Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Rahul Gandhi’s Selective Shame AKA Crocodile Tears!

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When I posted this, my access to the blog's dashboard has gone haywire for nearly 48 hours and post itself had become un-posted.  Could be some server problem.  After noticing it, I am reposting it, for the records.

After sneaking into Batta, Parsaul villaged in Greater NOIDA, yesterday, Rahul Gandhi said, “I feel ashamed to call myself Indian after seeing what has happened here. The (state) government here has unleashed atrocities on its own people”.  Though the news that nearly 250-300 farmers have been taken away by the UP police and deny knowing their whereabouts to their children, wives, parents and others, and that when every other political party worth its salt performing some or other sort of demonstration, condemning the Mayawati Government, Rahul too jumped into the bandwagon, with his cinematic monologues.

You might ask me why so much skepticism about this young Congress politician.  On July 14, 2010, in Kakarlapalli Village of Srikakulam District of Andhra Pradesh, Police have fired indiscriminately against the farmers and fisher folk agitating against the illegal establishment of a 2,640 MW coal plant under construction by Nagarjuna Construction Company (NCC), killing two fishermen. In addition, 150 people were injured, including 45 policemen, during clashes between protesters and police. In the wake of the violence, police were deployed in about a dozen villages and banned assembly by more than five persons.

The two fishermen killed were G. Joga Rao of Lakkavaram and G. Krishnamurthy (60) of Palasapuram. A fact-finding team headed by former Orissa high court judge P. K. Mishra issued the following account of the shootings: "The firing was suddenly done from inside a police van on the Sompeta-Baruva road, on either side of which the fields are located. The police van started moving towards Sompeta, while the man inside continued firing from a close range. The bullets hit the victims above waist level, except two who were hit on the thigh and the ankle. Two persons, G. Joga Rao of Lakkavaram and Krishnamurthy of Plasapuram--died on the spot and five others, including a cameraman of a local television channel, sustained bullet injuries.", which actually calls for not just being ashamed but to commit suicide in shame. @ http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Community_resistance_against_coal_plants_in_Andhra_Pradesh#cite_note-2


On "How crony capitalism lead to the Kakarapalli tragedy" by my fellow blogger, @The Argumentative Indian [2],
@http://theargumentativeindian.blogspot.com/2011/03/how-crony-capitalism-lead-to.html

While I personally condemned Mayawati for her atrocities against the farmers of Greater NOIDA, Batta, Parsaul villages and Agra (http://prmadhura3.blogspot.com/2011/05/250-300-farmers-have-been-kidnapped-by.html), My question to you is why so big dramatics, Mr. Rahul Gandhi, when you haven’t felt ashamed of you by the Mayhem against the farmers and fisher folk inwhen they have been agitating in Andhra Pradesh?  Was it because it has been ruled by your party? 




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