Indian Journalism and Hinduphobia

This article by Francois Gautire is reproduced here to show how Indian Journalism is without ethics and values. The journalist in question for a leading newspaper of India has blatantly lied and twisted his words even after explicitly promising that she will not twist such words.

Francois Gautire:

Look how Indian journalism is slanted, devious and dishonest :

A few days ago I received an email from Himanshi Dhawan of The Times of India, asking for an interview by email :

De: Himanshi Dhawan <himanshi.dhawan@gmail.com>

Objet: regarding an interview

Date: 5 avril 2017 17:05:25 UTC+5:30

À: fgautier@rediffmail.com

Dear Mr Gautier

I would like to interview you for an article that I am writing. Will it be possible for me to send you some questions on how you developed the passion for India and your work in the field? My contact details are below, in case you have some clarifications. Regards.

-- 

Himanshi Dhawan

Senior Assistant Editor

Times of India

Phone: 9811427263

Twitter: @himanshidTOI

@dhawan_himanshi

Her questions immediately made me suspicious, so I wrote to her :

On 06-Apr-2017 9:39 AM, "François Gautier" <fgautier@rediffmail.com> 

Hi, are you going to write a slanted article, that twists my answers so that it fits your ideas?

fg

François Gautier

And she replied very innocently:

<himanshi.dhawan@gmail.com>

Objet: Rép : regarding an interview

Date: 6 avril 2017 11:32:08 UTC+5:30

À: François Gautier <fgautier@rediffmail.com>

Hello Sir,

I have no intention to "twist" your responses. The article is about academics/intellectuals/ thinkers who find a resonance in BJP's ideas and philosophy without any value judgement. Would appreciate it if you could answer my questions. Thanks.

So I trusted her and sent my answers, here below:

#You have written widely in praise of PM Narendra Modi , his political accomplishments and his work. When did you begin to feel an affinity towards the BJP and Mr Modi's idealogies and work?

A. I did not know Mr Modi. But I have a Foundation FACT (Foundation Against Continuing Terrorism) that does exhibitions on Indian History, as well as great heroes and heroines. We have such one based on Aurangzeb’s firmans or edicts, which are preserved in the Bikaner archives (https://factmuseum.com/aurangzeb-as-he-was-according-to-mughal-records/), it was attacked in Chennai by goons of the nawab of Arcot, whose ancestors was nominated by Aurangzeb, with the support of the Chennai police then under the DMK’s Karunanidhi and closed down. This was widely reported in the Media and Mr Modi who was chief minister of Gujarat, heard about it and contacted me. He subsequently came to Mumbai to inaugurate our exhibition on Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj with Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Vinod Khanna and Gopinath Munde. Subsequently, I met Mr Modi quite a few times in Gujarat. What particularly impressed me was that when I first went to his office, there were no hangers on, no sycophants, only people who came for work. I found the same thing when I visited his culture minister row of chairs and people waiting, while the minister with one secretary taking notes gives 5 mnts to each applicant. This is totally contrary to the Congress policy of most people to meet ministers and MP’s are for favours not work. I also found that Mr Modi was a great ecologist and had a genuine interest in that field, making of Gujarat the greenest, most investor friendly state of India. So I started praising him in my articles, though at that time nobody thought he could become PM of India

 

#What drew you to the Hindutva idealogy?

A. You have to give me some credit: most journalists in India are mostly their father’s children or their teachers pupils, that is they repeat more or less brilliantly what their atavism has grooved into them from early childhood. I had an upper class catholic education in France and when I came to India, I did not know the difference between a Hindu or a Muslim. In fact, I had many of the ideas that are politically correct today about India – Congress is the best party to unite it; Hindus can be fundamentalists too; or the RSS is a dangerous outfit.. But then I covered extensively Kashmir from the late 80’s till 2000 for Le Figaro, France’s largest circ paper and saw the Hindu leaders I had interviewed earlier such as Dr Tikoo, savagely assassinated by Kashmir Muslims separatists and then was 350.000 kashmiri Pandits flee the Valley under terror, for no other fault than being Hindus, without firing a single shot in self-defense, becoming refugees in their own country, a first in this already sad world. I also witnessed how Kashmir, once a more gentle sufi place (I witnessed the burning by Muslim of the last sufi shrine in Kashmir the Shrahr-e-Sharif), became so easily radicalized by Sunni influences from Pakistan and Afghanistan.

