Indians in India?

An American visited India and went back to America where he met his Indian friend who asked him, “How did u find my Country?”

The American said it is a great country with solid ancient history and immensely rich with natural resources.

The Indian friend then asked, “How u found Indians?”

”Indians? Who Indians? I didn't find or met a single Indian there in India.”

What? Who else could u meet in India then?

The American said, “In Kashmir I met a Kashmiri, In Punjab a Punjabi, In Bihar, Maharastra, Rajasthan, Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala I saw Bihari, Marathi, Marwadi, Bengali, Tamilian and Malayali…”

”… Then I met A Hindu, A Muslim, A Christian, A Jain, A Buddhist, but not a single Indian did I meet.”

The day would not be far off when indeed we would become a collection of nation states if the present situation continues. It lays with us the people to stop this trend. Let us not encourage parties that put forth regional interest ahead of the nation’s interest. Discourage regional parties. Let us not allow them to divert us!

Indians in India

Save India - Vote Congress out

Do you want to vote a man who is a habitual misleader

In 1999 while contesting the South Delhi seat which he eventually lost, Manmohan Singh gave a clean chit to the Congress Party and claimed the invisible hand of the RSS in the 1984 Anti-Sikh riots. http://www.sikhtimes.com/news_090299a.html

The latter had in fact saved hundreds of Sikh lives in Delhi which was even acknowledged by Khushwant Singh In 2005, he apologized to the Sikh community on behalf of the Congress. In 2009, he welcomed clean chit to Tytler and Sajjan Kumar.

The so called master economist with a twin B.A degree had in these 18 years not provided a single theory of reform. In fact, the liberation of the economy came after pawning of India’s gold reserves, thanks to Nehruvian socialism. The NREGA is another of his bankruptcy proposals. Not a single skill enhancing educational-technical skill enhancing measure is included in this program. It simply expects villagers to work as glorified labourers by digging ponds even as the water table plummets. Thousands of farmers have committed ritual suicide at Vidarbha and AP, both run by Congress government, the former for over a decade and yet they expect to win votes.

Silence on Swiss Money: US pressure on UBS has forced it to reveal names of account holders. One year ago Germany offered the CD with names of Indian account holders in the Lichenstein Bank but transparency international noted that the Indian PMO and ministry of finance, headed by Chidambaram showed little interest in tracing the details. Advani’s letter to the FM was followed by an evasive letter by the latter. Now who has skeletons in the cupboard?
Nuclear deal: which officially defines India as a non nuclear weapons state pursued and ratified. Now under Obama’s pressure India will soon sign the CTBT and make it a sitting duck for Jihadi nuclear bomb

Muslims have first right on resources. In Mumbai, two days back MMS repeats his promise. Is this naked lust for communal vote, the mark of a statesman?
Rahul and Sonia had both misled the public on their educational qualifications while filing their electoral affidavits. Why? http://offstumped.nationalinterest.in/2008/05/03/the-raul-vinci-chronicles/

PM declared “Reservation in private institutes was an idea whose time has come” The time has also come for you to retire from night watchmanship for Rahul Baba who has suddenly acquired all traits required for a PM. The man who is incapable of providing an interview or speaking extempore has only a single but necessary qualification for becoming PM, he is the great grandson of Nehru. That is why, a rank outsider called Priyanka Vadra in response to Modi's comment indirectly exclaims that "Congress is Priyanka." Why not? After all, India was Indira! India is the personal jagir of the Nehru parivaar.

A bag of empty promises and lies.
In 2004, PM declared “We will make Mumbai Shanghai!”

In 2009, he now claims “We will make Mumbai a Global City” Similarly, for 60 years Congress Party speaks of eradicating hunger. This is the reason we stand 69th in global hunger index.

Now, PM promises another pipedream – end of poverty in ten years. Can you believe in this man and his fake promises? Remember, Indira's Garibi Hato in 1971?

