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Obama advisor Sonal Shah denies VHP-RSS link

Houston, November 11:: Prominent Indian American, Sonal Shah, who has been appointed in US President-elect Barack Obama's transition team, has rubbished reports of her links with Indian right wing organisations like RSS and VHP and has come out with condemnation of "politics of division". An eminent economist, Shah, ....Read more

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hope soBy: ravindradath | Monday , 26 Jan '09 2:43:40 AM Reply | Forward i hope that shah is hindu and connected with RSS and VHP. maybe she can talk sensens into obama's head and stand up to muslims

Sonal Shah's connection with VHP etcBy: Rohit. Desai | Thursday , 13 Nov '08 16:33:47 PM Reply | Forward Sonal Shah is not answering the question asked to her to clarify her connection wirh RSS, VHP and Bajarang Dal.. She must say if she is a member of any of these organisations.

Hindustan is for hindus by hindus and of hindus.By: Shallabh | Saturday , 6 Dec '08 20:56:30 PM Reply | Forward If she is? will you become a muslim, seems like you already are... Jai RSS Jai hindu Jai HINDUSTAN...

Sonal has not been fairBy: Balkrishna | Thursday , 13 Nov '08 13:26:11 PM Reply | Forward OK So lets get this straight. If you are associated with NGOs who do never emerge in sight after the multiple Muslim extremist initiated bomb blasts then it is OK but if you are associated with Hindu Swayam sevak - social service organizations it becomes a crime to condone and an allegation to quickly dissaosictae yourself from? How pathetic!

Good and EvilBy: HNS Murthy | Wednesday , 12 Nov '08 13:58:44 PM Reply | Forward Traditionally we Indians pick or look for negative sides in any successful personalities and events. Great are those who fire back and ignore. W#hen will we learn to see the good in everything first and then weigh to see if it overweighs or nor, before launching smear campaign shamelessly. If we cannot talk good, silence is better. Let us all stick to this and let people do their work in peace.

Good for USBy: Nanda | Wednesday , 12 Nov '08 6:29:30 AM Reply | Forward What is the problem by having association with VHP and RSS. They are not banned terrorist organisations. They are just Hindu social service organizations. If she is part of Alquida or SIMI, then it is dangerous.It will be good for US to have someone with who is associated with RSS. Afterall, Indian Prime Minister Atal Vajpayee had link with RSS, so will he become dangerous to US.Just by turning anti-hindu, noone can reduce the luster of Hindu philosophy or moral values. It has been there, seen all that.

I will be ashamed to join Hindu KaumBy: Nusrat Ali | Tuesday , 11 Nov '08 21:54:05 PM Reply | Forward I am an Indian muslim. After reading Hindu scriptures which are in fact Indian scriptures such as vedas,upnishads,gita etcetra,I was thinking to come back to my ancenstral religion ie Hinduism. But for the last 10 years I have been observing how hindus are fighting hindus and denigrating hinduism. Now it is my pediction that India may break after30 years or will be ruled either by Islam or by xtianity. I will certainly be ashamed to join such a KAUM,hence I have changed my mind.

SONAL IS A VHP.By: DHARAMNAL | Tuesday , 11 Nov '08 21:03:21 PM Reply | Forward Sir, Sonal Shah was the “coordinator” of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad America (VHPA). She is a VHP!The President of USA cannot have her as his advisor or else he will be blamed for working with those, whose followers demolished the Babri, burned Churches, raped and killed mother or sister likes in our Hindu names .

Obama is a terrorist and Sonal has links to RSSBy: Abraham | Tuesday , 11 Nov '08 20:53:26 PM Reply | Forward Well, Obama is termed as terrorist just because he knew Ayers. Well he knew millions of people. Sonal is from Gujarat, so she is connected to VHP/RSS etc. What's wrong if she is from Gujarat, what's wrong even if she knew some VHP/RSS folks like Vajpayee. How many millions have shaken hands with Vajpayee when he was a prime-minister? So all of them are worthless? This crap has to stop.

Nationalism is not patriotismBy: Jayadevan | Tuesday , 11 Nov '08 20:38:27 PM Reply | Forward RSS and patriotic? RSS patriotism is confined to making a show of the trappings of nationalism. Singing Vande Mataram does not make us patriotic. Nor does one of the best PR machineries in the world that helped them to outshine all other people who worked for eathquake relief. Patriotism is about uplifting the people , the majority of who live below the poverty line, weeding out corruption that is the biggest cancer in India. If we look at the insurgencies, we find corruption as the root cause of all of them. Look at the history of Kashmir, the North-east, the Naxal belt, you will find politician-bureaucrat-businessman nexus which diverted development funds to their own pockets, leaving the people poor and frustrated. If some outsider exploits the grievances existing in our family, do we start blaming him , or do we try to see what is wrong with ourselves? When I was a kid, we used to think that the RSS and the CPM had, whatever their ideologies, honest people. Now we know better.

This story has indicated that those who spread hate has no future.By: NASINGH | Tuesday , 11 Nov '08 18:55:55 PM Reply | Forward Sir, it is not a secret, that many of those, who participated in the earthquake relief efforts were related to RSS.

RSS By: Sumer Khan | Wednesday , 12 Nov '08 3:31:37 AM Reply | Forward What type of relief were RSS provinding during Gujrat riots and the recent violence against Christans. Moreover i couldnt see a single Chaddiwala during Kashmir quake eventhough Kashmir is considered as Head of India where were the RSS...

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