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l ISSN : 0030-5014 l Vol. 72 l No. 43 l April 25, 2021 l OPINION 14 Stonewalling Saffron Tide 16 Hindutva, soul of Nation 20 Redemption for Temples 28 11th Round Also Ends in 06 COVER STORY/ WEST BENGAL ASSEMBLY POLLS a Stalemate Reshaping Political 44 Understanding Universe Through Vedas Paradigm Ground Report ANALYSIS NAXALBARI 10 NISHANT KR AZAD 26 Keeping Kashmir & PRAN PRIYA On the Boil 34 A Jarring Note Turning Right 37 Watchdog or Predator? COLUMN 04 Readers’ Forum 42 News Round Up 46 Defence Scan 24 REPORT/ JAMMU & KASHMIR 30 ANALYSIS/ UNSUNG HEROES 49 Indic Wisdom Now on, no Hindus will be driven out Revolt of Rani of Kashmir: Dattatreya Hosabale Editor: Prafulla Ketkar l Asso Editor : G Sreedathan l Chief Copy Editor : Madhur Tankha l Sr Reporter : Nishant Kumar Azad l Web Consultant: Ganesh Krishnan R l Associate Art Director: Shashi Mohan Rawat l Sr Graphic Designer: Mukta Surma Kataria l DTP Operator: Manoj Kumar Singh l Cover Page Design : Shashi Mohan Rawat l E-mail: [email protected] l Website: www.organiser.org l Phones: 011-47642018, 20, 22 Bharat Prakashan (Delhi) Ltd. 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Printed at HT Media Limited, Plot No 8, Udyog Vihar, Greater Noida (UP) - 201306 READERS’ FORUM a leadership failure. pressure emanating from the US MAJOR CHANDRAKANT SINGH, and many other important through web European Nations. The idea is to portray India as rigid and State should Act uncooperative and Pakistan as Decisively moderate and accommodating. If APROPOS (Islamists attack Shaji Pakistan initiates dialogue without Varghese for selling non-Halal putting the Kashmir on the priority meat in Kerala; forcefully feeds list and promises to leave terror - raw meat, lorry burnt down) ism, then only there is some Organiser , April 6, 2021. This is hope. Otherwise, the initiative will SP Sahibs, Wake Up preposterous; what is this so- be relegated as another example APROPOS (Ambush in Bijapur: Why called minority up to? of the ridiculous and abrasive aren't we still learning lessons?) Appeasement cannot be at the diplomacy being pursued by the Organiser , April 5, 2021. General cost of the majority’s sentiments neighbouring country. Katoch has rightly spoken of lead - and cultural lifestyle. Every citizen SAHIL MAGGO, ership deficit and lack of training has a right to exercise his style of Rohtak and coordination of police. The absence of officers of rank from APROPOS (Kashi the operational area is telling. The Vishwanath-Gyanvapi leadership has to be held account - mosque case petition - able, and heads need to roll not er receives death just by transfers but by sacking threat) Organiser , from service. If police rules are April 10, 2021. Protection of allowed in the army, then one-two whistleblowers and petitioners should be sentenced to a jail term should be a top for cowardice or negligence of duty priority for any government. Unless resulting in loss of lives. Statistics living, including food habits, within we build such an ecosystem, we speak for themselves. In the Army the statutory societal structures cannot encourage people to raise units deployed for operations, the framework. The state should send their voice against corruption human resource ratio is one officer a strong message to those sec - and ill doings. for fifty other ranks. Still, the per - tions of society who impose their @thalapatta centage for casualties is one offi - religion on those of other faiths. cer for 3.5 other ranks. Here KAMESWARA RAO YENDAMURI, APROPOS (Yogi despite the police suffering more through web Government to than fifty casualties, not one officer Honour Memory of was even around. SP Sahibs, Pakistan knows Kothari Brothers by wake up. You shame yourselves its Limitations Building a Road in and your service. In 1971 the BSF APROPOS (Resolving issues: myths Their Name in Ayodhya) Organiser , performed very well. Large num - and reality) Organiser , May 31, April 9, 2021. It's half justice rather a bers of their commanders were ex 2021. Pakistan knows well that it quarter of it; justice requires the per - Emergency, or Short Service com - cannot wrest Kashmir away from son who ordered the killing to be missioned officers. It is time, as India. The peace initiative has brought to face trials. Whatever his has been for a long time, for Short been engineered only to take the condition of power, health, old