CONGRESS & Other PARTIES ROB ALL HINDUS 15% OF JOBS, PROMOTIONS AND EDUCATIONAL SEATS.

CONGRESS & Other PARTIES ROB ALL HINDUS 15% OF JOBS, PROMOTIONS AND EDUCATIONAL SEATS.

It is painful to see how riding on shoulders of their Hindu voters Jaichandi Hindu politicians right from the days of the 1916 Congress- Muslim League Lucknow Pact till date in form of the Sachar Committee Report, Rangnath Misra Commission, the Prime Minister’s 15 Point programme etc has been systematically harming all Hindus by concocting false justifications to reduce, bit by bit, promotional avenues of all Hindu civil servants and the educational, employment and economic (E3) opportunities of all Hindu boys and girls, including SC, ST, OBC and leftist Hindu boys and girls, whether North Indian or South Indian Hindus, whether Assamese or Malayali Hindu, all Hindu members of NSUI, ABVP, SFI etc. pushing them to second and third class status vis-à-vis minority boys and girls.

Hindu parents, Hindu proletariat, Hindu candidates and Hindu students must open their eyes. Reduction in job opportunities, reduction in promotional avenues and reduction in educational seats for Hindus have been happening because Hindus have been voting for such political parties which openly declare that if elected they will give first preference to minorities i.e. they will accord second class treatment to Hindus.

The Hindustan Times of December 24, 2008 [New Delhi edition] reported that in reply to a question the Parliament was informed that as a result of special efforts made by the UPA Government such as the Sachhar Committee, PM’s 15 Point Programme etc the share of minorities in central sector jobs increased from 6.9 percent in 2006-07 to 8.7 percent in 2007-08. It increased from 7.6 percent in 2006-07 in the financial sector [Banks. FIs, RBI] to 10.2 percent; in the Armed Forces from 5.5 pc to 8.9 pc; and in the Railways from 2.7pc to 6.3pc during the same one year period. Consequently percentage of Hindus in the central sector jobs declined in one year from 93.1% to 91.3%. In the banking sector Hindus percentage declined from 92.3% to 89.2%.

In the full page advertisement in the Hindustan Times [February 18, 2010] the Ministry of Minority Affairs claimed credit for increasing trend in recruitment of minorities in Government and public sector undertakings from 8.23% to 9.18% in 2008-09 as a result of the UPA guidelines. As per Indian Express [June 6, 2010] job opportunities for minority communities have gone up considerably in the last three years following a two-pronged strategy adopted by the UPA Government to encourage them take up government jobs as well provide them resources for self-employment.

According to latest figures by the Minority Affairs Ministry, the number of minority community candidates selected for government jobs has risen from 6.9 per cent in 2006-07 to 9.24 per cent in 2008-09. Consequently as per common sense the percentage of Hindus in job sectors has been forced to decline by the Manmohan Singh Government which has traditionally been above 95% till May 2004 when the Manmohan Singh Government was first elected.

Riding on the shoulders of its innocent Hindu voters the Congress Party wants to reduce percentage of Hindus in job sector below 85% in terms of the Ranganath Misra Commission as the Misra Commission has recommended 15% jobs to be reserved exclusively for minorities. The Indian Express [June 26, 2008, p 9] reported that in the Home Ministry minority recruitment [Para military police formations] was over 20% of fresh appointments. In Para-military forces minorities are being over recruited. This fact is always hidden by the so called secular media from Hindu public.

I place below nine [A to I ] bare facts which show that we Hindu voters have been lacking in parental care and have contributed to reducing our own children and grand children to second class status either by not voting or being careless and casual at times of voting. When I bring these facts to notice of educated Hindus most of them express shock on their being ignorant of these facts, and, blame media and Jaichandi Hindu politicians for this betrayal. But in my humble opinion Hindu voters are themselves responsible for this plight of their children who either abstain from voting or vote to anti-Hindu parties like the Congress party, NCP, Communist parties and Janata parivar parties, Mulayam Singh party, lalu yadav etc. party.

[A] [i] CONGRESS RUINS CAREERS OF ALL HINDU CIVIL SERVANTS & HINDU CIVIL SERVICE ASPIRANTS

Let us look into the harm which the Rangnath Misra Commission report would inflict upon all serving Hindu civil servants and all Hindus who aspire for civil service career. On December 18, 2009 the UPA Government tabled the Ranganath Misra Commission Report on the table of the Parliament. It has recommended reducing promotion & job opportunities of all Hindu officials and Hindu Youth at least by 15% of posts in all cadres and grades under the state and central government, reducing availability of educational seats from nursery to University level in non-minority sector to all sections of Hindu students by at least 15%, and; disadvantaging SC and ST Hindus by yoking them within their existing reservation quotas with Muslims and Christians who enjoy better literacy rate. Para 16.2.16 of Misra Commission reads: “ Since the minorities – especially the Muslims – are very much under-represented, and sometimes wholly unrepresented, in government employment, we recommend that they should be regarded as backward in this respect within the meaning of that term as used in Article 16 (4) of the Constitution – notably without qualifying the word ‘backward’ with the words “socially and educationally” – and that 15 percent of posts in all cadres and grades under the Central and State Governments should be earmarked for them” 16.2.16 (a) The break up within the recommended 15 percent shall be 10 percent for the Muslims (commensurate with their 73 percent share of the former in the total minority population at the national level) and the remaining 5 percent for the other minorities. (b) Minor adjustment inter se can be made within the 15 percent earmarked seats. In the case of non-availability of Muslims to fill 10 percent earmarked seats, the remaining vacancies may be given to other minorities if their members are available over and above their share of 5 percent; but in no case shall any seat within the recommended 15 percent go to the majority community.

[This anti-Hindu formulation has been taken from a 1937 order of the British Government of India.] In the Indira Sawheny case, the Supreme Court had observed– “It is, therefore, clear that economic criterion by itself will not identify the backward classes under Article 16(4). The economic backwardness of the backward classes under Article 16(4) has to be on account of their social and educational backwardness. Hence, no reservation of posts in services under the State, based exclusively on economic criterion, would be valid under clause (1) of Article 16 of the Constitution.” Since Muslims and Christians enjoy better literacy rate than Hindus in over twelve States they cannot be called educationally backward so they are just not entitled for any reservation under the Constitution. So the Misra Commission recommendation is totally unlawful as it suggests giving reservations to Muslims by ignoring the educationally backward requirement of the Constitution and the Indira Sawhney case law.

All the Hindu officers serving under the Central Government or any State Government should open their eyes and take note that the Misra Commission has recommended reservation of 15 per cent of posts for religious minorities in all cadres and in all grades of each cadre under the Central and the State Governments. Ten per cent posts will be solely for Muslim officials/candidates and five per cent for other minorities. It means that from the date of implementation at least 15% posts in the grade of Secretary to Govt of India, and other grades of Additional Secretary, Joint Secretary etc. shall get reserved for minority officers which will block or retard pace of promotion of many Hindu officers and may result into many Hindu officers land up serving under their own junior minority religion officers. This would be happening all over India in all departments, central as well as provincial, whether school teachers, lecturers, banks, Universities, Deputy superintendents of Police, engineers, deputy collectors, inspectors of police, customs, income tax, public sector undertakings etc.

