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Letter to US Congress condemning resolution against Narendra Modi

Recently, a US Congressman,
influenced by the abundance of unsubstantiated canards against
Narendra Modi, had presented a resolution in US Congress directing
him to restore religion freedom at Gujarat. Needless to emphasize,
it testifies not just the ultimate ignorance of the Congressman but
also the tendency to be the Policeman of the world. IBTL takes
genuine pride in having among our readers, Ms. Seema
Niravadhi, who took on the US Congressman. She has written
a letter to the Chairman of the Committee of Foreign Affairs of the
US' House of Representative registering her very strongly worded
but entirely fact-based protest against the resolution. She has
sent a copy of the letter to the Editor of the Brookings
Institution, as well as to India-behind the lens. The letter is an
eye-opener to all who have been either misled into believing the
libels, and a slap on the face of those who have conspired against
Narendra Modi. Here, we publish the letter as is, with thanks our
concerned, responsible and active reader, for writing this cogent
piece of communique.
Ms. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen,
Hon'ble Congresswoman
Chairman, Committee on Foreign Affairs
US House of Representatives
Dear Ms. Ros-Lehtinen,
This is regarding non-binding resolution (H Res 569) "recognising
the 10th anniversary of the tragic communal violence in
Gujarat", which was introduced in the House of
Representatives by Congressman Keith Ellison. I would like to
condemn this resolution, register my protest against it, and would
request you to please reject it in toto by voting against it.It
tramples on the democratic freedom enshrined in the Indian
constitution and interferes with the workings and sovereignty of
the world's largest democracy. Rest assured world's largest
democracy (India) is mature enough to take care of itself and does
not need world's oldest democracy (USA) to encroach on former's
freedom and pontificate to it. In this prejudiced resolution, Shri
Narendra Modi is needlessly accused of committing a fictitious
"pogrom" without any shred of evidence against him but rather on
the basis of mere hearsay of some professor and an article from a
disreputable magazine. Canards spread by anti-Modi campers are no
different than those spread by vile individuals who claim that 9/11
was an inside job. Really? US allegedly pulled of massacre of its
own 8000 citizens and no one involved in the know-how called it
out. Unbelievable! Similarly it is not possible that Shri Narendra
Modi did any of what is being alleged and I prove it below in
detail as to why and how.
Professor Ashutosh Varshney, who is a self proclaimed "expert" on
riots in India (as if riots happen there everyday), has casually
claimed that 2002 Gujarat riots were "first full-blooded pogrom in
independent India". This is far from true and absolutely abhorring.
Other than the fact that Mr. Varshney is making a mockery of human
misery, he and Congressman Ellison are misleading the House as the
"first full-blooded pogrom in independent India" was in 1984 when
over 8000 Sikhs were mass murdered and displaced in a state
sponsored pogrom by then ruling CONgress party goons under the
alleged order of the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi who
trivialized the mass murder of Sikhs by saying "When a big tree falls, the earth
shakes". I know because my Hindu family gave shelter to some of
our Sikh brethren and countrymen in our house to protect them from
CONgress party goons. As unfortunate as Gujarat riot was, what
happened there was Muslim-Hindu riot in which 270 Hindus and 720
Muslims died. It started after a Muslim mob burnt alive 59
children, women, and men by locking them in a train, drowsing train
in petrol and lighting it on fire in a terrorist attack. They were
Hindu pilgrims who were returning in a train after visiting one of
Hindus holiest sites of Ayodhya. 2002 Gujarat riot was not a
pogrom.
Tehelka (means "spread fear" in Hindi) magazine that Congressman
Ellison has quoted from is known for writing canards and
provocative prejudiced articles. Such references cannot hold water
in any court of law, let alone be enough to be used as
corroboration for indicting a 3 times democratically elected Chief
Minister against whom even the Honorable Indian Supreme Court has
not found any evidence of complicity, commission and omission. All
these allegations aremere hearsay.
In addition to above, this resolution seems to be categorically
written to target peace loving Hindu community and its repugnant
language is clearly written to provoke backlash against Hindus.
This resolution will gratuitously demonize 3.5 million strong and
patriotic Hindu-American community. Congressman Ellison should
rather be censured for wasting tax payers money and for maligning
Hindus. His actions are totally uncalled for.
I would like to bring to your kind notice the following a well
balanced article by Brookings Institution on the
excellent work that Shri Narendra
Modi is doing in Gujarat. Fruits of Shri Modi's relentless
efforts are reaching every citizen without any discrimination on
the basis of caste, color, creed or religion.
Rather than dumbing down the aforementioned article with
Hinduphobic bigotry as most of Shri Modi's detractors in the media
do, because they find him to be an easy punching bag, Mr. Antholis
chose to write a seemingly unbiased article. It is hard to find an
article on Shri Modi that is not filled with hearsay canards and
baseless allegations leveled against him without a shred of an
evidence. In such case, this article has come as a breath of a
fresh air and I commend Brookings Institution and Mr. Antholis for
this effort.
