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Maoists attack Bihar village, kill eleven peopleHindustan Times - 5 hours ago Delhi Police on Friday filed a chargesheet against arrested Maoist ideologue Kobad Ghandy, saying he had met Nepal Maoist chief Prachanda abroad and knew ... Maoists kill 11 in Bihar revenge strike Calcutta Telegraph Naxal attack: Bihar cops ignored intel inputs Times of India Maoists set new demands for release of kidnapped officialHindustan Times - 5 hours ago Delhi Police on Friday filed a chargesheet against arrested Maoist ideologue Kobad Ghandy, saying he had met Nepal Maoist chief Prachanda abroad and knew ... Ghandy had links with Maoists in Nepal: Delhi Police Press Trust of India Delhi Police files chargesheet against Kobad Ghandy Little About (blog) After Maoist attack, surviving Bengal troopers face traumaLittle About (blog) - - 5 hours ago Kolkata, Feb 19 : The security personnel who survived Monday's Maoist attack at the Silda camp in West Bengal should go through individual counselling and ... Securitymen in state not sitting ducks for Maoists Times of India Naxals gain as states dither on response Hindustan Times Chat Topic: Growing Maoist violence: Has the Centre-state coordination failed?IBNLive.com - - 8 hours ago Twenty-four jawans were massacred at a camp of para-military forces in Silda in Midnapore district by armed Maoists on Monday. ... Lack of alertness caused attack, admits Buddhadeb Times of India Abducted BDO released by MaoistsMyNews.in - - 2 hours ago Ranchi: Prashant Kumar Layek, the Block Development Officer of Dhalbhumgarh, kidnapped by the banned Maoist organisation CPI (Maoist), was released this ... Abducted Jharkhand official released India-Forums.com TC-Maoist trying to dislodge govt: SenPress Trust of India - 21 minutes ago Guwahati, Feb 19 (PTI) West Bengal's Industries Minister Nirupam Sen today alleged Mamata Banerjee led Trinamool Congress has secret alignment with Maoists ... Mamata not soft on Maoists: PC indiablooms 'Mamata playing footsie with Maoists' Express Buzz Nepali Congress threatens to take up arms if Maoists resort to violenceTimes of India - 5 hours ago KATHMANDU: A senior leader of the Nepali Congress has warned the Maoists to shun the politics of violence, threatening that his party would be forced to ... Finding trained cops the challenge in tackling Maoists: ChidambaramHindustan Times - 2 hours ago Finding trained and well-equipped security forces in states is the most difficult challenge in tackling Maoists, Home Minister P Chidambaram said on Friday. ... Trigger-happy Maoists soft on sons of soil?Times of India - - 19 hours ago While it might appear that Maoists have been equally ruthless on representatives of all government machinery, there have been a few prominent exceptions. ... Primitive mine-busting hampers ops Times of India  Email this story'Maoists committing crime in WB come from Jharkhand'Press Trust of India - 2 hours ago Ilambazar (WB), Feb 19 (PTI) West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today alleged that the Maoists from neighbouring Jharkhand were committing ... Chhattisgarh Maoists on 'bloodbath' mission in Bihar, Bengal Little About (blog) Stay up to date on these results: |
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Bangladeshis staying illegally in India should be sent back: Mohan Bhagwat
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Panaji: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat today said Bangladeshis illegally staying in India should be sent back to their countries.
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Bhagwat, addressing a gathering of swayamsevaks in Goa, said the government should identify and pick up Bangladeshis staying without valid documents in the country and cancel their names from ration cards and electoral roll, if required.
"There is provision in the law to form internment camps for these illegal people to shelter them before being deported to their parent country," he said. Referring to issue of illegal Bangladeshi immigrants, Bhagwat termed it as a political plot of Bangladesh government to add the territory to their mainland.
"The vision document prepared by Bangladesh after its separation from Pakistan itself has mentioned that since the country is short of land, it will try to acquire more land from neighbouring areas," he said.
"The government should at least now act against illegal migration by keeping aside their vote bank politics or else the day will come when they will get muscles in the political system," he warned.
Bhagwat is down in Goa for the first time after taking over as RSS chief. "Join RSS and be the part of groups, who are ready for self sacrifice for the country," Bhagwat appealed.
The RSS chief said that RSS cadres rushes for the rescue in any kind of natural calamities or tragedies before even police or other government machinery can reach.
"This is because of the strong feeling to serve the country, which is nurtured in the heart of swayamsevak," he said.
Aboriginal India! Get Ready for CARPET BOMBING Imminent as Ruling Zionist Brahaminical Hegemony Invokes Dalit ICON AMBEDKAR as Hindu War God to Justify Economic Ethnic Cleansing!
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I have spent my last week in Aboriginal India centred around CHANDRAPUR, GARCHIROLI, GONDIA , Bhandara and Nagpur.I interacted with Tribal Delegates from every coprner of the Country gathered in UMBRER for 17th All India ADIVASI Sammelan. The Number of Total delegates has been well past TEN Thousand and one third of them were Tribal Women. I had interactions with Tribal people of the so called Maoist zone Rajnandgaon, kanker and Dantewada in Chattishgarh. Malkangiri, Kandhmal. Kalahandi, Gajapati , Bolangir, Navrangpur, Koraput and entire KOSHAL in Orissa. I met the Tribal delegates from Udaipur, Dungarpur and Mewar. Also met Kuchh tribals in Gujarat as well those from Konkan and South India. Met People from Bastar, Baitul, Devas, Sarguja and Malva! I had also interacted with the Northeast Tribes. I spent my day and nights in Bengali refugee colonies in Maharashtra and also visited the Tribal Heartland INFLICTED with Maoist menace. Some Maoist cadres, even whole timers interrupted me asking the Justification on my analysis of Indian Maoist Movement as a Global Strategic Marketing catalyst. I believe I could Convince them well. As Print and Video copies of my Statements related to Economic Ethnic Cleansing have been well circulated, the Maoist Movement whatsoever is well aware of my stance. But with SILDA Strike they have helped the Zionist Brhamincal hegemony to justify the Anti Maoist Assault and Aboriginal India should be ready for CARPET BOMBING as NO Body in the so called mainstream Population as well as landscape would dare to spare a single drop of tears for the Persecuted Black Untouchable Negroid Species under ATTACK in the Post Modern ASHWAMEDHA Yagya as they have been DEMONISED Full bloom thanks to Maoist Corporate War!
I have been writing that no less than Thirty Million Bengali and Tamil Indigenous Refugees have been stranded in Dandakaranya covering all the Five states under Economic Ethnic Cleansing zone so Large and Rich with Natural resources under Monopolistic corporate Aggression while the Maoist has NEVER Targeted any Single Corporate or MNC Interest and have been Basting fellow citizens and State Infrastructure which happens to be Public Property and which has to be Compensated with TAXATION loaded on the common Masses consisting of SC, ST, OBC and Minority Communities, slum dwellers, Govt. employees and underclasses to continue the Stimulus for the Killer Money Machine.
