THE CONTRACTOR BY RAYMOND DAVIS

                                                           REVIEW                                     26.10.17

 

 

Way back in 2011 everybody came to know about Raymond Davis when across the world news was flashed in almost all the newspapers about a American who shot dead two people in Lahore. The TV channels  of Pakistan were bursting with all kind of conspiracy theories. Pakistanis were simmering with anger that their nation was being targeted by the brute Americans because they were Muslims. The terrorist organisations in Pakistan were seeking death for all Americans. Raymond was arrested for murder and there was a strong public opinion that he be hanged. The Government of Pakistan was in a quandary. The Americans started to apply heat on them. The Americans threatened that they would block all funds running into billions incase their citizen was harmed in addition to punishing them militarily. Then after a few months news emerged that Raymond was released and flown back to the US. So what happened ? Everthing remained in wraps. After nearly 6 years the cover from the mystery was lifted when Raymond Davis wrote this book and related the inside story about what actually happened.

 

On 27.1.11 Raymond was driving his SUV in Lahore. He never disclosed where he was going.

As he reached the busy Mozang chowk he noticed two men riding on a motorcycle just in front of his SUV. Suddenly the person back riding turned and whipped out a gun and aimed at Raymond. He perhaps was not aware that the CIA man was a well trained shooter. In a flash Raymond pulled his Glock 17 and fired several shots. The bullets travelled through the wind shield leaving a hole and hit precisely the man aiming at him. He was killed instantly. The motorbike skidded. Another bullet hit the rider and he also collapsed. Raymond was later arrested in the market and then handed over to the ISI the dreaded intelligence wing of the Pakistan military. Later it was known that the assassins name were Haider and Faheem. They were from the LeT a known terrorist organisation whose Chief is Hafeez Sayeed. The same terrorist organization which targets India and is part of Pakistan security establishment. However Pakistan never accepted that these two assassins belonged to the LeT.

The entire episode exposed the sham judiciary system of Pakistan, the hand of ISI in every institution, Pakistan shameful dependency on a foreign country, the powerful hold of terrorist organisations on the Govt and public opinion.

The book draws attention to the following issues relating to Pakistan :

1. Mr Butt was the public prosecutor. Raymond states that the first time he was produced in the court the prosecutor told the judge that “Your honor, Mr. Davis shot two armed men who tried to shoot him.milliseconds away from doing just that."

The second time he told “Your honor, Mr. Davis shot two armed men, but they meant him no harm."

The third time he claimed that the two men David shot were ISI agent.

The fourth time Butt claimed that the two men on the motorcycle didn’t even have guns.  

So what kind of court proceedings is this? Why the Judges just keep quiet and does not question the prosecution in cases relating to terrorists? Their conduct clearly shows that as Judges they are least bothered to discharge their duties honestly to dispense justice. The few who perform their duties have to run away from Pakistan. Remember the case of Mumtaz Qadri. The judge Pervez Ali Shah who pronounced the death sentence fled the country. The judiciary system of Pakistan is a junk show. Judges are threatened and they encourage delaying tactics. Even dreaded terrorists like Lakhvi, Hafeez Sayeed, Masood Azhar could not be convicted and are roaming free. No nation or citizen is safe where such a tattered form of judiciary exist.

2. Pakistan heavy dependency on the US for funds have made it a slave state. Sort of servant status who is ready to do anything provided he is compensated. The total aid to Pakistan has crossed $80 billion. A staggering amount. The worrying part is that most of this has never been utilised for the purpose for which it was given. A major part of the billions were siphoned off. Some went into the pockets of the Generals and some to raise and support the terrorist organisations. The US never seriously demanded a explanation for these fraudulent acts. Now Pakistan has become so dependent upon these generous dole outs that it can even sell its self respect.

3. Jinnah is the Father of the Nation of this Islamic state. However Jinnah's was just opposite to what a true Muslim should be. Jinnah wore hand-tailored suits and silk ties. He drove imported cars. He never wore a beard. He drank whiskey. He ate pork. He mainly spoke English. He married a non-Muslim. Apart from this Jinnah ideology was communal. He divided India on the basis of religion in which one million were killed and 20 million were displaced. Such a person has no right to be respected  and there you make him Father of the Nation !

