Offstumped must confess to rather scant knowledge of politics in the three states to our North East going to polls later this month and early next month – Nagaland, Meghalaya and Tripura. For decades now the politics in the North East has been largely a Congress affair with Congress splinter groups like the NCP and regional parties filling up the rest of the political canvas. But for Tripura where the Communists have a strong presence one does not get to see any other political color in this part of the country. To what degree the above pictures that appeared in the Asian Tribune are indicative of changing political colors in Nagaland is anybody’s guess.
So what are the defining issues in this election in Nagaland ?
The long drawn and floundering Naga peace process must be ranked at the top of the list especially with the National Security Advisor M.K. Narayanan and Delhi?s pointsman in the Naga talks, Oscar Fernandez contradicting each other. While the NSA admitted to the peace talks not making progress (as if that were news) and Fernandez went about re-defining the laws of motion.
Contradicting national security adviser M.K. Narayanan?s view that the peace process in Nagaland has slowed down, Fernandez said the talks are on the right tracks.
?Peace talks are on the right track and we are now dealing with the technical aspects of the talks to arrive at a viable solution.?
Well we in the heartland maybe ill-informed about the politics of Nagaland but opinion makers in Nagaland can hardly be deemed to be uninformed if this op-ed in the Nagaland Post is anything to go by. Drawing heavily from the campaign slogan of democrat contender for U.S. President Barak Obama – “Change – can we believe in ?” the writer expresses a fervent hope and desire for change.
With a population which is more than 90% christian, the Church in Nagaland is playing an active role with its guidelines which if were not be well intentioned could almost have been construed as church interference in state. Consider this one
?Any design to capture booths is against the will of god,?
If only the underlying political issues were as black and white as the Church’s diktat one would not be missing a commandment that would have perhaps gone
“Any design to play identity politics is against the will of god“
But then we probably will not see any such commandment because it pays to play both sides of the identity politics game in the North East. This op-ed in the Imphal Free Press sums it very well on the duplicity of the Congress on the Naga issue. The reference is to the Congress Manifesto which apparently
endorsement of the demand for integration of Naga-inhabited areas of the north-east under a single administration in the election manifesto released for the forthcoming Nagaland elections
As Offstumped wades into the troubled waters of Naga politics to stumble upon this op-ed in the Nagaland Post by a member of the NSCN-IM. The op-ed is a good window into the emotional factors in the factional war between the Naga tribes. But it is the closing remarks that caught Offstumped’s attention.
For me, if the task of unification of all factions is accomplished and the whole Naga people become as one, the national workers really begin to work for the people and fight for its freedom and the people look up and take us as their ‘Freedom Fighters’, that much is sufficient. I will be always happy to stand in the war front to fight for my people and for the cause of “Nagaland for Christ”.
Well for all those communal socialists in the mainstream media who routinely lose sleep over signs that say Hindu Rashtra in Gujarat, how much secular attention has been paid to the role of the Church in North Eastern politics ?
Meanwhile the rhetoric rages on between the Leader of the Congress Legislature Party, I Imkong and the former Chief minister Neiphiu Rio who’s NPF led DAN government was unceremoniously bundled out the by Congress in the run up to the election.
Offstumped closes this curtain raiser with this news item in the Morung Express on how music and adaptation of lyrics of popular English language numbers have become the latest rage in the election.
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Church played similar role in Goa election. Don’t be surprized if you hear Church has given a sermon that nobody can give vote to BJP. Church did that in Goa, parts ofJharkhand etc. Archbishop of Dumka is on record damning BJP, and asking people to vote for Congress.
Indian “secular” media/parties keeps mum in these cases. Imagine what will happen should Hindu temples, religious gurus play same role- they will term them as Hindu Fundamentalist.
Actually, NDTV did similar stuff. Few days back, it covered YSR’s proposal of funding Israeli Tour for Xtians like Haaj. NDTV quoted a Xtian convert saying, he was so happy with the proposal. But in the next paragraph, NDTV said, there may be some Hindu “fundamentalist” may demand the same.
