Gabe Menezes writes: "RESPONSE: I have read Sabdeep Heble's article, I believe both of you have misread the article.
Sandeep is crying out loud that the BJP are no longer a credible opposition....not that he is against the BJP." ------------------------------------------- My Response: Gabe, Different people may have interpreted my post differently(Check out another response from elsewhere appended below) but you are way off the track. I have no love or sympathy for any of our Political Parties in the present set-up. I have clearly attacked the policies of the BJP, particularly their model of “Hindutva”, holding it responsible for riots, violence, assaults on our ‘Freedom of Expression’ and for taking India backwards. After their recent electoral defeats, the top BJP leaders will probably converge at their own “Chintan Baithaks”, where they will introspect and frame fresh policies for the future. Going by past experiences, there are two alternate roads which they could chart, one of them being pursuing “Hindutva” even more vigorously. Now if the party aggressively pursues their skewed interpretation of Hindutva, such a road can only be disastrous to the Nation. I have suggested the other alternative: that the Party must re-invent itself on modern secular liberal principles if it wishes to exist in the realities of today's world. A reformed strong opposition Party on such principles will most certainly be in India's interests. Else, as Vivian has aptly observed, India could move back towards the Emergency Era. Cheers Sandeep ------------------------------------------------- Why the BJP Lotus is sinking!......by anonymous Does the Indian Youth really have an imagination? Whether in art, music, cinema, literature, philosophy; the average Indian 'university educated' youth comes as a cropper. Education is not for education's sake but a job. (Pay) package is the most common word at the tip of job hungry youngsters. They are content with being software coolies and all nite BPOs. The degree of ignorance on political issues is equally shocking. Consider the case of Sandeep Hebleji. He is tempted to identify with someone like Rahul Gandhi, a 40 yr old 'young' leader of whom we knew practically nothing until a couple of yrs back. Recall prior to the elections his claim that he would "finish off terrorism in 15 days" Rahul Gandhi like his mother [of whose background we know little either] does not appear for TV or print interviews. But youth like Sandeep Heble have identified in him the messiah of Indian politics, all, I presume at 'face value' The new gen leaders are not self created, they all have risen from the ashes of their political heavyweight fathers. "Mere mare hue baap ke naam par mujhe vote do!" has been their common refrain. And, Rahul Mahajan is NOT a BJP leader BJP did not get its first state government until 1989 but riots in India have been ubiquitous since the 14th century. The mind of the dhimmi is actually not averse to violence, as long as his community is the victim. People of all other races may have the divine sanction to violence, but the Hindu must eschew from the same. India today has the highest number of hungry people in the planet, thanks to Heble's favourite party. It is a cruel joke that in a nation where writing an Anti-Islamic article can land you in jail, we have "Hindus" like Heble who defend the right to freedom of expression of a perverted Muslim artist. In Goa itself, more than 500 temples have been desecrated in the last ten years At a time, when Hindu cultural practices are endangered by the pernicious practices of the pseudosecular 'minority' appeasing state, Heble's only concern is protection of the minority practices, including such exalted practices like prostelytization, radicalization, polygamy, overpopulation amongst others. The BJP, is of course, second to none when it comes to backing caste based quotas and this is where it lost all credibility to being a party with a difference, especially when it backed OBC quota bill. The insinuation that the BJP has some upper caste agenda is a propaganda piece straight from the Congress headquarters. It is because of Hindutva that India retains a semblance of Hinduness in the 21st century. Or else, our fate would have been like the Goans who were Portuguese slaves until they were liberated by the Indian state.
