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Thousands march in Delhi against Israeli influence in India

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By TCN News,

New Delhi: Thousands marched today to express their concern on the growing influence of Israel in India. The march was convened by Movement for Civil Rights, an alliance of many civil-society and religious organization under the leadership of Dr. Maulana Mufti Mukaram, Imam of Delhi’s Fatehpuri Masjid. The organizers asked the Indian government to snap all ties with Israel.
The marched started today from Ram Leela Maidan around 10 am and reached Jantar Mantar. Later a public meeting was held at Jantar mantar.



Mufti Mukarram addressing the gathering.

Mufti Mukaram while addressing the gathering said “Gandhiji was against Zionism and our first PM Nehru made India part of the Non-Aligned Movement but unfortunately, in early nineties this policy was changed drastically by the government led by P. V. Narasimha Rao who established formal diplomatic relations with Israel in 1991. Since then the country has become the largest customer of Israeli military equipments that are nothing but modified versions of US products. India is Israel's largest defence market, accounting for almost 50 percent of Israeli arms sales.”

Later on the Programme Convener and SDPI National Gen Secretary Hafiz Manzoor Ali Khan said that “That Israeli diplomats have established relations with various State Governments and this kind of relations are void and against the norms of our country. 

Mossad have regularly intervened in investigations in various cases which indicate that Israel does not have trust in the capacity of Indian investigation agencies”.



EM Abdul Rahiman Chairman Popular Front of India said that “our growing civil and military ties with the illegitimate government of Israel are in gross violation of our great traditions and secular, democratic ethos.” He cautioned that engaging Israel agencies like Mossad in tackling our domestic law and order problems will ultimately endanger the very autonomy and dignity of our police, military and intelligence agencies. The recent incidents like the arrest of a senior journalist in the Israel embassy car blast are intended to suppress the voices against the Zionist atrocities. He stated that the terror agenda of Israel will get defeated in the Indian soil as a result of the united democratic resistance that is gaining strength in our country”.

Abdul Wahab Khilji President – All India Islahi movement said “ Israel has been always an entertainer of terrorism and was created by violence, And Israel relation with India with create tension in the nation as well it will a endorsement of the Israel’s oppression on Palestinian”.



Later in his speech Dalit leader Udit Raj of Confederation of SC ST Organisation said “it’s high time that an alliance should be formed between Dalit and Muslims and they should vote for themselves.”
Moulana Usman Baig president of All India Imams Council in his speech said that “the audio tapes seized from the laptop of Dayanand Pandey, an accused in various bomb blast cases carried out by Hindutva groups reveal that Col. Srikant Purohit, the king-pin of the terror group had sought the support of Israel. There are two reasons behind terrorism in India one is the Israel and the other is the fascist forces. It is also worth notice that the increasing ties with Israel had very grave impact on the country’s security”.



While addressing the public Turab Ali Kazmi son of arrested journalist Ahmed Kazmi said “that the only reason for arrest of his father is that he wrote the truth about America and Israel”. 

National Secretary of National Confederation of Human Rights Organization Advocate A Mohamed Yusuf told “Israel is a cancer which is killing thousands of people, if we allow this cancer in our country it may lead to unhealthy situation.” Ahmed Kazmi was arrested on suspicion of supporting people who planted bomb in an Israeli diplomat car in New Delhi. He has been in detention since February.

Other people who addressed the public are:

Dr Baseer Ahmed Khan, President, Indian Union Muslim League
Maulana Amir Rashadi, President, Rastriya Ulama Council
Adv Bahar U Barqui, Advocate, Supreme Court
Zaheer Zaidi, President, Shia Point
Yasin Patel, Co-ordinator, Wahdet-e-Islami
Dr Anwar ul Islam, Secretary, AIMMM
Irfanullah Khan, Convener, Jamia Nagar Coordinator Committee
Dr Taslim Rahmani, President, NPCI
Faisal Khan, President, Khudai Khidmatgar
Adv A Mohamed Yusuf, Sec. NCHRO
Anisu Zaman, National President, Campus Front

A memorandum demanding severance of all ties with Israel was submitted to the Prime Minister of India by a team led by Hafiz Manzoor Ali Khan.

