Aam Aadmi Party and it’s Pakiphilia

When we look at the support emanating from Pakistani media, political parties, anti-India activists and groups for Arvind Kejriwal and AAP as well as the recent statements, views, ideologies and background of the core thinkers, policy makers and strategists of  AAP, we find an uncanny similarity. It puzzles me no end that both of these two constituents have a similar view on Kashmir, which is one of the most important issues in India’s integrity, sovereignty, security, external affairs and also political spheres. So when I did some study and went deeper into this puzzle, a Pandora’s Box opened before me. And what prompted me to go deeper was the controversy of the image of a map of India in AAPs official website, which showed parts of Kashmir in Pakistan and at the same time news of ever increasing donations and  support from Pakistan to AAP as well as known India baiters inside India aligning with AAP.  Below is the content of my study based on hard facts presented in a logical sequence.

 

Elections in a democratic country like India would come and go but certain issues related to national security and sovereignty can’t be compromised for the sake of rhetorical vote bank politics. Therefore, it is imperative that important political leaders having national ambition must make their stand clear on such issues, be it inside the parliament or outside it and do not end up benefitting India's adversaries by their irresponsible statements or actions. But one wonders if this act of Aam Aadmi Party of showing parts of Kashmir as part Pakistan was one of folly or a deliberate one. It is observed that Arvind Kejriwal and his group only express their opinion & road map on issues which have a one-sided public view viz., corruption, misgovernance, price rise etc. But they don’t clear their views and road map  on such sensitive issues like Kashmir or Maoist problem, Jihadi terrorism & threat to our nation from forces like IM, SIMI etc., cross boarder terrorism sponsored by Pakistan, India’s foreign policy towards Pakistan, Bangladesh or China, Article 370, uniform civil code etc.,  where opinions are divided but which need a solid stand.  Moreover, the individual known stand of important ideologues, who are part of the Aam Aadmi Party, on issues ranging from Kashmir to Maoism is extremely alarming. For any political party, India's complete integrity and sovereignty should be of top priority. But it is observed that the ideologues of AAP have blatant disregard for India's integrity & security, armed forces & law enforcement agencies in their fight against religious fundamentalists of the Jihadi variety, terrorists & separatists.

 

Arvind Kejriwal is on record wooing disgruntled elements of Muslim community by terming Batla House encounter and the sacrifice of police men like Mohan Chand Sharma as fake. Even after the court proved him wrong, he has not apologized for his blatant distortion of facts and disrespect for honest police officers. Similarly, Kejriwal  termed Ishrat Jahan as innocent, walking the pseudo-secular line but the reality is that not just US court convicted David Headly confirmed that Ishrat was a suicide bomber, but even Yaseen Bhatkal during his interrogation, confessed that she was a member of LeT.  Soon after Ishrat and her 3 accomplishes were killed, LeT had owned up Ishrat, with its Lahore-based mouthpiece 'Ghazwa Times' describing her as an LeT activist & martyr. Infact,  Kejriwal took more interest in Ishrat than his own party's murdered RTI activist Santosh Koli. He never went hard to get a probe done on who killed her. Kejriwal didn’t hesitate to ask for support from well known Bareilly(UP) based cleric Maulana Tauqeer Raza Khan, who was arrested for Bareilly riots.  Maulana Khan had also issued fatwa for beheading of Taslima Nasreen and  supported assassination of  US President Bush. Similarly in 2011, he met Imam Bukhari of Delhi’s Jama Masjid for garnering his support. Imam Bukhari has a non bailable warrant on him for over a decade  though no govt. is having the guts to arrest him, alongwith dozens of other criminal cases including for openly calling Islamic Rule in India. I think Kejriwal can't be so naive to not know the nature, ideology and loyalty of such Jihadi hate speech makers but he clearly played sick communal card by meeting and asking for support from these clerics. AAP’s senior founder member Prashant Bhushan called for a referendum on the Indian Army’s presence in Jammu & Kashmir and supports Pakistan’s claim on Kashmir. He also ran a signature campaign for clemency for Afzal Guru, who was convicted with death sentence for 2001 attack on Indian parliament. If the temple of our democracy is attacked by foreign terrorists, supported by local traitors, an open support to them in the form of pardon letter signature is unpardonable in my view. In fact so popular is Prashant Bhushan and India's AAP in Pakistan that the issues raised by him on referendum in J&K gets solidarity across the border. In Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK), the Ministry of Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit Baltistan has on its webpage an article titled, ‘Listening to the Voice of Aam Aadmi Party in order to hold Plebiscite in Occupied Kashmir is demand of the hour'. The article states that, ‘Ch Muhammad Barjees Tahir, Federal Minister has said that India must give up harping on the tunes of Integral Part and listen to the tunes of Aam Aadmi Party which has demanded plebiscite in occupied Kashmir. He said that voice from inside India in support of referendum is the reflection of common Indian's thinking and is the need of the hour. The shocking aspect of the whole saga is the manner in which Pakistani Government agencies have been trying to portray that what AAP says in India is the thinking of the common man of this country. So, Aam Aadmi Party members are actually projecting themselves as representatives of the common man in India and their controversial anti-national statements are being used by  Pakistan to portray to the world that this is the sentiment of the common man in India.  Prashant Bhushan, meanwhile, went on to demand a referendum on the deployment of security forces in Maoist-affected areas. Not surprisingly, Binayak Sen, found guilty of colluding with Maoists and waging war against India, is a prominent member of the AAP. Sen, a convict now out on bail, is helping AAP make policy decisions. Every Indian should be beware of a party that employs such convicted terrorist sympathisers under the guise of "expertise". Political scientist and psephologist Yogendra Yadav, has a disturbing connection with Naxalite groups.  It is not a coincidence that Kamal Mitra Chenoy, whose biases for Kashmiri separatists, Maoists and similar other anti-national elements are well known, is a leading thinker and policy maker in AAP. He also wants the Left leaders to join the AAP  to  finish their unfinished agenda of the Left movement.

 

People like Arvind Kejriwal, Prashant Bhushan, Yogendra Yadav, Manish Sisodia, Kamal Mitra Chenoy, Medha Patkar, Sanjay Singh, Shazia Ilmi, Gopal Rai and Dilip Pandey are Indians but only in name. This group is no more than mercenaries whose single-point agenda is to destabilise India and break India into smithereens. This would help forces like American-based Ford Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation, US’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Pakistan dreaded intelligence agency Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI), and China, to mention only a few, play their nefarious games in the region with utmost ease and destroy Indian culture, civilisation and society. A complete entourage of Naxals from hardcore Sabyasachi Panda and Soni Sori to over ground supporters such as Alok Dixit, Binayak Sen, Kamal Mitra Chenoy and the Jihadi Islamists like Raza Muzaffar Bhatt, Kamal Farooqui, Tauqeer Raza, Rizwan Kaisar have joined the AAP. Kamal Farooqui was thrown out by unarguably the biggest practitioner of the Muslim appeasement in Indian politics – Mulayam Singh Yadav for trying to protect the Indian Mujahideen head Yaseen Bhatkal but the AAP lapped him up without any compunctions. The Party perhaps has every single person who signed Afzal Guru’s clemency petition as its member. There are others like Babu Mathew in AAP ranks, who signed Ajmal Kasab’s mercy petition. Add to this is the vigorous efforts for online fund collection made by Kejriwal’s trusted lieutenant, Shazia Ilmi, during her visit to the Middle East in February, 2014 to enable her party to fight the 2014 general elections.

 

Not for nothing are the Islamists in Pakistan cheering for the Aam Aadmi Party and mobilising funds for it. It is hard to believe that Pakistan, whose very existence depends on enmity towards India and whose state policy is to see the destruction of India -politically, economically, socially and militarily is today supporting and contributing to AAP for a corruption free, secular, developed India with good governance and accountability at every level of governance. It must be a deep conspiracy and certainly they see major gains from AAPs coming to power in India, which will expedite their goal of annexing Kashmir, divide India into many parts in religious lines to complete their unfinished agenda in Hyderabad, Junagarh, UP, Bihar and many others parts?

