Opinion View from the RIGHT
Organiser,the RSS mouthpiece in English,carries a news report called Anti-Modi,anti-Hindu charade on its front page,along with a picture of Modi...
Media and Modi
Organiser,the RSS mouthpiece in English,carries a news report called Anti-Modi,anti-Hindu charade on its front page,along with a picture of Modi,while the editorial is titled Media and anti-Hindu canard. It reproduces Modis open letter posted on his blog,saying how a section of the media was bent upon demonising him and has been putting out the falsehood that he was summoned by the SIT on March 21. It argues that demonising the Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is a favourite pastime of a section of the media and pro-Islamist activist groups and that it is also a hugely profitable business. Why are they picking on Modi,despite the fact that by general consent he is the most popular and equally the most successful chief minister the country has ever had, asks the RSS mouthpiece. It also links the 2002 riots with the 1984 riots. If Modi is culpable because he was chief minister at the time of the 2002 riots,why is the media not holding the late Rajiv Gandhi responsible for the 1984 anti-Sikh pogrom,which by all records was more widespread,bloody and brutal and planned and Rajiv Gandhi even tried to justify and made political capital, says the RSS mouthpiece. It says that the country has got used to the cynical game being played by a motivated group of activists and their cohorts in the media.
Total integration
A news item titled Total integration of Kashmir is the real issue in the latest issue of the RSS mouthpiece talks about a recent RSS function attended by Akhil Bharatiya Prachar Pramukh,Madan Das,leader of opposition in the Rajya Sabha,Arun Jaitley,and former Jammu and Kashmir Governor Jagmohan,calling for complete integration of the state of Jammu and Kashmir with the rest of the country. The item quotes Das saying that separatism in Kashmir has increased to the proportion that the real issue today is total integration of the region with rest of the country and not special status granted through Article 370. The whole country needs to work for total integration of Kashmir today. He is further quoted as having said that Kashmir was a man-made problem,and that the country suffered the most because of wrong policies of Pt Nehru and that such policies should not continue. Jaitley is quoted as having come down heavily on the Working Group on Jammu and Kashmir,constituted under Justice Sageer Ahmed by the prime minister,and having added that the group promoted the feeling of separatism and disintegration and that the honesty of the government itself appeared suspicious (on the issue).
Parliament drama
In an opinion piece titled Parliament: disgrace abounds M.V. Kamath discusses the Womens Reservation Bill and describes the recent act witnessed in Rajya Sabha,wherein a copy of the bill was snatched and torn by a handful of MPs. Kamath says the act reflected their upbringing in a decadent society. He argues that this should be no reason to put the bill in the cold storage. They (that handful of MPs) should be treated as men of no consequence. But apparently they have put the fear of political loss in the Congress. And the latter succumbed to it. That the bill for politically apparent reason will be held in limbo till 2014 tells us of the prevalent culture in this ancient land. That it was passed in the Rajya Sabha with some forty odd MPs abstentions tell sits own story.
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