तंत्र में गण की अनदेखी

24th, January, 2011

श्रीनगर में तिरंगा

23rd, January, 2011

Tarun Vijay first MP to walk Zanskar Chaddar in Ladakh, to salute soldiers and meet border area villagers

Save Vivekananda heritage in Doon

Tarun Vijay

There exists a strong connection with Swami Vivekananda and Dehradun. An ancient Shiva temple, situated at Rajpur, appears in Swamiji’s biography, where he had stayed for 13 days in October 1890, while on his way to Tehri and Badrinath. In this Shiva temple a Guru Bhai of Swami Vivekananda, Swami Turiyananda was convalescing. When Vivekanada got to know about him he immediately came here and stayed in a small hut, at the foothills near a natural water source, bawadi.

Still the Shiva temple is known as bawadi Shiva Mandir.

Shri Tarun Vijay, Rajya Sabha MP and National Spokesperson, BJP visited the place on 12th January 2011 and paid homage to the memory of the great reformer. He lamented at the dilapidated status of the historic kuti and announced that he will spend from his MP Laid fund to have the area renovated and the path leading to the temple and Vivekananda Kuti properly constructed. He appealed to the state govt , specially culture and tourism depts. to look into this matter and declare the place a State Heritage site. He also appealed that the funds - 11 lakhs, for the statue of Swami Vivekananda, to be installed at the T junction at Kishanpur, Malsi point, be released immediately and the files cleared for the installation on Shiva Ratri day, March 8th, 2011.

Mr Tarun Vijay informed that the sites related with the memory of swami Vivekananda in Uttarakhand should be declared as Inspirational tourism place s and a special Vivekananda Trail ( Vivekananda Smriti Path)be projected for the youth of India to visit those places including Almora, ( Kakrighat, karbala etc)

. He said that still in the house of Late Badrilal Shah, many memories of Swami ji are kept safe including his originals written from Colombo. Tarun Vijay lauded the efforts of Ramakrishna Ashram, Kishan Pur and its energetic President Maharaj and also the indefatigable efforts of Mrs Shuchismita Sengupta Pande, Secy, Information Commission in presenting many unknown facts about swami Vivekananda’s Uttarakhand connection.

A small sewa has been organised on 26th january at the site. near rajpur, Dehra Dun at 3 pm, interested persons may register at my FB page or send me email at tarun.vijay@gmail.com.

Tarun Vijay
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
Member, Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs
National Spokesperson, BJP
Hon. Director, Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee Research Foundation
(A centre for civilisational values and policy research)
11, Ashok Road,New Delhi
Telefax-011-23382569, 23005714.email-tarunvijay2@yahoo.com.
tarun.vijay@sansad.nic.in
website-tarunvijay.org, blog-tarun-vijay.blogspot.com

Swami Vivekananda heritage site, Shiva temple

Photographs:-http://www.facebook.com/album.php?id=684870827&aid=348510

राष्ट्रीय जनजातीय सम्मेलन एंव युवा महोत्सव

जनसत्ता

09-January-2011

छब्बीस जनवरी की बारात

तरुण विजय

नई दुनिया

2 January, 2011

प्रतिक्रिया में उत्पन हिंदुत्व कोई स्वस्थ स्थिति नहीं

तरुण विजय

नई दुनिया

1 January, 2011

कलम में तेजाब और परचम अमन का
तरुण विजय



The Times Of India
31 December 2010

Let's change India

Tarun Vijay

Certainly this was the year of the ugly politician and a failed media. Here is a true story:

The lady was desperately searching for someone who would be ready to swap his berth when I entered the coupe. Seeing her eyes filled with nervousness I readily agreed and took the berth which was originally allotted to her. And I found three other passengers. They were all politicians; I could guess seeing them without any doubt. I laughed and said to myself, well, no one likes to travel with a politician. They all heard and reacted in their own ways. They were seniors. Mature and seasoned. Each defended his status of being a good politician with vehemence.

I recollected many incidents when accidentally a politician was a co-traveller. I would wish every time "Oh God, please spare me such company." One, who boarded the train from Ghaziabad, had a number of hangers-on and they all competed with one another to serve him. Even if it was past 10.30pm they would talk noisily, crack jokes and laugh monstrously.

The second incident is about a great leader who would walk with a hoard of security personnel, all gun-toting. It looked nauseatingly ugly, but the netaji was happy. He would enter his coupe and occupy the berth, with a second berth lying vacant. What a royal behaviour!

In another incident two MLAs shared the cabin with me, and they started drinking whiskey and then had their chicken tikka meals. When I protested, they asked me to take a seat in another compartment which was meant for their personal staff.

