Intolerance, Sanjiv Bhatt and NGOs

Riots wherever happened are not only unfortunate but should be condemned in the worst possible words. For past over 13 years Mr. Narendra Modi has been accused of being a silent spectator of 2002 riots. However, these accusations were not based on facts. This was proven last month when Supreme Court dismissed Mr. Sanjiv Bhatt's petition against Mr. Modi.

Not only SC did reject his petition out rightly but also passed serious strictures against him such as:

1.     Liar

2.     Did not come with clean hands

3.     Trying to influence witnesses

4.     Leaking information to NGOs

The complete verdict can be found on http://indiankanoon.org/doc/90920551/. Did the electronic media take cognizance of this very very important news? Yes, for a change!!! Watch it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BIY9ExpFNQ. There were emails exchanged between Sanjiv Bhatt and Congress Leader Shakti Singh Gohil in which Sanjiv Bhatt asks him for Blackberry phone!!! The Congress party bribes an IPS officer? Sanjiv Bhatt’s wife fought elections on Congress ticket!!! The link between Congress party and Sanjiv Bhatt who has been declared a liar by H’ble SC has been clearly exposed. In the email exchange Sanjiv Bhatt also writes that a pressure group be created with help of NGOs!!! This is what the congress party is. Congress party accepted on NewsHour that they had links with Sanjiv Bhatt, they are now disowning him (use and throw, similar to Sitaram Kesari, Narsimha Rao, etc…) Should the people of India who have decided to make India a Congress Free Country wait for any longer?

It is now completely clear that Mr. Narendra Modi had not given any instructions to Sanjiv Bhatt to stop actions against rioters and the Gujarat 2002 riots were a clear reaction of Godhra. A large number (probably the highest in any riot) of Hindus have died in police firing also is a clear evidence that the government has tried its best to control the situation. Further the Gujarat government also asked help from Rajasthan, Maharashtra and MP all Congress ruled states. Nobody offered any help to Gujarat government. This is on record and true.

What has this to do with NGOs? All the while since 2002 a large number of NGOs were involved in defaming Gujarat and India. Most NGOs are funded by none other than American funding agencies. These funding agencies and further the NGOs are the babies of US government and work very similarly to the credit rating agencies such as Moody’s, Fitch, S&P, etc… This is a very large political nexus which most countries don’t understand. Further these NGOs are involved in anti-national activities. They protest against big ticket projects which will take India forward by several decades. They fund Indian NGOs who work against government whom they don’t like. Thus these NGOs have their own preferences of the governments. And Modi government is not their choice. Further these NGOs don’t provide any statement of accounts to the Indian government. All this was not only tolerated by accepted by none other than Congress. Congress was hand in glove in various wrong economic and agricultural decisions by their government. Mr. Narendra Modi has recognized this.

India has toughened rules governing charities, raising concern in WASHINGTON, and this year the government cancelled the registration of nearly 9,000 groups for failing to declare details of overseas donations.

Modi's government has accused foreign charities of trying to hamper industrial projects on social and environmental grounds, and he has criticized what he called "five-star activists."

Under a proposed law, foreign-funded NGOs face more regulatory hurdles and must agree their work will not be "detrimental to the national interest."

B.K. Prasad, the official overseeing the home ministry's new approach, told Reuters, the government had no intention of forcing NGOs to close.

But we have every right to streamline their work," he said. "This attititude that nobody can question influential donors must be put to an end."

US Ambassador Richard Verma has said the United States was in dialogue with India on the matter and he WARNED that the tougher approach may have a "CHILLING EFFECT" on civil society and democratic traditions.

AND WE ALL ARE SEEING WHAT IS THE CHILLING EFFECT.

One such NGO which has its funds dried up is the FORD foundation. And one of the trustee of this NGO is none other than our own Shri Narayan Murthy. When nothing works for Murthy, he resorts to talk about intolerance. I have lost all the respect I had for this person all these years.

NOW ARE WE CLEAR ON WHO AND HOW AND WHY THE PROTESTS AGAINST INTOLERANCE WERE ORGANIZED?

Coming back to the Sanjiv Bhatt’s case, it has been proven that he was only a puppet acting on behalf of Congress. The vital concern is that the congress party is deliberately polarizing the atmosphere which may culminate in a riot like situation, only to further blame Modi government of intolerance!!! This is the true face of Congress Party of which claims to be a grand old party led by Mahatma Gandhi!!

