It was gracious of The Pioneer to publish the letter, "Investigate it properly" (July 15), by a group of well known leftists on behalf of the Kafi Azmi Foundation. Probably, it was a new Left-Muslim float after the Safdar Hashmi Memorial, hinting that the Sangh parivar might be behind the July 5 terrorist attack on Ram Mandir in Ayodhya saying, "In the circumstances it is necessary to investigate the attack in Ayodhya from all angels.
It (investigating agencies) should go deep into political developments that prevailed when the attack took place and the motives of those who tried to cash in on such incidents. Significantly, the incident took place when the BJP and Sangh parivar were in deep crisis."
The intent of the letter was quite the same as the earlier attempt of the Muslim-Left-secular trio to put the Sangh parivar in the dock for the Godhra train tragedy, in which Muslim miscreants set fire 58 Hindus alive on the fateful February 28, 2002. Can there be anything more malicious than this shameful mudslinging? How could the JNU reds now fail to malign the Sangh parivar?
Earlier a JNUite hot head during the time of arrest of Shankaracharya Jayendra Saraswati had declared that the Kanchi Kamkoti Math redundant and worth banishment. In fact, the JNU is a huge money guzzler public sector undertaking producing anti-national and anti-Hindutva virus on a large scale. The institution, to speak the truth, should have been a model for excellent teaching, research work and inspiring academic activity centre. One has the right to question what this 36-year academy - established under JNU Act 1966 - has given the nation in return. Hardly anything to boast.
The faculties of the varsity were replete with known leftists, where ideology is given precedence over merit. The beneficiaries, to name a few, were Mr RS Sharma, Mr Bipan Chandra, Ms Romila Thapar, Mr Prabhat Patnaik, Mr KM Shenoy, Ms Jayati Ghosh, Ms Zoya Hasan and Mr Namvar Singh. Under the patronage of the Congress and Congress-led governments, these worthies got their abilities glorified and magnified; and their say and influence widened.
No wonder they attained key positions in institutions and committees on culture, history, and writing textbooks, awards, government grants and similar endeavours. Their accessibilities in institutions such as the University Grants Commission, the National Council of Educational Research & Training, the National Book Trust, etc., are astounding. Not surprisingly, the students have not failed their ideological gurus and demonstrated their Marxist zeal quite often.
The Communist parties students' wings - Students Federation of India and All India Students Association and few other outfits, have dominate the student's politics in the JNU students union. Two incidents are fresh in my mind. Soon after the Kargil war, a musharia was organised by the students federations in which two Army majors and a doctor was mercilessly beaten. Their wallets, writs watches and gold chains were snatched, clothes were torn and finally evicted in blood soaked under garments by the office bearers of SFI and JNUSU.
In another incident a resolution
against the 1962 Chinese attack on India moved by the Congress's NSUI and
not by the rightist ABVP was vehemently opposed and defeated by the SFI
and AISF. Therefore, the JNU is more a Marxist malaise than a university
turning out a pale imitation of the Taliban, not the lethal sort that we
have known of but a bunch of armchair theorists.