[Reader-list] Election Forecast

[A.K. Malik]

Rakeshji,
              I just want to bring to your knowledge one of the day-to-day instances which reinforces the view that some special treatment is meted out based on religion which is against our Constitution. In Delhi schools all girl childern are given free uniform and free books. However Muslim girls are given an addtional sum of Rs 300 irrespective of their parents' income. So you have a Hindu girl whose father is a rehriwala and is hardly able to meet his daily expenses and another Muslim girl whsoe father is well off but she still gets money because she is Muslim. What will you call this type of Govt sponsered muslim appeasement. Had a similar thing been done in Gujarat for Hindus everybody would have been after Modi's blood.
(A.K.MALIK)


--- On Sun, 5/17/09, Rakesh Iyer <rakesh.rnbdj at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Rakesh Iyer <rakesh.rnbdj at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Election Forecast
> To: "anupam chakravartty" <c.anupam at gmail.com>
> Cc: "sarai list" <reader-list at sarai.net>
> Date: Sunday, May 17, 2009, 2:05 PM
> Dear Kshamendra
> 
> I think my comment can or may be seen as racist by some and
> non-racist by
> others. It depends on your sight. and understanding.
> 
> My comment was not on the Gujarati society at whole, but on
> those who elect
> BJP on the reason that Muslims have to be taught their
> lesson and that
> Hindus are weak and effete. It's not a comment on those who
> vote for BJP due
> to progress, their development, or petty or personal gains.
> For them we can
> think and discuss differently.
> 
> However I used both 'the Gujarati society'  and 'a
> section of the Gujarati
> society' simply because either of them may be true. And if
> it hurts
> Gujaratis, they should actually introspect on why Modi gets
> elected for
> certain reasons in Gujarat, and the very same reasons
> ensure that BJP never
> gets power at the Centre. (like Modi's antics, his
> high-vitriolic speeches
> and so on, which at national level ensure NDA's defeat time
> and again). And
> they should ponder whether the value systems which have
> allowed Modi to
> flower, can actually help the society at large or not, Are
> these values the
> hallmark of a developed society, and a developed country,
> which we wish to
> become by 2020?
> 
> Otherwise, Gujarat will keep electing BJP, and the Centre
> will still be the
> UPA's. The BJP doesn't seem to analyze this question ever,
> so Gujaratis only
> have the choice to look at it (Or again a section of
> Gujaratis, and here you
> can understand which section I refer to).
> 
> Because after all, it hurts me not that Modi gets elected
> again and again;
> it hurts me that a section of the Gujarati middle class
> feels that Muslims
> deserved post-Godhra, that they are Pakistan supporters,
> that Congress will
> bring progress only to Muslims (which it never did in the
> first place to a
> substantial extent). I dont' want Modi to be dismissed
> arbitarily, but what
> I want is that society (or a section of society) to
> introspect whether it is
> doing right or wrong by believing such value systems.
> 
> And if still people feel offended, I apologize.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Rakesh
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