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4 BHOPAL April 22 to April 28, 2013 Politics WE THE STATE Rahul Gandhi's itinerary indicates serious electoral mission BHOPAL Rahul Gandhi's itinerary during his two-day visit to the state gives a clear indication that the Congress vice-president will be in Madhya Pradesh on a serious electoral mission and wishes to get a first-hand feedback from the grassroots on the party's prospects for both the 2013 assembly election and the subsequent Lok Sabha election. During his stay in Mohankheda and later in Bhopal, Rahul Gandhi will have five rounds of meetings with the Congress workers. Two of these meetings will take place in Mohankheda and three in Bhopal. The list of invitees for the meeting with Rahul Gandhi indicates that he wishes to interact with leaders of all hues from all the 29 Lok Sabha constituencies of the state, which obviously covers all the 230 assembly seats as well. According to state Congress media incharge Manak Agrawal, those invited for dialogue with the Congress vice-president are district Congress presidents, vicepresidents, treasurer and block Congress presidents, incumbent MPs and MLAs, all the party candidates fielded in the previous assembly and Lok Sabha election and presidents of frontal organisations. In Mohankheda, delegates from 14 Lok Sabha constituencies have been invited. They are from Morena, Bhind, Gwalior, Guna, Rajgarh, Dewas, Ujjain, Mandsair, Ratlam, Dhar, Indore, Khargone, Khandwa and Betul. In the second meeting organised in Mohankheda, Rahul will interact with elected represenatives of panchayati raj institutions and urban local bodies. Invitees at this meeting are presidents, vice-presidents and members of district and janpad panchayats and mayor, presidents, vicepresidents and corporators of municipal bodies. In the meetings in Bhopal, Rahul Gandhi will address district Congress president, vice-president, treasurer and block Congress presidents, incumbent MPs and MLAs, party candidates in the previous Lok Sabha and assembly election and presidents of frontal organisations at Manas Bhavan. Party leaders from 15 Lok Sabha costiuencies have been invited for the meeting. They are from Sagar, Damoh, Khajuraho, Satna, Rewa, Sidhi, Shahdol, Jabalpur, Mandla, Balaghat, Chhindwara, Hoshangabad, Vidisha and Bhopal. In the second meeting being organised at Ravindra Bhavan, Rahul Gandhi will be face-to-face with elected respresentatives of the panchayati raj institutions and urban local bodies from areas under these constituencies. In the third meeting, which will take place at state Congress headquarters, Rahul Gandhi will have interaction with the Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) delegates. Meanwhile, All India Congress Committee (AICC) general secretary in-charge of party affairs for MP BK Hariprasad will arrive here on Monday to take stock of the preparations being made for Rahul Gandhi's programmes in Mohankheda and Bhopal. He will also go to Mohankheda for the purpose. Wheat at Re 1 and rice at Rs 2 per kg to BPL families BHOPAL Wheat will be provided at Re 1/kg and rice at Rs 2 per kg to below poverty line (BPL) families from June 2013. At present, wheat is being provided at the rate of Rs 2 per kg and rice at Rs 3/kg to Antyodaya families while BPL families are getting wheat at Rs 3 per kg and rice at Rs 4.50 per kg. Half of MP's population, around 3.50 crore people, will benefit from further subsidy being provided under the scheme. These include 8 lakh Antyodaya and 56 lakh BPL families. Chief minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan announced the new scheme during a public meeting at Gandhwani in Dhar district. This decision will put a burden of Rs 360 crore additional subsidy on the state exchequer. At present, 35 kg of food grain is being provided to Antyodaya and 20 kg to BPL families per month under Mukhyamantri Annapurna Yojana. The state government is already bearing a burden of Rs. 440 crore subsidy against the scheme. The decision by the state government to provide food grains at special concessional rates to BPL and Antyodaya families came ahead of the proposed Food Security Bill of the Union government. The Bill proposes to provide wheat at the rate of Rs 2/kg and rice at Rs 3 per kg. An official communique said Madhya Pradesh was receiving food grains from the Union government for BPL families including wheat at the rate of Rs 5/kg and rice at Rs 6.50 per kg. The state government was already bearing transportation and commission cost. In another important decision, the state government has also decided to provide iodised salt to BPL and Antyodaya families at the rate of Re 1 in all the 313 development blocks of the state with effect from June 2013. At present, this facility is being provided in only 89 tribal-dominated development blocks in the state. The decision aims to promote health and nutrition. This decision would put an additional burden of Rs 40 crore per annum on the state government.
