Why BJP — Talking Points

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  1. Action Idea: Host Drawing Room Conversations : Friends of BJP — Because India Deserves Better on April 15th, 2009 11:45 am

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  2. Amita on April 15th, 2009 12:51 pm

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  3. yogesh Saxena on April 15th, 2009 5:11 pm

    Congress lets jihad flourish

    It is a matter of great alarm that the Union Home Ministry has not taken the draft national counter-terrorism doctrine seriously, and as a result has not even come close to implementing it. This draft doctrine was formulated in 2006 by the Intelligence Bureau in consultation with the police forces of some States and Central Police organisations. The Government’s lethargy in taking counter-terrorism seriously is inexplicable given the threat to national security that terrorism poses. The doctrine stresses the use of pre-emptive strikes and covert action to protect national security. It also puts forward compelling arguments in favour of using adequate force instead of minimum force to combat terrorist activities. More importantly, the doctrine stresses that the country should employ all means, including diplomatic, economic, administrative, legal and military, to counter terrorism. Such a policy has long been needed as in its absence the country has been seriously handicapped on the security front. This has allowed terrorists to get away with many outrages which could have been prevented. So far, especially so under the UPA regime, the country has followed a soft line against terrorism. This is in stark contrast to the hardline stand that countries like Israel maintain for which they have been better off. The United States took strong measures immediately after the 9/11 terrorist attack, as a result of which since then there hasn’t been a single terror strike on US soil. But despite several attacks over the last five years, the UPA Government has not deemed it fit to formulate a strong action plan against terror. This is totally unacceptable and goes to show the extent to which certain political parties are dictated to by vote-bank politics.

    No one can deny that the provocations for a tough response to terror have been strong. From the attack on Parliament to the shocking fidayeen strike on Mumbai last year, scores of innocent men, women and children have fallen victim to terrorism. These attacks have also created a sense of insecurity among the people which also needs to be overturned and confidence restored. The soft policy of the Indian state has allowed terrorist cells to proliferate in the country and has enabled them to widen their ambit of operations by gathering funds, setting up training camps, and recruiting fresh foot-soldiers to their heinous cause. At the same time terrorist camps have flourished in India’s neighbourhood, both across the LoC and in Bangladesh. These camps should also have been dealt with an iron fist. It is therefore a must for the incoming Government to keep the national counter-terrorism doctrine high on the agenda when it comes to power.