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Letter from India

'National' Loses Power as an Idea in India

By MANU JOSEPH

Published: April 25, 2012

¶ NEW DELHI — This sentence has no meaning: “Tea to be declared Indian national drink.”

But that was the headline this week in several newspapers that reported on a proposal of the deputy chairman of the Planning Commission of India, a government body that plans things. What will happen after tea is declared the national drink? Nothing much, of course. But once word got out, an influential cooperative society of milk producers said that milk, and not tea, should be declared the Indian national drink.

¶ It is odd that this fuss has arrived at a time when the very idea of “national” is becoming irrelevant in India, especially in matters far more serious than tribute to tea. The political supremacy of New Delhi and the central government is being challenged by state governments and other regional forces.

¶ About three months ago, when the Indian government decided to allow 100 percent foreign investment in single-brand retail stores, several regional governments refused to implement the policy because they wanted to protect small businesses in their states. 

Also, the central government has been unable to push through its plan for a national anti-terrorism agency because some states are unwilling to make their own law enforcement agencies subordinate to such a central authority.

¶ There was a time when the chief ministers of the states would arrive in the capital like indebted peasants to plead for funds from the masters of Delhi, but now they simply raise a stink when they don’t get enough. It appears that every fortnight or so the authority of the center, even its common sense and credibility, are publicly challenged by the states.

¶ A major reason for this is that the Indian National Congress, which heads the alliance that forms the Indian government, has been diminished. The supremacy of the center made sense when the Congress party was at the height of its powers both in Delhi and in several states. But the party has lost power in many of its traditional strongholds, and with the spectacular rise of regional parties, national is not what it used to be.

¶ For most of modern India’s history, everything national was superior to what was near and familiar. After all, wasn’t it true that national highways were broader than state highways, central government jobs better paying than state government jobs and the prime minister more powerful than a state chief minister?

¶ In the early 1980s, even in the states where the Congress party had only a modest hold, like in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was unfailingly granted the honor of a great spectacle. Huge crowds went to see her. She never spoke in Hindi because there was a powerful sentiment against the perceived imperialism of Hindi. She would speak in English, and P. Chidambaram, who was then an emerging star of the Congress party and is now minister of home affairs, would stand beside her and translate into Tamil. But her opening words would usually be in Tamil, a tortured, practiced Tamil, as a grand condescension of a national figure from Delhi to the peripheral people of Tamil Nadu. And the crowds would erupt in honest joy. Later, when her son Rajiv first visited Madras, schools were closed so that children could go and gawk at him.

¶ India does not have a national politician anymore, who is national in the true sense of the word.

¶ The power of the center was in no small part derived from the idea of central planning. The Planning Commission, the same agency whose deputy chairman was behind tea as the national drink, decided from Delhi what all industries would produce, how much and for what purpose. Central planning damaged the Indian economy for years and survives today in a much less deadly form.

¶ In the past two decades, with economic liberalization, the political sphere of the Indian has become much smaller. Even in the national elections, he votes on local issues, for local politicians. Delhi still does attract politicians, but its glow is dimming. Four years ago, when Raj Thackeray, a rising politician in Mumbai, instigated violence against migrants from North India, I asked him if he was worried that he would never be accepted outside the western state of Maharashtra, that he would never become “national.” He told me that he didn’t see the point of being a national leader.

¶ It is not just in politics that the power of the national has diminished. The news media are increasingly forced to become regional. Most of India’s English-language newspapers consider themselves national publications. But they are not so in spirit. They have multiple editions, and on most days local reports overshadow national news.

¶ Scores of regional news channels in Indian languages have sprouted, many of them financed by political parties. English-language television news channels believe that they are national, and as a consequence are confused about what their viewers want to watch. They have seen their political clout shrink and are saved largely by the belief of advertisers that the elite consumers of the English news channels have considerable purchasing power.

¶ Accustomed to decades of concentration of power, Delhi’s elite is a well-run confederation of cozy cartels containing politicians, bureaucrats, merchants, middlemen, journalists, novelists and people whose day jobs cannot be easily described. They take care of their own. That is how they guard their mediocrity.

¶ As the idea of “national” sinks into obsolescence, it will one day liberate the rest of India from the hold of Delhi. In a way, that has already begun to happen.

¶ Manu Joseph is editor of the Indian newsweekly Open and author of the novel “Serious Men.”