Bohras fall at the feet of Narendra Modi too

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HARDIK PATEL TAKES GUJARAT BY STORM, SMASHES CLAIMS OF ‘GROWTH’ WITH ‘REALITY’ OF POVERTY

Twenty two years old, and he has usurped all the images---of nationalism, Sardar Patel, Ram, Guns and Fire---from the Bharatiya Janata Party and its affiliates in Gujarat. But smashed the deliberated created image of growth and development with the story of poverty, acute discrimination and corruption.

Hardik Patel has emerged almost overnight as a community leader, attracting lakhs with just one call for “reservations”. He seems to be a simple lad from the village, but clearly has a political acumen that has placed him at the end of a major movement in Gujarat defying its former Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s claims of development and progress.

Hardik Patel who proved his strength with a five lakh plus crowd in the streets of Surat, has now threatened to bring over 25 lakh Patels to Ahmedabad if the government fails to concede his demand for ‘reservation'.

Hardik Patel is clearly exposing the claims by the state as being the most developed. Prime Minister Modi himself had cast Gujarat as a model of growth. But now Patel says that it is barely that, and the poverty is immense. Asked about this by the media he said, “look at the villages, these tell a different story.” In a very interesting panel discussion with a Hindi news channel Hardik Patel says that the majority of farmers committing suicide are Patels. He says that the farmers children are denied jobs despite securing excellent marks; and have to pay Rs 25 lakhs for a government job. To a follow up question by the interviewer who asked how come there was corruption in Gujarat when the world had been told that it was corruption-free, Hardik Patel said, “there is silent corruption”.

Patel whose demand for reservations for his community is gathering ground by the day, paints a dismal picture of Gujarat in every interview he has given, or meeting he has addressed. Farmers suicides, deprivation, poverty, corruption are all integral parts of the story of a state that had been projected for over a decade as a model of growth for India.

FULL ARTICLE :-

http://www.thecitizen.in/NewsDetail.asp ... OF/POVERTY

A comment on Facebook:

"I am glad his name is Hardik Patel not Haider Pathan otherwise everyone would have branded him anti-national and slapped him with terror charges. Imagine a Muslim leader demanding reservation for his community and then unleashing mob fury on an entire state!"

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22 year old thats most interesting....

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Delhi’s Aurangzeb Road to be renamed as Abdul Kalam Road, report says

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city ... 711593.cms

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dHOVezUkAI



Published on Aug 27, 2015
editor-in-chief Rifat Jawaid argues why Indian TV channels' decision to not give adequate coverage to Gujarat violence is a shame and people from my fraternity need to do some soul-searching on whether they have got both their priority and ethics horribly wrong...

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Delhi’s Aurangzeb Road to be renamed as Abdul Kalam Road, report says

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city ... 711593.cms

Aurangzeb in Banaras Hindu University

So most of the people guessed it right in our Quiz about a Mughal firman poll. Yes, indeed it was Aurangzeb who issued that firman and that too just months after becoming the Emperor of India.

But the most interesting thing about this firman is that a copy of is on display in a museum in Banaras Hindu University (BHU).

http://indianmuslims.in/aurangzeb-in-ba ... niversity/

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wow so VHP is shaking modi seat already, it will be interesting to see further development.

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Hardik Patel belongs to a community which was the major financer of Gujarat 2002 Mass Genocide in which thousands of Muslims were killed and crores worth of Muslim properties and businesses were destroyed. No wonder his idols are the likes of Bal Thackerey who had engineered Hindu/Muslim riots in Mumbai in the aftermath of Babri Masjid demolition and Babu Bajrangi, the ruthless satan who had openly confessed of having ripped apart stomachs of pregnant Muslim women and killed scores of Muslim men and women during the 2002 mass genocide of Gujarat.

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VERY INTERESTING ARTICLE :-

Aurangzeb vs Kalam

The renaming of a road is part of a wider pattern of strategic messaging by the NDA.

