Dr. M M Singh is virtual Prime Minister of India as a head of UPA II coalition partners since they came back in power in 2009 elections. But the decision making force lives in 10, Janpath where the UPA Chairperson viz. Ms Sonia Gandhi lives and everybody has to flock to her for each issue. During the first tenure of UPA I after 2004, initially he (MMS) was watched for his performance and thus followed the orgy of loot and pillage apprized with his mettle. Obviously DMK saw great opportunity of making hay before the sun sets. A young South Indian dalit leader four times MP and been Minister in various capacities did show his mettle beyond imagination of what they call it an Indian Watergate scandal. Unfortunately this is not the first or last in its right.

“Watergate has entered the political lexicon as a term synonymous with corruption and scandal, yet the Watergate Hotel is one of Washington’s plushest hotels. Even today, it is home to former Senator Bob Dole and was once the place where Monica Lewinsky laid low. It was here that the Watergate Burglars broke into the Democratic Party’s National Committee offices on June 17, 1972. If it had not been for the alert actions of Frank Wills, a security guard, the scandal may never have erupted.”

Even though he (Nixon) was reelected in January 1973 after the breaking out of the scandal in 1972, he ultimately had to resign on 8/9 August 1974 following impeachment proceedings alongwith the Supreme Court order. It was not easy as Nixon was no superhuman. One Watergate led to fall of US President, India has faced one scandal after another that has shamed the US Watergate many times more, yet its PM is still holding his head steadfast without any remorse and repentance. Nothing seems to deter or persuade him. Head doesn’t roll but heads rolled sardonically.

Ashok Bagriya wrote on Nov 20, 2010 at 11:21pm IST in CNN-IBN:
“PM’s affidavit to SC explains his alleged inaction and silence over Subramaniam Swamy’s petition in 2G scam.” He further continues:

“Various letters written by Swamy — from the first in November 29, 2008 to the last in October 2010 — have been dealt with in accordance with the procedure in the PMO, the affidavit said.

The affidavit has given in detail how various letters written by Swamy since November 29, 2008 to October 5, 2010 have been dealt with by the Prime Minister’s office and advice sought from the Law Ministry.” This is at best the example of delay for denying justice technique. Nothing could move the Mr. Honest Prime Minister until the Supreme Court of India made shameful admission and interference by cancelling the 2 G allocations leading to widespread infamy that involved a lot of international players and its resulting disastrous loss of credibility. However it still hasn’t proved their nemesis, neither for UPA nor for their satrap PM MM Singh. Wishing against the wish, India Today observed enthusiastically on October 2, 2011, “If the 2G scam is the UPA-II’s nemesis, it is because of Swamy.”

“”Who got the licences… how FCFS was implemented…this was never discussed with me nor was it brought to the Cabinet. This was exclusively Telecom Minister’s decision,” Singh said in an interaction with the editors from the electronic media. (Watch: Prime Minister’s Q&A with Editors)” NDTV wrote and continued further on February 16, 2011 14:39 IST:
“The government’s auditor CAG had estimated a presumptive loss of up to Rs. 1.76 lakh crore due to sale of spectrum in 2008 at 2001 prices. (Read: What is 2G spectrum scam?)
This had forced Raja to resign from the Union Cabinet in November last year and was followed by his arrest on spectrum 2G scam charges subsequently. (Read: Who is A Raja?)”

On an excuse of coalition dharma (watch a video) of forming a government, MM Singh gives his (un)pardonable excuse of rapacious glib explanation, “On retaining Raja as the Telecom Minister in the UPA-II, the Prime Minister said in a coalition government, the choices of the leaders of the alliance partners have to be accepted and that the DMK had suggested Raja and Dayanidhi Maran for the Union Cabinet.”

Mr Singh is pretending himself as indispensable like our late Chacha Nehru who had succeeded in creating an aura around him, “Who after Nehru (1, 2, 3, 4)”? 1964 on, India is still running strong but who will convince our proxy Prime Minister (inefficient)? Why does he have to continue if the wheels are not moving at a desired pace? Is holding on a job is above the individual priority of integrity and pride of the nation?

“At that moment, there was no reason to feel that anything wrong had been done”, the Prime Minister said. It seems that the word ‘wrong’ needs to be redefined!

Despite all these brouhaha in the media, which also led to subsequent arrest of several persons, ministers, bureaucrats, industrialists with indicting of several media personalities, yet The Prime Minister remained unfuzzled and unfudged.

Mr A. Raja was arrested by CBI on 2 February 2011; On 9 May 2012 he applied for bail for the first time since his arrest and was granted bail on 15 May 2012. Besides Raja, M K Kanimozhi (daughter of DMK supremo Karunanidhi); bureaucrats like Siddharth Behura, R K Chandolia; corporates like Sanjay Chandra, Gautam Doshi, Hari Nair, Surendra Pipara, Vinod Goenka, Shahid Balwa, Asif Balwa (younger brother of Shahid Balwa), Rajiv Agrawal, Sharat Kumar, Ravi Ruia, Anshuman Ruia, Vikas Saraf, I P Khaitan, Kiran Khaitan; film and entertainment personalities like Karim Morani; corporations involved were like Unitech Wireless, Reliance Telecom, Swan Telecom. Other companies named in the chargesheet are: Loop Telecom Pvt Ltd, Loop Mobile India Ltd, Essar Tele Holding, Essar (Parent group of Essar Tele Holding).

For the first time in India since 1947, a very unthinkable role of media personalities was made publicly known undermining the very foundation of its so called fourth pillar of democracy.

“Media sources such as OPEN and Outlook reported that two senior journalists Barkha Dutt (group editor of NDTV) and Vir Sanghvi (editorial director of Hindustan Times) knew that corporate lobbyist Nira Radia was influencing the decisions of appointment of telecom minister. Radia wanted A Raja to be appointed as the telecom minister. The two magazines made public the telephone conversations between Nira Radia, Barkha Dutt & Vir Sanghvi. Radia’s phones were being tapped by the Income Tax Department. Critics allege that Barkha Dutt and Vir Sanghvi knew about the nexus between the government and the media industry but still they supported this corrupt activity and suppressed news reporting the discovery of the corrupt practice.” Wikipedia details elaborately

Raja must have his point to dare say, “Jailed former telecom minister A Raja Tuesday told a Delhi court that he would get Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, then finance minister P Chidambaram and present telecom minister Kapil Sibal summoned as witnesses to prove government did not incur any loss in the 2G allocation.” live mint reported on Wed, Aug 24 2011. 01 21 PM IST

Now The Hindu broke the ice further where Shalini Singh boldly asserted in her multiple columns that Prime Minister was definitely aware of Raja’s conduct. “New papers show PMO analysed and agreed with Raja’s actions before 2G scam”; “Will Manmohan distance himself from PMO officials as he did from Raja?” This story was carried in other media also, 1, 2. Even in the midst of all this PMO kept issuing denials (1, 2) instead of Mr Singh reacting to shave his dignified exit.

