Another rotten piece from N.Ram

It is as if N.Ram pulled out a few anti-RSS, anti-BJP statements that came close to the topic from his communist library and then ordered those statements to form this rotten piece of edit. It is when N.Ram writes about BJP/RSS that you see his most acerbic comments. He still has not forgotten the promise he made to Pakistan that he will take care of BJP.
The Hindu : Opinion / Editorials : A new kind of discordance

From Gujarat 2002 to Orissa 2008-2009, the country has been witness to a pattern of violence against minorities whose primary driver was the thought process that motivated the Parivar rank-and-file.

The malaise called media bias

The media's vengeance against BJP is driving the ELM to extremes. Biased coverage is now giving way to naked lies.

Seriously Sandeep : Revenge of the Turd

Yet, with such a strong tailwind of middle class approval, on such an important mission of creating the democratic opposition to the Congress, what was the public image we saw of the BJP on the fateful day of the trust vote against the Manmohan Singh government? We saw LK Advani deliver a rather rambling half-hearted speech. We saw him look on in forlorn loneliness as 13 MPs of the NDA cross voted, 8 from the BJP alone. Whatever the truth of a "purchased" trust vote, we saw an octogenarian public personality, someone who had created a powerful ideological challenge to Nehru-Gandhi dominance, we now saw him asking for a television sting operation.

This doesn’t qualify for "taking liberties with the truth."  It is a lie. Ms Ghose, can you please care to narrate the sequence of events over the course of a week all the way leading up to the trust vote? When did l.k. advani ask for a sting operation? Did he ask for a sting operation or did he demand that the original sting operation tape be shown? Also Ms. Ghose, if you find the forlornly lonely octogenarian leader’s appeal this pathetic, why did you agree to conduct the sting operation in the first place?

Avidya begins her 2009 campaign

Avidya, who, with her incredible mathematical skills, has predicted a landslide victory for Congress in Gujarat elections, is back with new agenda - 2009 elections. She starts off her analysis by deciding the winner. Now she will go out to find evidence to support her. I am sure she will find a lot of evidence and we will hear a lot about it in her "Election Analysis". Let us all prepare ourselves to be overfed with "Analysis".

The Hindu : Opinion / Leader Page Articles : Election 2009: Congress tortoise and BJP hare

The BJP is not as well placed to face the general election as it claims.

"Eminent Historian" on detoxifying textbooks

Chindu is the mecca for all these lunatic lefties. They get prominent space on this propaganda machine. The fact that most of these text books have been written under the benign eye of the Congress will be conveniently withheld.

The Hindu : Opinion / Interviews : Upholding scientific principles of historical writing

Detoxifying textbooks was a proposition advanced after the last election. Almost four years of UPA rule are over. Are you happy with the way that process has progressed?

The remaining 97 per cent of schools use textbooks that are much more
communal than the NCERT textbooks concocted by the BJP dispensation. If
detoxification were to be effective, this large segment had to be
cleansed of communalism.

We don't need Naxal R, we might as well have Karat

Naxal R quoting Karat in an editorial. Chindu should be called an extreme leftist paper, not leftist.

Also notice how these communists are trying to define BJP's agenda as enemy of muslims. Ironically, it is these communists who have defined their political agenda as "Hate BJP".

The Hindu : Opinion / Editorials : Significant move on political chessboard

After all, as Prakash Karat, now the CPI(M)’s general secretary, pointed out in a 1992 journal article, the BJP’s journey from an amorphous right of Centre platform, constructed during the Vajpayee presidency of 1980-86, to the aggressive platform of Hindutva — ‘Hindu nationalism’ targeting an internal enemy, India’s 150-million-plus Muslims, and all key issues revolving round this theme — was accomplished between 1986 and 1989, during the first Advani presidency. It will be costly, if not fatal, for the BJP’s political opponents to underestimate the strategy, tactics, and mobilisational capabilities of the shadow Prime Minister.

JD(S)-BJP alliance distateful : N.Ram

The Hindu : Opinion / Editorials : Constitutionalism and morality

The JD(S) was not willing to honour its commitment to hand over thechief ministership to the BJP which withdrew support amidst charges ofbetrayal of trust.

JD(S) did not honour its commitment but the BJP still gets bashed for putting forward the charges.

With the Congress unable or unwilling to do business with the JD(S) again, President’s rule became inevitable...

Congress' mistake is that it was not able to secure power by any means, inspite of the golden opportunity. Even Negotiator.Ram came down to Bangalore to resolve the stalemate.

The Congress too must take some part of the blame for the vitiatedpolitical atmosphere, having let local factors get in the way ofbuilding better relations with the JD(S), the party it had originallyteamed up with.

