The Supreme Court Bench comprising Hon'ble Acting Chief Justice B N Agarwal and Hon'ble Justice P Sathasivam observed: �If there is no compliance with our order, it is a complete breakdown of the constitutional machinery. We will then have to direct the Government to impose President's Rule. If this is the attitude of the DMK Government, the UPA Government should not feel shy of dismissing it and imposing President's Rule�. The Hon'ble Judges posed the following questions:
a) Is this a Government?
b) Is this the Tamilnadu Government?
c) Is this the DMK Government, a strong ally of the UPA Government?
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No honourable citizen in Tamilnadu or the rest of India was left in doubt about the fact that yesterday's Bandh was organized, controlled, supervised and directed by the DMK party and the Government of Tamilnadu, defying the ban orders of the Supreme Court of India in the most contemptible and condemnable manner. Even after the Supreme Court warned the Tamilnadu Government that it would not hesitate to direct the Centre to impose President's rule if the State fails to comply with its order on Bandh, the 'most laughable' Minister for Information and Broadcasting in the Union Government, pooh poohed the observations of the Supreme Court, wafting no less contempt towards the Supreme Court, when he said: �We would do nothing to 'hurt' the DMK-led Government. We are committed. They (DMK) are part of our Government. We will not disturb the state government remotely, directly or explicitly. Chief Minister M Karunanidhi is one of the stalwarts, not just of the DMK, but of the entire country. The fast is not violating the court order. This is a non-violent response showing respect to Mahatma Gandhi's ideals a day ahead of his birth anniversary.�
Some days ago Karunanidhi had the temerity to accuse in public that Lord Rama is a drunkard and a debauched character. Such a great and patriotic 'Hindu' leader of global stature has been compared with Mahatma Gandhi�the Father Of Our Nation�yesterday by Priyaranjan Das Munshi, the Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting. Shamelessly, he has said that the ideals of Karunanidhi are in keeping with the ideals of Mahatma Gandhi. Let us put his learned comparison, perhaps fully backed by the official might of the Government of India, to ordinary lay man's scrutiny.
a) Mahatma Gandhi was a great devotee of Lord Rama and Lord Krishna. He worshipped the Ramayana and the Bhagavad Gita. Rama Nama and Ram Rajya were for Gandhi synonymous terms. Addressing a prayer meeting in New Delhi on 25 May, 1946, Mahatma Gandhi said: �Rama Nama should come from the heart. In that event, Rama Nama could become an effective remedy against all ailments. A man who believes in Rama Nama would not make a fetish of the body but would regard it as a means of serving God. And for making it into a fit instrument for that purpose, Rama Nama is the sovereign means. To install Rama Nama in the heart requires infinite patience. It might even take ages. But the effort is worthwhile. Rama Nama cannot come from the heart unless one has cultivated the virtues of truth, honesty and purity within and without.�
Karunanidhi has always hated RAMA because his mentor Periyar hated him. He enthusiastically supported Periyar when he put a garland of shoes and chappals on the statue of Lord Rama in the 1950s. Even if this belongs to the past, Karunanidhi in his present official capacity as Chief Minister of Tamilnadu has gone out of his way to revive this glorious Periyar memory and tradition by making the most uncivilized attack on Lord Rama by calling him a drunkard. Perhaps, Priyaranjan Das Munshi (with a full tacit approval of anti-Hindu Sonia Gandhi) is of the view that this anti-Rama ideal of Karunanidhi is on par with the ideals of Mahatma Gandhi! In this context, it will not be out of place to mention the fact that M F Hussain is known for his slandering of Hinduism through his nude paintings of Hindu Gods and Goddesses. M Karunanidhi, the Chief Minister of Tamilnadu, is trying to match the splendid Hindu-hating performance of M F Hussain through his classical Tamil words.
b) Mahatma Gandhi was an 'Apostle of Non-violence'.
Dr. Subramanian Swamy, President of the Janata Party has said: �It is abominable for Priyaranjan Das Munshi to compare Karunanidhi with the Father of Our Nation. Karunanidhi is the anti-thesis�in letter and spirit�of Mahatma Gandhi. Karunanidhi was a primary accused in the murder case relating to the beastly attack on Smt. Indira Gandhi during her visit to Madurai in 1979. Moreover following the indictment by the Jain Commission, the Multi-disciplinary Investigation Team and the CBI initially viewed Karunanidhi as a prime suspect in the murder of Rajiv Gandhi�.
c) When we got our independence on 15 August, 1947, every public office in India was open to Mahatma Gandhi. Yet, Mahatma Gandhi chose to remain in Noakhali District in East Bengal in the larger interest of Hindu-Muslim unity. His was a life of supreme sacrifice. He never chased any public office through unscrupulous political alliances and coalitions.
Perhaps, Priyaranjan Das Munshi is overawed by the supreme sacrifice (!) of Karunanidhi in the same way in which millions of our countrymen came under the spell of Mahatma Gandhi in the days of our struggle for freedom. According to him, the track record of Karunanidhi is in no way less glorious than that of Mahatma Gandhi.
d) Mahatma Gandhi insisted upon the highest standard of personal integrity, simplicity and purity of mind, body, conduct, heart and soul. The whole of India knows that the slavish congressmen today consider Sonia Gandhi as a spiritual representative of Mahatma Gandhi. Perhaps Priyaranjan Das Munshi sincerely believes that Karunanidhi has not only maintained the spiritual political tradition of Mahatma Gandhi but also enriched it in every sense of the word through his long track record of selfless sacrifice, simplicity, integrity, purity and exemplary character. In short, Priyaranjan Das Munshi deserves lasting glory (!) for comparing the deathless idealism of Karunanidhi with the mortal idealism of immortal Mahatma Gandhi. The whole world is fully aware of the grand track record of Karunanidhi in these vague 'superstitious' and 'irrational' areas of immaterial virtue and rectitude.
To quote the words of Tiruvan-miyur Hanuman: �It has always been the habit of INC, i.e. Indian Nehru Congress or Indira Nehru Congress or Italian National Congress to insult Mahatma Gandhi, the father of the nation. The Nehru family, the private proprietor of the Congress party, has inherited unduly and undeservedly the brand name of 'Gandhi' with the sole aim of hoodwinking the people of India. The Congress Party has been practicing the kind of politics which is exactly the opposite of the principles of Mahatma Gandhi. Similarly, the DMK and their allies in Tamilnadu who are alien to the principles of Mahatma Gandhi, have ruined the State with violence, crime and corruption during the last 40 years. The present Chief Minister Karunanidhi was the first to lift prohibition and to bring the State under a drunken madness, treating the earnest request of Rajaji with utmost contempt. Priyaranjan Das Munshi, one among the sycophants and spineless creatures of the Congress Party, has insulted and caused immense damage to the sacred name of Mahatma Gandhi by equating Karunanidhi with the Father of the Nation. Incidentally, the Italian woman who does not know anything about Gandhiji's principles had recently gone to address the UN Assembly on 'non-violence' which is like adding insult to injury. Mahatma Gandhi must be turning in his grave at Rajghat on his birthday.�
Today is the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi. Most of the effete Congressmen clinging to the seals of any stupid public office may not be aware of the great tribute that Albert Einstein (1879-1955) paid to Mahatma Gandhi in 1944: �Mahatma Gandhi confronted the brutality of Western Europe with the simplicity and dignity of an ordinary human being. For centuries to come men will scarce believe that such a man in flesh and blood ever walked on this earth�. Historians of the future, I believe, will look upon this century not as the Atomic Age, but as the Age of Gandhi.
--- V SUNDARAM
(The writer is a retired IAS officer)
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