As per Hindustan Times Report Hindus held 91.7% of jobs in the Central sector in 2006-07 but after the Misra commission report is implemented Hindus’ promotional avenues will get restricted to 85% of posts so the pace of their promotions will get slowed with worsening stagnations. But minority officials who constituted only 8.3% in 2006-07 will fill up 15% of posts in the central sector i.e. pace of their promotions will be much faster than those of Hindu officials. So it is high time that all Hindu officials and all those Hindus who aspire to join public services should come out of their secular and progressive slumber and open their eyes to see that it is Congress Party aided by Communists and various parties [Mulayam Singh Yadav, Lalu Yadav, Ram Vilas Paswan, Mayawati, K. Karunanidhi, Sharad Pawar, Chandrababu Naidu etc] that is going to harm their career interests permanently and irreversibly.

The Misra Commission has made a false claim that Muslims are under-represented in services. Supporters of Muslim reservation often say that Muslims are about 13 percent of population but in IAS etc their representation is much less at about 4% so there are under- represented in services and there should be reservation for them to boost their per cent to 13%. Vide its table 3.6 Misra commission reports that graduation percentage of Muslims is only 3.6 pc. As only graduates can aspire for public services percentage of Muslims in services which is at 4% is fair and already more than commensurate to their graduation percentage. Further Muslims are about 4 pc in services but 10 per cent jobs in all cadres and in all grades are proposed to be reserved for them by the Congress Party. It means that Muslim officers will have much faster pace of promotions vis-à-vis Hindu officers and will also occupy senior positions for longer periods than Hindu officers..

In its para 12.3 the Misra commission itself states: “Analysis of literacy rate reveals that Muslims were better off than Scheduled castes and Scheduled tribes”. According to the 2001 Census, the Sachar Committee and the Misra Commission [table 3.5, paras12.3, 18.5 etc] Christians have higher literacy rate [80%] as compared to other religious minorities as well as the national percentage of 65%. Christians have higher literacy rate than Hindus. Christians have higher per capita income too. So Christians too cannot claim to be backward in any sense. In eleven states, Muslim males have higher literacy rate than Hindu males. These states are Andhra Pradesh, Andaman & Nicobar, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Kerala, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharastra, Orissa, Pondicherry and Tamilnadu.

In thirteen states, Muslim women enjoy higher literacy rate than Hindu women, these are Andhra Pradesh, Andaman & Nicobar, Chhattisgarh, Daman & Diu, Dadra & Nagarhaveli, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharastra, Orissa, Podicherry and Tamilnadu.[Statements 8a and 8b, Census Report 2001].

The Sachar Committee [page 53] also admits that in ten States literacy rate among Muslims are higher than even that of the upper caste Hindus and also higher than SC/ST Hindus. Under para 16.3.5 the Misra Commission has recommended to confer scheduled caste status on what are known as dalit Christians and dalit Muslims. In para 16.3.6. Misra recommends: “ We further recommend that all those groups and classes among the Muslims and Christians, etc. whose counterparts among the Hindus, Sikhs or Buddhists, are included in the Central or State Scheduled Castes lists should also be covered by the Scheduled Caste net. If any such group or class among the Muslims and Christians, etc. is now included in an OBC list, it should be deleted from there while transferring it to the Scheduled Castes.”

The National Commission for Scheduled Castes headed by Congressman Shri Buta Singh also favours giving ‘reserved’ status to Dalit converts to Christianity and Islam but does not want them to be included in the 15% SC quota and wants to further reduce seats available to general class Hindus so as to create a new quota for dalit converts. [Times of India, July 14, 2007].

So general category Hindus will get size of their cake further reduced if they continue to vote for the Congress Party or any jaichandi party in any election. Christians constitute only 10 pc of the tribal population but because of their higher literacy rate they corner about 90 pc of all ST reservation quotas. Many Christians have Hindu sounding names and submit false certificates claiming SC/ST Hindu status and grab jobs which would have gone to Hindus. Hindus are suffering because they are not careful at time of voting. The term Scheduled Castes was first used in the Government of India Act of 1935.

The Govt of India Scheduled Caste Order was first issued under this 1935 Act. Paragraph 3 of this Order issued on 30th April, 1936, reads: "No Indian Christian shall be deemed to be a member of Scheduled Caste.” In 1936 the British Government of India had rejected similar demands to include Muslims and Christians in the list of Scheduled Castes but the Congress Party appointed Ranganath Misra Commission has recommended inclusion of Dalit Chistians and Muslims in the SC list. It means that today the Congress Party is more pro-Christian than white British Christians were and that Congress Party is more anti-Hindu than the British were. If Muslims and Christians are added into SC quota they would take lions share because of their higher literacy rate further disadvantaging SC Hindu candidates leaving SC Hindus more high and dry.

Let us examine how many jobs Hindu candidates are going to lose in terms of the Misra Commission Report. Till 2009 SC Hindus were entitled to compete for 1500 posts reserved for them out of every 10000 posts in Government sector, OBC Hindus were entitled to compete for 2700 posts reserved for them and ST Hindus were entitled to compete for 750 posts reserved for them. The UPA Government in terms of Ranganath Misra Commission is planning to reserve 15% posts for minorities, and as Man Mohan Singhhas publicly asserted in December 2006 that minorities have first claim over government resources so SC Hindus will be eligible to compete for 15% of remaining 8500 posts i.e. 1270 posts reserved for them, OBC Hindus [including OBC Muslims and Christians] will compete for 27% of 8500 i.e. 2290 posts reserved for them, and, ST Hindus [including ST Christians] will compete for 7.5% of 8500 i.e. 630 posts. In other words scope of job opportunity reserved for OBC Hindus would get reduced by 610 posts; scope of job opportunity reserved for SC Hindus would reduce by 230 posts and for ST Hindus by 120 posts per 10,000 posts under the Misra report. The upper caste Hindu candidates till 2009 were eligible to compete for 5050 posts out of every 10000 posts but now under Sonia Gandhi-Manmohan & Ranganath formula they can compete only for 4310 seats.

That is their space will shrink by 740 posts per 10000 posts. And wonder of wonder is that this reduction in E3 space of all categories of Hindu applicants will be achieved on strength of those Hindus who give their notes and votes to Congress Party or to other jaichandi parties. Para16.2.17 of the Misra commission reads: “. We are convinced that the action recommended by us above will have full sanction of Article 16 (4) of the Constitution. Yet, should there be some insurmountable difficulty in implementing this recommendation, as an alternative we recommend that since according to the Mandal Commission Report the minorities constitute 8.4 percent of the total OBC population, in the 27 percent OBC quota an 8.4 percent sub-quota should be earmarked for the minorities with an internal break-up of 6 percent for the Muslims (commensurate with their 73 percent share in the total minority population at the national level) and 2.4 percent for the other minorities – with minor adjustments inter se in accordance with population of various minorities in various States and UTs.

If this route is adopted OBC Hindus will see their share shrinking from present 27 pc to18.5 pc of posts. [A] [ii] Shrinking Educational seats for all sections of Hindu Students: The Misra report Para 16.2.7 reads:“ As by the force of judicial decisions the minority intake in minority educational institutions has, in the interest of national integration, been restricted to about 50 percent, thus virtually earmarking the remaining 50 percent or so for the majority community – we strongly recommend that, by the same analogy and for the same purpose, at least 15 percent seats in all nonminority educational institutions should be earmarked by law for the minorities as follows: (a) The break up within the recommended 15 percent earmarked seats in institutions shall be 10 percent for the Muslims (commensurate with their 73 percent share of the former in the total minority population at the national level) and the remaining 5 percent for the other minorities. (b) Minor adjustments inter se can be made in the 15 percent earmarked seats. In the case of non-availability of Muslim candidates to fill 10 percent earmarked seats, the remaining vacancies may be given to the other minorities if their members are available over and above their share of 5 percent; but in no case shall any seat within the recommended 15 percent go to the majority community. [This anti-Hindu proviso is similar to a 1937 instruction of British India] (c) As is the case with the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes at present, those minority community candidates who can compete with others and secure admission on their own merit shall not be included in these 15 percent earmarked seats”.