India heart and Mind do Bleed and we are Blinded with Mind control evoking False Natinonalism or Ethnonationalism Corporate, Fascists and Imperialist in the Free Market democracy.
Our people rooted in East Bengal have been REHABILITATED in the Jumgles of Chandrapur, Gadchiroli, Gondia and Bhandar districts of Maharashtra and they are no better than our Tribal brothers and sisters. They have been targeted first with Citizenship amendment Act and now all the SEVEN HUNDRED Indigenous Aboriginal population has been Targeted to kill every possible Resistance and Insurrection against land acquisition as it happened in Singur, Nandigram, Lalgarh, Shalboni, Haripur, kalingnagar, Navi Mumbai, Barnala, Noida and so on.
I would be writing the details of the Refugee colonies later.
The CROWN Prince Rahul Gandhi and the Gandhian Carbides as well as socialist Oxides have been using Ambedkar for Demographic adjustment. The Marxists have followed suit projecting Dalit Queen Mayawati as the Next Prime Minister face. But now the EURASIAN Foreigner Brahmins use the aboriginal Icon Ambedkar as an ARYAN war God to kill us as they used SHIVA, the saviour, kali and Chandi , the Mother goddesses converting the entire clan of natural forces personified in Hindu war Gods and Goddesses to Annihilate us. RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat earlier has pleaded for Annihilation of caste on Ambedkarite line just to get relief of Reservation, quota and constitutional safeguards ensured to sustain the Manusmriti Apartheid Rule. Now, Bhagwat compares Ambedkar with Martin Luther King and pleads for ANTYODAYA. The Icon Ambedkar as well as martin Luther King have to be used and Thrown for HINUISATION and ZIONISATION and SHUDRAYAN further!
Interacting with women journalists on a host of domestic and security-related issues, Chidambaram said: "The Naxal menace was far worse than we (the government) expected. As long as we did not engage with them, they were happy. For doing all this (anti-Naxal operations, other counter-insurgency measures), one needs a strong head, a stronger heart and staying power."
He also said it was important to understand that apart from proper administration and security, attention needed to be paid to "regional aspirations, language and caste-related issues, because these are important."
"It is a difficult period on many issues. We have been in a state of denial. This makes my task (as Home Minister) all the more difficult, but there is a general silver lining," said Chidambaram during his interaction with the Women's Press Corps in the capital.
When asked specifically how the Naxals were still being able to sustain themselves in spite of the central and state governments coordinated approach towards tackling them head-on, Chidambaram said: "The Naxals (or Maoists) are getting their intellectual and material support from unsuspecting NGOs (non-government organizations) and civil society, and this makes state jurisdiction very difficult."
When asked to respond to the oft-repeated Naxal view that the government was not doing enough on the development front, especially in areas where people were backward, socially underprivileged and poor, the Union Home Minister said: ""How can there be development without effective civil administration and policing."
"Policing, civic administration and development have to take place side by side. Without civilian administration in place, how can there be development. We must first have in place civil administration, proper policing and security, only then can we think of development, schools and hospitals etc.," he added.
"Which doctor will want to go back to an area, or such areas where there is a threat to life, family," he said.
Responding to another question on security forces and paramilitary forces attracting criticism for allegedly evacuating and occupying schools and other buildings in Maoist-infested areas forcibly, Chidambaram rejected it outright.
"There is always criticism of the CRPF (Central Reserve Police Force). The fact is that no schools or buildings are being forcibly evacuated. The schools that they are occupying are not in use. The Maoists are not speaking the truth when they spread this sort of news. The Maoists are the ones who are blowing up schools. They have blown up 350 schools," he said.
The Union Home Minister also rejected suggestions of security forces undertaking a carnage of Maoists.
He said: "There is no carnage, no carpet bombing (of Maoist-affected areas). The security forces have been told to retaliate only if attacked. They have been told give a controlled and calibrated response."
"Now, in three out of six states, we are in confrontation (with Naxals/Maoists). Unless we challenge and confront them, there will be more incidents such as what took place in Sealdah (24 policemen killed) in West Bengal and in Bihar (12 villagers killed in Phulwariya). They will try every trick in their bag – civil society support, seduce the media, unleash false charges in court. They will try to pull all strings and widen the circle of their influence. In all this cacophony, the (Maoist) aim is to overthrow the parliamentary system of government," Chidambaram said.
"There is no half-measure house in dealing with Naxalism, terrorism," the Home Minister said.
Asked if the government was at war with the Naxals, Chidambaram said: "We are not at war with them. They are our countrymen. Even if I get 72 hours of peace, I can talk to them, but they don't want it."
He also said that the case of the kidnapped block development officer, Prashant Kumar Layek, is an issue that has to be decided by the Jharkhand Government.
BJP to woo Dalits, makes special mention of disgraced Bangaru
Indore: Aimed at broadbasing support for it, BJP has gone all out to woo the Dalits with party president Nitin Gadkari invoking BR Ambedkar in his Presidential Address at the National Council here and making a special mention of disgraced former party chief Bangaru Laxman, who belongs to the Scheduled Caste.
"Dr Ambedkar was a true humanist who gave voice to the voiceless. His life best teaches the values of social justice and samajik samarasta (social cohesion). I offer my homage to this towering leader of all of us," he said at the BJP National Council which began its 2-day meeting today.
Soon after landing here on Tuesday, Gadkari, 52, had directly gone to Mhow, birthplace of Ambedkar to pay tributes to the Dalit icon. He also stopped on the way to Indore at the home of a Dalit BJP Corporator Preeti Karosiya to have lunch. The symbolism of both these acts has not been lost on the people and the party cadre.
Both Gadkari and his predecessor Rajnath Singh made a special mention of Bangaru Laxman in their speeches here today. This is the first time since 2001 that Laxman has been given prominence.
After he was caught on camera accepting a bribe of Rs one lakh from Tehelka journalists posing as arms dealers, Laxman had to step down as BJP president.
Since then he has been in political wilderness but with the new emphasis by Gadkari on winning Dalit support he seems to be coming back in currency.
Gadkari has said his aim is to raise BJP's vote share by 10 per cent to help it come back to power at the Centre.
To achieve this, BJP should woo the Scheduled Castes Scheduled Tribes, Other Backward Classes and Minorities, he maintains.
The new president has even invited criticism of copying Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who has been visiting Dalit homes, sharing meals with the family and spending the night in their house.
Gadkari seems to be striving hard to match Rahul Gandhi and compared Ambedkar with US Black rights activist of 1960s, Martin Luther King at the National Executive here yesterday.
"Gadkari said the way in which Martin Luther King struggled in the US for the rights of Blacks and got them an honourable place, the same was done by Ambedkar in India.