5 DINESH BAHUVA Email: dbahuva@gmail.com Recently I have read a small book titled “We Indians”. It is a 100 page small book written by famous leader Minoo Masani. Perhaps young people do not remember him. He was a great leader and founder member of the Swtantra Party along with Ra- Jaji after our independence. He was also a member of the constituent assembly which prepared our constitution along with such stalwarts as Dr Ambedkar and K.M. Munshi. The Swtantra party was like the Republican party of the USA. It believed in small government, free enterprise and free markets, and little interference in the life of the people by government. In the sixties, those were the days of socialism and commanding heights of the government interference in business. The government was in almost every business from cycles, scooters to airlines. The once the Swatantra Party won 67 seats of Loksabha in an election of the sixties. After that it started declining and ultimately disappeared. But Mr. Minoo Masani went on becoming M.P. He was a strong critic of policies of Mrs. Indira Gandhi. The book is a short history of India right from the earliest period to the modern age. The book was published by the Oxford University Press in 1989. It is obvious that a hundred page booklet cannot do justice to such as vast period. There are only glimpses of events. The idea of writing this article is that the contents of the book will be shocking to most Indians. I shall highlight these points. It starts with question what are Indians made of ? It declares that we are not a single race. The India is a melting pot of various tribes. For the last 5000 years the mixing is going on. Our DNA is a mix of Caucasian (Ancestors of white people), Scythian (what we call Shak), Mongoloid (ancestors of the people of East Asia) and larger portion of Dravidian (who came before Aryans). In Punjabi, Rajasthani and north Indians people the Cau- BHOPAL April 22 to April 28, 2013 casian portion is more? Therefore they are more white and tall. The people of the northeast, Bengal and Odisha have more Mongoloid blood. You can make out that from their faces. The people of four southern states have more Dravidian blood. They are dark skinned and short. There is no pure race in the any part of the world. Because throughout the history the all tribes have been not only migrating from one part to another part but, intermarrying. According to famous biologist Julian Huxley the only pure ‘races’ in existence now are more primitive and backward people like the aborigines of Australia and the bushmen of Africa!. Or our aadivasis. There is a difference between race and language. A race has a common ancestor (or origin). Therefore people of the same race can speak different languages depending upon the place of their residence, culture, history of migration. The reverse is also true. People of different races speak same language. There lots of confusion because of mixing one with another. You will be shocked to know that there is no such thing as Aryan race! Aryan is a family of languages. The honour of creating such confusion goes to famous German Indologist Dr. Max Muller. Later on he understood his mistake and tried to rectified same, but it was too little and too late. In those days the word of Dr. Max Muller was word of The God for most prominent Indians, so the same misconception continues to this day. Every Indian student learns in school that Aryans were white race who came from central Asia and settled into the land of ‘Sapt Sindhu’ (of seven rivers). Also Famous UNESCO conducted a study and declared that there is no such thing as “Aryan Race”. I am sure our holy man and persons from some organization will Feature We the Indians shout from rooftop that it is “conspiracy” of western powers to weaken the Aryan Race, as if we Indian Aryans are greatest power on the earth. Further UNESCO study concluded that Aryan were people inhabiting the steppes of Turkestan and central Russia using a common ‘Indo-European’ language. That language is the ancestor of Sanskrit, Latin, Ancient Greek and languages today spoken in Europe. It also confirmed that population of the world is a mixture of various racial types (tribes). Lokmanya Tilak places original place of Aryan in Arctic region based on astronomical data. Surprisingly the most interesting works of our ethnic origin is not written by any Indian but by an Englishman named Sir Herbert Risely titled ‘The People of India’. (It is not true that every bit of knowledge of history has come from foreigners. We are busy with mythologies of The Ramayan and Mahabharata and refuse to believe any evidence to the contrary.) The Risely divides Indian people in seven groups. They are: Turko-Iranians(mostly found in Pakistan) Indo-Caucasians(People of Punjab, Rajasthan and Kashmir) Scytho-Dravidians(they are medium statured) Caucasian-Dravidians(People of U.P., Rajasthan & Bihar) Mongolo-Dravidians(From Bengal, Odissa & Assam) Mongoloid(From north east and lower Himalaya region) Dravidians(From south India & some portions of M.P. & Chota Nagpur) The book tells if somebody tells that say Aryans or Dravidians are original residents of Indian Please do not believe him. Historians really do not about it. WE THE STATE The book tells us an interesting