CAA Myths Busters

The following are my views on the recently passed The Citizenship Amendments Act, 2019:

India is a land of peaceful living for all those humane brothers and sisters only.

Blood sucking of any types will not be tolerated in the land of India. Every responsible citizen of India has both moral and constitutional responsibility to defend our country’s laws.

BJP- concerns about minorities refugees of neibhouring countries – Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh.

Congress & opposition- concerns about only Muslims in India whose rights are protected equally to others in the country.

BJP- Talks about refugees of three neibhouring countries.

Congress & opposition- mistakenly link with Muslims in within India.

CAA- provides legal solutions to recognize the citizenship of minorities’ refugees in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh.

Congress & Opposition- argues that minorities’ refugees of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh should not be given citizenship unless otherwise majority communities of those countries are given citizenship. Will the same Congress and opposition argue for Hindus in those countries? It is evident that in the past, several policy mistakes were done by Congress & others which failed miserably to protect the rights and lives of these minorities in those countries.

BJP- in the last several decades the Hindu, Sikh, Parsi, Buddhist and Christian as minorities’ communities in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh were prosecuted (more in invisible manner other than legal, decline of these communities population is evident)

CAA- is aims to provide remedy to the evils systems created by Congress which now misinterpreting and misleading the innocent people in the country.

CAA -is meant to enable and empower minorities’ refugees from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, and is not meant to deprive any Indian citizen.

Congress- which did not do anything worthwhile to empower the Muslims in India in the last several decades, that is why they are now asking the BJP government to empower the Muslims of India first, its petty and shameful.

BJP- provides solutions through CAA to correct the mistakes done by Nehru, his family and party.

Congress- hides the truths of CAA and misleads the public so that the public cannot recognize the folly of Nehru, his family and his party.

BJP- the logic behind excluding the Muslims in the CAA is very clear that in all three countries they are the majorities, and is obvious.

Congress- leaders makes mockery of CAA and failed to understand that simple logic. Even though, they all understand that very much but wanted to play the bad politics over it to gain the foolish psychic profits with which they are miserably struck for quite long time!

Congress- failed to articulate in the parliament debate on the Bill and lost the debate. Now, it wanted to play indirectly with life of public for their private gains. Some innocent students are victims of this indirect game play with bogus analysis.

When B.R.Ambedkar was studying in Columbia University for his Masters degree in 1913, Freedom Fighter Lala Lajpat Rai met him outside the university library and asked to join the politics. But Ambedkar refused saying that he has come to study with scholarship, which is a strong indication that a student in colleges or universities should mind themselves to study well only.

The students should not misunderstand the law making vs bad politics by which the lives of students, police etc would be in danger.

It is evident that in the last hundred years, all revolutions led to dictatorship or authoritarian regime.

Jai Hind
Vanakkam

Some links

"Basically, pure democracy is mob rule"

" if the party then nominates Mr Gandhi as prime minister, the nation shall not be in safe hands."

"One of the persons arrested by my brother-in-law when he was in the CBI told him: “Sir, why do you bother so much? You know this case will never be finished even by the time you retire!” He was right."

"PDS shops improved over the period of the experiment. Our hunch is that this happened because the PDS shops now faced “competition” from private shops as some of their clients had now shifted to private shops."

"Rarely do we see a woman who can expatiate on inflation statistics or predict the size of our economy four decades from now with such great precision, with decimal points. Men are convinced that this makes them superior to women. Mencken held that this is a delusion."

Blinking links

Swapan Dasgupta: "Everyone loves a good poverty business" India except the poverty stricken on poor human being.

• "It certainly didn’t need a familiarity with complex econometric models and either Keynes or Hayek to realize that the Planning Commission’s extrapolation from the Suresh Tendulkar method of poverty measurement was just another example of economists living in a make-believe wonderland. The wise men of Yojana Bhavan had once again demonstrated to the public’s satisfaction that after lies and damned lies comes statistics."

Gurcharan Das on, "Duty or revenge":

• On a sweltering afternoon on September 29, 2011, principal district judge S. Kumarguru began to hand out sentences. There was a hushed silence in the packed courtroom in Dharmapuri, Tamil Nadu. He began at 3.30 pm but could not finish until 4.40 pm because he had to read aloud the names of 215 government officials. Among those convicted were 126 forest officials, 84 policemen and five revenue officials. Seventeen were convicted of rape and they were sentenced from seven to 17 years; others received from one to three years on counts of torture, unlawful restraint, looting and misuse of office. Had 54 of the accused not died in meantime, the sentencing would have taken longer.
• Early on June 20, 1992, four teams of government officials descended on the adivasi hamlet of Vachathi, near Sathyamangalam forest, also home to the dreaded brigand Veerappan. They assembled the villagers beneath a neem tree and let loose a reign of terror as they searched for smuggled sandalwood. They picked up 18 teenage girls and dragged them into the forest, where they raped them repeatedly. They only brought them back at 9 pm.
• Claiming a haul of sandalwood from the riverbed, the officials then put 133 villagers in jail. How does the human mind begin to cope with this soul-numbing news? My first reaction was horror at the rape of teenage girls by men in uniform. Second, was a feeling of relief and catharsis when punishment was meted out to powerful men. The third emotion was outrage at those who allowed the case to drag for 19 years. Then questions arose in my mind. How could this happen in the first place? And was this not as serious an act of corruption as the 2G scam? And why was the nation quiet?

