All iz well, PM says about US-India ties!India not invited to NAM luncheon hosted by Biden!
Maoists being forced into violence: Arundhati
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 | Rethink counter-Maoist strategy The buck stops with the chief minister for law and order, not the Union home minister. But P Chidambaram must stop treating this as a law and order issue and tackle the tribals' problems. |
The country's official tech apparatus needs to be fully overhauled and it should start with the dismantling of the DIT under ministry of communications & IT.
RBI's market ops need not aid inflation
The Reserve Bank, no doubt, faces a stiff challenge in pushing through the government's large borrowing programme without crowding out credit.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Opinion/opinionshome/897228639.cms| In a statement to an Indian newspaper, Roy denied her article had glorified the Maoists, and said the investigation was an attempt to "cordon off the theatre of war and choke the flow of critical information coming out of the forests". more by Arundhati Roy - 3 hours ago - Sydney Morning Herald (4 occurrences) |
All iz well, PM says about US-India ties!At least 60 people were killed and over two hundred injured when a severe storm with a windspeed of 125 kmph ripped through North Dinajpur district in West Bengal and four neighbouring districts of Bihar.
India not invited to NAM luncheon hosted by Biden!
Dr Manmohan singh, the Super Salve is not ASHAMED at all as Sovereignty is irrelevant for Immoral Anti national Impostors Extra Constitutional.
Just forget, Pdt. Jawahar Lal Nehru who launched the Non Aligned movement with Marshal Tito and others!
Forget the legacy of Mrs Indira Gandhi who led NAM and resisted US Imperialism with her last drop of Blood!
With senior leader Digvijay Singh's attack on Home Minister P Chidambaram's anti-Maoist strategy bringing to the fore differences in the party, Congress today advocated for a "middle path" to tackle the naxal issue.
Tharoor Vs Modi
In fact, as Mulnivasi Nayak reports, the Brahaminical hegemony has launched an all out Corporate War against Aboriginal India consisting of Majority Eighty Five Percent Enslaved SC, ST, OBC and minority Communities confirming the Global Phenomenon! Iam discussing the issue with all concerned and committed Personalities involved in different spheres of Life. I talked to GIRAJ Kishore, Pankaj Bisht, Colonel S Barves and social and Environment Activsists but evaded POLITICIANs. I am discussing the issues in the masses across the Country for last few months. But the discussion NEVER gets Momentum as SUBVERSION, Diversion and Mind control games continues with Misinformation campaign as Pet Toilet and Regional Electronic as well as Print Media remain INFLICTED with FDI and foreign Money, Intelligentsia, Civil Society and NGOs work as Frontal Orgs for the US War Economy and India Incs. The public forums and Address system are captured. SANIA, Gabriela and SUNANDA gets SPACE in media for a Parliamentary Pamel Bordes Monica Lewnisky Phenomenon to get through the Finance Bill and all Economic reforms for Mass destruction and economic ethnic Cleansing with excellent Floor Adjustment amongst the Afliated and Co opted Political parties enacting the Parlaiamentary Reality show!
Today, AMBEDKARITES as well as Anti AMBEDKAR and Non Ambedkarites Celebrated the Birth Anniversary of Dr BR Ambedkar as a VEDIC RITUAL undermining his ideology of caste Annihilation, Labour Rights, Fiscal, Revenue and Human resource Management.
Dr Ambedkar did recognise the decisive role of the Excluded Aboriginal Indigenous Communities as Working and Productive Class which could be united and mobilised as the Proletariat only after the ANNIHILATION of caste. But the Kanshiram Politics of Casteology and Power sharing killed the Ambedkar Ideology and NO RESISTANCE whatsoever is Possible with the Awakening of Mulnivasi aboriginal Identity despite what ARUNDHATI Roy`s Analysis and Field work may bring forth.
Incidentally, Arundhati landed in Kolkata, addressed a Convention against Operation Green Hunt and also a Press Conference!Demanding immediate withdrawal of 'Operation Greenhunt' against Naxalites, eminent writer Arundhati Roy today accused the government of creating a "war-like situation" in the country in the name of tackling Maoists.
The poor and deprived tribals were being uprooted from their land as the government "is busy implementing the agreements reached with 100 multinational companies," alleged the acclaimed writer.
"The tribals are losing their rights on land ... I strongly feel that the government has created an war-like atmosphere in name of curbing Maoist activities," she said.
Expressing herself in favour of a congenial environment to sort out the problems through discussions, Roy said "things can be sorted out only through negotiations."
"The malady lies in under-development, long deprivation which have led to the present situation", she said and alleged the government had been trying to cover up its lapses.
A dangerous situation had developed at Dantewada due to the creation of 'Salwa Judum', which she termed the 'mass militia' by the government and said it was in fact pushing the people towards Maoists.
To persistent queries about her stand on killings by Maoists, the writer said "I am not in favour of killing or counter-killing. I am a representative of poor people but am against violence."
Asked if she would visit Naxal-hit Lalgarh in West Midnapore, she said "I can't say if I will visit Lalgarh."
Journalist Gautamn Lavalakha, theatre personality Bibhas Chakraborty and human rights activist Sujato Bhadra were present.
Well said ARUNDHATI Roy! But it is High time to asses the Reality Objectively whether we may Address the Challenge of Global PHENOMENON of Economic Ethnic Cleansing, Corporate War, Sovereignty of Market and Genocide Gestapo Culture of INCLUSIVE EXCLUSION with Caste Identity only deviating from the very Economic Political Social vision of Ambedkarite Ideology!
Congress may indulge in 'horse-trading' to save government: Yechury
HYDERABAD: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) today apprehended that the ruling Congress may indulge in "horse-trading" to save the UPA government from a likely fall in view of the cut motion being brought on the Finance Bill by Opposition parties."Such (horse-trading) a possibility cannot be ruled out... If survival is put to question mark then it (Congress) may indulge. We cannot predict what the political consequences will be, but Congress-led UPA coalition should be prepared to face the cut motion," CPI (M) Politburo member Sitaram Yechury told reporters here.
The CPI(M) Politburo has decided that it will move a cut motion on the Finance Bill if the government does not take back the hike in customs and excise duties on petrol, diesel and fertilisers.
Yechury, who was in city to participate in a seminar organised as part of B R Ambedkar Jayanti celebrations, said that BSP, SP, RJD and JDS, who have extended support to the UPA with 46 Lok Sabha members, may not support the government if the cut motion is put to vote.
"If the cut motion will be put to vote all (four) the parties are likely to vote against the government. BSP has also said they are with us on the issue, but we don't know what will be their final decision on the matter," he said.
If all the four parties vote against the government during the cut motion, UPA will be facing an embarrassing position to win the vote. They will be left with 274 votes which includes one vote of Speaker, Yechury said adding after this they will have only one vote with majority.
"This is unprecedented in our country that in the very first year the government (UPA) is calculating figures... whether they have support or not. It is better for government to roll back hike in prices of petroleum products to avoid such an embarrassment," the senior CPI (M) leader said.
Yechury said the UPA government survived a vote of confidence over the Indo-US civilian nuclear agreement after the SP supported the government and the deal.
"Last time it was SP. But under the present circumstances ... we don't know to which party the Congress may tilt if such a situation arises," he said.
As per the constitution if the government is defeated on the cut motion it has to resign, Yechury asserted.
To a query over the Indian Premier League, he said IPL was a pure commercial activity.
Crores of Indians have been put into extra economic burden due to rise in prices of essential items and at that time to see such a "vulgar" display of money that is really speaking into the contrast between the shining and suffering India, Yechury said.
"This (IPL funding matter) is something the government will have to address," he added.