At the outset, I would like to make my opinion very clear that I
believe it would be an honor for US to give Shri Narendra Modi
visa. I think US should give him visa and extend him an official
state invitation to come and do business with US based companies.
He is the man whom we need right now to help us jump start our
dwindling US economy by creating partnership between us and Gujarat
based businesses in specific and Bharatiya companies in general.
Why? Following are some of my observations to support my
viewpoint:
01. I do not think that Shri Modi needs US endorsement per-say in
the form of a visa, rather it is in the best interest of our
economy to give him visa and invite him to freely travel to US.
Many US based companies are already benefiting by doing business in
his state and are finding his no-nonsense incorruptible leadership
extremely gratifying. Recently Ford Motors laid foundation for $1
billion car factory in Sanand, one of Shri Modi's many pet
projects. Then why deny him a chance to visit US to accelerate and
extend these partnerships? Partnering with Shri Modi and his government will
create hundreds of American jobs.
02. The very ambulance chasers in the media, Leftist apologists,
and Muslim lobbyists, who do not miss an iota of opportunity to
discredit Shri Modi cannot resist giving accolades to him for his
leadership. Here is a case in example in which he was honored for
his “outstanding contribution to the
cause of Indian Business”
03. There is not a single shred of evidence against him that anyone
has produced in 10 years for his alleged complicity in the 2002
Muslim-Hindu riots, which followed the terrorist attack on
Sabarmati Express in which 59 children, women, and men were burnt
alive. All there is out there is mere hearsay. Lies repeated and
regurgitated a thousand times. To say that a person without any
political background who became new Chief Minister (or for that
matter any minister) of a large state like Gujarat not more than
six months before the Godhra terrorist attack, who had spent most
of his time attending the grievances of his fellow citizens after
the massive earthquake in 2001, had somehow allegedly stage managed
a state sponsored massacre of Muslims by allegedly telling his
policemen down to a constable rank and file to not perform his or
her duty, while at the same time deploying the army within 2 two
days, knowing that doing so would be detrimental to his alleged
"evil plan" is the most ludicrous argument I have ever heard from
his detractors.
04. How can a Chief Minister of such a big state personally know
policemen down to a constable rank and file within 6 months of
getting into public office?
05. How can a person with no political background whatsoever
leverage such a control over state machinery within a few months of
democratically getting into power that he personally prevented
local city level police from stopping alleged massacres?
06. Howsoever ludicrous it may sound, even if we assume that he
prevented the police from protecting a specific section of society.
It is very hard for us to believe that if not hundreds but at least
tens of people, out of thousands of policemen and other armed
forces who were on the ground zero, would have some conscience to
expose such plan and would have revolted and refused to partake
into aforementioned alleged unethical doings?
07. How can a Chief Minister who publicly appealed for peace and
calm from his fellow citizens via state television Doordarshan on the very night of Godhra terrorist
attack plan and execute such an elaborate "evil plan" to
massacre his subjects while at the same time with emotions running
so high be so smart as to not leave behind any trail of his alleged
commission and omission? All of this in one night.
08. In 1984, when Delhi was burned, 8000 Sikhs were massacred and
displaced in state sponsored pogrom by CONgress party goons, and no
army was called in for 3 days, the then Prime Minister Rajiv 'Nero'
Gandhi shamelessly justified the pogrom as "Big tree falls, earth shakes". In
Gujarat's case the Chief Minister made continuous public calls for peace,
officially requested for Army on the very night of Godhra terrorist
attack and deployed it as soon as it was available, why would he do
so if his intentions were to target a section of citizens?
09. Why does Shri Modi detractor's heart not bleed for 59 Hindu
pilgrims who were burnt alive in the train and 270 Hindus who died
thereafter in the riots? Isn't spreading lies that thousands of
Muslims died while the actual number is far less at 720 doing an
injustice to the innocent Hindus who died as well. Please do not
take me wrong. Every life lost, irrespective of the religion, is a
loss for that great nation. But it seems that a Hindu's life is not
as important and equal to a Muslim's life for anti-Modi bigots.
10. There has not been a single riot since 2002. Doesn't that
reflect good on Shri Modi's leadership that as he got a hang of his
public office, he has managed state machinery well. He could not do
so in 2002 as he was new to any kind of public office, let alone
post of Chief Minister.
11. Anti-Modi CONgress party's own Union Minister for Home
Sriprakash Jaiswal admitted on the floor of Indian Parliament in
Rajya Sabha that Shri Narendra Modi's government has full filled
all its obligation of distributing relief and rehabilitating all
the citizens, who were displaced due to riots, without any
discrimination.