4.The Islamization of Pakistan further took it into the dark ages. The book describes

"During his eleven-year reign, Zia succeeded in changing life in Pakistan from the ground up. He used government funds to build thousands of madrassas, religious schools that teach an austere form of Islam and often promote jihad. Books that were considered un-Islamic were heavily edited or removed from libraries. Western culture was vilified. The national television network PTV replaced music videos with patriotic songs. Theaters that showed Western films were shut down. Women were ordered to cover their heads while in public, restricted from attending school or playing sports, and saw their value in the eyes of the law literally reduced to a fraction of a man’s. And every Muslim adult was required to pay zakat, giving a small percentage of his wealth to his community’s poor each year" A sort of Talibisation.

It is these thousands of Madrassas which are factories producing extremists on a daily basis endangering the lives of people not only in Pakistan but all over the world. Baitullah Mehsud the creator of TTP also came out from one of these radical Madrassas.

5.The entire legal system was changed by Zia.

" Zia created the Federal Shariat Court and the Shariat Appellate Bench of the Supreme Court and empowered them to decide cases based on the teachings of the Koran. Overseen exclusively by Muslim judges, these courts could review any existing law for its conformity with the injunctions of Islam and invalidate those that didn’t pass muster."

Murder laws were finally modified and the Qisas and Diyat Ordinance, which required murders to be tried under Sharia law, was adopted."

So today as matter stands the legal system of Pakistan instead of being in line with modern times has been shifted to medieval times. In such a situation a alleged victim can never expect a fair trial when the entire system is heavily wrapped in a religious fervour. Adding to this is the blasphemy law which can be applied any time to victimize Non Muslims.

6. The hand of the all powerful ISI even controls the Judges. Specially in terrorist related cases the Judge trying the case has to pronounce judgments as per the instruction of the ISI. Davis describes his final hearing in the court as under

"One of the few people allowed to stay behind was General Pasha, who’d been continually texting Ambassador Munter, updating him about the court proceedings. I imagine that at least one of his texts described the entrance of a man in a suit, whom I recognized but whose name I couldn’t recall. As soon as this man entered the courtroom, the room went silent. No one spoke a word. If a cell phone rang, the person to whom it belonged got up and walked outside to answer it. The only thing you could hear was the ceiling fan. The response this man’s presence got was strange but also oddly familiar.

Carmela and my team of attorneys were sitting directly in front of the cage, and I leaned forward, got Paul’s attention, and pointed to the man in the suit. “Who is that guy?”

“Him? He’s an ISI colonel. Why?”

I nodded. “Yeah, I thought so. He questioned me at the police station in Cantonment the day of the incident. I figured he was ISI. Why’s he here?”

“He’s a fixer.”

What else is required to prove that Pakistani Courts are Kangaroo courts. The ISI man talks to the Judge then changes the Court to Sharia court. Under the Sharia law a murderer can be tried under Diyat and so Raymond was tried under it .

6. In all civilized society a murderer is tried for murder and given punishment. In Pakistan a murderer  can get away by paying money to relatives of the murdered man. Isn't it strange? This is called blood money and is allowed under Diyat of Sharia laws. Life is so cheap in Pakistan. Almost all honor killings and terrorists escape punishment through this Diyat route.

Under pressure from the US the Pakistan Government took this face saving route to free Raymond and instructed ISI to implement it. However this requires consent of all the relatives and the ISI ensured this on gun point. Each relative was paid $130,000 each for a total of $2,340,000, the largest amount of blood money ever awarded in Pakistan.

The origin of this hefty amount paid were never disclosed.

“The United States did not pay any compensation,” Clinton reiterated.

Technically, what she said was true. According to the New York Times, ISI paid the money, and the US government later reimbursed the Pakistani government.

This book exposes the jungle raj which is prevails in Pakistan.

Do read it to get a idea of how Pakistan is a sinking country and how the terrorists rule there with impunity.

ASHOK KUMAR

 

 

THE LAST DAYS OF HITLER

 THE LAST DAYS OF HITLER BY TREVOR ROPER      13.09.17

 

There are tons of books on Hitler. Mostly they are centered around his military conquest of Europe. Between 1939 and June 1941 the German army invaded and occupied many countries, including the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Denmark, Yugoslavia, Greece, Norway and Western Poland. However there are few books which describes the last days of Hitler and fewer which are authentically based on credible research. This particular book belongs to the latter category. The author of this book Trevor was a intelligence officer in the British intelligence service and actively served in  the British occupied portion of Berlin in 1945. At that time it was widely rumoured that Hitler never died in his bunker but escaped with his mistress Eva Braun to some western country. The Russian Army which was first to enter his bunker claimed that they never found  his body and it was they who said that he had probably escaped. In order to put to rest all type of speculations regarding Hitlers death the British Army decided to officially appoint Trevor to investigate the matter and unravel the truth. Trevor went through thousands of war documents and interviewed hundreds of German military officers including those who were present in the bunker during the last days. This is what the book is all about.