  4. yogesh Saxena on April 15th, 2009 5:13 pm

    Deb Kant Barooah and his only memorable contribution to Indian polity. In the 1970s, the Assam Congressman claimed to an applauding audience: “Indira is India, India is Indira”. And that was the magical key the Congress used to open the door for Emergency with which the perpetual fiefdom of one family over the entire country was to be established.
    Such resurrections in this Easter season should be familiar to Congress president Sonia Gandhi. And that’s why, perhaps, she recalled the other day at an election rally in Varanasi, which reminded the country of the dark days of the ’70s: “Some people have forgotten that the Prime Minister is the leader of the country. Such politicians should be told that insulting the Prime Minister means insulting the country”.
    The reference is to the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) leader Lal Krishna Advani’s description of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as “the weakest Prime Minister we ever had”. The Congress president needs to convince the world that criticising the Prime Minister as weak is an “insult”. There are no holy cows in democracy. In fact, the very essence of democracy rests on the entire political class being evaluated for its performance, or non-performance, and for its follies and foibles. To describe the current incumbent of the high office as “weak” cannot be considered an “insult”. It is a viewpoint with which the voter may or may not agree.
    Mrs Sonia Gandhi (or her speechwriters) should realise that the entire country knows that Dr Singh is the Prime Minister only because of her convenience and by her courtesy. But as the leader of the country, the occupant of 7, Race Course Road, ought to be the one who has the power to lead his followers. But that is not the case in the present arrangement. Dr Singh’s Cabinet ministers run to 10, Janpath, and not to 7, Race Course Road, with their grievances. The “weakness” that Mr Advani has been stressing for some years now is built into the arrangement in which the Prime Minister is a nominee and the real power rests with the Congress president.
    Actually, when the Opposition describes the Prime Minister as “weak”, the Congress president feels hurt because she knows that the critics are right and that real power is exercised by her. Such criticism, though vicarious, obviously cannot be tolerated by a family which considers itself born to exercise power, as the Nehru-Gandhi family believes. When that “right” was challenged in 1974-75, after many years of subservience to the Nehru myth, the lead member of the family felt the ground slipping from under her feet, and Emergency was imposed to save the family’s “inheritance”. The lead tune to the music that accompanied imposition of Emergency was aptly composed when Barooah sang: “Indira is India, India is Indira”.
    To recall history further, not only was the incumbent Prime Minister in those days identified with the country as a whole, all those critics — the list included almost everybody in the Opposition besides Mr Advani — were dubbed as “anti-national” and thrown behind bars. Till today the Congress has not apologised for this rape of the Constitution and democracy. All that the party has said is that it was a mistake, especially the press censorship. This means that deep down the mindset that guided the family to impose Emergency still prevails in the subconscious of the members of that family. Mrs Sonia Gandhi was only being led by that in comparing criticism of the Prime Minister as an insult to the country.
    However, the Congress chief’s identification of the person who is Prime Minister with the country also reminds us that it was the Congress which had put forward a Constitutional amendment in 1975 that was meant to insulate the Prime Minister from any criticism. The subsequent government nullified this amendment but the Congress would not give in so easily. In the mid-’80s, it sought to resurrect the spirit of it through an Anti-Defamation Bill that again wanted to insulate the Prime Minister from critics. Only a powerful country-wide criticism forced the party to finally give up. Mrs Sonia Gandhi has reminded us that this mindset is not dead.
    Dr Singh’s refusal to respond to Mr Advani’s challenge to him for a televised debate between the two on the issues facing the country in this election should also be understood in this environment. Dr Singh is intelligent enough to understand that such a debate would be irrelevant as he does not lay down the policies. His party is not even asking him to contest for a Lok Sabha seat even though the party claims he is the prospective Prime Minister in case the party comes to power again. Instead, the Congress is once again confining him to the indirect election of Rajya Sabha — this itself reveals that the party does not want him to grow roots among the people. He is not even the party’s star

  5. yogesh Saxena on April 15th, 2009 5:14 pm

    Do you know that Manmohan Singh Son-in-Law Barton Beebe is an American?
    An American called Barton Beebe is married to Amrit Singh, the youngest daughter of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Barton Beebe is an Associate Professor of Law at the Benjamin Cardozo School of Law of Yeshiva University in New York City. Barton Beebe is also working closely with the NALSAR Law University of Hyderabad in India.
    Has anyone ever thought of the implications of Manmohan Singh’s daughter being married to an American? If Sonia Gandhi of Italy can rule India because she is the daughter-in- law of the late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, and widow of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, why cannot the American Barton Beebe one day rule India because he is the son-in-law of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh?
    Why is this important fact being hidden from the Indian people? We must completely expose all our top leaders, and also their families, that have been selling the interests of India to foreigners. There seems to be a deep conspiracy by some of our treacherous leaders to bring India totally under foreign domination. The signing of the Indo-US Nuclear Deal is just a part of that conspiracy.

  6. yogesh Saxena on April 15th, 2009 5:15 pm

    ELECTION time is not ideal for writing or reading anything other than the interesting news and anecdotes of the day. But it is precisely at this time that many sincere and honest people feel frustrated by the venality of actors in the public domain. They are anxious to know where the public discourse has gone wrong and contemplate course correction.

  7. yogesh Saxena on April 15th, 2009 5:16 pm

    It is six decades since India became free. Today’s school children constitute Gen-3 of free India.. Their great-grandfathers alone could have experienced the freedom movement. The movement for India’s freedom is no more in the memory chip of the people. It is now history — unfortunately, deliberately distorted — taught to young minds.

  8. yogesh Saxena on April 15th, 2009 5:16 pm

    This distortion is self-evident in secular India’s discourse. It quickly, and effectively, distanced itself from the great drives that constituted the soul of the freedom movement — whether it is the ‘Ram Rajya’ of Mahatma Gandhi, or the worship of the Motherland symbolised by Maharishi Bankim Chandra’s ‘Vande Mataram’, or the concept of ‘Sanatana Dharma’ Maharishi Aurobindo held out as the nationalism of India, or the ‘spiritual nationalism’ commended by Swami Vivekananda. The secular discourse branded these concepts outdated ideas, to be detested and publicly disowned. In fact, given the tone of the discourse today, it is doubtful whether any of these great builders of modern India could pass the test of secular acceptability.

