Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Why the stake is so high on PM Narendra Modi’s accidental death?

The world is seized of the fact that the fake encounters mounted against innocent Muslims supposedly on the way to kill Narendra Modi was figment of imagination of Modi and his administration. It was foisted upon the worked up public to raise their anger against the Muslims of India. His administration abysmally failed to try in a court of law any Muslim accused of harbouring desire to kill anyone let alone Modi. The collector of Godhra was the earliest to reach the site, a bandh or raised tracks seven feet high where the Sabarmati Express train caught fire on February 27, 2002 and maintained that it was an accident. It was Modi who changed it into an act of terror more than six hours later and called for strike against the Muslims or else why instruct his police to let the Hindus vent their anger for three days! If it was the handiwork of Pakistan ISI India should have taken up the matter with Pakistan. But venting anger against Indian Muslims is illogical syllogism. Now the Brookings Institution is speculating that the death of Modi by bus hitting him or his slipping in bathroom and being removed from the world stage. The think tank is developing the scenario. Whose stake is so high on the PM? The Americans who are salivating the enormous income from arms sale to India or the Muslims’ who are indifferent to how long he lives and how he would die. In a media debate a Muslim leader called him Pharaoh and Muslims leave such rulers to the final reckoning day when the almighty in heaven alone can judge him. Ishrat Jahan was accused of planning to gun down Modi. It proved bogus and even the intelligence report Modi’s associate special deputy director of IB Rajendra Kumar prepared was suspicious. Were not Kumar and DG Vanzara speculating on the assassination of Modi as chief minister and a leader of Hindus? Those speculating over matters of death are construed in a slant of political light as “merchants of death.” Fifty eight passengers were burnt alive in the fire accident and those who advocated retaliation and took out the dead bodies for public viewing were also dealing in the same merchandize. Newtonian tit for tat? There are ominous hints that need scrutiny like: the American Inc is briefing Pentagon, the military establishment, of the US-India trade. Will the US be taking it easy if India does not fulfill the expectation of the Yankees? One of the speakers at the Brookings meeting spoke of the 5 sided building that could not be any other than the Pentagon itself. "I was at a building yesterday, which has five sides -- and you can figure it out -- and the question was as we were giving the briefing, what would happen to India if Modi got hit by a bus tomorrow."[1] Who could hit Modi is an innuendo. Dianne Farrel, the executive vice president of the Brookings Institution and also senior director of the US-India Business Council, qualified by saying that they wish a healthy tenure to Modi. In the Carnegie Endowment conference in 2014 there was a concern that there is no deep bench in BJP. What if Modi were to exit the world stage! There doesn’t exist another Modi in India who could mobilize the people are also worrisome aspects. Farrel has calculated patience as the reform Modi ushered in is slower than expected. Despite these developments the burden of the genocide and fake encounter cases is still weighing on the minds of the minority that suffered most. Even Hindus who were given that kind of treatment like the family of Tulsiram Prajapati in no measure suffer any less the anguish and agony. The families have suffered and would suffer in the foreseeable future. In the Sohrabuddin Shaikh murder Narendra Amin played a crucial role for which he spent more than five years in jail and has been under suspension for eight years but is now released and reinstated in the police force a year after Modi became the PM of India. Nay, he is entrusted with the crime records of the state government Crime Branch. He was also involved in the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter. He administered drug to her to make her unconscious when she and others were brought to the scene and shot dead in cold blood. The killing of Sohrabuddin justified by Modi in election rallies produced the desired and intended effect: Modi and his party got abundant vote. Samir Khan Pathan was also killed in a rehearsal where the police allege that he had killed a cop. His mother went to police station but the police did not tell her that he was already dead. Another Muslim who suffered enormously was Gulam Yazdani. He was accused in the case of the assassination of Modi’s minister but arch rival, Haren Pandya. But he was not a rrested. He was arrested in the murder case of RSS leader and owner of a medical store in Hyderabad in 1999. He was detained for a month and then shown on record that he was arrested a month later. During his incarceration two more terror charges were leveled against him. He was discharged from all the three charges. He was not arrested in Haren Pandya case but was dubbed as the architect of the murder. Three bombs had exploded on March 7, 2006. Next day Yazdani lost his life in a police encounter. In January the ACP of Hyderabad had asked his father about his identification marks. The case of Haren Pandya resembles the murder of Captain Saurab Kalia on June 6, 1999 when he and his team sighted the Pak intrusion in Kargil. They were ambushed tortured and