The Great Indian Political Drama - 2 (Mar 2018 - Oct 2018)

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Post by hanumadu » Sat Sep 15, 2018 8:02 am

This is Gold
https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-ne ... Hf2IO.html
Parliament panel hails govt’s handling of Doklam standoff
A parliamentary panel that has studied the Doklam military standoff between India and China last year praised the government for its “overall handling” of the crisis, but cautioned that Chinese infrastructure “built uncomfortably” close to the tri-junction with Bhutan had not yet been dismantled.

The standing committee on external affairs headed by Congress leader Shashi Tharoor submitted the report on Sino-India relations, including Doklam, to Lok Sabha speaker Sumitra Mahajan on September 4. The report is publicly available. The committee also includes Congress president Rahul Gandhi.
The report includes submissions by senior government officials to the panel, which emphasised that the standoff in Dolkam was clearly the result of “an effort to compromise our security.”
“The committee would commend the government’s overall handling of the crisis as it managed to send necessary signals to China that India will not acquiesce in its unilateral and forceful attempts to change the status quo at any of India’s territorial boundaries”, the parliamentary committee report said.
“It has also been informed to the committee that Chinese had built the track across Batang La-Meruga-La-Sinchela Ridge Line over the last 25 years. It has been clear to the committee that PLA took advantage of the absence of Bhutanese troops in Bhutan’s territory,” the committee observed, urging the government to constantly engage with Bhutan on the subject of North Doklam as to dissuade the PLA from making “direct ingress into Southern Doklam in future and trying to shift the tri-junction point southwards.”

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Post by srikumar » Sat Sep 15, 2018 1:35 pm

Sachin wrote:
Sat Sep 15, 2018 5:22 am
Looks like GoSL was also doing lots of preperations in the background, after they had made up their mind that LTTE has to be finished once and for all. The Sri Lankan forces at that time was not among the best forces, and LTTE clearly had a upper hand there. But then without much fan fare GoSL had introduced lots of changes in the way SL forces worked. They focused on teams like LRP (Long Range Patrol), who could infiltrate into LTTE areas and remain concealed for weaks together. They could make some good ambushes and then get back safely. Sri Lankan Air men were also brought to Tambaram IAF base at that time for some training, and local pro-LTTE groups in TN had made protests. Secondly, GoSL intelligence teams also seems to have mastered lots of new skills, and they were smart to use the fissures in LTTE. Col. Karuna etc. was quickly encouraged to defect, and he was a vital information provider for GoSL forces. And yes, India also pitched in and IN and Coast Guard made sure that LTTE's sea based gimmicks cannot be carried out.
Yes, I recall there was like a 2-year hiatus where GoSL did not pursue any serious operations against Ltte and during this time they also tried to stop support from ltte people in Canada and England (in addition to having their governments stop such activities). Karuna defection was major. Their preparation for the final push went way beyond military tactics. I actually did not believe that P was finally caught (let alone killed)...took a day for that to sink in.

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Post by Sachin » Sat Sep 15, 2018 2:47 pm

srikumar wrote:
Sat Sep 15, 2018 1:35 pm
[Yes, I recall there was like a 2-year hiatus where GoSL did not pursue any serious operations against Ltte
A similar tactic was also adopted by GoTN when it came to dealing with Veerappan. Veerappan's banditry was once upon a time every day news in South India. He was considered invincible, and every one was ridiculing TN Police. But at a point of time some how media's access to Veerappan was cut off. And by then GoTN also realised that there was a tie up between Veerappan gang and some Sri Lankan terror outfits as well. But they just kept every thing below the radar, so much so that Veerappan was pretty much forgotten. But TN Police (with K Vijayakumar leading the anti-Veerappan operation) was making steady progress against the bandit and his gang. His area was infiltrated by police men in plain clothes (some even working as masons) and a strong informer network was created. The whole forest areas was divided into small areas in which small but well trained teams known as Anjaneyas was deployed. These teams were all well connected on the wireless so that for each team help was just minutes away. And then fine morning the common men get a news of Veerappan shot dead in police encounter. Even then, there were strong rumours that he had actually been picked up by the police, made to spill beans* and all information gleaned from him and then he was setup for an ambush.

* Veerappan had taken really truck loads of money to release the Kannada actor Dr. Rajkumar. As a common bandit, Veerappan alone could not have used it for his comforts. The money was hidden some where, or most likely distributed amongst various groups which may even have Sri Lankan Tamil terror groups. There was a time when Veerappan had written a letter with the title "Brigadier Veerappan" :lol:.

