LK Advani’s Blog

मुंबई, जेहादी आतकवादियों का पसंदीदा निशाना रहा है। आखिरकार यह देश की राजधानी जो है। दो वर्ष पूर्व से उन्होंने अपना ध्यान बंगलौर की तरफ किया है जो भारत का तेजी से विकसित हो रहा आई.टी.-सूचना प्रोद्योगिकी- का केन्द्र है।

जुलाई, 2008 में इस शहर में श्रृंखलाबध्द बम विस्फोट हुए थे। मुझे स्मरण है कि इसके तुरंत बाद मैंने शहर का दौरा किया था और उन सभी स्थानों पर गया जहां-जहां बम विस्फोट हुए थे और अंत में अस्पताल गया जहां सैकडों बम विस्फोट से पीड़ित लोगों का उपचार हो रहा था।

पुलिस जांच से संकेत मिले कि बंगलौर ऑपरेशन केरल के अब्दुल नसीर मदनी के दिमाग की उपज था और जिसे Click to Read More

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Mumbai has been a favourite target of Jehadi terrorists. After all, it is the commercial capital of the country. Two years back, they shifted their attention to Bangalore rapidly developing into the principal I.T. hub of India.

In July, 2008, a series of bomb blasts took place in the city. I remember visiting the city soon after, going to all the spots where bombs had been hurled, and finally visiting the Hospital where scores of blast victims were being treated.

Police investigation have indicated that the Bangalore operation was masterminded by Abdul Nasser Madani of Kerala and executed by a protégé of his by name T. Nasseer.

Madani is the Chairman of Kerala’s People’s Democratic Party, a Muslim extremist Party that is being assiduously wooed by both the Congress and the Leftists. When earlier Madani was in jail, the Kerala assembly passed a unanimous resolution demanding his release. The Court trying the 2008 bomb blast case had issued warrants of arrest against Madani which have been executed only last week by the Karnataka Police. Madani therefore has been very much in the news last week.

It is this name that reminds me of an unforgettable episode of my own life.

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Conscientious newsmen can be very tenacious. For political persons, this is sometimes very annoying. But I cannot forget an Click to Read More

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पिछले सप्ताह मुझे कच्छ विश्वविद्यालय से सम्बध्द एक बी.एड. कॉलेज के नए भवन का उद्धाटन करने कच्छ के आदीपुर जाना पड़ा। इसी अवसर पर मेरी धर्मपत्नी कमला ने एक नर्सिंग स्कूल का भी उद्धाटन किया।

यह दोनों संस्थान, कमला की घनिष्ट मित्र निर्मला गजवानी के प्रयासों और समर्पण का फल है। श्रीमती गजवानी सिंधु पुनर्वास निगम की अध्यक्षा हैं।

दो स्थानों के प्रति मेरा विशेष लगाव है। निस्संदेह एक कराची, जहां मैं पैदा हुआ लेकिन 1947 में देश के विभाजन के बाद वहां केवल दो बार जा पाया-पहली बार 1978 में और अंतिम बार 2005 में। दूसरा स्थान कच्छ में आदीपुर कस्बा जिसे मेरे Click to Read More

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Mumbai has been a favourite target of Jehadi terrorists. After all, it is the commercial capital of the country. Two years back, they shifted their attention to Bangalore rapidly developing into the principal I.T. hub of India.

In July, 2008, a series of bomb blasts took place in the city. I remember visiting the city soon after, going to all the spots where bombs had been hurled, and finally visiting the Hospital where scores of blast victims were being treated.

Police investigation have indicated that the Bangalore operation was masterminded by Abdul Nasser Madani of Kerala and executed by a protégé of his by name T. Nasseer.

Madani is the Chairman of Kerala’s People’s Democratic Party, a Muslim extremist Party that is being assiduously wooed by both the Congress and the Leftists. When earlier Madani was in jail, the Kerala assembly passed a unanimous resolution demanding his release. The Court trying the 2008 bomb blast case had issued warrants of arrest against Madani which have been executed only last week by the Karnataka Police. Madani therefore has been very much in the news last week.

It is this name that reminds me of an unforgettable episode of my own life.