In 26/11, 200+ are killed by runaway Jihadis and PM expresses satisfaction that the terrorists who planned an excursion to Islamic jannat were killed! Not a single mastermind of the attack from across the border has been brought to justice. None of the locals involved in the attack have been apprehended probably out of fear of outraging Muslim interests. The Urdu press and Ulema councils which have dubbed 26/11 as a Hindu-Zionist-CIA conspiracy are functioning with elan even as innocent Hindus rot in jail.

http://www.haindavakeralam.com/HKPage.aspx?PageID=8491&SKIN=M

And PM compares the incident with Qandahar when the plane hijacking actually took place outside the country in Nepal. All except one of the 300 passengers was rescued. Congress at that point actually instigated relatives of these passengers to demonstrate outside BJP’s office to release the terrorists. In an all party meeting, the Congress urged the Government to give top billing to the safety of the passengers which was non negotiable. And now, this hypocritical foursome wants to make a political issue out of Qandahar.

Consider the Congress allies.

IUML is the new arm of erstwhile Muslim League which partitioned the nation on the basis of religion. The Muslims of North Kerala were staunch supporters of Muslim League in the pre-independence era and had also showed their beastly nature by killing thousands of Hindus during the Moplah rebellion. Post-independence, the community has been supporting IUML. This shows that the situation has not changed a single bit. These Muslims do not consider themselves a part of the national mainstream and IUML is a party which is representing such internal ‘anti-nationals’.

MIM: It was a party which opposed the integration of Hyderabad with India. It was the party hich organised Razakars who went about killing thousands of Hindus to maintain the ‘Islamic’ State of Hyderabad. The party was initially banned in 1948 and the Razakars’ leader was deported to Pakistan in the late 1950s.

Kerala Congress (Mani) [KC(M)] in Kerala is again a Christian party.
Now, how do I call this Congress a secular party?
Do you want to vote a party which practices divide and rule! It is common knowledge that
British pursued this divisive policy by appeasing Muslims. By giving them reservations [Montey Mirlo 1909 reforms, and Montago Chelmsford 1919 reforms and finally Pakistan] Congress could never match the appeasement of Muslims but it continued with this policy at the expense of the Hindus who were stranded in Pakistan, East and West. Even as millions of Hindus were being butchered and raped by Pakistanis, Nehru urged Patel to build a wall on the Bangla border so that Hindu refugees to do not inundate India. According to Nehru, India would cease to be secular if did not have healthy percentage of Muslims and the Hindus across the border were exaggerating their discomfort in an Islamic republic! [Sardar Patel select correspondence, Volume 2] No wonder, a disgusted Patel called Nehru “India’s only nationalist Muslim.” However, to expand the 'secular' votebank, Bangladeshis Muslims have been given a free ride from across the border. The Supreme court in 2005 struck down the illegal IMDT act in Assam according to which the onus of proving one's nationality or otherwise lies on the complainant whereas under the (usually universal) Foreigners Act, the onus is on the accused. The court also strongly observed that the act in question had encouraged Bangladeshi infiltration. A panicky Congress party in fear of losing out on its Muslim vote ahead of Assam assembly elections amended the Foreigner’s act itself which effectively subverted the contrary Supreme Court ruling.

Nehru started the Haj Subsidy but did not provide a paisa for restoration of the Somanath temple. Today, Muslims are being provided reservations which is totally unconstitutional even in the view of genuinely secular judges [See, 13th May 2008 Delhi HC judges observation on Sachar committee] Do we want a second partition

Do you want to vote a party whose president and her son considers the BJP to be a bigger danger to the nation than Islamist terrorists?

Do you want to live in a country where speaking of Muslim and Christian reservations is secular, and uttering the word Hindu is communal. Today, Hindus dont constitute even 80% of the total population. Pakistan and Bangladesh are prime examples of what happens to Muslim countries when Hindu population is sacrificed at the altar of Jihadis.