Usually ticket checkers keep a studied silence seeing such brazen violations of civility and law. They are afraid of revenge. Like the one who asked me to keep silence with folded hands, when I protested at Allahabad railway station and threatened to pull the chain unless the ticket checker answered why three MPs are travelling with false reservations in the name of their spouses who were actually not travelling with them. I tweeted the incident and put it on FB too, as a meek protester. The passengers were with me hurling the choicest abuses on politicians without knowing that I too happened to be an MP.

I asked myself a question: Why do people hate politicians? The answer that came from within was: Because they do hateful deeds.

As simple as that.

They have heavily subsidized food in Parliament and assemblies. Yet give thrilling speeches on poverty. They take commission in every deal they make as ministers, while they garland the great men of integrity and honesty followed by impressive lectures. Their MPLAD funds are often found in the lap of commission agents who facilitate purchases of their brand new BMWs, Mitsubishi Pajeros and other high-profile SUVs. They get elected with the votes of patriotic people and ditch them speaking enemy language for vote banks a la Digvijay Singh. They have a vested interest in having communal strife and yet preach harmony. They are stinking rich and arrogant yet put up their pictures with folded hands and humbly smiling on election posters. This politician is a hypocrite. He worships Durga, kills her vehicle, the Tiger. He says Ram exists in every human being and even in stones. But hates and kills the co-religionist if he or she marries outside the caste. He makes his centres of faith stations of spreading hate and mayhem and still says: Allah is all merciful. He buys journalists and gets news published against his rival within the party, while sermonizing on some kind of solidarity on some kind of love for the nation.

Hence nobody trusts a politician.

The raids on the premises of a Radia or a Kanumozhi NGO may make big news for the 9pm show but nobody believes anything worthwhile will come out of such exercises. We have had greater noises on Nagarwala, Bofors, Tehelka, and submarine deals and so on. What happened? What happened to the Jeep scandal that occurred under Nehru's nose and involving the mighty Krishna Menon, in 1947? That was India's first financial scandal hitting soldiers and national security right after the first month of partition.

The story of ignoring honest intents and placating personal favourites began right after Nehru was chosen as prime minister ignoring the voice of the majority of Congressmen that had favoured Sardar Patel. Nehru agreed to have Viceroy Lord Mountbatten as independent India's first head of state called Governor General. On record we didn't win freedom. The power was transferred to us. And his picture, laughing like a baby boy with Lady Edwina Mountbatten, tells all that was in his mind, which ignored the martyrdoms and struggles of revolutionaries like Bhagat Singh, Subhas Chandra Bose and others, making India his family fiefdom. Nehru and his ilk were obviously helped and supported by an obliging British, who were killing our freedom fighters.

Nehru wrote off Tibet to the Chinese. So lethargic was the perception of security under Congress dispensation that we not only lost 1.25 lakh sq km land in Aksai Chin and Kashmir to Pakistan and China but also had a face-off in 1962 basically due to the political pusillanimous attitude and a blind-eyed China policy of Nehru. His personal likes and dislikes contributed to turn Kashmir into a bleeding issue with creation of a constitutional provision of 370 and ignoring the patriotic voices of Praja Parishad and Jansangh under Syama Prasad Mookerjee

The initial years of our independence were certainly marked with some great initiatives like building IITs, dams and industrial infrastructure but they were also a contribution of stalwarts like Patel, Syama Prasad Mookerjee and Rajendra Prasad. While such stalwarts, mostly Congressmen, were always relegated to an untouchable status of apathy, Nehru and Gandhi surnames hogged the entire nation's body as the only saviours and builders and mentionable icons. They gave us Moondhra scandal in sixties, the ever-growing cancer of Kashmir separatism the ugly monster of public sector and licence-permit raj, and institutionalized hatred in politics for anything Hindu. Nehru opposed rebuilding of Somnath and tried his best to stop Rajendra Prasad, the then President, to go for its inauguration. The fact that the core of this great nation is a glorious continuity of an age-old Hindu tradition and civilization that became the epitome of pluralism and inclusive cultural ethos unparalleled in world history was sought to be curbed. Right from primary education to higher studies, the nation's heritage was tagged to Nehru-Gandhi family history and the connections with Vedas, Sanskrit, Rama and Krishna, Vikramaditya and Harsha, Raja Raja Chola, Harihar Bukka, Krishna Dev Rai and Pandyas were simply ignored or put in the category of folklore of the local variety. Marx was prescribed in Bengal over Vivekananda. We failed to put up icons of pluralism and a harmonious ethos involving Muslims and Hindus and other faiths, and took interest in creating niches of hate for each other in pursuit of votes. India can't survive on Hindu-Muslim hate, but will march on helping flower an amicable, harmonious relation between both of them. Congress murdered this spirit of togetherness. They opposed the best Muslim head of state we ever had in Abdul Kalam because he connected too well with the Indian ethos and deleted Dr. Karan Singh's candidature for presidency for the simple reason of his being too identified with Hindu culture.

