the three-member Central Ministerial team led by Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar to riot hit Kandhamal, however alleged that the team coming under pressure from church militants, has criticized the bandh call.
Both Central as well as the State Government has no morale right to oppose a bandh call on December 25, Samiti State coordinator Laxmikant Dash said. He further alleged that top church leaders and Congress President Sonia Gandhi are giving safe shelters to the killers of Swamiji.
The Crime Branch of State Police improved a lot in connection with the fake gang rape of a nun while the same officials have failed to the nab the killers of Swamiji even after four months of the incident, he added.
Golakha Chandra Das
Samiti’s while reacting to the visit of the three-member Central Ministerial team led by Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar to riot hit Kandhamal, however alleged that the team coming under pressure from church militants, has criticized the bandh call.
Both Central as well as the State Government has no morale right to oppose a bandh call on December 25, Samiti State coordinator Laxmikant Dash said. He further alleged that top church leaders and Congress President Sonia Gandhi are giving safe shelters to the killers of Swamiji.
The Crime Branch of State Police improved a lot in connection with the fake gang rape of a nun while the same officials have failed to the nab the killers of Swamiji even after four months of the incident, he added.
Golakha Chandra Das
Monday, November 17, 2008
Govt must stop financial assistance for damaged churches, demands VHP
Govt must stop financial assistance for damaged churches, demands VHP
Bhubaneswar:(visakeo) Defiant Viswa Hindu Parishad on Monday asked Orissa Government to stop any kind of financial help for the reconstruction of churches and prayer houses in riot hit Kandhamal district.
The Government has no right to spend taxpayers' money to appease Christian Community and it should withdraw its announcement in this regard, VHP State general secretary Gouri Prasad Rath said. There is no provision for financial assistance to places of worship in the relief code, so the Government must reconsider its decision, he added.
The Supreme Court had never directed the State Government for financial assistance. It had only asked the Government to look into the issue in a humanitarian manner but the Government seems mistaken over the Court order, he argued.
He further pointed out that as Church, training centers for pastors and Nun are patronizing conversion activities; the Government must stop financial assistance to restore communal harmony in Kandhamal.
Orissa became first State in the country, which offered such type of financial help for reconstruction of religious institutions damaged during communal violence.
Churches, prayer houses, temples, mosques, gurudwaras, boudh vihars, jain temples and prayer halls of tribals and training institutions for nuns and pastors would get financial help as per the official announcement of the Orissa Government.
According to the order issued by the Revenue Department, places of worship and religious institutions built on disputed land would not be eligible for getting the assistance, which will vary from Rs 10,000 to Rs two lakh.
Rs 2 lakh each would be provided for churches and temples destroyed during riots in Kandhamal, while partially damaged places of worship would be given Rs 1 lakh each.
Similarly, Rs 50,000 each would be given for completely destroyed prayer halls, while those with moderate damage would be given Rs 20,000 each and partially damaged prayer halls would get Rs 10,000 each.
By Golakha Chandra Das
Bhubaneswar:(visakeo) Defiant Viswa Hindu Parishad on Monday asked Orissa Government to stop any kind of financial help for the reconstruction of churches and prayer houses in riot hit Kandhamal district.
The Government has no right to spend taxpayers' money to appease Christian Community and it should withdraw its announcement in this regard, VHP State general secretary Gouri Prasad Rath said. There is no provision for financial assistance to places of worship in the relief code, so the Government must reconsider its decision, he added.
The Supreme Court had never directed the State Government for financial assistance. It had only asked the Government to look into the issue in a humanitarian manner but the Government seems mistaken over the Court order, he argued.
He further pointed out that as Church, training centers for pastors and Nun are patronizing conversion activities; the Government must stop financial assistance to restore communal harmony in Kandhamal.
Orissa became first State in the country, which offered such type of financial help for reconstruction of religious institutions damaged during communal violence.
Churches, prayer houses, temples, mosques, gurudwaras, boudh vihars, jain temples and prayer halls of tribals and training institutions for nuns and pastors would get financial help as per the official announcement of the Orissa Government.
According to the order issued by the Revenue Department, places of worship and religious institutions built on disputed land would not be eligible for getting the assistance, which will vary from Rs 10,000 to Rs two lakh.
Rs 2 lakh each would be provided for churches and temples destroyed during riots in Kandhamal, while partially damaged places of worship would be given Rs 1 lakh each.
Similarly, Rs 50,000 each would be given for completely destroyed prayer halls, while those with moderate damage would be given Rs 20,000 each and partially damaged prayer halls would get Rs 10,000 each.
By Golakha Chandra Das
Orissa HC dismisses plea of Utkal Christian Council
Bhubaneswar:(visakeo)17/11- Orissa High Court on Monday rejected a petition of Utkal Christian Council that sought to change judge heading the one-man judicial panel to probe communal violence in Kandhamal district.
