Opinion View From The Right: Red terror

It notes that they “effectively use propaganda” and “exploit all possible constitutional means to challenge the Constitution”. The story says that “we, as a nation, get carried away by their agenda… and keep debating whether it is a development issue or security issue”.

It highlights the failure “vote-bank politics” as “we allow people with Maoist ideology to thrive in urban spaces while banning the organisations they speak for”.

“This contradiction in purpose and positioning is the real reason why Maoists have survived and spread their wings in different areas,” it says.

Contending that the Maoists “should be treated like any other terrorist organisation”, it says that if “no implicit or explicit support to the Islamic State is permitted, then why are legal, ideological or literary battles on behalf of the Maoists allowed”.

Tragic death

An article in the Organiser comments on the suicide of the Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula. It says that the “recent events call for an in-depth study of what is happening in the name of Dalit politics”. It says that a “vicious racial hate theory has been propagated in the university campuses of Andhra Pradesh in the name of Dalit liberation, abetted by forces inimical to national unity”.

It also notes “the long history of hate campaign” has been facilitated “with patronage from the people occupying seats of power within and outside India”.

Contending that the “kingpin of this divisive phenomenon” was Kancha Ilaiah, director of the Centre for the study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy at the Maulana Azad National Urdu University in Hyderabad, the story says that the Osmania University is a “veritable den of casteist and racist movements”. It notes that by “pitting Ambedkar against Gandhi, Ilaiah has been marketed in the West as a messiah of the downtrodden in Bharat”.

Noting that “Ilaiah has ominously predicted a major civil war” in India, it points at the “attempts to whip up gross communal and divisive passions” in university campuses of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.

It says that “the most unfortunate suicide of Rohith Vemula is but one more tragic result of such ideological posturing and divisive campus politics”.

R-day reflection

An editorial in the Panchajanya reflects on the 67th Republic Day and asks whether India has evolved the way it was supposed to by the makers of the Constitution. “Did we avoid the threats indicated by our ancestors,” it says.

It says that while the basic structure of the Constitution cannot be amended, yet some instances suggest that this foundation was ignored due to political reasons.

It also talks about the need to become more aware of our resources. Saying the country has “572 priceless islands”, it notes that there has never been an attempt to take proper note of this resource.

It also talks about the Goods and Services Tax bill that has been thwarted on technical grounds by those who are “losing people’s support and political power”.

Noting that minorities, backward classes and tribals have been used as “pawns for political interests”, it underlines the Shah Bano case in which the government reversed an SC decision to appease the minorities. It notes that the intention of the Constitution was that the backward classes and tribals are empowered. But politics has derailed this vision and has lead to heightened social conflict
and animosity.