Mallikarjun Kharge, a hole in the bucket

By BD Naraayannkar

An old video of senior Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge has gone viral where he warns the country about Sanatan Dharma ruling the nation.

In the video posted by BJP Spokesperson Sambit Patra, Kharge is first seen criticising Narendra Modi’s work during his tenure as the prime minister and then warning the countrymen about Sanatan Dharma ruling the nation.

So, then should India be ruled by Bagdadi or Chengiz Khan? And this leader is on the verge of assuming the post of the All India Congress Committee's president after October 19, and after that what would the Congress party do with him?

Kharge could be acceptable in Nagaland and Mizoram, because the sentiments there are different. He could even be acceptable either in Kerala or Kashmir. Other than these states, where will he be acceptable?

Doesn't the Congress take cognisance of all these issues before anointing someone for the top post?

As many as 20-odd people I met, they told me that Kharge is a very controversial leader. I asked why? They said, "No, he is anti-Sanatana Dharma." I murmured, "Lo, gayi bhains paani mein (it's a lost case)."

Can anyone dare to contest elections by opposing Sanatana Dharma in India? At least the Hindus are not so dumb to vote an anti-Hindu party to power, at a time when radical Islamist outfits like PFI are envisioning the rule of Khilafat by 2047.

Jawaharlal Nehru might have spoken something controversial about Hindus and Hinduism, but he had some sense in not rubbing the wrong side of majority Hindus. He used to dip himself in rivers during Kumbh melas, and do yoga and display photos in public. Indira Gandhi of course was ultimate. She adorned herself with rudraksh and had good relations with well-known heads of Hindu mutts across the country.

Compare it with the present Congress party. It wants to anoint a leader like Kharge. Should India have a Palestinian-type government?

This is India, brothers! As long as leaders like Kharge are active, Congress will not gain even if Rahul Gandhi takes up hundreds of yatras.

This is a case of a party that keeps pouring water in a bucket with holes which does not fill. One such hole in the bucket is Kharge.

It's About Race, Not Communal Face Of Indian Muslims

"If there is someone who can initiate perestroika in the RSS, it is Mohan Bhagwat. In a gradual manner, he has been trying to change the Sangh’s attitude towards Muslims," writes Indian Express. Oh really?

The reality, however, is that Bhagwat has been making the DNA remarks in different ways. One of the different ways he had spoken about it was in September 2018 at the RSS conclave on "Future Bharat" in New Delhi.

He had said "Hindu Rashtra doesn’t mean there’s no place for Muslims. The day it becomes so, it won’t be Hindutva. Hindutva talks about one world family."

"Sangh works towards universal brotherhood. And the cardinal principle of this brotherhood is unity in diversity. This thought comes from our culture, which the world calls Hindutva. That’s why we call it a Hindu Rashtra," he said.

Therefore, it is not perestroika as the Indian Express would like us to believe.

So, what did Bhagwat say? He said many things, but I will address them one by one. 

He said: "Hindu-Muslim unity is misleading as they are not different, but one. The DNA of all Indians is the same, irrespective of religion." 

And, all hell broke loose. The Owaisis, the Digvijay Singhs, and others jumped into the fray and reacted vehemently. Their reactions are normal, but reactions coming from right-wing influencers were surprising enough. 

I want to ask them what is wrong with Bhagwat's DNA comment? Don't the Hindus and Muslims share ancestors, culture, and the motherland? Is it not a historical truth that the ancestors of the Indian Muslims were Hindus eons before Islam was born?

And, how would the Arabs identify Indian Muslims? Is it not a fact that they identify Indian Muslims as Hindu Muslims just like they identify Muslims from Turkey or Afghanistan as Turkish and Pashtun or Uzbek Muslims? After all, the Arabs had coined the word "Hindu". So, ethnically too the Hindus and Muslim DNA is the same.

Also, I want to ask the right-wing influencers what wrong Bhagwat did when he said Hindus indulging in lynching are not Hindus. If they disagree, aren't they admitting that Hindus are lynchers?

Actually, the political ramifications of Bhagwat's remarks have not been understood well by right-wing influencers. These remarks have come ahead of the Uttar Pradesh elections and have the potential of negating Muslim consolidation against BJP. And, this was the main reason for the BJP to suffer losses in the West Bengal assembly elections.

