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Yfe Crusader September 2008
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& Kashmir zens who wish to bring a you shall receive an email
Editor’s Pick ! change. delivering the entire details of
A CRPF Inspector General trouble. Terrorism in valley cordance with the Newton‟s
was transferred from Srina- flourishes and thrives or law, which enunciates, that
gar, on 13th August, 2008 remains under check, in every action has an equal
after an uproar in the Kash- direct proportion, to the and opposite reaction. Oth-
mir valley, led by the terror- political will and strength to erwise, how hordes of peo-
ists and their supporters, deal with the same effec- ple led by the terrorists,
against alleged excesses by tively. could start a march towards
the central para-military Pakistan for crossing the
force. He was also allegedly It commenced, with the border. The Government
denied a Police medal, for kidnapping of the daughter should have come out, with
fear of controversy and of a former Home Minister, the statement, that those
likely protests in the valley. who is also a former Chief who cross illegally, would
Minister of Jammu and not be allowed, entry back
There is nothing new, in Kashmir. To get her re- into India, without the In-
this kind of approach, as the leased, the Government of dian Passports, as is appli-
decisions makers are safe in the day, released five cable to all Indians going
air conditioned atmosphere dreaded terrorists. It em- abroad and returning home.
somewhere else. The people boldened them, leading to A series of misconceived
―22 % of seats in facing dire situation of life their much applauded free- policies, or so called people
and death and standing be- dom, possibly with some to people contact, have
the lower house of tween chaos and order, are ransom, money, though brought about this situation.
Parliament & State on the spot. The former there is no confirmation of Otherwise, how could a
judge and some times pan- this report. It was enough, partner in coalition plead
legislatures are der to the local sentiments to start a series of chain for the Pakistan currency to
by sacrificing the people on reactions in valley from be allowed to be used in
reserved for the spot, hoping, that it will 1988. I am an eye witness J&K. Lack of clear policy
buy them peace and retrieve to that part of the history, as and molly coddling, has
Scheduled Castes the situation. It is, simple I was working at that time cause the present chaos.
application of band aid, as Inspector General of the
& Tribal groups‖
where a surgical operation Central Reserve Police It would be wrong to say
- Reuters is called for it. Force, in Srinagar. that transferring 39.88 hec-
tares of forest land to Amar-
(April 2008) A Former Governor of J&K The tendency to under nath shrine board and its
had lost his job, in 1990, for play, has led, to the terror- reaction in Jammu has led
taking a tough stand against ists to openly dictating the to the present situation.
the anti Indian and anti na- people , about using of Pur-
tional elements. Neither his daha by the women, closure The terrorists have been
transfer did, and nor the of beauty parlours and cine- going, all out, to create dis-
transfer of the IGP CRPF is mas houses, and raising pro turbances and problems as
going to normalise the Pakistan slogans. per the following report of
situation and convert the J& K Government which
anti national elements and The Prime Minister has says;
terrorists into normal citi- given a laudable call, from
zens. On the contrary, it the ramparts of red fort on “A total of 42,147 people,
will encourage, such ele- 15th August, 2008 to shed including 20,647 militants
ments, that they can do any- communalism. But unfortu- and 5,024 security person-
thing and get away. nately, the whole agitation, nel, were killed in the state
General in valley is based on the between Janu-ary 1990 and
Wherever the Government communal lines. However the middle of February
Category of the day, has fallen for and how much we may 2007… Violence left
appeasement and compro- wish, communalism of one 33,885 people, includ-ing
mise on the basic values, it community generates com- 12,124 security personnel
has invited more and more munalism in others, in ac- and 21,659 civilians, in-
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jured during the same period in The highest number of 613 se- it is impossible to get any kind
the state.. curity per-sonnel were killed in of evidence to prove anybody‟s
a single year in 2001.” anti national activities, as no
11,221 civilians were killed by witness would be willing to
militants and another 1,678 lost Now the question arises, as to come forth to depose, even if a
their lives in grenade and Im- what can be done. Also whether witness protection act, is there.
provised Ex-plosive Device what is being done is sufficient. Infact, at present there is no
explosions, while 173 civil-ians In 1990, the midnight protests witness protection act available.
were killed when they were were sparked off, by the calls Margret Thatcher used to say
caught in clashes between mili- given by given 1100 Mosques, the publicity is the oxygen of
tants. A total of 3,404 civilians which had installed loud speak- terrorism. Any kind of publicity,
were killed in cross-firing inci- ers to call the faithful to prayers. which eulogizes terrorism,
dents between security forces Loudspeakers in mosques, then should be discouraged, if not
and even now are being em- exactly banned.
ployed, to give calls for anti
national activities and asking Terrorist leaders, their support-
the people to gather in the ers and sympathizers should be "CM of Uttar
streets or at a particular spot. immobilized by using the pre-
The then Governor had ordered sent laws and detained outside Pradesh
the disconnection of the loud J&K. The Government has an- tentatively
speakers, which itself led to nounced pension scheme for the
protests. families of the terrorists, on the extended lower
grounds that it is not their fault,
and militants…The highest It is a fact that many if their children have become caste job quotas
number of 1,438 civilians were terrorists take shelter in the reli- terrorists. This approach is
killed in 1996, the year elections gious places of their respective fraught with danger and sooner into the private
were held after a gap of seven religion. During my recent visit it is given up, the better it is.
sector‖
year. While the highest number to the USA, I was told that the Why only Kashmiris should be
of 3,602 army and other para- police had installed CCTV cam- selected for this government - in Feb, 2008
military per-sonnel lost their eras in mosques to monitor any munificence. Such people in
lives fighting militants, Jammu such possible activity, with the Punjab, Chattisgarh, Assam and
and Kashmir police lost 537 per cooperation of the Muslim com- other North Eastern States, have
-sonnel since January 1990. As munity and their religious lead- similar claims. It should not
many as 438 Special Police Of- ers. This is to prevent any alle- become a scheme to help the
ficers engaged by police in the gation of forcible entry of the anti national and traitorous ele-
counter-insurgency operations Police, which may cause dese- ments.
were killed.127 Village Defense cration.