Aurangzeb’s track record as an Indian-born Mughal ruler is full of contradictions: there are instances when he showed extreme intolerance to pluralism, but also examples of his patronage and largesse towards other religions. If Aurangzeb decided to impose Islamic rule, it was to seek legitimacy from those who had supported him in decimating his brothers and seizing power. It can be understood even in today’s context, with the RSS-controlled government’s frequent attempts at making India a Hindu rashtra. If Aurangzeb decided to demolish temples that became political centres, he also funded the repair of the Chitrakoot temple, the Mahakal temple and several gurdwaras. Are we to judge him by the temples he demolished or by the temples he supported? Didn’t the BJP rise to electoral prominence after demolishing a mosque, and promising to demolish more — “abhie toh pehli jhaanki hai, Mathura, Kashi baaki hai” ? Are we to judge Aurangzeb by his decision to make Sambhaji a mansabdar in the contest against the Bijapur Sultanate, or by his many contests against the Marathas? Should Aurangzeb be judged by the jizya tax imposed on able-bodied non-Muslims who did not volunteer to be in the army or by the zakat, ushr, sadaqah, fitrah and khums he collected from only Muslims? Aurangzeb needed to finance his various wars. He seized the throne in 1658, whereas jizya was imposed in 1679.

Aurangzeb banned the consumption of alcohol, gambling, music, nautch girls, narcotics, castration, etc. If we are to judge him by the bans he imposed, how should we judge the present ruling party, which has banned beef in some parts, come dangerously close to banning porn sites, is in the process of banning some NGOs, banned a film on the December 16 gangrape case, banned the word “lesbian” from films (among 28 other “swear words”)?

Without an approximate understanding of the historical and political context of that era, are we to judge at all? History will judge us by the way we judge history. And if in judging history, we were to include the good, the bad, the ugly, the black, the white and the grey, our heart will neither bleed for Aurangzeb nor throb for Kalam.

Ironically, the BJP’s office is on a road named after a king who converted millions of Hindus and Jains to Buddhism. If Aurangzeb must be exorcised, what about Ashoka? Did he not indulge in largescale killings of Hindu Ajivikas and Jain Nirgranthas, especially after converting to Buddhism?

Having failed to take corrective action against then Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for his controversial role in the post-Godhra riots in 2002, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was losing his sheen as the secular mascot of the BJP. Vajpayee’s troubleshooters advised him to nominate Kalam as the NDA’s presidential candidate. By accepting to become president, and thus whitewashing the taint of the ruling establishment, Kalam weakened the losing cause of pluralism in India. He failed the countless victims of communal violence in the country. A brilliant scientist and a fine human being, as the 11th president of India, Kalam willingly became a shield for a government desperately seeking cover after the shameful role played by its party in Gujarat.

It may not have electorally benefited the NDA in 2004, but in terms of a political strategy, appointing Kalam as president was perhaps the best perception-management option that the NDA’s street-smart managers had.

The renaming of Aurangzeb Road to A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Road is part of the same strategic messaging: you are a good Muslim if you further our agenda or shield our real face. The rest are bad Muslims, and for them, the messaging shall come from Pravin Togadia, Giriraj Singh and Sadhvi Pragya.

FULL ARTICLE :-

http://indianexpress.com/article/opinio ... -vs-kalam/

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In a very similar fashion, Bohra community is becoming such a shield for NaMo Govt to present itself as secular .. abde idiots are just following the farmaan of kothar .. while .. kothar and NaMo are taking millions for a ride .. scratching each other's backs. Na Mo will continue with his divisive ideaology to remain in power. hindutva is just an excuse or a term in thier hands .. while kothar will tighten the noose to squeeze more submission and monies out of these abde idiots.

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Is Teesta Setalvad India's most hounded activist?

She has been called a "threat to India's national security" and a prosecutor wants to send her to prison. Her house and office have been raided a number of times, her bank accounts have been frozen and she has been relentlessly vilified and threatened on social media.