"Ambedkar fought for social justice and made an enormous contribution in bringing social equity in society," BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad said, quoting the BJP chief.
The comparison of Ambedkar to King, who made the famous "I have a dream" speech on equal rights to Blacks living in the US, would come as a surprise to many.
BJP's core votebank has been the upper caste and the traders, who represent the Vaish community. Moreover, its votebank has primarily been urban.
By wooing the Dalits, Gadkari may also be aiming at the rural votes where Scheduled Caste people are present in respectable numbers.
BJP clearly seems to have jumped on the bandwagon, along with the Congress and the Bahujan Samaj Party, to woo the Dalits.
Maharashtra government guns for illegal migrants in Mumbai
Mumbai: With the 'Marathi manoos' plank off-limits for the state government, it has decided to go after migrants of another kind — foreign, illegal and largely Bangladeshi. The ruling party, which had traditionally ridiculed the Shiv Sena and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) campaign to clean up Mumbai of its 'foreign' elements, has now jumped on to the same bandwagon.
The home department has decided to crack the whip on foreigners living illegally in the state. Citing infiltration from Bangladesh as a serious threat to internal security, home minister RR Patil has ordered the police department to deport them on an urgent basis.
In recent times, investigations into terror acts such as Mumbai's 26/11 and the German Bakery blast in Pune have pointed to local help for recce-ing foreigners — consider the case of David Coleman Headley, for one. While some middlemen may not have known of the designs of the terror operatives, inadvertent help for a strike can be prevented by measures to remove elements aiding illegal stay, believes the government.
Patil on Thursday discussed this issue — of local help in preparing bogus documents — with concern.Therefore, as part of its operation, the home department plans to book such middlemen and agents.
The state government claims that illegal foreigners number more than 3.5 lakh in Mumbai.
Meanwhile, BJP leaders say that the Mumbai Metropolitan Region houses more than 16 lakh Bangladeshis. The home department says the illegal migrant base also includes those foreigners who come to Mumbai - or to other parts of Maharashtra — for reasons such as health tourism, garments business or education.
Patil has directed the home department to zero in on the localities that have a strong 'illegal, foreign' presence. "A strong message needs to be sent to the people living here illegally and, in many cases, in illegal accommodations. Help from the revenue department and bodies like municipal corporations should also be taken to seize the bogus documents. Agents and people helping illegal foreigners should be booked too," Patil said.
Minister of state for home Ramesh Bagwe said that though his department has deported Bangladeshis in large numbers, 3.5 lakh still remained. "In 2008, 912 Bangladeshis were arrested and 523 were deported. Two Pakistanis and 188 from other countries were deported in the same year. Last year, 1,307 Bangladeshis were arrested and 848 were deported; 44 foreigners from other countries were arrested and 45 deported. In January 2010, 157 Bangladeshis were arrested, while in February 2010, 123 were deported," he said.
Bagwe said that most of the illegal foreigners are from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Nigeria. "We have decided to crack down on them and deport them immediately as it could pose a serious threat to security in the state. Scanning and monitoring of visas and other documents will be undertaken immediately," he said.
The state government has also prepared a proposal to set up a detention camp in Mumbai. "The camp is according to the provision in the Indian Foreign Act. The foreigners with expired visas are kept in such camps, across the globe, till further arrangements are made," said Rajvardhan, deputy commissioner of police, Special Branch II (Immigration).
Nirmal Pandey No More!
Meanwhile, our Close friend form my Home Town Nainital, the Film Actor NIRMAL Pandey is no more. He was only 46.
Actor Nirmal Pandey, best remembered for his work in films like Bandit Queen and Godmother, died here today of cardiac arrest.
He was 46 and is survived by his wife and two children.
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Family sources said the actor was not keeping well for some time. The end came at a private hospital in the afternoon.
Pandey made a niche for himself playing negative characters on the big screen as well as on television. His last project was the Telugu film Kedi, in which he again played a villain.
A graduate of the National School of Drama, Pandey is best known for films like Iss Raat Ki Subah Nahin, Pyaar Kiya Toh Darna Kya, One, 2 ka 4, and Shikari.
He also held the rare distinction of winning an award in the 'Best Actress' category when he received the Valenti award in France in 1996 for his turn as a transvestite in Amol Palekar's Daayraa.
Actor Irrfan Khan, who was Pandey's senior at the NSD, said he was "deeply saddened" by the sudden death.
"I remember him as a handsome guy," said Khan, who was shooting for a commercial when he received the news.
"He was not just a good actor but also an excellent singer. I had not been in touch with him for some time, but the news is saddening."
Pandey had released an album called Jazba in 2002 and directed Andha Yug, a Hindi play written by Dharmavir Bharati.
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Nitin Gadkari offers to rebuild Babri Masjid
The deal he offered was that of a "kinder, gentler" approach to minorities, an inclusive agenda regarding Dalits and rural India, and an assurance to his partymen that performance would be rewarded.
Scarcely had Gadkari made his speech that party spokesperson Rajiv Pratap Rudy had to do a little backtrack operation, saying the Mosque offer was conditional, meaning it would "happen at an appropriate time after due consultation with all parties." Sources say a stern phone call came from the VHP, which asked the BJP top brass how such an undertaking could be given on behalf of the Sangh Parivar.
Gadkari's hour-long speech made little mention of the Ram Mandir issue, but got the most applause when he "appealed" to Muslims that they voluntarily give up their claim to the Ram Mandir complex in return for an alternative site "where the BJP will help build a grand mosque."
The message most delegates seem to come away with was that Gadkari and the RSS appeared to have come to the conclusion that the party had peaked electorally as far as its current electoral base was concerned and was looking to add to it. Gadkari said as much in his speech. "I aim to increase our vote share by at least 10% to our existing base," he said. This 10%, according to Gadkari's calculation, would come from Dalits, tribals, the rural population, youth and even minorities.
"When I landed in Indore, I decided to first go to Mhow, the birthplace of Babasaheb Ambedkar, for his blessings. There I ate at a Dalit councillor's house, but I made sure that this was not enacted in front of TV cameras, as for me the fight against untouchability is not a political strategy but a firm conviction," he said, clearly alluding to AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi.
While his plans for the party's political issues were articulated at length, he did not forget to address the party's internal issues.
"I promise I will set up a system of internal evaluation and accountability, and institute an award for the best-performing MLA, MLC, MP and ministers," he said. He would also set up a team to look into getting together a vision 2025 for the party and its plans.
Significantly, Gadkari's centrist approach stands in contrast to his predecessor Rajnath Singh's, who had warned the party of deviating too much from the hindutva ideology."In the 1980s there was a great rivalry between Pepsi and Coke and while Pepsi retained its USP and worked on its strengths, Coke tried to experiment with it basic flavour, leading to Pepsi's ascendance. This can well happen anywhere," Singh had said during his last speech as party president.
Between the hardline and centrist agendas, it seems as though Gadkari is throwing his weight behind the latter.