 

Though it is difficult to identify the sources responsible for nurturing and financing the self-confessed anarchist Kejriwal and his AAP, it will be pertinent to recall that Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott had highlighted in their extensively researched book “The Seige”, that Major Iqbal of the ISI had boasted about planting in India of a super spy agent codenamed “Honeybee” and  that there was a retinue of chuhes (i.e., rats) working for the ISI across India. Till now the Intelligence Bureau is unable to trace and arrest the so-called Honeybee and his or her rats. An alert was, however sounded by the Bureau in January 2014, warning that the ISI and LeT were trying to infiltrate into Indian political parties. In these circumstances, the startling revelations made by Aamna Shahwani in “The Afghanistan Times” on March 4, 2014, certainly point to the urgent requirement of identifying the hidden hand of Pakistan’s Honeybee and has cited more than one proof of the AAP being funded and supported by the ISI of Pakistan. Recently the Washington-based “Association of Indian Muslims of America” issued an “appeal to Indian Muslim citizens and voters to raise funds for and support Aam Aadmi Party” in the upcoming 2014 general elections. Showering praise on the Aam Aadmi Party, it’s press release displayed Kejriwal’s photograph and his famous ‘broom’ to enthuse the Muslim voters. The press release claimed that AAP will help the deprived Muslim community of India escape the police brutality, denial of justice, etc. The ISI and many other spy agencies have been using the methodology of bogus online funding to destabilise nations hostile to them. Several members of the American Indian Muslims Association were in close touch with the ISI of Pakistan through Dr.Ghulam Fai of Kashmiri American Council, who was arrested by the US police in July 2011 on charges of illegal activities and espionage. Interestingly the shadowy Pak agent Dr. Fai was also responsible for getting bogus online funds rolled over by the ISI through online donations for promoting the cause of Kashmiri secessionists. Bogus online funding is a well known trick used for espionage. RSN Singh, a former military intelligence officer who later served in the RAW recently said that the ISI has been funding politicians in India. In the intelligence circles the identity of these politicians are very well known. Has the ISI found new recruits in AAP to destabilize India? Are the services of the ISI & LeT now being obtained to influence vote-bank politics?

 

Is our nation so spineless & irresponsible that anybody can say anything to suit their political need without any accountability? Does Indian democracy give license for senseless behaviour & utterance? Are Kejrial and his group not bartering national security for vote bank politics? This clearly shows that the Aam Aadmi Party is playing a cynical game to tap Muslim angst over terror probes and playing the appeasement card for electoral gains. For them votes are evidently more important than national integrity and security. First by doubting the existence of the terrorist organizations, then by doubting the authenticity of the encounters, and lastly by questioning the accession of Kashmir in India and role of our security forces, they are  aiding & abetting the disruptive forces of terrorism & their sympathisers – thus they are hell bent on demoralizing the security forces & intelligence agencies and thereby endangering the sovereignty & integrity of the nation.

 

Today, India is  fighting on two fronts - one against the corrupt Congress and the other against the anti-national AAP. While the former is plundering the nation, Kejriwal is following the policies of former Union of Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR) President Mikhail Gorbachav. Gorbachav too talked of reforming state economy by introducing glasnost ("openness") and perestroika ("restructuring"). He ultimately ended up dividing USSR into many independent states. Pakistan and other enemies have  never accepted India as one nation. Their stand is that India is a country of many nations, and hence is likely to disintegrate one day. Voting for Kejriwal and AAP will surely accelerate this process. Every Nationalist Indian would shudder to even think of this calamity. Every patriotic and nationalist Indian should be aware of these anarchists and nib them in the bud, as they are a threat to our unity, democracy and freedom. Its growth will be disastrous for our nation.

The Curious Case of Arvind Kejriwal

The rise of Arvind Kejriwal is an interesting development in the current Indian social and political scene. But when we analyse his journey from the time of his leaving a Govt. job to a social activist to forming Aam Aadmi Party to the chair of the Chief Minister of Delhi (and also leaving it) to his foray into the next Lok Sabha election – we find that for all his purist rhetoric, idealist posture and talks of brining systemic change to Indian politics and governance, ironically in many ways, he exactly mirrors the qualities he criticises in his opponents. Arvind Kejriwal is a clever strategist and an ambitious & opportunist politician, who is ready to do anything to stay in the news for free publicity and increase his appeal nationwide. That is how he had built one of the most highly visibility movement in recent Indian history and used it for fulfilling his own political ambition. For all his talks of extreme transparencies, virtuous processes and absolute truths, he can be very economical with truth himself. Also team work and consensus building is clearly not his forte.  This is what has made him destroy the movement he had built and also the opportunity to usher in a new era of a truly “Aam Aadmi Govt.”  in Delhi and making an impact on the quality of politics in the country.

 

Let’s first check how he left govt. service. While serving as a Joint Commissioner in the Income Tax dept.  under the Ministry of Finance, he went on a paid leave for some study from 1^st Nov’ 2000 to 31^st Oct’2002. The condition for such leave was that the employee (Kejriwal) must serve continuously for at least 3 years after his return, failing which he must pay back the salary he drew over two years with penalty.  He executed a bond to this effect, with witnesses and guarantors. Kejriwal re-joined duty on 1^st Nov’2002 but almost immediately again went on 18 months leave without pay and did not serve continuously. He resigned in February 2006.  As he had jumped bond, his resignation was not accepted.  The Income Tax Dept. sent him a notice in 2007 and again in 2008 asking him to pay up his salary that he drew during his leave under the bond. But Kejriwal, who was by then became a social activist, expected the govt. to relax the above clause and refused to pay up. He wanted the govt. to waive off his dues and deduct from his retirement benefits. After sending several notice finally the Govt. sent him an ultimatum to pay up before 27^th Oct’2011, failing which he would not be relieved from his job and he would not get his retirement benefits. And that attachment of his property and criminal action could also follow. Mr. Kejriwal termed it an attempt to create obstacles to his agitation against corruption. When he did not respond by 27^th Oct, the dept. asked his guarantors to pay. Mr. Kejriwal pleaded that his friends should not be disturbed. When it became clear that the govt. would initiate proceedings, he announced on 30^th Oct’ 2011 that he would borrow from his friends and pay the dues of Rs.9.28 lakh. He wrote a letter to the Prime Minister on 3^rd Nov’2011 enclosing the cheque. This is how the activist Arvind Kejriwal was born.

 

Even as he was serving in the Income Tax Department, he gathered a group of like-minded people and started the NGO called “Parivartan” in Delhi. Through this NGO, his group tried to curb graft by helping people navigate the hurdles of Income Tax, Electricity and food ration matters etc. In 2001, the Delhi RTI Act was implemented. This gave Arvind a readymade issue and so he quickly shifted his focus from corruption to RTI to set things right in MCD and other civic bodies. As the organisation grew, Kejriwal became its sole face and unilateral authority, while other members felt ignored and left out. As Kejriwal expanded his reach in other networks like the NCPRI, funding became an issue. Parivartan was still a campaign and not a registered NGO or trust that could apply for funds or grants. This is when he told the group that he already had an NGO registered by the name “Kabir” and it just needed to be activated and they can get funds. In Parivartan, the rule was that nobody would earn a salary more than Rs 15,000 a month. There were people who left the organisation after Kejriwal refused to give them a salary hike even though he was reportedly taking fellowships from some institutions, including the Centre for Equity Studies. This rule was never followed in his case, his associates say. This is when some of the old timers decided to leave Parivartan. Post Kabir, it became messy and objectives of the campaign seemed to have taken a back seat. The not so credible organization, Ford Foundation has since been a generous contributor of funds to Kabir, giving it nearly $569,000 between 2006 and 2011. But a request for audit of the funds of Kabir by his associates was turned down by Kejriwal and he was always secretive about the income and expenditure of the organization. Working in tandem with activists of the NCPRI, Kejriwal became a regular at World Bank and UN events and contrary to the norms of the organization, he would not consult the team before going for any such meetings. Also, with his strong media management skills, he suddenly became RTI's face in Delhi. He approached Indu Jain, proprietor of the Times of India and became a partner in a one-year-long campaign on RTI.  A  RTI Manch was established in Delhi and Kejriwal wanted to take all the credit for its work. Around that time he got in touch with other activists, including Sandeep Pandey, who recommended him for a Magsaysay Award. His associates say that “Kejriwal did not work as much for the nationwide RTI Act as people believe. There was more hype than anything of substance. There were huge differences, with good people distancing themselves”. After Magsaysay, he was least interested in works of the NGO and rarely came to office. He then started hobnobbing for his friends and associates to get them plum postings in the newly set up Central Information Commission (CIC) in Delhi. He proposed Manish Sisodia's name for the post of independent commissioner in the CIC through backdoor channels but this did not materialise, as Sisodia lacked the experience. He also pitched for Shailesh Gandhi, who was later appointed. However, Kejriwal developed differences with Gandhi on many issues. With the Magsaysay money, he started a trust, Public Cause Research Foundation (PCRF). It was this trust which organised RTI awards in five star hotels with corporate funding, involving media groups like NDTV and Dainik Jagran, with active support of film stars like Aamir Khan. This was shocking for many veterans, including the late editor of Jansatta, Prabhash Joshi, who said that if one starts taking money from corporates, it would defeat the whole purpose of RTI. Meanwhile, Kejriwal refused to part with information on an application by a Delhi based RTI activist, seeking details of funding and expenditure on RTI awards. It was, if not legal, a moral question, for all those who talk of RTI petitions. Kabir and PCRF gave ambiguous details. By now, as is the pattern, his interest in RTI diminished. As per his old associates, his group started saying that there's nothing left in RTI and this is why, when CBI was taken out of the ambit of RTI, Kejriwal did not protest. This dogmatic, obsessive, media-savvy campaigner has a history of taking up one issue after another and dumping them as easily. The irony is, he never takes them to a logical conclusion. He opportunistically uses forces which can be fascist or corporate, but he does not care. Kejriwal has no principles, no ideological scaffolding, no clear moral vision. He can align with anybody and he cares two hoots. He attracts good people, but when they don't fit in his scheme of things, they are dumped. He constantly wants media attention and is impatient, authoritarian, obstinate and tolerates no dissent. He wants things done only his myopic way – he basically hates democratic opinion, dissent and norms of democracy. At Ramlila Ground it was a common refrain that one can't meet Anna Hazare without Kejriwal's  yes. The other joke was, Anna can't break his fast without Kejriwal's yes.

