The BJP and Women : Supports of ‘sati’

The "sati sthal" in 1987 guarded by Rajput youth brandishing swords.

ON September 4, 1987, 17-year-old Roop Kanwar consigned herself to flames or was burnt alive at Deorala village of Sikar district in Rajasthan. This infamous incident came to be referred to as the "sati" case. Sixteen years later, on January 31, 2004, a Special Court acquitted, for lack of evidence, 11 persons, including Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator and State party vice-president Rajendra Singh Rathore, charged with glorifying the incident as one of sati.

The London Summit 2009 : $1.1 Trillion package

April 01-02, 2009, G20 heads met in London for 'The London Summit 2009' with the caption stability, growth and jobs.It's the third high level meeting since present global crisis, the first one is World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2009 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland held between 28 January - 1 February 2009, the second is G20 finance ministers, bankers meet in London on March 13 2009. G20 heads meet in London is the third. There is no concrete solution to fix the problem in these 3 meetings.

In London summit, the president Obama conceded that there were 'no guarantees' that those measures would reverse the biggest global downturn in six decades.

G20 planned to pump $1.1 Trillion to Tackle Crisis.
China is expected to contribute $40 billion. Japan and the European Union each pledged $100 billion.
The United States has said it will contribute $100 billion, too, though that requires Congressional approval.

G20 tries to treat some peripheral effects of the crisis rather than its thorniest causes.
The causes are finance deregulation, hedge fund mis(management) and unregulated flow finance capital.
Such capitalist crisis can NOT be averted in capitalism.

Politicization of Students in Karnataka - Hindutuva is NOT Hinduism : Part 2

Unemployment rate is rising in alarming rate, jobs are retrenched and prices of essential commodities are touching the sky; the economy is struggling because of low consumption, the RBI is projecting lower GDP growth and daily life of an ordinary Indian become stressful because the world and Indian economy is stumbling. Every Indian is expecting the state and the union government to do something to stabilize the economy. With this prevailing condition, in Gujarat, Minister of State for Women's Welfare Mayaben Kodnani and State Vishwa Hindu Parishad general secretary Jaideep Patel seeking anticipatory bail for the case in which 90 Indians were burned alive in 2002 and in Karnataka, on January 24th, young Ram sena activists attacked innocent girls in pub in the name of moral policing. Muslims, Christians, people from socially and economically lower classes and women are attacked in various contexts BUT the charge is same; they are demoralizing the Indian society, they are traitors. Who are attacking the above mentioned Indians? Are the Hindus attacking them? No, they are NOT Hindus, they are Sangh Parivar and whose ideology is Hindutuva.

Hindutuva is NOT Hinduism. Hindutuva is a political ideology of Sangh Parivar. The term Hindutuva was coined by Veer Savarkar in 1920s in the pamphlet, Hindutva: Who is a Hindu? Veer Savarkar was the president of Hindu Mahasabha. The Hindu Mahasabha was founded in 1915. The RSS has been formed out of Hindu Mahasabha in 1925 and Bharatiya Jana Sangh(known as Jana Sangh) was formed as political wing of the RSS in 1951. The Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) is formed out of Jana Sangh in 1980 since the Jana Sangh was NOT able to show any electoral results. The present president of Hindu Mahasabha is Himani Savarkar, the daughter of Gopal Godse and niece of Nathuram Godse(the assassin of Mahatma Gandhi). She is married to the late Ashok Savarkar, nephew of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Now, the RSS, the VHP and the BJP are represented as Sangh Parivar. They have many fraternal organizations such as Bajrang Dal, Shiv Sena , Ram Sena Rashtrawadi, Sriram Sena, Bharatiya Jana Paksham et al. The list is in fact very long.

