Kashmiri Muslims think that Kashmir belongs to Muslims – That is truly anti-national.

Saturday, 28 June, 2008 , 04:42 PM

The Jammu and Kashmir government, after deliberations in the Cabinet (PDP was also a part of it), decided to transfer 40 hectares of forest land along the pilgrimage path to the Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board (SASB) to construct tenements, toilets and other conveniences for the benefit of the yatris.

The Shrine Board would be paying Rs.2.5 crore to the government as a gesture of its appreciation. The land belongs to the `secular’ government and the government has all the right to give it to the Shrine Board as a welfare measure. But, this is objected by the Muslim leaders Mufti Mohammed Sayeed of PDP, Farook Abdullah of NC and the leaders of the Hurriyat conference, which instigated the Muslim majority of Kashmir to resort to violence and arson attacking government buildings and other business establishments and even the buses carrying the Amarnath pilgrims injuring many of them.

Ice Lingam at Amarnath Cave Shrine

When the police tried to prevent the escalation of mob violence, three protestors died in the police firing. Now, the holy yatra stands suspended for the third time this year and thousands of pilgrims have been stranded. The PDP, which is a coalition partner, has demanded that the Congress-led government take back the allotted land before 30 June and warned that it would withdraw support in the event of government’s failure to withdraw its decision of transferring the land.

The Chief Minister and Congress Leader Gulam Nabi Azad has exposed his spinelessness through an order restricting construction activities in the allotted land. Then why was it allotted in the first place?

Stranded Amarnath pilgrims

The protest by the Kashmiri Muslims is uncalled for and unwarranted and the provocative behaviour and arrogant statements of PDP, NC and Hurriyat leaders indicate that they treat Kashmir as their own fiefdom. The Centre is allocating funds to Kashmir, which is ten times more than what the other states are getting. While the per capita Central assistance for other states is around Rs.1500/- Kashmir is getting around Rs. 10000/-, which roughly works out to Rs.45000/- per family per year! But, when the State-wise contributions to the nation are compared, where does Kashmir stand? Why and what for they should be given this undue recognition and care? While surviving with central assistance, which is mostly contributed by the Hindu majority, what is that they have done to the Hindu brothers in the valley? The Kashmiri Pandits have been driven out of their own land, their properties, lands and Temples have all been looted, their women raped and they are living as refugees in their own land.

Very recently the National Conference leader Omar Abdulla himself has confessed that the Kashmiri Muslims have connived with terrorists in the ethnic cleansing of the Pandits. While Kashmiri Muslims are getting so much of assistance from the Centre, what is that the Pandit refugees are getting? Nothing!

And what about Haj pilgrimage? That again is subsidised and maximum contribution is from the Hindu majority! Whereas, the SASB has been allotted just 40 hectares, only a one-time measure, that too for a payment of Rs. 2.5 crore! On what basis the Muslims object to it? It is very sad and unfortunate that the Muslims object on the grounds that it is their `own’ land. If a majority community assumes that the place belongs to it, then what will happen in future in other places, or rather in the country itself? Are the Kashmiri Muslims prepared for it? Let them compare their status with that of their brothers living in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir, so that, they can realise how well off they are here! The present imbroglio in Kashmir created by the Muslim leaders is outrageous and the Central and State governments must put an end to this madness immediately.

The Bangladeshi and Bengali Muslims have created a similar atmosphere for the last ten days in West Bengal. Sagar Island is a place at Ganga Sagar, which is the confluence of the Holy River Ganaga and the Bay of Bengal. This is one of the holiest sites being worshipped by the Hindus, particularly during Mahara Shankranthi, when millions take bath and worship Ganga Matha, Barath Mata and Mahadeva. `Hindu Samhati’ a Hindu cultural organisation was about to conduct a training programme and a workshop on the current socio-political scenario at Eastern India from 12 June to 15 June 2008. After finishing the first day of training the hundred and seventy members including women and children visited the Kapila Muni Mandir after bathing at the confluence. The enthusiastic members raised slogans like `Jai Shri Ram’ and `Barath Mata Ki Jai’. The dominant Muslim community consisting predominantly Bangladeshis illegal immigrants strongly objected to the slogans and threatened the devotees. Later in the night a mob of 5000 Muslims attacked the building where the Hindu devotees had been staying. The local authorities sent only 15 police men, who were also attacked by the mob and every devotee has been injured, some of them seriously. The building, along with another belonging to the VHP was set on fire. The `secular’ Communist government, in an act of `patriotism and humaneness’ and concern for law and order, arrested 15 Hindu devotees including Tapan Kumar Gosh, the leader of the Samhati, for being the victims and remaining disciplined and tolerant! The other devotees are recuperating in hospital. The government has not taken any action on the perpetrators of violence and arson, who are not the citizens of this country, but illegal immigrants. It is understood that thousands of such illegal immigrants have been ensured legal status by the Communist government by giving them ration cards, voter-ID cards as a `passionate’ measure of `human rights’!

As this nation is secular in itself, it recognised the concerns of minorities and respected their aspirations and hence ensured their religious freedom through various clauses in the Constitution. But unfortunately, the same respect doesn’t seem to be reciprocated by the minorities, as evidenced by the alarming increase in religious extremism and conversions. The situation has come to such a sordid state that shouts of `Barath Mata Ki Jai’ and `Jai Shri Ram’ are not being tolerated! If Hindus cannot worship their Land, River, Nature and God in their own nation as per their own cultural traditions, where else can they go?

Pilgrims Guest House at Ganga Sagar

Three months back in Chennai, an Art Exhibition on the `True History’ of Aurangazeb (as per his own records) was not allowed and the State police yielded to the pressure of the fundamentalist elements in the minority community and thwarted the exhibition.

During the centenary celebrations of the birth anniversary of Guruji Golwalkar in Bangalore, the peaceful procession organised by RSS/VHP was stoned and attacked by the minority community. For the display of Mohammed Cartoons in Denmark, the Hindu shops in Hyderabad and Lucknow were attacked! For the hanging of Saddam Hussein in Iraq, the entire country was taken to ransom through protests! Amarnath pilgrims have been attacked and Ganesh Chathurthi processions have been frustrated! Such things have been happening quite frequently, and this is not to speak of the terror attacks and bomb blasts at regular intervals.

Burning Guest House at Ganga Sagar

The Hindu minorities in Bangladesh and Pakistan have been persecuted and the population of Hindus has dwindled to below 2% in Pakistan from 16% and below 10% in Bangladesh from 32% in the last fifty years. Malaysia has joined the list of Muslim nations persecuting Hindu minorities. Whereas, here in India, the Hindus have been treating the minorities like brothers and sisters, even during and after the partition, despite repeated occurrences of terrorism and evangelisation. But what are they getting back and how they are paid back? The so-called secularism cannot be a one-way traffic! The pampering and pandering of the minority communities by the self-interested vote bank chasing pseudo-secular political parties have to be blamed for the present volatile state of communal affairs in this country.

They must realise that there is a huge resentment developing in the minds of the majority community, which doesn’t augur well for the communal amity of the country.

http://newstodaynet.com/col.php?section=20&catid=29

Countdown, crash & casualties

Saturday, 28 June, 2008 , 02:32 PM

3…2…1… The 123 Agreement of the Indo-US nuclear deal has become some kind of a countdown for the UPA regime at the Centre. With the clock and calendar suddenly racing, the air is thick with talk of the imminent fall of the Government.

Of course, there is the basic question: Is there a Government at all for it to fall? Sure, there is a ruling alliance in place … we could discern it from the desperate voices in their death throes, but what of governance? If that is the yardstick, the Government, even if there, is then invisible. Alive but not kicking. May be like comets, whose existence we learn of only when they are in free fall, the presence of the UPA ‘Government’ too could be felt only from the falling debris. And the heads it will hit are many!

The first scalp, would doubtless be M Singh. His head, seemingly well protected, literally and owing to his enjoying Signora Sonia’s trust, would still take a severe blow for he has now made  the deal a personal prestige issue. He insists that the deal is in national interest, but one can occasionally perceive his eye wandering in the direction of posterity, not to speak of Uncle Sam’s approval; having been dubbed a dummy, the Sardar sees the deal as a chance for self-assertion, knowing full well it is also a suicide pact. And he will not even become a martyr because in the Cong, martyrdom is not permitted for those outside of the dynasty. So, from being a doormat, he will become a footnote before vanishing from the fineprint of history. But for now, if the Government does fall, he will continue as caretaker PM. But then, that’s what he is  already!

May be we should call him Undertaker, instead, for having pushed his party over the brink. Many heavy-weight Cong heads will roll along with his. We hear his own partymen, and that includes his patron-saint, are terribly upset with him for hastening the crash. They seem to be convinced that this stint at power could be the last for quite some time to come and so would want to stretch it as much as possible. The spoil sport MSingh, therefore, is the enemy within; that the silly Sardar should be talking of national interest when the party interests and personal interests are going for a toss is something they cannot fathom. It goes against the familiar Congress ‘culture’ and worse, is blasphemous of the Roman Goddess and the semi-Roman Godson. These days Congmen look like condemned prisoners awaiting the gallows. Watch Sibal and Pranab and you will agree.

But equally, if not even more, distressed are the allies, for whom the bottomline is uninterrupted power, political power, not nuclear. To their angst, they are now faced with a power shutdown. We will go one by one, though they are united in fall. And by seniority: K first. Does anyone know where the DMK stands on the nuclear issue? Well, everywhere but actually nowhere. K was for the deal when it hit the headlines as a great milestone for India. That was the Cong line. After the Left upped the ante, he promptly downed his support, his rational mind having sensed trouble. Now, he is playing the sagely moderator, a la Surjeet, striving to avert a showdown. Suddenly TRBaalu is in great demand in the Capital and gets audience from no less than Sonia herself, because the Thalaivar could not be present. Now, what are K and Co  moderating on? The pros and cons of the nuclear deal? Far from it.

