04-26-2004, 07:29 PM
I have send an email to the RSS at spokesman_rss@yahoo.com. I am not sure if they take our feedbacks seriously but I am doing my part in letting them know how I feel about this elections.
Sir,
I think Sri Vajpayee messed up this elections big time. This should have been the last election for Sonia Gandhi but the trends indicate that she is actually gaining. The credit for all this goes to Vajpayee, who got carried away with the label of statesman by the secular media. Actually it was a ploy by the media to co-opt him into doing things their way. I do not know what feedback you are getting but having interacted with lots of people here in US, I can tell that RSS/BJP has let down it's supporters all over the world and within India by dropping core issues. In fact people were angry. Just when we thought that we are gaining the upper hand aginst these pseudo-secularists, Vajpayee hijacked our agenda just to protect his legacy. I couldn't believe that RSS let just one man destroy everything you worked so hard to build. If Sonia Gandhi becomes the PM, we all can kiss good bye to all those we hoped for. Compromising with Pakistan, dropping the scrapping of article 370 issue were never favoured by the people. It was all manipulation by the secular media. I am afraid Advaniji is also going in the direction of Vajpayee. The biggest mistake Vajpayee did in this election was to believe that it was a great political strategy to occupy the political space of the Congress. He forgot that real people (read Hindus) do not want anything that resembles Congress. They don't like the way Congress suck upto the mullahs, pandering to their demands and wishes. People want change in the system, not parties. Why will people be energised to come out and vote if they see just another party with the same set of ideas for this nation. Vajpayee blurred that distinction by pandering to the demands and wishes of muslims. Also, BJP got corrupted just like Congress, distributing seats to family members, along caste and religious lines.It's ditto Congress style. Now the problem is people don't see the difference between Congress and BJP. Both Vajpayee and Advaniji WERE great leaders but their time has passed. Now the cause takes precedence over these two leaders.
I believed that RSS should keep out of economic issues and concentrate more on national security, J&K and focus on people, institutes and media that is sabotaging this country from within. You have been dragging the foreign origin issue and Ayodhya issue so long that people are loosing interest in your causes and ideals. Some of the ideas that I wish to forward and which I think will bring back RSS/VHP/BJP to it's glory are as follows. Sorry for being outspoken. Ignore them at your own peril.
1) Force Mr. Vajpayee out of PM's chair. RSS/BJP/VHP should appoint a dynamic and young leader to take over the reins. Even Advaniji is old for this chair. Men at that age has only one thing in mind i.e LEGACY. History proves that all the time. We need someone like Arun Shourie, a great communicator or a leader like Narendar Modi who has the guts to take on these pseudo-secularists single handedly. We need a leader who has the guts of Ariel Sharon, shrewedness of Tony Blair. At any given time we always should have a younger Hindu leader. It is the first pre-requisite for inspiring people.
It never makes good politics to let anyone who is above age 65 to sit in the PM's chair. The job requires the leader to travel the length and breadth of this vast country, meeting people, younger generation, give public speeches at universities, in cities, towns, villages, inspiring them to vote for a cause. That means the leader should be physically fit and mentally strong.
2) The PMO's office should appoint a press secretary and the secretary should interact with the media regularly, speaking the mind of the PM. The PM himself should interact with the media very often. Why is that Musharaaf from a beggar's nation makes more effective usage of foreign trips than our PM's. Reciting peoms and insultating from foreign press on foreign tours doesn't not make sound foreign policy. It's waste of tax payers money.
3) Forget the idea that muslim votes are needed to get into power. They are just 120 millions compared to 850 million Hindus in India. Unite the Hindus.
4) Aggressively push for scrapping article 370 of the constitution. Hindus consider it a blot on our constitution. It is also sensitive to them.
5) Amend the constitution to ban foreign origin people from occupying security sensitive posts like President, VP, PM, DPM, CJI, Defense and Home minister.
6) Highlight the activities of missionaries and madrassas in Doordarshan everyday. Let the secular media bark. Over a period of time, they will be on the defensive. That is what I call proper usage of Doordarshan.
7) Next time, Pakistan or it's terrorists even stage a minor attack in J&K, DO NOT LET THEM GET AWAY WITH IT. Do something that hurts them in one way or other. There should be proportional response. These kind of things will always unite Hindus. It's a noble cause.
People punished Sonia Gandhi once before for her role during Kargil war. I wonder how BJP forgot that.
8) Stop all contacts with Pakistan, diplomatic, sports, movies etc.. until they agree to negotiate POK, not J&K. J&K is ours and it is non-negotiable. The talk by the secular media that 80% of Indian population favours peace with Pakistan is a BIG LIE. It only reveals half truth. It is true that Indians want peace with neighbors but not at the cost of making comprmises or loosing territory or self-respect. The secular media in India is very manipulative. While taking polls, they would ask generalised question that goes like this: Do you want peace with Pakistan? Instead the question should be something like this: Do you think it is worth making compromises or giving Kashmir to Pakistan to buy peace with them? Basically the media will not give a choice to the people to speak their mind clearly. Vajpayee fell for it and he thought it will pay rich dividens for him personally and for the BJP if he makes peace with Pakistan.
