Monitoring Indian Communists - 3

[Bodhi]

Gandhiji' letter to Puran Chandra Joshi, General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (In backdrop of CPI having taken side of the British, when entire nation, including those opposed to Congress, were strongly united in Quit India Movement. In 1942 Stalin, CPI financer, was on British side):

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->JUHU,
June 11, 1944

MY DEAR JOSHI,

I had expected a prompt reply to the questions I had raised at our meeting.

Meanwhile some additional questions have arisen which please, answer when you answer my first questions.

1. What is the meaning of “people” in “people’s war”? Does it mean war on behalf of India’s millions, or the Negroes in East, South or West Africa, or the Negroes of America, or all of them? Are the Allies engaged in such a war?

2. Are the finances of the Communist Party, represented by you, subject to public audit? If they are, may I see them?

3. It is stated that the Communist Party has actively helped the authorities to arrest leaders and organizers of labour strikes during the last two years.

4. The Communist Party is said to have adopted the policy of infiltrating the congress oranization with a hostile intent.

5. Is not the policy of the Communist Party dictated from outside?

Yours sincerely,
M. K. GANDHI<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

P C Joshi's answer in next post. Here is the next response from Gandhiji:

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->AS AT SEVAGRAM,
CAMP PANCHGANI,
July 30, 1944

DEAR FRIEND,
I had duly received your letter1 of 14th June and also your letter
of 26th of July sent with Shri Kumaramangalam.

Your answer to my first question provokes further question for
your reply. I understand that although the chief actors among the
Allied powers are by no means inclined towards real democracy, you
think that by the time the war ends, their designs will be confounded
and that the people all the world over will suddenly find
self-expression and overthrow the present leaders. In the peoples,
according to answer, I am entitled to include us, other Asiatics and
Negroes, for that matter perhaps, also the proletariat of Japan and
Germany. If such is your belief, I must confess that I do not share it
but I keep myself open to conviction. Meanwhile I suggest that the
title ‘people’s war’ is highly misleading. It enables the Government in
India to claim that at least one popular party considers this as people’s
war. <span style='color:red'>I suggest, too, that Russia’s limited alliance with the Allied powers
cannot by any stretch of imagination convert what was before an
imperialistic war against that Nazi combine, into a people’s war.</span>

Holding the view I do, it is superfluous for me now to answer
your argument that “this war has split the world into two camps”.
Between Scylla and Charybdis, if I sail in either direction, I suffer
shipwreck. Therefore I have to be in the midst of the storm. I
suggested a way out. Naturally it has been rejected because the powers
that be do not want to relax their grip on India. As I am composing
this letter to you, I have read and re-read your argument. Every
paragraph offends; for, to me, it lacks reality. Please believe me that
my prejudice against your party has nothing to do with my
examination of your answer to the first question.

...
...

If I have been inordinately long in dealing with your answers
which you sent me so promptly, it was because, as you are aware, I was
preoccupied and also because I was examining the evidence that was
pouring in upon me unsolicited against your party.5 I asked them to
let me use their names and they have given me the permission. I take
the latest first, i.e., Babu Manoranjan Chaudhary. I did not even know
that he was coming and when he did ask for an appointment3, it was in
connection with my acceptance of the Rajaji Formula4. Butreally he
took the greater part of my time to tell me that the communists had
done great injury to the national cause. I am using a milder term than
was really used before me. He has left papers which I have not been
able to study. And he has also left with me a printed book5 which I
have glanced through personally and it makes bad reading. The
printed book can be seen by any deputy you may choose to send.
Probably you have seen it yourself.6

The other is Sh. Kaleswara Rao of Bezwada. He also sent me a
long letter from which I quote the salient passages7 (see enclosure).
Add to this the numerous letters I have received from correspondents,
known and unknown, all impeaching the party. I understand, too, that
Shri Jayaprakash Narayan is also ‘disillusioned’.

...
...

Lastly, I ask you to believe me that I want to impress the
services of every one of you for the cause of independence to be
fought along the lines that I have chalked out for myself and the
whole country. And if I am convinced that I am going astray and that
yours is the correct method, I would like to be won over by you
toyour side and I will sincerely and gladly serve as an apprentice
wanting to be enlisted as a unit in your ranks.

Yours sincerely,
M. K. GANDHI

1 Referring to this, the addressee, in his reply dated September 12, said: “It
hurts us more than you can imagine to read that our nation’s leader pleads prejudices
as standing in the way of examining slander against a young patriotic party.”

2 In his reply, the addressee said: “Mudslinging at political opponents is an
old weapon of those who have lost faith in the people and given up all moral values.”

3 Manoranjan Chaudhary was asked (vide “Letter to Manoranjan Chaudhary”,
24-7-1944) by Gandhiji to meet him on July 27. Dealing with this, Joshi said in his
reply that Manoranjan Chaudhary was the agent of Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee who
was bitterly anti-communist as he had been exposed by the communists.

4Vide Appendix “C. Rajagopalachari’s Formula”, after 5-8-1942.

5 War Against the People, by Kalyani Bhattacharya. Joshi alleged that she was
not the author, but Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee got it written and paid for its
publication.

6 Joshi said that he had not read it but glanced through it. Immediately on
receiving it, he had asked the Bengal Committee of Communist Party whether he
should answer it in People’s War to which they replied: “Need not bother because it
had been withdrawn from circulation as all decent Bengalees who read it felt disgusted
over it.”

7 Regarding Kaleswara Rao’s accusation, Joshi asked Gandhiji to call
Sundarayya, the Andhra Communist leader, and Kaleswara Rao together and judge or
to hold a trial in public with C. Rajagopalachari and Mrs. Sarojini Naidu as judges.
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The Letters of M K Gandhi Vol 1 (downloadable pdf)

[Bodhi]

Alright, here was the P C Joshi's letter, to be read between the above two:

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->LETTER FROM P. C. JOSHI1
BOMBAY,
June 14, 1944
DEAR GANDHIJI,
Your small chit came as a pleasant surprise that you were so eager to know
more about us. . . .
I am answering your points in a very brief manner. . . .

1. People in people’s war means all peoples the world over without exception.
It, of course, includes India’s millions and also the Negroes wherever they be. . . .
This war has split the world into two camps. On the one side . . . Fascists are fighting
the war for the imperialist domination of the world. . . . On the other side are the
freedom-loving peoples of the world. . . the camp of freedom and democracy. . .
fighting Fascism is the only path of national liberation from imperialist domination
for us today. . . . The more we unite our patriotic parties, the weaker and more isolated
becomes the alien Government and the more irresistible our national and other
demands, the greater our capacity to save and serve our people. The more our patriotic
parties engage themselves in those tasks which any war-time government should
successfully lead, but an alien Government cannot, the more speedily we get the
united intervention of all the peoples of the world behind our national demand for
national government in the common interest of fighting the common enemy.

