Opinion View from the RIGHT

The news item adds: “In his address,the chief guest,young spiritual guru Bhaiyyuji Maharaj urged the youth to be proud of the motherland and contribute to the amelioration of the problems of the society. Earlier,Bhaiyyuji Maharaj accompanied by Sarsanghachalak Dr Bhagwat,Vidarbha Prant Sah-Sanghachalak Shri Ram Harkare,Nagpur Mahanagar Sanghachalak Dr Dilipji Gupta and Mahanagar Sah-Sanghachalak Shri Laxmanrao Pardikar performed the shastra poojan. The swayamsevaks performed various physical demonstrations like vyayam yoga,yogasana,etc.”

The news item concludes: “Large number of followers of Shri Tarun Sagarji Maharaj also attended the morning ceremony. In his speech the Jain saint declared in most unequivocal and unambiguous terms that those who loved this land as their motherland,they are all,irrespective of they being Jains,Sikhs,Arya Samajists,or Buddhists,Hindus. Those who accept this land as their motherland,the culture as their own culture,they are Hindus,he thundered. The learned Jain saint said that he was more impressed by the discipline and nationalism of the RSS. He said that the world gets influenced by Tarun Sagar but Tarun Sagar gets influenced by the RSS. Taking a cue from the chorus song Charaiveti,Charaiveti…. presented by the RSS volunteers,the Jain saint called upon the audience to understand their duty towards the country and society”.

The Q factor

The editorial in the latest issue of the RSS organ titled “CBI,19 years after FIR,closes Bofors case unresolved” says: “Quattrochhi will now be an honourable guest in India. The UPA has informed the Supreme Court that it has decided to withdraw all the cases of corruption pending against him. It has even said it would file a closure report in the lower courts where a case is pending against him,which is coming up for hearing on October 3. The Red Corner Notice issued by the CBI 12 years ago was withdrawn a year ago. Quattrochhi was right when he told the media that this good news should have come long ago. In spite of clinching evidence,successive governments in New Delhi did not redeem their national commitment to put the guilty behind bars. Now he has expressed his interest in visiting India . ‘I would love to visit India since my family and I have spent some of the best years of our lives in the country,’ he told The Indian Express .”

It adds: “The most affected party in the closure of the Bofors case would be the officers in the CBI. They cannot wrangle any more foreign trips in the name of ‘collecting evidence’ for the case. The crores of public money spent on this case,which came to nothing,needs to be accounted for. In fact an RTI on the expenditure on the case proceedings,including the foreign jaunts by CBI officials and politicians could reveal that it is many times more than the kickback amount. The NDA which was in power for six years did precious little in the case. It also sent several teams — investigative and legal — to various countries. The non-Congress governments before NDA too had not pursued the case with a heart. While the Bofors case has always evoked maximum decibels in Parliament,the political rhetoric never translated into action. We can hope to witness one more round of ruckus over the issue,whenever the next Parliament session begins”.