09-16-2006, 05:39 PM
Has UPA become senile?
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->By M.V. Kamath What on earth is the matter with the UPA Government? Has it turned senile? Why are we being nice to the point of subservience to Bangladesh? Has the government become totally stripped of its mental faculties? Consider this: Indiaâs Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran was on a visit to Dhaka. His visit was being covered by a correspondent of All India Radio, D.N. Mohanty who stayed in the Bangladesh capital. On July 31 Mohanty attended a briefing given by Shri Shyam Saran in Hotel Sherarton late in the evening. Following the briefing, Mohanty returned home in the Gulshan area of the city and entered the lift where two persons were waiting for him. Before he could comprehend their motive, he was mercilessly attacked and suffered multiple injuries on his face, chest and right arm. He was then thrown out of the lift on to the floor close to his apartment. He lay there until his neighborâs maid found him, unconscious.
The guards in the building where he was staying were unmoved by Mohantyâs condition and it was only after much persuasion that he was finally taken to a hospital where he remained in coma for the next two days before he showed signs of recovery. The doctors treating Mohanty, according to The Pioneer sought to mislead the local media by saying that the correspondent was down with food poisoning, an obvious lie, considering the wounds on his body. Says The Pioneer (August 7): âThis incident was brought to the knowledge of Saran who kept mum over this outrageous incidentâ and âthe issue was allowed to be buriedâ.
The attack on the AIR correspondent in Dhaka should not be allowed to go unnoticed whatever the attitude and approach of the Government of India is. Bangladesh is getting more and more aggressive and insouciant believing India will not reactâwhich is true. Delhi is showing that it has lost its backbone. On July 27 The Pioneer carried another story that should equally be cause for concern. According to the paper âin a sudden and daring move, Bangladeshis, backed by their countryâs army, have uprooted pillars demarcating the Indo-Bangladesh border along Dhubri and Karimganj districts of Assam and forcibly grabbed at least 500 acres (2.02 sq kms) of Indian territory.â
The paper reported that âby the time Assam government or its police could respond to the situation, swarms of Bangladeshis had taken possession of the land, ferociously pushing back Indians who dared to go beyond the surreptitiously shifted border postsâ. The land grab apparently came to light only recently when tea pickers at Pallatal and Pramodnagar plantations in southern Assamâs Karimganj district found a portion of the gardens being zealously guarded by Bangladeshis. When the Indian workers tried to enter those areas of the gardens, they were shoved back. Speaking on the issue, Assamâs revenue minister Bhumidhar Barman told stunned legislators that a total of about 499.83 acres of Indian territory has been encroached upon and occupied by Bangladeshis after removing boundary pillars.
He confirmed that Bangladeshi have taken over 299.04 acres of Pallatal Tea Estate smd 11.73 acres of Pramodnagar Tea Estate in Karimganj district. â In Dhubri district, 189.06 acres under Mancachar revenue circles has been encroachedâ, Barman said, adding: âEven though the administrative power of these areas lies within the Assam government, they are under the control of Bangladeshâ. The Assam Government has apparently alerted Delhi and reportedly the matter was âdiscussedâ at a recent meeting of the Indo-Bangladesh Joint Border Commission.
This information seems to have been pushed under the carpet by the government for reasons unknown. Assam shares a 272 km long border with Bangladesh of which only about 79 per cent has been fenced with barbed wire. Illegal Bangladeshi immigrants have nevertheless been crossing the international border with impudence with the Government doing very little about it.
Even the secular press seems to have gone into hibernation. The picture is frightening because Bangladeshis apparently have never been taken to task all these years. One remembers with shame how a member of the Indian Border Force was killed some months ago and his body returned to India tied to two poles like one does to a carcass. Bangladesh deserves one good slap on its face. It has become home for not only ISI to carry on its murderous activities against India, but also for shameless and traitorous ULFA terrorists. Saudi and Pakistani money is transmitted to India via Bangladesh.