2. If you desire to examine the accounts personally, they will present
themselves with all the registers where and when you desire. If you decide to appoint a
representative, he should besuch whom we also know to be an honest man and
notalready prejudiced against us. You will not find our accounts as well kept as by a
commercial firm but I am sure you will give us a pass. . . . You will find some
anonymous donors, but I believe that you also accept anonymous donors. But to
dispel any suspicion that “anonymous” may be code for Government cash, I am
prepared to give you (not your representative) the names. . . .
If you have yet any doubts left and in any case, I give you some references. . .
. Iftikharuddin and his Begum, Shaukat Ansari and Zohra, N. M. Joshi. You can ask
Dr. and Mrs. Subbaroyan as to what they think is going to happen to their property
when Mohan and Parvati (their children and our comrades) get it, and in fact what they
know happens to the property of the whole-time workers of the party. . . .

3. I know it is easy enough to make such a vile charge but very difficult to
prove it. . . . Firstly, I believe, if you find that we are not paid by the Government,
you will easily believe that we are not likely to hand over labour leaders to the police.
Secondly, our party, except in Ahmedabad and Jamshedpur, is as much the
unquestioned leader of the working class as the great Congress is of the Indian people
as a whole. . . . We gave up our strike policy because we considered it anti-national in
the conditions of today, aiding the Jap aggressors on the one hand and intensifying
the economic crisis for our own people on the other. That we successfully prevented
the Indian working class from resorting to strikes even in a period of their worsening
material conditions is the measure not only of our influence over it but its capacity to
understand national interests as its own.

4. There is no question of our “adopting the policy of infiltrating the
Congress organization”. We have been in the Congress ever since we were born as a
party. . . . Whether our intent is hostile or not, it is for our fellow Congressmen to
judge and for us to prove otherwise through our practice. . . . We are inside the
Congress on our right, as patriotic sons and daughters of the people who join the
common national organization, so that we may be able to fight our hardest and best
in realization of the common goal of national emancipation and no slanders can ever
provoke us to give up this stand and forgo the glorious privilege.

5. The Communist Party decides its own policy as it understands the interests
of its own people and of the peoples of the world. As long as the Communist
International was there, we were dubbed as ‘Moscow Agents’. It is rather surprising
to come across the same insinuation even after its dissolution. . . . The Communist
Party is one great revolutionary brotherhood. It exists in every country of the world.
All have the same ideology and are moved by the common aims of fighting for the
liberation of their own and all peoples. I can send you the journals and documents of the
Communist Parties of Britain, U.S.A., South Africa, Australia, which have nailed down
Amery & Co. as slanderers and provocateurs after August 9 and which have
unfalteringly demanded the release of the Congress leaders and settlement with India
on the basis of a real national government. . . .

P. C. JOSHI<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

To the Point # 2, I wish Gandhiji persisted in seeing the accounts. Metrokhin Archives has exposed CPI, including pre-independence funding of CPI by Moscow.

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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Former RSS Mandal Karyavahak stabbed to death by Marxist-Jihadi Terrorists</b>
18/11/2008 15:41:39  HK
Thrissur: One more swayamsevak sacrificed his life to the swords of CPM blood thirsty thugs. Former RSS Mandal Karyavahak of Vengitangu Vinod (34) was brutally stabbed to death by Marxist murder squad here at Vengidangu near Pavaratty in Thrissur district. Incident was reported by 7 pm Tuesday night.CPM thugs are hand in glove with Jihadi terrorists in the area. All recent attacks against Hindu activists stemmed from the result of Marxist-Jihadi deadly combination in Thrissur

Hit squad attacked came in white Maruti car hit the motor bike which Vinod was travelling along with his friend and after that assailants with lethal weapons like sword and iron rod killed him brutally. His was severed with multiple stabs across the body. The terror group cordoned off the area to make sure he is dead preventing public from taking the body to hospital. Though his body was taken to nearby hospital , he succumbed to injuries before reaching there.         

Vinod a painter by profession was going to his home along with his friend after work. His friend escaped marginally from the attack of Marxist terrorists. It was in August another swayamsevak, Baiju was killed by NDF terrorists in Thrissur district.   

Vinod was the sole hope of his family which includes four sisters and parents and a guiding light for the swayamsevaks in the area.

Situation is highly tense in the area , Reports of retaliation against the murder is also coming out from various places in Thrissur district. 

http://www.haindavakeralam.com/HKPage.aspx...eID=7577&SKIN=K
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[Shambhu]

Kerala CPM leader in sex scandal
http://www.haindavakeralam.com/HKPage.aspx...eID=7776&SKIN=K

Sreemathi creates History - First Woman Minister to be booked in a Sex Scandal

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<!--QuoteBegin-Shambhu+Dec 12 2008, 08:08 PM-->QUOTE(Shambhu @ Dec 12 2008, 08:08 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Kerala CPM leader in sex scandal
http://www.haindavakeralam.com/HKPage.aspx...eID=7776&SKIN=K

Sreemathi creates History - First Woman Minister to be booked in a Sex Scandal
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There was a time when people believed that the communists are principled ones and they believed in Proletarian Revolution and towards that end they would be willing to sacrifice their lives.

Today's communists are crooks with no principles and they know there is no such thing as 'proletarian internationalism'. So they have turned themselves into corrupt gangsters. Banning these mafias would bring about their immediate demise without any repercussion whatsoever.

[shamu]

<!--QuoteBegin-Savithri+Dec 21 2008, 08:50 AM-->QUOTE(Savithri @ Dec 21 2008, 08:50 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->There was a time when people believed that the communists are principled ones and they believed in Proletarian Revolution and towards that end they would be willing to sacrifice their lives.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
This was a myth people were made to believe. Follow their high level actions, and you will understand.

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http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fodna...e=abhinav&sid=1

<b>An Open Letter To Arundhati Roy</b>

Abhinav Kumar,Dec. 19

<i>To call the foreign funded insurgency in Kashmir and the terror attacks across the country as justified blowback for the failures of the Indian state and civil society is both false and callous. It implies a failure of the imagination and the intellect and the complete abdication of moral responsibility by you.</i>

Dear Ms Roy,

For many years now you have enriched the public life of our nation. First, as a Booker winning novelist with a meteoric debut on the literary firmament, and then as an essayist, persistently pricking the conscience of a sometimes indifferent and ignorant nation, highlighting wide ranging issues of urgent concern. Over the years your provocative essays in the pages of Outlook magazine amount to a substantial intellectual achievement in their own right. One has not always agreed with you, but from big dams to the nuclear bomb, from the vagaries of capitalism to the dangers of American Imperialism, your writings on these important issues have left no one in any doubt about where you stand. Disagree with them as one might, your views occupied an intellectually coherent and morally compelling space in our public life.