Vote MMS out and the hand which rocks his cradle. Its probably our last chance for change

True face of Secularism in India

In a book,Religious Politics and Communal Violence(Oxford University Press, New Delhi) a place of pride was given to a person of dubious integrity. I am speaking of none other than Teesta Setelvad whose essay "Gujarat, Crime against humanity" has been included in taht book. In the Best Bakery case, the special court had previouslyt observed that the tutoring of Zahira Sheikh [the prime witness] was obvious. http://www.outlookindia.com/pti_print.asp?id=379118

Now, The fact of Setelvad's diabolical political agenda has been confirmed by the Special Investigation Team responsible for the arrests of those accused in Gujarat riots which has severely reprimanded NGOs and social activist Teesta Setalvad who campaigned for the riot victims. The team led by former CBI director R K Raghavan told the SC on Monday that the rights activist cooked up macabre tales of wanton killings.Besides, false charges were levelled against then police chief P C Pande and false witnesses were tutored to give evidence about imaginary incidents.

http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/Client.asp?Daily=CAP&showST=true&login=de\fault&Enter=true&Skin=TOINEW&GZ=T&AW=1239685925625 [Times of India 14.3.2009]

On enquiry, the SIT found that all the 22 affidavits were drafted, typed and printed from the same computer, giving sufficient grounds to believe they were “tutored”. When the SIT questioned those who signed the affidavits, it was shocked to learn that these complainants were not even aware of the incidents.

Referring to another instance that exposed the Citizens for Justice and Peace’s much ‘trumpeted’ charges, Rohtagi said the SIT investigation found untrue allegation about a gangrape of a pregnant woman Kauser Bano, whose stomach was allegedly pierced by sword and her foetus killed.Even the instance of dumping of bodies into a well at Naroda Patiya and a charge of the police allegedly shielding accused persons in murder of a British national was found to be untrue, Rohtagi said. Firing a salvo at the NGO, Rohtagi said, “It is clear from the report that the horrendous allegations made by the NGO were false. Cyclostyled affidavits were supplied by a social activist and the allegations made in them were untrue,” he added, with an obvious reference to Setalvad.

http://dailypioneer.com/169490/Gujarat-riot-myths-busted.html

The Gujarat Riots were triggered by the mass Jihadi attack on the Sabarmati express which killed 58 Hindus, mostly women and children. The consequent riots, saw over 1000 dead of which 258 were Hindus (as per the UPA Government figures released in 2005) Then, how could anyone passively elevate this figure to twice this figure and construct a so called overnight state sponsored pogrom out of a riot is just beyond comprehension. I am afraid both you and Oxford by giving opportunities to scamsters like Setelvad who make a living out of otherpeople's misery have shown yourself in extremely poor light, and have actually given credence to the charge that yours is a heinous political and not academic project.

Issues and Elections

Are elections in India contested on the basis of the real issues faced by the common public? If someone is replying yes, then he must the most hypocritical person in this world. How do we define the real issue? Among the population of over 100 crores, can there be one single issue that is acceptable to one and all? This is discussed already in my earlier blog real&politikindia

How many of us have genuinely gone through the manifesto released by the parties? Had we gone through, how many of us have raised queries that arose in our mind? Sops after sops were promised and no source of revenue was mentioned. Did we ever worry to question that?

Whether one accepts it or not, elections are nothing but selling. The party that is contesting has to sell itself among the public. Obviously, when it boils down to convincing the prospect, marketing techniques are adapted. The political parties are catering to variety of customer segments. The elite class, the middle-class, the media and those in the BPL. This can be further classified into regional, religious, caste, creed and what not?

Political parties are forced to create an image of themselves among the public. How many of us would appreciate a candidate who comes silently from door to door canvassing his election? After the media started reporting the property details of candidates in dailies, what is our reaction? Did we ever try to gather information on the source of their income instead, we discuss who has more? When we have such an attitude, we should not talk of discussing issues in elections.

How many of the middle-class citizens go out for voting? Hardly 35% of them go out to vote. They have the excuse, “all of them are same and why should we vote?” How many times, we came down on streets to register our protest on an issue? We are driven by euphoria. After 26/11, some media gathered mass and diverted the public from the core issue of Governments inaction by lighting candles. All our problems related to terrorism got solved once we lit the candles and changed the minister. At the least the people’s response gives this indication.

As a marketing guy, I would concentrate only on those segments that give me returns. Hence, there is nothing wrong in politicians concentrating on BPL. Two thousand bucks a day, free meals and alcohol is too much for those in the BPL. Make hay while sun shines. Why not vote as many number of times as long as I get benefited. After all, this is the time for them to make money. Why should they give up their chance?

