Malegaon is a strange place, unnecessarily feared and foully derided for no fault of its own. Those who are afraid to come or marry here and scurrilously speak of it do not know its pulse. It is free from tension and strife unless the people see any design in the events. How come they do it? A bizarre incident of dead cows found on the high way sends them to call relatives to safety and not venture out of house and one’s neighbourbood. When the local people see a police van with Nasik or Mumbai marking they fear that the police have come from outside to arrest someone. Sometimes they see extraordinary excitement over an issue and they are filled with premonition that they are in for some trouble like a madrasa girl consuming acid and Shiv Sena making a hullaballoo over it. As apprehension passes down the spinal cord they begin to grind wheat, buy necessary foodstuff or ration. The town is made infamous for communal tension and riots and inordinate long periods of curfew when people find meeting both ends impossible. Foodstuff is the top priority after safety.
In 2006 as the Ganesh festival approached there was this instinctive foreboding. Something terrible was on the way. Within forty eight hours it happened. Four bombs that exploded on September 8, 2006 killed more than 37 people and injured more than 200. The police began questioning 20 Hindus and then suddenly they changed the track and started arresting Muslim youths alleging them to be members of SIMI, Students Islamic Movement of India. The mainstream newspapers reported that it was all on account of the schism of Sunni, Deobandi, Wahabi. No Muslim in the town was convinced about it as they felt that the local youths could not fit in what Arshy Malik depicts in his poem “khankhaon pe jaley deep bhujhane walo”. There was no one who wanted to kill himself in a fidayeen attack or suicide bombing: “boo men barud ki janat ke kamane walo”. And as the police also were perplexed that nobody had claimed responsibility, the people knew that there was no one of the type: “khudkashi ker ke jasn manane walo”.
One of the earliest arrested was Noorulhoda. He was tortured and his signature obtained on a blank paper but his three naro tests and brain mapping drew blank. He was arrested six times at least on sundry charges and the courts acquitted him. The courts acquitted him in arms haul case of May 13, 2006. The police wanted him to own up responsibility for the July 11, 2006 local train explosions in Mumbai but found no evidence and he was again set free. Going back to August 18, 2001they had arrested him for sheltering terrorists but there was no proof. These attempts had failed. When 2006 blasts took place and the police changed the track they again arrested him. Inspector Malegaonkar (LLB, Nasik) tortured him and questioned him for eight hours and then rationalized: “Why are you keeping a beard? You are still young and also offer namaz five times a day, don kurta, pyjama and cap. There are many other Muslim youths of your age but they do not do that and why you do all that. You are a hardcore and fanatic Muslim.” The syllogism seems to conclude: you fit in the description and therefore you are a terrorist. Unlike another bearded, SAR Geelani, Noorlhoda did not get a Ram Jethmalano to argue in the court for him and so he is languishing in jail for the last five years.
In contrast to Noorulhoda there is another bearded man, potbellied thanks to years of surfeit on choicest delicacies, clad in neat kurta and pyjama, flabby due to luxurious life and a huge amount of money stashed away for future. Driven in government cars with even ministers in waiting for him as he is the favourite of the Chief Minister and has his ears and his consent for the asking. Amit Shah.
Look at the battle royal fought for him in the Supreme Court. On Thursday August 12 his counsel accused the CBI of having taken a political brief of the Congress party in order to dislodge Modi government. Jethmalani was melodramatic, there was a conspiracy hatched by the central government and a subplot of conspiracy by the lower level staff of the CBI. He insidiously suggested that the director of the agency had even scoffed at the evidence gathered against Amit Shah. Even before the SC ordered the CBI to investigate the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case on January 12 this year the agency had begun hunt for Amit Shah. What Jethmalani does not say gives away the real thing that Modi and Shah have been in the lime light of the criminal world for much longer time. They had used Sohrabuddin in extortion business for quite some years. They have also been registering false cases of criminal involvement in shooting, smuggling, etc, of those whom they were using in multipurpose murky dealings like the two builder brothers Raman Patel and Dashrat Patel, Sohrabuddin, and Tulsiram Prajapati, etc. A diligent investigating officer can follow a lead with tenacity of application and devotion and unearth very secret matters. That need not mean holding a brief for a political party.
On the other hand the CBI did not investigate Malegaon 2006 case except putting signature and seal to what Malegaon police and ATS under KP Raghuvanshi had done. This despite the fact that the government had handed over the case to it and it had taken some years to work on the case and the SC asking it for its periodic report. In fact it did not even look in the evidence honestly. It reproduced the approver Abrar Ahmed’s consumer application form for mobile phone ( 98233436809) without bothering to see that his signature was not obtained at the three spaces indicated on the form. That surely raises serious question that what Abrar claimed in his affidavit is true that the phone was provided by no other than the SP Rajwardhan and all the recording done on it was at the insistence of the police. Rajwardhan had shared the recording with Lt Col Shrikant Purohit and must have also let Sudhakar Pandey and the Sadhvi Pragyasingh know it. This is so because Abrar claims that it was the police officer Rajwardhan who had arranged meeting with Purohit, Pandy, the Sadhvi and others.
Abrar also claims that the 2006 blast some doctors were involved and he names Dr Bipin Parekh, Dr Rajendra Amin, etc. Instead of following the lead the police arrested Dr Farogh Mukhdumi. Parekh’s phone number is traced in Pragyasingh’s phone as well. This could not be just because she had attended a religious discourse in Malegaon that is why her phone had the doctor’s number in the memory car. If Parekh, Amin and Someshwar Shankar are arrested it would not surprise anyone because of the premonition.
When Abrar had disclosed their names to Rajwardhan he was taken aback. The senior police officer even used Abrar’s brother in law Wardha to persuade him to toe the police line and Wardha had a gun given to him to watch Abrar. That is quite ominous. Had the CBI been quite sincere in its work it would have thoroughly inquired into what Abrar has said in his affidavit to the MCOCA judge YD Shinde.
If the central government according to Jethmalani had used CBI in a conspiracy to dislodge Modi why did not the government show any interest in Malegaon 2006 case? This is puzzling and only CBI director can explain. Or will he again scoff at the evidence collected by his agency in the Malegaon case.
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Sohrabuddin case: CBI gets 3 months - India - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Sohrabuddin-case-CBI-gets-3-months/articleshow/6300970.cms#ixzz0wTb4XpqM
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Premonition and terrorism: Malegaon and Gujarat
Malegaon is a strange place, unnecessarily feared and foully derided for no fault of its own. Those who are afraid to come or marry here and scurrilously speak of it do not know its pulse. It is free from tension and strife unless the people see any design in the events. How come they do it? A bizarre incident of dead cows found on the high way sends them to call relatives to safety and not venture out of house and one’s neighbourbood. When the local people see a police van with Nasik or Mumbai marking they fear that the police have come from outside to arrest someone. Sometimes they see extraordinary excitement over an issue and they are filled with premonition that they are in for some trouble like a madrasa girl consuming acid and Shiv Sena making a hullaballoo over it. As apprehension passes down the spinal cord they begin to grind wheat, buy necessary foodstuff or ration. The town is made infamous for communal tension and riots and inordinate long periods of curfew when people find meeting both ends impossible. Foodstuff is the top priority after safety.