And then there is Lalu. Derailed from Bihar, he managed to get himself berthed in Delhi. He had been chugging along merrily until this nonsense of a nuclear deal landed like a rock on the tracks. The deal itself makes no sense to him. From fodder to uranium, it is a huge leap of knowledge and Lalu is no mood for such efforts. So he goes on air by rote: the UPA government should not fall if only to keep the communal ‘porces’ out! He should know. An early demise of this government and worse, a hostile one instead, would mean getting run over along with clan, cattle and cadre by the NDA Express. For the likes of Paswan, it could be a case of a door closing only for another to open: Happy to warm the seat as long as possible but all is not lost either if exit is inevitable. The NDA is quite porous for his ilk to creep in.

We now turn Left, to the villain of the piece. A villain at the crossroads really: Allowing the N-deal would help the global(China excluded) ‘Imperialist forces’ and stalling the deal would embolden the local ‘communal forces’, Islamist not included. Of course, the Left has been living comfortably with this dilemma with full knowledge of MSingh’s commitment to the deal for more than a year now. The comrades, therefore, have a more valid reason to put a spoke in the nuclear wheel now: the genetic incompatibility with the Congress. The latter is the Left’s natural enemy, and the enemy who matters in the Communist strongholds as polls draw near. The BJP does not figure in those battlefields at all. If the Left has to retain its numbers, it can only be at the expense of the Cong. But alas, they are now bedfellows. And with runaway inflation chasing the Cong, the Left too is testing I-Positive! The immorality of sleeping with the enemy is coming home to roost! Indeed, the N-issue is the right alibi to ditch the infectious adversary-turned-ally before it is too late!

Even Mulayam’s support may not be a big help, but he is being wooed fervently. For Sonia that amounts to eating humble pizza for reasons well known. So, with all the political vultures off their perches and hovering on the skies scavenging for ripe pickings from the carcass of the fallen government, poll season, read migration season, is verily on the horizon. But the biggest casualty of all this is the nuclear issue itself. There is very little enlightenment on that count. MSingh’s regime has been far from transparent. Most of the provisions, many vital ones too, have not come to public eye on grounds of security. The Left’s opposition looks instinctive and dubious while a great part of the political class is painfully unconcerned about the merits and faults.The scientists themselves are split down the middle. And there is no guarantee on what course the deal would take in the US even if inked now!

We the people have no clue and care less about the ABC of the 123 Agreement. We will back it if Ash Rai endorses it or dump it if Rajinikant says so. We have outsourced the thinking process.

Freedom of speech Rally against 100 million dollar lawsuit by Indian National Overseas Congress

Dr. Subramanian Swamy and Dr.Kukar

Video of Dr. Swamy speech (complete transcript given below)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6575612467156039547&hl=en

Video of Dr. Kukar speech (Key organizer of the rally)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4979041299447156689&hl=en

Video of Attorney Karamvir Dahiya Esq.,
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4440717485402847289&hl=en

Photos, Posters at the Rally
http://picasaweb.google.com/sunanda.thali/FreedomOfSpeechRallyInNewYork.

Freedom of Speech Rally against 100 Million dollar defamation lawsuit by Indian National Overseas Congress

It is not a case of that Mr. Kataria fighting and you are standing by him because you know him, this is a case of all of us, it is case of your freedom of speech, it is the case in the future you can live in this country far away from India, without fear of long arm of Indian Government coming and standing in the way (of your freedom of speech).

– Dr. Subramanian Swamy

New York (June 22, 2008)— Indian National Overseas Congress has filed a 100 million dollar defamation lawsuit against Narain Kataria, Arish Sahani and others for taking out a full page advertisement on Oct 6, 2007 in New York times questioning the selection of Sonia Gandhi to represent India at UN International Non-Violence day on Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday. In response to this event, several local community leaders organized a Freedom of Speech rally on Sunday, June 22^nd at Flushing, NY Hindu Temple from 10:30 to 1PM. Dr. Subramanian Swamy flew from India to address the rally. The rally was attended by more than 200 people. The rally is marked by speeches by local attorney Karamvir Dahiya, Dr. Kukar who is key organizer of the event and Dr. Subramanian Swamy. There were informative displays about Freedom of Speech and about law regarding defamation in United States outside the lecture hall.

Attorney Mr. Dahiya gave a passionate speech about the frivolousness of the lawsuit and its improprieties. He urged the defendants Narain Kataria, Arish Sahani and others to fight to the end. Dr. Kukar gave an impassionate speech about Freedom of Speech. He called the lawsuit the most despicable assault on Freedom of speech and said, “this lawsuit, believe me, is not against just Arish Sahani or Narain Kataria, this lawsuit is meant against all of us, you, me and the freedom of speech”. In his speech Dr. Kukar said Freedom of Speech is nothing new to India. He gave example of King Rama, where when a commoner made aspersions on Sita, King Rama did not suppress the Freedom of speech. He quoted extensively from sayings of Socrates, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Voltaire. He lamented that Freedom of Speech is continuously being assaulted and gave examples of fatwa on Salman Rusdie, murder of Danish filmmaker Theo Van Gogh, harassment and expulsion of Taslima Nasreen. He compared the use of lawsuits to suppress freedom of speech to that Russian Josef Stalin’s KGB Chief, who said, “give me the man, I will find the crime”. He gave examples of Freedom of Speech in United States such as, the statements by media and masses on President Bush, questioning of faith & patriotism of Obama, violation of laws by Rosa Parks during Civil Rights and said none of these invited lawsuits. He said members of INOC who are living in such a free country shamelessly chose to suppress Freedom of Speech through meaningless lawsuits. He questioned why such lawsuits were not contemplated when Imam of Jama Masjid made fiery anti-national speeches during Kargil war in India. He was saddened that the Freedom of Press index in India ranks 140. He warned those who are perpetrating this are stirring a hornet’s nest and the truth will prevail, in spite of their efforts.

Dr. Subramaniam Swamy, with his keen intellect and vast experience with lawsuits gave his insights into what the lawsuit is about and his analysis about the statements made in the NY Times advertisement which INOC is suing for defamation. His foremost word of caution was if this lawsuit is not effectively countered, it is simply a matter of time before anyone who opposed the current situation in India would be silenced with such threats.

Dr. Swamy said every word in the NY Times Ad is true and he has done extensive work on this issue and said it had been on his Janata party website (www.janataparty.org/sonia.html) for several years. However, he is not being sued because he uses courts as a public forum for what he has been saying. But Narain Kataria, Arish Sahani are sued precisely to create enough hassles because it requires to hire lawyers, go to courts and bear financial burden, so that in the future no one dares to venture to talk about these in public. He applauded Overseas Indians for their efforts to redress the political situation in India and gave example of how Overseas Indians played significant role in removal of Emergency by Mrs. Indira Gandhi which she herself acknowledged to him.

Dr. Swamy said that the choice of Narain Kataria and Arish Sahani as primary target of lawsuit is because of their efforts over many years to bring unity among Hindus through Hindu Sangathan Day. He said that Hindu unity causes lot of discomfort for many such as the Christian fundamentalists who openly declared that they will convert 100 million Hindus few years ago in Dallas and the radical Islamists who drove away 500,000 Hindus in Kashmir and butchering them in Bangladesh. However, he reiterated that Hinduism is not a religion, but a civilization which both Muslims and Christians in India can also acknowledge because all Indians share the same ancestry.

Dr. Swamy then went over the reasons for which lawsuit does not stand a chance in American courts. He described the landmark judgment in 1964, NY Times Vs Sullivan, Commissioner of Police of Alabama during civil rights movement, where in Supreme Court established the concept of burden of proof of ‘actual malice’ on the plaintiff, when public figures sue for defamation. Proving ‘actual malice’ means that the plaintiff need to satisfy three criteria. 1) The statements made are false 2) The defendants knew it is false 3) That defendants went ahead and published with reckless disregard for truth. This concept has been the bar since 1964 for defamation lawsuits in United States that ushered an era of freedom of speech to media against public figures. He said it is beyond doubt ‘Sonia Gandhi’ is public figure and that INOC will fail on every criteria of ‘actual malice’. Not a single case of defamation by public figure succeeded since that time. The reasons Supreme Court established this is because the suppression of truth by public figures could have chilling effect on public debate in a democracy. That is precisely what INOC is trying to avoid, to avoid public debate on the wrong doings of Sonia and Congress Party of India.

Dr. Swamy then moved on to establishing the well known and widely published truths about every statement in New York Times Ad. He himself went to court with many of the items published and got injunctions from Indian courts. He questioned why should not Indians have a right to know the activities and antecedents of those who rule over them.

Sonia Real Name is Antonia Maino: He explained how Sonia Gandhi real name is Antonio Maino and Sonia is name given by her father after he returned from Russia after being jailed there for his service in Hitler’s army. He mentioned that Sonia’s father was released in 4 years by Russians, compared to 14 years given to every German soldier because he could have capitulated to join KGB.

Sonia faking her birth place: Parliamentary records show Sonia giving her birth place as Orbassano but her birth certificate says Luciano, a border town to Switzerland which is resort town of German Soldiers. He questioned how can Sonia claim her father to be the person who was in Soviet Jail during her birth. These details, he says raises questions about her birth and her claims in public records. While these may not sound important details, these he says are legitimate in cross examinations.

Sonia faking her degree: In a sworn affidavit, Sonia mentioned that she studied English in Cambridge University, when in reality she has not even attended high school. Dr.Swamy wrote to University of Cambridge and they verified that there was no such student. After he raised this issue, Sonia dropped this from her later affidavits.

