Sunday, 20 May 2018
Appreciation of an article by Ms. Tavleen Singh in the Indian Express
Having been busy with the political development which fortunately ended the way I wanted them to. I must congratulate Tavleen in the last paragraph of her latest product. Tavleen has correctly understood that the people of India have clearly and rightly concluded that the democracy is doomed if Modi remains in power.
I am sorry that I have not been able to make a detailed comment on Tavleen’s piece which the readers will no doubt read with interest.
I must apologies that I have been busy dealing with the court proceedings as an individual citizen in my own right. I almost a wrong impression in the congress party that I was weakening their legal stand in court. they rested only when I made it clear that I am extending a kind of help to their stand in Court which no other person is doing. What the Supreme Court has done has fully justified my role in Supreme Court and of course the final result that the congress and JD(S) having the chief minister of their own choice.
I must say that I am feeling extremely proud of my contribution to this result. With my advance age and restricted movements I may not fully participate in the celebrations.
Link of the Tavleen’s Article published on the Website of Indian Express: http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/fifth-column-endangered-democracy-5183624/
Friday, 27 April 2018
MY RESPONSE TO THE CURRENT EVENT
The Sunday gone by has brought me happiness
as no other day in recent times. It was the news of my friend Yashwant Sinha
resigning from the BJP. If his goal is the removal of Modi then it is essential
for him to quit BJP.
Stars have changed and our main political objective
shall soon be achieved; Insha Allah!
This Sunday’s weekly piece by Tavleen Singh in
the Express may not be her best but it deserves to be carefully read;
Congratulations Tavleen!
For quite some time I have been trying to
find how Modi acquired the financial means of sustaining his covetable life
style. I was convinced that he dishonestly cheated the nation by his criminal
joke (jumla) in the matter of getting at the Liechtenstein wealth of Indian criminals
out of which he campaigned everyday that he would put 15 lacs in the pocket of
every poor citizen of India. If I had suspected that it was only a ‘jumla’ I
would not have accepted him as my partner in my mission of recovering the
unaccounted money stashed away in foreign banks with the help of the German Government.
It was only when he had been sworn as Prime
Minister that he confessed that he had not been serious all along! I was most despondent
to learn of this deception; Modi meantime made it clear that he did not even
want me to get near him. For a time, I wanted to throw in the towel and felt
culpable for having helped him to cheat the nation in such a shameless fashion.
But the lawyer in me compelled me to get to the bottom of this huge fraud. I am
now wiser about what had actually happened! I will disclose it soon to the
unfortunate Indian nation.
Yashwant bhai and his friends are now
convinced of how the nation was cheated. I will write about this after I have
tied up the loose ends.
I am convinced of the huge raud against the
nation and I will soon share my findings with you.
Dear Readers: Wait for a while!!
Saving democracy, really?
Written by Tavleen Singh | Published: April 22, 2018 12:07:29 am
Is last
week’s move by the Congress to impeach the Chief Justice of India part of a
crusade that began even before Narendra Modi became Prime Minister? Is it of a piece with making Parliament
dysfunctional so that Modi can be blamed for weakening the institutions of
democracy? Of a piece with the charge that the BJP wins elections because of
EVMs being tampered with? Disappointed though I personally am with Modi’s many
failures, I have to say that I believe it is.
Congress
leaders announcing their decision to impeach the Chief Justice said
grandiloquently that they were doing this because if the judiciary is weakened
then democracy will not survive. In their exalted realms, they seem not to have
noticed that the judiciary is already very, very weak. Most Indians cannot
afford the cost of going to court, and if they can, they know that it takes
decades to get justice. Instead of squabbling among themselves, this is what
Supreme Court judges should be trying to fix.
Something
else is going on here, and it’s time to spell it out. When you have been ruling
India as long as the Congress has, with an imperial family at the helm, it is
not easy to be an opposition party. So ever since the uppity chaiwallah from
Gujarat usurped the role that the Congress believes is Rahul Gandhi’s
birthright, there have been efforts at every level to undermine Narendra Modi
and his government. Since he foolishly allowed Hindutva fanatics in his team to
start lynching Muslims and Dalits on the pretext of saving cows, he helped the
Congress make the case that he was unfit to be Prime Minister. But, attempts to
paint him ‘communal’ began earlier than the lynching of Mohammed Akhlaq.
Within days
of his coming to office, a student was killed in Pune by a Hindutva mob. He was
blamed. Rationalists were killed before he became Prime Minister. He was
blamed. When that awful Shiv Sena MP
tried to shove food down a Muslim waiter’s throat during Ramzan, Modi was
blamed. When Mohammed Akhlaq was dragged out of his home and beaten to death,
and his son nearly killed, on the suspicion that they ate beef, the Prime
Minister made the mistake of remaining absolutely silent. So he was justly
blamed. And writers, poets and intellectuals launched the award-wapsi movement.
