they are looking out for their nation's national interests, namely china's. (although i disagree about the nuke deal being in india's national interests in its current form.)
just as missionaries look out for american and vatican interests.
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Communists are undermining national interest
SEVERAL security experts and political commentators have underlined the need for the Congress and the BJP to set aside their differences over the nuclear deal and to forge a common front to defeat the communists who, they believe, are undermining national interests.
They are not suggesting an alliance or coalition between the two parties—that, in any case, is not possible at this juncture—but a common understanding on broad framework of foreign policy and security concerns so that India can maintain continuity in policies on sensitive and crucial issues.
What appears to have provoked several well meaning intellectuals to make almost identical proposals at different forums is the disillusionment with the Left parties' all-out efforts to derail the process of building Indo-US strategic partnership. They bemoan lack of adequate communication between these parties on major issues, particularly Indo-US civil nuclear deal.
K. Subrahmanyam, a noted defence analyst went to the extent of urging nationalist parties to forge a common front against the Left parties in Parliament on the issue.
This is most unlikely to happen not because there are fundamental differences on the issue between these parties but because of the Congress party's inherent fear of losing Muslim support if it were seen close to the BJP on any major issue.
That partly explains why the Congress never tried to seek BJP support on its policy of liberalisation. The result is a major set back to economic reforms that is perceived to be Dr. Manmohan Singh's primary concern. Although there were sharp differences between the Congress and the BJP in 90s when the Congress ran a minority government under P.V. Narasimaha Rao, the then Prime Minister maintained cordial relations with the leader of the Opposition. Quite often during that critical period, he persuaded the Opposition to bail out the Government on crucial issues. The motivation was not to allow the national interest to suffer at the hands of competitive party interests. This informal arrangement collapsed after Rao used the "hawala" cases to trap his detractors and critics in the Opposition as well as his own party.
During the NDA rule, the Opposition didn't respond to Government's attempt to build national consensus on major security issues. Pokhran II was a bold and strategic move that called for national consensus. Unfortunately, several senior Congress leaders bitterly attacked the Shakti tests accusing the BJP of undermining national interests.
The criticism was uncalled for as successive Congress Prime Ministers had played a role in building nuclear arsenal and Pokhran II was a defining moment in our post-Independence history. It was the starting point for India to be taken seriously by the international community.
On the nuclear issue, BJP has serious reservation over the manner in which the Government is conducting the negotiations. The party has time and again said that its major concern is the impact the Hyde Act may have on building our nuclear arsenal. It wants to be assured that no provision in the deal would destroy or weaken the integrity of our nuclear weapon programme.
However, BJP is equally concerned that nothing should be done that would affect nation's credibility among the international community. It also wants that the process of Indo-US strategic relations set in motion by it when it was in power should be taken forward.
The party is equally interested in liberating India from technology apartheid that has hurt our economy and development for decades. Former National Security Advisor Brajesh Mishra, who played no mean role in the shift in India's foreign policy during NDA rule, says he is not happy with the manner in which UPA dealt with the Opposition on the issue.
He admits that Government kept him informed about the negotiations with US on the deal but regrets that his repeated requests to deal with the political leadership in the BJP was ignored. Recently, the Government has made efforts, albeit belatedly, to reach out to the principal opposition party to address its concerns. US too launched a diplomatic offensive to convince the Opposition of the merits of the deal. It is, however, unclear if these moves would be able to break the deadlock.
Prakash Karat's latest stand on the deal articulated in a structured speech he recently delivered at Kolkata is revealing. He made it absolutely clear that the Left parties' opposition to the deal is not on technical grounds. Its opposition, he says, is based on its policy to prevent a strategic partnership between US and India to frustrate American design to encircle China.
He finds it intolerable that an "imperialist" power is using a "bourgeois" country to hurt the interest of a socialist country. The Communists perceive it their bounden duty to prevent such a catastrophe.
Those who are aware of Communists' track record are not surprised for it is not the first time that the Communists are betraying national causes to serve international communism.
They are the one who came up with ideological justification for the country's Partition and followed it up by blaming India when Pakistan attacked Kashmir in 1965.
