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" The Empire strikes back"
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In view of recent coverage of minor events by English media of India, and having a good enough memory to retain most of what I read; I could not help but draw parallels between media built-up leading up to2013 Egyptian coup d'état and current media propaganda in India.
In Egypt, military rule which has became an establishment in Egypt was rooted out in 2011 "Arab spring" giving a body blow to the "establishment". In the election in June, Mohd. Morsi came to power, a figure hated by sections of Egyptian society and military generals, giving a body blow to establishment. Within a few months of his coming to power, there were protests all over Egypt against Energy crisis ,and a hysteria was built up in society regarding persecution of Christians. These protests were funded by an Egyptian coptic billionaire Naguib sawaris, and though they were not greatly successful, they gave a pretext to Egyptian military to do a coup in Egypt.
Naguib Sawiris: the Egyptian tycoon with a sharp political edge - FT.com
Billionaire Naguib Sawiris Says He'll Increase His Investment In Egypt - Forbes
The Sawiris family controls the Orascom Group, Egypt’s largest conglomerate, which owns interests in construction, telecom, hotels and technology and employs over 100,000 people.
Naguib Sawiris, who is also a politician and co-founder of Egypt’sAl Masreyeen Al Ahrrarpolitical party,has been a vocal critic of Morsi’s regime. He left the country last year after Morsi was elected into power. He only returned to Egypt in May after a few senior executives who work with his Orascom Construction Industries were cleared of charges related to tax evasion, including Naguib’s brother Nassef Sawiris. During his self-imposed exile, his political party participated in several anti-Morsi demonstrations. His privately-owned television station, ONTV regularly aired shows that criticized the regime.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/27/w...-intensifies-in-gas-lines.html?pagewanted=all
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/11/w...st-a-campaign-that-undermined-morsi.html?_r=1
The streets seethe with protests and government ministers are on the run or in jail, but since the military ousted President Mohamed Morsi, life has somehow gotten better for many people across Egypt: Gas lines have disappeared, power cuts have stopped and the police have returned to the street.
The apparently miraculous end to the crippling energy shortages, and the re-emergence of the police, seems to show that the legions of personnel left in place after former President Hosni Mubarak was ousted in 2011 played a significant role — intentionally or not — in undermining the overall quality of life under the Islamist administration of Mr. Morsi.
And as the interim government struggles to unite a divided nation, the Muslim Brotherhood and Mr. Morsi’s supporters say the sudden turnaround proves that their opponents conspired to make Mr. Morsi fail. Not only did police officers seem to disappear, but the state agencies responsible for providing electricity and ensuring gas supplies failed so fundamentally that gas lines and rolling blackouts fed widespread anger and frustration.
“This was preparing for the coup,” said Naser el-Farash, who served as the spokesman for the Ministry of Supply and Internal Trade under Mr. Morsi. “Different circles in the state, from the storage facilities to the cars that transport petrol products to the gas stations, all participated in creating the crisis.”
Working behind the scenes, members of the old establishment, some of them close to Mr. Mubarak and the country’s top generals, also helped finance, advise and organize those determined to topple the Islamist leadership, including Naguib Sawiris, a billionaire and an outspoken foe of the Brotherhood; Tahani el-Gebali, a former judge on the Supreme Constitutional Court who is close to the ruling generals; and Shawki al-Sayed, a legal adviser to Ahmed Shafik, Mr. Mubarak’s last prime minister, who lost the presidential race to Mr. Morsi.
Despite coming to power through the freest elections in Egyptian history, Mr. Morsi was unable to extend his authority over the sprawling state apparatus, and his allies complained that what they called the “deep state” was undermining their efforts at governing.
This part is something which BJP need to pay attention to
Throughout his one-year tenure, Mr. Morsi struggled to appease the police, even alienating his own supporters rather than trying to overhaul the Interior Ministry. But as crime increased and traffic clogged roads — undermining not only the quality of life, but the economy — the police refused to deploy fully.
Mr. Sawiris, one of Egypt’s richest men and a titan of the old establishment, said Wednesday that he had supported an upstart group called “tamarrod,” Arabic for “rebellion,” that led a petition drive seeking Mr. Morsi’s ouster. He donated use of the nationwide offices and infrastructure of the political party he built, the Free Egyptians. He provided publicity through a popular television network he founded and his major interest in Egypt’s largest private newspaper. He even commissioned the production ofa popular music videothat played heavily on the network.
Something for fence sitters
“Tamarrod did not even know it was me!” he said. “I am not ashamed of it.”-Sawaris
He said he had publicly predicted that ousting Mr. Morsi would bolster Egypt’s sputtering economy because it would bring in billions of dollars in aid from oil-rich monarchies afraid that the Islamist movement might spread to their shores. By Wednesday, a total of $12 billion had flowed in from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait. “That will take us for 12 months with no problem,” Mr. Sawiris said.
There are very strong parallel between what happened in Egypt to what is happening in India. India was under congress rule for past 56 out of 68 years of Indian Independence and Leftist establishment has ruled the roost for at least 62 years out of those 68. Victory of Modi in last election combined with subsequent victories in successive assembly elections were first serious jolt to Leftist establishment since independence. That "Deep state" especially within media is now striking back using communalism as a plank. They do not root for a military coup in India, yet they could not let Modi succeed as his economic success would mean permanent end of them. I could not help but notice that there was not a single instance of Church vandalism in August-November period when there were no elections in Delhi and neither there has been a single instance of Church vandalism since declaration of Delhi election's result.Curious, Isn't it? When Church vandalism would have benefited AAP/Congress , there was a Church vandalized per week, but no Church vandalism has been there when victim card would not have gained any political mileage. Similar is case with recent Nun rape case. Even though knowing the fact very well that that Law and Order comes under State, Archbishop of North India gave clean chit to Mamata and held Modi responsible for rape. It looks like NDTV and Times of India have decided that even if a Christian get constipated, Modi is to blame.
The reason that leftist media has chose a communal plank to attack government is that actually government is doing pretty well on all other fronts. Economy is growing at a healthy rate, Inflation is down, and government is cracking down on corruption, and rectifying distortions that occurred due to handing over of natural resources for free by Congress government. There is a good chance that if this situation prevails, UPA would not come back to power for a long time thus eroding "Leftist-Lutyens" privileged in India. This has resulted in media campaigns like this:
Though this should also be acknowledge that supposed allies/enemies are providing full ammunition to them by making stupid statements. The recent statements of VHP shows their lack of understanding of art of propaganda (They should take a course in it from missionaries). The only good that come out of public proclamations of your intention is your lampooning by your opponent.
But them India is such a large country that there would always be attention-wh0res, Sociopaths, and genuine haters. It is not very difficult to pick out one or two instance to run an incessant propaganda.
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I am just a casual observer but many of you are member of RSS/BJP. Is BJP taking any action to shore up its defences?
In my opinion, first course of action would be to put motormouths in their place. Even a middle level manager of any company knows how to interact with media. The current relay race of inflammatory statements to media portend to incompetence and stupidity. But this should also be recognized that deracinated Leftist-English media of this country would never ever support them. They would always find one even or another in some corner of India and parade it as a mascot of "rising communalism". BJP need to prepare for the shit that media would hurl towards them.