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The need of the hour is a Muslim leader, one who can play the role of a catalyst for the community and give it the right direction. The masses have lost faith in the political ability of the clergy, they have lost faith in Mulayam Singh Yadav and they have lost faith in the minority cell of the BJP, they expect nothing from the BSP and they are confused. To take advantage of this confusion several parties are playing political games.
Amar Singh has decided to leave the Samajwadi Party and party watchers will heave a sigh of relief. Current state of affairs being what it is in the Samajwadi Party the old guard wanted to see Amar go as they felt sidelined in his presence. They felt that he was solely responsible for the party losing its base among the masses with his highbrow wheeling and dealing.
Among those he had antagonised were Beni Prasad Verma who joined the Congress, and Azam Khan who did not join anything but the manner in which he revolted shocked the entire state and sent the Muslim voter to the BSP ranks. There are several other leaders waiting in the wings for Amar’s exit and an end to family politics in the SP. The sole factor for driving away the leaders from the party was Mulayam’s promotion of Akhilesh Yadav, Dimple Yadav and first and foremost Amar Singh a wheeler dealer with no grassroots base in a party known for its streetfighting capabilities.
The streetfighters have won, today the party is on the comeback trail and will attract the old heavyweights who were vote catchers. All this should be in place by 2012 as the Congress, the BJP which is also on a clean up mode, and the SP meet to battle it out for the lead in Uttar Pradesh.
With this equation a lot depends on how the Muslim masses vote in UP. In case they vote en masse for the Congress, the party will form the next government and UP will see a sudden surge in development and poverty alleviation schemes. In case the BJP comes to power the state will witness communalisation and polarisation among the two communities in UP and frivolous issues hogging the limelight and in case the SP comes to power then Garibi Hatao will once again mean that the netas will get rid of their Garibi (poverty) and purchase fortuners for themselves from funds siphoned off from development schemes.
The need of the hour is therefore a catalyst, a Muslim leader who can call the shots with the masses and counter the heavyweights with his personality. The masses have lost faith in Maulanas, they will not follow the Jawwads and the Bukharis now, they want a grassroots leader who can touch upon the issues that concern them most and is able do deal with the onslaught of the modern complex world too. Is there such a person?
The first person to raise this issue was Nehaluddin Ahmad the president of the All India Muslim Forum in 1993 and when Mayawati was CM she agreed to give Bacjward Muslims reservation, however soon things took a turn for the worse and Nehaluddin was arrested and jailed by Mayawati. Today the Misra Commission has raised the same issue.
You may well ask why I say this? What event has led to this situation, Let us therefore take a look at the Ranganath Mishra Report.
Today the Ranganath Mishra Commission report, tabled in the winter session of parliament, recommends 15 percent reservation for all minorities in government jobs, education and welfare schemes, of which 10 percent quota is for Muslims - the largest minority in the country. It was denial of reservations for Muslims which led to the creation of a Pakistan, today, if this is implemented in India, there are several lobbies both in India and Pakistan who have been silently working for the last few decades for the reunification of the two countries. Pakistan is a beleaguered and failed state and India cannot afford to have an enemy in Pakistan any longer, the choice before the two nations is simple, they have to reunite their house to survive the greater dangers that lie ahead.
To give Muslims political protection Jinnah had demanded the inclusion of 14 points in the future Indian constitution that included 33 per cent reservation for Muslims in the legislature and also in the ministries and simultaneously there were other issues denied this he felt that his last effort to unite the two communities went futile. He then raised the issue of a separate state.
It would be worth examining as to what the founding fathers say about reservations. Interestingly, both Sardar Patel and C. Rajgopalachari did vehemently support the charter of providing political safeguards to the minorities according to articles 292 and 294 of the 1949 draft constitution.
Today the Muslims are not the only minority that need reservation, there are Kashmiri Pundits, there are several castes and creeds, all these need to be addressed, There is also the creamy layer, they must be denied reservation at all costs. A government officials son must not be given the benefit of reservation for a government job as he is now part of the creamy layer, there are several things wrong with our present system of reservation and job quotas and we need to sort this out and in the process if we can end sixty years of enmity hatred and strife and recreate India United then why not.
Will Lohia’s dream of an Akhand Bharat ever come true? Maybe it can, for both the sentiment and the fundamentals can today be created for the reunification of India and Pakistan. The first step to an Akhand Bharat and the frst step to recreating a power that won two world wars for the British Empire.