History is a wayward maiden. Its interpretation vary according to the political beliefs of the person handling it. The actual events are either distorted or changed to arrive at a particular conclusion depending upon the political leaning of the person. However the results and affects of events cannot be hidden since it is there for everybody to see. For example the deaths and cruelty carried out by Nazi Germany easily proves that Hitler was a psychopath but some describe him as a nationalist. I have tried to give below some of the highlights of the book and their significance in understanding the issues which they represent .

1. As the Russian army closed on Berlin in the last days of August 1945 Hitler holed himself in a bunker 50 feet below the Chancellery. The man who roared liked a lion became a mad roaring lion. He was not able to digest his defeat and constantly rebuked and abused his Generals and close associates. He began blaming the Nazi Army which he said was a bunch of cowards and lacked the qualities of a true Aryan. The army has let him down. The fact was that there was never a structure in place which decided the course of war and strategies by discussions and consensus. A sort of Military High Command. It was Hitler and only Hitler which decided and issued orders. The rest were just minions. If anybody suggested anything contrary to Hitler decision he was rebuked by him.

There is a important lesson to be learnt here. We now more clearly understand what a dictator is and the extent of damage he is capable of inflicting on the nation. In a democracy at least we have the option to reject leaders with such tendencies during polls. Here in India we know the present PM liking for controlling everything. The various Ministries cannot take decision by themselves. They have to obtain clearance from PMO for every matter which means the PM is behaving as some sort of a dictator. No wonder he sleeps for 4 hours only as his propaganda team says. This however is not good for the nation.

2. Propaganda played a crucial role in the Nazi setup. When the regime is cantered around a single individual and the people have vested their entire trust on him then it has to have a continuity without any breaks. Failures cannot be disclosed and defeats cannot be publicized .

The myth that the leader is impregnable has to be sustained at all costs. In the end of 1941 everybody started realising the Germany defeat was not far. The Russians were aggressively dominating the Nazi army. The US had entered the war and the Allied forces were mercilessly bombarding German cities. In the middle of 1944 the Russian army was knocking at the doors of Berlin and D-day was not far off. The collapse of Hitler Germany was written large on the wall. Goebbel was the head of the propaganda ministry. Imagine a Ministry for propaganda !!

The Ministry at that stage was busy churning out false information that the Fuehrer was in control of everything and victory was imminent. Infact Goebbel declared that any talk of defeat will be punished by death. At no stage the people were informed that Germany has lost the war.

 The height of deception was reached when the Nazi government announced death of Hitler on 1st May 1945 when Hitler was already dead on 30th august. There was no mention that he  had committed suicide.

This organised propaganda machine in hiding facts and relaying a false narrative contributed vastly to the massive destruction of lives and material. It took the war to a suicidal end which could have been prevented. Today the same kind of organised propaganda machinery is being created by the BJP. The BJP has a exclusive IT cell to spread false news. It is reported that it is manned by around 1000 personnel's. Some of the false news spread by this wing can be found here https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-top-fake-news-spread-by-BJP-IT-cell-in-2017. This IT cell of BJP is constantly trying to spread communal hatred and even defend killers. The moment anybody expresses a opposite opinion  he would be attacked by thousands of abuses. Sexiest remarks against women and independent thinkers are a daily occurrence. Recently on the death of Gauri Lankesh by RW Hindutva goons the IT cell of the BJP released thousands of responses celebrating her murder. One even wrote “A bitch has died a dog’s death and now all the pups are whining in one voice". Incidentally PM is following this person on twitter and he has obstinately refused to unfollow him. So the message is clear from the highest quarter of the Government to BJP followers that continue the dirty propaganda.

As in case of Nazi Germany this form of governance where truth is suppressed and falsehood is encouraged is going to heavily damage the nation.