.....

[Husky]

<!--QuoteBegin-k.ram+Dec 22 2008, 08:38 AM-->QUOTE(k.ram @ Dec 22 2008, 08:38 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fodna...e=abhinav&sid=1

<b>An Open Letter To Arundhati Roy</b>

Abhinav Kumar,Dec. 19

<i>To call the foreign funded insurgency in Kashmir and the terror attacks across the country as justified blowback for the failures of the Indian state and civil society is both false and callous. It implies a failure of the imagination and the intellect and the complete abdication of moral responsibility by you.</i>

Dear Ms Roy,

For many years now you have enriched the public life of our nation.
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And then this statement addressed to Suzanna Margaret Roy:
"It implies a failure of the imagination and the intellect and the complete abdication of moral responsibility by you."
This sentence means to make out that she once had an imagination and an intellect (in order for these to have failed now) and that she was ever possessed of any moral responsibility for Suzanna to have abdicated it now. Mwahahahaha x 5.

Neither any imagination nor intellect that she's accused of having previously owned was what won her the "Booker Prize". In fact, her method to get it affords sufficient cause to psychoanalyse her and her current curious crusade on western imperialism ('curious', since in this she does not behave like the good little christian stooge she was programmed to be, whereas her counterpart Dinesh De Souza has perfectly learned to bow and kneel without command): obviously she blames the west for her "exploitation", though I'm sure she could not have been unwilling and had certainly been compensated for it with her Hooker Prize besides. It is ungenerous of her to complain about it now and devious (but christian) of her to try and get back at them by vindictively using her insincere "social activist causes".

In fact, I am not surprised any more that the Hooker Prize has turned out to be an unprestigious award after all. Teresa getting a Nobel Peace Pwize in spite of doing nothing for peace was a mystery for sometime, as was doubtless the Nobel award for something (economics perhaps?) given to that other anti-Hindu christian plant Amartya Sen. But an entry at Rajeev2004 blogspot finally explained it all to me:

http://rajeev2004.blogspot.com/2008/12/how...-his-nobel.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>How Amartya got his Nobel</b>
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/N...how/3858336.cms

    Several Nobel science prize committees in Sweden are being investigated for possible bribery, a special corruption prosecutor said

Posted by AGworld at 12/19/2008 01:44:00 AM 1 comments <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->While Nobel science pwizes and Nobel piece and litter-ature pwizes are slightly different, I am sure heathens need not resort to doing too much of complex computations to work out what happened and to appreciate that the sort of cheating to award the science pwize may have been applicable to other types of nobel pwizes (Teresa's Peace) as well.

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Communist demon uses secularist tool to destroy Hindu worship

[Guest]

<b>Marx & Engels passe, CPM MP says follow Modi</b>
30 Dec 2008, 0430 hrs IST, ET Bureau

NEW DELHI: This one has left the CPM speechless: One of its MPs has showered praises on Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, who became the proverbial red rag for the Left over the post-Godhra riots and advocacy of strident Hindutva.

Lok Sabha MP A P Abdullakutty cited brand Modi as the model for promoting development. “He has made Gujarat the “number one” investor-friendly state. One should learn lessons from Mr Modi on how to behave with investors,” he said. He did not stop at that. The MP went on to rub salt on the wounds of the West Bengal government over the loss of Tata’s Nano project to Gujarat by driving home the point that Mr Modi offered better incentives for investment.

Mr Abdullakutty, who was addressing the Dubai Media Forum on Sunday, also took on the party in Kerala saying if “unnecessary bandhs” were done away with in the state and infrastructure strengthened, there will be major development in the state. As if to calm his party leaders’ nerves, he added that he was against Mr Modi’s “anti-minority attitude”.

Though the CPM leadership is so far silent over the MP’s utterances, it is surely squirming with discomfort over them.

Mr Abdullakutty has caused embarrassment to the party on earlier occasions by his pilgrimage to Mecca, comments on party’s stand on religion and visit to a Nadi astrologer in Tamil Nadu, but his complimenting Mr Modi is blasphemy for the party. After all, for the CPM the Gujarat chief minister is the main villain of the 2002 riots in the state. A CPM leader had alleged that Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee was hand-in-glove with Mr Modi to ensure that Tata’s Nano project gets shifted to Gujarat.

Mr Abdullakutty is fishing in troubled waters. His comments come at a time when the party leadership is already in a flux over the fierce factionalism within the party in Kerala. Party general secretary Prakash Karat and polit bureau member S Ramachandran Pillai are in Kerala trying to find a way out of the crisis as the CPM braces up to face the Lok Sabha polls next year.

The party recently faced a setback in the by-poll in Shornur Municipal Council in Palakkad district, where it lost power after a gap of 26 years. The CPM stronghold was wrested by party rebels, who led by local leader M R Murali had floated Janakeeya Vikasana Samiti after they were expelled from the party for revolting against the district leadership. The rebels defeated CPM candidates.

The CPM, which has been trying to play down the loud bickering among the Kerala Marxists, is focusing all its attention on Kerala. The two-day party secretariat on December 26 and 27, attended by Mr Pillai, examined the factionalism in the light of the report of a party commission. The state committee meeting, being attended by Mr Karat, is beginning on Monday. The CPM central committee is holding its meeting in the state after a gap of 30 years from January 8 in Kochi.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/P...how/3911461.cms

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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Yuri Bezmenov was a member of Propaganda Team of KGB. He was posted in Delhi Embassy of Soviet Union in 60's to 1970. He defected in 1970 to USA.

In early 1980's there was a TV interview of Yuri Bezmenov which is given below in parts in YouTube link. It is interesting to know how communist subversion happens in many countries. <b>He shows how the Journalists, Writers, Academicians, politicians etc from India were indoctrinated in communism/Marxism. Especially the videos 6, 7, 8 where he shows with pictures how Indian professors would be indoctrinated & how many Indian academicians were dishonest.</b>


Play list : http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=...A85ECDC4FF


We don't have to accept everything he says or accept every analysis he makes. But he shows how "progressives”, "liberals", "human rights activists" etc are made.

Makes a lot of sense in Indian context. Nowadays, Christian churches & Arabian Mullahs are using the same above methods to create “pseudo secular activists , “journalists”, “Intellectuals” like Guha etc
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>CPM seeks explanation from MP</b>
pioneer.com
VR Jayaraj | Kannur
Faced with mounting protests from the grassroots and middle-level leaders, the Kannur district committee of the CPI(M) on Tuesday decided to seek an explanation from <b>AP Abdullakkutty, young party MP from Kannur, for his statement extolling Gujarat Chief Minister and senior BJP leader Narendra Modi for the development model he had set in his State.</b>

CPI(M) Kannur district secretary on Tuesday issued the show-cause notice to Abdullakkutty had been creating problems for the party for the past several months with his pro-religious statements, speech condemning the hartal culture and participating in community Namaz. Presently, Abdullakkuutty was a member of the Mayyil area committee of the party in Kannur.

