Charging wildly
In Rahul Gandhis controversial claims about dead bodies and rape in Bhatta-Parsaul,the RSS has found an opportunity to plead Narendra Modis case. An article in its weekly Organiser claims the Congress is used to making wild charges and getting away with it. They have done that to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for almost 10 years over his complicity in riots without being able to produce any tenable evidence for the discerning public. The ostensible logic behind such a political move is that if you keep on repeating a lie people start to believe it, it says.
Planting suspicions
An Organiser article likens the controversial Jaitapur nuclear power project with the Enron project which had triggered a political row in the 1990s,saying that like the French now,the Americans had then mounted enormous pressure on the government over Enron.
Questioning the Manmohan Singh governments keenness on the Jaitapur project,it says: It is said that Singh has given his word to Nicolas Sarkozy,the French president,though neither the size of the project nor its finances have yet been finalised. Sarkozy came here last year,dumped this huge project on Singhs head and went away.
The article argues that very little is known about the project except that it is going to be financed by the French and that the capacity will be around 9900 megawatts. We have,in fact,Enron combined with Bofors all over again. Enron was also backed by the US government and its ambassadors in Delhi were breathing down our necks all the time, it says. Why a project costing Rs 100,000 crore should be kept under wraps is itself a big mystery. Nobody has seen the design of the power plant,except government scientists who dare not speak against the government… We do not know how many units there will be,of what capacity,who will fabricate the plant,and what proportion of the cost will be paid for by India…The plant has been cleared by the environment ministry,but the report has not been published.
Matters of states
Panchjanya has dedicated a full page to the election results in Assam. A report from Guwahati says that the re-election of the Congress government was likely to result in an increase of illegal immigration from Bangladesh,which would be detrimental to the situation in the state. Alongside the report,it carries an interview with Dhirendranath Bezbaruah,former editor of The Sentinel newspaper published from Guwahati. Bezbaruah says that for the Congress government in Assam,the term minorities has become synonymous with Bangladeshi illegal immigrants. He says that nine districts in the state now have Muslim majorities because of this immigrant population.
In another article,the journal has lambasted Karnataka governor H.R. Bhardwaj,saying that he has been setting new records in the misuse of a constitutional post.
