Opinion UPAs controlling prices,upwards
The RSS feels that there is something more than what meets the eye when it comes to the recent increase in food prices.
The RSS feels that there is something more than what meets the eye when it comes to the recent increase in food prices. The outfit actually suspects deliberate manipulation by the government.
Talking about inflation crossing 12 per cent last week,a front page article in Organiser says,with some active machination by a few Union ministries like food and agriculture,food inflation had touched 21.19 per cent during the same week last year,too. What gives credence to accusations of price manipulation by the government is that food prices have not spiraled abroad as much as in India. Last time,during the boom period of 2006-07,food prices across the world had shown a sharp uptick,owing to economic growth in countries like India and China,where consumption had far outstripped production, it explains. But this time round,even though food prices have risen only marginally the world over,and in some cases the prices have actually come down,resurgent inflationary pressure has made the government look helpless. The helplessness could be owing to the fact that the ministries are themselves involved in manipulations, the article goes on to claim.
Panchjanya insists that if the UPA government and the Congress devoted even a fraction of the energy they spend on covering up corruption,and raising the bogey of saffron terror to make political gains and divert attention from jihadi terror,to the problems of the common man,they could have found a solution to issues like inflation and unemployment.
Bizarre outrage over Binayak
The lead editorial in Organiser vents its anger at human-rights activists who have been vocal about the life sentence handed down to Binayak Sen. It says these professional jholawallahs and self-styled civil liberty activists keep mum when Maoists kill innocents and indulge in violence. One has not seen them staging their theatrical dismay over the mindless violence of the so-called red revolutionaries. That is why,the editorial says,the bizarre exhibition of outrage,anger and anguish over the sentencing of Sen and two others to life term for sedition,criminal conspiracy and collaboration with Maoists sounds bogus,if not spurious.
What is it that these men and women are protesting? Do they want us to believe that Binayak Sen,because he is Binayak Sen,is above the law of the land? That no court,no police,no authority has a right to prosecute him however dubious his actions are or however criminally involved he is with the Maoist merchants of death? it says.
The editorial attacks the argument that the charges against Sen are weak and that he does not deserve the life term awarded to him. He was tried under the law of the land… It was a free and fair trial. He received the best possible legal aid. There is no dearth of resources or support for Sen to fight his case, it says.
Finally,it says these people are the same who claim to occupy the middle ground,claim to mediate for widening the space for dissent,defend every terrorist,secessionist,separatist,and their common objective to shrink the Hindu majority space… They hog the limelight,special mentions and awards in the fashionable international circuit. Their mandate is to weaken the state,create disaffection in the pillars of democracy and try and make India a banana republic. See the manner in which the National Advisory Council,Sonia Gandhis handpicked men and women in the UPA government,has reacted to the Raipur court verdict. Are they trying to intimidate and undermine the judiciary in the country? Or tell the world that the Indian legal system is not free and fair? it asks.
Congress as property
An article in Panchjanya mocked the Congress celebration of its 125th anniversary,and the release of a publication tracing the history of the party on the occasion. It says the Congress is basically a property of a particular family and hence it shouldnt speak about its history. Properties have no history. Though families and clans do have. So the Congress shouldnt boast of its history. It should first become a party,decide its ideology and then give an account of what it has done, the article says.
It goes on to attack the Congress more viciously. Is nationalism its ideology? Then why are they irked with Vande Mataram? The Congress has linked saffron the symbol of Indian culture with terror. It is the same Congress which propounded the thesis of giving Muslims the first right on the countrys resources, it adds.
Compiled by Manoj C.G.
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