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Editorial
Terrorism & The Reds
Just as this
edition of the World Sikh News was going to the press, Indian
electronic media was crowing about the grand achievement of the
Delhi Police in nabbing an ideologue of the Maoists and was terming
him as a dangerous terrorist.
Thankfully, some
of the leading lights from the human rights domain in India were
upfront in standing by Kobady Gandhy and praising him for being an
ideological giant and a human rights activist who was also an
ideologue and lived by a life long commitment to fight against the
oppressive discriminatory Indian state that has perfected the art of
snatching or stealing from the poor and filling the coffers of the
rich.
While our
article on his arrest elsewhere in this edition brings out the real
story of the man and his commitment, we want to draw your attention
to the bloodygame going on in West Bengal where, ever since the
Parliamentary polls, a series of political killings are taking
place.
While the hyper
sensitive Punjab Police loses no time in even arresting and putting
behind bars those who distribute stickers with the image of Sant
Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, a perfectly legal right of any Sikh, the
gory killings in West Bengal are being bypassed by the Indian
intelligence agencies' radars.
By one estimate,
the number of political activists killed after 16 May – when the
results of the Lok Sabha elections were announced – could well cross
the 150 mark. Clearly, these are not random murders but part of a
well planned violent way of pursuing politics by other means that
the Left parties and its goons. How come the nation state does not
cry about the bogey of terrorism in West Bengal but makes such a hue
and cry in Punjab simply because the Sikh community is fighting
against the culture of fraudster dera babas?
Clearly, the
brahmanical powers whether in the Congress, the BJP or among the
so-called Communists are happy watching a proud Sikh nation being
assimilated by Hindutva forces. The Dera culture is nothing but
aimed at diluting the Sikh ethos and corrupting the idelogical
purity of the Khalsa panth. No wonder any government in power will
be tilted towards the enemies of the Sikh Panth. Why, apply your
mind for a moment, will a federal government try and protect a
fraudster Baba in Sirsa who has been named a prime accused in
multiple rape and murder cases by none other than the CBI in a probe
ordered by none other than the Supreme Court of India and suprevised
by the judiciary throughout?
It is with a
similar motive that Bhai Daljit Singh and several other leaders of
the Panth are languishing in jail for days now while
New Delhi
has no time to even wink at the West Bengal blood bath.
The Congress is
happy watching the bloodbath between the CPI(M) cadres and the
Trinamool rivals. It is surprising that the Indian media, ever
reacting with remarkable alacrity at any planted story about a
terrorist in
Punjab,
has little to report from
West Bengal
where among the killed are students, schoolteachers, agricultural
workers, small peasants, labourers and petty shopkeepers.
These killings
are not happening in mass anger. There is no Nandigram happening
now. There is pure and simple terrorism going on with a Red tinge.
It is fight to the finish between various shades of Red at times and
between the CPI(M) and the Trinamool. But the Indian state will find
little time because it is busy dousing the fires in Manipur,
watching the ones in
Kashmir
and setting new ones in
Punjab.
Now, there is
suddenly ecstasy at the arrest of Kobady Gandhy, and absolutely no
mention of the neglect of education and public health, the massive
institutionalised discrimination in jobs and services against lower
castes and Muslims, the marginalization of the tribals from the
national paradigm. Had the Indian Government done that, Kobady
Gandhy would have been on the board of a few companies. But because
some people did not their work, many Kobady Gandhys are taking upon
themselves to fight for the poor.
23
September 2009
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