  9. yogesh Saxena on April 15th, 2009 5:17 pm

    The perversion in secular India’s public domain is explicit, but its degree is even graver.The Indian struggle for freedom from the British was more profound than a battle for political freedom for India’s geography. It was also part of the centuries- long quest of the Indian people to resist foreign invaders, like the struggle of Prithviraj Chauhan or Maharana Pratap, or Chatrapati Shivaji or Guru Gobind Singh later, or Raja Ranjit Singh or Rani of Jhansi still later. By dividing the indigenous peoples on racial and religious lines, the colonisers could almost convince them that India never belonged to anyone; it was open to anyone who invaded it; it was never a nation; and there was nothing called India till the British made it one. The colonisers thus first distorted the discourse and then confused the identity of the Indian people and their relation with their land of birth. Unsurprisingly, it was their past more than the future that looked uncertain to Indians. By such sustained discourse the colonisers had effectively caused cerebral paralysis. Result, Indians stood conquered intellectually, culturally and civilisationally.

  10. yogesh Saxena on April 15th, 2009 5:17 pm

    Therefore, while earlier it was a war even for physical survival, the battle against the British was more a struggle to recover the mind of India, which the foreigner had hijacked. As a consequence, while most of India’s conquered detested the earlier invaders, the later colonisers persuaded sections of influential Indians to feel comfortable with them. So the quest for recovering the lost mind and reconnecting Indians to their past to define their identity became the principal drive of the battle against the British. The freedom struggle gradually intensified as an intellectual, cultural and spiritual endeavour to make India comprehensively independent even as it targeted political freedom.

  11. yogesh Saxena on April 15th, 2009 5:18 pm

    A critical component in the efforts of the Indian freedom movement to fight the intellectual lethargy and subaltern mind of Indians was the role played by the nationalist media. It promoted a high level of indigenous cultural and civilisational consciousness in the Indian people. Invariably everyone, whether it was Gandhi or Aurobindo, Tilak or Subramanya Bharati, who took the lead to sow the seeds of the freedom movement, or to add power to it later, started a newspaper or magazine.

  12. yogesh Saxena on April 15th, 2009 5:18 pm

    Many, like ‘Sanku’ Subramaniam, became bankrupt as they distributed newspapers almost free to convey the idea of India to the people. The nationalist media thus not only fought for the nation’s freedom, but also for its intellectual and cultural independence and revival. Post-freedom, the secular Indian discourse, which increasingly became pseudo in character and derailed the national discourse, infected large sections of the national media and co-opted it. Thanks to this selfgoal, India became less intellectually independent after freedom than it was before, under colonial rule.

  13. yogesh Saxena on April 15th, 2009 5:19 pm

    While this process began after freedom and progressed gradually, it accelerated after the advent of economic liberalization and globalization in the early 1990s. The Indian media gradually came to be dominated by intellectual lethargy and cultural confusion. So, what the freedom fighters had fought hard to eliminate from the public discourse promoted by the colonizers came back to occupy prime time and prime space in free India’s media. Added to this distortion was the emergence of an extreme commercialism, which began eating into the vitals of a free and purposeful media. The media was driven by a perceivable sense of idealism even as late as a couple of decades ago despite all other negatives.

  14. yogesh Saxena on April 15th, 2009 5:20 pm

    The war that the Indian Express and the Statesman waged against the internal emergency in 1977-79 and this newspaper’s single-minded pursuit of industrial and political venality, which the Reliance and Bofors scams of the late 1980s symbolized, are illustrative of idealism defying the logic of commerce. Today the media as a whole is becoming a captive of commerce and is obsessed with nothing other than turnover and profit. The trend is irresistible. To swim against it means defying the whole world — a task that needs and means spiritualization of public life, like Mahatma Gandhi did.. This loss of intellectual independence and emergence of unbridled commercialism is dwarfing the stature of the Indian media as the Fourth Estate.. This loss of direction needs to be course-corrected if the larger interest of India is to be safeguarded.

  15. yogesh Saxena on April 15th, 2009 5:22 pm

    Fortunately, technology seems to have a cost-effective solution for this epidemic. Some 10 powerful websites, duly popularized, that review and audit the media can correct the media’s course. They can hold a mirror to it to show it and to the people how it performs or fails. The only way to make the media realise this is to publish in the site what it refuses to, or to prove what it publishes is incorrect, to make the public know what the media business is all about today. A motivated team to sustain and intensify this mission can achieve the result in a fairly short time. The mission will rediscover the India that for long showed the lead to the world. This can transform an India that is free but not independent into an intellectually free and independent India. Any takers, it is the BJP only with further intensity in future, if we provide them Majority?