Teesta Setalvad, the country's best-known social activist, has been accused of receiving funds illegally, violating foreign exchange rules, embezzling funds raised from victims of religious riots and coaching witnesses.

But investigators have failed to press charges in any of the seven cases they have been investigating against her since 2003. And the courts have stood by her: she has been given bail about five times after prosecutors sought to question her in custody, and in July, a Mumbai high court judge rubbished a prosecution allegation that she was a threat to national security.

"The reason the government thinks she should be locked up is, because this tenacious woman refuses to allow India, or the world, to forget what happened in Gujarat in 2002," says Kalpana Sharma, an independent journalist.

Record convictions

The 2002 riots in Gujarat left more than 1,000 people, mostly Muslims, dead and were among India's worst outbreaks of unrest in decades.

The same year Ms Setalvad and her husband Javed Anand formed a non-profit organisation to provide legal aid to victims of mass crimes like religious riots and terrorism. Working with human rights organisations, her group Citizen for Justice and Peace has secured 120 convictions in 68 cases involving nine major riot incidents - a record for convictions for any religious riot in India, according to a top lawyer.

Mr Modi swept to power in general elections last May, but this has not deterred Ms Setalvad from doggedly continuing her campaign to hold the prime minister criminally responsible for the riots.

'Significant' timing

Ms Setalvad believes that the timing of a flurry of raids could be significant. "It is to intimidate me," she says.

On Wednesday, the high court in Gujarat began hearing what could turn out to be a crucial case where Ms Setalvad is trying to overturn a 2013 lower court ruling that there was not enough evidence to prosecute Mr Modi in connection with a massacre at a Muslim housing complex in the state's main city of Ahmedabad. A former MP Ehsan Jafri and 68 others were killed by a mob. The MP's widow Zakia Jafri has appealed for a review of the ruling.

"This is the mother of all cases," says Ms Setalvad. Her ammunition, she says, is 23,000 pages of depositions and "documentary evidence" - police control room and phone call records, for example - in 64 box files. Her legal team - half a dozen lawyers who work pro bono in higher courts, and a dozen more who take a fee in the lower courts - expects to make their case and convince the judges.

On the other hand, a lot of Ms Setalvad's time is now actually spent in defending herself. This government believes in reviling its critics and paralysing them. Such allegations are despicable.

The activist says fighting the Gujarat riot cases - two trials are still going on, apart from the Zakia Jafri case - and defending herself has meant that she spends a lot of time these days meeting her lawyers and going to courts. Money is tight and she says the family - her two children are in college - is living off their pension savings.

"But the fight has to go on. There is a culture of impunity around mass violence in India. Institutions are compromised, activists are attacked. There's also wilful amnesia about past crimes. Our work has paid dividends, but we have to keep fighting," she says.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-34105194

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Jim Rogers exits India, says one can’t invest just on hope

Rogers said he has sold all his India shares as he saw nothing new coming from Prime Minister Narendra Modi

http://www.livemint.com/Money/Hii5Nshpl ... -hope.html

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Jim Rogers exits India, says one can’t invest just on hope

Rogers said he has sold all his India shares as he saw nothing new coming from Prime Minister Narendra Modi

http://www.livemint.com/Money/Hii5Nshpl ... -hope.html

No ‘achhe din’ for small businesses in India

Indian companies are in the doldrums, but it is the smaller businesses that are suffering the most

Indian companies are in the doldrums, but it is the smaller businesses that are suffering the most. For most firms, operating profits during the first quarter of the current fiscal year have not only shrunk, but have contracted at a more rapid pace than a year ago. So much for “achhe din”.

The irony is that the firms are in such bad shape at a time when the economy is supposed to be growing 7%.

In the June 2015 quarter, it’s the grouping of smallest firms which has seen the sharpest decline in sales—of 33.7%.

