Sanatan Dharma refers to the “eternal” truth and teachings of Hinduism. It can also be translated as “the natural and eternal way to live".
But sickularists are desperate. They want to appease anti-Hindu forces and ensure 'polarisation' before elections. DMK leader's statement is also diabolical because of its timing. They want something odd to happen...some violence on the eve of G20 !!
Tamil Nadu Governor R N Ravi, known for his upright and professionalism, should immediately warm Chief Minister M K Stalin. If the agenda is to 'harm' India's reputation and create unwarranted situation before G-20, even the state government could be dismissed.
Sick-mind can only make one Sickular!!
BJP leader Sudhanshu Trivedi said, "I want to tell with firm conviction, their real design has been exposed....And this design is to hit and demolish the basic framework of this country which is the base of knowledge, development and which is the base of prosperity".
Several other reactions have poured in.
On Tamil Nadu Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin's 'Sanatana Dharma' should be eradicated' remark, the Head priest of Chilkur Balaji Temple, Rangarajan says, "We have seen the interview or speech of Udhayanidhi Stalin, in his speech compared Sanatan Dharma as dengue & malaria something similar to coronavirus which has to destroyed he says
"...Sanatan Dharma has seen lakhs of people like them & has stood the test of time. It has seen the worst invasions in this country, it has seen destruction & a lot of demolition and all sorts of atrocities against people who follow Sanatan Dharma yet it is still surviving in this country".
"Udhayanidhi Stalin should understand what is the meaning of Dravidian ideology ...What have you done for Tamil culture, to protect it, to preserve it?... I request the people of Tamil Nadu to show them the power of the ballot. Elect a person who respects Sanatan Dharma..."
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| BJP Letter to Governor Ravi |
Sri Swayamprakasha Sachidananda Saraswathi Mahaswam of Sri Adi Shankaracharya Sharada Lakshminarasimha Peta says, "Our Sanatan Hindu Dharma is the most ancient Dharma in this entire world. So we can categorically say that this Dharma is the mother of all religions...
Some people for the sake of their vote bank politics are speaking about Sanatan Dharma in a negative way. We are strongly condemning this act..."
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman put out an old video of Tamil Nadu Congress chief KS Alagiri saying that the purpose of the alliance in the state is to destroy Sanatan Dharma. This comes as the Sanatan Dharma row turned into a major controversy with the opposition alliance INDIA (Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance) facing the heat for the DMK leader's statement.
Home minister Amit Shah led the attack on INDIA as he said, "These people have talked about Sanatan Dharma for votebank appeasement. They have insulted (Sanatan Dharma)."
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In the year 1996 addressing a gathering in Mumbai, eminent intellectual and writer Nani A Palkhivala had said that India "still waits for the type of revolutionary turnaround effected by the Labour party of British under John Smith".
This was in reference to Smith's famous statement that he would be 'relaunching' the Labour Party as the party of the citizens and in which the traditional associations of the party would be buried forever.
Last week India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi almost did that with a little variation. His move for holding simultaneous elections is revolutionary but it will have touched some raw nerves. Of course traditional associates of his party would never be buried.
Rather those who felt and followed BJP's original political philosophy are today more than pleased.
The status quoists elsewhere who were already unhappy with many 'changes' in the world of corruption and shady deals (ho jaega ji and Koi baat nahi) after Modi ttok over would be further displeased. These include political rivals and sizable numbers of bureaucracy.
This reform agenda will gradually hit India's bureaucracy - otherwise often said 'neither civil, not servants'. Even a neo-critic of the Modi government Tavleen Singh writes in 'Indian Express' -it is an idea "worth thinking about".
Lucidly, she argues, "Not in an unserious sloganeering ‘one India, one election’ way but clearly, consultatively, and seriously. Personally, I believe that this business of holding major state elections every year has turned India into a country that seems to remain in election season endlessly."
Tavleen Singh also notes: "Political leaders who should be concentrating on governance are dragged away from their real work to election rallies where they make the same boring, old speeches that they made in the last election and the one before."
Some of these thoughts echo what common people also think. One excuse so far is implementing such an idea would be tough ! That way many things or every thing in a country cherishing chaotic democracy is tough.
The argument is simple, if things are tough; it is the TOUGH who shall be moving -- forward. That Modi has proved himself to be once or even more than once.
'Indian Express' also reports that a 2015 study by independent think tank IDFC Institute found that between 1999 and 2014, there was a “77% chance that the winning political party or alliance will win both the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections in that state when held simultaneously”. If the elections are held even six months apart, the figure drops to 61%."
This is where trouble begins for the Opposition. Modi does not only know how to keep his 'secret card' close to his chest; he also knows the timing.
In demonetisation of 2016 damaged cash-rich Mayawati-led BSP on the eve of 2017 assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh; this time also he timed it very well.
