Take Chinese incursion seriously

There has been incursion of 19 KMs deep inside India by Chinese army personnel (PLA) numbering about 19; who have reportedly erected 5 tents inside the Despang Valley of Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir. It is also not out of place about China that it is habituated to usurping Indian Territory by staging this kind of incursion time and again. Samajwadi Party supremo and former Defence Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav has rightly charged the government of Manmohan Singh with acting in a most cowardly manner in regard to Chinese incursions into India. The Indian Military is prepared to act to remove the tents erected by the Chinese army but they are not given order from political master in Delhi. Mulayam says that China is our biggest enemy, and not Pakistan. There may be Muslim vote consideration in his mind while not describing Pakistan as our enemy but we should not be slack in our action. We also must show the world, including China that our meekness must not be seen as a sign of sign of weakness. Mulayam has also taken strong objections to External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid's visit to China on May 9.He has rightly said that China has already insulted us in 1962. Our government needs to be always alive to the activities of Chinese military along our border. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh sees it as a localized problem and the Chinese incursions has taken place only because of the overzealousness of a military commander. PM should also know that it is not a localized problem and the Chinese military personnel involved in the incursion must have taken instruction from the high-ups in Beijing. Chinese soldiers are waving provocative banners with clear writing on them that denotes that it is the part of China. First, the Government of India must get Chinese military personnel cleared and their tents removed either through military intervention or through talks. The sentiment of the entire nation has been hurt by the Chinese incursions. It is true that in the changed world scenario where economic aspect has occupied the top priority and war is the last option but it does not mean that we should continuously be humiliated without any rhyme or reason. There must be talks to resolve any problem, but the talks begin after the statuesque is restored as far as territorial possession is concerned. China has still occupied our vast territory and has been unnecessarily making claims in Arunachal Pradesh of India. The Government of India must act without any loss of time to remove the Chinese tents immediately.

Save Sarabjit's life at all costs

The entire nation is shocked and anguished at the murderous attack on Indian national Sarabjit Singh, who is on death row in Pakistan jail. He was attacked by the fellow jail inmates, who are also on the death row. He was hit in head, abdomen. He has been hospitalised and in deep omma. This is the sheer lapses on the part of jail authorities in Pakistan. Sarabjit was not provided full proof security despite there was threat to his life. He was attacked inside the jail under a well-hatched conspiracy with full backing of the Pakistan notorious intelligence agaency Inter Services Intelligence (ISI). It is a fact that there is dominance of terror elements in every sphere of life in Pakistan.Sarabjit must not have been treated as an ordinary prisoner. He is an Indian falsely implicated in the 1990 bomb blast incident in Pakistan and was arrested when he crossed over the border into Pakistani side in an inebriated condition. Sarabjit has been languishing in Pakistani jail for the last 22 years and also on the death row. After the hanging of 26/11 terror attack convict Ajmal Kasab and Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, the threat to Sarabjit Singh's life in Pakistani jail had increased and because of that his security was tightened to the extent that even the drinking water given to him was tested first. As there was threat to his life, jail authorities should have been alert and provided full proof security to Sarabjit. The Government of India and Pakistan were apprised of the threat to Sarabjit’s life by his family members. Sarabjit had also mentioned about the threat to his life in a letter to his sister Dalbir Kaur in India. Instead of that, his security inside the jail was not beefed up. After the murderous attack, Sarabjit was taken to hospital, and doctors attending on him say that his condition is serious. He is in deep comma. Sarabjit’s daughter in her interview to a TV channel said that her father be shifted to some other specialty hospital so that he could get the best available medical facility to save his life. The Government of Pakistan must shift him to foreign hospital where he could get expert treatment. Sarabjit needs expert treatment without any loss of time. Government of India must put all pressures on Pakistan for shifting him to some other hospital known for expert treatment. It is good that the family members were allowed to visit Pakistan to see Sarabjit there. Government of India must put all pressures on Pakistan to provide best possible medical treatment and bring the perpetrators of attack on Sarabjit to justice immediately. According to the report, he has suffered serious head injury. Pakistan must know that safety and security of Sarbjit Singh and all other Indian nationals in Pakistani jail is of paramount importance. It is its responsibility.

