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Congress Undemocratic Ideology - 3 - Shambhu - 01-24-2008

<span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>Pseudo secularism - Congress and Commie style</span>
V Sundaram
1/17/2008 5:08:49 PM

If you are capable of guaranteeing a 24- hour "No Questions Asked Servility’ to Sonia Gandhi with fear, nervousness and reverence and if you are capable of bumptious and sanctimonious humbug on every sensitive political issue at her supremely dictatorial bidding from time to time, then you qualify yourself to be a Union Cabinet Minister in Sonia’s surrogate government in New Delhi. Judged by this internationally known secular yardstick, Priya Ranjan Das Munshi, Union Minister for Information (Insinuation!) and Broadcasting (Blustering) is the most outstanding Central Minister in the minority non-functional government of India.

Playing the cheap and crude Congress politics of "anti-national secularism’ three days ago, he said that “Taslima Nasreen should apologise for hurting the sentiments of the Muslims. Ours is a pluralistic country, where every religion is given equal respect. I have nothing against her writing but that does not mean that she can use her pen to insult and offend the religious beliefs of Muslims or any other community for that matter. If Nasreen wanted to stay in India or any country, she had to respect the philosophy and identity of that country. I have nothing against her writings but that does mot mean that she can offend the religions beliefs of Muslims or any other community for that matter.”

Priya Ranjan Das Munshi went even further and demanded that Nasreen apologise with folded hands and tender an unqualified apology to the Muslims of India whose sentiments she has hurt and expunge those pages from her book.

The Information and Broadcasting Minister recalled that when Salman Rushdie’s book The Satanic Verses had sparked off a controversy, it was banned in India. "She cannot be an exception,’ he added.

Making a similar statement in Parliament in December, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee had also pointed out that the controversial Bangladeshi writer should behave like a guest and should desist from doing anything which will hurt the sentiments of a group or community in the country.

Thus Priya Ranjan Das Munshi wants that Taslima should bow down before the Muslims and apologise with folded hands for hurting their religious sentiments. While appreciating his sensitive concerns for the feelings of Muslims in India, I would like to ask him as to why he has not shown the same political courage to demand an apology from the known anti-Hindu DMK president Karunanidhi for having deliberately hurt the time-honoured feelings of millions and millions of Hindus in India and abroad by asking these questions: "Where did Lord Rama get his Engineering Degree from? What are his qualifications? Is he not a drunkard?’

Priya Ranjan Das Munshi has no respect for the law in so far the Hindus of India in majority are concerned. That is why he has not cared to take note of the brutal cultural attack of Karunanidhi on the sentiments of the devotees of Lord Rama. By insulting Lord Rama in his official capacity as Chief Minister of Tamilnadu, he has violated Section 295A of the Indian Penal Code which states "Deliberate or malicious acts indented to outrage the religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs’. Will Priya Ranjan Das Munshi dare to demand an apology from Karunanidhi for having blatantly injured the religious feelings of the Hindus in India?

Why has Priya Ranjan Das Munshi forgotten the fact that it is the Congress party and it is his own government which deliberately hurt the feelings of the Hindu majority by insulting Lord Rama, Ramayana and Rama Sethu, in both Houses of Parliament and the Supreme Court? Why did not the Union Cabinet apologise with folded hands to the Hindus of India? Does Priya Ranjan Das Munshi have the political guts to demand an apology from his "Know Nothing’ Prime Minister for having allowed the Union Minister for Culture Ambika Soni to file the objectionable "anti-Hindu and anti-Rama’ affidavit in the Supreme Court of India?

To quote Mr. B R Haran in this context: "Ok. Priya Ranjan Das Munshi need not demand apologies from his bosses Sonia or Manmohan. Will he, at least, dare to demand an apology from those two sworn enemies of Lord Rama - Ambika Soni and T R Balu? Does he mean to say that the religious sentiments of majority Hindu community could be hurt with Congress impunity and impudence, but not so the sentiments of Muslim minorities? This "POLITICS OF APOLOGY’ is unpardonable!

Priya Ranjan Das Munshi, with a pseudo-secular bravado, has referred to the example of government ban on The Satanic Verses of Salman Rushdie.

In this context, I would like invite his attention to the famous "Quran Petition’ which was filed in the Kolkata High Court in 1985. Three heroic sons of India, namely Chandmal Chopra, advocate of Calcutta High Court, Hamangshu Kumar Chakraborthy and Sital Singh filed an application in the Calcutta High Court under Article 226 of the Constitution of India on 29 March, 1985, praying for a writ of Mandamus directing the State of West Bengal to declare each copy of the Quran, whether in the original Arabic or in its translation in any of the languages, as forfeited to the government In their petition they had stated, among other things, the following reasons for moving the above petition:

"In terms of Section 95 Cr PC read with Sections 153A and 295A IPC every copy of a book is liable to be forfeited to the government if the book contains words or sayings which promote, on ground of religion, disharmony, enmity, hatred or ill-will between different religious communities or which outrage the religious feelings of any class of citizens of India or insult the religion or religious beliefs of that class of people. This is so whether the book is classic or epic, religious or temporal, old or new.’

"For example, the Quran incites violence by saying, "Believers! make war on the infidels who dwell around you. Let them find harshness in you’ (Surah 9: ayat 123) or by saying, "Do not yield to the unbelievers, but fight them strenuously with this Koran’ (Surah 25: ayat 52) or by saying, "If you do not fight He will punish you sternly and replace you by other men’ (Surah 9: ayat 39) or by saying, "When the sacred months are over, slay the idol-worshippers, wherever you find them. Arrest them, besiege them and lie in ambush everywhere for them’ (Surah 9: ayat 5)”.

The judgment in this case was delivered by Justice Bimal Chandra Basak of the Calcutta High Court on 17 May 1985. He dismissed the petition on this ground: "Quran is of divine origin and that the Quran has no earthly source, based as it is not on any evidence but on mere religious beliefs.’ If that is so, in respect of Quran, how can the Supreme Court of India and the several High Courts demand a scientific proof regarding existence of Lord Rama and Rama Sethu from those Hindu organisations that have approached them for a similar direction?

Both the Congress and the Communists (whether in West Bengal or in Kerala) believe in the pseudo-secular philosophy of meekly surrendering to the violence of minorities and more especially to that of Islamic terrorists. When the Muslims resorted to violence on the streets of Kolkata recently, the Marxist government collapsed like a pack of cards and took action to immediately despatch Taslima Nasrin to Rajasthan in order to placate the Muslims of India.

I can give similar instances of Congress political surrender to the blackmailing of Muslims of India right from the days of Khilafat Movement in 1921. Mahatma Gandhi began this policy of MUSLIM APPEASEMENT IN INDIA with Priya Ranjan Das Munshi and Pranab Mukherjee following this tradition.

V Sundaram, IAS, Retd.
http://pseudosecularism.blogspot.com/2008/...and-commie.html

Congress Undemocratic Ideology - 3 - Shambhu - 01-24-2008

Someone pressured Madam and Moron to come up with a aid package for the poor Kashmiri Pandits it seems. So against their best judgement, our seculars are going to give the Pandits aid.

But to balance it...you guessed:


<span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>Now, dole for jihadis' kin </span>
Pioneer News Service | New Delhi

The Centre has decided to provide a relief package to the dependents of militants killed in encounters with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir.

The decision, which is first of its kind in India, will cover hundreds of families whose men took up guns and led the Pakistan-backed separatist movement killing and maiming thousands of innocent civilians and men of security forces.

According to a PTI report, besides a relief package for the dependents of the militants, the Government will also come out with an aid package for the Kashmir pandits.

The twin measures were finalised at a meeting convened by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to evolve a "blueprint for a new future" in Jammu and Kashmir.

The agency quoting official sources said the high-level meeting also firmed up steps for easing travel between the two parts of Kashmir and decided to take up the matter with Pakistan at the earliest.

Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and National Security Advisor MK Narayanan were present at the meeting.

The package would be in place soon after holding consultations with other Central Ministries, including Finance Ministry, sources said.

With 2008 being the election year in militancy-hit Jammu and Kashmir, an announcement of people-friendly packages is likely to be made by the Prime Minister at a later date when he is likely to travel to the border State.

Manmohan Singh reviewed the recommendations of the Standing Committee and a Monitoring Mechanism set up after the third round table on Kashmir last year for ensuring implementation of suggestions made by the working groups on Kashmir.

The Prime Minister, while setting up the two committees last year, had said that his Government was keenly working for a "blueprint for new future" for the State.

The meeting favoured increased cross-LoC movement of people and goods and said consultations with Pakistan should be held for easing the travel of people from Jammu and Kashmir.

The Prime Minister asked the officials in the militancy-hit State to reduce the amount of time taken in clearing passengers for across LoC bus travel, they said.

During the meeting, it was decided to take up the issues of promoting pilgrim tourism in either parts of Kashmir, no travel permit requirement for senior citizens and increase goods exchange with Pakistan, they said.

The important issue to resolve the problems of refugees from Pakistan, who migrated to Jammu and Kashmir in 1947, in a time-bound manner was also taken up during the meeting and all concerned Ministries were asked to make a speedy assessment before a package is finalised for them as well, sources said.

The State Chief Minister has been raising the voice for providing financial relief to the kin of militants killed in police encounters, reasoning that it was not the fault of widows and orphans if their bread-earners had taken to gun.
http://www.dailypioneer.com/indexn12.asp?m...t&counter_img=1

So mujahideen wannabees, go ahead and fight the Indian Infidels..if you die, our Moron will take care of your families..

Congress Undemocratic Ideology - 3 - Guest - 01-25-2008

This is a shining example of India's "<b>Maha Murakh Prime Minister</b>". <!--emo&Big Grin--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->

Kashmiri Pandit go to hell that is the message from Jihad supporting Islamist Indian Government.

Congress Undemocratic Ideology - 3 - ramana - 01-25-2008

Editorial in Pioneer, Jan 24, 2008

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The Pioneer Edit Desk
Indians to foot the bill

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh does not cease to amaze even the most cynical of his critics. <b>Mr Singh's decision to reward the families of jihadis killed by security forces in Jammu & Kashmir is the latest manifestation of his 'Muslims first' policy of appeasing fanatics while debasing the Indian state.</b> During a visit to Jammu & Kashmir last year, he had admonished jawans and officers, who have been keeping separatists at bay by paying a terrible price in terms of loss to life and limb, and sternly told them that he would not tolerate "human rights abuses". Such touching concern for 'human rights', of course, has never been expressed by Mr Singh when innocent men, women and children are butchered by those for whom his heart bleeds so profusely. jihadis are ruthless and rabid; they owe allegiance to groups that promote mass murder in the name of Islam; they are often trained and armed by Pakistan's ISI; they are inspired by the fetid ideology preached by madmen like Osama bin Laden and his psychopathic admirers, among them Maulana Masood Azhar; they have nothing but contempt for secular, democratic India; and, they repudiate everything that this nation stands for. Death is their just desserts. <b>To reward their families, therefore, makes no sense, unless the Prime Minister wants to send out the message that it pays to wage jihad against India.</b> This may fetch him popularity among jihadis -- now there is added incentive for them to indulge in their cruelty apart from the promised pleasures of heaven -- but it can only repulse those who do not subscribe to their warped faith and see no merit, religious or otherwise, in the slaughter of innocent people.

Contrary to what the Prime Minister has claimed, this largesse for the families of jihadis is not about creating a "new future in Jammu & Kashmir". <b>It is about pandering to those elements in Kashmiri society who shamelessly flaunt their support for Pakistan and rejoice every time our security forces suffer loss of lives or Hindus are killed. Since the promised reward comes in an election year, it is also an attempt to garner Muslim votes, although, as this newspaper has stressed more than once, appeasing jihadis and fanatics in the guise of 'Muslim welfare' is grossly unfair to India's Muslims because an overwhelming majority of them have nothing to do with those who rob the Prime Minister of his sleep.</b> What makes Mr Singh's decision particularly loathsome is the official neglect and apathy that have reduced lakhs of Kashmiri Pandits, forced to flee their homes in Kashmir Valley by those whom he now wishes to reward, to penury and worse in their own country. Last year the Prime Minister decided, against the advice of the Army, to pull out troops from their billets and camps in Kashmir Valley just because the separatists wanted it so. As if that were not bad enough, he now wants to 'compensate' the deaths of those waging war against India. <b>What's next on Mr Singh's agenda? To reward criminals who die in police encounters? That would be a logical extension of his appalling 'new future' doctrine. </b>This decision has to be rescinded; the Government of India cannot be held hostage to the remarkable proclivities of someone who has clearly lost sight of what is good for the nation. <b>The public exchequer is not meant for underwriting an accidental Prime Minister's outrageous policies.</b> Much as Mr Singh may find this difficult to believe, India is not Tughlaq raj.

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Congress Undemocratic Ideology - 3 - Guest - 01-25-2008

Offstumped blog lays it on Goa Governor.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Offstumped Bottomline: Mr. Jamir your many sins in Goa will eventually catch up with you. Have you sir no shame, no conviction, no self respect whatsoever. If you have any respect for the people of Goa you will bring to end the constitutional fraud you have been perpetrating on them forthwith by resigning.

This is a litmus test for the Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. If they want the Congress’ commitment to Constitution and Federalism to be taken seriously they must give Jamir the boot asap.
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Jamir’s many sins

I think Offstumped at one point was a IF member.

Congress Undemocratic Ideology - 3 - ramana - 01-25-2008

He has no zamir.

Congress Undemocratic Ideology - 3 - Bodhi - 01-25-2008

Government of India declares awardee list for state awards 2007.

NDTV and CNN IBN Paid back in Kind by Congress:

<span style='color:red'>Padma Sri: Barkha Dutt, Rajdeep Dilip Sardesai, Vinod Dua</span>

why Pankaj Vohra and Yogendra Yadav left out? Maybe next year.

Padma Vibhushan awardees include: chamchadhiraaj <span style='color:red'>Lord Meghnad Desai</span> and <span style='color:red'>Pranab Mukherjee</span>

Must be for the first time <b>I think</b> when a sitting Cabinet Minister gets such state awards.

http://news.in.msn.com/national/article.as...umentid=1207561

Congress Undemocratic Ideology - 3 - Guest - 01-26-2008

Now we know, how bogus are these awards, every sleeper licker of Queen had received award.
Carrot was given to Pranab just to avoid coup.
Did Sonia's sweeper received and Padma Vibushan?
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->why Pankaj Vohra and Yogendra Yadav left out? Maybe next year.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->They have to do licking job for another one year before Queen will find replacement.

Congress Undemocratic Ideology - 3 - ramana - 01-26-2008

Also note SS Menon and the nuke deal negotiating team didnt get wnything. Could mean its toast.

Congress Undemocratic Ideology - 3 - Guest - 01-26-2008

Why they had ignored regional media? Why only from Delhi?
So many international commie are on list.
Why Mushy and Bhutto are unable to make list?

Congress Undemocratic Ideology - 3 - ramana - 01-26-2008

Link:

The Emperor's New Dhoti

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>The Emperor`s new dhoti </b>
T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan / New Delhi January 26, 2008
<b>Not content with mere nip-and-tuck jobs, the Indian Constitution has been amended 104 times. T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan distinguishes the necessary from the repugnant in this special report  </b>
 
In a couple of years from today, India will celebrate 60 years of its Constitution. During that period, the poor dear would have undergone a facelift at least 104 times, which is the current tally of the amendments. 
 
<b>The 104th amendment, by the way, is a rather cheap political ploy</b>, adopted with an eye on votes rather than a clear public purpose. It makes it compulsory for private educational institutions to reserve seats for specific categories such as Dalits, scheduled tribes and other backward castes. 
 
