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Tuesday, January 14, 2014
Is AAP 'planted' to destabilize the democracy and bring anarchy!? - Thought provoking article by former RAW officer
by Col. RSN Singh.
Col. RSN Singh is a former Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) Officer and author of five books including Asian Strategy & Military Perspective, The Military Factor in Pakistan and The Unmaking of Nepal.
The political churnings of this era raise some important security sector questions. Today we have one of India's foremost security experts, Col RSN Singh, take a closer look at the emergence of the Aam Aadmi Party and the potential implications for national security.
Internal security and external security is solely predicated on the politics and the prevailing political chemistry of a country. Without security there can be no stability and consequently no development. The security discourse and foreign policy posturing of a country is therefore intrinsic to the politics and cannot be seen through different prisms.
At any point in history, wars have yielded either new political discourse or new dispensations. Arguably, but for the World War-II, India's independence from the British Rule could have been deferred by a period, which is open to conjecture. The Congress party's nearly unchallenged status in the country began to attenuate after the results of the 1962 war. Conversely, Indira Gandhi's political fortunes not only revived but soared after the 1971 war.
Monday, January 13, 2014
Disturbing patterns of links of Ford Foundation (CIA operatives) with AAP operatives
Posted by Srinivasan Kalyanaraman
Source:
http://bharatkalyan97.blogspot.in/2014/01/disturbing-patterns-of-links-of-ford.html
From: Mohan R.
Lot of tweets
and buzz doing round about growing presence of Ford Foundation in India and
Indian politics. Felt like doing some research on this. Trust me results have
been shocking. It really raises questions – IS INIDA SAFE?
What is Ford
Foundation?
Always
thought that Ford Foundation was a philanthropic organization involved in
charity, until I came across few of these links.
Then I
realized that in the garb of charity, their mandate is to ensure WASHINGTON’S
HEGEMONY (DOMINANCE) in international market.
It was
established as a front of US’ Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The modus
operandi is to fund people / professions that can influence decision making and
policy making – authors, historians, journalists, social activists, media
companies, publishers, etc.
Digging
further on this, I got even more worried, when I saw their increasing interest
and presence in Indian politics.
Here
is the list of Indians/ NGOs who have been funded by or have proximity to Ford
Foundation
· Arvind
Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia’s NGO – Kabeer
· Mallika
Sarabhai’s Darpana
· Yogendra
Yadav was funded by ICSSR of Jawaharlal Nehru University, which in turn was
funded by Ford Foundation
· Amartya
Sen for its books – Ideas of Justice
· Teesta
Setalvad and Javed’s Sabrang Communication, one who has been fighting against
Modi all these years
And
you would know, most of these guys are part of Aam Aadmi Party or are
major supporters of AAP.
This
poses a very serious question on why is Ford Foundation interested in Indian
Politics.
Just to do
further research on members of Aam Aadmi Party, I tried to find some details on
other members like Aruna Roy, Medha Patkar, Prashant Bhushan and Gopal Rai…
And this was
even a bigger SHOCKER to me…
Aruna Roy is the
one who had sent a petition to President PRANAB MUKHERJEE for mercy towards
Ajmal Kasab.. the one who killed so many innocents in Mumbai terror attack on
26th November 2008. She was also part of Sonia Gandhi’s
National Advisory Council
Here are some
links pertaining to the same
Prashant Bhushan, who we all know for the rubbish
referendum view on Kashmir, was also the preferred mediator of the
Maoists a couple of years back. Now why would they want Prashant
Bhushan?? Did they trust that Prashant Bhushan would show some soft
corner towards them?
Here
are the links pertaining to the same
Medha Patkar – we all know her for being responsible
for delay in Sardar Sarovar Dam. But something that I didn’t know earlier, I
came to know when I read the link given below. It says that tribals in
Chattisgarh had thrown her out of the village of Dantewada for herpro-naxal behavior.
There were
some other articles, which suggested her proximity to Angana Chatterjee (who
was suspected to be an ISI agent). But didn’t know the
authenticity of the article, hence not attaching it.
Gopal
Rai – Ex member
of Sonia Gandhi’s NAC. Was president of All India Students
Association (associated with CPI (M-L)), which is known for
its pro Maoist stance..
If all this was not enough, One more article that I
came across and that raised doubts on CIA’s interest in India is the one in
Economic Times, that suggested that Government was giving work for Aadhar to a
startup – MongoDB, which is funded by CIA’s venture fund. Links to the same are
given below.
This really
is giving me a sleepless nights. Just wondering, if we have so many anti
nationals within the country, do we really see Pakistan and China as a bigger
threat?
But
then was wondering, why is media not exposing all this? But then somewhere the
answer is in front of us – Manish Sisodia (ex journalist with Zee), Yogendra
Yadav (ex Journalist CNN IBN), Shazia Ilmi (ex journalist) and the latest
entrant Ashutosh (ex Managing Editor IBN7)… Are they not a party to
it?
Also wondered
why people like Meera Sanyal (ex chief RBS) and V Bala (ex Director Infosys)
joining AAP. Then came to know that Meera Sanyal’s NGO Pradan (which operates
in Naxal hit belt) is funded by Ford Foundation. Also, Narayan Murthy (Chairman
of Infosys) is on the board of Ford Foundation. Probably there could be his
compulsion to align with them given that 60% of Infosys'business
comes from US.
