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

[anupam chakravartty]

http://twocircles.net/2010apr13/bjp_and_congress_dock_communal_violence.html

BJP and Congress in the Dock for Communal ViolenceBy Ram Puniyani

Excerpts:

"Whenever BJP is caught with blood on its hands or doing partiality or
discrimination the first thing it does is to deflect the issue by citing
other cases with some parallels. If one talks of rehabilitation for victims
of communal violence, the rhetoric is what about Kashmiri Pundits? As if two
wrongs make a right! The comparison of Gujarat carnage is immediately done
with the anti Sikh pogrom of 1984. Of course there are lot of similarities
between the anti Sikh pogrom and the anti Muslim Gujarat carnage, but there
are many a differences also. By all accounts it seems the anti Sikh pogrom;
equally tragic was a spontaneous one while Gujarat carnage in all
probability was a preplanned one, using the train burning of Godhra as a
pretext for the violence. The dead bodies of victims of train burning were
deliberately paraded on the streets of Ahmedabad, under full glare of TV
cameras, top level meetings were held instructing officers concerned to let
the Hindus vent their anger and the rest is too well known to be recounted."

thanks Anupam

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Rakesh Iyer <rakesh.rnbdj at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well said Anupam. You are not answerable to me or anyone, but stating what
> you did in the last mail is important for the sake of discussions to get our
> point across, I feel.
>
> And Rajen jee, it was a shoe thrown by a journalist (even if a Sikh one)
> which forced the Congress to state that Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar
> would not contest elections. The media was then not active and has not
> covered it simply because in 1984 there was only one state channel,
> Doordarshan. Today those issues must be covered. And those issues to an
> extent have been covered by today's media. The fact is that if this same
> media had existed then and Rajiv Gandhi would have been forced to appear
> before a SIT, as someone said, Narendra Modi and his band of goons and
> cohorts would never have had the courage to perpetrate violence on the
> innocent people of Gujarat.
>
> Besides, I don't feel proud in killing and raping innocents, as I simply
> don't think that's an act of pride. But then when someone states that Modi
> should also believe in the same or asks him as to why doesn't he condemn it,
> he says it is an act to defame Gujarat. What about defaming India, which he
> did convincingly before the entire world, going by his argument?
>
> Anyways, image and image building is an exercise only for the politicians.
> I feel we should bother about the people whose rights have been trampled
> upon.  Let's concentrate on that instead, be it Delhi or Bhagalpur, Bombay
> or Gujarat.
>
> Rakesh
>