And the christian-concocted plotline seems to keep growing: trying to link Purohit with Nepalese monarchy and some attempts at "Hindu state".
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Gaping holes in Purohit's claims about Nepal king</b>
28 Jan 2009, 1843 hrs IST, TNN
KATHMANDU: The cooling ties between India and Nepal are likely to be further strained by the <i>reported claims</i> by suspended Indian army officer Lt Col Srikanth Prasad Purohit that Nepal's deposed king Gyanendra had promised to help his group by buying arms for them and providing them with military training in Nepal.
The alleged statement by Purohit that a senior official of the Nepal Army too was involved in the conspiracy to establish a Hindu nation by violence is also going to ruffle the feathers of the <b>army</b> that has in the past issued warnings that it should not be dragged into any political controversy.
The 4500-page chargesheet produced by the Mumbai Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS), which was distributed among the Indian media last week, makes a laughing stock of itself to anyone who knows Nepal. However, with a virtually 18-hour daily outage practically cutting Nepal off from the rest of the world, including its southern neighbour India, the fallacies in the document have gone mostly unnoticed.
However, Nepal's Jana Aastha weekly on Wednesday carried a front-page report on the allegations about Nepal's former royal family, saying it raised fears about a deliberate smear campaign.
The ATS chargesheet reportedly includes the transcript of a conversation between Purohit and two of his accomplices that police claimed to have found in the laptop of one of them.
"Let me also tell you our meeting had been fixed with King Gyanendra on June 24, 2006 and then in 2007," Purohit allegedly says during the conversation. " ... the king had accepted the proposal ... 20 people from my side will train as officers there (in Nepal) every six months ... I'll get 40 persons every year ... I'll get 400 soldiers."
Purohit also <b>allegedly</b> says he asked the king to buy AK-47 rifles from Czechoslovakia since Nepal was a sovereign nation, promising to pay for the guns and ammunition.
"The king has accepted ... ," he allegedly says.
There was no way the king could have agreed to a meeting in June 2006 or 2007, let alone buy guns as at that time he had been removed as head of government and was battling for survival. After a pro-democracy movement, the king stepped down as chairman of the council of ministers in April 2006 and soon, the new seven-party government announced it would hold an election to decide the fate of Nepal's centuries-old monarchy.
In 2007, the Maoists, who had waged a 10-year war to end monarchy, had joined the government and it was impossible to nurture a secret conspiracy for a Hindu kingdom. But the most telling flaw in the chargesheet is Purohit's alleged boast that he was in contact with Queen Aishwarya, the "maharani of Gyanendra", who allegedly supported the idea of a Hindu nation.
Queen Aishwarya was killed in the midnight massacre in the royal palace of Kathmandu in 2001. Also, she was the queen of King Birendra, who too was gunned down during the carnage. Gyanendra's wife, the former queen Komal, has never been known to harbour any political ambition and never showed any inclination to wield power.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->In spite of admitting to ATS' impossible charges and allegations ("Purohit supposedly said"), the title is typical cryptomedia: accusing Purohit rather than the ridiculous charges of the ATS against him. It's the ATS' chargesheet that said that Purohit said that the Nepali king said thus and so to some alleged deal. But the TOI title "Gaping holes in Purohit's claims about Nepal king" still turns ATS' christolying onto Purohit instead.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Purohits_claims_about_Nepal_king/articleshow/4043140.cms
via http://haindavakeralam.com/HKPage.aspx?P...107&SKIN=B
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Gaping holes in Purohit's claims about Nepal king</b>
28 Jan 2009, 1843 hrs IST, TNN
KATHMANDU: The cooling ties between India and Nepal are likely to be further strained by the <i>reported claims</i> by suspended Indian army officer Lt Col Srikanth Prasad Purohit that Nepal's deposed king Gyanendra had promised to help his group by buying arms for them and providing them with military training in Nepal.
The alleged statement by Purohit that a senior official of the Nepal Army too was involved in the conspiracy to establish a Hindu nation by violence is also going to ruffle the feathers of the <b>army</b> that has in the past issued warnings that it should not be dragged into any political controversy.
The 4500-page chargesheet produced by the Mumbai Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS), which was distributed among the Indian media last week, makes a laughing stock of itself to anyone who knows Nepal. However, with a virtually 18-hour daily outage practically cutting Nepal off from the rest of the world, including its southern neighbour India, the fallacies in the document have gone mostly unnoticed.
However, Nepal's Jana Aastha weekly on Wednesday carried a front-page report on the allegations about Nepal's former royal family, saying it raised fears about a deliberate smear campaign.
The ATS chargesheet reportedly includes the transcript of a conversation between Purohit and two of his accomplices that police claimed to have found in the laptop of one of them.
"Let me also tell you our meeting had been fixed with King Gyanendra on June 24, 2006 and then in 2007," Purohit allegedly says during the conversation. " ... the king had accepted the proposal ... 20 people from my side will train as officers there (in Nepal) every six months ... I'll get 40 persons every year ... I'll get 400 soldiers."
Purohit also <b>allegedly</b> says he asked the king to buy AK-47 rifles from Czechoslovakia since Nepal was a sovereign nation, promising to pay for the guns and ammunition.
"The king has accepted ... ," he allegedly says.
There was no way the king could have agreed to a meeting in June 2006 or 2007, let alone buy guns as at that time he had been removed as head of government and was battling for survival. After a pro-democracy movement, the king stepped down as chairman of the council of ministers in April 2006 and soon, the new seven-party government announced it would hold an election to decide the fate of Nepal's centuries-old monarchy.
In 2007, the Maoists, who had waged a 10-year war to end monarchy, had joined the government and it was impossible to nurture a secret conspiracy for a Hindu kingdom. But the most telling flaw in the chargesheet is Purohit's alleged boast that he was in contact with Queen Aishwarya, the "maharani of Gyanendra", who allegedly supported the idea of a Hindu nation.
Queen Aishwarya was killed in the midnight massacre in the royal palace of Kathmandu in 2001. Also, she was the queen of King Birendra, who too was gunned down during the carnage. Gyanendra's wife, the former queen Komal, has never been known to harbour any political ambition and never showed any inclination to wield power.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->In spite of admitting to ATS' impossible charges and allegations ("Purohit supposedly said"), the title is typical cryptomedia: accusing Purohit rather than the ridiculous charges of the ATS against him. It's the ATS' chargesheet that said that Purohit said that the Nepali king said thus and so to some alleged deal. But the TOI title "Gaping holes in Purohit's claims about Nepal king" still turns ATS' christolying onto Purohit instead.