We all
believe corruption is an issue, but nothing can be bigger that National
Security.
We all want
corruption free India and Aam Admi Party raised some hopes. But these news
articles, really make me worried that by extending our support to AAP,
are we compromising on NATIONAL SECURITY?
If people who
can compromise on national security for personal gains, will they ever give you
corruption free governance?
Like Ford
Foundation, is AAP only a front face of some bigger conspiracy?
This time, I
was thinking of seriously giving a chance to AAP… but not ANYMORE…
As a TRUE
INDIAN, if this is worrying you as well, do forward it to spread awareness.
Main Stream Media will not do that job.
My vote is not for AAP - article by Tavleen Singh
My vote is
not for AAP
Twitter: @tavleen_singh
January 12, 2014 06:32
January 12, 2014 06:32
The bubble of euphoria that is making
a disturbingly large number of Indians see the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in soft
focus needs to be pierced before it is too late. And, as someone who has been
wary of Arvind Kejriwal, Anna Hazare and friends from day one, I consider it my
duty to perform this task. It will make me less popular than I already am with
Leftists, secularists, Stalinists, Leninists et al, but I did not become a
political columnist to win a popularity contest. So the venom they spew worries
me not one bit. The truth is I worry much more when they agree with something I
say, and it is partly because of their unstinting support for AAP that I feel
the need to start ringing alarm bells.
Tuesday, January 07, 2014
The Most Important Sentence in the Prime Minister's Press Conference 04 Jan, 2014
This article is written by Arun Jaitley. Link
to the original article is here.
The Prime Minister’s
interaction with the media on 3rd January,2014, gave rise to several
controversies. His announcement that he was unavailable for leadership after
the General Elections, his endorsement of Rahul Gandhi, his criticism of Narendra
Modi, his admission of failure in tackling corruption and inflation were
amongst the issues which caught popular attention. We on behalf of
the BJP reacted on some of the issues.
The Kashmir comment in
the Press Conference got missed out amidst these controversies. A
media person asked the Prime Minister a question on his
Pakistan initiatives. The Prime Minister revealed for the first
time that secret envoys from India and Pakistan had almost arrived at a meeting
to resolve the conflict on Kashmir. When a break through appeared ‘in
sight ‘, General Pervez Musharraf had to make way for other leaders
and the agreement got blocked. A few years ago when President
Musharraf was living in exile in London he had given a similar indication
.
What was this possible
resolution on Kashmir ? The people of India are entitled to know an
answer to this question.
The stated position of
India has been very clear. Jammu & Kashmir is an integral part of
India. In 1994 the Indian Parliament had passed a unanimous resolution
asserting that POK was an integral part of India’s territory.
India firmly believes that no third party intervention in Kashmir
is permissible. Pakistan has an unfinished agenda on Kashmir. It
has not reconciled to Kashmir being integral to India’s sovereignty. It has
used warfare and terrorism to achieve this end. India firmly believes
that the age and era of re-drawing boundaries is over. India’s
negotiating space on territory in the context of Kashmir resolution is
negligible.
I have always believed
that the Nehruvian vision of giving a separate status to Jammu & Kashmir
was a flawed one. The journey of the past 67 years has been
from separate status towards separatism. The Congress stands for
separate status, the National Conference advocates pre-1953 status, the PDP
talks of self-rule, the separatists talk of ‘Azadi’. Each one of
these is intended to dilute India’s sovereignty. Their intention is
to weaken the constitutional and political link between Jammu & Kashmir and
the rest of the country. It is in this context that one needs to know
the details of what this ‘almost arrived at’ agreed resolution between Dr.
Manmohan Singh’s government and Pakistan was. Pakistan had been
advocating an interim resolution on Kashmir which comprised of
several unacceptable measures. These included maintenance of
territorial status quo, demilitarization in Kashmir, dilution of the Line
of Control for allowing free movement of people and goods, a tripartite
joint mechanism to take decisions about Jammu & Kashmir for a
specified period pending which a final solution would be found.
Some Pakistani observers and Kashmiri groups also spoke about the
currency of the two countries to be a valid tender in Jammu &
Kashmir. I do not know if any or all of these were a subject matter
of the ‘almost arrived at’ resolution to the Kashmir problem. I
hope the truth is otherwise. I further hope that I do not have to wait
for the memoirs of the Prime Minister to know the truth.
Track Two diplomacy is
not an unknown phenomenon. It is an accepted instrument world over.
But Track Two diplomacy cannot be at complete variance with the stated
national position. At best it can be marginally ahead of the national
thinking. If the above stated points that the Pakistanis have been
frequently mentioning i.e a dilution of the LOC and a tripartite
arrangement were part of this ‘breakthrough’ , it would be a defacto acceptance
of Jammu & Kashmir being a disputed territory. It is with great
difficulty that Indian diplomacy has achieved a non-internationalization of the
Kashmir issue and an internationalization of cross-border terrorism.
By even suggesting such a resolution, we could squander all gains.
De-militarisation of the valley without dismantling the terror
infrastructure by Pakistan would be disastrous. I hope the Government was
not working in this direction.
Since the Prime Minister
for the first time informed the nation that a resolution on Kashmir was
almost agreed to, it is eminently desirable that he takes the nation into
confidence of what the specifics he had in mind about the failed
solution. Even for history to make assessment of Prime Minister’s
tenure, these details would be of immense help.
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