'India Inc 500 grew 19 pct'
The cumulative income of the top 500 companies in the country climbed over 19 per cent to Rs 27,53,800 crore during the last fiscal, despite the challenging economic situation, according to a survey."The total income for the 2009 edition of the top 500 companies grew faster than expected, at 19.7 per cent on an aggregate level, as compared to the 2008 edition," the report by research firm Dun & Bradstreet said.
The 500 companies' net profit stood at Rs 2,25,800 crore in 2009.
The 500 entities were categorised as large (110 firms), medium (228) and small (162) companies, based on their respective market capitalisation.
In the list, large-cap companies are those with a market capitalisation of more than Rs 4,601 crore, while mid-cap firms have valuation in the range of Rs 651 crore to Rs 4,601 crore. Small-cap entities have been classified as those having market capitalisation below Rs 651 crore.
As per the report, the market capitalisation of these 500 firms climbed 17.5 per cent to Rs 34,19,000 crore in financial year 2009 as compared to the 2007 fiscal.
"The market capitalisation of the top 500 companies grew by 17.5 per cent from Rs 29,093 billion in FY07 to Rs 34,190 billion in FY09," it noted.
Meanwhile, market valuation of the 500 entities as a percentage of the country's GDP came down to 61.3 per cent in 2009, mainly due to a sharp fall in the Indian stock market.
"The market capitalisation as a per cent of GDP for the 2008 edition of top 500 companies, at 91.8 per cent, was probably the highest in more than a decade, as compared with 67.9 per cent for the 2007 edition of top 500 companies," the report said.
I am not going to resign: Shashi Tharoor
New Delhi: I am not going to resign, says Shashi Tharoor: Minister of state for external affairs Shashi Tharoor on Wednesday ruled out resigning from the government and rejected charges that he had misused his office or indulged in corruption in IPL Kochi team's bid.
"Have I done anything wrong to resign. When you have done nothing wrong....it seems to me it means that you are giving more importance to other people's perception.
"I am not going to resign. Obviously I am not going to be an embarrassment to the Congress Party. These are false and motivated charges levelled by business interests of some vested interests," he told a news channel.
Tharoor said he has sought an appointment with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh when he comes back from abroad to explain his side of the story. "I will certainly be conveying my story to the Prime Minister," he said adding he would also meet Congress president.
Asked if he expected the controversy to figure in Parliament, he said "this may be one more issue in Parliament which he respects". He would be going to Parliament in the spirit of a "worshipper".
The minister said he was extremely sad and found it deeply offensive that that he was being "vilified and accused" of making pecuniary gains and the integrity and honesty being questioned.
"I have quit a UN job with a good salary for the salary of a minister in the government and find it extremely upsetting (that charges have been made)," he said.
Tharoor said he is one person who was somewhat upfront and transparent and suddenly found charges being levelled against him.
Asked about the opposition charge he had misused his office as minister to get gains for his friend Sunanda Pushkar and telephoned IPL Lalit Modi not to seek details in this regard, he said why would he as a minister indulge in corruption in such an open manner to help a friend.
Source: PTI
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said he will decide on any action against Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor for his alleged role in procuring a cricket team for Kochi only after ascertaining the facts.
Arundhati Roy on Dantewada Naxal attack
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Maoists being forced into violence: Arundhati
Hello and welcome to CNN-IBN special in the aftermath of killing of 76 CRPF jawans in Dantewada by Maoists, there has been a nationwide debate which has been polarized one.
One argument is to about to use maximum force to crush the Maoists and the other argument is about to initiate outreach program, democracy and rehabilitation. Joining us here is the author and the activist Arundhati Roy, who has written several writings on Maoists and her open sympathy and empathy for them, has created a great degree of debate and controversy. Thanks very much indeed for joining us.
Sagarika Ghose: You wrote your article 'Walking with the comrades' in The Outlook before Dantewada happened. In the aftermath of the Dantewada, do you still stand by the tone of sympathy that you had with the Maoists cause in that essay?
Arundhati Roy: Well, this is a odd way to frame before and after Dantewada happened because actually you know this cycle of violence has been building on and on. This is not the first time that a large number of security personnel have been killed by the Maoists. I have been written about it and the other attacks that took place between the years 2005-2007. The way I look at is often you know people make it sound that oh on this side of people, who are celebrating the killing of CRPF jawans and that side of the people who are asking for the Maoists to be wiped out. This is not the case. I think that you got to look at the every depth as a terrible tragedy. In a system, in a war that's been pushed on the people and that unfortunately is becoming a war of the rich against the poor. In which rich put forward the poorest of the poor to fight the poor. CRPF are terrible victims but they are not just victims of the Maoists. They are victims of a system of structural violence that is taking place, that sort to be drowned in this empty condemnation industry that goes on which is entirely meaningless because most of the time people who condemn them have really no sympathy for them. They are just using them as pawns.
Sagarika Ghose: Who then will break the cycle of violence? The state argues that the reason why the state has to cleanse the area or sanitize the area is because whenever it initiates development works on bridges or starts school; those are blown up by the Maoists. Is it that the cycle of violence according to you can only be broken by the states and if the state pulls back is that what you believe?
Arundhati Roy: There is some simple sort of litmus test for that, is it the case that there are hospitals, schools, low malnutrition and lot of development in poor areas where there aren't any Maoists? That's not the case. The fact is even if you look at the studies that have been done by doctors in a place like Bilashpur. What Vinayak Sen describes as nutritional aids is happening. When you go into the schools, you see that they are used as barracks. They are built as barracks so as to say that Maoists blow up schools and they are against development is a bit ridiculous.
Sagarika Ghose: But you condemn state violence and the charge against you is that you don't condemn Naxals violence and also you don't condemn Maoists violence. In fact you rationalise it and even romaticising violence? That is a charge made against you and I fact if I can read from your essay where you have written that, "I feel I want to say something about the futility of violence but what should I suggest they do? Go to court, a rally, and a hunger strike that sounds ridiculous; which party they should vote for, which democratic institution they should approach? You seem to be saying that non-violence is futile?
Arundhati Roy: This is a strange charge on someone who is writing about non-violence and non-violence movement fro 10 years now. But what I saw when I went into the forests was this - that non-violence resistance though it has actually not worked; not in the 'Narmada Bachao Andolan' and not even in many other non-violence movements and not even in the militant movements. It has worked in some parts of the movement. But inside the forests it's a different story because non-violence and in particularly, Gandhian non-violence in some ways needs an audience. It's a theatre that needs an audience. But inside the forests there is no audience when
a thousand police come and surround the forest village in the middle of the night, what are they to do? How are the hungry to go on a hunger strike? How are the people with no money to boycott taxes or foreign goods or do consumer boycotts? They have nothing. I do see the violence inside that forest as a 'counter violence'. As a 'violence of resistance' and I do feel terrible about the fact that there is this increasing cycle of violence that the more weapons the government arms the police with those weapons end up with the Maoist PLGA. It's a terrible thing to do to any society. I don't think that there is any romance in it. However I'm not against romance. I do feel it's incredible that these poor people are standing up against this mighty state that is sending thousands and thousands of Para-military. I mean, what they are doing in those forests against those people with Ak-47 and grenades.
Sagarika Ghose: But Maoists have AK-47 too? They have pressure bombs too?
Arundhati Roy: They snatched it from cops.
Sagarika Ghose: Should people like you for not been raising their voices against the cycle of violence or should you actually been trying to find out rationalization for it because your been called as 'apologists for Maoists'. BJP has called you the "sophisticated face of naxalism'. If you don't raise your voice against their violence and simply say it as a morally acceptable, as a morally legitimate counter to the state then are you not actually failing as member of a civil society?
Arundhati Roy: No, I'm not. Because I think it suits the status-quo-raita to have everybody saying…this is terrible and all. So just let's just keep on without taking it into account the terrible structural violence that actually is creating a 'genocidal situation' in those tribal areas. If you look at the levels of malnutrition, if you look at the levels of absolute desperation there; any responsible person has to say that the violence will stop when you stop pushing those people. When you have a whole community of tribal; which by the way, is a population larger than the population of the most countries, is actually on the brink of survival, fighting for its own inhalation. I can't equate their reactions, their resistance to the violence of the state. I think it's immoral to equate the two.
