Nalasopara, near Mumbai tense after mini riot
Normalcy has not yet returned to Nalasopara that saw what looked like a communal clash, after a priest Fr. Yogesh Pereira was beaten up by a rowdy rickshaw driver, Anil Dalvi and his friends. Dr. Abraham Mathai, the vice-chairman of the Maharashtra Minorities Commission and The CSF activists, rushed to the spot to quell the mobs that continued to gather at the affected spot. It became clear that a misunderstanding resulted in a mini riot between two communities, as Muslims happened to be predominantly residing in the area. In the skirmishes that followed, 7 motorbikes were burnt and a number of roadside stalls were destroyed, besides almost a dozen persons being injured.
Three platoons of police personnel continues to be stationed in the area as an uneasy calm prevails. The Minorities Commission & The CSF visited the injured priest and those from both communities in the hospitals and also met community leaders in an effort to bring peace to the area. Dr. Mathai appealed to both communities to refrain from further violence and asked the police to remain alert. He said that the law and order situation needed improvement, if a priest could be beaten up in broad daylight. Senior police officials gave a briefing on the arrangements being made to maintain calm in the area and assured of prompt action, in case of any further reoccurance.
Joseph Dias, the CSF general secretary said that " the Christians seem to have suffered greatly with 7 motorbikes being burnt to ashes, besides a number being injured, not to mention Father Yogesh Pereira who was still in Cardinal Gracious Hospital. Adequate compensation needs to be paid to the victims and as the area has become a hotspot between Hitendra Thakur and Vivek Pandit, the local MLA, a political hand cannot be ruled out. The police need to identify the real culprits and bring them to book, as videos of the riots have been recieved by the police". Frs. John Furgose and Rajesh Lopes, priests representing the Vasai diocese, said that the Christians looked forward to the police providing the community with adequate security and prevent a deterioration of the situation.
The intellectual terrorists are the dubious fifth estate of Indian democracy.
They come in varied hues - social activists, ‘noted’ historians, journalists, advocates, litterateurs and of course prominent citizens. They are over active and reactive when it comes to the protection of evangelists, jehadis and Maoists and their silence is articulate in any matter that concerns the sentiments of the Hindus or the nation.
They browbeat the governments and have of late taken to bullying the judiciary. When the Ayodhya verdict came and all sides concerned were relieved and happy, this brigade was beating their chest and crying for the ‘loss’ of Muslims. The invasion of faith. The Raipur court verdict on their beloved colleague Binayak Sen brought tears of blood to their eyes.
When the Supreme Court made an observation against forced and coerced religious conversions by evangelists that are creating social tensions, in the Staines murder case, these chorus singers saw ‘danger’ to India’s pluralism and pressurised the court into deleting the reference.
The media, especially some of the English newspapers, magazines and TV channels are the oxygen that keeps this motley crowd alive. The National Advisory Committee has been filled with these people by Sonia Gandhi to direct and dictate to the nominated Prime Minister of India. They of course operate in different circles and routes but come together as if on cue on Pakistan, Maoists, jehadis and the evangelists. Some of the most familiar faces are Arundhati Roy, who declared she is no more a citizen of this country, but continues to hold the Indian passport, Ramachandra Guha, whose heart bleeds selectively for the threat to pluralism (from Hindus!), Swami Agnivesh, forever looking for an opportunity to run down the handful of Hindu organisations, N Ram, who wears multiple hats as social activist, journalist and Hindu baiter, members of the Tehelka club, who also pass for journalists, Teesta Setelvad with a Modi obsession, Kuldip Nayyar too senior to change his ways and the loud and brash Pak admirer at large Mani Shankar Iyer. This group has of course shed the jhola and the coarse cotton and the unkept look that used to be the group identity. Their fashion and style have changed with official patronage. English is their lingua franca, for maximizing international impact.
They attempt to divide the Hindu society by declaring tribals as non-Hindu, wean away the dalits and other socially deprived classes as outside the Hindu fold. Without a drop of understanding they discuss the caste issue. Paradoxically, they support reservation to Christian and Muslim converts from SC/ST. RSS-VHP-Bajrang Dal are the proverbial red rag for them. Politically, their preference is Congress, since the communists have no presence outside Kerala and West Bengal. Outside that they support anyone who can defeat the BJP, because it is tinged by saffron and hence a huge no-no.
What is clear is that they are playing to a gallery that is not India. The issues they select, the positions they highlight and the posturing they assume are all so consistently against the sentiments of an ordinary Indian. They are perched in their comfortable chairs, not having to go anywhere near the poor and the wretched of this country, but to speak for them in sound bites for TV and produce articles for cohort publications. It is high time we identified and recognised these intellectual terrorists and isolated them.
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