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A counter narrative: Ghar Vaapsi, a natural corollary

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A counter narrative: Ghar Vaapsi, a natural corollary

The dominant discourse in public sphere since May 2014 or precisely after the BJP led NDA under Narendra Modi came to power, has been the role of right-wing in changing the perception about the way India conducted its social and constitutional obligations. The endless debates on intolerance, anti nationals versus nationalists suppression of diverse opinion and expression, the highly contentious but rarely proven attacks on churches, atmosphere of fear, clamp down on supposedly God’s Own NGOs and to cap it all; Ghar Vaapsi or the new avatar of Shuddhikaran of Swami Shraddhanand.

The high decibel debates, lack of content on our 24 x 7 news channels are the most visible aspect of the discourse, however, the reader is more discerning then the listener who has been incapacitated by the TV news channels boom. For decades, the left-leaning narrative has dominated the public perception in India, specially after the late 60s, thanks to the largesse given to the Communists in lieu of the support by Indira Gandhi. The unprecedented and to certain sections the unexpected victory of Narendra Modi stunned the opposition into silence, most surprisingly, the opinion makers in India were at a loss of words to ascribe this victory to Modi’s message of “development”. The subsequent assembly victories consolidated the position of the prime minister as the leading politician in India.

Then started the attacks on Churches in Delhi. The TV channels and the hitherto silenced liberal elite pounced upon the chance to liberate the lungs of the mucous formed due to unabling silence. The attacks gained such enormous notoriety for the Modi government that it was widely reported in western media special thanks to our perceived neutral and enlightened media. It’s another matter that these attacks were nothing but minor cases of vandalism and theft. A far larger number of temples during the same period were vandalised and offering stolen which never came in our media. Most obnoxious of the campaign was the rape of an an elderly nun in West Bengal. Without even preliminary investigations, the same set of people, sections of media the liberals, the Seculars attributed it to the supposed Right-wing terror tactic.

Later, four Bangladeshi illegal immigrants were arrested in the case. The damage had been done, the government was prosecuted and damned by a biased MSM jury. The western media largely controlled by the church, feared for minorities in India under Narendra Modi government. Missionaries like John Dayal, Kancha Ilaiah cried foul, petitioned against India in the US. As if, the US would determine the fate of the Indian nation. India has seen its Hindu population decline over the decades from a high of 85% percent in 1951 to less than 80% in the 2011 census. The alarming changes in the demographics are pushed under the carpet by our liberals and the seculars arguing that the growth rate is higher amongst the Muslims and the other minorities. This is a perfect example obfuscation and distortion of facts. It is a well known and accepted fact that there has been an insidious design to attempt large-scale Conversions by both Muslim and Christian conversion mafia. The States of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala are all under intense drive by Christian missionaries. Coastal regions of Tamil Nadu and Andhra have been successfully converted to the extent that the demographers and authorities are apprehensive to report the exact numbers.

To top it all, the church in South India have over the years has issued diktats to keep the religious identity hidden. District in Tamil Nadu and Kerala have seen dubious Muslim organisations engaged in spreading jihadi ideology and luring to convert. Both these States have seen a very large number of RSS and Hindutva workers been killed, 137 in Tamil Nadu and more than 200 in Kerala.However, no news vending machines have found it worthwhile to report on either the changing demographics or the brutal killings of RSS and Hindutva workers. This lopsided and unjust coverage has been countered effectively by the newest organ of mass reporting of events, even as they unfold, the Social Media. The new narrative as a counter to the age-old conspiracy theories have substituted the mainstream media.There has been some reactions to these activities from the right wing, however there has not been any concerted or an organised effort to counter the discourse.

The much publicized Ghar Vaapsi was a botched attempt lacking finesse and zeal of the Christian missionaries as also the lack of financial backing of the petro dollars or the Oil money. Ghar Vaapsi is nothing but a natural corollary to conversions by the Christian missionaries and the fundamentalist Mullahs. The Ghar Vaapsi campaign lacked the dexterity and the passion of the Evangelist as also the Coffers full of Dirhams and Riyals.Changing demographics is a real and present danger. China has demonstrated this master strategy, the diabolic play of demographics. Tibet, Xinjiang, far east Siberia has seen massive population influx of Han Chinese to frustrate the designs of Tibetans, Uighurs and even the Russians in the far east Siberia. Closer home Bangladesh, threatens us in the north-east. The north-eastern region of India suffers from two pronged threat by both Christians and Muslims. North-eastern states of Nagaland, Mizoram, Meghalaya and to certain extent Manipur have been under the influence of Church. The states of Assam, Bengal and Tripura face the threat of illegal Bangladeshi immigrants.