As and when it is implemented, Hindu students with marks better than minority candidates may start getting admissions refused even in non-minority institutions managed by Hindu organizations such as Vidya Bharati, DAV Colleges etc. Till now Hindu students with better marks than a minority student are getting admissions refused only in minority run institutions. At present out of every 10,000 engineering seats in non-minority institutions OBC Hindu students get 2700 seats reserved for them, 1500 seats for SC Hindus and 750 for ST Hindus. After Misra report is implemented 1500 seats would first get reserved for minority students, 27 pc of remaining 8500 seats i.e. 1250 for OBCs and 630 for STs.

So mathematically it is proved that under the Congress Party there shall be reduction of seats for all sections of Hindu students. Marxist Hindus, NSUI Hindu students shall also equally suffer forced shrinkage of their E3 space. The Times of India [August 14, 2010] reported that there are over 33,000 MBBS seats and over 11,000 MD seats in all 271 medical colleges—138 government run and 133 under private management. Under Ranganath Misra report 15% of all professional seats will be reserved for minorities so Hindu students would become ineligible for about 5000 MBBS seats and over 1650 MD seats. Similar fate awaits Hindu students in other educational sectors. So Hindu students who are studying in class XII who want to join any college and their parents should open their eyes. There are about 4,40, 000 engineering seats in India [2004-05] but after the Misra report is implemented Hindu students can compete only for 85% of the total seats i.e. for only 3,74,000 seats. So admission of Hindu students in professional colleges will become more difficult.

The Times of India [February 12, 2010, Patna] reported that 6248 students committed suicides during 2007 and about 6060 students committed suicides in 2008. As these are suicides recorded by Police it is obvious that actual numbers will be more.TOI quoted Jiban Mukhopadhyay, a former Chief Economic Adviser to the Tata Group opining that intense competition in academics coupled with job stagnation is the probable reason for large number of students committing suicides. And situation is being made more difficult for Hindu students by the Congress and other jaichandi parties by robbing them of at least another 15% of jobs and at least another 15% of educational seats.

Hindu parents must open their eyes and come forward to protect careers of their children. Merit of Hindus applicants Ignored [B] Hindu students with better marks are being denied admissions into nurseries, schools, colleges and universities run by minorities, whether aided out of taxes collected from we Hindus or unaided. For example, Cut-off marks for Christian students for admission into St stephan’s College Delhi University and cut-off marks for Sikh students into the Khalsa College DU and cut-off marks for Muslims in Jamia Hamdard University is lower than those for Hindu students. Same is the case all over India in all districts.

Hindus are generally under-represented in the staff of minority institutions, and, posts of principals etc. are generally reserved for non-Hindus. For example the rule of St Stephan’s College, Delhi stipulates that a Hindu cannot be its principal and Vice principal though it receives annual grant of Crores of rupees from the Government out of taxes collected from we Hindus. Hindu candidates with better CVs are generally denied jobs in these institutions. More than 90 pc teaching faculties of the Aligarh Muslim University are non-Hindus.

Hindustan Times [July 10, 2008] and the Indian Express [July 18, 2008] reported that St. Stephan’s College, Delhi gives preference to Christian candidates in appointments. MS Frank, the then acting Principal insisted appointing only Christians. The Supreme Council of this college clarified that a Christian candidate who met the minimum qualifications shall be given preference over non-Christian candidates in matters of appointments. Similar ill-treatment is handed down to Hindus all over India by all other minority institutions.

Hindus have invited such ill treatments of their own by giving their votes to Congress & Communist parties etc. The minority institutions quote Supreme Court decisions to justify the second class treatment of all Hindus in matters of admission and employment. In nut shell the Supreme Court has ruled that Hindus do not enjoy equality rights guaranteed by the Article 14 of the Constitution in the minority institutions whether aided or unaided. In other words according to the Supreme Court Article 14 of the Constitution is not uniformly applicable everywhere and to everyone. This is a flawed interpretation of Constitution by the Supreme Court. Selective & uneven application of Constitutional provisions [C] The Constitution of India [Articles 15 and 16] guarantees 15% reservations for SC Hindus and 7.5% reservations for ST Hindus but they are denied these constitutionally guaranteed rights in admissions as well as in employment in all minority institutions with silent support & connivance of jaichandi Hindu politicians.

The OBC Hindus have been given 27% reservations in academic institutions but the Manmohan Singh Government has framed rules in such a way that OBC Hindus are denied this constitutionally guaranteed reservation all over India in all minority institutions.

A group of Sikh run colleges affiliated to the Delhi University have moved the Delhi High Court claiming that the UGC and DU cannot direct minority educational institutes whether aide or unaided to implement the OBC reservation policy in matters of filling up teaching posts and admissions.[HT, June 27, 2008] The point is that as the Constitution is in force round the clock on every square inch of India so these reservations must be available to SC, ST and OBC Hindus in all minority institutions all over India.

At present some articles of Constitution are applicable at one place but not at other places. The selective application of the Constitution is flawed and has to be opposed by all Hindus. Student loans to Hindu students at higher interest rates and more stringent terms [D] Hindu students get student loans at higher interest rate of about 10% to 12% per annum but minority students get student loan at 3% per annum from the National Minority Development & Finance Corporation under the Union Ministry of Finance.

For confirmation please visit www.nmdfc.org. This discrimination against Hindu students has been made possible by those Hindus who vote to Congress Party or to any UPA party. On August 27, 2009 the Man Mohan Singh government decided that any student whose parents’ income is below Rs 4.5 lakh per annum will get full interest subsidy on his student loan for professional course during the course period. But after the course is over a Hindu student has to pay interest at same higher rate of 10 to 12 whereas a minority student will pay at 3%.

In July 2010 the State Bank of Indore sanctioned student loans to Hindu students of the IIM Indore at 9.75 percent per annum interest and to Hindu girl students @ 9.25 percent. Commercial bank loans to Hindus at higher interest rates [E] Hindu youths get loans from commercial banks to start a new business at 15% to 18% interest and has to arrange ‘margin money’ of 15% to 40% of project cost from his private sources, balance comes from the bank. But a minority youth has to put in only 5% of project cost as margin money from his private source, other 35% is given by the National Minority Development & Finance Corporation at 3% interest, and remaining 60% of finance is given by commercial banks at two percentage points less than general lending rate for Hindus.

This second class treatment in banking sector has been invited by those Hindus who give their votes to Congress party or to any Jaichandi Party. On March13, 2007 the then Finance Minister Chidambaram had told the Rajya Sabha that of the total priority sector lending, loans to minorities had increased by 33 per cent to Rs 45,490 crores on March 31, 2006 as against Rs 34,654 crores when the UPA Government took office in May 2004. So, Hindu businessmen increase their own difficulties in getting bank loans by financing the elections of Congress Party and other UPA parties.

