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| Naxalism threatens Rath Yatra |
| 2006-03-24 |
| NEW DELHI: The government has received 'credible inputs of threats from certain terrorist organisations' to the proposed twin 'National Integration Yatra' by Leader of Opposition L K Advani and BJP president Rajnath Singh from April 6. Following the receipt of specific intelligence, the Home Ministry has conveyed the threat perception to the party and asked it to ensure at the earliest 'proper bullet-proofing' of the raths (vehicles) proposed to be utilised for the yatra by both the leaders, sources said. This has been done as both the yatras 'would be an attractive target for militants/terrorist groups as well as would be passing through areas affected by naxalism', they said. The Ministry has also asked Governments of the states through which the yatras would pass to make 'comprehensive security arrangements', they said. Advani had announced the party's plans to undertake the twin yatra a day after the Varanasi bomb blasts with the objective of 'creating public awareness about the minority appeasement policies of the UPA government and the threat it posed to the nation's unity and integrity'. In a television interview last week, National Security Advisor M K Narayanan had said the Government had received specific intelligence about threats to Advani in Uttar Pradesh during his proposed rath yatra. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #7 He may welcome an attack by marxists that may draw sympathy and media attention. The alternative for him is far more terrible - apathy and disinterest that sends him (and a lot of the other geriatrics that rule India) where they belong - an old age home. |
| Posted by: john 2006-03-24 17:26 |
| #6 And India is a very different place now. Globalization has changed things forever. Advani riding a chariot like some hindu god from the Mahabarat is more likely to attract eggs and assorted rotten produce then any loving devotion. He is probbaly going to be very disppointed. |
| Posted by: john 2006-03-24 17:19 |
| #5 Aw John, there you go screwing up a weird story with facts. |
| Posted by: 6 2006-03-24 17:18 |
| #4 btw, Advani is not the Hindu chavanist devil he is frequently portrayed as. He was born in what is now Pakistan and pines for the old days when hindu and muslim lived togther in Karachi. He proposes a south asian union where the Indi-Pak border would be just a line on a map. He is an old man. The young Indians have no memory of life in pre-independence India and their only experience of Pakistan is as a terrorist state. When they come to power, they will not be as Advani or PM MM Singh (also born in what is now Pakistan). They will not be moved by the fact that Pervez Musharraf was born in Delhi. He will not be a long lost brother to them (as Advani may think). |
| Posted by: john 2006-03-24 16:55 |
| #3 Naxalism - Naxals are marxist terrorists who run around certain Indian states bloewing up things. Rath - chariot Yatra - a pilgrimage or procession LK Advani likes his processions where he stokes Hindu nationalism. His last yatra was for the construction of a hindu temple at Ayodha. It ended up in the demolition of the unused mosque at the site (built over the site of a temple scared to Hindus), rioting, much death. BTW, when he was deputy PM, he did nothing to have the temple built. Advani's stocks are in the dump now. He went to Pakistan (he was born in Karachi, now in Pakistan) and praised MA Jinnah. That did not go down too well with his supporters. The recent bombings of Hindu temples and the dhimmitude of the current Indian government -reluctance to arrest minister who called for death of cartoonist, failed attempt at affirmative action for muslims in the army, ongoing attempts at affirmative action quotas for muslims in government jobs, pandering to muslim voters - have resulted in a growing backlash among the majority population. Advani sense this backlash and wishes to exploit it, - hence his yatra around India, to whip up support. His last yatra saw him being the deputy PM. He hopes this one will see him elected as PM. |
| Posted by: john 2006-03-24 16:44 |
| #2 Can one of our intelligence experts step in here to tell us what it all means? Because, from reading this, I have no friggin idea what it means... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2006-03-24 16:31 |
| #1 Naxalism threatens Rath Yatra Most obscure headline on Rantburg, EVER. |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2006-03-24 16:02 |