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Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday the government’s only religion was “India first” and the nation will run only according to the Constitution.

In his speech in the Lok Sabha, Modi said consensus was a democracy’s greatest strength and cooperation empowered it, not majority and minority vote.

Modi, whose tone wasn’t as fierce as in his previous Parliament speeches, made no direct mention of the ‘intolerance’ issue. News reports earlier said the PM was expected to attempt dousing the flames on the raging intolerance debate and placate an opposition that has accused the government of allowing such incidents to grow unchecked.

The PM praise Jawaharlal Nehru for his greatness in accepting a point made by opponent during a Parliament debate and congratulated Congress chief Sonia Gandhi for her speech on the Constitution.

He said India was a diverse nation and the Constitution held the power to bind all its citizens. “Maintaining the sanctity of Constitution is the responsibility” he said.

Highlighting the importance of a healthy discussion in Parliament, Modi said the spirit of discussion in the Lok Sabha is “us” and not “me” or “you”.

Modi thanked everyone present in the House for the interest shown during the debate on the Constitution. “Some people have this wrong idea, maybe out of habit, that Prime Minister will respond to everything in the end. But I am speaking now, expressing my views, just as any other person here did,” he said.

He also praised Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan for her speech during the special sitting of the House to discuss commitment to the Constitution. “I believe your speech will be an inspirational document in parliamentary history. I congratulate you,” the PM said.

He was speaking during a discussion on commitment to the constitution as part of 125th birth anniversary celebrations of Bhim Rao Ambedkar, the chief architect of the constitution.

“26 November (Constitution Day) celebration doesn’t reduce the importance of 26 January... Our constitution has dignity for Indian and unity for India,” Modi said in his speech. “Man cannot be immortal but constitution has to be,” he said quoting a framer of the American constitution.

On the first day of the winter session of Parliament on Thursday Modi had indicated that he will address the opposition’s concerns saying that the government is ready for debates but all parties must work for the nation.

“The bitterness today reminds how our great leaders worked together to make the constitution,” Modi said on Friday.

The month-long winter session is expected to see fireworks with the government determined to push through its ambitious legislative agenda of 38 bills – including the landmark goods and services tax reform.

But opposition parties are adamant on discussing a wide range of subjects like drought, price rise, declining industrial production and exports and especially use the growing chorus over rising intolerance to corner the government. Recent weeks have seen intense back-channel negotiations with several rounds of meetings between top leaders and exhortations by the Speaker to let the House run without disruptions.

The last monsoon session was washed out by a Congress-led Opposition demanding the resignation of senior BJP leaders mired in controversies and the government is keen to use this session to further its reform agenda.

Highlights of the speech:

*Idea of India is welfare of all

*Grievance redressal systems give strength to a democracy

*800 million youngsters...what can be better than that. We have to create opportunities for them

*Our focus must be on how our Constitution can help the Dalits, the marginalised and the poor

*It is important to strengthen rights and it is as important to strengthen duties

*It’s a challenge for us politicians that people curse us but the same politicians have put restrictions on themselves

*We are very proud of those who have given their lives for the freedom of our nation

*BR Amdekar’s greatness lies in the fact that the constitution has no retribution or bitterness for the discrimination he faced as a Dalit.

*The bitterness today reminds how our great leaders worked together to make the constitution

*We need to consistently educate people about the strengths and importance of the constitution

*Dignity for Indians and unity for India... this is what our Constitution is about

*A nation like India is diverse, and the Constitution has the power to bind us all

*The need of the hour is to make people aware of the strength of the Constitution

*The spirit of this discussion is ‘us’ not ‘me’ or ‘you’

*Some people have this wrong idea, maybe out of habit, that PM will respond to everything in the end

*But I am speaking now, expressing my views, just as any other person here did
 
Modi and his cabinet reports to RSS.