How much more evidence does an Indian Mr Clean Prime Minister need to accede and join Mr Richard Milhous Nixon to go away even after so much of indignity, public outrage giving rise to NGOs like India Against Corruption, Aam Aadmi Party led by Anna Hazare and Arvind Kejriwal.

If one shame couldn’t inspire to relinquish the lust of power and chair, could even bigger scam of smouldering “Coalgate” do the trick? This is a big question. Firstpost described it, “…the CAG’s draft report that the government has lost Rs. 10.7 lakh crore by not auctioning coal.”

Can Indian lawmakers act to enact similar impeachment proceedings on the Western module to try to get rid of their indolent dishonest leaders? It is time to think seriously, but unlike the Lokpal Bill!

Congress Party

Dr. O. P. Sudrania

India has been rocked from time and again especially after the UPA II came in power again in 2009. There has been a spate of scandals involving even the satrap’s office viz. PMO (Prime Minister’s Office). The magnitude of fiscal involvements are mind boggling, to the tune of lacs of crores of rupees which could effectively help feed the millions of hungry and give shelter to the homeless further millions living both in rural as well as shanty ghettos in urban areas.

There is a report published by The Hindu daily that they have unearthed new documentary evidence in the alleged 2 G Spectrum allocation. The Hindu has carried this information under various news heads: “Will Manmohan distance himself from PMO officials as he did from Raja?”; “New papers show PMO analysed and agreed with Raja’s actions before 2G scam”; This facsimile has been published by mail Online in their post under a caption, “The PMO X-File: Documents prove PM knew about 2G issue but kept his silence”. Similar headline has been used by India Today also. “The 2G controversy may well be back to haunt the United Progressive Alliance government and its Prime Minister. With disgraced telecom minister A. Raja trying desperately to depose before the Joint Parliamentary Committee looking into the matter, their hands may be forced with new revelations emerging to call him.

And Raja waiting for an opportunity may well recount what this hitherto unseen note (accessed by Mail Today) has now put into public domain.” States Daily Mail.

“New evidence shows that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, far from being “at arm’s length” from ex-Telecom Minister A. Raja’s controversial 2G decisions, had directed officials in the PMO to “examine urgently” Mr. Raja’s letters outlining his intended decisions which eventually led to the 2G scam on January 10, 2008. Investigation now reveals that senior PMO officials had supported several of Mr. Raja’s acts on file, well before the 2G scam.” The Hindu elaborates through their columnist Shalini Singh very extensively and sharply via her multiple posts in The Hindu.

She continues further, “These very same 2G decisions of 2008 were later, in February 2012, declared by the Supreme Court to be “wholly arbitrary, capricious and contrary to public interest apart from being violative of the doctrine of equality.” Mr. Raja, his senior officers and industrialists were accused by the CBI of entering into a criminal conspiracy to cheat the exchequer of Rs. 1.76 lakh crore of revenue, as per the CAG’s estimates.”

After receiving a letter from Raja writen on 26 December 2007, Prime Minister directed on 29 December 2007, that the matter be “examined urgently”. Based on the PM’s directions, the then Principal Secretary, PMO, T.K.A. Nair and Secretary, PMO, Pulok Chatterji analysed Mr. Raja’s letter, discussed the implications and listed suggestions — while agreeing in writing with at least four of his actions ahead of the 2G scam.

Thus instead of maintaining an “arms’ length distance” from E. Raja, Prime Minister de facto acted very much in collusion.

Hindu goes on inimically unrestrained: “The new set of documents is at variance with the popular belief that Dr. Singh made weak attempts to caution Mr. Raja against his multiple illegal moves, but eventually failed to restrain him. File notings demonstrate not just agreement with Mr. Raja’s written intimations — but even a discussion on these specifications, between Mr. Chatterji and “the new Secretary DoT,” Siddharth Behura — nearly a week before the 2G scam.

On the Prime Minister’s directions, a detailed analysis on 2G was placed on file along with Mr. Raja’s six-page letter to the PM and a “Top Secret” note by the then External Affairs Minister (EAM) and Chairman of the GoM on Spectrum, Pranab Mukherjee, both coincidentally dated December 26, 2007. Mr. Chatterji, then a senior official in the PMO, on December 31, 2007, wrote on page 1/N of the file, in a “Confidential/Internal” note: “As desired by Pr. Secy., I have gone through the note of the EAM and the letter of Minister C&IT and an earlier note on the telecom issues. All these documents are placed below. I have prepared a comparative chart at F/X that gives various recommendations on each issue. The last col. gives certain suggestions. Pr. Secretary may like to see this.”

The PMO’s four-page “comparative chart,” which specifically deals with “Issues of new licenses,” establishes that the PMO was in agreement with the decisions for which Mr. Raja stands accused in the CBI charge sheet of April 2, 2011, the CAG report of November 16, 2010, and the Supreme Court judgment of February 2, 2012, which cancelled 122 licences.”

These are some of the extracts I have produced to highlight the propensity of this immense and grave dereliction on the part of normally shy looking innocent Prime Minister for presenting his image of Mr Clean, portending as Caeser’s Wife.

Notwithstanding the fact that there is another bigger “Coal Scandal” running to the tune of more than one hundred and eighty lacs Crores of Rupees ($ 37 billion) in the name of Mr Manmohan Singh directly when he was in charge of the portfolio.

It is obvious that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Mr P. Chidambaram must be probed thoroughly for their complicity or innocence until the truth has been known. Ms Sonia Gandhi as UPA Chairwoman and President Mr P. Mukherjee should also be examined in the interest of the truth that is so essential to bring out to uproot the corruption from the higher offices, and no immunity should be allowed in the greater public interests. Mr. Subramanian Swamy has presented lot of documentary proofs against Rahul Gandhi and Ms Sonia Gandhi to probe in 2 G scam as well as Commonwealth Games scam, besides her much maligned Boffors infamous scam and other clandestine perks that she had received via Iraqi oil-for-food deals, KGB, Swiss Bank, Opus Dei, ISI, LTTE, Madhav Rao Scindia and perhaps others also. Mr Swamy has multiples of court cases against her pending but cannot proceed due to noncooperation from the Government of India using official procedural glitches.

