चीनी चले गये

किसी के सवाल: 

अंततः भारतीय विदेश निति और दबाब काम आयी, चाइना ने अपने तम्बू उखाड़ लिए और उसे पतली गली से निकलना ही पड़ा …..इसे कहते हे कूटनीति ………और एक सरकार पहले थी तब 125 किलोमीटर हिंदुस्तान की सीमा में घुस गये थे पाकिस्तानी ……कारगिल जेसा युद्ध दिया हजारो सेनिको को मरवा दिया ………..फिर उसी पाकिस्तान के मुशरफ को हिंदुस्तान बुलवाया और उसका सम्मान किया ! क्या हर बात का जबाब युद्ध है ?

मेरे जवाब: 

जब कारगिल में कायर पाकिस्तानी घुसे थे तो हमारे योद्धाओं ने उनके खून की होली खेली थी . फौजियों के लिए मौत “वीरगति” कहलाती है; मातम मनाने की बात नहीं होती. चीनी सैनिक अपनी मर्जी से घुसे, भारत सरकार को उसकी औकात बताई, और जब मन भर गया तो चले गये. (तथ्य है कि भारत ने जितनी “फ्लैग मीटिंग्स” बुलाई उसमे कोई समाधान नहीं निकला. जाने से पहले चीनियों ने “फ्लैग मीटिंग” बुलाई, और वो चले गये।) हमारी सरकार अपने मंत्रियों को भ्रस्टाचार के आरोपों से बचाने में अपनी सारी शक्ति व्यर्थ करती है. सेना के सच्चे सपूत जनरल वी के सिंह जी को जिस तरह उन्होंने ज़लील किया वो हम सब जानते हैं। ये अहिंसा के पुजारी नहीं (वरना सारे भारत-पाक युद्ध इन्होने नहीं लडे होते), बल्कि इनकी हिम्मत नहीं कि नेहरु जी के “हिमालयन ब्लंडर” के बाद चीन से नजरें भी मिला सकें। 

इन्हें कूटनीति आती तो आज सरबजीत सिंह जिन्दा होता; पाकी सेना हमारे वीरों का सर काट कर अमन से न रह रही होती, और बांग्लादेश और श्रीलंका जैसे देश जब मन में आए हमें ठेंगा नहीं दिखा रहे होते. 

Congratulations Karnataka for Assembly Election Results

Congratulations Karnataka for doing a very honest Performance Appraisal of the outgoing BJP Govt. I know your choices were limited and I am very happy that you have elected Cong. rather than any regional party (almost all regional parties are anti-national and corrupt). Though the fact remains that on the date of polling, BJP was the only party which was not corrupt (no corruption charges in the months after Yeddyurappa and his team exited), but trust deficit could be understood. Since you threw out a govt which was plagued by corruption charges (apart from Governor HR Bhardwaj’s tactics), the new govt sure is to understand what you want – development and corruption free governance. Keep it up! 

For the BJP, it often said that we have to lose battles in order to win the war! The party purposefully sacrificed the state in order to remain taint-free. Let us now see if during General Elections, the party is able to make this point to all, and it is highly likely that during General Elections you will keep this practice of throwing out corrupt govts!

How BJP Can Win Over its Enemy Nitish Kumar

So the run-up to upcoming general elections has started with some unpredictable scene. While the whole country was expecting this to be BJP Vs Congress Party war, a new face has made this fight multi-dimensional. Officially JDU and Nitish Kumar say that they have nothing in common with and will never ally with Congress Party. But the manner in which Nitish Kumar is attacking Narendra Modi with intensity increasing with proximity to the general elections, his actions are proving different than his words.
 

The best strategy for Congress Party is to make NDA allies fight each other because it can’t win next elections on the basis of its performance. It can only win if there is no one to challenge it. The biggest alleys of Congress are some of the most corrupt political parties and dynasties, be it Mayawati, Mulayam, DMK or NCP. In fact now UPA led by Congress Party is considered synonym with political corruption in India. Therefore it was important for the sake of the nation that all opposition parties with integrity should unite and give a tough fight to the Congress party. Alas, this is far from what is happening!
 

Nitish Kumar has been acting as an agent of Congress Party. His histrionics against Narendra Modi looks so ugly that it is but natural that his own personal integrity would be starting to be questioned. What does Bihar’s CM got to do with the CM of a faraway state which does not even share boundaries with it? People have failed to understand this and it will not be late when they will realize the truth behind Nitish’s veiled attack on Modi.
 

Nitish Kumar plays minority vote bank politics. His goal is to steal Muslim voters from going towards any other party especially Laloo’s RJD. Biased favors, policies and schemes made with communal vote bank politics in mind, state sponsored racial and communal discrimination – these are the less known sides of his so falled “Bihar’s growth story”. This is the dark side of his government and such communal politics is forcing him to attack Narendra Modi with the assumption that Muslims will love it.
 