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Re: The Great Indian Political Drama - 2 (Mar 2018 - )

Post by KL Dubey » Sat Sep 15, 2018 4:06 pm

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cit ... 821159.cms

The TOI page doesn't allow me to paste whole paras...but read the second and third para of the report. It appears that the entire operation/hierarchy of these Hesoos-peddlers in Jalandhar, Amritsar is run by characters from KL. Even the nuns are all from KL. These lowlifes are tarnishing the reputation of the state and its people all over India and abroad, and it's a damned shame.

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Post by chetak » Sat Sep 15, 2018 7:47 pm

No rocket science, this: The framing of Nambi Narayanan may have involved three conspiracies in one


No rocket science, this: The framing of Nambi Narayanan may have involved three conspiracies in one

September 15, 2018, Arun Ram in Chennai Talkies | Edit Page,

On a cold December night in 1994, muffled voices and thuds rent the air at Latex Guest House in Thiruvananthapuram, where a couple of Intelligence Bureau officials were interrogating a leading Indian space scientist accused of selling India’s rocket secrets to Pakistan through two Maldivian women. The next morning S Nambi Narayanan, the scientist, was found slumped on the floor, cold and unconscious.

When Nambi asked his tormentors why he was being tortured, one of the men said: “You sold our motherland to the enemy. If one day we are proved wrong, you can slap us.” Nambi says he has kept his slippers ready.

Friday’s Supreme Court order granting Rs 50 lakh compensation to Nambi and constituting a committee headed by Justice DK Jain “to find out ways and means to take appropriate steps against the erring officials” is not the end of a 24-year-old battle that the scientist has been fighting – it must be the beginning of the last round. A quarter century of cases has answered the ‘what’ and, partly, the ‘who’ of the story. What remains to be told is the ‘why’ part of it.

That the Isro spy case was a figment of someone’s imagination has been clear since May 2, 1996 when the chief judicial magistrate, Ernakulam, accepted a CBI report that found the case to be a fabricated one. CBI had sent separate confidential reports, one on the IB investigation to the Union government, and the other on the special investigation team to the Kerala government.

CBI said IB’s interrogation reports were incoherent and full of contradictions, that the IB officers acted in an unprofessional manner. The central agency named then IB joint director Mathew John and deputy director RB Sreekumar for having failed to conduct a fair and objective inquiry. CBI also named Kerala police special branch inspector S Vijayan, crime branch DSP KK Joshwa and DIG Siby Mathews. These men, one presumes, are “the erring officers” the apex court was talking about.

The Justice Jain committee has the mandate to find out if there were more conspirators. The most crucial part, however, remains outside its purview: what was their intention? A discerning reader of the case since its beginning may find not one, but at least three conspiracies behind the fake Isro spy case. And if one were to arrange them chronologically, they get progressively more serious.

Conspiracy one was personal, a misadventure of a Kerala police officer called Vijayan, who arrested a Maldivian woman called Mariam Rasheeda from a lodge in Thiruvananthapuram on October 20 on charges of overstaying. Later it turned out to be false; she had gone to Vijayan to report that she may not be able to fly out despite having a ticket since there was a bandh on that day. Mariam later said the officer had sought sexual favours, and after her arrest she was tortured physically.

The first link to Isro was a telephone number Vijayan found in Mariam’s diary, that of D Sasikumaran, an Isro scientist who worked under Nambi. Mariam later said she had consulted Sasikumaran’s wife, a physician. By the end of November 1994 Vijayan and Siby Mathews had “netted” seven people, including Nambi, Sasikumaran, Fauziyya Hassan (another Maldivian woman), K Chandrasekhar (a representative of Russian space agency Glavkosmos) and SK Sharma, a labour contractor.

Conspiracy two was political. As the spy case got bigger with some Malayalam newspapers falling for the salacious details the Kerala police supplied, the AK Antony faction of Congress, which was trying to bring down the K Karunakaran government in Kerala, found an opportunity. Then Youth Congress leader Cherian Philip is on record that he was among the conspirators led by Oommen Chandy who dragged in the name of IG Raman Srivastava, who was Karunakaran’s favourite police officer, into the spy case. Finally, Karunakaran had to resign.

The third conspiracy – the one yet to be proved – may be international, and details of this episode could bring out some very dirty liaisons between some IB officers and foreign intelligence agencies. Pertinent to note is the timing of the spy case. India had just launched its first PSLV, for which Nambi was the project director for two of the four stages of the rocket. He was also heading the cryogenic engine project which was to fuel India’s future projects including interplanetary and manned missions.

It is well known that India can launch satellites at a fraction of the cost of what the US and the European Space Agency charge. India mastering satellite launches, especially with the cryogenic engine that can power bigger rockets, would mean a lot of money flow into the country that would otherwise have gone West. And someone was clearly not happy with that. They partly won, as the spy case slowed down India’s cryogenic project by at least a decade.