Hindutuva is a political ideology of Sangh Parivar which says India is a monolithic society; nationalism and Hinduism are one same. It exhorts the Indian nationalism and the Hindu nationalism are one and the same. They are doing everything in the name of Hinduism NOT for the Hindus BUT to achieve political power. It's NOT necessary to do something good to the Hindus by destroying Muslims, Christians, other low caste people. Until, 1980s these outfits were NOT able to show any electoral gains so they honey coated their agenda which is popularly known as 'Hidden Agenda'. In later 1980s and early 1990s when India was facing touch time in economy in which inflation was out of control and rupee started losing it's value, these Sangh Parivar outfits raised Ram temple issue and carried out Rath yatra in Japanese made vehicle. People across India were killed as result of this temple issue. L.K.Advani used the Rath yatra as ruse to counter then the Prime Minister V.P. Singh's proposal to implement Mandal commission's recommendations. Mandalization has the potential to divide the Hindus vertically between upper caste and other backward classes and it'll damage the BJP's Hindu (backward class) vote bank. The BJP provided the outside support to the V.P.Singn government. In 1992, these very outfits destroyed the Babri Majid and responsible for communal riots followed by that. It's NOT something new; that these outfits ignore the need of the country and peruse their lines to distort the common national goal. When the Indians were fighting against British imperialism these outfits betrayed the Indian national movement and supported the British. The British were NOT traitors of Indian society!

Toiling working class, starving farmers and despondent unorganized masses expressed their angry and voted the congress out of power in 1998. In 1998, the second Hinduva government was installed in the centre as a coalition government; the first government which took power in 1996 is last for 13 days. It's mainly because of then the congress government failed to perform and the Hindutuva forces were able to mobilize the people easily since the opponent was weak. In 2004, the BJP led NDA government was voted out of the office since they also failed to perform. Rampant corruption, inhuman atrocities against Muslims, Christians and other minorities, the US prone foreign policy were examples of the mismanagement. The BJP intruded the Indian military and educational institutes. The BJP used Kargil heroes for election campaigns.

India is a multi cultural, multi religious, multi linguistic plural society. We have a common goal to make our nation prosperous. We have to provide employment to everyone and to eradicate the poverty. We've to provide world class education and health care. We've to industrialize the nation by large scale industrialization and to encourage entrepreneurship. The Sangh Parivar is always against such national goals and exports the feeling of rage and goad communal riots among the Indian people and make their political benefit.

The students have to reject these pseudo nationalists. The collapse of Sangh Parivar is NOT automatic. The people and students have to organize themselves to reject such anti-indain ideology, Hindutuva and stood for the plural and secular Indian society. It's the time for the students of Karnataka to be aware of Hindu terrorism and extremism which is based on Hindutuva and to reject them. The students have to organize themselves under secular and democratic political forces and fight against religious terrorism.

Politicization of Students in Karnataka - A Positive Step : Part I

Politicization of Students in Karnataka - A Positive Step : Part I

The BJP has proposed and implemented students awareness program against terrorism with a caption to 'Wipe Out Terrorism'. The political parties term this program as the BJP's hidden agenda to inflict the young minds with communal feelings or sowing the seeds of communal ism in the name of awareness campaign or predicting more and more communal pogrom is sequel to this student's program. My scope in this write up is NOT to discuss about the nature and outcome of this students program BUT to share my positive view about this program. I feel such programs will create political awareness among the students who are pillars of next generation India.

So far; mostly Indian students were left outside the political sphere except the states in which Left is ruling. Students in some premier educational institutes and some universities involved in politics. Now the BJP has made a very good attempt in Karnataka to include students from schools and colleges in getting political awareness. Politics is the science and arts of governance. Students can't get awareness about terrorism without understanding politics and polices of the government. Also it's necessary for the students to get some understanding about Terrorism in India.

Terrorism in India can be divided as internal and external(cross border) terrorism and internal terrorism can be further classified as internal terrorism based on regional chauvinism and another based on religious fundamentalism/extremism or communalism. These internal groups are abetted by external groups or countries. Internal communal based outfits and region based outfits coordinated with external groups. Internal region based outfits are operating in various Indian states. The aim of all these terrorists groups are one and same that to disturb India's peace and break India into pieces.

As for as the region based outfits are concerned, in Jammu and Kashmir, such outfits are All Parties Hurriyat Conference, the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front(JKLF), Lashkar-e-Toiba(LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammed(JeM). Besides J&K, north eastern states are enclaved by separatist outfits such as The United Liberation Front of Asom(ULFA) and The National Democratic Front of Bodoland(NDFB) in Assam, Peoples Liberation Army(PLA), The United National Liberation Front(UNLF) and People's Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak(PREPAK) in Manipur , The NationalSocialist Council of Nagaland(NSCN) and The National Socialist Council of Nagaland—Khaplang(NSCN-K) in Nagaland , National Liberation Front of Tripura(NLFT) and All Tripura Tiger Force(ATTF) in Tripura , the Achik National Volunteer Council(ANVC) and the Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council(HNLC) in Meghalaya & Hmar People's Convention-Democracy (HPC-D) in Mizoram. Most of these outfits are emerged after 1970s.

