Opinion Reinvent
The BJP may have had contextual relevance for agitating over Ayodhya but now it should utilise the Liberhan Commission report...
• The BJP may have had contextual relevance for agitating over Ayodhya but now it should utilise the Liberhan Commission report as an opportunity to recast its role in todays setting. The partys economic policies have shown that it is capable of a mature response to the economic environment and it has opted for a timely and calculated move to bestow leadership upon younger members. It should now reorient its political practice to meet 21st-century challenges.
Y.G. Chouksey
Only after failure
• This refers to Ghosts of winters past and Out of Commission. It may be a painful truth but we do keep the ghosts of communal discord alive in one way or another or at least our political leadership does. Is it not surprising that the highly sensitive issue of the Babri Masjid has been kept alive for 17 years? Even the Liberhan Commission,with 48 extensions,has performed a disservice to democracy and to our ideal of secularism. One only wonders why,when our system fails to take concrete and meaningful action against indicted persons,past issues are raised. They merely upset everyday life. In fact the impression gained is that these commissions are established merely to deflect angry public sentiments.
Ved Guliani
Hisar
A year on
• Today is the first anniversary of 26/11. A few men from across the border kept our entire nation on its toes for a good few days and we remained spectators as hundreds of lives were lost. But the sad reality is that we have not learnt our lessons and such attacks can occur again. For instance,our police forces are still short-staffed and ill-equipped.
S.N. Kabra
Silence?
• Please refer to your editorial Out of commission in which you said that for the next five-odd months,there was official silence as the government refused to table the report before Parliament.
Nothing can be farther from the truth. Immediately after the report was submitted on June 30,2009,the home minister told the media that the report will be placed before Parliament within the stipulated period of six months. This statement was repeated in Parliament during the Monsoon Session.
Finally,on November 18,2009,on the eve of the Winter Session,the home minister told a large number of journalists,including journalists of The Indian Express,that the report will be placed before Parliament in the Winter Session together with an Action Taken Report.
Omkar Kedia
Additional DG (Media)
Home Ministry
New Delhi
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