age, Service officers after completing public's attention away from the and political influence should not five years to the CAPF and ending socio-economic crisis that the come in between the IPS's monopoly. The tragedy is country is facing and counter the KOUSHIK MOHAN MISHRA 4 April 25, 2021 WEST BENGAL ASSEMBLY POLLS RESHAPING POLITICAL PARADIGM The Hindu anxiety has become a vital issue in this election in West Bengal. An election outcome in favour of BJP will have the potential to reshape Bengal’s political discourse n JOYDEEP BHATTACHARYYA s of now, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is 2011) in any state in India, only after Assam (34 arguably the biggest political party of the Indian per cent according to Census 2011); a State nation in terms of the highest number of seats where it was and is fiercely opposed by its polit - in the Parliament (300 in the Lok Sabha and 95 ical rivals cutting across the party lines. in the Rajya Sabha) and the maximum state Therefore, this West Bengal Assembly Election Assemblies under its rule and also its gigantic is not just another election for the BJP. The win register of 110 million party members. With 12 here can have serious ramifications in favour of states directly under its political sway and 6 the party throughout the country in years and other states in the hand of its political allies times to come. BJP knows the consequences A under the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), quite well, and so do its political rivals, hence the BJP is currently at its mightiest moment of the concerted effort on its part to win Bengal glory. However, the party has a big challenge against its club of opponents bidding desper - before itself in 2021. It is fighting, for the first ately to resist it. time to win, the Assembly Election in West Bengal, a State which is historically considered Projecting Islamic Rule as Tolerant a Left-ideological bastion, even so under the West Bengal, alongside Kerala, has remained current dispensation of Mamata Banerjee. A the political-ideological fountainhead of Marxist State which has the second largest share of politics and thought in India. The reign of the Muslims (27 per cent according to Census Communist Party of India (Marxist) CPI (M) 6 April 25, 2021 COVER STORY A painting of Shri Ram on the wall of Jadavpur incredibly lasted for 34 years (1977- Hindus are fearful of The list of amendments attached to 2011) at a stretch. This factor the repeat of history the circular made it clear that history cemented the Communist grip on textbooks would remove all the reli - the Bengali society at large. All insti - and a dark future gious atrocities of the Muslim rulers tutions and bodies under the State under a possible on the Hindus and project the Government were occupied by the Muslim majority Islamic rule as tolerant and benevo - Left so as to exclusively shape pub - lent towards the Hindus. The ‘party lic discourses according to the Left (currently 27 per cent society’ of West Bengal, as it was ideology. In this respect, one can in the state and assessed in the past, was complete - recall the example Arun Shourie growing by 1.77 per ly under the ‘care’ and regulation of cited in his famous book Eminent the all-mighty ruling Communist Historians . The West Bengal Board cent against the Hindu party who used to intervene in every of Secondary Education had issued decline by 1.94 per sphere of the urban and rural life of a circular, bearing the number cent, according to the State. Its election success was ‘Syl/89/1’ and dated 28 April of largely attributed to its regimented 1989, explaining to all the schools Census 2011). To them, party cadres which often applied the the way the History textbooks rec - BJP appears to be the concept called ‘scientific rigging’ in ommended by the Board for Class last hope elections – something which was IX had been thoroughly amended. hard to prove but difficult to deny. April 25, 2021 7 WEST BENGAL ASSEMBLY POLLS Stooping Too Low is Mamata’s Art By mocking the BJP leaders, and even attacking Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah, while they were democratically campaigning in West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is trying to whip up regional sentiments to reap rich harvest in elections. Anti-Indian Statements The serving CM made an attempt to weaken the nation with her vitriolic anti-Bharat statements.