A
Shameless Govt
(One)
At last it has happened. It is a question of a
few days that the shameless Govt. of India would
sign the 123 agreement, observing all restrictions
put on India by the dreaded Hyde Act. There is
no hiding now. There is no promise, no argument
even. It is an abject surrender.
The UPA govt has declined to be shown the good
path India has to pass through. It has decided
to opt out in favour of selling out our sovereignty
to the US imperialism with out any qualm of conscience.
It has succeeded in purchasing the necessary votes
from the disgruntled political outfits of India
such as Jarkhand Mukthi Morcha and Samajvadi Party.
The chief of the former is inducted as chief minister
of the state although he is not a member of Legislative
Assembly. It has also succeeded in shamelessly
bribing the members from the main opposition party
in the Indian Parliament. And a man sitting on
the chair of the speaker merely by the merit of
being the member of the Communist Party of India
( Marxist) extended all support to the UPA as
a very successful pimp in finding out leverages
to the victory of the ruling outfit in the confidence
struggle. He is expelled from his party. We do
not what and how much he is offered by US imperialism
for this great betrayal. And now he has shown
his fidelity by expelling only two members who
deserted the Congress and the SP; all others who
deserted the opposition parties by being bribed
are allowed to continue as members.
And here a prime minister is complaining that
he was taken as a bonded slave under the pressure
of the left; when he said this he forgot he was
gulping the praises he showered on the left a
few days back that the left had supported him
relentlessly and impartially. The parliament on
the day of the motion presented a scene of market
in Chandni Chouk or elsewhere in India. Also ,
we are not sure at this juncture whether Mr. Manmohan
Singh would lament of being a slave; The US economy
is at shambles; consequently all who stood by
it are endangered except India ; why? It is just
because of the compulsions left wrested from the
UPA that the economy of India is not that much
affected by the capitalist crisis.
And immediately after the vote of confidence
was passed it was clear that the present govt
do not have majority, because the dissenters who
supported them would be dismissed from the Loksabha
if the speaker sticks to the parliamentary norms,
especially the one of abrogating the three line
whip. This means that the govt won the confidence
motion and became a minority govt immediately.
There is nothing ironical in this as the morons
that are in power have taken our country beneath
the fat footsteps of the US imperialism as is
evidenced by the succeeding acts of the govt by
hurriedly inviting foreign universities to India
and reforming the banking sector. It is not a
single act we oppose; it is the philosophy behind
it; the govt is readily selling out our country
to the imperialists and launching a new foreign
policy obliging to the unipolar US foreign policy.
(Two)
We had genuine doubts when the ruling Congress
party and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh went away
from the scene with their heads a little bent
creating the feeling that they were not going
to press upon the Left parties to allow them to
go on with the deliberations with the US to sign
the 123 agreement. It was a façade. It
was an imperialist-designed attempt to deceive
the left parties that had not at all demanded
anything in compensation for their support, except
a few measures that would mollify the problems
of the Indian people at large. The parlours in
the US and India were trying to purchase members
of parliament and parties to show that imperialism
always wins in the last. Big money is being squandered
by the powers that be by which a lot of votes
are already purchased. Money could do anything,
they believe. You could tell them: see the Left,
they did not stand for money, they stand for principles,
they stand fro the country. The answer would be
an invariable agreement, the Prime Minister said.
He has certified that the left parties are people
who are patriotic. This is the most sinister expression
of deceit that is seen and heard during the past
sixty plus years of independent India, not because
the left is unpatriotic, but because it was said
by Mr. Manmohan Singh just before going to do
the most unpatriotic thing in the history of independent
India. And then he would mobilize his propaganda
machinery to try to convince the people that principles
would not produce energy. The left is principled,
but principle would not produce results, therefore
throw away all principles of the left, and of
those whoever stick to it. The message is clear,
you would quote Nehru or Gandhi , but of no avail
because principle would not produce anything.
This is the cut-throat pragmatism of the globalization
therapy to the evils of the world.
