Plutocratic terrorism is no less seditious: JNU throws a challenge to political consciousness

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak

Arrest of around 200 members of ABVP, the student wing of RSS in New Delhi on Friday in connection with JNU incidence suggests that the right-wingers might have a role in precipitating or manufacturing a situation for plutocratic media to mislead the masses while paving way for denigration of the left.

Sedition is a concept contrived by arbitrary rulers, as British were then in India, to prosecute the subjugated masses and to choke their voice against exploitation/oppression.

But because, since independence, India has remained under the pernicious grip of the rich class that has transferred our painstakingly created democracy to plutocracy, this nasty instrument of inhuman torture on our freedom fighters, has not yet been repealed in Independent India. It suits to the anti-people fellows that have hijacked our independence and continue in power despite change of governments in general elections. Whosoever bags majority of berths to constitute the government in India plays the same role – the role of the pet dogs the rich people pamper.

So, we see that sedition charges are always hurled at progressive people who oppose the proponents and practitioners of inequality. Persons with a world outlook of humanitarianism are also booked for sedition in India.

It is well known that massive majority of JNU students’ leadership opposes the oppressors wherever they surface.

Arrest of their president under sedition charges is, therefore, not a surprise, as the central administration run by BJP controls the Delhi Police.

DCP (South) Mr. PS Kushwaha is on records to have admitted that the police are “in the process of scanning the footage to find out what kind of slogans were raised and identify those who raised them. If there is anything anti-national, we will act according to the law”. This means, the reality is not located as yet.

Before the reality is determined, it is wrong to attribute anti-nation slogans to JNU students and to book their president under sedition charges.

We have ample discussions in these pages of ORISSA MATTERS on how sedition charges are leveled on truth-reporting journalists and pro-people public figures.

To us, revolt against a capitalist State is no revolt against the State “We the people of India” have resolved to have.

We are inclined to look at Kanhaiya Kumar’s arrest for sedition in this light. Criticizing a capitalist administration is not a revolt against the State, we would like to maintain. Any administration, which is not addressed to socialism in India, is anti-people and opposing or criticizing an anti-people administration is no sedition. Preamble being the soul of Indian Constitution, no slogan against capitalist administration is sedition. Opposing plutocratic terrorism is no sedition.

On the other hand, if there was any slogan in praise of Pakistan, without any prejudice to the yet-to-be-determined reality, it can be said that the same is also not sedition, taking into consideration the legal definition of sedition.

If to any Indian, a country like Pakistan looks better than India under plutocratic terrorism, instead of hurling sedition charges at such observers, the rulers should address themselves to introspection and work wholeheartedly to salvage India from the labyrinth of capitalism that has made India worse than Pakistan and build it up as a socialist country.

We should learn from how people react to wrongs and better our way of running the country, instead of prosecuting revolting voices under charges of sedition.

Afzal Guru was a part of world plutocratic terrorism. So, it is not normal to accept that any left-winger might have raised any slogan in his honor. Therefore, JNU throws a challenge. Whether or not any agent-provocateur from the camp of anti-left was engaged to stage the drama with the rich media ready to vilify the left should be investigated into by a fact-finding judicial body.

The sooner, the better.

CD OF PATRIOTIC SONGS RELEASED

Pabitra Maharatha

CD AFTER RELEASE

When the market is flooded with entertaining songs, for the first time, a CD of purely patriotic songs was released on Sunday morning in Orissa Boy Scout and Guides’ auditorium at Bhubaneswar.

ORISSA MATTERS chief Subhas Chandra Pattanayak released the CD. Only patriotic songs can wake up India to her self-rescue from the labyrinth of current capitalistic anarchy, he said while recalling how patriotic songs had contributed to India’s freedom movement.

Eminent orator and editor of Subartta Pradyumna Satpathy was the chief speaker. He called upon the producing houses to follow the footprint set by Adyasha Productions and produce as much CDs of patriotic songs as possible, so that India can be saved by her awoken children from derailment of democracy before it is too late.

Guest of Honor Columnist Tusarkanta Satpathy lauded Adyasha Productions for offering the people the much needed booster of love for the fellow beings by bringing out a CD exclusively of patriotic songs.

Author of major number of songs in the CD, revered teacher Sudhansu Kumar Mohanty introduced the event, when educationist Dr. Suresh Chandra Mohanty discussed on the CD.

Advocate Prashanta K. Pattanayak, Producer of the CD and owner of Adyasha Productions Ms. Sanghamitra Mohanty, Music Director Shailendra Patra, and Singer Purna Chandra Das also spoke on the occasion. Debashish Patnaik proposed the vote of thanks.

The CD carries five songs written by Sudhansu Kumar Mohanty and three by Purnachandra Das. Sung by Purnachandra Das (4 numbers), Antara Chakravortti (2 numbers) and Shailendra Patra (2 numbers), it has music from Shailendra Patra and Purnachandra Das.

Marketing of the CD is managed from MIG 9/8, Shailashree Vihar, Bubaneswar, contactable through Mobile Phone number 9438175239.

Naveen should intervene in poster war: Orissa should wholeheartedly welcome the PM

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak

As an ORIYA, I would have felt proud of my Chief Minister had Orissa’s ruling party not indulged in a poster war with the Party of the Prime Minister who is visiting our State to inaugurate the oil refinery at Paradip tomorrow. History shall note the day as a black day if the Chief Minister of Orissa fails to order his followers to withdraw his own posters and party flags in order to ensure that the State doesn’t deviate from welcoming the guest with utmost respect and magnanimity.

