अब गुंडे-बदमाश हमें बताएंगे, हम जिंदा कब कहलाएंगे !

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मन तो कह रहा है पंगा मत लो, होगा तो कुछ नही, गुंडों की हिट-लिस्ट में आ जाओगे. घर पर, घरवालों पर या फ़िर दोस्तों पर हमला हो जाएगा या ख़ुद पिट जाओगे और कोई पूछने वाला तक नही होगा.

पर अब ओखली में सर दे ही दिया तो मूसल से क्या डरना.

बात एक 'युवा नेता' की है जो विधायक बनकर देश की जनता खासतौर पर भोपाल की जनता की सेवा करना चाहते हैं. हाल ही में संपन्न हुए विधान सभा चुनाव में ये प्रत्याशी थे और इस वजह से इनके चीखने-चिल्लाने (भाषण) को सुनने का सौभाग्य हमें भी प्राप्त हुआ. हालाँकि ये चुनाव हार गए पर अपने बाहुबल की एक झलक ज़रूर दिखला गए. अब शायद विचार लोक सभा का चुनाव लड़ने का है इसलिए शहीदों की कुर्बानियां और बेगुनाहों की मौतें की इनको याद आ रही हैं.

जैसा की मैं पहले बता चुका हूँ कि मैं पुलिस और नेताओं से सौ हाथ कि दूरी बनाकर रहता हूँ और जिस सड़क पर ये चल रहे होते हैं वहाँ से तो मैं निकलता तक नही, तो इन महाशय के बारे में मैं सिर्फ़ सुनी-सुनाई और पढ़ी-पढ़ाई बातें कर सकता हूँ.

इनके विषय में मैंने पहली बार कक्षा ११ वी में सुना, लोग बताते थे कि इंजीनियरिंग कालेजों के अगर कोई बेताज बादशाह हैं तो ये हैं, पढ़ाई से कोई लेना देना नही, कई बार फेल हो चुके, गुंडागर्दी और मारपीट में अव्वल, कई बार बलवा करवा चुके, कई बार बाजारों पर हमला करवा चुके और कई बार ज़मानत पर छूट चुके, इनके जानने पहचानने वालों में कई नेता, अफसर, पुलिसवाले और इन्ही की बिरादरी वाले (गुंडे-बदमाश) हैं. भोपाल के किसी भी इंजीनियरिंग कालेज में अगर कुछ 'काम' हो तो इनकी शरण में जाएँ.

मुझे तो इनकी सेवाओं की कभी ज़रूरत नही पड़ी और भगवान का शुक्र है इनका और मेरा आमना सामना भी कभी नही हुआ. अलबत्ता जो मित्र इनके गुणगान करते थे उनको ज़रूर चिढा दिया जाता था की एक चार फुटिया तुमको हमसे कैसे बचाएगा.

धीरे धीरे या फ़िर बहुत तेजी से समय बीता और पता चला की महाशय ने दो/तीन(?) इंजीनियरिंग कालेज खोल लिए हैं और साथ ही साथ एक कंस्ट्रक्शन कंपनी भी खोल दी है. खेल तो तभी समझ आ गया, बंदा कांट्रेक्टर बन गया, अब बनेगा नेता. राष्ट्रीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान (एम.ऐ.एन.आई.टी.) में इन्होने संस्थान के कुछ भ्रष्ट लोगों के साथ मिलकर घोटालों की झडी लगा दी. (बात करोड़ों रुपयों के हेर-फेर की है, खैर. )

और इन घोटालों से जो पैसा मिला उससे उतर गए चुनावों में. चुनावों में भी इन्होने कोई कसर नही छोड़ी, खूब शराब बंटवाई, हजारों रूपए बांटे, झुग्गी बस्तियों के अनेकानेक दौरे किए, 'माताओं-बहनों' के बेटे बने, 'पिताओं(?)-भाइयों' का आशीर्वाद प्राप्त किया, लाला बस्ती (कायस्थों) से इन्होने जाति के आधार पर वोट मांगे, और आखिरकार दूसरे स्थान तक पहुँच ही गए.