The truth is I don’t know about Hindutva, I only know what Francois gautier saw first hand and now believes in.

 

#You have listed enemies of "Hindus" including Sonia & Rahul Gandhi, CPI,  Aamir & Shah Rukh Khan, the Pope and even Hindus themselves. These appear more like the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) party's list of political opponents. Would you comment?

A. Once more, your question is slanted, because it contains an indication of what you or your newspaper thinks, without bothering to verify my point of view. Let me say that my experience in 40 years in India as a journalist is that Hindus are the least intolerant of all communities. In fact, it is because they are the only ones in the world who till today recognize that God manifests himself or Herself at different times of humanity’s history, with different names, using different scriptures. This is why a Hindu is able to enter a church or even a mosque andfthe reverse is not true. This is why all persecuted religious minorities found refuge in India all over the ages from the Syrian christians to the Parsis, from the Jews to the Tibetans today. The irony is that Hindus have been the most persecuted in the world. If a proper tally of how many have died at the hand of Muslims invasions was done, it would easily reach a hundred millions

 

#Your critics feel you are a spokesperson for the BJP. How do you feel about that?

A. Well, the BJP never asked me to be a spokesperson and I would not be one for I speak for Francois gautier. Nevertheless I asked Mr Modi to conduct workshops for his MP’s/Spokespersons so that they know how to answer coherently and efficiently accusations of fundamentalism, speak about conversions, respond to western correspondents’s accusations, but never got an answer. It would be fun to have a westerner working for an Indian Govt, whereas Indians worked so long for their western masters and are still queuing like mad in western embassies to get visas, no?

 

#Would you join the BJP or RSS?

A. No, though I am an OCI married to an Indian for 30 years. Anyway they never asked me. In fact, since it has come to power at the center, the BJP in many ways resembles other political parties except a few exceptions. That is because they have to function in a system put in place by decades of Indian National  rule, where every minister or PM for that matter, has a ring of at least 15 PA’s PS’, peons and security, and also the fact that Delhi is a big bubble far away from the rest of India, which suited the British, who wanted to to control acces to North India, but shoud be decentralized today

 

#Do you feel #Hindus and Hinduism is misunderstood and a victim of poor image building (the perception of being a polytheist, poor country continues to prevail)?

A. See, the biggest enemies of Hindus are Hindus themselves. No country would have been able to invade India if Hindus had not betrayed Hindus, from Alexander the Great who used the King of Taxila against Porus to the Vijaynagar kingdom, the last great Hindu empire, of beauty justice and Dharma, that was betrayed to the Muslims by the Lingayats. Today some of the most venomous anti-Hindus, particularly in American universities, or even in India, are Hindus themselves. And are not members of the Congress 90% Hindus? I defend Hindus, but I am not blind to their faults… 

End of Interview….

….And look how they twisted everything out of context, putting their own slanted views instead of faithfully reflecting what I said. The title itself is demeaning: the word ‘Hindutva’ – when I expressly said that I am foreign born and catholic educated and that my ideas are garnered from on the ground reporting and coming to my own conclusions – for God sake, when I started reporting nobody spoke about Hindutva and nobody thought the BJP or Narendra Modi would come to power. And the word ‘cheerleaders’, which is employed contemptuously in this case. And then she used that discredited historian Irfan Habib who for decades, with the Congress blessings, distorted Indian history books and curriculum without any shame, glorifying monsters like Aurangzeb and putting in cupboards Maharana Pratap or Shivaji Maharaj as mere chieftains or plunderers, just because they were Hindu heroes, yet a million times more secular than Aurangzeb, Ghazni or Teimur as they never harmed the children, daughters and wives of their enemies and never touched a mosque.