The notice seeking explanation for his statement extolling Modi, seen as a class enemy and personification of ‘right wing Hindu fascism’ by the party, was delivered to Abdullakkutty's secretary in his office as the MP was out of station. Abdullakkutty informed the media that he would give a reply to the notice after his return from New Delhi. Party leaders did not expect a total recantation of his statement on Modi in the explanation he was to give to the party. When the statement had become a controversy and when newsmen raised the issue, Abdullakkutty refused to correct it but said he was referring to the model set by Modi as far as the development was concerned.

However, even Marxist party leaders did not see the notice as part of a serious disciplinary action as the CPI(M) was in a Catch 22 situation in issue where it could not initiate action against Abdullakkutty as the party thought he was awaiting <span style='color:red'>any such actin to use it as an excuse to leave the CPI(M) and join the Indian Union Muslim League.</span>  <!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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PNS | Kannur
The CPI(M) on Saturday suspended its Kannur MP, AP Abdullakkutty, from the party for a year for suggesting that Kerala should emulate the development model set by Gujarat CM Narendra Modi.

"This is a shock. I had expected the party to clear its misunderstanding when it saw my explanation but that has not happened. I loved the party but I loved development of this State too," Abdullakkutty said. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Now he can join Muslim leaque or Jihad.

[Bodhi]

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->How did Calcutta University degenerate from a position of primacy to one of utter despair? How did it lose the respect of its peers? Professor Santosh Bhattacharya, a former card carrying Communist, was VC of the university between 1984-87. His immaculate researched and stunningly documented book described how the ruling communist party systematically destroyed a great university

Published by the Statesman, Rs. 595/- .

KOLKATA, Jan. 23: Red Hammer Over Calcutta University (1984-1987), a book, which leading publishers in the country had declined to publish as its contents reveal bitter and controversial facts about Calcutta University in the period between 1984 and 1987, was released at Kolkata Press Club this evening.

The book, authored by former V-C of CU, Prof. Santosh Bhattacharyya and published by The Statesman, was released by Prof. Amlan Dutta, former V-C of Visva-Bharati and North Bengal University. Prof Bhattacharyya said that he started writing the book in 1999 and completed it in two years. Since then he has been in search of a publisher who can take up the challenge to publish a book containing controversies about the most prestigious educational institute of the state. It was on 23 December, 2007 that he had sent a letter to The Statesman and on the same day he received a positive reply. Prof Dutta said: “The book is an important historic document as it tells how Communist rule in the state attempted to establish some kind of totalitarian control over the educational institution.” Former registrar of V-B Prof Dilip Mukhopadhyay and the editor and managing director of The Statesman, Mr Ravindra Kumar, were also present on the occasion. Mr Kumar said The Statesman decided to publish the book because it revealed facts with meticulous documentation. n SNS
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Prof Angana Chatterji's Testimony and recommendations before the United States Commission December 2008

Recommendations for action in the United States:

Various diasporic charitable organizations affiliated with Hindu nationalist ideologies operate in the United States. This has been well documented with details submitted by me in the dossier. These organizations routinely maintain links with Hindu nationalist leaders and organizations in India, including in Orissa. As well, these diasporic organizations seek to influence public discourse and policy in the United States that relates to India. They also fundraise to export capital and resources to counterpart/ affiliate organizations in India, including in Orissa, that assist in various ways in promulgating Hindu nationalist ideology. It is imperative that charities involved in work that promulgates and maintains an infrastructure of hate and violence against minorities be so designated. A list of such charities must be responsibly developed in consultation with academics, researchers, and independent bodies with relevant expertise on the subject. Following such identification, investigations must be undertaken by relevant authorities into the actions of these organizations operating with charitable status. Note: The categorization of organizations that promulgate divisiveness, hate, and violence must occur with the utmost care and in a transparent manner, so as to not infringe on the freedoms, rights, and entitlements of organizations that legitimately undertake charitable work, or ensue the demonization of vulnerable groups and marginal, even unorthodox, perspectives. The objective is not to further involve the state in public life, but to note that the state is already involved in the ability of these organizations to function. Hindu nationalism operates as a transnational movement and the reach of its affiliated 'charitable' organizations in the United States continues internationally through groups they fund and support in India. Halting their interventions requires new ways of thinking about domestic and foreign policy and necessitates coordination between the United States and India as a tenet of bilateral cooperation.

Toward the above and further:

1.    Undertake a systematic, routine, and detailed investigation into the actions of diasporic Hindu nationalist groups to identify and investigate their status, actions, finances, and the actions and affiliations of their membership in the United States, as well as their affiliates and cadre. These groups must be investigated and monitored, and, as appropriate, requisite action must be taken and sanctions must be imposed on their activities.

2.    Many of these organizations, registered as charitable entities in the United States, routinely allocate sizeable amounts of money under 'program services', disproportionately directed to Hindu nationalist and affiliated groups in India. The effects of this have been documented in the organized violence against Muslims, aided by officials of the state government at the highest level, in Gujarat in 2002.

3.    Certain diasporic organizations affiliated with Hindu nationalism, such as the India Development Relief Fund (IDRF, Tax identification number 52-1555563) and Vishwa Hindu Parishad of America (VHP-A, Tax identification number 51-0156325), Sewa International (Tax identification number 20-0638718), and Ekal Vidyalaya Foundation of USA (Tax identification number 77-0554248) are registered as charity organizations in the United States. As their work appears to be political in nature, they should be audited and recognized as political organizations. A serious concern is whether the activities of these fall within the objectives of their tax-exempt status; whether in fact these organizations should have been registered as 501©3 groups given the nature of their activities, whether the monies collected are indeed used for the purposes for which they were collected, and whether illegal and political activities are being carried out in the name of social work. Given these concerns, the charitable status, and the rights and privileges thereof, enjoyed by these groups should be reviewed, and, where appropriate, revoked. Further, their activities should be monitored to determine their role in fomenting hate and undermining the human rights of various individuals and groups in India. Note: The VHP failed to gain recognition at the United Nations as a 'cultural organization' in 1999 because of its philosophical underpinnings, even as the VHP-A continues to function as an independent charity, registered in the United States since the 1970s.

