[Reader-list] FW: ATTEMPT OF TARNISHING GUJARAT IMAGE

[Pawan Durani]

Dear Rakesh,

The demonising of Narender Bhai has been done by the sickulars. Why
didnt they do the same to lt Gandhi or Abdullahs of this world ?

Pawan


On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Rakesh Iyer <rakesh.rnbdj at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Bipin
>
> Any riot tarnishes the image of that place, but our concern should not be
> just image (image is a concern, particularly when the place is a tourist hot
> spot and because of communal riots or pogroms like Gujarat, Bhagalpur or
> Delhi lead to people not going there and tourism sector being hit,
> impoverishing the local people).
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> Our concern should be that the rights of innocents have been trampled upon,
> and our efforts must be directed towards securing those rights for those
> people. What has Narendra Modi done in the last 8 years in this direction?
> Only once did he visit the camps where Muslims had to flee to after the
> pogrom, that too when the then PM came visiting the state. Didn't he have
> any time to visit the camps? He is supposed to be the Chief Minister of 5.5
> crore Gujaratis, doesn't he have time to visit the Gujaratis among whom he
> keeps chanting that he is not Chief Minister, but Common Man.
>
> Everybody by the way is talking about Gujarati asmita. Because of the pogrom
> he presided over, Indian asmita was under threat and infact torn to shreds.
> Infact, Vajpayee and Advani had to save their faces on their foreign trips
> as the Prime Minister and the Deputy Prime Minister after this pogrom simply
> because everywhere they went, this became a matter of discussion. Does India
> deserve to get its' asmita torn to shreds because of someone's selfishness
> in playing Hindu-Muslim vote bank politics and organizing pogroms?
>
> Isn't Narendra Modi responsible for attacking Indian asmita?
>
> And don't ask questions here about Delhi and Bhagalpur not having attacked
> Indian asmita too. They too have attacked, and so has post-Godhra pogrom.
> And they can't hide behind that, none of them, because they are all wrongs.
>
> And for me that is still not a concern. The concern is that Sikhs and
> Muslims have had to pay with their lives even though they were not
> responsible for Godhra or Indira Gandhi assassination.
>
> Rakesh
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