My sad conclusion is that Indian journalism has not only not changed, but it has become WORSE. Before it was only the Marxist intelligentsia putting forth their Hinduphobia, now there is the added element of commercialism and paid journalism. Shame on  Himanshi Dhawan. If you feel, you can mail her what you think at : himanshi.dhawan@gmail.com, or you can tweet @timesofindia

Francois Gautier

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/sunday-times/why-hindutvas-foreign-born-cheerleaders-are-so-popular/articleshow/58085790.cms

Busted : Rape Propaganda about India being unsafe for women

STRIPPING THE PROPAGANDA NAKED
- Exposing rape politics of India. By Sreevidya Balasubramaniam. You can follow her on Twitter here. 

The link to her tweet thread on Twitter is here. 

The propaganda industry in India have focused on 3 major narratives over the past 6 years.

1. Lynchistan
2. Fascist
3. Rapistan

First two failed. This thread analyses and exposes the third lie with facts.

A few years ago I was to meet a western woman who requested for an informal coffee meet instead.

After buying me a coffee, with compassion and empathy in her voice this woman said to me “I am sorry about the situation in India. I know being woman, you don’t feel safe anymore…”

Being obsessed with truth, I smiled at the opportunity to crush a vicious propaganda.

I said “thank you. save your condescension and try to keep yourself safe because women are 13 times less safe in your country than in mine”

Gave data & watched a sunset of colours on her face

All this happened post @narendramodi in 2014. Travel warnings were issued to travellers to India by many countries.

But how true is the news of rapes in India? Is it right to call our country Rapistan?

This thread challenges the threadbare propaganda.

First, Global comparison

As shown in the graph, India is way below in terms of rate per 100,000.

India's conviction rate of 30% is far ahead of many countries (NCRB).

US felony conviction is 5 out of 230 reported cases - that's 23%.

US reports only 23% of rape incidents (Rainn.org)

But the propagandists in India would want you to believe that women are less safe in India, where they are worshipped.

Women in India are 15 times safer than they are in US. Are 6 times safer than in Europe.

So, how did we get such a bad image?

That's the power of propaganda

The next propaganda is “women are not safe in Modi’s India”.

How true is that?

How can we analyse that?

1. A comparison of India pre and post 2014
2. Comparison of states with and without BJP
3. Analysis of rape rate per 100,000
4. Analysis of frequency of rapes.

Read on.

1. Comparison of Rape in India before and during Modi era

It’s crystal clear from the graph, that rapes soared under Congress. Relentless rise, running up to 2014.

The FIRST EVER drop happened after Modi took oath.

Spikes in line with global trend (smart phones main reason)

2. Rate of rape per 100,000 compared across – Congress and BJP regimes. Again, BJP fares far better than Congress.

Fact: population growth had receding trend over the period, but even during dropping rate, rape rates rose higher till 2014, and then fell during BJP regime.

3. The propagandists knew that absolute numbers and rate per 100,000 will not hold ground as truth seekers will rip them apart.

So, what did the communist mouthpieces and fake news portals find?

“A woman is raped every 15 mins in India” propaganda.

How fair is this cry?

The graph tells the story. When Congress took over in 2004, every 29 mins a woman was raped.

Congress ensured that 2 women were raped in the same time by 2014.

When Modi took over, every 14 minutes a woman was raped in India.

Shameless propagandists hid this from you.

Since 2014 this frequency is stalled to one rape in every 16 minutes.

This means that women are 2 more minutes safer under Modi than under Congress today.

Given the rate of Congress, if they had ruled, it’s possible that once in every 10 minutes a woman would be raped in India.

Thank God they didn’t.

Let’s now look at the trends of the country as well as key states.