Congress Party – Sushil Shinde

By O.P. Sudrania

(CHAKRA) Sushil Kumar Shinde is Home Minister of India and Congress MP. He is also said to be a ‘dalit’ like our esteemed Speaker – Ms Meira Kumar, Rambilas Paswan, infamous A. Raja, Mayawati UP chief minister etc. He has shamed the entire country in the eyes of global community, given an opportunity to the international terrorist like Hafiz Saeed, who is incriminated in Mumbai 26/11 blast that killed more than 170 innocent lives and injuring thousands. “The founder of Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) has described a $10m (£6.2m) bounty on his head – announced by the US on Tuesday…” reported by BBC.

Present UPA II consists of a conglomerate of multitudes of so called ‘secular’ parties because they are not communal Vis a Vis BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party – how communal it may sound). Let us examine its configuration especially in relation to ‘Saffron Vis a Vis Green moon and star parties).

The following data are from the source:

Current members for Lok-Sabha 2009

(1) Indian National Congress – 206 Seats (2) Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam – 18 Seats; (3) Nationalist Congress Party – 9 Seats (4) Rashtriya Lok Dal – 5 Seats (5) Jammu & Kashmir National Conference – 3 Seats (6) Jharkhand Mukti Morcha – 2 Seats (7) Indian Union Muslim League – 2 Seats (8) All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen – 1 Seats (Withdrew support on November 13, 2012) (9) Kerala Congress (Mani) – 1 Seats (10) Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi – 1 Seat.

Supporting parties for Lok-Sabha 2009

(1) Samajwadi Party – 22 Seat (2) Bahujan Samaj Party – 21 Seats (3) Rashtriya Janata Dal – 4 Seats (4) Janata Dal (Secular) – 3 Seats (5) Nagaland People’s Front – 1 Seats (6) Bodoland People’s Front – 1 Seats (7) Swabhimani Paksha – 1 Seats (8) Bahujan Vikas Aaghadi – 1 Seats (9) All India United Democratic Front – 1 Seats (10) Sikkim Democratic Front – 1 Seats

Indian Union Muslim League and All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen really do make it look secular because they are Islamist groups. I shall not divert by delving on the long saffron “Tikka” on forehead by Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, this in itself is a fictitious bewitching symbol to deceive the Hindu voters because they are not (stress) Hindus. How secular is the credentials of this present “United Progressive Alliance II” after their second term in 2009. Yet BJP is communal by their standards. This justifies the Shinde shit of Hindu terror implying saffron terror by priori since their Muslim votebank policy is biting them. Hence “Hindu Terror” bandwagon has to be beaten to befool the Muslims, not because of the real ghost of Hindu terror but a perceived ghost of Hindu terror. If it is not there, create one. It is aptly expressed in a Latin maxim: “A posse ad esse”, i.e. from the possible to the real.

Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM)

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangha is composed of the original sons of the soil historically, who are born, brought up and has fought their battles against the invading aggressors. Sometime ago Dr. Farooq Abdullah had remarked that the Moon and Star is now outmoded and Muslims have to look forward. He was made unholy in his communalised radical Kashmir valley.

Similarly, “Today, in a stormy Majlis Shura (Governing Council) meeting, Maulana Ghulam Muhammad Vastanvi ousted from his post of Mohtamim (Rector) of Darul Uloom Deoband. Following his ouster, Mufti Abul Qasim Nomani was appointed as Mohtamim. India is secular because of Hindus, said a Muslim leader. Still Shinde must see terror in Hindus because His Masters Voice wishes it so.

Vastanvi’s fault was, “Just after his appointment, he sparked a controversy, saying Muslims too benefited from the development initiative of the Gujarat chief minister. He was also allegedly quoted saying that Muslims should forget the infamous 2003 Gujrat riots which took thousands of innocent lives.””

“The demand was raised by State Janta Dal (U) president Ghulam Qadir Wani while addressing a meeting here today. He said “What is the meaning of joining Hindu and saffron color with terror? It is a downright insult of India’s spiritual, cultural and civilization heritage. Hindus has always been generous… India is secular because Hindus respect the other view,” he went on to demand his (Shinde’s) resignation. Still Shinde cannot look beyond his prism of Hindu terror. The entire world must be laughing at his psychic IQ. He cannot be awakened who is feigning to sleep!

MIM is a branded dynastic political party about this highly secular UPA II, initially started by the patriarch Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi who was Member of Parliament for six consecutive terms and resigned in 2004 in favour of his eldest son. It was the seventh straight victory of the All India Majlis-e Ittihad al-Muslimin (MIM) in the Hyderabad seat. The seat was previously occupied by his father, MIM supremo Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi, who decided to pass on the mantle of MIM leadership in favour of his eldest son. The Party since then retaining all the seven State Seats of the State Assembly from the constituencies of Charminar, Yakutpura, Chandrayangutta, Malakpet, Nampally, Bahadurpura, Karwan, andAsifnagar in the Old city and New city as well as the Hyderabad Central Lok Sabha constituency, all Muslim dominated.

A frantic search on net has not helped to learn more; perhaps their secular credentials must have been under smoke screen that Google and Yahoo have some difficulty with it. Recent arrests of both the Owaisis in communal hate speeches must be a grotesque reminder of their secular characteristics. They have been reported enough with an international outcry but Shinde Inc must not look on that side. Let me try my luck with another secular constituent.

Indian Union Muslim League:

“Though League is a powerful pro-Muslim community oriented party, it sticks to its secular credentials. It has decided to remain their allegiance to Indian Union after Independence, when the original Muslim League went to Pakistan. The IUML is the only Pro-Muslim party, which declared its allegiance and loyalty to India in post-independent India. The party has strongholds mostly in Kerala State districts like Kozhikode, Malappuram and Kasargod. They form the second largest party within UDF.

A particular faction of Muslims in Kerala is sometimes regarded as the supporters of Indian Union Muslim League. The supreme leader of the faction, Panakkad Sayed Hyderali Shihab Thangal, is the president of Kerala state unit of Indian Union Muslim League. This unofficial support is cause of the repeating election victories of Indian Union Muslim League candidates from Muslim dense districts.”

It further goes on communal violence in Kerala, its chief place of mischief.