<b>The 103rd amendment, in a similar exhibition of low cunning</b>, has conjured up the notion of a state-wise, rather than a national, minority status for groups of population. 
 
Not all of the amendments have such dubious origins, though.<b> A completely new schedule, the 10th one, was inserted in 1986. It seeks to prevent defections by politicians.</b> It became necessary to ensure that our honourable legislators would not change boats mid-stream, a practice that had assumed pandemic proportions in the two preceding decades, creating political instability and causing moral mayhem. 
 
Then there is <b>the 74th amendment which created a third, village level tier of government.</b> There are many other such amendments — indeed they are the majority — whose purpose was entirely bona fide and which were made in order to make a positive change consistent with the Constitution. 
 
<b>But on nearly two dozen occasions low politics has produced an amendment. Thus, in 1976 India was turned, Constitutionally, into a “socialist” republic. A couple of years later, a supposedly liberal government de-recognised the right to private property. </b>
 
The utter and complete mindlessness of these amendments was matched only by<b> the diabolic 38th amendment that said “Notwithstanding anything in this Constitution, the satisfaction of the President mentioned in clause (1) shall be final and conclusive and shall not be questioned in any court on any ground” (italics added).</b> 
 
Then there was <b>the amendment that made it binding on the President (or Governor) to accept the Cabinet’s advice, not to mention the aborted one that sought to place Indira Gandhi above the law. The Ninth Schedule ensures that some executive actions will not be open to judicial review.</b> 
 
But early last year, the Supreme Court struck this down on the ground that anything that violates fundamental rights resulting in the violation of the basic features of the Constitution has to be open to judicial review. 
 
Those aberrations aside, for purely practical reasons, new states have been formed. New languages have been Constitutionally recognised. Taxation powers, under a darling little provision called Entry 97 which gives the Centre the power to legislate on anything that is not contained in the state or concurrent lists, have been enlarged. 
 
<b>The result is that services can now be taxed. This is what has brought the bloom in the finance minister’s cheeks.</b> All sorts of changes have also been made to the state and concurrent lists, mostly as enabling amendments to get something positive done. 
 
<b>This implies that the original was impractical, in so far as it didn’t meet the needs of a poor and democratic country. The reason why this was so is not very well known, largely because we have adopted the American “Founding Fathers” pretension. </b>
 
According to this vanity, the Founding Fathers were all knowing and wise beyond question. The truth is very different and has been told by several constitutional experts such as H M Seervai. 
 
<b>The truth that we need to face up to is that for the most part the Constitution of 1950 was a more-or-less verbatim reproduction of the Government of India Act of 1935. The Fundamental Rights and the Directive Principles were added, and there was some tinkering here and there.</b> 
 
But <b>in its essence, it was an imperial Constitution, designed to keep India unified and the power of the Central government unquestioned and unquestionable. So what we got was a Constitution that protected a strong Centre with a large number of mai-baap knobs on it.</b> 
 
But <b>as the years have gone by and the threat to Indian unity and integrity has receded, many of the strong-Centre features have become roadblocks. Several of the amendments reflect the attempt to get a more practical and genuinely federal Constitution working. The 74th amendment is possibly the best intentioned of those attempts.</b> 
 
<b>The design defects of an imperial constitution became apparent in other ways as well. The peoples’ will and the political need in a democracy to deal with inequality and inequity were not something the Government of India Act of 1935 had taken into account. </b>
 
And nowhere was this dilemma more starkly on display than during the 1960s debates on “social” banking. There were several other instances as well where the government wanted to move on but could not because the Constitution needed to be amended first. 
 
When disputes arose and the Supreme Court had to intervene, the dilemmas became even starker. As one Chief Justice of India put it, the Court had to implement the law as it was and if the government wanted change, it would have to change the law first. 
 
Several of the amendments, including the First Amendment (see box), were the result of this. <b>The problem, of course, was that sometimes, as in the First Amendment, the government would slip in something that was not warranted.</b> 
 
In Britain this practice was known as tacking. A particularly good example of such tacking was the provision regarding reasonable restrictions on the freedom of speech to ensure a ragtag bag of things. One of the clauses read: 
 
“Nothing in sub-clause (a) of clause (1) shall… prevent the State from making any law, in so far as such law imposes reasonable restrictions on the exercise of the right conferred by the said sub-clause in the interests of the security of the State, friendly relations with foreign States, public order, decency or morality, or in relation to contempt of court, defamation or incitement to an offence…” 
 
Friendly relations with foreign states? Now how did that get in? What purpose has it served? 
 
Another feature regarding the propensity to amend is that in the beginning, Constitutional amendments did not have a predominantly political motive. This was because the central leadership was very mindful of morality and propriety. 
 
<b>But all this began to change in the late 1960s when the Congress began to lose its pre-eminent position and also acquired a singularly cynical person — Indira Gandhi — to lead it. It is no coincidence that Constitutional amendments after 1969 have generated more moral controversies — privy purses, Golak Nath, Kesava Nand Bharati, to name just three of the better known cases — than the ones before she took over. </b>
 
The numbers tell their own story. <b>Until 1969, the book had been amended 21 times; since then it has been amended 83 times. Of those 38 years, the Congress has been in power for 26. In the remaining 12 non-Congress years the Constitution was amended 20 times, of which 16 times was when the BJP was ruling between 1998 and 2004.</b> 
 
<b>Of the 63 amendments when the Congress ruled, at least 15 have been for highly questionable reasons.</b> The first two non-Congress amendments were to undo the damage of the amendments made during the Emergency. 
 
<b>The point has been made that such a large number of amendments has, for all practical purposes, left us with a Constitution that bears little resemblance to the one that the Constituent Assembly adopted in 1950. </b>
 
The thing has become like those upgraded 386 computers where only the box is original. <b>The polite terms for these developments are flexibility, evolution, pragmatism et cetera. But the much more evocative Indian word — jugaad — perhaps describes it far more effectively.</b> 
 
But wisecracks apart, the real issue is not whether the Constitution we have today is different from the one we were given in 1950. The real issue is whether without the upgrades the thing would have worked as needed, and whether after the upgrades it is working as needed.
 
Unfortunately, there can never be any agreement on the second question, for both sides of the coin can be argued with equal conviction and validity. For example, many amendments have been mala fide. 
 
<b>Amendments after 1975, made by the Congress party either in its quest to maintain the Gandhi family in power, or at least not discomfit it before the law — as in the case of the amendment that tried to put Indira Gandhi above the law and the office of profit Bill to protect Sonia Gandhi in the office of profit controversy — are examples of this. More recently, as stated at the beginning, the Constitution has been amended to woo vote banks.</b> 
 
In a nutshell, then, yes, we do have a Constitution that is very different from the 1950 one. But that does not mean that all the amendments have been for the worse or were not needed. Indeed, barring around 10 amendments that could be called morally repugnant, the rest have been the product of necessity.

Countdown
Reasons stated for the Constitution (First Amendment) Act, 1951, by Jawaharlal Nehru - relevant excerpts:

…The citizen’s right to freedom of speech and expression guaranteed by article 19(1)(a) has been held by some courts to be so comprehensive as not to render a person culpable even if he advocates murder and other crimes of violence.

In other countries with written constitutions, freedom of speech and of the press is not regarded as debarring the State from punishing or preventing abuse of this freedom.

The citizen’s right to practise any profession or to carry on any occupation, trade or business conferred by article 19(1)(g) is subject to reasonable restrictions which the laws of the State may impose “in the interests of general public”.

While the words cited are comprehensive enough to cover any scheme of nationalisation which the State may undertake, it is desirable to place the matter beyond doubt by a clarificatory addition to article 19(6

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Congress Undemocratic Ideology - 3 - Guest - 01-26-2008

Title should be "The Emperor's New Achkan"

Congress Undemocratic Ideology - 3 - Shambhu - 01-26-2008

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By R. Balashankar, Organiser

This Organiser Special on Republic Day is dedicated to national unity.

