All for a few

The report further says, “In their quest for power and their arrogance, party leaders fail to realise that they are inviting threats to the nation’s integrity and security also. Recent incidents against our own countrymen residing in Maharashtra and the kind of language used against them are clearly indicative of this. How far this dangerous tendency to subvert our national interest can go can be ascertained from an incident in the Northeast, where infiltrators from Bangladesh, who had been pushed out by the Arunachal Pradesh government, found shelter in neighbouring Assam, and have been rehabilitated by the government of Assam. It was this warped mindset that had been responsible in the past for providing safe passage to foreign aggressors coming to loot and destroy the Somnath Temple on our north western frontiers.”

Colonial agenda

AN editorial condemns China over unrest in Tibet. It says, “It is a bomb waiting to explode. No amount of development rhetoric or propaganda window-dressing by China can conceal the simmering anger in the ‘roof of the world’…

Chinese authorities sadly misjudged the determination of the Buddhist youth of Tibet, that they thought a clever mix of westernisation, consumerism, demographic dilution and media blitzkrieg will suppress the Tibetans’ determination to liberate their country… Like all Communist dictatorships China has a deeply cultivated colonial agenda.”

Woman as pivot

Among the resolutions that the ABPS passed is one on women. It says, “ABPS deems it shameful that woman are being increasingly subjected to indecent behaviour, eve-teasing, sexual exploitation, abuse, and other despicable crimes… Just to rely upon the laws promulgated by the government will be self-deceptive. Society must honestly realise that it is created by the institution of family and woman is the pivot of the family — hence a developed society cannot be envisaged without an enlightened, awakened and empowered woman.”