The Congress government has nothing to say against the Modi government on any development issue. They cannot fight politically against Modi government. Thus they resort to such activities.

GST and Land acquisition bills are stalled by Congress

Parliament is not allowed to function and just shout and howl.

With this blog, I am appealing to Congress party leadership to apologize to the people of Gujarat and India for falsely campaigning and using, tutoring a police officer against a section of people of India. Let the parliament function and crucial bills be passed for sake of this country. Don’t mislead people. They are wiser than you think Rahul Gandhi is.

Moody’s, Writers, Awards, Amnesia, Hallucination etc…..

Last week Moody’s cautioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi that he risked losing the domestic and global credibility if BJP controversialists were not reined in.

The moment this agency issued the caution, there was a huge hullabaloo. People behind the hullabaloo conveniently forgot that the very agency also said, “Key economic reforms could deliver greater potential GDP, as they would improve India’s productive capacity. These include the land acquisition bill, a national goods and service tax, and revamped labour laws. They are unlikely to pass through Parliament in 2015, but there is an even chance of success in 2016,” Moody’s also said that “Modi government has cleared stalled projects worth 60B$” which are the legacy of Congress government.

Although there is no reason to believe any positive or negative reports of any credit rating agency. They are just one of the way to control governments which are not the natural ally of the US. The world knows that they are conveniently manipulated to suit to USA position and condition which prevail at that time. People and my friends may not “accept” what I say, I request them to “tolerate” me.

Anyway, taking a clue from the report the Congress party arranged a march on 3^rd November.

The march included members of congress party, MPs, and a large number of security personnel. In fact, the number of security personnel almost outnumbered the march members.

And why not? This is for the first time in the history of Indian politics where the President, Vice President, party office bearers and members of a grand old party, protested against their own chief ministers!!! One from the ruling Karnataka and 2^nd the former CM from Maharashtra. Hence they needed the protection from their own party people.

Oops…People reading this blog will react by saying “Are you out of your mind? The protest march was against the growing intolerance, not present or former Congress governments”.

The counter question, forget many, I will ask is why not consider this as march against Congress governments? After all the law and order situation is the responsibility of state government!!! Does the Centre have any role to play in maintaining day to day law and order situation in each state? Is the Congress party not aware of this simple fact? Therefore, I say, the protest march was against Congress state governments not the Centre.

The protests have come too little, too late. Had these protests happened immediately after Shri Dabholkar’s and Kalburgi’s murder, the protests and march could have had some value. The march could have had some value had they arranged the same when Nirbhaya died. The march could have had immense value had it happened immediately after the highly condemnable Dadri incident. All these incidents happened when either Congress party or Samajwadi Party was in power!!! Not only they were in power, they were solely responsible to investigate the murders and put the culprits behind the bars. Both Dabholkar’s and Kalburgi’s murderers are still at large. When the congress party government is unable to fulfil this basic responsibility, I have no option but to say that the march is against their own governments. Thousands of Sikhs were butchered and the then Congress Prime Minister shamelessly said “When a tree falls, the earth is bound to shake”. Why did the march not happen then?

There are several such incidents much more heinous in nature in the history of this country when such kind of march did not happen.

There would be innumerable such questions which can be asked and each time the answer would be that as a common man, I have no fear of expressing my views publicly. I have voted for Modi and I have every right to ask him questions on the promises he made during his campaign. Even the Congress party has the same right. They could do so by asking pinching questions in the Parliament. But what have they done? They obstruct the functioning of Parliament; they don’t allow passage of bills which were initiated by their own government in the past. This shows that this party does not want the Modi government to function; this party does not want India to develop. Their only agenda is opposing this government because they are in opposition.

Let us come back to the liberals, seculars and activists. There is an argument from these so called liberals that the freedom of expression is being suppressed. 

My simple question is, How?

Few days back, Anupam Kher asked Arnab Goswamy on the news hour, whether he has received any call from the ministry of information and broadcasting, or the PMO or even a hint from any politician to refrain from showing certain subjects on the channel. The answer was a clear no. The media being so expressive these days, would give a tough fight against any of these censorship attempts. Since there is no report or show on prime time of any channel, there is every reason to believe that no such "threats" have been issued.