If this is the state of affairs among listed firms, then it is very likely that things would be worse for millions of unlisted firms most of whom would fall in the smallest sales category. Not only is the pain of the downturn persisting, it has gotten worse than last year for many firms. And, of course, it hits the smallest firms the most.

http://www.livemint.com/Money/1xIKB3qXQ ... esses.html

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I like putin and his political views, this is todays speech very clear and straight to point. worth sharing.

https://soundcloud.com/rttv/putin-eu-refugee-crisis

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Condition of Indian army in modi regime.

Photographer
Adnan Abidi
Location
NEW DELHI, INDIA
Reuters / Friday, August 28, 2015
An Indian Army soldier faints during a ceremony to commemorate 50th anniversary of a war between India and Pakistan, at the India Gate war memorial, in New Delhi, India, August 28, 2015. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi

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Delhi’s Aurangzeb Road to be renamed as Abdul Kalam Road, report says

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city ... 711593.cms

SO WAS AURANGZEB REALLY A BIGOT AND TORMENTOR OF HINDUS? A FAIR ASSESSMENT BY HINDU SCHOLARS

EMPEROR AURANGZEB: TRUTHS ABOUT A RULER

Now that the BJP government has decided to rename the Aurangzeb Road in New Delhi after former President APJ Abdul Kalam, the debate about the powerful and controversial Mughal emperor Aurangzeb has been revived all over again. But far from being a bigot, Aurangzeb was a scholarly, liberal and magnanimous ruler who governed for more than 50 years over a vast and powerful empire covering the entire subcontinent, argues BRIJENDRA SINGH with historical reference to back him up

The late scholar and historian, Dr. Bishambhar Nath Pande’s research efforts exploded myths on Aurangzeb’s rule. They also offer an excellent example of what history has to teach us if only we study it dispassionately. Mr. Pande was ranked among the very few Indians and very fewer still Hindu historians who tried to be a little careful when dealing with such history. He knew that this history was ‘originally compiled by European writers’ whose main objective was to produce a history that would serve their policy of divide and rule.

FULL ARTICLE :-

http://caravandaily.com/portal/so-was-a ... -hindus-2/

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RSS TAKEOVER IN JUST 15 MONTHS, BHAGWAT IN COMMAND: “THE FUTURE IS OURS”

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, faced with three major agitations of farmers, ex-servicemen and now with the workers, has prostrated the government of India before the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh in just 15 months of coming to power.

As a gesture the RSS backed trade union Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh pulled out of the trade union agitation on the eve of the three day conclave attended by the PM on the last day, senior ministers in close confabulation with the mentor organisation, and Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah.

There has been some friction between PM Modi and the RSS that has been resolved now by the latter flexing its muscles, and ensuring its say over governance at the meeting. PM Modi endorsed this, along with all senior Ministers of his government. As did the BJP in what is perhaps the first instance in the history of India where the RSS has openly discarded the fig leaf of being just a social organisation, and assumed political charge of internal and foreign policy.

Ministers of Finance, Home, External Affairs, Defence amongst others attended the meeting where issues of governance were raised, analysed and criticised with RSS leaders suggesting a course correction on matters of policy and implementation.

There was tension between the RSS and PM Modi soon after he came to power, arising from the highly personalised nature of his rise. There were sufficient leaks from Nagpur at the time to sections of the media to suggest that all were in the RSS were not happy with this phenomenon and efforts were on to curb this trend. As a result when he insisted on the appointment of his Man Friday Amit Shah as the BJP President there was some resistance from the RSS that was wary of this consolidation. However, the Prime Minister had his way as he was a riding a popularity wave that the RSS did not want to buck. Shah along the way, mended fences with the RSS as he was more comfortable working with the cadres than with the official BJP in most of the state.

The RSS agenda of polarising communities, appointing key persons in cultural and educational institutions has gathered steam and will be further accelerated according to reports. The RSS will be giving in inputs for the New Education Policy being finalised by the HRD Ministry. It will also respond to PM Modi’s direct appeal to help fight corruption at all levels.