3. Trevor states that Hitler had a  incredible  will-power,  whose hypnotic  influence, compelled even his critics to worship and obey. How did he achieve this? There was Dr Morell his personal physician who concocted many drugs which produced hypnotic and delirious effects. He confessed after the war that these drugs were daily given to Hitler. Hitler was a master in oratory and combined with his hypnotic powers was able to cast a spell on the audience. Somewhat similar to what Mr Modi does. I don't mean that Modi takes drugs but people get trapped into his oratory and are unable to sift the truth from the lies. Here is a lesson to be learnt. Instead of being misled by his oratory one should discover and acknowledge the ground realities. For example Modi speeches leads you to believe that demonetisation was a great step whereas the ground reality is that it was a disaster. The personality of a person should never be allowed to over shadow the real events.

Trevor writes and I quote

"There used to be a school of historical thought  which held that the course of human history 

was determined largely by political and  economic  factors  rather  than  by the characters  and actions of individuals. My own experience during this last war has emphasized to me

 the immense, and in some cases decisive influence exercised on the course of events by 

individual personalities."

4. Hitler enjoyed absolute power and the Nazi party led by him ruled every segment of the German society. No man can escape the corruption of absolute power. With all opposition voices mercilessly silenced and intolerance at its peak it was futile to suggest any course correction. There was only one view point which was correct and that was of Hitler. Anything contrary was considered anti national. This drove the fate of Germany into a blind alley from which there was no return. Slowly the entire nation was sinking and ultimately destroyed with Hitler committing suicide. We are today passing through a similar phase. The RSS/BJP juggernaut tearing across India like a hurricane is demolishing all resistance to its advance. This is a very worrisome development and may end up destroying India like Germany under Hitler. The absolute power of Modi has certainly unleashed violence , communal hatred and even killings of independent thinkers.

5. It is interesting to know that Hitler was a vegetarian and even had a separate vegetarian kitchen in the bunker and a vegetarian cook. I mention this because there is a notion in our country that vegetarian food generates higher consciousness and non violent temperament and inner peace. 6 million Jews were exterminated under Hitler rule and more than 10 million perished in the war. Hitler personally ordered the killings of many of his close associates who  became his critics. Even  Hermann Fegelein the brother-in-law of Eva Braun was shot on orders of Hitler one week before Hitler committed suicide . So when vegetarians assume a sort of superiority complex and look down on meat eaters I point my finger towards Hitler !

6. Everybody is familiar with the old saying " Those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad" or "विनाश काले विपरीत बुद्धि". From 1935 to 1941 Hitler achieved spectacular victories occupying nearly half of Europe. He started believing that he is a military genius and specially sent by God to earth to rule the world. He attacked Russia and made his biggest blunder. The Russian bear with all its power chased him to the bunker and destroyed him. The second mistake he made was by appointing himself as the commander-in-chief of the army and refusing to heed advise of his Generals on crucial matters of war. He declared war against the US and further exposed himself to attacks. In his madness to destroy Britain and Russia simultaneously he opened two fronts and was sandwiched between east and west. There are many other reasons for his defeat but essentially all of them stemmed from his ego centered personality and his lunatic conviction that he was invincible. The biggest lesson we learn here is that a nation should never be lead by a megalomaniac. This lesson is relevant in today's political climate prevailing in India.

7. Amidst all this vicious and bloody carnage which Hitler waged for nearly 10 years one thing stood steadily and nobody could defeat it. It was love. Love of Eva Braun for Hitler. She suffered ignominy,insults ,discomfort and finally accepted the poison pill without a murmur which Hitler gave to her. No matter what the world said she never demurred from her duty to take care of Hitler and ultimately gave her life for him. Just one day before they both committed suicide Hitler married her and gave her the satisfaction at last to be officially designated as Mrs Fuhrer.

There is one stream of historians who believe that Hitler killed Eva Braun and he himself escaped to Argentina. Neither Hitler nor Eva Braun bodies were ever found.

8. Everything thing ended when Hitler committed suicide on 30April 1945 at about 3PM after taking his lunch. The Third Reich collapsed like a pack of cards. All the top high ranking officials of Hitler coterie committed suicide or were killed.

