[Reader-list] Amaranth Land Issue

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Fully agrreable thoughts, good governance has no role to play agents of any faith. System of governance should only faciltate the livelihood, education, basic essentials and opportumities in life, skill developmental facilitation of all, irrespective of their faith, caste and region. But the oldest party has always used the vote banks of communities to be in power, be it caste based or faithbased, thus regional satraps took over to defeat the oldest party in its own game of divide and rule. Even left enjoyed creating vote banks of migrant bangladeshis, thus not exempt from "communal" game of creation of vote banks.?
  Today governance is more in businesses where it should not be in. Left also succumbing to the temptation created hell for itself with kickbacks in Singur and nandigram. Congress which some how managed to sleep with enemy like Mufti, soft face of terror for power, has resorted to partisan appeasements to gain votes in rest of India from the hindu and the rest is now  for all to see, after India shining, now it is india burning thanks to mafia rule.

----- Original Message -----
From: prakash ray <pkray11 at gmail.com>
Date: Tuesday, July 1, 2008 6:57 am
Subject: [Reader-list] Amaranth Land Issue
To: reader-list at sarai.net

> Dear All,
> 
> The protests and related debate since the central and state 
> governmentsreached an agreement to transfer 100 acres of 
> forestland to the Amarnath
> board which organizes the annual Amarnath yatra have taken an ugly and
> violent turn. Thankfully, the decision has been revoked. Now the 
> democraticleaders must work to restore secular atmosphere. It must 
> be recalled that
> the erstwhile monarchy used to grant favors to the religious heads 
> in order
> to get social control and sanction. Such policies,
> unfortunately and dangerously, is still being continued by the 
> politicalleadership. It is time to decide to discontinue the 
> government policy to
> have religious bodies under the state's control and provide them 
> unethicalpatronage. It is to be noted that the Governor heads the 
> Hindu shrine boards
> and the chief minister heads the Muslim Wakfs. The government must 
> get out
> of this kind of control and must restrict itself to provide the needed
> support to public who visit shrines, temples, mosques and other 
> kinds of
> religious places and festivals/fairs. There must be a rethinking 
> on the tax
> benefits extended to the religious bodies earning crores and 
> crores of
> rupees. Such changes in policies should be applied to all over the 
> country,not only in the J & K.
> 
> I am not proposing to overlook the role of previous Governor or the
> misguided Congress leadership or the communal elements, 
> particularly the
> BJP-VHP combine in making things worse. Certain elements, who 
> mischievouslyclaims to be representatives of the both communities, 
> always use such
> tactics and situation to deepen the divide. I pray to the Almighty 
> to grant
> them goodness.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Prakash
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