Secularism (or pseudo-secularism?) has done immeasurable harm to
Hinduism. The selfish Hindu leadership, both religious & political, is
always eager to compromise the interest of Hindus for transient gains, in the
name of secularism, without realizing the harm caused to the religion in the
long run. Is this secularism not applicable to Muslims? Never does a Muslim
ever talk of respect to the other faiths. The Muslim invaders exercised every
atrocity to finish the Hindu race. They believed in dar-ul-Islam (converting
the whole human race into Islamism). The only language they know is jehad and for them jehad denotes
just killing qafirs i.e. everyone who does not follow
Islam. The objective of dar-ul-Islam is very much alive even today. The whole world today is under the
perpetual threat of Muslim fundamentalism. It is only and only the leaders
belonging to Hindu race who are the thekedars
of secularism at the cost of
their own faith. If there were Jai Chands in medieval times, there are Laloos,
Paswans, Mulayams, Arjuns and Advanis in this era, who, for their momentary
selfish motives, are selling the interests of the Hindus in the name of secularism without realizing the
irreparable loss being caused by them to their community. Gandhi’s secularism
always aimed at destruction of Hindus at the hands of Muslims. Paswan’s secularism
advocates a Muslim Chief-Minister in Bihar. Arjun’s secularism believes
in distorting our history. Numerous such pseudo secularists have always been
active to destroy the Hindus. Mulayam’s secularism impels him declare holiday
in U.P. on last Friday of Ramjan.
Mulayam, Pasvan and even Nitish Kumar throwing Iftaar parties to Muslims and wearing muslim caps on their heads
shamelessly is the burning example of pseudo secularism.The irony is that their
secularism erupts only when the interests of the non-Hindus are
involved. Thousands of Hindus being murdered in Mopla and Naokhali riots before
partition, lakhs of Hindus being butchered and crores suffering displacement
during partition in 1947 did not make a dint on any of these secularists. Thousands of Hindus being
slain in Punjab and Jammu & Kashmir and lakhs being rendered refugees in
their own motherland did not shake the soul of the secularists. Conversion of Bangladesh from a secularist to an
Islamic nation in 1979 did not perturb these secularists nor did the planned elimination of Hindus in Bangladesh
and Pakistan caused qualms of conscience to them. The kar-sewaks burnt alive in
Godhra doesn’t make any difference to these secularists, but its
reaction in the form of Gujarat riots is termed as a “blot” on humanity and the heads of Bajpais and Advanis are
“lowered in shame”. Muslim invaders looted & demolished thousands of
temples and erected mosques over them, but redeeming Ram Temple from underneath
Babri mosque is the “blackest day” in the life of secularist Advani.
Time and again Commissions have been constituted to convict, by hook or crook,
the accused of the 1984 Delhi riots and 2002 Gujarat riots even after their
acquittal by the courts of law. On the other hand, terrorists like Wassan Singh
Zaffarwal and Jagjit Singh Chouhan deserving severe punishment have gone
scot-free for want of proof and it did not impel any secularist to deplore such acquittal and seek re-trial. Mushrooming
madrasas in the country indulging in
anti-India activities does not worry these secularists
but they have the audacity to term the activities of RSS and VHP as
anti-nation. For them, religion-based reservation for the Muslims in AMU is not
an anti-national act, but the alleged discrimination in relief-distribution to
the quake-hit in Bhuj surely perturbs these secularists.
5% reservation for Muslims in A.P. awaiting emulation by Bihar and many other State Governments is another burning
example of their secularism. Pampering the Muslims at the cost of the
Hindus is an unpardonable sin, which cannot be forgiven by any rational and
nationalist Indian. It is nothing but a political gimmickry for appeasement of
Muslims to garner their votes, which has rendered the Hindus orphans in their
own land. The coming generations of ours are being recklessly thrown to a
disadvantageous position. The virtual slavery is inevitable for us.In a nutshell, I do not want them to return to India. The India of today is not
the India that you left. Much has changed – and much of the change negatively
affects families like ours.