Sonia as Au-Pair: He questioned if someone is not studying in University of Cambridge and lived for five years in England (a different country), how would one support oneself? He said, he has done investigation and it is shocking what he found out. However, he did not elaborate. Should these questions be not asked? These questions are asked during a marriage, for employment and should we not ask when someone is ruling against them.

Sonia Citizenship: He said Sonia became Indian citizen after living there for 18 years. However, she doesn’t appear to have renounced her Italian Citizenship. The copy of the application is available on his website. Indian citizenship laws require an applicant renounce earlier citizenship to become a citizen. In response to the question of renouncement of earlier citizenship, she responded, ‘Not Applicable’. Upon refusal by citizenship officials, she then produced a certificate from Italian Embassy that she told them that she renounced the Italian Citizenship. He said Indira Gandhi forced the Government officials to accept that letter. However, he says any Government without her sycophants can easily cancel her citizenship.

Sonia Connections with KGB: Dr. Swamy detailed the Russian President Yeltsin appointment of a commission to unearth the KGB records and one of the members of the commission, Yevgenia Albats, wrote in her book, ‘State Within State’, that Rajiv Gandhi and her family are regular recipients of funds from KGB through a fictitious company. He ran into Yevgenia at Harvard and questioned her about this. Based on publicly available records he went to Delhi High Court which issued notice to CBI. However, the Govt of India refused to file the required FIR to get the original documents from Russia and proceed in the court.

Sonia – Heir of two billion dollars in Swiss Account: He says, Sonia’s husband Rajiv had two billion dollars in 1991. This data along with the list of all corrupt leaders worldwide who has large swiss accounts, was published by Government of Switzerland under pressure from US when it wanted to get details of Philippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos. All this money, all the money of Indira Gandhi and most of Sanjay Gandhi, he says went to Sonia. He mentioned, death is very profitable to Sonia Gandhi. The data on 2 billion dollars along with Rajiv Gandhi photo was published in Switzer Illustrete magazine in 1991.

Sonia – Antiques Smuggling: Dr. Swamy says how Sonia sister Anushka owns two shops in Italy, one called Ethnica and another Ganapathi, in the home town of Sonia’s mother. The photographs of these are produced and are available at his website. How did they get there, he asked? He says that it is through the help of LTTE. He also mentioned Sonia close family friend Quattochi who was involved in famous Bofors scandal, used to sell weapons to LTTE. He says the antiques are smuggled out of India and her sister Anushka shops are front shops and the antiques are sold at well known London art shops such as Sotheby and Christies. This racket he documented and convinced courts to issue notice to CBI. However, the Government of India dragged its feet on its investigations.

Rahul Gandhi Citizenship: Dr. Swamy questioned whether Rahul Gandhi is citizen of India? In Italian law, if mother is Italian Citizen at the time of birth, then her children will also be Italian citizens. And law in India clearly says you cannot be Indian Citizen unless you renounce Italian Citizenship. When Rahul was born, Sonia was Italian Citizen and Rahul Gandhi never renounced his citizenship. In fact, he says he uses an Italian passport under name Raul Vinci.

Rahul Gandhi arrest by FBI: Dr. Swamy says Rahul Gandhi was arrested at Boston airport on Sept 27, 2001 with 160,000 dollars in cash. He was traveling with his Colombian girlfriend, Veronique Cartelli. Cartelli name, he says belongs to drug mafia. FBI held him for 9 hours and refused to let him go. It is only after Indian government intervened and Condelezza Rice was informed that it will affect Indo-US relations was he allowed to go after being told that he should appear anytime in US courts whenever called for. Dr. Swamy attempted to get FBI records and was told that it requires Rahul’s permission. He wrote to Rahul to provide the permission to prove there is no such thing happened, but he has never gotten any response. (Note: This was reported in Indian media in 2001).

In the end, Dr. Swamy alerted the audience that since Sonia came to power, there is degradation of Hinduism and Hindu Values. From Jayendra Saraswati who was put in jail like a common criminal on a Diwali day and to the destruction of Rama Sethu, he mentioned there is systematic undermining of anything that is Hinduism under her rule. He said Hindus always fought and it is far from truth that Hindus capitulated to Islamic and European conquests. The proof, he says, in spite of 800 years of Islamic rule and 200 years of European rule, India is still 83% Hindu. He asked audience to compare this with Iran (in 15 years) and Iraq and Saudi Arabia that fell in short times to Islamic invaders and the Europe continent that was converted to Christianity in less than a century.

Dr. Swamy’s final words are Kataria and others will easily win this case. INOC has no locus standi. Then there is actual malice. He challenged to prove it. He sincerely wished that Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi are scrutinized in American courts but felt that US courts may think it is waste of their time. He urged the audience to support the defendants and fight back, so that no such cases will ever be filed in future to trample on freedom of speech.

To a clapping audience, he said, ‘It is not a case of that Mr. Kataria fighting and you are standing by him because you know him, this is a case of all of us, it is case of your freedom of speech, it is the case in the future you can live in this country far away from India, without fear of long arm of Indian Government coming and standing in the way (of your freedom of speech)”.

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Some of the additional informational posters used at the rally:

Marxist-Jihadi Criminal Enterprise

Dr. Babu Suseelan

http://www.india-forum.com/indian_politics/marxist-jihadi_criminal_enterprise.html

Marxists and Jihadis: Partners in Crime

The prevention of crime and anti-social activities is an important responsibility of the government-one in which all segments of society have a stake. But on that crime fighting ideological front, the Marxist government in Kerala has been notably deficient. (In the view of the Marxists aligned with the Jihadis, peace loving, law abiding Hindus are the real problem of social tension, crime, violence and Jihadi terrorism).

Marxists and Jihadis: Partners in Crime

Under the Marxist government , Kerala has become the crime capital of the world. There is an explosion of crime in every aspect of life in Kerala, from homes, neighborhoods, schools, colleges, workplaces, and places of worship. People live in a world of Marxist violence and Jihadi terrorism directed at any levels of society. There is decline for human rights and law and order. A general disrespect for the rule of law is translated into numerous Marxist-Jihadi criminal activities in Kerala. Most of the victims of Marxist-Jihadi crimes are innocent Hindus. Under the Marxist government, there is no justice for Hindu victims.

Now Kerala is encountering new criminal schemes which attack financial institutions, particularly those crimes being committed by organized Jihadi groups. There has been an increase in bank fraud, fictitious document fraud, counterfeit currency distribution, Hawala transaction, as well as fraudulent identification document created with the use of computer technology.

Counterfeit Currency Distribution: Unparalleled In Our Time

There is a marked increase in the amount of counterfeit currency being circulated through Kerala. For the last several years Pakistan currency printing plants have been churning out high grade counterfeit Indian currency. A recent concern is the increasing evidence that Jihadis from Kerala settled in Dubai have been smuggling counterfeit Indian currency Printed in Pakistan security press. Dubai has become a willing pawn for the Pakistan government engaged in corrupt financial activities against India.

The Pakistan counterfeiters were able to bring counterfeit Indian currency into Kerala because the Marxist government aid and abet Jihadis as a matter of policy. There is no hope that Pakistani criminal activities can be brought to a halt until Marxist government changes its Muslim appeasement policy. A recent concern is the increasing evidence that the Marxist government has not been an innocent bystander in Pakistan traffic in bogus Indian currency.

For India, Pakistan counterfeiting of Indian currency represents a direct attack on a protected national asset. Circulation of bogus Indian Rupee might undermine confidence in Indian Rupee, and depresses its value. It will damage Indian economy. Financial industry sources estimate that losses associated with Pakistan counterfeit currency distribution amounts to crores of rupees. The bogus bills are used to buy real estate, businesses, shops and petrol pumps. It undermines legally established businesses and threatens financial stability. Officials familiar with bogus currency distribution notes its exceptional quality of counterfeit currency printed in Pakistan. The quality is so good that many cashier-level bank employees would likely not be able to detect the forgeries.

The amount of money allegedly bring to the coffers of Pakistan ISI and Jihadi terrorist groups is beyond imagination. The earnings from counterfeit Indian currency distribution also could be significant to Jihadi terrorists and subversive Islamic groups like NDF and SIMI. Money may be used to purchase weapons, fund subversive activities, and for slush funds for bribery and corrupting police and politicians.

Jihadi groups in Kerala have long relied on criminal proceeds to fund and expand operations, and were pioneers in using business structure to commingle funds to disguise their origin. Jihadi terrorist groups have used and continue to use established mechanisms to move their funds. One common method is smuggling cash, gold, electronic and computer parts through the Muslim couriers working in the middle east. Jihadi traffickers have become adept at exploiting the weakness and lack of supervision of custom officials, banking institutions and the police to move counterfeit currency.

The Marxist government denies allegations of party involvement in any counterfeit currency distribution by Jihadis. It is the consistent policy of the Marxist party not to oppose all sorts of criminal activities of Jihadi groups like NDF and SIMI for political reasons. Since Marxist party has engaged in a broad range of other crime for profit activity, inhibitions against Jihadi money laundering may not be strong. The political parties in Kerala have made no attempt to stop Jihadi counterfeit currency distribution or Hawala transactions. Allegations of Jihadi crime for profit activity have become the focus of public attention.

The Marxist government has no plans or coordinated criminal investigation strategies involving financial crime, bank fraud, computer fraud, direct deposit fraud, investigation of forgery, false presentation, documentation fraud, electronic fund transfers, fraud within Treasury payment systems, insurance fraud and organized crime by Jihadi groups.