Khalistan Movement in Punjab is an another example of region based chauvinism. Mostly people of these movement are pushed to underground . Then-Prime Minister of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto shared very useful intelligence material concerning Punjab militancy to the Indian government. Still some traces of the movement are left in the Punjab society. In 1995, Punjab Chief Minister, Beant Singh was assassinated by Separatist group Babbar Khalsa. These separatist group has wide spread support in the UK and Canada. The LTTE was active in Tamilnadu. After the former prime ministerRajiv Gandhi's assassination these outfit has been banned and their activities are controlled to a great extend.

As for as the communal groups are concerned, India has Hindu militancy and Muslim militancy. Predominantly Muslim militancy in J&K has been connected with the J&K separatist elements and their activities are well known. They have NOT confined their attacks within the Jammu and Kashmir but spread all across India. There is another form of Muslim militancy which is NOT connected with J&K separatism, these Islamic communal forces mainly involve in disturbing civic life in India by restoring to terrorist activities. Another communal terrorism is Hindu extremism. The Malegaon blast investigation has exposed Hindu militancy and their terror network. Popular Hindu militant groups are Sanatan Sanstha which is linked to the Hindu Jan Jagran Samiti. It's alleged these militant outfits has close links with Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh and the Bajrang Dal. The Hindu militant outfits are responsible for the blast in Parbhani in November 2003, Jalna in August 2004, Purna in August 2004, Nanded in April 2006, Thane in January 2008 and Malegaon in September 2008. Hindu and Muslim communal elements fed each other. These development shows communalism and terrorism fed each other. Terrorism has no religion, no region.

During cold war the J&K separatist outfits were abetted by the USA for it's imperialist agenda is well known. Terrorism, Communalism and imperialism are inextricably coupled. They have to be collectively crushed and defeated. What are origin and how they are handled now and they should be handled we'll see in coming parts.

Vajpayee and the Quit India movement ... Excerpt from frontline ...

Vajpayee and the Quit India movement

The below is one of the statements given by Vajpaye. He betrayed quit India movement leads Liladhar and Mahuan.

"On August 27, 1942, Ala was being recited in Bateshwar bazaar. At about 2 p.m. Kakua alias Liladhar and Mahuan came to the Ala and delivered a speech and persuaded the people to break the forest laws. Two hundred people went to the Forest Office and I along with my brother followed the crowd and reached Bateshwar Forest Office. I and my brother stayed below and all other people went up. I do not know the name of any other person, except Kakua and Mahuan, who was there.

"It seemed to me that bricks were falling. I could not know who was razing the wall to the ground but the bricks of the wall were certainly falling.

"I along with my brother started to go to Maipura and the crowd was behind us. The abovementioned persons forcibly turned out the goats from the cattle-pound and the crowd proceeded towards Bichkoli. Ten or twelve persons were in the Forest Office. I was at a distance of 100 yards. I did not render any assistance in demolishing the government building. Thereafter, we went to our respective homes."

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Jan 08 2009 ... US abstains from UN voting on Gaza

Once again dirty US behaved as expected, it abstains from UN voting on Gaza.
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE50813J20090109?pageNumber=2&virtualBrandChannel=0&sp=true

US abstains from UN vote on Gaza cease-fire:
Out of 15 nations in SC(Security Council) 14 nations voted for resolution and US abstains.
If any one of the P5 nations voted against the resolution or abstain from the voting the resolution CAN'T be passed.
http://daccessdds.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N09/204/32/PDF/N0920432.pdf?OpenElement

It's not the first time that US voted against the Arabs.
Please see the below list, How many times US exercised it VETO power to betray Arab sentiments in Palestine.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/UN/usvetoes.html

Please visit http://www.un.org/Docs/sc/ for pedantic reports ...