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Monday, October 28, 2013

NY Times On Modi – What The F*#@ Do We Care?

I have had some experience in the matter so believe me when I tell you that a very high percent of Indians go weak in the knees and deem to lose the faculty of their spine when confronted by a white person or a proxy. Our leaders are no exception and while talking to white leader seem to get verbal diarrhea  and tend to wash the Indian dirty linen out in public. Just like our other PM candidate Rahul Gandhi when he told a visitor that LeT is a lesser threat to India than RSS. Why do we do this? Do we feel inferior to white people and always are eager to please them and ensure that they hear what THEY want to hear? Why are we so eager to seek validation of white people? I guess the only explanation is that somehow the British rule has altered our DNA and servility is now part of our genetic makeup.

The latest example of such validation seeking slaves are the people responding and agreeing with New York Times editorial which is very critical of Narendra Modi. No sooner did the article come out than a slew of Congresspersons jumped on it and agreed with it because somehow it validates their point of view. To these people, what New York Toilet-paper writes is correct but millions of Indian voters thronging Modi’s rallies are wrong. These are the same people who somehow think that getting the US visa is some sort of a character certificate.

I have something to say to these myopic, pseudo-secular sycophants. Most of these people are older people (Rita Bahuguna and Tariq Anwar) and must remember the articles written in NY Times back in the 1990’s by this reporter called Barbara Crossette. This anti Indian vixen wrote the most putrid anti-Indian articles and pro-pakistani articles. In fact any anti India articles back then used to get major coverage. Did Bahuguna and Anwar and their ilk agree with those articles well?

NYT depends upon input from South Asia Journalist Association which is based in New York. SAJA is nothing but a collection of leftist liberals like Angana Chatterji who have aligned themselves with people like Ghulam Nabi Fai who is currently in jail for spying on behalf of Pakistan. Pseudo-journalists like Vijay Prashad (nephew of Brinda Karat and thus related to the NDTV family) and Biju Matthew spew anti Indian venom in NYT are looked upon as Indian spokespersons in the US by many. With sources of this kind, only an idiot would believe anything published in that newspaper.

Moreover, leftist Indians who are never going to come back and are getting rich of a capitalist system (do you see the irony and the hypocrisy of these bastards?) and can crow about anti Modi articles will have no bearing on the next election. Lakhs and lakhs of people attending Modi rallies WILL have an impact and it is their opinion and their votes that matter.

So I ask you once again – what the F*C@ do we care what New York Times thinks of Modi?

Sunday, October 27, 2013

Maut Ka Saudagar versus Shehzada

Congress leaders in the past have used nasty terms like Maut ka saudagar (merchant of death) or fascist or Nazi or worse for Bhai Narendra Modi. He never retaliated or threatened back. His only form of retaliation was to win the next election with even a bigger margin. Even a blind, uneducated man from a non democratic country would tell you that the terms used by Congressmen including Sonia Gandhi are truly offensive and not according to “maryada of loktantra” (norms of democracy).

On the other hand in democracies where a family becomes so powerful that the descendents are almost expected to become heads of state. In the United States, The Kennedys and more recently the Bushes are such families. So much so that they are often referred to as “royalties”. In other words a young man born in this family like the late JFK Jr. was referred to as a Prince or “Shehzada” (in Urdu).

There are a lot of powerful families in India with sons often following their fathers into positions of power. However no family has dominated our unfortunate country as the Nehru-Gandhi family. Those of us with a few years under our belt remember the way Sanjay Gandhi used to behave. It was nothing short of a spoiled Prince. It is because it was almost expected that after Indira Gandhi, one of her sons was going to take over the country. Well, one of them did. SO if one expects Rahul Gandhi to be a candidate for PM’ship by virtue of being a Gandhi then what exactly should the term be?

Mr. Janardan Dwivedi who used to be a teacher at the Leftist Bastion of Delhi University should know that the term used by Narendra Modi for Rahul Gandhi could not be more apt (unlike the term used by his mistress for Modi). After which other simple MP in India gets to meet foreign dignitaries and is privy to national secrets. Please! Rahul Gandhi is not an ordinary MP. He really is more like the guy who thinks that he deserves the seat by virtue of his birth family i.e. a Shehzada.