A dangerous influence: Modi govt under RSS control | columns | Hindustan Times

A dangerous influence: Modi govt under RSS control

    • Sitaram Yechury, None
      |
    • Updated: Sep 09, 2015 12:35 IST

The recent three-day RSS baithak with the prime minister and his Cabinet subjecting themselves to scrutiny of the RSS is a reconfirmation that the BJP is nothing else but the political arm of the RSS. Legitimate questions arose on how ministers sworn under oath to our Constitution are reporting on advancing the RSS agenda of transforming the secular democratic Indian Republic into their version of a rabidly intolerant fascistic 'Hindu Rashtra'. These are being brushed aside by drawing parallels of ministers addressing industry associations. Unlike Prime Minister Narendra Modi's allegations of a 'remote control' directing the former UPA government, this BJP government is under the actual control of the RSS.

Recollect history. As India's first home minister, Sardar Patel, following the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi, banned the RSS. In a communiqué announcing this on February 4, 1948, Patel said: "The objectionable and harmful activities of the Sangh have, however, continued unabated and the cult of violence sponsored and inspired by the activities of the Sangh has claimed many victims. The latest and the most precious to fall was Gandhiji himself".

The RSS pleaded for talks with the government for withdrawing the ban. On November 14, 1948, Patel's home ministry issued a press note on the talks that were held with then RSS chief MS Golwalkar, who made many deceitful compromises. Saying that the "professions of RSS leaders are, however, quite inconsistent with the practice of its followers", Patel refused to withdraw the ban. It was only on July 11, 1949 that the ban was withdrawn when the RSS buckled and accepted all the conditions set by the government including that it shall remain a 'cultural organisation' 'eschewing secrecy and abjuring violence'. All 'conditions' that it is brazenly violating today.

In an effort to bypass the prohibition on the RSS in the political arena, it was then searching for a political arm. In 1951, it sent cadres to help Syama Prasad Mookerjee, who resigned from the Nehru Cabinet, to start the Bharatiya Jan Sangh. Among those who were sent were Deen Dayal Upadhyaya, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, LK Advani and SS Bhandari (Basu, Datta, Sarkar, Sarkar and Sen, Khaki Shots: Saffron Flags, 1993, p. 48).
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In 1977, the Jan Sangh merged with the Janata Party and its leaders joined the central government as ministers following the defeat of Indira Gandhi's Emergency. That government fell on the 'dual membership' issue with these ministers and MPs refusing to quit the RSS. The former Jan Sangh component of the Janata Party thus separated forming the BJP. The BJP has scrupulously functioned as the RSS' political arm since then.

The import of this is clear now. Instead of implementing the many promises they made to the people procuring their mandate in the 2014 elections, the singular agenda that this Modi government is vigorously pursuing is to advance the RSS agenda. It does not have the people's mandate to do this. Instead of naming a new road or renaming other central avenues not named after any historical personality in New Delhi, like Shanti Path, Satya Marg and Niti Marg, they have chosen to rename Aurangzeb Road to perpetuate the memory of President APJ Abdul Kalam. The communal motivation is obvious. Those advocating the abolition of the death penalty in India, in consonance with the majority of world's countries, are branded as Pakistani agents in the wake of Yakub Memon's execution. Those demanding equality in the delivery of justice by demanding prosecution of the perpetrators of the Bombay communal riots following the Babri masjid demolition as identified by the Srikrishna Commission (which also confirmed that the 'causative factor' for the Bombay blasts were the communal riots) are condemned as 'anti-national'. Our vice-president is being targeted for having delivered an enlightened speech reminding India that a Muslim problem is an Indian problem. Muslims are 14% of our population, or 180 million, making them the second largest in the world, living as a minority in our country. A majority of Muslims were an integral part of our freedom movement and now in the modern Indian story. This speech has begun a churning process that impels all of us to introspect and act.

