Incompetent Arjun Singh, Shivraj Patil are still there, and absolute suck-ups such as Ambika Soni just got inducted. But the main theme of my post is their divisiveness. The Congress hasnt really been a party that puts the national interest before its own interests. I believe most political parties are like that, but given the national reach of the party, their destructive vision is dangerous for the national integrity and safety of the entire nation.
Now the Congress wants to take a census of all the Muslims in the Armed forces. The army has strongly come out against this anti-national move, and rightly so. This is bound to create divisions in the strongly bonded and secular traditions of the Armed forces, but of course, you think the Congress cares?
Apparently all this is a part of their strategy to win back the Muslim vote, which I am positive left them because they did nothing but make tall promises while the conditions of their votebanks steadily deteriorated. Personally, I think its tragic that most Muslims have failed to see through the fact that they are only being used by politicians to win elections. No society in this country is asking for development, they'll still gush over a deceitful politician telling them how they are being oppressed by other castes and religions.
Its tragic that the way to a man's vote in India is still through his religion/caste, and not to his wellbeing. A man may live in the gutter, but will vote because he is a Muslim or a Hindu. In the last 50 years, nobody has made any efforts to get our people out of the rut, our housing sector is a mess, majority of homes don't have a clean lavatory yet, and providing electricity and a rule of law are just lost cases now. Yet only recently have small pockets of Indians actually brought it up and started to ask their politicians what the deal is.
As for Sonia Gandhi, well, I had really thought she would be better than other godmothers in Indian politics, being a woman of class. Not born into a political family, daughter-in-law of a strong willed woman, but apparently she is only preparing the grounds for her son, Prince Rahul to take over the kingdom.
This article from IBN gives an idea of the grand schemes these traitors have come up with. With the amendment in the Foreigners Act, it will be easier for the millions of illegal Bangladeshis to stay in India and vote for Congress, or the Left if they can get them first. With all my optimism about my country, this is one time I can feel nothing but pain and bitterness. It was an honour being born on your soil, my glorious Republic of India.
Con'gress goes all out to woo Muslims
A minority affairs ministry, amendments to the Foreigners' Act and then a minority census in government service - Congress' political strategy is becoming quite obvious.
And now, CNN-IBN has learnt that Congress President Sonia Gandhi has issued an internal note to the party men that Muslims must be seen as the party's natural allies.
On Wednesday, at the meeting of the National Advisory Council, the agenda will again be the welfare of the minorities.
The party's topmost leader has made the party's stand on the issue categorical.
In an internal note, Mrs Gandhi said: "Muslims have always been our natural allies. We must take steps to ensure them that they hold a special place for us."
It came as no surprise that in the recent Cabinet reshuffle, the UPA Government carved out a special Minority Affairs Ministry under veteran Congress Muslim leader AR Antulay.
The crucial amendment in the Foreigners' Act followed. It made deportation of an illegal immigrant really difficult.
And now the latest controversy over the survey of minority population in various government institutions has once again raised the issue of vote bank politics, a charge the Congress rejects.
"There's nothing wrong in it," says Congress spokesperson Jayanti Natarajan. "Just because the Congress party does not indulge in Narendra Modi-type genocide politics, does not mean we are pandering to Muslims."
In all the states that are going to the poll in May - West Bengal, Kerala, Asaam and Tamil Nadu - Muslims are a key constituency. And in next year's UP elections too, which is crucial for the Congress - the party is keen to get back its old votebank from the Samajwadi Party.
UP is crucial, because it is from here that Rahul Gandhi is hoping to kickstart his political career and after the Babri demolition more than 13 years ago, Muslim goodwill holds the key to the revival of Congress' fortunes.
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What hurts most is they are bent on destroying the Armed Forces. These edits seem to be muted, and the PMO seems to distancing itself away from the call for such a survey. But its the Congress, and I know they will go all the way to win an election, if they destroy the nation in the wake, so be it. Its time for us to take a stand.
The government’s decision to collect information on the number of Muslims in the Army and its overruling the Army’s protest on such thinking undermines a basic ethos of the Indian Army.
we trust this effort to make the Army, a staunchly secular institution with a long and proud tradition, think along these lines will be given up. And not because we think calling for such data is “a seditious act,” to quote the NDA convenor. The mere calling of data on an issue can hardly be an anti-national act in a democracy.
Our reasons for requesting the government to desist from entering this area goes deeper and for the same reason why the national census stopped asking Indians to identify their caste some decades ago. The very exercise of making people think in this manner has consequences which aren’t happy. Military personnel have never been encouraged to think in this manner and the nation has believed the results of such an approach have been salutary. Everyone would agree the personnel in institutions such as the defence services, the police, the judiciary and so on should be doing their duty irrespective of individual faith—their own or that of the citizens they deal with.
The military has, over scores of decades, fashioned an ethos where its soldiers’ personal faiths and backgrounds are respected, but subsumed in a larger identity. Indians take pride in the result. Leave well alone.
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Heres another editorial from The Hindustan Times.
It's an Indian army
The person heading the Prime Minister's High Level committee on the social, economic and educational status of the Muslim community, Rajinder Sachar, has eminently secular credentials. So it's unlikely that the committee harbours any sort of 'communal' masterplan while asking for a numerical break-up of Muslims in the armed forces.
The aim of the committee seems to be benign: to get a measure of the problem of Muslim backwardness, there is a need to have some idea of the numbers one is dealing with.
But we are unable to see why the committee wants details of alleged Muslim desertion in the army in 1948 during the operation to liberate Hyderabad. Under trying circumstances in the 1962 and 1965 wars, there were several instances when units belonging to other castes and religious persuasion, sadly, deserted.
But getting into the exercise of counting the number of Muslims in the Indian Army as part of the larger exercise is somewhat gauche because it could open up a faultline where none exists. This danger is evident from the reaction of the BJP which has condemned the move as an attempt to communalise the armed forces.
But in recent decades, whenever newer formations such as the mechanised infantry have been created, it has decided to be purposefully blind to the caste and religious identity of the recruits.Nevertheless, for men who are called on occasion to lay down their lives, religion is a serious affair and the armed forces treat this as so.
They have a tradition of having priests of all faiths in their units, and have them bless any undertaking — a regimental function, or the inaugural of a new school or theatre. As a result they have an enviable reputation for upholding Indian-style secularism — which is not blind to religion, but stresses equal respect for all.
The result is that the forces have a high level of credibility among the public and play an invaluable role in times of crisis, especially communal violence. For this reason alone, the committee would be well advised to let matters be.
Good observations Vasu!
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