In a full page advertisement in the HT, February 18, 2010 the Ministry of Minority Affairs informs that Rs 2, 31,223 Crores was advanced by public sector banks to minorities under the priority sector lending during April 2007 to 31.12.2009. In a full page advertisement in the Times of India [August 15, 2010] the Ministry of Minority Affairs claimed that earmarking of 15% of all budget and outlays exclusively for minorities under various schemes of all Ministries/Departments concerned with the PM’s 15 point programme is going ahead and that for multi-sectoral programmes launched in 90 minority concentration districts the Government of India released Rs1290 Crores.

Authorised share capital of the National Minority Finance development Corporation was increased by the UPA I to Rs 1000 crore. In the August 15, 2010 advertisement the Ministry of Minority Affairs informs that authorized capital of NMFDC was further raised to Rs 1550 crores. It does not help any Hindu. It helps only religious minorities. The Ministry of Minority Affairs was created by Prime Minister Man Mohan Singh, a minority politician and plan provision of this Ministry was enhanced from Rs 130 Cr in 2006-07 to Rs 2600 crores in 2009-10, a whopping jump of twenty times.

Hindu students pay more fees at IITs, IIMs, Coaching Centres etc. [F] The Man Mohan Singh Government has directed that all minority students admitted to 70 top institutions of India like IIMs, IITs etc will get their total fees paid by the Government but Hindu students, whether leftist or Rightist, whether North Indian or south Indian, whether member of NSUI or SFI have to pay their fees. The annual fee in IITs and IIMs runs into lakhs of rupees.

If a minority student decides to join any coaching centre to prepare for admission into colleges or Public service examinations or jobs in government and private sectors he gets total fees of coaching centre paid by the government but a Hindu student or his parent has to pay the fees of coaching centre. Details may be seen at www.minorityaffairs.gov.in Coaching centers charge heavy fees.

In a full page advertisement in the HT, February 18, 2010 the Ministry of Minority Affairs informs that Rs 20.75 crore was released for free coaching of 14,966 minority candidates during April 2006 to January1, 2010. In August 15, 2010 advertisement in the Times of India the Ministry of Minority Affairs claimed that Rs 29.38 Cr was released for free coaching to 19391 minority students since 2006-07.

Discrimination in scholarships against Hindus At pre-matric and at post matric level a minority student will get scholarship from class I onwards if he has secured not less than 50% marks in the previous year examination but such facility is not there for all Hindu students. The SC, ST and OBC Hindu students have to have more than 60% marks for being eligible for any scholarship though Muslims, Christians etc enjoy higher literacy rates. Further SC, ST and OBC Hindu students get scholarships from class VI onwards.

In a full page advertisement in the HT, February 18, 2010 the Ministry of Minority Affairs informs that 22, 23,841 scholarships were awarded to minority students under various schemes during April 2008 to January 1, 2010. But in the August 15, 2010 advertisement the Ministry of Minority Affairs claimed that 36, 91,795 minority students got scholarships since 2006-07. Corpus of the Maulana Azad education Foundation was raised from Rs 100 crore to Rs 400 crore. In the August 15, 2010 advertisement informs that corpus had been further raised to Rs 550 cr. This Foundation helps only Muslim girls.

Hindus howsoever qualified not eligible for many posts under Central & State governments [G] It may come as total surprise to many Hindus that there are many posts under the Government which are paid out of taxes collected from we Hindus but a Hindu howsoever liberal or Marxist he may be, he is legally debarred from holding such posts such as posts of the Chairman of National and provincial minority Commissions, principals of St Stephan’s Delhi [and similar minority institutions running into thousands and thousands all over India] etc.

Under section 3 of the National Minority Commission Act, a Hindu cannot be its Chairman and at least five of its seven members including Chairman shall have to be from amongst the minority communities. This law was enacted by PV Narsimha Rao Govt. Section 4 of the National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions Act 2004 passed by the Man Mohan Singh Government stipulates that only persons from minority communities shall be eligible to be appointed as Chairman and members of this Commission. Hindus have been totally excluded from this Commission.

As representation of Hindus in Sachhar committee, Rangnath Commission etc have been below their demographic strength it is obvious that these lack democratic weight. Hindu students in remote areas disadvantaged [H] In pursuance of the 2004 Congress manifesto, on 10th March 2006, the Lok Sabha passed the National Commission for Minority Educational (Amendment) Bill according to which the provincial governments will have to give no objection certificate within 90 days of application for setting up an institution by religious minorities, or, else the government will have to specify reasons for refusal. The aggrieved party will have right to approach the Commission which, in turn, will take a final decision in consultation with the State.

Composition of even this Commission is not representative to the total exclusion of Hindus and the wonder is that Hindus, howsoever secular or leftist, are debarred from being made even a member of this Commission by an Act of Parliament passed in November 2004. However, if no reasons are given by a State government for not giving the NOC within 90 days, it would be deemed as the approval of the State The Act also provides for the right of minority institutions to seek affiliation to any university of their choice listed in this Act. The bill was supported by all UPA partners including the Left parties, Samajwadi Party of Shri Mulayam Singh and the Bahujan Samaj Party etc. It was criticised by the Bhartiya Janata Party and Shiv Sena. So, a Muslim institution in a far off place, say, Jhumari talaian in Bihar can demand affiliation to any named central university of its choice and its students will get degrees of that central university and, thus, will enjoy better marketability in the employment market whereas a Hindu student of the same region will have degree of a provincial university having less marketability in the employment market.

Thus, with votes of Hindu parents, Shri Arjun Singh the then HRD Minister & the UPA Government placed Muslim and Christian students at higher and better pedestal in the employment market than Hindu students.In August 2010 Shri Kapil Sibbal, Human Resources Minister moved The National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions [ Amendment] Bill which will entitle religious minorities to set up universities without seeking approval of State governments where these will be located. Thus minorities can by-pass the State governments for opening even universities. Hindus cannot open universities without approval of state governments.

Those Hindu parents in rural areas who voted for the Congress Party and its jaichandi allies in the 2004 and 2009 elections have thus actually harmed the future of their own children. [I] Communal Composition of DPCs To reduce the percentage of Hindus and to increase the percentage of minorities in the government sector the UPA government has ordered inclusion of minority members in all Selection Boards and Departmental Promotion Committees [DPCs]. The circular to induct religious minority members in Selection Boards was issued during Prime Ministership of Rajiv Gandhi vide OM No39016/6(s)/87-Estt(B) dated 10th June 1987, and, during the Prime Minsitership of Vishwanath Prasad Singh, another secular veteran vide OM 39016/6(S)89-Estt(B) dated 16th August 1990.

The Man Mohan Singh Govt reiterated it in January 2007 with added condition of making quarterly reports on progress of minority candidates actually recruited and or promoted. Right from 1954 the Congress Party Prime Ministers at the Centre have been issuing instructions to all Central Ministries as well as to all State Governments to give special considerations to recruitment of religious minority candidates in public services with obvious implication to reduce percentage of Hindus in public services hook or by crook. In 1983, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi vide her 15 Point Programme for minorities became the first Prime Minister to have issued instructions to include minority members in all the Selection Boards and Departmental Promotion Committees. And one is shocked to see even educated Hindus praising Indira Gandhi as Durga. After all the ‘communally appointed members’ of the Selection Boards, Departmental Promotion Committees (DPCs) will have to show some result of their being added to Boards and, thus, the intake of minority candidates will go up and percentage of Hindu’s intake, whether leftist or rightist, whether forward or backward, whether upper caste or scheduled caste Hindus, whether tribal Hindu or non-tribal Hindu, whether North Indian Hindu or South Indian Hindu, whether Marathi speaking Hindu or Malayali speaking Hindu will automatically come down as the total number of vacancies to be filled by any Selection board is fixed in advance.