Trend line is consistent with the world trend (coincides wider use of smart phones and social groups).

As a country, there is distinctive difference before and after 2014.

Will discuss 4 clusters – high number states, non-BJP states, two random clusters.

Cluster 1. High Number States - UP, MP, Rajasthan, Maharashtra.

BJP shows slow rising/declining trend across the cluster. UP drop notable. Congress and SP show steep rise everywhere except MP.

Cluster 2. Non-BJP ruled states – Kerala, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Odisha

Mixed trend with Kerala being the only state with steady rise despite changing regimes.

All show rising trend since 2018

Odisha/ TN did better than Kerala and WB under Communist and Congress rules.

Cluster 3. Random states - Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka and Gujarat

GJ and KN show slow rise during BJP and abnormal spikes post 2014. Congress drops rates in Chhattisgarh.

GJ and CG show downward trend since 2018.

Cluster 4. Random States – Assam, Bihar, Delhi, Haryana

Except Haryana, BJP trends show significant decline, and Congress showing significant rise. This is a spectacular graph.

Shows BJP’s impact.

Haryana - rise is slower than steep rise under Congress.

Delhi, Central police

In Summary,

• India is a safer country for women than most others

• BJP regime is safer for women than Congress

• BJP ruled states are safer for women than Congress

• Congress doubled the rape frequency in 10 years

• BJP is stalling the rate.

Every rape is a heinous crime. No woman or man should be subject to any abuse.

Every rapist is a criminal.

But even bigger criminals are those who rape the honour of the motherland.

Vande Mataram.

Manmohan Singh 'sold' Indian Institutions

Today, the 3 largest private sector banks, ie ICICI-Bank, HDFC-Bank, and AXIS-Bank, - all three used to be government banks, but in the PV Narasimha Rao government, Dr.Manmohan was the Finance Minister  Singh sold them!

 The full name of ICICI was Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India.  It was such an institution of the Government of India, which used to give loans to big industries.

 In a jiffy, Finance Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh disinvested it, made it private, and renamed it ICICI Bank!

 The full name of HDFC Bank as it is today was Housing Development Corporation of India.  It used to be such an institution of the Government of India, which used to provide home loans to middle class citizens at cheap interest!

 Dr. Manmohan Singh, who was the finance minister in the Narasimha Rao government, said, "The government's job is only to govern, not sell home loans!"

 Dr. Manmohan Singh calls this a necessary step, and says, "The job of the government is only to run the government, not run a bank, or give loans!"

 And in a jiffy, Finance Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh sold HDFC Bank!  And it became a private sector bank!

 One such interesting story is from Axis Bank!

 There used to be an organization of the Government of India, its name was Unit Trust of India.  This organization was formed to promote small savings.  That is, you could deposit a small amount in it!

 Dr. Manmohan Singh, Finance Minister in the Narasimha Rao government said, "The job of the government is not to run the scheme of chit fund!"

 And in a jiffy it was sold out!  Earlier it was named as UTI Bank, and later it was named as Axis Bank!

 Similarly today there is IDBI Bank, which is a private bank!  At one time it used to be an organization of the Government of India, whose name was Industrial Development Corporation of India!  Its function was to give loans to industries.  But Dr. Manmohan Singh sold it too!  And today it has become a private bank!

 Never let your memory be weak!

 Who brought the disinvestment policy to India?  Just do a search!

 When Dr. Manmohan Singh was the Finance Minister during Narasimha Rao's time, Dr. Manmohan Singh said in Parliament, "Maximum government, less governance!"

 He had said, "The job of the government is not to do business, the job of the government is to give governance! Such an environment is to be given, so that the citizens of the country can do all these things!"

 Dr. Manmohan Singh was the first to bring "Toll Tax Policy"!  i.e. "Build roads by private companies, and allow those companies to collect toll tax!"

 Dr. Manmohan Singh initiated the "Privatization of Airports" first, and Delhi's "Indira Gandhi Airport" was given to GMR Group to run it commercially!

