In UP, the traitors' in plain sight!

In my previous posts, I've spoken at the rampant anti-national activities taking place under the aegis of the Uttar Pradesh government, currently being run by the Samajwadi party. The leader is Mulayam Singh Yadav, and his posse of criminals, ranging from Mukhtar Ansari to a certain raja bhaiya, and a whole lot of jailbirds in between.

East UP, for a long time, has been a forgotten part of the country, and certainly of UP itself. With the new CM, UP has a new poster child, Mulayam's village Saifai in Etawah district, in south of UP. Mulayam is spending crores of rupees to build a state of the art airport here. Who is going to land here, I don't know, but maybe Mulayam is hoping to attract thousands of tourists to the beautiful treasures so dilligently preserved by Mulayam and the illustrous UP government. Heres another example: in the latest UP budget, around 80% of the money to be used for building/upgrading hospitals in the state is going to his district alone!

But this ruthless mismanagement still should'nt amount to treason, should it? I mean, well, are the people too blind to see whats going on or maybe I am happy and maybe the people of UP are happy with the way they are living. perhaps.

Coming to the Varanasi blasts, you know the first thing Mulayam said after it happened? He said Pakistan is behind the blasts. I ain't denying anything here, what I am saying is I feel that he was the first one to divert attention from his own bad state of affairs.

Heres an article from CNN-IBN. It talks about Samajwadi party goons having a field day in the state, and elsewhere.

Terror finds political shelter in UP

The terror strike in Varanasi has brought out another facet of Uttar Pradesh's criminalised politics. With political parties backing and harbouring criminal gangs, the state has become a safe haven for ISI-backed terrorist outfits.

The attack has set alarm bells ringing across intelligence agencies in India. This is because a pan-India terror network now has the ability to strike anywhere in India.

July 5, 2005: The makeshift temple at the disputed Babri Masjid site in Ayodhya is attacked by Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) terrorists.

December 29, 2005: A Lashkar module attacks the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore.

Lashkar-e-Toiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad earlier dependent on Pakistani ISI agents in India, now rely on crucial over-ground support of UP's crime corridor - stretching from eastern UP to Bihar.

Ex-Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) officer, R S N Singh, minced no words in saying that "the crime corridor in North India starts from Allahabad then goes to the eastern parts of UP and finally culminates in Bihar. They are thriving because of political patronage to the extent of police protection."

"For example, in Allahabad there is a person called Attek Ahmad, you go ahead you have Mukhtar Ansari and then of course you have Shahbuddeen. There is absolutely no doubt about the fact that they enjoy external linkages," Singh added.

With cross border infiltration across the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir going down, terrorists are now infiltrating from India's other porous borders like Bangladesh and Nepal.

MK Dhar, a retired joint director of Intelligence Bureau says that UP's criminal politicians have links with ISI-backed mafia in Nepal.

"As far as UP is concerned, I take the name of Mukhtar Ansari. He is known to be involved in Nepal-based mafia. Formerly headed by Dawood Ibrahim's people, they operate there freely. There are links between Mumbai and all these areas," Dhar said.

Even Mumbai's Anti-Terrorist Squad has evidence on infiltration from across India-Nepal and India-Bangladesh borders and its link with terror cells in Jammu and Kashmir and Uttar Pradesh.

"The men are coming from Nepal and Bangladesh. With terror cells from J&K and UP now mixing with men from both Nepal and Bangladesh, both hotbeds of ISI activity, the Anti Terrorist Squad in Mumbai has their work cut out," Anti-Terrorist Squad Chief Joint Police Commissioner, K P Raghuvanshi said.

The terror attack in Varanasi has given the badlands of UP another unsavoury image. The state is now a crucible of not only criminal gangs but is also a safe haven for ISI-backed terrorist groups.

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Not that the politicians of India are not adept at politicizing any tragedy for maximum benefit. The bastards will shed crocodile tears, lead rallies, or rath yatras in case its BJP, and will do all the things they need to keep the public angry and hurting.

Heres an editorial from Tehelka.com

Ganga-Jamni in our hearts

If the people of India were looking for wisdom and sensitivity while tragedy stalks the pluralist Ganga-Jamni civilisation in sacred town Varanasi, then the politicians have yet again betrayed the nation.

Trust discredited ex-president of the BJP, LK Advani, to quickly adopt the most irresponsible stance in the face of a national crisis: he announces a ‘National Integration Yatra’. If this is not the most transparent ploy to spread the flames of communal fire and divide the nation, then what is it?

In this dangerous move you can clearly see the deadly potion being churned in the vitiated political atmosphere of Uttar Pradesh — where low-intensity communal warfare mixed with mafia-style murders has been stalking the terrain for months now. And certainly, this organised polarisation began much before the Mau riots where mafia don Mukhtar Ansari was given a free run by the Mulayam Singh Yadav regime.

With BSP on the ascendant, there are three decisive political factors in UP: one, the SP and BJP have hit the lowest depths of credibility and it is they who are desperately looking for a straw, even a brazenly communal straw; two, UP is at a threshold where the communal cauldron has been simmering, much to the glee of the SP and BJP who are working in tandem since the nda days; and third, and perhaps the only moment of hope, is that neither the bogey of minority appeasement nor the politics of Hindutva might succeed anymore.

Advani knows it as well — his Bharat Uday Yatra became such a damp squib that even his most loyal media loyalists had to run for cover.

This is because you can’t sell the same lollypop for the nth time. Besides, people across the caste and religious spectrum have seen through this identity politics where they are used as pawns and dumped, often after a trail of bloody massacres has ravaged the nation’s fragmented landscape, leaving behind eternally unhealed wounds.

While the nation grieves for Varanasi, and the secular State restores order — which is its constitutional obligation — it’s time to yet again weave the chords of unity and harmony, the tested rainbows of a pluralist democracy.