Hitler                           The Fuhrer                                             Blew up his head with a pistol

Eva Braun                    Hitler's wife                                           Took poison pills

Joseph Goebbels         Reich Minister of Propaganda             Took poison pills together with his    

                                                                                                                     Wife & 6 children 

Martin Borman            Chief of the Party Chancellery            Shot by Russians while fleeing 

Heinrich Himmler      Head of dreaded SS                                    Committed suicide

Hermann Göring      President of the Reichstag           Tried at Nuremberg. Committed suicide

Rudolf Hess               Deputy Führer                             Tried at Nuremberg. Committed suicide

Albert Speer           Reich Minister of Armaments         20yrs imprisonment

 

Thus ended the era of a evil genius who played the communal and nationalism card to satisfy his never ending hunger for power and in the process destroyed his nation. This book can be considered a authentic version of events during the last 10 days of Hitler and plays a crucial part in deciphering the state of mind of Hitler during his defeat.

All those who are interested in history of WW2 would find this book very interesting and informative.

 

ASHOK KUMAR

RAM MANDIR

RAM MANDIR

04.04.17

 

 

I had gone through the article written by Chetan Bhagat( Times of India dated 02/04/17) batting for building of a Ram Mandir at Ayodhya at the disputed site where a mosque stood and was demolished by goons of the Sangh Parivar. The article is basically not worth the paper on which it is written. It is a childish attempt to trivialize a issue whose outcome would have a large scale effect on the future of our republic. It will decide whether we are a civilised society believing in laws and the constitution or a banana republic which runs on whims and fancies and religious sentiments. It will decide whether the country is to be run by majoritarianism dictates which bull dozes the respect and honor of the minority communities and pushes them into second rate citizens. It is clearly not a issue of building a temple. It is a political issue for the Sangh Parivar and a step toward realising the dream of the RSS in making India a Hindu Rashtra. All this talk about Hindu sentiments is a facade to hide the intentions of the right wing Hindutva sections of our society to destroy the cultural harmony of our multicultural heritage. There is no doubt that this Chetan Bhagat is a important link of this network of sick minds who rides the Hindu religious wagon in pursuance of a goal which has nothing to do with development. Nevertheless he has a right to his views no matter how obnoxious it is. In this particular article he has given three arguments against building of the Ram temple ( Though there are many more ) and then proceeds to demolish them. Let us examine his logic ,if there is any, since he relies more on sentiments.

 1. Why disturb the status quo ?

 If you see the video footage of the demolishing of the Babri Masjid any civilized person would be shaken at the goondaism which was openly  perpetuated under the leadership of senior leaders of the BJP. It was a matter of destroying a place of workship. More than that it was intended to hurt the psyche of the Muslim community and to show them their place. Instill in them fear and make them realise that they have no place in this country. It was all pre planned including the plan to say sorry when the mission was accomplished. I don't see any parallel of such brutality against a place of worship anywhere in the world. And please don't quote Pakistan since we are not Pakistan. Saying sorry afterwords  with a glee is like rubbing salt in the wounds. The right thing would have been to build the Masjid again. This would have served the end of justice. The Hindutva right wing instead of repenting for its deeds is now demanding that the Muslims should forget and voluntarily hand over the land for building the temple. First you break their mosque and them have the temerity to ask for handing over the land for building the temple. In the name of harmony between communities !! If tomorrow Mr Chetan Bhagat house is razed to the ground by some land mafia and then they demand the land to be handed over for building a plaza would he agree. Certainly not. He would demand his property to be restored and his house built again. That is what justice demands. But in this case Mr Chetan cleverly circumvents justice by taking the sentimental path. He claims that there is proof that there was a temple below the masjid and Ram was born exactly at the same place. Even the Allahabad High court did not consider this claim while issuing its verdict. There is no historical evidence to substantiate this argument. The Babarnama (Chronicles of Babur) does not mention either the mosque or the destruction of a temple. Tulsidas, who began writing the Ramcharit Manas in Ayodhya on Rama's birthday in 1574 (coming there from his normal residence in Varanasi) mentioned the "great birthday festival" in Ayodhya but made no mention of a mosque at Rama's birthplace. Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak (1551–1602), who wrote Akbarnama, completing the third volume Ain-i Akbari in 1598, described the birthday festival in Ayodhya, the "residence of Rama" and the "holiest place of antiquity", but made no mention of a mosque. The fact is that Ayodhya is the birth place of Lord Rama as ancient books and scriptures mention. To say that that Lord Ram was born exactly where the Babri Masjid stood is mischievous. Ram mandir can be built and that too a grand one at any place in Ayodhya and this would not reduce its majesty or lessen the faith of the believers.