Shibu Soren criticised for delay in rescuing abducted block development officer
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Ranchi: With the Maoists still keeping Block Development Officer (BDO) Prashant Kumar Layek in their custody a week after abducting him from Dalbhumgarh, the opposition today asked Jharkhand chief minister Shibu Soren to explain the reason behind the delay.
"We have been insisting for an all-party meeting on the Maoist problem for long. But Soren neither called any meeting nor he went to Kolkata for the chief ministers' conference chaired by Union home minister P Chidambaram on Naxalism," the leader of opposition, Rajendra Singh, said.
Demanding the immediate release of the BDO, Singh, a Congress MLA, said the government accepted the Maoists' demands on Wednesday, "but it seems the Maoists have ignored it. The government should explain on the delay in BDO's release".
The Maoists, who kidnapped Layek on Saturday and set some conditions to set him free, have not yet said anything after extending deadlines twice over the week.
Worried over the Maoists continuing to keep the BDO in its custody for the seventh day today, the CPI(M)'s central committee member JS Majumdar said though the government's acceptance of a condition was a wrong step as it gave a wrong signal, the initiation could be backed to some extent as human life is every important.
The CPI-ML (Liberation)'s state unit secretary, Janaradhan Prasad, slammed the government for not holding "meaningful" dialogue with the Maoists to find a lasting solution to the problem.
"What Soren has accepted is nothing new. There are several persons in the state who should be set free from various jails. They are victim of police atrocities," Prasad alleged.
Former deputy chief minister Stephen Marandi asked what message the Soren government intended to give by accepting the demands of the Maoists. "Human life is precious, but accepting their conditions will only embolden them, which might prove detrimental in the future," Marandi added.
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17 Feb 2010 ... The BJP on Wednesday asked its leaders to adopt 'a large-hearted approach,' sink differences and rise above 'career politics' while seeking ...
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Gadkari calls Ambedkar real icon
17 Feb 2010 ... The National Executive meet of the party which started here in a village setting analysed an array of issues bedeviling the party to help ...
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The Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) national executive meeting that started on Wednesday hardly threw up any new ideas.
The saffron leadership was reduced to merely responding to issues taken up by the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre.
Whether it was BJP president Nitin Gadkari's imitation of Rahul Gandhi's sleepovers at Dalit homes by sitting cross-legged in councillor Priti Karotia's kitchen to have dinner, comparing B.R. Ambedkar to Martin Luther King or launching a shrill attack on Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh for demanding a fair trial for slain 'terrorists' in the Batla House encounter, the BJP strategy seemed to be shaped in response to the agenda set by the Congress.
In view was a rather sad attempt - for a young party that used to conjure up ever new ideas to market the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's (RSS) Hindutva agenda in the first 30 years of its inception - to repackage Hindutva in a contemporary jargon.
Issues such as the Ramjanmabhoomi, abrogation of Article 370 and the Uniform Civil Code were replaced by a shrill rhetoric against "minority appeasement". It was alleged that pacification was visible during Digvijay's recent visit to the " terrorist village" of Sanjarpur in Azamgarh, home to the Batla House dead - and a return to the RSS-brand of austerity. An attempt to display this asceticism was seen in the arrangement of accommodation - tents pitched on the outskirts of Indore.
On the same lines, the theme of antyodaya i.e. 'serving the last man in the queue', a concept promoted by BJP ideologue Deen Dayal Upadhyaya, was drummed up. Accordingly, the afternoon session of the national executive was largely devoted to discussing price rise and its repercussions on the aam admi. The future social agenda was reflected in the symbolism of Gadkari's dinner at the Dalit councillor's home, a visit to Ambedkar's birthplace and his comparison to the US civil rights icon. "Ambedkar was the Martin Luther King of India. In his quest for a just and egalitarian society, he accorded justice to the less privileged. We in the BJP remain wedded to Ambedkar's dream of a casteless and just society," Gadkari told the delegates in his inaugural speech.
The strongest message of the day was delivered by a strident attack on the Congress's handling of terror, especially the ruling party's stand on the Batla House encounter in which 'terrorists' from Sanjarpur were killed in a encounter with the Delhi Police.
Gadkari said: "Some leaders in the Congress have turned a terrorists' village into a tourist destination. This is appeasement politics at its worst… The war against terror should not be sacrificed at the altar of vote-bank politics. The whole country should rise above partisan politics. We in the BJP will take our fight against terrorism, extremism and price rise to the streets." Human rights activists, teachers of the Jamia Millia Islamia near which Batla House is located, and the families of the dead termed the encounter as "cold-blooded murders" and have been demanding a judicial inquiry into it.
The Congress and Digvijay, in particular, have maintained that there should be a fair trial so that no doubts remain about the veracity of the police's version of the incident.
Singh even recently visited the Uttar Pradesh village to convince the people that justice would be done to the bereaved families.
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Safronozation,Hinduization Or Brahminization
Dr. K. Jamanadas,
These days everybody talks of "Hindutva", they say Hinduism is not a religion but a way of life. What are these concepts? What is the difference? Why this difference? These are questions the Bahujans, SC/ST and religious minorities should ponder over. All these acrobatics in phraseology, are they not just to maintain supremacy of Brahmins? Ranjit Pardeshi has discussed all such issues.
Instead of Hinduization, the other word some times used is 'saffronization''. May be due to RSS flag being of saffron color, this word came in vogue to suggest the effect of Sangh. But even this word conceals the concept of the Sangh. After all, saffron is the color of many other flags not necessarily of RSS ideology. Even the color of robes of Buddhist monks could be saffron. Therefore, neither Safronization nor Hinduization denotes the true concepts the R.S.S. The proper word must be Brahminization.
RSS attempts to reverse the ideology of Phule Ambedkar
Inequality in Hinduism is well known, we do not need to refer to 'shastras' to learn about that. All of the suffering masses know it. To combat this inequality, Mahatma Phule suggested 'satya dharma' and Ambedkar accepted Buddhism as the alternative. Phule and Ambedkar's alternative to Hinduism was based on anti-women-slavery, analysis of Brahmin religion, equality for all, anti caste, anti-brahmin shastras and ignoring idea of god.
The RSS activists equate the Phule Ambedkar's ideas with the Renaissance in Hindu religion,which they claim was brought about by people like Swami Vivekananda and Arbindo etc. During early years of his struggle against Hinduism, Ambedkar DID say that Hindu religion needs reforms. On the basis of that RSS now claims that Ambedkar was also a 'Reformer of Hindu religion'. As a matter of fact, Ramesh Patrange, in his 'Dr. Hedgewar aani Dr. Ambedkar' gives an editorial in 'Bahishkrut Bharat' dated 21st December, 1928 as a whole appendix. In that editorial Dr. Ambedkar had narrated the ill effects of caste system and observed that if you have to avoid the destruction of Hindu religion, you must get rid of Caste System. This perhaps in the eyes of RSS is 'Reformer of Hindu religion' and doing same work as Dr. Hedgewar. Thousand and one times Dr. Ambedkar had said that we - the Dalits - are not interested in reforming Hinduism, but the RSS has got selective amnesia about Ambedkar's teachings and they never project such quotes of Ambedkar. This is one aspect of Hinduization. It is note worthy that RSS never refers to Ambedkar's criticism on Brahminism. They always call it reform of 'Hindu' religion and not Brahmin religion.
