Opinion The southern ISI
At a time when allegations of saffron terror are staring it in the face,the latest issue of the RSS Organiser digs out a more than decade-old judicial commission report...
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The southern ISI
At a time when allegations of saffron terror are staring it in the face,the latest issue of the RSS Organiser digs out a more than decade-old judicial commission report which enquired into communal violence that took place in Bhatkal town of Karnataka in the early 1990s. A front-page article quotes extensively from the report of the Justice Kedambadi Jagannath Shetty judicial commission which was submitted to the state government in 1997. It says that,according to the report,the footprints of Pakistans ISI in Karnataka can be traced to as far back as late 1991 and early 92. It refrains from making any insinuations or allegations,but carefully quotes paragraphs related to the ISI and the local support it got from the 2000-page report. It even quotes a police officers deposition that there were Navayaths (a cash-rich group within the Muslim community who are predominant in Bhatkal),who are ISI agents and Dawoods agents,and who are instigating communal violence.
Drug habits
The RSS feels the UPA government has rubbed salt on the wounds of patients by issuing a discussion paper on compulsory licensing of patented drugs instead of first providing patent-expired,essential medicines at affordable prices. An article in Organiser accuses the government of dragging its feet over extending the span of statutory price control to 374 essential bulk drugs from the present 74,drugs as envisaged by the draft national pharmaceuticals policy (NPP) of 2006 which was prepared after an interim order of the Supreme Court in 2003. In its first spell,UPA claimed that the draft NPP was in keeping with the promises it made to the aam admi in the common minimum programme that was unveiled in May 2004… Such a promise was blacked out from the Congress manifesto for the 2009 Lok Sabha polls. It also did not figure in the UPAs reforms agenda for the next five years,as unveiled by President Pratibha Devsingh Patil in June 2009, it says. The UPA obviously does not have the courage to take on influential domestic and foreign drug companies that continue to post super-profits year after year. It has not even realised that the delay in imposing price control over NLEM,comprising of 354 drugs,amounts to contempt of the Supreme Court, it says.
Monsoon blues
The lead editorial,in the RSS official voice,takes a surprising dig at the BJP while mainly attacking the UPA. The editorial talks about the governments lopsided priorities; visible,it believes,in the allocation and spending of Rs 1 lakh crore on the Commonwealth Games on one hand while taking a view against the distribution of rotting foodgrain on the other. While slamming the government on various counts,it interestingly notes that at the end of the monsoon session of Parliament,the Congress had made the condescending assurance that several pending bills,including ones like safeguarding enemy properties would be passed in the next session. The opposition,meanwhile,lamented that the government could not pass as many bills as it promised despite complete support from them. It sounded as though for both the government and the opposition the tally of bills passed alone was the issue or mark of success. These bills hardly have anything to do with the common man and his little concerns, it says. The editorial also comments on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh being voted as one of the best statesmen-politicians in an opinion poll among world leaders. He heads a government that is one of the most corrupt independent India has seen. Scams after scams running into mind-boggling thousands of crores have been unearthed by the media and enthusiastic social activists, it points out.
Compiled by Manoj C.G.
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