On the other side, the organizations and movements that strived to safeguard the nation's culture and heritage and began schools and colleges and institutions to help Sanskrit flourish, Indic traditions preserved and the knowledge of Upanishpads and Vedas transferred to the next generation, were hatefully attacked, banned, hurdles were put in their growth path and they were declared outcastes from being invited to any government celebration either of the national days or a banquet in honour of a visiting dignitary, as if tradition protectors were the ugly, unmentionable faces of the nation and the true spirit is represented only through the westernised secular English-speaking glitterati that sources its stations of pride in the British-era beliefs and protocols. Hence a Muslim League was accepted to be a partner in the cabinet that demanded and helped India's partition but patriotic, nationalist Indian Muslims, found in every party remain ignored and only those with an acid tongue given the leadership thinking Muslims love to be not just anti-Hindu but they love Kasab. A communist party that supported the enemy's invasion in 1962 was always on the government's invite list and had the honour of forming a coalition with Congress but nationalist pluralistic organizations are turned untouchable and discarded with a precipitated hatred.

While Hindu temples remain demolished and deserted in Kashmir with an astounding half a million Hindus exiled, and patriotic Muslims in the valley insulted, assaulted and marginalized, actors like Arundhati Roy and Geelani are given freedom by the Sonia government and inspite of a court ruling to lodge cases against them government sees on the other side.

The secular government looks at India through the Roman eyes. For it the Indian culture is a marketable proposition for dollars, like the British would have Ganapati for display in the drawing rooms as an elephant god. Indira Gandhi, despite her secularism, showed an understanding of the Hindu ethos, in her writings and speeches. But the present Congress has hardly showed even an iota of that understanding. And still it wins. It wins not because the people want de-Indianised governance but because the Indians are a divided lot, often killing each other with much more enthusiasm and vehemence, repeating Rajsthan's rajput stories of fratricidal wars, rather than taking on the opponents united.

The ugly politician, who has looted India shaming even the British and the Turks, must be decimated and we must see the dawn of a new, young Indian whose faith would be Bharat. Who will feel the pain of a farmer forced to commit suicide, who will uplift the sulking morale of the family having to live a miserable life on the footpaths of Mumbai and Delhi and reflect that anguish of the citizen in his daily behaviour promising economic empowerment and forgetting all other gods and goddesses till a single Indian goes to sleep empty stomach. An Indian who will not discriminate on the basis of faith or caste. An Indian who will look at the nation as his motherland and not as a platform to make money looting the people and stashing it in Swiss banks. Is it too much to pray for on the eve of 2011?

दैनिक जागरण

27-December-2010

विलक्षण राजनीतिक विचारधारा

तरुण विजय

जनसत्ता

26-December-2010

आस्था का अर्थ सिर्फ भारत

तरुण विजय

Tarun Vijay' new book -मेरी आस्था भारत

25th-December-2010

Tarun Vijay’s book on Atal Bihari Vajpayee- “My Faith is India”.

To have one, please contact on Email, i.e. tarun@tarunvijay.org

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The Times Of India

25 December 2010

The man who turns foes into friends

Tarun Vijay

In times of hate and distrust flowing free in the Indian skies, Atal Bihari Vajpayee emerges as an icon of faith and harmony. He enters his 87th year today. Years of struggle, poetry, an all-encompassing politics, nationalism’s best foot forward — he stands out the tallest among all we see today.

He was my first editor. The paper I edited for almost two decades was shaped by his editorials and guidance. In 1948, when a young Atal Bihari was a pracharak, a dedicated full-time worker of the RSS, his mentor, Bhaurao Deoras, gave him the responsibility to edit Panchjanaya with Gyanendra Saxena. Atal Bihari wrote his best editorials and poems, while Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya supervised the whole affair and strengthened his ideological moorings. The first headline of the issue that was edited by Atal Bihari was “Jammu Kashmir se samjhauta nahin hone denge (we will not allow any compromise on Jammu & Kashmir)".

I was the 13th editor in that line. The golden jubilee of Panchjanya saw its first founding editor as the Prime Minister of India and naturally he was requested to head the committee that was formed under the patronage of Rajju Bhayya and Swami Satyamitranandji. He agreed and all our programmes were held at Panchvati, including the awards ceremonies. He was our first reader too, of all issues.