If the elections are to be fought on real issues as we define, then it lies in our approach and not in the politicians’. In this representative system the communication between people and the representative is one-way. They speak and we listen. When will we speak and they listen? How many of us preferred watching LokSabha DD to ever-crying soaps? When will we come down on streets to protest anything that we felt unfair? When will we come out for Voting even if it meant we are making it invalid or choosing option 49-O?

Let us stop blaming squarely the politicians for all the problems we have with us. Issues that concerns the nation does not impact the elections. Issues have no influence. The elite class never comes out to vote but fund the parties and maneuver the policies to their benefits. Those in the BPL live for the day and they are paid for the day, and they are least bothered about tomorrow. Those in the middle class are good at whining, commenting from their drawing room, would never come out to vote. Why should the politicians worry about this lot who in no way beneficial to him or the society?

If we want elections to be contested on issues, let us play a constructive role in this. Go out for voting is the prime task in this program. I am not repeating what I had mentioned in the series of blogs on this subject. We can talk of issue based politics only when the turnout reaches 75%. Till then, talking of it is a FARCE.

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Achievements of UPA

Achievements are the measure of one's performance. If we have to ascertain the performance of the present Govt of india, one has to find out their performances. With nothing to boast, this govt had listed many achievements that had no relation of the Govt nor their contribution. A school of thought.

Aam Aadmi: If it was garibi hatao decades ago, it was the turn of aam aadmi in the last elections. God only knows that what the govt did for the aam aadmi in these 5 years. The biggest achievement is that the population of the BPL is increased by 20% than what it was 5 years ago. The rich and the poor divide kept on increasing. Not very recently, ex-RBI Governor made a statement that the cumulative wealth of 20 richest Indians is more than the cumulative wealth of 30 crore poorest Indians! Another irony is those who figure in the top 10 richest Indians do not figure in the top 10 income-tax payers’ list.

This is the biggest service they did to the Aam Aadmi – to increase their population of BPL so that these aam aadmi would return them to power with their votes! Yes this government is for the aam aadmi to keep in them in this band and as far as welfare is concerned, this is for the Khaas aadmi.

Economic scenario: Inflation is an index that is given on the basis of average calculations of the present situation vis-à-vis preceding weeks. The inflation has shot so high that the average is now showing almost zero inflation. They boast of near-zero inflation as an achievement whereas all of us are aware how far the prices of essential commodities soared high. The way they played around the petroleum prices as the elections approached near showed their ability or the lack of it to control the prices.

The economic figures can be cooked but this Government had made it possible that none in the poor category would be able to cook anything at their home.

Unemployment: Unemployment is a perennial problem in India and considering its population it would be very difficult to provide employment to all. The present day problem is not about unemployment for fresh job seekers but of those who are employed already. Here again, let us not discuss about the white-collared employments where pink-slips are issued in the name of downsizing or rightsizing. Let us discuss about those who lost their jobs in the unorganized sector – real estate (labors in construction) etc., this is fully attributed to the severe economic crisis that has plagued us now.

Who is responsible for the crisis to grow faster and eat us away? It is none other than the present government. Had they acted proactively, there could have been improvements. Forget about alternate measures not even a damage control exercise was carried out. The Government allowed the crisis to have its run (or ruin) and die on its own.

National security: The entire world is aware of the fact that India is a very soft target. Courtesy, its undecided, unclear diplomacy, India has been a victim of cross-border terrorism since the early 1980s. However, the past 5 years were the most agonizing period.

Forget about attacks from outside, people have started attacking us from inside with support from outside. Month after month, bomb blasts ripped our cities killing thousands of innocent lives. Our Home minister was busy changing suits and issuing statements after statements. To expect anything more than that was the fault of the person.

Adding insult to injury is that this Minister, who was rejected by the people in elections, owed his post to the loyalty he expressed towards the family went on record with his statement, “How can we hang Afzal Guru when we are demanding Sarabjit’s release?” What a shame? The minister is not even aware that Afzal Guru is an Indian, convicted by the courts of India and still the Govt lacked the guts to hang him whereas Sarabjit is a foreigner in Pakistan and his case is a case of mistaken identity.