The Sangh strategists understand well that it is necessary for the BJP to win the Uttar Pradesh elections at any cost. And they want to take maximum benefit out of the wave that is in favor of the BJP, which registered a resounding victory in the Zilla Panchayat Presidents election, totally wiping out opposition parties from its root.

In such a scenario, Bhagwat's Hindu-Muslim brotherhood remarks should help BJP reap electoral gains just as it did ahead of the 2019 general elections after it fought for the rights of Muslim women by addressing the Triple Talaq issue.

And the most important point, these influential right-wingers are missing is that Bhagwat's remarks have the potential of wooing the Liberando Hindus, who should feel elated that the top Sanghi leader is singing their line of thought. 

Shouldn't this be understood as further consolidation of Hindu votes? After all, bringing the Liberando Hindus on board with the BJP is a herculean task than pacifying non-Hindus. I believe the right-wing influencers wouldn't disagree much.

Jai Hind.

Vikas Singh And SSR Family Must Trust CBI

The CBI today said it was conducting Sushant Singh Rajput's death case investigation professionally.

It also said all aspects of Sushant's death were been looked into and that no aspect had been ruled out as of date. 

This statement comes a week after Sushant's family had expressed their 'frustration' over the delay by CBI in probing the late actor's death. 

Forty days into the investigation, no major breakthrough has been announced by the premier investigating agency even after questioning the accused prime accused Rhea Chakraborty, his flatmate Siddharth Pithani among others. 

SSR’s family lawyer Vikas Singh had also questioned the CBI for not converting Sushant's case from abetment to suicide to murder. 

Numerous investigative reports by media, especially Republic Media Network have highlighted a sequence of events, raised question marks, and presented a list of people who must be summoned in the case, though the agency is yet to do so. 

However, my dear countrymen, the rut is so deep that it takes time to get to the truth. 

The CBI should be left alone. They are doing their duty. It is wrong to put pressure on them. They have the past history behind them. They did not achieve anything in Aarushi murder case and some other cases. Therefore, they are very cautious about Sushant's case which is so wide-ranging that the arrests of drug peddlers are also coming to the fore.

Putting pressure on CBI will completely derail the investigation. 

Amidst this, there are some reports pouring in about the central agency giving the preliminary forensic report of Sushant to two different forensic labs. Like in Sunanda Pushkar's death case FBI had done the forensic test. It could be a possibility that the CBI could have sent the report to FBI and are waiting for the report.

It is advisable that Viskas Singh, who was complaining about media trial initially and now wanting media trial, restrains himself and Sushant's family from putting pressure on CBI.

It is hardly 40 days since the CBI has been handling the case. Vikas Singh should at least give 90 days for the central agency to come out with something. If they don't, he can first approach the media in November and then the courts.

This Isn't Students' Protests, But Jihadi Conspiracy

Countrymen,

Do you remember, in January last year? A school bus in Gurgaon's Sohna Road was attacked by a mob carrying out protests against Padmaavat.

These protesters were caught in video hurling stones at the bus, while children inside cowered in fear.

As soon as the video went viral on social media, Rahul Gandhi, Farhan Akhtar, Prakash Raj, Ayushmann Khurrana took to Twitter to criticise the protests and called it as terrorism.

Farhan Akhtar tweeted, "Attacking a school bus is not an agitation. It is terrorism. The people who did it are terrorists. Please refer to them as such."

Arvind Kejriwal called the protestors as goondas in the garb of Hindus and it is the duty of every citizen to save India and Hindu religion from these goondas.

Today, across India, public transport buses are being burnt; trains are being burnt; police stations are being burnt; railway stations are being burnt; policemen are being beaten up; petrol bombs are being thrown at the police.

But, these same left-liberal leaders and celebrities are not condemning these incidents as terrorist or jihandi acts. They are labeling these protestors as innocent students.

Right now, the country is at the same crossroads as was just before India-Pakistan partition. Those very slogans are being raised, which were raised before the Partition. And, Congress once again are standing with those very same people.

I WANT to ask the Lutyens media that why they are not showing the slogans raised at Jamia Millia Islamiya Unveristy and Aligarh Muslim University on their television channels?

At Seelampur, Murshidabad and Jama Masjid areas, the protestors raised jihadi slogans like "Tera Mera Rishta Kya La Ilaha Illa Allah" and "Hindustan Se Azadi" were raised.
Are these slogans anything to do with students' movement?

No.

These are the same slogans which were raised before carrying out genocide of Kashmiri Pandits in Kashmir. These are the same slogans which were raised at "Direct Action Day" in Bengal. These are the same slogans which are raised by ISI activists.

