Opinion View from the Right

Maoist terror

The editorial in the latest issue of the RSS mouthpiece,titled “Stop this pussy-footing: At least protect the people’s lives,” says: The gruesome killings of 13 innocent citizens in [the terror strike in Pune is overshadowed by the macabre murder of 25 jawans of [the Eastern Frontier Rifles and State Armed Forces of West Bengal,at Silda and 11 villagers at Jamuri in Bihar by Maoist terrorists. From Pune to Midnapore in a span of four days,49 valuable lives have been doused prematurely,nearly a hundred others have been seriously maimed leaving a trail of agony,hopelessness and shattered dreams to as many families as were affected in these incidents.”

The RSS organ further adds in its editorial: “Maoist violence,like the Islamic terror strikes,have increased in geometric proportion under the confused,waxing and wavering Manmohan Singh regime. Its cost to the nation in emotional,economic and human terms will never be tabulated. The Maoists,like the Islamic savages of terror are a bunch of trained,motivated,dehumanised,trigger-happy butchers. Let’s not bestow on them the veil of ideology. The Islamists wage a proxy war on the state and our civilisation,the Maoists pose a declared guerilla war against what they call the bourgeois capitalist Indian State. Both have a political goal. Intelligence agencies have confirmed that in many areas they co-ordinate and work together and that often they have a common command. They want power through undemocratic means. And in this power game the innocent citizens and unsuspecting hapless Vanvasis become the collateral victims.”

Mumbai for all

In an opinion article titled “Poverty leads to migration”,M.V. Kamath writes in the latest issue of RSS mouthpiece: “What the Shiv Sena and its upstart competitor,the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena obviously do not realise is what damage they are doing to the good name of India in general and Maharashtra in particular by their obnoxious linguistic parochialism. There is no such thing as a city belonging to one particular community or group. It is not a cliché to say that Mumbai belongs to every Indian whatever his caste,creed,linguistic or ethnic affiliation. It is a fact of life that is unchallengeable. The same can be said of Kolkata with its population as mixed as that of Mumbai but no one ever has claimed that it belongs exclusively to Bengalis. That is Bengal’s pride and India’s glory. But given the situation as it is today,we are witnessing a steady migration of landless labour from rural to urban areas creating needless rural-urban tension.”

Kamath adds: “The situation today is so bad that right now,just in Vidharbha,out of 15,432 villages,as many as 14,059 are scarcity-hit and the Maharashtra government is working out plans to relax recovery of land revenues etc. Will there be migration from Vidharbha villages to urban centres? Will the Shiv Sena and MNS throw out these villagers? These are sick bodies led by sick men thriving on foul language,and worse politics,incapable of finding solutions to grave issues of poverty and social change. We need someone to provide out-of-the-box solutions to problems on a nation-wide scale. Our political parties sadly seem bereft of any talent. And that is India’s tragedy. We may not get a Mahatma,but can’t we at least get a Vinobha Bhave?”