Jyoti Basu for industrialisation

The never ending charade of the CPM hypocrisy.



The Hindu : National : Basu: we will overcome Nandigram problems

...the industrial drive in West Bengal will go ahead with the support of people, according to veteran Marxist leader Jyoti Basu.

What did Jyoti Basu do towards the industrialisation of West Bengal? Let the statistics speak. The state's share of total industrial output in India was 9.8% in 1980–81, declining to 5% by 1997–98.

Govt. brings TN to standstill

The Chindu twists and turns to avoid telling us the reasons for the Government holiday, or is it a bandh. No moral outrage at the DMK's misuse of government machinery for political purposes.



The Hindu : Front Page : Government declares public holiday

Karat leads the fight against Justice

The Hindu : Front Page : Political parties must meet this challenge squarely, says CPI (M)

Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary Prakash Karat on Friday said...

You won't miss it on The Chindu.

...adding that the West Bengal Chief Minister was the first to demand a sub-plan for minorities.

More of CPM propaganda.

The "united" Left front

The Chindu continues to "harp" on the "united" Left front idea. Meanwhile, the Left vouches for industrialisation in WB, while simultaneously opposing it in rest of India.



The Hindu : National : We are not a front within front: Bardhan

After criticizing the approach of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in handling the Nandigram issue, the CPI now says it and two other constituents, the Revolutionary Socialist Party and the All-India Forward Bloc, are not functioning separately as a joint front within the Left Front .



On industrialisation, Mr. Bardhan ruled out "going slow." While some steps might have misfired, the goal of industrialising West Bengal had to be pursued.

Brinda unravels the Nandigram mystery

Finally, we have the Karat herself, obliging to present the CPM party's views on the developments of Nandigram. And what else do you expect apart from the Marxist propaganda - The Chindu.



The Hindu : Opinion / Leader Page Articles : Behind the events at Nandigram

Congress bans FTV

But there is no moral outrage among the 'liberals' of The Chindu.



The Hindu : National : FTV banned

Opposition more important than Modi's development schemes

Rather than focussing on Modi's schemes and the benefits, The Chindu prefers to repeat the "allegations" of Opposition.



The Hindu : National : Rs. 13,000-crore package in Gujarat

The Opposition, however, organised a "parallel mock session" outside the Assembly premises to "expose" the Speaker's alleged partisan role.

When the BJP raised the same objection against Speaker Somnath Chatterjee, The Chindu said it was undermining the Speaker's office.

U.S. denies visa to Geelani

Never mind. He will be hailed as a 'secular' leader by The Chindu.



The Hindu : Front Page : U.S. denies visa to Geelani

Mr. Geelani had "consistently failed to renounce violence as means of achieving his political goal in Kashmir."

CPM charade continues

There is no end to this communist charade. It is funny, the CPM is telling SFI and DYFI that they do not want to spill blood.

The Hindu : Front Page : We have learnt lessons from Nandigram, says Buddhadeb

Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee said at a congregation of students and youth organised by the Student Federation of India and the Democratic Youth Federation of India here on Wednesday. "Under no circumstances do we want blood to spill over our industrialisation drive.

"But I also appeal to those opposed to us not to attack Left supporters. They too are human beings," he said.

Btw, I didn't know that Left supporters are also human beings.

"We have to move towards greater industrialisation for purposes of generating job opportunities."

And this is after opposing industrialisation for 30 years.

Ganashakti, the Bengali daily of Chindu in WB

The Hindu : National : LF partners welcome Basu's comment

"My appeal to the Left Front constituents is do not set up a front within the Front," Mr. Basu said in an interview to the Bengali daily and official mouthpiece of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in West Bengal, Ganashakti.

Welcoming Mr. Basu's comment, AIFB general secretary Debabrata Biswas told The Hindu : "There is no room for the question of a front within the Front."

Correction: Debabrata Biswas told the English daily and official mouthpiece of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in India,The Hindu, :

Chindu upset with Congress' loss in Raigad

The Congress got a drubbing from PWP and Shiv Sena in Zilla Parishad Polls in Maharashtra. But The Chindu is delighted that Congress won one seat more than it did last time. Thankfully, the headline does not say, "Congress gets 20% more seats in Raigad". Pro-People policies paid dividends to PWP, Sena. But The Chindu does not want to acknowledge that.