In fact, Assam and Bengal have seen a gradual and the steady decline in the number of Hindu population. The Muslim population in the state of Assam is around 34% this increase is predominantly a post-1971 phenomena. Bengal is home to 30% Muslims the disconcerting increase in Muslim populations has seen the alarm bells ringing .Ghar Vaapsi, besides being constructive, is also a force multiplier in thwarting internal threats. But, Ghar Vaapsi is plagued by yet another ill, The rigid and degenerative caste system in our society. If Ghar Vaapsi is to be a success it must be accompanied by all its attributes above. The killing of Mohammad Akhlaq in Dadri, Uttar Pradesh was sad and unfortunate the killers of this heinous crime must be punished. Having said that, it is imperative that the same outrage be preserved for the plight of Kashmiri Pandits. The Kashmiri Pandits have been killed, butchered, burnt, looted, robbed and raped by the Muslims in Kashmir Valley.

Shockingly, not a single person has ever been convicted in any of the crimes in the last three decades. There is no outrage, absolutely nothing at all on the 24 x 7 news channels, not even a blip on the radar of the so-called human rights and civil rights activists. The apathy over the years has created a wide chasm between the apologists of the rights of the minorities, read Muslims, supported by variety of activists, liberals and secularists on the one hand and the rising aspirations of the right-wing supporters on the other. This indifferent attitude towards the plight of Kashmiri Pandit is now on battlefield of opposing ideological warriors. The pre May 2014 dominant opinion makers are losing their lustre in the dawn of rising right wing enthusiasts. The right wing led by the young and the educated on the social media has made a great impact on the way Truth is reported nowadays.

The distinct change can be seen even in the English news channels which from which from being virulently anti right wing have come around to take an objective view on the issue. The public discourse is chaotic, cacophonic but not a one-way traffic anymore, the differing ideologies are clashing trying to dominate the narrative of their suiting. This loss of credibility and the consequent loss of face by the liberal opinion makers has made the public discourse very interesting. The right-wing narrative variously called as the Nationalist viewpoint, the Hindutva counter argument, the Xenophobic discourse or the new communal discourse is hampered by a majorly ordinary narrative lacking genuine intellectual counter argument,especially in the English language, however it is gaining ground and in the process of becoming the dominant narrative in the country. The murders of so-called rationalist, the trio of Pansare, Dabholkar and Kalburgi happened under the Congress rule in both Maharashtra and Karnataka but were blamed on the new incumbent in Delhi,the NDA government.

This massive blunder by the liberals led to a counter attack by the Right Wingers. Similarly, the role of NIA in the Malegaon, Samjhauta is now under a cloud, NIA is now accused of colluding with the Congress bigwigs to implicate Hindu trois workers in these blasts. The witnesses in most of these cases have turned hostile, though there are voices which accuse the present government of meddling in the NIA investigations. However, the Ajmer and the Malegaon blasts involving Colonel Prasad Purohit are falling apart, the supposed confession of Swami Aseemanand was retracted by the individual as it was under duress. The NIA narrative since 2008 of Hindu terror is not standing scrutiny, the Congress’ attempt at communalising terror hasn’t really taken off despite brazen accusations by senior Congress leaders as Sushil Kumar Shinde, P Chidambaram and Digvijay Singh along with the Congress president, Rahul Gandhi.

Another remarkable event was the hanging of Yakub Memon in the 1993 Bombay blasts. It exposed to liberal sentiments, a multitude of liberals, Seculars, Human and civil rights activist activist had pushed petition for clemency against his hanging for the Mumbai blasts in which 254 people were killed. The nation was deeply divided But the Supreme Court stayed the course course and hanged Yakub Memon for all he deserved. The mainstream media went overboard on a judicial hanging, Indian Express, a leading national daily captioned it “ And they hanged Yakub “!It seemed as if an innocent has been killed by the Supreme Court and not a terror accomplice who led to deaths of 254 people.

Right Wing assertiveness on the Social Media, the reactions to Mass Conversions taking place in India in shape of Ghar Vapasi are natural corollary to the monstrosities heaped upon the majority community in India.

“Stop watching news television”, Ravish has a point

Akshay Saraswat
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“Stop watching news television”, Ravish has a point

The constant moaning and winging of Ravish Kumar about the state of the country and media is old news. In the last few years, this star of NDTV has gone from being a sanctimonious preacher who spent half the duration of his show in a self-indulgent monologue, to a journalistic version of a Rudaali.

With his customary long face, he has tried to explain how, in his view, the Indian media has sold its soul to Modi and denuded itself of all journalistic ethics.

Now, he does have a point in criticizing the television media. The debates on most channels are intolerably chaotic shouting matches. Coverage of stories by media outlets too follows a pre-determined script rather than an honest investigation.

But is it a phenomenon only witnessed after Modi becoming PM? Furthermore, is it something that is always working in favour of the BJP?

The latest pearl of wisdom pronounced by NDTV’s star anchor is an advice for people of India to stop watching television news till the completion of general elections. The main reason cited by him for this radical idea is that Indian media, in his view, has become the ‘jooti of India’s strongest politician.’

I think we need to take this advice seriously. Yes, news television has been misguiding people since Modi came to power. But how? Contrary to what Ravish would have you believe, the shallow coverage of Indian media has been extremely averse to BJP.

