Pliant PM
The editorial in the latest issue of the RSS journal Organiser titled What is there to talk? observes: New Delhi is enacting yet another farce. It is planning to talk to Pakistan once again. Only a few months ago,the Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh rightly said there was nobody in that country with whom purposeful talks could be held. That Pakistan is in deep mess and that it is only a matter of time that it will fall apart to barbarian warlords of Islamic terror is not the issue. For the last 63 years two generations of Indians have been talking to Pakistan through war and peace. India was forced to wage four bloody wars and in the last two decades on a daily basis Pakistan is waging a proxy war which has unquestionably proved costlier and macabre more than all the four wars put together in human and material terms.
The RSS mouthpiece concludes: The latest round of talks,many say,is being initiated under US pressure. At least Pakistanis are claiming so. And when Manmohan Singh does anything out of sync with national sentiments the general perception is that he is not able to withstand pressure. It is Indias misfortune that it has a pliant Prime Minister,notwithstanding its celebrated economic growth and genuine global ambitions. Singhs infamous capitulation at Sharm el-Sheikh is perhaps being taken to its logical conclusion. As he proceeds,it will do him immense good if he remembers that he is undertaking a misadventure again without taking the nation along.
Sushma speaks
The latest Organiser carries an interview with the Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha,Sushma Swaraj,as the cover story. To a question on the BJP becoming very moderate,when its concerned with rules,regulations,and doing everything like old Congress Gokhaleites, and that the BJP appears confused whether its on small states,or on Shiv Sena,or MNS,or caste politics, Swaraj replies: It is far from reality… Ours is the only party which has articulated its stand on smaller states. On Telangana,Congress is speaking in two voices; TDP is speaking in two voices. Even on the floor of parliament Congress MPs belonging to coastal Andhra are speaking for united AP and MPs from Telangana are for separate Telangana. Similar is the stand of the TDP. We are the only party which has said formally that we are for Telengana state. In Parliament I raised the issue and Advaniji spoke very forcefully… [On North Indians in Mumbai ours was the first response especially the response of our party president who hails from Maharashtra,who said we are one people one nation,there are regional aspirations but there is no conflict in the two. And RSS sarsanghachalak also spoke and said,I would ask our swayamsevaks for the suraksha of the north Indians.
On the possibility of expanding the NDA,Swaraj said: This is a continuous process. This process never ends. For example in Jharkhand we did not know that we will form the government with the JMM and AJSU. But now we have formed the government. Maybe these two parties will also one day join the NDA. It is a dynamic process,in which we may lose some,gain some.
In Parliament,issue-based coordination is there even with parties outside the NDA.