9) Deal with Bangladesh with an iron hand. Next time, they kill our soldiers or BSF men and play with their dead bodies, go for a covert operation to neutralize every soldier, military commander of Bangladesh who was involved in the act. These kind of things always unite Hindus.
10) Raise BSF batallions, seal the borders and implement a strict visa regime with fingerprinting. Deport as many illegal Bangaldeshis as possible, ignoring the cries of secular media. Highlight the jobs taken away by these illegal immigrants in the NE and W.Bengal. Highlight the security threats to the nation by these illegal immigrants. Nothing pisses off the citizens than the thought of illegal immigrants taking their jobs away.
RSS/VHP have a special role to play on points 8, 9, 10. They may not have any constitutional authority to do so but they could do so through the govt. of BJP.
10) Liberalize the economy. Pursue labor reforms. Pump money into rural infrastructure while not loosing sight of IT and manufacturing sector. The more people get educated, the less likely they will vote for Congress. Expand the tax base to include rich farmers. On economic issues, RSS should maintain a hands of approach. This is one issue where pragmatism is required, not ideaology. Learn from China. Do whatever it takes to keep the GDP growth a minimum 8.5%.
11) RSS should infiltrate our English media. This is the most important and critical task before them. It is not enough if it keeps saying that it is doing something on it. We keep hearing that for the past ten years. Going to remote areas and converting the tribals into Hinduism is like achieving 30% of the goals. The bigger war is going on in the media and that is where we are getting a sound thrashing.
12) The govt. should investigate the funds received by missionaries, madrassas, English newspapers, terrorists in J&K. The supply line should be choked. The press council of India should be mandated to investigate the citizenship status of every journalist working with Indian media organizations. This is a country where you don't need a work permit to get a job. Who knows if Pakistani nationals are working in our media organizations under false names. Let's not forget that a Paki national recently tried to stand for our lok sabha elections using forged documents.
Media is a very critical sector and some independent commission should keep a watchful eye, if not the govt. directly.
13) Create a federal police force and get a grip on internal security. The federal govt. should also find a way to insulate the state police forces from political influence. Borrow some ideas from western countries if necessary. This is one area that needs immediate attention. Ethics and moral values should also be a factor in recruitments and promotions.
14) Ethics and moral values should become a factor in all walks of life, be it the politicans, beauracracy, govt. departments, law enforcement agencies, school books and judiciary.
15) Weed out all corrupt elements who entered BJP in the past 5 years. Only people who believe in our causes should be given role in the party. Anyone who is caught taking bribes should be kicked out of the party, no matter how high he is.
16) Reserve seats to national security experts and ex-military men. We need them badly in our parliament. If they cannot manage to win lok sabha polls, they should be elected to the Rajya Sabha at the very least. Establish think tanks to debate and formulate national security strategies. We cannot let sentiments and personal desires for peace creep into national security policies. Many people have no clue why our PM woke up one fine morning and declared several peace measures with Pakistan. These things cannot be done on adhoc basis. There should be a rational for that. The military should be given a bigger institutional role in formulating such policies though the final authority in decision making should rest with the PM and his core national security team.
17) Honour our fallen soldiers and armed forces. Build memorials in some metros like Madras, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Calcutta, Bangalore, Pune etc.. We need things like these to unite Hindus and patriotic Indians. Modernize the armed forces to make them more lethal. Same with the state police forces to tackle crimes, not to harass the people or serve their political masters.
These are just few things that I can write at this time. In 1999, I thought Vajpayee and Advani are going to do some great things to unite this country. But I am greatly disappointed. Vajpayee is so fixated comparing his own image with Gandhi and Nehru that he is just not listening to anyone who loves this country with a passion. He is only concerned with his legacy and praises from the media. He is capable of making compromises on vital national security interests that the coming generations will suffer. Coming to Advaniji, he isn't as smart as I thought him to be. Secularists consider him to be a hardliner but I don't see anything in him that fits that description. Both WERE great leaders but their time has passed. Now the cause takes precedence over these two leaders.
Remember how we are suffering to this day for the stupidity of Gandhi during partition and Nehru on J&K and China war. Let's not make the same mistake. It is time to think what is more important. A Vajpayee in power or a strong secular super power India that protects Hindu interests. People would rather vote for an inexperienced but younger person like Rahul Gandhi rather than a tired and out of tune but experienced leader like Vajpayee. I may still choose Vajpayee over Rahul but we cannot say for sure about the masses in India. They can be manipulated very easily.