 

By now, after  a decade of activism had made Arvind Kejriwal more ambitious for larger issues and bigger glory. The Year 2010-11 was the year of scam in India – the CWG scam, the 2G scam and the Adarsh Housing scam etc. came into public domain. The common people of the country, who were already reeling under price rise, rampant corruption and a downward curve of economy reducing opportunity for livelihood – were showing signs of pent-up anger towards the system. This was the Rang De Basanti  moment Kejriwal was waiting for. He, however, recognised that to launch a large scale agitation against corruption he would need many things - symbols, glue, amplifiers. Arvind went to people he knew could mobilise huge masses. This is when he approached Anna Hazare - aware of the fact that, he would resonate for middle-class Indians as a sort of modern day Gandhi.   Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev, founder of Art of Living Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Ex Police Commissioner Kiran Bedi, Justice Santosh Hegre, Medha Patkar,  RTI activist S C Agrawal and many such personalities with clean track record of fighting against some form of injustice and with some followers – all came together on a single platform, what has then become famous as India Against Corruption (IAC) to  persuade/pressurise the government to enact the Jan Lokpal Bill.

 

From day one, Arvind Kejriwal was a man in a hurry and the IAC movement was ratcheted up in promises, expectation and assault. Social movements can’t be run like that - they take time and unfold slowly. If someone has to overturn old, set systems, he must have patience and the moral muscle to fight a long battle. But as Kejriwal had built his movement on short-term goals and expectations, it was almost inevitable that it would falter soon. Many, like Medha Patkar, had also pointed out that the success of social movements cannot be measured through short-term goals like the ones IAC set for itself - “give us the Lokpal Bill of our choice in the next 10 days or else…”. But Kejriwal’s failure and success are inextricably bound. Having tuned himself so loud, he was unable to back down. He couldn’t seem to accept that no Bill would get passed without building either some degree of political consensus or much larger people’s participation to put pressure on the political class. He couldn’t seem to see that in August last year and an opportunity  to leverage what he had already won, had been lost.  Kejriwal was able to garner public support and hope on his movement like never before in recent history.  He was also able to corner the Govt, Political class and bureaucracy in acknowledging the people’s power and wish for a change in political and governance culture. Yet, he seemed to be incapable of doing the right thing at the right time in the right way. By insisting on his too ideologist and selfish positions and promises, he decimated the entire movement. It’s a loss for all nationalistic Indians who believed in this movement to rid this nation of corruption, mis governance and a mediaeval political system.

 

Kejriwal’s sudden decision to float a political party resulted in the decimation of the social movement that Anna Hazare started under India Against Corruption (IAC) umbrella.  According to Kejriwal, that movement out lived its utility and achieved the dual purpose of exposing the government’s injustice in the eyes of the public and also prepared the public for the next stage of the battle. But was this next stage pre decided by him when he joined the movement and that his ultimate aim was to jump into active politics and take a shot at power? But he denies that and claims that the decision to turn the movement into a political party was spurred by popular demand. But a number of IAC core committee members say that the idea of going political was seriously discussed at a meeting on 22 April’2013, a good three months before Kejriwal’s announcement and that several of them opposed it.  Justice Santosh Hegde, another key Team Anna member, also admitted that he was against starting a party and was not consulted about the decision. He said “I cannot tell you how much I regret the disbanding of this movement. The Lokpal Bill that was under consideration in Parliament was not everything we wanted, but it was 70 percent there. We could have accepted it and slowly built pressure to amend it bit by bit. But I think some psephologist told Kejriwal that there is an Anna wave in the air, so you can win if you float a political party”.

 

After the Delhi assembly election which resulted in a fractured mandate with no party getting a simple majority to form the Govt., an impression was created by a section of the media and pseudo secular intellectuals that the Aam Aadmi Party enjoyed the support of 2.2 crore Delhiites. But It got only 29 per cent of the votes, which means 71 per cent of voters rejected it. Hence, the formation of an alliance in Delhi between the party, which "professed to cleanse Indian politics” - AAP and “the most corrupt political party atleast in India" - Congress, was apparently based on the age old principle that “Enemy of your enemy is your Friend”.  But Power is the ultimate ambition for most politicians and Arvind Kejriwal  has proved it once again. What an irony – he, who spoke of bringing a culture of alternative politics has now partnered with the same adulterous politics. AAP’s birth was by ditching Anna Hazare & his movement half way and then AAP’s coming to power, was by ditching the very voters, who voted it for an alternative. Kejriwal wanted to take full benefit of the mandate he got and all this SMS, E-mail drama were only to fool the public. How can a man of principle, who had declared unequivocally, that he would not give or take support of Congress could suddenly change by this fake SMS and E-mail referendum?   Kejriwal  has demonstrated in this initial stage of his entry into politics, that he is a politician without any value and ideology. By accepting the support of the corrupt Congress, his promise to the voters of providing corruption free governance was defeated. Is there any difference between the political ambitions of Mulayam, Mayabati and Kejriwal - none at all. All of them shout & scream against Congress infront of their supporters and public in general. But when it comes to forming/saving a Govt., they stand together with Congress, giving some excuses like keeping communal forces at bay or as Kejriwal’s new excuse that the Aam Aadmi wanted it to form govt.  Electoral mandate is one of pragmatism rather than idealism, which proved to be a tricky balancing act for Kejriwal,  whose carefully nurtured public image has always been the other way round. He promised so many things in manifesto – but promising is easy and implementation is difficult. Given the manner in which he and his party had attacked all political parties, accusing them of betraying the trust of the people, he was expected to deliver on his promises double quick once he took over the govt. However, if Kejriwal had bitten the bullet, it was not without his own assessment of a cost-benefit analysis. He had about 75 days to make his moves before the Lok Sabha election code kicks in around end beginning March.  Therefore, it was clear from the beginning that AAP would aim to implement its promises in a hurry so that it could go back to the electorate in a couple of months and say – look we did it – and seek a better majority. So it enacted the drama  of 50% cut on electricity tariff, 700 litres per day water to families with water meter, started regularising the illegal colonies and above all tried to legislate an anti-corruption Jan Lokpal Bill in an unconstitutional manner. But in doing so, AAP promised to implement exactly the kind of mind-numbing populist schemes that the Congress is famous for – never mind what fiscal prudence dictates. If Congress is run like a feudal family business, AAP is like a populist khap with no direction beyond populism. So on the 14^th of February’2014, the nation witnessed for the first time in the history of India, the irresponsible, shameless and brazen act by an Indian Chief Minister of himself making his own Govt. collapse.  Knowing very well that he was not capable of keeping his commitments and taking the wild allegations he made against all and sundry to their logical conclusions, Arvind Kejriwal was in the lookout for an escape route to run away from responsibilities. If he would have wanted to change the system, he needed guts to fight. He had a chance as Chief Minister to usher in a new era of a truly “Aam Aadmi Govt.” and improve the life of millions of Aam Aadmi of Delhi. However he was more interested in “Lok Sabha” than in “Lok Pal”. Finding that Governance is an altogether different cup of tea, Kejriwal had brilliantly orchestrated his own downfall, crying wolf and playing the role of a victim, hoping to win sympathy that will propel him to the upcoming Lok Sabha and positions of power. But he has left a feeling in the common people that only stability brings growth & riches. Activists come with personal ambition & agenda, to establish themselves at the cost of common men’s interest. They waste precious taxpayer's money, stop critical growth and leave common men in the lurch. What Kejriwal and AAP are doing is manipulating the emotions of common man to gain political mileage and has no progressive plan for the nation.  Therefore, he has to invent a new fight or a new crisis or a new controversy every day to stay relevant in the minds of Indian voters.  His ultimate aim was and is to win 40 odd seats in the next Lok Sabha election and then either become a king maker or the king himself. Thus he was never interested in providing long term good governance in Delhi with hard work, sincerity and perseverance by fighting the system and brings about systemic change logically, legally and gradually.  Hence, he used Delhi for his martyrdom, so that he can take birth again as a national leader and the only messiah for the common man of this country by showing dreams to the gullible “Aam Aadmi”. 