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Conscientious newsmen can be very tenacious. For political persons, this is sometimes very annoying. But I cannot forget an occasion when such tenacity on the part of ETV, a TV news channel based in Hyderabad, proved a boon for me, and actually saved my Click to Read More

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इन दिनों काश्मीर काफी सुर्खियों में है। पिछले सप्ताह जम्मू-काश्मीर से भारतीय जनता पार्टी के विधायक नई दिल्ली आकर प्रधानमंत्री से मिले और उन्हें एक ज्ञापन सौंपा। जिसमें उन्होंने राज्य में सुरक्षा बलों की उपस्थिति को किसी भी प्रकार से कम करने के प्रति सावधान किया है।

उन्होंने यह भी आग्रह किया कि वे किसी भी पृथकतावादी मांग के आगे नहीं झुकें। भाजपा के लिए काश्मीर का भारत में पूर्ण विलय का मुद्दा भारतीय जनसंघ के जन्म से ही पार्टी निरन्तर उठाती रही है।

जनसंघ के संस्थापक अध्यक्ष डा.श्यामा प्रसाद मुकर्जी ने राज्य के एकीकरण के मुद्दे पर अपनी Click to Read More

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Kashmir is very much in the news these days. BJP MLAs from Jammu & Kashmir came to New Delhi last week, met the Prime Minister and submitted to him a memorandum cautioning him against any dilution in the presence of security forces in that state.

They also urged him not to succumb to the acceptance of any separatist demand. For the BJP, the issue of Kashmir’s complete integration with India is one which the party has pursued relentlessly since its birth as Bharatiya Jana Sangh.

Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerji, founder President of the Jana Sangh laid down his life for the cause of the State’s integration.

At the first National Conference of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh held in 1953 at Kanpur Dr. Mookerji gave the nation a resounding slogan with profound significance :

Ek desh mein do vidhan, do pradhan, do nishan -nahin chalenge, nahin chalenge.(We cannot have two constitutions, two presidents, two flags, in a single country).

Dr. Mookerji’s martyrdom in Kashmir led to achievement of two of the three goals identified in this slogan.

The Two Presidents that existed till 1953 – one in New Click to Read More

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राज्यसभा में भाजपा के उपनेता सुरिन्दर सिंह अहलूवालिया को बहरीन से उनके एक मित्र डा. महिन्दर सिंह का पत्र प्राप्त हुआ जिसमें उन्होंने एक पखवाड़े पूर्व इण्डोनेशिया के बारे में लिखे गए मेरे ब्लॉग पर बहुत संतोष व्यक्त किया है। वास्तव में डा. महिन्दर सिंह ने पत्र के साथ इस ब्लॉग की प्रति अहलूवालिया को भेजी है; साथ में कहा कि उन्हें यह लेख इतना ‘रोचक और शिक्षाप्रद’ लगा कि उन्होंने बड़ी मात्रा में ‘दुनिया भर में अपने मित्रों’ को इसकी प्रति भेजी है।

इस ब्लॉग पर सीधे मेरे कार्यालय में आई प्रतिक्रियाएं भी समान रुप से उत्साहवर्धक हैं। जैसा मैंने उल्लेख किया था कि Click to Read More

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BJP Deputy Leader in the Rajya Sabha, Surinder Singh Ahluwalia, has received a letter from Dr. Mahinder Singh, a friend of his in Bahrain, expressing immense satisfaction about the blog I had written a fortnight back about Indonesia. Dr. Mahinder Singh has actually enclosed a copy of the blog also to Ahluwalia, saying that he found the piece so “interesting and informative” that he had sent copies of it to numerous “friends all over the world.”

Responses to that blog which have come directly to my office are equally appreciative. As I had mentioned, I visited only Jakarta and Bali. Both places are situated in the island of Java. I wish I had also gone to Yogyakarta (pronounced Jogjakarta) about which it is often said: “If Jakarta is Java’s financial and industrial powerhouse, Yogyakarta is its soul”.

I could not visit Yogyakarta. I was told about the Prambanan Temples there. Built between the 8th and 10th century these temples are believed to be outstanding examples of Hindu art.

Here in India there are hundreds of Shiva Temples, hundreds of Vishnu Temples, but I have known just one Brahma Temple, at Pushkar, in Rajasthan. In Yogyakarta there is a Shiva Temple, a Vishnu Temple and a Brahma Temple as well, making it perhaps the second Brahma Temple in the world !

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