Sagarika Ghose: Let's bring you to the other point in your essay, where you are particularly harsh on Gandhi. You said party founder Charu Majumder has kept the dream of revolution real and present in India. Imagine a society without that dream, for that alone we can't judge him too harshly. Especially not while we swaddle ourselves with Gandhi's pious humbug about the superiority of non-violent way and its notion of trusteeship. You also say do you know what to do if we come under fire….Do you think Gandhi is a figure to be mocked?
Arundhati Roy: I think there are something about Gandhi, which do deserved to be mocked and I think there are something about him which deserve a great deal of respect. Particularly, his (Gandhi's) ideas of consumption, minimalist and sustainable living. However, let me read what he said in his thing of trusteeship. This is a quote of his notion of trusteeship, "the rich man will be left in possession of his wealth of which he will use what he reasonably requires for his personal needs and will act as a trustee for the remainder to be used for the good of the society". I think that is one statement which can be mocked. I have no problem mocking it.
Sagarika Ghose: In a lecture in US in March at the Left forum you said 'India is a fake democracy' that tightens your justification or your quasi-justification of violence to some extent. Do you feel that because Indian democracy is 'fake' there is no hope that Indian democracy can holds out to the Maoists?
Arundhati Roy: No, certainly I feel that India is a oligarchy where it does work as a democracy for the middle classes and the upper classes.
Sagarika Ghose: But it's a fake democracy?
Arundhati Roy: Yeah, because it doesn't work for the mass of the people it's a fake democracy. So you have institution which has been hollowed out, you have institution to which poor have no access and when you look at the institution of the democracy, look at the elections, at the court, at the media and you look at the judiciary. You have a very dangerous system building. If you increasingly excluding a vast section of the poorer people in this country and that's why I say it fake. It works for some and it doesn't work for others depending on where you want to place your feet; your politics is defined. If you stand in Greater Kailash; sure it's a great and vibrant democracy but if you stand in Dantewada- it is no democracy at all. You have a Chief Minister who basically said that those who don't come out of the forests and live in Salwa Judum camps are terrorists. So looking after your chickens and tending to your fields is a terrorist act? Is that democracy?
Sagarika Ghose: If you have to come up with a solution to this. What would your solution be? What would be your way to break the deadlock?
Arundhati Roy: Well there are two things. First on a philosophical level I would say that I don't believe that the imagination that has brought to the planet to this crisis is going to come up with an alternative. So the least we can do is to stop and enlighten those who we think of as keepers of our past but could be people who have the wisdom for the future.
But on "Operation Green hunt", I would like to say three things, I think government should come clean on all these MoUs, infrastructures projects; declare them and tell us what they are and freeze them for now. Insist that all the villagers that have been pushed out, we are talking of hundreds and thousands of people be rehabilitated. Guns need to be pulled back.
Sagarika Ghose: Every country uses mineral resources to grow. Growth is something our country needs. The present dispensation in Maoists, earlier they used to deal with Poscho; the rate of compensation was 30 Lakh per year that they used to pay to the Maoists. Now its no deals all bets are off. Are you advocating that all projects from all those areas should wind up and go?
Arundhati Roy: You see what's happening now with that the privatization of the mining industry that there is a very sort of false understanding that mining is going to push up growth. It will push it up in strange way which has nothing to do with the real development. But if you look at the royalties that the government gets e.g for iron ores Rs 27 for 5,000 tonnes profit for the private company. We are paying without ecology of other people's economy. So it's a myth of this thing called growth.
Sagarika Ghose: Are you willing to mediate between the Maoists and the government because they have put your name as well as Kabir Suman to mediate. But you declined. What are you afraid of? Why don't you go ahead and mediate?
Arundhati Roy: I'm afraid of myself. These are not my skills. I don't trust myself. If you are a basket ballplayer you can't be a swimmer. So I think there are people who would do a good job but I don't think I'm one of them. But I think one question we have to ask is whom do we mean when we say Maoist? Who does the 'Operation Green Hunt' want to target? Because for this there has been a discrete separation been made that here are the Maoists and here are the tribal. On the other hand some people say Maoists represent the tribal. Neither of which is true. The fact is that the about 99 per cent Maoists are tribal. But all tribal are not Maoists, still numbers turn into tens and thousands of people who would officially call themselves Maoists. Among them 90,000 women belong to women organisation. 10,000 belong to the cultural organisation. So are they all going to be wiped out?
Sagarika Ghose: What is your message to Home Minister P Chidambaram? What kind of message would you like to give him? Do you think he is fighting this war for ego?
b>Arundhati Roy: I think he is fighting for hue brisk and fighting with an imagination that is chained to the corporate companies that he wants served to Enron to Vedanta, to all the companies that he has represented. I'm not necessarily accusing him of being corrupt but I'm accusing him of having an imagination that is called nice by a corporation and that is driving this country into a very serious situation and it's going to effect all of us.
Sagarika Ghose: Are you worried about the case that has been filed against you? There has been a complaint filed against you under Chhaatisgarh Special Powers Act and police are investigating on that for lending your support to the Maoists after your article. Are you worried about the state prosecution?
Arundhati Roy: Obviously I would be a goon not to be worried. But I won't be the first one they have gone after. I think what they are trying to do is to sell out a warning to the people because I feel they want to intensify this war. I think we are going to see drone attacks on the poorest people of this country. Moreover they want to cordon off the theater of war and trying to warn people who might have a different view from that of the government not to go in the air.
Sagarika Ghose: Why do you think your writings are as controversial as they are. Why does India love to hate Arundhati Roy? Why does there are so much hate mail directed at you? Why do people think you say things that people don't agree with? Why are you the writer that India loves to hate?
Arundhati Roy: I think it is very presumptuous of you to represent India. I feel the opposite. Like somebody, who is embraced wherever I go whether it is to Orissa or Narmada; it is just the people with the voice, the people with a huge stack in the things I'm writing about where that stack is threatened – that hate me. But if I did feel that whole of India hated me; I have been doing something terribly wrong. As a political writer I be crazy to carry on what I'm doing? The fact I I feel very deeply loved, that's the real issue.
Sagarika Ghose: But do you think there is a problem. Do you think the government, the media, the kind of dominant culture is targeting intellectuals, is targeting people like human right activists? Is this dangerous?
Arundhati Roy: Of course this is very dangerous. I read one article that says Dantewada comes to Delhi in the charge against Kobad Ghandy. People union for democratic rights….all institutions are been called front organizations. There is this manic barricade like accusation to any one who has a different view that they are Maoists. Hundreds of people who are not known have been picked up and jailed. There is whole bandwidth of people's movement from the non-violent ones outside the forests to the arms struggle inside the forests which have actually held of this corporate assault, which I have to say has not happened in anywhere else in the world.
Sagarika Ghose: Let me just ask you what a viewer wrote to me, " when I see a 16-year-old with a gun, I would feel scared and mourn that. Why would Arundhati Roy when look at a 16-year-old look with a gun celebrated and say she is so beautiful, she has a lovely smile"?
Arundhati Roy: Because if I saw a 16-year-old being raped by a CRPF man and watching her village being burnt and watching her parents being killed and submit to it. I would mourn that. When I see one standing up and say I 'm going to fight this. I would feel terrible. I think it's a terrible thing to come to that. But it's better than having her accept her inhalation
Sagarika Ghose: Let me read out some of the criticisms that have been made against you fellow thinkers and activists, who said " she equates their cynical quest for power with genuine demands, rights and concern of the people who live in the forests. She give new meaning to the binary logic something which she ridiculed George W Bush for. She is at the moment a victim of Stockholm Syndrome. And another par lance is that she would be described as an embedded journalist". How do you react to this criticism?