It is not the term Shehzada used by Modi which has enraged Dwivedi and his ilk. It is the stark difference between the two PM candidates and the inability of the Congress to respond to Modi that is causing this anger. Dwivedi has famously said that Congress workers can stop usage of such words in two days. I do not need to hear that threat from him. Believe me Mr. Dwivedi, we all are scared of the Congress machinery and we know what you folks are capable of. I was young but I saw the brutality inflicted on Sikhs back in 1984. I am sure that Muslims in Nellie (Assam) also know the ferocity of an angry Congressman.

It is not Modi but the leaders from Congress like Dwivedi and Salman Khurshid (remember the threats made to Arvind Kejriwal?) who need a lesson a democratic decorum. It does not behoove senior leaders to behave like this and threaten violence. Who knows which Muslim terrorist may get encouraged and carry out bomb attacks in crowded places?

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1.       Madhu Kishwar  26 Oct
Compare the civility of NaMo calling RG. Shezada with Congress MPs calling him scorpion,Hitler, massmurderer, fascist, Ravan, gutterworm, snake!

 

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Congress Has Hindu, Muslim, Sikh Blood On Hands

Congress loves power. So much so that they are willing to do anything. Country got divided because of Congress’ lust for power. An able man like Sardar Patel stepped aside despite of a majority backing to make way for Gandhi’s favorite blue eyed boy Nehru. But none of these things compare to the amount of blood the Congress has on their hands directly or indirectly. TO ensure the continued support of their Muslim votebank and Brahmin-Dalit votebank, they rewrote history or at the very least omitted genocidal violence against Hindus. In fact, if it was not for the Indian history on the internet (not controlled by the Indian government) people would not even know about Mappila massacre of Hindus. Congress ruled educational boards have glossed over the Mughal atrocities and portrayed murderers like Akbar as benevolent rulers. These cover ups are being done even today with the help of pseudo-secular parties, commies and the ever compliant media. An example of that is happening in South India. Islamists are killing RRS and BJP workers systematically in TN. Situation is worse in Kerala.

Political patronage for vote bank purposes is to be blamed for nurturing terrorism and the present state of affairs in Kerala.  Another major contributor has been the apathy of the Keralite Hindus to even acknowledge the problem. Every political party whether it's regional or national has succeeded in keeping the Kerala Hindus divided. Time and again the national parties like the CPM and the Congress have aligned with religious fundamentalist regional parties for political mileage and exploited the Keralite Hindus. Now the situation has become so volatile that the NIA has to name Kerala as the Red Zone for the enormous challenge it faces. It is clear for the following paragraph of the Rediff article titled "Kerala, terror's own country, says NIA" that we would not make much headway as long as the custodians of law are hand in glove with the perpetrators of terror

“The 2003 Maradi massacre that claimed nine lives has more to it. There was a demand for a CBI probe, but it was never granted. Instead a commission was set up in 2009. Its job was not easy. They established that the massacre was linked to the Indian Union Muslim League, but the probe could not be continued. This was due to the transfer of key officers in the case,”.

A new book, The Blood Telegram: Nixon Kissinger and a Forgotten Genocide, written by Princeton University professor Dr. Gary J Bass sheds light on another very painful part of history and Congress complicity in it. We now know that Pakistani army systematically killed Hindus and educated Bengali Muslims to decimate the Awami League. The kill rate of Bangladeshis at the hands of the paki army would shame the Nazis. We also know that bastards like Nixon and Henry Kissinger knew about the Hindu genocide and chose to keep quiet because it did not suit their agenda of using the pakis to make friends with the Chinese. Human rights be GODDAMNED! I guess Hindus are lesser people. All this is not new and we ourselves written on the topic. What Prof. Bass says is that the Congress knew of the Hindu Genocide, YES – HINDU GENOCIDE and they kept quiet for political reasons. An article in rediff says the following:

While the Indian Government was aware of it, it tried to play it down and instead referred to it as genocide against the Bengali community in Bangladesh so as to avoid an outcry from the leaders of the then Jan Sangh, the predecessor of the today's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party, says Gary J Bass, author of the book The Blood Telegram: Nixon Kissinger and a Forgotten Genocide.

"Rather than basing this accusation primarily on the victimisation of Hindus, India tended to focus on the decimation of the Bengalis as a group,"

"From Moscow, D P Dhar, India's ambassador there, decried the Pakistan army's preplanned policy of selecting Hindus for butchery, but, fearing inflammatory politicking from rightist reactionary Hindu chauvinist parties like Jana Sangh, he wrote, We were doing our best not to allow this aspect of the matter to be publicised in India," Bass writes in his book

It noted that "senior officers like the COAS [chief of army staff] and CGS [chief of general staff] were often noticed jokingly asking as to how many Hindus have been killed."