The casteism, too, has proved a bane for
the Hindus. The exploitation of the lower castes at the hands of the privileged
ones fomented hatred amongst the denizens of the country and weakened the Hindu
race. Further, the Hindus being divided on caste lines in the past, the responsibility
to fight and protect the country from foreign invaders was solely put on the
Kshatriyas. This gave the others an excuse to shy away from the duty to
sacrifice for the country. Whenever there was any attack, it was the Kshatriyas
who were to face the brunt. Many a time their short number or non-availability
of fighter-Kshatriyas lead to their defeat in wars.
There is a change in the balance of
power in society. People do not understand what people like me, member of
parliament, do – and no longer acknowledge that all of us, thanks to the great
sacrifices we make for our constituency, do not live like normal people.
Liberalism, too, has played a destructive role in Hindu religion. The
pictures and names of Hindu Gods & Goddesses are freely used as mean
trademarks and trade names. Ganesh Bidi,
Ganesh Chhaap Khaini, Durga Lottery etc. by the Hindus themselves certainly lowers the respect for Hindu
Gods in the mind of others. Taking a cue, the foreign companies dare to print
the pictures of Hindu Gods and Goddesses on such mean things as undergarments,
shoes and commodes. Would they dare to do the same with the deities of other
faiths? Making
films on Hindu Gods & Goddesses causes irreparable harm to the faith. Human
beings personifying Hindu Gods & Goddesses, picturization of vulgar
scenes/songs in temples, showing Hindu Gods & Goddesses smoking in ad films
only lowers their respect in the eyes of people.
TV serials like Ramayana, Maha Bharata, Jai Hanuman, Sri Krishna etc., where human
beings play the divine role for
money, encourage commercialisation of the Hindu ecclesiastical domain. Even in
Jagrans, the bhaints are based on film tunes that
certainly spoils the sanctity. The pictures of Hindu Gods & Goddesses on
calendars, in newspapers and magazines being trampled under feet in streets
definitely lower the respect in the mind of others. On the contrary, ban on
assuming the role of Sikh Gurus or Muslim Prophet maintains reverence. Inviting
censure of Sikhs by films like “Sava Lakh Se Ek Ladaoon”, and “Jo Bole So
Nihal” are live examples of the concern of the Sikh community for their gurus,
which regretfully is missing in the attitude of the Hindus.The beggars wearing
masks of Hindu Gods and posing as Gods for begging in bazaars & streets
definitely reduces obeisance for the Gods.
Lack of discipline and
non-availability of facilities in temples, inns and places of pilgrimage: Lack of discipline in Hindu
temples and places of pilgrimage is also a serious stigma. The managing bodies
of the Hindu religious places and the pandas are largely unscrupulous
& selfish and are only interested in minting money. The ashrams and dharamshalas are used as
enterprises of profit. On the contrary, the ample availability of food, shelter
and services in gurudwaras certainly inspires a sense of security & respect
in the mind of visitors. This has resulted in the taking over of the management
of several Hindu shrines and places of pilgrimage by government. Could any
government dare to do the same with a mosque or a gurudwara or a church? Males and females bathing together
at places of Hindu pilgrimage or in sacred rivers/ponds become objects of
sensuousness only. Lack of conveniences, defecating and defiling the surroundings by the visitors
present a nauseating look. On the contrary, strict discipline is observed in
gurudwaras, which certainly helps in maintaining reverence for these places.
This human rights violation, it
goes unheard!! Kashmir, Assam, Tripura, Bengal, Odisha & all other
bordering states need to seal their borders preventing any infiltration as
once. At this stage, almost ¾ Western Assam has been captured by Bangla Deshi
Muslim infiltrators supported by HUJI, IM, ISI & such terror groups. They
hoist Pakistani, Bangla Deshi flags in Assam for past 15 years as they did in
Kashmir. They have been attacking local tribes – Karbi Anglong, Khasi, Dimasa,
Kachari, Jaintia, Bodo, Chongloi & many such indigenous original tribes in
Neelachal – Assam – who have been there for ages. Bangla Deshi infiltrators
have captured their lands, houses attacking them, raping their women, killing
almost half the tribal population there, posing dire threat to Bharat’s
security.”