In 2014, TV channels were ablaze with reports of atrocities being committed by ‘right-wing groups’ close to BJP. We were told that ‘Hindu outfits’ are vandalizing churches and government trying to suppress Christmas celebrations.

The publishing of an image of the original preamble of the Indian constitution, which didn’t contain the word secular, and an incident involving re-conversion of few Muslims was added to the list of outrages.

India was fast descending into religious fascism, the reports in the media suggested. Soon, it came to light that the attacks on churches were by goons not related to any ideology. 25th December was designated as ‘Good Governance Day’ due to it being Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s birthday and not for disrupting Christmas.

The word secular not being in the image of the original preamble of Indian constitution was because the word wasn’t actually there in the original preamble. And regarding ghar wapsi, the hypocrisy of people who called opponents of conversions bigots suddenly complaining about re-conversion was for all to see. The announcement by the government of their readiness to bring in a law against conversion by force or allurements was deviously ignored.

So, as early as 2014, the TV media would have led you into believing that Hindu supremacists are destroying India as we know it. What followed was a continuous attempt to exaggerate every event catering to this narrative – like the lynching of one man in a country of 130 crore people – and downplaying of everything that went against it – like brazen policy of Muslim appeasement in Bengal.

Attacks on Dalits in a BJP state were discussed fervently while the killings of people from the same social groups in ‘secular’ states like West Bengal and Kerala completely ignored. The opposition to cow slaughter, an intrinsic part of Indian history, was described as a tactic to target minorities.

Killings of some prominent individuals was blamed on the influence of central government while Congress and SP-led state governments vindicated.

In short, if you take your cue from television channels, you would believe that India is coming apart at the seams. There are blood-thirsty mobs of Trishul-wielding Hindus out to kill Muslims, minorities scared to come out of their houses, nation about to become bankrupt, every opponent of Modi being persecuted, large-scale censorship of press and no space left for dissenting views.

Almost every citizen of the country who lives in real India would laugh at this dystopian picture. The fact that more venom has been spewed against Modi in media than any other PM in the past, doesn’t stop people from claiming a chilling effect on media. As to dissent, even airing of most outrageous opinions – from army chief getting equated with General Dyer to slogans in favour of India’s vivisection – hasn’t stopped ranting about curbs on freedom of expression.

Just think about it, how many Prime Ministers in this country’s history have been called psychopath, thief, neech, scorpion, illiterate, low-caste, murderer and a lot more. In spite of PM Modi enduring all these vicious attacks, he is still considered the biggest threat to Indian democracy.

But this is precisely the view of India that has been thrust upon viewers of news television. These channels allow a man as unworthy of national attention as Asaduddin Owaisi to rant about PM Modi’s wife but wouldn’t dare to mention Rahul Gandhi’s girlfriends. They let people of little worth question PM Modi’s educational qualifications but can never summon enough courage to ask about Sonia Gandhi’s academic endowments.

So, Ravish Kumar is right, isn’t he? The media did indeed become the ‘Jooti’ of India’s strongest politician. But it wasn’t Narendra Modi but Sonia Gandhi and the period was the ten years of UPA rule and not the five of Modi’s.

He is also right that people should stop watching news television. Because the constant peddling of a negative narrative meant to run down Modi government is very misleading. Ravish, who claims to be the lone honest voice on television and thinks of others as sell-outs, would do well to remember that famous couplet of Kabir: bura jo dekhan main chala, bura na miliya koi, jo man dekha aapna, mujhse bura na koi (when I set off to find evil, couldn’t meet any such, when I beheld my mind, found none more evil than me).

Mamata Banerjee, understand the difference between ‘reel’ and ‘real’ life before ‘distributing’ LS tickets to the celebrities

Sharmistha Sarkar
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Mamata Banerjee, understand the difference between ‘reel’ and ‘real’ life before ‘distributing’ LS tickets to the celebrities

“The predator wants your silence. It feeds their power, and they want it to feed your shame!”

I personally loathe when a seat nomination goes to an actor/actress for ‘to be’ elected member of parliament except the case when he/she literally does have special concern, knowledge and interest about public policy, public life and public administration.

And, probably West Bengal is the only state of the world where most of the seat holders are actors and actresses since The All India Trinamool Congress has come into the power. What a giveaway tricky policy!

And I firmly opine that some of these actors and actresses are as equally clueless as social media’s chocolate boy and angel girl. They upload Tik Tok videos, feeling insecure all the time, some of them are eventually lacking requisite academic  qualifications, needed to address pandemic societal problem and suddenly they are our ‘wannabe’ MP!

When unemployment and unequal distribution of socio-economic growth is the key issue of developing country like our’s, don’t we have far better options like unemployed social science researchers who have fervent interest at their respective fields? We hurl our political lecture pointing the best qualified cabinets of the world where a health minister is a doctor, minister of science is a scientist, then why is it not possible for India also? Many seem to be based off the assumption but it’s the ground root logistic that ministerial competence must be related to past employment / work/ academic experience or special interest towards respective fields and necessarily should be standing by substantial credentials.

Who should be actually ashamed of?