What even-handedness. Congress is blamed for looking at local factors rather than the larger objective of securing power. Napolean.Ram is literally begging Congress to grab power at any expense.

While from the standpoint of political morality elections would be the ideal way of pulling the State out of the present morass,

That communist high moral ground. We know what these bloody hypocrites stand for. Naxal.Ram was there to broker a deal between Congress and JD(S). Talking of ethics, this communist has no inhibition in selling his daughter to secure a power deal. Does he not have the history of selling his mother to China.

... thwart the formation of the BJP-JD(S) government, however distasteful it may be to them.

Naxal.Ram is discussing his personal tastes.

Chindu feels the 'pressure'

The BJP is within kissing distance of coming to power in a Southern state for the first time. Understandably, Chindu is unnerved and is hoping for a slip between the cup and the lip.Its spin wizards are working overtime to discredit the BJP.

The Bharatiya Janata Party and the Janata Dal (Secular) on Monday paraded 129 legislators, including several independents, before Governor Rameshwar Thakur here to pressure him to permit the combine to form a government led by B.S. Yeddyurappa.

http://www.hindu.com/2007/10/30/stories/2007103057980100.htm

"Hate Modi" campaign continue on Chindu

489 Gujarat farmers have committed suicide since 2003

While conveniently ignoring the more-than-average performance of agricultural sector and the farmers in Gujarat, Chindu is selectively reporting on the negative aspects. 489 suicides since 2003 is definitely less than the 650 odd suicides in one year in Vidarbha region alone under the Congress government. Chindu wont tell you that.

Naxal Ram lashes out against Modi

After the minions have written elaborately about the devil that is Modi, Naxal Ram comes out weeping for the 5000 displaced muslims. No such articles for the lakhs of displaced Kashmiri Hindus.

The Hindu : Opinion / Editorials : Elections but new themes

About 5,000 internally displaced persons, victims of the anti-Muslim pogrom of 2002, live in dispersed camps. Notwithstanding the shift in the BJP’s electoral strategy, Muslims in Gujarat remain traumatised by the riots and their aftermath.

A vituperative outburst against Modi

Chindu is upset that Modi is bringing development and campaigning on his achievements rather than pandering to muslim interests. And so it is trying its best to distort truths.

The Hindu : Opinion / Leader Page Articles : The Muslim question in Gujarat

The violence inherent in the Godhra aftermath extinguished all debate, forcing the Congress, the principal opposition party, to conduct a low-key campaign that skirted the most obvious election issue: The sadism visited on Muslims.

Yet this normal election seems no less contemptuous of a community that forms over nine per cent of the State’s population. In 2002, the debate targeted Muslims. In 2007, the debate has bypassed Muslims. The community has been kept out of the discourse by an unspoken consensus that includes Mr. Modi, the Congress and the anti-Modi dissidents.

Yet the Chief Minister was to turn hostile on the question of Muslims. Asked where Muslims figured in his vision of Gujarat, he flared up: “I don’t like this thinking. I work for five-and-a-half crore Gujaratis. For me, anyone who lives here is a Gujarati, and I will not allow politics to come into this.”

Rising intolerance

That the normally big mouthed Liar-in-Chief does not practice what he preaches is well known. He glorifies education standards in Cuba but sends his daughter to America (Columbia University).Another incident that exposed him was his refusal to publish Jayalalithaa's scathing criticism of his coverage of the DMK bandh.She later came out with a press statement slamming CBCNN's bias and even that did not appear in today's edition. Jayalalithaa asked a few pointed and obviously uncomfortable questions like:

1. 
   When the Supreme Court made numerous oral observations against me, you reported them in great detail and never ever "clarified" that these oral observations do not have relevance in law. Why did you do it now?
2. There have been many instances of DMK men taking law in their own hands. You chose to play soft ball. Why now did you have to come up with a full page editorial to discredit the judiciary that took on the DMK govt?
3. 
   What is the logic behind comparing the BJP bandh (in the aftermath of the Hyderabad blasts) and a bandh forced on the people by the DMK that is at power both at the center and the state?Can a government in power willingly paralyse normal life?Why do you have to meekly surrender to the DMK?

Jayalalithaa may not be an angel. But these are extremely valid questions.

The Liar-in-Chief made a futile attempt to justify the DMK bandh by saying

Since then, numerous general strikes, hartals, and bandhs have taken place across the length and breadth of India, involving a plethora of political players and ssues, with nobody in a position to make the fine academic distinctions that the Kerala High Court and the Supreme Court formulated in their judgments

For example, in recent years the Bharatiya Janata Party and the saffron brigade have called for, conducted, and got away with several attempted bandhs. A case in point is the August 27, 2007 Hyderabad bandh protesting against the terror strike at Lumbini Park and Gokul Chat. And what about other forms of protest actions? Willthe Supreme Court rule on what kind of constitutional animal is a ‘rail roko,’ of the kind the BJP State unit staged in Hyderabad in September 2007 against the Sethusamudram project? Does it fall under the definition of a general strike or a hartal or a bandh? Is it constitutional?