Arundhati Roy: I think embedded is not in itself a bad thing, it depends on who your are embedded with, whether you are embedded with the media or with the corporate? Or are you embedded with the side that sees itself in resisting this. Here I don't refer to the Maoists. Who are the Maoists? Of course the Maoists ideologues are that it is there aim to overthrow the Indian state when people who form there fighting forces don't know what the Indian state is? But surely there is a coincidence of aims and the moment; both are using each others. I want to say that Maoists are not the only people who are trying to overthrow the Indian state; whereas Indian state has been thrown already by the 'Hindutva' project and by the corporate project.
Sagarika Ghose: So you believe that Constitution has ceased to exist?
Arundhati Roy: I believe it's been deeply weakened.
Sagarika Ghose: Do you think of ever giving up India and living up in somewhere else?
Arundhati Roy: Absolutely not. For me that's the challenge, that's the beauty, that's the wonder because the people in this country are staging the India's most difficult struggle anywhere in the world. I feel so proud. I really salute them on what's going on here. As I belong to here even if CSPA wants to put me into jail and I'm not going to live in Switzerland.
Sagarika Ghose: Thank you Arundhati Roy.
Arundhati Roy: Thanks.
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Dalit memorials will be set up 'come what may': Mayawati
LUCKNOW: Thumbing a nose at political opponents and others, a defiant Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati said she would "not buckle under pressure" and continue to set up parks and memorials to commemorate Dalit icons.
"We have been constructing parks and memorials in the names of important Dalit and OBC (Other Backward Classes) personalities to give due respect to them," Mayawati told a gathering on Dalit icon BR Ambedkar's birth anniversary.
"It's just the lackadaisical approach of the Congress party and other political opponents towards Dalit and OBC personalities that prompted BSP to take up construction of parks, memorials and statues in their remembrance. Come what way we will not buckle under pressure and continue to take up such projects," she added.
The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief has been in the national spotlight for spending thousands of crores to set up memorials and statues dedicated to Dalit leaders including herself.
Accusing the Congress-led central government of ignoring Dalits, Mayawati said: "The Congress party's anti-Dalit mindset can be gauged from the fact that even after ruling at the centre for nearly 50 years, the party not even once advocated conferring the Bharat Ratna upon BR Ambedkar, the architect of the Indian constitution.
"Likewise, the Congress never did anything substantial while it ruled the state (Uttar Pradesh) for nearly 38 years. This all reflects that the Congress actually has never bothered to take up issues related to Dalits or OBCs," she said at a function at the Ambedkar Memorial.
Reiterating her party's opposition to the women's reservation bill, Mayawati said it was anti-Dalit and would not help women from poorer sections of society.
"We are against the women's reservation bill in its present form as it will not help poor women irrespective of their community," she said, calling upon BSP workers to participate in Tuesday's nationwide protests against the bill. The bill reserves a third of all seats for women in the Lok Sabha and state assemblies.
"The agitation is important for us. I will personally inspect the demonstrations in some districts of Uttar Pradesh," said Mayawati, who soon left on a chopper for inspecting the demonstrations.
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India, a founding member of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), was not invited to a luncheon meeting hosted by US Vice President Joe Biden, where he professed that the grouping and his country had similar goals on nuclear security and non-proliferation.
Only those member states of the NAM which are part of the Nuclear non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) were invited to the luncheon hosted by Biden at his official residence on the margins of the Nuclear Security Summit here, a senior White House official said.
Since India is not a signatory to the NPT, it was left out, the official said.
"The goals of the non-aligned movement and my country on the important issues of nuclear security, non-proliferation, as well as other issues have never been closer than they are today, in our view," Biden said addressing a group of leaders from NAM countries during the luncheon.
He said the Obama Administration is committed to seeking peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons.
"We believe that is ultimately an achievable goal, and that is our goal. We know that some of the countries here and elsewhere believe that we have not been moving fast enough or that we can do more," he said.
"Well, there is room to disagree on the exact approach of reducing nuclear weapons, but make no mistake about it this administration is intent on reducing and continuing to reduce our nuclear weapons," Biden observed.
The US Vice President asserted that the US stands fully committed to supporting the promotion of peaceful benefits of nuclear power, in the context of NPT.
Among those who attended the luncheon were Alfredo Moreno Charme, Foreign Minister of Chile; Prince Muqrin bin Abdul al-Aziz Al Saud, President of the General Intelligence, Presidency of Saudi Arabia; Mourad Medelci, Foreign Minister of Algeria; Ahmed Aboulgheit, Foreign Minister of Egypt; Trirong Suwankiri, Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand; Boediono, Vice President of Indonesia; Najib Abdul Razak, Prime Minister of Malaysia; and South African Foreign Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, attended the meeting in place of the South African President.
Can't go by hearsay in Tharoor matter, says PM
Amid demands for sacking of Shashi Tharoor, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday said he could not go by "hearsay" and any action, if necessary, would be taken in the matter only after he checks "all the facts" regarding allegations against the Minister of State."I have heard about these things (allegations against Tharoor). I do not have all the facts before me," Singh said at a press conference here when asked about demands for the minister's removal in the wake of the controversy around Kochi IPL team.
"When I go back, I will get all the facts, and in the light of those, if any action is necessary, I think that would be the proper way to proceed. I cannot go by hearsay or what is appearing in the various columns of the newspapers," the Prime Minister said.
He was addressing the press before winding up his four-day visit to the US where he attended the Nuclear Security Summit. From Washington, Singh will head for Brasilia in the second leg of the two-nation tour for the Brazil-Russia- India-China (BRIC) and India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) Summits.
Tharoor is battling allegations that a beautician romantically linked to him had received Rs 70-crore free equity in Kochi IPL team, which he helped set up.
No unanimity in UPA, Congress over fighting Naxals: BJP
No unanimity in UPA, Congress over fighting Naxals: BJP
Digvijay Singh slams PC's anti-Maoist strategy
Cong favours "middle path" in tackling Naxals
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Digvijay Singh for adopting developmental strategies to counter Naxals
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Digvijay criticizes Chidambaram on Naxal issue
With senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh publicly expressing his differences with Home Minister P Chidambaram on the Naxal issue, the BJP today said there was "no unanimity" in the government and the ruling party over fighting the menace.
"...Digvijay Singh publicly criticised Chidambaram on the whole issue of naxalism. It is evident that there is no unanimity in the Congress on the fight against Maoists," BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad said.
The country "needs to speak in one voice in this war-like situation. But there is no unanimity in the Congress and the UPA on the issue," he charged.
The main opposition has backed Chidambaram since the gruesome killing of 76 CRPF and security personnel by naxals in Dantewada. It went to the extent of saying if Chidambaram were to step down, as demanded by certain quarters, it would send a wrong signal he was running away from the challenge.
"Digvijay Singh's statement only reinforces our apprehensions that the Central forces were sent without any proper preparations," Prasad said.
In an article in a newspaper, Singh, in whose tenure as Chief Minister the Maoist-affected Chhattisgarh was carved out of Madhya Pradesh, said Chidambaram must stop treating naxalism as a law and order issue and should tackle the problems of tribals of the affected-areas.
Though the opposition has not personally targetted Chidambaram, it has been critical of the UPA government's overall approach to tackling naxalism and has accused it of being soft.
Author investigated over rebel ties
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April 15, 2010
Arundhati Roy...support for Maoist guerillas. Photo: AFP
NEW DELHI: A Booker Prize-winning author is facing a police investigation over her links with Maoist insurgents behind the massacre of more than 70 soldiers.
Police in Chhattisgarh, central India, confirmed they had ordered an investigation into Arundhati Roy's comments in a magazine article in which she outlines her sympathy for the Maoist insurgency.