In his book ‘Russia in Space: The Failed Frontier’, prolific space writer Brian Harvey details how when Russia was about to hand over cryogenic technology to India, the US clamped sanctions on the two countries. It is also little known history that India had, through a smart circumvention of sanctions, flown crucial parts of the cryogenic engine from Russia in the underbelly of three Ural Airways flights less than a year before the spy case broke out.

And the man India entrusted with the operation answers to the name Nambi Narayanan. When Nambi asked his tormentors why he was being tortured, one of the men said: “You sold our motherland to the enemy. If one day we are proved wrong, you can slap us.” Nambi says he has kept his slippers ready

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#ISRO spy case. KM Joseph has been elevated as a Supreme Court Judge by the Collegium. He was the one who denied justice to the innocent scientist #NambiNarayanan in the very beginning.

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Post by chetak » Sun Sep 16, 2018 3:50 am

Mr Sidhu, don’t be the Devil’s advocate

Mr Sidhu, don’t be the Devil’s advocate

Madhuri Madhok
August 25, 2018,

Ignorance is sin, but in this case, it is suicidal. Sidhu has betrayed his ignorance of history and facts.


Navjot Singh Sidhu, the cricketer-cum-comedian turned politician seems to be conveniently standing on two boats, India and Pakistan, with his loyalty shifted to the rogue state.

Ignorance is sin, but in this case, it is suicidal. Sidhu, loved by generations of Indians for his earthy humour and Sidhu Vani, has, by his recent actions, betrayed his complete ignorance of history and facts on Pakistan and India-Pakistan relations. It would do him good to learn some hard facts about Pakistan.

First, why was Pakistan created? It was created on the basis of two-nation theory when the Muslims of India under the leadership of M.A. Jinnah and the Muslim League asserted their separate identity, distinct from the Indian/Hindu nation and opted out of it. The creation of an Islamic state under the name of Pakistan within the natural boundaries of India—the basis on which the demand for Partition of India was raised—is the bitter and painful fact of history which cannot be ignored. Even today, it is this anti-India sentiment that is sustaining the failed state called Pakistan.

In the case of Punjab, the whole of East Punjab up to the river Ravi including Lahore was Hindu majority. In Gurdaspur district, taken as a whole, Muslims had a very slender majority. But the part of the district east of Ravi, including the towns of Gurdaspur and Pathankot, were Hindu majority. Therefore East Punjab including Lahore had to remain with India according to the criteria laid down for Partition by the British government for the guidance of the one-man Radcliffe Commission which was to demarcate the areas to be given to Pakistan.

According to Prof Balraj Madhok, Justice Mehar Chand Mahajan, who made an irrefutable case for awarding Lahore to India before the Commission, was aware that the fate of Lahore would be decided not on the basis of facts and arguments but on the basis of political considerations. He, therefore, sent urgent messages to Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to insist on keeping Lahore for India. But Nehru’s cryptic reply, “how does it matter whether a few cities go this way or that way?” came as a rude shock to Mahajan, who never forgave Nehru for this gross betrayal of India’s interests.

Partition should have been followed with the exchange of Hindu population left behind in Pakistan with the Muslim population left behind in truncated India. Jinnah was all for it. He was on record that Muslims could not co-exist with Hindus. Even B.R. Ambedkar had suggested the planned exchange of population as the “logical corollary” of Partition. But this never happened. Those who worked and voted en masse for Pakistan like the Muslims of Bihar and UP were called Mohajirs and are ill-treated even today. Pakistan’s Punjabis, whom Sidhu found to be so loving and hospitable, still rule the roost while minorities, including Ahmadiyyas, are treated worse than animals.

As regards peace, India did everything possible to make peace with Pakistan including ceding its 30% territory to 27% Pakistanis. But what has Pakistan done in return? It has only waged relentless wars on India in the name of Islamic jihad. And India has always been a loser. The full-fledged Pakistani aggression on Jammu and Kashmir in October 1947, which ended with unilateral ceasefire on 1 January 1949, resulted in the loss of 30,000 square miles of territory to Pakistan. In 1965, Indian forces regained control over Haji Peer Pass and Kargil Heights, which were under illegal occupation of the Pakistan army, and a part of Pak territory up to Sialkot and Lahore. But thanks to Soviet pressure at Tashkent, India had to return these to Pakistan for the sake of “peace and friendship”. The Tashkent Declaration also took a toll of India’s tallest Prime Minister, Lal Bahadur Shastri, who was found dead in his room at Tashkent under mysterious circumstances on the morning of 11 January 1966.