Today there is arson & hundreds of Tribals are murdered in Assam. Over 500 villages are burnt totally. Tribes & other Hindus are fleeing to temporary shelters, being killed by terrorist infiltrators & by the Govt machinery. Govts are protecting Bangla Deshi Muslim infiltrators & pumping bullets into the original tribes who actually need protection. Almost 1 lakh people are now in shelters – homeless, lost their near & dear ones & everything that those poor Tribals had, because Govts bend before Bangla Deshi Muslims for votes. The PM of ‘India’ & his party’s head Madam called Assam CM to protect Muslims & not the Tribals, otherwise govt agencies would not have killed many Bodos, other Tribals & Hindus with Govt bullets! The PM & Madam never called U.P. CM to stop violence against Hindus in Koshi Mathura, Bareilly, and Pratapgadh etc. The duo never called Andhra CM asking him to protect Hindus in 4 Minar area while Muslims brutally killed them. This shows Govt’s bias against Hindus & special love for Muslims.”
Today there is arson & hundreds of Tribals are murdered in Assam. Over 500 villages are burnt totally. Tribes & other Hindus are fleeing to temporary shelters, being killed by terrorist infiltrators & by the Govt machinery. Govts are protecting Bangla Deshi Muslim infiltrators & pumping bullets into the original tribes who actually need protection. Almost 1 lakh people are now in shelters – homeless, lost their near & dear ones & everything that those poor Tribals had, because Govts bend before Bangla Deshi Muslims for votes. The PM of ‘India’ & his party’s head Madam called Assam CM to protect Muslims & not the Tribals, otherwise govt agencies would not have killed many Bodos, other Tribals & Hindus with Govt bullets! The PM & Madam never called U.P. CM to stop violence against Hindus in Koshi Mathura, Bareilly, and Pratapgadh etc. The duo never called Andhra CM asking him to protect Hindus in 4 Minar area while Muslims brutally killed them. This shows Govt’s bias against Hindus & special love for Muslims.”
" If Muslims in India constantly crib
to have no say and no power, they should come to Pakistan to see the plight of
minority Hindus with their own eyes. They'll never complain and learn to live
peacefully with their Hindu brethren in India." -Asma Jahangir, Human
rights activist, Pakistan
Asma's right. When pitted against the oppressed Hindus in Pakistan, the Muslims of India are indeed far better. A few days back there was a news that Hindus in Balochistan region are abducted and converted to Islam. The family members of those who've been abducted often avoid lodging complaints for fear of dire consequences. Many Hindus in Pakistan's Balochistan, Sindh and NWFP regions, embraced Islam for survival. Has any Muslim in India ever been forced to accept Hinduism in order to live in this country? The Marathas, who fought against Ahmadshah Abdali in 1761 and couldn't return, are now languishing in Pakistan doing menial jobs. Most of them are sweepers and Pakistan Military Academy, Kakul has the descendants of those Marathas working as toilet-cleaners. June, 2000, Time carried an article (later banned and deleted from the net) written by Craig Gaverns. He interviewed a few Hindu-Marathas (most of those Marathas are now forced Muslims) working as cleaners and attendants at PMA. One of them told him that once a Pakistani captain continuously slapped him and made him eat human excreta for not polishing his shoes properly. He fearlessly told Gaverns to disclose his name (Nanji Ubale) despite Gaverns had grave doubts about that man's safety. His name was carried and within a couple of days, he was hacked to pieces. Even those Hindus who got converted to Islam are treated very badly. They're always reminded of their humble and infidel roots. One such Hindu doctor Ratan Chitkara, who later embraced Islam and became Saeed Khan, was always denied promotion to become the C M H O (Chief Medical & Health Officer) at a hospital in Pakistan's Chitral province. The reason was that he willy-nilly accepted Islam. 