The other aspect of Hinduization is whatever Ambedkar said about Islam to show the differences from Brahminism is construed to wrongly project Ambedkar as having anti-Islamic convictions.
It must be remembered in both these examples it is the preservation of vested interest of higher castes that is involved. But it is projected as interests of whole 'Hindu' religion and 'Hindu' people. What Samarasata Manch is doing is the glorification of 'Hindu' identity and propagation of hate of 'Muslim' identity, and their real interest is welfare of higher castes. This internal aspect of Samarasata is always concealed. What they show is just an external aspect like religion, religious symbols, mandir masjid etc.
Because of the concealment of inner real aspects of so called Safronization or Hinduization, the criticism against it is limited to external symbolism and thus RSS succeeds in their politics. They can now take political advantages by limiting the discussion to 'Hindu vs. Buddhists' or 'Hindu vs. Secularists' or 'Hindu vs. Muslims', and never 'Hindu vs. Brahmins', which should be the real contradiction and which was brought forward by Phule, Shahu, Periyar and Ambedkar. It is the duty of Ambedkarite movement -- a movement for transformation of society -- to project these contradictions.
Internal aims are concealed
Because of the projection of only external aspects in contradiction, the RSS can depict religious minorities or secularists as enemies of the majority Hindu 'Nation'. For example, the upper castes, to safeguard their interests with the capitalists or feudal landlords, involve the lower class / caste 'Hindus' in conflict with the anti-Muslim politics. They declare the leftists both Dalit as well as non-Dalit as 'Appeasers of Muslims', and thus gain the sympathy of majority of 'Hindus' And the Dalits or Non-Dalit Lower castes and even the Muslims do not realize the game-plan of RSS and remain divided against their real enemy.
Babari Masjid -- Ram janma bumi contradictions
What is the real contradiction in "Babari masjid Ram janma bhumi" conflict? It appears externally as religious conflict for religious symbolism between the symbols of Hindus and those of Muslims. But is it really so? The real internal conflict is the caste conflict. How many lower caste non-dalits (OBCs) realize this? When V. P. Singh tried to implement Mandal Commission recommendations for the benefit of OBCs, the RSS started the Rathyatra to scuttle this movement. Everybody will remember the words of Bajpai that time, 'because they started Mandal, we started Kamandal', which he said in an open interview. (Dharmayug, 90, q/b Pardeshi p. 15)
Phule denigrated
Second example can be cited of Gangal and Behre criticizing Mahatma Phule as 'foul smelling dirt' about ten years ago. This was the reaction of the conservative upper caste middle class elitists against the Bahujan castes. When protests were made against this by the people in movements against caste, Senior leader of RSS, Gopinath Munde opposed this stand with the backing of second third level workers of lower castes like Dhangar, Mali, Vanjari and other OBCs, under the Brahminic leadership of the Sangh.
Conflict of Riddles misrepresented
When Dr. Ambedkar wrote the Riddles of Rama and Krishna, he utilized the symbolism of Rama and Krishna to represent the Brahminical social order of Chaturvarnya with 'Brahmin' supremacy and not as the symbol caste of Kshatriyas. The movements of transformation, failed to bring forward this aspect of Ambedkar to the 'Hindu' masses and therefore it became easy for RSS to project Ambedkar's writings as an attack on 'Hindu' gods and goddesses, and they succeeded in organizing huge masses of 'Hindu' OBCs against the Dalit Buddhist organizations, with consequent aftermath.
All these are the examples of Brahminization, but are purposefully and wrongly termed and projected as Hinduization or saffronization, thereby shifting the emphasis The real concept that must be projected is that of Brahminization and not Hinduization or Safronization It is absolutely necessary to bring forward the contradictions among the Bahujans and Upper Caste Hindus. Otherwise, it becomes easy for the Sangh forces to bring the common masses under the name of 'Hindu religion' and utilize them against those who want social transformation. The forces acting in Hinduization are not the 'Hindu' Bahujans, but the Brahminic 'Alpajans'. This can be brought forward only by the concept of Brahminization. For that purpose it is necessary to preserve the ideals and idols of our great dignitaries like Phule, Shahu, Periyar Ambedkar etc.
Polarization of society
It must be understood that it is always beneficial for the RSS and the makers of the caste to divide and achieve the polarization of society in two warring groups - 'Hindu' and 'non-Hindu'. The elite Brahmins can then maintain their upper caste grip over the lower caste 'Hindus',-- the Bahujans --, in the guise of expressing the glorification of Hindu identity as opposed to that of Christians, Buddhists and Muslims. This provides them good opportunity for the purpose. Chatrapati Shivaji who was a 'kulvaadi-bhushan' (pride of lower caste kulvaadis), as described by Mahatma Phule,as he came from peasants shudra caste, and rose to power by his own merit and valor. He is now wrongly projected by the Brahminic historians as 'go-brahmin-pratipalak' (protector of cows and Brahmins), which he never was, as proved by Shejwalkar by examining the original letters of Shivaji. It was not Shivaji who called himself 'go-brahman-pratipalak', but it were the Brahmins who called him so, when they approached him for favors. In the coronation seal also it is mentioned 'kshatriya kulvantas' and not 'go-brahmin-pratipalak' The kingdom he established was egalitarian but the Brahmin historians call him founder of 'hindu paatshahi'. They also project it was a kingdom of "Shree", some times they projected Ramdas as Shivaji's guru. Enough has been written to disprove these imaginary stories. Shivaji was never against the Muslims, but they project him as enemy of Muslims and use his name as a symbol for opposing the Muslim identity and instigate the lower caste Bahujans against the Muslims during riots.
Hindus did not exist before Muslim Rule
Before the non-Brahmin castes, the scheduled castes and scheduled tribes were included within the purview of 'Hindu' identity, there was a conflct and struggle between 'brahmins' and 'non-brahmins' in the religion, culture, philosophy, history and the society itself. When there were 'varnas' and not castes, the thumb of Eklavya was cut by Dronachaya to preserve the varna supremacy of Arjuna, in the name of 'guru-daxina' for the education NOT imparted by him. This grave injustice was glorified in the name of great 'guru-bhakti' (devotion to guru). This shows the tendency of Brahminization during those days.