In 2006 as the Ganesh festival approached there was this instinctive foreboding. Something terrible was on the way. Within forty eight hours it happened. Four bombs that exploded on September 8, 2006 killed more than 37 people and injured more than 200. The police began questioning 20 Hindus and then suddenly they changed the track and started arresting Muslim youths alleging them to be members of SIMI, Students Islamic Movement of India. The mainstream newspapers reported that it was all on account of the schism of Sunni, Deobandi, Wahabi. No Muslim in the town was convinced about it as they felt that the local youths could not fit in what Arshy Malik depicts in his poem “khankhaon pe jaley deep bhujhane walo”. There was no one who wanted to kill himself in a fidayeen attack or suicide bombing: “boo men barud ki janat ke kamane walo”. And as the police also were perplexed that nobody had claimed responsibility, the people knew that there was no one of the type: “khudkashi ker ke jasn manane walo”.
One of the earliest arrested was Noorulhoda. He was tortured and his signature obtained on a blank paper but his three naro tests and brain mapping drew blank. He was arrested six times at least on sundry charges and the courts acquitted him. The courts acquitted him in arms haul case of May 13, 2006. The police wanted him to own up responsibility for the July 11, 2006 local train explosions in Mumbai but found no evidence and he was again set free. Going back to August 18, 2001they had arrested him for sheltering terrorists but there was no proof. These attempts had failed. When 2006 blasts took place and the police changed the track they again arrested him. Inspector Malegaonkar (LLB, Nasik) tortured him and questioned him for eight hours and then rationalized: “Why are you keeping a beard? You are still young and also offer namaz five times a day, don kurta, pyjama and cap. There are many other Muslim youths of your age but they do not do that and why you do all that. You are a hardcore and fanatic Muslim.” The syllogism seems to conclude: you fit in the description and therefore you are a terrorist. Unlike another bearded, SAR Geelani, Noorlhoda did not get a Ram Jethmalano to argue in the court for him and so he is languishing in jail for the last five years.
In contrast to Noorulhoda there is another bearded man, potbellied thanks to years of surfeit on choicest delicacies, clad in neat kurta and pyjama, flabby due to luxurious life and a huge amount of money stashed away for future. Driven in government cars with even ministers in waiting for him as he is the favourite of the Chief Minister and has his ears and his consent for the asking. Amit Shah.
Look at the battle royal fought for him in the Supreme Court. On Thursday August 12 his counsel accused the CBI of having taken a political brief of the Congress party in order to dislodge Modi government. Jethmalani was melodramatic, there was a conspiracy hatched by the central government and a subplot of conspiracy by the lower level staff of the CBI. He insidiously suggested that the director of the agency had even scoffed at the evidence gathered against Amit Shah. Even before the SC ordered the CBI to investigate the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case on January 12 this year the agency had begun hunt for Amit Shah. What Jethmalani does not say gives away the real thing that Modi and Shah have been in the lime light of the criminal world for much longer time. They had used Sohrabuddin in extortion business for quite some years. They have also been registering false cases of criminal involvement in shooting, smuggling, etc, of those whom they were using in multipurpose murky dealings like the two builder brothers Raman Patel and Dashrat Patel, Sohrabuddin, and Tulsiram Prajapati, etc. A diligent investigating officer can follow a lead with tenacity of application and devotion and unearth very secret matters. That need not mean holding a brief for a political party.
On the other hand the CBI did not investigate Malegaon 2006 case except putting signature and seal to what Malegaon police and ATS under KP Raghuvanshi had done. This despite the fact that the government had handed over the case to it and it had taken some years to work on the case and the SC asking it for its periodic report. In fact it did not even look in the evidence honestly. It reproduced the approver Abrar Ahmed’s consumer application form for mobile phone ( 98233436809) without bothering to see that his signature was not obtained at the three spaces indicated on the form. That surely raises serious question that what Abrar claimed in his affidavit is true that the phone was provided by no other than the SP Rajwardhan and all the recording done on it was at the insistence of the police. Rajwardhan had shared the recording with Lt Col Shrikant Purohit and must have also let Sudhakar Pandey and the Sadhvi Pragyasingh know it. This is so because Abrar claims that it was the police officer Rajwardhan who had arranged meeting with Purohit, Pandy, the Sadhvi and others.
Abrar also claims that the 2006 blast some doctors were involved and he names Dr Bipin Parekh, Dr Rajendra Amin, etc. Instead of following the lead the police arrested Dr Farogh Mukhdumi. Parekh’s phone number is traced in Pragyasingh’s phone as well. This could not be just because she had attended a religious discourse in Malegaon that is why her phone had the doctor’s number in the memory car. If Parekh, Amin and Someshwar Shankar are arrested it would not surprise anyone because of the premonition.
When Abrar had disclosed their names to Rajwardhan he was taken aback. The senior police officer even used Abrar’s brother in law Wardha to persuade him to toe the police line and Wardha had a gun given to him to watch Abrar. That is quite ominous. Had the CBI been quite sincere in its work it would have thoroughly inquired into what Abrar has said in his affidavit to the MCOCA judge YD Shinde.
If the central government according to Jethmalani had used CBI in a conspiracy to dislodge Modi why did not the government show any interest in Malegaon 2006 case? This is puzzling and only CBI director can explain. Or will he again scoff at the evidence collected by his agency in the Malegaon case.
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Sohrabuddin case: CBI gets 3 months - India - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Sohrabuddin-case-CBI-gets-3-months/articleshow/6300970.cms#ixzz0wTb4XpqM
In 2006 as the Ganesh festival approached there was this instinctive foreboding. Something terrible was on the way. Within forty eight hours it happened. Four bombs that exploded on September 8, 2006 killed more than 37 people and injured more than 200. The police began questioning 20 Hindus and then suddenly they changed the track and started arresting Muslim youths alleging them to be members of SIMI, Students Islamic Movement of India. The mainstream newspapers reported that it was all on account of the schism of Sunni, Deobandi, Wahabi. No Muslim in the town was convinced about it as they felt that the local youths could not fit in what Arshy Malik depicts in his poem “khankhaon pe jaley deep bhujhane walo”. There was no one who wanted to kill himself in a fidayeen attack or suicide bombing: “boo men barud ki janat ke kamane walo”. And as the police also were perplexed that nobody had claimed responsibility, the people knew that there was no one of the type: “khudkashi ker ke jasn manane walo”.
One of the earliest arrested was Noorulhoda. He was tortured and his signature obtained on a blank paper but his three naro tests and brain mapping drew blank. He was arrested six times at least on sundry charges and the courts acquitted him. The courts acquitted him in arms haul case of May 13, 2006. The police wanted him to own up responsibility for the July 11, 2006 local train explosions in Mumbai but found no evidence and he was again set free. Going back to August 18, 2001they had arrested him for sheltering terrorists but there was no proof. These attempts had failed. When 2006 blasts took place and the police changed the track they again arrested him. Inspector Malegaonkar (LLB, Nasik) tortured him and questioned him for eight hours and then rationalized: “Why are you keeping a beard? You are still young and also offer namaz five times a day, don kurta, pyjama and cap. There are many other Muslim youths of your age but they do not do that and why you do all that. You are a hardcore and fanatic Muslim.” The syllogism seems to conclude: you fit in the description and therefore you are a terrorist. Unlike another bearded, SAR Geelani, Noorlhoda did not get a Ram Jethmalano to argue in the court for him and so he is languishing in jail for the last five years.
In contrast to Noorulhoda there is another bearded man, potbellied thanks to years of surfeit on choicest delicacies, clad in neat kurta and pyjama, flabby due to luxurious life and a huge amount of money stashed away for future. Driven in government cars with even ministers in waiting for him as he is the favourite of the Chief Minister and has his ears and his consent for the asking. Amit Shah.