The UPA circular instructs to give special considerations to minorities in all appointments, so danger bell is ringing loud and clear for all Hindu civil servants and all Hindu job seekers whether they are leftists or rightists, whether upper castes or lower castes that despite their better profiles they may not be selected if they continue to vote for any Jaichandi party in any election. In January 2007 the Department of Personnel and Training, Govt of India, sent a note to all “heads of departments, public sector banks and financial institutions, quasi-Government organisations, autonomous bodies etc. and all appointing authorities,” asking them to “scrupulously observe” guidelines to make selection panels more representative. All selection panels recruiting ten or more vacancies must have one member belonging to a minority community. This circular instructs to give special considerations to minorities in all appointments, so danger bell is ringing loud and clear for all Hindu job seekers whether they are leftists or rightists, whether upper caste or lower castes that despite their better profiles they may not be selected.

At present Hindus constitute over 95% in all services and the Man Mohan Singh Government with help of Hindu voters is trying to reduce the Hindu percentage in government and public sector undertakings to less than 85%. Thus, it is clear that jaichandi Hindu politicians have treacherously created such a system in which a minority is eligible to apply for each and every post paid by the State but not a Hindu.

A minority student gets student loan and commercial loans at rates lower than a Hindu. A minority student with more than 50% marks gets scholarship but not all Hindu students with more than 50% marks. In minority run institutions a Hindu is given step brotherly treatment in matters of admissions and employment but in government run and Hindu run institutions a minority candidate has to be treated at par with Hindus and to ensure that a minority is treated on par there are national and provincial minority commissions headed & dominated by minorities. In minority run institutions a Hindu student with marks better than a minority student is refused admission and a Hindu candidate with CV better than a minority candidate is refused appointment. Above facts relate to educated Hindus.

Harming economic interests of Hindu labour class the Congress Party and the Communist parties have been facilitating infiltration of millions of Bangladeshi Muslims into India who snatch jobs of poor Hindus comprising the labour class, ricksaw pullers, construction labours, house maids etc. Firstly Bangladeshi Muslim infiltrators have illegally occupied millions of acres of government land which would have gone to landless Hindus. Secondly presence of millions of Bangladeshi infiltrators has depressed wage level in India reducing earnings of Hindu labours. Thirdly Jaichandi parties arrange ration cards for Bangladeshi infiltrators increasing burden on food subsidy which is passed on to all Hindu taxpayers. Fourthly, Bangladeshi Muslim infiltrators commit crimes of robbery & house breakings in India and are also involved in Islamic terrorist activities through HUJI etc.

It is not understood why even Hindu labour class give their votes to Jaichandi political parties like Congress and Communists which harm their own economic interests. Choice before a Hindu voter is: career of his own children or that of ‘minority’ children. Choice before a Hindu voter is very simple and straight forward: whether ‘religious minority’ children should get preference over Hindu children even if Hindu children are more meritorious or have better CVs. Hindu parents & Hindu students should no more remain passive observers but must join electoral battles so as to defeat jaichandi forces of all political shades and win the war for restoring equal treatment of all Hindus in all respects as was guaranteed in the original 1950 Constitution of India.

This author is not opposed to reservations for OBC Hindus, SC Hindus and ST Hindus, on the contrary this author wants such reservations to be extended to all minority managed institutions all over India as the Constitution is applicable on every square inch of India.Hindus who do not want to harm their own career prospects or of their children & grandchildren should never m abstain from votings and should never cast their votes in favour of any Jaichandi Hindu politician as in name of his secularism he will certainly gang up in the Parliament and in State Assemblies to ruin career prospects of Hindus.

LUCKNOW PACT 1916 In 1916, the Congress Party and the Muslim League negotiated an agreement which is known as the Lucknow Pact. In this Pact, Hindu leaders of the Congress Party voluntarily conceded in black and white that Muslims were politically superior to Hindus. Through this agreement Congress agreed to let Muslims send more number of Muslim members to the Parliament and to State Assemblies than their population justified on basis of one man one vote. In the United Provinces, the Congress Party conceded 30% representation to Muslims in elected bodies against the then Muslim population of only 14.3% in UP; 25% representation in Bihar & Orissa against Muslim population of 10.5%, 15% representation in the Central Provinces against Muslim population of 4.4% in CP, 15% representation in the Madras Presidency against Muslim population of 6.7% and 33.3% representation in the Bombay Presidency against local Muslim population of 19.8%.

Political weightage of Muslims was, thus, inflated by Congress Hindu leaders on the plea to win cooperation of Muslims to fight British. While such weightage was given by the Congress Party to the Muslims in the Hindu majority provinces, the Congress Party did not seek from the Muslim League similar weightage to Hindus in Muslim majority provinces of Punjab and Bengal. In the Central Legislature too, Congress offered 33.3% parliamentary seats to Muslims who then constituted only 20% population of British India. Above data show that the Hindu politicians of the Congress Party have history, habit and precedent of giving second class treatment to Hindus. Giving second class treatment to Hindus still continues to be the hidden agenda and core policy of the Congress Party.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Discriminatory-Laws-Against-Hindus/133292850051247

Jain commission and DMK

The Rediff Special/Cho Ramaswamy

'The Jain Commission's finding that the DMK helped the LTTE acquire arms to fight the IPKF smacks of treason'

The Jain Commission has said the encouragement given by the DMK, while it was in power, to the LTTE, ultimately enabled the LTTE to assassinate Rajiv Gandhi. I have been saying this for a long time. I had demanded the dismissal of the DMK government when V P Singh was in power, and again reiterated my demand when Chandra Shekhar came to power. I was perhaps the only journalist in Tamil Nadu who welcomed the dismissal of the DMK government. So I agree with the Commission's findings.

Having said this, I would say that the DMK has already been punished enough, by being turned out of office, by being dismissed. It is nobody’s case, not even Jain’s findings, that they had any hand or role to play in the assassination. Their support, and their help, given to the LTTE, at a particular stage, helped the latter to assassinate Rajiv. That is all. For that they have been punished.

But there are certain other things in the findings which require an investigation by an agency like the CBI. I refer to the findings that the DMK government helped the LTTE acquire arms and weapons to fight the IPKF. That they passed on to the LTTE whatever messages they received from the central government. That Karunanidhi told an LTTE delegation that Varadaraja Perumal should be done away with.

These are very serious matters. They smack of treason, so they must be investigated.

The Sri Lankan Tamil militants no doubt grew here from the very inception. Indira Gandhi had supported them; then Rajiv Gandhi supported them; MGR supported them. It all started from 1983 onwards. Gradually, the entire press in Tamil Nadu, but for my journal, and almost all the journalists in Tamil Nadu except me, supported the LTTE. Everyone thought they were freedom fighters. But I saw them as maniacal killers. There was a difference in perception.