 

Kejriwal has morphed from “Crusader against Corruption” to a “Political Compromiser”. His opportunistic streak now stands stretched to national political ambitions in a misplaced reading of the initial euphoria created by his promises of a corruption free, just and equitable governing system under an all-encompassing Jan Lokpal. But his and his kitchen cabinet’s arrogance has reached such sky high that they are unable to realize that AAP is a sinking ship now and one by one all independent & right thinking people including founding members are deserting it. He is arrogant enough to call everyone corrupt, likes to make slanderous charges against rival politicians, is always eager for a street fight and a mild provocation away from another dharna. But the line between a revolutionary and an anarchist is thin. Kejriwal’s overdoes act of this activist politics of mobocracy and anarchism has reduced him to an irritant and he is no longer a symbol of hope and aspiration of  Aam Aadmi of this nation. Building a people’s movements is a difficult job. But building a truly people oriented, democratic, honest and transparent political party is even more difficult job. It’s high time,  he realizes that when one is shaping the future of a nation and it’s 120 cr people, honesty, patience and a selfless vision is what, required of a people’s revolutionary.  In that sense, Kejriwal is not really different from the run-of-the-mill politicians. He too, does not practice what he preaches. Or is there one vital difference?  That  while other politicians are merely hypocritical and cynical, Kejriwal, in addition to these traits, also has immense disdain for the Aam Aadmi?

Salman to Shallowman...

Congress leader and External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid on Tuesday launched a vicious attack on BJP's Prime Ministerial nominee Narendra Modi in his constituency Farrukhabad and slamming him for not being able to rein in violence during post-Godhra riots, called Modi 'impotent (Napunsak)'.

 

Its sad that the political slugfest has reached to such low level talking. This is disgraceful to say the least and that too coming from the External Affairs Minister of India, makes it even uglier. Salman Khurshid has any way failed India many times during his tenure as External Affairs Minister - whether handling China, Pakistan, Italy, Sri Lanka etc., but this time he has failed Congress, who anyway is a big failure as UPA II and most importantly failed himself. But what more one can expect from a low-life, whose NGO swindled money meant for differently abled people?

 

Mr. Khurshid, before you point fingers at others please accept that you were Napunsak in 1984 Sikh riot case and hundreds of riots in India since 1947 when your party was in Govt. for most of the time, you were Napunsak during 26/11 Mumbai terror attack and all other such terrorist attack cases in India during your Govt.’s tenure, you were also Napunsak when Indian soldiers were beheaded by Pakistan inside India’s territory, China’s repeated incursion cases, Italian Marine case, Devyani case in USA, as you showed impotency when the integrity, sovereignty and honour of our nation was at stake. There are several Napunsak in Congress party and its government that is why a person like you could survive here even after all the above.  You seem to be mentally handicap.  What a disgrace that congress has such a disgraceful guy like you in the party and the cabinet. To counter the increasing popularity of Narendra Modi, you and your party try to impose falsehood and propaganda on the citizens of this nation and divide them in the name of religion and spread vendetta politics, projecting it as secularism. While repeatedly flogging your only issue of 2002 Gujarat riots, you conveniently forget your party’s direct involvement in the genocide of 2733 Sikhs in Delhi in 1984. Though photographs and testimony are available of Congress leaders, leading the mobs while massacring thousands of innocent, unarmed Sikhs, nowhere the police fired a single bullet or arrested even one person. Cases were not registered and investigated. A Commission of Inquiry was constituted which came with a sham report. The Judge heading the Commission was subsequently made a Congress Party Member of the Rajya Sabha. Justice evades the victims till today inspite of irrefutable proofs available but instead of punishing the culprits, they have been rewarded with ministership and other Govt. favours. But though in Gujarat thousands of people were arrested, police fired at several places killing almost 300 rioters from both communities, you still call Modi impotent. Thousands of cases were filed and hundreds of people have been sentenced so far. Chief Minister Modi, personally went through several inquiries including the Supreme Court constituted and monitored SIT and no evidence was found against him. Even when Supreme Court exonerated Modi, you still call him impotent but when Rajiv Gandhi casually approved the 1984 riots saying that when a big tree falls, the earth shakes, you don’t find any fault with him. You said that Modi is responsible for 2002 riots as he was the CM but by the same logic don’t find it appropriate to accept that Rajiv Gandhi was responsible for 1984 riots as he was the PM. If Modi, the then CM with limited resources was impotent, then which word from English dictionary would you use to describe Rajiv Gandhi, the then PM who had much more resources to control the 1984 riots? This nation has not forgotten what you wrote about the 1984 Delhi Sikh riot in your book “At Home In India: A restatement of Indian Muslims" – that  “Hindus and Sikhs paid for their 'sins' during that riot and they got what they deserved”. And you still dare to call Narendra Modi “impotent”? This is a classic case of mass schizophrenia in Congress. The entire present leadership of Congress party is full of obnoxious and despicable persons like you.

 

Congress party and its leaders are so scared of losing their positions of power in the 2014 general election that they have come to loathe BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi. Their visceral hatred for Narendra Modi is rapidly crossing all the limits in the run-up to the election that is certainly going to see the rout of Congress party. Unfortunately Mr. Khurshid, Congress leaders like you falsely believe that by mounting personal attacks on the most popular leader of India, you will be able to salvage your party’s pride and fortune in the upcoming general election. You have not learnt any lessons from your colleague Mani Shankar Aiyar’s ill-fated potshot that inspired a bold new initiative from Narendra Modi called “Chai Pe Charcha”. This initiative got Narendra Modi huge publicity across the country. Following it, Rahul Gandhi issued a diktat forbidding Congress leaders from indulging in personal attacks on opponents. But you have ignored your party vice-president’s instructions and made indecent remarks of the worst kind against the man who might well be the next Prime Minister of India. Modi has a knack of turning every abuse thrown at him into his advantage. Aiyer's “Chaiwala” barb has already cost the Congress dearly. Now, just wait and watch how Modi turns your “Napunsak" abuse also into another scoring point. It is this unique trait of Modi that makes him a “Real Mard” unlike the “Namard” like Aiyer, Sibal and you. You and the Congress party will shortly regret making such a derogatory comment. Ahead of the Lok Sabha election, the Congress is not going to be able to derive any political mileage out of attacking Narendra Modi, who has silenced most of his detractors by his good governance and development oriented politics. You may have been successful in grabbing both the headlines and attention of the media, but if you think that this will translate into electoral success for you and your party, you are gravely mistaken. You have actually realised that raking up 2002 is safer than having to answer for 2004-2014. Ironically, the truth is always bitter and that is why you, Mani Shankar Aiyar or Kapil Sibal etc. have indigestion that has resulted in such verbal diarrhoea.