The 1971 war and the Simla Agreement thereafter converted India’s military victory into a diplomatic defeat and within a decade led Gen Zia-ul-Haq to launch Operation Topac against India. Under this operation, Pakistan not only extended full moral and material support to Khalistani separatists in Indian Punjab, but also unleashed a reign of state-sponsored terror in Kashmir Valley to challenge Kashmir’s accession to India. The religious cleansing of the valley of all Hindus including Sikhs and Kashmiri Pandits was the direct outcome. Then came Kargil, in which Mother India lost 527 of her brave sons and till today Pakistan is waging a relentless proxy war in J&K with the help of jihadists and ISIS personnel.

When it has so much money to fund terror activities in India, Pakistan anyway has enough to tackle its own problems. Sidhu need not worry about that country.

As for Punjabi affection and bonding, so gladly eulogised by Sidhu, let Pakistan display some of it by letting Pakhtoons go to Pakhtoonistan, the Baloch to Balochistan, and let Sindh and Pak-Occupied Kashmir return to India. As far as Punjab is concerned, Sidhu should know what to do. He should work for the merger of West Punjab with East Punjab in the spirit of “sarbat da bhala”. But that would banish Pakistan from the map of the world. Are Sidhu and his ilk ready for that?

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Post by chetak » Sun Sep 16, 2018 4:49 am

here is another brit sepoy singing for his supper or more realistically, his "grant" is up for renewal.

His "solution" is so simple, so logical and so well reasoned out and yet he conveniently forgets the enduring evil legacy of the brits in India.

Surely, it is not unimaginable that the UK would also be waiting in the wings to peddle some of its own shitty "weapon" systems under the guise and fond hope of the newly "expanded" weapons market in India after the same would be "prised" open by CATSAA.

India’s purchase of S-400 could be a mistake


India’s purchase of S-400 could be a mistake

John Dobson
September 15, 2018,

LONDON: If you had picked up a British newspaper on 5 September you would have found two faces staring at you. One was Alexander Petrov, according to his Russian passport, the other Ruslan Boshirov. Both are believed to be false names, as British intelligence has linked them to the GRU, Russia’s secretive military intelligence organisation. Both are believed to have been trained in assassination and espionage.

British police and intelligence services claim to have sufficient evidence to charge Petrov and Boshirov with the attempted murder of the former Russian spy, Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, using Novichok. Appearing in a comically unbelievable interview on Russian Television this week, Petrov and Boshirov claimed that they were civilians and simply visitors to Salisbury, but did not explain why their visit took them close to Skripal’s house just hours before they were found unconscious. President Vladimir Putin also denied any involvement by Russia, but perhaps forgot an earlier interview when he said darkly that being a traitor was “bad for your health”. It certainly was for the Skripals.

How should the free world respond to a country which acts in such a gung-ho manner, tossing aside well-established conventions? Initially, more than two dozen countries were persuaded by Britain’s compelling evidence and expelled a total of 150 Russian spies working under diplomatic cover. Then America and the EU added to the list of sanctions against Russia on the basis that it had “used chemical weapons in violation of international law”.

Sanctions against Russia have become the weapon of choice by the West, but they are a blunt instrument with complex side-effects for third parties. None more so than India. For example, in August 2017 a reluctant President Donald Trump signed into law the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA), as a result of Russia’s “unacceptable behaviour in the use of chemical weapons, the annexation of Crimea and its interference in the 2016 US presidential elections”. In effect, this law makes it extremely difficult for India to contract with both Russia and America for arms purchases, unless America issues a “waiver” from CAATSA.

There’s another effect of US sanctions, which is unique to India. As Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman reminded Washington recently, India has an enduring relationship with Russia going back decades. Historically, India’s trade with Russia has flourished when Russia’s relationships with China have soured. Trade increased six-fold in the 1960s and 70s during Russia/Sino tensions, a great example of the ancient proverb “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”. Nowadays, the aggressive sanctions by the West against Russia are pushing President Putin towards China, a move which is changing the geopolitical dynamics in Asia.

If you don’t believe me, look no further than Vostok 2018, the major military exercise currently taking place on Russia’s eastern border. Unprecedentedly, Beijing is contributing 3,200 soldiers, 900 tanks and 30 jets to Vostok 2018, a move which must have created a severe headache in New Delhi. Russia has also delivered to China its first batch of the impressive S-400 mobile surface-to-air (SAM) system. India has been negotiating with Russia over several years for exactly this system.

So, in the light of both the dramatic geopolitical change in Asia and the possible sanctions against Russia, should contracts be signed for the S-400, rumoured to take place next month during the summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Putin?