JDU has 115 seats in Bihar assembly while BJP has 91. In the last elections, JDU added 27 seats while BJP won 36 new seats. In fact the speed at which BJP is gaining ground in Bihar, is also one of the worries of shrewd politician like Nitish Kumar.
 

So what should the BJP do to pacify Nitish’s attack? It should ask for what is its right. All across India when two equal parties make a coalition, there is also a fair sharing of power. Why should Nitish Kumar alone enjoy the CM’s Chair? Why should not there also be a CM from the BJP? I am sure if BJP demanded its right to have its own CM for rest of the term, Nitish Kumar will be forced to come down to fair terms.
 

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Indian Democracy is Faulty on Caste and Religious Lines

I think our democracy is faulty because it has been exploited on religious and caste lines. It does not matter by which party, because if a fault line exists someone or the other will exploit it.
 

Ideally we should have declared a state religion after a separate nation was created for followers of Mhd. Since we chose a difficult path, religious minorities became vote banks and Hindus had to live with minority appeasements and also we keep seeing communal riots.
 

Next, caste politics decides who is going to win in most of the seats. The caste based politics stemmed from politics of payoffs by quota and other benefits. All our reservations, subsidy, and scholarships should have been for poor people below poverty lines irrespective of castes. But we made open casteism our state politics and hence worst kind of people came over to rule us, exploiting us by divide and rule policy!
 

I think there is no pride in the fact that our democracy is being exploited by petty people by dividing us on caste and religious lines. I know almost every wrong thing can be attributed to the dynasty ruling us, but I believe if they did not do it then someone else would have done it. We should stop state sponsored casteism and religious discrimination. Then only politics of growth will remain and India will see real growth…

Railway’s Kumbh Mela Surcharge is like Jazia Tax

Ever since Kumbh Mela has started this year 2013 at ancient city Prayag, TV News channels and print media have been bringing out many reports on the arrangements done by the government to facilitate the pilgrims. Everything was going alright and peacefully and the whole nation was getting tremendous positive energy by the good atmosphere created by the Kumbh. But then, as if in an anti-climax, an accident happened at Allahabad railway station which distressed all of us. But reading even little about the accident brings out many hidden truths:
 

Indian Railways had imposed Rs 5-20 tax called Mela Surcharge on everyone using its facility to reach to the Kumbh Mela. The surcharges are as follows:
 

Sleeper: Rs 5

AC Chair Car: Rs 10

3AC: Rs 10

2AC: Rs 15

1AC: Rs 20

The Target for Railways was: Rs 1000 Crores of Profit during the Kumbh Mela!
 

It was a shocking revelation that Indian Railways imposed a tax on Hindu pilgrims for completing their pilgrimage!!! Though there is some business logic in it – how could the Railways provide additional and exceptional services to the huge number of people traveling if it did not charge more? Total 10 Crore people were expected to visit the Kumbh and the number of foreign visitors is expected to be 10 Lakh! But the manner, in which the accident was handled, exposes the Railways to the core:
 

The Times of India reports that Railways had released only 50 medical boxes for the lakhs of passengers expected to come to the Allahabad Railway station on the Mauni Amavasya day. And when the accident happened, these boxes were nowhere to be found! And how did the accident happen in the first place?
 

The railway station was totally packed with lakhs of outstation pilgrims (who were forced by the authorities to leave the riverside immediately after taking the holy dip and hence had come to the railway station to travel to their places). Trains were running as late as 20 hours and were all packed. A train was expected to come at Platform number 4 but suddenly Railways announced that the train was arriving on Platform number 6! People rushed to change the platforms using the bridge. Then GRP (Government Railway Police) then lathi-charged (caned) the pilgrims to control the crowd! This created a panic in commuters who ran and stampede happened… It is clear that this was a “man-made” disaster!
 

Why I say Railway’s Kumbh Mela Surcharge is like Jazia Tax because the Railways taxed pilgrims but failed to provide then facility! Minister  “In charge” Azam Khan has resigned from ministry but it is expected that after some weeks pass he will be inducted back into the Samajwadi Party government in UP. 36 people are dead and so many injured. It is immensely sad the way Railways and the Government have used Hindu Pilgrims as Cash Cows for monetary benefits…
 

References:

Times of India, “No justification for Railways’ Kumbh surcharge”, TNN | Feb 12, 2013, 04.55 AM

Jagran Post, “Railways increase Kumbh Mela surcharge from 1st January”, 07 Dec 2012, 08:47 PM

Times of India, “Crowd mismanagement, change of platform caused Kumbh stampede: Witnesses”,  Feb 12, 2013, 12.40 AM