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The editorial in the latest issue of Organiser,the RSS mouthpiece in English,talks about the recent communal clashes at Bareilly...
Exploiting Bareilly
The editorial in the latest issue of Organiser,the RSS mouthpiece in English,talks about the recent communal clashes at Bareilly,and argues that the tragedy could have been averted if the administration had acted firmly and fairly against the culprits. The RSS mouthpiece in Hindi,Panchajanya also has an editorial on the same subject,and argues that pure vote-bank politics is to blame for the violence at Bareilly. The Organiser editorial,titled Maya fiddled as Bareilly burnt, says: Mayawati is busy collecting garlands of notes and the Congress in its newfound craze for emerging out of its decades-old slumber finds a chance in pandering to jehadi thugs determined to establish social supremacy in the region. Competitive wooing of Muslim fanatics by the Congress,BSP and SP has convinced the Muslim community that they have the bargaining chip to browbeat the politicians and get away with terror,mayhem and murder. It is not a secret that Congress politics and revival plan in UP are dictated by the Deoband and Barelvi sects of maulvis. Raza Khan,accused of fomenting trouble in Bareilly,has a long criminal history, argues the editorial in the RSS organ.
The Panchajanya editorial,titled Bareilly ka sach saamne layein (Bring to the fore the truth of Bareilly),says: The state government was not interested in bringing out the truth of Bareilly and worked on its own Muslim agenda… There has been a competition of sorts between the Congress,the Samajwadi Party,Bahujan Samaj Party and Communist parties to woo Muslim voters.
Naked hypocrisy
Spiritual guru and Art of Living founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar has been known for his role in promoting inter-faith dialogue,and understanding between followers of various religious denominations. Sri Sri made a suo motu statement on the M.F. Hussain controversy recently,that has been carried in its entirety in the RSS mouthpiece,Organiser. A dispatch from Gautam Vig,a known Art of Living teacher in Delhi,talks about Sri Sris statement on the controversy. Its unfortunate that there is much hue and cry about M.F. Husain giving up Indian citizenship. While India has a policy of free expression,one cannot accept blatant insult to the heroes of its land. It is the intention behind a mans creativity which is questionable. In one of Husains paintings of Mahatma Gandhi,Karl Marx,Albert Einstein and Hitler,he has painted only Hitler nude and said that his way of humiliating a person is to paint him nude. Caught in his own words,his intention is to humiliate. No one has ever sculpted Rama and Sita as nude. Creative expression is always welcome. No country has been as liberal as India,especially Hindus. But there is a limit to tolerance and taking insults.
Sri Sris statement,according to Vigs dispatch,further says: Any nude woman could have been painted by him but calling the women Sita,Lakshmi,Saraswati shows his perversion and hatred. Will M.F. Husain show the same creativity and the same spirit with Islamic heroes and would he,then,be able to retain his Qatari citizenship? One fails to understand how we can have different criteria for Salman Rushdie and Taslima Nasreen on the one hand and M.F. Husain on the other. Will the same people who support him,encourage him to paint women / men of his faith in a similar manner? Double standards,bias and hatred do not go well with men of excellence.
The partys path
The latest issue of the BJPs mouthpiece in English,Kamal Sandesh,has a picture of Nanaji Deshmukh on the cover. The issue is otherwise devoted to the BJPs recent national executive and council held at Indore. The editorial says that the BJP is the countrys natural party and that the Indore session is a milestone in its evolution. It talks about the new BJP president Nitin Gadkari describing politics as constructive work and that in the 21st century only those will remain relevant who are honest towards their work. In conclusion,the editorial refers to L.K. Advanis speech,where he expressed the hope that the new president would nurture a fourth generation of leadership in the party.
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