The division bench comprising chief Justice Balbir Singh Chauhan and justice BN Mohapatra dismissed the petition filed by the Council Nov 7.
Orissa Government appointed SC Mohapatra, a retired judge of the Orissa High Court September 2 to the one-man judicial commission that will probe the killing of a Hindu leader Aug 23 and the communal violence that followed.
The council, represented through its secretary Jyotsna Rani Patro, filed a writ application in the Orissa High court describing the appointment of Mohapatra as illegal.
The council in its petition had said that 'Mohapatra, a former Lok Pal (vigilance body member), cannot be appointed to head the commission because he is not eligible as per law. 'As per section 5 of the Lokpal Act, on ceasing to hold office the Lokpal or Lokayukta shall be ineligible for further employment under the state government,' the council had said.
"The court dismissed the plea. The court said that the commission of inquiry is not a government service so as to come within the purview of the word 'employment' and upheld the appointment,"
By Golakha Chandra Das
The division bench comprising chief Justice Balbir Singh Chauhan and justice BN Mohapatra dismissed the petition filed by the Council Nov 7.
Orissa Government appointed SC Mohapatra, a retired judge of the Orissa High Court September 2 to the one-man judicial commission that will probe the killing of a Hindu leader Aug 23 and the communal violence that followed.
The council, represented through its secretary Jyotsna Rani Patro, filed a writ application in the Orissa High court describing the appointment of Mohapatra as illegal.
The council in its petition had said that 'Mohapatra, a former Lok Pal (vigilance body member), cannot be appointed to head the commission because he is not eligible as per law. 'As per section 5 of the Lokpal Act, on ceasing to hold office the Lokpal or Lokayukta shall be ineligible for further employment under the state government,' the council had said.
"The court dismissed the plea. The court said that the commission of inquiry is not a government service so as to come within the purview of the word 'employment' and upheld the appointment,"
By Golakha Chandra Das
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Politics of 'Hindu terror'
http://www.dailypioneer.com/134642/Politics-of-Hindu-terror.html
Sunday Pioneer
16 Nov 2008
Politics of 'Hindu terror'
The cutting Ed: Chandan Mitra
Ab Tak Chhappan! The title of this Ram Gopal Varma film easily comes to mind observing the manner in which the Maharashtra ATS is going about picking up people all over India and slapping them into the cooler on a daily basis, ostensibly in a bid to unearth dimensions of "Hindu terror".
We have lost count of the number of persons interrogated, sent on police or judicial remand, their brains penetrated with narcotic substances to induce confession to their "crimes". But not a day has passed, since Sadhvi Pragya was nabbed some 25 days ago, without somebody or the other being arrested, allegedly in connection with a fantastic plot conjured up by the Maharashtra Police.
Those arrested included serving and retired Army officers, school and college teachers, political activists and now even a resourceful sadhu. Every evening at the news meeting in our office, the first question asked is, "What's the score today? Ab tak ...?"
Buoyed by enthusiastic endorsement from the "secular" media, which is gleefully eating out of the ATS' hands, the so-called Hindu terror plot keeps assuming an ever-growing magnitude. Not content with pinning the blame for the minor bomb blasts in Malegaon and Modasa, then Nanded and later Kanpur, the ATS' ambitions have increased manifold. Currently, it is busy trying to implicate the same group in the 2006 Samjhauta Express blasts. Curiously, SIMI commander Safdar Nagori's narco tests have resulted in a confession that his organisation executed the Samjhauta bombings. Does this mean that so-called Hindu terrorists have been synchronising their moves with SIMI? Or, maybe ATS will tomorrow come up with a theory that "Hindu terrorists" have been funding and masterminding the actions of jihadis who innocently fell into the Hindu trap in the lure of money. Far fetched? Not really, if you consider the gigantic yarns being spun around the purported confessions of the detained suspects.
Interestingly, in the last seven days, contradictory "leaks" have been planted on the handpicked media about the responses of detained suspects. A particularly hilarious story front-paged by a leading national daily claimed that the narco-analysis of Sadhvi Pragya came to a naught because she meditates daily! Apparently, those who are ardent practitioners of that spiritual art become immune to narco tests because their mental powers are strong enough to resist drug-induced coercion aimed at extracting confessions.
Moral of the story: All criminals ought to mediate, for then narco-tests shall fail and they go scot-free!
By the way, it would be interesting to know if the servants arrested in the Arushi Talwar murder case were also trained in the art of meditation. Must be, for the CBI failed to get any information out of them and finally they had to be released. Similarly, Lt Col. Srikant Purohit, too, foiled the investigators' desperate attempts to cajole him into confessing his crime because, we are told, as an Armyman, he was trained to absorb stress and no amount of drugs got him to talk. Halted on their tracks, the ATS then leaked purported details of Purohit's confessions, which were eagerly lapped up by sections of the media to further their campaign to equate "Hindu" with jihadi terror.