Govt.is in dock

CBI Dir Ranjit Sinha has submitted status report before the Supreme Court on coal allocation scam. He has said that it was shared with Law Min Ashwani Kumar as desired by him and the senior officials of PMO and Coal ministry. The two-page affidavit was filed by CBI on the direction of the apex court. It contradicts the claim made by CBI counsel on the last date of hearing that the Coalgate scam report was not shared with any member of the government. It is a serious violation of the apex court’s direction. The CBI is already facing charges that it acts on the direction of the Central government. It is also no secret that all successive governments irrespective of political party have misused the CBI to protect its interest. The sharing of status report with Govt. strengthens this perception. In the coal block scandal, CBI is probing under the direction of the Supreme Court. In the given situation, it has shown the draft status report to Law Minister as desired by him, PMO and coal ministry official. It is natural that sharing report with the law minister, PMO and coal ministry official will certainly cast doubt on the intention of the government. The CBI in its draft status report has not made clear that whether either the law ministry or the PMO vetted or any of its suggestions were incorporated in it. The sharing of draft status report with law minister is violation of law as it was prepared to be submitted before the Supreme Court. It means that the law minister undermined the direction of the apex court. BJP demands resignation of the Prime Minister and sacking of the law minister. Govt. rejects BJP's demand outright. But no effort is made either by the Government or by the Opposition BJP to find a way out to break deadlock in Parliament so that a threadbare discussion on the coal block scam could be held and the entire nation would know who is guilty or who is not guilty. Though CBI has assured the apex court that it would not share its report any further, 30th April has been fixed for the hearing of the coal scandal case. Government could take decision on the fate of law minister Ashwani Kumar’s continuance in the ministry after 30th April. As far as coal scandal is concerned, the joint parliamentary standing committee report points finger on involvement of both NDA and UPA. Since both Congress and BJP are involved in coal block scandal, both does not want any discussion on the subject in Parliament. Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh's credibility has also come under scanner only because the coal ministry was under him during 2006 to 2008 and coal blocks were allotted during this period. All rules and regulations were thrown to the winds in allotting coal blocks. PM’s honesty and integrity may be unquestioned but it is on him to appear so also in the public.

Loot of poor men’s money

The Kolkata based Saradha Chit Fund Company has looted the common poor people and made them penniless. The Chit Fund Company looted the hard-earned money of the poor men. They were shown castle in the air, but actually they were made bankrupt. It is a Kolkata-based Chit Fund Company. This open loot of public money by fraudulent and forgery means cannot be possible without the help of power politicians, especially of ruling party of the state. Several ruling Trinamul Congress MPs and some other leaders of state and national level have been allegedly involved in the loot of public money. The Saradha Chit Fund Company has proved to be the company of cheats and they carried out their malpractices right under the nose of Mamata Bannerjee government of TMC. Without the protection and favour of the state government, the chit fund fraud of thousands of crores can not be possible. This Chit Fund Scam will certainly have impact on the coming Panchayat elections in West Bengal. It will also hit the politics of the ruling TMC most. This controversy involving corruption cannot easily subside as the previous ones. Hardly two years have passed since the TMC led by Mamata Bannerjee came to power; the scam of thousands of crores has taken place. The Left had ruled the state for 32 years in a row and no fraud of this nature ever occurred. TMC will have to run for cover. Feeling the political heat of the scam as the rural people of Bengal have also been defrauded of thousands of crores of rupees, West Bengal Chief Minister has made announcement of 500 crore rupees as bailout package for the poor investors. It is her bid to insulate her party politically. The Corporate ministry has rightly ordered for a probe into the chit fund fraud of 4 000 crores of rupees made by Saradhana Chit Fund Company. Sudipta Sen, the promoter of the Saradhana Group and kingpin in the chit fund scam, was produced in Bidhannagar court in Salt Lake in the eastern fringes on the city, and remanded to 14-days police custody. He had reportedly written a letter to the CBI in which he had accused two Trinamool MPs, Kunal Ghosh and Srinjoy Bose of exploiting him and squeezing funds, which made his companies bleed. Though Chief minister Mamata Banerjee has rejected the accusation while announcing a corpus of Rs 500 crore for the victims of the fraud, she has a lot to explain before the people of West Bengal. There must be a thorough and time bound probe and whoever is found guilty must be awarded deterrent punish so that no financial company could dare to dupe the hard earned money of the poor people.

Resolve the incursion issue amicably, but on equal terms

India has rightly asked China to revert to the status quo position in Depsang Valley in Ladakh where troops of both countries are in a face-to-face situation after Chinese forces intruded nearly 10kms inside Indian territory. In the first place, it is clear that China has violated the line of demarcation by intruding 10 Kms inside Despang Valley. Chinese troops have made incursions a number of times in the past also to create tension on the border, though the border dispute with China is not new. When the talks to resolve the border dispute amicably have been underway for sometime, the incursion made by Chinese troops 10 kilometer inside India (Despang Valley) in Ladakh is a very serious matter. The incident of incursion also casts doubts on the Chinese intension. So it is necessary for India to be always alive to Chinese military mischievous activities time and again on the border. Chinese leadership must be asked in clear terms that though India would always like to resolve all disputes, including border amicably, it is capable to retaliate in equal measure if any kind of military might is forced on it. India always wants a peaceful solution of all longstanding disputes with all its neighbours, not only China, but at the same time always want not be seen its peace mongering approach as any sort of its weakness. China must be asked to maintain statuesque so that there could be no hurdle in talks, which are underway with us to resolve border issue. China no doubt is emerging super power in the world but India too is not far behind it. China and India are two Asian giants and if both the Asian giants work together in friendly atmosphere, they could even challenge the world's sole super power America in many fields of development. So, it is beneficial for both to be friendly and to have very good neighbourly relations. It is irrelevant if China on the one hand continues to engage India in talks on Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) and its troops intrude inside Indian territory by making deliberate incursions on the other, the relations between the two will be more and more of suspicious nature. Whatever may the result of talks at various levels to resolve the current incursion issue, India must not leave any stone unturned in keeping its military preparedness on full scale to face any eventuality. The term "face-to-face" is not something that India has conjured up, it is something that is referred to in 2005 Protocol for implementation of CBMs in military field in the LAC in India-China border areas.