 

Mr. Khurshid, we do not care if the person leading this nation is impotent. We do not want the Prime Minister of our nation to produce babies but give us good governance. You can be very potent but we do not want potent political leaders and ministers like you producing babies like CWG scam, 2G scam, Coalgate scam, Augustawestland scam and numerous other such scam babies.  We wish the fathers of all these corrupt and criminal Congress leaders and ministers had been impotent, wish sons and sons-in-laws of all these politicians become impotent as common men of this nation are being punished for generations by these corrupt and criminal potent scumbags, whose only job is to loot the scarce resources of this nation and pass on the genes as well as the loot to their families.

Sorry Mr. Shallowman, your dangerous & notorious game plan has been exposed & will not work with the electorate this time. Before you judge someone's IMPOTENCY, you will have to give evidence of your own POTENCY. Rest assured, 2002 will not be an issue in 2014. This Govt.'s unending failures in the last 10 years will be a far bigger issue.

Kissa Kursi Kejriwal Ka…

On the 14^th of February, the nation witnessed for the first time in the history of India, the irresponsible, shameless and brazen act by an Indian Chief Minister of himself making his own Govt. collapse.  Knowing very well that he was not capable of keeping his commitments and taking the wild allegations he made against all and sundry to their logical conclusions, Arvind Kejriwal was in the lookout for an escape route to run away from responsibilities. If he would have wanted to change the system, he needed guts to fight. He had a chance as Chief Minister to usher in a new era of a truly “Aam Admi Govt.” and improve the life of millions of Aam Admi of Delhi by providing better civic amenities & infrastructure, a just & corruption free governance, with equal opportunity for a better living, which would account for every rupee spent. By being in the Govt. he could have done much more in a systematic way. However he was more interested in “Lok Sabha” than in “Lok Pal”. Kejriwal and his Ministers had shirked their ministerial responsibilities, accused everyone except themselves of being immoral and corrupt, shown scant respect to the 'rule of law' and adopted a 'my way or highway' attitude. They have in less than 50 days dumped the real 'Aam Admi' of Delhi to whom they made several poll promises. Finding that Governance is an altogether different cup of tea, Kejriwal has brilliantly orchestrated his own downfall, crying wolf and playing the role of a victim, hoping to win sympathy that will propel him to the upcoming Lok Sabha and positions of power. But he has left a feeling in the common people that only stability brings growth & riches. Activists come with personal ambition & agenda, to establish themselves at the cost of common men’s interest. They waste precious taxpayer's money, stop critical growth and leave common men in the lurch. What Kejriwal and AAP is doing is manipulating the emotions of common man to gain political mileage and has no progressive plan for the nation. The whole resignation drama was enacted as per a pre decided script. The first step was to call a press conference and file FIR on an issue which is already in the court and take big names of Central Ministers and Mukesh Ambani in the FIR. The second step was to quickly announced a mega-reward program for defaulters on power bills, saying they deserved a preferential treatment as they supported the AAP’s anti-State movement by not paying for electricity bills during Oct’12 & April’13 and the Government would also not charge penalty from them so that in case of snap polls there is a sure shot ready vote bank. At the same time it was declared that those who had paid their bills during this period would not be refunded. The third step in the script was to create a situation where the tabling of the Lokpal bill itself becomes a contentious issue as regards to the Transaction of Business Rules of the Delhi Statehood Act. The fourth step was to somehow resign and blame it on Congress and BJP.  This is a classic case of a dishonest politician, who wants to cash on ignorance of the public, extreme populism and extreme narcissism.

Otherwise, how can someone logically justify the stupid act of Arvind Kejriwal. On 14^th Feb, the AAP Govt. wanted to table two bills - 1. Money bill (finance bill) & 2. Lokpal bill. For the Money bill they followed due process of consultation and approval of Lt. Governor and Home Ministry & not only tabled but got it passed. But for the Lokpal bill they didn't follow the same laid down process of the Delhi Statehood Act knowing very well that they were resorting to unconstitutional means and sure to be opposed by Lt. Governor and the opposition parties. Both Cong & BJP said that they would support the Lokpal bill but AAP should follow the constitutional process as Lt. Governor had written to the speaker of Delhi assembly not to table the bill without approval. Had Lt. Governor or Home Ministry refused to give approval for tabling this bill or after approval Cong and BJP opposed it, Kejriwal would have been justified in resigning. But without doing so he resorted to an unconstitutional act just to bail himself out from governance of Delhi as he knew that he was an utter failure as CM and was looking for an escape route to fight Lok Sabha election on sympathy wave. This is complete opportunism, falsehood and hoodwinking of the people of Delhi and the nation by framing stories of  Mukesh Ambani etc. Also, if he was against that very rule of the Delhi Constitution, he could have challenged it in the Supreme Court, got it changed and tabled the Lokpal bill and see whether Cong and BJP support or oppose it and then resign to go to the voters again. But what he did was just political theatrics.

 Arvind Kejriwal is a clever, opportunist and ambitious politician and is ready to do anything to stay in the news for free publicity and increase his appeal nationwide. Therefore, he has to invent a new fight or a new crisis or a new controversy every day to stay relevant in the minds of Indian voters.  His ultimate aim was and is to win 40 odd seats in the next Lok Sabha election and then either become a king maker or the king himself. This intention has already been made clear by Yogendra Yadav. Thus he was never interested in providing long term good governance in Delhi with hard work, sincerity and perseverance by fighting the system and brings about systemic change logically, legally and gradually.  Hence, he used Delhi for his martyrdom, so that he can take birth again as a national leader and the only messiah for the common man of this country by showing dreams to the gullible “Aam Admi”.  Delhi was just launching pad for his ambition to become a national leader and if possible Prime Minister some day and now he doesn’t need Delhi any more. He came to office with an 18 point agenda and reqd. to show equal importance and commitment to fulfilling each one of those 18 points. Though good governance is a continuous process and would not have reached the last mile post by achieving one or all of those 18 points but this agenda could have formed the basis of a clear road map for a transparent and honest governing system. Honesty is all encompassing and one can’t be honest in one issue or idea and not honest in another. But Kejriwal never believed in such virtues. He is a man in hurry to achieve his personal goal and the goal for his party. Hence he showed scant regard to the trust and belief of millions of voters of Delhi. In a large country with a complicated governing system, change can’t happen overnight but only gradually through persistence, sincerity and commitment. But he had no patience for such fair way of achieving success in bringing systemic change. He is a power hungry politician, in a hurry to achieve his political goal and therefore had this intense desire to give up office at almost any cost. Arvind and his group of activists do not have the skill set, maturity and patience for governance. Making tall claim and accusing people with sensational comments is one thing but delivering on commitments is another thing. With their leftist ideology, the Aam Admi Party’s agenda is to denounce some new entity each day, promise a permanent revolution and seek martyrdom. If only Kejriwal had his intention honest and committed to the cause of providing good governance to Delhi and not his eyes set on the powers in the centre, he might have succeeded in making an impact on the quality of politics in the country. But his lot is totally incompetent, incapable and inefficient and don’t have the commitment and intention to serve the people. Kejriwal showed that AAP is a big hoax and they made fools of Delhi people who voted for them. Hence, 14^th Feb will remain as a disappointing day for all those honest citizens of this country, who had pinned their hopes on him for systemic change and good governance. Also why he did not seek public opinion for resigning when he took so much time in taking people’s opinion while taking support of Congress and forming the Govt? Thus he has wasted every vote he got and what is the guarantee that he won’t do it again. India in 2014 needs a change, needs stability and maturity in governance. Quitters can’t be change agents.

Modi's Guwahati Rally & The Heads We Need to Count...

After yesterday’s rally of  Narendra Modi in Guwahati, Congress leaders, supporters  & sympathisers in Assam are a worried lot. The rising popularity graph of Narendra Modi even in Assam has already begun to give them sleeplessness nights. A day after the rally, it has been observed that a number of individuals and organizations are cracking their head to find out the exact number of attendance in the rally. But whether  50000 or 2 lacs people attended - what really matters is – A) has Modi caught the attention of people in Assam in particular and the nation in general, with the questions he is raisings about the problems the country & state of Assam is facing and it’s lack of progress in view of the misgovernance of the UPA at centre as well as the Congress Govt. in Assam?  and  B) has he been able to identify any definite, tangible and workable solution for those problems?