Look at the battle royal fought for him in the Supreme Court. On Thursday August 12 his counsel accused the CBI of having taken a political brief of the Congress party in order to dislodge Modi government. Jethmalani was melodramatic, there was a conspiracy hatched by the central government and a subplot of conspiracy by the lower level staff of the CBI. He insidiously suggested that the director of the agency had even scoffed at the evidence gathered against Amit Shah. Even before the SC ordered the CBI to investigate the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case on January 12 this year the agency had begun hunt for Amit Shah. What Jethmalani does not say gives away the real thing that Modi and Shah have been in the lime light of the criminal world for much longer time. They had used Sohrabuddin in extortion business for quite some years. They have also been registering false cases of criminal involvement in shooting, smuggling, etc, of those whom they were using in multipurpose murky dealings like the two builder brothers Raman Patel and Dashrat Patel, Sohrabuddin, and Tulsiram Prajapati, etc. A diligent investigating officer can follow a lead with tenacity of application and devotion and unearth very secret matters. That need not mean holding a brief for a political party.
On the other hand the CBI did not investigate Malegaon 2006 case except putting signature and seal to what Malegaon police and ATS under KP Raghuvanshi had done. This despite the fact that the government had handed over the case to it and it had taken some years to work on the case and the SC asking it for its periodic report. In fact it did not even look in the evidence honestly. It reproduced the approver Abrar Ahmed’s consumer application form for mobile phone ( 98233436809) without bothering to see that his signature was not obtained at the three spaces indicated on the form. That surely raises serious question that what Abrar claimed in his affidavit is true that the phone was provided by no other than the SP Rajwardhan and all the recording done on it was at the insistence of the police. Rajwardhan had shared the recording with Lt Col Shrikant Purohit and must have also let Sudhakar Pandey and the Sadhvi Pragyasingh know it. This is so because Abrar claims that it was the police officer Rajwardhan who had arranged meeting with Purohit, Pandy, the Sadhvi and others.
Abrar also claims that the 2006 blast some doctors were involved and he names Dr Bipin Parekh, Dr Rajendra Amin, etc. Instead of following the lead the police arrested Dr Farogh Mukhdumi. Parekh’s phone number is traced in Pragyasingh’s phone as well. This could not be just because she had attended a religious discourse in Malegaon that is why her phone had the doctor’s number in the memory car. If Parekh, Amin and Someshwar Shankar are arrested it would not surprise anyone because of the premonition.
When Abrar had disclosed their names to Rajwardhan he was taken aback. The senior police officer even used Abrar’s brother in law Wardha to persuade him to toe the police line and Wardha had a gun given to him to watch Abrar. That is quite ominous. Had the CBI been quite sincere in its work it would have thoroughly inquired into what Abrar has said in his affidavit to the MCOCA judge YD Shinde.
If the central government according to Jethmalani had used CBI in a conspiracy to dislodge Modi why did not the government show any interest in Malegaon 2006 case? This is puzzling and only CBI director can explain. Or will he again scoff at the evidence collected by his agency in the Malegaon case.
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Sohrabuddin case: CBI gets 3 months - India - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Sohrabuddin-case-CBI-gets-3-months/articleshow/6300970.cms#ixzz0wTb4XpqM
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Indulgence towards Narendra Modi for temporizing
The latest delaying and stalling tactic of the Chief Minister Narendra Modi is unacceptable by civil and judicial norms. When the CBI was asking Geetha Johri for questioning it is Modi’s visit to Rajkot on Independence Day that has caused the police commissioner there to request postponement of the meeting. Should Modi’s delaying tactics be allowed? This is in sharp contrast with the horrendous pogroms of Muslims that he and his administration had brought about which was not allowed to come in his way of holding the 2002 election. The wounds were not healed and Muslims had been too much terrified and were at mortal risk to face election. Many of them were still refugees too much overwhelmed by the carnage to stir anywhere outside let alone exercise their democratic right of voting. The Chief Election Commissioner was reluctant to oblige the insistent Chief Minister hell bent on declaring normalcy and holding election. In utter disregard of the anarchy in his state he made his ruling party in Gujarat and at the centre to clear official hurdles and hold the election.
Whose “appeasement” was that? How long should this go on and the civilized people of the country hold their breath for this? He must be Guinness world record champion to eat his cake and have it too! That largest cake anyone can bake: “functioning democracy.”! His tainted cops left so many footmarks of the Dragon and, lo! the Dragon is still in sight!
When Geetha Johri conducted inquiry in the second stint she was playing second fiddle to her CID boss OP Mathur as he was playing second fiddle to the CM Modi. Mathur did not want her to be straight in dealing with the fake encounter of Sohrabuddin. Therefore she mischievously replaced Tulsiram Prajapat with Kalimuddin in the resumed inquiry. This was the tune the CM and the BJP were playing: Kalimuddin was a Muslim name and hence a terrorist. No dummy Babulal Yadav would do. There was no need to physically provide false beard, a skull cap and checkered scarf to manufacture the identity.
She was called on Tuesday August 10, 2010 for inquiry by CBI. She could have attended the session and still manage the security arrangements meant for August 15 and yet she chose to delay rather than stagger her schedule.
Diversionary tactic
The Andhra Pradesh police were involved in the fake encounter of Sohrabuddin. Full five years have passed and now there is a din over investigating their involvement. But here too they have been ‘invited’ (?) to Ahmedabad to do another assignment rather than come clean on the encounter.
Modi has another front opened for him on the so called “war on terror.” His police let AP cops in to “choose and pick” a case from 2007 in which Mohammad Viquar Ahmed allegedly tried to loot a bank and killed a police man. From his locked house the police have found explosives and weapons and other incriminating evidence against him, the usual stuff that police are wont to plant with impunity, like CDs, photographs of Modi and police officers. There was nobody in the house, people of the house hardly necessary because the police do the pnachnama in their preconceived plans of framing. Perhaps he was like the cops, gullible. He left a broken key in the lock so that no one could open it. His house is situated of all places right under the nose of the police station of Ramol area, Ahemdabad. The house is on encroached land! This is the house that Jack built. This is the cop who broke the house. This is the stuff that the cop planted in the house that Jack built!
Thus goes the “war on terror” and delaying of justice. Inside the house arms and ammunition were neatly laid out and covered with a piece of cloth. One would think that he had made excellent arrangement for the police to find things on a platter! This is the way he laid out the arms for the convenience of the police to find in the house that Jack built.
Why did Viquar attack police man Vinay Jadhav in a bid to loot the bank in Maninager? Maninager is high security area and the place close to the heart of Modi and LK Advani! He wanted to loot money to organize a terrorist cell! What happened to the ever ready flowing fund from across the border for jihadi terrorist attacks in India?
Modi was on top of Viquar's hit list (TOI August 9, 2010)
This is the bank that Jack built…and this is the cat that killed the rat…How neatly were the weapons and photos of Narendra Modi, Pravin Togadia, etc arranged on the table and covered with a piece of cloth! How wonderfully have the cops connected the dots to expose the design and the conspiracy! Good fare it is for the courts of the state of Gujarat!
More indulgence and temporizing
Yet another milestone is the proposed Vibrant Gujarat Global Investor Summit and 'Davos in Action', a brain child of the Chief Minister who cannot travel to US and Europe so his mukhota or mask must travel. As his mukhota won him election so will it do his international standing in the world! Modi’s move to improve his international image will be boosted if he can also rope in Noam Chomsky as Arundhati Roy may not oblige him being busy with the comrades in arms. This is the house that Jack built and is still building.
