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द हिन्दू पिछले कुछ समय से खबरों में है। खासतौर से उसकी कारोबारी संरचना और सम्पादक के रूप में सिद्धार्थ वगदराजन का नियुक्ति को लेकर यह अखबार चर्चा में रहा। नरेन्द्र मोदी की खबरों के प्रकाशन को लेकर प्रबंधन को अपने सम्पादक से शिकायत थी। वैचारिक स्तर पर हिन्दू के दो लेख महत्वपूर्ण रहे हैं। पहला विद्या सुब्रह्मण्यम का लेख था जिसमें कहा गया था कि राष्ट्रीय स्वयंसेवक संघ पर से हटाई गई पाबंदी सशर्त थी। उस लेख के जबाव में एस गुरुमूर्ति ने लेख लिखा। फिर उसका विद्या सुब्रह्मण्यम ने जबाव दिया।  

इधर 6 नवम्बर को हिन्दू में एन राम का नरेन्द्र मोदी को लेकर लेख छपा। मोदी जीते तो बहुत गलत होगा। इस लेख में गुजरात के 2002 के दंगों को मोदी के लिए कलंक बताया गया है। साथ ही भाजपा के साम्प्रदायिक एजेंडा को खतरनाक बताया गया है। उन्होंने इसके अलावा तीसरी शक्ति के रूप में उभरते साम्प्रदायिकता विरोधी मोर्चे का जिक्र भी किया है।  अलबत्ता एन राम ने कहा है कि मोदी को लोकप्रियता मिल रही है। इस लेख का जबाव भाजपा के प्रवक्ता प्रकाश जावडेकर ने दिया है। दोनों लेखों के कुछ महत्वपूर्ण अंश यहाँ दे रहा हूँ, साथ ही इनका लिंक है ताकि आप पूरे लेख पढ़ सकें। नीचे रास्वसं पर बहस से जुड़े लेखों का लिंक भी मिलेगा। एन राम कहते हैं :-

Narendra Modi and why 2002 cannot go away

... It does not require much psephology to see that this significant change in the mood of voters is in inverse proportion to the move towards junk stock status that the Congress has managed to achieve after being at the head of a coalition for nearly a decade. The ruling party has managed this through the bankruptcy of its socio-economic policies and its unmatched levels of corruption. Every public opinion poll that matters puts Mr. Modi and his party in the lead, with some surveys suggesting that the National Democratic Alliance, which at this point has only three constituents — the BJP, the Shiv Sena, and the Shiromani Akali Dal — could win more than 190 of the 272 seats needed to constitute a Lok Sabha majority. No wonder the Congress wants opinion polls proscribed.

It is this unbreakable genetic connection between 2002 and the present that makes it clear that a Modi prime ministership would be disastrous for democratic and secular India — where the Constitution’s most important commandment, that nobody is more or less equal than anyone else, can be honoured in principle as well as in practice.

पूरा लेख पढ़ने के लिए यहाँ क्लिक करें

इसके जवाब में प्रकाश जावडेकर ने लिखा है :-

People want to move on, want good governance

First, the real issue is: what was the response of the Gujarat government during the 2002 riots? No doubt, several invaluable lives were lost and properties destroyed in the riots. But to charge the Gujarat administration and police with having shown complicity with the rioters is nothing but crude propaganda. As we all know, the Godhra train carnage in which 59 kar sevaks were brutally burnt down sparked the riots on the morning of February 27. As the trouble broke out, a 70,000-strong police force was deployed to control the situation. The Gujarat government also promptly sought the Army’s help the very same day. Even as the Army was to be mobilised from the border areas (which was done overnight), on the second day itself (February 2002 was a 28-day month), the first flag march of the Army contingent took place in the wee hours of March 1 and The Hindu itself had reported it. Can you recount any riots in the country where 170 rioters got killed in police firing? Had the Gujarat Police and administration shown complicity with the rioters, could such police action have been expected? Therefore, one should not allow the truth to get suppressed under the thickness of bias.

Of the total population in Gujarat, Muslims are less than 10 per cent. But 12 per cent of the police personnel in Gujarat are Muslims and 10 per cent of the government jobs are held by Muslims. The economic uplift of Muslims in Gujarat can be gauged from the fact that 18 per cent of the RTO registration of new two-wheelers is by Muslims. Their four-wheeler registration also is higher than their proportion in the overall population.... People want to move on and are yearning for “good governance.” That is why Mr. Modi has caught the popular imagination of every youth, or aged, literate or semi-illiterate people of this country and is working hard to realise it.

पूरा लेख पढ़ने के लिए यहाँ क्लिक करें

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