*IUML members were accused of alleged involvement in communal riots in Marad & Later Supreme Court acquitted all IUML members as there is no proof of their involvement in this massacre. The Marad massacre was the killing of eight Hindus by a Muslim mob on 2 May 2003 at the Marad beach of the Kozhikode district, Kerala, India. The Judicial Commission of Inquiry by Justice Thomas P Joseph that probed the incident concluded that Indian Union Muslim League was directly involved in both conspiracy and execution of the massacre.

The commission affirmed “a clear communal conspiracy, with Muslim fundamentalist and terrorist organisations involved”. The courts later sentenced 62 Muslims to life imprisonment for committing the massacre in 2009.

The role of Indian Union Muslim Leader P. P. Modieen Koya and Mayin Haji (then Chairman Kozhikode Development Authority) was also highlighted in the report but later Supreme Court acquitted all as there is no solid proof of their involvement in this massacre and found them to be aware of the conspiracy beforehand.

On 5 August 2012, the State secretary (CPI-M) Pinarayi Vijayan accused Indian Union Muslim League workers (IUML) of causing death to a DYFI activist, at Thachangad during the hartal on 2 August 2012. Though he admitted that it was too premature to comment on the basis of the preliminary report of the post-mortem. Later the post mortem report confirmed the death was due to cardiac arrest.*

The following examples in this context should also be taken as a warning by democratic parties on both sides of the ideological divide that their ‘pragmatic’ association with fundamentalist and sectarian outfits is akin to digging a hole for themselves.”

He asserts, “Historically, Muslim sects in Pakistan chose to appease the “worthy of death” rhetoric against another minority because they saw it as an insurance policy for themselves. Perhaps they should listen to John F. Kennedy’s inauguration speech of 1961: “…remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.”

The tiger has already swallowed so many. Just look around: Shiite processions? Terrorized. Sufis shrines? Bombed. Christian leaders? Assassinated. Hindu girls? Kidnapped.”

Yet Hindus are training terrorist in camps, Mr Shinde must assert. I think his epistemology of English language can be blamed partly when he mixed up terrorists for territoreal, who heads the sensitive portfolio of Home Ministry of India. It is not his fault – Macaulayism at best. It is your fault if you do not understand what he said, because it is the media who distorted his words and opposition parties are exploiting for political mileage.

Initially the Congress had distanced from his remarks by attributing to Shinde but later on they have jumped into the bandwagon to defend him as an afterthought.

The Conspiracy theories behind “Hindu Terror”:

This is a calculated transcript pre-empted and must be conceptualised by Ms Sonia Gandhi by herself since she is a born Catholic from Orbassano conservative village, Italy. She has known the power of Hindu nationalism and further doses must have received from her mother-in-law living under her shadow. It is variously quoted in media that she is fourth largest rich person in the world. Her assets are estimated from $2.2 to 11 Billion, while other sources quote in Indian currency to the tune of Rs. 20.80 Lacs Crores. She has never contested or denied it Vis a Vis Morarji Desai; who had sued his defamers in USA with the help of Mr Henry Kissinger despite his bad health in last days. She is also known to have links with the then KGB of USSR and Secret Vatican Intelligence Agency Opus Die proved documentarily, ISI of Pakistan, CIA of USA, even Mossad of Israel has been quoted, etc. In this report, they question the role of KGB, Mossad and LTTE in the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi since he had discovered her complicity in Bofors scandal along with Mr Ottavio Quattrocchi, Ms Sonia Gandhi’s Italian accomplice.

“Last section is from IB Chief Dharr’s book ‘Open Secret’ shows clearly that Sonia Gandhi is KGB agent. How KGB kills Lal Bahadur Shastri, Sanjay Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, Rajesh Pilot, Jitendra Prasad, Madhavrav Scindhiya…” Their sons have been made Ministers in UPA II cabinet to divert their attention from her crimes.

“The darkest of all conspiracies By B. R. Haran ‘The Pioneer’ Saturday, January 22, 2011details, “Hindu terror” and “Saffron terror” are terms concocted on the basis of weak evidence by a discredited, corrupt political elite which thinks nothing of sacrificing human lives for petty electoral gains. But how long can you fool all the people? Since the formation of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) in 2004 there has been a marked rise in the number of sleeper modules of jihadi organisations across India. The high priority accorded by UPA- 1 to the repeal of the Prevention of Terrorism Act, 2002, had a significant bearing on the career of Students’ Islamic Movement of India (SIMI).

This terrorist group, which acted on direct orders of the Lashkar- e- Tayyeba (LeT) found the latitude accorded by a pseudo-secular regime in Delhi to reinvent itself as “Indian Mujahideen”, “Deccan Mujahideen” and “Popular Front of India.”

All this amply delineates that a “conspiracy of Hindu terrorism” must be created for two reasons: One that a large section of Hindu population has been against the Indian National Congress right after independence in 1947. This found the anger of beleaguered first Prime Minister of India – Pandit Nehru, who dreaded them and assassination of Mahatma Gandhi gave him reprieve to suppress the growing Hindu nationalism to consolidate his position of secular credentials and Muslim votebank stock. This same scourge of anti-Hindu political trump card has been played to malign the Hindu society through a calculated instrument of media tirade incessantly being run through majority Indian press, which are controlled from outside the Indian borders as well as their foreign fundings detailed by Gautam Sen.

Judging from all these political and corruption and black money, the conspiracy of maligning the Hindu community for vested interests is understandable and is a necessary monster that has to be kept alive and moving.

Shinde’s lies exposed:

In an article in The New Indian Express, “True lies of Sushil Kumar Shinde”, By S. Gurumurthy, 24th January 2013, details as under:

LeT Culprit, say UN, US

“Qasmani Arif…chief coordinator of the relations of the [LeT] with other organisations…has worked with Lashkar-e-Tayyiba to facilitate terrorist attacks including…the bombing of February 2007 in the Samjhauta Express in Panipat (India).” This is what resolution [No 1267] of the Committee on Sanctions of the United Nations Security Council [UNSC] dated 29.6.2009 declares. Adding that Qasmani was funded by Dawood Ibrahim and he did the fundraising for the LeT and the al-Qaida, the UNSC said, “In exchange for their support, al-Qaida provided support staff for the February 2007 bombing of the Samjhauta Express in Panipat.” This resolution is available on the UN site. Two days later, on July 1, 2009, the United States Treasury Department said in its press release: “Arif Qasmani has worked with the LeT to facilitate terrorist attacks, including…Samjhota Express bombing.” The US named four Pakistanis, including Arif Qasmani as terrorists, under Executive Order No 13224. This press release is still on the US Treasury site. The United Nations Security Council and the US Treasury Department thus named the LeT, Qasmani and Dawood Ibrahim as accused in Samjhauta terror. This is just the beginning of the torrent of evidence pointing to the LeT and Pakistan.”

