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| Cong rubbing salt on nation's wounds | | Reviving Indo-Pak Cricketing Ties | | Rustam
Jammu, July 17: The Congress-led Government at the centre is insensitive. In fact, it is outraging the nation's sentiments; it is rubbing salt on its wounds caused by the Pakistani terror. The Congress has been going against the national mood, particularly since 2009, when Prime Minister Manmohan Mohan Singh shocked the nation by resuming dialogue process with Pakistan, epicenter of global terrorism, and endorsing Pakistan's two highly mischievous suggestions: terror and dialogue must go hand-in-hand and role of India in subversive activities in Baluchistan. New Delhi had stopped talking to Pakistan after the 26/11 terror attacks in the financial capital of India, Mumbai, which had left 166 innocent civilians dead. Earlier, Pakistan-sponsored terrorists had attacked the Indian Parliament and several cities, which had culminated in hundreds of deaths. Pakistan wants to annex Jammu & Kashmir on the ground that it is Muslim-majority State.
It has been proved that the mastermind behind the Mumbai terror attacks was Pakistan. New Delhi has submitted to Islamabad a number of dossiers and repeatedly asked it to handover to India those involved in the deadly terror attack, including Lashkar chief Hafiz Saeed, Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhavi, an Army major and a senior ISI official, but with no result. Islamabad has neither tendered an apology for the crime it committed, nor has it handed over any of the most wanted persons to India. On the other hand, it has umpteen times taunted India saying its dossiers were no more than pieces of literature and told that no Pakistani agency and no State actor in Pakistan was involved in the Mumbai terror attacks. It is India which has been fomenting troubles in Baluchistan, Islamabad has been saying. Its argument all along has been that Pakistan has suffered more owing to the rise of terrorism as compared to India.
It was hoped that the Congress-led Government at the Centre would do all that it could to force Pakistan to bring the perpetrators of the 26/11 to book, stop cross-border terrorism and dismantle terror producing factories. But it has not done anything whatever. It is so meek and weak. Nay, it is willfully outraging the nation under pressure from United States and other countries; it is deliberately humiliating the nation and adding to the woes of victims of Pakistani terrorism. The situation has climaxed to the point that Pakistan is blackmailing, browbeating and threatening India on a daily basis, with the Congress spokespersons defending New Delhi's soft attitude towards Islamabad and Kashmiri separatists.
Not content with what it did to compromise the Indian position, the Congress-led Government yesterday endorsed the highly outrageous decision of the BCCI to revive India-Pakistan cricketing ties. The BCCI agreed to play three ODIs and two T20 matches between the two arch-rivals, who have not played each other in a bilateral series for almost five years now. The ties were snapped after the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.
The BCCI and the Congress-led Government took the decision much to the chagrin of the nation. As expected, the decision evoked a very strong reaction. The Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) opposed the decision, saying the decision was against public sentiment. The BJP opposed the decision, saying New Delhi must bring the culprits of 26/11 to justice. Incidentally, Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley was there in the BCCI meeting where the decision to revive cricketing ties with Pakistan was taken. Shiv Sena (Bal Thakre) opposed the decision. Even former Indian captain Sunil Gavaskar questioned the "urgency" to revive ties with Pakistan. In fact, he registered his emphatic protest against the decision. A survey conducted by IBN7 last evening showed an overwhelming majority opposing the decision.
Defending the indefensible, BCCI official and Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Minister Rajeev Shukla shamelessly said: "The Pakistan Cricket Board has been very persistent over the past few years on resuming cricketing ties with Pakistan and if you remember we have also played against Pakistan even after 1971 war and after 1999 Kargil war". He also dismissed as individual view the opposition of Gavaskar. The critics of Gavaskar and BJP-Shiv Sena endorsed the BCCI decision, saying that "India is country of Mahatma Gandhi" and that "we must not mix cricket with diplomacy".
What is the Congress up to? Why is it rubbing salt on the nation's wounds? Who is controlling and guiding it? |
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