The idea is to fight communalism. The UPA Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has communalised the polity with his cynical Muslim first plank. He introduced an obnoxious 15-point programme for Muslims and reserved 15 per cent of the 11th Plan Fund for minorities along with religion-specific banking, budgeting and education.

In the following pages our expert analysts will show how the UPA plan divides and discriminates the people of this country and how the initiatives the ruling conglomerate has undertaken are akin to the 14-point demands of the pre-1947 Muslim League.

We want to forewarn the nation through this exercise how in the guise of secularism the national government has become a tool in the hands of destructive and divisive elements and how it has acquired an unprecedented anti-Hindu agenda.

Secularism, to begin with, was a positive, almost indulgent rhetoric under Jawaharlal Nehru; understandable in the aftermath of Partition for which the League and its supporters in India were responsible. Under Indira Gandhi it became vote bank politics. Rajiv Gandhi and his successors made it appeasement. Under the UPA, secularism is interpreted as brazenly anti-Hindu to the extent of denigrating Hindu ideals becoming state policy.

In one of the most significant books written on minority problem in India, Indian Muslims: Where Have They Gone Wrong?, Dr. Rafiq Zakaria says, “The British got, naturally, worried and they did whatever they could to disrupt that (Hindu-Muslim) unity. They engineered riots, they played politics by giving separate electorate to the Muslims, they devised various methods both political and social—to keep the two communities apart. They dangled grants and concessions alternately to both the religious groups. Ultimately they saw to it that the country was divided, through the distrust that they had so assiduously built up between the two over the decades. To perpetuate their rule, they followed the Roman policy of ‘Divide and Rule’. But as Maulana Mohammad Ali rightly put it: ‘We divided and they ruled.’ The blame rests as much on our joint leadership as on the British; however in the last stage it was Jinnah’s obduracy which struck the final blow to our unity.”

The UPA under Sonia Gandhi is playing the role of the British, to divide and rule.

The historic parallels are strikingly similiar and ominous. Take this instance, “Before he opted for Pakistan, Muslim League leader (Shaheed) Suhrawardy had decided to stay in India and lead the Bengal Muslims in India. His letter to (Chaudhary) Khaliquzzaman on September 10, 1947, was eloquent and made interesting reading. He was faced with the dilemma that unless Muslims derived their strength on account of group solidarity they would not be respected by the Hindus. At the same time solidarity and strength would raise suspicion about their bona fides. Hence he suggested formation of strong Muslim pockets dotted all over the country. His other alternative that both India and Pakistan should strive to destroy the complex of superiority of their majority populations and they should accept their minorities as their own was a cry in the wilderness so far as Pakistan was concerned.” (Islam: In India’s Transition to Modernity by M.A. Karandikar, Page 276-77)

Manmohan Singh seems to have entirely adopted Suhrawardy’s advice in the last four years as Prime Minister.

The central government has identified 90 districts in the country as minority concentrated for special development plans. An intriguing aspect of this idea is that known Muslim-majority districts say in UP, Assam, West Bengal, J&K or Kerala are not included in the select 90 list. It is said that altogether the Congress is thus focusing on nearly 250 Lok Sabha constituencies for doling out excessive privileges and central funds so as to develop them as captive pocket boroughs. This may or may not work but the damage to the national fabric is intrinsic.

In a similar instance, the centre has a plan to make minority students reap benefits of dual scholarships which is not normally allowed in the case of non-Muslim students. According to a plan announced by the UPA in December 2007 Muslim students can avail scholarships simultaneously from the Ministry of Minority Affairs and the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment. This is under a 15-point programme of the Prime Minister meant only for Muslims.

The Minority Affairs Ministry will distribute Rs 100 crore annually for scholarships for Muslim students. This will run parallel to the initiatives of other ministries targeted for the Muslims under the PM’s new programme. The result is, the same set of people getting pampered through numerous sources. A report said that 3,200 students will get this benefit in the current academic year. The UPA followed it up with reservations in educational institutions and recruitment. It made an unsuccessful attempt to divide the Indian Army on communal lines. All this is supposedly to empower the Muslims.

The UPA asked the banks and other financial institutions to have special provisions for interest-free loans for Muslims along with a package for 15 lakh special scholarships for Muslim students. The Prime Minister has announced another programme to offer free coaching for Muslim students preparing for the competitive examinations, for which parents cough up lakhs. In the centrally funded Aligarh and Jamia Milia Universities almost the entire seats and jobs are reserved for this community.

Through a Constitution amendment, the UPA reserved majority seats in all the non-aided educational institutions for the minority communities setting them free from giving reservation quota for the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. But this benefit is not available to Hindu-run self-financing institutions. This is a blatant discrimination that will make these institutions financially unviable and covertly promote religious conversions.

Under the UPA, Muslims need not follow any rule that is compulsory for other citizens. They need not sing Saraswati Vandana or Vande Mataram though there is nothing religious about it. There is no need to salute the national flag or sing the national anthem. They need not register marriages. In the event of terror attacks—nearly 6,000 people have been killed in the last four years—there will be no combing operations in Muslim localities. Not a single terror attack has been solved during this period.

And now comes the permanent scourge in the form of communal budgeting and plan allocation. All these are over and above the existing schemes in the Departments of Social Welfare, Education etc. for promotion of madrasas, Urdu, and reservation in various ministries for removing backwardness. The UPA has also created a separate ministry for minorities, now presided over by A.R. Antulay, a crude practitioner of minority politics. During the four-year UPA rule, the Haj subsidy has grown 200 times! The Muslims’ “right first to the national resources”, as Manmohan Singh coined his absurdly ruinous idea, has become the only existential agenda of this government. Should the majority Hindus take this nonsense in stoic silence? Should not we get up and stop this outrage on national security? This is worse than the regenerate Wahabism introduced by Mahathir in Malaysia.

Manmohan Singh has no use for the more enlightened views of Jawaharlal Nehru, who as India’s first Prime Minister laid the foundations of Indian planning.

Calling planning the first attempt in India to integrate agriculture, industrial, social, economic and other aspects of the country into a “single framework of thinking” in his speech on first draft five-year plan, Nehru said, “It has made people think of this country as whole. I think it is most essential that India, which is united politically and in many other ways, should, to the same extent, be united mentally and emotionally also. We often go off at a tangent on grounds of provincialism, communalism, religion or caste. We have no emotional awareness of the unity of the country. Planning will help us in having an emotional awareness of our problems as a whole. It will help us to see the isolated problems in villages or districts or even provinces in their larger context. Therefore, the mere act of planning, the mere act of having approached the question of progress in this way and of producing a report of this type is something on which we might, I think, congratulate ourselves.”

Again, in a speech Laying the Foundations (Broadcast from the Delhi Station of All India Radio, December 31, 1952), Nehru after a visit to Kanyakumari said, “From that southern tip of India, I pictured this great country spread out before me right up to the Himalayas in the north and thought of her long and chequered story. Ours is a wonderful inheritance but how shall we keep it? How shall we serve the country which has given us so much and make her great and strong?…”

“We look at our own country and find both good and ill, powerful forces at work to build her and also forces, which would disrupt and disintegrate her. We cannot do much to affect the destiny of this world as a whole but surely we can make a brave attempt to mould the destiny of our 360 (then) million people… In India, the first essential is the maintenance of the unity of the country, not merely a political unity but a unity of the mind and the heart, which precludes the narrow urges that make for disunity and which breaks down the barriers raised in the name of religion or those between State and State or, for that matter, any other barrier. We must aim at a classless society,” Nehru said. He added, “Of course, you must plan for everybody. No planning which is not for all is good enough. You must always have that view before you and you must prepare the foundations for the next step towards the final goal. And so, you ultimately start a process which grows by itself.” Economic Democracy (Speech in Parliament, New Delhi, December 15, 1952, Jawaharlal Nehru’s Speeches: 1949-1953, published by The Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India)

I have quoted Nehru on Planning, only to underline how flawed Manmohan Singh’s approach is.