Whose “appeasement” was that? How long should this go on and the civilized people of the country hold their breath for this? He must be Guinness world record champion to eat his cake and have it too! That largest cake anyone can bake: “functioning democracy.”! His tainted cops left so many footmarks of the Dragon and, lo! the Dragon is still in sight!
When Geetha Johri conducted inquiry in the second stint she was playing second fiddle to her CID boss OP Mathur as he was playing second fiddle to the CM Modi. Mathur did not want her to be straight in dealing with the fake encounter of Sohrabuddin. Therefore she mischievously replaced Tulsiram Prajapat with Kalimuddin in the resumed inquiry. This was the tune the CM and the BJP were playing: Kalimuddin was a Muslim name and hence a terrorist. No dummy Babulal Yadav would do. There was no need to physically provide false beard, a skull cap and checkered scarf to manufacture the identity.
She was called on Tuesday August 10, 2010 for inquiry by CBI. She could have attended the session and still manage the security arrangements meant for August 15 and yet she chose to delay rather than stagger her schedule.
Diversionary tactic
The Andhra Pradesh police were involved in the fake encounter of Sohrabuddin. Full five years have passed and now there is a din over investigating their involvement. But here too they have been ‘invited’ (?) to Ahmedabad to do another assignment rather than come clean on the encounter.
Modi has another front opened for him on the so called “war on terror.” His police let AP cops in to “choose and pick” a case from 2007 in which Mohammad Viquar Ahmed allegedly tried to loot a bank and killed a police man. From his locked house the police have found explosives and weapons and other incriminating evidence against him, the usual stuff that police are wont to plant with impunity, like CDs, photographs of Modi and police officers. There was nobody in the house, people of the house hardly necessary because the police do the pnachnama in their preconceived plans of framing. Perhaps he was like the cops, gullible. He left a broken key in the lock so that no one could open it. His house is situated of all places right under the nose of the police station of Ramol area, Ahemdabad. The house is on encroached land! This is the house that Jack built. This is the cop who broke the house. This is the stuff that the cop planted in the house that Jack built!
Thus goes the “war on terror” and delaying of justice. Inside the house arms and ammunition were neatly laid out and covered with a piece of cloth. One would think that he had made excellent arrangement for the police to find things on a platter! This is the way he laid out the arms for the convenience of the police to find in the house that Jack built.
Why did Viquar attack police man Vinay Jadhav in a bid to loot the bank in Maninager? Maninager is high security area and the place close to the heart of Modi and LK Advani! He wanted to loot money to organize a terrorist cell! What happened to the ever ready flowing fund from across the border for jihadi terrorist attacks in India?
Modi was on top of Viquar's hit list (TOI August 9, 2010)
This is the bank that Jack built…and this is the cat that killed the rat…How neatly were the weapons and photos of Narendra Modi, Pravin Togadia, etc arranged on the table and covered with a piece of cloth! How wonderfully have the cops connected the dots to expose the design and the conspiracy! Good fare it is for the courts of the state of Gujarat!
More indulgence and temporizing
Yet another milestone is the proposed Vibrant Gujarat Global Investor Summit and 'Davos in Action', a brain child of the Chief Minister who cannot travel to US and Europe so his mukhota or mask must travel. As his mukhota won him election so will it do his international standing in the world! Modi’s move to improve his international image will be boosted if he can also rope in Noam Chomsky as Arundhati Roy may not oblige him being busy with the comrades in arms. This is the house that Jack built and is still building.
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Maut ka saudager and his world!
Satan and his rebellion against the almighty gave birth to sin and death. Sin was born to him and he also cohabited with it and brought death in the world. When he wanted to leave hell to go to heaven Satan saw sin and death with dogs begotten by unnatural coupling of sin and death guarding the gate of hell. If there is any image that can capture the horrors of Gujarat since 2002 it is this that comes to the mind.
The arrest trail of the holygrail that is Swami Asimanand in the Dangs and the rigmarole over the bail of Babu Bajrangi, and Abhay Chaudasma’s claim that he had saved Sohrabuddin from getting mired into Haren Pandya murder show new evidence that the parent body of the sangh family RSS has birthed so many.
RSS does not hold even the Hindu women anywhere equal to men. Kauserbi like many other of her coreligionists was a victim of a much wider campaign. RSS and VHP had distributed a pamphlet in the Bajrang Dal training camps for three months leading to the Godhra accident and the pogrom subsequent to it. They had exhorted Hindus not to hesitate raping and killing Muslim women following how VD Savarkar had chided Hindu kings for not raping Muslim women when they conquered their enemy.
Irrespective of the ‘cultural nationalism’ espoused by RSS, Kauser was a truly Indian woman. She stiffly resisted the police when they were arresting her husband Sohrabuddin. She told them “main apne shauhar bina nahin gina chaheti” (I do not want to live without my husband.) They contacted Amit Shah Gujarat Minister of State for Home under the Home Minister Narendra Modi who ordered them to arrest her as well. Her husband was killed on November 26, 2005. Why did the police take two more days to finish her? They had raped her in the meantime. During this they also took her to Rajasthan police to take charge of her. When the Rajasthan cops refused Vanzara contacted Shah who told them to kill her as well. Vanzara made such an elaborate arrangement to have her cremated in his palace like farm house in Ilol and then disposed off the ashes. There are two versions. According to the first her ashes were thrown into the well of the farm house and a slab of concrete built over it. The other is that the ashes were taken to Narmada River and thrown into it. Abhay Chaudasma found all this very bizarre. This falls in line with what had transpired at the time of the pogroms of which the fake encounters are an adjunct: “women seared, fetuses displayed, children watching rapes, the killing of raped women and then the burning of the dead bodies so that evidence was destroyed.” The method in this madness was the systematic training that was on in the state.
Much afterward Amit Shah casually remarked in the presence of top police officers of Gujaat that Kauser must have run away with someone to Pakistan. This was an innuendo showing the scant regard for women the same training has inculcated in the cadres. So it is not the chicks but the broiler the investigators should go after and ultimately the original broiler.
That leads to the murder of Haren Pandya and his father Vithalbhai’s screaming claim that it was a political murder. RSS is believed to have killed Sunil Joshi in order to destroy trail of conspiracy and terror hatched by its top pracharaks. It is now well known that Haren Pandya had revealed to the Citizens for Justice and Peace what had transpired in the meeting at the house of Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the night of February 27, 2002. His day light murder shortly after this on March 26 2002 needs to be examined in the light of this “politics of terror” Modi was playing. Like Ishrat Jehan murder there was no blood or bullet mark on the seat of his car. This is what his widow has said. The poor woman’s disbelief at the way things happen and investigations carried on is shared by Kavita Karkarer and Vinita Kamte. But what status has the women howsoever wives of the killed in the society created by the right wing Hindutva?
Like John Milton’s description of hell above crime begets crime and when everyone concerned is a product no one is above or beyond the murky hell. Deputy Commissioner of Police Chaudasma a creator/creature of this hell like his ultimate boss Modi put it this way to Azam Khan witness no 4 of CBI: “main Sohrabuddin ka bahut achha dost tha aur maine hi usko Haren Pandya murder case mein ulajhne se bachaya tha”. (I was a good friend of Sohrabuddin and had saved him from getting stuck in the Haren Pandya murder case).