Her comments brought an official complaint from a local activist under the Chhattisgarh Special Public Security Act 2005 who claims the article was intended to drum up support for the Maoists. She can be held for several years without bail and jailed for two years if found to have violated the act.
Since her novel The God of Small Things won the Booker Prize in 1997, Roy has campaigned for the rights of India's tribal people who have been ousted from their land to make way for mines, factories, roads and dams. But her article ''Walking with the comrades'' in Outlook magazine last month provoked strong criticism and anger after 76 troops of the Central Reserve Police Force were killed last week.
The ambush, in which hundreds of Maoist guerillas shelled a passing convoy, brought calls for the government to conduct air raids to break the insurgency.
Roy's article recounts her secret rendezvous with the Maoists in Dantewada, the area where the ambush was staged, and paints a sympathetic portrait of volunteers persecuted by the government. She compares their environmental approach to recycling parts of captured police cars - before they burn them - to Gandhi's and at one point jokes about writing a play called Gandhi Get Your Gun.
She writes: ''As far as consumption goes it has a lighter carbon footprint than any climate-change evangelist.''
In a statement to an Indian newspaper, Roy denied her article had glorified the Maoists, and said the investigation was an attempt to ''cordon off the theatre of war and choke the flow of critical information coming out of the forests''.
Roy was jailed in New Delhi in 2007 for contempt of court over a protest against a dam project in the Narmada Valley.
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All iz well, PM says about US-India ties
Chidanand Rajghatta, TNN, Apr 14, 2010, 06.36pm IST
WASHINGTON: Ties between India and the United States are sound, multi-faceted, and he shares "a very good relationship" with President Barack Obama, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh maintained here on Tuesday, responding to inquiries about the purported cooling off of New Delhi's engagement with Washington.
In a press conference at the conclusion of his visit here for the Nuclear Security Summit, Singh was responding to questions, including one from this correspondent, about his comfort level with the current President and his administration, and why India has to bring its complaints about Pakistan to the US instead of using its own leverage to straighten things out.
"There should be no confusion on that point," Dr Singh said about any implied comparison between India's ties with the Obama and Bush administrations, suggesting that New Delhi went with the flow. "In matters of statecraft," he said cryptically in response to a related question about translating good ties into concrete action, "one shouldn't jump prematurely to conclusions which are not warranted by the facts on the ground."
Indian officials explained on the margins of the visit that the reading in the media and the analysts community that somehow US-India ties had tailed off and President Obama was not enthused about India was completely off the mark. In nearly half-dozen meetings since they both came to office, the Prime Minister and Obama shared an excellent relationship that the US President encapsulated in a remark during their latest engagement.
"There is no country in the world where the opportunities for a strong strategic partnership are greater and more important to me personally and to the United States than the one with India," Indian officials quoted Obama as telling the PM on Sunday. Dr Singh appeared to respond to that sentiment, saying India thought highly of him and a warm welcome awaited him when he visits the country later this year.
Dr Singh also rejected the implication that New Delhi's was bringing its complaints about Pakistan to Washington, clarifying that he was merely keeping the US and the international community in the loop when they inquired about India's neighborhood and its bilateral relations. "Ultimately, India has to tackle problems on its own. But international sentiment and international opinion does matter and if anyone asks me...I explain our perspective," Dr Singh clarified.
The Prime Minister took this opening to reiterate that if Pakistan took credible steps to bring to book perpetrators of the "horrible" crime in Mumbai ("that's the minimum we expect"), India would be more than happy to begin talking about all issues. The statement pointed to bilateral issues being put on the backburner when he meets his Pakistani counterpart at the Saarc summit in Bhutan later this month and a continuing freeze on Islamabad unless it shows some results before that.
Dr Singh also restated the familiar Indian position that it will not brook any direct US mediation on its issues with Pakistan which needed to be resolved in a bilateral framework, saying, "I do not feel there is a role for any outside force to come in."
However, asked whether President Obama would act on the concerns on terrorism he had flagged during their meeting on Sunday, the Prime Minister said, "Well, I hope that what I said to the President weighs considerably with the administration but I am not an astrologer. I cannot predict what will be the final shape of things to come."
The Prime Minister's media pow-wow was dominated by US-India-Pakistan issues to the near exclusion of the main agenda of his visit – the nuclear security summit.
In a statement preceding the press conference, Dr Singh described as the "next logical step" after New Delhi's recent nuclear deal, his announcement about the setting up of new Global Centre for Nuclear Energy Partnership in India. The offer was welcomed by President Obama as "one more tool to establish best practices."
Almost on cue, Pakistan, still in disgrace over its proliferation activities, also offered a "global nuclear fuel cycle services," leading to much mirth at the summit that it had merely made "official" what it had always offered clandestinely.
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Rahul vs Mayawati on Ambedkar's anniversary
Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi will launch a 49-day 'rath yatra' from Ambedkarnagar covering backward areas of UP dominated by dalits. And, just 500 metres away from Rahul's function, BSP is holding a protest to label Congress anti-dalit.
Senior leaders of both the parties are camping at the venue to oversee preparations for the trial of strength. While Congress army is led by Uttar Pradesh unit chief Rita Bahugana Joshi, BSP supremo and chief minister Mayawati has deputed medical education minister Lalji Verma to lead others.
While the commencement of the 'rath yatra' will also mark the launch of Congress' 125th year celebration, for BSP the day will mark the end of its silver jubilee extravaganza. Both the parties are fighting for dalit votes and also
for Muslim and upper caste votes.
It's an open secret that Mayawati dreams of becoming prime minister and Rahul is moving in a planned manner towards taking reins of the country.
No wonder, the fight is bitter and is likely to turn fierce in coming days. A few days back BSP had slammed Congress for not including Ambedkar in its poster. Mayawati in her March 15 rally had declared Congress as its enemy number one. BSP has also launched a campaign describing Congress anti-dalit.
Kobad Ghandy taken off Rajdhani after intelligence warning of Maoist hijack attempt
Whatever the truth, there was high drama in Allahabad on Sunday evening after the Delhi Police received a tip-off that Maoists could hijack the Howrah-bound Rajdhani Express in a bid to free their 63-year-old leader, being taken to Midnapore for a court appearance.
Following the warning from central intelligence agencies, Ghandy's journey was cut short at Allahabad and he was flown back to Delhi the next day.
Barely 45 minutes before the train was to arrive in Allahabad, the Delhi Police flashed an SOS to UP police — take Ghandy off the train and keep him in heavy police security. The information was taken seriously and top UP police bosses including DGP Karamveer Singh and his deputies — additional DG (ATS) Brij Lal and ADG (railways) A K Jain went into action arranging a foolproof security blanket for Ghandy.
A team of Delhi Police personnel developed cold meet on Sunday midway through escorting arrested Maoist leader Kobad Ghandy to Midnapore in West Bengal.
Delhi Police asked its UP counterpart to take Ghandy off the train at Allahabad. In the next one hour that followed, almost half the police force of Allahabad district was on its toes and every blue beacon and siren-fitted police jeep and van was seen heading towards the railway station. Soon, the station was swarming with khaki — not only from the district police, but also the provincial armed constabulary, government railway police and railway protection force.
As the train rolled into the station, a group of eight armed policemen led by an inspector-rank officer got down with a middle-aged man. Thereafter, everything happened in fast forward mode as a stream of police jeeps, buses, vans, PAC and RAF trucks, with fire-tenders and ambulances in tow, were seen speeding out of the railway station portico to reach a heavily fortified cantonment police station.
While most of the middle and lower-rung cops had no idea at all as to who they were escorting, the senior officers leading the cavalcade maintained a studied silence as they watched the movement of every single individual in sight. The police station too had a war zone-type police presence.
