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Why I don't want to vote for BJP this time
Written By murali772 - 31 March, 2009
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Anybody who has observed the Varun Gandhi saga over the last fortnight will understand immediately what the BJP is up to. At first, it was embarrassed by the hatred embodied in Varun’s speech. Then, it realised it could have it both ways. It could say that the CDs of the speech had been doctored — without bothering to find any forensic evidence at all to support this outlandish claim. And it could promote Varun as a fatter than life, communal pinup.
All this augurs badly for the future. Is this kind of cynical manouvering the level to which the BJP has now been reduced? Is the BJP without the statesmanship of A B Vajpayee no better than the Youth Congress of Sanjay Gandhi? And what kind of government will the BJP provide if this is how it functions? The BJP thinks it’s being smart. No top leader is saying very much in Varun’s favour (except for Rajnath Singh who speaks first and thinks afterwards). The defence is being left to chhota mota spokesmen of the caliber of Balbir Punj who are figures of no consequence and who can easily be disowned if things go very wrong.
The hate speeches leave us wondering about the BJP’s new-found moderation.
Think about this: If L K Advani can’t even rein in Varun Gandhi’s goondas, then what kind of Iron Man is he? Either Advani doesn’t want to stop the goondas or Manmohan Singh was absolutely right when he described him as a weak man whose sole achievement was the destruction of the Babri Masjid.
You decide.
For the full text of the essay by Vir Sanghvi, click on: http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?Title=A+deadly+combo+of+legacy+and+hatred&artid=5few295nEnU=
I would generally have liked to have a BJP government at the centre. But, this Varun Gandhi episode, apart from other recent happenings in Karnataka, give me the jitters.
Muralidhar Rao
COMMENTS
mcadambi - 31 March, 2009 - 12:31
Rape, loot cities, plunder - these were part and parcel of semitic religions since their birth. A simple glance of their history is enough.
Mahabharata war - strict rules of warfare, no fighting after sunset, no civilians, only warriors, and no back stabbing.
Full stop. Yes, but there is another topic on the forum....
Vasanthkumar Mysoremath - 1 April, 2009 - 04:47
It is a good decision to put a full stop to this topic. But there is another topic on almost same lines - Why I might want to vote for BJP this time... started by Mr.Murali, almost simultaneously
That line may open up another pandoras box for comments by the same community that is vociferously following this subject.
Better close that topic also before it escalates.
Regards
Vasanthkumar Mysoremath
mcadambi - 31 March, 2009 - 10:23
India was, is and will be a Hindu Nation. But it is not a Hindu state. Secularism means "pantha nirapekshata", meaning "indifference to religion" - this means all relegions - Hinduism, Islam (especially), Christianity, Marxism and Maoism.
Second, Hinduism is *different* from Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Secularism is a fancy word from Europe not particularly applicable in India.
It is Hinduism's pluralistic nature that allows Bahai's, Jews, Parsis, Tibetan Buddhists to prosper in India.
Abuse of that freedom has landed Islam and Christianity in trouble in India.
It is little wonder that Christianity and Islam are the most violent creeds and eternally at war with each other and the rest of the world.
idontspam - 31 March, 2009 - 12:02
elect a stable government at the center that swears by real secularism
I disagree, secular or not is not an issue for India. There is no way any party in power can destroy the fundamental right of an Indian citizen to pratice the religion of his choice. The more we vote on the basis of secularism, non secularism, hindutva etc the more the parties will use that as a platform to further their ends.
The vote has to be purely on the partys ECONOMIC and HUMAN DEEVELOPMENT targets it can deliver. Make them put a HDI, Per capita and GDP target numbers QoQ, YoY. These should be the only internal targets the parties should take and be voted on. They have to prove how they have fared on these parameters in the places under their governance and the plan they lay out to achieve the same.
wars were a past time once, perhaps
murali772 - 31 March, 2009 - 12:10
mcadambi avare'
If you go into the past, even the Mahabharata is all about wars. They had nothing better to do those times, I guess - no cricket, no football, no movies. So, let's just talk of the present.
Muralidhar Rao
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