आज इन्होने हमें बताया की हमें नववर्ष कैसे मनाना चाहिए, हमें पहली जनवरी २००९ को आतंकवाद और अपराध विरोध दिवस के रूप में मनाना चाहिए और मुंबई से मिले हुए घावों को हरा रखना चाहिए. हमें यह साबित करना चाहिए की हम जिंदा हैं!

क्या हम जिंदा हैं? अगर हम जिंदा होते तो क्या इन जैसे गुंडे-बदमाश हमें यह पट्टी पढ़ा रहे होते, अगर हम जिंदा होते तो क्या दैनिक भास्कर जैसे प्रतिष्ठित अखबार से इस तरह के हैवानियत भरे इश्तेहार छापने का हिसाब नही मांगते, अगर हम जिंदा होते तो क्या इस कार्यक्रम के 'सफल आयोजन' और 'सरकार के प्रति जन-आक्रोश' (०२/०१/२००९ के दैनिक भास्कर में पढ़ लीजिएगा यही छपेगा) का पर्दाफाश नही करते?

अगर हम जिंदा होते. . .

काश हम जिंदा होते. . .


[अधिक जानकारी के लिए कृपया इस वेबसाइट पर जाएँ: SAVE MANIT.]

Should we start a Project Black Cat on the lines of Project Tiger?

(On NSG & CISF Commandos.)

Well I am talking about the NSG (National Security Guard) Commandos, popularly known as Black Cat Commandos. The NSG was setup specifically for Anti-Terror and Anti-Hijack Operations. But (I think) as a hijack or a terrorist attack is a rare event slowly they were deployed as bodyguards of the politicians. Taking a cue from this all those who had the right approach and influence started keeping either commandos or police or even homeguard jawans as bodyguards and escorts. Security became Status Symbol and the work to convert Cats into Dogs begins.

It should not come as a surprise that a particular commando is guarding a particular politician for a very long time. However even under the garb of Status Symbol what politicians can’t risk is their lives, having learnt the lesson from Indira Gandhi’s Assassination. They might have ‘befriended’ a couple of commandos and thus can’t let them go easily. (I have noticed the security personnel serve tea/water to Uma Bharti, carry files and bags of Sonia Gandhi, open doors of car for Mayawati, etc. am I a Sexist, I don't think so) This is in context of the news article, No takers for Israel-trained CISF commandos, CISF men guard our Space Centers, Atomic Power Plants, Airports, etc. but the politicians won’t trust them with their lives. (What if one commando sees their corrupt life and decides to end it, this I imagine, why waste your life saving a rat that is eating into country’s resources.)

Now what should we do to free the NSG commandos from these politicians, start a Project Black Cat on the lines of Project Tiger, for the politicians won’t let go the commandos so easily. You might think why so much fuss about a hundred commandos so kindly glance through the following data: (or read the complete article here.)

1. The NSG has two wings - the Special Action Group (SAG) the Special Rangers Group (SRG), comprising select men from various forces. More than half of SRG personnel are deployed for VIP security.

2. There are around 400 guarded VIPs in the national capital alone. Around 15,000 Delhi Police personnel out of its strength of 60,000 guard the VIPs, who include ministers, politicians, bureaucrats, judges, religious leaders, lawyers and a few journalists.

3. This (1 and 2) is in addition to the Special Protection Group (SPG) that is exclusively meant for providing security to the prime minister, former prime ministers and members of the Gandhi family.

4. Over 45,000 policemen guard over 13,000 VIPs across the country.

5. There is an estimate that approximately Rs.6 billion of taxpayers' money is spent annually on the salary of the security staff involved in such duties.

Hope that you get the idea of the ‘GOLMAAL’ going inside our country. Who are they afraid of, us, or their rivals, who are rats like them, goons and criminals, why would anybody kill his god, or are they afraid of themselves, their own deeds, so as to deviate from reality by creating a world of their own where they can say, do and justify all their acts, a stage where they write the story, where they are the actors and where they are the audience.

Terror-Diversity in India

(A Comment on the ongoing War On Terror in India.)

Many of us either knowingly or out of ignorance neglect the variety of terrorism in India. Like our diversity, terrorism in India is also very varied. Lets start with the question What is Terrorism. It is the use of terror for attaining some predetermined goals. The important terms here are Terror and Goals. And when we have decided to fight terrorism we must fight its all 'strains' rather than just one.