The totally incompetent minister was allowed to be at the helm of affairs for almost entire tenure of this government thus providing all sorts of ammunition to the enemies of our country. As the election approached and the 26/11 bomber rocked this Government from their slumber, it had to do an “eye-wash” exercise by removing him and bringing in another.

Once it was found that personnel of one particular community are behind the successive blasts, the Government floated another theory of “Hindu-terrorism” just to polarize people on the lines of religion. Islamic or Hindu terrorism, this Government failed miserable in tackling terrorism. They failed to realize that as long as terrorism is viewed with the lens of religion, forget about combating the cant even face it.

In the name of secularism and appeasement to Muslims, the first thing this Government did was to repeal the POTA. Was POTA anti-muslim law? If so, who said so or who projected it so? When congress ruled state had similar law why such laws were not allowed to practice in states ruled by BJP? What do they wanted to prove? What’s wrong in saying this act as an act of perverse mind?

Corruption: Mr. Manmohan Singh may be personally Mr. Clean but he aided all practices of corruption in his tenure. He allowed the misuse of institutions. The glaring one being allowing Ottavio Quattrocchi, the prime accused in Bofors Scandal to go scot-free. The other one being sending official letters to extend favors (out of the way) to a company that never existed but owned by the relatives of Union Minister Mr. TR Baalu. Adding insult to injury was, Baalu opened asked, “Whats wrong in it” in the Parliament and our Prime Minister supported his argument making it obvious the PMO has been extending favors. The third one is the “Cash for Votes” scam. Every time the Congress was in a minority they flexed all their muscles and tried to retain in power by all means. When Dayanidi Maran was forced out of the cabinet, his colleague Raja blamed Maran of corruption practices in the ministry. What happened to those complaints? Why no actions were taken on those complaints? Let us not discuss about the 6% commission charges paid on buying ammunition from Israel.

To fool public they projected a clean image Prime Minister but this puppet is maneuvered to do all the corrupt practices by misusing the office.

IMDT: This is the biggest joke of this Government. After Indira Gandhi manipulated with words and made this law sting-less just for allowing Bangladeshi infiltrators to invade India (for the sake of votes and numbers in Parliament), this Government went over board by doing nothing on it. In fact the Supreme Fact slapped the Union Government and described this as “External aggression” and the Government promised the Court that they will look into. All they did is to form a panel and do nothing else. Bangladeshis are invading India, getting Indian citizenship and stealing ourselves from our home land. This infiltration what started with Assam had now spread to West Bengal, Maharashtra and other states too. This Government is not even bothered about the report presented to it by the former IB chief (present Governor of UP) that this infiltration would lead to another partition of India in north-east.

Expenses: Our beloved Prime Minister advised all of us to adapt austere measurements and pruning of expenses considering the deteriorating economic situation. However, they could not do with their jumbo cabinet. When the economic situation brought the nation to severe crisis, they spent around Rs 300 crores of public money on advertisements in Print Media only. The advertisement by others means would run into another few hundreds of crores.

This Government rewarded the dishonesty – they waived off loan amounts taken from the co-operative banks for farmers. All of us are aware that cooperative banks are in the hands of politicians and who would have got benefited from it. The honest payers did not get any incentive let alone reprieve. This is how this Government rewarded honesty. How can we expect them to give us a corruption-free government?

The functioning of Indian government organizations is well known to one and all. It is the utmost illustration of how not to function an office! With the sixth pay commission recommendations being implemented, there is no word on the accountability of the workers in this sect. The Government has not even thought of it.

As the expenses soared high, the Government kept on borrowing money from RBI (went on printing currency to the tune of Rs 60000 crore). Where it will lead is known only to the economists as I am not an expert in this field.

Infra structure: While this Government is well known for christening all their projects with their first family names, they have not even considered a re-look into the projects initiated by the NDA Government though it meant well for the country. The Golden Quadrilateral project that completed almost 81% of the task for that period had now only completed 51% of the period in these 5 years. However, our PM promises a Shangai out of Mumbai and the cramped roads are an eyesore!

Nuclear Deal: Though delayed, It was indeed a good step taken by this Government. Still we could have done better. Now the deal is hanging on signing the pact with IAEA.

There are several others that need to be attended but this Government preferred to sleep.