The communists were out of sync with the national mood during the Quit India movement and sided with British imperialism to serve the cause of erstwhile Soviet Union. Pro-China elements in the CPI opposed the Government in the wake of Chinese aggression in 1962. It led to a split between pro-Beijing and pro-Moscow factions.
The Communists welcomed China's nuclear tests in 1964 that posed a grave danger to our national security but were extremely upset when India became a nuclear power and blamed the BJP for disturbing regional peace and stability by conducting tests.
Karat says his party's would do all in its power to block Indo-US cooperation what to talk of strategic alliance between them.
While Communists are worried about American strategy to encircle China, they never blame China for its strategic moves to encircle India.
They have not uttered a word of criticism for what Chinese are doing in Tibet to threaten India's sovereignty and territorial integrity.
They see no reason to be concerned about Chinese moves to encircle India by establishing naval bases all around it to monitor its naval movements. Patriotic forces need to join hands to frustrate Communists' dangerous moves.
Those who are aware of Communists' track record are not surprised, for, it is not the first time that the Communists are betraying national causes to serve international communism. They are the one who came up with ideological justification for the country's partition and followed it up by blaming India when Pakistan invaded Kashmir. http://www.organiser.org/dynamic/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=210&page=5
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This is Britain, NOT Bangladesh
The Durga Puja is a joyous festival celebrated during the Navratri period by Bengali Hindu communities in India, Bangladesh and the rest of the world.
Unfortunately this year the peaceful celebrations were disrupted twice, by Muslim youths, who attacked an elderly devotee on one occasion and then tried to smash the Murti of Mother Durga as it was being led out at the end of the festival. The elderly people present there were frightened and some of the children were in tears as they witnessed this harassment, whilst the younger worshippers confronted the attackers and a fight broke out between them, which only dissipated when the police arrived.
The aggressors shouted that the area was "their patch" and that they would "not have Hindus worshipping their gods" there.
A less-publicised corollary to the Nuclear Deal: THE NEOLIBERAL INVASION OF INDIA
http://www.newsreview.com/reno/Content?oid=598554
A March 2006 pact under which the United States agreed to supply nuclear fuel to India for the production of electric power also included a less-publicized corollary—the Knowledge Initiative on Agriculture. While it's purportedly a deal to assist Indian farmers and liberalize trade (see story 4), critics say the initiative is destroying India's local agrarian economy by encouraging the use of genetically modified seeds, which in turn is creating a new market for pesticides and driving up the overall cost of producing crops.
The deal provides a captive customer base for genetically modified seed maker Monsanto and a market for cheap goods to supply Wal-Mart, whose plans for 500 stores in the country could wipe out the livelihoods of 14 million small vendors.
Monsanto's hybrid "Bt cotton" has already edged out local strains, and India is currently suffering an infestation of mealy bugs, which have proven immune to the pesticides the chemical companies have made available. Additionally, the sowing of crops has shifted from the traditional to the trade friendly. Farmers accustomed to cultivating mustard, a sacred local crop, are now producing soy, a plant foreign to India.
Though many farmers are seeing the folly of these deals, it's often too late. Suicide has become a final act of opposition to what's occurring in their nation.
Vandana Shiva, who for 10 years has been studying the effects of bad trade deals on India, has published a report titled Seeds of Suicide, which recounts the deaths of more than 28,000 farmers who killed themselves in despair over the debts brought on them by binding agreements ultimately favoring corporations.
Hope comes in the form of a growing cadre of farmers hip to the flawed deals. They've organized into local sanghams, 72 of which now exist as small community networks that save and share seeds, skills, and assistance during the good times of harvest and the hard times of crop failure.”
The BJP has virtually shot itself in the foot by opposing the deal, after having initiated it when it was in power. The 'party with a difference' has displayed the same sense of irresponsibility and petty political opportunism that other parties could never rise above. The only thing that now distinguishes it from others is its infighting and total lack of clarity of thought and vision.
By not supporting the Nuclear Deal, the BJP has displayed even graver 'anti nationalism' than the communists, who at least do not make any bones about the fact that their first allegiance is to their ideology which transcends national boundaries(unfortunately, only for Indian commies).
Now that the RSS has expressed its views, what is BJP going to do?
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