4.    The Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh-USA (Tax identification number 52-1647017, an ideological affiliate of the militant Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh in India) and VHP-Overseas (Tax identification number 04-3576058) are registered as 501©3 groups and operate as cultural organizations, seeking to mainstream and lobby Hindu nationalist concerns in the United States. The impact of their activities in promulgating hate and perpetrating 'terror' and communal violence in India must be investigated.

5.    Monitor visa issuance to, and the travel of, Hindu nationalist leaders and activists charged with involvement in criminal acts. A case in point is Mr. Narendra Modi, the incumbent Chief Minister of Gujarat, who has been implicated in the violence orchestrated against Muslims in 2002, and whose visa was revoked by the United States in 2005, following advocacy on part of civil society groups and academics in the United States and support from Congressional members.

6.    Ensure that appointees to federal and state positions, or those that serve in an advisory capacity, or as experts to state officials are scrutinized for affiliations or linkages they may hold within Hindu nationalist groups. These affiliations, where they exist, should not be treated as benign, and a reasoned investigation must be undertaken to determine whether the prospective appointee or advisor is able to fulfill requisite service obligations with ideological and practical distance from Hindu nationalist agendas. A case in point is Ms. Sonal Shah, who was appointed to President-elect Barack Obama's 15-member Transition Team in November 2008. While her list of accomplishments and expertise run high, she has worked as a National Coordinator for the VHP-A and served on its Governing Council, and her organization, Indify, affiliated with Ekal Vidyalaya of India, and supported the ideological and political premises of Hindu nationalism, and their action programs.

7.    Ensure that international human rights and independent monitoring groups are invited to India on a regular basis to monitor the status of religious freedom and human rights of minority communities and allied faith and secular peoples and groups. The ability of international human rights and independent monitoring groups to work in alliance with local civil society institutions is crucial to interrupting the isolation disenfranchised/ minority groups experience and producing accountability.

8.    Ensure that the constitutionality and transparent implementation of security laws of India, as they pertain to religious groups and religious freedoms, are able to be rigorously monitored by international human rights and independent monitoring groups in alliance with local civil society institutions. These laws have been, without due cause, disproportionately and variously used by law enforcement agencies in India against minority communities and those dissenting unethical practices of the state, and their rights have not been duly protected.

9.    All bilateral projects must be assessed for their human rights implications, and cost-benefit analyses undertaken to determine/ensure that these projects are in fact positioned to make contributions that are empowering for disenfranchised groups, including minorities, so as to enable the restructuring of inequitable and institutionalized relations of power that lead to majoritarianism and communal violence.

Actions applicable to Orissa and at the national level in India:

Reciprocally, it is important to note certain actions that have been proposed by concerned citizens in India that the Government of India and Government of Orissa must undertake toward effective intervention into the organization and growth of Hindu nationalism. Toward this:

1.    In India, the Central Bureau of Investigation must be required to expeditiously investigate the activities of the Bajrang Dal, Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in Orissa, and apply, wherever necessary, relevant provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967. Section 2G of the Act, 'unlawful association' denotes: (1) 'that which has for its object any unlawful activity, or which encourages or aids persons to undertake any unlawful activity, or through which the members undertake such activity'; or (2) 'which has for its object any activity which is punishable under Section 153A or Section 153B of the Indian Penal Code 1860 ([Central Act] 45 of 1860) or which encourages or aids persons to undertake any such activity; or of which the members undertake any such activity'.

2.    A review panel must be appointed by the Government of Orissa, in consultation with the National Human Rights Commission, the National Minorities Commission, and other relevant independent bodies, such as the People's Union for Democratic Rights and People's Union for Civil Liberties, to identify and investigate the status, actions, finances, and membership of Hindu nationalist groups and their affiliates and cadre, and the actions of their membership. These groups must be investigated and monitored, and, as appropriate, requisite action must be taken and sanctions must be imposed on their activities, and reparations must be made retroactively to the affected communities and individuals. The Government of Orissa must act to stop instances of communalization from escalating into violent episodes.

3.    Hindu nationalist leaders, activists, and organizations in Orissa charged with involvement in criminal acts and involvement in actions that have led, or may lead, to communal violence must be investigated and prosecuted.

4.    Certain organizations, such as the VHP and Vanavasi Kalyan Ashram, are registered as cultural and charitable organizations. As their work appears to be political in nature, they should be audited and recognized as political organizations. A serious concern is whether the activities of Hindu nationalist charitable organizations fall within the objectives of the social trust/public charitable trust and whether in fact these organizations should have been registered as social trusts given the nature of their activities; whether the monies collected are indeed used for the purposes for which they were collected and whether illegal and political activities are being carried out in the name of social work. Given these concerns, the charitable status, and the rights and privileges thereof, enjoyed by these groups must be reviewed and necessary action taken.

5.    The Government of Orissa and the Central Government must make concerted efforts to identify, investigate, and eradicate paramilitary hate camps being operated in Orissa by the Hindu nationalist groups that instruct cadre in arms training and militancy with the express purpose of threatening and destroying disenfranchised and minority populations through social and economic boycotts, sporadic and organized intimidation, arson, rape, murder, and other forms of social, gendered, sexualized, economic, and physical violence.

6.    Various police and court investigations related to crimes against minorities have not been undertaken in Orissa. On various occasions, the police have refused to file First Information Reports (FIR). Police desks should be set up for registering minority grievances and filing FIRs, and the Government of Orissa must appoint a team of Special Public Prosecutors to conduct proceedings as necessary. Toward this, independent monitoring bodies must be supported and protected.

7.    The Government of India and the Government of Orissa must take adequate and expeditious steps to ensure that those who convert voluntarily to Christianity, Islam, or any other faith are allowed to practice their religion. Failing to do so is in serious violation of Articles 25-28 of the Constitution of India, which define the Fundamental Rights of every citizen of India, and those that the Government of India and the Government of Orissa are obligated to uphold. Toward this, independent monitoring bodies must be supported and protected.

8.    Hindu nationalist organizations are forcibly converting Christians and other non-Hindus in Orissa to Hinduism. Sangh Parivar activists claim India to be a Hindu nation and all Adivasis (tribals, indigenous peoples) and Dalits (erstwhile 'untouchable' groups) to be 'originally' Hindus, even as Adivasis and Dalits often do not self-identify as such. Drawing on such rationales, Hindu nationalist organizations justify coercion in 'bringing back' Adivasis or Dalits to Hinduism. Urgent steps should be taken to stop the Hinduization of these communities by means of coercion or duress. The police and courts must act immediately and authoritatively to stop Hindu nationalists from enacting forcible conversions or 'reconversions' , and the police must be required to submit regular and public reports documenting their work in this matter.

9.    The disparagement, demonization, and vilification of any religion should be statutorily prohibited and held punishable under the Indian Penal Code.