According to Home Minister Shivraj Patilâs own admission terrorists have been taking advantage of buses and trains launched as part of Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) to sneak in from both Pakistan and Bangladesh. Replying to an adjournment motion moved by the BJP in Lok Sabha, the Home Minister elaborated that terror has spread its tentacles not just in border towns but well into the interior. But there is no evidence that the UPA government is doing any thing to stop this. According to The Pioneer again (August 3) funds from Saudi Arabia and Pakistan come to NGOs in Bangladesh which are then routed to India. The paper quoted intelligence sources as saying that madrasas in India are in receipt of huge funds from Saudi Arabia, Iran, Kuwait, Pakistan and Bangladesh. What is bothering Indian security agencies is the unbridled growth of madrasas along the Indo-Bangladesh border which has 955 mosques and 445 madrasas in 22 bordering districts of West Bengal on the Indian
side and 976 mosques and 156 madrasas in 28 districts on Bangladesh side.
According to reports 57 mosques and 88 madrasas have been constructed on the Indian side in West Bengal, Assam, Meghalaya and Tripura during the last few years. According to reports, while the Assam Government is refusing to provide official estimates of illegal immigration, there could be as many as one crore Bangladeshis living in Assam alone. Indigenous Assamese fear that they will be reduced to a minority if unabated infiltration continues. This fear will be further heightened by Bangladeshis brazenly uprooting border posts, grabbing Indian land and colonising Indian territory openly without Delhi daring to lift its little finger, Instead of taking note of this, one Congress Minister in the UPA government has been giving a certificate of clearance to all madarassas when these schools have been rearing murderers and terrorists without the least fear.
The Prime Minister has said nothing about he statement made by Mr Arjun Singh that not Muslim terrorists but Hindutva Groups have been regularly faking attacks to malign Muslim organisations. One wonders whether the Prime Minister is in agreement with this observation. If he is, he must say so. If he is not he must summarily dismiss not only HRD Minister Arjun Singh but the Minister for Minority Affairs, Abdur Rehman Antulay who is supposed to have said that the Mumbai blasts could be the handiwork of RSS. We are living in dangerous times and the UPA government seems to be taking everything lightly. If Dr Manmohan Singh wants to know more about terrorism, let him just put in a friendly call to Tony Blair. He may learn a few things.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->By M.V. Kamath What on earth is the matter with the UPA Government? Has it turned senile? Why are we being nice to the point of subservience to Bangladesh? Has the government become totally stripped of its mental faculties? Consider this: Indiaâs Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran was on a visit to Dhaka. His visit was being covered by a correspondent of All India Radio, D.N. Mohanty who stayed in the Bangladesh capital. On July 31 Mohanty attended a briefing given by Shri Shyam Saran in Hotel Sherarton late in the evening. Following the briefing, Mohanty returned home in the Gulshan area of the city and entered the lift where two persons were waiting for him. Before he could comprehend their motive, he was mercilessly attacked and suffered multiple injuries on his face, chest and right arm. He was then thrown out of the lift on to the floor close to his apartment. He lay there until his neighborâs maid found him, unconscious.
The guards in the building where he was staying were unmoved by Mohantyâs condition and it was only after much persuasion that he was finally taken to a hospital where he remained in coma for the next two days before he showed signs of recovery. The doctors treating Mohanty, according to The Pioneer sought to mislead the local media by saying that the correspondent was down with food poisoning, an obvious lie, considering the wounds on his body. Says The Pioneer (August 7): âThis incident was brought to the knowledge of Saran who kept mum over this outrageous incidentâ and âthe issue was allowed to be buriedâ.
The attack on the AIR correspondent in Dhaka should not be allowed to go unnoticed whatever the attitude and approach of the Government of India is. Bangladesh is getting more and more aggressive and insouciant believing India will not reactâwhich is true. Delhi is showing that it has lost its backbone. On July 27 The Pioneer carried another story that should equally be cause for concern. According to the paper âin a sudden and daring move, Bangladeshis, backed by their countryâs army, have uprooted pillars demarcating the Indo-Bangladesh border along Dhubri and Karimganj districts of Assam and forcibly grabbed at least 500 acres (2.02 sq kms) of Indian territory.â
The paper reported that âby the time Assam government or its police could respond to the situation, swarms of Bangladeshis had taken possession of the land, ferociously pushing back Indians who dared to go beyond the surreptitiously shifted border postsâ. The land grab apparently came to light only recently when tea pickers at Pallatal and Pramodnagar plantations in southern Assamâs Karimganj district found a portion of the gardens being zealously guarded by Bangladeshis. When the Indian workers tried to enter those areas of the gardens, they were shoved back. Speaking on the issue, Assamâs revenue minister Bhumidhar Barman told stunned legislators that a total of about 499.83 acres of Indian territory has been encroached upon and occupied by Bangladeshis after removing boundary pillars.