BJP demands, Govt. rejects

As is the usual for the last few years, especially since the UPA-II got back to power in 2009, the parliamentary proceedings had hardly been allowed run smoothly for even a week continuously on one issue or the other of corruption. It is also beyond any doubt that the UPA-II led by Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has been surrounded by the spate of scandals and unchecked price rise of all essential commodities and food items. It is also due to the escalating corrupt practices in almost all government departments during UPA-II regime that the price is going up and up. In the ongoing session of the Parliament, the main opposition BJP has strongly demanded the resignation of Prime Manmohan Singh and dismissal of Law Minister Ashwani Kumar because of his alleged exertion of influence on CBI to vet its enquiry report to be presented in the Supreme Court. The Govt. has rejected the demand of the resignation of PM outright and the ruling Congress Party President and UPA Chairperson when asked by the reporters on BJP’s demand of PM’s resignation after the Party's Core Group meeting said, "Let the BJP ask" for resignation and PM would not resign. The BJP has become aggressive because of the figuring of its tallest leader and former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's name in the draft report of JPC on 2G Spectrum issue and it has become vociferous excessively because of the nearing of the Lok Sabha elections next year. BJP also knows well that its demand will not make any impact on the ruling conglomerate. To attract the nation's attention, the party has attacked the government strongly and vociferously. BJP is also more inclined to create bedlam in Parliament than going to villages and make the people aware of the failures of the government. It is also not disputable that the image of the UPA-II has been dented beyond imagination because of the surfacing of a number of big scandals during its tenure. Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh's credibility and integrity may not be questionable in all these scandals but he cannot escape from the charge of inaction. He should have been kept abreast of all day-to-day developments taking place in all the ministries. He is the head of the government. It is his duty to the people of India, who have reposed faith in him, to provide corruption free government. It is better for him to hang up his boots to keep his reputation intact rather sticking to chair of prime ministership.

Delhi disgraced again

Hardly four months have passed when the horrific gang rape of 23-year-old paramedic in moving bus in Delhi and her subsequent death took place, yet another more heinous, bestial, heart breaking and brutal rape of 5-year-old minor girl in Gandhinagar in East Delhi has come to light. It means Delhi police has learnt no lesson from their lapses in 16/12 gang rape incident. The Delhiites in particular and the entire nation in general are in boil over the bestial acts in Delhi. The way the minor girl was raped, her private parts were badly damaged and candles and broken plastic bottle of oil were shoved into her vagina breaks the heart of any human being. Even animal does not do as the human being has done with the minor girl. It appears that our society has become sick and mentally perverted. Police have become callous and insensitive and political leadership does not command any respect in our society. The police showed callousness and complete negligence in investigating the tragic incident and if they had taken up the missing report lodged by the parent with them, the perpetrator of the crime could have been caught and the victim minor girl could have been provided proper medical help at the time. It is two days after the missing report was lodged, the victim minor girl was found traumatized and brutalized in a room in the same building upstairs which the parents were living. The parents heard the cry of the minor girl who was wreathing in pain lying in a pool of blood inside the room. After that Delhi police reached there, they allegedly offered Rs. 2000 as bribe to hush up for their treatment. They also reportedly told the father of the minor girl victim to be happy that he found her girl alive. Not only that when the news of the horrific rape of the 5 year- old- girl spread and people assembled to protest against this heart breaking incident, a Delhi police ACP slapped a young protesting girl in full public view. He slapped the girl so strongly that the blood started coming out of her ear. This is the nature and behaviour of one of our premier police organizations of the nation. At least the police officer of ACP rank is expected to know the latest laws against rape, which have been enacted. These stringent laws against rape were enacted after the 16/12 gang rape and murder, which had shaken the nation. The entire nation is anguished, shocked and ashamed at the horrific and brutal rape of the five year old girl in Delhi. Not only Delhi the entire nation is seething with anger and outraged for the completely callous and negligent approach adopted by Delhi police to deal with not only rape but also all kinds of criminal activities. Delhi appears not only to be rape capital but also the asylum of mentally perverted and proclaimed criminals. Because there is no fear of law here. If this story is true, not only all the policemen deputed with the Gandhi Nagar Area police station, the DCP under whom this police station runs, Police Commissioner of Delhi and the Union Home Minister under whom the Delhi police function must go immediately. Delhi police has totally failed to strike fear among the criminals. Criminals think that the Delhi police are not only callous and negligent but impotent also. It is urgently needed to bring awareness among the people in society how to provide safety and security to girls and women. The onus is on national, state, local political leaders and social workers to come forward and make people aware how to provide safety and security to young girls and women.