What are the antecedents of the gory tale of Kauser and Pandya? Going by what has been revealed it is quite clear that the police like their counterparts in the rest of the country are long entrenched in corruption. Hafta or installments paid regularly is preferable. They find out the source like extortion money collected from marble and textile traders. They employ people like Sohrabuddin and Tulsiram Prajapati. But they also have spring fall of supari or contract to kill and double cross their agents. So it could be that some very powerful person gave supari to Sohrabuddin to kill Pandya. Who that person could be is as mysterious as who is the one who got Sunil Joshi killed.
The arrest trail of the holygrail that is Swami Asimanand in the Dangs and the rigmarole over the bail of Babu Bajrangi, and Abhay Chaudasma’s claim that he had saved Sohrabuddin from getting mired into Haren Pandya murder show new evidence that the parent body of the sangh family RSS has birthed so many.
RSS does not hold even the Hindu women anywhere equal to men. Kauserbi like many other of her coreligionists was a victim of a much wider campaign. RSS and VHP had distributed a pamphlet in the Bajrang Dal training camps for three months leading to the Godhra accident and the pogrom subsequent to it. They had exhorted Hindus not to hesitate raping and killing Muslim women following how VD Savarkar had chided Hindu kings for not raping Muslim women when they conquered their enemy.
Irrespective of the ‘cultural nationalism’ espoused by RSS, Kauser was a truly Indian woman. She stiffly resisted the police when they were arresting her husband Sohrabuddin. She told them “main apne shauhar bina nahin gina chaheti” (I do not want to live without my husband.) They contacted Amit Shah Gujarat Minister of State for Home under the Home Minister Narendra Modi who ordered them to arrest her as well. Her husband was killed on November 26, 2005. Why did the police take two more days to finish her? They had raped her in the meantime. During this they also took her to Rajasthan police to take charge of her. When the Rajasthan cops refused Vanzara contacted Shah who told them to kill her as well. Vanzara made such an elaborate arrangement to have her cremated in his palace like farm house in Ilol and then disposed off the ashes. There are two versions. According to the first her ashes were thrown into the well of the farm house and a slab of concrete built over it. The other is that the ashes were taken to Narmada River and thrown into it. Abhay Chaudasma found all this very bizarre. This falls in line with what had transpired at the time of the pogroms of which the fake encounters are an adjunct: “women seared, fetuses displayed, children watching rapes, the killing of raped women and then the burning of the dead bodies so that evidence was destroyed.” The method in this madness was the systematic training that was on in the state.
Much afterward Amit Shah casually remarked in the presence of top police officers of Gujaat that Kauser must have run away with someone to Pakistan. This was an innuendo showing the scant regard for women the same training has inculcated in the cadres. So it is not the chicks but the broiler the investigators should go after and ultimately the original broiler.
That leads to the murder of Haren Pandya and his father Vithalbhai’s screaming claim that it was a political murder. RSS is believed to have killed Sunil Joshi in order to destroy trail of conspiracy and terror hatched by its top pracharaks. It is now well known that Haren Pandya had revealed to the Citizens for Justice and Peace what had transpired in the meeting at the house of Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the night of February 27, 2002. His day light murder shortly after this on March 26 2002 needs to be examined in the light of this “politics of terror” Modi was playing. Like Ishrat Jehan murder there was no blood or bullet mark on the seat of his car. This is what his widow has said. The poor woman’s disbelief at the way things happen and investigations carried on is shared by Kavita Karkarer and Vinita Kamte. But what status has the women howsoever wives of the killed in the society created by the right wing Hindutva?
Like John Milton’s description of hell above crime begets crime and when everyone concerned is a product no one is above or beyond the murky hell. Deputy Commissioner of Police Chaudasma a creator/creature of this hell like his ultimate boss Modi put it this way to Azam Khan witness no 4 of CBI: “main Sohrabuddin ka bahut achha dost tha aur maine hi usko Haren Pandya murder case mein ulajhne se bachaya tha”. (I was a good friend of Sohrabuddin and had saved him from getting stuck in the Haren Pandya murder case).
What are the antecedents of the gory tale of Kauser and Pandya? Going by what has been revealed it is quite clear that the police like their counterparts in the rest of the country are long entrenched in corruption. Hafta or installments paid regularly is preferable. They find out the source like extortion money collected from marble and textile traders. They employ people like Sohrabuddin and Tulsiram Prajapati. But they also have spring fall of supari or contract to kill and double cross their agents. So it could be that some very powerful person gave supari to Sohrabuddin to kill Pandya. Who that person could be is as mysterious as who is the one who got Sunil Joshi killed.
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Is arrest of Narendra Modi imminent?
There is little doubt left any more that the Chief Minister Narendra Modi is neck deep involved in crimes like kidnapping, illegal detention, ‘extraordinary renditions’, murder, fake encounters, tampering with evidence, covering up crimes as well as crimes against humanity. These crimes were committed by the top brass of his police and intelligence agencies and he was directly connected in chain of command order. Therefore, these call for no less than immediate arrest. However, whether the government and the judiciary follow it to the logical conclusion is the crux of the matter.
Even as late as July 30, 2010 his CID submitted its charge sheet in the matter of Sohrabuddin case in which Dy SP Narendra Amin was not mentioned. Amin had recorded on his mobile Amit Shah asking inspector VN Chauhan to kill Kauserbi and other conversations between Shah and Vanzara while Chauhan was guarding the farmhouses Disha and Aram used as centres of extraordinary renditions at no other place than the state capital Gandhinager, the seat of Modi’s government and power. Such was the case of Amin, even then the Gujarat CID who investigated the case for three years did not mention Amin! He had also shot dead with his hand a Muslim youth in a crowd at a police station in Hyderabad , Andhra Pradesh, where they were protesting the arrest of innocent people.
Right in Gujarat the scene was murkier. Even after murders and mayhem Amin had been around his official residence and still managed to abscond from the police who had gone to arrest him! With all this high drama in the background his name does not figure in the state CID charge sheet! It was submitted as he was applying for turning approver in the fake encounter case. This was done to lure him from turning into approver in the same case being investigated by CBI. It may remind you how the ATS under KP Raghuvanshi submitted charge sheet in the Malegaon 2006 case only hours before the case was handed over to the CBI. This is an instance of what Hemant Karkare called politics of terror. This is a maneuvering. With Amit Shah being under arrest who is behind the hurried submission of the chargesheet if not Modi? Can he be let off the hook when he hectors his audience: “Am I doing anything wrong by fighting terrorism?”
This rhetorical question of Narendra Modi is contextualized in the present and past events of his fighting not terrorism but playing politics of terror. Ishrat Jehan was kept in the same farm house as Kauserbi where she was tortured before she was bumped off on the road and declared a terrorist. She was kidnapped from her house in Mumbai and then killed. Does the law of the country justify that you kidnap and kill a person whom no court has found guilty; in fact such a person has not appeared in any court? Can the people of Gujarat be taken to be so gullible that they would feel proud at such death? Is this the asmita or pride of the state which gave birth to Gandhi? Whose ideology does this extraordinary renditions suit, Mahatma Gandhi’s or Nathuram Godse’s? (For record , Nathuram according to his brother Gopal Godse never left the RSS.)