I believe that there is now a strong argument for India to change direction and build up its arms purchases from the US. The announcement in 2017 that the US would sell India 22 predator Guardian drones, a contract worth $2-3 billion, is a great example. A delighted President Trump declared India to be a “major defence partner”. This year the US announced that the armed version of the drone would be authorised for India, a first for any country outside NATO.

It gets better. On 31 July the Trump administration placed India on the Strategic Trade Authorisation (STA) Tier-1 list, which would allow American companies to export more high-tech equipment under a streamlined licence exception. Currently only 36 countries, mostly NATO, have this designation and India is only the third Asian country, after Japan and South Korea, to achieve it.

New Delhi is keen to purchase the advanced stealth strike fighter aircraft, F-35, from America, but Washington fears that the stealth characteristics of this aircraft would be compromised if India purchases and integrates the S-400 into its air-defence network. This move would also reduce credence in the US’ current operational stealth advantage and would almost certainly result in the refusal of any sales of the F-35 to India.

Following the 2+2 talks last week, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that the US is not seeking to punish India for its Russian arms purchases, hinting that a waiver from CAATSA might be forthcoming. However, it is by no means certain that an unpredictable American President will do so and India might find itself with a dilemma if it contracts for the S-400. Already it is reported that financial sanctions by the US have hit India’s arms trade with Russia hard, with payments for weapons and equipment worth over $2 billion stuck after banks refused to make remittances to Moscow fearing penal action.

There is a simple, but controversial solution to this dilemma, which would require political courage: cancel the S-400 and purchase from America the Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (THAAD) SAM system, the one supplied recently to South Korea. The two systems have different characteristics, but the sophisticated THAAD is particularly effective against long-range missiles.

The purchase of the S-400 could, therefore, be a mistake by India. It should take full advantage of its STA Tier-1 status and cancel the S-400, purchase THAAD and proceed smoothly to the purchase of the F-35. By doing so, India’s defences will be substantially stronger.


John Dobson worked in UK Prime Minister John Major’s Office between 1995 and 1998 and is presently Chairman of the Plymouth University of the Third Age.

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Post by chetak » Sun Sep 16, 2018 5:52 am

there is one treasonous character who is the common thread in almost every BIF effort that has been running for years. He has profited professionally as well as personally and someone should probe his unaccounted wealth starting from the shady commonwealth contracts "awarded" to him

Minhaz Merchant Verified account @MinhazMerchant

Framing of #NambiNarayanan has 3 culprits: 1) Corrupt Kerala police branch officers; 2) AKAntony faction of Kerala Cong that used fabricated case to force CM Karunakaran out; 3) Treasonous IB officers colluding with #CIA to stall #ISRO’s space program

Prabhu Chawla Verified account @PrabhuChawla

Prabhu Chawla Retweeted Minhaz Merchant
You have forgotten one culprit. A section of Lutyens media ? Dig deep and you will find the person.

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Post by chetak » Sun Sep 16, 2018 8:00 am

https://youtu.be/lsCtfdr5tW0


On the sidelines of the Pondy Lit Fest, defense expert Abhijit Iyer Mitra interviews journalist Arun Ram, writer of Ready To Fire (A book about one of India's foremost scientists Nambi Narayanan who was framed).



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Post by chetak » Sun Sep 16, 2018 7:38 pm

The US deep state is back with its rabid ever green agenda and its palpable duplicitous and dishonest moralizing about "religious freedom" bullshit.

US report blaming Hindutva for ‘rising intolerance’ is disingenuous, biased and motivated


US report blaming Hindutva for ‘rising intolerance’ is disingenuous, biased and motivated

ByK Bhattacharjee, September 15, 2018.


As per a report published by the Congressional Research Service (CRS), an independent bipartisan wing of the United States Congress, the secular nature of India is eroding due to the rise of Hindutva in the country. The report titled “India: Religious Freedom Issues”, which can be read here, states, “Religious freedom is explicitly protected under its constitution. Hindus account for a vast majority (nearly four-fifths) of the country’s populace. Hindu nationalism has been a rising political force in recent decades, by many accounts eroding India’s secular nature and leading to new assaults on the country’s religious freedoms.”

The report makes use of multiple US and Indian government resources, in addition to liberal media outlets which their own President calls ‘Fake News’ and quotes various Indians including senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, to further its narrative. The report only takes into account the opinions of liberals to reach its conclusions and a contrarian point of view finds no place in its pages. At a time when the US is itself so divided as a country, perhaps their Congress will be better advised to focus on the rise of Neo-Nazis and various political leaders and vast sections of their media openly supporting violent organizations like the Antifa.

