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Not Nice!

Not Nice!

Author: Editorial
Publication: News Today
Date: October 14, 2008
URL: http://newstodaynet.com/newsindex.php?id=11406%20&%20section=13

A 'formality' called 'National Integration Council' meeting was conducted for the fourteenth time overall and second time by the UPA government, yesterday in the capital.

The meeting is normally attended by Union Ministers, Chief Ministers, party presidents and some nominated 'eminent' members from the public.

The Congress led UPA government took charge at the centre in May 2004 and it convened the 13th NIC Meet on 31 August, 2005 after a long gap of over a decade.

In principle, a government need not follow formalities and conduct exhibitions to showcase its 'objectives and achievements' on national integration.

It would be suffice if it works and produce results, which can be easily observed by the people.

Any meeting convened to discuss the concept of 'national integration' must deliberately debate those 'forces', which are inimical to that concept.

In this regard, it is common knowledge that Jihadi terrorism, evangelisation, linguistic chauvinism, Aryan-Dravidian racism, casteism and separatism of SC and STs from the mainstream are posing danger to the unity and integrity.

Hence it is imperative that such forces and their anti-national activities have to be discussed in a meeting, which has been convened in the name of 'National Integration Council'.

If a government, despite repeated occurrence of terror attacks & conversion activities under its regime, prefers to keep Jihadi terrorism & evangelisation out of its agenda and decides to discuss the attack on

minorities in the name of 'comunalism', then the meet becomes not only a futile exercise, but ends up as an attempt at rank minority appeasement.

This is what has precisely happened at yesterday's NIC meet and the government half-heartedly included 'extremism' in the agenda only after getting thrashed by the NDA Chief Ministers for not including 'terrorism' in it.

The Prime Minister, who waxed eloquent on 'communalism', talked only about the alleged attacks on churches in Orissa & Karnataka but failed to mention even a word about the attacks during the Ganesh Chathurthi,

Durga Pooja and Navrathri pooja celebrations throughout the country. Even while calling for 'stringent measures' against those who threaten communal harmony, he has never given an impression of tough attitude and strong leadership.

He has said that anti-terror measures should not profile or target a particular community, obviously referring to the Muslims.

This statement, in fact, is an insult to Muslim community and the Prime Minister has naturally toed the 'Congress line' of equating 'terrorism' with 'Muslims' instead of 'Jihadis'. This statement will discourage the

'moderates' and 'intellectuals' of the minority community, who have just started coming out in the open denouncing the Jihadis and terrorism.

Though the meeting was convened with the aim of tagging the majority community as 'communal', as evidenced by the papers circulated by the likes of Lalu, Mulayam and Paswan and the statements made by the likes of Karat and Raja, the NDA Chief Ministers have utilised their chances

in conveying the exact picture of the problems and the steps needed to solve them.

While Modi, Kandhuri and other BJP Chief Ministers demanded tough laws against Jihadi terrorism and evangelisation, Naveen Patnaik gave the original picture in Kandhamal by explaining in detail about the manifestation of the violence through years of ethnic strains and conflict of interest between STs & SCs over land rights, employment opportunities and religion, in which the evangelical businesses have played a vital role.

Karnataka Chief Minister Yeddiyurappa brought out the facts about the churches and evangelical businesses indulging in denigration of Hindu Gods & Goddesses and Hinduism and he even assailed the centre for
targeting only NDA ruled states with Article 355 while many other UPA and Left ruled states are worse in maintaining law & order.

There are also other unwanted anomalies like Congress President Sonia, who doesn't hold any Constitutional post, sitting on the stage next to the Prime Minister, while the leader of the opposition in the Lokh Saba

L K Advani was listed 134th along with 'other dignitaries' and while Amar Singh, just a party functionary, was invited, the leader of the opposition in the Rajya Saba Jaswant Singh was not.

A government could not have insulted opposition leaders worse than this. At the end of the day, the NIC adopted a resolution condemning all acts of violence and terrorism and resolving to deal with them firmly and claimed that a 'consensus' has been arrived at to contain 'communal' discord and violence to protect 'minority rights'. In other words NIC says, 'majority' are 'communal' and they don't have any rights and don't deserve any protection! There can't be a worse 'disintegration' than this. The nation doesn't require a 'body' of this nature.


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