The answer to both the above questions is an emphatic “YES” and this is admitted even by the bitterest critics of Modi. He is a leader who has risen in the ranks by his hard work and has shown to the world what is he capable of by his innovative and progressive ideas, actions and results in the state of Gujarat.  He is “incorruptible”  and doesn’t look at governance though the “vote bank” prism and that is his greatest strength.  Modi has proved by his actions that for him “secularism is India First” &  his philosophy is “Justice to all, Appeasement to none &  that Religion should not be an instrument in our democratic process”. His mantra for governance is that “only new thoughts can bring in change - development will take place when there is an urge to go ahead to implement new ideas despite all the impediments on the way. Development is the panacea to all the problems afflicting the country”. He correctly identified that in Assam as well as in most states of India, the problem with governance and the resultant growth in economic and social parameters, is  a dearth of thoughtful & innovative ideas and a lack of effective & quick implementation. Modi has proved that he has the ability to innovate and ensure effective implementation and good governance.

After the stupendous success of his rallies all over the country, he came out triumphant even in Guwahati. The fact that Modi could hold forth on the Tarun Gogoi Govt’s ills for almost an hour in Hindi, before a large attentive audience, underlined his appeal outside the traditional catchment area of the BJP.  Whether it was the popular disgust with the misdoings of the Congress or it was due to the aura around his own public persona or a combination of both, the fact remains that Modi today is by far the most popular leader in the country. No other leader from any party can match his mass appeal.  No other Indian leader in recent times has attained such fan following in relatively such a short time. in the case of Modi, whether it was the social media or the private television channels or the “pseudo secular brigade” targeted him incessantly for a most virulent campaign of calumny and hatred or it was the popular anger against the UPA, there can be no denying that Modi has risen in the political firmament like a colossal, whether the Congress & it’s allies or the “pseudo secular brigade” likes it or not. But the irony is that except some political leaders, sympathisers and intellectuals from the secular brigade, everyone in the country can see this and understand the impact of Modi on the next general election. These few individuals have their heads buried in the sand with their smugness and self importance and are preventing those who matter from a proper appraisal of the situation on the ground.

Today, the Indian economy stands at its worst since 1991, with unemployment and inflation completely beyond the control or comprehension of the Prime Minister or Finance Minister, we have an outrageously pathetic External Affairs Minister who actually appears to be lobbying for every nation inimical to India's interests, we have a dummy &  incompetent Home Minister who is ill equipped for the demands of his ministry, we have a dozen ministers seeped in grave corruption charges. No wonder then that the government has little choice but to run for secular cover.  Secularism in India, provides a great escape route to politicians & political parties from performance & accountability. Therefore every mediocre, non-performing & corrupt Indian politician or political party is a self-proclaimed secularist.  After the Himalayan blunders created by Congress & UPA Govt. in economy, infrastructure, social issues, law & order, defence, external affairs and the loot raj they & their allies unleashed on this nation by indulging in scams in every affair of governance, they have realised that the age old  boggy of 'secularism'  would have to be their last resort to hoodwink  people. They have realised that raking up 2002 is safer than having to answer for 2004-2013. Modi rightly said earlier that whenever the Congress is faced with a challenge – whether it is corruption, price rise, directives from the Supreme Court, or a minister being jailed, or the rape of girls or an atmosphere of insecurity – they do not answer people. The moment there is a crisis, they wear a burqa (veil) of secularism and hide in a bunker. If India has to survive as a secular, vibrant democracy, all right thinking & educated citizens & voters should stand together & teach this secular brigade a lesson by throwing them out of power in the centre & states in the next election.

Modi  has told the citizens how he can revive the pride of the nation by improving it’s socio-political state, economy, internal & external security and above all defuse the time-bomb of vote bank politics to save India &  unify Indians on developmental plank.  Modi’s message is simple, powerful and has the capacity to change the fate of the nation. While the Congress & UPA Govt.  never  tires of providing the common people their “rights”, which they are entitled to by the Constitution anyway, Modi reminds the Govt. of its responsibilities and the spheres where it has failed to take action. Modi rightly says that we need freedom from the status quoist mindset and that the nation is "restless" for a change

People have made up their mind whom to vote for in next election and sadly for Congress, young India understands Congress’s ploy better than the previous generations and it’s a much more smarter India now. There is no sympathy wave this time around on which Raul Gandhi and Congress can ride the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty to power again. This Nehru-Gandhi dynasty is the root cause of all problems plaguing India today and they have inflicted more harm than any other enemy to this nation. That someone as intellectually handicapped as Rahul Gandhi could think of becoming  India’s Prime Minister and that some people who are members or beneficiaries of Congress party and it’s allies enthusiastically endorses his candidature is one of our many descents from the times of the iconic Gandhi to that of his surname hybrids. The culture of “chamchagiri” in the Congress party  has converted it into an extension of the whims & fancies and insecurities of a single individual and a family. Here loyalty to the party is judged by the loyalty to an individual and a family. This family has destroyed every democratic institution in this country, so that nobody can “challenge” their autocratic rule in furthering the cause of the dynasty and converted the Congress into a family business.  Congress has tricked, suppressed, discredited any opposition leader or party that tried to “challenge”  it or it’s dynastic leadership. Narendra  Modi has risen as the greatest challenger to the rotten dynastic rule of Congress and it’s politics of caste & religious  divide, corruption & misgovernance and everything else in the name of "secularism" and "pluralism". The congress trickster would do anything to continue the legacy of the dynasty to remain in power.   But they should realize that it's high time now for this family to leave from the Indian political scene with some respect still remaining. You either die as hero or live long enough to see yourself become villain. This election is for a change.

If only our “aam aadmi” are “alive” to the fact that this Nehru-Gandhi Dynasty has been the bane of our country and it took a “chaiwala” from Gujarat, who is a dalit and who doesn’t need Jupiter’s escape velocity, to give a clarion call for a Congress Free India, should be determined to write an epitaph about this dynasty by not only defeating Congress and it’s allies in 2014 general election but must also ensure that Congress is cut into pieces and never able to get  near power again. The ecosystem built around the Congress garbage truck is massive. Once the hydra's head is cutoff, the backs of each one of the corrupted institutions need to be broken and rebuilt. Voting out Congress in 2014 is only the beginning and not the end.

Modi has already arrived on the national scene and he can’t be wished away. Those who in Indian Polity and Media, don’t subscribe to this view should start living with this reality. Atleast  Modi has made the nation and it’s people aware,  why and who they should listen to if they want to reclaim their pride in the 21^st century world.

A Frank Letter to Frankly Speaking Rahul Gandhi

Dear Mr. Rahul Gandhi,

It must have come as a real surprise to you that I am addressing you by your acquired family name (as your family name by birth was Raul Vinci) instead of calling you “Pappu”, as this nation lovingly calls you. However, watching your frank interview with Arnab Gos...wami yesterday, I for once is in a dilemma whether to admire you or pity on you for your this bold act of 80 long minutes though not that the nation was expecting something significantly different. Actually watching you during the interview reminded me of the famous “Balatkar” speech of Chatur Lingum in the popular movie “3 idiots”. Your party and it’s so called leaders have been systematically trying to convince this nation for last 10 years that you are it’s only hope and future Prime Minister even though whenever you have opened your mouth in public, it’s increasingly looking like “Peechle dus saal se apne nirantar iss desh ki balatkar pe balatkar kiye ja rahe hai”. Now after your interview yesterday, you have reinforced this belief even more that you simply lack what it takes to lead both the party and the nation. Today we are seeing that spokespersons of your party alongwith some journalists like Kumar Ketkar, Vinod Mehta etc. are getting emotional and trying to defend you for your brave performance though they realize that they are trying to defend the indefensible. You are being hailed as a visionary, honest, sincere and astute leader by them knowing very well that the Congress party always projects failure as success and that is what you have managed to do for yourself. It is perhaps the greatest tragedy for this nation to get a political leader and an aspiring Prime Ministers like you, whose utterances or silence on various important issues facing the nation, makes me wonder if we really deserved somebody as pathetic as you. I have a feeling that you have a born defect that you can’t even coherently put together any thought or idea even in your mind. But that a person with such incurable defect is being accepted and projected by the oldest political party in this country as the supreme leader and Prime Minister in waiting, demonstrates the level of flaw in the DNA of some of our own countrymen, who are leaders, supporters or sympathisers of Congress party. You are kind enough to give us a lot of entertainment at your and your party’s expense. People of this nation have come to accept that you can’t say anything intelligent and ready to trash your utterances, which are hailed by your party men as visionary comments. Only the dynasty worshiping, corrupt & criminal congress leaders, supporters and sympathizers still believe that there is a hidden wisdom in your speeches and comments. I just want to refresh your memory with some of your such so called startling “out of box (or mind?)” comments in the not so distant past:-