Following the arrest of Swami Amritanand aka Dayanand Pandey or Sudhakar Dwivedi, we were treated to details of his past, website photos, his ashrams, connections with top national personalities, ex-President APJ Abdul Kalam downwards. But what we never got to know was his role in the Malegaon blasts. Within hours of his arrest, the Haryana Railway Police swooped down on him apparently to discover his link to the Samjhauta Express blasts, which self-confessedly, SIMI had carried out. Without a shred of evidence to that effect, he has already been awarded the epithet of "Terror Guru".
In the same way, the highly respected Bhonsala Military School has been dubbed a terror factory - a term used hitherto for Talibanised madrasas. Merely because some members of a little known outfit called Abhinav Bharat, an adjunct of the largely defunct Hindu Mahasabha, visited the premises of the school, its custodians were hounded to the point of putting in their papers.
Judging by the hype accompanying the "Hindu terror" revelations, it would appear that nothing else is happening in this country for the last month or so. With every passing day, the ATS' concoctions get more incredible, the scale of "leaked" stories magnified and the media's tone becomes predictably shriller. All this before any of the arrested persons is formally charged or given an opportunity to defend themselves. Wasn't it the Congress that kept cautioning us against trial by media? Wasn't it Manmohan Singh who plaintively lamented that everything in this country gets politicised? But when a trial by the media is actually sponsored by the Government and agencies under its control, like the Maharashtra ATS, nobody sees anything wrong with it.
That, in the process, even the Army is being hauled over the coals and its exalted status sullied beyond repair is of no consequence. Clearly, the Government thinks tarnishing the Army serves its short-term agenda: Putting BJP on the backfoot. Nothing is too sacrosanct to achieve that aim in an election year. In the face of mounting public anger against the UPA's all-round failure, especially its vote-bank politics over terrorism, the Government desperately needed a face-saver. So, they decided to construct an elaborate theory of all-pervasive Hindu terror hoping to convince the electorate that the Hindutva forces are the real fountainhead of all terrorist activities. It is a matter of time before it is volubly argued by "secular" politicians and their media cheerleaders that jihadi terror is nothing but an act of self-defence in the face of rampant "Hindu terrorist" provocation.
With investigating agencies dragging their feet (could it be under orders from above?), failing to convict any terror accused so far, this is a clever ploy to divert attention from the real danger jihadi terror poses to India. Determined to thwart efforts by BJP-ruled States to introduce tough anti-terror laws, the Government has directed the President to return Narendra Modi's proposed GUJCOC, drafted on the lines of MCOCA, which is operational in UPA-ruled Maharashtra. And the Centre is equally determined not to execute Afzal Guru despite the Supreme Court sentencing him to death several years back. Incidentally, Muslim-majority Indonesia has fewer qualms: It executed three Islamic radicals last week, soon after they were convicted for the Bali bombings.
But our Government is focused on damning Hindu organisations by a sustained campaign of calumny. I wonder if the Maharashtra ATS will soon "unearth" global linkages of Hindu terror and accuse some sadhvi, swami or an Army officer of having plotted 9/11 too!
What the Congress-led Government is failing to recognise is that public anger against a regime increasingly seen as decidedly anti-Hindu, is rising. In the process, the Congress may actually be helping to create a Hindu vote for the first time in India's history. Pyromaniacs often end up being consumed by the very fire they light.
Sunday Pioneer
16 Nov 2008
Politics of 'Hindu terror'
The cutting Ed: Chandan Mitra
Ab Tak Chhappan! The title of this Ram Gopal Varma film easily comes to mind observing the manner in which the Maharashtra ATS is going about picking up people all over India and slapping them into the cooler on a daily basis, ostensibly in a bid to unearth dimensions of "Hindu terror".
We have lost count of the number of persons interrogated, sent on police or judicial remand, their brains penetrated with narcotic substances to induce confession to their "crimes". But not a day has passed, since Sadhvi Pragya was nabbed some 25 days ago, without somebody or the other being arrested, allegedly in connection with a fantastic plot conjured up by the Maharashtra Police.
Those arrested included serving and retired Army officers, school and college teachers, political activists and now even a resourceful sadhu. Every evening at the news meeting in our office, the first question asked is, "What's the score today? Ab tak ...?"
Buoyed by enthusiastic endorsement from the "secular" media, which is gleefully eating out of the ATS' hands, the so-called Hindu terror plot keeps assuming an ever-growing magnitude. Not content with pinning the blame for the minor bomb blasts in Malegaon and Modasa, then Nanded and later Kanpur, the ATS' ambitions have increased manifold. Currently, it is busy trying to implicate the same group in the 2006 Samjhauta Express blasts. Curiously, SIMI commander Safdar Nagori's narco tests have resulted in a confession that his organisation executed the Samjhauta bombings. Does this mean that so-called Hindu terrorists have been synchronising their moves with SIMI? Or, maybe ATS will tomorrow come up with a theory that "Hindu terrorists" have been funding and masterminding the actions of jihadis who innocently fell into the Hindu trap in the lure of money. Far fetched? Not really, if you consider the gigantic yarns being spun around the purported confessions of the detained suspects.