Lack of Public Outrage

Pakistan printed counterfeit currency distribution, mafia land grab, Jihadi terrorism and Marxist crimes are increasing since there is lack of strong public outrage against these crimes. The Marxists and Jihadis are partners in crime and they have built a sophisticated defensive wall by tricks, diversion and sophistry. The Marxist-Jihadi assault on our culture and social system need to breached. The Marxist-Jihadi criminal gang has exploited our tolerance and made a mockery of the rule of law. Our national destiny depends on our ability to challenge the enemies of our civilization. It is time for the majority Hindus to confront the danger in order to preserve our ideals, culture and values

Gandhi was anti-black, charges new biography

Indian leader praised Hitler, said whites should rule South Africa

Gandhi’s commitment to non-violence was, by all accounts, extreme. In 1940, when the British Isles appeared to be on the verge of invasion by the Axis powers, Gandhi offered the following advice to the people of England: “I would like you to lay down the arms you have as being useless for saving you or humanity. You will invite Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini to take what they want of the countries you call your possessions. … If these gentlemen choose to occupy your homes, you will vacate them. If they do not give you free passage out, you will allow yourselves, man, woman, and child, to be slaughtered, but you will refuse to owe allegiance to them.”

http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=63906

Karat goes to U.S.A. Looking for $$ (bribe) direct from the source?

http://cpmindia.blogspot.com/2008/06/karat-goes-to-usa-to-strike-deal-to.html

Why does a guy who normally goes to Beijing for a commie tutorial go to USA just two days before approving the signing of the nuke deal?

Karat goes to USA to strike a deal to throw the nuke deal into the dustbin? It takes dollars to travel to US, Comrade Karat. There ain’t no free lunch in America, they say, Karat. Not even in Venezuela –

Anyone prepared to take a non-dollar bet? The deal will be signed and delivered before announcing the Lok Sabha poll.

Kalyanaraman

Publication:Economic Times Mumbai; Date:Jun 11, 2008; Section:Political Theatre; Page Number:2

Guess where comrade Karat is holidaying?

Our Political Bureau NEW DELHI

THE Communists here may be compulsive critics of George Bush but when it comes to holidaying, US is a preferred destination. CPM general secretary Prakash Karat, who spares no opportunity to lash out at the ‘Great Satan,’ is now chilling out in the Unites States.

To be fair to Mr Karat, he is not the first Indian revolutionary to vacation in the US. Former chief minister of West Bengal Jyoti Basu had to write that he was a Communist when he filled in his visa application for the US when he visited over a decade ago. However, the US has done away with that column in its application forms, which now do not seek details about the applicant’s political affiliations.

Mr Karat’s politburo colleague, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, was planning a visit to the US. But for past several months, problems have been raining for the Bengal chief minister, demanding his presence in the state. This forced a cancellation of the “advance team’s” visit as well. This team was supposed to be led by state commerce minister Nirupam Sen. Mr Karat and his wife Brinda Karat, who is also in the US, are understood to be visiting some relatives. Ms Karat had made a trip to the US last year for the launch of Shonali Bose’s film Amu in which the Marxist leader has a role. Incidentally, the parliamentary committee on women’s bill, of which Ms Karat is a member, is having its crucial meetings in New Delhi.

The CPM general secretary, who is learnt to have left for the US a day after the Manmohan Singh government announced the hike in fuel prices, is expected to return two days ahead of the meeting of the UPA-Left panel on the nuclear deal on June 18. The meeting is likely to witness the US-loathing Left rejecting the government’s plea to allow it to wrap up the India-specific safeguards agreement with the IAEA.

Soon after prices of petrol, diesel and LPG were increased, Left parties issued a statement criticising the government for the move and announcing a weeklong agitation. The CPM has been holding the US largely responsible for the global price rise situation and has not missed any opportunity to accuse the UPA government of succumbing to US pressure. The Left had protested president George Bush’s India visit, joint naval exercises and India’s vote against Iran.

AMERICA CALLING: Prakash Karat
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How a Hindu becomes an Islamic terrorist: Part – II

Vedaprakash

1. The phenomenon of turning Hindu to Christian to Muslim! The metamorphosis of Kalimuthu to David[1] to Umar has been interesting for sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists and all other social scientists. That a “believer” could change his god two or three times within 25 years[2] shows alarming condition. How a believer would be thinking about god in instalments or believe in god for 10 years and switch over to the other in the next ten years and so on? So naturally, the propaganda activities of Madrasas / Jamats / missionaries etc., with high-tech gadgets[3] could create more psychological impact leading desired results, but harmful to others, society, nation and the world. When 25 years youth has not been in a steady condition changing god for three times, how innocent children[4] would respond to different gods? Thus, he has been not only fooling, cheating and hijacking god and religion, but also others. This clears proves that the conversion has been farce, but ultimately, Islam could motivate him to bomb and kill is billion dollar question and subjected to psychological analysis.

2. Ideologists and secularists are responsible: Particularly, the ideologists, protagonists, secularists and such other groups have to come out with their responsible response as how this type of secular aberration, theological deviation, and ungodly transformation could have happened. They cannot hereafter fool or cheat public by giving different interpretation. Moreover, this is not the first instance, but best one, as unless publicity is given, the public do not understand the seriousness, implication and importance of the issue affecting India and Indians. However, the so-called secular, elite and progressive category, who sign and send petitions to the President, PM etc., now just kerep quite. Romila Thapar never writes history analyzing the repetition of history in “The Hindu” or EPW! K. N. Panikkar, Chempakalalksmi, Irfan Habib and others do not write or clarify to “Frontline” on historical points.

3. Malik-kafur and Umar: That a hardcore Islamic terrorist could be made out of David and in turn out of Kalimuthu has been a fact, it is very serious, as the damage would be more than Malik-kafur[5] in the context. Though, there has been a gap of 700 years, the psyche of Malik-kafir and Umar has been the same. He raised, looted, killed Hindus mercilessly only in the name of Allah (though it is very sorry to mention, it is fact and the honest Muslims / Mohammedans have to ponder over). It is not that Malik-kafur as an Indian or Bharat indulged in such act of heinous crimes, but the sanctified command or divine dogmatism that acted from his mind. Note, here the psyche of “Aurangazeb”[6] has been different, just like Alexander![7] Actually, Irfan Habib, Romila and their Company should carry out research and inform the pattern and modus operandi. Otherwise, what is the use of having such eminent historians?

4. Systematic studies[8] prove “conversion” in India has been hoax and fradulent: The studies undertaken, on conversion and particularly, the new converts, show that the new converts have been very active, responsive, and more enthusiastic in the scriptures, fundamentalist, fanatic and totally dogmatic in believing what the inspired preachers, tutors and religious heads discourse[9]. In fact, they have been very aggressive, violent and destructive[10], as they are viewed by his / her family members, friends and members of society differently. His / her guilty conscience or the conversion syndrome works differently to suppress the blunder of conversion or appreciate his / her wisdom of becoming a “different believer”. He has to be apologetic and aggressive at places, when known persons address him / her with the previous names. In insisting others to call him with new name, again, he has to act and react and interact accordingly. So for name-change[11] alone, he / she has this much of problems, other aspects are best understood by the respective contexts.

5. How becoming Holy warriors and Jihadis? They made up their minds conditioning to carry out any act in the name of God and scriptural injunctions. They get so divine inspiration, theological stimulation and celestial brainwave that they think that they are the chosen and ordained soldiers and warriors to strike terror in the hearts of the heathens and kafirs. Just read their statement purportedly given to the Police as appearing in the media:

“We all the three have taken shelter in Chennai as per the directions of the State President of “God is one”. The persons of the Hindu organizations and particularly, some specific persons of those organizations have been our enemies. Our plan was to kill them by planting bombs. We came to Chennai only for the purpose hiding. Dhaubik, our leader had already explained in detail what we should do (to carry out the killing by planting bombs). Before that the Police have rounded us.

“There have been youth like us in our organization. “God is one” is providing financial help to the Muslim educated youth, particularly degree holders without any job. Only those who believe in the organization can join (this outfit). Once you join the organization, you need not worry about the money. The President has been proving enough money to our families taking care of. Hindu leaders have been oppressing us for a long time. Therefore, our main aim has been to put an end to it (by eliminating them). Accordingly, we got training and preparing mentally to do carry put terrorist activities.”

So how they got such mental preparedness to bomb and kill? Read, “Accordingly, we got training and preparing mentally to do carry put terrorist activities.” So the fact is that they have been brainwashed or wilfully stimulated and conditioned to have such mental-state. Remember, how science, zoology or medical student first look at the dissection of cockroach, frog, rabbit, monkey and so on and finally a man, then slowly getting conditioned to dissect him/herself? In the same way, the terrorists are also given such practical training. For killing people only, they exploit the concept of heathens, kafirs etc., invoking Bible or Quran. Oath, vow or pledge is taken on such scriptures with blood to adhere to the divine order.

6. Son has been assertive in conversion in the choice: The response of the parents of terrorist Umar has been revealing: “He did not accept out conversion to Christianity.” Though, it is not clear as to whether such response was before converting himself to Christianity or Islam, it is evident that conversion has played havoc in their family members. However, such aggressiveness in dictating which religion one should belong is intriguing. How a “convert” could decide the religion of “converted”? Can parents decide the religion of their sons and daughters and vice versa? Has such situation has come to India? So selling and buying gods is ridiculous, atrocious, perverted, unimaginable and ungodly.