1. Politics is in your shirt, in your pant.
2. Poverty is just a state of mind. It does not mean the scarcity of food, money or material things. If one possesses self-confidence, then one can overcome poverty.
3. In India, we have a concept of caste. If one belongs to a backward caste and wants to attain success then one need an escape velocity of Jupiter to attain that success.
4. China is referred to as the ‘dragon’ and India as an ‘elephant’. But we are not an elephant, we are a ‘beehive’.
5. Some riots took place in the country following the murder of Indiraji. We know the people were very angry and for a few days it seemed that India had been shaken.
6. We will stop 99 per cent of the attacks. But one per cent of attacks might get through and that is what I am saying.
7. Hindu extremism is a bigger threat to India than the Lashkar-e-Toiba.
8. 7 out of 10 youths in Punjab take to drugs.
9. India is the Saudi Arabia of 21st century.
10. If India is a computer, the Congress is its default programme.

Finally after 10 years, your party and the public relation company it has just engaged for your image makeover decided that you need to do a TV interview in one of the leading and most watched serious news channel. But they had over confidence in their own ability to convert a donkey into a horse overnight by training and memorising you a pre prepared script with some seemingly serious words and phrases. You had memorised all the answers to questions your trainers could think of. But a super intelligent and experienced journalist like Arnab Goswami had other ideas. He asked routine questions in a pointed manner and insisted on specific and detailed answers. He was not in a mood to allow you to attain “escape velocity” from any of his questions and repeated his questions till droplets of sweat appeared on your forehead and you stopped looking at his eyes. But I have only sympathy for you as the experienced political leaders and media managers of your party should have realized your limitations, watching your performance over last 10 years. Apart from the fact of your birth in the Nehru-Gandhi family, how you are qualified to lead the Congress party, can’t be convincingly explained by any member of your party. Such demeaning flattery of someone who has so far failed to distinguish himself in any field of human activity was sure to back fire at some point and expose the bankruptcy of idea in Congress party. It was a clueless exercise for a clueless pretend-politician.

Let’s start with your education. You told during the interview that you are an M.Phil. However, there is nothing in your utterances that would even vaguely suggest that you had gone through some form of higher education. But nothing is wrong with that. You don't need a great IQ to be in Indian politics and I don't believe that formal graduation has anything to do with anyone's wisdom or character. But this is where you are a handicap. The least I would expect of a future Prime Minister is wisdom and character. But that you have neither wisdom nor character is beyond any doubt of anybody, who is watching your acts and words over the last 10 years.

You said that Congress unlike BJP doesn't believe that power should be centred on one person (read Modi). So what do you want - that the power should only be centred on one Nehru-Gandhi family? You said in the interview that “I am absolutely against the concept of dynasty, anybody who knows me knows that and understands that”. I am sure Rahul, you don’t expect this nation to take you seriously on that, else how can you explain the nowhere seen phenomenon that in a democratic country during 66 years of its independence, power is in the hands of four generations of a single family? If that is not a dynastic monarchy, then what is it? Though your words on any day have the power to change Govt. ordinance or policy decisions like number of subsidized gas cylinders, still you and your party is reluctant to openly declare that you are the Prime Ministerial candidate only to protect you from taking responsibility in the event of a loss in the coming elections. But while answering questions on this topic you evade a direct reply taking cover under tradition and constitution forgetting completely that on several instances earlier your great grandfather, grand mother and father were declared PM candidate much before elections. Even the current PM was also declared as candidate much before the 2009 elections. So you want to enjoy unlimited power without accountability. It’s God sent that you came forward for this interview, as it’s now clear to the voters of this nation that Rahul Gandhi is not a "Reluctant Prince”, he is a "Redundant Prince".

Rahul, you talked about empowering people a 100 times in 10 minutes yet you have failed to empower the Prime Minister from your own party in last 10 years. You say that you believe in democracy, in opening up the system, in RTI and giving power to the people. We are a parliamentary democracy and here everyone has to believe in democratic institutions, transparency and empowering people including women. So what’s new in what you are saying? You said that you want to change the system but which alternative system do you have in mind? You just throw phrases but never convincingly able to elaborate them. It has been fashionable for Congress to coin slogans like “Garibi Hatao”, “Congress Ke Haath, Aam Aadmi ke Saath”, “Ho Raha Hai Bharat Nirman” and so on, when the greatest gift to the nation by the party has been corruption, criminalization of politics and mis governance. Corruption in every form possible- from politics, to businesses, to bureaucracy, to even Commonwealth Games - nothing has been spared and scares resources of the nation have been allowed to be plundered. For every question, you hid behind the excuse of RTI, women empowerment or opening up of the system to more youngsters. You were asked about price rise and you answered about women empowerment. You were just randomly putting some words together while framing replies without listening or trying to understand any of the questions. The answers were clearly unconvincing. You declare that you have tremendous belief in inclusivity. But in all the States where your party is in power, communal tension is palpable because it believes in the appeasement of particular caste or religion for vote bank politics masquerading as inclusiveness. Its idea of secularism has chained the nation into shackles so much so that it has prevented from taking effective steps against terrorism and enemy nations and has left the citizens at the mercy of separatists and religious fundamentalists.

To counter the increasing popularity of Narendra Modi, you and your party try to impose falsehood and propaganda on the citizens of this country and divide them in the name of religion and spread vendetta politics, projecting it as secularism. While repeatedly flogging your only issue of 2002 Gujarat riots, you conveniently forget your party’s direct involvement in the genocide of thousands of Sikhs in Delhi in 1984. Though photographs and testimony are available of Congress leaders, leading the mobs while massacring thousands of innocent, unarmed Sikhs, nowhere the police fired a single bullet or arrested even one person. Cases were not registered and investigated. A Commission of Inquiry was constituted which came with a sham report. The Judge heading the Commission was subsequently made a Congress Party Member of the Rajya Sabha. Justice evades the victims till today inspite of irrefutable proofs available but instead of punishing the culprits, they have been rewarded with ministership and other Govt. favours. But though in Gujarat thousands of people were arrested, police fired at several places killing almost 300 rioters from both communities, you still blame Modi & BJP of complicity in the riots. Thousands of prosecutions were filed and hundreds of people have been sentenced so far. The Chief Minister personally went through several inquiries including the Supreme Court constituted and monitored SIT and no evidence was found against him. Even when Supreme Court exonerated Modi, you still say that he is a mass murderer but when your father casually approved the 1984 riots saying that when a big tree falls, the earth shakes, you don’t find him to be a murderer. You said that Modi is responsible for 2002 riots as he was the CM but by the same logic don’t find it appropriate to accept that your father was responsible for 1984 riots as he was the PM. Every time Congress tries to dig a grave for Narendra Modi, Rahul- you have jumped into it. And still all those die-hard fans of Rahul Gandhi must be jumping with joy to hear from you that you are not scared of Narendra Modi. No doubt that Congress is spending Rs.500 Cr to prepare a star campaigner in you for the BJP.

If you are complaining that the political system in Congress so far was not transparent, fair & just and therefore you are in the process of changing the same, can you also answer whose fault was it? Who was heading Congress most of the time in its history of 66 years after India’s independence? How long do you think you can fool people of this nation and continue your dynastic rule?

Today it’s evident that your spokespersons & media management team is clueless as to how to defend your comments and project you as Prime Minister for 2014 and their frustration is in the open. Hence they are trying to suppress everybody, who shows any strength of conviction to expose your intellectual bankruptcy and hypocrisy of your party. This is Rahul Gandhi for the Congress that wants to thrust upon India a leader bereft of vision and knowledge about the nation’s history, economy, politics or culture. Each time you speak in public, you remove all doubts about your utter unsuitability for the job of PM. Your TV debut has left nobody in doubt that giving another chance to the Congress party in the next Lok Sabha election will be akin to committing suicide. If you were to become the next Prime Minister, the red beacon that you will get for your vehicle, will be called “LOL batti”. A grateful nation is thanking you today that with your this interview you have finished whatever little chance Congress party had of winning the 2014 general election.