The effort was to end friction, and to do so by accepting RSS mentoring and advice.

Finally RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat spoke claiming the future. “Bhawashiya hamara hai. We will win if we are united, we will lose if we fight each other,” he said.

FULL ARTICLE :-

http://www.thecitizen.in/NewsDetail.asp ... S%E2%80%9D

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US Professors Protest Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Silicon Valley Visit

More than 100 academics from major US universities have issued a scathing critique of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi ahead of his visit to Silicon Valley and warned US technology executives against supporting his Digital India initiative.

A letter sent last week to leaders of Silicon Valley tech companies said Modi's initiative — which seeks to expand Internet access and develop online tools to improve government performance — lacks adequate privacy protections and could impinge on Indians' rights.

But the letter goes further by accusing Modi's conservative government of authoritarian practices, including harassing critics, clamping down on advocacy groups, meddling with academic institutions and denying foreign scholars entry into India for conferences.

"We urge those who lead Silicon Valley technology enterprises to be mindful of not violating their own codes of corporate responsibility when conducting business with a government which has, on several occasions already, demonstrated its disregard for human rights and civil liberties, as well as the autonomy of educational and cultural institutions," the letter said.

The letter also raises an uncomfortable episode from Modi's political past: the religious riots that occurred in the western state of Gujarat in 2002, when he was the state's chief executive. Modi was denied a US visa for a decade following the violence that killed hundreds, mainly Muslims, while state security forces were slow to intervene.

The letter was signed by scores of professors, mainly liberal arts scholars and South Asia specialists at universities, including Harvard, Stanford and USC. Among them is Wendy Doniger, a University of Chicago divinity professor whose recent book on Hinduism was taken off the shelves in India because religious conservatives objected to her account of the country's dominant faith.

It is not the first time US academics have expressed concerns over Modi's record. In 2013, Indian American faculty members at the University of Pennsylvania led an effort to cancel a speech Modi was scheduled to give by video at a conference hosted by the prestigious Wharton business school.

Two English professors who helped spearhead that drive, Ania Loomba and Suvir Kaul, also signed the letter sent last week.

Modi is expected to address the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 24 in New York before traveling to the Bay Area for a visit aimed at attracting investment in technology and electronics manufacturing in India.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/3261 ... lley-visit

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RSS-BJP meet ends: Discussion on Ram Mandir, Indianisation of education, rural inclusive economic model, terrorism


http://www.india.com/news/india/rss-bjp ... sm-533956/

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As Aurangzeb is Erased, Here are Some Tales From the Flip Side of History

Even as the medieval period of Indian history is remembered by some only for the demolition of Hindu temples and the conversion of Hindus to Islam, we hardly stop to notice some instances to the contrary – when mosques were demolished and replaced by temples and when Muslims were converted to Hinduism, either by way of the medieval version of ghar wapsi or directly. Surely that’s something the sangh parivar can feel happy about.

Sher Shah, the Afghan ruler who had snatched the Mughal empire from the hands of Humayun in 1540, vowed to punish the Hindu zamindars who, according to him, had, “after destroying the mosques and places of worship of the Mussalmans converted them into places of idol-worship”. Earlier on, in the port city of Cambay in Gujarat, the Parsis ‘instigated the Hindus to attack the Mussalmans, and the minaret atop (a mosque) was destroyed, the mosque burnt and eighty Mussalmans killed’. To the credit of the Hindu ruler, who checked the facts and found them to be true, he had the mosque restored to its old state.

In Akbar’s time, the theologian Shaikh Ahmad Sirhindi complained that “the Hindus are demolishing mosques and are building their own places of worship in their stead”. Shah Jahan is also on record having seized seven mosques “from their unlawful proprietors” who had “violently seized and appropriated them for their own use in Punjab”. Aurangzeb too refers to one of his two Rajput nobles with the highest mansab of 7000 given to any noble – Jaswant Singh of Jodhpur – who had in around 1658-59 “destroyed mosques and built idol-temples in their stead”. Yet, the two worked together for the next 20-odd years until the Rajput’s death in 1679.