12. Then there are complete dolts who claim that Shri Modi has done
such a marvelous job in progressing his state and its development
as a contra to 2002. Really? I did not know that people could
overnight develop such great leadership skills to brush under the
carpet their alleged past activities. Lamest excuse ever! By the
same logic, Delhi should have been a world class city by 1986 after
anti-Sikh pogrom by CONgress party goons. But it only developed and
got basic infrastructure such as Metro not until in 2001 under BJP
government. Similarly, Bhagalpur, Varanasi, Nandigram, Bareilly,
Gauhati, Bharat-Pakistan border area just after dreadful partition,
etc. all should have become world class cities by now as most the
Chief Ministers or local Ministers were allegedly complacent during
riots in these areas. Most of were from CONgress party.
13. Foreign funded NGOs whose full time job is to level baseless
accusations against Shri Modi have been many times found committing
perjury, forging documents, falsifying witnesses, and have been
reprimanded by courts.
14. Irrespective of whether Shri Modi may admit or not, but he is
the best possible alternative Prime Minister to the current corrupt
Sonia Gandhi led CONgress UPA government. And most of the Indian
people want to see him as the next Prime Minister.
I think US has no locus standi to pass judgment on Shri Modi,
Gujarat or Bharat when our own Human Rights records are very
dismal. I believe it is highly hypocritical for US to
01. sabotage the local politics of Indian state of Gujarat, which
has a democratically elected government and conducts free and fair
election, by passing vile accusations on its workings.
02. interfere in the local politics of Indian state of Gujarat by
condemning and passing immature judgment on a 3 times
democratically elected Chief Minister who was elected after free
and fair elections.
03. give or deny certificate of religious freedom to India which
has seen origin of at least four different religions: Sanatan
Dharam (Hinduism), Jain, Buddhist and Sikhism. It is Indian Hindus
who protected and gave shelter, ironically in Gujarat, to those who
were persecuted around the world: Parsis and Jews. When US's own
body on religious freedom USCIRF does not even have a single Hindu
member (to represent 1.2 Billion strong Hindu community) on its
board and is filled with evangelical Christians and Muslims, how
can we talk of religious equality? US is a country where most
people will simply reject a Mitt Romney just because he is a
Mormon. Talk about pontificating religious freedom!
04. deny visa to a democratically elected public official on mere
hearsay of Leftist and Muslim lobbyists who spread canards without
a shred of evidence. There is not even a single police FIR
complaint registered in 10 long years even remotely implicating
Shri Modi. So much so that even Honorable Indian Supreme Court
monitored Special Investigation Team (SIT) has found no evidence of
Shri Modi's complicity, commission and omission.
05. still not fixing the mistake of denying visa to Shri Narendra
Modi, whom the US Consul-General in Mumbai, Michael S Owen,
described as a "no-nonsense, effective administrator who has
reduced corruption in public life in Gujarat" and Owen admitted US
government's hypocrisy and embarrassment of publicly giving Shri
Modi a cold shoulder on visa issue.
Finally, not that there is any comparison and nor am I drawing any
between the following two individuals. But the following facts do
contrast and highlight the most hypocritical attitude of US. While
we allow radical Islamic mass murderer Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who
wants to blast Israel off the face of the earth, to freely travel
to US and give lecture at Columbia University despite the fact the
he oppresses minorities in Iran, Hindus and Jews cannot build
temples in Iran, Gays are persecuted, youngsters are murdered for
keeping Elmo hair style, democracy movements are crushed, there are
no free and fair elections, there is no freedom of speech, women
rights are flouted and women are publicly flogged. But it is all
OK. On the other hand we imprudently deny visa to 3 times
democratically elected Chief Minister who has taken his state from
rags to riches. Shri Modi under whose rule, Muslim citizens of his
state are economically and socially much more well off than in any
other Indian states especially those (mis)ruled by CONgress party.
Shri Modi under whose rule in Gujarat anyone can freely build
Temple, Synagogue, Mosque or Church and practice his or her
religion as they wish. An effective administrator who is the only
no-nonsense incorruptible politician who is the rightful contender
to be next prime minister of India. But we injudiciously deny him
visa on a mere hearsay without a shred of evidence while
contemptuously snubbing the Indian law of the land and jaundicing
peoples mind that Shri Modi is guilty of fictitious charges without
judge, jury or trial. Can we in the US call ourself democracy? When
I see above mentioned facts, I am ashamed to say NO.
If this is not US hypocrisy that what is?! Give Shri Modi visa and
give it now. And for God Sakes stop interfering in other
democracies. We are not holier than thou.
Please reject Hinduphobic House Resolution 569 by Congressman Keith
Ellison. It has religious bigotry written all over it and it will
only make Hindu - US relation worse. If not rejected, this
resolution will gratuitously demonize peace loving and patriotic
Hindu-American community.
Regards,
Seema
CC: Mr. Antholis, Brookings Institution
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Note: IBTL's series on how Gujarat government
acted firmly and swiftly to control 2002 riots and how media itself
at the time of riots published the facts, before descending into an
ocean of canards, libels and character assassination, can be
reached at: Godhra Riots
Godhra's Truth Series - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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# The Facts the media published, anti-Modi
propaganda
# How government controlled riots in 3 days
# Day 1 of Riots - Role of Government in curbing
it
# Role of the Gujarat Govt in controlling
violence
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