A khaki blanket was thrown all around the premises, covering every square inch of the area in a radius of at least 100 metres. While SP, city, Subhash Singh Baghel, camped at the police station itself, top officials, including Allahabad's deputy inspector general B B Sharma, visited the site to review the security.
The police maintained the vigil till the next (Monday) evening, when finally Ghandy was escorted to the Bamrauli Airport in the city outskirts and put on the flight.
Ghandy, a Naxal ideologue and politburo member of CPI (Maoist) was arrested by the Delhi Police in September last year. ''The intelligence alert said there was a security threat regarding Ghandy and Naxals might try to free him. In the wake of the Dantewada attack, which has emboldened the Maoists, we had to take the threat seriously,'' said a senior Delhi Police officer.
Anti-Naxal ops: Centre pushes for 6,000 CRPF personnel
In a significant re-configuration of its approach in the wake of the Dantewada massacre, the home ministry is going to tell the state governments that the role of paramilitary forces will be limited to "assist" the state forces. This may not be different from what was, in any case, supposed to be the case on paper.
In reality, however, it is the central forces who became the vanguard of the anti-Maoist operations, with poorly-trained state forces happily taking the back seat. The change has been necessitated because of the realisation that the political damage the Maoists inflicted when they ambushed the CRPF patrol could have been less if Centre had not taken the ownership of the offensive.
Tactically too, it is being felt that greater involvement of state police was an imperative because of their familiarity with the terrain as well as better ability to gather intelligence from local communities. The issue of involving states pro-actively was discussed in detail as part of post-mortem exercise of the Dantewada incident in a high-level meeting, chaired by home secretary G K Pillai here on Monday.
The Centre and paramilitary forces have often complained, and with considerable merit, that the state governments are not always ready to supplement their efforts. Officials in the home ministry said the Dantewada incident was indicative of the states' approach where they left disproportionate share of the dangerous assignment for the central forces.
Although the decision in Dantewada episode was taken jointly with the Chhattisgarh police, the state — contrary to earlier home ministry's advisory — did not send its own trained cops with them except one head constable when they set off in the direction of Tongpalli on April 6. "Such an approach will not be accepted any more. States will have to put in adequate number of personnel for both operations as well as area domination exercise," said a senior official.
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IPL Kochi bid: PIL seeks CBI probe into Tharoor's role
I am not a proxy for Tharoor: Sunanda Pushkar
Sunanda Pushkar, who has been linked to the Indian Premier League (IPL) Kochi team controversy, on Wednesday blasted her critics and denied acting as a proxy for her friend and minister of state for external affairs Shashi Tharoor.In a hard-hitting statement, Pushkar accused the media of ignoring her professional background and international business experience and focussing "obsessively on my personal life as if a woman cannot be capable of professional or financial success.
"My own business interests and assets are substantial, and efforts to besmirch Tharoor by presenting me as a proxy for him are personally insulting for me as a woman and as a friend."
"I have built up a respectable and successful career while coping with widowhood and raising a child as a single mother. Yet I have been reduced to a caricature in the media, portrayed with inaccuracies and falsehoods," she said.
Pushkar said she was issuing the statement "to set the record straight about my role in the public controversy surrounding the Kerala IPL Team franchise".
The controversy erupted after Indian Premier League (IPL) Commissioner Lalit Modi revealed the ownership pattern of Kochi IPL, stating that Pushkar, a friend of Tharoor, owned free equity in Rendezvous Sports, which is a part owner of IPL Kochi team.
Modi also accused Tharoor of asking him not to reveal the ownership details -- a charge denied by the minister.
Pushkar said she was approached last year by Rendezvous "inviting me to associate myself with them as a consultant in their various sporting activities and particularly in their potential bid to acquire the franchise of an IPL team.
"I had previously been approached by Karim Morani of Kolkata Knight Riders to join them in a similar capacity and had regretted that the timing was not convenient for me.
"In view of my extensive international experience as a business executive, marketing manager and entrepreneur, I was invited to assist Rendezvous particularly in the areas of fund-raising, networking, elsewhere; event management; and brand building.
"Because this is a start-up effort, I was told that in lieu of a salary they would grant me minor equity in Rendezvous in return for my efforts - which is a common practice across the world for start-ups and projects of this nature.
"I should stress that I have accepted no salary or expenses and am conscious that the equity remains only on paper for the foreseeable future.
"However, with the equity comes an opportunity to participate in the management and promotion of Rendezvous and in particular of its IPL team, a challenge I welcome."
She said she had "lived a life of integrity and committed no crime, yet I am treated in a humiliating manner. My parents, friends and family members have been hounded by intrusive journalists.
"My personal life is nobody else's business and if I have a marriage to announce, I will do it myself, rather than leave it to strangers. I would request the media to respect my privacy."
Obama pressed Pak on terror at India's insistence
Chidanand Rajgahtta, TNN, Apr 12, 2010, 07.00pm IST
WASHINGTON: India's subtle reproach of the United States that it was not pressing Islamabad sufficiently on the issue of terrorism had the immediate effect on Sunday of President Obama telling Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to act against the perpetrators of the Mumbai attack and roll up terrorist organizations like Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Meeting Gilani some two hours after his nearly hour-long discussion with Singh on Sunday evening, Obama endorsed the Indian Prime Minister's view that a terror-free region could be an economic dynamo and suggested that Pakistan respond positively to Singh's overtures. Bringing the perpetrators of the Mumbai terrorist attacks to justice would help improve the security situation in the region, he told Gilani after initially proposing to Singh that India unconditionally resume dialogue with Pakistan.
The Indian Prime Minister had pushed back at the suggestion, noting that perpetrators of the Mumbai carnage were going unpunished and Pakistan appeared to lack the will to act against terrorism. India's good relations with the US would be better served if used to press Pakistan on this matter, Singh proposed. Obama appeared to have taken the hint.
The US President did not mention the LeT specifically but broadly referred to various terrorists attacks in the region, including those against Pakistan, to stress the fact that "extremists do not distinguish between us and we are truly facing a common enemy." In an effort to soften his rebuke, gentle as it was, Obama prefaced his remarks by noting that he is "very fond" of Pakistan, having visited the country during his college years and made other placatory remarks about the upswing in US-Pak relations.
But there was no denying the fact that he continues to have problems with Islamabad both on the terrorism and nuclear proliferation issues, matters on which the US media made embarrassing disclosures on the eve of the 47-nation nuclear security summit. Pakistan's intelligence agency ISI was still playing footsie with terrorists, the Washington Post reported over the weekend while the New York Times reported that Islamabad was accelerating the production of bomb-making fissile material unhindered by invoking the US-India nuclear deal even as it was attending Obama's summit aimed at securing nuclear material.
But like a couple in a marriage of convenience who accept one's impropriety for not rocking the boat, both sides ignored the disclosures. While recognizing and applauding the turnaround in the bilateral relations in recent weeks, Obama mildly expressed disappointment at Pakistan blocking the progress in Geneva of a treaty to cap production of fissile material, with no response from Gilani.
Instead, Gilani bragged about having recently taken over command of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal and the broad national support with which he was coming to Washington and assured Obama that "Pakistan takes nuclear security seriously and has appropriate safeguards in place." He also made another pitch for a nuclear deal, noting that "energy is an existing and growing problem."
But Obama did not bite. "The President reiterated that we are committed to helping Pakistan address its real and growing energy needs and noted that he is pleased that implementation is proceeding on the $125m in energy-sector projects Secretary Clinton announced in October," a White House readout of the meeting said.
Obama also endorsed India's role in Afghanistan during his meeting with Singh, a fact that was duly noted in the White House readout of the meeting much to the satisfaction of the Indian side which constantly challenged the reading in India that somehow the US wanted New Delhi to reduce its footprint because of pressure from Pakistan.
Q&A: Will diplomacy ever work between India and Pakistan?
Q&A: Is India falling prey to USA's double game with respect to Pakistan?