Jai Hind.
Sir,
I think Sri Vajpayee messed up this elections big time. This should have been the last election for Sonia Gandhi but the trends indicate that she is actually gaining. The credit for all this goes to Vajpayee, who got carried away with the label of statesman by the secular media. Actually it was a ploy by the media to co-opt him into doing things their way. I do not know what feedback you are getting but having interacted with lots of people here in US, I can tell that RSS/BJP has let down it's supporters all over the world and within India by dropping core issues. In fact people were angry. Just when we thought that we are gaining the upper hand aginst these pseudo-secularists, Vajpayee hijacked our agenda just to protect his legacy. I couldn't believe that RSS let just one man destroy everything you worked so hard to build. If Sonia Gandhi becomes the PM, we all can kiss good bye to all those we hoped for. Compromising with Pakistan, dropping the scrapping of article 370 issue were never favoured by the people. It was all manipulation by the secular media. I am afraid Advaniji is also going in the direction of Vajpayee. The biggest mistake Vajpayee did in this election was to believe that it was a great political strategy to occupy the political space of the Congress. He forgot that real people (read Hindus) do not want anything that resembles Congress. They don't like the way Congress suck upto the mullahs, pandering to their demands and wishes. People want change in the system, not parties. Why will people be energised to come out and vote if they see just another party with the same set of ideas for this nation. Vajpayee blurred that distinction by pandering to the demands and wishes of muslims. Also, BJP got corrupted just like Congress, distributing seats to family members, along caste and religious lines.It's ditto Congress style. Now the problem is people don't see the difference between Congress and BJP. Both Vajpayee and Advaniji WERE great leaders but their time has passed. Now the cause takes precedence over these two leaders.
I believed that RSS should keep out of economic issues and concentrate more on national security, J&K and focus on people, institutes and media that is sabotaging this country from within. You have been dragging the foreign origin issue and Ayodhya issue so long that people are loosing interest in your causes and ideals. Some of the ideas that I wish to forward and which I think will bring back RSS/VHP/BJP to it's glory are as follows. Sorry for being outspoken. Ignore them at your own peril.
1) Force Mr. Vajpayee out of PM's chair. RSS/BJP/VHP should appoint a dynamic and young leader to take over the reins. Even Advaniji is old for this chair. Men at that age has only one thing in mind i.e LEGACY. History proves that all the time. We need someone like Arun Shourie, a great communicator or a leader like Narendar Modi who has the guts to take on these pseudo-secularists single handedly. We need a leader who has the guts of Ariel Sharon, shrewedness of Tony Blair. At any given time we always should have a younger Hindu leader. It is the first pre-requisite for inspiring people.
It never makes good politics to let anyone who is above age 65 to sit in the PM's chair. The job requires the leader to travel the length and breadth of this vast country, meeting people, younger generation, give public speeches at universities, in cities, towns, villages, inspiring them to vote for a cause. That means the leader should be physically fit and mentally strong.
2) The PMO's office should appoint a press secretary and the secretary should interact with the media regularly, speaking the mind of the PM. The PM himself should interact with the media very often. Why is that Musharaaf from a beggar's nation makes more effective usage of foreign trips than our PM's. Reciting peoms and insultating from foreign press on foreign tours doesn't not make sound foreign policy. It's waste of tax payers money.
3) Forget the idea that muslim votes are needed to get into power. They are just 120 millions compared to 850 million Hindus in India. Unite the Hindus.
4) Aggressively push for scrapping article 370 of the constitution. Hindus consider it a blot on our constitution. It is also sensitive to them.
5) Amend the constitution to ban foreign origin people from occupying security sensitive posts like President, VP, PM, DPM, CJI, Defense and Home minister.
6) Highlight the activities of missionaries and madrassas in Doordarshan everyday. Let the secular media bark. Over a period of time, they will be on the defensive. That is what I call proper usage of Doordarshan.
7) Next time, Pakistan or it's terrorists even stage a minor attack in J&K, DO NOT LET THEM GET AWAY WITH IT. Do something that hurts them in one way or other. There should be proportional response. These kind of things will always unite Hindus. It's a noble cause.
People punished Sonia Gandhi once before for her role during Kargil war. I wonder how BJP forgot that.
8) Stop all contacts with Pakistan, diplomatic, sports, movies etc.. until they agree to negotiate POK, not J&K. J&K is ours and it is non-negotiable. The talk by the secular media that 80% of Indian population favours peace with Pakistan is a BIG LIE. It only reveals half truth. It is true that Indians want peace with neighbors but not at the cost of making comprmises or loosing territory or self-respect. The secular media in India is very manipulative. While taking polls, they would ask generalised question that goes like this: Do you want peace with Pakistan? Instead the question should be something like this: Do you think it is worth making compromises or giving Kashmir to Pakistan to buy peace with them? Basically the media will not give a choice to the people to speak their mind clearly. Vajpayee fell for it and he thought it will pay rich dividens for him personally and for the BJP if he makes peace with Pakistan.