Similarly, there is testimony for reverse conversions from Muslims to Hinduism, unthinkable in a theocratic Islamic state.

Mahmud bin Amir Ali Balkhi, a Central Asian traveler to India in Jahangir’s reign was horrified to see a group of 23 Muslims in Banaras who had deserted their religion and turned Hindu, having fallen in love with Hindu women. “For some time”, he records, “I held their company and questioned them about their mistaken way. They pointed towards the sky and put their fingers on their foreheads. By this I understood that they attributed it to Providence”, Balkhi concludes ruefully.

Zain al-Abidin, pre-Mughal ruler of Kashmir (1420-70) formally permitted Muslim converts to return to their Hindu faith if they so wished. As did Akbar later on, who also decreed that a Hindu converted against his will at any age “could return to the religion of his forefathers”. The eminent 15th-16th century saint-poet Chaitanya Mahaprabhu reconverted the Muslim governor of Odisha and converted a group of Pathans, who were not Hindus in the first instance, even as Hinduism is not a proselytising religion. They earned the sobriquet of ‘Pathan Vaishnavas’.

The Persian language text of the 17th century, Dabistan-i Mazahib, written by a Zoroastrian, Mobed, implies the considerable existence of reconversion at the higher levels and mentions, among others, two high nobles of Shah Jahan’s court – Mirza Salih and Mirza Haidar – who had converted from Hinduism and then returned to their original religion. Neither was punished.

At the mass level, Shah Jahan discovered that in the Bhimbhar region of Kashmir, it was common for Muslim boys to marry Hindu girls, with the boys then converting to Hinduism. He tried to stop it but found that his diktat had no effect. The Sikh Guru, Guru Hargobind, also reconverted a large number and the Dabistan mentions this with some hyperbole: “Not a Muslim was left between the hills of Kiratpur in Punjab and the frontiers of Tibet and Khotan’.

History is never simple, you see.

http://thewire.in/2015/09/04/as-aurangz ... tory-9943/

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A Government of the RSS, by the RSS, for the RSS

Fifteen years ago this month, a prime minister of India had travelled to the United States for the annual UN General Assembly mela. During that visit, he found time to attend a Vishwa Hindu Parishad event in Staten Island where he declared himself a swayamsevak — yes, as in the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. This was music to the ears of the Nagpur gharana. A prime minister who all along was pretending to have little to do with this Hindu outfit suddenly got into a confessional mood.

The Nagpur bosses wanted to reaffirm the first principle: No BJP leader would be allowed any deviation. They had had enough of Vajpayee and his liberal tantrums.

Last week, it was this very first principle that was re-asserted when the Sarsanghchalak summoned Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his ministers. Well, if you are a swayamsevak, you do respond to summons from the superior in the hierarchy. Period. That is the code of the saffron brotherhood. Admitted, Sushma Swaraj is not an RSS bhakt. Nor is Arun Jaitley. Unless, he has managed to keep this fact away from his “moderate and decent” friends in Delhi. But neither of them had any choice.

It was no secret that it was the RSS’s unequivocal endorsement of Modi that proved decisive in the BJP making him its prime ministerial mascot. Nor was the RSS’s involvement on behalf of Modi in the 2014 electoral process a secret affair. It was open and fairly well documented.

Its two other chief ministers, in Haryana and Maharashtra — both proud products of the Sangh brain-washing factory system — have turned out to be poor advertisements for good governance or for the RSS brand. Apart from exhibiting a new willingness to provoke – Manohar Lal Khattar’s absurd infatuation with Baba Ramdev and Devendra Fadnavis’s petty preoccupations with bans — these two have hardly enhanced the reputation of the RSS.