The obvious answer is none but ‘we’. We are the one who always choose to be blind. Our voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. But till when? When we ourselves are reluctantly ignoring us, no extraordinary leader can uplift us.

Our voice is ignored by the voice of desire. It’s contradicted by the voice of shame. It’s biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance!

Exposing Rahul lies on Rafale- Part 2

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Exposing Rahul lies on Rafale- Part 2

Rahulji keeps on asking question why 36 and why not 126?

I am asking Rahulji, why Congress wasted so many years in negotiation, and why A K Antony, decided to “postpone” the purchase of aircrafts to next financial in 2014 year citing lack of money, when the winner was announced in January 2012 (as if price would not increase, what sense did it make)!

Why didn’t we scale down our requirement to 54 or 72 with some “options” to be acquired in future at the same price?

126 numbers would have not mattered anyway, as we would be getting only 12 jets per year on an average which is “insignificant” to arrest our falling squadrons numbers.

Why did we kept on insisting 126 jet fighters? Why not spread out our budget, why waste precious years?

Congress has made the whole negotiation process a gimmick, and a laughing stock. It is obvious that Congress is really bad at negotiations and gives secondary importance to the security of the country. It pushes the country upto the wall, making it bleed in paying up more.

Would we loose Technology Transfer if we had gone for less jets?

Dassault CEO Trappier recently said – that India should order at least 200 aircrafts for feasible technology transfer.  But this is he saying in 2018.

In 2012, things were very very different. Dassault was so desperate to find an international buyer that it was ready to do a complete Technology transfer to Brazil for as little as 36 jets! Not only Dassault, even Boeing F/A 18 Super Hornet and SAAB Gripen were ready for technology transfer. So if India would have reduced the requirement to 54 or 72,  it would have still got the “technology transfer”.

Now in 2015, when Modi was looking at deal, Dassault had a confirmed order for 48 jets – 24 each from Qatar and Egypt (with possible 24 more as options) from international market enough for next 4-5 years, while India had no room to wait, its desperation was known to international sellers – we had wasted a hell lot of time under Congress. Anybody with little idea of negotiation strategies knows that now Dassault had an upper hand, and can stretch the negotiations for another 2-3 years causing India to bleed even more, thanks to Congress myopic vision.

36 in “flyaway conditions” made more sense so that we at least have some numbers and then work on a new deal without pressure.

Does the Congress deal of Technology Transfer really matters?

This is the most “misused” term used by Rahul Gandhi and media to fool the people of India.  This has been advertised as – oh wow we would have been able to “manufacture” jets and get “latest technology”. Check any news sources and you would see a term- “progressive” transfer of technology. It means we would get hand on technology progressively in small units by 2023. We would continue to get the important piece of technologies in Complete Knock down (CKD) or Semi KD to be assembled here. Even Brazil would not have been able to produce own jets for their own country unless paid a license fee to Dassault, and able to manufacture and sell similar jets to another country till 2030, and the same was true for India. By the time we receive the “complete technology transfer”, the technology transfer would have been obsolete. (Dassault also offered Indonesia technology transfer in 2015, but even then lost the contract).

Indian HAL has been assembling Sukhoi for decades in similar manner.

And if you think, by getting a technology transfer for Maruti Suzuki, you would be able to build Tesla from next year itself-  fat chance. You would be producing Maruti Suzuki only. (I don’t mean Maruti Suzuki is a bad machine, it is most suitable for India and most developing countries.)

So what does India needs?

India needs to upgrade to Tejas MK2 as fast as possible, which is now being fitted with General Electric F414-GE-INS6 engine. Meanwhile India is working with France on reviving the Kaveri Engine to be fitted in Tejas MK1 (On 20 November 2016, DRDO Director General for Aeronautics Cluster C P Ramanarayanan confirmed that DRDO and French Snecma have tied up to revive Kaveri Engine as part of the offsets deal for 36 Rafale jet). Now this is real technology transfer, as one of the areas we get beaten is the engine, and not the. design or parts. As part of 36 Rafales deal, India does have technology transfer in terms of offsets investments, AESA Radar tech, and capability to arm the jets with indigenous missiles like Astra BVRAAM.

India needs to ramp up its production and include more LCA Tejas in our fleet.

India has launched a new tender for 110 fighter aircrafts. The Congress deal was very ambiguous and had “progressive transfer of technology”. The new RFI to which six global companies have responded, is clear that the entire thing end-to-end would be “Made in India” with no parts to be imported in CKD or SKD conditions in partnership with a “Strategic Partner”. This also includes HAL as a strategic partner, with Tata, Reliance, Mahindra being others.

If HAL looses, so be it may the best aircraft wins. In meantime DRDO form a collaboration with a country to develop fifth and continue to work on sixth generation fighter aircrafts. A collaboration with Russia has fallen through though on a fifth generation fighter craft, due to DRDO claim that it has the technology or is working on it indigenously.

Next Part- How Rahul Gandhiji is lying when he says India paid more than Qatar and Egypt for Rafales?