Why do we oppose this Act? The ignoramus congressmen
allover the country ask: Yeah, why do we oppose
it? Wouldn’t it bring some 20,000 mega watt
electricity by the year 2020? Wouldn’t it
increase to 40,000 mega Watt by 2029? The poor
being does not know that this quantum of power
is much, very much lesser than our demand at present,
and therefore by the dates when it would apparently
attain 20,000 or 40,000 megawatt power the quantum
would be lower than the most minimal of our demands.
We do not know delve into the arithmetic of the
cost of nuclear power production. It is very high.
A large number of rivers remain untapped all over
India. Power is after all motion; this motion
could be generated from water, coal and what not!
Yeah, Uranium is a powerful source, but we don’t
have uranium in adequate quantity. We have, but,
thorium in abundance in India. The turbaned Prime
Minister says we don’t have the technology
to generate power from thorium. Let us shy ourselves
upon us because it is the head of our government
that says so. The Russian Government was prevailed
upon by the powers that be not to provide India
with the Cryogenic machine. Within a very short
period Indian Scientist could make out the technology
and master to make machines. And our Prime minister
says we have no technology. He clamours much about
India’s two or three dozens of multi billionaires,
he is unable to be proud of the great technological
minds of India who have been and are making miracles
in electronics and Information technology for
the alien nations.
So, we have to oppose an alliance of India with
the United States. Let us go to the text of the
Agreement, which has been available in websites
for a long period. It is not an innocent document.
Even at the time of its inception, it was not
an innocent document.
“MINDFUL of their shared commitment
to preventing the proliferation of weapons of
mass destruction; and DESIROUS of strengthening
the strategic partnership between them; “,
this is from the introductory part. Shared commitment
to preventing the proliferation of weapons of
mass destruction! Who kills whom? Who is the killer?
Who are being killed? We are all very sore about
the 11/9 incident, which must have been a masterminded
one by all standards. Even if it is not so, were
it the innocent children of Iraq and Afghanistan
that did it? Millions continue to be slaughtered
in Iraq; the Prime Minister of the land where
one of her ancient monarchs renounced warfare
on seeing the terrible slaughter and the unnumbered
wounded in the battle field of Kalinga hastens
to sign an agreement for strategic partnership!;
history says the sight lacerated the heart of
that monarch. This democrat in turban is little
worried over the history of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
he is the least bothered about the possibility
of America’s claiming an alleged violation
of the agreement by India and saying that India
is heaping piles and piles of nuclear and chemical
weapons and therefore India’s arsenal should
be inspected by an American group. In that case
the US forces under one pretext or the other would
demand entry into our country. Remember, it is
not far of a possibility!
The Definition part again says:
By-product material shall not be subject
to safeguards or any other form of verification
under this Agreement, unless it has been decided
otherwise by prior mutual agreement in writing
between the two Parties.
Could the pundits of the Congress party explain
what this statement would mean? The Prime Minister
is heavy upon the money he has to make for retaining
the purchased MPs to vote his confidence motion.
He is not bothered to protect the UPA or Congress
government because what he only wants is a ploy
to sign the agreement. Whoever in India does not
know that with the support of Mulayam Singh and
his men, the government would not be able to continue?
Mulayam would have his own cards concealed for
the crucial hour; he would have his demands, to
dismiss the Mayavati Govt, or dismissal of the
Governor of the RBI, or transfer of the Indian
Ambassador to the United States, or even to sack
Chidambaram from the post of the Finance Minister.
So, definition part of the Agreement denies the
opportunity to the people of India to know how
the by-product material would be disposed or utilized,
both nuclear and political by-product.
Again in the Definition part it is envisaged clearly
of “ Provision of power for a military
base drawn from any power network, production
of radioisotopes to be used for medical purposes
in military environment for diagnostics, therapy
and sterility assurance, and other similar purposes
as may be mutually agreed by the Parties shall
not be regarded as military purpose”.