He confirmed that Bangladeshi have taken over 299.04 acres of Pallatal Tea Estate smd 11.73 acres of Pramodnagar Tea Estate in Karimganj district. â In Dhubri district, 189.06 acres under Mancachar revenue circles has been encroachedâ, Barman said, adding: âEven though the administrative power of these areas lies within the Assam government, they are under the control of Bangladeshâ. The Assam Government has apparently alerted Delhi and reportedly the matter was âdiscussedâ at a recent meeting of the Indo-Bangladesh Joint Border Commission.
This information seems to have been pushed under the carpet by the government for reasons unknown. Assam shares a 272 km long border with Bangladesh of which only about 79 per cent has been fenced with barbed wire. Illegal Bangladeshi immigrants have nevertheless been crossing the international border with impudence with the Government doing very little about it.
Even the secular press seems to have gone into hibernation. The picture is frightening because Bangladeshis apparently have never been taken to task all these years. One remembers with shame how a member of the Indian Border Force was killed some months ago and his body returned to India tied to two poles like one does to a carcass. Bangladesh deserves one good slap on its face. It has become home for not only ISI to carry on its murderous activities against India, but also for shameless and traitorous ULFA terrorists. Saudi and Pakistani money is transmitted to India via Bangladesh.
According to Home Minister Shivraj Patilâs own admission terrorists have been taking advantage of buses and trains launched as part of Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) to sneak in from both Pakistan and Bangladesh. Replying to an adjournment motion moved by the BJP in Lok Sabha, the Home Minister elaborated that terror has spread its tentacles not just in border towns but well into the interior. But there is no evidence that the UPA government is doing any thing to stop this. According to The Pioneer again (August 3) funds from Saudi Arabia and Pakistan come to NGOs in Bangladesh which are then routed to India. The paper quoted intelligence sources as saying that madrasas in India are in receipt of huge funds from Saudi Arabia, Iran, Kuwait, Pakistan and Bangladesh. What is bothering Indian security agencies is the unbridled growth of madrasas along the Indo-Bangladesh border which has 955 mosques and 445 madrasas in 22 bordering districts of West Bengal on the Indian
side and 976 mosques and 156 madrasas in 28 districts on Bangladesh side.
According to reports 57 mosques and 88 madrasas have been constructed on the Indian side in West Bengal, Assam, Meghalaya and Tripura during the last few years. According to reports, while the Assam Government is refusing to provide official estimates of illegal immigration, there could be as many as one crore Bangladeshis living in Assam alone. Indigenous Assamese fear that they will be reduced to a minority if unabated infiltration continues. This fear will be further heightened by Bangladeshis brazenly uprooting border posts, grabbing Indian land and colonising Indian territory openly without Delhi daring to lift its little finger, Instead of taking note of this, one Congress Minister in the UPA government has been giving a certificate of clearance to all madarassas when these schools have been rearing murderers and terrorists without the least fear.
The Prime Minister has said nothing about he statement made by Mr Arjun Singh that not Muslim terrorists but Hindutva Groups have been regularly faking attacks to malign Muslim organisations. One wonders whether the Prime Minister is in agreement with this observation. If he is, he must say so. If he is not he must summarily dismiss not only HRD Minister Arjun Singh but the Minister for Minority Affairs, Abdur Rehman Antulay who is supposed to have said that the Mumbai blasts could be the handiwork of RSS. We are living in dangerous times and the UPA government seems to be taking everything lightly. If Dr Manmohan Singh wants to know more about terrorism, let him just put in a friendly call to Tony Blair. He may learn a few things.
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