Yours Sincerely,
A Mango Man

A Tragedy of Our History, We Love to Forget…

Today is the 24^th anniversary of the worst genocide that India had seen since independence – 24 years ago on the intervening night between 19^th January and 20^th January 1990, death was what a whole community of about 500,000 population faced and hundreds  of them  were killed, hounded and eventually the whole community was thrown out of their homes of thousands of years.  Yes, I am referring to the genocide and ethnic cleaning of the Kashmiri Pandits in the Kashmir valley, perpetrated by Islamic terrorists and widely supported by the local Muslim majority population.

 

In late 1989 – “Aftab”, a local Urdu newspaper, publishes a press release issued by Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, set up by the Jamaat-e-Islami to wage jihad for Jammu & Kashmir's secession from India and accession to Pakistan, asking all Hindus to leave. Another local paper, “Al Safa”, repeated this expulsion order. In the following months, there were near chaos in the Kashmir valley with Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah and his National Conference Govt.  abdicating all responsibilities of the State. Masked men run amok, waving Kalashnikovs, shooting,  killing Hindus and shouting anti-India slogans. Inflammatory speeches were made from the pulpits of mosques, using public address systems meant for calling the faithful to prayers. A terrifying fear psychosis griped the Kashmiri Pandits as walls were plastered with posters and handbills, summarily ordering all Kashmiris to strictly follow the Islamic dress code and forced people to reset their clocks to Pakistan Standard Time. Shops, business establishments and homes of Kashmiri Pandits, the original inhabitants of the Kashmir valley with a recorded cultural and civilisation history dating back to 5,000 years, were marked out. Notices were pasted on doors of their houses, asking the occupants to leave Kashmir or face death. In villages and towns across the Kashmir valley, terrorist hit lists were floating around with  names of Kashmiri Pandits. With no government worth its name, the administration collapsed and disappeared  and the police nowhere to be seen, despondency set in. On 19^th of January, the administration imposed curfew in the valley but throughout the day, Jammu & Kashmir Liberation Front and Hizb-ul-Mujahideen terrorists used public address systems at mosques to exhort people to defy curfew and take to the streets. Masked men were firing from their Kalashnikovs marching openly in the streets terrorising Pandits, who by then, had locked themselves in their homes. As evening fell, the exhortations became louder and shriller. Three taped slogans were repeatedly played the whole night from mosques-  'Kashmir mei agar rehna hai, Allah-O-Akbar kehna hai' (If you want to stay in Kashmir, you have to say Allah-O-Akbar), 'Yahan kya chalega, Nizam-e-Mustafa' (What do we want here? Rule of Shariah), 'Asi gachchi Pakistan, Batao roas te Batanev san' (We want Pakistan along with Hindu women but without their men). By then 300 Hindu men and women, nearly all of them Kashmiri Pandits, had been slaughtered including the brutal murder of Pandit Tika Lal Taploo, noted lawyer and BJP national executive member, by the JKLF in Srinagar. Soon after that, Justice N K Ganju of the Srinagar high court was shot dead, Pandit Sarwanand Premi - 80-year-old poet, and his son were kidnapped, tortured, their eyes gouged out and hanged to death, Lassa Koul, the then Director of Doordarshan Kendra, Srinagar was shot dead. A Kashmiri Pandit nurse working at the Soura Medical College Hospital in Srinagar was gang-raped and then beaten to death. Another woman was abducted, raped and sliced into bits and pieces at a sawmill. Since then as many as 400,000 Kashmiri Pandits had to flee their home and hearth and been reduced to living the lives of refugees in their own country. Two-thirds of them are camping in Jammu and the rest in Delhi and in other Indian cities. Many of them, once prosperous and proud of their rich heritage, now live in grovelling poverty.  During the last 24 long years, we have seen a generation passed away withering in the hopes to go back to their homes in the valley and die peacefully in their homeland. This generation that lived the prime of their life in the serene valley had to live their twilight years in horrendous conditions prevalent in uninhabitable refugee camps. They had to suffer the humiliation of being refugee in their own land and still not recognised by their Government and other so-called human rights organisations. During the same time, another generation has born in-exile and grown up without seeing the land from where their parents fled to escape the brutalities of Islamic terrorism, a land they dare not return to, although that land still remains a part of their country. They are acutely aware of the atrocities their fathers and forefathers had faced at the hands of Islamic terrorism and what it means to lose a homeland.

 

But even after 24 years of this tragedy, on this day neither Rahul Gandhi nor Arvind Kejriwal nor Mulayam Singh Yadav nor Mayabati nor Nitish Kumar nor Lalu Yadav nor Sarad Pawar nor Karunanidhi nor any of the communist leaders or their political parties could find time to remember this humongous tragedy and show solidarity with the Kashmiri Pandits & meet them to share their grief. It was only Narendra Modi whom the so called secular political parties or the media, never tires to call communal, went to meet them in their camps and showed solidarity as well as determination to send them back to their homes. Not surprising, as this community of Kashmiri Pandits don’t determine winners or losers in any election and also are not backed by Fatwa following, fundamentalist, jihadi  religious zealots. Therefore, these  so called secular politicians and their parties, who were competing with each other for appeasing the Muslim community when 4000 people were displaced during Muzaffarnagar riot can conveniently afford to forget some 400,000 of their country men,  who are living as refugees for last 24 years in their own country of origin. An entire population have been uprooted from the land of their ancestors and left to fend for themselves as a weak-kneed Indian state shamelessly panders to Islamic terrorists and separatists who claim they are the final arbiters of Jammu & Kashmir's destiny. A part of India's cultural heritage has been destroyed, a chapter of India's civilisation history has been erased. Had this tragedy occurred elsewhere in Hindu majority India and had the victims been Muslims, the same Govt. and vote hungry political parties backed by pseudo secular  historians, intellectuals and media would have described it as 'ethnic cleansing' and 'genocide.'  They would have made films with horror-inducing titles and  filed cases after cases in the Supreme Court of India. The Govt. also would have constituted judicial commissions after commissions and SITs.  Our media would have demonstrated remarkable rage in reporting the smallest detail. But, this tragedy has occurred in Muslim majority Kashmir valley  and the victims are all Hindus, that too Pandits. What has been lost and erased is part of India's Hindu culture and civilisation. Therefore, the govt. can afford to make  bold, blatantly false statements that the Kashmiri Pandits had "migrated on their own" and their 'displacement is self-imposed'.  The National Human Rights Commission, after a sham of an inquiry, refuses to concede that what had happened is 'genocide' or 'ethnic cleansing,' though facts add up to no less than that, never mind that 400,000 lives have been destroyed. And that there is no room for plural society in highly Islamised Kashmir valley. And, our  jhola-wallah brigade of secular activists rudely turn up their noses to the plight of Kashmiri Pandits- Hindu sorrow inflicted by Islamic terror, stinks.

 

Today, on the 24^th  anniversary of the forced flight of Kashmiri Pandits, do we have the heart and mind to look back at India's wretched history of secular politics and consider the terrible price the nation has paid at the altar of appeasement because the Indian State has and continues to, toe the line of least resistance. Did any Muslim Group ever condemned the mass genocide of Kashmiri Pandits? Which incident took place first-  Babri Masjid, Godhra or Kashmiri Pandit’s  genocide? Why Hindus can’t retaliate for any incident  & why Muslims create so much of fuss even if one Muslim is killed, that too even if he were a proven terrorist? On every 6^th  December- media, pseudo secular intellectuals and political parties celebrate black day but today after 24 years why does no secular political leader has the guts to speak about Kashmiri Pandits? What is even more unfortunate is the fact that a man-made calamity of such a huge scale has not been given the same media coverage and not aroused the same public sentiment as the Babri Masjid demolition, Godhra riot (though they conveniently forget the train burning which killed dozens of Kar Sevaks which triggered the riot) or the recent Muzaffarnagar riots have.  It is ironic that not a single judicial enquiry commission has ever been set up to investigate the exodus and killings of Kashmiri Pandits. The killers have not been punished and rather they are roaming freely in Kashmir and have many supporters in the valley. The root cause of all problem of India is these so called pseudo-secular intellectuals, historians, politicians and the highly biased media. They are like those people in history who cheated their own people and allowed Md. Ghauri’s or British in this country. Truth is stranger than fiction.