No welfare for Hindus?
The RSS has revived its criticism of the UPA government for rolling out welfare schemes for the minorities. An article in Organiser says the Congress,aided and abetted by Communists and socialists,has been steadily enacting rules and regulations to harm and hurt the educational,employment and economic interests of Hindu youth. The article forms part of several write-ups in a special edition dedicated to the youth to mark Swami Vivekanandas 150th birth anniversary. The article says the recommendations of the Justice Sachar Committee and the Ranganath Mishra Commission are based on falsehoods and are aimed at fulfilling the core anti-Hindu agenda of the Congress: to reduce the percentage of Hindus in government jobs,educational institutions and in trade and commerce.
The end of PM and FM
Another article in the Organiser predicts a gloomy political future for the Congress. The fact is that the ruling party is bereft of leaders in states,and increasingly so at the Centre. Neither Manmohan Singh nor Pranab Mukherjee are leaders in a proper sense. Singh leads nobody,not even his ministers… The man has not been able to win a single election,even his own,and is reduced to being an MP from Assam,a state he may not be able to locate on the map, it says. Further,it says Mukherjee,who talks big from time to time,cannot himself be elected from his own state without the help of a mercurial lady called Mamata Banerjee… He and Singh will not be seen after the next election, it adds.
Sangh vs judges
The RSS newspaper also talks about the state of the judiciary,which it notes is the only organ that still enjoys a lot of credibility and public trust,but is passing through tough times: alleged cases of corruption,nepotism and indiscretion against judges of the Supreme Court,including former Chief Justices of India,are surfacing on a daily basis. It
focuses on the public spat that Justice H.L. Gokhale,a former chief justice of the Madras high court who is now an SC judge,and Justice S. Raghupati,also formerly of the Madras high court,are having with former CJI K.G. Balakrishanan over protecting A. Raja.
It goes on: This is not the only embarrassment for Justice Balakrishanan. There are serious allegations that his son-in-law and brother had amassed property worth crores of rupees during his tenure as CJI. Former Supreme Court judge,V.R. Krishna Iyer,a crusader for judicial accountability,has urged Parliament and the PM to appoint a high powered commission to enquire into the alleged nepotism of the former CJI, it notes.
The controversy over the conduct of the former CJI now the chief of the National Human Rights Commission has also suggested the desirability of a law prohibiting the appointment of retiring judicial officers to any office of profit,it says.
Besides corruption and nepotism,another infirmity from which the judiciary suffers is the lack of restraint exercised by judges in some of their judgments,it argues. This is not to deny the fact that the Supreme Court has in the last six decade made profound pronouncements on issues of great significance for the nation and society. Yet,on several occasions,judicial activism drove judges to issue orders that were beyond their scope and some of these couldnt be implemented, it says.
The judiciary is also under attack for encroaching upon the domains of other instruments. A case in point is the Supreme Courts observation on the creation of Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) as an autonomous agency. The intention of the apex court was laudable,but questions were raised about the desirability and the authority of the apex court to direct Parliament on the contents of proposed legislation… The judiciary must resist the temptation to encroach upon areas beyond its domain if it were not to invite a conflict with the legislative and executive wings of the state.
