[Reader-list] An Appeal on the eve of Forthcoming Elections...available options..??...

Venugopalan K M kmvenuannur at gmail.com
Sat Apr 11 02:34:43 IST 2009 

   ps: this is not to belittle the tragedy of continued communal disharmony in
 the country

LA


I like to agree with your post script, even when you don't (I believe
you don't; excuse me).
You didn't either endorse or refute  points raised in the original post.
Raising such counterquestions about the anti Sikh pogrom in 1984 by
the Congress and such factuals like the Nandigram violence on people
by the CPI(M) headed govt in WB is ok by me; nevertheless, those will
not suffice especially when you mix these with those items in the Hate
Formula  of the number one communal party, that is BJP.
Let me ask you what is wrong in someone saying that he is an Islamist?
How does it become "self confession" and how does it look like
confession of some crime?
(I guess "self confession" must be some expression added from your
hate lexican, where (ordinary) confession might mean  that extracted
by coercion or the like!)

Regards,
Venu.




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>> Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 18:06:11 +0530
>> From: kmvenuannur at gmail.com
>> To: reader-list at sarai.net
>> Subject: Re: [Reader-list] An Appeal on the eve of Forthcoming Elections
>>
>> I like to endorse this appeal in letter and spirit.
>> Thanks,
>> Venu.
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 2:38 PM, M Javed <javedmasoo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > An Appeal on the eve of Forthcoming Elections
>> >
>> > In recent months and years, we have seen the true face of the BJP and
>> > Shiv Sena.
>> > First, the nation was shocked to discover that a whole string of
>> > terrorist
>> > attacks, some of which had previously been attributed to jihadi groups,
>> > had been
>> > committed by Hindutva terrorists. This came to light during
>> > investigations into
>> > the Malegaon blast of September 2008 led by ATS Chief Hemant Karkare.
>> > The
>> > perpetrators included Hindu religious figures like Sadhvi Pragyasingh
>> > Thakur and
>> > Dayanand Pandey, retired military officers, and serving military officer
>> > Lt.Col.
>> > Srikant Purohit. Instead of denouncing the culprits and demanding that
>> > they
>> > should be punished, BJP and Shiv Sena leaders launched a hate campaign
>> > against
>> > the brave and honest police officer who was carrying out the
>> > investigations,
>> > Hemant Karkare!
>> >
>> > Then there were the attacks on Christians in Kandhamal and Karnataka.
>> > The
>> > attacks in Kandhamal in particular went on for months, and even today
>> > the
>> > communities who have been ethnically cleansed have not been able to go
>> > back.
>> > This would not have been possible without collusion from the state
>> > governments:
>> > a BJP ally in one case, the BJP itself in the other. In Karnataka, this
>> > was
>> > followed by brutal attacks on young women which shocked the nation when
>> > they
>> > were caught on camera. They were carried out by the same Sri Ram Sene
>> > which had
>> > attacked churches and Christians, and in one case resulted in the
>> > suicide of a
>> > young girl. These people have correctly been described as ‘the Taliban
>> > of
>> > India,’ due to their violent efforts to enforce their intolerant and
>> > narrow-minded version of a religion and culture. As usual, the BJP spoke
>> > in two
>> > tongues about these attacks. But actions speak louder than words. The
>> > fact that
>> > such attacks could take place in a BJP-ruled
>> > state without any action being taken against the criminals showed that
>> > the
>> > party was hand-in-glove with them.
>> >
>> > The latest scandal is the hate speech of Varun Gandhi. It is clear for
>> > anyone
>> > who has brains that he actually spoke the words on the tape, and is only
>> > claiming that they were doctored so that he can get away with his
>> > criminal
>> > words, knowing that legal action against him cannot be completed before
>> > the
>> > elections. Maneka Gandhi made a shameless attempt to start a communal
>> > riot by
>> > alleging that a Muslim police officer was responsible for the firing
>> > when he was
>> > not even present, and alleged ‘genocide’ when not a single person
>> > was
>> > killed! It just shows that Varun learned his communalism as well as his
>> > habit of
>> > lying from his mother. Again, the BJP has supported him. Why should we
>> > be
>> > surprised? Their Prime Ministerial candidate, L.K.Advani, used the same
>> > kind of
>> > language in the build-up to the demolition of the Babri Masjid in 1992
>> > and the
>> > horrific anti-Muslim massacres which followed. Narendra Modi, who is
>> > widely seen
>> > as the BJP’s future Prime
>> > Ministerial candidate, used the same language to whip up hatred against
>> > Muslims
>> > after the Godhra tragedy in 2002, resulting in the shameful mass rapes
>> > and
>> > murders that followed in Gujarat.
>> >
>> > The BJP’s method of ‘fighting terrorism’ is well illustrated in
>> > Chhattisgarh. In the name of fighting Maoist terrorists, the BJP state
>> > government there has set up an illegal paramilitary organisation, Salwa
>> > Judum,
>> > which is engaged in raping and killing innocent women, men and children,
>> > burning
>> > their houses, evicting them from their villages, and putting them into
>> > prison
>> > camps where they are deprived of their freedom. The state government has
>> > put
>> > Binayak Sen, a doctor who has dedicated his life to providing health
>> > care to
>> > poor people, in jail for almost two years, simply because he protested
>> > against
>> > this brutal treatment of the villagers. In the name of fighting
>> > terrorism, the
>> > state itself is engaged in terrorism!
>> >
>> > The BJP aims to divide the country, and thus to destroy it. They have no
>> > positive programme to offer: only hatred and violence.
>> >
>> > We are very lucky they were not in power when the terrorist attacks on
>> > Mumbai
>> > took place on 26 November last year. What would their reponse have been?
>> > In the
>> > name of being ‘tough on terror,’ they would have bombed Pakistan. By
>> > now we
>> > would have been in the middle of a war. The economy would have
>> > collapsed, and
>> > security would have fallen drastically, as Pakistani terrorist groups
>> > targeted
>> > India even more. In India, money for employment programmes,
>> > infrastructure,
>> > health care, education and welfare, which ought to be increased, would
>> > have
>> > fallen still further as more funds were put into the military effort.
>> > Worst of
>> > all, the civilian government in Pakistan might have fallen, giving way
>> > to
>> > extremist groups, and a nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan
>> > would be on
>> > the cards, destroying millions of lives of both sides of the border.
>> >
>> > We simply cannot afford to have such a party in power in our country:
>> > one which
>> > stands for Talibanisation, intolerance, divisiveness, militarism and
>> > war.
>> > Therefore we must make sure they do not come to power in the up-coming
>> > elections.
>> >
>> > We appeal to all the citizens that we must defeat the communal forces,
>> > BJP and it allies.
>> >
>> > All India Secular Forum
>> >
>> > (sent by Ram Punyani)
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