A fine gesture till you remember that these were people who lived through
hundreds of equally hideous acts of violence without saying a word, without
returning an award.
We in the
media noticed the hypocrisy and whispered about it privately. But few wrote
against the award-wapsi movement because we are mostly ‘secular’ and most of us
despise Modi. It was because of being blinded by our secular glasses that most
of us failed to gauge the groundswell of popular support Modi aroused in 2014.
But, recent by-election results from Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh indicate a
waning in his popularity and the Congress believes it is now months away from returning
to power, and so thinks it is time to go for the jugular.
Last week a
group of retired bureaucrats wrote an open letter to the Prime Minister that
they claim they felt compelled to write because of what happened in Kathua and
Unnao. “We have had enough,” they wrote “of these belated remonstrances and
promises to bring justice when the communal cauldron is forever kept boiling by
forces nested with the Sangh Parivar”. Fine words.
Hard to
disagree until you read the names of the bureaucrats and notice that all of
them held high office in Congress times and failed to speak ever before. Not
when the Kashmiri Pandits were driven out of the Valley for entirely ‘communal’
reasons. Not when thousands of Sikhs were massacred in Delhi. Not when Muslims
arrested from Hashimpura in Meerut were gunned down by the police. Not when
Nirbhaya was brutally raped in Delhi. And not when hundreds of little girls
suffer the same way as the little girl did in Kathua.
The
‘institutions of democracy’ are made up of bureaucrats, judges, journalists and
elected representatives. When it comes to this last category, the Congress has
been pushed to marginal status from losing badly in the Lok Sabha and doing
almost as badly in state elections since 2014. What has not changed is the
loyalty they have cultivated over many decades in power, in the media, the
judiciary and the bureaucracy.
These are powerful tools and they are being
deployed very effectively against Modi because despite his impressive chat show
in London last week, he is clearly no longer as invincible as he seemed mere
months ago. He has been weakened by his Hindutva supporters and his failure to
lead when leadership was urgently needed. But, this does not mean we should
ignore the Congress party’s hypocrisy in the name of ‘saving’ democracy.
I am putting this Article on my blog so that more people get access to this Article who don't have access to Indian Express
What a child’s death tells us
Written
by Tavleen Singh | Published: April 15, 2018 1:05:49 am
The little girl was defiled twice. When she lived, by the monsters who gangraped, tortured and killed her, and after her death, by our political class, whose cynicism has been truly astounding. You would have to be sub-human to see those two pictures of her and not feel the terror this baby girl would have lived through in the last days of her sadly short life. The whole country felt the pain and the shame of her rape and murder except our ‘leaders’.
They behaved as if it were perfectly normal for a little girl to have been imprisoned, drugged and raped for days in a temple. With the collusion of the police. So unmoved were they by what happened to the child that ‘leaders’ of our two biggest national parties took turns to go on hunger strike to try and blame each other for Parliament having become dysfunctional. It was only when the media started to reflect the outrage, horror and shame ordinary Indians were feeling, that they began to respond with their standard, empty statements.
Personally, when I hear a political leader say that ‘the law will take its own course’, I know it will not. And if it does, it will be decades for that course to reach its end. The child’s family had the courage (despite policemen colluding in what happened to her) to register a case, but Jammu’s lawyers blocked the law from moving an inch forward because Hindutva hyper-nationalism blinded them to anything other than that the victim was Muslim and the rapists Hindu. They should have been arrested for blocking the course of the law, but the Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir proved ineffectual as always.
One other group of Indians remained unmoved by what happened to the little girl. Hindutva hyper-nationalists. Their voice has got louder, angrier and uglier in the past three years, and especially on social media. Every time I tweeted about the girl, I was deluged with tweets from enraged Hindutva types demanding to know why I was not speaking for Hindu girls raped in Assam and West Bengal. I will tell you why. When a child is raped and brutally murdered I do not ask what her religion was. But hyper-nationalists do, and although they think they are great Indian patriots, they could be India’s biggest enemies. In my book, their nationalism is so venomous and deranged that it harms India in a very dangerous way.
Their nationalism is not the kind of nationalism that defined the movement that brought India freedom from colonial rule. That kind of nationalism I saw in the spirit of the young men and women I met in Champaran last week. More than 20,000 ‘Swachhagrahis’ gathered to hear the Prime Minister praise them for helping create a social and sanitation revolution in their villages. These young people were motivated only by their passion to make India a better country. They slept together in huge tented dormitories without asking the caste or religion of the person who slept in the next bed. They were not motivated by hatred, venom or a sense of grievance against Muslims. Their eyes look to the future.