My own feeling is that Shinde is completely ignorant and at the same time running himself in the set timeline drawn by his God master/mistress. This lie has been earlier spoken by Rahul Gandhi and P. Chidambaram also. Rahul’s lie was exposed through WikiLeaks Cables, later confirmed by the ex-US Ambassador to India, viz Timothy Roemer that growth of “radicalised Hindu groups” which create religious tensions in India could pose a bigger threat to the country than activities of groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).

Thus it is a calculated premeditated planned strategy to shield themselves from their own black money and scandalous scams exposed during the regime of UPA government, e.g. cash for vote, 2 G by A. Raja, Hasan Ali Khan scandal for black money laundering, Coalgate, Chief Vigilance Commissioner P.J Thomas, Commonwealth Games scandal by Suresh Kalmadi, Adarsh Society scam, Devas-Antrix deal, Abdul Kalim Telgi stamp scam, Satyam scam, Bofors scam, Fodder scam (chara ghotala) of Bihar, IPL scam involving Lalit Modi and Shashi Tharoor, Hawala scandal also involved money transferred to militants of Hijbul Mujahideen in Kashmir, Harshad Mehta and Ketan Parekh stock exchange scam, etc. Their lunger (Punjabi feast) of scams has not stopped, everyday a new one surfaces. While this scam tainted UPA was having a breather, Delhi gangrape case rocked the entire country after the public pitch raised by Anna Hazare and Arvind Kejriwal teams, followed by Baba Ramdev. Shinde was castigated for his remarks against the Delhi rape case comparing them to Maoists.

Income tax raids, CBI misuse are two strong instruments that are regularly targeted to raid their opponents to either silence their voices or exposing the black money stashed by misuse of power and authority in crores as the unaccounted money beyond the known sources of their income. A war cry against corruption and rising inflation that is breaking the backbone of common people are some of the reasons for these diversionary dangerous politics with their long term divisive and disruptive politics of Hindu terrorism.

Whatever be the cause or culprit, it is an ample proof of governance deficit, which UPA government has to burden and share and answer for. All these everyday unpardonable and treasonable scandals with their fast declining vote bank especially in Muslims is the chief reason to raise their pitch for a fictitious ghost of Hindu terrorism to woo the Muslim votes. This is a scandalously dangerous negationist politics to pave the way for divisive cynicism. It must be condemned and exposed at every level and platforms.

(Dr. O. P. Sudrania is a senior retired teacher in surgery and a medico-legal counsellor; now also engaged in research of spiritual and socio-political analytical science as a part of service to humanity. He retired as Emeritus Professor in Surgery from Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. )

Dirty politics of the INC and Rahul Gandhi

(CHAKRA) Indian National Congress has just concluded their so called Annual orgy of eat drink and be merry marriage ceremony, they called it a “Chintan (Reflection) Shivir (Camp)” at Jaipur, Rajasthan on 20 January 2013. The conclusion of business gave an impression that it was more of two things; one a crowning ceremony of the (first) dynasty of post independence India’s heir apparent Mr Rahul Gandhi aka Raul Vinci. Second was a grim show with the remarks of Mr. Sushil Kumar Shinde, Home Minister of India relating Hindu Terrorism a prime concern. With all this pompous luxurious dinning and meeting and poor deliberation on the burning issues facing the common people, it seemed more like “Chinta (anxiety) cum Chita (funeral pyre) Shivir”.

I think these two words could be better suited to express the gala gathering. Chinta is for fast dwindling votebank especially the traditional Muslim population who still harbours their hate for Hindus and can be very easily polarised in the caste ridden society as exclaimed by Justice Markandey Katju, The Chief of the Press Council of India and Ex Justice, Supreme Court of India. TheIndian Express reported: “90 per cent of people vote on caste lines instead of assessing a candidate’s merit, … today said, claiming it allows people with criminal background to get elected.”

It is very pertinent in the spectrum of events of communal violence starting soon after 1947, becoming acute following dissipation of USSR since 1989 in Afghanistan war. All those highly trained guerrilla Islamic fighters trained in Pakistan and Afghanistan were rerouted to Kashmir initially and India subsequently to engage them away from their hinterland. America’s 9/11 and India’s one 9/11 (26/11) are a grim reminder, Shinde’s memory of his geriatric cerebrum is not helping in calibrating his sensitive phrase as Home Minister. 90% of riots were initiated by Muslims in India but Congress of Nehru shielded them for votebank. Lately its size has worsened due to import of militants from across the border. Islam has an inbuilt ideology for violence aggression, which is very well documented by scholars like Will Durant (The Magnitude of Muslim Atrocities) and others.

Indian politicians either do not bother or are ill informed on the historical and political developments as was exhibited by Man Mohan Singh in Sharmail Sheikh when he got carried away on Balochistan issue Vis a Vis Kashmir. In one study in US had said, “The Truth on Kashmir and Terrorism in India: India has been the most terrorized country in the world -US State Department Report on Terrorism and they further captioned it cryptically: India Is an Extraordinary Democracy.

Let us first analyse the speeches by these two leaders only.

Shinde is known for his lose tongue. Earlier he had said to Ms Jaya Bacchan that it is not a film, which bruised his speaking credibility, only to chew his words later. Now he has stirred rabbles by uttering that BJP and RSS run training camps to train Hindu terrorists. How audacious and wickedly impetuous?

Firstpost reported, *“…We are taking steps against injustice towards minorities as also against infiltration. But in the midst of all this we have got an investigation report that be it the RSS or the BJP, their training camps are promoting Hindu terrorism,’’ said Shinde.*

This is uncalled for impromptu speech, it exhibits his intellectual bankruptcy. He is heading a most powerful and a sensitive portfolio of Home Ministry of nation. He should have realised the wider impact of his cheap remarks. It has serious international implications, especially when India is facing serious threats from across her borders. Not long ago on 8 January 2013, India has locked horns with Pakistan on the brutal gruesome murders and beheading of two Indian soldiers on the Line of Control in Jammu against the Geneva Convention, derailing the much arduous peace process between the two countries. India is a constant victim of extremist violence arising from Pakistan and Bangladesh. Kashmir insurgency is a daily menace. It was not exceptional to see the Pakistani Army trying to push their Islamist terrorists bred in the Muridke factory of Lashkar-e Toiba run by Hafiz Saeed to cause violence and loss of life and property.