The opposition I.N.D.I.A alliance got a shocker. Prior to this shocker of course, Rahul Gandhi had his plans well placed. In sheer coincidence again Gautam Adani was targeted by reports in a section of media. Jairam Ramesh scored 'initial points' and said Rahul Gandhi will address the press. Rahul did so -- and insisted the Modi regime is in 'panic'. But slowly Modi's One Nation, One Election came up.
'Sickularists' expected headlines to be theirs. In northeast many people calculated that Manipur mess will result in bigger mess in the Modi camp.
Some still think -- the narratives even in Whatsapp discussions and social media should be 'anti-Meitei' choir. Meiteis think it should be mixed. Attack Modi here and there and especially in interviews with well known anti-Modi TV faces; publicly back Biren Singh and on ground and in backrooms work closely with the Nagas of Manipur.
Stalwarts : They did set up Constitution review panel
'Indian Express' also reports that a 2015 study by independent think tank IDFC Institute found that between 1999 and 2014, there was a “77% chance that the winning political party or alliance will win both the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections in that state when held simultaneously”. If the elections are held even six months apart, the figure drops to 61%."
This is where trouble begins for the Opposition. Modi does not only know how to keep his 'secret card' close to his chest; he also knows the timing.
In demonetisation of 2016 damaged cash-rich Mayawati-led BSP on the eve of 2017 assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh; this time also he timed it very well.
The opposition I.N.D.I.A alliance got a shocker. Prior to this shocker of course, Rahul Gandhi had his plans well placed. In sheer coincidence again Gautam Adani was targeted by reports in a section of media. Jairam Ramesh scored 'initial points' and said Rahul Gandhi will address the press. Rahul did so -- and insisted the Modi regime is in 'panic'. But slowly Modi's One Nation, One Election came up.
'Sickularists' expected headlines to be theirs. In northeast many people calculated that Manipur mess will result in bigger mess in the Modi camp.
Some still think -- the narratives even in Whatsapp discussions and social media should be 'anti-Meitei' choir. Meiteis think it should be mixed. Attack Modi here and there and especially in interviews with well known anti-Modi TV faces; publicly back Biren Singh and on ground and in backrooms work closely with the Nagas of Manipur.
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| Stalwarts : They did set up Constitution review panel |
Are things moving in these directions? How Rahul Gandhi -- he deserves credit for latest 62 per cent rating - is handling the issues?
Here again a general Rahul-sympathetic columnist Tavleen Singh says:
"As for this (Sdani-Modi nexus) becoming an important issue in the coming general election may I remind Rahul Gandhi that he has tried to prove that Modi is corrupt and a thief in not one but two general elections.
It did not help the Congress Party. So, holding a press conference to demand that the Prime Minister own up to his friendship with Adani served only to distract from the I.N.D.I.A. conclave."
On the other hand, divisions in the I.N.D.I.A camp came up to the fore in Mumbai. A good reader of on ground politics Mamata has sensed troubles. A video clip has gone viral that shows Mamata pulling her hands out of the grip of Sharad Pawar. This apparently is just before Mamata boycotted opposition's press meet in Mumbai.
The Trinamool leadership is displeased that Congress and Left are not giving her free hand to decide the fate of West Bengal elections. Her demands are 'simple' -- the CPI(M) and the Congress (especially Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury) should not attack her in the state. And secondly, as a dominant party in the Opposition camp in Bengal, she should decide which seat is hers and which could 'fall' into the bags of Congress and communists.
These are not happening so easily. On the day Mumbai meet was on, Adhir Chowdhury and Mohammed Salim (CPI-M) shared stage in Dhupguri and made blistering attack on Trinamool. For her the Dhupguri message was more 'powerful' than Mumbai's vada pao hospitality ! It was 'two wrong people (Adhir and Salim)' in the wrong place!!
"...for the moment Modi remains taller than the whole lot of them together", I am not saying this. Tavleen Singh says so and I do endorse.
My takeaway is based on a bit of traditional knowledge about Indian politics. The Nehru-Gandhi dynasty is in the centre of Congress politics come what may. Again, the Congress will be in the centre of India's Oppostion politics, come what may. Now, to thousands of Congress women and men, it is not wrong to say that just as birds long held in captivity are unable to fly independently when set free, so are the Congress leaders.
They are simply displaying utter ignorance on how to stay 'free' from dynasty. SICKULARISTS also are ignorant on how to handle the 'menace called Modi'.
One social network posting said acidly : 'One Nation, one Tension - Modi'. The person has been honest to the core.
But he has only diagnosed the 'malady' that actually should bother the Opposition alliance. On Sept 17th Modi will celebrate his birthday -- just four days after this blogger (sheer incidental na?). But he has many cards up his sleeves.
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| What Advani used to say in 19906 |
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