Friday, December 19, 2008
HIBI EDEN BECOMES THE NEW PRESIDENT OF NSUI
CONGRESS DOES NOT NEED LESSONS ON PATRIOTISM FROM CPIM
ADDRESSING A MASSIVE CROWD OF CONGRESS MEMBERS IN KOCHI SMT. SONIA GANDHI ATTACKED THE CPIM FOR ITS ANTI NATIONAL SENTIMENTS. THE CPIM WAS ALSO CRITICISED FOR ITS LAXITY IN DEVELOPMENT ISSUES IN KERALA. MRS. GANDHI WAS ADDRESSING THE KERALA STATE CONVENTION OF INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS.
THE RALLY WAS DESCRIBED AS A BIG OCEAN AND AS A MAJOR INCIDENT BY ONE OF THE LEADING NEWSPAPERS IN KERALA.
SONIA GANDHI STARTED HER SPEECH PAYING HOMAGE TO COMMANDO SANDEEP UNNIKRISHNAN WHO WAS KILLED IN THE RESCUE OPERATION. IRONICALLY CPIM'S CHIEF MINISTER DID NOT VISIT THE SOLDIER'S HOME WHO HAILS FROM KERALA AND NOT EVEN BOTHERED TO GIVE A CONDOLENCE MESSAGE TO THE BEREAVED FAMILY. IN AN UNCIVILISED WAY HE BLABBERED THAT EVEN A DOG WOULD NOT VISIT SANDEEP'S HOME.
SHE WARNED CPIM SAYING THAT WE DO NOT LESSONS ON PATRIOTISM FROM CPIM. WE HAVE MARTYRS SUCH AS INDIRA GANDHI AND RAJIV GANDHI WHO HAVE LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES FOR THIS COUNTRY.
SONIA ALSO POINTED OUT ABOUT THE FAILURES OF THE STATE GOVERNMENT TO UTILISE THE CENTRAL GOVERNNMENT FUNDS PROPERLY. SHE SAID THAT THE STATE GOVERNMENT IS IN A CHAOS. SENIOR LEADER KARUNAKARAN REMARKED, ONLY CONGRESS CAN SAVE INDIA.
-PREMJISH
ANOTHER SLAP ON THE FACE OF CPIM
THE DEBACLE OF CPIM IN THIS BY-POLLS HAS AGAIN PROVED THAT THE FACTION POLTICS OF VS ACHUTHANANDAN AND PINARAYI VIJAYAN IS LEADING THE PARTY TO A WORST SCENARIO. THE TUSSLE OF POWER HAS GONE OUT OF CONTROL FROM THE HANDS OF COMMISAR KARAT ALSO.
INTERESTINGLY POLITICAL ANALYSTS OBSERVE THAT THIS CONFRONTAION BETWEEN PSEUDO SOCIALIST ACHUTHANANDAN AND THE NEO LIBERAL PINARAYI VIJAYAN WILL EVENTUALLY LEAD TO THE DEATH OF CPIM. THIS IS EVIDENT FROM THE MOVING OUT OF CPIM MEMBERS TO OTHER PARTIES AND THE DECREASE IN NEW MEMBERSHIPS.
WHILE THE SFI JNU UNIT WHO USED TO COME UP WITH POSTERS ON THE ISSUES OF KERALA POLITICS UNDER THE TITLE OF 'KAIRALI' IS SILENT ON THIS ISSUE. AND WE CANNOT EXPECT TOO MUCH FROM THE IDEOLOGICALLY BANKRUPT BRAINS OF OUR COMMIES. THEY THEMSELVES ARE BUSY LISTENING TO NAXAL LEADERS IN THEIR STUDY CLASSES, WHILE THEIR COMRADES ARE KILLING AND GET KILLED BY THE NAXALS IN ANDHRA AND BENGAL.
-PREMJISH
Thursday, December 18, 2008
All terrorism roads lead to Pakistan: Rushdie
The (George W) Bush administration too came in for strong criticism for considering former President Pervez Musharraf an "ally in fighting terrorism" and giving billions of dollars to it without any condition that the money should be used to fight terrorists.The panelists recalled that Musharraf was responsible for aiding Lashkar-i-Taiba to fight in Kashmir during his years in army and Rushdie said that he put up a western face to the Westerns but was mullah to extremists.Rushdie as also other participants strongly attacked noted author Arundhiti Roy for linking the Mumbai terrorist attacks to Kashmir, Gujarat riots and demolition of Babri Masjid.The terrorists, the participants said, are driven by a different philosophy and ideology and want to take the world back into the medieval ages.But they agreed that terrorists failed in their apparent bid to split Hindus and Muslims and ignite communal riots as both the communities condemned the attacks and vowed to unitedly fight them.They also warned against Government responding to the attacks and criticism of its tardy response by adopting draconian measures. Instead, it should take measures to strengthen the areas in which weakness were found.Besides Rushdie, the panelists included former Bernard Schwartz Fellow Mira Kamdar, who had lost her cousin and her cousin's husband in the Mumbai attacks, and author of Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found" Suketu Mehta.There was a lively discussion on the role of media which some had criticised but panelists generally defended the "aggressive coverage" though Rushdie at one stage criticised an Indian television channel for giving room number and floor of a guest from whom it had received a call.They were also skeptical that the weak civilian government of President Asif Ali Zardari would be able to control terrorist or their organisation especially when his own credibility is on the line for alleged corruption during the time his wife Benazir Bhutto was the prime minister."He was known as 10 per cent and then 20 per cent which showed his skills," Rushdie said amidst laughter.In his brief remarks, Indian Consul-General in New York Prabhu Dayal called on all civilised nations to bring maximum pressure on Pakistan to stamp out the terrorist camps which give rise such attacks.
