Lalu Prasad has also demanded that criminal cases be instituted against the two leaders immediately and they be sent to jail. Finally he has called for the dismissal of Narendra Modi Government.
Lalu Prasad Yadav has shown his bumptious arrogance by saying that since Narendra Modi enjoys the patronage of senior BJP leader L K Advani, the opposition leader in the Lok Sabha, the latter cannot escape culpability for the mass murder!
And then to enhance the overall effect of his political idiocy, the Railway Minister has solemnly concluded that the incidents were a ‘blot’ on Indian democracy as also humanity and therefore the then Prime Minister Vajpayee, Home Minister Advani and Home Ministry officials were ‘equally guilty’ along with Narendra Modi for the carnage.
Lalu Prasad Yadav is not concerned with the Islamic terrorists who were responsible for the Godhra massacre! Congress leader Kapil Sibal has joined the comic cavalcade of Lalu Prasad Yadav by making a statement that the recent Tehelka sting operation was further proof that Narendra Modi and democracy were antithetical to each other.
I am not surprised that Lalu and Kapil Sibal endorse each other because they are agreed upon the preposterous political proposition that Sonia Gandhi is Mahatma Gandhi of today’s India. To compound this all with a pseudo-secular flourish, Sonia has come out with her foolish statement that Narendra Modi’s Gujarat has become a Godse Land.
Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) said: “Get hold of facts first before you distort them”. C P Scott (1846-1932), a great British Journalist said: “Comments can be free provided facts are treated as sacred and sacrosanct”.
Unfortunately for the Congress Party and Sonia Gandhi, brutal facts relating to Islamic terrorism at Godhra on 27 February 2002 are non-existent and only their brazen comments based on self-chosen Himalayan vanity on the one hand and virulent hatred for all the Hindus of India on the other, are relevant to be treated as sacred and sacrosanct.
Sonia Gandhi seems to have conveniently forgotten the fact that Naturam Godse was a Hindu from Maharashtra (not from Gujarat!) and Mahatma Gandhi whom he assassinated was also a Hindu (but not from Maharashtra! And of course, not a Muslim!).
In Gujarat, Muslim terrorists (enjoying the full political patronage of the Congress Party and its allies), set fire to a railway carriage in which 58 innocent Hindu pilgrims who were travelling by Sabarmati Express were charred to death on that black Wednesday, 27 February, 2002 at 7.45 a.m. at Godhra Station.
The Television Crews reached Godhra on the afternoon of 27 February , 2002 itself.
The Television News Channels showed the pictures through the day—of the burning of S6 Coach of Sabarmati Express and the dead bodies. On the morning of 28 February, 2002, Godhra was a lead story in all the Indian News Papers including the English Language Papers.
The Ahmedabad Edition of The Times of India devoted its entire front page to the burning alive of 58 pilgrims at Godhra. About two inside pages were also devoted to the incident.
S K Modi, a senior journalist and author, in his brilliant book ‘GODHRA: The Missing Rage’ has rightly observed: “But something was missing. The rage was missing. There was no sense of rage in the reports. There was no trace of indignation in the bland description. There was no anger. Nobody was feeling pained or hurt.
Nobody was feeling anguished at such a ghastly incident having taken place. Nobody was furious at the sheer brazenness of the gory massacre. And this applied to the elite of the society as a whole—besides the media, no political leader, no social activist, no thinker, no analyst, no think tank displayed a sense of despair. There were no statements of condemnation from any of the senior political leaders.
A two-line statement of condemnation was issued by the Congress President Sonia Gandhi, which was reported in a 1x5 Column centimeter item in inside pages of ‘The Times of India’. Perhaps the letter was signed by someone other than Sonia Gandhi on her behalf. When confronted with the question of her failure to condemn the gory carnage a few days later in the Parliament, she angrily asked: ‘Who prevented the ruling party from condemning the incident?’
Even after the news of the Godhra massacre had reached New Delhi on 27 February, 2002, in Parliament in New Delhi there was a stubborn silence among the Congress Party Members, even when the Treasury Benches begged the opposition to join in a unanimous condemnation of the event. Islam-embracing, Christianity-coveting, anti-Hindu Sonia Gandhi did not feel the need to call upon the Prime Minister on 27 February, 2002.