ORIYA magnanimity requires that, when Mr. Modi belongs to BJP, not BJD, the CM of Orissa should have welcomed him with his posters and flags, not of his own. But, sadly, the ruling party of Orissa has made the entire route of the PM a dense jungle of its publicity posters, banners and flags. Instead of welcoming in nature, they are confrontational.

The scenario is so very acrimonious that, miscreants have torn down Modi’s portraits in many places and in many places have defaced his portraits with black paints.

In today’s newspapers a full front page advertisement has been published by the State government showing how it is Naveen Patnaik and his father Biju are the only ones because of whom the oil refinery is established. Modi is accidentally the PM and the oil minister being his protege, he is having the opportunity to launch it.

This, if anything, is rivalrous in purpose and hence, not in consonance with the magnanimity of Orissa.

Majority of Orissa are anti-BJP. But this doesn’t mean that their State government would violate the etiquette of receiving a guest with full respect to his position.

Posters of Prime Minister and Chief Minister deracinated from the Podium of Madhu Babu’s Statue

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak

The sacred podium of Madhu babu’s statue in front of the Raj Bhavan, Bhubaneswar was desecrated by BJP and BJD with metal-framed posters of their respective bosses – Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik – in their nasty claim of credit over establishment of oil refinery at Paradip.

Without any prejudice to their claims, I had condemned the disrespect shown to Madhu babu, the founding father of Orissa, on the very day when the entire State was observing his 81st death anniversary.

I had a hope that the politicians would read the wrong they have committed and remove the offending poster-wall that surrounded the sacred podium. That did not happen.

I preferred a notice to the police to the effect that along with my friends, I shall deracinate the offending posters and free the sacred podium of Madhu babu from the sacrilegious posters of the two politicians and their flags at 9 AM today.

My close friends Tusarkanta Satpathy, Pradyumna Satpathy, Pabitra Maharatha, Sagar Satpathy, Hemant Pandey immediately pledged their total support to the contemplated action. Who’s who of Oriya nationalistic concern in social media posted their support to the idea sans any reservation. Some of them also declared that they shall physically join the joint action in time.

As the sun started eliminating the darkness this morning, conscious and non-political members of the civil society woke up to the occasion and gathered at Madhu babu square in front of the Raj Bhavan even before 9 AM.
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Podium of Madhubabu to be freed of posters: Subhas Pattanayak serves Notice on Police

By Pabitra Maharatha

ORISSA MATTERS Chief Subhas Chandra Pattanayak has served a notice on Police that at 9 am on February 6, he and his friends shall free the sacred podium of Kula Gaurav Madhu Sudan Das of the posters of Prime Minister Sri Narendra Modi and Orissa Chief Minister Sri Naveen Patnaik.
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Oriya Language created Orissa and therefore Orissa must be ruled by Oriya Language

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik seems to have developed a wrong notion that governance of Orissa in Oriya depends upon his mercy. His press-note of December 17 and full page display advertisement in major broadsheets of today force us to arrive at this apprehension.

In his December 17 press note it was declared that he had held a meeting with the five members of the ministerial committee on that day for the purpose of “strictly implementing the Orissa Official Language Act, 1954 in official and non-official level” to facilitate which a website has been floated by the government. In the full page multi-color advertisement in broadsheet dailies today, this is intriguingly missing.

The advertisement is designed to tell the people that Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has taken historical steps to save and develop Oriya language, and has enumerated the steps he has taken. This is blatant lie. Neither he nor his government has executed any single item claimed to be “historical” in the official advertisement. The entire advertisement is nothing but false propaganda. What a shame it is, that, the people of Orissa are taken for granted by their Chief Minister! Read more →

Navakalevara: Legends and reality

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak

Legends are the most misguiding mischief aimed at superimposing lies on reality so that indigenous people of an occupied land are kept too dazzled to see the dark face of the rulers and the class of exploiters can keep its victims subjugated to its authority, while forcing them to forget the heroic history of evolution of their own philosophy of life, their own splendid spiritual realizations, their own socio-economic uniqueness, their own ancient culture, their own valorous past, their own way of social integration and their own civilization.

We see this mischief galore in the context of Navakalevara of SriJagannatha.

So, here, we are to rip apart the legends and bring the reality of the Navakalevara to light, as thereby alone we can reach the lost uniqueness of the people of Orissa.

We will use Puri Sankaracharya’s self-proclaimed authority over Navakalevara to proceed with our purpose.

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Samaja in Maze of Forgery: Two former Ministers of Orissa – Lingaraj Mishra & Radhanath Rath forged the WILL of Gopabandhu; Both benefitted till their death; SoPS continues to Loot

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak

The Oriya daily SAMAJA founded by late Utkalmani Pandit Gopabandhu Das, to which, out of their love and reverence for the great humanitarian leader, the people of Orissa had and have been giving their financial and moral support, is in a menacing maze of forgery and loot.

Sadly, two of Gopabandhu’s trusted men – Lingaraj Mishra and Radhanath Rath – who, because of being known so, had the opportunity of becoming cabinet ministers in Orissa, were the masterminds and/or makers of the forgery from which the paper is yet to be salvaged.

Both of them – Lingaraj and Radhanath – had partnered with each other in forging the last WILL of Gopabandhu to grab the Samaja, which being Gopabandhu’s paper was of superb credibility and the greatest political instrument of the day. They had performed this crime behind the screen of and in nexus with Servants of the People Society (SoPS), of which, while breathing his last, Gopabandhu was the Vice-President. Read more →