tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3442555339667770589.post3795530621848464850..comments2024-03-18T22:56:06.696+05:30Comments on Jayasree Saranathan: The ‘Modi’ mantra!Jayasree Saranathan http://www.blogger.com/profile/01048252011566427834noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3442555339667770589.post-43165798501076682812008-11-30T16:50:00.000+05:302008-11-30T16:50:00.000+05:30Fromhttp://deshgujarat.com/2008/11/28/narendra-mod...From<BR/><BR/>http://deshgujarat.com/2008/11/28/narendra-modi-is-correct-mrvilasaraopms-address-was-disappointing/<BR/><BR/><BR/>In reaction to Narendra Modi’s statement at Mumbai that the Prime Minister’s national address after Mumbai terror attack was disappointing, Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh said “No one should do politics at such time.”<BR/><BR/>Reading Vilasrao’s this statement I was amused that wow here is a Chief Minister who is now judging when to do what and what to do when but this same Page3 Chief Minister at the time of farmers suicides in his state could be seen present in the Film premiers and Bollywood award nights. <BR/><BR/>So Mr. Vilasrao, when your party’s leaders were visiting house of Ahmedabad blasts accused in Uttar Pradesh just after his arrest, didn’t you feel that your party was doing politics at wrong time? When MCOCA was okayed for Maharashtra and even after Ahmedabad blasts Gujarat’s plea to approve matching GUJCOC law was turned down, didn’t you think your party was doing politics at wrong time? When Rajeev Gandhi bypassed Supreme Court order in Shahbano case or when Congress government was not ready to hang Afzal even after repeated terror acts across the nation, never ever you thought your party was doing politics at wrong time? Forget about right time and wrong time to do politics Mr. Deshmukh, but please answer that actually who is doing politics? And because of whose politics we are facing terror attacks? Because of whose politics we are considered to be a weak nation? Because of whose politics Mr. Deshmukh?<BR/><BR/>Mr. Deshmukh, The Mumbai attack was performed via coastal route. Gujarat is a coastal state touching to Pakistan. Important coastal installments are located on the Gujarat coast. The Mudra Port, Kandla Port, Dwarkadhish temple, Somnath temple, Surat’s Hajira industrial area, Dahej Chemical Port are only some examples. Coastal security falls under national government’s jurisdiction. Gujarat has time and again presented coastal security related proposals to the central government but has always received pathetic response. <BR/><BR/>Just before some months Gujarat’s member of parliaments led by LK Advani met the Prime Minister on Gujarat’s security related issues. Coastal security was part of this discussion. Soon after that, Gujarat’s Chief Minister Narendra Modi too met the Prime Minister in August on the same issues. The MPs and the Chief Minister had taken up following points to the Prime Minister related to Gujarat’s coastal security:<BR/><BR/>-The government of Gujarat, which has the longest coastal line in the country, had sent a comprehensive scheme to the Centre in 2005 on coastal security, which included setting up of 51 coastal police stations in 11 coastal districts of the state. Only ten police stations had so far been sanctioned. Similarly, against the proposal of 70 outposts, only 46 have been sanctioned.<BR/><BR/>-Against the Rs 392.47 crore perspective plan submitted by the state government only Rs 58.42 crore had been approved.<BR/><BR/>-In view of the large-scale requirements of border security and also in view of challenges posed by terrorists and infiltrators, both in terms of their reach and skills, it is beyond any state government’s capacity to handle the security issues without proper administrative and financial support by the Central Government.<BR/><BR/>-The financial and logistic support from the Centre to Gujarat for modernization of its police force had been reduced without assigning any understandable reasons.<BR/><BR/>-The proposals of the state government to introduce camel patrolling system and erect 90 watch towers for the border security have also not been approved. <BR/><BR/>Three months have passed but sadly nothing has been done in this regard by the Prime Minister’s office. Now even after Mumbai attack that was performed using a coastal route, the Prime Minister in his address to the nation has failed to deliver any positive sign on approval of Gujarat’s demands purely related to crucial coastal security. Gujarat is a bordering state just next to the land of Pakistan and Gujarat Chief Minister obviously is the most worried person as Pakistan based terrorist groups have now started using coastal rout for attacks in India. Forget Gujarat, in Manmohan Singh’s speech nothing related to coastal security if India was mentioned.<BR/><BR/>If Modi being a Chief Minister of coastal bordering state Gujarat in the backdrop of Gujarat’s coastal security related issues found the Prime Minister’s speech disappointing and expressed this feeling the next day, why Vilasrao should see politics in it? Modi is not taking a political advantage of the situation Mr. Deshmukh, but he is raising right issue at the right time to publicize it and pressurize the central government that has lethargic approach towards security issues. This is for the nation’s good Mr. Deshmukh, not for political good. Politics is anyway in favor of right people.<BR/><BR/>Modi in his briefing to the media outside the Oberoi Hotel today said that he had raised the issue in the national security meet one-year ago that Pakistan’s marine security agency confiscate boats of Gujarat’s fishermen. “Earlier the Pakistan authorities would return their boats but off late they have stopped doing so. And these boats would be misused by them against the Indian interest,”Modi said.<BR/><BR/>What Modi said before a year was a correct judgment. In the backdrop of Mumbai attack now the facts are emerging that Pakistani terrorists used Gujarat’s fishing boat, they killed five fishermen inside the boat and used it for journey to Mumbai to perform terror attacks.Jayasree Saranathan https://www.blogger.com/profile/01048252011566427834noreply@blogger.com