Abandoning Bhabha
The RSS believes the UPA government has sabotaged Indias thorium energy quest. A front-page article in Organiser claims the UPA has,over the past four years,quietly sought to abandon it for a massive programme of purchasing foreign reactors. Each time an effort is made to recover sufficient uranium for the nuclear industry,it argues,a slew of NGOs emerge to block the mining; and though the government must know many of these are funded by interests hostile to the indigenous nuclear industry,yet,clearly under pressure from 10 Janpath,it has succumbed to blackmail and refused to mine uranium,especially in Meghalaya. The result is that,according to the article,reactors have long been forced to operate at below 70 per cent of capacity. It argues that since 2001,the establishment has slowed down the reprocessing programme,the result being that vast pools of irradiated natural uranium have built up which are a safety hazard and which once processed can serve as feedstock for a nuclear energy programme. Post-Fukushima design changes to increase proliferation resistance,safety and security actually amounts to a paradigm shift for the DEA in that it represents the first concerted move away from Homi Jehangir Bhabhas brilliant three stage programme for thorium utilisation , which,it argues,is to stealthily satisfy externally imposed non-proliferation goals.
Maligning Baba
The Organisers editorial in accuses the government of unleashing investigative agencies to malign yoga guru Ramdev. As in the case of Mulayam Singh Yadav,Mayawati and Lalu Prasad Yadav,the government has set the Enforcement Directorate on Baba to unearth something that will malign him. The UPA has been using the CBI and ED to settle political scores. Did the government know that there were wrongdoings going on with Baba Ramdevs ayurveda mission? If yes,then why did it keep quiet and worse,woo him? If not,then one has to question the timing of the ED inquiry. The media is being fed with stories of hundreds of acres of land gifted or sold below market rate to Baba. All the land and his ayurvedic set up cannot match the land and assets amassed and ruled over by the Gandhi family all over the country, it says.
The editorial refers to Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singhs remarks about Ramdevs lieutantant Acharya Balkishans Nepali origin. While berating Balkishan for being a foreigner because he is allegedly from Nepal,the
Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh forgot that his supremo is an Italian, it says.
Sonias cronies
An article in Organiser refers to Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjees remarks about people dictating from outside as to what Parliament ought to do. It wonders: how can a few thousand people dictate to the legislature? Even in his most intemperate remarks,Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh did not mention any armed movement at Jantar Mantar and Ramlila Maidan. They were all peace-loving people who wanted to goad the Centre to act against graft. One may agree or disagree with their demands; the views expressed by Hazare,Ramdev and others may be seen as impractical and sentimental. But by no stretch of imagination can the protestors be accused of dictating (to) or coercing Parliament, the article argues.
Further,it claims that those supporting Hazare and Ramdev are from all walks of life and they are not pushing any agenda. The NAC,on the other hand,is a body comprising mostly Leftists who are eager to sneak their discredited ideology back into the polity and economy. They represent the most quixotic NGOs and champion the most retrograde causes. And they have a most pronounced bias against industry,development,commonsense,reason,the BJP and the RSS. Which is not surprising,for the NAC is headed by Congress president Sonia Gandhi, it says. They have not been elected,or even selected by some sort of collegium. They have been chosen by She-who-must-be-obeyed… The Hazares and the Ramdevs may not have been elected,but they surely have wide support of the people. The NAC,however,is nothing but a coterie of Sonia Gandhis cronies, it says.
