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Private TV channels

Sir,

In recent episode of Tamilnadu politics involving Karunanidhi's arrest by Jayalalitha Government, an interesting feature of TV channels being effectively used as publicity media for rival political parties has emerged! Both Sun-TV and Jaya-TV played well for their respective masters! When regional parties can afford to have exclusive TV channels for their political publicising, it should not be difficult for national parties like Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) or Congress (I) to launch their TV channels to give a new turn to eliminate unproductive means of poll campaigns like printed material. The idea if planned with care, can be a source of financial resources for political parties always crying for party funds or Government funding for elections. It can be an effective alternative to reduce black money from politics with companies willing to make party fundings, financing the parties by way of advertisements. Otherwise also, political parties will find their exclusive forums to present their views to public in unedited form.

Political parties should also use print-media to launch their own newspapers/magazines in latest attractive format. Formerly 'Bhartiya Jansangh' (non BJP) has its daily mounthpiece 'The Motherland' which had to be closed down in the year 1975 of Emergency. Though 'The Organiser'/'Panchjanya' of RSS try to present views of its political wing BJP, but it will be better if format of these publications would have been improved for the latest in book-form! Likewise BJP and Congress (I) should improve format of their party publications 'BJP Today' and 'Congress Sandesh' to make them attractive to publicise their ideologies in a healthy manner. Other political parties should also think in similar direction to launch their own media (Print/visual/electronic) according to their capacities!

Yours etc..
Madhu Agrawal
1775 Kucha Lattushah

Militants, not Military

Sir,

Recently in your esteemed News Paper an Article of Mr. Aman-Ullah Khan, Self styled Chief of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front was published in which while giving his ideas of the Indo-Pak Summit viz-a-viz the Kashmir Problem he had given his views.

During the course of the article, he wrote about the atrocities of Indian Armed forces on poor helpless Kashmiri Women who have been raped by the Indian Forces in thousands.

This is a very irresponsible statement coming from a person who himself is a party responsible for creating the Armed conflict. His organisation is responsible for the killing of Indian Air Force officers, kidnapping of Rubia Mufti and committed many other crimes.Today he and his lieutenants in J&K like Mr. Yasin Malik have become Gandhians and believe in non-violence.

Rape is a very heinous word to be used and it is the worst crime against the womenhood of any country, race, population but unfortunately the poor hapless women in any society and in any country became the victims.

But blaming the Indian Forces for such a crime is a blatant lie which needs to be refuted from every forum. Not that I absolve the Indian Army personnel about crimes including rape which they may have committed under the stress of the situation. But by and large the Indian Armed Forces are well disciplined and lead from the front under well qualified Officers.

And whenever such an incident has taken place after proper investigation the person responsible has been punished as per the law of the land.

If the rape has been committed wholesale in J&K, 95 percent of the blame rests with so called Mujahideens and Jihadees sent to the J&K to protect Islam. The quality of Jihadees sent are well known, the criminals from jails, the runaway Afghans, the misled Sudanees and Labanees also including the illiterate poor people of Pakistan from Punjab and Pakistan occupied Kashmir who have been trained, brainwashed and sent across the border.

We all know very well that these militants enter from the difficult terrains of J&K, remain in the higher reaches and jungles and come down to the remote village of the J&K for food and shelter and for their other carnal needs for which the women of the far flung area have suffered most. The villages of Haribudha and many more far flung villages are the mute spectators of the carnage committed by these elements.

Let Mr. Aman-Ullah Khan request some neutral people who could travel to all such places to find out that who are the people responsible for such a carnage against the womenhood and what to say of women, young-boys lured across Line of Actual Control (LoC) by these militants have not been spared.

At least Jammu News papers should be very careful in publishing such distorted version because they may create wrong impressions.

Yours etc..
V K Tandon
Jammu