Mark the word “Hindu Fundamentalist”- it was not used against the Xtian who supported Israel visit funded by Govt.
IN THE NAME OF TOLERANCE, SECULARISM, PSUEDOS ARE PAMPERING ISLAMIC, XTIAN FUNDAMENTALISM.
Guess what: this is the biggest vindication of LK Advani, who singlehandedly put ‘minoritism’, ‘psuedo-secularism’ as maninstream vocab.
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080219/jsp/nation/story_8921328.jsp
This news item explians why Organized Minority groups are doing this.
Look at Missionaries- they have property worth 100000 of crores in India, managed by people appointed by the Pope. There is no democracy, peoples participation in that.
They are running these as business, generate their own fund for conversion, western agenda, working relentlessly against Hinduism.
The poor Xtian, Muslims are left out- and now being agitated so they can grab jobs, govt money what should be spent for SC/STs.
Its a win-win stragy for organized minority groups- and thanks to dhimmitude of Indian political parties and infiltration of missionaries/marxist/islamists in Indian media- nobody is raising any question.
IN INDIA, MINORITIES CAN GET AWAY DOING ANYTHING BECAUSE HINDUS ARE DIVIDED.
Sarat Chandra Chatterjee, pre-eminent Indian noveslist once said in 1920s seeing the disaster of Gandhi’s support of Khilafat movement: “HINDU MUSLIM PROBLEM WILL BE SOLVED IN A DAY WHEN HINDUS UNITE.”
This is the simplest definition of Hindutva. Hindus must wipe out caste, reach out to disadvantaged groups beforeany loss of time- anti-Indians are wrecking India pretty fast.
Just 2 more facts (sorry for repeated posts)
1. In 1947, Nagaland was narely 30-35% Christian. I read in the writings of Sumit Sarkar, noted Marxist Historian, these conversions took place as Baptists unleashed armed struggle in subsequent decades and cleansed, forced converted non-Xtians.
2. More people died in NE insurgency funded from abroad than even in Kashmir.
3. The Goal of these groups is to establish a Xtian state in Nagaland- its stragetically very important- close to China, SE Asia. Goal is to use this as a future base and Xtianize all of SE Asia.
While these ruthless conversion, religious driven armed struggle have been continuing, our mainstream press have been mum on these.
Only RSS is working in parts of NE with nationalist groups, religious groups to protect themselves.
Hi everybody:
Attaching a link here to today’s TOI editorial by SUMIT GANGULY who is giving some lessons to UPA and Commie parties on how not to bolster Hindu fundamentalism or in his words “political fodder to the Hindu right”
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Stand_And_Deliver/articleshow/2793200.cms
From Sumit Basu’s article>>On the other, they have always betrayed a curious propensity to overlook minority communalism. Such behaviour is both intellectually untenable and morally reprehensible.
Incredibly, in an article in early 1990s, Yechuri actually forwarded this line : minority communalism is good for India.
Commies are most audacious anti-national, anti-Hindu.
CPI supported 2 nation theory of Jinnah. But for Hindus, they proposed multi-nation theory. So, on one hand, they rallied muslims nationally, but divided Hindus along caste, language. A top CPI leader G Adhikari helped Jinnah writing manifesto for 1946 election which created pakistan.
But see the fun: Commies were beaten black and blue and driven out from Pakistan. Not a single Islamic country ever had worthwhile Communist Govt. Neither it will ever had/
CPIM IS NOW HISTORY AFTER TASLIMA AND SURRENDER TO ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISM ON TASLIMA ISSUE as written by Meghnad Desai.
I shed no tears for CPIM. My only concern is the 10s of millions of Muslim infiltrators CPIM allowed to settle in WB, Tripura is going to create another demographic imbalance and we may see another rise of third islamic empire in South Asia.
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“My only concern is the 10s of millions of Muslim infiltrators CPIM allowed to settle in WB”
Thats the concern of all of us……surprisingly BJP did nothing about this when NDA was in power….