The left-liberal cabal and Lutyens media are linking such type of slogans with students' movement.

And, what type of people are being made heroes?
Likes of Aysha Renna and Ladeeda Farzana are being interviewed by controversial journalist Barkha Dutt, who has been accused of undermining India's national security during Kargil War.

These female students of Jamia Milia Islamia are extremists in their ideologies and openly give a call to Jihad.

Aysha Renna had called India 'fascist' because the terrorist Yakub Memon was hanged till death after he was convicted for his involvement in the Mumbai Blasts that killed hundreds of people.

Ladeeda Farzana, in one of her posts, openly gave a call to Jihad. She said people should "learn about our Jihad."
You must have heard AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan's speech. What was he speaking?

Was he speaking about CAB? Was he speaking about NRC?

No.

Amanatullah Khan was saying that Indian Muslims' headgear and beards would be banned; azan and mikes in mosques would be banned, and burqa would be banned. That was an inflammatory speech to incite communal violence.

Each word which he spoke was nothing but pack of lies and spewed venom.

Kejriwal government, on the other hand, announced Rs 5 lakh and job to Jamia student injured in eye during anti-CAA stir. His MLA Haji Ishraq personally visited the court to get bail for those who were involved in Seelampur violence.

Congress leaders Mateen Ahmad Khan and Asif Mohammad also raised anti-India slogans in unison.

I THINK, we should openly talk about this.

Politicians and media should talk about the real intent of these protests.

Why Khilafat 2.0 was written on Jamia Millia Islamiya's wall? Why slogans of "Freedom from Hindus" were raised in Aligarh Muslim University?

These questions should be asked and we all should hit the streets in all cities, districts and states. It is time for all of us to hold peaceful demonstrations.

We have won the battle in Parliament. We must not lose the battle in streets.

Jai Hindi

Reasons For Mamata's Outrage

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee yesterday had staged a mega rally to protest against Citizenship Amendment Act and National Register of Citizens Bill.

Addressing the rally, Mamata Banerjee said she would not implement CAA as it was unconstitutional and divisive in law. To oppose the act, she held a massive rally in Kolkata.

The reasons for this protest rally is not far to fetch. Actually, she is agitated over the latest developments in the state, where several illegal Bangladeshi immigrants living in India are returning to their country, fearing that they would be detained in detention camps after the implementation of NRC.

Such incidents are making headlines in Bangladeshi newspapers and television channels. Dhaka Tribune, a Bangladeshi newspaper, reported that as many as 203 illegal Bangladeshi immigrants from India were arrested by Border Guards Bangladesh.

These immigrants were entering Bangladesh illegally from the Jinahidaho Maheshpur India-Bangladesh border.

Sources in BSF also stated that at least 15-20 illegal immigrants are crossing over to Bangladesh on a daily basis.

"The reverse migration of illegal Bangladeshis has increased in the last few days. We have information that every day, people are crossing over to Bangladesh and they are using the porous border in North 24 Parganas area of Basirhat and Bongaon, and the border in Nadia district to cross over. Some reports are also coming in from Malda in West Bengal," The Sunday Guardian reported quoting a highly-placed source in BSF.

The BSF source also said many immigrants living illegally in Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Delhi and Assam, are fleeing to Bangladesh.

Mamata's Dreams Dashed

These illegal Bangladeshi immigrants, who were given aadhar and pan numbers illegally, form a huge vote-bank for Mamata Banerjee. If they return to Bangladesh, it would spell doom to TMC's political prospects, when West Bengal goes for elections in 2021.

To stop this catastrophe, Mamata Banerjee has been making all kinds of political posturings to save her chair. She spread lies about CAA and NRC, creating fears in Muslims that they would lose their citizenship.

Soon after she came to know of the reverse immigration of Bangladeshis from all parts of the country, Mamata Banerjee kicked up a campaign by giving illegal ads in private channels, urging Bangladeshi immigrants not to leave India, as she would not allow CAA and NRC to be implemented in the state.

She also held a massive protest in Kolkata in this regard, but to he dismay, the following morning, Bangladesh Foreign Minister A K Abdul Momen assurance to welcome the illegal immigrants from India, if the Indian government provided them a list.

With this assurance, the passing of NRC in the Parliament and deporting illegal Bangladeshi nationals has only become imminent.