The culture minister in the Modi government, Mahesh Sharma, a black-belt saffronite, has argued that by voting for Modi and the BJP, the voters have given a mandate for “saffronisation” of education, culture and other institutions. With just 31% of the votes, the Modi sarkar would like to believe that it has been given a licence to operationalise the RSS agenda.

FULL ARTICLE :-

http://thewire.in/2015/09/11/a-governme ... rss-10523/

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2002 Gujarat riots: Former judge says there's audio tape with evidence against Modi

A retired judge who investigated the Gujarat riots says there's evidence that must be considered against Narendra Modi. Justice H Suresh was a part of a people's fact-finding committee that travelled to Gujarat in may 2002, just months after communal violence devastated the state. 1200 people were killed, most of them Muslims.

Justice Suresh says that during his trip to Gujarat, he met Haren Pandya, who was then a minister in Mr Modi's government. Mr Pandya allegedly said that the chief minister had called a meeting in February, hours after a train was set on fire at the Godhra station. Nearly 60 karseveaks who were on their way back from Ayodhya died. Mr Pandya allegedly told the judge that at his meeting, Mr Modi instructed senior police officers to let Hindus exact their revenge.

Justice Suresh says that Mr Pandya' conversation with him and retired Supreme Court judge PB Sawant was recorded on an audio tape. But Mr Pandya pleaded with both judges to not attribute this information to him.

"He said he will come and meet us provided its kept confidential and his name should not be disclosed ...we agreed on that...only some of us Justice Sawant, myself and one or two others were there ..and then we heard him, recorded his statement but we kept it very confidential," Justice Suresh told NDTV.

Mr Pandya was shot dead in 2003 while on his morning walk. He had fallen out with Mr Modi by then and was no longer a minister.

Justice Suresh says that he shared what Mr Pandya told him in 2009 with a Special Investigating Team (SIT) that was appointed by the Supreme Court to study allegations of Mr Modi's complicity in the riots. Last week, the SIT submitted its findings to a court in Gujarat. It has reportedly concluded that there is no prosecutable evidence against the Chief Minister.

The alleged testimony of Mr Pandya to the fact-finding committee matches what suspended police officer Sanjiv Bhatt has told the Supreme Court. Mr Bhatt claims that he attended the meeting where Mr Modi asked policemen to let rioters strike at will. Mr Bhatt was suspended last year for not reporting to duty and using an official car during his absence from work. He claims he is being punished for taking on Mr Modi. The SIT has reportedly said that Mr Bhatt's version of events is not reliable, because other policemen who were at the meeting say he was not present.

http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/2002-guj ... odi-572774

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Congress MLA questions silence of Sareshwala and Bawa over demolition of Dahod Muslim graveyard

The Congress leader said that the Dahod administration demolished the graveyard's boundary by using force to extend benefit to a BJP leader.

Congress MLA Gayasuddin Sheikh has questioned the silence of businessman Zafar Sareshwala and state BJP Minority Morcha President Mahboob Ali Bawa over the demolition of the Chhab graveyard in Dahod town.

In a press release on Saturday, Sheikh said that both- Sareshwala and Bawa- were involved in promoting PM Narendra Modi’s slogan of “Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas” among Muslims but both showed their back when it came to the issues pertaining to the Muslims

The Congress leader said that the Dahod administration demolished the graveyard’s boundary by using force to extend benefit to a BJP leader who is having 60 acres of land behind the graveyard and wanted a route through graveyard.

He said that even state wakf board chairman Abdullah Ibrahim Saiyed had maintained silence over the demolition, though the graveyard was registered with the wakf board.

Sheikh said that Muslim BJP leaders had no guts to speak against the administration if the issued pertained to the Muslims. “Why are Muslim BJP leaders are keeping silent on Dahod issue?”, asked Sheikh.

- See more at: http://indianexpress.com/article/india/ ... Syo3Z.dpuf

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BJP's HINDUTVAWADI MINISTERS ARE GIVEN A FREE HAND TO UNLEASH TERROR ON HONEST POLICE OFFICERS WHO ACT AGAINST VHP/RSS !!

