OSAMA MUST BE SMILING IN HEAVEN

Osama Ji was peacefully living there, said Digvijay Singh, the general secretay of the Congress Party of India. Only naive would agree that it was a sarcastic remark from the man who showed so much sympathy with the accused of Batala House incident in Delhi. Rahul Gandhi says 99% of terrorist attacks have been stopped, all of them cannot be stopped, he says. And, what percentage of train accidents, corruption, day light murders, rape and above all the intelligence failures have been stopped?

When NDA people talk to biriyani being served to terrorists in the Hazarat Bal Monsque, the Congress people retort that a sinior Minister of NDA government escorted Maulana Masood Azahar to Kandhar. What a justification. Guilty-guilty bhai bhai. Osama must be smiling for different reasons. The government of India is unable to prepare an accurate list of terrorists living in Pakistan and makes itself a laughing stock, it is unable to implement the court orders in case of terrorists convicted for life and most important that terrorists can outwit intelligence agencies as our Home Minister says there was no intelligence input for the Mumbai attack.

Another reason for satisfaction to Osama must be the utterences of many important people that harsh laws against terrorism are undesirable, that human rights of terrorists must not be violated, that terrorists come only from across the border and there are none in India, that SIMI people are only as much terrorists as the RSS people and so on. The poor people, both Hindus and Muslims are suffering from terrorist attacks because of these friends of Osama in the ruling party. The ruling party is under illusion that Muslims of India will feel good if care is shown to terrorists who happen to be Muslims. Time will tell.

RAILWAY ACCIDENTS

A single train accident near Bharuch in Gujratr had moved Lal Bahadur Shastri to the extent that he instantly resigned. Value system has changed and resignation of present day railway minister, one would say, may not be a solution of Kalka Express or a remedial measure for the future accidents. But what is the solution?

Railways have been and continue to be the means of travel for those who are constrained to care for money. Lalu Yadav as Railway Minister introdued the concept of profit through gimmicks. Modernization of railways and training to railway personnel occupied back benches. As a result, these days most accidents are either due to so called human errors or due to failure of tracks and trains. The accident during Shastri Ji's time was due to stubborn attitude of passengers.

Much later when Babu Jagjivan Ram became Railway Minister, there were a few accidents and Atal Ji in his style had said a passenger while boarding the train says good bye to 'Jag' after he is in the coach becomes concerned about 'Jivan' and thereafter he says 'Ram' ie when accident takes place. Believe me, the accidents were neither as frequent nor as severe. Present day minister and government is insensitive to human life and they think 5 Lakh is good enough to compensate a human life.What a shame !!

NAXALITES ARE NOT BORN

I am too old to seek justice through direct action but I do get agitated when I see injustice and anarchy all around. The other day dozens of Dalits of my millage Kunaura were helplessly watching when the land they were tilling for decades was ploughed by powerful moneyed man using four tractors.Police was there but not to protect the Dalits but to support the cause of moneyed man. The only fault of the fathers and forefathers of poor Dalits is that they could not get the land transferred to their names from the erstwhile zamidar and the present day wealthy people have claimed the land for themselves. Should the land not have been automatically transferred by government machinery to Dalits' names if they had been occupying and cultivating it for decades? In another case the land of a Dalit was sold somehow to a Savarn who managed to get the title transferred to his name. The Dalit it is said has run gone away to Bihar. The purchaser has now sold the land to another non-Dalit with huge profit. All this could not be possible without connaivance of revenue officers and personnel. Similarly dozens of poor OBC's and Savarn have been tilling the zamidar's land for decades but the government machinery retained zamidars' names in all these cases and some day some muscle man pretinding to be a zamidar would sell the land and poor tillers would have no choice but to cry and sit back.In this age of Dalit loving governments it is possible to oust Dalits and poor non-Dalits may be from their houses and fields. In such circumstances, is there a way to get justice except to join Naxalites and seek justice through direct action? There are other instances but who cares.