Q&A: Is Obama failing miserably in his attempt to impress everyone?
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Sunanda Pushkar: Shashi Tharoor's 'external affair'
NEW DELHI: Heads turned when minister of state for external affairs Shashi Tharoor walked in with an attractive woman in a red sari at fellow Congress minister Jitin Prasada's wedding two months ago.
The woman in red, it turned out, was Sunanda Pushkar, who now finds herself in the midst of the raging controversy over the IPL Kochi franchise. According to Lalit Modi, she was gifted a stake worth Rs 70 crore in Rendezvous Sports World, one of the owners of the Kochi franchise.
Sources say that when Pushkar is not attending functions on Tharoor's arm, she works as director (sales) at Tecom, a Dubai-based real estate company, lives on Sheikh Zayed Road and holds a Canadian passport. Earlier, she also ran a spa in Dubai — which probably accounts for persistent, and mistaken, media reports that she is a beautician — worked in an advertising firm, was employed in a travel agency and tried her hand at event management.
The capital's cocktail circuit is abuzz with rumours that she is Tharoor's romantic interest and the two will marry once he is formally divorced from his second wife, Christa Giles, a Canadian citizen who worked along with Tharoor.
The minister and his aides have declined to comment on what they term a ''deeply personal matter''. She has teenage son.
But she had modest beginnings. Daughter of a retired Army officer from Bomai in Sopore, Sunanda went to Baramulla Army school.
She graduated from a Jammu college in 1991 after her family migrated from the Valley in 1990. She studied at Presentation Convent and later worked as a receptionist at the ITDC-run Centaur Lakeview in Srinagar. That's where she met her first husband.
Abdul Rahman, who takes care of the four-acre paddy field and orchards of Lt-Col (retd) Pushkar Nath Dass, Sunanda's father, at Bomai, told TOI, ''Sunanda was a promising girl. She used to take a public bus to Baramulla 10km away to attend college.''
Lt-Col Dass let loose a torrent of expletives when mediapersons landed in front of his house in Jammu. When they refused to budge, someone from the house hurled stones at the reporters.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said he will decide on any action against Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor for his alleged role in procuring a cricket team for Kochi only after ascertaining the facts.
The air in the jungles of Dantewada district must have been thick with the foreboding of doom, but the jawans of CRPF's Alpha company were perhaps too tired to notice. Setting up camp in a shaded clearing about six km from their base camp in Chintalnar, all these men of the 62nd Battalion would have been craving for was a few hours of sleep. As they slept, however, two companies of 220 men of the People's Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA) crept up, surrounded the virtually unguarded camp and assumed positions on the dominating features around. At around 5.25 am on April 6, the 34th hour of an ongoing area domination exercise undertaken unilaterally by the CRPF, they fired the first shots.
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So, as the bullet-proof vehicle sent from the CRPF base camp wended its way through the route considered safe by security forces, it came across a typical ambush tactic—a tree trunk blocking the way. As the special police officers (SPOs) jumped out to clear it, the Bravo company commander decided to take the other route, perhaps forgetting in his nervous haste that it was prone to Maoist-laid mines. Within minutes, the vehicle drove over a powerful pressure mine and was blown to smithereens.
By the time the first reinforcements could arrive at the Alpha company's makeshift camp, 76 men, including deputy commandant Satyavan Singh, assistant commandant B.L. Meena and the lone representative of the Chhattisgarh police, head constable R. Siyaram Dhruv, lay dead. The attack, which had begun with intensive fire from all sides, progressed to PLGA men lobbing grenades at the CRPF jawans. Several petrochemical bombs too were lobbed into their midst, burning several CRPF personnel alive. Those who survived probably pretended they were dead even as the Maoist attackers quickly gathered the weapons of the fallen CRPF men and melted away into the jungle.
For a nation at war with itself, the April 6 attack was in many ways the tipping point in the battle between the Indian state and the CPI (Maoists) for the tribal heartland. It does come as a loss of face to Union home minister P. Chidambaram's offensive—Operation Green Hunt—which began across six states last year. But more than inflicting a tragic loss of men and material—the Maoists picked up six light machine-guns, several two-inch mortars with high explosive (HE) ammunition, over 70 AK-47s and INdian Small Arms System (INSAS) rifles and a few pistols, grenades and ammunition—they displayed a hitherto-unseen lethality. Questions on the overall strategy must naturally follow. But for the moment, confounding security officials are the contradicting statements and circumstances that have surfaced around the attack. Among the several disturbing questions that have arisen on the precise circumstances leading up to the attack are:
- Was this a CRPF "operation" as is being claimed by many officials? An area domination exercise, counter-insurgency experts say, is not an operation as the nation is being led to believe. It is a routine exercise undertaken by security forces to keep up the pressure against insurgents. Operations, on the other hand, are conducted on specific intelligence inputs where the presence of insurgents is known to the security forces. So why is Alpha company's foray into the jungle now being described as an "operation"?
- Was this a "joint operation" involving both the CRPF and the state police? The home minister says so but facts on the ground clearly indicate otherwise. Only one representative of the state police was included in the exercise, a mandatory requirement for any CRPF exercise since they are a central paramilitary force and have no investigative powers, nor local intelligence. The Alpha company set out with only head constable Siyaram Dhruv of the state police and basically walked around in the jungles for two days before being gunned down. A joint operation would have meant careful planning by the CRPF and state police, a joint force and a clear objective instead of a fishing expedition such as this one.
- Why didn't the Maoists lose any of their cadre in the return fire? Simply because the CRPF men were caught completely unawares. They had camped in the open, laid out their camping sheets, indicating that most of them were asleep when they were attacked. Standard procedure also demands that a few men stand guard while the others rest. In this case, were the guards too sleeping after the long trek through the forest? Thirdly, the classic response to an ambush demands that the men under attack disperse to minimise casualties before mounting a counter-assault. Instead, the CRPF men were all bunched together. The PLGA cadres also had adequate time to pick up the weapons of the fallen men without being challenged, let alone being attacked in a counter-offensive.
- Did the CRPF's newly inducted DIG (operations) of Dantewada, Nalin Parbhat, overestimate the capability of his men and underestimate that of the Maoists? Parbhat, who hails from the Andhra Pradesh cadre, came on deputation to the CRPF with a terrific reputation of being an operationally sound officer in the Maoist-affected districts of Karimnagar and Warangal. In launching this exercise, however, Parbhat probably failed to appreciate that the CRPF was not as effective as the Andhra police or their Greyhounds.
- Did Parbhat ignore intelligence warnings? He probably did. Parbhat came to Dantewada just six days prior to the launch of the area domination exercise. Earlier intelligence inputs generated by the state's Multi-Agency Centre (a joint intelligence outfit of the Intelligence Bureau, the state police, and CRPF and BSF intelligence) had sent in several reports stating that PLGA cadres had been sighted in the area. In fact, an April 4 input from the IB had said that security forces could possibly be ambushed between Chintalnar and Chintagufa. Incidentally, Chintalnar is also the unofficial capital of the region designated by the Maoists as Dandakaranya. Intelligence also indicated that Ganeshanna and Ramanna, two top PLGA officials, were in the region planning a major attack. All this information was ignored by the Alpha company as it set out from its base on Sunday evening.
While a systematic effort is under way to brush these issues under the carpet, the uncomfortable fact is that the CRPF is perhaps just not ready to take on a major offensive against the Maoists. Last year, it was hit nearly 68 times by the Maoists while the state police rarely saw an attack on their positions. Worse, it took CRPF director-general Vikram Srivastava two days to land at the site of the attack and visit his troops at the base camp. While morale has plunged new depths, the overall CRPF leadership seems to be still missing from ground zero.