Lets talk what is the condition of common man.

Can the film makers make films on the subjects they chose? The answer is yes.

Does the government tell any film maker to not make films on certain subjects? The answer is no.

Has any political party or RSS taken away the freedom of any artist to return the award? A loud no. no….

Has the BJP or prime minister send police to any citizen’s house to ask why he criticized him or the government? At least police have not come to my house even when I have criticized several ministers, even @narendramodi or @dev_fadnavis on twitter or facebook. A big positive is when I have written to the @pmoindia on 2 occasions, I have seen that a change happened immediately within a day. That clearly means that you can definitely write to the highest authority in this country and expect an action within a shortest possible time.

Can people watch movies or even porn whenever they want? A big yes.

Can people buy anything and everything they want, depending on their affordability of course; anywhere in this country? Again yes.

Can you travel anywhere in this country without any fear from a certain community? Yes. I have and am travelling frequently to most parts of this country except the NE and have never felt insecure even at 3am at night.

Can you eat whatever you want? Pizza’s burgers, any continental food, drink the finest wines, or even a desi tharra if you prefer? Absolutely yes.

Can you have sex with your wife or your girlfriend with mutual consent. This question is highly private but at least for me, the answer is yes. No government or Modi has told me either to have or not have sex.

Can you read any book I want or like? Yes.

Can you celebrate your festival the way you like? Burst crackers, celebrate Eid, buy clothes, sweets, etc… A big big yes.

Further, It would be interesting to check a many more similar questions.

The only controversy is on eating beef. The controversy is being created as if, each and every person who is protesting against the law, eats beef in breakfast, lunch and dinner on a daily basis; and there is absolutely nothing left in the world to eat apart from beef and people are starving to death without eating beef!! How many of the awardees themselves eat beef? The prime question I have in my mind is “Why not accept a religious sentiment of a certain community by not eating beef?” Why not come forward and say “We respect your religious sentiments. We won’t kill a cow?" Why not have some “tolerance” there?

I was watching the debate on newshour on @timesnow 2 weeks back. The panelist included a lady called Maya Krishna Rao. A very basic question popped up. “Why the awards weren’t returned when innumerable incidents happened during in the past?” The answer was worth listening. She said “I decide when to take the award and when to return. Nobody can question my liberty. I choose how and when to react to whom”. When she has this basic fundamental right of returning the award, how on earth she could say her fundamental right has been curtailed. She is an eminent theatre personality and writes, directs and acts in plays for which she received a Sahitya Academy Award in 2010. The very same year Deganga riots happened right under UPA rule from whom she took the award. Did she not have the freedom to return the award then?

Several incidents which happened the UPA rule, Congress ruled states in past 10 years, Taslima Nasreen's book was banned, James Laine book was banned inspite of Supreme Court lifting the ban, A cartoonist Aseem Trivedi was arrested on sedition charges during Prithviraj Chavan rule, Dalits were killed in Khairlanji again during Congress rule. The list can be gigantic. A ban on a marathi play "Me Nathuram Godsay Boltoy" is still there by NCP leadership. This play is not allowed at the famous Gadkari Rangayatan in Thane!!! Where was the conscience of the writers then? Again this lady replies, “It’s my convenience. I choose my time”. This means she even has the freedom of choosing the time of returning the award. How can she claim her fundamental right has been violated?.

Further she asks a counter question involvement of Modi in 2002 riots. My question is why the award wapsi programme was not organized in 2002 itself?

Out comes the truth, Mr. Modi is ruling now who is a highly communal figure. Let’s recall, that even the H’ble Supreme Court has discharged all cases and not a single evidence has been found against him. Even the case of Sanjiv Bhatt, the police officer during the 2002 riots has been proven to be lying in Supreme Court in a recent judgement.

The truth still prevails. And the truth is a lot of people in this country cannot tolerate a non-Congress government. People in Congress party cannot tolerate the progress and development which is likely to happen by passage of the land bill, GST bill and several other bills which are aimed to take this country forward.

People who are returning the awards are not only insulting the people of this country due to whom they have got this award but also the hard work of co-artists. Award returnees conveniently have forgotten the contribution of the jury members, one of them could even be an ideologue of BJP? The award wapsi is nothing but a farce on which people of this country and the world is laughing.

