1. China's threat of punitive war on India is ominously imminent and present. Its claims to Arunachal Pradesh are being stridently and openly voiced. They have by now completely ignored the McMohan line separating Tibet from India on the north-east. When an IAS officer of Arunachal Pradesh origin was to go to China on official business, the Chinese refused to give him a visa saying that Arunachal Pradesh is part of China and so he does not require any visa! When the Prime Minister of India was to visit the area, they raised objections. When the Asian Development Bank was giving a loan to India, for some development works in Arunachal Pradesh, China (ineffectively) opposed the loan, saying Arunachal is disputed territory; it is China's, not India's! They are now claiming the whole of Arunachal Pradesh in contrast to only some parts earlier. They have built airports and extended roads to the border. Our populations are within striking range of the Chinese bombers and missiles. All newspapers in China are owned by the government. One respected columnist has written in one of the popular journals that China would like to see India dismembered into several sovereign independent states just like the former USSR.
2. Of late, their incursions into Indian territory have increased both in Laddakh as well as in Arunachal Pradesh. When these facts are being reported in the press and the attention of the Government of India is drawn, while the Prime Minister is silent, the ministers for Home and Foreign Affairs are saying that there are adequate mechanisms for addressing such violations between the two governments. Some have even said that the events are exaggerated and there is no cause for concern. This is exactly like what Jawaharlal Nehru and his Foreign Minister, Krishna Menon used to say about the Chinese incursions into India in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Then the government was even criminally unaware that China built a highway across the Aksai Chin area of Laddakh to connect western Tibet with Xing Xiang. Now all the area to the north-east of this high way, about 40,000 sq km of our territory is as good as gone to China. Nobody talks about it any longer. Defence analysts in the US and Europe who closely follow the military build- up of China, are of the definite view that by 2012 there is going to be a big incursion of China into India just as in 1962. The surmise is that in one fell swoop China would occupy the whole of Arunachal Pradesh and declare a ceasefire. To distract our attention Pakistan would be encouraged to swoop into Kashmir Valley under the protection of China poised to pounce on India from Aksai Chin. India would thus be subjected to a pincer move.
3. The UPA II government under the leadership of the Nehru Dynasty appears to be Finlandised; that is, terrorised into silence by China. It is rationalising the Chinese incursions as normal happenings on a border not delineated on the ground. Jawaharlal Nehru tried to nationalise his infatuation and later delusion, with China by telling the Parliament that "We were misled ...". Sri Minoo Masani, the Swatantra Party leader stood up to interrupt him and said that Nehru should not use the word, we but use I, because the Parliament and especially the Opposition had all along been saying that Nehru was deluding himself in regard to China. But now after the Chinese had taught a lesson, Nehru was trying to say that not he but the whole nation was misled and deluded. This is the record of the Nehruvian dispensation with regard to China. It is of course not different with regard to Pakistan either, because Indira Gandhi believed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's words and let go 90,000 prisoners of war in 1972 without any written undertaking that Pakistan would not raise the Kashmir issue again.
4. The questions are: Are the Indian Armed Forces equipped and alerted to withstand a Chinese onslaught, with a flanking threat from Pakistan with its nuclear weapons and missiles. Are we having any friends who will either call China an aggressor and get the Security Council to act against it or if China uses its veto in the Security Council, is there any power which will stand by us and help us resist the Chinese aggression?
5. The Chief of our Airforce has said that Chaina has three times more warplanes than India. Instead of rapidly building up our defence forces, we are squandering precious tax and debt monies on vote-catching populist schemes like loan waivers (Rs.1,00,000 Crores) NREG (Rs.39,000 Crores in 2009-10), Pavala Vaddi (3% interest) non-recoverable loans, Urdu Universities, Rs 2 per kg rice "feed and greed" programs, scholarships for "minorities" and memorials (Rs.2600 Crores in UP) to "heros". None paid for the humiliation of defeat and loss of territory when Jawaharlal Nehru was the Prime Minister. Would history repeat now? In 1962, the Communist leader E M S Namboodripad equivocated and absolved China of aggression. Some ministers in the UPA government are themselves now equivocating. Our communists are dead silent about the Chinese claims on and incursions into Arunachal Pradesh and even into Laddakh. The Chinese desire for the dismemberment of India is likely to be facilitated by the UPA government, by implementation of the Sachar Committee Report and the Muslim First programs of the Prime Minister according to which 15% of the 11th Five Year Plan funds would be utilised to develop 90 districts where Muslims are in considerable numbers. These will become 90 Pakistans in India. These 90 exclude Assam and West Bengal where perhaps more or less all the districts are heading for Muslim majority.
6. I cannot but once again refer to Dr B R Ambedkar's warning that with politicians what they are now, India may once again lose its independence. If it thus loses it would be the last time and it would be for ever. Will the somnambulent countrymen wake up to this imminent and present danger?
More articles by Dr. Tripuraneni Hanuman Chowdary are available at the following two websites:
(1) http://www.votebankpolitics.com
(2) http://www.drthchowdary.net
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