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एमपी इलेक्शन: सर्वे की कोख से निकली लिस्ट

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  Kamal Nath is going out of way to prove he is not anti-Hindu MP Assembly Election Update: 14 October 2023 NK SINGH कमलनाथ के प्लान के मुताबिक काँग्रेस की लिस्ट इस दफा सर्वे-नाथ ने बनाई है। प्रदेश के नेताओं में आम तौर पर सहमति थी कि लिस्ट इस बार सर्वे के आधार पर बनेगी। पर क्या यह महज संयोग है कि यह लिस्ट राहुल गांधी के गेम-प्लान के मुताबिक भी है? वे अपनी पार्टी के क्षत्रपों के कार्टेल को ध्वस्त करना चाहते हैं, जो 10-15 एमएलए के बूते पर प्रदेश की पॉलिटिक्स चलाते हैं। सर्वे की कोख से निकली लिस्ट कमोबेश जीत की संभावना के आधार पर बनी है। एनपी प्रजापति जैसे अपवादों को छोड़कर कोई सप्राइज़ नहीं। बीजेपी की लिस्ट देखते हुए, काँग्रेस इस बार फूँक-फूक कर कदम रख रही थी। भाजपा उम्मीदवारों की पांचों लिस्ट 2018 के मुकाबले काफी बेहतर थी। नाम दिल्ली ने तय किए, प्रदेश के किसी भी नेता के प्रभाव से परे। चयन का आधार गुटबाजी नहीं, जीत की संभावना रही। इसलिए, दोनों तरफ के उम्मीदवारों का लाइन-अप देखकर लगता है, मुकाबला कांटे है। टिकट न मिलने से निराश नेताओं की बगावत का दौर शुरू हो गया है। यह हर चुनाव में होता...
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A Committee for Defence of Naxalite Prisoners

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  British citizen Mary Tyler spent 5 years as a Naxalite in Indian Prison NK SINGH A public meeting was convened by the Committee for Defence and Release of Naxalite Prisoners on January 23 in Delhi.  The Committee is the brain-child of Mr. R. K. Garg, a lawyer by profession and a CPI activist by passion, who wants to "win back" the faith of the Naxalites "in the democratic way of life" and to "reinforce democracy". It was a well-attended meeting. There were some three hundred of them -- politicians, authors, journalists, intellectuals, teachers, students, lawyers etc. The political participants included the CPI, which seemed to be running the entire show, the SP, the SSP, the RSP and last but not least, some CPI-oriented Congressmen. The CPM abstained from the meeting t hough a few of its sympathisers could be seen 'spying', from the gallery.  In a nutshell, it was a mixed gathering of revolutionaries, not-so-revolutionaries, lesser revolutionarie...
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Hindustan Samachar Unmasked

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NK SINGH News Agency teleprinter used for political work. Hindustan Samachar is a news agency supposed to be disseminating news and features in 12 Indian languages including English. But if one cares to go into the details of what this agency supplies to its four score and odd clients, one would realise that what they release is not news but a travesty of news.  The reporting is unabashedly slanted in favour of communal forces.  But this is not surprising when it is known that the agency was sponsored and is maintained and controlled by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh It was after the murder of Mahatma Gandhi in 1948 that the RSS decided to sponsor an all-India political party and an all-India news agency to build adequate political strength for the realisation of its dream of 'Hindu raj' in the country.  However, it was envisaged that none of the proposed two organisations should have any formal connection with the RSS, though both should help each other and be indirectl...
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Subramanian Swamy's Shadow Over Delhi IIT

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  IIT Delhi NK SINGH Time virtually is running out for Delhi's prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, where with every passing day the academic and administrative atmosphere is slipping from bad to worse. There has been widespread trouble on the campus - one of the families of five which cater to the special technological needs of the country during the past three months. The Institute, which is supposed to be among the best in Asia, has been vitiated by demonstrations, gheraos, strikes and intimidation of individuals. At present it looks like a mini-battleground with two jeeploads of policemen stationed inside the campus and two truckloads of Central Reserve Police force posted at the outer gates. All this because the IIT Employees Union has chosen to march on the warpath in support of its two main demands: implementation of the departmental promotion rules and reinstatement of a professor of economics who was sacked on December last by the authorities because of alleged part...
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Delhi University : Undermining Democratic Rights

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NK SINGH T he agitation of the Delhi University teachers (Delhi University: 'Storm in a Tea Cup', September 2, 1972) has come to a bizarre end. The teachers are happy that the government has decided not to touch their pay packets nor to disturb their social status in any obvious way. The price for this, however, has been a further undermining of democratic rights. The teachers and their union, the Delhi University Teachers Association, claim that they have won out as the old statutes, relating to the controversial college councils, have technically lapsed and as the new ones are to be framed only after "a thorough probe with teachers".  In other words, the councils cannot be imposed here and now. On the other hand, the university authorities, too, claim victory and point out that the teachers' original demand for scrapping the college councils has not been accepted and that the varsity can form them if it chooses to do so at a later stage.  Yet the biggest victory...
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Guru Golwalkar's Views on Uniform Civil Code

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NK SINGH Inaugurating the Deendayal Research Institute in New Delhi on August 20 last, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief, Guru Golwalkar, said that a Uniform Civil Code had nothing to do with national integration or nationalism. Sniffing a deep philosophical question involved, the Motherland and Organiser rushed the next day to interview their Guru. Reiterating his view, Golwalkar said he had no quarrel with any community or sect for wanting to have its separate identity. Propounding his thesis of the "flatterers and flatteners" basically being the same, both treating the Muslim community as a thing apart, he said the flatterers wanted the Muslims' vote, "the flatteners wanted to extinguish the separate identity of the Muslim community. The Muslim is welcome to his way of life as long as he loves his country and its culture." By way of an obiter dictum , he added that uniformity is the death knell of nations, nature abhors uniformity and all the various wa...
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