It gave a much sought for requiem to the acclaimed international terrorist wanted for multitudes of Islamic violence conducted in India and other countries, Lashkar-e Toiba chief Hafiz Saeed poignantly asked as reported by oneindia, “Shinde’s shame: Saeed wants India declared terrorist state, reported by Oneindia news”. It continued:

“…There cannot be more damning indictment of a home minister when an international terrorist (Hafiz Saeed) takes refuge under him and wants India to be declared as terrorist state. Lashkar-e-Taiba founder and 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed today sought to exploit Shinde’s remarks against RSS and BJP saying Indian “propaganda” against Pakistanis of spreading terror now stood “exposed”. Unfortunately this has been maddeningly reported in the press incessantly. Please follow some of the links here:

The Hindu, Times of India (TOI), TOI 2, 1, The Indian Express, IBNLive, the list is endless and rightly so.

Let us examine some more love of Hafiz Saeed for Hindu Baniya, “He stressed that India had always been enemy number one of Pakistan and would continue to do so for all times because the mean mentality of Hindu banya would never change.” The Nation, from Pakistan. I hope Shinde Inc is listening.
Shinde soon after resuming charge from P Chidambaram on 31 July 2012 had faced the Assam communal riots involving Bangladesh Muslim infiltration creating unrest. He had not been a very successful Minister in his earlier portfolio as Power Minister.

“In his very first speech — on Assam violence on Wednesday — while referring to Bodoland Territorial Area District, he said terrorist in place of territorial.

“If untoward situation arises, the government will not dare to take action so that nothing happens,” was the next gem from the minister.

Thursday’s gaffe came during his reply to the debate on the situation in Assam. Bachchan interrupted him, saying he had not responded to specific queries raised by members.

“This is a serious matter. It is not a subject of a film,” Shinde shot back, triggering a storm in the House.” Hindustan Times had reported on 9 August 2012 from Delhi. It led to objectionable uproar in the House forcing him to apologise. Hindustan Times added further:

Sensing the mood of the House, Shinde said, “If she is hurt by my comments, I apologise for that. She is my sister. I know the entire Bachchan family for which I have great respect.”

Now coming back to the Crowned Prince Rahul Gandhi, whose coronation ceremony was complete in Jaipur making him official Vice President of the ailing raged 125 Years old(1884) Congress Party. It forms the largest constituent party of the ruling conglomerate of UPA II ridden in scams and corruption, rising inflation, falling foreign reserves and increasing Islamic fundamentalist violence, Reported, “The Dynastic torch passes to Rahul Gandhi in India” and the rest.

India had its first Prime Minister Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru after a dubious manipulative controversy presided by our eponymous Father of The Nation – Mahatma Gandhi. It was the grace of Sardar Ballabh Bhai Patel to recede on the politically incorrect advice by Gandhi. Independent India was unified into a single state nation by abolishing about 565 scattered small independent ruling dynasties with their own mighty defences; only to establish a one dynasty rule. To this point I have to concede that Nehru was highly successful, if the other areas remain debateable.

Who can doubt the much hyped and drummed up rise of the fifth generation of this Kingly Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, which pales even the residues of Monarchies in current Europe.
Hence our much celebrated media icon heir uncrowned Prince, fifth ladder Rahul Gandhi became the Crowned Prince in succession –Mother Sonia Gandhi (ruling without responsibility but with highest power pivot in silent mode), father Rajiv Gandhi died in a yet to be proved controversy, grandmother Ms Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi – killed by her own bodyguards, Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru, who is said to have died of ruptured thoracic Aorta Aneurysm, supposed to be caused by tertiary syphilis.

Perusing the first speech after the crowning glory, it is apparent that it was composed more on the rhetorics of sentiment rousing dynasty saga than addressing the real issues facing the hapless majority people in the country.

“BBC reported: Mr Gandhi railed against the “gross” centralisation of political power by the elites, and the lack of meritocracy in politics and public systems. “It doesn’t matter how much wisdom you have. If you don’t have position, you have nothing. That’s the tragedy of India,” he said.

Few will disagree: elitism, nepotism and deeply entrenched hierarchies bedevil India’s progress, and politics is no exception.

Mr Gandhi, who at 42 is youthful by India’s geriatric political standards, also spoke about the growing disconnect between India’s youth and the political class. He talked about their abhorrence for an increasingly arrogant political class. Exclusion, he said rightly, is at the root of most of India’s problems.”

Business Standard sarcastically prodded in its caption: Rahul Gandhi’s speech: Poignant or ‘lacking in content’? On Monday, 21 January 2013.

“The vision he has tried to show, that we have to bring change. Where was he when people were holding massive protests against corruption when Anna Hazare was there in New Delhi, and when there were tens of thousands protesting against the gang-rape?… He never once came out and addressed the people,” Sharma noted.

In an emotional speech in Jaipur, Rahul Gandhi said: “The Congress party is my life. The people of India are now my life. And I will fight for the people of India and for this party.”

“As a boy I loved to play badminton because it gave me balance in a complicated world. I was taught by two policemen who protected my grandmother and were my friends. They killed my grandmother and took way the balance…In the evening I saw my father address the nation. He was terrified of what lay ahead of him. But I saw a glimmer of hope. That hope has brought India where it is today.”

Firstpost with a similar head added: Rahul Gandhi in his first speech as Congress vice president touched an emotional chord among many with references to his mother, party chief Sonia Gandhi, and his father and grandmother, and his frank critique of the party’s functioning and of the ills of the “system”, but many others wonder if there was any real substance in what he spoke.

The 1,200 strong gathering of Congress leaders and activists at the Birla Auditorium in Jaipur erupted in hurrahs and some leaders were seen wiping away tears after Gandhi’s’ speech.

“I think his speech was not as a politician…, His references to how his mother cried etc. were meant to gain sympathy… But I did not find much substance in his speech,” Gagan Sharma, a professional in his 30s, told IANS.”

