2009 -- India Election -

[Bodhi]

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->From: <b>"gandhim" <gandhim@sansad.nic.in></b>
To: "'Ashok Chowgule'" <ashokvc@>
Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 10:18 AM
Subject: RE: Message for Varun Gandhi

Thank you for your support and good wishes at this difficult time. I
agree that the "recommendation" of the EC is politically motivated. It is true
that a large number of people not just indicted in the riots of 1984 but
also in the bomb blasts of Mumbai and other anti India actions have been
ignored and allowed to contest. In this case no attempt has been made to
check the veracity of the recordings or to see that no communal
reactions took place at all. It is a pity that the EC has become a tool in the
hands of the government.

Each one of us must work in different ways to make the people of this
country stronger.

Maneka Gandhi

-----Original Message-----
From: Ashok Chowgule [mailto:]
Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 8:34 AM
To: gandhim@sansad.nic.in
Subject: Re: Message for Varun Gandhi

Dear Varunji,
Pranam,

Furhter to my enclosed message.  I am sure you will highlight the
nomination by the Congress party of those who are know to have lead the
campaign to murder the Sikhs in 1984 in Delhi.

Namaste
Ashok Chowgule



----- Original Message -----
From: "Ashok Chowgule" <ashokvc@>
To: <gandhim@sansad.nic.in>
Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 8:06 AM
Subject: Message for Varun Gandhi


I would appreciate if the following message is forwarded to Varun
Gandhi.

Namaste
Ashok Chowgule


Dear Varunji,
Pranam,

I would like to congratulate you for speaking out in such frank terms
recently.  You have rightly highlighted, in the subsequent, comments of
yours about the threat to the Hindus in the border states.  As you have
said temples are being attacked, etc.

You have also rightly said that had your speeches a potential for
creating communal disharmony, then surely there would have been a
law-and-order problem in the area.

It is a tragedy of those occupying the intellectual space that they will
always take up issues in a manner that the Hindus are placed in a bad
light.  Please see the enclosed article.  There is no mention of it in
any of the so-called secular press.  Furthermore, the blatant manner of
seeking votes of the Muslims in the name of Islam has been going on for
a long time.  The media actually think that this is a wonderful election
strategy, and there is an implicit authentication of the communal
strategy.

I think that you should be forthright on the issue of protection of the
Hindus, and hope that the intellectual terrorism that you are confronted
with does not in any way reduce your resolve.

Namaste
Ashok Chowgule<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->