The hyper-nationalists, for their part, wallow and seethe in a stew of memories of what Muslim invaders did to India centuries ago. They believe that Narendra Modiis the first real Hindu ruler in more than a thousand years, and that now is their time to take revenge against all Muslims. As the girl’s father told The Indian Express, she was too young to know what it meant to be Muslim or Hindu. “She couldn’t tell which hand was right and which left,” he said through his tears. But to hyper-nationalists, she was a Muslim girl, so what happened to her was revenge for what was done to Hindu women by Muslim invaders. I am not making this up. Trawl through the tweets of Hindutva hyper-nationalists and you will see.
What is worrying is the seeming inablity of our ‘leaders’ to see the damage that is being done to the fabric of Indian society by hyper-nationalism. Real nationalism is a good thing. It creates heroes and patriots who have the courage to give their lives and the lives of their sons to defend India. Hyper-nationalism creates cowards, not heroes. The young men we have seen too many times in vigilante mobs in the past three years are never likely to join the Army and fight to defend India’s borders. Cowards need the safety of mobs to show their ‘valour’. Cowards need little girls to rape and kill. Cowards need to wrap themselves in the national flag and prevent justice from being done as Jammu’s lawyers showed us last week.
The awful death of this little child has held up a mirror to India’s face and it looks so ugly that our leaders could be too frightened to speak.
Friday, 13 April 2018
A NOBODY KNOWS GOVERNMENT !!
Nobody Knows Anything in New India and Nobody can be held accountable for anything going wrong.
Nobody knows who suggested and planned Demonetization ?
Nobody knows how much Old Currency was Deposited in the Banks ?
Nobody knows how much Black Money was Recovered post Demonetization ?
Nobody knows how many Indians went Cashless after Demonetization ?
Nobody knows what the exact GDP figures are ?
Nobody knows how Vijay Mallya, Lalit Modi, Nirav Modi, Mehul Choksi all escaped ?
Nobody knows how Nirav Modi accompanied the PM to Davos?
Nobody knows how Rs.58,000 Crore extra payment was made in Rafael deal ?
Nobody knows how judge Loya died ?
Nobody knows where Mahesh Shah disappeared from TV Studios after alleging that he had Rs.14,000 Crores of some prominent Gujarati politicians.
Nobody knows how Jay Shah converts Rs. 50,000 to Rs.80,00,00,000 crores and then closes his business just days before demonetization ?
Nobody knows how Adhaar data leaked and the privacy was compromised ?
Nobody knows how SSC and CBSE exam papers leaked for the very 1st time ?
Nobody knows who drank 18, 591 cups of tea daily in Mumbai sectariate ?
Nobody knows who counted 3.19 lakh rats in 7 days ?
Nobody knows who purchased chikkis for Rs 206 crores and ate them all up ?
Nobody knows who ordered and ate ayurvedic biscuits for 5 crores?
Nobody knows who ordered to lathicharge protesting students ?
Nobody knows where is Najeeb ?
Nobody knows who killed Akhlaq, Pehlu, Junaid, Afrazul and many others ?
Nobody knows who killed Gauri Lankesh, Dabholkar, Pansare and Kalburgi ?
Nobody know how Media Freedom has been scuttled and 2017 was the most violent year for India’s journalists with 11 murdered journalists, 46 cases of attacks and 27 cases of police action including arrest and cases filed.
Now Nobody knows WHO FIRED ON THE PROTESTING FARMERS ?
#NobodyKnowsAnything
Is this the government we elected or nobody knows who elected this government too.
Tuesday, 6 March 2018
MAMTA’S CHALLENGE TO CORRUPTION AND CORRUPT POLITICIANS
06.03.2018
In my blog I have promised that I will introduce you to one very inspiring and helpful speech of Mamta ji and I have promised to obtain a copy for your reading and entertainment.
During the waiting period our luck has improved and this morning the Indian Express has published a much fuller and inspiring statement of her which instead of the earlier one I would request you to read even with greater care and affection.
I assure you that it is a very inspiring statement and creates conviction of healthy change in our political set up including the eviction of corrupt people in positions of power and creating a rule of persons of tremendous character and honesty and guarantors of public happiness.
The web link to the Article is as under:
Ram Jethmalani
27.02.2018
It was not more than a few weeks ago that I had with my foresight and intuition concluded that Modi’s rule must end for the only qualified person, Mamta Banerjee, Hon’ble Chief Minister of West Bengal. I approached her and found her willing. I had requested her to publicly declare her plan to the anxious people of India.
She soon complied and her written Article appeared in the Indian Express as well. It gladdened my heart. I have misplaced this Article and will post it on my blog as soon as I find it. All people must celebrate with joy and pride.
I hope and trust that no one with any understanding of the needs of the nation will fail to make his/her full contribution for ensuring this result.
In your Service
Tuesday, 6 February 2018
Broken Promises : First publish by Indian Express on Sunday 4th February, 2018
http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/fifth-column-broken-promises-rajasthan-bye-election-result5050517/
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