There is an interesting survey taken up by the Left leaning socio-scientific NGO Shastra Sahitya Parishad. Kerala: How it lives, How it thinks, released in December 2006. According to the survey, it is not minority Muslims or Christians but Hindus comprising 54.47 per cent of Kerala’s 3.2 crore population who are at the economic downslide. The survey, by the Marxist NGO, says Hindus in the state form the major chunk of the state’s poor with over 39 lakh living below poverty line. Condition of Hindus is worse than that of Christians and Muslims in employment, land holding and income. And the survey says the condition of so-called forward castes is more pathetic than that of the backward caste Hindus.

In March 2007, the CPM released a Charter of Demands for the Advancement of Muslim Community. A dangerous document reminiscent of the Muslim League demands under Mohammad Ali Jinnah. Apart from focusing on a communal quota for Dalit Muslims—a term that violates the basic tenet of Islam, which professes equality of all members of the faith—the charter demands introducing a sub-plan only for Muslims for allocating separate development funds on communal lines. The party was not satisfied with the 2007-08 budget allocation of Rs. 500 crore for Muslim welfare. The wholesale adoption of the Sachar report by the CPM appears ridiculous considering the abysmal record of the party in Kerala and West Bengal in the social uplift of the Muslim community, as underlined in the report. But the CPM’s Muslim courtship in Kerala is so brazen that it has left the Muslim League way behind in communal appeal. The Muslim League is being asked to prove its pro-Muslim character by more zealous outfits ensconced under the CPM perch.

Encouraged by the indulgence of the UPA, Muslim outfits organised a procession in the capital in March 2007 demanding state-wise quotas in proportion to their population. Almost all the known Muslim organisations came on one platform to seek full implementation of religion-based reservation in jobs, education and growth fund allocation all over the country. The UPA and the Sachar report have clearly uncorked the jinn of pre-Partition communal virus.

The UPA has cynically injected a vicious brand of communalism in the Indian polity with the hope that en bloc Muslim votes will permanently become its captive preserve. The insincerity and dishonesty of this Muslim appeasement is underlined by the poor record of its implementation. On ameliorating the genuine grievances of the Muslims both the Congress and the Communist-ruled states project a dubious record. Similar is the sub-text written by more virulent votaries of vote bank politics like Mulayam Singh and Lalu Prasad Yadav.

On the report of the Sachar Committee, the Prime Minister is again working on reservations based on religion. This is ultra vires and goes against every tenet of the Constitution. The Constitution does not allow this kind of discrimination on caste or religious lines. A constitutionally formed government is duty bound to treat everybody equal on legal and policy issues.

Even by Congress standards Manmohan Singh’s prime ministership has touched a new low. Earlier our prime ministers used to exhort the countrymen to rise above caste, region and religion and be Indians first and everything else afterwards. Here is a Prime Minister who works overtime to violate the letter and spirit of the Constitution to divide and discriminate the countrymen on communal lines. And he, like his party, by no means appears contrite over such dangerous perversion. His government is aggressively working towards a polarisation of votes by pursuing a policy of minorityism, encouraging social tension and disquiet. Had the Congress been really sincere about uplifting the minorities or ameliorating their lot, it would not have resorted to such tactless exhibitionism and poisonous promotion of reactionary ideas.

On the Republic Day, 58 years after India became a secular democratic republic, we are inquiring as to how will this politics of appeasement affect national unity? Will it create contrived and bogus grievances deepening divisions in the society or will it strengthen our sense of oneness and belonging? The politics of appeasement started by the Congress under Mahatma Gandhi in the early 1920s, resulted in the country’s vivisection. The tragic history is not forgotten. The wounds of Partition have not yet fully healed. But the UPA has embarked on a course that mocks at those who talk about national integration. They are not taking a calculated risk. The UPA is schemingly provoking a divide through dubious machinations.

The Planning Commission reports say that at least 26 per cent of India’s

population is living below poverty line. If emancipation of this deprived segment is the priority why talk only of 13 per cent Muslims, all of whom in any case are not below poverty line? As such, learned maulanas of Muslim Personal Law Board have decreed that Muslims cannot take to banking or insurance, polio drops or yoga classes, as these militate against their religious dogmas.

The Sachar Committee claims that only three per cent of Muslim children go to madrasas. The evolutionary volume was an attempt to tell social scientists that the “Missing Muslim” in jobs was not the result of madrasa education. Sachar was trying to emphasise on a chimera of conspiracy against Muslims for their backwardness. At another place the report stated that the condition of Muslims is worse than that of Dalits.

The notorious record of the UPA government is that it sees citizens as communal compartments. By introducing the Sachar Committee and Ranganath Mishra Commission to devise communal quota, by soft-pedaling on terrorist outfits, indulging the Maoists by politicising internal security and Islamising the foreign policy the UPA has created a cantankerous mess of governance. Even its much-hyped Indo-US nuke deal is in doldrums. The UPA gives the impression that it is working on an agenda for national disintegration.

A valuable input in the debate came from Bibek Debroy, a well-known economist. In his column in The Indian Express (June 12, 2007), Debroy made an interesting observation. He said, “A 21st century government should recognise deprivation as an individual issue and defuse collective tension based on caste or religion. Wherever there is an attempt to segregate, mainstreaming never occurs and deprivation becomes permanent. Contrast economic development in special category Articles 370 and 371 states with Goa… Caste and religion are attributes that should remain in the private domain, irrelevant for public policy purposes. What should be relevant for policy is deprivation based on class. Government permitting that is precisely what should have happened…But governments won’t permit and will intervene to encourage this collective caste-cum-religious identity. … It is a mindset that the UPA government has encouraged across the board.”

The National Sample Survey undertook a study and concluded in June last year that jobless rate among Hindus and Muslims is almost equal. The Survey said that the Worker Population Ratio (WPR) for the male in the age group of 15 and above in the educational level in urban India among the Hindus and Muslims was equal at 71 per cent followed by Christians at 64 per cent. Outside the education parameter in urban India, the Survey says, the worker population ratio among the Hindu male was barely three per cent higher than that for the Muslims at 56 per cent. This was 51 per cent for Christians. This data was released by the NSSO under the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation for the year 2004-05. And this has exposed the bluff that far more Muslims were unemployed than the Hindus. If this Survey is any guide then it should be considered a big setback for the advocates of more religion-based reservations as part of the so-called affirmative action. The Survey said that the unemployment rate in urban areas for both the Hindus and the Muslims was the same at four per cent. This Survey revealed that both in urban and rural areas there was only a negligible difference in the literacy rate of the two communities. This revelation explodes the basis of the UPA-sponsored vote bank quota politics and brings us back to what we said in the beginning that deprivation has nothing to do with caste or religion in the present milieu of globalisation, growth and urbanisation. The allegations of rising income and wealth disparities between different castes or religious groups—except for Scheduled Tribes who live in concentrated blocks—has not been proved by any rational survey. But who cares for facts, since politics in India is all about myth making?

The UPA has done nothing to encourage national integration. Its actions are so communally charged that it has refused to give protection to Taslima Nasreen, even after she deleted all the objectionable passages from her book, only to please the perverted fanatics in her community. This might be the first instance in Indian history that the country has turned its back on an asylum-seeker, who was hounded out of her country, who was forced by her own hosts in West Bengal to vacate her second home and has no other place to go. But the UPA protects and felicitates M.F. Husain about whose despicable, blasphemous cartoons Hindus have serious objection.