Will the people of Gujarat and outside it allow the record to slide into oblivion of Modi harbouring Babu Bajrangi in the state guest house of the government of Gujarat in Mount Abu when the Commissioner of Police of Ahemdabar PC Pande had issued shoot at sight order against him? The same Pande, who will later ‘welcome’ Bajrangi in a farcical surrender to law! It did not stop there. Modi shifted one judge after another until he brought in Judge Akshay Mehta who released Bajrangi on bail. One of the judges had told Bajrangi that he would have given him death sentence twice for having killed so many Muslims. Modi also got Mehta on the Nanavati-Shah commission of inquiry into the pogroms of 2002. Will Mehta sit on judgment on Bajrangi! Does the pride of Gujarati people want to see this happen endlessly? Were the innocent Muslims hounded out of Naroda Patia and killed in the black hole of the well terrorists? Was Modi fighting terrorism when he complemented the chharra women for having given birth to men who had butchered the hapless Muslims there? Was the police officer KK Mysorewala glorifying Gujarat when his sentence became headline that there was order from above to deny shelter to the hounded Muslim women and children begging him to give them refuge?
‘Strategic depth’
The BJP ruled states powered by RSS ideology have strategic depth in each other, mainly in Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat; and occasionally in Rajasthan, Goa and Andhra, Karnataka,etc. For example in order to get Sohrabuddin killed the marble and textile tycoons belonging to BJP gave contract to no other than the home minister of Rajasthan Gulabchand Kataria who contacted Amit Shah who ordered arrest, kidnapping and murder of victims through the police in Gujarat. To eliminate Tulsiram Prajapati the Gujarat police had him brought into the state and then they got Vanzara assume charge of the border region and then they killed him on the way. Modi also got Abhay Chaudasma included in the inquiry committee on the fake encounter of Sohrabuddin so that he could deal with the witnesses so as to save the accused police officers close to Modi. GC Raiger had the list of witness taken from Geetha Johari to facilitate Chaudasma. Can anyone expect a fair inquiry with the web of such senior officers around? Is this why Modi had a penchant for Gujarat Control of Organized Crime Act cleared by the centre? A mere confession extracted by his police would have given him and his cops even more impunity to finish off anyone. Will the people of Gujarat be safe under a chief minister who is sworn to protect their life and property but does the very opposite?
The strategic depth is well illustrated by what Chaudasma told Robabuddin and others of the family of Sohrabuddin living in Madhya Pradesh that “the government of the same political party was in power in that state and he (by that Chaudasma meant, Amit Shah) could get them eliminated in Madhya Pradesh itself” if they did not withdraw the case.
And what for does he do it? Communalism combined with grab for power is the hidden agenda of the RSS and its political front BJP. Who is the communalist wielding enormous political power to do all this and also seek more power to fight ‘terrorism’? Power means money, the sangh parivar and its political leaders know it too well. If Indresh Kumar could get three cror rupees Kataria got ten crors. Communalism is the spring source of power for BJP and Shiv Sena and a rich source of income. RSS, BJP and VHP had made it clear to the adivasis or tribals that they had three days to loot and acquire property of Muslims during the carnage of February 28, March 1, 2, in 2002. Even very rich Gujarati Hindus would come in air-conditioned cars to loot valuable items from the shops owned by Muslims!
Fake encounters which followed the pogroms were an extension of what Modi said he was doing, fighting terrorism. He justified the first and subsequently justified the other. Therefore, there is need look at them in a larger context and book Modi for this larger conspiracy against the Muslims. Modi has stepped up his attack on CBI ever since the arrest of Amit Shah. He has come to such a sorry pass of insanity that he does not know what he is saying. He has been accusing that Sohrabuddin has been caught with AK 47s and that is why his fake encounter is justified! He is saying it now, end of July 2010 and August 2010. Even in December 2007 he had spoken so and as a result of it his own defense lawyer KTS Tulsi had resigned on moral ground protesting: “Modi’s statement has created an awkward situation. It is not proper for me to argue for the state in the case, unless the Chief Minister takes his statement back. I can’t defend the state government, whose Chief Minister justifies one of the most heinous crimes and its policemen go on killing citizens in cold blood.”
The arrest of Modi should be imminent provided the government and the judiciary are informed enough to note that he is now inciting the mobs to outrage against the continuing inquiry by CBI ordered by no other than the Supreme Court of the Republic of India!
Even as late as July 30, 2010 his CID submitted its charge sheet in the matter of Sohrabuddin case in which Dy SP Narendra Amin was not mentioned. Amin had recorded on his mobile Amit Shah asking inspector VN Chauhan to kill Kauserbi and other conversations between Shah and Vanzara while Chauhan was guarding the farmhouses Disha and Aram used as centres of extraordinary renditions at no other place than the state capital Gandhinager, the seat of Modi’s government and power. Such was the case of Amin, even then the Gujarat CID who investigated the case for three years did not mention Amin! He had also shot dead with his hand a Muslim youth in a crowd at a police station in Hyderabad , Andhra Pradesh, where they were protesting the arrest of innocent people.
Right in Gujarat the scene was murkier. Even after murders and mayhem Amin had been around his official residence and still managed to abscond from the police who had gone to arrest him! With all this high drama in the background his name does not figure in the state CID charge sheet! It was submitted as he was applying for turning approver in the fake encounter case. This was done to lure him from turning into approver in the same case being investigated by CBI. It may remind you how the ATS under KP Raghuvanshi submitted charge sheet in the Malegaon 2006 case only hours before the case was handed over to the CBI. This is an instance of what Hemant Karkare called politics of terror. This is a maneuvering. With Amit Shah being under arrest who is behind the hurried submission of the chargesheet if not Modi? Can he be let off the hook when he hectors his audience: “Am I doing anything wrong by fighting terrorism?”
This rhetorical question of Narendra Modi is contextualized in the present and past events of his fighting not terrorism but playing politics of terror. Ishrat Jehan was kept in the same farm house as Kauserbi where she was tortured before she was bumped off on the road and declared a terrorist. She was kidnapped from her house in Mumbai and then killed. Does the law of the country justify that you kidnap and kill a person whom no court has found guilty; in fact such a person has not appeared in any court? Can the people of Gujarat be taken to be so gullible that they would feel proud at such death? Is this the asmita or pride of the state which gave birth to Gandhi? Whose ideology does this extraordinary renditions suit, Mahatma Gandhi’s or Nathuram Godse’s? (For record , Nathuram according to his brother Gopal Godse never left the RSS.)
Will the people of Gujarat and outside it allow the record to slide into oblivion of Modi harbouring Babu Bajrangi in the state guest house of the government of Gujarat in Mount Abu when the Commissioner of Police of Ahemdabar PC Pande had issued shoot at sight order against him? The same Pande, who will later ‘welcome’ Bajrangi in a farcical surrender to law! It did not stop there. Modi shifted one judge after another until he brought in Judge Akshay Mehta who released Bajrangi on bail. One of the judges had told Bajrangi that he would have given him death sentence twice for having killed so many Muslims. Modi also got Mehta on the Nanavati-Shah commission of inquiry into the pogroms of 2002. Will Mehta sit on judgment on Bajrangi! Does the pride of Gujarati people want to see this happen endlessly? Were the innocent Muslims hounded out of Naroda Patia and killed in the black hole of the well terrorists? Was Modi fighting terrorism when he complemented the chharra women for having given birth to men who had butchered the hapless Muslims there? Was the police officer KK Mysorewala glorifying Gujarat when his sentence became headline that there was order from above to deny shelter to the hounded Muslim women and children begging him to give them refuge?