Mr Chetan writes that there are thousands of mosques build over temples by the Mughals. How does Mr Chetan knows this? Has he any evidence or is he fanning communal hatred? This seems to be a veiled threat. Surrender or they may also become target of the Hindutva demolishing squad. It is sad that a educated person who has written books ( Which nobody reads) behaving like a street ruffian. Go one step ahead and he is offering a grand Masjid in lieu of the demolished one. I mean how childish a person can become. Offering toys in return for surrendering ones honour. The contention of Mr Chetan that  this is the demand of all Hindus in India which are nearly 100 crores is entirely misleading. As a Hindu I can vouch that majority of Hindus are secular and respect all religions. They never want a Mandir after breaking a mosque. Their faith just not allows this. After all then what difference will remain between a group of blood thirsty marauders and a civilised,law abiding people. It would be better if Mr Chetan refrain from self appointing himself as the leader of all the Hindus in this country.

 Does it behoves us to dig in the past and come out with bits of information about so called atrocities committed by the Muslims to substantiate our efforts to build a Hindu Rashtra

We are living in the 21st century with a strong and vibrant India. Let us not live in the past and waste our time in trying to restore past glory of bygone centuries. We have to make our future strong by building strong technology and not by building Mandirs on imaginary disputed sites.

 Apart from above Mr Chetan forgets that this is a dispute pending in the Supreme Court. A criminal act has been performed and the culprits have to be punished according to the laws of the land. It is a title dispute and the real owners have to decided. The Muslim community has already given its commitment to abide with whatever decision is given by the court. But Mr Chetan does not want the status quo but wants to usurp the powers of the Highest Court. Perhaps he senses that his case is weak and so he brings in sentiments and faith to strengthen his unfounded claims on the Babri Masjid land. He may please note that only a fascist nation rules by sentiments of the majority. The status quo has to remain till the SC gives its decision.

 2. Build a hospital instead

Yes why not ? Infact this is the most sensible suggestion. Here Mr Chetan just repeat his illogical contention that the Mandir has to be built exactly at the same spot. We have seen above that there is no sustainable evidence that Lord Ram was born there. So a grand Lord Ram Mandir can be built anywhere in Ayodhya. Moreover a Mandir built where a Masjid stood once somehow robs its purity and sanctity. Building a modern hospital in the service of humanity would not only serve a higher purpose but would be a shining example of India's secular credentials.

 3. But God is everywhere , so why here

Here Mr Chetan accepts that there is no proof about Lord Ram birth place. Then what is the hue and cry about ? The matter should have ended. But since Mr Chetan wants to inflame the situation he insist that excavation has shown that there was a temple below. He has at least climbed down from Ram temple exists to only a temple. By the way the many eminent archaeologist have disputed the 2003 ASI report. They have alleged that the report was tailored to suit the claims of the saffron brigade.

" But even well-known archaeologists involved in the excavation are doubtful about the findings. Says Sita Ram Rai, former director of the Bihar Archaeology Department who spent a fortnight during the excavation in Ayodhya: "The ASI has carved pillars out of the excavated floor to draw some inaccurate conclusions.
It has released its report with motivated suggestions and willful omissions, making it clear that its saffronised heart is in the right place." Rai, who was summoned by the Allahabad High Court bench (where the ASI report was opened) to make his observations, said no structure had been demolished before the construction of the mosque.
He and three other archaeologists, who made a detailed study of the method of excavation and the artefacts recovered from the site, believe that there was no temple at Ayodhya. Clearly, neither the VHP nor its vocal supporters are listening. "

It is therefore still disputed that there was a temple below the Babri Masjid. To insist that the Ram Mandir should be built there only is motivated by mischievous designs. By the way what is wrong in stating that God resides everywhere. It seems that Mr Chetan sees God only on that particular spot where Babri Masjid stood. If this is the behavior of a educated person then there is seriously something wrong with our education system. The Hindu always sees God even in a particle. And I assume that Mr Chetan is a Hindu. I mean the right type not the fanatic type.

