For a straightforward reason: they have already compromised India’s sovereignty.

The gentle Dr. Singh has been gently stripping off the mask of making a difference. With this, he has come out in the open.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh courted controversy in his address at the National Development Council on Saturday by saying that Muslims should have the first claim on the country’s resources. [..] “We will have to devise innovative plans to ensure that minorities, particularly the Muslim minority, are empowered to share equitably in the fruits of development. They must have the first claim on resources,” Singh said.

Coming from Dr. Clean’s mouth, this statement is designed to cast the dubious Sachar Committee Report in a respectable forge. The furious debate over the Sachar Report misses a fundamental question: was there a real need for collecting community-based statistics in the first place? Assuming there was, it should have logically been done in the initial years after India became independent. It should’ve then been periodically reviewed to see if it worked. Countless Sachar reports have been tabled, recommendations accepted, sops granted, newer schemes introduced… nothing has worked. For obvious reasons. But nothing beats the sheer devilry of Dr.Singh’s statement that a particular community should have the “first claim over resources.” In Hindi cinema parlance, he’s making the country’s resources the baap ki jaagir of a particular community. Sachar’s findings, whatever its intentions are, won’t help if the same Dr. Singh’s government creates a parallel infastructure that places Madrassas above scrutiny.

While Pakistan is made to windup its terror infrastructure, which is closely linked to a mushroom growth of madrassas, Maharashtra’s Deputy Chief Minister R. R. Patil has designed a novel methodology of regularising several thousand madrassas, where students are being taught among other things to kill ‘the qafir’ (non-believer).

There is lot of anger in India against madrassas run by the fundamentalist Islamic organisations, which, according to intelligence agencies, form the hot-bed of ’sleeper cells’ of jihadi terrorist outfits, with bases in Pakistan and Bangladesh… However, the association of clerics in Maharashtra has already slammed the door on government intervention. They say the financial help is fine, but no interference.

Across the border, surprising tidings beckon our attention.

In an attempt to help students get the cutting edge in their higher education and career, Pakistan government has decided to switch to English from Urdu as the medium of instruction and make the language compulsory right from the primary level.
English would be compulsory from class I countrywide from the beginning of next academic year commencing Sept 1, 2007, Federal Minister for Education General (retired) Javed Ashraf Qazi said.

In a guise to “uplift” the backward Muslims, Dr.Singh announces a scheme that’s certain to further Islamize India, while a “pure” Islamic country seems to be headed in sensible direction. The contrast can’t be more painful.

As a precusor to the Sachar bomb, Dr. Singh’s unruly colleague, Arjun “Slaughter” Singh has already implemented the same thing in a different sphere, although the Singh-duo’s actions lead to the same consequences.

Neither is Dr. Clean’s statement grounded in commonsense, repeated ad nauseam on this blog and elsewhere: not all “upper caste” people are millionaires, and not all Muslims/OBCs/SCs/STs live in penury. The sole criterion should be economic backwardness, not tabulation of caste/class/community data that will lead nowhere. But the UPA has tied itself into inextricable knots over the reservations issue, which will continue to lead to questions like this:

We already have a social justice policy for all backward classes dont we ? It is called the OBC quota for all social and educationally backward Indians. In many states, the entire muslim population is covered under OBC. So, at best the Sachar report proves that (1) the OBC policy is not sufficient for Muslims or (2) the selection of castes for OBCs itself is wrong. In other words, the arbitrariness of the OBC grouping has resulted in Muslims getting the short end of the stick.

The report is actually pretty well written and I dont think anyone can really accept the OBC grouping and not accept the fact the Muslims are shortchanged. You cant have it both ways.

Well… anyone who can muster enough numbers can prove that his group is shortchanged one way or the other, rest assured the UPA will make room to foster another round of loot reservations. The bleeding heart crowd will only jump in gleefully to marshall figures, tables, and other stats to prove that the latest entrant terrible is indeed backward.

And further splinter an already-fragmented nation.

On that note, Pranab Mukherjee who roared courageously a few weeks ago seems to have forgotten what China still hasn’t.

The controversy over China’s claim over Arunachal Pradesh seems far from over.

Amid India’s strong rejection of Chinese claim of sovereignty over Arunachal Pradesh, Beijing had sought to downplay the issue, saying it was the “strategic goal” of the two countries to find an early, fair and rational solution to the vexed boundary issue.

But that was then. The story has progressed today with Beijing’s envoy to India Sun Yaxi claiming that “some area” of the northeastern state was being negotiated between the two countries.

Interestingly, Pranab’s own ally, the Left has maintained an outwardly saint-like silence over this episode, while its mouthpiece has spoken favourably about giving away Arunachal Pradesh to China. The Left’s extended family has proved to be a perpetual pinprick to the UPA, forcing it to make the right noises when public outcry becomes intolerable at times.

But the same worthies have taken exception to the Nuclear deal with the US.

The CPI-M on Monday said the US legislation on the Indo-US nuclear deal was “not acceptable” as it would seriously undermine India’s independent foreign policy.

This reason, coming from the Commies’ mouth sounds hilarious, especially when seen in the light of its “independent” policy on China. The Left has never been serious about India’s territorial integrity, right from Nehru’s days when they argued for India-as-USSR-satellite to supporting the Chinese invasion to Jyoti Basu’s threat of secession to now. The Nucleardeal is unfavourable to India for various other reasons than the Left’s anti-US rhetoric, which is driven solely by ideology. Commonsense says that it is dangerous to expose your nation’s nuclear activities to a country, whose policy is driven primarily by self-interest.

The UPA has proved thoroughly inept on all these, and other counts. The UPA clowns couldn’t rectify a tiny, powerless Nepal; it sleeps on even as Sri Lanka is on the brink of a civil war, not to mention some hush-hush US-sponsored “exercises”; it cannot ensure the safety of its own citizens in the now-countless terror attacks on its own soil…

India’s sovereignty stands threatened like never before.

Is there any sense in letting these guys complete their term?

Cross-posted on INI Signal.