9) Deal with Bangladesh with an iron hand. Next time, they kill our soldiers or BSF men and play with their dead bodies, go for a covert operation to neutralize every soldier, military commander of Bangladesh who was involved in the act. These kind of things always unite Hindus.
10) Raise BSF batallions, seal the borders and implement a strict visa regime with fingerprinting. Deport as many illegal Bangaldeshis as possible, ignoring the cries of secular media. Highlight the jobs taken away by these illegal immigrants in the NE and W.Bengal. Highlight the security threats to the nation by these illegal immigrants. Nothing pisses off the citizens than the thought of illegal immigrants taking their jobs away.
RSS/VHP have a special role to play on points 8, 9, 10. They may not have any constitutional authority to do so but they could do so through the govt. of BJP.
10) Liberalize the economy. Pursue labor reforms. Pump money into rural infrastructure while not loosing sight of IT and manufacturing sector. The more people get educated, the less likely they will vote for Congress. Expand the tax base to include rich farmers. On economic issues, RSS should maintain a hands of approach. This is one issue where pragmatism is required, not ideaology. Learn from China. Do whatever it takes to keep the GDP growth a minimum 8.5%.
11) RSS should infiltrate our English media. This is the most important and critical task before them. It is not enough if it keeps saying that it is doing something on it. We keep hearing that for the past ten years. Going to remote areas and converting the tribals into Hinduism is like achieving 30% of the goals. The bigger war is going on in the media and that is where we are getting a sound thrashing.
12) The govt. should investigate the funds received by missionaries, madrassas, English newspapers, terrorists in J&K. The supply line should be choked. The press council of India should be mandated to investigate the citizenship status of every journalist working with Indian media organizations. This is a country where you don't need a work permit to get a job. Who knows if Pakistani nationals are working in our media organizations under false names. Let's not forget that a Paki national recently tried to stand for our lok sabha elections using forged documents.
Media is a very critical sector and some independent commission should keep a watchful eye, if not the govt. directly.
13) Create a federal police force and get a grip on internal security. The federal govt. should also find a way to insulate the state police forces from political influence. Borrow some ideas from western countries if necessary. This is one area that needs immediate attention. Ethics and moral values should also be a factor in recruitments and promotions.
14) Ethics and moral values should become a factor in all walks of life, be it the politicans, beauracracy, govt. departments, law enforcement agencies, school books and judiciary.
15) Weed out all corrupt elements who entered BJP in the past 5 years. Only people who believe in our causes should be given role in the party. Anyone who is caught taking bribes should be kicked out of the party, no matter how high he is.
16) Reserve seats to national security experts and ex-military men. We need them badly in our parliament. If they cannot manage to win lok sabha polls, they should be elected to the Rajya Sabha at the very least. Establish think tanks to debate and formulate national security strategies. We cannot let sentiments and personal desires for peace creep into national security policies. Many people have no clue why our PM woke up one fine morning and declared several peace measures with Pakistan. These things cannot be done on adhoc basis. There should be a rational for that. The military should be given a bigger institutional role in formulating such policies though the final authority in decision making should rest with the PM and his core national security team.
17) Honour our fallen soldiers and armed forces. Build memorials in some metros like Madras, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Calcutta, Bangalore, Pune etc.. We need things like these to unite Hindus and patriotic Indians. Modernize the armed forces to make them more lethal. Same with the state police forces to tackle crimes, not to harass the people or serve their political masters.
These are just few things that I can write at this time. In 1999, I thought Vajpayee and Advani are going to do some great things to unite this country. But I am greatly disappointed. Vajpayee is so fixated comparing his own image with Gandhi and Nehru that he is just not listening to anyone who loves this country with a passion. He is only concerned with his legacy and praises from the media. He is capable of making compromises on vital national security interests that the coming generations will suffer. Coming to Advaniji, he isn't as smart as I thought him to be. Secularists consider him to be a hardliner but I don't see anything in him that fits that description. Both WERE great leaders but their time has passed. Now the cause takes precedence over these two leaders.
Remember how we are suffering to this day for the stupidity of Gandhi during partition and Nehru on J&K and China war. Let's not make the same mistake. It is time to think what is more important. A Vajpayee in power or a strong secular super power India that protects Hindu interests. People would rather vote for an inexperienced but younger person like Rahul Gandhi rather than a tired and out of tune but experienced leader like Vajpayee. I may still choose Vajpayee over Rahul but we cannot say for sure about the masses in India. They can be manipulated very easily.
Jai Hind.