According to her, at any rate, on that day, despite Godhra Massacre, our nation’s future was not in any way in any danger. However, after the wide-spread violence which broke out on 28 February, 2002 as a natural and violent public reaction against the inhuman atrocities let loose by Islamic terrorists in Godhra Station a day earlier, Sonia’s office started making frantic calls requesting for an appointment for her with the Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee at 2.00 p.m. on that very day and Sonia was successful in meeting the Prime Minister Vajpayee only at 7.55 p.m on that day.
Her close aides Manmohan Singh, Arjun Singh, Kamal Nath and Ahmed Patel—known and sworn enemies of the Hindus of Gujarat then and the Hindus of the whole of India now—joined Sonia Gandhi at her meeting with the Prime Minister.
The Shahi Imam, one of the most powerful Muslim religious leaders in India, had already met the Prime Minister Vajpayee by about 6.00 p.m on that day. All of them were passionately concerned only with the post-Godhra violent reaction which had come to open public view on 28th February, 2002 and not with what had happened to the innocent 58 Hindus who were burnt alive in a railway carriage at Godhra Station on 27 February, 2002.
Was this not the ‘noblest” (?!) moment in the sham history of Nehruvian Pseudo Secularism in post-independent India? If only some Muslim pilgrims were taking off on a Haj Pilgrimage from Godhra on that very day, Sonia Gandhi would not have failed to rush Godhra to see them off.
The criminal, anti-national anti-Hindu hypocrisy and effrontery of Sonia Gandhi and her disgraceful Party became clear to the people of Gujarat when she met the Prime Minister to stress “that in view of the large scale violence having erupted in Gujarat, the safety and security of the Muslims had become a matter of concern.”
The people of Gujarat asked the question: ‘Why did not Sonia Gandhi seek an immediate meeting with the then Prime Minister Vajpayee soon after the Godhra carnage on the morning of 27 February, 2002 itself? Was she awaiting instructions from her beloved Pope in Rome?’
As a free lance journalist, I assert my right to say that perhaps she viewed the barbarous burning of 58 Hindus in the railway carriage in Godhra as a rare and exceptional act of Islamic compassion, leavened by her full Christian understanding of transnational, if not anti-national, Islamic emotions.
S K Modi brilliantly sums up as follows: “The silence on 27 February, 2002 was deafening. The indifference was complete. The insensitivity was infuriating.” The man in the street in Gujarat (I mean the common Hindu) would have tolerated the insensitivity and the indifference of the English Language media because he had been quite used to that kind of blatant discrimination right from 15 August, 1947. But the English Language Media just did not stop at casual and studied indifference.
Its attitude was outright contemptuous and callous towards the Hindus in general and the 58 unfortunate Hindu Pilgrims in particular.
Everybody knew that Muslims lived in Signal Falia in Godhra, where the Sabarmati Express was stopped and the S6 Coach, along with 58 innocent Hindu pilgrims, was burnt in broad day light by Islamic Terrorists. Yet the English media refused to see or say that it was a Muslim mob that attacked the Hindu pilgrims on that fateful day.
Some international celebrities in the English media called the attackers ‘just a mob’, some called them ‘unidentified people’. The standard and standing excuse that ‘naming’ names in a riotous situation might by itself create problems, prevented the English media from pointing an accusing finger at a particular community.
This standard dictum (I mean excuse) was, of course, forgotten with a pseudo-secular anti-Hindu flourish the very next day on 28 February, 2002.
Unlike the Islam-embracing, Christianity-coveting and Hindu-hating pseudo-secular mafia of English Mass Media, the local vernacular Gujarati Press was indeed forthright in its total condemnation of the dastardly attack on the innocent Hindu pilgrims who were killed in Godhra.
I fully agree with S K Modi’s finding: “It is the callousness of the English Language Media and the English-speaking elite that infuriated the masses. The English Media did not stop at oblique attempts to protect the attackers.
It actually attacked the victims by justifying the train carnage—the pilgrims had provoked the mob by not paying for tea. … Pulling the beard of a tea vendor…. Attempting to abduct a girl … The theories went on. One professional activist told the Washington Post immediately after Godhra: ‘The victims were not going for a benign assembly. They were indulging in blatant and unlawful mobilization to build a temple and deliberately provoke the Muslims in India’.
(To be contd...)
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