And remember it is an agreement for peace; why
mention provision for a military base………
etc, etc? Even in normal war treaties, it is not
mandatory to mention military base and such things;
here, the Prime Minister has shamelessly put it
in black and white that his country would think
of military base for the (United States of America);
the meaning is latent.
In the Purpose part of the agreement it is clearly
stated: “Advanced research and development
in nuclear sciences including but not limited
to biological research, medicine, agriculture
and industry, environment and climate change;
“. It is very much speaking because
it is not limited to biological research, medicine,
agriculture, and industry, environment and climate
change. This means that it could be used for unlimited
purposes, umpteen in number; purport is clear,
motives are cognizable. And, US have ascertained
its position vis-à-vis India regarding
the protection of American war preparations:
“ The Parties affirm that the purpose
of this Agreement is to provide for peaceful nuclear
cooperation and not to affect the unsafeguarded
nuclear activities of either Party. Accordingly,
nothing in this Agreement shall be interpreted
as affecting the rights of the Parties to use
for their own purposes nuclear material, non-nuclear
material, equipment, components, information or
technology produced, acquired or developed by
them independent of any nuclear material, non-nuclear
material, equipment, components, information or
technology transferred to them pursuant to this
Agreement. This Agreement shall be implemented
in a manner so as not to hinder or otherwise interfere
with any other activities involving the use of
nuclear material, non-nuclear material, equipment,
components, information or technology and military
nuclear facilities produced, acquired or developed
by them independent of this Agreement”.
The provision speaks beyond an iota of doubt what
will happen to India. The agreement shall be implemented
in a manner so as not to hinder or otherwise interfere
with any other activities involving the use of
nuclear material, non-nuclear material, equipment,
components, information or technology and military
nuclear facilities produced, acquired or developed
……. Does it reveal anything? Who would
benefit by this and in what way? Since the US
is to strictly observe the provisions of the Hyde
Act, any move infringing or apparently violating
its own interests would not be tolerated by the
American Congress. The poor Parliament of India
does not have any such powers! It would have to
hear the holy utterances of whoever be the Prime
Minister.
Our nation is founded upon the principles of
Sovereignty, democracy, Secularism nd Socialism.
In other words it is founded upon human values.
We are bound to a treaty which is explicitly based
on hatred, because it undertakes not to hinder
proliferation of weapons, not to hinder any independent
nuclear activity, not to hinder any military operation
from a base, which either of the parties would
prefer to use. And for the United States, which
is founded upon a betrayal of the innocent natives
of America, this is no dismay or prick of conscience.
We oppose this deal because the bilateral nuclear
agreement is a crucial step to lock in India into
the US global strategic designs. India is opening
not only her doors, but also her military bases
to US utility. We remind every one concerned that
the nation will have to lament later like the
Gamester of the RgVeda that we could have avoided
this deal. It will be very late then. Let us close
this lamentation by quoting from the Mainstream:
“The existing arsenals of nuclear weapons
on earth have the capacity to destroy most forms
of life on our planet many times over. Clearly
the complete elimination of these weapons from
earth should get the highest priority. But at
present non-proliferation efforts are mostly led
by the US, which is the only country guilty of
actually using nuclear weapons in Japan (and more
recently weapons with depleted uranium). The USA
is also the only country guilty of using completely
false allegations of nuclear weapons to justify
the alarmingly destructive invasion and bombing
of another country (Iraq). So a US-led nuclear
non-proliferation effort is like the worst robber
being asked to lead a campaign against crime.
The objective of non-proliferation is essentially
very good and relevant, but when it is led by
George Bush then it becomes very difficult for
any person with any sense of justice to support
it (as can be seen at present in the USA-led campaign
against the alleged nuclear weapons programme
of Iraq).