It seems there is no bottom to the depth to which the UPA can sink in furthering its goal. It has communalised budgeting; it has communalised banking and financial institutions; it tried even to communalise the armed forces. It has vitiated the academia spreading the venom of casteism and communalism and now it is out to destroy the country by identifying districts as Muslim majority and pampering them to promote communal segregation. It is bent on dividing the police force as Hindu, Muslim and Christian, and nobody knows what else remains to be fragmented on communal lines. Some more aggressively lunatic in its ranks have even suggested to introduce a communal quota in the judiciary as well and appoint judges after fixing their religion tag. Is there any guarantee that people who get their position only on their religious identity will behave impartially in their execution of duty? And what will happen to the faith of the citizens in the system and its commitment to delivering justice? What will happen to this country once the people lose all hope of fair play and fair deal under these votaries of fake secularism?

What is the BPL criterion? Those who earn above Rs 12 per day. But what about the lucky above BPL people? According to the report of National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector (NCEUS), 394.9 million workers, i.e. 80 per cent of India’s working population, are in the unorganised sector and 80 per cent of them are among those who live on less than Rs 20 a day. These are real poor and vulnerable, the report says. We quote this statistics to show that poverty has nothing to do with religion. And that politics should be about marrying policies with the people.

A conservative estimate, supported by all empirical data, gives us a statistics of almost 30 to 35 per cent of India’s population living in subhuman conditions. This is not a comforting thought in the 61st year of Independence. And to know that our political class has only archaic, time warped ideas for giving opportunity to the less privileged is a sad commentary.

The UPA as part of its poll-oriented thinking has constituted an equal rights panel to ensure Muslim representation level. How myopic can the ruling class get! In a country with over 35 per cent poor to have an equal rights panel only for the 15 per cent minorities! Does the government have no responsibility to the rest of the population?

If there is any poor, deprived in the country, it is the Hindu. His land was taken away, his homes and temples were looted for centuries, he was made to pay jazia, an oppression tax of slavery, for almost 800 years, for that long the Muslims and for another 150 years Christians ruled this country. How can the ruling class till 1947, become deprived needing special affirmative action? It is only the Hindu who has some claim to a special treatment. And Pakistan was created, after the bloodiest-ever holocaust in history, to pamper the Muslims. Every corner of the country where Hindu is in minority is in the grip of insurgency and terrorism. A convincing Hindu majority is the only guarantee for the territorial integrity of this country. And by artificially identifying 90 Muslim-majority districts is Manmohan Singh trying to lay the foundation for another partition?

The Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh has the gumption to claim that this will not divide the society. It is not entirely surprising, only God knows what more disastrous plans he has in mind to divide the society further, that he thinks all that he has done so far is not enough.

There is no economic or literacy backwardness that is exclusive to one community. Yes, social and religious attitudes can ghettoize a community. For that the state cannot do much. source: http://www.organiser.org/dynamic/modules.p...&pid=221&page=2

1) Promoting many nations @ http://indiasecular.wordpress.com/2008/01/...r-road-to-hell/

2) Sachar’s Bluff@ http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Econom...how/1858719.cms

3) Quota vs. Caste @ http://ia.rediff.com/money/2006/apr/12ram.htm

4) Discrimination @ http://www.organiser.org/dynamic/modules.p...pid=195&page=43

The UPA Communal Award

FACT SHEET, Organiser


This might actually read like a communal manifesto. The measures the government has announced for the minorities, 15 per cent of the country, are a wish list and more. Hospitals, schools, scholarships, improved slums, houses, hard cash and the most elusive of all, employment opportunities under every conceivable scheme of the government. All these are being offered exclusively to the minorities, over and above all the benefits already available to them. And the government is doing a thorough job of a separate growth for them, right from the child’s birth, by setting up anganwadis for “minority” children in thick minority-populated areas so that they would not mix with the children in the neighbourhood.

To begin with the 15-point programme.

Equitable availability of Integrated Child Development Scheme Services. Under this some percentage of anganwadis will be located in heavy minority-populated areas.

Improving access to school education: again a percentage of schools will be located in minority locations.

Greater resources for teaching Urdu: Central assistance for recruitment and posting of Urdu language teachers in primary and upper primary schools in which at least one-fourth belong to that language group.

Modernising madrasa education: Old wine in new bottle. Sachar says only three per cent of Muslims go to madrasas. Then why spend crores for three per cent of 13 per cent?

Scholarships for meritorious students from minority communities. Grossly unfair.

Improving educational infrastructure through the Maulana Azad Education Foundation.

Self-Employment and wage employment for the poor under the government schemes (mainly) Swarnjayanti Gram Swarojgar Yojna, Swarnjayanti Shahary Rozgar Yojna, Sampurna Grameen Rozgar Yojna,

Upgradation of skill through technical training: ITIs to be located in areas predominantly inhabited by minority communities.

Enhanced credit support for economic activities: Not only the national Minorities Development & Finance Corporation helps the minorities, all the banks, government credit agencies and cooperatives to reserve a percentage of their loan disbursal for minorities.

Recruitment to state and central services: The selection commissions to be altered to include mandatory representatives of the minority communities to give “special consideration” to minorities. An exclusive training scheme for minority candidates to prepare them to compete in these services.

Equitable share in rural housing scheme: a share of the rural housing schemes for minorities.

Improvement in condition of slums inhabited by minority communities: Even in slums the government discriminates. It wants to improve the condition of the slums predominantly occupied by minorities only.

Prevention of communal incidents: This is the best example of the government’s communal colour. It wants to post police officials of the highest known efficiency, impartiality and secular record in the areas prone to riots. The rest of the country can do with less honesty and less efficiency.

Prosecution for communal offences: How does punishing the offender in riots come under the minority category is not explained but this is one of the salient points.

Rehabilitation of victims of communal riots: Again, putting routine administrative work of rehabilitating the victims of riots as a promise to minorities. The message is clear. Minorities are the victims, always.

Other than these the government has introduced the following schemes, exclusively for the minorities. In most of the schemes the economic criterion is of income below Rs. 2.5 lakh annually.

Free coaching and allied scheme

This is over and above the combined scheme being implemented from 2001, for SCs/STs/OBCs and minorities under the ministry of social welfare.

Other than the tuition fee to the coaching centres, the students will also get a stipend of up to Rs. 1500.

A separate budget and proposal for monitoring and disseminating the schemes. The government has invited applications from agencies to monitor and report back the progress so as to reach maximum benefit.

Merit-cum-means scholarship
20000 scholarships every year, maintenance allowance of Rs. 10,000 for hostlers and 5000 for day scholars plus the course fee up to Rs. 20,000

Post-matric scholarship:
Students with just 50 per cent marks from the minority community can get this scholarship amount up to Rs. 10,000.

All these schemes and provisions would have been fine if the money came from the party funds of the UPA allies. That it goes from the tax paid by Indians, a category the UPA does not probably recognise any more, is objectionable.

(Compilation and comments by R. Balashankar)

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Congress Undemocratic Ideology - 3 - Guest - 01-26-2008

[center]BJP flays Cong for pressing Centre to delay polls[/center]
Jan 26 2008
Senior BJP leader and former Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa today accused the Congress leaders of pressing the Centre for delaying the Assembly polls.

Talking to reporters here, he alleged that following intelligence reports that the Congress could win only 50 to 60 seats if the elections were held, Congress leaders were afraid to face the elections immediately.

Mr Yeddyurappa said his party would move the court if the elections were delayed by the Centre.

He urged Karnataka Governor Rameshwar Takur to come out with a white paper on the utilisation of budgetary allocations. Mr Yeddyurappa wanted the Governor to take a vote on account for three months and said if the period was more than three months, his party would hold agitations in the State. Replying to a question, he said even now former Minister M P Prakash could join the BJP.