So what is he saying? Two wrongs make a right?Had the BJP's bandh been declared unconstitutional, he would not have opposed the SC's views on the DMK bandh? Then the judge's observations would not have been "Constitutionally Off Track"?

What about the rail roko that the DMK ministers staged in the Palakkad Railway division issue(Jayalalithaa made a mention of this too). Why has he chosen to forget this and mention only the BJP's rail roko?

If the BJP got away with the bandh, it is a reflection of the ineptitude of its opponents. Does he want the AIADMK to be spinelss?

Coming to his 2 wrongs make a right reasoning , Ram bites the BJP's head off when it cites the Sikh riots in response to the Gujarat riots.Why is he doing the same now?

Ram lectures on the importance of "democracy","right to free speech", "respecting other views", "encouraging free debate" , "tolerance in a democratic society". If so,why did he not publish Jayalalithaa's criticism?

Any answers Mr Ram?

Allegations fly thick and fast against Modi

The "gutter inspector" saw only what she wanted to. ELM is looked down upon as worse than scum in Gujarat. It is a surprise if anyone even glanced at her, leave alone give an interview.

The Hindu : Opinion / News Analysis : The going may not be easy for Modi

Saurashtra was visibly hostile to the Chief Minister.

But there was also simmering anger against the BJP for the way it was
seen to have exploited tribal susceptibility. The tribal participation
in the anti-Muslim riots of 2002, the subject of much intellectual
agonising in Delhi and elsewhere, is recalled with shame in these
parts, and the emotion bursts forth like a torrent: “He [Modi] used us
against Muslims during the riots, and then sent us to jail for it.”

Unsurprisingly, Mr. Modi treated the rebels with contempt.

In the case of Leuva Patels, this was compounded by a kinship feeling
towards Mr. Keshubhai Patel, “next only to Sardar Patel” in stature but
“humiliated” by a BJP leadership more keen on Mr. Modi.

An interesting feature of the Leuva Patel bitterness was that it was directed only against Mr. Modi.

The Koli resentment against Mr. Modi is of more recent origin and can
be traced to a double incident of rape and murder that shook the
community in mid-May. The two Koli girls had gone to a shrine in
Junagadh where one of them was raped and the other killed. Today with
the criminals still at large, the inconsolable Kolis are disillusioned
with Mr. Modi and the BJP — a party they have largely been voting in
the past 15 years.


Some of the anger was visible at the Tarnetar mela which came to a
close with the visit of the Chief Minister. Mr. Modi waved to the
crowds which refused to return the gesture, remaining sullen for all of
the time he was there.

At a recent function in Bhuj in the Kutch region, he called Mr. Modi a “dictator” comparable to “Adolf Hitler”

As I returned to Ahmedabad, the negatives seemed to outweigh the
positives for Mr. Modi in an election which the Gujarati intellectual
class — barring a minuscule section — said the Chief Minister could
find tough but which he would win anyway.

Maoist strike reported with authenticity

Barring the one mention of "reportedly" in the last para, the entire article sounds very factual and based on authentic sources. Contrast this with the "alleged", "reported", "anonymous sources" used so freely while reporting BJP statements.

The Hindu : Front Page : CPI (Maoist) to hit back at police

Concerned over the loss of some of its top leaders and cadre either
in encounters or through surrenders, the banned CPI (Maoist) is
reportedly making major efforts to strike back at the police and
thereby instil confidence in its cadre, militia members and sections of
people supporting the party.

One major issue the party is concentrating on is to hit back at the
police and the Government. It killed Zilla Praja Parishad
vice-president Samida Ravishankar in May. And in the distant Nellore
district, they made an attempt on the life of former Chief Minister and
Visakhapatnam MP N. Janardhana Reddy and his Minister-wife
Rajyalakshmi. Both incidents are related to the naxalite party’s strong
opposition to bauxite mining in the Visakha agency area and setting up
of alumina refineries in Visakhapatnam and Vizianagaram districts.

The CPI (Maoist) is determined to retain its hold over the Visakha
agency area as it had lost a strong ground in the Nallamala region.
Even as the State police was increasing its pressure on the agency area
and recently killed four naxalites in an encounter in G. Madugula
mandal, the Maoist party is making all efforts to strengthen its hold.
It is also reported that cadre from Orissa and Chattisgarh are being
brought to this area.