Committee members were killed Many so called intellec-
fighting militants in the state. In a situation like this, which tual talk about referendum in
has been highly communalized, valley. (Contd. next page)
EQUALITY RACE IN
DELHI
By YFE candidates
Contested for Delhi University
Student Union elections
Terrorism & Kashmir (continued....)
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Imagine the impact these Hoardings have on the general public. People love them and they become the favor-
ite topic of discussion for the whole of the week. They are almost a part of our culture. I have seen an old lady
make an album to amuse her grand children !! The right dose of social awareness laced with clean fun.
Hunger Strike
Maulana Azad Medical College
New Delhi
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Provision of fixed quo- ciety. Need and demand for and thinkers who are not aligned
tas is also an attack on the merit based education is bound to any interest or pressure
autonomy of institutions to fix to grow as the nation enters into group, to look into the entire
the minimum efficiency stan- an increasingly knowledge issue of affirmative action. But
dard level which openly negates based world. It will be highly seeing the fact at the moment,
the overall working environ- unjust and discriminatory to fix nation is badly fragmented on
ment and classroom excellence. quotas for one group and deny caste, communal and regional
For example new and advanced equal right and opportunity to lines resulting in plethora of
syllabus may not be covered as another group of people who are political parties, who have no
these sections of the class may otherwise more deserving and other developmental issue ex-
not be able to cope. Very re- meritorious. cept this quota madness. If this
cently University Grant Com- suicidal policy is not mended,
mission abolished the require- Indian education sys- the coming days will be very
ment of NET for lectureship tem has won world wide recog- torturous for the nation. ―In the end anti-
because SC/ST category stu- nition because of brilliant and black, anti-
dents find it very difficult to meritorious students of all - Dr. Y.K. Sharma,
clear the NET. So national SC/ castes, religion, linguistic and female, and all
Delhi University
ST commission recommended t ethnic groups who are embed- forms of
abolish the NET. Similarly Na- ded to the high pursuit of
tional Minority Commission has knowledge. discrimination
asked the HRD to abolish Eng-
are equivalent to
lish at primary and secondary But the present UPA
level, because minority (read government which is highly the same thing–
Muslim) students are generally castist and communal in its ap-
Anti-humanism
very poor in their understanding proach is bent on dividing the
of English. society on caste and communal —Shirley
lines, only to consolidate the
This type of quota sys- vote bank. As a result of this Chisholm (the
tem damages the institutional greed of vote banks, all the po- first African –
excellence and a negative and litical parties are trying to beat
inferiority syndrome is devel- other in this quota madness, to American
oped in the psyche of reserved include newer and newer groups
woman to win a
category sections that without in this quota race. Now in some
quotas they cannot survive. states like Tamilnadu and Kar- seat in the
Disadvantage groups should be natka, nearly ninety percent of
United States
encouraged to raise their stan- the total population is in the grip
dard instead of being depend- of quota. One fail to understand Congress)
ence on the clutches of quotas. any sane logic for this quota
race.
Arbitrarily lowering
and favoring the admission stan- It is the duty of the
dard for one caste over other government in national interest
group of citizens as has been to preserve and respect the
done recently in IITs, is highly autonomy of institution. Gov-
unfair and it creates discrimina- ernment should constitute an
tory inequality and offends the impartial commission, consisted
idea of just and merit based so- of genuine and honest scholars
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Nietzsche
PROTEST MODE
Human Chain
Chennai
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It‟s indeed a matter of immense fight against caste based reser- The editor can be reached at
pleasure to introduce you to the vation. editor@yfemovement.com
second issue of YFE Crusader. I
am delighted to share the re- As a part of our awareness cam-
sponse of our readers, which paign against ill effects of pre-
motivates me to increase the sent reservation policy we have
frequency and dimension of this taken this initiative, where we
paper and I am confident that, welcome the scholarly contribu-
this initiative will lead YFE to tions from all the well meaning
achieve the Goal of making citizens who oppose caste based
India a true knowledge based reservation. This e-paper will be
society. made available on our website.
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- Editor Prosperous
I appeal all like minded citizens
of this nation to join hands to Ganesh
Chaturti‖
concession tracing back to the geneal- are willing to instigate the students of
Voice from Chennai ogy of some unknown deprived forefa- BHU Varanasi.
- Meenakshi thers.
We realize that YFE is a very subtle
CREAMY LAYER OBC STU- force in this region and we wish to
DENT GETS THROUGH IIM-A infuse new life to this movement, by
UNDER OBC QUOTA involving an immensely capable and
educated youth brigade of Benaras
Sir, Voice from Varanasi Hindu University
- Sudhanshu Thakore
If an annual income of Rs.7 lakhs is LETS BE THE CHANGE !!
the upper limit to fix the criteria for Wish to instigate this movement in
reservation, then who would be ex- BHU
cluded from availing these benefits?
Sir,
What is more surprising is that a
student with both parents in high Myself Sudhanshu Thakore, and my
income white collared posts availing friends, students of IT-BHU Varanasi,
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