He would appreciate or severely criticize anything he liked or disliked. I remember, he was very happy to see our special issues on Kashmir and then once we did an annual number on the reformist Hindu resurgence expressed through Swminarayan, Bharat Mata Mandirs, allowing all castes into the sanctum sanctorum, Vishwa Hindu Parishad leaders like Ashok Singhal visiting Kashi’s Dom Raja (the head of the clan helping cremate dead bodies at cremation grounds, considered the "lowest" in the caste hierarchy) and sharing food with him. Atalji said that so much was happening among the Hindus in terms of walking in sync with the changing times, yet so less was reported; hence the special number must be widely circulated. He felt bad when on an issue of Swadeshi, we depicted Mother India being disrobed like Draupadi. The call came from the Prime Minister’s office. "Vijayji", as he would call me, "yeh kya chhap diya hai? Hum mar gayen hain kya? Bharat Mata ka aisa vidroop chitran kyon? (What have you published? Have we all died that Mother India is depicted in such a humiliating manner?)" And he hung up. That was a lesson we will never forget. He also forewarned us against launching personal attacks on any opposition leader, including Sonia Gandhi. Attack policies and programmes, but getting personal and petty should be avoided in media and politics. That was his advice.

He was against rhetorical noises and didn’t quite like demands for more slogans on Hindu pride in comparison with what Pakistan and Bangladesh do to minorities. His famous lines, in an interview with me, that any resurgence, born out of reaction, pushes you backwards, created a storm. He said: "Do say ‘Garv se kaho hum Hindu hain’" but add in the same breath, "Garv se kaho hum Bharatiya hain."

Atal Bihari Vajpayee still believes in using moderation, and not animosity, towards anyone and used a respectable language even for his worst political opponents. He was a master of using the art of understatement while expressing anger or displeasure. I remember when Maruti was being set up, he severely criticized Indira Gandhi and in his famous speech in Parliament, his one-liner "Beta car banata hai, ma bekaar banati hai (while the son makes cars, the mother creates unemployment)" became a hit. He fought against emergency’s draconian regime, suffered jail, and yet never hesitated to praise her on her achievement in the 1971 war. He is strong-willed. He never compromises. The way he did Pokharan II and withstood the pressures of western countries’ sanctions, his success in inspiring scientists to make an indigenous supercomputer, his leadership to have a grand Kargil victory and also, the first time in history, accorded due honours to martyrs and decorated soldiers show his mettle and grit. The highways connecting India’s nook and corner remain his best signature on India’s development radar. His trust in his colleagues, a legendary friendship with Advani, Narshimha Rao, Chandra Shekhar, is a story for another chapter. With victory in the Gujarat and Maharashtra state elections in March 1995, during the BJP session in Mumbai in November 1995, it was the then BJP President LK Advani who declared that Vajpayee would be the Prime Minister of India if the BJP won the next parliamentary elections in May 1996. That was prophetic indeed.

It is his charisma that created a sense of trust and bondage with all the neighbouring countries. His tenures as foreign minister and Prime Minister are remembered in the neighbourhood as the best and most amicable ones. If Pervez Musharraf had not aborted the peace process by removing Nawaz Sharif at pistol point, many believed Atal Bihari Vajpayee would have solved the Kashmir issue too.

This year while we were in Srinagar to observe Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee’s martyrdom day, the first time in the last 53 years, top Kashmiri leaders of all walks and ideologies, shared one common line: "If the government in Delhi had followed Atalji’s path, Kashmir won't have boiled over to this extent." His name, charisma and words, and his impromptu speech at Srinagar, still weave magic in the valley.

Kind and affectionate, he would bend the rules for a just cause. In 1995, when Parliament was stalled by the opposition, he was approached by the president of the National Federation of the Blind, Mr Roongta, to let the House run for a day so that the Disabilities Act could be passed. Mr Roongta reminisces, at that time Sushma Swaraj was also sitting in the committee room, and Atalji, without thinking twice told Sushmaji, let's have the House run just for this act and come back. The Disabilities Act was passed, benefiting millions of disabled citizens with Atalji’s support, and was also implemented in the best way in BJP-ruled states, especially in Rajasthan, under Vasundhara Raje’s governance.

He loved children. Ritwik, my son, got special attention and since he needed a care that would help him come up with confidence, he saw to it that he got admission to the best school specially designed for him.

He did have his share of brickbats. His best interviews by me, collected and published in a pictorial book being released today in Parliament House, contain his bleeding heart's pains and anguish, expressed in this line: "Apno ke vighnon ne ghera (I am hurt more by those who said they were mine)." But he emerged taller after each such instance. He never speaks a single line in criticism of even those who attack him ruthlessly.

That is the real "ajatshatru" (one who is without any enemies). Atalji, the man who turns foes into friends, still has that miracle in his name. May he live a hundred and more springs. Happy birthday, Atalji.