Most conspicuously, the report cites S.M. Mushrif when it states, “In 2016, Maharashtra’s former senior-most police official reportedly called for banning the RSS as “the country’s largest terror organization.” Mushrif was one of the individuals who had attended the inauguration event of the book, ’26/11: RSS ki Saazish?’. Interestingly the book insinuates that the RSS conspired with CIA and Mossad to perpetuate the horror in Mumbai. It is interesting that the CRS accepts the assertions of a man as gospel truth who appears to have endorsed a book that blames the top US intelligence agency for the terror attacks in Mumbai in 2008.

The CRS also appears to harbour a special grudge against anti-conversion laws. Its report says, “According to USCIRF, although these laws have resulted in few arrests and no convictions, they “have created a hostile atmosphere for religious minorities, particularly Christians,” and “Christian communities have long reported harassment and violent attacks in the states that have adopted anti-conversion laws,” largely as reaction to perceive proselytizing activities.” It also cites the annual report of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) which states, “Advocate for the central Indian government to press states with anti-conversion and anti-cow slaughter laws to repeal or amend them to conform with international human rights standards.”

The CRS would be well reminded that every nation has a right to protect itself from demographic invasion and drastic demographic shifts cause great damage to the social fabric of a society, which are often irreparable. And Hinduism, unlike the Abrahamic faiths, does not have proselytizing as one of its integral tenets, thus making such provisions necessary to protect itself against such aggressive faith systems.

The report says of Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016, which would grant citizenship rights to persecuted minorities from neighbouring countries, “If enacted, it thus could violate the Indian Constitution’s equal protection provisions.” Perhaps the CRS is not aware of Indian history and the Indian subcontinent. India was partitioned on the basis of religious faith, Pakistan and Bangladesh were formed as a consequence. We, as a country, do not owe citizenship rights to those whose ancestors participated in the partition of the Indian nation as they were granted a great chunk of land for themselves and the generations to come. And people of Indic faiths are persecuted in those countries to this day. Thus, it only makes sense that only persecuted minorities from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan are given citizenship rights should they so desire.

The report also raises concerns about the crackdown on NGOs that receive foreign funds from the current administration. It says, “Human rights watchdogs have found their activities constrained under the Modi government, and they express concerns about Modi’s commitment to minority rights, his past willingness to tolerate suppression of free expression, and the vigour with which some of his supporters have quashed dissent.” The NDA government has shutdown thousand of NGOs for non-compliance with the FCRA laws.

As we have documented in our ‘Demystifying Civil Society’ series, NGOs that receive foreign contributions from abroad are often involved in political activism in the country and other such contentious issues of great social significance. Under such circumstances, it is of critical importance that the Indian government monitors such NGOs to ensure that foreign elements are not destabilizing Indian society. It is also crucial to mention that former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had also blamed US-funded NGOs for the protests against the Koodankulam Nuclear Project.

The inherent biases of the report is revealed by the fact that Muslim intolerance is completely ignored. It is commonplace in India for Hindu festivals to be attacked and yet not a single account of Muslim atrocity against Hindus finds mention when it rakes up the issue of mob lynching. When the report raises the issue of cow vigilantism, it fails to appreciate the menace of cattle smuggling and how poor farmers are robbed of their livelihood by these criminals who often take up arms against law enforcement authorities. When it raises the issue of the campaign against ‘Love Jihad’, it fails to take into account the fact that there is strong evidence which suggests that radical Islamic organizations like the PFI are involved in a concerted campaign to brainwash Hindu women and convert them to Islam.

The response of the Indian government to such biased reports thus far has been, “India does not take cognizance of internal reports of a foreign country.” And it is the correct stance to adopt in response to an internal report of a country that prides itself in moralizing without holding itself to the same standards. More importantly, the report is a relic of the establishment that still occupies most corridors of power in the US despite Donald Trump’s election to power. President Trump has been a pleasant departure from the constant patronizing that came with Barack Obama.

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Post by Sachin » Mon Sep 17, 2018 8:52 am

PM Modi turns 68, to celebrate birthday in Varanasi
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In Karnataka the govt is still on a very slippery slope. And Siddu is now back on "fire fighting" duty.
1.Congress asks Siddaramaiah to end crisis as he returns. An ex-JD(S) Siddaramiah, now looks like have more grip on Indian National Congress (INC) leaders in KA :roll: ;).
2.'They are blaming Shivakumar unnecessarily' ; claims Laxmi Hebbalkar.
3.Jarkiholis not responsible if govt falls: Satish. Which also means that the in-fighting has not reduced at all. Jr. Gowdru is not in a very comfortable position, and "humble farmer" is also now keeping quiet.
chetak wrote:The US deep state is back with its rabid ever green agenda and its palpable duplicitous and dishonest moralizing about "religious freedom" bullshit.
This is the right time to remind US about the various s-ex related crimes in which the clergy has now been literally "caught in the act". A lot of common people now clearly understand that all these reports are whines because "soul harvesting" is now a bit more costly.

