Opinion Hindustan without Hindus

“Can there be a more inappropriate beginning to a trip? And that mausoleum happened to be that of an invader ruler who laid the foundations of Islamic rule in this country. Was that the reason that spot was chosen? So far we had not heard that Humayun Tomb was such an architectural splendour,” he asks.

The minister in waiting was Salman Khurshid. “Again the question why? The answer seems to be that he is a Muslim,more importantly not a Hindu,” he argues. The list of people who were invited to the official dinner also was queer — Shabana Azmi and her husband Javed Akhtar,A.R. Rahman,Aamir Khan and the list goes on in these lines.”

“It was as though the government,led by a selected Sikh PM and controlled by a Catholic Christian wanted to give a message to the US president,that India today is dominated in all spheres by non-Hindus,” he says. Obama and his wife were introduced to Indian music,only it turned out to be the Christian choir from Meghalaya. Since Obama arrived a day after Deepawali,he says the government could have shown him how the festival lights up the city,taken him to Jantar Mantar or the Akshardam temple,or to Chandni Chowk where Guru Teg Bahadur laid his life down for the Hindu cause. “It would have sent the message of our courage and zero-tolerance to terror,” he argues.

Smear and spite

The RSS — which disapproved of its former chief K.S. Sudarshan’s vitriol against Sonia Gandhi — launched a direct attack on the Congress chief over the issue of corruption. Claiming that scamsters have never had it so good,the lead editorial in Organiser says: “The Congress is so depleted of relatively clean leaders — there is nobody absolutely clean in that party anymore — that it had to run through a list and finally land on a minister in the Union cabinet.”

Coming out in support of BJP chief Nitin Gadkari — who has been accused by the Congress of owning a flat in the Adarsh Housing Cooperative Society through proxy — it says the ruling party cannot prove itself clean so it is trying to tarnish those who appear clean in the public eye.

Manufacturing consent

In a piece of news analysis,headlined ‘Bring Setalvad to justice for perjury’,Shyam Khosla talks about the complaint filed by one of the activist’s former colleagues alleging that witnesses in the Gujarat riots cases had been tutored by Teesta. Taking note of the recent order of the special trial court hearing the Gulbarg Society riots,which has asked the special investigation team to probe the charges against Setalvad,the article says that she has “at long last been trapped in the web she relentlessly spun to malign the Hindu society and the popular Gujarat chief minister,Narendra Modi. Her cash-rich NGO ‘Citizens for Justice and Peace’,had manufactured countless affidavits on behalf of victims and ‘witnesses’ of the post-Godhra riots to carry forwards its vicious campaign that demonised Gujarat,insulted the state judiciary and persuaded higher courts to transfer riots-related cases outside Gujarat,” Khosla said.

“She should be brought to justice for perjury without further delay. Further,all riot-related cases be suspended till the perjury case against Setalvad is settled,” he writes.

Compiled by Manoj C.G.