Opinion Calming Kashmir
A fresh round of protests has erupted in the Kashmir valley. The situation is deteriorating by the day.
A fresh round of protests has erupted in the Kashmir valley. The situation is deteriorating by the day. But the RSS says that calming the Valley is not an impossible task as it believes that after decades of violence,the ordinary Kashmiri must be wanting to get on with life. The Sangh fountainhead has no major prescription to offer to normalise the situation. The lead editorial in the RSS mouthpiece Organiser nevertheless claims that powerful instruments like panchayati raj that can go a long way in healing the situation. What is lacking in Kashmir is the political will. The security measures need to be supported by actions by the governments at the state and the Centre. The political forces out of power in the state and inimical to the interest of the nation should be marginalised, it says.
The major stumbling block is the monetary and military help that the extremists and their hangers-on receive from across the Western border,which needs to be addressed by Delhi. Pakistan has been following the diabolic Afzal Khan policy. The answer should be Shivajis, it advocates.
The RSS,however,praised Chief Minister Omar Abdullah for inviting Kashmiri pandits to worship at the Kheer Bhawani temple. Let this be a beginning. Such measures should be repeated more often,which would send out a strong message of Indias determination to restore the Valley to the Kashmiris, it says.
The wrong lessons
The Organiser also focuses on its staple theme,of Hinduism under threat a report from Bengal talks about Indian children attending daily classes in madarsas in Bangladesh,since villages in the states northern parts abutting Bangladesh do not have even primary schools.
It holds up the Nicha Gobindapur village in South Dinajpur district on the Indo-Bangladesh border as an example: This village is surrounded with barbed wire. A total of 31 students of this village regularly go to Doudpur madarsa in Bangladesh for their education… Even after having Indian identity they are not allowed to know the history of their own country. Instead they study the history of Bangladesh,history of Islam,Hadis,Quran,and Fikah,a book written in Aarbi language. In class examination or final exam they are asked to write the life and time of Hazrat Muhammad,the topography of ancient Arabia,how it looked like.
These students of Nicha Gobindapur have to appear in examination under the Madarsa Education Board of Bangladesh. After passing through the examination they take admission in Dinajpur College of Bangladesh. This is the way how a group of Indian students are growing up, it says. The story is the same in several villages on the Indo-Bangla border,it argues.
Nitishs gracelessness
The BJP may have entered into a truce with Nitish Kumar,but the RSS has not. An article titled The pathetic case of Nitish Kumar questions the Bihar chief ministers decision to return the flood aid given by the Narendra Modi government and describes his gesture as petty.
If Nitish Kumar had such contempt for Modi and he is welcome to his feelings why didnt he resign from the Vajpayee government when the Godhra riots took place in 2002,as a measure of solidarity with Muslims? And just as importantly,only a few days ago,why did he not decline BJP support to the JD(U) in the Rajya Sabha elections,when the BJP gave its six surplus votes to help win two seats? Wasnt it charity of sorts that was no secret? the article seeks to know.
It reproduces the BJP argument that the money was not drawn from Modis personal account and was given on behalf of the state of Gujarat and its people,and offers the now-familiar argument that Kumar was out to garner Muslim support by snubbing Modi. Nitish Kumar may have a point when he says that while doing charity is good,boasting about it is against Indian culture. So is lack of graciousness on the part of Nitish Kumar in a vain effort to win over a few Muslim votes. It is communalism at its worst,and does no credit to Bihar, it says.
Compiled by Manoj C.G.
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