As part of its plans to strike at the police, the Andhra Orissa
Border State Zonal Committee’s military commission head Chalapathi,
considered as one of the top strategists of the party, organised a
meeting on the banks of Sileru river in Malkangiri district of Orissa.

Strategy

About 30 persons of different cadre of the CPI (Maoist) from Andhra
and Orissa areas had reportedly attended the meeting held from
September 29 to October 1. Discussions were reportedly on strategy to
carry out ‘lightning strikes’ against the police.

Naxal Ram calling for JD(S) to part ways

Whereas at the center, Naxal Ram asked Congress to fall in line with Left's demands, here he is asking JD(S) to part ways with BJP. How is N.Ram different from the opportunistic politicans?

The Hindu : Opinion / Editorials : An unavoidable divorce

After serving his half term as Chief Minister, H.D. Kumaraswamy evidently sees no incentive to continue this unhappy marriage.

Deploy the eminent historians

Chindu calls in the big guns called the "eminent historians" to denounce the Hindu faith. Let us pose the same question to the muslims. Is Islamic faith so fragile that it requires the support of a Babri structure? Or for that matter, if faith is beyond structures, is Romila Thapar advocating that Mecca and Madina may be demolished because it will not have any impact on Islam?


The Hindu : Opinion / Leader Page Articles : Where fusion cannot work — faith and history

To say that the partial removal of an underwater formation in the Palk Straits is going to hurt the faith of millions is not giving faith its due. Is faith so fragile that it requires the support of an underwater geological formation believed to have been constructed by a deity?

Naxal Ram lashes against BJP

The Hindu : Opinion / Editorials : Destructive path

The party[BJP] nevertheless pressed on — rallying and thundering over the Sethusamudram project, passing the usual resolutions on terrorism, minority appeasement, and what not.

... "and what not". What a dismissive tone Naxal Ram has adopted.

On the one hand, the UPA was engaged in a self-destructive war with the Left parties on the civil nuclear cooperation and deepening strategic relations with the United States.

Going against Left is self-destructive. What pontification.

For the BJP to go on the offensive over a decision that can be traced to its own government is a patent absurdity that voters will see through.

What a parody. Such observations are reserved only for BJP, while the Leftist hypocrisy is conveniently swept under the floor.

Worse, party leaders have allowed the most fanatical fringe elements such as the blood-thirsty, fatwa-issuing Ram Vilas Vedanti, a former BJP MP, to set the terms and the pace of their ‘Ram Sethu’ campaign.

No fringe element is representative. Vedanti was an exception, clearly. But Chindu is using a drastic generalization. What justice.


Naxal Ram is the one who is the most fanatical communist element, who is thirsty for Hindu blood.

Attacks by DMK "alleged"

DMK attack on BJP is still an allegation.

The Hindu : National : Rajnath terms attack “political fascism”

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh on Sunday described the attack allegedly by Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam workers on the BJP office in Chennai as “political fascism” and said the DMK should stop this.

Chindu understates DMK's outrageous and pre-planned attack

Chindu is projecting the image that the injuries to BJP workers was purely "accidental". It is going to the extent of suggesting the BJP cadre hit themselves.

The Hindu : Front Page : BJP office in Chennai attacked

Miscreants threw stones at the office building, damaging windowpanes.

...his party conducted the stir in a “peaceful manner.”

Mr. Dorairaj said: “A few persons pelted stones. They were instigated
by the BJP members who came out of the office and said something.” The
police officer said he would not call the incident an “attack.”

Chindu instigating a duel in BJP

Leading the pack in the media is Chindu.

The Hindu : Front Page : No differences in party on nuclear agreement: BJP

“There is no contradiction between the August 4 statement and Mr. Advani’s Hyderabad statement. It is unfair to try and pit me against Mr. Advani as a section of the media is now doing.”

N.Ram latches onto Khatara

After the CD episode, N.Ram inundates its readers with Khatara.



The Hindu : Opinion / Editorials : Katara's human cargo

the behaviour of the BJP legislator from Gujarat who is associated with the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, is a disgrace to Parliament.

RSS and the Hindu community at large have been surprisingly omitted by N.Ram from the list.



Here are a few articles on the same issue:



The Hindu : Front Page : Katara case handed over to Crime Branch

The Hindu : National : Babubhai Katara also faces poll-related case

The Hindu : National : Disgraceful episode: CPI (M)

The Hindu : Opinion / Editorials : Katara's human cargo
Comprehensive coverage according to the policies of convenience. On the contrary, Nandigram pogrom will be projected as a failure by Trinamool and BJP to attend CPM's all-party meetings.