7. His attempts to convert his brother’s family to Islam: “Fifteen days before, he came there and urged his brothers’ children to convert to Islam. He even tempted that he would give enough money. As they refused, he shouted at them and went away.” Again this proves that the agenda has been not conversion of a single member but the entire family. Legally and socially such attempt has to be viewed seriously, as such forced conversions has been not aimed at Godhead or spirituality etc., but exactly opposite i.e, anti-God and atheism. That is why terrorists easily take the scriptures in one hand and bombs in another hand. The pattern is same as that of Meenakshipuram conversion episode of February 19, 1981. Here, as pointed out and discussed enough, Islamic Personal Laws are invoked and exploited by hunting the families. The respectable, self-respect and sensitive families actually vacate or sell their houses[12] and shift to some unknown place to resume their living forgetting the disgrace (of losing their son or daughter). Particularly in the case of eloping away or going away or marrying with Mohammedan / Muslim, the mental agony and social torture of the Hindu parents, brothers and sisters is unimaginable and inexplicable. So it is evident that the same condition is exploited by the fundamentalists and terrorists.

8. The Hindu or Christian parents know the activities of their Muslim son! When they know (as per the reports), they responded:

“We never thought that he would have joined such an organization. He has put our family heads down with shame“.

In fact, they themselves have shown a way for conversion by converting to Christianity first. Naturally, it must have stimulated the desperate youth Kalimuthu or David to become Umar. The response also point to the possibility that they know about his deviation or going in a different path. Otherwise, why he should lament that, “He has put our family heads down with shame“. If strictly taken the meaning of “family” and “family pride” in the Indian context, as responsible parents, they have failed in converting to Christianity. So what they expect from their son? Only the difference is that the parents have not become terrorists like Murugan and Nalini. As Indians, Hindus or Tamils, they could not maintain any moral standards for the emulation to youth. Ironically, those who talk and shout about Tamil culture, tradition, heritage, civilization invoking “Tamizhachi”, “Pachai Tamizhan”, “Tamizh karpu / chastity” etc., do not care at all[13].

9. Why hard-core terrorists do not marry? The parents of Umar have made an interesting and informative statement: “He would not respond when we used to talk about his marriage.” So he is far better than others say, Liyakat Ali Khan[14] or Abdur Rahman[15] or Sangili Bhava[16]. So it is evident that Islamic terrorist-trainers adapt and adopt two methods for married and bachelors. For married, they are assured of wellbeing and respectful treatment and leading life of their wives with sons / daughters. For bachelors, though marriage is prohibited, but not the sex. Thus, the terrorists require women for providing sex, as youth cannot live or die without sex. To shun sex, one should have highest state of contentment, shunning sensuality and strict celibacy and if such condition is not possible or attained, it is quite natural that they have to exhaust the feelings. Remember, how the Greeks exhausted by solving the unsolvable Indian method of “circling square / squaring a circle”? Just by “exhaustion method”! However, mark, the so-called womanists, feminists and other Amazon categories keep mum, whenever such sex-exploitation comes out in the media[17]. They perhaps do not consider these women as women at all.

10. Politicization and corruption: with all these facts, many times, the terrorists escape ultimately, legally. Take the case of Abdul Madani. Even in the present case or the Hyderabad bomb case, only few have been arrested on ordinary charges. For all the action taken against the Islamic terrorists during his earlier reign, now Karunanidhi has made the opposite, thereby the Coimbatore blast case was speeded up and almost finalizing. At the prison level and other procedural relaxations, undue facilities were extended to the involved, which are not generally allowed. The passing of explosives manufactured and sold to quarries reaching these groups clearly point to the nexus between the politicians and terrorists indirectly. The dealerships given to certain persons / agencies point to such fact. As for as this topic is concerned, it may not be possible to analyze and give more details, as sensitivity is involved.

In any case, in the terrorist related cases and issues, government officials should act without any favour or fear, as otherwise, the legal proceedings would be scuttled easily and the heinous offenders and law violators could escape easily. The terrorism has to be treated without any religious branding. If many terrorists happen to be Mohammedans / Muslims, the sincere, elite and responsible Muslims should critically analyze and see that they are not treading such path for any reason. It is better to nip it in the bud, instead of allowing it to grow and then suffer. Indian has already committed such grave blunders of creating Binderawale etc., and therefore, none should repeat such Frankenstein type experiments. As science and technology have advanced, the vehicles and application of terror have also reached millennium standards targeting more innocents to create more terror all over the globe. Definitely, the terrorists have also learnt the art of LPG (liberalization, privatization and globalization), as otherwise, Taufeeq could not have just gone to Saudi Arabia and returned and again involving in some in the same terrorist activities.

VEDAPRAKASH

19-05-2008

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[1] Times of India, May 18, 2008.

[2][2] In psychological studies, the religious attitude studies reveal interesting details, as in secular, elite and highly educated and oppositely, religious, simple and illiterate people exhibit different responses to applied stimuli (interviews, questionnaire, video-clippings etc).

[3] Note the high-tech usage of Al-Jasheera, Taliban, Mujahideed, LeT and other groups, their way of handling arms, weaponry and bombs, the changing planting pattern etc.

Incidentally, the CDs recovered from the terrorists and as well as Sangili Bhava show the pattern. While the so-called “pirated” CDs are recovered from the three, from Sangili Bhava, religious CD with propaganda ,materials have been recovered. Note, Umar has been women-shunning, whereas, Sangili Bhava has been going on marrying many and using them for sex.

[4] That is why the activities of these groups are questioned in the secular nation. However, the “secular” groups, ironically invoking “secularism” supports such fundamentalists, fanatics and terrorists too, in India.

[5] Malikafur, the general of Alaudeen Khalji the Sultan of Delhi took advantage of this and invaded Pandya country. This led to the incorporation of the Pandya country in the Delhi empire in subsequent years. A sultanate was established at Madurai. There are two inscriptions relating to the period of the Sultans of Madurai in the district, one at Rangiam (1332) and another at Panaiyur (1344).

[6] Aurangazeb has been a non-Indian creed and thus, he had been more fanatic, heinous and anti-Hindu than others. Note, this statement is made not for any communal divide, as one try to misinterpret, but made based on past-studies with evidences.

[7] “Alexander” exhibited such violent behavior killing his own friends, gymnophists / Brahmins and others, till he was checked by Porus / Purushothaman or an Indian / Hindu King.

[8] The “Institute for the Study of Western Religions” have undertaken different studies during the last 30 years, particularly, has a data base and information of Hindus converting to Christianity and Islam. The interviews with the concerned coverts directly, through family members and close-friends and culled out details are used for interpretation.

[9] This, we categorize as “mild category”.

[10] This is categorized as “violent category” prone to anti-social, anti-national, anti-religious (particularly against one particular religion or his / her previous religion).

[11] It has been a legal one, as he / she, has to change in all personal, private and government documents. For convenience or discomfort, they may not change many times, but when violation is found, it becomes serious. Here, only the act and law violators take advantage, exploit and carry out their illegal and terrorist activities.

[12] Here too, data is available for five families, who sold and went to different places, when their daughters married Mohammedans. However, in the case of sons marrying Muslim girls, in two specific cases, they follow different methodology. Daytime, they would be with their parents / original home and night time, with her wives and In-laws. As the Muslim family(ies) involved have been elite and educated, they have been getting along without any itch so far.

[13] Think about the stand of Kannagi statue by Karunanidhi, silence of Kanimozhi, Kushbu’s freedom of expression of sex and chastity etc., in the context. None wonders why and how she appears always in fully covered silk sarees and other Indian / Tamil attire, instead of other kind of “freedom of expression” type dress. Again, recall about her petition filed against a Journal for publishing her photo with `lesser dress”. At that time, she never thought of “freedom of expression” of others.

[14] Liyakat ali Khan has cheated many girls and women through internet chatting using his own way of modus operandi.

[15] Now news reports come that he simply buy and sell girls and women for sex. See the vernacular papers of last two days; as such details are disgusting to repeat. It is unfortunate that the Indian / Hindu women could stoop down to such a level selling their bodies for sex. This can be compared with sati / johar practices conducted or performed during the Mohammedan and the European periods of rule in India to escape from the Mohammedan and European sexual abuse and exploitation after raping and keeping them in harems and sex-slaves.

[16] Read last two days newspapers, he has become more than a Liyakat Ali Khan. He has contacts with Karunanidhi, the CM of TN; Anbazhagan, another No.2 Minister of TN etc.

[17] Really, the indifference or callousness of the women rightwalis in the context is unbelievable, unimaginable and inexplicable. Perhaps, they should be subjected to some highly developed psycho-analytical tests, as they may tend to fool all such tests with their sophistry.

Power politics in India

There are lots of news in the media as to how busy Sonia Maino is conducting parleys with the UPA supporting parties for keeping the UPA in power with or without Manmohan.

We have always heard that the communists are the puppets of Beijing. Now, after seeing that Manmohan who is known to take orders from Maino is getting rigid on his stand to quit if the 123 agreement is not ratified, one begins to wonder if he has shifted the loyalty from Rome to Rice, I mean Washington!

So there is haggling going on. Is it nuclear science to know that the support is purchased? It has to be in Euros now that the dollar is losing its sheen! Obviously the moneys have to be deposited in a European country, a good lesson after what Narasimha Rao went through!

Who will win – Beijing or Washington?

CPI(M)-led Islamic terrorism at Ganga Sagar

By: V Sundaram

http://newstodaynet.com/col.php?section=20&catid=33&id=8466

Thursday, 19 June, 2008 , 03:13 PM

Bharat Mata Ki Jai!