‘Strategic depth’
The BJP ruled states powered by RSS ideology have strategic depth in each other, mainly in Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat; and occasionally in Rajasthan, Goa and Andhra, Karnataka,etc. For example in order to get Sohrabuddin killed the marble and textile tycoons belonging to BJP gave contract to no other than the home minister of Rajasthan Gulabchand Kataria who contacted Amit Shah who ordered arrest, kidnapping and murder of victims through the police in Gujarat. To eliminate Tulsiram Prajapati the Gujarat police had him brought into the state and then they got Vanzara assume charge of the border region and then they killed him on the way. Modi also got Abhay Chaudasma included in the inquiry committee on the fake encounter of Sohrabuddin so that he could deal with the witnesses so as to save the accused police officers close to Modi. GC Raiger had the list of witness taken from Geetha Johari to facilitate Chaudasma. Can anyone expect a fair inquiry with the web of such senior officers around? Is this why Modi had a penchant for Gujarat Control of Organized Crime Act cleared by the centre? A mere confession extracted by his police would have given him and his cops even more impunity to finish off anyone. Will the people of Gujarat be safe under a chief minister who is sworn to protect their life and property but does the very opposite?
The strategic depth is well illustrated by what Chaudasma told Robabuddin and others of the family of Sohrabuddin living in Madhya Pradesh that “the government of the same political party was in power in that state and he (by that Chaudasma meant, Amit Shah) could get them eliminated in Madhya Pradesh itself” if they did not withdraw the case.
And what for does he do it? Communalism combined with grab for power is the hidden agenda of the RSS and its political front BJP. Who is the communalist wielding enormous political power to do all this and also seek more power to fight ‘terrorism’? Power means money, the sangh parivar and its political leaders know it too well. If Indresh Kumar could get three cror rupees Kataria got ten crors. Communalism is the spring source of power for BJP and Shiv Sena and a rich source of income. RSS, BJP and VHP had made it clear to the adivasis or tribals that they had three days to loot and acquire property of Muslims during the carnage of February 28, March 1, 2, in 2002. Even very rich Gujarati Hindus would come in air-conditioned cars to loot valuable items from the shops owned by Muslims!
Fake encounters which followed the pogroms were an extension of what Modi said he was doing, fighting terrorism. He justified the first and subsequently justified the other. Therefore, there is need look at them in a larger context and book Modi for this larger conspiracy against the Muslims. Modi has stepped up his attack on CBI ever since the arrest of Amit Shah. He has come to such a sorry pass of insanity that he does not know what he is saying. He has been accusing that Sohrabuddin has been caught with AK 47s and that is why his fake encounter is justified! He is saying it now, end of July 2010 and August 2010. Even in December 2007 he had spoken so and as a result of it his own defense lawyer KTS Tulsi had resigned on moral ground protesting: “Modi’s statement has created an awkward situation. It is not proper for me to argue for the state in the case, unless the Chief Minister takes his statement back. I can’t defend the state government, whose Chief Minister justifies one of the most heinous crimes and its policemen go on killing citizens in cold blood.”
The arrest of Modi should be imminent provided the government and the judiciary are informed enough to note that he is now inciting the mobs to outrage against the continuing inquiry by CBI ordered by no other than the Supreme Court of the Republic of India!
Friday, July 30, 2010
Narendra Modi and the last ditch battle over constitutional democracy
The taluka panchayat and municipal polls in Gujarat will see Hindutva politics at its zenith. The chief minister Narendra Modi has carefully but brazenly articulated what is not just communal but also thwarting to the constitution. He said: "The Centre is clearly indulging in minority appeasement. It is revising the existing reservation policies and giving away the quota which rightfully belong to dalits." Like his fracas with the chief of national election commission in 2002(he had cast aspersion upon him by naming and focusing on his minority origin by calling him James Michael Lyngdoh) he is now taking on the CBI for electoral calculation what essentially is a matter of criminal justice in cases of kidnapping, illegal detention, fake encounter, rape and murder as well as moving earth and heaven to destroy evidence so vital to the cases of Sohrabuddin, Kauserbi and Tulsiram Prajapati. He it was who had transferred senior police officers to cover up the crimes. However, this way of sweeping the accruing of evidence of his right hand Amit Shah and top cops’ involvement in crimes, under carpet will not save him. Because he is on record of justifying the fake encounter and of having dared the central government to hang him for it! Perhaps even before the fuller outcome of the inquiry he would be in an unenviable situation of becoming a liability.
Before fall every tyrant has boasted out of hubris. But the tyrant does bite the dust. Muslims were a thriving community in Gujarat despite being backward. A heinous purpose of the pogroms of 2002 was to systematically mark out the business establishments of Muslims and under careful planning after survey destroy them and the excuse came on February 27, 2002. Putting all the blames on the Muslim and the so called ‘appeasement’ on those like Congress who try from time to time ameliorate the situation is an old game played at absurdum. Are the Amdavadis so cussed not to see through?
Many if not all in Gujarat believe what BJP has done and its stance on judicial process over Babri mosque. They have voted it to power on communal agenda and could not overcome prejudice against the Muslims as the state has a long history of communal riots. So it would not be a matter of surprise however menacing and full of enormity the thought is in: “We don’t subscribe to the judiciary-is-infallible theory.” This is what a BJP leader said not in defense of the demolition of the Babri mosque but on the likelihood of Mr Modi being probed for the fake encounter of Sohrabuddin!. It was a historic mosque of great significance and the birth place of Ram. Now the same party is at it again over an individual politician though a chief minister!
We are a constitutional democracy and the crucial test of it is, do we accept overt desire to subvert the constitution by Lt Col Shrikant Purohit of Abhinav Bharat and the subterranean desire of Narendra Modi and BJP.
Our Constitution and the law of the land clearly forbid fighting election by a party on communal lines and the forthcoming elections will show if the election commission can deliver us from the nightmare of communalized politics and politicized bureaucracy, the police of a demagogue chief minister and his party!
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Congress should field officers in civic polls: Modi. Toi July 29, 2010.
BJP ready for conflict if Modi probed. Economic Times. July 30, 2010.
Before fall every tyrant has boasted out of hubris. But the tyrant does bite the dust. Muslims were a thriving community in Gujarat despite being backward. A heinous purpose of the pogroms of 2002 was to systematically mark out the business establishments of Muslims and under careful planning after survey destroy them and the excuse came on February 27, 2002. Putting all the blames on the Muslim and the so called ‘appeasement’ on those like Congress who try from time to time ameliorate the situation is an old game played at absurdum. Are the Amdavadis so cussed not to see through?
Many if not all in Gujarat believe what BJP has done and its stance on judicial process over Babri mosque. They have voted it to power on communal agenda and could not overcome prejudice against the Muslims as the state has a long history of communal riots. So it would not be a matter of surprise however menacing and full of enormity the thought is in: “We don’t subscribe to the judiciary-is-infallible theory.” This is what a BJP leader said not in defense of the demolition of the Babri mosque but on the likelihood of Mr Modi being probed for the fake encounter of Sohrabuddin!. It was a historic mosque of great significance and the birth place of Ram. Now the same party is at it again over an individual politician though a chief minister!
We are a constitutional democracy and the crucial test of it is, do we accept overt desire to subvert the constitution by Lt Col Shrikant Purohit of Abhinav Bharat and the subterranean desire of Narendra Modi and BJP.
Our Constitution and the law of the land clearly forbid fighting election by a party on communal lines and the forthcoming elections will show if the election commission can deliver us from the nightmare of communalized politics and politicized bureaucracy, the police of a demagogue chief minister and his party!
