Post by SatishPost by Call CentreThe BJP is the only real alternative to the congress party. While
there may be corruption problems in the BJP they are nothing compared
to the super corruption of the congress party. Also, BJP made Yeddy
resign on just allegations against him. No court has convicted him. In
the congress party however, no one ever resigns like in Sheila Dixit's
case where the Delhi Lokayukta has indicted her and she remains
shamelessly in power. Obviously the sold out press and media of India
who are stooges of the congress party do not say anything here unlike
the Yeddy case where they simply didn't stop ranting and raving till
the BJP made him resign. Chiddy also should resign but the shameless
congress party will back him to the hilt just like they were backing
his co partner in crime Raja. The Goa mining scam is as big as the
Karnataka mining scam but since the congress party is in power nothing
is being mentioned in our super corrupt press and media who are
nothing but stooges of the congress party. If the BJP govt comes to
power you can bet that this same press and media will start to attack
the BJP govt even in Goa. The bottom line my friend is that major
corruption of the congress party gets covered up while minor
corruption of the BJP gets highlighted. In such a situation the Indian
public gets fooled into believing (just like you are doing) that both
parties are equally bad. In fact even though the BJP is better than
the congress the public believes they may be worse. End result the
super corruption of the congress party continues. The press and media
are in cahoots with the congress party to ensure that no one else can
challenge the congress party. In such a hedgemonic situation it is not
just other opposition parties which get hurt but the very nature of
our democracy. In fact if the congress party is not removed and
removed soon democracy itself will be finished in India.
25-1-2012
India=92s political blasphemy
By DAN MORRISON
VARANASI, India =97 The current storm of censorship and intimidation
over Salman Rushdie at the Jaipur Literature Festival is nothing more
than a dodge by India=92s politicians and Muslim leaders to cover their
failure to improve the dreadful conditions in which many Indian
Muslims live.
The flap is an election season farce =97 a coproduction of India=92s
governing party, a controversy-hungry media, and a handful of mullahs
who have let their communities stagnate while the country has advanced
economically.
The circus started after Rushdie canceled a planned appearance at the
festival last weekend in the face of reported threats to his life. The
state police had said they would not protect him.
Then on Tuesday, organizers of the festival, the biggest in Asia, were
forced to drop a video-linked interview with the Indian-born author
after a crowd of protesters massed outside the venue.
The purported source of this anti-Rushdie outrage is the writer=92s 1988
novel =93The Satanic Verses.=94 Rushdie spent years living underground
after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran called it blasphemous and
ordered the author killed. A translator of the book was later
murdered, and 37 people were massacred in 1993 in Turkey by a mob
targeting another translator.
The Indian government, wary of offending the country=92s large Muslim
community, was comparatively moderate in its reaction to the
publication of =93The Satanic Verses=94: It banned the book. It remains
banned to this day.
I=92ve never read =93The Satanic Verses,=94 something I share with most of
the 1.2 billion Indians on earth. This includes, I would bet, Abul
Qasim Nomani, vice chancellor of the Darul Uloom Deoband, India=92s
premier Islamic seminary, who was among those who cried for Rushdie to
be denied entry to India for the festival, and Salim Engineer, a
member of the Jamaat-e-Islami organization in Jaipur.
=93We are all for freedom of expression but it has to come with
responsibility,=94 Engineer told The New York Times on Tuesday, in the
familiar refrain of censors everywhere. =93We have a problem with the
video conference because we are sure he would say something
provocative =85 What if he reads something from =91The Satanic Verses=92?=
=94
I=92m curious whether Nomani or Engineer has ever called for a protest
against the terrible state in which many Indian Muslims live.
In 2005, the government commissioned a panel to examine the social and
economic status of India=92s Muslims. Its findings were shocking.
According to the Sachar Committee=92s 2006 report, in Rajasthan state,
of which Jaipur is the capital, 41 percent of urban Muslims live below
the poverty line, compared with 27 percent of Hindus. In the state of
Uttar Pradesh, where Darul Uloom is located, 44 percent of urban
Muslims live in poverty, compared with 24 percent of Hindus.
Also from the report: 25 percent of Muslim children aged 6 to 14 had
never attended school or had dropped out. Muslim-majority villages are
less likely to be served by government schools, paved roads and bus
stops. Muslims hold a tiny proportion of civil service jobs that are
an important route to the middle class here.
More recently, a November 2011 report by Gallup found that 32 percent
of India=92s Muslims consider themselves to be =93suffering,=94 compared
with 23 percent of Hindus, who make up India=92s majority.
Last month Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said major steps had been
taken to boost recruitment of Muslims into government jobs. Since the
Sachar report was issued, he said, more than 4 million scholarships
had been awarded to Muslim students.
The leaders of Singh=92s Congress Party apparently feel these steps
won=92t be enough to attract Muslim voters during state elections next
month. In Uttar Pradesh, India=92s biggest state, Congress needs to peel
Muslim voters away from other parties if it is to play kingmaker in
the state assembly.
By declining to protect Rushdie, and bowing to a small, television-
amplified mob, Congress hopes to again become relevant in a state
where its influence has been weak for decades.
In a television interview, Rushdie on Tuesday lamented =93an India in
which religious extremists can prevent free expression of ideas at a
literary festival, in which the politicians are too, let=92s say, in bed
with those groups.=94
=93This is a distraction,=94 Muniza Rafiq Khan, a senior fellow at the
Gandhian Institute in Varanasi, told me. =93As a matter of fact, the
[Muslim] community has no leaders. Nobody is serious about their
problems. They only care about the vote.=94
Dan Morrison is a journalist and the author of =93The Black Nile.=94
http://latitude.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/25/rushdie-controversy-at-lit-festival/
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