10.    The Orissa Freedom of Religion Act, 1967, must be reviewed and repealed.

11.    The Orissa Prevention of Cow Slaughter Act, 1960, must be reviewed and repealed.

12.    The Government of Orissa must establish and activate the State Minorities Commission.

13.    The BJD-BJP coalition government in Orissa must honor the Constitutional mandate requiring the separation of religion from state.

14.    Police, judicial, and governmental reform, including diversity training, must be addressed by relevant state institutions, and action taken against officers of the law and political servants who abuse their position of public trust by using their power to influence and support Hindu nationalist organizations and sustain a climate of communalism in Orissa.

15.    The Government of Orissa must adopt an integrated and sustainable approach to community development, and take concrete efforts to stop further ghettoization of minority communities. The Government of Orissa must promote non-segregated localities, housing complexes, housing societies, clubs, educational, and recreational institutions, and that the Government of Orissa must publicly support social interactions, including voluntary inter-caste, inter-faith, and inter-class unions, marriages, and partnerships.

16.    The Government of India must issue a White Paper on bomb blasts and terror attacks in India and constitute a Joint Parliamentary Committee that investigates such incidents.

17.    The law should be amended to obviate the requirement of prior sanction of the state before prosecuting anyone for hate speech.

18.    The Communal Violence (Prevention, Control and Rehabilitation of Victims) Bill, 2005, introduced in the Parliament of India in December 2005 and approved by the Union Cabinet in March 2007, must be passed, and with the requisite clauses to ensure state accountability. The bill, advocated by citizen motivated efforts for the prevention of genocide and crimes against humanity, in its official formulation as introduced by the Congress government, remained deficient in defining procedures for state and public accountability. As presently drafted, the law will become applicable only selectively. An amendment should do away with the law being made applicable only selectively, at places and times as convenient to the state. In addition, there exist no dedicated provisions for reparation and rehabilitation of victims/survivors. The bill fails to address issues of negligence displayed by state authorities in preventing and controlling communal violence, and in disbursing timely and just compensation and psychosocial rehabilitation, as well as establishing parameters for witness protection and for soliciting and recording victim testimonies. It fails to chart measures to bring justice and accountability with regard to gender and sex-based crimes in the event of communal violence (which is not effectively addressed by the Indian Penal Code or separate legislation) , and in imposing checks and balances on the state and its police and security forces, whose inertia and majoritarianist complicity in communal collisions have been consistent.

19.    On 29 November 1949, India became a signatory to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, approved by the United Nations General Assembly resolution 260 A (III) of 9 December 1948. On 27 August 1959, India ratified the Genocide Convention. However, India is yet to fulfill its obligatory commitment to enact legislation to implement the convention, which it must be compelled to undertake.   
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From: johndayal@vsnl.com <johndayal@vsnl.com>
Subject: [indiathinkersnet] How to stop the Sangh ( Prof Angana Chatterji)
To: indiathinkersnet@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, January 26, 2009, 7:00 AM

<b>Prof Angana Chatterji's Testimony and recommendations before the United States Commission December 2008</b>

<b>Recommendations for action in the United States:</b>
Various diasporic charitable organizations affiliated with Hindu nationalist ideologies operate in the United States. This has been well documented with details submitted by me in the dossier. These organizations routinely maintain links with Hindu nationalist leaders and organizations in India, including in Orissa. As well, these diasporic organizations seek to influence public discourse and policy in the United States that relates to India. They also fundraise to export capital and resources to counterpart/ affiliate organizations in India, including in Orissa, that assist in various ways in promulgating Hindu nationalist ideology. It is imperative that charities involved in work that promulgates and maintains an infrastructure of hate and violence against minorities be so designated. A list of such charities must be responsibly developed in consultation with academics, researchers, and independent bodies with relevant expertise on the subject. Following such identification, investigations must be undertaken by relevant authorities into the actions of these organizations operating with charitable status. Note: The categorization of organizations that promulgate divisiveness, hate, and violence must occur with the utmost care and in a transparent manner, so as to not infringe on the freedoms, rights, and entitlements of organizations that legitimately undertake charitable work, or ensue the demonization of vulnerable groups and marginal, even unorthodox, perspectives. The objective is not to further involve the state in public life, but to note that the state is already involved in the ability of these organizations to function. Hindu nationalism operates as a transnational movement and the reach of its affiliated 'charitable' organizations in the United States continues internationally through groups they fund and support in India. Halting their interventions requires new ways of thinking about domestic and foreign policy and necessitates coordination between the United States and India as a tenet of bilateral cooperation.

Toward the above and further:

1.    Undertake a systematic, routine, and detailed investigation into the actions of diasporic Hindu nationalist groups to identify and investigate their status, actions, finances, and the actions and affiliations of their membership in the United States, as well as their affiliates and cadre. These groups must be investigated and monitored, and, as appropriate, requisite action must be taken and sanctions must be imposed on their activities.

2.    Many of these organizations, registered as charitable entities in the United States, routinely allocate sizeable amounts of money under 'program services', disproportionately directed to Hindu nationalist and affiliated groups in India. The effects of this have been documented in the organized violence against Muslims, aided by officials of the state government at the highest level, in Gujarat in 2002.

3.    Certain diasporic organizations affiliated with Hindu nationalism, such as the India Development Relief Fund (IDRF, Tax identification number 52-1555563) and Vishwa Hindu Parishad of America (VHP-A, Tax identification number 51-0156325), Sewa International (Tax identification number 20-0638718), and Ekal Vidyalaya Foundation of USA (Tax identification number 77-0554248) are registered as charity organizations in the United States. As their work appears to be political in nature, they should be audited and recognized as political organizations. A serious concern is whether the activities of these fall within the objectives of their tax-exempt status; whether in fact these organizations should have been registered as 501©3 groups given the nature of their activities, whether the monies collected are indeed used for the purposes for which they were collected, and whether illegal and political activities are being carried out in the name of social work. Given these concerns, the charitable status, and the rights and privileges thereof, enjoyed by these groups should be reviewed, and, where appropriate, revoked. Further, their activities should be monitored to determine their role in fomenting hate and undermining the human rights of various individuals and groups in India. Note: The VHP failed to gain recognition at the United Nations as a 'cultural organization' in 1999 because of its philosophical underpinnings, even as the VHP-A continues to function as an independent charity, registered in the United States since the 1970s.

4.    The Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh-USA (Tax identification number 52-1647017, an ideological affiliate of the militant Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh in India) and VHP-Overseas (Tax identification number 04-3576058) are registered as 501©3 groups and operate as cultural organizations, seeking to mainstream and lobby Hindu nationalist concerns in the United States. The impact of their activities in promulgating hate and perpetrating 'terror' and communal violence in India must be investigated.