Congress Undemocratic Ideology - 3 - Guest - 01-27-2008

Which One of these Dhimmi minority appeasement in 2007 are you aware of ?
<b>Sachar Recommendations </b>
<b>Prime Minister's 15-point programme for minority welfare </b>
Minority Advertisement during Gujarat Elections
<b>Sonia's Letter to 15,000 Muslim Leaders During UP elections</b>
Karunanidhi reservation for minorities
Communal Budgeting


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Congress Undemocratic Ideology - 3 - Guest - 01-28-2008

<b>Cong Plans rallies to give Rahul a cutting edge</b>
Author: D K Singh
Publication: The Indian Express
Date: January 7, 2008

Young scion of the Nehru-Gandhi family Rahul Gandhi is learnt to be working out a plan to reach out to people, especially the youth, across the Country through public rallies to be organised in different states over the next few months. Dates and places of this mass contact programme were still being worked out, said Congress sources.

Although he held road shows in Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh during Assembly elections, the plan was to organise a series of public meetings across the country to launch him as a 'youth icon', the sources said.

While his road shows in UP had turned out to be a damp squib in terms of electoral dividends, those in Gujarat and Himachal last month also failed to meet expectations in the party. Out of the 14 Assembly constituencies in Gujarat, which was covered by his road shows, the Congress could win only four. In Himachal, the tally read a little better: 2 out of 4. Inducted into the organisation as AICC General Secretary in charge of Youth Congress and NSUI on September 24, Rahul completed 100 days in office on Wednesday. His short tenure has, however, been largely uneventful. He was also missing at the 123rd Foundation Day function of the Indian National Congress on December 28; it was the first after his induction as AICC General Secretary. On the same day results of the Assembly election in Himachal, where Rahul had done some roads hows, were also out. His absence on such crucial occasions has set the tongue wagging in party circles.The Group to Look into Future Challenges, set up by Congress president Sonia Gandhi to act
as a think tank for Rahul, has also remained a mere talk shop. So much so that Rahul chose to skip its third meeting on November 30 even though he was in New Delhi meeting visitors at his official residence.

His initial meetings with IYC and NSUI office-bearers had generated a lot of excitement in party circles as they found him a very receptive listener and somebody "who thinks out of the box". For instance, he played cricket with them after one such meeting. These meetings have failed to produce any results though.

<b>IYC president Ashok Tanwar asserted that Rahul had given a "new direction" to the organisation.</b>

"He has guided us in our membership drive as to how to widen our base, how to connect with new people. He has been holding discussions with everybody to prepare our future strategy, You will soon realise it is a transitional phase in this country's politics. <b>There is no leader in any other party who has the kind of vision Rahulji has," </b>Tanwar told The Indian Express. He, however, refused to go into specifics claiming that he was not authorised to divulge internal matters. IYC and NSUI sources said Rahul's first 100 days in office were "all about meetings and discussions" without any concrete results.

"He is a good listener. <b>He asks us about our ideas. We don't know yet what exactly he wants to do. But, probably, he will come out with his plan soon,</b>" an NSUI office bearer said. <!--emo&Big Grin--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->

Congress Undemocratic Ideology - 3 - Shambhu - 01-28-2008

Little boys should not be given anything sharp. Bad mamma Maino!!

Congress Undemocratic Ideology - 3 - Guest - 01-28-2008

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>EVANGELICAL MISSIONARY WAR ON HINDUS</b>

Dr.BABUSUSEELAN                                                                                                                                                 
Christian missionaries in India enjoyed much support from European Christian colonial masters who controlled the political, economic and educational institutions for centuries, to 1947. With the active support of the European Christian colonialists, missionaries founded churches, large scale political organizations, and educational institution. Even after independence, political parties handed over Christians an influential position in India. Leaders of the Church became key advisers and also exercised political, economic, and educational functions as government leaders.  They have penetrated and controlled several national institutions that were taking shape after independence.  Christians have created the press, economic institutions, commercial enterprises, as well as grabbed urban and forestland, established non-governmental organizations, schools, colleges and formed political parties. Coercive and deceptive conversion of Hindus increased the number of Christians which reshaped several states. No wonder that from the beginnings of 1950’s political Christianity made all the political, economic and educational decisions and controlled everything. Hindus could scarcely make their way in education, media and commerce. Political Christianity formed a special clique, finding their ideal in real estate, education, health industry, media, plantation and commerce. They operated in theory, that Christians should be strategically placed in policy decision bodies. The Church built large estates, business enterprises, banks, and educational institutions. Political Christianity in India maintains that Christians had first to constitute an appropriately divided Hindu society of classes. This they would accomplish only when they formed caste based organizations and regional political parties. Then Hindus would continue their class division and the Church would accomplish their goal. Historically, political, cultural, and economic Christianity had in common a sense of competition with Hinduism. Christians dismiss Hindu spiritual and cultural traditions. The Church clearly intent on liberating Hindus from their cultural roots and enslave them with rigid, closed, divisive and linear Christian dogma.  Missionaries with the closed, rigid and non-compromising dogma are obsessed with the idea of converting Hindus who believe in pluralism, tolerance and the all inclusive Vedic philosophy. Comprehensive and spiritual Vedic thought has always posed a serious challenge and dilemma for the Christian Church. For centuries, unable to challenge the broader and systemic Hindu philosophy, Christian missionaries have resorted to deceptive mind manipulation strategies to trap and convert Hindus.

Pseudo Political leaders and India’s alienated intellectuals failed to provide pride and dignity to Hindus and they despise and demean them. Political parties and secular leaders allowed Christians not only to influence government policies, but also tolerated their attack on Hindu spiritual practices. This political patronage enabled Christians to exercise an influential anti Hindu role in public life and in government.

The power of the Church in India is enormous. Massive inflow of foreign fund helped the Church to influence the media, own large tracts of urban and forestland, control political parties, as well as own commercial and educational institutions. Their explicit purpose, among other things, is to stop Hindu consolidation and get them to fight on caste lines. In order to solidify their growing hegemony, Christians have made alliance with the Congress party, the Marxists, and regional parties as well as with parochial organizations.

The explosive effect of this unholy alliance can be gauged by the emergence of Christian power in central and several state governments. Control of educational institutions, trade, plantation and real estate brought wealth to Christians in ways Christians had never known. All the while, Christian organizations received massive amounts from abroad for conversion activities.

Christian conquests are more and more commercial and less spiritual. Well-established business, trade and commerce proved better, more wealth producing mode of occupation than spirituality. Concurrent with commercial success, the Church with the help of foreign fund elevated the role of political interference with absolute control of government in many states. Political influence of Christians in India marked the modern scene to an extent unknown before.

<b>DECEPTIVE PRACTICES OF EVANGELICAL MISSIONARIES</b>
One of the more alarming trends in India in recent years is the growing number of evangelical Christian organizations. This growth has been accompanied by an astonishing increase in Christian missionary activities which target Hindus for conversion. Well over 3,000 missionary groups which obsessed to convert Hindus spend over a billion dollar each year for conversion work in India. Evangelical Christian groups sponsor hundreds of full-time missionaries. They also sponsor television and radio programs.  Missionaries have sponsored thousands of non-governmental organizations for overt and covert activities for furthering Christian causes.

These evangelical Christians use deceptive tactics to attract secular Hindus, journalists, academicians and westernized intellectuals. Evangelical missionary groups use Hindu names for their organizations to attract and trap innocent Hindus. They frequently misquote, mistranslate and misrepresent Hindu scripture and texts in order to use it as a bait and switch game. Evangelical missionaries are specially trained in mental misdirection and psychological war. They know well how to conceal, camouflage, and distortion of reality and power play. This deceptive game involves getting Hindus to trust, like, and feel comfortable with their bait and switch game, so they will want Hindus to do what they want to do. They use sophisticated psycho programming for softening people up for the kill. Like most power plays, softening people up for the kill is dangerous. It is not transparent enough for Hindus to see through and choose not to say to buy into it.

<b>MISSIONARY AGENDA WE SEE; AGENDAS WE DON’T</b>
Evangelical Christian organizations advertise under the heading of Human Rights, Dalit Organizations, Solidarity movements of the oppressed, Environmental Protection groups and social service agencies. Their goal is to mentally misdirect Hindus, to fabricate false reality, erase memory, and soften them for “thought implant”.