The Hindu : Front Page : Opposition to SEZ pays dividends for PWP, Sena in Raigad

Congress wins 6 seats compared to 5 last time

Medha Patkar's agitation against CPM

I wonder how long before The Chindu calls her a terrorist.



The Hindu : Front Page : Anti-SEZ stir will be intensified: Medha

Khare's wizardry

Khare is back with his histrionics. I have never seen him ask tough questions, especially of Congress, which he grudgingly acknowledges is beyond its expiry date. Here he comes out with the Khareish brilliance to suggest that India won the world up in 1983 because of Indira Gandi.



The Hindu : Opinion / Leader Page Articles : Beyond the humiliation at the World Cup

in 1996, the hawala scandal had eaten into whatever little was left of Narasimha Rao's prime ministerial efficacy; in 1999, we had a caretaker government in New Delhi, trying to cover up its Kargil failures; and, in 2003, the national mood had been fractured by the L.K. Advani camp's cold war on Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

Khare is creating data to suit his theory. I don't know which nation he is referring to when he is talking of national mood.

...our mass-hysteria discourse has come to believe that the terrorist challenge will be decisively defeated only if we hang Afzal Guru.

Here, he is clearly putting words into someone's mouth, once again to suit the theory he wishes to propose. No person with a sane mind would use "only" here. Khare knows this too. But he deliberately is falsifying the opposition.

Mamta campaign against Nandigram genocide

Mamta is asking all the right questions. She is doing well to expose the genocide unleashed by the CPM cadre. The Chindu is obviously worried. This is the reason behind it calling Mamta a terrorist.



The Hindu : National : Nandigram: probe by executive begins

"We have no faith in such an executive inquiry. In the name of an inquiry the State Government is trying to absolve itself of its responsibilities [for the police firing]," Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee said after meeting Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi.

"I had sought a meeting with the Governor and I told him that the genocide was committed by cadres of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). Even now, many bodies of women and children killed in the firing are yet to be recovered," she alleged.

Helpless Chindu cribs

This is highly commendable, isn't it - a leader stressing on development rather than taking a dig at political opponents. Instead of showering praise on Modi, The Chindu indulges in partisan politics. The central government is trying to replicate -- like "Chiranjeevi" -- several schemes of Modi in other states. Modi's another innovative programme, Vidyalakshmi, which provides a Rs 1,000 bond to every girl child who enrols in the first grade in villages with a low female literacy rate, has attracted countrywide attention. Modi is rightfully stressing on his development feats. But The Chindu calls it "harping" - in a derogatory sense. It also complains that he isn't mentioning about the Central Government schemes.



The Hindu : National : Modi harps on development feats

Except for oblique references to the "failures" of the previous Congress governments to take the State on the path of progress, Mr. Modi avoided direct attack on his political opponents in the State or the Congress-led UPA Government at the Centre. Even in Godhra, the scene of the train carnage that sparked off the brutal riots in 2002, he made no reference to the communal passions and his 40-minute address was totally dedicated to his Government's schemes for women's empowerment.



...he avoided reference to Central Government schemes for the poor and backward classes.

Deliberate falsifications

This report gives the impression that NDF and RSS worked together to jointly attack the police station. But in the end, when the report says CPM and IUML are trying to resolve the conflict between the parties I realised that there was some clashes between the two groups. Funny, only a few days ago, CPM and IUML were fighting against each other.

The Hindu : Front Page : Strong action against NDF, RSS: Kodiyeri

Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan said here on Sunday that the recent attack on the Kottakkal police station by National Development Front (NDF) activists was the only such incident after the 1972 naxalite attacks. The Government has, therefore, viewed it with utmost seriousness, he said. Mr. Balakrishnan congratulated the police officers who foiled the attack and said they would be duly rewarded. Had the attack not been thwarted, it would have been a humiliation for the police, he said. He said 22 people were arrested in connection with 11 attack cases in the district. Action would be initiated against more people who aided the attackers, he said. A special squad of the police led by the Crime Detachment Deputy Superintendent of Police would investigate the killing of Lakshmanan at Othukkungal and the attack on Hameed at Parappanangadi, he said. The police had already arrested some Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) workers in connection with the attack on Hameed. The Home Minister said the financial sources of the communal forces, including the NDF and the RSS, would be investigated. Mr. Balakrishnan said strong action would be initiated against those giving armed training for communal attacks in the district. All organisations engaged in physical training would be under surveillance, he said. He said leaders of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Indian Union Muslim League had initiated dialogues to end political clashes between the two parties along the coastal region. A meeting of local political leaders held under his chairmanship on Sunday decided to work together, if needed, to restore peace in the region.