5.    Monitor visa issuance to, and the travel of, Hindu nationalist leaders and activists charged with involvement in criminal acts. A case in point is Mr. Narendra Modi, the incumbent Chief Minister of Gujarat, who has been implicated in the violence orchestrated against Muslims in 2002, and whose visa was revoked by the United States in 2005, following advocacy on part of civil society groups and academics in the United States and support from Congressional members.

6.    Ensure that appointees to federal and state positions, or those that serve in an advisory capacity, or as experts to state officials are scrutinized for affiliations or linkages they may hold within Hindu nationalist groups. These affiliations, where they exist, should not be treated as benign, and a reasoned investigation must be undertaken to determine whether the prospective appointee or advisor is able to fulfill requisite service obligations with ideological and practical distance from Hindu nationalist agendas. A case in point is Ms. Sonal Shah, who was appointed to President-elect Barack Obama's 15-member Transition Team in November 2008. While her list of accomplishments and expertise run high, she has worked as a National Coordinator for the VHP-A and served on its Governing Council, and her organization, Indify, affiliated with Ekal Vidyalaya of India, and supported the ideological and political premises of Hindu nationalism, and their action programs.

7.    Ensure that international human rights and independent monitoring groups are invited to India on a regular basis to monitor the status of religious freedom and human rights of minority communities and allied faith and secular peoples and groups. The ability of international human rights and independent monitoring groups to work in alliance with local civil society institutions is crucial to interrupting the isolation disenfranchised/ minority groups experience and producing accountability.

8.    Ensure that the constitutionality and transparent implementation of security laws of India, as they pertain to religious groups and religious freedoms, are able to be rigorously monitored by international human rights and independent monitoring groups in alliance with local civil society institutions. These laws have been, without due cause, disproportionately and variously used by law enforcement agencies in India against minority communities and those dissenting unethical practices of the state, and their rights have not been duly protected.

9.    All bilateral projects must be assessed for their human rights implications, and cost-benefit analyses undertaken to determine/ensure that these projects are in fact positioned to make contributions that are empowering for disenfranchised groups, including minorities, so as to enable the restructuring of inequitable and institutionalized relations of power that lead to majoritarianism and communal violence.

Actions applicable to Orissa and at the national level in India:
Reciprocally, it is important to note certain actions that have been proposed by concerned citizens in India that the Government of India and Government of Orissa must undertake toward effective intervention into the organization and growth of Hindu nationalism. Toward this:

1.    In India, the Central Bureau of Investigation must be required to expeditiously investigate the activities of the Bajrang Dal, Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in Orissa, and apply, wherever necessary, relevant provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967. Section 2G of the Act, 'unlawful association' denotes: (1) 'that which has for its object any unlawful activity, or which encourages or aids persons to undertake any unlawful activity, or through which the members undertake such activity'; or (2) 'which has for its object any activity which is punishable under Section 153A or Section 153B of the Indian Penal Code 1860 ([Central Act] 45 of 1860) or which encourages or aids persons to undertake any such activity; or of which the members undertake any such activity'.

2.    A review panel must be appointed by the Government of Orissa, in consultation with the National Human Rights Commission, the National Minorities Commission, and other relevant independent bodies, such as the People's Union for Democratic Rights and People's Union for Civil Liberties, to identify and investigate the status, actions, finances, and membership of Hindu nationalist groups and their affiliates and cadre, and the actions of their membership. These groups must be investigated and monitored, and, as appropriate, requisite action must be taken and sanctions must be imposed on their activities, and reparations must be made retroactively to the affected communities and individuals. The Government of Orissa must act to stop instances of communalization from escalating into violent episodes.

3.    Hindu nationalist leaders, activists, and organizations in Orissa charged with involvement in criminal acts and involvement in actions that have led, or may lead, to communal violence must be investigated and prosecuted.

4.    Certain organizations, such as the VHP and Vanavasi Kalyan Ashram, are registered as cultural and charitable organizations. As their work appears to be political in nature, they should be audited and recognized as political organizations. A serious concern is whether the activities of Hindu nationalist charitable organizations fall within the objectives of the social trust/public charitable trust and whether in fact these organizations should have been registered as social trusts given the nature of their activities; whether the monies collected are indeed used for the purposes for which they were collected and whether illegal and political activities are being carried out in the name of social work. Given these concerns, the charitable status, and the rights and privileges thereof, enjoyed by these groups must be reviewed and necessary action taken.

5.    The Government of Orissa and the Central Government must make concerted efforts to identify, investigate, and eradicate paramilitary hate camps being operated in Orissa by the Hindu nationalist groups that instruct cadre in arms training and militancy with the express purpose of threatening and destroying disenfranchised and minority populations through social and economic boycotts, sporadic and organized intimidation, arson, rape, murder, and other forms of social, gendered, sexualized, economic, and physical violence.

6.    Various police and court investigations related to crimes against minorities have not been undertaken in Orissa. On various occasions, the police have refused to file First Information Reports (FIR). Police desks should be set up for registering minority grievances and filing FIRs, and the Government of Orissa must appoint a team of Special Public Prosecutors to conduct proceedings as necessary. Toward this, independent monitoring bodies must be supported and protected.

7.    The Government of India and the Government of Orissa must take adequate and expeditious steps to ensure that those who convert voluntarily to Christianity, Islam, or any other faith are allowed to practice their religion. Failing to do so is in serious violation of Articles 25-28 of the Constitution of India, which define the Fundamental Rights of every citizen of India, and those that the Government of India and the Government of Orissa are obligated to uphold. Toward this, independent monitoring bodies must be supported and protected.

8.    Hindu nationalist organizations are forcibly converting Christians and other non-Hindus in Orissa to Hinduism. Sangh Parivar activists claim India to be a Hindu nation and all Adivasis (tribals, indigenous peoples) and Dalits (erstwhile 'untouchable' groups) to be 'originally' Hindus, even as Adivasis and Dalits often do not self-identify as such. Drawing on such rationales, Hindu nationalist organizations justify coercion in 'bringing back' Adivasis or Dalits to Hinduism. Urgent steps should be taken to stop the Hinduization of these communities by means of coercion or duress. The police and courts must act immediately and authoritatively to stop Hindu nationalists from enacting forcible conversions or 'reconversions' , and the police must be required to submit regular and public reports documenting their work in this matter.

9.    The disparagement, demonization, and vilification of any religion should be statutorily prohibited and held punishable under the Indian Penal Code.

10.    The Orissa Freedom of Religion Act, 1967, must be reviewed and repealed.

11.    The Orissa Prevention of Cow Slaughter Act, 1960, must be reviewed and repealed.

12.    The Government of Orissa must establish and activate the State Minorities Commission.

13.    The BJD-BJP coalition government in Orissa must honor the Constitutional mandate requiring the separation of religion from state.