'Dil se nahin liya' (not accepted from the core of his heart) observed his born Muslim friend. My point is: Did the ancestors of the sub-continental Muslims ever accept Islam DIL SE ? Were they not converted to Islam by coercion? BBC, London's Roger Amlett's big essay ' Conversions on the sub-continent ' (1998) puts it bluntly " Why do all the 'converted Muslims' of the sub-continent behave in a manner as if their Allah directly dropped them as Muslims from an imaginary heaven? Why do they (or their forefathers) forget that they were cajoled, coaxed and coerced into embracing Islam? " The Hindus in Pakistan constitute 2.67 % of its population, which is now close to 18 crores. According to Pakistan-born Ibn Warraq, an ex-Muslim, " By 2015 this ratio will drop down to almost one percent as very many existing Hindus will have accepted Islam to save their skins, precisely necks." Here in India, Muslims cry foul that they're discriminated against. This happens indeed. But don't they also get their rights and rightful positions in India? In India, Muslims have become the heads of the state. There've been so many top brass in the Armed Forces of India, who're Muslims. Can one show a single really big and influential Hindu in Pakistan? Why wasn't Pakistan's second Chief Justice Bhagwan Das, A Sindhi-Hindu from Shikarpur, Sindh, made the CJP (Chief Justice of Pakistan)? Why was Neeraj Chawla (actress Juhi Chawla's uncle, who chose to stay back in Pakistan following partition) abducted in spite of being a high official on Pakistan's Film Censor Board? Despite his seniority, he was not made the chief of the Censor Board of Pakistan. Has any Muslim been deprived of his rank in the sensitive army because of his religion? Didn't India have Idris Hasan Latif as the Air Chief Marshal? It's very easy to condemn sitting on the fence and when you're getting everything without much efforts. Look from a broader and deeper perspective and you'll realise that you're much better and well-ensconced here than the poor Hindus in Pakistan, who get no representation at any level. They cannot even register their marriage in Pakistan. Karachi and Islamabad universities abolished their Hindi departments and even certificate courses in Hindi because it's the language of the Kafirs (infidels). Except for Danish Kaneria, no Hindu ever played Test cricket in Pakistan, though Anil Dalpat came closest to playing and getting included in the final eleven. Why was Nirmal Mukherjee, a Bengali Hindu of PIA, never selected for the Pakistan national hockey team? He was PIA's vice captain in the early seventies. Veerbhadra Seksaria, the only Hindu industrialist from Pakistan, never got an opportunity to set up a cement factory in Pakistan's lone industrial city, Faislabad (erstwhile Layalpur). Indian media and some so-called secularists like Teesta Seetalvad (her husband's a Muslim), Arundhati Roy (a Syrian Christian) and Mallika Sarabhai (a Gujrati Hindu) scream from their rooftops when something 'wrong' happens to the Muslims in India. Why can't these influential secularists raise their voice in unison against the treatment meted out to the Hindus in Pakistan who live there as gentiles and lepers?
