Jaipur blasts: various fallouts

Apparently the main problem with the blasts is that BJP might exploit it as an election issue. CNN-IBN is trying to pass it off as a local governance issue, putting the blame squarely on Vasundhara Raje. Gosh, does this woman get mocked by media or what? And they claim they want a better playing field for women!

Recall the Gurjar agitation, when Sagarika Ghose of CNN-IBN sarcastically called out "Maharani Jago!", alluding to the fact that the CM was on a tour when the agitation turned violent. Interestingly Raje was not on a pleasure trip a la Pratibha Patil. She was actually on an official tour to solicit FDI. This time around Raje was lucky, she was close to the spot. Meanwhile can someone explain the trip by Sonia Gandhi to the region? Has she been to Nandigram?

Meanwhile the national security adviser's strong criticism of central intelligence agencies has put a dampener on secular media's efforts to pin the blame on state level agencies. They seem to have struck a compromise on "a problem of coordination" between central and state level agencies.

It turns out that the needle of suspicion is alternately pointing to HuJI and SIMI. Both these cases are tragic.

HuJI is Bangladesh based and as we pointed out earlier, this is a sad reminder that kinship trumps gratitude. New facts are now coming to light that shows that certain Bangladeshi elements were very much hand in glove with Pakistani rulers at the time. Till date no serious initiative has been taken to prevent the totally unchecked infiltration. Just make a trip to the North-Eastern states. Surely this builds up discontent among local residents? We are not exactly a resource rich country.

The case of SIMI is even more tragic and once again proves that the meaning of nationality has been perverted by "liberal democracies" to such an extent that we are perhaps trying to drag along a mere carcass of what was once the "idea of the nation". Founded by students (by no means poor or deprived) influenced by Wahabi ideology (the Saudi variant), SIMI leaders were a recalcitrant militant bunch from the get go. They created various mischief over the years but hid behind political leaders who didn't hesitate to nurture this poison pill for small electoral gains. It took a while before they were even declared a terrorist organization. Samajwadi Party chief and Congress bed partner for the next elections , Mulayam Singh Yadav gave a clean chit to SIMI earlier, in 2006.

Sadly, this tragic incident has completely removed the focus from issues like inflation, the Baalu scandal and the Ramadoss vaccine scandal. Not that we are suggesting that there is any connection.