PTI NEW YORK
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Calling All Pakistanis By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
After all, if 10 young Indians from a splinter wing of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party traveled by boat to Pakistan, shot up two hotels in Karachi and the central train station, killed at least 173 people, and then, for good measure, murdered the imam and his wife at a Saudi-financed mosque while they were cradling their 2-year-old son — purely because they were Sunni Muslims — where would we be today? The entire Muslim world would be aflame and in the streets.
So what can we expect from Pakistan and the wider Muslim world after Mumbai? India says its interrogation of the surviving terrorist indicates that all 10 men come from the Pakistani port of Karachi, and at least one, if not all 10, were Pakistani nationals.
First of all, it seems to me that the Pakistani government, which is extremely weak to begin with, has been taking this mass murder very seriously, and, for now, no official connection between the terrorists and elements of the Pakistani security services has been uncovered.
At the same time, any reading of the Pakistani English-language press reveals Pakistani voices expressing real anguish and horror over this incident. Take for instance the Inter Press Service news agency article of Nov. 29 from Karachi: “ ‘I feel a great fear that [the Mumbai violence] will adversely affect Pakistan and India relations,’ the prominent Karachi-based feminist poet and writer Attiya Dawood told I.P.S. ‘I can’t say whether Pakistan is involved or not, but whoever is involved, it is not the ordinary people of Pakistan, like myself, or my daughters. We are with our Indian brothers and sisters in their pain and sorrow.’ ”
But while the Pakistani government’s sober response is important, and the sincere expressions of outrage by individual Pakistanis are critical, I am still hoping for more. I am still hoping — just once — for that mass demonstration of “ordinary people” against the Mumbai bombers, not for my sake, not for India’s sake, but for Pakistan’s sake.
Why? Because it takes a village. The best defense against this kind of murderous violence is to limit the pool of recruits, and the only way to do that is for the home society to isolate, condemn and denounce publicly and repeatedly the murderers — and not amplify, ignore, glorify, justify or “explain” their activities.
Sure, better intelligence is important. And, yes, better SWAT teams are critical to defeating the perpetrators quickly before they can do much damage. But at the end of the day, terrorists often are just acting on what they sense the majority really wants but doesn’t dare do or say. That is why the most powerful deterrent to their behavior is when the community as a whole says: “No more. What you have done in murdering defenseless men, women and children has brought shame on us and on you.”
Why should Pakistanis do that? Because you can’t have a healthy society that tolerates in any way its own sons going into a modern city, anywhere, and just murdering everyone in sight — including some 40 other Muslims — in a suicide-murder operation, without even bothering to leave a note. Because the act was their note, and destroying just to destroy was their goal. If you do that with enemies abroad, you will do that with enemies at home and destroy your own society in the process.
“I often make the comparison to Catholics during the pedophile priest scandal,” a Muslim woman friend wrote me. “Those Catholics that left the church or spoke out against the church were not trying to prove to anyone that they are anti-pedophile. Nor were they apologizing for Catholics, or trying to make the point that this is not Catholicism to the non-Catholic world. They spoke out because they wanted to influence the church. They wanted to fix a terrible problem” in their own religious community.
We know from the Danish cartoons affair that Pakistanis and other Muslims know how to mobilize quickly to express their heartfelt feelings, not just as individuals, but as a powerful collective. That is what is needed here.
Because, I repeat, this kind of murderous violence only stops when the village — all the good people in Pakistan, including the community elders and spiritual leaders who want a decent future for their country — declares, as a collective, that those who carry out such murders are shameful unbelievers who will not dance with virgins in heaven but burn in hell. And they do it with the same vehemence with which they denounce Danish cartoons.
SHEILA DIKSHIT WILL CONTINUE
SHEILA DIKSHIT IS ELECTED AS THE LEADER OF CONGRESS LEGISLATURE PARTY. THIS DECISION PAVES WAY FOR HER CHIEF MINISTERSHIP FOR THE THIRD TIME IN DELHI. REGARDING THE DECISION SHEILA DIKSHIT SAID "I AM VERY HAPPY TODAY." SHE WAS ELECTED AT A MEETING OF 42 CONGRESS MLA'S TODAY AFTRENOON.