There was overwhelming support, from all walks of life in Tamil Nadu, for the LTTE. Not only Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi and MGR, but every political party, every shade of public opinion was in favour of the LTTE. This support was provoked by two things: one was the genocide practised by the then Sri Lankan government on the Tamils in Sri Lanka, the other was the idea that the LTTE could restore the rights of the Tamils there. It is a different matter that all this belief was misplaced.

All this support for the LTTE existed before the Indo-Sri Lankan accord and before the IPKF went to Jaffna. Till then it was central government policy to support the LTTE. It was a wrong policy. It was a foolish policy that ought not to have been practised by them. Indira Gandhi had certain ideas about how to handle neighbours. I was in total disagreement with them. The state government also followed the same policy. Of course, everybody may have been influenced by the thought that the Tamil people were all with the LTTE.

After the Indo-Sri Lankan accord, the central government took a different line. They mended their ways. They started seeing the Sri Lankan Tamils’s problems in the right perspective. Help to the LTTE was stopped. Not only that, the LTTE presence in Tamil Nadu was totally eliminated. This was during MGR’s period. After the IPKF went to Sri Lanka, the LTTE became an anti-India outfit. Even earlier they had shown signs of it, but after the Accord, they openly started fighting the Indian army. They were anti-Indian, totally.

At this stage, Karunanidhi came to power in Tamil Nadu. It was his party which started helping the LTTE and resurrecting them in Tamil Nadu. The presence here grew again because of the encouragement given by Karunanidhi. He went against the policy of the central government, which was to contain the LTTE. The Jain Commission has said he even helped them acquire arms to fight the Indian army. This is a very serious allegation. It has got to be enquired into, because it is anti-national.

One cannot forget the fact that the Commission arrived at its conclusion after going through several records, after examining witnesses, allowing cross examination of witnesses. It is a quasi-judicial finding, not the judgment of a court. So there must be an investigation by an agency like the CBI into the allegation whether the DMK actually helped the LTTE acquire arms to fight the IPKF.

That the Jain Commission has dubbed the entire Tamil community as having helped the LTTE? This is a totally diversionary tactic and I am surprised that the newspapers seem to be siding with the DMK on this. The Jain Commission has said that Rajiv’s assassination would not have been possible without the nexus developed between the LTTE and the Tamil people, the support given to the LTTE by the state authorities, and the support given to the LTTE by the law enforcement agencies. So they have not blamed the Tamil people alone. They have not said that the Tamil people helped the assassins; they have not said that the Tamil people relished the assassination. They have only said that the misplaced help also helped the LTTE.

The DMK's supporters and the media are crying for Jain’s blood because he said the entire Tamil people were supporting the LTTE. But earlier, that was the proud claim made by the DMK, that the entire state was with the LTTE. This was the claim made by the DMK, by every supporter of the LTTE, by various chauvinist outfits here. This was claimed by the LTTE also. They thought it was the pride of Tamils to support the LTTE.

Now when Jain says so, they are all very angry! Jain is, after all, repeating what was said earlier in Tamil Nadu by all leaders of public opinion. I never shared this view. The fact is that at a particular point in time, the overwhelming majority of Tamilians supported the LTTE. But they were misled into it by leaders of public opinion like political leaders and journalists. I don’t think the people are going to buy this story of Karunanidhi’s that the Jain Commission has condemned the people of Tamil Nadu as a whole. It may be written about and spoken about for some time, but it will not be the issue.

The press today is totally against the Congress. They never had any great respect for Rajiv Gandhi as a politician or as a man. Perhaps they think that one should forget his death. But I don’t see it that way. He was the prime minister of this country. His life was taken away by foreign terrorists on our soil. We have to find out the guilty, we have to punish them. We have to see who encouraged them, and punish them. We have to see who behaved in an anti-national fashion then, and punish them.

I am least bothered whether this is going to help the Congress or not. Let it help anybody. If the truth is going to help somebody to win an election, I don’t mind. But the fact is, the Congress is not going to reap any benefit out of this. The death of a cadre, a humble worker, has been used by almost every political party for fetching votes. Is not the Congress entitled to do it? Why should I blame the Congress alone? But I think this cannot be an electoral issue. The calculation of the Congress is wrong. It has given them a talking point, that’s all. They did not have even that earlier. If at all it benefits anybody, it may benefit Jayalalitha here in Tamil Nadu.

I don’t think the Commission’s work has been a waste of time. I would say this: at one stage of the enquiry, all sorts of allegations were freely made before the Commission. Almost everybody, Narasimha Rao, Chandra Shekhar, all were dubbed as the assassins of Rajiv Gandhi. That kind of sensationalism should not have been allowed by the Commission.

As told to Shobha Warrier

http://www.rediff.com/news/dec/03cho.htm

Congress affairs in Tamil Nadu

Mr.Rahul Gandhi MP,
Tuglak lane.
New Delhi
Dear Mr.Rahul Gandhi,

Sub: Congress affairs in Tamil Nadu-regarding

I an old Congress member from Tamil Nadu. As you may be interested to know that I had moved closely with Pandit Nehru and Kamaraj and other senior leaders in the early 1960s and also worked at the AICC when the late Kamaraj was the AICC President and when was live.

In 1967 I was at the AICC and I wrote the Congress election pamphlets.

I and my other Oxford friend, Rudolf de Mello became ardent Congress members when we were both at Oxford in the early 60s and after coming back to India De Mellow became the Youth Congress President.

I later became an MLC in Madras in 1968 when the Congress was defeated by the DMK in 1967.

When Kamaraj and the Congress were defeated and were out in the cold, my election victory as an independent was hailed by Kamaraj as the first victory for the Congress in the state.

But alas! The history of the Congress from 1969,the split in the party, the coming of the Emergency, the later coming of the Janata government and later in 1980,the coming back of Mrs.Indira Gandhi are all now history.

The point I want to bring for your serious attention is that after 1967, the Congress party never recovered in Tamil Nadu and today, for the past 43 years the DMK and the Dravidian parties ruled the state.

I was in Tanjore just now, on the 27th of June I went to one village, Needamangalam, near Kumbakonam and I participated in a Congress meeting and the newly-elected Youth Congress workers, both young men and young women were present.

Now, I am leading a broad national front, called Kamaraj Peoples’ Front, comprising the Congress loyalists, mostly those Congress party workers and leaders who strongly feel the Congress party must contest independently, break off its alliance with the DMK and organise a front with other parties.

Of course, this broad feeling is still not fully articulated.

As for the Youth Congress and from what I have spoken to the newly-elected youngsters, they said that experts had come from New Delhi and trained them. When I asked them what training they got they said they would propagate the Central government’s welfare schemes to the people.

Now, I have had long experience with the Indian Youth Congress. Starting with Rudolf De Mellow time to Sanjay Gandhi, then Rajiv Gandhi days, from Kamaraj to Indira Gandhi times, the Youth Congress was always used as a prop by the parent party.

When the elections come the parent party just ignores the youth cadre and selects and distributes tickets on factional strengths of leaders.

So, in Tamil Nadu what chance for the Youth Congress workers when the 2011 Assembly elections come?

As I see and these are the realities I want you to know.

The DMK had now thoroughly corrupted the Congress party. The TNCC is under the vice-like grip of the DMK. The TNCC President works at the beck and call of the DMK chief. TNCC doesn’t do any work, doesnt do any party propaganda except to issue press statements to support the DNMK’s many ant-Congress propaganda.

It is an open secret in TN that the Congress MLAs, some 35 of them are under the hold of the DMK, rumours float about how many of the MLAs and the TNCC are on the pay roll of the DM, party and government.