Interestingly, in the last seven days, contradictory "leaks" have been planted on the handpicked media about the responses of detained suspects. A particularly hilarious story front-paged by a leading national daily claimed that the narco-analysis of Sadhvi Pragya came to a naught because she meditates daily! Apparently, those who are ardent practitioners of that spiritual art become immune to narco tests because their mental powers are strong enough to resist drug-induced coercion aimed at extracting confessions.
Moral of the story: All criminals ought to mediate, for then narco-tests shall fail and they go scot-free!
By the way, it would be interesting to know if the servants arrested in the Arushi Talwar murder case were also trained in the art of meditation. Must be, for the CBI failed to get any information out of them and finally they had to be released. Similarly, Lt Col. Srikant Purohit, too, foiled the investigators' desperate attempts to cajole him into confessing his crime because, we are told, as an Armyman, he was trained to absorb stress and no amount of drugs got him to talk. Halted on their tracks, the ATS then leaked purported details of Purohit's confessions, which were eagerly lapped up by sections of the media to further their campaign to equate "Hindu" with jihadi terror.
Following the arrest of Swami Amritanand aka Dayanand Pandey or Sudhakar Dwivedi, we were treated to details of his past, website photos, his ashrams, connections with top national personalities, ex-President APJ Abdul Kalam downwards. But what we never got to know was his role in the Malegaon blasts. Within hours of his arrest, the Haryana Railway Police swooped down on him apparently to discover his link to the Samjhauta Express blasts, which self-confessedly, SIMI had carried out. Without a shred of evidence to that effect, he has already been awarded the epithet of "Terror Guru".
In the same way, the highly respected Bhonsala Military School has been dubbed a terror factory - a term used hitherto for Talibanised madrasas. Merely because some members of a little known outfit called Abhinav Bharat, an adjunct of the largely defunct Hindu Mahasabha, visited the premises of the school, its custodians were hounded to the point of putting in their papers.
Judging by the hype accompanying the "Hindu terror" revelations, it would appear that nothing else is happening in this country for the last month or so. With every passing day, the ATS' concoctions get more incredible, the scale of "leaked" stories magnified and the media's tone becomes predictably shriller. All this before any of the arrested persons is formally charged or given an opportunity to defend themselves. Wasn't it the Congress that kept cautioning us against trial by media? Wasn't it Manmohan Singh who plaintively lamented that everything in this country gets politicised? But when a trial by the media is actually sponsored by the Government and agencies under its control, like the Maharashtra ATS, nobody sees anything wrong with it.
That, in the process, even the Army is being hauled over the coals and its exalted status sullied beyond repair is of no consequence. Clearly, the Government thinks tarnishing the Army serves its short-term agenda: Putting BJP on the backfoot. Nothing is too sacrosanct to achieve that aim in an election year. In the face of mounting public anger against the UPA's all-round failure, especially its vote-bank politics over terrorism, the Government desperately needed a face-saver. So, they decided to construct an elaborate theory of all-pervasive Hindu terror hoping to convince the electorate that the Hindutva forces are the real fountainhead of all terrorist activities. It is a matter of time before it is volubly argued by "secular" politicians and their media cheerleaders that jihadi terror is nothing but an act of self-defence in the face of rampant "Hindu terrorist" provocation.
With investigating agencies dragging their feet (could it be under orders from above?), failing to convict any terror accused so far, this is a clever ploy to divert attention from the real danger jihadi terror poses to India. Determined to thwart efforts by BJP-ruled States to introduce tough anti-terror laws, the Government has directed the President to return Narendra Modi's proposed GUJCOC, drafted on the lines of MCOCA, which is operational in UPA-ruled Maharashtra. And the Centre is equally determined not to execute Afzal Guru despite the Supreme Court sentencing him to death several years back. Incidentally, Muslim-majority Indonesia has fewer qualms: It executed three Islamic radicals last week, soon after they were convicted for the Bali bombings.
But our Government is focused on damning Hindu organisations by a sustained campaign of calumny. I wonder if the Maharashtra ATS will soon "unearth" global linkages of Hindu terror and accuse some sadhvi, swami or an Army officer of having plotted 9/11 too!
What the Congress-led Government is failing to recognise is that public anger against a regime increasingly seen as decidedly anti-Hindu, is rising. In the process, the Congress may actually be helping to create a Hindu vote for the first time in India's history. Pyromaniacs often end up being consumed by the very fire they light.
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