My list of terrorist organizations includes the following:

1. The Police and The Bureaucracy: I, as a common man, am very terrified by the police. I keep a hundred-hands distance from these people, I don’t fear the bureaucracy that much because [Read 5.]

2. The Politicians: This is another group that I fear a lot, because they have four hands instead of two, two their own, and one of police and the other of criminals and goons. I change my road if they are traveling on the same and make sure that I never fall in their line of sight.

3. The ‘Bahubalis’, The Mafia Dons and Criminals: The Bahulbali is a sub-category of the Politician category, they are usually found in the states of UP, Bihar and Jharkhand. But as their achievements and glory is spreading a whole new generation of such politicians is coming up in all parts of the country. The Mafia (although groups exist in each state) is most visible in Mumbai and Goa. The petty criminals have impacted my life most. I fear theft, robbery, loot, chain-snatch each day I step out of my house.

4. The former Rajas, Maharajas, Zamindars and Tallukdars: yet another category of the Politicians, they morphed into politicians after independence and abolition of privy purses, and since then they are ‘SERVING’ the nation and its people.

5. The Contractors, Agents and the Dalaals: this is the second largest category of terrorists in India, they deal in everything for a commission, be it a kid, a labour, girls/ women for prostitution , a kidney, a defence deal, share market fraud, hawala, roads, bridges, coffins, railways, arms, ammunition, drugs, religion, tax, passport, license, ration card, they deal in everything. Individually they are nothing but their collective efforts seem to be SELLING OUR COUNTRY FOR A SMALL COMMISSION.

6. The Hindutva forces: they want political power in the garb of religion, now they are terrorizing other communities after they have successfully done so they will come for us. They indirectly help in making terrorism a bigger problem as their acts and words fuel the terrorist organizations here and in Pakistan. They can’t end Terrorism because they are based on Terror.

7. The Regional forces: the Shivsena and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena are the current examples, Khalistan, Kashmir, the North-eastern states, all are examples of such regional forces pulling in different directions and to disintegrate India.

8. The Imported Terrorist: the least damaging yet the most discussed and highlighted, what they do is kill a hundred or so people and die. People go crazy over them ignoring the fact that many of commuters of Mumbai Local die silently by falling from the trains or have their limbs chopped off, people travel like animals in these trains even when pages of Railway Time Tables are filled with trains to and from Bihar, they breathe poisoned-polluted air, get stuck in traffic jams, drink polluted water, get run over by drunk drivers, etc. Talking of rural India, you again can list more than a hundred problems and how they are killing our people.
These people come and show us the mirror of the dirt and loopholes we have created in our system and we get angry over them. We just want to fight them. But I am Sorry to say you can't fight them alone, you have to fight all of the above and following to really fight them.


9. The Homegrown Terrorist: when extremist people from a majority attack a minority they forget (or rather knowingly?) that extremism is also present on the other side. Some of the emotionally wounded, betrayed and frustrated retaliate and the cycle starts. Society keeps a nab on extremism by fair-play and justice, when these two go extremism comes forward.

10. The People’s fighters or the Naxals: the terrorists with leftist leanings, they are fighting for the poor and the tribals and want to bring a revolution. Currently their struggle is aimed at SEZs and corporatization of agricultural land. If anyone tries to make people aware, they quickly get rid of him, because they run a parallel government in many areas of the country, what is popularly known as The Red Corridor and they can't risk its existence.

11. The Forward Caste Groups: the Ranvir Sena and similar groups organized in the states of UP, Bihar and Jharkhand, by the landlords and forward castes to scare away naxals, they are more involved in torturing and terrorising innocent people mostly dalits. Their most damaging impact is the loss of credibility of the State and its institutions.

12. The Urban-terrorist-in-training: A new breed of terrorist, a generation born after each attack or major incident. These are people like me who have started learning and fighting all these above groups. We will be deemed terrorist by these people in the coming days, first we will be attacked so that we are taught a lesson and then we will be killed by them for not changing our ways.