According to the book, the Indian government privately believed, as this aide noted, that Pakistan, by "driving out Hindus in their millions," hoped to reduce the number of Bengalis so they were no longer the majority in Pakistan, and to destroy the Awami League as a political force by getting rid of the wily Hindu who was supposed to have misled simple Bengali Muslims into demanding autonomy."

"In India we have tried to cover that up," Swaran Singh (the then External Affairs Minister) candidly told a meeting of Indian diplomats in London, "but we have no hesitation in stating the figure to foreigners."

"Singh instructed his staff to distort for their country: We should avoid making this into an Indo-Pakistan or Hindu-Muslim conflict. We should point out that there are Buddhists and Christians besides the Muslims among the refugees, who had felt the brunt of repression."

All this so Indira Gandhi could continue to have her claws around our unfortunate nation. But why stop at the Hindus. We all know what happened to the Sikhs after Indira Gandhi assassination. Congress leaders were personally involved in the riots which killed over 3000 Sikhs. Till date the guilty have not been punished. What about Nellie massacre in Assam under the Congress rule where over 5000 Muslims were killed. What about numerous riots since our independence that happened in Congress ruled states as a result of the divide and rule votebank policies?

Congress has way too much blood on their hands and all for power. Are they ever going to answer for all that? Is the Indian voter so divided and blind that they will elect this party in its current form again? Something has to change otherwise we will not have a nation of our own. People really need to vote these guys out and bring a sense of justice and hope to the country.

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Congress: Lies, Damned Lies and Finally Statistics


No one told Congress that the race has begun. As it is, the race seems to be between a race horse and a three legged donkey. Despite of media’s best efforts to ignore Modi’s virtuoso performance at extremely well received rallies, he has created an electricity in the air. The ditry tricks department of Congress has now gone into an overdrive. They realize that no one is in the mood to buy their lies about Modi or BJP anymore. Congress Bureau of Investigation’s attempts to smear the man are not bearing any fruits. They tried half truths by employing these so called experts who are crunching numbers to show that there is no way the BJP can win more than 180 seats and so Modi cannot become the PM. This is being done with the sole intention of creating a doubt in the minds of voters and demoralize the BJP worker. What these experts do not tell you is that if you go by their numbers, Lok Sabha seats are going to go empty.

Half truths have failed. Lies have failed. Damned lies are also not working out. What is left is Statistics which is now being thrown around by men with alleged expertise. No less a failure than P Chidambaran has started to spew numbers about Modi’s performance and those of the BJP. Like the other key posts, the CAG is also occupied by someone with Congress ties. So we get to hear about issues like malnutrition in Gujarat. No one says that everything is right in Gujarat. After all, it still is part of a developing country. What we want to see if the state is on the right path and there is a discernible difference made over a period. Congress and other Modi haters would have you believe that the improvement made over the last ten years in Gujarat is either a lie or attributable to other factors.

To me Atalji ran a good government but he was no match to Modi when it comes to implementing a vision and forward leaning policies. His claim to fame was to run the NDA smoothly. What I want to tell the Congress mandarins is that forget Modi, you cannot even come close to Atalji’s government performance. Here are some statistics from Economic Times which is no friend of the BJP. Minhaz Merchant bases his article on information from the Economic Survey of India, UNDP, IMF, Planning Commission of India. Merchant chooses ten key criteria and crunches the numbers.

1.GDP growth: Average GDP growth in 1998-2004 (NDA) was 6% a year. Average annual GDP growth in 2004-13 (UPA), up to June 30, 2013, was 7.9%.

Caveat 1: The Vajpayee-led NDA battled US-led economic sanctions following the Pokhran-II nuclear test in May 1998. It faced a short but expensive Kargil war in 1999 and the dotcom bust in 2000. When it took office, it had the lag effect of the East Asian financial crisis of 1997-98 to contend with.

Caveat 2: The UPA government, in contrast, benefited from the economic momentum of the high (8.1%) GDP growth rate of 2003-04 – the NDA government’s final year – and rode that wave. 

Despite these caveats, the UPA government’s average annual GDP growth rate of 7.9% in 2004-13 clearly scores over the NDA government’s average annual growth rate of 6% (though high inflation boosted the former significantly). First strike to UPA.