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Re: The Great Indian Political Drama - 2 (Mar 2018 - )

Post by KL Dubey » Mon Sep 17, 2018 9:34 am

Nitishwa works out LS 2019 seat sharing arrangements without too much drama:

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/ind ... 837429.cms

It doesn't say whether the previously proposed 20-20 seat sharing formula will be implemented, but it seems likely.

Meanwhile "Chandranna" is getting desperate and shows his true colors. He has tied up with the Congis and Commies in TG.

In AP, a recent Aaj Tak opinion poll shows the other rascal Jagan Reddy comfortably ahead of Chandranna as the #1 CM choice for 2019.

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Re: The Great Indian Political Drama - 2 (Mar 2018 - )

Post by KL Dubey » Mon Sep 17, 2018 9:53 am

For LS 2019 I would expect NDA seat sharing/alliance discussions (if any) with small regional parties to be straightforward in most states, but the main exception will likely be MH where it will be interesting to see how things go with Uddhav.

Of course, things will be certainly interesting In states where BJP is not yet the leading party such as TN, AP, and TG.

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Re: The Great Indian Political Drama - 2 (Mar 2018 - )

Post by crams » Mon Sep 17, 2018 2:11 pm

Guys, Baba Ramdev sucking up to UnDy and being very ambivalent about campaigning for BJP seems interesting. In fact, even his defense of ModiJi was somewhat lukewarm by his standards. Any speculation on whats up with him and his changed stance? Is he keeping his options open should thugbandhan come to power? Remember, those thugs led by their Pappu or Jihadi didi or whoever will dismantle Ramdev were he perceived to be firmly in the BJP camp (such a move will earn thugbandhan huge brownie points from p!ssfuls, western multinationals, missionaries etc). So my guess is that he is trying to smother the Urban Naxal head winds arrayed him just to be on the safe side. After all, he is a business man too :-). Any thoughts?

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Re: The Great Indian Political Drama - 2 (Mar 2018 - )

Post by crams » Mon Sep 17, 2018 2:15 pm

Here is a perfect example of a break India strategy. The toadie Shivam Vij is mocking Pappu's Hindu wannabe stunts and instead calls on him to exploit caste. And in the same breath, this puke talks about BJP being 'divisive'

https://theprint.in/opinion/why-rahul-g ... va/119340/

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Re: The Great Indian Political Drama - 2 (Mar 2018 - )

Post by manju » Mon Sep 17, 2018 4:09 pm

what is up in Goa?

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Post by Supratik » Mon Sep 17, 2018 5:19 pm

Parrikar apparently has pancreatic cancer. Congress smells a chance.

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Post by chetak » Mon Sep 17, 2018 6:00 pm

https://youtu.be/-oCFfnDwJiY


Surrendered Naxal Pahad Singh names Arun Ferreira, the 'activist' arrested



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Re: The Great Indian Political Drama - 2 (Mar 2018 - )

Post by SSundar » Mon Sep 17, 2018 7:22 pm

Two questions:

1. What happened to the Lois Sophia case in TN? The lady submitted an expired passport and the cops wanted her to report with the current passport by September 8th. No news since then, even from the BJP. Anyone knows any updates?

2. Someone on Twitter spread some gyaan that the Brits had set some conditions to grant India's independence, one of which is that the church in India cannot come under IPC and any crimes involving the church should be dealt with by Vatican or the appropriate global authority. True?

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Re: The Great Indian Political Drama - 2 (Mar 2018 - )

Post by OmkarC » Tue Sep 18, 2018 1:20 am

KL Dubey wrote:
Mon Sep 17, 2018 9:34 am
Nitishwa works out LS 2019 seat sharing arrangements without too much drama:

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/ind ... 837429.cms

It doesn't say whether the previously proposed 20-20 seat sharing formula will be implemented, but it seems likely.

Meanwhile "Chandranna" is getting desperate and shows his true colors. He has tied up with the Congis and Commies in TG.

In AP, a recent Aaj Tak opinion poll shows the other rascal Jagan Reddy comfortably ahead of Chandranna as the #1 CM choice for 2019.
Actually Jagan may end up aligning with BJP in the long run, as well as KCR in TG.. both are better than the alternatives. Sadly BJP is nowhere in the scene in both states. The challenge for Modi in 2019 will be how to maintain a squeaky clean "non-corrupt" image when the likes of Jagan are his allies.

