There are three dangers to Indian nationhood - people who would love to see India dismember:
(a) Islamism - muslims are still continuing their not so forgotten 1000 year jehad to take over India (b) Christianism - congress since nehru days is representing these forces. Sonia congress has a higher commitment to Church. (c) Communism - Leftists and Chinese have a vested interest to keep India down.
These forces have contrived to prevent Hindus from uniting by leveraging caste divisions.
We have to change our consitution to defang islamism/christianism/casteism/linguisticism.
Raj Thakeray is playing the Congress game to split the Hindu marathi votes in Maharashtra before the next elections. That is the reason, he has not been arrested despite his acts being as anti national as afzal's. Publically congress and MNS will abuse each other while being in cahoots in private.
We know the congress track record supporting bindrawale to spite Akalis.
THE ORIGINAL SIN LIKE IN MOST PROBLEMS WE ARE FACING WAS COMMITTED BY NEHRU. There was no need to create linguistic states. In erstwhile bombay presidency, people speaking, hindi, marathi, gujarathi, kannada and Konkani got along fine. In addition to the religious fault line and caste faultline, nehruvian congress foolishly added language fault line.
Solution - split the states into counties or organise states on zonal basis. Cities like Chennai, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Kolkata must be made UTs.
RE:Root of the Problem
by Singha on Feb 16, 2008 07:31 AM Permalink
I would like to clarify more. A facade of Raj Thakeray being arrested was presented to the gullible public while the charlatan got home the same day.
Since Shivsena and BJP was against him, it was possible to convict him on charges of anti national behavior.
RE:Root of the Problem
by Ram on Feb 16, 2008 11:35 AM Permalink
Linguistic states idea is not wrong. That gives rise to the idea of clarity. We're bound as a Nation by our common root language / culture (along with recent additions to it) - so, linguistic states is never a fault-line.
The fault is the unwarrented migrations of people (often rich and powerful) to more vulnerable regions (often poor and interior regions) - and their unstoppable and uncontrolled exploitation. Probably that is the reason why J&K has special provisions, but I wish all other states also have such protective provisions (if not already there), and their enforcement.
