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2006-03-24 India-Pakistan

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Posted by Steve 2006-03-24 14:36|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Naxalism threatens Rath Yatra

Most obscure headline on Rantburg, EVER.

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2006-03-24 16:02|| 2006-03-24 16:02|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-03-24 16:31|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-03-24 16:44|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-03-24 16:55|| Front Page Top

#5 Aw John, there you go screwing up a weird story with facts.

Posted by 6 2006-03-24 17:18|| 2006-03-24 17:18|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-03-24 17:19|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-03-24 17:26|| Front Page Top

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