2009 Lok Sabha election predictions

2009 Lok Sabha election predictions by Promise of Reason.


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Pastors urge all Christians to vote for Congress in AP elections

State Pastors Fellowship president Rev K. Pratap Sinha said (by Congress govt in AP):

* Special Minority Corporation was established
* Subsidy of Rs.20,000 was being extended to Christians to visit Jerusalem
* Rs.15,000 worth material was being sanctioned to poor Christian couples

More details here:
Pastors urge all Christians to vote for Congress

Criminals in power

"When a mighty tree falls, it is only natural that the earth around it does shake a little". This is how Rajiv Gandhi dismissed the shocking massacre of 3,000 Sikhs in 4 days after Indira Gandhi's assassination.

India has seen communal riots since the day our democratic republic was formed. But never has the nation witnessed such a savage government sponsored pogrom than the anti-Sikh riots of November 1984.


The sequence of events:
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October 31, 1984
9:20 AM: Indira Gandhi is shot by two of her Sikh security guards
10:50 AM: Indira Gandhi dies
evening: Rajiv Gandhi is sworn in as the Prime Minister.

November 1, 1984 - early morning
The first killing of a Sikh occurs in east Delhi.
9:00 AM: Armed mobs take over the streets of Delhi and launch a massacre.

November 2, 1984
Curfew is announced throughout Delhi, but is not enforced. The Army deployed throughout Delhi too but ineffective because the police did not co-operate with soldiers (who are not allowed to open fire without the consent of senior police officers and executive magistrates).
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A report published by two Delhi based human rights organizations People's Union For Democratic Rights and People's Union For Civil Liberties after conducting investigations said the following:

... in the area which were most affected, such as Trilokpuri, Mangolpuri and Sultanpuri, the mobs were led by local Congress (I) politicians and hoodlums of that locality.

... We were told both by Hindus and Sikhs - many among the latter Congress (I) supporters - that certain Congress (I) leaders played a decisive role in organising the riots. Residents of Mangolpuri told us they saw Mr. Ishwar Singh, a Congress (I) Corporator among many others actively participating in the orgy of violence. All these people were described by the local residents as lieutanants of the Congress (I) MP from the area- Sajjan Kumar. Similarly in Anand Parbat, Congress (I) councillors like Bhairava, Mahendra and Mangat Ram, considered to be loyal followers of the Congress (I) MP Mr. Dharamdas Shastri, were named as the main culprits. In Prakash Nagar, Congress (I) people were found carrying voter's lists to identify Sikh households. In the Gandhinagar area again, a local Congress (I) councillor Sukhanlal was identified by the victims as the main leader of the assailants. Escapees from the area who we met at the Shakarpur relief camp on November 6 blamed the Congress (I) MP from the area Mr. H.K.L. Bhagat for having masterminded the riots. On November 1, Satbir Singh (Jat) a Youth Congress (I) leader brought buses filled with people from Ber Sarai to the Sri Guru Harikishan Public School at Munirka and burnt the school building and buses and continued looting and assaults on Sikhs the whole night. Another group of Miscreants led by Jagdish Tokas, a Congress (I) corporator joined the above group on looting and assaults. In the Safdarjung - Kidwai Nagar area of South Delhi, eye witness accounts by those who stood in front of All India Medical Institute from where Mrs. Gandhi's body was taken out in procession in the evening of October 31, confirmed the presence of the Congress (I) Councillor of the area, Arjan Dass at the time when attacks on Sikh pedestrains, bus drivers and conductors began.

The allegations against these individuals repeatedly voiced by the residents of the respective localities which we visited, connot be dismissed



Evidence is plenty and sufficient to hang each one of the Congress leaders involved in the pogrom. Yet these criminals are not brought to book.

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