2. Current Account Deficit:
2004: (+) $7.36 billion (surplus).
2013: (-) $80 billion.


3. Trade deficit:
2004: (-) $13.16 billion.
2013: (-) $180 billion.

4. Fiscal deficit:
2004: 4.7% of GDP.
2013: 4.8% of GDP.

Not much to choose between the two.

5. Inflation:
1998-2004: 5%.
2004-2013: 9% (Both figures are averaged out over their respective tenures).

6. External Debt:

March 2004: $111.6 billion.
March 2013: $390 billion.

7. Jobs:

1999-2004: 60 million new jobs created.
2004-11: 14.6 million jobs created.

8. Rupee:
1998-2004: Variation: Rs. 39 to 49 per $.
2004-13: Variation: Rs. 39 to 68 per $.
9. HDI:
2004: India was ranked 123rd globally on the human development index (HDI) in 2004, with a score of 0.453.
2013: India has slipped 13 places to 136th globally on the HDI in 2013 with a score of 0.554.

10. Subsidies:
2004: Rs. 44,327 crore.
2013: Rs. 2,31,584 crore.

Here again, profligate welfarism, as the ADBI report quoted earlier shows, has led to a rising subsidy bill. Worse, a significant amount is siphoned off by a corrupt nexus of politicians, officials and middlemen.
Conclusion: UPA scores above NDA on one of the 10 parameters (GDP growth), is level on one other parameter (fiscal deficit) while NDA does better than UPA on the remaining eight parameters.
The next time Finance Minister P. Chidambaram wishes to stage an encounter with facts, he would do well to be aware of those facts.

Just like Congress. The recent cyclone did not turn out to be (Thank all the Gods) the horror as was expected. The devastation was managed due to good forecasting (we had help from the US) and the Indian navy. Jaipal Reddy was all over the place, crowing about the good performance. Where was he oe the rest of the party, when things really went bad in Uttarakhand?

The Merchant article can be read at: http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/headon/entry/upa-vs-nda-setting-the-economic-record-straight

Saturday, October 5, 2013

Lalu In Jail: Too Little Too Late

Finally. Finally, Laloo Yadav gets his comeuppance. He is finally proven to be what we all knew he was – a criminal. He was a criminal then. He is a criminal today and that is what he will be tomorrow – incarceration assisted rehabilitation be damned. It may justice served but, in my humble opinion,it is too little and definitely too late.

Think about it. He was charged and indicted long time ago. He spent a brief time in jail after being charged. However, he ruled the unfortunate state of Bihar using his wife as a proxy (like Congress using another housewife to rule our unfortunate nation). He then got out and has since occupied some of the highest offices in the nation. He has taken important decisions and influenced countless others. He did all this under a cloud of well grounded suspicion. In his capacity as Railways Minister, he took it upon himself to unleash a judge on Narendra Modi in the aftermath of the post Godhra Massacre riots. Imagine. A scam artist and a criminal like Lalloo investigated a man of impeccable character like Modi. If this is not a total travesty of social and criminal justice, then I don’t know what is? Can one even make an estimate of the damage that has been done to the nation with a criminal like Laloo Yadav as a Minister in our central government? 

How does a criminal get to make and influence national level decisions? Clearly this is an ongoing problem with our judicial system. Laloo and other roamed free using legal loopholes and taking advantage of the glacier like speed of our courts.

What can be done about it? One solution is that the moment someone is charged with a crime, they should be barred from holding a public office. Of course knowing our corrupt political system and bureaucracy, that provision will get used to settle personal scores and against good people. What needs to be done is that in such cases, special courts needs to be established which specially deal in such cases. If a politician is charged then they need to be tried and either punished or absolved quickly. We all know that A Raja is one of the biggest crooks in the country and yet he sits in the Loksabha. Why has he not been tried quickly? Of course Raja does not want this matter settled quickly because he knows that any trial will find him guilty. At least under the current system, he can use the judicial machinations and stay out. He can delay his trial as long as he can. That way, in future, in a favorable political situation, he can be either pardoned or have the case buried deep. And like Laloo, by the time the trial hits the court, he will be an old man. He then (like Laloo) claim old age and demand mercy.

We need total revamp of our judicial system. For crimes of social (rapes, dowry deaths, female feticides) and political (scams etc.) nature, there is a critical need for fast track courts. We do not need rapists and murderers roaming free for potential victims. Similarly, we cannot have criminal politicians occupying offices and making decisions which affect the entire country.