I conclude by saying that the award returnees are suffering from selective amnesia. They forget to return their awards for incidents happened during Congress rule. They return their awards for the same incidents during BJP rule as a mark of protest against intolerance by BJP. They could even be hallucinating. A person suffering from hallucination sees nonexistent things. And in India, the so called intolerance described by the seculars, liberals, writers, is nonexistent. If at all intolerance exists, it is the intolerance in the minds of the writers and activists who cannot “tolerate” a non-Congress government in India.

Till this award wapsi farce continues there is no threat to Modi government as people forget the prime issue; DELIVERIES OF PROMISES. The sooner the Congress party realizes this, better is the chance of revival of the grand old party. Otherwise its time up

Will Congress revive anytime soon? Or its time-up?

When people become desperate, they take wrong decisions. And the wrong decisions lead to their doom.

Today, Congress party has come to such a juncture where it has become critical for the party to decide, what it wants to do today to secure its future. One wrong decision and the country will lose this grand old party.

For the past 4 years the party has been on a losing spree. They lost elections in all important states barring Karnataka. Now they rule most of the insignificant states. All the important states are being ruled by either BJP or other regional parties.

So what is the future of Congress? Does this grand old party have an opportunity to revive itself? Or they have lost it and its time up!!

Let’s do an analysis.

2004 UPA1

This was the year when Indian economy had recovered completely from the aftershocks of 1998 Pokhran blasts and sanctions that followed. The economy was growing at 8%. For the first time in long time foreign exchange reserves were very strong. Vajpayee government had taken huge initiatives to build the infrastructure and successfully implemented the golden quadrilateral highway project and made a significant progress to create a huge road network. All in all, it was a surprise loss for BJP and a big big surprise win for Congress.

With the economy progressing at a good pace UPA 1 had a great launch pad for itself to take India further forward and assert its legitimate position. The Manmohan Singh government made a significant progress till 2008 and carried forward the programmes which were started by NDA. The most important achievements of UPA 1 was trying to complete the 123 Civil Nuclear agreement which later helped us to initiate similar agreements with other countries such France, Australia, etc… Prime Minister Manmohan Singh showed a great resolve to conclude the agreement, however the Left withdrew the support of the government. The Prime Minster once again showed his political maturity and diplomacy in working together with Samajwadi Party. The BJP still had not recovered from the loss and did everything possible to stall the deal, which actually was initiated with GW Bush by none other than their own PM Shri Vajpayee.

Another significant achievement of UPA 1 was the initiation of Musharraf – Manmohan Singh pact to resolve the Kashmir issue once for all. All the while and almost every good decision of Manmohan Singh was projected to be taken by Congress party primarily by Rahul Gandhi and Manmohan Singh never got or even try to stake claim for the credit of the achievements of the government.

Here Congress party employed a strategy of projecting Rahul Gandhi for all good decisions and achievements and at the same time blaming the Prime Minster for all the unsuccessful or stalled projects. At every juncture, the Prime Minister had to fight tooth and nail and finally give up to even junior ministers. The term “accidental prime minster” used by Manmohan Singh for himself was exploited by each and every Congressman.

2008 was the best year of Indian economy where it registered the highest growth of 9%. Inspite of lot of good things and few bad things of UPA 1, UPA never expected to win another election due to quite a few bad things like Common Wealth games scam happening in 2009. The BJP was still in search for their win and tried their best. Still they did not manage a win and conceded a defeat to Congress. The win by Congress was only and only due to the clean image of the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

2009 UPA 2

Buoyant and confident due to the win, there was no better candidate than Manmohan Singh for the second term as Prime Minister although many from the party tried to project Rahul Gandhi as a candidate. Sonia Gandhi probably wiser than the Congressmen, vetoed in favour of Manmohan Singh. However, the troubles started for Mr. Singh from the day one. He was unable to decide on his cabinet members. Many decisions which should have been taken by him were taken by the party and he was held responsible for all the wrong results.

To add to the misery, for most part of UPA 2 the entire country was shaken by various scams which amounted to literally a significant chunk of Indian economy. The government undertook various popular schemes such as MNREGA which costed the exchequer a huge amount of money. Rather than focusing on building the skills and making common man, including the farmer self-reliant, the government focused on distributing money. Many scams even in MNREGA schemes were unearthed. Then there was coal scam, 2G spectrum. There was not a single day in UPA 2 where people did not hear a new scam. The scamsters were none other than the UPA member party ministers on whom the Prime Minister had no control.

