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

[Rakesh Iyer]

Dear Pawan

I am not a 'sickular'. So how come I am supposed to know why a Gandhi or an
Abdullah has not been or has been criticized by these 'sickulars'?

Rakesh

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Pawan Durani <pawan.durani at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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).
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
>