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Post by Triank » Tue Sep 18, 2018 5:36 am

KL Dubey wrote:
Sat Sep 15, 2018 4:06 pm
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cit ... 821159.cms

The TOI page doesn't allow me to paste whole paras...but read the second and third para of the report. It appears that the entire operation/hierarchy of these Hesoos-peddlers in Jalandhar, Amritsar is run by characters from KL. Even the nuns are all from KL. These lowlifes are tarnishing the reputation of the state and its people all over India and abroad, and it's a damned shame.
have you read the book named 'oonteshwari maata ka mahant' by author pb lomeo? he tells the story of one pastor from Guj, father anthony/tony fernandes, a victim of the catholic church. in one section, he is quoted as saying to the author (who hails from Jhansi) something like "these 'lungiwaala' christians from the south are controlling & ruining everything (in the north & rest of India)!"

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Re: The Great Indian Political Drama - 2 (Mar 2018 - )

Post by Triank » Tue Sep 18, 2018 5:47 am

Sachin wrote:
Sat Sep 15, 2018 5:22 am
chetak wrote:All executed before papa prabhakaran was dispatched. The SLs made sure of the family because that was the second major demand made to them. One particular scandinavian country played a particularly duplicitous role in the entire proceedings.
From what I glean from media etc the pro-LTTE sympathisers were NOT able to pin point GoSL for killing Dwaraka and Mathivathani (D/o & W/o Prabhakaran). Their first son Charles Anthony was killed in battle and it was their second son who faced the firing squad. pro-LTTE gangs only could get some traction on the last case; with some photographs also coming in as evidence. Norway, AFAIK is the scandinavian country who played a duplicitous stand. As I said during the initial days when this country offered help, no way I could figure out that they could be acting as agents for other countries, religious groups etc.
Strong rumour that nalini's daughter was funded by the mafia queen for studies in UK. Didn't she become a doctor??
I don't know why such stories are not getting verified and leaked to media. We really need 100s of Subramanian Swamys who can bring up such cases. GoI is still playing the game by the rule book.
If India had not stood firmly with the SLs, they would have succumbed to the roler pressure very early in the game. India quickly recognised the danger of the ltte and the implications of eelam on India itself.
Was'nt LTTE finished once and for all, when India had a UPA government? In that case I feel for once Indian government agencies acted in a clear way to help India. By then looks like too many stories of LTTE nexus was coming out, and it was clearly established that this group is a big time enemy of India. Even Indian National Congress (and its leaders like Sonia G) could not completely over look that fact.
srikumar wrote:The map showing Ltte territory was steadily and surely shrinking each week. Every 3-4 week a new map would come up and LTTE territory would be less by about 20 %, without losing any conquered area, and no reverses (which was unusual- ltte always managed to strike back and push back in the past)
Looks like GoSL was also doing lots of preperations in the background, after they had made up their mind that LTTE has to be finished once and for all. The Sri Lankan forces at that time was not among the best forces, and LTTE clearly had a upper hand there. But then without much fan fare GoSL had introduced lots of changes in the way SL forces worked. They focused on teams like LRP (Long Range Patrol), who could infiltrate into LTTE areas and remain concealed for weaks together. They could make some good ambushes and then get back safely. Sri Lankan Air men were also brought to Tambaram IAF base at that time for some training, and local pro-LTTE groups in TN had made protests. Secondly, GoSL intelligence teams also seems to have mastered lots of new skills, and they were smart to use the fissures in LTTE. Col. Karuna etc. was quickly encouraged to defect, and he was a vital information provider for GoSL forces. And yes, India also pitched in and IN and Coast Guard made sure that LTTE's sea based gimmicks cannot be carried out.

By the way, here is one article written by a Sri Lankan; DBS Jeyaraj on the LTTE intelligence cheif Shanmuganathan Shivashankar @ Pottu Amman. The comments are much more valuable than the article.
I don't understand. ltte was backed by church-money too, no? now after the org getting wiped out, the SL army who has kept the SL tamils oppressed, has also let loose EJ hounds on them in some places (SLs don't realise that these hounds will bite them back in their tashreefs in the future). so who gains ultimately in all this? the giant soul-harvesting corporation, isn't it?

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Re: The Great Indian Political Drama - 2 (Mar 2018 - )

Post by la.khan » Tue Sep 18, 2018 6:56 am

RaGa asked about his recent Kailash yatra :facepalm:
See and hear for yourself! http://pic.twitter.com/ABXSRf3e03
While I like this fellow to lead the INC for long, long time, I dread to think what happens if NaMo/BJP/NDA does not get 272+ in GE2019, yeh desh toh Ram bharosay hoga :))

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