The people, on the other hand, are watching the opposition's drama unfold, from the sidelines. They very well know Mamata Banerjee does not have any power, under the Union List of seventh schedule of the Indian constitution, to stall CAA in the state.

The only option Mamata Banerjee is to gracefully accept the law and understand that India is not a charitable centre where anybody can cross over, stay and exercise their illegal voting rights to form governments.

Pseudo Secular Left-Liberal Cabal Fueling Pan-Islamic Rant

Soon after the passing of Citizenship Amendment Bill in the Parliament, the left-liberal cabal have risen in protest against it.

The left-liberal cabal like Arfa Khanum and Javed Akhtar are contending that the Supreme Court should give its verdict on humanitarian grounds, but overlook the same premise when the government wants to grant citizenship to the persecuted non-Muslim minorities, who fled from bordering Islamic countries of India.

This opposition to Citizenship Amendment Act is reflective of their pan-Islamic mentality, which does not believe in nationhood or any national boundary for Muslims.

The pan-Islamic mentality in India finds its origins during Third Battle of Panipat, which was fought between Marathas and Afghan king Ahmad Shah Abdali, in 1761.

Abdali was invited by Islamic scholar Shah Wali Ullah to attack the Maratha in Third Battle of Panipat and advised his collaborator Najib al Dawla to launch jehad against Jats.

Shah Wali Ullah was a Muslim thinker of 18th century whose teachings revolved around Indian Muslims' inner spirit for re-establishment of Islamic political authority in the country.

In event of the declining glory of Mogul Empire and resurgence of Marathas, Jats and Sikhs in Muslim-dominated India, Shah Wali Ullah decided to re-evaluate the Muslim dilemma.

His movement for Islamic revivalism backed by the ideology of Pan-Islamism was for the political unity of Indian Muslims.  Therefore, Shah Wali Ullah wrote a letter to Abdali, inviting Abdali to attack Marathas.

He wrote: "All control of power is with the Hindus because they are the only people who are industrious and adaptable.  Riches and prosperity are theirs, while Muslims have nothing but poverty and misery.  At this juncture you are the only person, who has the initiative, the foresight, the power and capability to defeat the enemy and free the Muslims from the clutches of the infidels.  God forbid if their domination continues, Muslims will even forget Islam and become indistinguishable from the non-Muslims." (Dr Sayed Riaz Ahmad in his book 'Maulana Maududi and Islamic state' - Lahore People's Publishing House, page 15 - 1976).

He further wrote: "We beseech you in the name of Prophet to fight a jihad against the infidels of this region ... The invasion of Nadir shah, who destroyed the Muslims, left the Marathas and Jats secure and prosperous.  This resulted in the infidels regaining their strength and in the reduction of Muslim leaders of Delhi to mere puppets" (Shah Wali Allah and his times by Saiyid Athar Abbas Rizvi, page page 305).

Emphasising dominant role of Muslim rulers even in a multi-religious society, Shah Wali Ullah said, "Oh Kings! Mala ala urges you to draw your swords and not put them back in their sheaths again until Allah has separated the Muslims from the polytheists and the rebelious Kifirs and the sinners are made absolutely feeble and helpless" (Ibid. page 299)

This was the first time in the history of India that a Islamic scholar invited a foreign king to attack India on the basis of religion. Prior to this, all the invasions in India had political objectives.

This was contrary to Mogul emperor Akbar's 'conciliatory' policies in the governance of multi-religious and multi-ethnic Indian society.

Shah Wali Ullah also invited Abdali to attack Shias inhabiting India. He laid stress on adherence to "the orthodox religious principles of Sunnism" he was against seeking any cooperation from Hindus or even Shi'is (Shah Wali Allah and his Time by Saiyid Athar Abbas Rizvi, 1980,  page 394).

Pan-Islamic Mentality

The left-liberal cabal's protests against CAA justifies their pan-Islamic mentality, which opposes giving a dignified lives to the persecuted Hindus, Jains, Buddhists, Parsees, Christians and Sikhs, but wants illegal immigrants like Rohingyas, who have committed genocide of the Hindus and Buddhists in Myanmar.

The CAA pours water on to this pan-Islamic contours of the left-liberals and therefore, they are agitated and creating a false Hindu Rashtra naration.

Think of this cabal - intellectuals, Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, Mamta Banerjee, Lalu Yadav, Stalin, Mayawati - taste power, there will be suppression of Hindu voice, as it had been under Congress and parties, which have been playing appeasement politics.