13. The Dormant Citizens of India: this is the largest category of terrorists I think, when somebody hurts them they try to take revenge individually but not collectively. They sit and wait till something wrong happens to them rather than actively work to prevent it.
They silently see the oppression and the exploitation, some even contribute (behti ganga main haath dho lain), they indifferently watch the rot spread everywhere in the system. If someone wants to do something good they won’t support him, they can bear and adjust with all the failings and shortcomings of India, as a nation and We The People, as the citizens of this country by ranting and chanting BAD LUCK, NOTHING WILL CHANGE, NO ONE CAN CHANGE IT.


To conclude, It is very easy to point fingers at Pakistan, because by doing so we can rid ourselves of the real issues and the real WAR ON TERROR that needs to be fought in our country. If we are to really fight Terrorism, we must fight it in entirety not focusing on one aspect of it while closing our eyes on all others. Those who came and killed have nothing to do with the reasons behind the attack. (it can be anything, a conspiracy of ISI and Pakistan, a conspiracy of CIA and America, a conspiracy of China with Pakistan, a conspiracy of our government to divert attention from all other issues, a conspiracy of BJP for Lok Sabha Elections, anything. I should write about it in detail.)

Remember the biggest terrorist attack in world's history was not on the TWIN TOWERS but on the cities of HIROSHIMA and NAGASAKI.

SALMAAN’S PAKISTAN & ANAND’S HINDUSTAN

ANGRY OVER PAKISTAN’S U-TURN ON THE TERROR ISSUE READ THIS.

People got more angry with Pakistan’s U-turn on the terror issue, the attitude is reflected everywhere be it newspapers, TV, weblogs or face to face interaction. Many of us feel that Pakistan needs to be taught a lesson and the best way to do it is to go on a WAR with Pakistan. As I have said earlier, I don’t support the view of a war with Pakistan; I want to say it again in the light of new evidences and findings that have emerged.

We can now take a strong stand diplomatically on Pakistan and its policy of dealing with terrorism. However seeing the reactions of both Pakistan’s President and Prime Minister we can say that Pakistan is very reluctant to act on terrorist groups and their leaders.

Let us try to understand the situation once again. Pakistan’s reluctance not only signifies that they are supporters of terrorism but it also shows us the power of the terror outfits and the influence they have over their government. In such case think of the level of planning they might have done in case India attacks them, we are vulnerable from North (via Nepal), East (via Bangladesh) and West (via Maharashtra and Gujarat). Think of all the terrorists and the materials (read RDX, AK-47s, IEDs, etc.) that might have already been smuggled into the country through these routes. Just imagine we send our troops there and a war starts inside all our major cities.

I want to talk about the influence of the terrorist groups over the Pakistani government in detail because we can understand the phenomenon easily by looking into our own system. If you noticed it, the Patna High Court yesterday reduced the statement of the ’bahubali-neta’ gangster/member of mafia Anand Mohan from death penalty to life sentence. He murdered an upright District Magistrate in broad daylight along with some of his followers. We all know the condition of our jails especially that of Bihar (watch Prakash Jha’s Apaharan) and they way they operate. With this life sentence at hand, he would sit in the safe havens of jail and carry out his illegal/mafia activities. And following the Bihar Model of Power Sharing, his wife will contest an assembly/ Lok Sabha election, come to our legislature, make (or break) the laws and we would all sit and watch.

Isn’t our system more oriented to save the criminals, think of all the Syed Sahabuddins, Pappu Yadavs, Arun Gavalis, Mukhtar Ansaris, Anand Mohans, whose place is at the gallows but are sitting in our Vidhan Sabhas and Sansad Bhawan, deciding the future of our country, its people like you and me. If our great country with democratic ethos, independent judiciary and well functioning elected government can’t punish such elements can we blame a defunct state like Pakistan to act strongly on terrorist groups? They are the power centers be it India be it Pakistan, and government fears (and thus respects) them and tries with all its strength to protect them.

I too want a WAR with Pakistan but only when we have set our house in right order through comprehensive reforms, any hasty step could have serious repercussions for our future leave apart the humiliation in front of the whole world.

A dialog of Rajkumar comes to my mind ‘Jaani, Jinke khud ke ghar seeshe ke hon vo doosron ke gharon par patthar nahi fenka karte. . .’