By castigating the vice-president for this, the RSS is, once again, puncturing the potential of India to rise to higher levels of syncretic civilisational advance. If there is any lasting impact on the advance of human civilisation by India, it is such syncretic evolution for centuries. Modern India has been the land where exciting intellectual and civilisational confluences took place. Prince Dara Shikoh, the legitimate inheritor of the Mughal throne after Shahjahan, murdered along with other brothers to allow Aurangzeb's accession, had authored in 1654-55 a short treatise in Persian titled Majma-ul-Bahrain (the mingling of two oceans). The prince learnt Sanskrit and meticulously translated the Upanishads into Persian. The West became familiar with these Sanskrit Upanishad texts through these translations which travelled through Arab lands. The prince translated "in order to discover Wahad Al Wujud (Singularity of the Creator) hidden in them". According to the prince, Islamic Sufism and Hindu mysticism converged on this concern though the forms of worship are vastly different.

Such religious and theological confluences elevating India's civilisational evolution were unfortunately aborted by the course of history. These threads of syncretic evolution that further enrich our civilisational content need to be picked up. Instead, all such efforts are being thwarted today. Aurangzeb ascended the throne as 'Badshah', admirably aided by religious zealots then. Communalism today prevents India from reaching greater heights of civilisational advances.

This is the biggest disservice being perpetrated by this BJP government. This comes over and above the betrayal of all promises it made to the people to capture their mandate.
 
rather than the nationalistic phrase "india first", it should be the progressive phrase "humanity first"... only then will indian society move beyond the 1947 conditions that still abound in 2015.

*Idea of India is welfare of all

and that will not happen until india becomes a socialist society.

*800 million youngsters...what can be better than that. We have to create opportunities for them

many of those 800 million are pathetic reactionaries whose highest achievement will be getting 95 marks in some stupid school/college exam and getting job in some mnc.

i don't see any che guevara among these many.

*Some people have this wrong idea, maybe out of habit, that PM will respond to everything in the end

in the libyan jamahiriya, the general secretariat of the general people's congress ( the equivalent of a national parliament ) and muammar gaddafi ( the guide of the revolution ) were answerable to the libyan masses and the masses could countermand the decisions of the gpc, as long as they were reasonable and within the bounds of socialist thought.

modi wants to be a monarch, not answerable to anyone but his mentors and advisers in the rss.
 
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Modi and his cabinet reports to RSS.

A dangerous influence: Modi govt under RSS control | columns | Hindustan Times

A dangerous influence: Modi govt under RSS control

    • Sitaram Yechury, None
      |
    • Updated: Sep 09, 2015 12:35 IST

The recent three-day RSS baithak with the prime minister and his Cabinet subjecting themselves to scrutiny of the RSS is a reconfirmation that the BJP is nothing else but the political arm of the RSS. Legitimate questions arose on how ministers sworn under oath to our Constitution are reporting on advancing the RSS agenda of transforming the secular democratic Indian Republic into their version of a rabidly intolerant fascistic 'Hindu Rashtra'. These are being brushed aside by drawing parallels of ministers addressing industry associations. Unlike Prime Minister Narendra Modi's allegations of a 'remote control' directing the former UPA government, this BJP government is under the actual control of the RSS.

Recollect history. As India's first home minister, Sardar Patel, following the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi, banned the RSS. In a communiqué announcing this on February 4, 1948, Patel said: "The objectionable and harmful activities of the Sangh have, however, continued unabated and the cult of violence sponsored and inspired by the activities of the Sangh has claimed many victims. The latest and the most precious to fall was Gandhiji himself".

The RSS pleaded for talks with the government for withdrawing the ban. On November 14, 1948, Patel's home ministry issued a press note on the talks that were held with then RSS chief MS Golwalkar, who made many deceitful compromises. Saying that the "professions of RSS leaders are, however, quite inconsistent with the practice of its followers", Patel refused to withdraw the ban. It was only on July 11, 1949 that the ban was withdrawn when the RSS buckled and accepted all the conditions set by the government including that it shall remain a 'cultural organisation' 'eschewing secrecy and abjuring violence'. All 'conditions' that it is brazenly violating today.