 Today Champak dances and dances, singing the impeccable melody, "Modi has sold it to his friends!"

 If Dr. Manmohan Singh does it - disinvestment! And if Modi does - sold the country!!

 In 2009-10, Dr. Manmohan Singh sold 5 government companies!

 1. HPC Ltd.;

 2. OIL - Oil India Limited;

 3. NTPC - National Thermal Power Corporation;

 4. REC - Rural Electrification Corporation;

 5. NMDC - National Mineral Development Corporation!

 In 2010-11, Dr. Manmohan Singh sold 6 more government companies!

 1. SJVN - Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam Limited;

 2. EIL - Engineers India Limited;

 3. CIL - Coal India Limited;

 4. PGCIL - Power Grid Corporation of India;

 5. MOIL - Manganese Ore India Ltd.;

 6. SCI - Shipping Corporation of India!

 In 2011-12, Dr. Manmohan Singh sold two more government companies!

 1. PFC - Power Finance Corporation;

 2. ONGC - Oil & Natural Gas Corporation!

 In 2012-13 Dr. Manmohan Singh sold and 8- Government companies!

 1. SAIL - Steel Authority of India Ltd.;

 2. NALCO - National Aluminum Company Limited;

 3. RCF - National Chemicals and Fertilizers;

 4. NTPC - National Thermal Power Corporation;

 5. OIL - Oil India Limited;

 6. NMDC - National Mineral Development Corporation;

 7. HCL - Hindustan Copper Limited;

 8.  NBCC!

 In 2013-14, Dr. Manmohan Singh sold 12 more government companies!

 1. NHPC - National Hydro-Electric Power Corporation;

 2. BHEL - Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited;

 3. EIL - Engineers India Limited;

 4. NMDC - National Mineral Development Corporation;

 5. CPSE - CPSE-Exchange Traded Fund;

 6. PGCI - Power Grid Corpof India Limited;

 7. NFL - National Fertilizers Ltd.;

 8. MMTC - Metals and Minerals Trading Corporation;

 9. HCL - Hindustan Copper Limited;

 10. ITDC - Tourism Development Corporation of India;

 111.  STC - State Trading Corporation;

 12. NLC - Neyveli Lignite Corporation Limited!

 There is proof of all this...

 1. Visit the official website of the Department of "Investment and Public Asset Management" by the Ministry of Finance, Central Government - www.dipam.gov.in

 2. First click on Dis-investment!  Then click on Past Dis-Investment!

 3. All the information (data) given in the post is available there!

Made this post to open the eyes of those citizens who think that Modi is selling the country!  Modi is selling the country, Dr. Manmohan Singh has already sold the country!

 In Congress language, Dr. Manmohan Singh sold 26 government companies in 5 years in 2009-14

Why is Neeraj Chopra's Olympics Gold extraordinary

Suraj has written a wonderful thread on Twitter explaining why Neeraj Chopra's Olympics Gold medal is an extraordinary feat. You can find the thread here.

This thread overviews the extraordinary performance of @Neeraj_chopra1 at Tokyo 2020 in the men’s javelin throw event - the statistics & history involved. 

It describes the pathbreaking nature of the achievement, with regard to both Neeraj’s own and continental performance. 

No Asian has ever won the men’s javelin gold before. 

The event has been the preserve of east/central Europeans who are built like tanks. Neeraj is only the second non-white to win it after Kershorn Walcott.

In fact the magnitude of the achievement is even greater as no Asian has EVER won ANY medal in Olympic javelin throw prior to Neeraj. 

Javelin has been the Monopolic domain of the Finns and other Nordics, with Germany, USSR and Hungary making up most of the rest. They also own all the best javelin brands, covered later. But that’s not all… 

Neeraj is only the second ever Asian to win an Olympic throwing event, after Koji Murofushi’s 2004 hammer throw win. For several reasons, Neeraj did better - starting with the fact that he has no sporting pedigree, coming from a nation with no pedigree in javelin whatsoever. 