14.    Police, judicial, and governmental reform, including diversity training, must be addressed by relevant state institutions, and action taken against officers of the law and political servants who abuse their position of public trust by using their power to influence and support Hindu nationalist organizations and sustain a climate of communalism in Orissa.

15.    The Government of Orissa must adopt an integrated and sustainable approach to community development, and take concrete efforts to stop further ghettoization of minority communities. The Government of Orissa must promote non-segregated localities, housing complexes, housing societies, clubs, educational, and recreational institutions, and that the Government of Orissa must publicly support social interactions, including voluntary inter-caste, inter-faith, and inter-class unions, marriages, and partnerships.

16.    The Government of India must issue a White Paper on bomb blasts and terror attacks in India and constitute a Joint Parliamentary Committee that investigates such incidents.

17.    The law should be amended to obviate the requirement of prior sanction of the state before prosecuting anyone for hate speech.

18.    The Communal Violence (Prevention, Control and Rehabilitation of Victims) Bill, 2005, introduced in the Parliament of India in December 2005 and approved by the Union Cabinet in March 2007, must be passed, and with the requisite clauses to ensure state accountability. The bill, advocated by citizen motivated efforts for the prevention of genocide and crimes against humanity, in its official formulation as introduced by the Congress government, remained deficient in defining procedures for state and public accountability. As presently drafted, the law will become applicable only selectively. An amendment should do away with the law being made applicable only selectively, at places and times as convenient to the state. In addition, there exist no dedicated provisions for reparation and rehabilitation of victims/survivors. The bill fails to address issues of negligence displayed by state authorities in preventing and controlling communal violence, and in disbursing timely and just compensation and psychosocial rehabilitation, as well as establishing parameters for witness protection and for soliciting and recording victim testimonies. It fails to chart measures to bring justice and accountability with regard to gender and sex-based crimes in the event of communal violence (which is not effectively addressed by the Indian Penal Code or separate legislation) , and in imposing checks and balances on the state and its police and security forces, whose inertia and majoritarianist complicity in communal collisions have been consistent.

19.    On 29 November 1949, India became a signatory to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, approved by the United Nations General Assembly resolution 260 A (III) of 9 December 1948. On 27 August 1959, India ratified the Genocide Convention. However, India is yet to fulfill its obligatory commitment to enact legislation to implement the convention, which it must be compelled to undertake.   
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Pioneer News Service | New Delhi
pioneer.com
Speaking the language of Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee, Kerala Chief <b>Minister VS Achuthanandan reminded the Central leadership of the CPI(M) that the party can't impose its diktat on him as he was holding a constitutional responsibility.</b>

Refusing to endorse the CPI(M) Politburo's criticism of the <b>CBI for seeking sanction for prosecution of State unit secretary Pinarayi Vijayan in the Lavalin corruption case, the Communist veteran reminded the party bosses that he could not toe their line as the Chief Minister</b>.

"I am not only a party worker, but also a Chief Minister who has to abide by the constitutional responsibilities. This (Lavalin case) was investigated by the CBI under the direct observation of the High Court. How can I criticise the CBI like the others? I am a Chief Minister, responsible for the people," he told reporters on Tuesday.

Making it clear that he would keep off the road show led by Vijayan across Kerala, Achuthanandan said he would not tolerate or support any corruption case like the Lavalin scandal, where his fellow comrade was an accused.

"Communists can't be corrupt and no Communist can tolerate corruption," <!--emo&:roll--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ROTFL.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='ROTFL.gif' /><!--endemo-->  he asserted. However, when asked if he considered Vijayan corrupt, Achuthanandan refused to be drawn into any controversy. <b>"I can't name anyone. The matter is pending before the court, so I can't answer. Let us wait for the verdict," </b>he said.

<b>To a question on his criticism by an Intellectual Wing leader for "anti-party" stand, Achuthanandan shot back: "You don't expect me to reply to that monkey's comments." T</b>his Intellectual wing leader is a strong supporter of Vijayan and has been criticising the Chief Minister vehemently after the controversy.
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[Pandyan]

I'm trying to find out the extent of commie support for China during the sino-indian border war and after that. Anyone have anything?

[Bodhi]

plenty of books available on the subject. Best research was published, IIRC, by Arun Shourie.

[Husky]

http://rajeev2004.blogspot.com/2009/01/aft...ing-caught.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>after the whites, it's the reds getting caught with hand in honey-pot: pinarayi vijayan and the lavalin case</b>
(Again: the writers for the Rajeev2004 blog often use 'whites' for the christianists: the Indian <i>and</i> entire global variety.)
jan 25th, 2009

we have seen john "your honor, i was only getting spiritual nourishment from the sexy 25-year-old" thattunkal aka the vampire of cochin.

the judge's reaction: "bwahahahahaha". he rolls on the floor, laughing so much that tears come out of his eyes. when he recovers, he asks thattunkal to approach and asks him quietly: "this is such a great scam! how can i get a pneumatic 25-year-old? can i talk of 'legal nourishment'"? it is not recorded what the vampire said in response.

then of course there's the kottoor-puthrukkyail-seffi menage-a-trois.

the judge apparently wanted to know in which order kottoor and puthrukkayil were bonking seffi. who went first, etc. he was also curious as to why they felt the need to do it in the kitchen, and not in the privacy of the godmen's lavish chambers. seffi explained: "we were just looking to add some masala to our affair, your honor. and of course, where do you get the masala except in the kitchen?"

anyway, the whites have been thoroughly humiliated and laughed at by all concerned. and oh, the church finally relieved the murderer-fornicators of their duties (eg. as 'chancellor' -- whatever that means, etc.) these guys really have no shame, do they? talk of the epidermis of a rhinoceros!

and they had to go back to the pius xth convent, and while a jeering crowd waited outside, had to recreate the murder. it is not clear if they recreated the bonking as well. actually, it would have been just as well they didn't. none of the three murderers is exactly a spring chicken. who wants to see, as they say in malayalam, 'moori-srngaram', ie the amorousness of old cattle? or, to put in idiomatically in english, the amorousness of old goats.

and now, here comes news further news that pinarayi vijayan, the utterly insufferable (and very wealthy) communist supremo is being prosectued for corruption on a large scale in the lavalin palm-oil affair, which he okayed as electricity minister, apparently enriching himself and assorted hangers-on.

of course, the red brigade is crying, "poliitical vendetta", etc. to which, the response is the usual anodyne pseudo-secular response whenever a hindu is being unfairly brutalized: "let the law take its course". yeah, take that, bozos!

http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.a...me=X7s7i|xOZ5Y=

http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-80730.html

yes, even the chinese newspaper had to carry the story, must have broken n ram's heart, i suppose:

http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/002...231605.htm

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