Assertive Maulanas, Submissive Gurus

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  • Assertive Maulanas, Submissive Gurus
  • J P Sharma
  • While the steadfast pursuit of Muslim appeasement by political parties is easy to understand on account of votebank politics, it is difficult to fathom the motives of Hindu religious leaders in kow-towing to Muslim clerics. In sharp contrast to the compromising attitude of Hindu gurus, the Maulanas not only stuck to their own understanding of the demands of their religion, but had no hesitation in re-opening, without provocation, an issue which had been settled more than sixty ago (by deleting the parts of Vande Mataram held objectionable).
  • Dharmo rakshati rakshitah
  • If the leaders of the Dharma Raksha Manch are serious about protecting Dharma, they must first acquire a good knowledge of the aggressing faiths, the technology and strategy they use, and the sources of their strength. They should then find suitable ways to repel the aggressors. They must begin by removing the weaknesses of their own camp which led to the land being repeatedly conquered by big and small invaders, and weld the community into a unified and strong body capable of meeting the present and future challenges.
  • The writer is a former Addl. Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat

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Azadi to radical Islamists, slavery for patriots - 3

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  • Azadi to radical Islamists, slavery for patriots - 3
  • Hari Om

  • I will focus only on seven issues to make the point that Jammu is indeed a victim of gross discrimination. These include poor road connectivity, inadequate power generation units, small number of administrative units, acute unemployment, glaring disparity in wages, wrong admission policy, and invidious distinctions as far as allotment of funds are concerned.

     

    One: The road length in Kashmir, which has a land area of less than 16,000 sq km, was 7,129 kilometers in November 2006. In contrast, the road length in Jammu with an area almost two times that of Kashmir was just 4,571 kilometers.

     

    Two: Chenani in Jammu province is the only State Power Plant with an installed capacity of 25 MW. The remaining State Power Plants with an installed capacity of 333.36 MW are in the Kashmir Valley. Besides, there are a number of gas turbines in Kashmir, which also cater to the needs of its people.

     

    Three: Kashmir province has ten districts at the rate of one per 1585.3 sq km on an average, with a few districts being only one-tehsil districts. In contrast, Jammu province too has ten districts, but at the rate of one per 2629.3 sq km on average. One glaring example: Srinagar district in Kashmir with a land area of 2,228 sq km and which consisted of only 168 villages was divided two years ago into two districts – Srinagar and Ganderbal. In contrast, Jammu district having an area of 3,079 sq km and which consisted of 1,054 villages was left high and dry, notwithstanding the creation of Samba district out of it.

  • Four: The unemployment rate in Kashmir is less than 30 percent. In contrast, the unemployment rate in Jammu province is 69.75 percent. The people of Jammu have very little representation in the Civil Secretariat. According to a government report of 2007, the number of employees working in the Civil Secretariat was 1715. These include gazetted, non-gazetted and class IV employees. The number of gazetted officers was 199. The share of Kashmir was 118 (56 percent) and that of Jammu 81 (44 percent). As for the number of non-gazetted employees, it was 1041 (767 or 73.67 percent from Kashmir and 274 or 26.23 percent from Jammu). The number of class IV employees was 363 (256 or 70.52 percent from Kashmir and 107 or 29.48 percent from Jammu).

     

    Five: Each Jammu-based worker in the Public Health Engineering Department under the Community Participation Scheme (CPC) gets a monthly wage of Rs 500, as against the monthly wage of Rs 2100 for his Kashmiri counterpart.

     

    Six: A scrutiny of the MBBS/BDS selection lists reveals that Jammu’s share in the State’s medical colleges dwindled from 60 percent in 1990 to 52 percent in 1991 to 38 percent in 1994 to 36 percent in 1995 to 20 percent in 1997 to 17 percent in 1998. Between 1998 and 2008, the share of Jammu in these colleges was only marginal.

     

    Seven: The development of Jammu province has been prevented by inadequate funds allotted to it. For example, in the Eighth five year plan (1992-1997), Ninth Plan (1997-2002), Tenth Plan (2002-2007) and Eleventh Plan (2007-2012) Jammu’s share in such sectors as agriculture was Rs 57.61 crore; 147.31 crore; 270.49 crore; and 337.56 crores, respectively. In contrast, the share of Kashmir was 104.5 crore; 253.17 crore; 380.29 crore; and 519.41 crore, respectively.

     

    This is just one example. The story regarding irrigation, roads and buildings, health, tourism, sewerage, drainage, housing and urban development, and power is no different.

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Jammu BJP leaders skip function in honour of MP CM

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  • Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who was here on Sunday to attend a felicitation function in his honour, left without any of the state BJP leaders meeting him. The MP CM was here as an “exclusive guest” of Panun Kashmir, which felicitated him for passing a resolution in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly on July 24 endorsing the demand for a separate territory in Kashmir for Kashmiri Pandits.

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Nepal Maoists find unexpected ally in BJP leader Koshiyari - The Times of India

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  • Nepal’s former Maoist guerrillas have found an unexpected ally in a party that once criticised its effort to abolish the world’s only
  • Hindu monarchy and transform Nepal into a secular republic. Bhagat Singh Koshiyari, former BJP chief minister of Uttarakhand and an RSS ideologue, has assured Maoist supremo Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda that he would convey to India’s external affairs ministry the furore created by Indian Army chief Gen Deepak Kapoor’s reported statement about Nepal’s army and would seek a clarification from the Manmohan Singh government.
    
    The 67-year-old Kumaoni politician, who became Uttarakhand’s chief minister in 2001 but was forced to resign the following year after his party lost the state assembly election, Monday met Prachanda at the latter’s residence in Kathmandu as part of his interaction with Nepal’s politicians during his short Kathmandu visit.
    
    After the meeting, the Indian politician told journalists that he would raise before the MEA Gen Kapoor’s reported statement that Nepal’s army should not induct combatants from the Maoists’ People’s Liberation Army as it would lead to the politicisation of the state army.

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बिहार के एक गांव में हिंदू रखते हैं ताजिया - Oneindia Hindi

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  • देश के पहले राष्ट्रपति राजेन्द्र प्रसाद की जन्मस्थली सीवान जिले के जीरादेई से लगभग दो किलोमीटर दूर तथा जिला मुख्यालय से लगभग 12 किलोमीटर दूर ठेपहां गांव में सोमवार को हिन्दू परिवारों ने भी मुसलमानों के साथ मिलकर मुहर्रम मनाया। मुहर्रम के दौरान यहां के कई हिन्दू परिवारों ने अपने घरों से ताजिया निकाला।
  • उन्होंने बताया कि हिन्दू यहां ताजिया तो निकालते ही हैं रोजा भी रखते हैं। इनमें हिन्दू महिलाओं की संख्या भी काफी होती है।

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