So, the UPA 1 was full of positives which were completely washed away in UPA 2 only to start to build a grave for the grand old party.

People of India were sick of the scams and wanted a serious change. Then came Modi and we all know how he won the elections. It was rather an outright rejection of congress than win of Modi. Somebody had to win and this time it was Modi. People started drawing parallels between Rahul Gandhi and Modi. And the clear verdict was that Rahul Gandhi was no match for Narendra Modi. Modi not only was a good orator but had thorough knowledge about India as a country. He came from RSS legacy and had travelled entire country. Most importantly he came from a modest background. Rahul Gandhi had none of these qualities and yet the Congress party was or rather is hell bent on making him the Prime Minister. Making mockery of the modest background of Modi costed dearly.

May 2014

The grand old party suffers its biggest defeat and does not even manage to win 10% of the strength of the house. Even loses the right to the position of Leader of Opposition. Makes a huge hue and cry about not getting the position. That’s it. Now was the time the leadership in Congress decides to do exactly what BJP did in UPA 2.

Modi had promised development, clean and efficient governance. Congress made a strategy of disrupting each and every good decision of the government. The initiatives by the Modi government will take the country several years forward in world economy. And that will prove disastrous for the grand old party. The party leadership understood that even if 50% promises of Modi are delivered Congress won’t be able to make a comeback in 2019.

So, strategy was clear. Pick petty issues which are insignificant, irrelevant and start bashing the Modi government and ministers. Don’t let the parliament function, stall GST and other important bills which will take India’s GDP forward. Target ministers on petty issues where Congress party themselves had failed. Ask those minister’s resignation. This has been the strategy of Congress since the BJP came to power.

Lalit Modi case can be a classic example. Arun Jaitley and Sushma Swaraj successfully countered arguments of Rahul Gandhi in parliament. What were these agruments? How much money did Sushma Swaraj take to let off Modi, the very person who was allowed to leave the country when Congress was in power!!! There was further embarrassment for Rahul Gandhi when someone clicked pictures of cheat sheets of Rahul Gandhi. With a stature of VP of a grand old party and PM aspirant, the cheat sheet was an embarrassment as it contained very very basic points. If a PM aspirant does not remember even smallest of things, what inference should we draw? Moreover, this was the first time entire India saw him debate in parliament, ask questions, only to be proven illogical later. All the past 10 years this person never asked a single question to his own government about the positive initiatives which will bring out good information and build image of his own government!!!

So when Congress party was in power they did not want to hear anything good about government or Prime Minister. Wanted to give credit of each good thing to Rahul Gandhi and each bad thing to the Prime Minster.

When they are not in power they behave erratically, illogically and stall parliament on petty irrelevant issues, helping to make image of the party to be anti – development, anti - people. It only remains a self-praising, self-centered Gandhi Private Limited Party.

The internal intellectual voices in the party remain suppressed. Jayanti Natarajan, Jairam Ramesh, Shashi Tharoor, etc… the people who helped this party successfully run their government, when spoke the right words were silenced. The grand old party has a tradition of people being close to the Gandhi family and talking, doing what suits best to this family. Having difference of opinion is crime and the opinion maker will be taken to task, whomsoever it may be.

All this for a person who does not know history of India, history of Congress party. Congress party today is like the Kauravs in Mahabharat. Sonia Gandhi has become Dhritarashtra who does not want to listen, see and speak anything bad about party or Rahul Gandhi even if it is a truth.

Rahul Gandhi has nothing more than to say “meri dadi ko mara”, “mere papa ko mara”. People are tired of these antics and it would be better for the Congress party to move on with life and stop making these things a basis of asking votes.

There was a little glimpse of hope when Priyanka Gandhi appeared on the scene. But then her husband’s name is now famous for all the wrong things. Her face resembles to that of Indira Gandhi, looks more mature and wise than Rahul Gandhi. If she just can say sorry to the people of India for whatever Robert Vadra did, there is a good chance of her gaining the past glory for the grand old party.

Otherwise it may be very very safe to say, till this party does away with dynastic politics or the Modi government does something seriously wrong, Congress party revival is not to be seen anytime soon.