Why the MLAs and the TNCC?

There are wild rumours that even the Central Ministers are “bought out”, the Ministers, insiders say, wont upset the DNMK applecart, the Ministers would only work for the present status quo. That is, the DMK-Congress alliance would be continued, even there is talk, the DMK’s strong man, and elder son of the DMK chief that the DMK might even threaten to go alone if the Congress doesn’t oblige the ruling party to do what it wants to do.

So, what chance for the Youth Congress workers? Will they get some seats in the DMK-Congress alliance talks?

There is every chance that the Youth Congress workers hopes might all become dashed!

The DMK would see to it that even in the Congress only those candidates, who have been corrupted as of now, might get renomination.

The point here is that whatever your efforts in other states, be it UP or Bihar might work, that might not work here, for the DMK is a more powerful machine, its manipulative skills are very great and even if the Congress President or yourself want to change the equations in the state, the very Congress unit in the state might not play to the dictates of the AICC.

The DMK is a fascist organisation in a democracy.

This, I hope, you have realised. If not, it is time to realise this harsh truth!

So, I have formed the broad nationalist front, there are so many outfits, small and big parties, NGOs and other social and cultural forces, secular forces and the very mass of the Tamil people who are all disgusted with the corruption and maladministration (there is no administration whatever, police is made powerless, there is an irretrievable trend towards an one-party, one-person dictatorship in a democratic cover-up.

I have a few suggestions to make here.

One, the Congress must encourage outsiders, those who are not within the TNCC, there is a vast reservoir of Kamaraj loyalists who are now dejected and outside the official party and also the very general public, comprising of the rural and urban poor, the middle classes and the very rich upper cuts who are all disgusted with the DMK’s autocratic rule and want to vote out the party. But this can’t be done by the TNCC alone, as I have already said is corrupt to the core and also in the pay roll of the DMK.

The intellectual class is thoroughly disgusted. The just concluded International Tamil Conference at Rs.500 crore expenditure was a thorough waste of poor people’s tax receipts only.

But the emotional appeal of the Tamil language is very real and the Congress can’t hope to capture the imagination of the Tamil people, unless the party also takes up the Tamil cause, Sri Lankan Tamil cause etc.

Second, I propose to issues a platform, some definite programme, say what the party would do if it is voted to power. There has to be a state-specific programme of action.

I would put abolition of corruption at the top, establishment of a Lok Ayukta, on the Karnataka model, closing down of the much-hated TASMAC liquor shops, police reforms etc. The DMK and the ADMK and other caste parties, along with the extremist outfits and the Communist parties won’t disappear in a day!

So, there must be an immediate revamp of the TNCC. Now, the same man, who is so corrupt and people wonder what is the need for continuing the same face for the second time. Is the TN unit not capable of getting the right persons for the jobs?

TNCC is so bogus, it is almost non-existent. There must be a fair representation for the DCCs, the DCCS themselves need some revamp.

I am sure the Congress President must be fully aware of the sorry state of the state unit of the Congress.

I personally don’t want any post or office, now or after. This I want to make clear.

I am a member of the Indian National Congress since 1962.I shall remain so even after any other changes. The party is 125 years old and I am fully aware what politics mean and what it should mean for the mass of the India people.

I had met and talked with some of the greatest names in history, Pandit Nehru, first of course whenever he used to visit Santiniketan when he was the chancellor of Visva Bharati, then in England I had visited the Irish President Eamon de Valersa, the French Premier of the Fourth Republic Guy Mollet and many others.

I am even now by purely altruistic motives and this is now an endangered virtue! Then, this is what I am!

With regards,

Yours sincerely,

V.Isvarmurti

http://www.isvarmurti.com/2010/07/02/letter-to-mr-rahul-gandhi-mp/

Politics in Tamilnadu

The Amma saga

AIADMK chief Jayalalitha is confident of winning in the assembly elections slated next summer. However, there’s a big BUT. She says if the elections are free and fair, it will be a cakewalk for her. But will it be? She’s not confident of that. Is this her escape clause in case the DMK comes back after the assembly polls next year? This week she received another death threat. This is the first threat after the CBI was handed over the case by the state government last week. But she has had to fend off allegations that she is setting up a scenario to cancel her Madurai rally on October 18. Azhagiri has accused her of dreaming up the threats so she could back out of the rally “because it was bound to fail”.

But she says she will go and hold her rally in his pocket borough and make it a success. But even if she does hold her rally, will people come? Azhagiri’s hold over Madurai is such that people will be too scared to venture into her rally. Besides, he has weakened her party by poaching leaders and MLAs over the last few months, so she might lose face. She boasted that while eight lakh people came to her Coimbatore rally in July, 18 lakh people came to her August rally in Tiruchi. “Apart from Jaya TV, all media virtually blacked out what was a historical rally, she gripes, underlining that she had to battle alone always and that she has "won despite the press”.

Azhagiri sulks and Stalin travels

If Azhagiri is smart, he’ll let Jayalalitha fall on her face without getting involved. But, Azhagiri has not inherited smart political maneouvres from his father, Chief Minister Karunanidhi. And that is why he sulked and kept away from the DMK party anniversary recently. And that is also why he stayed away from the five-day millennium celebrations of the Big Temple in Thanjavur where his father and assorted members of “the first family” soaked in the limelight. But then how could he go there knowing that brother Stalin’s followers organized the event?

If there was any doubt that he and brother Stalin don’t see eye to eye then one just had to notice all the banners, hoardings and posters on the road leading to the temple. One referred to Karunanidhi as the Chola king (cholar mannarey) and his younger son M.K. Stalin as Chola Ilavarasey, meaning crown prince. There was no place for Azhagiri in Stalin’s supporters’ scheme of things.

So clearly he is petulant because his father favours Stalin, who is just back from a successful trip to South Korea and China where he was wooing businessmen to come and invest in Tamil Nadu. He swapped his dhoti for spiffy suits and wife Durga, swapped her saris for trendy salwar kameezes as the couple took in the tourist sights including the Great Wall of China.

Sonia’s potential headache

When Sonia Gandhi comes here this weekend for a rally at Tiruchi to celebrate her becoming the Congress president for the fourth time, she has her job cut out for her – to keep her flock from each other’s throats. Congressmen do not believe in presenting a united face even if their high command comes here. The Dravidian parties, in contrast, are more disciplined.

There’s a new reason to squabble now because the post of Congress Legislature Party chief is vacant since MLA D Sudarshanam died in June. The urgency is because an assembly session is due on November 8, and the 34 Congress MLAs need a leader and also need to avoid the embarrassment of being incapable of electing a leader. But the problem is every MLA considers himself a leader and is either aligned to union minister P Chidambaram, union minister G K Vasan or TNCC president Thangkabalu. And none of these groups can sail together.

Deputy legislature party leader D. Yasodha, party whip S. Peter Alphonse and Tiruvadanani MLA K.R. Ramasamy have their hats in the ring. Chances are that Alphonse might get the coveted post because he’s G K Vasan loyalist. What will tip the scales is his proximity to Karunanidhi and deputy chief minister M.K. Stalin.

On the other hand, Chidambaram groupie Yasodha might emerge successful because she’s a woman and a Dalit to boot.