Buck back to us

Mr.Nitin Pai has very interesting column in DNA wherein he writes: 

• The earliest Indian traditions view the role of the State as protecting its citizens from the predatory world of matsya-nyaya, the law of the fishes, where the strong prevail over the weak. The state, through the establishment of danda niti, the rule of law, ensures that the rights and freedoms of the individual are protected. Citizens surrender a part of their freedoms to the State, so that it may ensure that they can enjoy the rest. This deal is the fundamental premise in the world’s constitutions, including our own. In other words, we citizens have appointed the State as our security guard. It is absurd for the security guard to outsource the job back to us, for then, why do we need the security guard in the first place?

Vicious circle of policing

Prof.Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes:

• A state that does not take the lives of those who discharge its sovereign functions seriously is unlikely to be able to send a signal to anyone else in society that it takes their lives seriously.

And moreover

• ……the state has treated the police in unconscionable ways. On any measure of state support, whether it is as simple a thing as buying reliable bullet-proof jackets, to training and providing for better means of crowd control, the state has failed. The CAG Compendium of Performance Audit Reviews on Modernisation of the Police Force catalogues every shortcoming you can imagine. In states like Bengal and Bihar, live training was not imparted to police forces, UP has slightly over a fifth of the required vehicles it needs for normal patrolling, the incorporation of new technologies was abysmal. States like Rajasthan took less than half of their Central allocation; many spent only a fraction of their allocation. The housing crisis for policemen is dire. A lot of this is the characteristic inefficiency of the state. But it sends a powerful signal about how cheap we think policing is, in both a social and a financial sense.

The mindset of a man

No, it is the morality of the man. Read this sad story of how a policeman runs Hindi university.

Is any one out there!

If yes please see what is there HERE, scroll down and SEE!!

The State of Police

Coomi Kapoor on Record breaking ages:

“Vikram Srivastava took over as head of the Central Reserve Police Force on the first of this month. His brother Raman Srivastava was appointed chief of the Border Security Force in August last year. That two brothers now head the country’s two largest para-military forces is a record of sorts. The Srivastavas’ elevation has also brought to the fore an old controversy regarding their ages. According to the files in the Home Ministry, there is a difference of just five months between the brothers, which is a biological impossibility. Raman was born on October 24, 1951 and Vikram on March 18, 1952. Asked about the discrepancy, Vikram brushed it aside with the cryptic remark, “The matter has been duly examined by the competent authority.” This is surely an even more amazing entry for the record books.”

Do Democracies overcome anything!

Omkar on “From all accounts, Mr P. Chidambaram has put the ministry on high alert. After decades, I am told, bureaucrats in the ministry are forced to do their homework before meeting the minister. And, if unprepared, are caught with their pants down. Kudos for that.”

Endowed State or embarrassed?

Prof Pratap Bhanu Mehta on The Beast State:

• The terrorists who attacked Mumbai on 26/11 wanted to attack the Indian state.
• No one expected that the state could always prevent such attacks.
• No one expected that the state could always prevent such attacks.
• The staff at both hotels was extraordinary in their bravery and good sense, while the state slept.
• …….the depth of our discontent was directed more at our own state than the perpetrators.
• Truth is the least of the tributes their courage demands.
• ………….how global impact shapes every individual.

Make the State Right

Surjit S Bhalla on Naxalite, Maoist, NGOs and their functions and why.

• …..the main complaints of the N&Ms is that development often does not reach the poor, that it gets eaten up by the state, as official help travels from the centre to the hinterland. This is a complaint that is widely echoed by the liberal intellectuals, as they staunchly defend their defence of the N&Ms. The defence, therefore, has two components; first, that violence is perpetrated by the N&Ms because they have little option; the state has in many instances behaved badly, and is massively corrupt, so corrupt that it would steal from the poor. Second, that the N&Ms are really like any other NGO, going to remote areas, where the middle class does not dare to tread, and helping the poor by telling them about the importance of boiled water.
• …………they come to power and when they leave, the system, and the poor, is a lot worse off than what it was when they started.

“The police mean extortion all over India”

Mr Khaki mood and sood is hot debate now in India but what’s new in it not known as in the past.