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Monday, December 8, 2008
CONGRESS REGAINS DELHI, CAPTURES RAJASTHAN,MIZORAM
NSUIJNU CONGRATULATES INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS FOR ITS REMARKABLE VICTORY IN THE ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS. CONGRESS HAS RECAPTURED DELHI STATE DESPITE MALICIOUS PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN BY THE BJP CAMP. INC WON 40 SEATS OUT OF 70.
IN RAJASTHAN CONGRESS WON 99 SEATS AND HAS CLAIMED TO FORM GOVERNMENT. THE VERDICT IS A CLEAN MANDATE AGAINST THE ANTI PEOPLE VAUNDHARA RAJE GOVERNMENT.
MEANWHILE CONGRESS GOT A LANDSLIDE VICTORY IN MIZORAM BY WINNING 29 SEATS OUT OF 40.
IN MADHYAPRADESH CONGRESS CAME SECOND AND SHOWED TREMENDOUS INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF SEATS. INC GOT 70 SEATS IN MP.
THESE VICTORIES SHOW THAT CONGRESS IS THE ONLY CREDIBLE SECULAR PARTY. INTERESTINGLE THE VOTERS REJECTED THE PSEUDO SECULAR RHETORICS OF THE THIRD FRONT INTO DUST BIN. THE TREMENDOUS VICTORY OF CONGRESS IS ALSO A CLEAN MANDATE AGAINST THE COMMUNAL FASCIST FORCES WHO POLITICISED THE TERROR ATTACKS AND LED A VENOMOUS ATTACK ON THE MINOROTIES.THIS TRIUMPH OF THE CONGRESS IS THE OUTCOME OF THE PEOPLE FRIENDLY POLICIES INITIATED BY THE CONGRESS WHICH INCLUDES NUCLEAR DEAL, FARM LOAN WAIVER, NREGA, RTI, NEW UNIVERSITIES, ETC.
Sunday, December 7, 2008
NSUI JNU REMEBERS DR BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR
Friday, December 5, 2008
CONGRESS GOVERNMENT CUTS OIL PRICES
THE CONGRESS LED UPA GOVERNMENT HAS CUT THE PRICE OF PETROL BY 5R/LTR AND DIESEL BY 2RS/LTR. CONGRESS HAS TAKEN THIS DECSIONKEEPING IN MIND THE PLIGHT OF THE COMMON MAN AT THE CRUNCHING TMES OF FINANCIAL CRISIS. THE DECISION WILL BE ANNOUNCED TOMORROW BY THE PETROLEUM MINISTER SRI. MURALI DEORA.
-PREMJISH
RUSSIA BECOMES INDIA'S NEW ALLY IN NUCLEAR COOPERATION
INDIA AND RUSSIA UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF PRIME MINISTER MANMMOHAN SINGH AND RUSSIAN PRESIDENT DMITRI MEDVEDEV HAS SIGNED AN AGREEMENT ON CIVILIAN NUCLEAR COOPERATION. RUSSIA WILL BUILD FOUR ADDITIONAL ATOMIC REACTORS IN TAMIL NADU. ON THIS SPECIAL OCCASION PM MANMOYHAN SINGH SAID, "The signing of the agreement on civil nuclear cooperation with Russia marks a new milestone in the history of our cooperation with Russia in the field of nuclear energy"
-PREMJISH
Thursday, December 4, 2008
NSUI JNU DECRIES KERALA CM'S "DOG" REMARK
AFTER KERAL;A CM'S REMARK ONE WONDERS WHETHER HE IS SUITABLE FOR THAT POST. NSUI DEMANDS THE RESIGNATION OF KERALA CM IN THIS ISSUE.
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Sack Kerala CM, says Lalu as 'dog' remark haunts CPM
Seeking removal of Kerala Chief Minister V S Achutanadan for his remark on the family of slain NSG commando Sandip Unnikrishnan, Railway Minister Lalu Prasad said he would ask the CPM leadership to show the door to the communist veteran.
"It is a very serious issue. What the CM has said is absolutely wrong and a great insult to our martyr. I would demand from the CPM Politburo to remove him," Prasad told reporters in New Delhi.
Criticising the CM's remark, Prasad said, "We are also in politics and at times people do not behave properly with us while venting out their anger. But we are in public life and we have to understand the sentiment. The martyr's father was in the state of shock and this should have been understood by the chief minister."
Karat says sorry for 'dog' remark
Responding to Kerala Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan’s remarks on late NSG commando Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan’s family, CPM General Secretary Prakash Karat has clarified that the CM’s comments were regrettable. The CPM boss also added that he had spoken to Chief Minister Achuthanandan on the issue.
Achuthanandan rebukes slain Major's family
NSUI PAYS HOMAGE TO ALL WHO LAID THEIR LIFE IN THE MUMBAI TERROR STRIKE
JAI HIND!