He dwelt mostly on an emotional chord and enumerating the deficiencies of present UPA II elites and the expectations of the younger generations, a polemical record, which is very evident. It is all very well known but his crowning glory speech is least concerned with the economic hardships, extremist violence, the recent gangrape in Delhi as well as the rest of country had nothing to console the people. Rising inflation is breaking the backbone daily but he has been working for last eight years as Youth leader, he said that he has learnt a lot during these years, “He neither spelt out his knowledge nor the remedy for whatever little he may have learnt from the media savvy focus”. He never gave any interviews to the media, except showing his course bearded face entering the huts, boarding a general compartment in a train etc. All these has been good to attract publicity stunts but had hardly addressed the issues facing the masses. Wherever he visited, nothing has changed, making his visits a disaster and irrelevant. Recent UP and Gujarat polls showed his utter failure bitterly. His mother was quick to quip, “It was an organisational failure that led to UP disaster”. Failures are thrust on the organisation but success must be presumed to coronate. Who is heading the organisation – his own mother Ms Sonia Gandhi”? It seemed deficient in diligence.

Akabaruddin Owaisi Vis a Vis Hafiz Saeed of India:

A glimpse of the hate speech:
On December 24, 2012, Owaisi addressed a rally of twenty to twenty-five thousand people in the Nirmal town of Adilabad district of Andhra Pradesh. In his two-hour long speech, Owaisi made multiple comments against Hindus, Hindu deities, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, Vishva Hindu Parishad, Bharatiya Janata Party, Narendra Modi, India and United States of America. In his speech, Owaisi said that the 250 million Indian Muslims needed only 15 minutes without the police to show one billion Hindus who is more powerful. Owaisi referred to the Hindus in a derogatory manner and the Indian police as the “impotent army”. He said that not even one crore impotent men can together father one child. He said that these people (Hindus) cannot face the Muslims, and whenever the Muslims start dominating the Hindus, the impotent army (police) intervenes. Owaisi said that “we (Muslims) will not let you (India or Hindus) live peacefully,” and added that the Muslims could “teach the rest of the country a lesson”.

Owaisi referred to Ajmal Amir Kasab, one of the Pakistani militants of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, as a “child”, and compared him with Narendra Modi. He asked if Kasab was hanged then why is Modi not hanged, and said that the reason was only because Kasab was a Pakistani and Modi is Indian. He said that if the Muslims of India united like the Muslims of Andhra Pradesh, Narendra Modi would soon be hanged.”

Akabaruddin making his hate speech, shown in video reported by . Anyone knowing Hindi and Urdu is requested to kindly peruse this venomous speech which is a little long but worth it for his real face.

“Hyderabad, Jan 22: Political scenario in Hyderabad might be worsened with the news that a court in Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday, Jan 22 extended judicial custody of the legislator of Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) – Akbaruddin Owaisi. Akbaruddin’s judicial custody has been extended till Feb 5 over a hate speech case. After the judgement of the Nirmal court, police brought him back to Adilabad jail.

Hyderabad and some other parts of Andhra Pradesh witnessed a complete shutdown on Tuesday following the arrest of MIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi regarding a 2005 protest case. Shops, business houses and educational institutes remained shut in the old city and other Muslim-dominated areas in the state capital. The government road transport corporation suspended most of its bus services while auto-rickshaws also remained off the roads.”

Asabuddin Owaisi – another snake in the backyard of secular Congress and UPA II:

“MIM supremo and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi surrendered before a local court in Sangareddy in Medak district – not more than 25 kms from the state capital – on Monday morning in connection with a case of rioting and other charges registered in 2005.

Named as accused number one in the case, Asaduddin was remanded in judicial custody till February 2 by special judicial first class magistrate Maruti Devi and lodged in the district jail at Sangareddy. A bail application moved by the MP is slated to be heard on Tuesday. His younger brother Akbaruddin Owaisi is accused number two in the case and has already been produced before the magistrate here on a prisoner transit warrant by the Nirmal police in Adilabad where he is in judicial custody. A non-bailable warrant had been pending against the duo but with the MIM part of the ruling UPA at the Centre, the police had not bothered to execute it.”

I only hope that the reverent Sushil Shinde has not condoned these two Hafiz Saeeds of India before claiming Hindu terrorists. Hindus have the right to self protection and reach out to defend themselves if and when their survival is threatened in their own home. Hindus have no organised terrorists exported out in the name of jihad and fatwas Vis a Via Islamic terrorists, Shinde might know it. Will his official spokespersons stop deifying Osama as Osamaji and Hafiz Saeed as Hafiz Saeed Saheb?

Before I conclude, I must remind the current secular/communal UPA II, “Why there are no communal riots in Pakistan and Bangladesh”? Read this interesting post for a little insight.

(Dr. O. P. Sudrania is a senior retired teacher in surgery and a medico-legal counsellor; now also engaged in research of spiritual and socio-political analytical science as a part of service to humanity. He retired as Emeritus Professor in Surgery from Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. )

(CHAKRA) The current upheaval in India over the brutal gangrape in Delhi on the night of December 16 Sunday has evoked a spontaneous uprising all over the country that has not been witnessed so far in the history after independence in last sixty five years. Even the top leaders like ministers in UPA II have remarked at such outrage, “He admitted that the developments of the last one week showed a “new phenomenon” of “flash mobs” resorting to protests and that the government was not fully prepared to deal with such situations.”  The Hindu reported Mr P. Chidambaram uttering in a press conference in New Delhi on Wednesday, 26 December 2012.  I only presume that the Indian polity post independence had carried forward the colonial baggage of taking people for granted and astride, which is being rightly questioned and called into action in the garb of these street protests.

Earlier in April 2011, Anna Hazare with a team of activists e.g. Arvind Kejriwal, Kiran Bedi, Manish Sisodia etc and now joined by retired military chief General V K Singh had started a public movement or call it a crusade, in the name of ‘Corruption’ that caught these leaders in their high rising luxurious posh offices and inaccessible priceless palatial bungalows, never did they dream of. These movements were initiated by these few anonymous figures in Delhi once again after the era of Late Jayprakash Narayan in Bihar in mid 1970s during the regime of Indira Gandhi.

Anna movement as it is called widely, was frittered ultimately by deceive and divide technique but it did serve a definite purpose, the purpose of a reawakening call in the vast number of oppressed people in the country without any hope, hope for living, hope for any apostolic deliverance coming like bursting of clouds. Although the so called governing class in India had taken the people for granted, Anna reaction may have been contributory to this spontaneous outrage by the young, the elderly, the male, the female alike without any provocation or instigation. Perhaps the police force also got caught in the same euphoria reminiscent of imperial mentality. No wonder that the entire higher echelons are caught in their frenzy of ‘damn care’ attitude and the Delhi police commissioner Neeraj Kumar did his best to interfere in the genuine investigation and even did not hesitate to humiliate the magistrate who was called in to record the testimony of the victim before being flown out. It is out of conception that such unholy events took place right under the nose of the double capital of governments harnessed in the same place – Delhi, the strongest powerhouse of the nation. There was an unfortunate fatal incident of death of a cop on duty in the middle of this fracas by the peaceful protesters, the police department tried their best to implicate this death to the protesters needlessly; only to further expose their insensitivities and callous manhandling of these young boys and girls physically, by lathicharge, water cannons, teargas shells and thrashings that was inconceivable. All this shabby administration by undue excessive force reflected in the intemperate and ‘who cares’ outdated imperial mentality.  It was highly despicable. The entire media were agog with the manner in which the peaceful protests have been mishandled.

