By

B.N.GURURAJ, Advocate.

Our Union Home Minister Mr.P.Chidambaram must have a strong sense of bad timing. A few days back, he stated that Maoists are not terrorists. He must be ruing this statement. Within next couple of days, the Maoists hijacked an entire train for release of one of their comrades. Fortunately for him, this dumb statement has not yet come in for public criticism.  If people who cannot be put down even by armed police and army, if these people use sophisticated weapons against the army and police, aren’t they terrorists. If these people are not terrorists, what is the label to be affixed to them?

Paradoxically, in the Karnataka High Court, someone filed a PIL seeking action against people who had attacked churches in Karnataka. The petition also labeled such attackers as terrorists. The High Court prudently cautioned the petitioners not to use strong labels like “terrorists” to people who attacked churches.

What emerges is this: for the liberal brigade, an attack on a church, or mosque, or a criticism of minorities is an act of terrorism. But, Maoists, though wield as sophisticated a weapon as the army or armed police, they are not terrorists!

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In this blog, I have generally given the middle name “timid” to Dr.Manmohan Singh, our esteemed Prime Minister, who also happens to be a sardarji. Sardarjis are generally known for their boldness, bravery and assertiveness. But, here we have a Sardar PM who is ready to genuflect before the adversary.

In recent times, China has behaving rather provocatively towards India. First, the issue of passport to Kashmiris on separate sheet of paper instead of stamping on the passport. Second, incursions into Ladakh and red-painting areas claiming China’s right over the land. Third is the Arunachal Pradesh episode where the Chinese objected to Dr.Manmohan “timid” Singh’s visit to that State for electoral propaganda. This would have been unthinkable in any other regime, but for the timid spineless regime of Manmohan Singh. Besides, Chinese release statement that visit of Dalai Lama is unacceptable to them. Today, someone has stated that Dalai Lama’s very presence is a political problem to China.

Surprisingly, within a week or thereabouts, Manmohan Singh and some Chinese counterpart meet. As per newspaper reports, there is no whisper about either Ladakh incursions, or Arunachal Pradesh antics. All they talk about is business. The crumbs that come to India by way of business with China is more important than the territorial integrity, strategic interests of India, and most importantly self respect of a nation.  

China never does anything by accident. It is always by design. They have generally managed to lead the Indian Government by its nose to wherever they have liked. They are actively participating the so-called development in PoK, they are arming Bangladesh, they are arming Indian Maoists and other insurgents, they have more than friendly relationship with India’s neighbours such as Pakistan and Sri Lanka. China is trying to surround India with hostile elements both from within and from outside. But, all that our PM can talk about is business and earning few more dollars. How shameless a PM can get, and how shameless he can render a nation?

Even Pandit Nehru, the closet communist did not stoop this level of lack of self-respect. Manmohan Singh is worse than him. Definitely Indira Gandhi, for whom I do not have much respect would not have behaved so shamelessly.