Asma's right. When pitted against the oppressed Hindus in Pakistan, the Muslims of India are indeed far better. A few days back there was a news that Hindus in Balochistan region are abducted and converted to Islam. The family members of those who've been abducted often avoid lodging complaints for fear of dire consequences. Many Hindus in Pakistan's Balochistan, Sindh and NWFP regions, embraced Islam for survival. Has any Muslim in India ever been forced to accept Hinduism in order to live in this country? The Marathas, who fought against Ahmadshah Abdali in 1761 and couldn't return, are now languishing in Pakistan doing menial jobs. Most of them are sweepers and Pakistan Military Academy, Kakul has the descendants of those Marathas working as toilet-cleaners. June, 2000, Time carried an article (later banned and deleted from the net) written by Craig Gaverns. He interviewed a few Hindu-Marathas (most of those Marathas are now forced Muslims) working as cleaners and attendants at PMA. One of them told him that once a Pakistani captain continuously slapped him and made him eat human excreta for not polishing his shoes properly. He fearlessly told Gaverns to disclose his name (Nanji Ubale) despite Gaverns had grave doubts about that man's safety. His name was carried and within a couple of days, he was hacked to pieces. Even those Hindus who got converted to Islam are treated very badly. They're always reminded of their humble and infidel roots. One such Hindu doctor Ratan Chitkara, who later embraced Islam and became Saeed Khan, was always denied promotion to become the C M H O (Chief Medical & Health Officer) at a hospital in Pakistan's Chitral province. The reason was that he willy-nilly accepted Islam. 'Dil se nahin liya' (not accepted from the core of his heart) observed his born Muslim friend. My point is: Did the ancestors of the sub-continental Muslims ever accept Islam DIL SE ? Were they not converted to Islam by coercion? BBC, London's Roger Amlett's big essay ' Conversions on the sub-continent ' (1998) puts it bluntly " Why do all the 'converted Muslims' of the sub-continent behave in a manner as if their Allah directly dropped them as Muslims from an imaginary heaven? Why do they (or their forefathers) forget that they were cajoled, coaxed and coerced into embracing Islam? " The Hindus in Pakistan constitute 2.67 % of its population, which is now close to 18 crores. According to Pakistan-born Ibn Warraq, an ex-Muslim, " By 2015 this ratio will drop down to almost one percent as very many existing Hindus will have accepted Islam to save their skins, precisely necks." Here in India, Muslims cry foul that they're discriminated against. This happens indeed. But don't they also get their rights and rightful positions in India? In India, Muslims have become the heads of the state. There've been so many top brass in the Armed Forces of India, who're Muslims. Can one show a single really big and influential Hindu in Pakistan? Why wasn't Pakistan's second Chief Justice Bhagwan Das, A Sindhi-Hindu from Shikarpur, Sindh, made the CJP (Chief Justice of Pakistan)? Why was Neeraj Chawla (actress Juhi Chawla's uncle, who chose to stay back in Pakistan following partition) abducted in spite of being a high official on Pakistan's Film Censor Board? Despite his seniority, he was not made the chief of the Censor Board of Pakistan. Has any Muslim been deprived of his rank in the sensitive army because of his religion? Didn't India have Idris Hasan Latif as the Air Chief Marshal? It's very easy to condemn sitting on the fence and when you're getting everything without much efforts. Look from a broader and deeper perspective and you'll realise that you're much better and well-ensconced here than the poor Hindus in Pakistan, who get no representation at any level. They cannot even register their marriage in Pakistan. Karachi and Islamabad universities abolished their Hindi departments and even certificate courses in Hindi because it's the language of the Kafirs (infidels). Except for Danish Kaneria, no Hindu ever played Test cricket in Pakistan, though Anil Dalpat came closest to playing and getting included in the final eleven. Why was Nirmal Mukherjee, a Bengali Hindu of PIA, never selected for the Pakistan national hockey team? He was PIA's vice captain in the early seventies. Veerbhadra Seksaria, the only Hindu industrialist from Pakistan, never got an opportunity to set up a cement factory in Pakistan's lone industrial city, Faislabad (erstwhile Layalpur). Indian media and some so-called secularists like Teesta Seetalvad (her husband's a Muslim), Arundhati Roy (a Syrian Christian) and Mallika Sarabhai (a Gujrati Hindu) scream from their rooftops when something 'wrong' happens to the Muslims in India. Why can't these influential secularists raise their voice in unison against the treatment meted out to the Hindus in Pakistan who live there as gentiles and lepers?
Just the other day, a fellow Member
of Parliament was almost shamed in the context of what media is calling a Rs 71 lakh ‘scam’. The media, who no longer seem to have respect for people
like us, are harassing him the whole day, treating him like a common cheat.