During the Satvahana times in early centuries of Christian era in Maharashtra, there existed a process of Brahminization by assimilating on lower status, of lower castes into same religious stream but it was always seen that the social grading among the various castes was maintained without any change. The author of Dnyankosha - the great Ketkar, explains this. It must be understood the concept Hinduization is not historical. There were no 'Hindus' before the Muslims came and the concept of 'Hindu' came in existence during Turk Moghul era, and not before. Hence, the concept of Hindu can not be used for guidance as a historical tool for transformation of society.
There was an ideological struggle between the Buddhists and the Vedantis, the basis of which was contradictions in Varnas - the Brahmins against the non-Brahmins. But the RSS Brahmin scholars can analyze this as "Hindu Vedantism" against "Non-Hindu Buddhism", and the defiant language of the today's Buddhists can be labeled as "anti-Hindu" and can lead to riots. This is because in the name of 'Hindutva', the Bahujans can be appealed to and organized by causing confusion amongst them on the exploitation of caste - exploitation by the upper castes can be concealed.
Brahminization in ancient times
About the 'Social organization and expansive acts done by Brahmins', Ketkar explains the activities of Brahmins during Vedic period. The aim behind these activities was to maintain the supremacy of Brahmins. It was nothing but Brahminization. The strategy applied during those days and techniques of cheating and deception used that time are still being used by RSS today in a refined manner. These techniques could be summarized as follows:
1. They relate the old stories with the ancestors of original inhabitants and pretend that their religion was same as that of Brahmins. This technique was used during Vedic times. Today, it is being used to show that the Ambedkar's Buddhism is same as old Brahminized Buddhism and aver that Ambedkar's Buddhism is just a part of Hinduism. This is done through various conferences, where even Dalai Lama and Guru Goenka participate.
2. During Vedic times, they performed yajnyas like 'vratya-stoma' etc. to make the ineligible people eligible for yajnyas. Today, they admit ineligible Dalit Buddhists scholars in Samarasta movement and provide them posts, property and prestige in Social organizations, Literary Organizations, Journalism, Universities, Governmental Institutions and the like and use them as propagators of RSS ideology.
3. It was necessary during Vedic times to create a false history and to label the various alien nationalities as prodigal sons and proclaim them to be the progeny of some Brahmin 'rishi' on some non-Brahmin woman. Middle ages saw the corruption of history in formulating origins of great non-brahmin saints, like Raidas and Kabir Today the rebellious Phule is 'accommodated' as son of "Hindu Ishwara', Phule's 'Nirmik' is projected as god, and Dr. Ambedkar as 'a reformer of Hindu India'. These are the new strategies applied these days.
4. Ketkar explains that during the process of Brahminiation, two principles were adhered to.
One - it should be on mass scale, and Two - the relative status of various caste groups must be maintained in new caste situation and Brahmin supremacy not being jeopardized. Today this has been transformed making a vote bank in elections, to control the reservation policy for preservation of upper caste interests, to accommodate the awakened Bahujans' identity in the 'hindutva' at a lower status. While doing all these, to maintain the Brahmin supremacy, is the real challenge for the RSS.
Only the names of Hedgewar, Golwalkar, Deoras, Sawarkar etc. were in the scriptures of Sangh in the past. They had now to add M. Gandhi, Phule, Ambedkar etc. Some share in prestige, power, property has to be given to upwardly mobile people from among the lower castes, but the main principle of 'not disturbing the social order of status of caste' is still rigidly observed. As they have to establish the relation of original inhabitants with their religion, now they started telling a false imaginary story that Ambedkar visited the 'shakha' of RSS and found many untouchable volunteers there. Ketkar had said that in olden times such imaginary stories served a great cause of Brahminization, as some castes like 'Andhra' etc. were called 'Vishwamitra-putra'. So Sangh is now telling us such imaginary stories. But even then, they do not disclose the vested interests of their ruling upper castes in this imaginary unification with lower castes.Spring Thunder!
A single spark can start a prairie fire!
Note: Due to unavoidable reasons, the public meeting slated to happen on January 30, 2010 has been postponed to February 20, 2010.
The Indian State has declared a civil war called 'Operation Green Hunt' to crush the Maoists and the Naxalbari movement. This battlefield spreads beyond the jungles of Dandakaranya. The forms of the war may change with respect to the place, but the aim of the war is the same—To Recolonize the Country to serve the interests of MNCs and Imperialists. It's an outright lie that the war is being waged only because Maoists are undertaking an armed struggle. People are seething in anger with the numerous recolonization onslaughts. The state understands this fact and also knows that only Naxalites have the ability and courage to ignite the spark among the masses.
Chairperson:
Com. Mukundan,
President, New Democratic Labour Front, Tamilnadu.
Speakers:
Com.Balan
High Court Lawyer, Bengaluru.
Com.Varavara Rao
VIRASAM (Revolutionary Writer's Association), Andhra Pradesh.
Com.Marudhaiyan
General Secretary, People's Art and Literary Association, Tamilnadu.
Revolutionary Cultural Programme by Central Arts Troupe, PALA.
MGR Nagar Market, Near Ashok Pillar, Chennai.
Feb 20, 2010, 6:00 PM
All are welcome!
Contact: Com. Mukundan, 110, Second Floor, Corporation Complex, 63, Arcot Road, Kodambakkam, Chennai – 600 024. Ph:94448 34519
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"Resist the Naxal Witch Hunt! Organise Under the Naxal Leadership to Fight Recolonisation!"
Massive campaign across Tamil Nadu by Revolutionary Organisations!
Carrying forward the slogan, "War Against Naxals: The War Against Adivasis, Fishermen, and Peasants," PALA and its associate revolutionary organisations have been intensely involved in the campaign against the state-declared civil war, Operation Green Hunt. Using pamphlets, booklets and posters that expose the ulterior motives of the Indian state behind this blood-thirsty war, comrades have been campaigning across the state in buses, trains, factories, and street corners. These organisations have also been organizing hall meetings, seminars, and cultural programmes as part of their campaign against the Operation Green Hunt. Democratic forces and working classes have been supporting this venture and generously contributing to this effort, understanding the importance of resisting this Naxal witch hunt and the need to take forward the struggle against recolonisation.
These organisations, along with several other democratic forces and organizations, arranged hall meetings in Chennai, Coimbatore, and Salem in the month of January. T. Vellaiyan, president of the Tamil Nadu Vanigar Sanga Peravai (Forum of Tamilnadu Traders' Union); C. C. Rajagopalan, a senior educationalist; Com. Thirumalairasan, senior advocate; Com. Balan, advocate, Karnataka High Court; and Aranga. Sampath Kumar, advocate, Chennai High Court stressed the need and importance of organising against this blood-thirsty war.
These seminars and hall meetings were attended by several hundreds of people, and comrades, in their campaigns on trains and buses, have taken this issue to several lakhs of people. The campaign to resist the Naxal witch hunt and to fight against recolonisation is being taken forward with great support from the people of Tamil Nadu.
PALA and its associate revolutionary organisations have published the following booklets.
