--- On Sun, 2/8/09, Marshall Mendonza <mmendonz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > An institution linked to the RSS and headed by persons > associated with the > RSS is considered multipartisan. Ha ha ha!! That was a good > joke. Tell us > another one, just like the other one, tell us another one > too .......... >
The above claims that the Institute for Conflict Management and the persons associated with it are linked to the RSS are blatant falsehoods. Even the tenuous earlier statement from a nameless blog that one of its principals, Dr. Ajai Sahni was a member of ABVP or Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad when he was a student is not supported by any other independent source. Please see the result of this Google search: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Dr.+Ajai+Sahni%22+ABVP&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq= Ironically, this search and another one for "Dr. Ajai Sahni" "Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad" yields the following link: http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/sair/Archives/7_16.htm Please note this quote on the Malegaon and Modasa bomb blasts in particular: QUOTE Hindu Jagran Manch behind the Malegaon and Modasa bomb blasts, claims Maharashtra Police: The Maharashtra Police on October 22 claimed that the Hindu Jagran Manch, an Indore (Madhya Pradesh)-based Hindu extremist group was responsible for the September 29 bomb blasts in Malegaon (Maharashtra) and Modasa (Gujarat). This extremist group reportedly has links with the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the student wing of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). A day after, on October 23, the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) arrested three persons on charges of being involved in the September 29 blast in Malegaon. They were identified as a Sadhvi Pragnya Singh Chandrapal Singh, Shiv Narayan Gopal Singh Kalsanghra, and Shyam Bhawarlal Sahu. While Pragnya Singh was arrested from Surat (Gujarat), the other two persons were arrested from unspecified places in Madhya Pradesh. Subsequently, the Nashik Chief Judicial Magistrate’s Court remanded the arrested to Police custody till November 3. The three accused reportedly had started the Rashtriya Jagran Manch, a sister organisation of the RSS. They have been booked under various sections of the Indian Explosives Act and the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. The ATS chief Hemant Karkare said that the Forensic Sciences Laboratory (FSL) report had revealed "traces of RDX" in the September 29 blast in Malegaon. Indian Express ; The Hindu, October 23-24, 2008. UNQUOTE Now please tell me if any organization that was linked to ABVP or RSS would have posted the above news as a statement of fact on their website. Other searches for "Dr. Ajai Sahni" "Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh" and "Institute for Conflict Management" "Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh" provide absolutely no official or unofficial connections between these entities. The reliance on unnamed partisan blogs by the author of the above post to make wild, provocative and slanderous statements against organizations and people is very disturbing. Please check out the webpages of the blog which was used by him as a source of information in this forum to slander members of the Institute for Conflict Management: http://sanghparivar.wordpress.com/ Can anybody tell me who its owner is? Who claims responsibility for the authenticity of the information displayed on it? Why is this blog attacking everybody who speaks out against violence committed by Maoist extremists, is a businessman, or is in favor of capitalism? The other disturbing fact about the above poster is the inability to understand that it is wrong to engage in guilt by association to slander somebody in a public forum. The height of such egregious behavior was a wife being deemed guilty by virtue of being associated with her husband who may or may not be connected with a political party that the poster is opposed to. The joke really is that the wife actually belongs to the Congress party. Please see this incredible quote from the said shady blog in terms of the scope of dishonesty that it displays: QUOTE Ms Rani Gargi Bloeria, is the wife of former Chief Secretary of Jammu and Kashmir, Dr Sudhir S Bloeria. He is a soldier-turned-bureaucrat who served as additional secretary (Kashmir Affairs) in the Union home ministry prior to his appointment as enforcement director. In fact his wife represents him in the organization. In 2005, Ms. Rani Gargi Bloeria elected as the Deputy Mayor of Jammu Municipality along with BJP candidate Shri Kavinder Gupta as the Mayor! It proves her proximity with Hindutva forces<http://www.organiser.org/dynamic/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=69&page=1> even though she represent India's secularist party, Indian National Congress. UNQUOTE Despite all this, since the poster has claimed that he can take on anybody in a debate because of his knowledge of facts, I would like to ask him again to provide statistical facts regarding fatalities from terrorism and left-wing extremism in the North-East from whatever partisan sources that he likes to consult for his facts. Let us see how his facts refute my original claim. Cheers, Santosh