The Mainos have systematically plundered
and exported the ancient treasures of India, especially temple sculptures of
Tamil Nadu, Andhra, Orissa and Madhya Pradesh, Mughal paintings and precious
gems in Indian Museums, all protected and banned from export under the Antiquities
and Art Treasures Act, 1972. The CBI had in 1993 registered cases on such
illegal exports from a Chennai Suburb to an identified person in Italy (see
enclosed document). Alitalia and Air India flights were used to send unchecked
crates after after crates misusing the SPG cover first to Italy for display in
shops owned by her family e.g.Etnica in Rivolta or Ganpati in
Orbassano [see enclosed photo and calling card], and after creating an
ownership on paper, getting the contraband auctioned by Sotheebys and
Christies, the London auctioneers. Fred Watson’s Sothebys-An Inside Story
[Random House, 1998] gives some clues on such a racket. There is in the records
of the Ministry of Human Resources enough materials in Notes on file of
Directors Generals of Archeological Survey of India to suggest precious ancient
paintings of the Mughal period were removed and declared “stolen” or missing,
but ended up in a house in Golf Links, New Delhi which Ms.Sonia Gandhi had
frequented. Even the Festival of India was used as a ploy to smuggle out such
treasures. In arranging these delicate
operations the Mainos took the help Mr.Arjun Singh [when he was Madhya Pradesh
Chief Minister and later Union Human Resources Development Minister], art
expert Martand Singh, a Pakistani couple Muneer and Farida Attaullah, London
based Pakistani fixer Salman Thassir a prince of Kuwait, and even the
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) which has been convicted by courts in
India for the assassination of Mr.Rajiv Gandhi Thus, Ms.Sonia Gandhi and her
Italian relatives are culpable for various offences under the Antiquities and
Art Treasures Act as well as under Sections 295, 378 and 410 of the IPC.
When Rajiv Gandhi married Sonia Gandhi on February 25, 1968, she
was poor. Her Father Stefano Maino had lost everything after his party leader,
Benito Mussolini, the II Duce of Fascist Italy, was overthrown and killed.
After World War II, Stefano became a brick layer, and Sonia’s mother, Paola
Predebon, a share cropper. Like many poor Italian families, Sonia was
dispatched to learn English in a teaching shop in Cambridge town and thus land
a job as an hostess or in similar employment, a modest goal indeed. Her
marriage to Rajiv Gandhi on 25.2.68 however changed all that. And because of
the aforesaid illegal activities, the Maino family became in just 25 years the
richest family of Italy with net worth of US $ 2.0 billion. The respected Swiss
magazine, Schweizer Illusttrierte, in its November 1991 issue, reported
that the Mainos had in 1991 about $2.7 billion. But over the 1990s decade, the
Mainos appear to have lost some of the money due to reckless investments,
collapse of the Barings Bank, and ostentatious spending. They are still worth
about US $2.0 billion today.
Ms.Sonia Gandhi has also fully utilized the martyrdom of her
husband Rajiv Gandhi to advance her political career as well as to take control
of the Nehru family’s monetary inheritance. The Rajiv Gandhi Foundation was set
up under her chairmanship and Rs.200 crores collected during Narasimha
Rao’s tenure as PM, for use in
education and public affairs. Yet an analysis of the accounts of the Foundation
show that only 3% of the income is being used for the stated objectives while
97% is deployed for other goals including
for private travel of Ms.Gandhi and her chosen ones. This is a violation of the
Trust Act and thus Ms.Gandhi and other trustees can be proceeded under Section 92 of the
CPC. There is already a PIL in the Delhi High Court in this matter.
Circumstantial evidence is also fast accumulating that makes it
now imperative for the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to probe whether
the mother (Ms.Paola Maino) and sister (Ms.Anushka Vinci) of Ms.Sonia Gandhi,
have had a long term continuing association since 1984 with the terrorist
organization, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), The Supreme Court
had delivered on May 12, 1999 a stinging judgement that held the LTTE
responsible for the assassination of India’s former Prime Minister Mr.Rajiv
Gandhi. The Government had set up a Multi Disciplinary Monitoring Agency (MDMA)
in August 1998, led by the CBI, to probe leads such as that have now surfaced
regarding the Maino-LTTE links.