“ Even the peaceful use of nuclear energy
mainly in the form of electricity generation has
been highly controversial. The environmental movement
has generally argued strongly against depending
on nuclear plants to meet the energy needs because
of the critical problems in waste-disposal, other
environmental hazards and the risk of serious
accidents. This led to important decisions against
acquiring new nuclear power plants by several
countries like Germany. However, when the climate
change issue became very prominent, the nuclear
industry, supported “ironically even by
a few environmentalists, started lobbying by bringing
in the new issue of greenhouse gas emissions,
that nuclear energy should not be disapproved
on environmental grounds. But this argument is
accepted by only a small part of the environmental
movement. Several significant questions remain
about accepting nuclear energy as an important
source of energy by any country.
“There is an inherent contradiction in nuclear
energy as it is possible to run a ‘peaceful’
electricity generation nuclear programme as a
cover for a clandestine atomic weapons programme
to a considerable extent”.
See the way the ruling Congress party treated
its most trusted allies of the UPA. The left parties
had no demand, but to get something done for the
people. They decided to opt out of joining the
ministry. They would have handled the best of
the portfolios if they wanted! But they did not
opt to join the cabinet. Even with out being members
of the cabinet, they worked to retain the govt
in all possible ways. They tried to protect the
so-called honour of the Prime Minister by allowing
him to speak to the IAEA people. They tried to
convince the Congress party of the menacing nature
of the deal. And the Company into which the Congress
is forced now by the unfaithful Prime Minister
is “heavenly company”. The Prime Minister
dared to make a certification to the left as very
patriotic; if patriotism is what the Prime Minister
now shows, we feel the left are not patriotic.
The nation is now ruled by a pack of men and women
who think that they have no use of principles.
It is a very dangerous plight. We would suggest
that real Congressmen in the country should send
off the impostors from power and gain control
of the party.
(Three)
I completed this editorial in the midnight of
28Th July 2008( A few additions are made today
the 21St of September). And to save the gimmicking
UPA, the terrorists have acted in time! They have
butchered innocent people. By now, I do not exactly
know how many bomb blasts have been successfully
carried out or how many threatened. Is there a
connection between the UPA isolation from the
national stream and the bomb blasts? What if a
few lakhs are given as compensation to the families
of the victims when the US is going to be our
masters hereafter? I very faithfully and truly
admit that I do not know for sure. But remember
the news coming from the US is all attesting to
a fact that the 9/11 incidents were an inside
job by the US governing outfits. If it is so,
what will happen to India? The servile prime minister
would gladly agree to all illegitimate demands
of the US and our country is going to be a satellite
( or is it a decent name?) or feudatory to the
US.
It will not be a dignified position to the people
of India.
(five)
The parliament is not yet summoned, I said. The
monsoon session was not convened. It faded out
just like the monsoon this year. The winter session
is due to start. We are not sure whether it would
assemble at all. And Elections are due in May
2009. It means the UPA will have to present a
budget before the lections if the elections are
held in May. Will any sensible person think that
the UPA will be ready to present a budget? None,
indeed. The reason is clear. The budget will be
heavy blow to the people. Thus waiting for May
for the elections is ruled out. It can be in January
or February. Before that the business would be
completed; India would be sold out with US having
an emphatic say in all matters relating to the
governance of the reputed Republic. Sri. A. K.
Anthony shyly signed agreements or contracts to
buy things American , not for the sake of India,
but to save America.
(six)
I am very sad this issue is delayed much. It should
have been launched by 15Th of August. The reason
is neither reluctance or laziness. The reason
is accidental; we love our friends and their relatives;
and if one person related to the webmastering
crew is seriously ill, I could not compel anyone
to do the work; I felt it is inhuman to do so.
Literature and ezines are for life; life should
be our primary consideration. So, I am sorry.
My readers and my writers must be a little irritated.
The V issue was delayed due to an accident I had.
Now the X issue is delayed due to the above reason.
I am planning to launch an additional ezine which
could be uploaded every week. It will have only
lesser options. Still, it would enable me to cover
the most uptodate developments in poetics and
politics; in the realms of culture and international
relations. But I must admit that I am still ignorant
of the intricacies of uploading and webmastering.
C. P. Aboobacker,
Editor
|
|