Opinion Secular neglect
Country would remember the fact that Sonia Gandhi had wept over the death of IM operatives in Batla House.
The serial bomb blasts on the day of the BJPs prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modis rally in Patna have been prominently featured by the Organiser and Panchjanya as cover stories to project them as a manifestation of secular negligence,arising out of criminal neglect of [the Nitish Kumar government in handling the Indian Mujahideen network evolving in Bihar. An editorial in Panchjanya highlights the claims of Congress leaders that Sonia Gandhi had wept over the encounter deaths of IM operatives in Batla to loudly wonder whether Sonia,Mulayam or Nitish wept this time round as well.
The country would remember the fact that Sonia Gandhi had wept over the death of IM operatives in Batla House… It is not clear whether Sonia-Mulayam or Nitish wept for the victims of the Patna blasts,but in whose favour these so-called secular forces are tilted is an open secret, says the editorial,underlining that these parties flaunted their anti-communal credentials by describing the Batla encounter as fake.
JPC FARCE
Both Sangh Parivar journals have carried editorials coming down heavily on the JPC report on the 2G spectrum allocation for acquitting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister P. Chidambaram of any wrongdoing.
There is something mysterious… the JPC headed by the Congress MP and tacitly supported by the Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party representatives in the committee as an apparent deal to loosen investigation against their supremos, says the editorial in the Organiser,asserting that the use of
JPC was entirely political to save face of the government.
The Organiser also says that this is not the first JPC which turned out to be a futile exercise,reminding readers of the four previous instances of JPCs on other issues and the diluted implementation of their recommendations. The editorial continues,it was Rajiv Gandhi who came up with this idea of forming an ad-hoc committee called JPC in connection with the Bofors scandal. The editorial suggest flaws in the mechanism of JPCs,which are chaired by a member of ruling party or coalition and the same group has majority in the committee.
The editorial in Panchjanya also dubs the JPC a farce,pointing out how the members from the BJP,CPM,CPI,AIADMK,DMK,BJD and TMC have begged to differ with the conclusions drawn by JPC chairman P.C. Chacko: The report has merely given its stamp of approval to the non-Congress sacrificial goat (former Telecom Minister A. Raja of DMK) singled out from the beginning…
FEARFUL DYNASTY
A full-page article in Panchjanya calls the Congresss panic reaction over Narendra Modis plans to resurrect Sardar Patel in public memory a reflection of fear in the dynastic Congress. The article argues that the cheerleaders of [the Nehru dynasty are ignorant of history.
It is natural that the iconisation of Sardar as the unifier of India will also expose Nehrus failures before the common public, the article reasons about the misgivings within the Congress about Modis plans to establish Patel as no less a national icon than Nehru. Although the article highlights the alleged disproportionate public expenditure to commemorate Nehru,Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi through advertisements over the years as compared to Patel,it seeks to partially justify Indira Gandhis contribution to the country: Indira Gandhis martyrdom should be commemorated respectfully given the fact that she had sacrificed her life for protecting the integrity of the country forged by Sardar Patel…
Compiled by Ravish Tiwari
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