  16. Amit Bhadhuri, Ex-Officer,CISF on April 16th, 2009 12:18 am

    Sonia’s subservient Manmohan today degraded himself further by announcing that he is quite ready to sleep with CPI(M) in the same bed and on the same dirty linen which has been washed since nuclear saga. It appears, Manmohan has not washed his bedcover since CPI(M)left Manmohan and went out to sleep with one night stands.
    If this turbanated subserviuent returns to power after 16th may 09 be ready for Roman rules in Bharat.
    Wake up my Indians, save the country and vote for BJP to save the country.

  17. Bharat on April 16th, 2009 3:56 am

    BJP, Hindu sanghathans, and all supporters get active and determined to win the election. And I assure you, we shall win.

    As Swami Vivekananda said, faith must be unlimited. We have to have faith to win. Climbers climb the Himalayan peaks with firm determination and unlimited faith.

  18. Vivek Singh on April 16th, 2009 9:32 am

    The deciding times start today so all of us will have to play our role more actively to make sure BJP win.Forget Biased Indian Media and it’s opinion poll.Our aim should be make BJP more and more stronger day by day.
    Jai Hind

  19. B B Patil on April 16th, 2009 2:09 pm

    The below words are not said by not me (B.B.Patil )the words/feelings are expressed by ordinary indain young boy &these words should be shared/reached every indain . now MP elction will be going on and so now regarding this i would like to tell my openions to the people .

    Usually electon happens once in a five year so now again time comes to elect people/Party for administraing india for another 5 years,this time those are eligible to vote they might have seen last 10 year govt & you can feel findout the difference for the same,as you know after getting the independedent of india almost all peroids indian govt adminstrated by congress party,&you canfind the countable good people for their perriod.the same time in terms of devolopment we people really should appreciate to the NDA (Mr Atalji govt)ex: Kargil war,Nuclear test,Friendship with supremo countries etc.many things are there & all cannot be explained here,regarding this if you asks ordinary man to VIP they would appreciate atalji govt.but after all NDA govt was unable to make another 5 years .& i never though it could have happened,i think after getting result 2004 result really most of good thinkers upset with decison taken by indians. any how tat was he past thing.

    So now i request people dont commit same big mistakes this time,we want to change this time, infact americans supremo in the world they wanted to change so they have elected Mr Obama now.

    So all indains should change thier decide this time , you people had given many chance to congress party for adminstraing the india,so this time we must give chance to BJP (NDA).

    Friends/ Youth now a days we people are getting selfish we are looking only our profits we never thinking about backword people & our contry for secure ,devolopment.by reading above sentences its does not mean we need to change the rules , also its not possible by me or you.but its possible from all of us by electing good party/people.& also i am quite exciting to convience the public for supporting to BJP this time.

    Friends its serious thing simply we should not vote anyone for our profit something.friends dont be heard mentality be a unique. think national level elect party which would do something for india.

    At the last i would like tell particularly if country is secured then we can do anything for else not first up all we want free from terrorism activity in inda,its only possible from BJP.and as i told we people are missed great man Atalji for admistraing for last five years for india ,he had lot dream for india, so this time if we commit the istakes we may miss the another great man Mr Advani who is having power to some thing changes to inda &also who was survived under Atalji.

    Whatever happens this time we need change & really all public are fedup with congress govt (UPA ). during there period there was no security for india & also there was no proactive decision taken by them against terrorism activity .this time no need to think more for vote BJP Candidates & hope all of us should elect to Maximum no of BJP Candidates ,(NDA) for admistrating BJP in central govt & also for devolping,security ,Limelighing to india we must accet BJP govt .and feel the diffrence.

    Thanks& Regards,
    B.B.Patil
    Karnataka

  20. Media Professional from New York on April 16th, 2009 3:26 pm

    Rajdeep Sardesai, Sagarika Ghose, Barkha Dutt, N Ram, Prannoy Roy, Karan Thapar, Vir Singhvi etc are some of the dangerous traitors living and writing in India. They are dangerous for America, Europe and the rest of the world too in the long run.

