Hypocrites and Traitors in Indian Politics

During the last three days there were two news items which specially caught my interest.

1. A powerful politician, while talking to press in New Delhi on Saturday (7/24/2010), said that the Popular Front of India (PFI) was aiming to convert Kerala into a “Muslim country” in the next 20 years. PFI is a Muslim organization which hit the headlines recently after its activists chopped off the hand of a college lecturer for allegedly insulting prophet Muhammad. Using unusually harsh language, the Chief Minister said the PFI was pumping money to lure youth into Islam and persuade them to marry Muslim women⁽¹⁾. “Their strategy is to make Muslims a majority community in Kerala. In 20 years, they want to make Kerala a Muslim majority state," he said referring to recent cases of Love Jihad.

These words were not spoken by any member of BJP or RSS. They were spoken by Mr.V.S.Achuthanandan, a Communist Party (Marxist) leader and the Chief Minister of Kerala! Indian Express reported⁽²⁾: His party, CP(M), has leading role in nurturing this monster - Popular Front - it has earlier used the PFI to divert votes from the Congress-allied Indian Union Muslim League. However, there isn’t a shred of doubt that the PFI, or a significant strand of it, is an extremist and violent organization that has not let go of its SIMI antecedents. Through the ’90s, after the Babri Masjid demolition polarized India, the PFI (formerly the National Development Front) grew and tightened its grip — it specializes in acts of shocking brutality, like the incident when it hacked off the hands of the college lecturer, for supposedly insulting the Prophet in an examination paper. It has a repressive social agenda, from demanding headscarves in Christian schools to moral policing, along with a media mouthpiece and softer outreach activities. In northern Kerala, where it is locked in fierce competition with the RSS and the CPM, it has developed a neat line in political intimidation. That it seeks to impose its social ideology on Kerala’s Muslims is a clearly visible fact.

For many years on, the BJP has been raising this issue in Kerala, but they were marginalized, and neither Congress nor CP(M) wanted to confront the reality of foreign funded talibanization of the society in Kerala. All communal incidents were squarely blamed on the RSS/BJP, and politics of appeasement was allowed to prosper. Now, in this late hour, people are sitting up and taking notice. We will have to see how much follow up in done on the statement by the Chief Minister and the CP(M). This may only be a lip-service to shore up Hindu votes as CP(M) has become unpopular among the other communities in Kerala of late.

BJP and Congress criticized the Chief Minister for being "communal". Surprise, BJP calling CP(M) communal for raising Talibanization issue? There are hypocrites in Indian politics everywhere you look.

All the Islamic organizations, as they always do, condemned the Chief Minister, wanted him to apologize and retract his statements. Islamic ethos has no room for self-introspection, and as always, they stand to defend the brand name of Islam regardless of whether the issue is right or wrong.

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2. Mr. Manishankar Aiyar, currently a Rajya Sabha member and Congress party leader, said that he would be “unhappy” if the upcoming Commonwealth Games in Delhi turn out to be a success and that those organizing it are “evil.” He further said: "I am delighted in a way because rains are causing difficulties for the Commonwealth Games. Basically, I will be very unhappy if the Games are successful because then they will start bringing Asian Games, Olympic Games,” he said. And added: “Those who are patronizing the Games can only be evil. They cannot be God."⁽³⁾.

Mr. Aiyar's acquaintance with Rajiv Gandhi during his years at Doon School and Cambridge University got him a berth among the Congress party establishment. A rabid Marxist who is against any kind of development, he was the Sports Minister in the year 2006-2009. That shows why India has been doing so poorly in international sports. When he was a student at Cambridge University he was an active member of Marxist Society there and supposedly collected donations to help China win its war against India in 1962. With such antinational traitors in power, no wonder India is spinning its wheels when it comes to progress.

References:

(1) http://www.indianexpress.com/news/PFI-trying-to-make-Kerala-a--Muslim-country---says-VS/651344

(2) http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Defending-the-front/652613

(3) http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Too-much-Mani-continues-to-be-wasted-on-the-Games/652739