(Click on the images to download the booklets)
Tamil translation of Arundhati Roy's article, "The Heart of India is Under Attack"
Collection of essays in English on Operation Green Hunt
Courtesy: Puthiya Jananayagam, Feb 2010
Posted in Human Rights, MLM, Recolonisation, State Terrorism | Tagged Chattisgarh, Human Rights, Maoism, Maoist, MLM, Naxalism, Operation Green Hunt, PALA, Recolonisation, Salwa Judum | 3 Comments »
War Against Naxals: The War Against Adivasis, Fishermen and Peasants!
Resist the Naxal Witch Hunt!
Organise Under the Naxal Leadership to Fight Recolonization!
Campaign across Tamilnadu
Public Meeting, Chennai
January 30, 2010
Dear working people
The Indian State has declared a civil war called 'Operation Green Hunt' to crush the Maoists and the Naxalbari movement. P.Chidambaram, the Indian home minister, has declared that the primary objective of the offensive is to decimate Maoist Guerillas, who are functioning in Chattisgarh, Jharkand, Orissa and in the vast jungles of Dandakaranya, along the borders of Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh. Army headquarters and air bases are being constructed inside the dense jungles. Army men are being trained in anti-guerilla warfare. Over 1 lakh army personnel, such as CRPF, Cobra, C-60, Grey Hounds, Indo-Tibet Border Force, Anti-Naxal Striking force, etc., are being stationed in these areas. American satellites and Indian choppers are used to spy these jungles. Indian army officials are guiding the war, and the central government has allocated Rs.7,300 crores to the fund this war against its own people, the real, ancient inhabitants of the country.
Posted in Human Rights, MLM, Recolonisation, State Terrorism | Tagged Chattisgarh, Human Rights, Maoism, Maoist, MLM, Naxalism, Operation Green Hunt, Recolonisation, Salwa Judum | 7 Comments »
Comrade Julius Fučík of Czechoslovakia once said, A true hero is one who fights tirelessly for the progress of human kind even at the hour of crisis. Today, revolutionary and democratic forces of India have lost one such hero, Dr. Balagopal, who passed away on Oct 10, 2009 due to severe chest pain; he was only 57. He committed himself to the cause of the human rights of the working class.
It was a period of ruthless police raj in Andhra Pradesh when the naxalites were being hunted down in cold blood. The Andhra Pradesh Civil Liberties Council (APCLC) was formed in 1980 by revolutionary and democratic forces to fight for human rights and to fight against this fascist oppression. It organized various struggles and exposed police terrorism all over the country. The police and the state carried out targeted offensive actions against the APCLC, considering the organization to be a part of the Naxalbari movement.
Many of the leading members of the APCLC, including well known activists like Dr. Ramanatham, were killed by the secret mercenaries of the police. It was during this period that Dr. Balagopal became the general secretary of the organization in 1983. He was also attacked several times by the police. He was even arrested and jailed under TADA. But, Comrade Balagopal fearlessly fought against the brutal atrocities of the police.
Dr. Balagopal, who had a doctorate in Mathematics, worked as a researcher in the Indian Statistical Institute and then as a professor in the Kakatiya University. Later, he quit his job and became one of the pillars of APCLC. He studied law and started practising as a lawyer much later and devoted all his time and energy for the cause of human rights. He led various fact-finding teams throughout the country against fake encounters and exposed police brutalities. He played a key role in shedding light on the fascist politics that lay behind these brutal murders.
Dr. Balagopal relentlessly argued in the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on behalf of APCLC against fake encounters. And, in 1997, through his sustained and unrelenting struggle, the NHRC finally declared, in an encounter case, that the police prove its innocence and if it couldn't, it should be prosecuted on the charges of murder under IPC Section 302.
Dr. Balagopal wrote several articles in the Economic and Political Weekly (EPW) on human rights and against the fascist oppression of the state. He played a prominent role in nourishing APCLC, which set new precedents in the history of human rights in India. But, he left the organization due to the differences he developed with it on the question of violence. Then, in 1998, he started the Human Rights Forum (HRF) and continued his struggle for human rights.
In the current scenario of increased recolonization, our real tribute to Comrade Balagopal will be to carry on a steadfast battle against the fascist oppression and nurture an unwavering commitment to the rights of the working people.
Translated from: Puthiya Jananayagam, Dec'2009
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On September 21, Roy J. George, the human resource official of Pricol automotive parts manufacturing company, died after a scuffle with the company's striking workers. Quick to react to the incident, the managers' association of Pricol cried hoarse and termed the worker's agitation as violence and imminent danger. Capitalist web sites describe the struggling workers as extremists and terrorists. Ministers, talking as if they were the henchmen of the ruling classes, threaten that the workers' struggle will be crushed. Moreover, the police has arrested the leaders of the workers' union for allegedly unleashing violence in the region. The entire Coimbatore area is being kept under police control.
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Comrade Basanta, Politburo member of United Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), gave an interview to Puthiya Jananayagam, during his recent visit to Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He delivered a lecture titled "Nepal's New Democratic Revolution: Opportunities and Challenges" in a hall meeting organized by Indo-Nepal People's Solidarity Forum, on 19-09-2009. The abridged version of the interview published in Puthiya Jananayagam(PUJA), Oct 2009 issue in Tamil is produced here.
Comrade Basanta
PUJA: Your party headed government has resigned citing the breach of civilian supremacy. Apart from resignation, is there any other alternative options discussed in your party? How do you justify the resignation as the only right option?
Basanta: First of all the question of civilian supremacy – I think it is a very important issue in Nepal. Because, in the history of our country, the army was under the monarchy, which was the enemy of our country. Even after monarchy was thrown, the Nepalese army has not come under the control of the elected government. The Nepalese democracy, which it says, was achieved at 1950 movement. Nepali congress got elected securing two third majority in the parliament. But later on king dissolved the parliament, sacked the government with the might of the army. If the army was under the control of the government, the army could not have been used to dissolve the parliament and sack the cabinet. For the second time it happened during the course of intensive people's war. There was a parliamentary body in the country. There was a people elected government. But, Gyanedra, the then king, who is deposed now, took help from the army, dissolved the parliament, and also sacked the elected government. Hence, just to ensure the democratic right of the Nepali people, the first and the foremost important thing has been to establish civilian supremacy in our country. There remains the importance of the question we had been raising.
We were an elected government and we were the largest party. We took the decision not to extend tenure of the existing military chief and to deploy another army chief in that place. But there were severe pressures from the external world, mainly from India – Indian ruling classes and U.S. imperialism, and the reactionaries all over the world. They were opposing this move. They did not want to bring about civilian supremacy in Nepal. Rather they propagated against us that Maoists are trying to impose their ideology in Nepal army. In this way they tried to provoke the masses while it was not the reality. We wanted at least to establish civilian supremacy in Nepal. But when there was a massive pressure on us, either we had to submit to the dictates or we had to resign. There was pressure from all over. We guess it's because we are fighting for the people, to establish for civilian supremacy and to establish democratic rights in the Nepalese society. Hence, we did not surrender to the external pressure. We thought, we should fight to establish this by remaining outside of the government. So we think it is a correct stand of our party to fight for the democratic rights.