“Freedom” of the press?

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“Informing is not a crime,” said United Nations secretary-general António Guterres, commenting on the shrinking Press Freedom around the world. 

While we popularly believe that the media and the press are the fourth pillar of democracy, it is safe to say that the recent decade has been specially hostile towards various values of “democracy.”

Censorship of media has been prevalent in the society since time immemorial. The first ever sources of censorship came from the Church in the western world in trying to control the knowledge circulated through an emerging print culture. Since then, we’ve come a long way in attempting to control communication through censorship, having developed means of threatening, harassing and enforcing legislations on journalists around the globe, no corner left unaffected.

To begin with, here’s what’s happening in the United States of America – the American President has been restrictive enough to have refused reporters from credible websites and journals such as The Reuters and The Bloomberg from getting involved in his tête-à-tête with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, for the subject of their conversation was ‘sensitive’ enough for the world and the citizens to be kept aloof from. From time-to-time, Donald J. Trump has referred to the practice of journalists asking him questions during his public appearances as ‘discourteous’ and ‘impertinent’, and it now seems like the future of the press in America is filled with lurking authoritative dangers.

Then, when Maria Ressa, a journalist heading the Philippines news website “Rapplers” was arrested, Margaux Ewen, her lawyer told in an interview that Ressa had been sued under ‘libel’ charges for being critical of the Filipino government. Even as we speak, 27 citizen based and 1 professional journalist(s) have been put behind bars under absolutism over press in Vietnam. In India itself has the infamous sedition law been promoting self-censorship, particularly due to increase in nationalist ideologies and emotions playing a role hand-in-hand with politics. Since 1990, 19 journalists have been killed in Kashmir alone, many allegedly at the orders of the government. And it all went down in the world of Journalism when Jamal Khashoggi, Washington Post journalist and an open critic of the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, was murdered in the “safety” of the Turkish consulate.

The world on the internet is expanding. Ubiquitous news websites or cornered platforms of debate and discussion will all keep catering to one audience or another. A successful example is the ‘Al-Jazeera’, born in the Arabian country of Qatar, ranked 125th on the World Press Freedom Index, 2018. Using a direct, subscription-based ‘satellite channel’ for its dissemination operations, Al-Jazeera has been spreading its word on important issues even under severe conditions.

Mr. Fali Nariman, a noted lawyer, addressing the Press Club of India at New Delhi said that “Freedom of speech is all about freedom after speech.” As true as the essence of the statement is the fact that even though freedom of speech is inextricably linked to the press and media, there is always something that seems to be wrong when a journalist or a reporter exercises free speech.

All for good journalism and all for right information, that which co-exists with tolerance for opinion and liberty to speak up in its truest essence.

फिर से कांग्रेसीकरण का शिकार हुआ MCU, प्रो. संजय द्विवेदी को जनसंचार विभाग के अध्यक्ष पद से हटाया

Rinku Mishra
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फिर से कांग्रेसीकरण का शिकार हुआ MCU, प्रो. संजय द्विवेदी को जनसंचार विभाग के अध्यक्ष पद से हटाया

सत्ता परिवर्तन के साथ ही कांग्रेस सरकार ने माखनलाल पत्रकारिता विश्वविद्यालय को निशाने पर ले लिया और कांग्रेसीकरण करना प्रारंभ कर दिया। पहले कुलपति श्री जगदीश उपासने पर दवाब बनाया, मानसिक रूप से प्रताड़ित किया और जबरन इस्तीफा देने पर मजबूर कर दिया। उसके बाद कुलसचिव प्रो. संजय द्विवेदी को कुलसचिव पद से हटा दिया और अपने प्यादों को उन पदों पर बैठा दिया।

लेकिन इतने से कांग्रेस सरकार का कहां मन भरने वाला था। बदले और प्रतिशोध की अग्नि में जल रही सरकार ने अब प्रो. संजय द्विवेदी को जनसंचार विभाग के अध्यक्ष पद से भी हटा दिया। संजय द्विवेदी मीडिया जगत में एक प्रतिष्ठित नाम है, पत्रकारिता के हस्ताक्षर होने के साथ – साथ लाखों मीडियाकर्मियों के आदर्श और प्रणेता भी है। संजय द्विवेदी ने दिन रात एक कर जनसंचार विभाग को सिंचा हैं और सर्वश्रेष्ठ विभाग बनाया है। लेकिन कांग्रेस को छात्रों के हित और विश्वविद्यालय के कल्याण की कहां चिंता है। वह तो चुन चुन कर ऐसे लोगों पर कार्रवाई कर रही है जो कांग्रेस के नहीं है। सहिष्णुता का रोना रोने वाली सरकार प्रदेश में बढ़ रहे अपराध और आतंक को सह गई। लेकिन किसी ने मोदी युग किताब लिख दिया तो उस पर पहाड़ टूट गया और वह बदले की भावना पर उतर आई।