Death blow Bodies of slain paramilitary personnel in Dantewada
This attack, however, could be the turning point in the offensive against the Maoists. Chhattisgarh DGP Vishwa Ranjan told Outlook that the offensive will continue. "We will continue to build our troop levels and plan our operations better." While CRPF DG Srivastava declined to comment on the incident, he expressed his grief at the death of his men in Tuesday's attack.
That won't deflect basic questions on the CRPF, though. Its preparedness is limited by a defensive mindset and its standard operating procedures dictate that its troops won't operate beyond eight km of their base camps. The men are also unfamiliar with the terrain since they are largely drawn from the states of UP, Haryana, Rajasthan and Bihar and are unfamiliar with jungle warfare. The troops do undergo a refresher course before being deployed in the state, but it has clearly proved to be inadequate in the light of Tuesday's gruesome strike.
Arrow-struck A CRPF jawan recovers at Jagdalpur hospital
As for the two PLGA companies which attacked the personnel, intelligence reports indicate they dispersed with their captured weapons and have returned to the forests of Malkangiri district in Orissa. As per procedure, all captured weapons must be submitted to the central committee before being reassigned to their cadres. A smaller group is believed to have fled towards the dense forests of Abujmarh bordering Maharashtra.
Will the attack become the harbinger of more bloodshed, as the state renews its pledge to wipe out what PM Manmohan Singh termed the gravest security threat to India? A systematic escalation of violence seems inevitable—but without tactical soundness or the desire to keep the tribals away from the crossfire, it may achieve nothing. A one-man inquiry committee headed by former DGP E.N. Rammohan has been set up. But the biggest challenge in not letting this become an unending cycle of violence will be to match deployment with efforts to wean the adivasi away. High rhetoric will not suffice.
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A dagger has been lodged into the heart of India and unless it is taken out, the future of the republic will be in peril. What makes things even more serious is that there is no agreement over what kind of a dagger it is and how to take it out. The heart of India stretches from Bihar in the north to Karnataka in the south, Maharashtra in the west to West Bengal and Orissa in the east. The dagger is adivasi (tribal) disaffection turning into armed Maoist insurgency and it is difficult to take it out because of a fundamental disagreement. Most of India's organised polity — the UPA as well as the Opposition BJP and the Left — thinks it is a revolt against the state which has to be met with force, while a minority, oddly sympathised by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, feels you cannot declare war on your own people, and that too on the earliest inhabitants of the land. The least you can do is to ask yourself why these tribals feel aggrieved after 60 years of independence. The Maoist insurgency is now top of the mind because last week, in their deadliest attack so far, they ambushed and killed an entire force of 76 CRPF and local policemen in the Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh. They clearly know tactics and use of explosives and have sufficient modern weapons. The location underlines the fact that this district is mostly in Maoist control. Intensive police action, with weaponry and training from all over the world and abundant state resources, will be used to suppress the revolt, decimating the Maoist cadre and leadership. But the wound in the heart of the tribals will remain, to give rise to another revolt maybe decades later. You don't need to agree with Roy's politics to appreciate her gripping report of what is happening, gathered after days of trudging on foot through the dense forests of Dandakaranya with Maoist cadres and talking to some of their leaders. It helps you put a finger on the raw nerve of tribal disaffection and their desire to eke out a living in their forests without outside depredation. Three lakh acres have been distributed among the tribals and 60,000 sq km has been "liberated", she says, with the Janatana Sarkar administration of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) in place. It even has its "save the jungle" department and a leader cites a government report that forest cover has gone up under Maoist watch! New ground in tribal society has been broken through the assertion of the women's cadre, Krantikari Adivasi Mahila Sangathan, in the Maoist movement. Guha makes the telling point that the deprivations of tribals in peninsular India is more striking than that of even Dalits and Muslims. In the national consciousness, the tribals are not just marginal but invisible. In terms of human development indicators, the adivasis are worse off than even the Dalits! They have been disposed of by development and conservation, displaced first by the "commanding heights" of the economy and then by globalisation. Their major problems are land alienation, denial of forest rights, and displacement by development projects and national parks and sanctuaries. The British introduced laws which Independent India unquestioningly inherited, turning the lords of the forest into subjects of the forest department. It is helpful to see where Guha and Roy agree and disagree. Both agree that the economic condition of the tribals is abominable. If malnutrition is the legacy of the past, poor education promises to be the curse of the future. The iron ore and bauxite, which should have been their blessing, have turned out to be their curse as they are unable to fight the displacement or make the best use of rehabilitation. Where the two disagree is in their view of the Maoists. Roy is soft on them, talking mostly about the violence on tribals and touching, only in passing, on the barbarity of the attacks of Maoists on their "enemies". Critically, they differ on the sandwich theory — that most of the tribals are caught between the violence of the Maoists on the one hand and that of the state machinery and settlers on the other with little hope of deliverance. Guha subscribes to this, Roy does not. It is difficult to think up solutions because a critical statute, giving back to the forest dwellers their rights, is already in place. But it is the state governments which have to work it. And they will be the last to do so. They are in the grip of settlers, the non-tribals, who have taken over. The worst depredator, the state-sponsored vigilante Salwa Judum, led by a Congress MLA, came into its own when the BJP government assumed power in Chhattisgarh. Is there hope for the tribals and forests of central India? If not, is there hope for the kind of India some of us want?
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- alishakalra07 @killintymm exactly my point. The thing is that people instead of questioning what the media feeds them they take it as it is. They question Roy's on why she doesnt feel for the Jawans? The thing is that there is no place for the Jawans there. What about those people who have been fighting for their livelihood, it doesnt matter if their families are torn apart but if they do something to someone else my god save them..then "wipeout" is all I hear. 2 hours ago
- Daystar2006 This bitch is maoist terrorist. She wrote a article supporting maoists violence and terrorists. Now goverment of India moved a special case on her for supporting and conspiring againt india. Either she will be in jail or will be shot dead. it is time to kill all these terrorists hiding as human right activits with no real concern for people. 8 hours ago
- cayetanoluis @Daystar2006
You're a fascist idiot with no sense whatsoever for what's happening in India. In your slavish conformism, you want to do nothing but suck from the sap of the Indian system and ignore the people you rob and exploit. When they have the temerity to fight back with violence (which you routinely impose on them, but no matter) you break out in righteous indignation about "concern" for people.
Fascist garbage. Fuck you and fuck your parasitic, filth-ridden system. 3 hours ago - Daystar2006 @shankyxyz
You bloody maoist and islamic terrorist. India started cordoning off the forest area to hit all fuckin maoists hiding in forests to hit with drones. You all die now you voilent bastards. Fuck naxalwad. Fuck to Arundhati. You can fuck for one rupee. 8 hours ago - cayetanoluis @Daystar2006
"You all die now you violent bastards."
I see that you have no understanding of the meaning of "irony".
Whatever the wrongs committed by the Naxalite rebels, they're carrying on a tradition that anyone with a modicum of sense can understand: no peace without justice. THAT'S what attracts your ire, since you seem oddly silent about the injustices routinely perpetrated by the Indian state. You're not against violence ("hit with drones"), you're against violence by one side. 3 hours ago - dravikiran I would really appreciate it if Ms Arundhati Roy moves her Human Rights activities to the jungle since clearly it is where the rights are being violated, by whoever she might think. One more thing from her would be a real help. Please reason with the families of the bereaved. Just tell them how their death is justified. I hope whatever she is saying in this video would suffice to console them. 20 hours ago
- cayetanoluis @dravikiran
"since clearly it is where the rights are being violated"
Actually, they're being violated left, right and centre, in the cities, in the slums, in the countryside, in the forests. Everywhere. I think that Roy should continue to get up the nose of snotty little fucks like you, and I applaud and support her in that. 3 hours ago - mnazeer67 Comment removed
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Suzanna Arundhati Roy (born 24 November 1961) is an Indian writer who writes in English and an activist who focuses on issues related to social justice and economic inequality.
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