    Indians need to expose and discredit these media terrorists….

  21. Rejith Nair on April 17th, 2009 1:43 pm

    I profoundly influenced by this innovative approach by a group of professionals who are not the pseudo nationalists. Instead of banking on dynasty idols and their sycophants, BJP is telling the Indians that our country not belongs to a political family and their shrewd, crooked divided and rule politics. Dirty appeasement politics is at its peak. We hope for much needed change. We need self respect and cultural identity that is being lost because of well calculated strategy and its actions by certain western oriented politically biased immature India media and its political mentors in Delhi, bunch of shadowy NGOs headed by double speaking dubious intellectuals and their fund managers in western world.

    I firmly believe, by supporting a nationalist political party I am not against any of my fellow citizens who belong to any other religion, caste, creed and my aim is not to demolish any mosque or cultural identity of any other religion as always being painted by family run media outfits and pseudo secularists in our country. As a nationalist, I am bound to treat all my fellow citizens equal with due respect,courtesy and love.

    We need progress oriented, honest and disciplined leaders like Shri LK Advani, Mr.Narendra Modi, Mr.Arun Jaitley, Mr.Arun Shourie etc to take forward India to the path of development,prosperity and to self dependence.

    We need to educate the illiterate section of educated Indians that India is fast loosing its cultural identity, our morality, self respect, self dependence and our national security. As a professional I would very much like to be part of this initiative. Vande Mataram!.

  22. Amit Bhadhuri, Ex-Officer,CISF on April 17th, 2009 5:40 pm

    To Media Professional from NY and BJP Supporters

    The most English media in Bharat are almost no less enemy of Bharat than Telebans or Islamists or foreigner Sonia Maino or her subsevient froggy-eyed Manmohan and their slave minded cronies.

    English media is mostly owned by the foreigner Muslim (e.g. NDTV owned by Saudi Royal family) and Christian evangelist groups. Bharat need nationalist English media like one owned by the Birla groups.

    If BJP comes to power then they shouldrestrict the media ownerships by foreigners hard and fast.

  23. Rajendra Patil on April 18th, 2009 11:21 pm

    Why BJP… because
    1) Apart from few Idiots( those who are guilty will get hit by reading this), its Leaders are good like Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee, L.K. Advani, Arun Shourie, Arun Jaitley, Rajnath Singh, Yashwant Sinha, Jaswant Singh, Sushma Swaraj, Venkaiah Naidu, Shivraj Singh Chauhan, Shiv Sena Member Suresh Prabhu, Prakash Javdekar etc. and of course the great, shri Narendra Modi.
    2) They are not CORRUPT.
    3) They have vision.
    4) They are Honest.
    5) This party people are not ‘Post’ hungry, they rise by Merits, like British before 1947 and actually it should be like that.
    6) They feel for the countrys progress.
    7) They don’t mislead people.
    8) They should be given chance for the next 50 years as that Bastard Congress has cheated and stayed in power for more than 50 years.

  24. Rakesh Agarwal on April 19th, 2009 5:47 pm

    Now its clear that Congress will not cross 100 mark.Congress’s ally RJD and DMK will ruin them. Congress is mainly relying on Kandhar and Attack on Parliament. In Mumbai attack (26/11) 160 innocent citizens of India and some very brave police and army officerswere killed. In Kandhar life of lesser people was a stake.Release of a few terrorists saved all highjackd citizens.Not a bad deal!

  25. sushant s k on April 20th, 2009 5:53 am

    So true, we need to have NID card because everywhere in bangalore you will find bangladeshis! Its crazy here! Reporting from ground zero..

  26. ashok narayan on May 3rd, 2009 11:37 am

    dear judges of india ,supreme court,instead of playing congress game on narendra modi,investigate who divided india into communal pakistan ,and created monsters of islamic cleg=rgy and taliban,
    these monsters have driven majority hindus from pakistan today the same party which divided india
    talks seculrism thru sonia,rahul,manmohan,
    shame man mohan,you want to bury the ghost of bofors,
    the future young india ,we will treat you as cowards who divided this country,
    god will answer only true prayers, not prayers of satans, congress goons,
    your party is nowhere those rowdies like lallu,paswans,yerchurys,karunanidhi, have stood with u incl;uding that cowerd farooq,
    your time has come you will never comeback only media is projecting you, because of their vested interest
    jai advani