निश्चित रुप से पत्रकारिता विश्वविद्यालय इस समय गहरे संकट के दौर से गुजर रहा है। पत्रकारिता विश्वविद्यालय पर हावी हो रहे कांग्रेसीकरण को धोने का वक्त आ गया है। विश्वविद्यालय के छात्रों और शिक्षा जगत से जुड़े लोगों को आगे आने की जरुरत है, सरकार के खिलाफ आवाज उठाने की आवश्यकता है। अगर अब छात्र नहीं जगे तो यह सरकार पत्रकारिता विश्वविद्यालय की साख मिट्टी में मिला देगी।

एमसीयू को कांग्रेस की कार्यशाला बनाने की योजना

कांग्रेस की सरकार पत्रकारिता विश्वविद्यालय को कांग्रेस की कार्यशाला बना रही है। पिछले दिनों दिग्विजय सिंह के पुत्र और कांग्रेस सरकार के मंत्री जयवर्धन सिंह विश्वविद्यालय पहुंचे थे और लोकसभा चुनाव को देखते हुए जमीन देखकर गए थे। इसके लिए उन्होंने कुलपति और कुलसचिव को निर्देशित भी किया था कि जो लोग कांग्रेस के नहीं हैं, उन्हें किनारे करिए और अपने लोगों को पद दीजिए। और आज गाज गिर ही गई। प्रो. संजय द्विवेदी को पहले कुलसचिव पद से हटाया और अब जनसंचार विभाग के अध्यक्ष पद से भी हटा दिया गया है।

A plea to all political parties – On World Consumers Rights Day

TR Madhavan
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A plea to all political parties – On World Consumers Rights Day

Under Basic Rights The Law Guarantees Every Indian Consumer. In that,

Right to be heard:

Every consumer has a right to be heard and to be assured that his interests will receive due consideration at appropriate forums. This right helps to empower the consumers for putting forward their complaints and concerns fearlessly and raising their voice against products or even companies and ensure that their issues are taken into consideration as well as handled expeditiously.

Municipal Services:

The quality of services provided by municipalities is a touchy subject in India’s cities where planning still revolve around reaching the maximum number of people rather than the quality of services offered.

The Consumer Protection Act, 1986, aims to promote and protect the rights and interests of consumers. Municipal services are currently not covered under this law.

The parliamentary grouping 2007/2008 had recommended all mandatory municipal services, such as water supply, be included in the Act to ensure better services to consumers.

Most users of municipal services, however, prefer to go to a lower or higher court in case of complaints. Users have different responses or no response to different sorts of complaints.

In case of such services, even if citizens use RTI (Right to Information Act) get information and then after going to courts is a tedious process to get justice.

Unlike deficiencies in goods, those aggrieved due to deficiencies in essential services don’t look for financial damages but redressal of the complaint, which they expect a court to deliver.

As citizens are paying for services to the organizations like Municipalities, Water Board, due to deficiencies in essential services etc for speedy redressal of complaint or any requests, these bodies should be into consumer act.

On World Consumers Rights Day request to all political parties to consider, include it in their manifesto, promise to take it on priority and implement it on coming to power.

Congress is on suicide mode in Indian politics

S Ranganathan
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Congress is on suicide mode in Indian politics

Congress is losing its relevance even in the eve of the forthcoming parliamentary election in April-May 2019. Except DMK and AAP, all other regional parties are dumbing congress. Why are several sitting MLAs and party men leaving congress and joining BJP? All the above questions need an impartial analysis.

Congress has reduced to a family show and the circuit has been completed with the entry of Priyanka Vadra. The twin problems of the congress party are, one, the excessive love for the family and the unreasonable hatred towards Narendra Modi. Congress is either focusing only on the family or on spreading hatred and negative politics against Modi. Congress has nothing else to offer to the nation. On the other hand, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is focusing exclusively on the agenda of development, sab ka vikas, national security, heightening the morale and confidence of the Jawans who defend our nation.

But the congress party, on the other hand, by way of attacking Narendra Modi, is questioning the sacrifices, bravery and the sincerity of our defence forces. Just to make some corruption allegation against PM Modi, congress party under the witty dynast is threatening the internal security of our nation by asking the government to breach the secrecy clause in the defence deal and reveal the pricing and other details of Rafale fighter flight. It looks like the dynast somehow wants to stop the procurement of Rafale so that such move would empower Pakistan.

In UP, the recent move of congress party to induct Priyanka Vadra had hurt SP-BSP the most than BJP. BSP-SP combine when refused to accommodate congress party in its alliance and allotted mere 2 seats, congress tried to rattle SP-BSP combine by introducing Priyanka Vadra with the hope that SP-BSP may climb down fearing Priyanka and may accommodate the congress party in the alliance. But such move has in fact hurt own prospects than made any change in BSP-SP alliance. With such move, congress has proved to other regional parties in India that for the congress, the family comes first and not the nation or any political etiquette.