story about how Dravidians came to India. In the distant past South India and Africa were connected by land. Therefore Dravidians were migrated from Africa and they may be first descendants of primitive man. I have seen cave paintings at Bhimbetka near Bhopal (M.P.) which are around 11000 years old. Generally it thought that in India the Caucasians (Aryans) brought civilization into India. It is another myth. There people were nomads. You know from today’s nomadic people that they are very backward. They go from place to place in search of food for them and cattle. Such people cannot develop civilization. We know from the examples of Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa that civilization develops where people learn farming and there is plenty of water for farming (usually near river). The farming produces surplus crops which develops commerce. We know that both Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa were city states with well developed plans. The question now is that how Aryans spread all over north India. The book gives very curious answers. Aryans had horses which ware very suitable for war, while Dravidians had elephants which were slow (you the war between Alexander the Great and Purus). The Aryans accepted may customs from Dravidians. Before Aryans, Dravidians were spread all over in up to Afghanistan. There is a tribe in Baluchistan today which speaks the Dravidian language known as Brahui The Early religion of Aryans is nature worship. They used to worship the Sun, Wind, Moon, fire, the Sky, Lightening rain and dawn. The method was a prayer for bountiful crops, prosperity of family and community, which continues even today in villages. The oldest religious book of Aryans is a Rigved which is around 4000 years old. It contains prayers to gods (main is Indra) and system of sacrifice (part of crop and grass to put into fire). The development of Vedic religion is a long topic which prevents further discussion here. We are a country of bystanders who will stand back and watch BIPIN SASI W hen the anti-rape Bill was discussed in parliament , We have witnessed Member of Parliament arguing that condom commercials on TV vitiate the minds of the young and provoke them to immoral acts. It can be a topic of national debate but we can never understand why people rape, kill or torture. That is what sets most of us apart from those who commit such crimes. But we must realize that the danger is right here, waiting round the corner for the next turn. The rape incident of three minor girls has shocked and aggravated the Delhi once again. Why politicians and police administration are not able to guarantee the safety, that their own daughters and family members posses. When females are not safe in the capital of the country and a women lead state, we can assess the ground reality of other states. Sheila Dixit who is probably busy studying Modi’s modus of Operandi would not get time to listen to the voice of Delhi .No political party has come up with an assurance of safety and justice yet . No individual leader is ready to assure justice and security, The protesters believe that kicking any political party out of power would make us all safer. Let’s believe that these protesters of Aam Aadmi Party have chosen the right path. But if you dare to Join them and protest for a cause, the police will beat you and humiliate you to that extent , that you will never think of raising a voice again . And if you are a female protester the police will detain you in custody and make you sweep and mop the floor .Later in near future Govt. will put the same policemen without moral values in buses for your safety. Will women passengers feel safe with such policemen? The police tried to suppress the matter of the Five year old rape victim and even offered Rs.2,000 to the family to keep quiet. Apart from the five year old rape ,a lot many inci- dents are reported which sparked outrage against police and politicians who are arrogant and without moral values. Goverment should spent money on the treatment of these arrogant police officers and erred politicians like Tribal Minister Vijay Shah(MP) , and minister Rajaram Pande(UP) for their mental illness The girl who was protesting for the five year old was beaten by an ACP. A country who prouds to call the nation of mahatma follows every other thing than his own teachings. Any Indian will prefer to confess to his/her neighbor than to the police. Police is only for the bureaucrats and politicians. They will charge money from the complainant and also slam some accusation on the complainant.The only cultured politician is West Bengal lawmaker Abhijit Mukherjee, the son of President Pranab Mukherjee, who makes cynical remarks on the women . These people who make derisive remarks on the women are not from a particular political party , they are everywhere around you , waiting for their turn . It is not TV, short skirts and or a political party. It is the knowledge that we are a country of bystanders who will stand back and watch. And perhaps later, we’ll show some remorse. Knowing this fact that you cannot help yourself by seeking help from police or politician . You need to be more stronger for you and your loved ones .
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