Koji is the son of 5x Asian Games hammer throw champ Shigenobu Murofushi, and a Hungarian-Romanian competitive javelin thrower. In short, he has a huge genetic benefit that helped him be the only other Asian male winner of an Olympic throwing event. 

In fact, historically, only 3 Asian men have even medaled in throwing events - 

1. Koji in hammer

2. Iran’s Ehsan Hadadi silver in discus 2008 

3. and now Neeraj Chopra from India. 

These events are almost always dominated by Nordic/east/central Europe. No Chinese or Korean male has ever medaled in throwing sports. 

In over half a century, only three men have won the javelin event with their first throw: 

1. Hungarian legend Miklos Nemeth in 1976. 

2. Jan Zelezny, the greater javelin thrower ever, in 1992. 

3. Neeraj Chopra in 2020. 

Ending the competition on first throw has been a habit for Neeraj. In fact at both #CWG2018 and #AsianGames2018 all his throws exceeded the 2nd place winner’s best throws. At #Tokyo2020 his first throw was beyond the 2nd best, and his second was even better. 

This was despite the fact that the silver, bronze and 4th place winners all threw their season best throws - Neeraj finished nearly 1 meter ahead of them.

Fancied Johannes Vetter, the greatest modern thrower, struggled, after stating: Neeraj Chopra is good but tough for him to beat me. 

https://indianexpress.com/article/olympics/neeraj-chopra-good-tough-to-beat-me-johannes-vetter-7417025/

The Tokyo games were affected by rain and winds. Planning ahead, Neeraj switched from his old Nemeth (from the company started by Miklos) to the imaginatively named Nordic Valhalla javelin earlier this year: 

https://www.espn.com/athletics/story/_/id/31010150/neeraj-chopra-nordic-weapon-breaker-storms-national-records

Nordic Sport (previously Sandvik) and Nemeth are the two most popular javelin brands. A Valhalla javelin retails for about Rs.80000. Technically unforgiving, it rewards perfect technique with high ability to tolerate wet/windy conditions, which prevailed on Aug 7 in Tokyo. 

Even before the Olympics, Neeraj was perhaps the most accomplished Indian athlete ever - the world junior champ, junior WR holder, CWG and AG champ - all by the age of 20. At 23, he’s among the youngest ever Olympic champions. 

In 2016, Neeraj won the world U20 championship with a WR breaking throw of 86.48m, which would have earned him a bronze at Rio 2016. However the junior championship was too late to serve as qualification for Rio 2016, so he could not participate. You can watch his 2016 throw here. 

Neeraj is now the gold medalist in every major senior level event he has ever participated in on first attempt- AG, CWG and now OG. He won all of them on his first throw. He has never taken part in a world championship, missing 2019 due to career threatening elbow injury after which Bartonietz and a team of other specialists had to work to build Chopra from the ground up.

Bartonietz has been with Chopra through the most difficult patch the young athlete has faced in his career, an injury to his throwing arm that ruled him out of action for almost a year.

The body is a bow, the javelin an arrow. That’s what Klaus Bartonietz, an expert in biomechanics from Germany who is also one of the preeminent authorities on the javelin throw, wanted his ward Neeraj Chopra to understand. You can read more about this here.

"He is a humble athlete, not making a big noise about himself,” Bartonietz said. “Already a CWG champion, junior world record holder, but very humble. Others make a big noise about themselves, but mentally Neeraj is very strong.”

Heartiest congratulations once again to Neeraj Chopra for winning an event no Asian has ever managed, in such a stupendous manner. Kudos to everyone nurturing this once in a generation talent, and I hope there are many more in future.

Also, many congratulations to the PM of India for recognizing potential athletes, giving them the training and the confidence to win medals. 

The way PM Modiji personally called to interact with each Individuals, teams and their parents, and coaches before they left for Tokyo certainly helped them understand how the nation is with them, watching, cheering and boosting their morale as they compete with the best in the world. 