 In the end I would only add that India is a vibrant multi cultured society encompassing several religions and languages. Those who are creating a rift between communities and trying to impose majoritarianism is doing a great disservice to the nation. They are neither patriots and neither nationalist. They are only rats nibbling away the great pluralistic traditions of this ancient country. Ram mandir has become a tool for retaining political power by such unscrupulous persons. I hope Mr Chetan direct his energies towards more productive purposes. Like learning to write good books so that people start reading them.

Meanwhile just allow Ram mandir to rest till the SC gives its decision in the matter or build a hospital there.

 

ASHOK KUMAR

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BJP-THE PARTY WITH A DIFFERENCE

 

BJP-THE PARTY WITH A DIFFERENCE

 

Time and again Senior members of the BJP and those occupying Ministerial posts in Central and State Governments ruled by BJP issue statements which not only violates the provisions of our Constitution but also insults minority communities as well as respected leaders whose immense contribution towards making India into a powerful and modern nation can never be forgotten. The party when questioned about these cheap comments invariably comes out with the following reply

 

"These are personal opinion of the person and nothing to do with the party views on the subject"

This seems so silly. Everybody knows that this is a ploy to express the party stand through a proxy. It saves the party from publicly revealing its distorted ideology till the time the public is suitably ready for it. . At the same time it relays its message to the nation and its own cadre about its standing on the issue. The BJP has refined this strategy perfectly. From Ram Mandir to anti minority stand and its support for a Hindu constitution it relays its intentions through the mouth of various party holders. It then conveniently issues a statement stating that this is not party stand. Notice that no matter how obnoxious the statement is the party never takes any action against the member. Not even issues any explanation letter leave apart suspension from the party. It becomes so obvious that the BJP itself hands over these abusive,ugly and unconstitutional statements to its members and then denies them.  

 

Following are some of the statements issued by prominent members of BJP which were promptly denied to be the official position of BJP .

NAME	POST	STATEMENT	BJP RESPONSE
ANIL VIJ	CABINET MINISTER HARYANA	Mahatma Gandhi will gradually be removed from currency notes and that Modi is a bigger brand name than Gandhi.	It is his personal views
SUBRAMANIYAN SWAMY	SENIOR BJP RAJYA SABHA MEMBER	RBI Governor Rajan unfit to hold post	PM Modi kept quite till Rajan resigned
MAHESH SHARMA	CULTURE MINISTER IN MODI CABINET	Aurangzeb Road has been named after such a great man who, despite being a Muslim, was a nationalist and a humanist, A P J Abdul Kalam.	NONE
SAKSHI MAHARAJ, MP (BJP)	SENIOR MEMBER BJP	1.In order to increase the population of Hindus in the nation he asked Hindu women to produce at least four kids each to counter the Muslim population. 2. called Mahatma Gandhi's assassinator Nathuram Godse a martyr.	It is his personal views
SADHVI NIRANJAN JYOTI	CABINET MINISTER OF STATE FOR FOOD PROCESSING INDUSTRIES IN MODI	She asked voters to carefully make a choice between 'Ramzade' (Born of Ram) and Haramzade (Born Illegitimately). She also said that either Muslim or Christians all are sons of Ram and those who no more stand with this ideology are not citizen of this nation.	BJP distanced itself from her remarks
GIRIRAJ SINGH	UNION MINISTER IN MODI CABINET	1.those who oppose prime minister candidate Narendra Modi should leave India as their place will be in Pakistan. 2. compared Narendra Modi to Lord Ram.	Was administered a cosmetic rebuke
YOGI ADITYANATH	BJP CAMPAIGNER	1.he exhorted Hindu men to marry hundred Muslim women, if one Hindu women witness forcible conversion. 2. compared Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan with Pakistani terrorist Hafiz Saeed, the mastermind of Mumbai carnage	NONE
MOHAN BHAGWAT	RSS HEAD-MOTHER OF BJP	Hindustan is a Hindu nation and Hindutva is the identity of our nation.	NONE

 

BJP which calls itself a party with a difference has become a symbol of hate and intolerance. It has a army of trollers on social sites who continuously release a barrage of abuses towards anybody who does not agree with them. On the ground it has dedicated team of abusers from its higher ranks who start demeaning those who do not agree with the RSS ideology.

However it is a matter of great relief that our constitution protects us from fanatics and extremist otherwise they would have converted this country to a dictatorship.

It is expected that the BJP as a national party understands its responsibility and refrains from any action which would spoil the harmonious secular atmosphere of this nation.

 

ASHOK KUMAR

 

19.1.2017