The
Circumstantial evidence of these links include Sonia Gandhi’s plea for
commuting the death penalty for her husband’s killers; in providing one acre of
land near the Indira Gandhi International Airport, Delhi, for housing the
Periyar Centre for the pro-LTTE and secessionist Dravida Kazhagam (DK) which
had been indicted in Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination by the Jain Commission (Part
III, Vol.IV, Chapter VII, Pages 161-73, of the Final Report) and whose seven
key members have been sentenced along with nineteen others of the LTTE by the
Supreme Court, for participating in the assassination conspiracy. There are
several other examples of Ms.Sonia Gandhi going inexplicably soft on the LTTE, including
remaining silent on the failure of the government to extradite the LTTE Supremo
Prabhakaran.
The CBI-led Multi Disciplinary Monitoring Agency (MDMA) set up
after the Jain Commission Final Report, should therefore send interrogatories
to the Maino family in Italy about all this, and investigate the extent of
their connections with LTTE.
Ms.Sonia Gandhi’s family in Italy constitutes a major national
security risk for India, but paradoxically they enjoy the cover of the Indian
state for their nefarious activities. The RAW, India’s foreign intelligence
agency has reports of this national security risk. While in service (during
Rajiv Gandhi’s tenure as PM), the Additional Director of RAW, B.Raman had in a
report stated:
“Ms.Sonia
Gandhi’s umbilical cord is strongly tied to Italy. Her close relatives are
Italian citizens living in Italy. India has important national security
interest in Italy because of its arms, nuclear and technology supply
relationships with Pakistan and China.”
Raman
concluded that no source in Italy or in EU would cooperate with Indian
Intelligence on this issue since they would fear that one day perhaps these
sources may fall into Italian hands. After retirement from RAW, Raman even
published these views in Statesman (May 16, 1999) in an article under
his own name.
Italy,
incidentally, is flouting US sanctions and providing avionics to the Sino-Pakistan
Joint project to manufacture the F-1 Chinese design plane update, which is to
be a successor to the US F-16 super fighter jets. Indian Intelligence is busy
trying to build sources in Italy to track details of this collaboration.
Even worse is the case of Robert
Vadra, Priyankaji’s husband. It seems DLF lent Robertji Rs 65 crore without any security – and the media and social
activists are making that out to be a crime. What crime? Many friends in
business have lent me hundreds of crores without any security over the decades
– and they haven’t even asked for me to return it. Why would they? After all,
as a friend, I’ve helped them on so many instances that they’ve earned fortunes
from our friendship. Now, media is making it sound like it’s a crime for MPs
and ministers to help friends. What a terrible state of affairs.
Sharad
Pawar’s nephew has been forced to resign because of some allegations on a
developmental work that he was involved in. Media says that he helped
contractors make extra money by approving of rises in estimates after the
contracts were awarded. What is wrong with that? Your grandfather used to do
the same with his friends, as did I.
Ministers like Raja, Kanimozhi and Kalmadi have been jailed because of trying to help
their friends. This is where our country is going to. No one has any respect
for our class any more, and the media and social activists are being helped by
the courts – they’re ganging up against us.
Things are bad in India, son. It is
becoming difficult for people like us to carry on in the way we are used to. We
are treated like commoners, we are called cheats and thugs. We’re reaching a
stage when toll booth attendants expect us to pay – an FIR was filed against an MP who, obviously got upset
at the request and threatened the attendant with a gun for his cheek.
It is getting very petty. The other
day, Air-India staff at Guwahati charged three MPs for carrying excess baggage. MPs not being allowed excess baggage on the national
airline, and lowly employees of Air-India not respecting them? This is the new
India, the India you want to come back to!
That’s why I write this note to them
. Do not come back to India, and forget about plans on a career in politics.
Come to Geneva next week; I will
meet them there. I will transfer money to their account so that they can invest in a house in Germany for my stay.
As far as business is concerned, maybe they could buy a university nearby. After all, my uncle
has six universities in India and they are quite profitable. I will ask him to
guide them when they begin your venture. Will discuss in detail when we meet
next week.
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