Opinion The plot thickens
The CBI chargesheet in the Ishrat Jahan case prompted the Sangh Parivar to challenge the agencys claims that the encounter was fake
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The plot thickens
The CBI chargesheet in the Ishrat Jahan case prompted the Sangh Parivar to challenge the agencys claims that the encounter was fake. Both Sangh Parivar weeklies have published cover stories and editorials on the issue,criticising the UPA government. The Organisers cover story highlighted two central government inputs from the IB and NIA that mentioned Ishrat Jahans terror affiliations,as allegedly discovered through the David Headley probe. The BJP has always maintained that the IB conveyed intelligence findings,regarding a terror threat to Narendra Modi,to the Gujarat government during the UPA regime at the Centre. However,the communication published by the Organiser reveals that the IB had in fact provided the input to the state government on April 22,2004,a month before the UPA came to power. The encounter case is the first instance in the history of independent India where the IB has been implicated. The morale of the investigation officers will be dented… There is hope that these loopholes will be addressed during the court proceedings and the case will be eventually treated as a terrorist activity case,an editorial in the Organiser argues. An editorial in Panchjanya echoes these sentiments,with both editorials stressing that the terror antecedents of Ishrat have been ignored by the CBI.
Wheeling dealing
The Sangh Parivar alleged that the Jet-Etihad deal is another scam engineered by the UPA. The Organiser and Panchjanya have published articles that describe the deal as another example of how rules are openly flouted by ministers and crony capitalism is widespread. The weeklies further charge Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh with having conveniently sidestepped the larger issue of morality and ethics. The articles also assert that this government patronage has… significantly raised Jet Airwayss valuation through the agreement on 37,000 seats,which was signed within six hours of Jet-Etihad announcing their agreement.
It will be naive for anyone to believe that the two deals did not have anything to do with each other,or that Jet-Etihad were not privy to the decision in advance,and that it was a mere coincidence that the two announcements came within hours of each other,allege the articles. It further demands that the entire issue relating to the deal be scrutinised,and the deal relating to grant of seats annulled to protect national interest.
Conspiracy theory
The disaster in Uttarakhand and subsequent response from various segments continues to get extensive coverage in both journals of the Sangh Parivar. Both carried interviews with RSS Sah Sarakaryavah (joint general secretary) Krishna Gopal,who visited the affected regions and provided direction to the RSSs and its affiliated organisations relief work. The weeklies highlighted the RSSs relief work alongside that of the army,and have deplored the reaction of the state and central governments. An article in Panchjanya blames the media for the criticism of Narendra Modis rescue operations. The article faults the BJP for maintaining silence for the first three days after a media house re-christened Modi as Rambo,for failing to catch on that it was not to raise the profile of Modi,but to make him a subject of ridicule. The article claims that the said media organisation was under the Congresss stranglehold and that the party uses it to create controversy against its adversaries.
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