Having read The Chindu long enough, I know that I need to read other newspapers to get the true picture. Here are a couple of links which tell me what happened.

http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=World_News&subsection=India&month=March2007&file=World_News20070323104759.xml

Tension prevailed in the coastal areas of Malappuram following the Wednesday midnight attack on the police station at Kottakkal by some 35 NDF activists after the police took into preventive custody NDF State chairman Abdul Rahman Baqvi and former chairman A Sayeed.

The coastal Tirur and Tanur in the district have been witnessing frequent clashes involving the NDF and RSS ever since the killing of Ravi, an RSS worker and third accused in the murder of Yasir Vakkom, on January 20. In retaliation, one Mohammed Ali has been killed.

http://www.keralaonline.com/news/news.php?news=1975

More than 25 National Development Front(NDF) activists were arrested on Thursday morning in connection with the attack on the Kottakkal police station.

More than 300 NDF activists, who gathered in front of the police station here around at 2 a.m. on Thursday, demanding the release of their leader A.Sayeed, later pelted stones at the building and damaged vehicles parked in the compound, police said.

NDF Chairman Abdurahman Bakhafi, A. Sayeed and some RSS leaders were taken into preventive custody by the police in the district following an attack on Abdul Hameed, an NDF activist as well as a journalist.

So, it turns out that there are clashes between the muslim fundamentalist NDF and the RSS. But the attack on the police station was completely an act of the Islamic radicals of NDF. Some RSS activists have been arrested as a preventive measure. But The Chindu has given a wonderful twist to the events relying of half-facts and deliberately twisting it to suit its political agenda. It has deliberately underplayed the equally potent clashes between CPI(M) and IUML in the past. Now it is trying to project them as peace-seekers.

Leftist NGOs want more money for riot victims

The package had nothing to offer to the 59 Hindus burnt alive in Godhra. But the leftist organizations are not concerned about them. They want more money to be granted to the 5000 displaced muslims. And Teesta Setalvad, funded by the Saudi Fundamentalists, always has something to say in support of the Muslims. Money speaks.



The Hindu : National : Package for riot victims hailed

In a statement, the Aantarik Visthapit Hak Rakshak Samiti urged the Centre to expand the scope of the Rs.106.57-crore package "to bring into its framework the rights to relief, rehabilitation and reparation for the thousands who still remain internally displaced due to the violence in 2002 and who have really been in the forefront of this latest chapter in the struggle for recognition."



Teesta Setalvad of the Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) described the package as ...

CBCNN excited about China's participation in SAARC

Obviously, it is China's participation that is getting CBCNN all excited.



The Hindu : Front Page : China sending Li as observer

Apart from China, Japan, the United States, the European Union and South Korea have been accorded observer status in SAARC.

Kiss the Dy-nasty

This sounds more like "Hail Dynasty" propaganda.



The Hindu : Front Page : Sonia distributes aid to differently-abled

CPM vis-a-vis 'reactionary forces'

CPM, which always said it represented the 'reactionary forces' against the Government's development efforts, is now singing a different tune when it is in the government. For 30 years, CPM fostered the 'reactionary forces' to drive away all industries from West Bengal. Now the monster of its own creation is coming back to extract its share of blood. Suddenly, the CPM is caught fighting the 'reactionary forces'. It will be interesting to see if CPM is willing to fight against 'reactionary forces' in the rest of India. Knowing the history of CPM, it will never be shy to espouse double standards. What is true for Bengal is not applicable to rest of India.



The Hindu : Front Page : Left Front will have to resist reactionary campaign: Biman Bose

Biman Bose, Secretary of the State Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), warned here on Saturday against "moves by reactionary forces to disrupt the drive towards development being undertaken by the State Government."