Blast In Mumbai's Suburban Train

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And now, predictably, the Psy-Ops against BJP has started.
From M J Akbar's Asian Age:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Modi heads for Mumbai 7/14/2006 12:40:08 AM
- By Sanjay Basak

New Delhi, July 13: The BJP will be sending its <b>Hindutva face</b>, Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, to Mumbai to participate in a two-day nationwide campaign against terrorism. Leader of the Opposition L.K. Advani will tour Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh while party chief Rajnath Singh will be in Nagpur for the campaign. The two-day campaign will be on July 15-16.

However, the party has so far kept BJP general secretary Arun Jaitley and its Muslim face, Mr Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, out of the much-publicised campaign against terrorism. While most of the BJP heavyweights are being sent to various parts of the country, the party high command has not yet included either Mr Jaitley or Mr Naqvi. a senior party functionary said, "Mr Jaitley has himself opted out due to health reasons and Mr Naqvi is already preoccupied with his programme in Moradabad and Rampur." However, sources disclosed that both these leaders "are not in the good books of party chief Rajnath Singh".

The BJP, which has stepped up attack against the Centre for being "soft" on terrorism, has decided that Mr Modi, with his <b>hardcore Hindutva image</b>, would be the "best bet" to <b>consolidate its Hindutva vote bank </b>in Maharashtra. Incidentally, the decision to dispatch Mr Modi was taken in consultation with the Shiv Sena. <b>The RSS also indicated that the Maharashtra was "ripe" for the "use of leaders like Mr Modi", a senior party functionary said.</b>

The functionary also talked of Mr Modi’s "huge fan following" In Mumbai. <b>He recalled that after the Gujarat riots, when Mr Modi addressed a rally at Mumbai, the "turnout was mammoth". </b>

Only 24 hours ago, Mr Advani tried to toe a soft line by saying that this was "not the time to criticise" the Centre. However, Mr Advani stood somewhat isolated as the BJP adopted a resolution asking the Centre to either "govern or get out". <b>The party has now decided to play its "hardcore Hindutva card" in Maharashtra</b>. Both the BJP and Shiv Sena were voted out from Maharashtra during the Assembly elections in <b>2000</b>. <i>(and that has what relevance in 2006, exactly?)</i>

Over the past few months, the BJP, under Mr Rajnath Singh, has been trying to get back to the <b>Hindutva bandwagon</b>, which was virtually abandoned by Mr Advani. He had to quit his post as party president after he "crossed the Lakshman rekha by calling Jinnah secular", the BJP functionary recalled. The BJP, <b>which has been holding the organisation Students’ Islamic Movement of India (Simi) responsible for the terrorist activities in the country</b> <i>(unfairly, no doubt)</i>, described Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav’s reported move to set free jailed Simi activists an "electoral stunt".

BJP spokesman Prakash Javdekar demanded "hot pursuit" of terrorists in the wake of the blasts in Mumbai. He defined "hot pursuit" as a "full-scale war" against terrorism. However, he was vague about the NDA’s decision to release terrorist Masood Azhar after the Kandahar hijack.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

The lesson is this, before we criticize foreign media for Psy-Ops, we have a lot of internal house-cleaning to do. The whole Indian Media (with a few exceptions) is a den of traitorous snakes.