Opinion Omars incompetence
The RSS believes that the Omar Abdullah-led NC-Congress coalition government is largely responsible for the turmoil in Kashmir....
The RSS believes that the Omar Abdullah-led NC-Congress coalition government is largely responsible for the turmoil in Kashmir. It says that although the chief minister did realise that certain vested interests were behind the violence in Kashmir,he did nothing to isolate and book them. If booked for some time,they were treated with kid gloves and kept in beautiful rest-houses located in the highly salubrious Chashma Shahi. He did try to act,but he acted when the damage had already been done and the whole of the administrative edifice collapsed for all practical purposes, says an article in the latest edition of RSS mouthpiece Organiser.
The RSS was critical of Abdullahs sympathetic approach towards the stone-pelters the announcing of jobs and easy loans for the trouble-making youths,etc. and quotes senior officials of the union Home Ministry to claim that the stone-pelters are often not booked under serious charges.
The article says that the chief minister,instead of trying to pacify or rein in the rioters, blamed the CRPF in very harsh words amounting to desperate threats,and thereby depicted his own helplessness which emboldened the rioters to defy curfew. The failure of the Abdullah government is universally acknowledged as the single biggest factor responsible for the present mess, it concludes.
Gujarat envy
Behind the arrest of Amit Shah,the Sangh sees a larger conspiracy to stall the fascinating pace with which Gujarat has left behind other states in inclusive development. Interestingly,the same allegation was levelled some days ago by Chief Minister Narendra Modi as well.
An article in the Organiser says that encounter killings by police are a fact of life in most states. If Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was at pains to explain that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) was not the Congress Bureau of Investigation,the truth was not lost on anyone.
The political mechanisation became clear when the charge-sheet against Amit Shah made by the CBI was available to the media and not to the accused. It has become a vogue,especially in the case of Gujarat,that media is used widely to create a skewed public opinion and authorities,however high,play hand in glove. The shamelessness of the government coupled with a pliable CBI make it conducive for a grand plan to derail a state which has been recognised by global multilateral agencies as one of the best in the world, it alleges.
Left with no excuse
Kerala Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandans comments against the radical Popular Front of India may have created a furore in Kerala,but the RSS says that at last,he seems to have realised the grave threat Muslim fundamentalism poses to nations territorial integrity and democratic polity.
But while it is an honest admission of the grave situation that prevails in the state,the Sangh was of the view that the timing of the chief ministers comment is suspect,as it appeared to be a belated attempt by the CPM-led government to distance itself from homegrown jehadi elements.
A piece in the Organiser says that the chief ministers attack on Islamists was a bit surprising given the partys track record of colluding with Muslim extremist outfits in search of votes in election after election. Marxist-Mullah nexus is no secret. Communists are as responsible for the growth of Islamists as the Congress party whose soft policy towards terror is too well known, it says.
However,the unexpected support he received from his bete noir CPM state secretary Vijayan leaves one with the impression that the party as a unit has realised the gravity of the situation…. One would like to believe that the CPM has realised the horrible consequences of its political support to Islamist groups to divide the Muslim vote and would now change tracks, it says.
Compiled by Manoj C.G.
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