The choice is yours. Whether, you are with the persecutors or persecuted.

CAB Row: The Double-Tongued Mavericks

Congress President Sonia Gandhi called the day of passage of CAB by the Parliament as a dark day in the Constitutional history of India.

Okay.

If facilitating the persecuted minorities from Islamic countries - Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh - to lead a dignified lives is dark day, then it is an absurd comment, because the Citizenship Amendment Bill is nothing to do with Indian Muslims.

The Bill is all about giving citizenship to the refugees, not taking away citizenship of Indians, including Muslims.

The truth, however, is Rajiv Gandhi government's denial of giving maintenance to a divorced woman by passing the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act, in contradiction to the Supreme Court verdict, was the darkest day in the annals of Indian Constitution.

Judicial Blackmail

Never before in the history of Parliamentary debate, a MP had questioned the authority of the house in making laws, but Chidambaram, an advocate himself, broke all parliamentary decency to do it.

"This (bill) is a slap on the face of Parliament. Parliamentarians are being asked to do something unconstitutional and then the baby is passed on to the judiciary and in the judiciary, lawyers and judges will decide what you have done is constitutional or not. Fortunately, we have three organs of the state. The executive is complicit. The legislature is invited to collaborate . Hopefully, the judiciary will strike it down and will save India and idea of India."

This, actually, is the most shameful of statements in the august house as it undermines the power of the Parliamentarians, who have all the authority to make laws, including granting citizenship to persecuted minorities of the three bordering Islamic states to India.

If these honorable members are bent on undermining their powers, then they should not be in the business of legislating, better they resign as members of the Parliament.

The Real Idea Of India

Opposition parties, who play vote-bank politics, have differing stands on the same issue, when they are in power and in opposition.

Today, they are opposing to grant citizenship to persecuted minorities, but had raised a mayhem on the same issue in the past.

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, during the UPA tenure, had shot of a letter to then home minister Chidambaram asking for facilitating Hindu and Sikh migrants from Pakistan.

As many as 13,000 persecuted minority people were given shelter in Rajasthan bordering Pakistan.

Tarun Gogoi-led government in Assam had sought citizenship for persecuted Hindu Bengalis, Buddhists who migrated from Bangladesh in 2012, when both centre and state were ruled by Congress.

Gogoi had submitted a memorandum to Prime Manmohan Singh on April 20, 2012, seeking citizenship to religious minorities, who had to flee due to discrimination and religious persecution at the time of partition.

On December 18, 2003, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who was then leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha, had raised the issue in Rajya Sabha to grant citizenship to Hindus from Bangladesh, who had taken refuge in India because of persecution.

In 2005, TMC MP Mamata Banerjee, had created a ruckus in Lok Sabha over the issue of illegal infiltrators in West Bengal.

Raising the issue, she had said, "The infiltration in Bengal has become a disaster now ... I have both the Bangladeshi and Indian voters list. This is a very serious matter. I would like to know when would it be discussed in the House?"

These same leaders also are contending that CAB is against idea of India dreamt by Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru.

But, the reality is different. Gandhiji, in 1947, had stressed on the need to grant proper rights to minorities in Pakistan.

In a prayer meeting on September 26, he had openly declared that the Hindus and the Sikhs staying in Pakistan, can come to India by all means, if, they do not wish to continue there. In that case, it is the first duty of the Indian government to give them jobs and make their lives comfortable.

On November 25 same year, the Congress Working Committee had passed a resolution urging citizenship for refugees from Pakistan.

Dr Rajendra Prasad, the first President of India, had declared in the oath-taking ceremony that India is anxious to rehabilitate displaced persons who have suffered and still suffering great hardships and privations.

Home Minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel had declared on January 12, 1950 in Kolkata - "Those who are our flesh and blood, who fought by our side in the freedom struggle cannot suddenly become foreigners to us because they are on the other side of  line. There are people in South Africa, people of Indian origin but with African citizenship, whom we still try to help. If they have claim on us, surely, those in that part of Bengal too have a claim."

The real idea of India, in fact is reflected in the inclusive stand of these leaders.

Lunatic Stand

Actor Naseeruddin Shah and left-liberal cabal, in December last, had said India is unsafe for Muslims living in India. So, in that case, it should not be advisable for them to push for the entry of Muslims in India.

They must either tell the nation, that India is a safe country for Muslims, or unsafe, because they cannot have two differing opinions about India at the same time.

Period