http://proaudience.com/community/tags/communal-violence Your Chance To Speak Out en-US Sun, 12 Feb 2012 05:06:03 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.3 q http://proaudience.com/community/search.php http://proaudience.com/community/topic/look-back-into-the-recent-history-mr-chidambaram#post-22 Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:56:20 +0000 admin 22@http://proaudience.com/community/ <p><a href="http://news.rediff.com/report/2009/sep/11/chidambaram-slams-gujarat-govt-for-using-centre-affidavit-on-fake-encounter.htm">Gujarat&#39;s affidavit ploy pathetic, says Chidambaram...(read more)</a></p> <p>Mr Chidambaram, You have spoken sense in a way. But, let us go back a quarter century ago when you were part of Rajiv Gandhi&#39;s ministry in Delhi, and once happened to visit Ahmedabad (my home-town) alongside Rajiv after a bloody spate of communal flare up. Congress used to rule from Delhi to Gandhinagar in those days, and all riots took place under the aegis of corrupt congress CMs in Gandhinagar, who were often accused of pampering the mafia elements of Muslim community in Gujarat. BJP et all used to be confined in KHADIYAA locality in Ahmedabad, where Ashok Bhatt would be their lone noticeable face.</p> <p>During your visit sir, Muslims from Jamalpur area had complained of Police atrocities, particularly about a youth that was thrown off his room&#39;s balcony during a raid, and Rajiv Gandhi was visiting him in the hospital. The media later famously quoted Rajiv of having told Muslims in his typical Hindi, &quot;Honslaa Rakkho&quot; (have faith, hope and patience)...it became a major butt of joke in the Muslim circles. When confronted sir, your good-self asked the Muslims, &quot;why complain of police excesses now? Why did you vote in office a bootlegger from five constituencies of Ahmedabad Municipality?&quot; This was an astonishing statement by a central minister from a party that always sings rhymes of minority welfare. Let me remind for the readers&#39; sake, that Abdul Latif, a hardcore mafia criminal from Dariyaapur, Ahmedabad had been chosen from five Muslim dominated wards, including Jamalpur, a little while earlier. Latif was still lodged in Sabaramati Jail for major charges including that of assassinating a Police Inspector, when all this happened.</p> <p>Later Shankar Singh Vaghela who ran a minority government with the support of Congress, after breaking away from the BJP, got Latif fixed in a fake encounter. Everybody from the rightists, centrists, leftists and intelligentsia to working class knew it was a bloody fake encounter, in which Police and the ruling class had gotten rid of the demon they had created themselves. Nobody shed any tear for Latif or talked about his constitutional rights apart from his own family members, who were history-sheeters themselves, incidentally. No high level enquirers, and court interventions would take place in such cases, in those days.</p> <p>Now the question: How did your views about how policing and administrative ways should be, changed in the last 25 years? All the administrative mismanagement that you allege the Gujarat Government of now, were planted by Congress&#39; rule since 1947. The only difference is, the lower rung of BJP leadership (rather the constituents of hard-line Hindutva, including the VHP) and administrative machinery in various BJP rules states have taken some your of your unethical practices to newer heights in a bloody bold fashion. They are not used to fake innocence sitting under Gandhiji&#39;s portrait, while indulging in all sorts of communal pampering, nepotism and corrupt practices like your part has done since 1947. If they walk through communal alleys, they do so in broad daylight, unlike your honey laced minority appeasement. The only difference is that of the faith being pampered and its degree, and not the basic communal character between you and them. Therefor, it is hard to digest the sense you speak now, Mr Chidambaram. </p>