Vijay Nambisan writes in the current issue of Outlook:

• Rudyard Kipling noted in Kim: “Native police mean extortion to the native all India over.” He was careful not to probe any deeper. The native police were the tool of a force whose business was extortion. It ceased to matter whether they extorted on their own behalf or on behalf of their masters. To us natives, alas, the symbolism of the police constable has not vastly changed in a century.
• India’s administrative system is essentially one that Sher Shah Suri designed nearly 500 years ago. Akbar fine-tuned it, the British altered it to suit their ends, but its main purpose was always the same —efficient tax collection. Justice came a tardy second when it figured at all. The chief innovation of the Raj was the creation of the district collector, an autocrat in his fief.
• After independence, we retained the system devised to extract the most juice out of us. (A thick-headed press still uses the word “rule” instead of “govern” to describe the political function!) For more than 30 years, the district collector continued to be a petty despot. Now, I understand, collectors are designated district magistrates, and the post is considered very junior in the heirarchy. That is only because the breed has proliferated. There are so many more IAS officers than there used to be, or need to be.
• The police was used by the Raj to keep a subjugated people beneath the yoke. There were no citizens of India. “Law and order” meant the tax-gatherer’s law, the conqueror’s order. (It still does—see how the home minister speaks of first destroying the Naxalite threat and then addressing its causes.) Justice was something to be bought and sold. (It still is—look at the celebrity hit-and-run cases.)
• We have done nothing to change this system. The “native” police, under the Raj, were the enforcers, the sharpest weapons of oppression. They still are and use methods devised to suppress freedom fighters. The forced confession, the custodial death, the intimidation of relations, the very lathi—nothing has changed.
• …The police mean extortion all over India. Doctors are also coming to mean the same. But doctors are relatively empowered. Do constables get to make representations to the various police reforms commissions? Do the eminent people on these commissions visit the thana unannounced? An honest IPS officer can make a deal of difference. The home minister is idealistic in asking top officers to protest transfers, but he is in the right. So is the prime minister, when he speaks of focusing on the thana. I only wish they would take a turn at cheering up the constables.

Police, Politician and People (PPP)

P. Chidambaram on police system:

“It is a matter of deep regret that many police officers have been reduced to a football, to be kicked here and there, from one post to another, without regard to the damage done to the job as well as the officer. I ask you to search your hearts and answer the question, what is the average length of tenure of a District Superintendent of Police? What is the average length of tenure of a Station House Officer? Why do you remain silent when arbitrary postings and transfers are made by the State Government? Is it not your duty, as the head of the State Police, to raise your voice not only on behalf of your officers but also on behalf of the people that you are duty bound to protect? As one famous Judge said, “When there is a duty to speak, silence is culpable”.

Also read B. S. Raghavan’s piece on “Chidambaram's signal service”

After 1947

Two point agenda of Ajay Shah 

It may be true to argue “The police are often more dangerous than the criminals, so many crimes go unreported”. But it is utterly debatable issue that “the brute fact is that in most parts of India, women were safer going out after dark under British rule than they are today”.

However, it is the need of the hour that “For India's development to proceed, we need to greatly shift the focus of the State away from welfare programs to law and order”.  

Vote bank means middle class but all politicians are top class not by virtue

Abhinav Kumar is a police officer and writes the length and breath of the Indian police system. Especially after every incident that happened the present one focuses on law makers and their expertise, resources allocation, etc. the below are notable. 

• …..out of the 25 odd officers of joint secretary rank and above in the ministry of home affairs (MHA), only two of them are professional police officers with any field experience, and their real influence on policy making is debatable. Other nerve centres of the decision making structure, namely the PMO and the cabinet secretariat are equally bereft of professional internal security expertise. 
  
• As a policeman, I cannot help but feel growing rage and anger at the repeated assaults on the idea of India. If Mumbai 26/11 is able to create a national mood for effecting the changes outlined above in a time bound manner, it would be the most apt tribute to all the innocents who lost their lives. Otherwise it would be business as usual.
  

The sad demise of life in freedom

Nothing more to say!

 Just read this just not as a news!

‘I was raped, and now I don’t want to be victimised by the Orissa police’

Where is Police in Social life?

The one who is brave in expression is the Mr Abhinav Kumar. In his quite interesting article in the Indian Express says that the “Delhi Police was under pressure from the media and the Government to do something. So they made elaborate plans. A house was rented in a Muslim locality close to a mosque. Three innocent youths were picked up from different places and brought there at some unspecified time which would be corroborated by a 'local eye witness'. Then two of them were shot dead and the third was arrested so he could testify as an eyewitness against the cops in the murder case that ought to be registered against Sharma and his team. To make the story more believable Sharma was shot dead by his own colleagues. How paranoid does one have to be to believe this theory?We will believe the worst about our men in khaki based on conjecture and propaganda because it is our democratic right and duty not to trust them. And the terrorists whose murderous deeds have been splattered across our TV screens deserve all the benefit of the doubt”.

But the question is that we need to “Listen to the questions being raised one despairs for the fate of a civil society that is unable to distinguish between its violators and defenders. Why were two terrorists killed? Why was one arrested? Why and how did two of them escape? Why did Inspector Sharma die? Why wasn't he wearing a bulletproof jacket? Let us add up the worst of the conspiracy theories and we get the following scenario”.