TAPAN KUMAR GHOSH, NATIONAL CONVENOR, HINDU SAMHATI Fearless and Indomitable

On 12 June (Thursday) 2008, at Sagar Island (also known as Ganga Sagar) 6000 Muslim terrorists let loose organized violence against 180 unarmed Hindu devotees who had gone to Ganga Sagar to attend a Yoga and Training Camp organized by Hindu Samhati in a building belonging to the Kolkata Textile Association. A 6000 strong Muslim crowd, armed with sharp-edged weapons attacked the building (near Kapil Muni temple) and beat up Hindu pilgrims at around 7 pm in a savage manner. . Tapan Kumar Ghosh, the National Convenor of Hindu Samhati and Sunder Das, one of his lieutenants, were badly injured. A few policemen deployed on the spot were also manhandled when they tried to intervene. Tapan Ghosh and Sunder Das, both workers of Hindu Samhati, were also beaten up. The four-hour ordeal continued till a larger contingent of police force headed by the Kakdwip BDO and SDPO arrived. Instead of arresting the Islamic marauders for their acts of terrorism against the majority community, the West Bengal Police arrested on Friday 15 Hindu pilgrims. The police also arrested Tapan Ghosh and Sunder Das, the two Hindu leaders and it has been reported that Tapan Ghosh continues to be in police custody.

The Pioneer of New Delhi reported on 14 June 2008 as follows: `In what is being viewed as a CPI(M) ploy to shift focus from burning issues and gain back confidence of minorities, who had shifted their loyalties during panchayat election, the police on Friday arrested 15 Hindu pilgrims to Ganga Sagar but let go a Muslim mob, mostly CPI(M) supporters, who on Thursday night attacked and burnt down an inn at Ganga Sagar Islands before assaulting local police men’.

The Pilgrim’s Rest House (Yatri Nivas) of the Calcutta Textile Merchant’s Association, at Ganga Sagar. This building was attacked by a Muslim mob on 12th of June 2008

The unruly anti-Hindu Muslim mob was led by Sheikh Ismail, a CPI(M) Member and Chairman of the local panchayat. Instead of arresting him and the members of his gang for their criminal activities under Section 153A, Section 295 and Section 295A of the Indian Penal Code, the police arrested Tapan Kumar Ghosh and Sunder Das, apart from 15 Hindu pilgrims. The police allowed Sheikh Ismail, the CPI(M) Islamic Terrorist Leader and his mob to escape from the clutches of law, with the full political support, patronage and benediction of the anti-national and anti-Hindu terrorist CPI(M) Government of West Bengal. The extent of official Police support extended to Sheikh Ismail and his Islamic gangsters can be seen from the fact that the Police even refused to file FIRs against the Muslim attackers who burnt down three rooms rented by the RSS for pilgrims. It has been reported that thousands of BJP workers led by the BJP Secretary of West Bengal Rahul Sinha staged a blockade on Friday, the 13 June 2008 at Esplanade in Kolkata. 526 of them were arrested and released later. Rahul Sinha has stated, `what was more agonizing was instead of booking the offenders the police arrested the victims. At least 15 of them were arrested and booked under non-bailable sections. The Left Front Government has become weak. The CPI(M) is trying to appease the minority community by playing a `partisan game”.

Sagar Island (also known as Ganga Sagar) lies on the continental shelf of Bay of Bengal about 150 km (80 nautical miles) south of Kolkata. The island is large — with an area of around 300 sq km. It has 43 villages and a population of over 160,000. The island is home to the endangered Royal Bengal Tiger. It is also rich in mangrove swamps, waterways and small rivers. Ganga Sagar is the confluence of river Ganges with the Bay of Bengal. This island is a famous place of sacred Hindu pilgrimage from times immemorial. Millions of people from all over the world flock to the island on Makar Sankranti every year (mid-January), and take a dip in the confluence to rid themselves of all their sins. They also offer puja in Kapil Muni Temple. In 2007, about 300,000 pilgrims took the holy dip where the Hooghly meets the Bay of Bengal on the occasion of Makar Sankranti. The figure was lower by around 200,000 in 2007 because of Kumbh Mela. In January 2008, on the eve of Makar Sankranthi, five lakh Hindu pilgrims visited Sagar Island. Ganga Sagar is also famous for its very large fair which is second only to the Holy Kumbh Mela in terms of public participation. Ganga Sagar fair is held every year on the Sagar Island’s southern tip in the Ganges delta atop the Bay of Bengal. That makes Gangasagar all the more distinctive as a place of holy pilgrimage.

It was in this sacred place of Ganga Sagar, a CPI(M) gangster called Sheikh Ismail who also happens to be the Chairman of the local Panchayat, led an Islamic assault on the Hindu Pilgrims at. Divya Pathak has written a brilliant article titled `Think before you chant `Bharat Mata Ki Jai”. Let me quote her own words in this context: `In a country that gained independence by chanting slogans like `Bharat Mata Ki Jai’, in a land where the nation is considered to be one’s mother, a time has come when people are beaten up brutally and then arrested for chanting the same slogan that once stood as one of the symbols of Indian freedom struggle. That too, right under the administration’s noses, with local CPI (M) leaders assisting the goons in their tirade. This shocking incident is not one being reported from a remote village of the country, but from Sagar Islands – the pilgrimage considered to be one of the holiest in India. In a place considered so divine by the Hindus, about 172 Hindus were beaten up brutally late on Thursday night (12 June 2008) by a group of immigrant Bangladeshi Muslims, only because the Hindus had dared to utter `Bharat Mata Ki Jai’ and `Jai Sri Ram’. What shocks us all more, is the fact that the attackers were led by a Muslim youth named Sheikh Ismail, who happens to be CPI(M)’s Panchayat Samiti seat winner in the area’.

I have carefully gathered the details relating to the ruthlessness of the police and general administration which was only interested in targeting the Hindu Youths from different parts of West Bengal who had come to Gangasagar to attend a Yoga and Meditation Camp organized by a Hindu Organization called Hindu Samhati. The three-day camp, which began on 12 June 2008 (Thursday), was organised in a building close to the confluence and a Vishwa Hindu Parishad building.

Sri Tapan Kumar Ghosh, the National Convenor of Hindu Samhati was conducting the main sessions of this camp. Other eminent people and local notables were also present. Everything went on smoothly until the evening of 12 June 2008, when suddenly the camp building was surrounded by a murderous mob of about 6000-7000 local Muslims bent on mayhem. The Muslim attackers were well prepared and were throwing gas cylinders and petrol bombs (Molotov cocktails) and kept on attacking incessantly for a few hours, to set fire to the whole camp. The entire camp building was reduced to ashes. All 180 of the camp attendees (a large number of them women and children) and 15 policemen were trapped inside this burning camp along with their beloved leader Sri Tapan Kumar Ghosh.

All this began as follows: After attending the first Yoga and meditation session in the morning on the 12 June, 2008, the Hindu group went to take a dip in the Ganga Sagar confluence, and thereafter to pay obeisance in the Kapil Muni shrine located nearby. While offering the puja, the group chanted `Bharat Mata Ki Jai’ and `Jai Sri Ram’. This was enough to anger the local people, who comprise mostly of immigrant Bangladeshi Muslims. They reached the building where the campers were put up, and started hurling abuses and breaking the windowpanes of the building.

One of the campers present in the building when the Bangaladeshi and other Muslim attackers ransacked the building, told me in confidence `We had put iron grilles outside the building gate, but they broke open that gate, and started attacking us. Though initially only a group of 5-6 men led by Sheikh Ismail had gathered outside the building, the number soon swelled up and reached around 6,000. They threw petrol into the food items that we had cooked, and also upon our beds before setting them ablaze’.
Another camper, who rushed to the spot on hearing about the atrocities of the Muslim goons led by Sheikh Ismail said, `They were using filthy language, and announcing on microphones that these youths were spreading communal remarks in the area. They got so agitated that they even set ablaze the VHP building, which had nothing to do with the Yoga camp. Even the houses situated close to the campsite were damaged by them’. The Hindu campers were tortured for 6 hours before the police finally came. When they tried to intervene, even the goons beat them up. About eight policemen were injured in this violence. At around 2:30 in the morning, Rapid Action Force (RAF) was deployed in the area to curb the violence, and the campers were rescued by 4:30 am. Fourteen campers were badly injured in the clashes, with two reportedly being in a critical condition.

As if the injury to the body and the soul caused to the Hindus was not enough, 15 of the campers were arrested by the local police, and booked under Sections 147, 148, 149, 307, 310 and 323 of IPC (Indian Penal Code). Out of these 15, the organiser of the camp, Tapan Ghosh, the National Convenor of Hindu Samhati and one other person have been remanded to 7 days’ police custody.

I reliably understand from one of the campers that Jayanta Mukherjee, the SDPO of the area also abused the Hindu campers and arrested 15 of them. They were beaten up in a merciless manner only for chanting religious slogans like `Jai Sri Ram’and `Bharat Mata Ki Jai’. To crown it all they were also arrested. Ironically, not even one of the Muslim attackers was arrested by the police.

It has been reported that the local MP Basudeb Burman refused to comment on the issue. Milon Parua, the local MLA of the area where the Islamic violence erupted, absconded from the scene.

Friday, 20 June, 2008 , 04:44 PM

The Friends of Hindu Samhati, USA have unequivocally condemned the CPI(M) sponsored gruesome attack on the Hindu Samhati training camp at Ganga Sagar (West Bengal) by a murderous mob of local Muslims, at least 6000-7000 strong, on Thursday ( 12 June, 2008).

Tapan Kumar Ghosh inaugurating Hindu Samhati at Kolkatta on 8th March 2008.

They have issued the following statement:

1) The Friends of Hindu Samhati, USA strongly lodges its protest against this outrageous attack on a peaceful, indoor religious function that was held behind closed doors at Gangasagar on 12 June 2008. There was no provocation whatsoever for this vicious assault nor was any outdoor procession held at the location. It is pitiable that the police could not provide security to its peace loving citizens and isinstead insisting on closing the camp down.

2) We strongly urge the police and the local administration to arrest all the perpetrators of this heinous crime immediately and provide security to continue the camp at a nearby, alternate location.

3) We deeply deplore the travesty of justice in West Bengal and appeal to the police and the local administration to remove the framed charges and release Sri Tapan Kumar Ghosh and 15 Hindu Samhati activists immediately.