It looks like when Rahul Gandhi could not rattle SP-BSP combine, congress tried Priyanka Vadra to get some deal done. Congress wants to make UP election three way contest to cause fear in SP-BSP as such move may favour BJP and thereby congress can coerce BSP-SP to accommodate congress. But the ground truth congress did not realize. Congress was continuously trying to use different weapons and most of them were either expired or ineffective. It is not Priyanka or Rahul Gandhi or Sonia or Robert Vadra, only a credible and promising political narrative alone can help the congress to resurrect which congress is yet to realize.

Narendra Modi has gone way ahead by taking India to new heights and dimensions. India has developed in all frontiers and people are experiencing the change.

Cooking gas connection, building of toilets, opening bank accounts to poor villagers, direct transfer of funds to the account of the beneficiary, employment creation through an innovative way by creating MUDRA loan, taking firm step to protect the nation and giving fitting reply to Pakistan, raising the dignity and reputation of India at international level, galvanizing international support to India, bringing down corruption and delivering a first scam and corruption free governance are a few examples for how Indian has transformed under PM Narendra Modi.

The stand taken by DMK and AAP to desperately align with congress is quite interesting and worth further discussion. AAP has plotted its campaign around complete statehood for Delhi. AAP has nothing else to speak to the people of Delhi except statehood. AAP had realized that if it aligns with congress party, it can strengthen its statehood narrative. By invoking the cause of statehood and by asking people to elect the alliance can make a better poll prospect for the party. But the biggest caveat was the number of seats AAP was willing to allot for congress. AAP wants to give peanut to congress and wants to win Delhi at the expense of congress party. If BJP wins, AAP can dumb the statehood idea for time being and other wise, congress would be responsible for granting statehood to Delhi was the game plan of AAP. But the cheap political strategy of AAP did not work. To trap congress party, AAP too vented hatred and negative politics against Narendra Modi, the most popular and progressive Prime Minister of India.

The reason that binds DMK to go with congress is nothing but fear of losing the election in Tamil Nadu to the formidable alliance of EPS, BJP.

The role of DMK in central government is well known in the past. The UPA was embroiled into several scam allegations which were primarily due to DMK. DMK realized that it needs the support of congress to save its face. Hence the DMK president out of the way announced the candidature of Rahul Gandhi as the Prime Minister face of the united opposition alliance. Stalin praised Rahul Gandhi knowing fully well that his praises would metaphorically diminish Rahul Gandhi, but at the same time, congress will remain with DMK.

Except in Delhi, dealing AAP, congress has not made any smart move or smart strategy.  Congress is repeatedly putting all its eggs in the basket of one family and the unwise dynast.

In truth congress is making one suicide after another politically by calling Narendra Modi, thief, corrupt, arrogant, divisive etc.

Before abusing PM Modi, the dynast must verify own bona fide otherwise Dr. Subramaniam Swamy has all the details. The dynast has ridiculed own credibility by abusing PM Modi and calling him thief. Several world countries are supporting India because of Narendra Modi. People will give a massive mandate to Narendra Modi led BJP because people want India to prosper and not the family several dynasts.

To ensure development, national security and Sab ka vikas people want Narendra Modi and not the Tukde Tukde gangs and colloquium of political dynasty.

Exposing Rahul Lies on Rafale- Part 1

satyanweshibharat
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Exposing Rahul Lies on Rafale- Part 1

Rahul Gandhi and some media group have been lying through their teeth on Rafale Deal since past one year. It cannot be without media support and dumb Indians such an elaborate hoax can be sustained for a year. Rahul’s entire gameplay is to label other parties as “corrupt” so that people feel there is no alternative.

In these series I am going to expose bit by bit the elaborate hoax build by Rahul and some media houses over the years.

Claim 1: 

Rahul claims that Congress was getting a Rafale jet for as less as “Rs. 560” Crore while Modi is paying almost thrice the amount for the “same” jet.

Fact 1:

Rahul is taking the initial estimate of the deal back in 2007 which was $10 billion. In 2018 one dollar was worth 71 Rupees on average.

(Sources – Bids invited for $10.4bn IAF deal , Times of India, Aug 29, 2007)

So total deal = Rs 71000,00,00,000
Divide the deal by 126 = 71000,00,00,000 / 126 = Rs 563,49,20,634/-

Now if we take 2015 – one dollar was worth 66 rupees on average. Taking that the deal would have been around Rs 66000,00,000, which on division by 126 would give Rs 523, 80, 95, 238 /- (that is why he had mentioned 520 crore during “No Confidence” debate in Lok Sabha).

But the price had increased by more than $20 billion in 2012 itself. Rahul is cleverly hiding the fact, and no media is not questioning it.

(Source – French jet Rafale bags $20 bn IAF fighter order;  India brief losing European countries, Times of India, Feb 1, 2012)

When the MMRCA selection process was initiated by MoD in mid -2007, the overall project cost was pegged at Rs 42,000 crore or $10.4 billion for 126 fighters. Since then, with inflation also being factored in, revised estimates indicate the figure will touch $20 billion, if not exceed it.

