Opinion Before Telangana
Rashtriya Sahara says in an editorial: The opposition to Telangana in Andhra Pradesh is illogical and,in a way,baseless
Rashtriya Sahara says in an editorial: The opposition to Telangana in Andhra Pradesh is illogical and,in a way,baseless. One cant overlook the fact that the people of Telangana in Andhra have been treated in an unequal way and discriminated against all along. It is clear that the movement has mass support. A section of the leadership of the so-called middle class of Muslims… was not able to decide whether to support the movement or not. The BJP used this confusion to win the sympathy of the Telangana Sangharsh Samiti. But the ground reality is that the common Muslim of Telangana has been in total support for a separate state… Even the Jamaat-e-Islami had been supporting this demand.
Inquilab,in an editorial,writes: The Congress,which is used to playing with problems instead of solving them,showed great interest in keeping the Telangana controversy alive. Significantly,even though new states were carved out of UP,Bihar and MP,the people of Telangana were neither accorded economic justice nor was their demand for a separate state conceded. The Congress had promised a Telangana state in its election manifesto. Therefore,there should have been no scope for any hesitation… but still they did nothing except repeatedly push it into cold storage.
Nagging doubts
The judgment delivered by a trial court in the Batla House encounter case has generated great controversy. The daily Jadeed Khabar,in an editorial,writes: Muslims believe that it was a fake encounter and that all the young Muslims against whom cases were filed are innocent. The police has no proof against them.
Qaumi Salamati,in an editorial,writes: The evidence against Shahzad Ahmad is doubtful and suspicious. Shahzads escape from the fourth floor of a building… on a day the area was overtaken by police… was not easy. Most of the 70 witnesses in the case were policemen or outsiders. The defence counsel had,therefore,forcefully pleaded as to how it could be established that the escaping person was indeed Shahzad,when no witnesses recognised him… Questions were also raised about the nature of injuries on the bodies of the two persons Atif and Sajid who were killed in the incident.
Veteran journalist Aziz Burney wrote in Aziz-ul-Hind,raising very important questions and demanding answers. The questions were regarding DCP Alok Kumar,whose presence at the scene of the encounter was not noticed by the media. Why did Sub-Inspector Dharmendra keep reporting to the late Inspector Sharma,when his senior Kumar was the de-facto head of the police party? Where was he during the firing on the fourth floor? Why did he not come forward to give his first-hand account of the incident? Why did the police,which was lauded for its successful raid,not mention Kumar at all? Burney asks.
Bharat Ratna
Following Chandan Mitras observations about the desirability of withdrawing Amartya Sens Bharat Ratna,Inquilab editor Shakeel Shamsi in his column writes: Obviously,Amartya Sen is not to be measured by any award. He has earned a place of dignity in the world because of his scholarship. Chandan Mitras remarks prove that the NDA gave Sen the award,not for his work,but to ensure that the credit for his achievements could be taken by the NDA government… Rashtriya Sahara in an editorial writes: If the BJP were cognisant of the fact that Sen is really precious like a diamond,this would not have happened. One pities the mindset that makes minor BJP members give Narendra Modi primacy over all else… This is sycophancy of an inferior kind. Sens response implied that… he would not want Narendra Modi to become the PM… He,like all lovers of humanity,cannot absolve Modi for the genocide of Muslims in 2002.
Compiled by Seema Chishti
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