The victim of the inhuman brutal gangrape in Delhi was admitted in government run Safdarjung Hospital on the night of 16 December 2012 in a serious condition. She received emergency medical care in ICU and had three surgeries carried and also sustained cardiac arrest once or twice. Her physical status kept waxing and waning in a serious state. Finally she was transferred on 27 December Thursday in the middle of the cold wintry foggy night in an Air Ambulance to Singapore to bear with the stress of that arduous journey, many including some senior experienced Delhi surgeons like Dr Samiran Nundy contended that her transfer to Singapore was triggered by reasons other than medical.

Did the UPA government, smeared into a multitudes of controversies and governance deficit issues one after the other, got panicked by the unprecedented show of live demonstrations on the street, as were also seen after the treacherous barbaric 26 November attach on Mumbai Taj orchestrated by the rogue Pakistani ISI agents via their infamous nonstate actors as they call them to hide their shabby guilt.

This young 23 year old brilliant dynamic girl belonged to a poor village family who can barely meet their daily ends. The family told, “Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar who visited When their daughter was fighting for her life in a Delhi hospital that they hardly have enough to eat at home. Their meals, they reportedly told her, are often “roti and namak” (bread sprinkled with salt for flavour).”  Yet her cacass of vibrant spirit prompted the 80 year young PM M. M. Singh and his sixtysix year young supposedly cervical cancer afflicted boss Ms Sonia Gandhi aka Antonia Edvige Albina Maino to go to IGI Airport, Delhi in the late night at about 3am to receive her when she was brought back by special Air India flight. One wonders curiously, “How come this anonymous village bud became so VIP in her valiantly fought undignified death”?

Then again, “She was cremated in Delhi against the surrounding mystery in Dwaraka after the plane was received at 4.15 am in the midst of the thick foggy sombre night hours with bare minimum visibility, the plane was taken to its technical area and her funeral planned under the highest secret mysterious circumstances with heavy police and security guard, remain a burning question mark the government has to clarify to the people and the nation”. Initially the ceremony was officially planned at 6 am but delayed for Hindu rites to be carried out after the Sunrise, ultimately at 07.30 am.

Minister of State for Home Affairs R P N Singh, West Delhi MP Mahabal Mishra, Delhi BJP chief Vijender Gupta were present at the cremation. Why was it hushed within a few limited hours under tight security and secrecy remain best known to the Delhi and UPA Governments without a plausible cause? Ajmal Kasab was one with in similar circumstances! It is highly impropriety and further humiliating her sacred and valiant undeserved end.

This entire filthy episode has evoked a worldwide condemnation and condolences with the head of the nation plunging in shame. There were heavily emotionally charged rhetorics with all claiming, “We also have daughters, sisters, wives etc only under duress of the volcanic public anger piercing the hearts of the ruling classes with a trembling fear of unprecedented mass unrest they had witnessed in last few years. Time will tell, if it is sense of democracy forced down the gullet of callous insensitive elected representatives of the people, by the people and also for the people as envisioned by eponymous US late President Abraham Lincoln. Better late than never.

 (Dr. O. P. Sudrania is a senior retired teacher in surgery and a medico-legal counsellor; now also engaged in research of spiritual and socio-political analytical science as a part of service to humanity. He retired as Emeritus Professor in Surgery from Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. )

Swami Ramdev has declared a war against corruption in India

By Ranbir Singh

The brutal suppression of Swami Ramdev’s protests against corruption which reaches to the highest echelons of the Indian government should come as no surprise to anyone who has had the unfortunate experience of coming face to face with the country’s administrative and highly bureaucratic infrastructure. Graft, greed, black money, backhanders and dishonesty have become integral to the rusting steel frame of national civil administration. But what is perhaps most shocking is the silence.

Where are all the human rights voices who are always keen to support separatism in Kashmir and otherwise so very eager to expose the brutality of army and police when they crackdown on protests? Where are the western ‘liberal’ intellectuals who willingly act as sheep and android mouthpieces for the aforementioned Indian chattering class academics and activists? The only disturbing conclusions one can draw from this silence is that the leader of this anti-corruption drive is a revered Hindu holy man. Such a figure is an anathema to the Orwellian claustrophobia which strangulates all rational thinking when it comes to India political and social commentary.

In this Brave New World the unwritten rule is that Swami Ramdev must be wrong because he is an honoured figure within Hinduism. One need only compare to the kid glove treatment given to the Pakistani terrorists who arrived on that accursed December to inflict maximum casualties in Mumbai on specifically Hindu, Jewish and western human targets. Pleas continue to be heard for clemency and to understand the ‘context’ of why such people would want to commit genocide had they not been limited by numbers and killing machine technology. Yet with Swami Ramdev not one voice in favour but already rumblings of why Indian human rights activists and their duped western sheep either employ the self-censorship of gagging or slowly veer to subtle condemnation of him. It is in the latter that we learn the real reason why Swami Ramdev’s very important anti-corruption drive is being ignored or opposed. As one famous western news website put it, he is “openly backed by India ’s Hindu nationalist opposition”. That is basically the crux of it, and the reason for the double standards in reporting.

The Indian masses in their millions will have to rely on themselves for their “Arab spring” in order to get rid of an authoritarian ruling class who siphon off billions just as their parallel entities got so sued to doing in the Middle East . But while the people in the Middle East have been supported for their efforts to rid themselves of thieving kleptocracies, even when the radical religious element was never far from the forefront, in India the very idea that a Hindu religious figure can do the same is delegitimised simply because Baba Ramdev is Hindu and shows the relevance of Hinduism in all aspects of modern life, including tackling a system which effectively locks millions into poverty and dependence upon an inflexible crushing parasitic form of clientage which is the antithesis of democracy, liberalism and civic duties.

Ranbir Singh is a member of Hindu Human Rights (www.hinduhumanrights.info)