Thank God, Prime Minister ManMohan Singh occasionally gets enlightened over sensitive matters concerning economy, rural development, poverty, law and order situation which is deteriorating with the passage of time and certainly the “Welfare of corporate class”.
In the three day annual conference (DGPs/IGPs Confernce-2009) held in Delhi of the country organized by CBI he expressed serious concerns over the naxalite menace threatening the country. Mr.Singh unlike his junior P.Chidambaram, our Home Minister didn’t term or castigate ‘Naxalism as a product of an outdated ideology’. Mr.Singh, though an economist with a capitalist bent of mind like his colleague who also thinks on the same wavelength on economic reforms, took time to delve deeper into the roots of this growing ‘menace’ as the outcome of socio-economic disparities prevailing in the country and élan it still retains and the role of intelligentia in the propagation of it among the masses in solidarity with their hardships like poverty, starvation, malnourishment and lack of safe drinking water. Mouthing slogans like ‘Right to food security’ and doing practically nothing for alleviating the problems won’t carry much water. That is another truth.
Instead our Home Minister views the naxalite menace only as a law and order problem. A simple man in pure white dhoti and shirt most of the time (unlike his predecessor during whose tenure as Home Minister always obsessed with changing coat and suit atleast thrice a day and practically helpless and careless in the face of intermittent terrorist strikes across different parts of the nation) our efficient Home Minister gets smart only when he flies abroad, still carries with him the ‘lessons’ he inculcated during his days at Harvard.
Our Prime Minister in the course of the three day conference didn’t forget to lavishly shower praises on his Home Minister for the betterment of the law and order situation in the country and also for his wizardry as Finance Minister while he was occupying that prestigious portfolio.
In future, we, the citizens can expect more from our Home Minister as he has returned from USA with ‘newer ideas’ obtained from top American Intelligence Agencies.
Moreover he took time to present before Hilary Clinton, US State Secretary, his anger and ire against Pakistani authorities for not practically doing anything positive to stop infiltration from across the border, frequent border skirmishes and for letting loose the Mastermind behind 26/11 Mumbai terror attack the LeT Leader Hafiz Al Saeed. I think US authorities have listened to his grievances and in right earnest US Ambassador to India, Timothy Roemer’s direction to Pakistan to book the Mumbai Terror culprits might be due to this reason.
In the course of the three day conference, Prime Minister turned his attention to North-East as well. The volatile situation brewing up in the North-Eastern States and the militant strikes causing loss of lives and destruction of property have caused much of an alarm in the corridors of power.
But the painful news stories pouring in from media point to some other grim realities. Killing of innocent civilians on a daily basis and categorizing them as ‘encounter deaths’ causes much heartburns across the nation. Inspite of years of demands for AFSPA (Armed Forces Special Powers Act) to be repealed which was recommended by Jeevan Reddy Commission during Mr.Singh’s UPA 1st is still in force. Irom Chanu Sharmila is still on her ninth year of hunger strike. Masses live in perpetual fear of uncertain future.
Naxalite menace, a bleeding Jammu and Kashmir, burning North-East and terrorists waiting in the wings to strike at any time at any part of the country, I fear our nation sits on a time-bomb.
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