But if we make any attempt to do so we shall the opposition to such a move, the reunification of India coming from surprisingly the only party that claims to be the champion of India that is Bharat, the Bharatiya Janata Party. You may well ask why I say this? What event has led to this situation, Let us therefore take a look at the Ranganath Mishra Report.
Today the Ranganath Mishra Commission report, tabled in the winter session of parliament, recommends 15 percent reservation for all minorities in government jobs, education and welfare schemes, of which 10 percent quota is for Muslims - the largest minority in the country. It was denial of reservations for Muslims which led to the creation of a Pakistan, today, if this is implemented in India, there are several lobbies both in India and Pakistan who have been silently working for the last few decades for the reunification of the two countries. Pakistan is a beleaguered and failed state and India cannot afford to have an enemy in Pakistan any longer, the choice before the two nations is simple, they have to reunite their house to survive the greater dangers that lie ahead.
To give Muslims political protection Jinnah had demanded the inclusion of 14 points in the future Indian constitution that included 33 per cent reservation for Muslims in the legislature and also in the ministries and simultaneously there were other issues denied this he felt that his last effort to unite the two communities went futile. He then raised the issue of a separate state.
It would be worth examining as to what the founding fathers say about reservations. Interestingly, both Sardar Patel and C. Rajgopalachari did vehemently support the charter of providing political safeguards to the minorities according to articles 292 and 294 of the 1949 draft constitution.
Today the Muslims are not the only minority that need reservation, there are Kashmiri Pundits, there are several castes and creeds, all these need to be addressed, There is also the creamy layer, they must be denied reservation at all costs. A government officials son must not be given the benefit of reservation for a government job as he is now part of the creamy layer, there are several things wrong with our present system of reservation and job quotas and we need to sort this out and in the process if we can end sixty years of enmity hatred and strife and recreate India United the why not. But the biggest enemy is the BJP today who has already launched a Muslim vilification campaign in the nation particularly Uttar Pradesh under the aegis of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad and welcomed by none other than the Lucknow Mayor Dr Dinesh Sharma.
It is pity, that Lucknow a city of Ganga Jamni Tehzeeb has such a Mayor. Lucknow was the only island of sanity in 1992, as no riot took place here even though the entire nation was in grip of insanity. It is a pity indeed that Lucknow has such a mayor.
The Tata Motors group has decided to go green and boy is the green lobby green with envy. Ratan Tata has decided to take his Tata Nano and turn it into a battery car. Not only will this make the Nano eligible for several sops and concessions but it will make it the perfect common man’s car.
The Tata group has been haunted by another dilemma. Whenever they launch a peoples car it becomes a taxi and the Nano is poised to do just this today. Its conversion to battery will make it an ideal replacement for CNG autos plying in Delhi and such cities. This will be a boon for Taxi owners who are being plagued with CNG shortages in towns like Lucknow where the queues for CNG are getting longer each day
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In 2012 the Mayan Calendar ends, but does that mean the world will end too? While the world will or will not end in 2012 there are sufficient indications to show that the world can end one day whether we like it or not unless we change the way we live and the way our economy runs. The engine of our economic growth is based on rabid exploitation of natural resources, transforming the environment from lush green fields and woods to roads and automobiles, from natural habitat to caves of concrete and here lies the key to the worlds eventual death.
It was Arthur C Clarke the famous Sci-Fi writer and later Isaac Asimov who wrote that the earth would die one day. The question is how will the world end in 2012
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Sabotaging Rahul Gandhi in 2012 is now the joint agenda of two communal parties in Uttar Pradesh the largest state in India. The two parties are jointly playing a game to divide the hindus and Muslims in the state and grab as many votes as possible in 2012 when the elections are due. This they feel will and could possibly put a spanner in Rahul Gandhis agenda in forming the next government in Uttar Pradesh and restoring popular and proper governance in the state ruled by the Mafia and Lumper elements.
The two main planks on which the BJP and the Samajwadi Party plan their game are Kalyan Singh and Abu Azmi. Kalyan is known as the demolisher of the Babri Mosque and Abu as the defender of hindi in Maratha Land. In short while Kalyan will be the hard face of Hindu extremism, and will be used to woo upper caste unemployed youth to the BJP fold by anti-muslim statements and acts, Abu Azmi will play the role of the pied piper for the Muslim Masses bringing them to the Samjwadi party fold.