Modiji also personally spoke to the teams and individuals after their crucial games to wish them, congratulate them and thank them for their contribution to the sport.

India can certainly expect more medals in future as sports is being given due recognition and the money is being spent on athletes and giving them the right coaching, nutrition and equipment to train rather than being pocketed by corrupt ministers and government officials that was prevalent in Congress Party's corrupt rule. See how in 2012, the International Olympics Committee suspended Indian Olympics Association for corruption, government interference and for ignoring Olympic guidelines.

India under Modiji and BJP's corruption free governance has come a long way since the corrupt rule of Congress was ended.

You can read how much money was siphoned in the Common Wealth Game scam here. 

The 2010 New Delhi Commonwealth Games (CWG) have been marred by corruption and mismanagement, which have skewed India's reputation as a nation ravaged by high levels of fraud and misuse. ... CWG scam was one of the biggest Indian scams involving rounding of Rs. 70,000 crores

The detailed preliminary findings included the award of work contracts at higher prices, poor quality assurance and management, and work contracts awarded to ineligible agencies. 

Organising Committee treasurer Anil Khanna resigned from the post in the wake of allegations that his son's firm had secured a contract for laying synthetic courts at a tennis stadium.

Among the alleged corruption and defrauding of the games budget. 

toilet paper rolls valued at $2 were charged at $80

$2 soap dispensers at $60

$98 mirrors at $220

$11,830 altitude training simulators at $250,190

Such was the state of Sports in India in 2010. Since the BJP coming to power in India, things have massively improved for sports in the country. You can hear about the change from Anju George here. 

A comparison of 2 disasters and their handling

Pandemic apart, we are also witnessing a wave of paid Congress trolls, who would have us believe that the BJP government is a failure and had there been a Congress PM, things would have been much better. Covid19 an unprecedented crisis. A pandemic of gigantic proportions. For the sake of argument, let's take our memories back to 2013 when Uttarakhand faced devastation due to flash floods.

25,000 people had died. Many were stranded, waiting for rescue or imminent death. 

For three days after disaster struck, no help came from the Centre. Congress was at the helm. Manmohan Singh was the robot PM controlled by Sonia #AntoniaMaino. 

After statewide protests and international media reports, there was an announcement, with zero follow-up action. Congress leadership left for undeclared reasons to USA and Bangkok. The aid to Uttarakhand was delayed by 3 days just so the mother and son can flag off the aid. 

When the mom-son duo returned, 8 trucks with biscuits and water, and more importantly huge posters of the mom-son duo were shown the green flag with photo Ops. The supply never reached the people since the truck drivers were uncompensated. The trucks ran out of diesel enroute. Drivers didn't have money to eat.

Fast forward 15 days after the flash floods and nothing from the centre, the rotting dead bodies posed a risk of an epidemic. The Uttarakhand government refused assistance from all states to hide its own inaction. 

What did happen later was that a company called Blue Breeze Trading Pvt. Ltd. was awarded the contract to extract the dead bodies. The company has only the famous Vadra family on the Board of Directors. The amount paid off to the company from government coffers? Some say, a whopping INR 7,36,00,00,000.

The only relief work which happened on the ground was done by the army and paramilitary . That too without any specific directions from the central government.  

After doing its work, soldiers quietly went back.

Contrast that with how the airforce, DRDO, railways, foreign relations have been set in motion to bring immediate help to the people. All ministries are working in tandem. A nationwide effort is being coordinated on a war footing to save lives of Indians. Government machinery is being used to save lives of Indians. 

Contrast this with how Congress, Gandhi family used government machinery for its own luxury.

For INC, the short memory of the general public is the only saving grace. Thank God, they are not at the helm of affairs. I shudder at the devastation and the scams which would have been caused even during a pandemic.

Never forget & never forgive such people. 

Credits 

https://twitter.com/Gen_VKSingh/status/1395312707390251013?s=19