killed. His sex parts were mutilated before murder. That would remind how Haren Pandya was also shot through his testicles. Vithal Pandya accused Modi of the murder of his son and called it a political murder. These murders are shrouded in mystery. Brookings meeting might have correctly gauged Modi’s transparency in business, mobilization of people for electoral gains and penchant for development, but it is fraught with danger. Transparency cannot be only in matters of detecting graft and removing it from business, mobilization of people may have been there when 31% who voted BJP. That gave Modi comfortable majority but the overwhelming 69 % cannot be taken for a ride in the administration of the country. As far as development is concerned Gujarat is already well developed thanks to the previous governments and the mammoth diaspora of the people of the state. Their remittance is very huge. The state still has many who are very poor. Transparency is the crux of the matter in terms of what has transpired in the state during Modi’s stewardship. There is the persistent problem whether the US can declare RSS as a foreign terrorist organization. The murders of people reek with murky dealings and involvement of the chief minister Modi in all the gory events. The central government has denied permission to try special deputy director of IB Rajendra Kumar. He was close to Modi who ushered him in Gujarat. He it was who prevailed in the decision to declare the fire incident on Sabarmati express train as ISI terrorist attack without proof as well as generating false intelligence reports to have more than 20 Muslims shot and killed in cold blooded conspiracy to gain vote and win election! There is no iota of truth about the slain being terrorists. Or, is the Brookings preparing for the endgame of Modi as it predicted correctly that he is at risk from the extremist wings of the Hindu right? Stephen Cohen speaking at the Brookings Institution in 2014 had sounded this ominous warning regarding Modi and India even before Modi became PM of India: “India has not squeaked at all and squeaking wheels get the grease and India’s got to be squeaking loud. It’s got to be doing things, some risky, some dangerous, some positive.” Cohen said that once Modi is in office India may squeak “with a vengeance with the advent of a Modi foreign policy.” US ambassador Nancy Powell had resigned for opposing visa to Modi. Cohen has had this in mind among other things when he observed: “Modi has close relations with China, Japan, and South Korea, and bad relations with the US.” [2] So the question which arises in the first week of June 2015 what has remained opaque and what is transparent. More important: is the US competent to deal in such a situation? Can the reinstatement of Narendra Amin, Vanzara and a host of other matters like Home Ministry’s refusal to try IB officers like Rajendra Kumar make India squeak in terms of human rights, religious freedom, justice, etc? These are matters of grave concern which India does not bother like the case of Captain Saurab Kalia’s possible going to International Court of Justice. Albeit coincident, the captain too met his fate on June 6, 1999. Amin was made deputy superintendant of State Crime Record Bureau in Ahmadabad on June 6, 2015. He is capable of tampering the crime records of not just the fake encounters but also of the charges of crimes against humanity which many government officers of Gujarat state face. The chain of command reaches to Modi. In the chargesheet Amin figures prominently. “…Dr NK Amin was not posted in ATS, but was a part of the conspiracy, was in constant touch with accused no 1, 2 (Vanzara and Pandian) and then minister of state Amit Shah (accused number 16). He made/received as many as 25 calls from Amit Shah during the period.”During his jail term he appealed to the court to arraign IPS off Geetha Johari, and accused two cops Nathuba Jadeja and V A Rathod as also involved in the crime of killing Sohrabuddin Shaikh. Amin also absconded when the police wanted to arrest him. Among other crimes he shot dead a youth with his service gun inside the police station in Hyderabad. Andhra police is deeply involved in the kidnapping of Sohrbuddin and his wife, in their murder, in the case of Gulam Yazdani, in the murder of Haren Pandya as the alleged assassins were arrested from AP and Gujarat. In the case of another fake encounter Amin had fired from his service revolver at Ishrat Jahan, her friend Javed Sheikh alias Pranesh Pillai and two alleged Pakistani nationals — Zeeshan Johar and Amjadali Rana. These crimes could not have been committed without the approval of the Home Minister of Gujarat who was no other than Modi. Do not these heinous crimes against humanity sufficiently squeak for the US? ----- [1] http://www.rediff.com/news/report/pentagon-concerned-about-what-would-happen-if-modi-is-hit-by-a-bus/20150604.htm?pos=3&src=NL20150605&trackid=7MGeiBNRiOgHpjiU22XIw0UhYgsPCBFedrAsNDfdS8Q=&isnlp=0&isnlsp=0 [2]http://www.rediff.com/news/report/ls-election-danger-to-modi-as-prime-minister-will-be-from-his-right-stephen-cohen/20140513.htm Former IB Director Asif Ibrahim had opposed the move to prosecute his officers during his tenure which ended in December last year. Perhaps as a reward he is now appointed to lead counter terrorism. http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/ishrat-jahan-case-home-ministry-denies-sanction-to-prosecute-ex-ib-official-3-others/articleshow/47584886.cms

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