Abu Azmis political antics are a disappointment. While what the Thackeray group has done has to be condemned what the Samajwadi Party is trying to do make political hay out f the incident is also not laudable. Any MLA is free to take the oath in any of the 22 languages recognized in our Constitution, what Azmi si trying to do is woo back the lost north Indian Muslim to the party fold (read UP Muslim). Mulayam may try to use the Abu Azmi incident to win back the Muslims of North India (read UP) and endanger mission 2012 of the Congress Party, for without Muslim support and that too en bloc Muslim support the party cannot hope to form a government in UP. Now the the elections in Ferozabad are over MSY’s political equations are bound to change and he is indeed a master of change. The biggest challenge before the Congress and the SP is to win the Muslim masses and keep them with the party, the success and failure of the Congress and the survival of the SP depends on this. While the Congress could adopt a straight and overt technique of wooing the small Muslim Tanzeems to get rid of those who play the despoiler the tricks the SP leader and Amar Singh adopt will be very different
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Sabotaging Rahul Gandhi in 2012 is now the joint agenda of two communal parties in Uttar Pradesh the largest state in India. The two parties are jointly playing a game to divide the hindus and Muslims in the state and grab as many votes as possible in 2012 when the elections are due. This they feel will and could possibly put a spanner in Rahul Gandhis agenda in forming the next government in Uttar Pradesh and restoring popular and proper governance in the state ruled by the Mafia and Lumper elements.
The two main planks on which the BJP and the Samajwadi Party plan their game are Kalyan Singh and Abu Azmi. Kalyan is known as the demolisher of the Babri Mosque and Abu as the defender of hindi in Maratha Land. In short while Kalyan will be the hard face of Hindu extremism, and will be used to woo upper caste unemployed youth to the BJP fold by anti-muslim statements and acts, Abu Azmi will play the role of the pied piper for the Muslim Masses bringing them to the Samjwadi party fold.
Abu Azmis political antics are a disappointment. While what the Thackeray group has done has to be condemned what the Samajwadi Party is trying to do make political hay out f the incident is also not laudable. Any MLA is free to take the oath in any of the 22 languages recognized in our Constitution, what Azmi si trying to do is woo back the lost north Indian Muslim to the party fold (read UP Muslim). Mulayam may try to use the Abu Azmi incident to win back the Muslims of North India (read UP) and endanger mission 2012 of the Congress Party, for without Muslim support and that too en bloc Muslim support the party cannot hope to form a government in UP. Now the the elections in Ferozabad are over MSY’s political equations are bound to change and he is indeed a master of change. The biggest challenge before the Congress and the SP is to win the Muslim masses and keep them with the party, the success and failure of the Congress and the survival of the SP depends on this. While the Congress could adopt a straight and overt technique of wooing the small Muslim Tanzeems to get rid of those who play the despoiler the tricks the SP leader and Amar Singh adopt will be very different
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Muslim leader Mullayam Singh Yadav former Chief Minister of the largest state in India Uttar Pradesh has dumped Muslims to promote his daughter in law in politics. He has in mind a strategy that may endagere Rahul Gandhi's mission 2012 in UP too, that of dumping his friend and ally Kalyan SIngh and then wooing back the Muslim masses, after all the next elections are 3 years away and the masses have a short memory.
To help his daughter in law Dimple Yadav win in Ferozabad Mulayam Singh disappointed millions of Muslims in the state and trampled upon their sentiment by keeping Kalyan Singh in the party. The Ferozabad seat from where Dimple Yadav is contesting is unique as it has a very large majority of Yadav and Lodh votes and the two make a deadly combination against which no party can win if one party combines the two. Mulayam has been a master of exploiting sentiment and seeking refuge in political mathematical solutions.
In one statement Amar Singh may have won over the Lodh masses by comparing Kalyan Singh to a holy prophet, an act which sacrificed Bhukkal Nawab in Lucknow in seconds but which endeared Dimple to the masses in Ferozabad and was a last ditch desperate measure by MSY to retain the Ferozabad seat
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Have Indians become a nation of cowards. Lets us celebrate this Diwali the homecoming of Lord Rama and hang our heads in shame for indeed we have – despite such heroes in our history – become a nation of complacent cowards. I say this that we could easily top the list for cowardliness in all our behaviour.
Let us take a count of the reasons why I say we have become a nation of cowards. (see Talkindia.org).
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