Targeted by Vasundhara Raje govt for acting against VHP, Bajrang Dal rioters: IPS officer

Former Bundi SP Pankaj Chaudhary said that he was removed from the post for resisting pressure from the administration, including senior IAS and IPS officers, to let the rioters go and “register false cases” against Muslims instead.

An IPS officer has accused the Vasundhara Raje-led BJP government in Rajasthan of targeting him after he refused to let rioters from the VHP and Bajrang Dal go free last year despite “pressure from all levels of government”.

“Riots don’t just happen. They are made to happen, and if the police is allowed to act freely, nothing can go wrong. But there are traitors within the government who could even sell the country for their selfish gains,” Chaudhary told The Indian Express.

A mosque was reportedly damaged and several vehicles set ablaze in Nainwa and Khanpur last September after rumours spread of the desecration of an idol inside a temple.

Chaudhary said that on investigation, including questioning of the temple priest, the police found the riots to have been “completely manufactured”.

“Everything was planned, targets were fixed as to who would damage the bus, who would cause arson, etc. Soon, I started facing pressure from all levels of government, including senior police and administrative officials, to let the rioters go. I was under tremendous pressure to let the rioters go free and instead, register false cases against Muslims for inciting violence. But I resisted all pressure and refused. That is when the government removed me on September 21,” he said.

“As the district SP, I led a team of policemen who rounded up 11 persons…some from the VHP, others from Bajrang Dal. All of them had criminal records. Five persons from the other side (Muslims) were also detained and questioned. If we had not acted, the situation would have escalated into a violent communal riot with serious repercussions,” Chaudhary said.

“That night, we rounded up six persons and the next morning, imposed a curfew. The Muslim community was very angry after the desecration of the mosque but they did not retaliate because they had faith in what the police had done,”

“The morale of the force had plummeted. The team I had led would call me and say that the rioters had become emboldened and were challenging the police to act against them now that they had succeeded in getting the SP removed,” the IPS officer said.

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US Academics Respond to Harassment by Hindutva Groups

Over the Labor Day weekend, most signatories of the “Faculty Statement on Narendra Modi’s Visit to Silicon Valley” received threats from individuals in South Africa and Canada and email harassment from the Hindu Vivek Kendra, a Hindu nationalist organization affiliated with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) of which Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a member. Several letter signatories have also been targeted by a board member of the Hindu American Foundation, another Hindu nationalist organization.

We find it no accident that attacks on us come from members of U.S. Hindu nationalist organizations, since they play a significant role in organizing Mr.Modi’s visit to Silicon Valley. One of the key conveners of the “Indian American Community of the West Coast” which is coordinating Mr. Modi’s visit has a longtime association with this RSS.

Instead of debating legitimate questions about the Modi administration’s record on issues that impact the “Digital India” initiative, we are being asked by Hindu nationalists and their supporters to explain why we, a mixed group of scholars from the U.S. and South Asia raised in Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Sikh, Buddhist, Jewish and non-religious secular traditions, are not racists, western imperialist, or anti-Hindu. Such attacks bypass the strong scholarly record of many signatories who are vocal critics of racism, western imperialism, and orientalist depictions of Indian and South Asian cultures, as well as the creed of large numbers of Hindus for whom religious tolerance is an essential expression of their Hindu faith.

We emphatically state that we are not anti-Hindu, or against Hinduism. We are however, extremely concerned by the growth of Hindu nationalism which has resulted in well-documented discrimination and attacks against Indian minority communities; Hinduism and Hindu nationalism are not the same thing. The vast scholarly literature on this movement – from social scientists and others – has elaborated on this distinction over the past thirty years, and we urge our larger public to consult some of the academic works cited below. We will provide a more extensive bibliography soon.

http://caravandaily.com/portal/us-acade ... va-groups/

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[Al-Noor]

Holy cow

[SBM]

Correction-- For Indians (only Hindus) it is the urine of Cow