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Strategies & Market Trends : India Coffee House
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To: JPR who wrote (11858)3/20/2002 8:01:26 AM
From: JPR  Read Replies (2) of 12475
 
Ignore the Cow-belt at your own risk and pay dearly
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Options before Vajpayee By Dr Iffat Malik
It is sending out contradictory signals.
Attorney-General Soli Sorabjee told the Supreme Court the government would have no objection to a Hindu ceremony being performed some distance from the proposed temple site - a plea more in line with an advocate for Hindu India, than a defender of secular India. Similarly, Prime Minister Vajpayee upheld the Supreme Court verdict by not allowing the Hindus to worship at Ayodhya, but sent his personal emissary to receive the foundation stone for the Ram temple at a ceremony performed close by. As Congress leader Sonia Gandhi put it, Vajpayee had 'neither the will nor the capacity to deal with the VHP blackmail'.

JPR's note:

Vajpayee is the Prime Minister of India-all Indians; therefore, he has to uphold the Supreme Court verdict; yet, he is a Hindu at heart and has no problem in reconciling the two aspects of his life.
Sonia Gandhi, knowing the mind-set of the cow-belt Hindus and aspiring to be the Prime Minister of India, cannot afford to alienate the cow-belt Hindus. For Sonia to say that Vajpayee has neither the will nor the capacity to deal with the VHP blackmail is pure hogwash, because it is impossible for her to govern the country without Hindu assent, even she gets elected on account of her family connection and the Nehru-Gandhi mantle.
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