In these columns yesterday I had elaborately referred to the fact of Gangasagar being a very important Hindu Tirtha Kshetra (Place of Pilgrimage) where the sacred Ganga River has a confluence with the Bay of Bengal. Ganga Sagar is located on the western edge of the Sunderban Delta on Sagar Island. At the edge of Sagar town — adjacent to the beach — is the ancient temple dedicated to Kapila Muni. Maharishi Kapila is a Vedic sage, who is mentioned in the Srimad Bhagavatam as the author of basic principles of the Sankhya system of Indian philosophy as enunciated in the classical Sankhya text, Sankhya Karika, in 70 (Sutras) verses, though its expansions and commentaries are spread over 6 volumes. This Sankhya text has numerous commentaries, written over the ages, like the Kapila sankhya pravachana Sutra vritti, by Aniruddha. As described in the Mahabharata, Kapila Maharishi was one of the seven sons of Brahman; others being, Aniruddha, Sana, Sanatsujata, Sanaka, Sanandana, Sanatkumara, and Sanatana. In Vishnu Purana, he is described as, an incarnation of the mighty and universal Vishnu. He is also famous for teaching a process of liberation known as bhakti yoga. The essential details about sage Kapila’s life are available in the Srimad Bhagavatam (Bhagavata Purana). His parents were Kardama Muni and Devahuti. It was Kapila who instructed his mother, Devahuti in the philosophy of yoga and devotional worship of Lord Vishnu, enabling her to achieve both liberation (moksha), and pure love of God. According to tradition (more particularly in Bengal), Kapila Maharishi was responsible for setting in motion the chain of events that ultimately resulted in Mother Ganga descending to the earth from heaven and giving mankind an opportunity to wash away its sins in her pure water. The earliest mention of the sacred place Gangasagar is found in the Mahabharata where a learned sage explains to Bhishma the significance of taking a dip at the confluence of Ganga Sagar. Millions of Hindu pilgrims visit this holy place all year round to take a dip in the holy Ganges, particularly during the Kumbha Mela and Makara Sankranti festivities. So much for the historic, religious and spiritual significance of Gangasagar!

180 Hindus Attendees at the first session of the Gangasagar camp

On Thursday 12 June 2008, a newly created Hindu mass awakening organization called Hindu Samhati had organized a training camp and workshop on the current socio-political scenario at Gangasagar. About 180 men, women and children had assembled in a peaceful manner in the serene surroundings of Gangasagar. Just in order to create fear in the minds of the Hindus and also to give a death blow to the religious feelings of the Hindus of India, ably assisted and aided by the State Police, a political criminal belonging to the CPI(M) called Sheikh Ismail and his Muslim followers let loose violence on 12 June 2008 at Gangasagar against the 180 Hindu pilgrims who had assembled for a training camp.

CPI(M) promoted Islamic terrorism at Gangasagar Fire in one corner of the building caused by petrol soaked fire bombs.

During the last few months, the CPI(M) volunteers have let loose violence against the RSS, VHP and other Hindu workers in Kerala State and more specially in the Muslim dominated mini-Pakistan District called Mallapuram. The CPI(M) Government in Kerala has become internationally famous for Talibanizing Kerala through State Promotion of heinous acts of Islamic Terrorism against the Hindus of Kerala. Deriving inspiration from CPI(M) Kerala Government, Sheikh Ismail [CPI(M)] led a mob of more than 6000 Muslims to attack the Hindu trainees who had assembled in a building at Gangasagar. The CPI(M) cadre in and around the area lent its full support to Sheikh Ismail. The local police officers and their men were used as convenient political handles to crush the Hindus of the area.

The Hindus of India and even more so, the Hindus of West Bengal and Kerala, have now come to know that the leaders and the members of the CPI(M) are their greater enemies than the Islamic terrorists. Wherever they are in power, they are determined to put even the anti-Hindu and anti-Sanatana Dharma record of famous Islamic marauders in History like Mohammed of Ghazni, Mohammed of Ghori, Balban, Allaudin Khilji, Babar, Aurangazeb, Nadir Shah and Ahmed Shah Abdali to everlasting ignominious shame. It is against this background that Sri Tapan Kumar Ghosh and the Hindus of Bengal have come forward in a determined and united manner to establish Hindu Samhati to protect the Hindus of Bengal against the murderous attacks of CPI(M) Party men and their Islamic terrorist allies.

With incredibly tremendous enthusiasm, a new Hindu Social forum called ‘HINDU SAMHATI’ was launched in Kolkata at the Bharat Sabha Hall (erstwhile Indian Association Hall) on the 14 February 2008. Belying all expectations the venue overflowed with supporters and activists and many willingly endured the entire 4 hour long session standing on their feet as seats were already filled up. The session was convened by Sri Tapan Kumar Ghosh and was conducted by Sri Upananda Brahmachari. Senior and prominent Hindu leaders from all over India attended this launch to address the gathering and to extend their support and solidarity towards the cause for which Sri Tapan Ghosh and his compatriots have instituted this forum.

Among the distinguished speakers on that occasion were Swamy Ashimanandaji from Dangs, Gujarat; Himani Savarkar, All India Secretary, Hindu Mahasabha, Pune; Pramod Mutalik, Chief of Hindu Rashtriya Sena, Bangalore; Swamy Pradiptanandaji, President, Bharat Sevashram Sangh, Murshidabad, West Bengal; Bharat Bhai, Chief, Swamy Vivekanand Sanskar Kendra, Valsad, Gujarat; Shailendra Jain, Bajrang Dal Prant Satsang Pramukh,Delhi; Anil Lamba, President, Bharatiya Janashakti Yuva Morcha, Delhi Pradesh; Sudhir Patel, Former Prant Samyojak, Bajrang Dal,South Bihar; Sri Vinay Singh, Rashtriya Swabhiman Andolan, Delhi; Sri Mithun Nath, Asst Secretary, Hindu Jagaran Manch, Kachar Dist, Assam, and other eminent guests from the city. Govindacharya was expected to attend but he was detained in Prayag for some religious function, he sent his representative Vinay Singh with his written message. Balkrishna Naik, Jt. General Secretary of VHP, had sent his written message expressing his total support and good wishes.

The venue practically overflowed with enthusiastic young supporters from surrounding districts and the city proper. The audience also included many distinguished activists and karyakartas of different Hindu Organisations, like senior Sangh Pracharak Keshav Rao Dikshit, VHP West Bengal Secretary Ajay Nandi, former ABVP State Secretary Santanu Singha, former ABVP Kolkata City President Joydeep Mitra, VHP State Vice President and prominent writer Dr. Radheshyam Brahmachari, Former VHP Mizoram Organizing Secretary Joydeep Das, to mention a few.

All the speakers stressed the paramount fact that formations such as ‘Hindu Samhati’ are the need of the hour all over the country. Hindus all over the country are facing murderous attacks from the cadres of CPI(M) and the Islamic terrorists. Only Hindu Organizations such as Hindu Samhati can protect the Hindus against the serious wrongs being done against the Hindu community by these elements in the name of secularism and appeasement.

For the Hindus of India in absolute majority, Gangasagar as a place of sacred pilgrimage is as important as Amarnath, Badrinath, Kedarnath, Varnasi, Kanchipuram, Kanyakumari and Rama Sethu. Keeping this fact in view, the CPI(M) partymen and the Islamic Terrorists joined together on 12 June 2008, and attacked the Hindus in Gangasagar. It is reliably understood that the anti-Hindu Government of West Bengal had given ‘behind the curtain instructions’ to their administration to teach an immediate lesson to Tapan Kumar Ghosh, the National Convenor of Hindu Samhati and the Hindus of Gangasagar in order to put fear in their minds and hearts. The Government of West Bengal may politically play with the Hindus of that State. Likewise, the Government of Kerala may also be in a position to do so. But both these Governments (with their underground subterranean political connections with China) can never play with the lives and fortunes of the Hindus of India as a whole in absolute majority.

Hail ‘Jai Shri Ram!’ was the cause of Godhra massacre in 2002. Hail ‘Jai Shri Ram!’ and Hail ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai!’ constituted the dynamite that set off a Muslim mob on a rampage recently against the Hindus at Gangasagar in 2008.

Today’s Godhra at Gangasagar Yatric nivas set on fire (12 June 2008)

In these columns, I have been writing about the CPI(M) sponsored Islamic Terrorism that was let loose against the Hindu Pilgrims at Gangasagar on 12 June 2008. The West Bengal Police acted as active ‘political agents’ of the CPI(M) party in power in West Bengal. The West Bengal government’s Chief Minister Budhadev Bhattachariya remained in a state of pseudo-secular coma almost in the same manner as our sleepy and sluggish Prime Minister. When innocent Hindus get killed or grievously injured, it matters very little to the government of West Bengal. For the CPI(M) party and West Bengal government, the anti-national and anti-Hindu illegal Muslim infiltrators from Bangladesh are politically more important and relevant to West Bengal than the peace loving Hindus of that State. The Governor of West Bengal, Gopal Gandhi, who displayed an extraordinary interest in ascertaining the facts about the CPI(M) violence in Nandigram some time ago, has chosen to remain tactically neutral and silent about what happened to the Hindus at Gangasagar on 12 June, 2008. The Hindu leaders of West Bengal told me in confidence that Governor Gopal Gandhi actively intervened in the Nandigram issue mainly on account of the fact that some Muslim lives were lost in Nandigram. Further, secondly as a political appointee of the Congress Party, he was politically more obliged to support that party at that opportune moment just to cause political embarrassment to the insensitive CPI(M) government in West Bengal. In so far as the ‘police beaten’ defenseless Hindus of Gangasagar today are concerned, the Congress, the CPI(M), the Chief Minister and above all the Governor — all of them are united in their pseudo-secular contempt, bordering on hatred, for the Hindus of West Bengal. Like our about-to-be politically ‘extinguished’ Prime Minister, all of them would have spent sleepless nights in the ‘cataclysmic and tragic’ event of even a single Muslim getting slightly injured with minor bruises in a bicycle accident at Gangasagar! Happily and fortunately for them, it was a State-organized Islamic attack on Hindus at Gangasagar; only the Hindus were grievously injured; only the Hindu leaders and Hindus were arrested. No wonder that they are uniting under the banner of Hindu Samhati for ‘self protection’.