In an effort to bypass the prohibition on the RSS in the political arena, it was then searching for a political arm. In 1951, it sent cadres to help Syama Prasad Mookerjee, who resigned from the Nehru Cabinet, to start the Bharatiya Jan Sangh. Among those who were sent were Deen Dayal Upadhyaya, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, LK Advani and SS Bhandari (Basu, Datta, Sarkar, Sarkar and Sen, Khaki Shots: Saffron Flags, 1993, p. 48).
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In 1977, the Jan Sangh merged with the Janata Party and its leaders joined the central government as ministers following the defeat of Indira Gandhi's Emergency. That government fell on the 'dual membership' issue with these ministers and MPs refusing to quit the RSS. The former Jan Sangh component of the Janata Party thus separated forming the BJP. The BJP has scrupulously functioned as the RSS' political arm since then.

The import of this is clear now. Instead of implementing the many promises they made to the people procuring their mandate in the 2014 elections, the singular agenda that this Modi government is vigorously pursuing is to advance the RSS agenda. It does not have the people's mandate to do this. Instead of naming a new road or renaming other central avenues not named after any historical personality in New Delhi, like Shanti Path, Satya Marg and Niti Marg, they have chosen to rename Aurangzeb Road to perpetuate the memory of President APJ Abdul Kalam. The communal motivation is obvious. Those advocating the abolition of the death penalty in India, in consonance with the majority of world's countries, are branded as Pakistani agents in the wake of Yakub Memon's execution. Those demanding equality in the delivery of justice by demanding prosecution of the perpetrators of the Bombay communal riots following the Babri masjid demolition as identified by the Srikrishna Commission (which also confirmed that the 'causative factor' for the Bombay blasts were the communal riots) are condemned as 'anti-national'. Our vice-president is being targeted for having delivered an enlightened speech reminding India that a Muslim problem is an Indian problem. Muslims are 14% of our population, or 180 million, making them the second largest in the world, living as a minority in our country. A majority of Muslims were an integral part of our freedom movement and now in the modern Indian story. This speech has begun a churning process that impels all of us to introspect and act.

By castigating the vice-president for this, the RSS is, once again, puncturing the potential of India to rise to higher levels of syncretic civilisational advance. If there is any lasting impact on the advance of human civilisation by India, it is such syncretic evolution for centuries. Modern India has been the land where exciting intellectual and civilisational confluences took place. Prince Dara Shikoh, the legitimate inheritor of the Mughal throne after Shahjahan, murdered along with other brothers to allow Aurangzeb's accession, had authored in 1654-55 a short treatise in Persian titled Majma-ul-Bahrain (the mingling of two oceans). The prince learnt Sanskrit and meticulously translated the Upanishads into Persian. The West became familiar with these Sanskrit Upanishad texts through these translations which travelled through Arab lands. The prince translated "in order to discover Wahad Al Wujud (Singularity of the Creator) hidden in them". According to the prince, Islamic Sufism and Hindu mysticism converged on this concern though the forms of worship are vastly different.

Such religious and theological confluences elevating India's civilisational evolution were unfortunately aborted by the course of history. These threads of syncretic evolution that further enrich our civilisational content need to be picked up. Instead, all such efforts are being thwarted today. Aurangzeb ascended the throne as 'Badshah', admirably aided by religious zealots then. Communalism today prevents India from reaching greater heights of civilisational advances.

This is the biggest disservice being perpetrated by this BJP government. This comes over and above the betrayal of all promises it made to the people to capture their mandate.

you do know that this column is written by Communist Party who is in opposition, it's like posting a column from Imran Khan about Nawaz Sharif. (comparison is drawn just to give you an idea, it has nothing to do with internal politics of Pakistan).
 
you do know that it's this column is written by Communist Party who is in opposition, it's like posting a column from Imran Khan about Nawaz Sharif. (comparison is drawn just to give you an idea, it has nothing to do with internal politics of Pakistan).

The only issue that I wanted to emphasize was that Modi and his cabinet were subjected to questions and answers in a RSS meeting. That seems unconstitutional in any country.
 

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