Rajni promotes Endhiran

Rajni went to Mumbai, showed Endhiran to top Bollywood folk, then hugged Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray and called the latter his “God”. Perhaps after what happened to his Kuselan at the height of the Hoganekal controversy, when he had to eat humble so the film could be released in Karnataka, one can forgive him for covering his bases. Even so, promoting his film is a first for him.

What was not was the milk abhisekams, beer abhiskekhams and deeparadhana for the mega-sized cut outs of Rajnikanth in all the theatres and special poojas in temples. This might be passé for his films though, as fans have done this for every film of Rajni. Three years ago they did it for Sivaji, The Boss. When Kuselan hit the theatres there was not such a mega-buzz. If anything, the producer tried to cash in on the Rajni charisma and extrapolated what should have been a cameo and failed so badly that the star, as his wont when his films flop, refunded some of the money to theatres, exhibitors.

What fans do for their beloved Rajni

Fans also cash in on the Rajni magic – it’s not all mania. But how do you explain about 100 fans between the ages of 14 to 60 from Sholingur town climbing the 1,305 steps of the famous Arulmighu Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy Thirukoil at Sholingur on their knees to pray for the success of Rajini’s yet-to-be-released movie Enthiran. That’s real devotion and the Gods would be jealous that a mere mortal evoked such zeal. The fans chose September 19 to carry out their three-hour climb and all along the arduous climb chanted the name of Rajniknath. Once in the temple they carried out special poojas for the film’s success

“We are not bothered about the difficulties involved in climbing 1,305 steps on our knees. All we want is the grand success of our beloved superstar’s movie Enthiran. We want the movie to create a world record by running for 1,000 days,” said N. Ravi, district treasurer of Rajini’s Fans Club of Vellore.

The fever has been building up for several months and has reached a crescendo now. In Madurai, on July 31, even as Rajni was in Kuala Lumpur for the audio release of his film, fans took out a procession to a Rajni cut-out carrying milk on their heads (for abhisekham), dragged a fattened but frightened goat along as they set off firecrackers. Once they reached his cut-out, paal (milk) abhisekham was done, the goat slaughtered (wonder what PETA will have to say to that?) and about 250 persons feasted on mutton biryani.

“The goat sacrifice was made so that our thalaivar (leader) forays into politics soon after the release of Enthiran which is sure to ring in success at the box office,” said Madurai district Rajinikanth fans’ association president S.R. Elangomani. Like I said, the Gods will turn green with envy! Again all this demonstration of devotion probably will not go down so well with someone who has made his name synonymous with humility and who is very devout himself and might not agree with his name being included in the pantheon of gods.

http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?267411

Supping with the corrupt

October 16, 2010 11:27:09 PM

Kalyani Shankar

Manmohan Singh and his UPA Government are under increasing attack for scams and scandals exemplified by the Telecom Minister’s loot. But the Congress refuses to confront corruption in the Government. Is it because of the lure of power that probity has taken a back seat?

The current Budget session has shown the growing friction between the Congress and its allies. Whether it is about the IPL scam or the 2G spectrum scam or the telephone tapping controversy, it is the Manmohan Singh Government which is facing the flak.

Old-timers admit that it is a difficult task to run a coalition Government especially when all the allies have come together for the single purpose of sharing power. The Congress never believed in coalition experiment and is yearning to rule on its own.

What is the common ground between the NCP, the Trinamool Congress and the DMK? All of them are regional parties trying to satisfy their regional aspirations while the Congress is a national party. Ironically, some of the partners like the NCP and the Trinamool Congress are the offsprings of the Congress and out of sheer political compulsions they all came together. Unlike the UPA 1.0, the UPA 2.0 does not even have a common minimum programme.

The Congress has learnt the hard way to close its eyes to whatever its allies do. During the UPA 1.0, it had difficulty in getting rid of JMM chief Shibu Soren. In the UPA 2.0, the Prime Minister is unable to control his Ministers like Mr MK Azhagiri, Mr A Raja and even Ms Mamata Banerjee.

The problem for Mr Manmohan Singh is three-fold. First, the real power rests with Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Mr Singh is only the nominated Prime Minister but he is the one who faces the music.

Second, the Prime Minister is in no position to deal with the Ministers chosen by the allies, as they are not under his control. That is why he could not get rid of Mr A Raja despite corruption charges against him.

Third, the Budget session began with the Congress losing two of its allies — the Samajwadi Party and the RJD on the issue of Women’s Reservation Bill. Many wondered why the Congress tabled the Bill before the Finance Bill. The result is that the Government now has a fragile number of just 271. Without the support of the Left and the Right it would not have got the Women’s Reservation Bill passed in the Rajya Sabha and without the support of the BSP, the Government would have collapsed on the Finance Bill. Neither the Congress nor Mr Singh has the luxury of annoying the allies. While the Congress was prompt in getting rid of Mr Shashi Tharoor, it has distanced itself from senior Ministers like Mr Sharad Pawar and Mr Raja leaving it to the Prime Minister to deal with them.

The real problem is that the Congress wants to gain back its lost ground while the allies want to expand at the cost of the former. This inherent contradiction is the root cause of Congress’s friction with the NCP, the Trinamool Congress and the DMK though they are together at the Centre. As Tamil Nadu and West Bengal, where the Congress is a minor partner, will go for Assembly elections next year, the party cannot afford to upset its allies.

The Congress and the NCP have had a love-hate relationship despite 10 years of coalition politics both at the Centre and States like Maharashtra, Goa and Meghalaya. Last year’s Assembly and Lok Sabha elections have shown how the two try to weaken each other. The recent IPL controversy has brought two NCP Ministers — Mr Sharad Pawar and Mr Praful Patel — into focus. On the issue of spiralling price rise, the Congress made Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar the fall guy. Then came the telephone tapping controversy where the Government was on the dock for allegedly tapping Mr Pawar’s phone. Although the Government played it down, the frictions remain.

Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee’s mercurial behaviour often provokes local Congress leaders. With the Assembly elections scheduled for next year the Congress is unable to deal with her tantrums. In a big blow to the Congress, Ms Banerjee has managed to get State Congress working president Subroto Mukherjee join the Trinamool Congress. The Kolkata corporation elections will be an acid test for their future relationship with the Trinamool Congress going it alone. But the bottom line is that both know that Ms Banerjee needs the Congress to become the Chief Minister and the Congress needs the TMC to improve its tally.

The DMK-Congress relationship is also peculiar. DMK chief M Karunanidhi has put his foot down against any move to sack Mr Raja. The Prime Minister can do nothing as getting rid of Mr Raja means losing power. Moreover, Mr Karunanidhi’s family problems are visiting the Government, as he is unable to deal with his succession plan and divide power between his children - Mr MK Stalin, Mr MK Azhagiri and Ms MK Kanimozhi.

Furthermore, Assembly elections are due next year and Mr Karunanidhi wants to advance it to the end of this year. Local Congress leaders are unhappy that despite the Congress support the DMK has not included Congress MLAs in his Cabinet. If Mr Rahul Gandhi has his way, the Congress would like to go it alone in the elections while the arithmetic says alliance with a Dravidian party would earn better dividends. There are some in the Congress who would like to align with the AIADMK.

Political parties look to their interests first just as the UPA allies as well as the Congress do. However, the overriding principle will be the power and all the stake-holders know this. But no one should be in doubt about the future of the UPA, as the frictions will not reach a breaking point.

http://www.dailypioneer.com/254087/Supping-with-the-corrupt.html