Yesterday’s Gangasagar at Godhra (27 February, 2002)

The pseudo-secular mafia of mass media – both print and electronic media in India – has gone out of their way to obliterate from public view all news about the savage attack on Hindus by the Muslims at Gangasagar. The terrible news about Gangasagar has reached thousands of homes in distant America! Indian American Intellectuals Forum (Forum) has issued a Press Release on 14 June 2008 under the title ‘HINDU PILGRIMS ATTACKED AT GANGA SAGAR, WEST BENGAL BY MUSLIM GOONS’. I am quoting few excerpts from their press release: ‘Indian American Intellectuals Forum (Forum) expresses its shock and dismay at the dastardly attack on members of the Hindu Samhati by about 5000 to 6000 Muslim miscreants at Ganga Sagar, a famous place of Hindu pilgrimage in West Bengal, on 12 June 2008. This attack is reminiscent of a similar attack on a train at Godhra Railway Station in Gujarat in which 57 innocent Hindu men, women and children were roasted alive by a murderous mob of 2000 Muslims on 27 February 2002.  According to reports received by us, the Muslim mob threw petrol bombs and kept attacking incessantly for a few hours to reduce the building (in which Hindu Samhati members had assembled), to ashes.  The criminal purpose was to burn down the structure together with the Hindu occupants.  As a result, about 14 Hindu men and women, in addition to several policemen, were seriously injured.  Several of the injured are not expected to survive.  Instead of arresting the Muslim attackers, police arrested Tapan Kumar Ghosh and 14 other Hindu leaders of Samhati.  Amazingly, Hindu leaders were charged with creating communal discord. The attack on hapless Hindus at Ganga Sagar is not an isolated incident.  The terrorist attack on Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) Camp in Rampur in January 2008, bomb blast in Hyderabad in August 2007, Mumbai bomb blast in July 2006, bomb explosions in Sankatmochan Temple in Varanasi in March 2006, Delhi bomb blast on the eve of Deepavali in October 2005, attack on Ram Temple in July 2005, attack on Akshardham Temple in October 2002, five grenade attacks in Srinagar on 14 June 2008, etc are all part of a grand conspiracy to terrorize Hindus into submission and pave the way for pan-Islamisation of India. UPA government’s weak and vacillating policy actuated by a desire to garner minority votes has emboldened the anti-Hindu forces to loot, murder and destroy Hindu people and obliterate Hindu Dharma from the Indian soil.  If allowed to go unchecked, the deadly combination of Marxists-Muslims will spell doom and disaster for Hindus in India’.

The Gangasagar incident clearly shows that there is no freedom of speech or freedom after speech in West Bengal. The rule of law and lively democracy can be sustained only by the law that governs the police and the police operating strictly within the contours of the corpus juris. Just as the character and quality of a country’s police forces provide a touchstone of spirit and quality of its government and civil administration, the ‘police’ provide a touchstone of the quality and conduct of the people themselves. In short, a student of the political institution of any country desirous of understanding the ‘ethos’ of any country’s government can hardly do better than to make a close study of its police system which will provide him with a good measuring rod of the actual extent to which its government is free or authoritarian. Judged by this yardstick, you have a dictatorial government in West Bengal which is fundamentally anti-Hindu, pro-Muslim, and anti-national. The police force in West Bengal is only an extended arm of the CPI(M) cadres in each district. Perhaps, Justice Mulla of Allahabad High Court had the West Bengal police of today in his mind when he wrote in 1962: ‘There is no more organised lawless force in the country today than the Indian police force’. I am informed that many of the public prosecutors in West Bengal take their instructions from the CPI(M) cadres who have nothing but contempt for the Law of our Constitution.

If the Bangladeshi infiltrators do not feel comfortable with the Hindus of India raising slogans of ‘Jai Shri Ram’ and ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’ on the streets at Gangasagar then they should all be given by our government, the following message in strong and unequivocal terms—the kind of message that was recently given by Peter Costfello, an Australian Leader to the Muslims of Australia: ‘If you don’t want to be Australians and if you don’t want to live by Australian values and understand them, then you can basically clear off. If you can’t agree with Parliamentary Law, Independent Courts, and democracy and would prefer Sharia Law, then you have the option to go to a country, which follows Sharia Law or which is a theocratic state. We would be saying to Muslim clerics who are teaching that there are two laws governing people in Australia, one the Australian Law and another the Islamic Law, that that is false. It is not the situation in Australia. It is not the situation under our Constitution. There is only one Law in Australia. It is the Law that is made by the Parliament of Australia and enforced by our Courts. There is no second Law. There is only one Law that applies in Australia and Australia expects its citizens to observe it. We want the Australian Muslims to understand our history and our culture, the extent of which we believe in mateship and giving another person a fair go, and basically if they don’t want to support and accept and adopt and teach Australian values then, they should clearoff’.

Quotas are route to inequality at IITs, IIMs

Mayank Tewari

Tuesday, June 24, 2008 03:52 IST

http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1173139&pageid=0

Their dropout rates are higher at IITs, and salaries lower at IIMs

NEW DELHI: The recent decision of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, to terminate 25 students, many of them from the scheduled caste category, for poor performance has raised hackles all around.

While the National Commission for Scheduled Castes is pressuring the institute to take them back, the issue that cannot be wished away is their actual performance after gaining entry into these hallowed institutions.

Have quotas really worked? How do students from the scheduled castes and scheduled tribes (SC/ST), inducted on the basis of lower qualifying marks, fare in terms of performance and salaries at the IITs and the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs)? Are they able to cope with high academic pressures?

DNA, which used the Right to Information Act (RTI) to extract numbers on SC/ST performance from reluctant institutions, has some answers. We found that quotas don’t work as well in the IITs, where the demands for academic excellence are higher, but the results are reasonable when it comes to the IIMs.

It’s clear that dropout rates are high among SC/ST candidates at the IITs; at the IIMs, their average salaries are also lower than general category students. The big differences, though, come up in the case of top performers. At IIM, Kozhikode, the highest salary earned by a general category student was Rs70 lakh this year; the highest earned by the SC/ST candidate was just Rs13 lakh. The differences in average salaries were lower: for general category students, it was Rs15.84 lakh, for SC/ST Rs11.01 lakh.

The real problem area seems to be the IITs. According to information provided by IIT-Powai in Mumbai, 21 SC/ST students were asked to terminate their undergraduate BTech course in 2006-2007. In the last three years, the number of reserved category students terminating their courses at Powai has risen quietly. In 2005-2006, the institute had asked 20 SC/ST students to pack their bags. A year earlier, in 2004-2005, 19 students left without completing the course. Between 2003 and 2007, the yearly average dropout number for IIT, Powai, is a high 16 students .

Two other IITs — in Delhi and Kharagpur, for which DNA has data — had lower average dropout rates of 11 and eight among SC/ST candidates. The dropout rate for general category students at IIT, Powai, hovers around 1-2% and, according to faculty members, is nowhere close to that of reserved category students.

Students are asked to terminate their courses when they accumulate more backlogs (courses failed) than permitted by IIT rules. “There is no semester-wise fail/pass system at IIT, Powai. Students can continue further studies with up to four backlogs (failed courses) at the end of each semester, till the second year, or up to six backlogs at the end of each semester during the third and subsequent years of study,” says Dr Indu Saxena, deputy registrar at IIT, Powai.

But things are better at IIT, Delhi, where yearly dropout rates have stabilised in the range of 3-9 for SC/STs combined after a peak of 23 in 2002.  A professor at IIT, Delhi, told DNA that the institutes seldom have any control over dropout rates. “The quality of reserved category students every year is variable, unlike general category admissions, where merit is the sole criteria. In the case of reserved categories, sometimes totally undeserving candidates are admitted who cannot meet the standards set by the institute,” he said.

The gap between general and SC/ST category students is less stark at the IIMs, where average salary differentials are not seriously out of whack. DNA, however, found that students from the general category fared much better than reserved category students in terms of salaries offered at campus.

IIM, Ahmedabad, did not share details about the highest salary offered to SC/ST candidates in 2008, but the highest obtained by general category students was Rs60 lakh. Average salary levels for the last two years show some serious divergences.

Last year, the average salary offered to a general category student at IIMA was Rs13.70 lakh, while an SC/ST candidate got Rs11.14 lakh. This year, the general category average was Rs17.81 lakh while the average salary given to reserved category students was Rs14.50 lakh.

According to Bakul Dholakia, former director of IIM, Ahmedabad, disparities in salaries are not surprising. “At IIMA, we have always acknowledged the academic differences between general and reserved category students. It is generally assumed that reserved category students, on an average, score 20% less than their general category counterparts. Keeping this in mind, an average salary difference of Rs3-4 lakh between general and reserved category students is logical,” he told DNA.

Piyush Sinha, professor at IIMA, feels that “average salaries figures are not sufficient to conclude that reserved category students at IIMs do not perform as well as their counterparts in the general category.” According to him, “there are many factors that decide the salary during campus recruitments. The companies which come to the campuses are never given out the names of candidates based on caste. Everything works on merit.”