(Another Source – dna exclusive: 100% price escalation on Rafale fighter aircraft to Rs. 1.75 lakh crore likely to dent IAF’s strike capability, DNA, Jan 26, 2014)

The price hike would mean that the deal would cost India nothing less than $28-30 billion (Rs1.75 lakh crore-Rs1.86 lakh crore),” said an Indian Air Force (IAF) official, who is privy to discussions of the cost negotiation committee.

Here in a news clip from Feb 6, 2014 the anchor clearly reports – the deal has gone up to $25 billion which was initially thought to be $10 billion (Check section from 3:04)

So as you can see the cost of each jet in Congress deal was in between 1300-1400 crore Rupees per jet!

Fact 2:

Flyaway cost is one measure of the cost of an aircraft. It values the aircraft at its “marginal cost”, including only the cost of production and production tools essential for building a single unit. It excludes sunk costs such as research and development, supplementary costs such as support equipment, and future costs such as spares and maintenance. (Source – Wikipedia: Flyaway Cost). Now one cannot get a jet at a cost below “flying cost”, which is bare minimum.

On Nov 21, 2013 France Senate declared cost of one Rafale C (the cheapest of all versions of Rafale) as 68.8 million euros. On Nov 21, 2013 cost of one euro was 84.70 Rs. It means the “Flyaway cost” of a Rafale C jet in Indian rupees was Rs 582,73,60,000 , which means around Rs. 583 crores excluding taxes.

So Rahul Gandhiji claims that Congress got a Rafale jet at Rs. 560 crores including
  1. 150 Rs Crore of missiles each jet
  2. 5 year maintenance and spare parts obligation
  3. Logistic support at 2 IAF bases
  4. 50% offset investment
  5. Training of IAF Pilots and maintenance crew.
  6. 13 customisations required by IAF.
  7. Full Technology Transfer

Obviously Rahul Gandhi is lying through his teeth on the figure of Rs 560 crore. And media is also helping propagating his bundle of lies to the people.

Next Part – The biggest scam – How did Congress arrived at figure of 126 jets requirement.

(Spoiler Alert: Though IAF require jets to arrests the falling strength of its squadron, it did not specifically mentioned 126)

Better not to mix politics with religion

avanibhaiya255
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Better not to mix politics with religion

Recently there are two case where religion is mixed with politics. First fresh controversy erupted over the seven-phase polls announced by the Election Commission Kolkata Mayor and TMC minister Firhad Hakim brought up the issue of the election schedule clashing with the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and alleged the Modi government “did not want minorities to vote” in large numbers. The seven Phase Election will be held in Uttarpradesh, Bihar and West Bengal.

MIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Monday said elections during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan would have no impact on the voter turnout and slammed the political parties for raking up a controversy over this. The Hyderabad MP hoped that the poll percentage will be higher during Ramadan as more Muslims will go out and vote due to the high degree of spirituality they experience during the fasting month.

Second is the issue of women entry in Sabrimala which is major poll bank for various political parties in Kerala. The EC has given a strict warning that temple name should not be used in the campaign. Day after the Election Commission announced the dates for the high-stakes general elections, Kerala Chief Election Commissioner Teeka Ram Meena on Monday said invoking Sabarimala during political campaigning would be considered a violation of the Model Code of Conduct. As per the model code of conduct inciting religious feeling, using any kind of Supreme Court judgement, invoking God, soliciting votes in the name of religion or by inciting religious feelings is a clear violation of model code of conduct.

Politics and religion can never go hand in hand. In the modern era, people belong to different religion live in a country. There is diversification in every country of the world. In this case involving religion in politics can only be beneficial for the group who belongs to the state religion. But, not the whole nation. Because the people who are in minority will face biases of the state. They will not ultimately get the equal chances in proving themselves. Therefore, the sacred religion should not be involved in politics.Politics and religion can never go hand in hand. In the modern era, people belong to different religion live in a country. There is diversification in every country of the world. In this case involving religion in politics can only be beneficial for the group who belongs to the state religion. But, not the whole nation. Because the people who are in minority will face biases of the state. They will not ultimately get the equal chances in proving themselves. Therefore, the sacred religion should not be involved in politics.

In an ideal world, politics should have nothing to do with a citizen’s choice of religion in his private life. Pursuit of religion is for personal transcendence and has nothing to do with the mundane world of politics. Mixing politics with religion is vote-bank politics; this could have dangerous repercussions. All religions that profess universal values, are equal and one is free to follow any faith, irrespective of the one you are born into. think including or even mixing religion with caste is a very cheap way of getting votes from a majority of people.

Since politicians look for their benefit rather than the benefit of the people, casteism and forming religion based party is a common way which may help them get votes and access power.Mixing religion and politics makes people of certain religion which exist as minority in the country, feel alienated and discriminated.Politics and religion can never go hand in hand. In the modern era, people belong to different religion live in a country. There is diversification in every country of the world. In this case involving religion in politics can only be beneficial for the group who belongs to the state religion. But, not the whole nation.

Because the people who are in minority will face biases of the state. They will not ultimately get the equal chances in proving themselves. Therefore, the sacred religion should not be involved in politics.

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