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Comrade Kobad Gandhi
COMMITTEE FOR THE RELEASE OF POLITICAL PRISONERS
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PRESS Note
25/09/09
(Circulated to the media persons at a press conference held at Press Club, New Delhi)
The Committee for the Release of Political Prisoners (CRPP) after its Mulaakat with senior Maoist leader Kobad Ghandy in the Tihar jail would want to bring a few important facts, which are of vital significance for his life, before the democratic citizens of this country. Moreover, after the meeting of the lawyer Mr. Rajesh Tyagi on 24 /09/09 with Kobad Ghandy, the details of his arrest and mistreatment have come to light. Some of the important facts are as follows:
Hiding the exact date of arrest
Kobad Ghandy was abducted on the 17/09/09 at the Bhikaji Cama Place around 4 pm by the Intelligence Bureau. About 5-6 people who pulled up in a white sumo car pounced on him at the bus terminal near Bhikaji Cama where he was waiting for about 5-7 minutes. All the claims of the police that he was arrested on the 21/09/09 speaks for itself. He was kept under illegal detention for four days and interrogated torturing him for three days and three nights.
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CPI[M] – Corporate Party of India [Murderers] is well known for its social-fascist atrocities from Kashmir to Kanyakumari. Last June 2008, they added one more murder to their feathers by killing one of our sympathiser named Rajendran in Kaarapattu, a village near Villupuram. Peasants Liberation Front(PLF), associate organisation of PALA was able to gather support of the majority of the villagemen, of both upper and lower castes and was in forefront in exposing the anti-social activities of CPI(M) elements. The infuriated CPI(M) men decided to finish off the ideological struggle in Nandigram Fashion and they eventually went ahead. But today all those criminals are facing the court proceedings and no one dares to enter Kaarappattu.
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The media houses are bent on creating a mirage that so-called big political parties and bigwigs of tinsel world are figting for the Eelam cause in Tamilnadu. But in reality, Revolutionary organizations of Tamilnadu are the torchbearers in spreading the agony of Eelam People and exposing the treachery of the Indian State among the masses.
People's Art and Literary Association(PALA) and its associate organisations are staging protest demonstrations all over Tamilnadu for the past one month. This movement carried forward the slogans that without smashing the Indian hegemony it's impossible to resist the bleeding of the island and to support the self-determination right of Eelam Tamil people against the xenophobic Sinhalese state. While Karunanidhi Govt is trying to calm people with its unsuccessful relief material collection to Eelam, Revolutionary organizations stressed the need for political solidarity rather than philanthropy.
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General Officer Commander-in-Chief of Southern Command Lt. Gen. B.S. Thakker visiting the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) front lines in Vavuniya
Sinhalese xenophobic State is ferociously waging military assaults on Eelam Tamil people as a final round. Srilankan Army Commander Sarath Fonseka has claimed that they will capture kilinochi from LTTE (Tigers from now). The brazenness of the Sinhalese army crop up from the support lend by the Indian State. Indian State has supplied modern radars, artillery and funds to the Srilankan Army against the Tigers. Manmohan Singh is maintaining a conspicuous silence to the widespread accusations, even after having fully exposed with the Indian military officials getting hurt in the counter attacks waged by the Tigers.
http://springthunder.wordpress.com/This campaign, and its website, are important initiatives supporting the people's resistance to Operation Green Hunt, to the massive repression of democratic grassroots movements and human rights activists, and to the MNC's MOU-driven forced displacement drives. All are encouraged to join this campaign. Please forward this call widely.
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The International Campaign Against War on the People of India
website: www.icawpi.org
email: info@www.icawpi.org
The International Campaign Against War on the People of India (ICAWPI) is being launched to work as a coordinating centre seeking international support for the resistance of the people of India against the all out military offensive of the Indian state against its own citizens.
ICAWPI is an international extension of widespread opposition and initiatives against this genocidal war to forcefully crush the heroic resistance of the tribal peoples in the heartlands of India and to hand over these lands rich in minerals and raw materials to international corporations such as Vedanta, Rio Tinto, Posco and others.
This overt war serving to facilitate the looting of the land and resources by Indian and international corporations for fabulous profits and the destruction of the livelihood of the countless numbers of the poorest of the poor in India is named as "Operation Green Hunt". While in different regions of the country the same operation may be named differently, the Indian state shamelessly tries to hide this banditry against the people of India and utterly open servitude to the imperialism as "war against the Naxalites"-- imposing a severe reign of terror and repression on progressive and democratic forces and individuals everywhere across the country.
Countless intellectuals, authors, film makers, academics, and other professionals such as lawyers and doctors who abhor the Indian state's total lies and open disregard for civil and human rights have joined mass gatherings and rallies and various forums in India in order to raise their own voices and join forces to oppose the State and to defend the just cause of the oppressed tribal people in India.
In the course of this gathering movement countless people have been arrested and imprisoned. Untold suffering and restrictions have been imposed on the people.
Yet, international public opinion is kept grossly in the dark about these issues while the mainstream media continue to follow and repeat the Indian State's claims that "India is the largest democracy in the world" and that the Maoists, as the biggest security threat to this "democracy" must wiped out at all costs. Thus they justify their silence and bless the Indian State in perpetrating these crimes in the name of a "war on terror". Already more than one hundred tribal people have been killed in Chhattisgarh, Orissa, West Bengal and Jharkhand as part of this brutal war, "Operation Green Hunt". Several thousand tribal people have been tortured, maimed, and pushed out of their villages, women raped, houses burnt and villages burnt to ashes. Though the Government of India unofficially imposed a censor on media to publish reports from the killing fields, democratic journalists, and civil rights bodies have been making efforts to bring the facts of this war out for the public.
ICAWPI aims to reach out to all democratic and freedom loving people across the world concerned about the plight of the people in India to unite and take initiative to break this silence internationally and to rally much needed support and solidarity to the just struggles of the people of India.
Information on Operation Green Hunt and the people's resistance are available through www.icawpi.org - a website designed to carry material related to this issue and the campaign.
We request all democratic and progressive formations to take initiative and coordinate their efforts with ICAWPI. All reports of actions, meetings and letters of solidarity and concern will be published at this site.
In order to launch this campaign, ICAWPI calls on everyone to join demonstrations and protest actions in front of Indian embassies and consulates on February 5, 2010 where ever possible. A list of organized events will be published on the website as they become available. Further actions, events and meetings are being planned and will be announced soon after.
The website will also publish information about events in Europe and elsewhere, for discussion about the issue and to find ways of raising local awareness and taking joint actions.
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Feb 3, 2010
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