Pamphleteering and false advertisement of evangelist Christians are on the increase. There is an upsurge in Christian pamphlets being distributed at Hindu festivals, temples and sacred places of pilgrimage. Missionary groups aggressively distribute Christian publications to denigrate Hindu deities at Sabarimala, Thirupathi, Guruvayoor, Ujjain, Benares, Palani, Uduppi, and Sivagiri where Hindus congregate in large numbers.

In addition, missionary groups employ scare tactics, intimidation and violence to discourage and prevent Hindus from organizing protest against deceptive conversion tactics.  Evangelical missionary groups engage in a variety of relatively benign deceptions intent to leave secular Hindus with a more positive impression on them. The real purpose for engaging in hidden agenda power plays is conversion of innocent Hindus. Hidden agendas, psycho programming and mind manipulation techniques are used to entice unsuspecting Hindus. The secret they keep from others and the camouflage they use to disguise their true intentions has dangerous consequences for Hindu society. Beneath the polished exterior of Christian educational institutions lies a burgeoning political and cultural war machine that strikes at the traditional spiritual values of India.

<b>EVANGELICAL CHRISITIAN CULTURE WARRIORS</b>
The Christian missionaries have already infiltrated religious organizations, media, social agencies, political parties and institutions of higher learning and threaten to bring down Hindu society. They continue to poison our cultural tradition, moral values, spiritual beliefs, and thus destroy the social fabric of our nation from within. It is a massive culture war which has disastrous consequences for Hindus and India.  Their game plan is to misdirect Hindus and delegitimize Hinduism by claiming that Christianity is the only path to salvation.

Several missionary organizations disguise as human rights and social service organizations. In fact, they fraudulently represent themselves as human right and social activists, and these so-called human right and social service organizations are elaborately disguised Christian front organizations. Most of these non-governmental organizations that receive foreign fund exhibit “messiah madness” and manifest a great sense of urgency to convert as many Hindus as possible for creating a Christian vote bank.

Recent Christian violence in Orissa, Bihar, Kerala and Tamil Nadu are perfect example of the deceptive practices used by evangelical proselytizing groups. There are at least 500 Christian proselytizing organizations that operate with foreign fund in Orissa and Bihar alone, which are actively targeting Hindus for conversion. Recently deceptive and aggressive conversion efforts have led to escalating tension throughout Bihar.

<b>FACING THE EVANGELICAL CULTURE WAR</b>
Incredibly, many of the evangelical Christian aggression are the direct result of certain government policies to appease Christians. Policies of Christian and Muslim reservation, quota system and special privileges are in fact, effective in promoting mischievous Christian power play and aggressive conversion tactics.
There has been an ominously deafening silence from secular political leadership at all levels. This silence itself is complicit in creating a favorable atmosphere for Christian conversion groups. Phony secular leaders engage in ineffective maneuvers to maintain the status quo and avoid unpleasant thoughts to the back of their minds because thinking about deceptive missionary conversion practices only make matters worse. Consequently, what they do in the name of maintaining equilibrium only deceive them. It is a self-defeating behavior that may lead to disaster.

Most frightening are the bogus intellectuals, journalists and alienated intellectuals and armchair academicians, who at the helm of this Christian invasion, try to force insidious and deeply harmful Christian dogma upon the throats of Hindus under the name of mindless universalism. These pseudo secular leaders smug their attitudes as they ridicule us of our spiritual values.

<b>DEFEATING THE ENEMY</b>
As Hindus face the ongoing deceptive conversion gang and their sponsors around the world, we must cope with the continuing scourge of denial, accommodation and cowardice. Hindus need to recognize the dangers of putting our faith in mindless universalism-when the times call for decisive action. For only through strong defense of our spiritual culture, freedom at home and abroad, can we preserve, practice and promote our tolerant and all inclusive thought system in the dangerous world.

Hindus must exercise constant vigilance to educate about the true nature of the hidden agendas of Christian groups and non-governmental organizations funded and directed by foreign agencies. Their mission is couched in ecclesiastical terms but their ulterior motive is to diminish Hindu population by coercive conversion.
Hindus must be aware that the value of free speech and the basic right to free expression is not absolute under the Indian constitution. Hindus have the right to oppose Christian hate speech and deceptive practices that deem offensive. Awareness, education and assertive protest seem to be the best way of confronting deceptive missionary proselytizing. Teaching and informing Hindus that Hindus need not believe in the Christian dogma, not to tolerate intolerant and deceptive conversion practices and Christian churches are to deceive the Hindu community are important first steps.

Though many political and community leaders have sought economic development and social reform, particularly globalization, they have generally been unwilling to see the power play and hidden agendas of the Churches. One key to the success of evangelical Christian deceptive conversion is that Hindus tolerate the hidden agendas and sinister games of the missionaries. The trouble with tolerating coercive religious conversion, of course, is that while we’re averting our eyes, the evangelists grows and festers around India. Their goal is political domination and this has been true for the past few centuries.

Indeed, the greatest threat to our nation is Christian and Muslim appeasement policies-and selfish opportunism-of the pseudo secular politicians. The Congress party, the Marxists and several parochial regional parties are ideologically inclined toward appeasement and special privileges for Christians and Muslims. These corrupt, antinational political parties dismiss or understate hidden agendas of evangelists.  And of course, rather than containing or confronting political agendas of the missionary groups, they acquiesce with them.

Hindus can no longer afford to remain silent or passive when Hindus encounter Christian bigotry and hatred. The consequences of silence and passivism are too dangerous for our nation and for the Hindu civilization. We must not surrender the public arena to the forces that seek to promote hatred and polarization amongst various communities in our nation. Deceptive evangelical missionary conversion tactics must be actively resisted and responded to so that such hidden hatred and subversive plan become totally unacceptable in our country.
If unchallenged and unchecked, coercive religious conversion can erode and destroy our spiritual tradition, dismantle our social fabric and destroy our moral foundation. Every Christian statement is a deliberate attack on the pluralistic and spiritual tradition of our society and on our sacred values that demand respect, tolerance, and kindness for all who live in the world.

Hindu organizations must see diverse Hindus as a people with a vision not of what was, but of what in order to be. Hindu leaders must take that vision and transform into fact. Hindus must now break the wall of denial. No way around it. At some point, every Hindu is confronted with danger of deceptive conversion ploys. How we choose to combat that challenge is often life-defining. Hindus can face injustice and fraudulent conversion plans head-on or run from them, or ignores them until they consume every Hindu. But no one escapes conflict and confrontation. Hypocritical politicians see no evil in deceptive evangelical missionary practices, ever seek or act against it. These pseudo secular politicians who do not acknowledge evil are spiritually lost.

Tolerance, complacency, avoidance, apathy and acquiesce of deceptive missionary practices will not lead to spirituality. It leads to confusion, chaos and immorality. Only by ignoring evil practices can a nation embrace deviance that ends in weakness and decadence.

It is time for Hindus to wake up, join together and show courage and determination to discriminate between good and evil to create a strong nation. It is a culture war, a paradigm conflict. It is a political invasion from within. It is a bloodless war for the minds, hearts, and souls of Hindus. It is being waged with force, foreign fund and deception on our television, in the class rooms, in the media and in the political fields. It is a constant and continuing war on our spiritual values in order to weaken our nation. We must stand up and take sides in this war for the minds<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Congress Undemocratic Ideology - 3 - Shambhu - 01-28-2008

Is there nothing in the sick joke we call our penal code which allows us to sue the b@stards who denigrate out dieties?

Pointing out evidence on the probable non-existence of jesus cannot be called denigrating. But making fun without any evidence .. is that not what lawyers dream about?

Congress Undemocratic Ideology - 3 - Guest - 01-28-2008

<b>Bharat Ratna to Quattrochi or Sonia, Sena asks</b>