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Congress should field officers in civic polls: Modi. Toi July 29, 2010.
BJP ready for conflict if Modi probed. Economic Times. July 30, 2010.
Saturday, July 24, 2010
Amit Shah, Narendra Modi, Sohrabuddin and what should the youth of India know!
The youth of India should be seized of the matter of the day. A few days ago the Chief Minister of Gujarat inaugurated the first ever university for police. Moments after the programme got underway a message was flashed to the higher echelons of administration there that the Central Bureau of Investigation had issued two notices for the deputy home minister Amit Shah to appear before it. Suddenly many high ranking officers left the scene in unseemly hurry. Modi withdrew in a shellshock pensive mood! What caused this fright sweeping through the dais of a university where some of them may be educated and trained in time to come to run the future India?
The youth of India should have a robust heuristic sense which can make them see for themselves the ground reality. To do that, they must refuse to be snared by the disguised Sirens of the day. The national secretary of Hindu Vishva Parishad Vyankatesh Abdeo says that “The generation (since 1992) has grown up with a perception that the VHP is bad.” New generation must know why so if it is true at all.
The youth must have a historical sense which tells them that once during electioneering Modi had asked a crowd what they would do to Sohrabuddin. They encored: “Kill him. Kill him.” Modi joined the chorus by saying that if he had done that he was ready to be hanged.
His deputy home minister did just that: killed Sohrabuddin. In October- November 2004 marble merchants or Rajasthan (RM Marbles) and textile merchants (Sangam Fabrics) contacted Amit Shah and asked him to have Sohabuddin killed as he demanded extortion money from them. More than a year later (November 26, 2005) Sohrabuddin was killed in a fake encounter, subsequently his wife Kauser was killed on the express order of Shah. There were 14 police officers of high ranks carrying out the dictates. Much of this was described as deshbhakti or patriotism. What the youth should learn is what this deshbhakti that VHP also teaches them is! A year after the two murders a friend of Sohrabuddin called Tulsiram Prajapati was also killed( 2006). The police gave reason that they were transporting him when he threw chilli powder into their eyes and escaped. The government of Gujarat admitted a year later in 2007 that Sohrabuddin was wrongly killed. Even after this admission the Chief Minister justified the killing and dared Sonia Gandhi to punish him. Gandhi has no constitutional authority to oblige him. Full four years passed and the CID obliged Modi in refusing to proceed any further in the inquiry until the Supreme Court handed over the case to CBI. The youth have a right to know all this before they buy the prospectus and the admission form of that university.
The youth must also have a strong visual power to analyse much of the images presented to them on the screen and in the newspapers, like that of Ansari Qutbuddin of 2002. They must look at the photos of the cows supposedly poisoned and killed with swords and choppers on a road between Malegaon and Manmad in Maharashtra. They would be trained in matters of forensic science at the colleges and universities.
The youth should know legal legerdemain behind the absconding and resignation of Amit Shah and defense that Modi is making of an absconder: "The case against Shah was a revenge for its loss in the 2007 assembly polls when it had made Sohrabuddin a hero. This was a politically motivated action against Amit Shah and the BJP government in Gujarat to corner it and to put obstacles in development work it was carrying out".
"Shah is completely innocent and the charges against him are fabricated. The CBI is being misused by the Congress against its political rival". (Sohrabuddin case: Gujarat minister Amit Shah resigns. Toi, July 24, 2010)The youth must recall that it was in 2007 that Modi asked Sonia to hang him! In finding out who is the hero for future of India they must learn to know the villains as well as the anti-heroes.
They will have to strenuously struggle to avoid playing in the hands of the villains as the high ranking officers, a DIG, two SPs, two Dy SPs, three Inspectors, three SIs.of Gujarat have done in the case of Sohrabuddin. The youth must shun the great evil of our time of how IPS officers D G Vanzara and Abhay Chudasama ran an extortion racket with Sohrabuddin but double-crossed him later at the behest of a marble lobby in Rajasthan which wanted him eliminated, through Shah. (CBI books Modi man, sets off BJP storm. IE July 24, 2010). Are the youth prepared to face the challenge or would they be carried away by the juggernaut of VHP?
The youth of India should have a robust heuristic sense which can make them see for themselves the ground reality. To do that, they must refuse to be snared by the disguised Sirens of the day. The national secretary of Hindu Vishva Parishad Vyankatesh Abdeo says that “The generation (since 1992) has grown up with a perception that the VHP is bad.” New generation must know why so if it is true at all.
The youth must have a historical sense which tells them that once during electioneering Modi had asked a crowd what they would do to Sohrabuddin. They encored: “Kill him. Kill him.” Modi joined the chorus by saying that if he had done that he was ready to be hanged.
His deputy home minister did just that: killed Sohrabuddin. In October- November 2004 marble merchants or Rajasthan (RM Marbles) and textile merchants (Sangam Fabrics) contacted Amit Shah and asked him to have Sohabuddin killed as he demanded extortion money from them. More than a year later (November 26, 2005) Sohrabuddin was killed in a fake encounter, subsequently his wife Kauser was killed on the express order of Shah. There were 14 police officers of high ranks carrying out the dictates. Much of this was described as deshbhakti or patriotism. What the youth should learn is what this deshbhakti that VHP also teaches them is! A year after the two murders a friend of Sohrabuddin called Tulsiram Prajapati was also killed( 2006). The police gave reason that they were transporting him when he threw chilli powder into their eyes and escaped. The government of Gujarat admitted a year later in 2007 that Sohrabuddin was wrongly killed. Even after this admission the Chief Minister justified the killing and dared Sonia Gandhi to punish him. Gandhi has no constitutional authority to oblige him. Full four years passed and the CID obliged Modi in refusing to proceed any further in the inquiry until the Supreme Court handed over the case to CBI. The youth have a right to know all this before they buy the prospectus and the admission form of that university.
The youth must also have a strong visual power to analyse much of the images presented to them on the screen and in the newspapers, like that of Ansari Qutbuddin of 2002. They must look at the photos of the cows supposedly poisoned and killed with swords and choppers on a road between Malegaon and Manmad in Maharashtra. They would be trained in matters of forensic science at the colleges and universities.
The youth should know legal legerdemain behind the absconding and resignation of Amit Shah and defense that Modi is making of an absconder: "The case against Shah was a revenge for its loss in the 2007 assembly polls when it had made Sohrabuddin a hero. This was a politically motivated action against Amit Shah and the BJP government in Gujarat to corner it and to put obstacles in development work it was carrying out".
"Shah is completely innocent and the charges against him are fabricated. The CBI is being misused by the Congress against its political rival". (Sohrabuddin case: Gujarat minister Amit Shah resigns. Toi, July 24, 2010)The youth must recall that it was in 2007 that Modi asked Sonia to hang him! In finding out who is the hero for future of India they must learn to know the villains as well as the anti-heroes.
They will have to strenuously struggle to avoid playing in the hands of the villains as the high ranking officers, a DIG, two SPs, two Dy SPs, three Inspectors, three SIs.of Gujarat have done in the case of Sohrabuddin. The youth must shun the great evil of our time of how IPS officers D G Vanzara and Abhay Chudasama ran an extortion racket with Sohrabuddin but double-crossed him later at the behest of a marble lobby in Rajasthan which wanted him eliminated, through Shah. (CBI books Modi man, sets off BJP storm. IE July 24, 2010). Are the youth prepared to face the challenge or would they be carried away by the juggernaut of VHP?
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