It is no surprise to see opposition parties and obsessed "activists" always blaming Modi for something that happened way back in 2002 - on which not a shred of proof has been found to link him with leading a mass killing spree. Even if we believe that there was his involvement at some level, then the same villification campaign should be unleashed against communist thugs of West Bengal and Kerala. Mainly in the latter, whose cadres are now dominating the national politburo and the results are expectedly disastrous for the party. Why not go after all of them? Why single out Modi?

The argument given in favour of that is he as a chief minister became a mass murderer. Idiots like Mallika Sarabhai, who was dancing away as the state's development went haywire under Modi's predecessor, or Teesta Seetalvad, whose only claim to fame is the Godhra riots case, are nothing more than brazen troublemakers intent to salvage some claim to intellect. For Sarabhai this is the last option - respect for her was as much as you would respect a fly. Now, she can say she fought elections, without mentioning that she lost with a unheard of record margin. She can claim to be so much interested in Gujarat, which is like an exercise in buffoonery, given that the state has prospered and developed like never before under perhaps their best CM in recent times.

Now take a look at the other bunch of thugs, again communist, but this time a motley bunch of tribals who think they are the gods of the forests. Mining for minerals is needed - for long we have studied how the lack of mining has kept Bihar underdeveloped, and the same argument holds true for Orissa. Granted that legitimate processes have to be followed while giving out licenses, and that the tribals have every right to oppose if they feel betrayed, it is not fair to listen to every noise they make just because a motley bunch is firing away from WW-I era guns. Those Maoists need to be trapped through proper intelligence gathering and eliminated. The tribals live in the forests - that does not mean they can stop legitimate mining just coz their expanse of land is lost. Now we see a general disagreement against any relocation - even if the new land given to them to settle is fine.

Aiding them again, are people like Sarabhai and Teesta, only this time with names like Roy and others. And again this craving to step up against the state, and to appear like a hero to uneducated and violent tribals, is what drives them. Roy has no business writing stuff she just discovered out of the blue - she was nowhere near to being an activist till she won the Booker, and till the trophy shone. Once that was done, and she began to be forgotten by the media, she decided to launch a crazy, and brazen, series of articles.

There are people in the media, the leftist and worse, the communist types, who would support such antics and thankfully they are heard less and less. The need is not for anti-establishment troublemakers, but of intellectuals. This is where you needed the superb intelligensia of Bengal as witnessed in the original, and the only true, Naxal movement way back in the sixties. Those Naxalites were not not a bunch of illiterate and crazy tribals led by the most aggressive of them all, but educated ones who fought against landlordism and all other social inequalities and corruption. It was brutally suppressed, which it should not have been. But these Maoist gangs are not them, and it would be fine to do away with this current bunch of hooligans.

The Maoists are not interested in development. They are a gang who want land. They are fighting for themselves becoming dons, rather than anything else. So they will not kill criminals, or rogue politicians, or corrupt civil servants - they will not even touch them. They will kill some local constable or kidnap some policeman here and there, blow up railway tracks. They are fighting to grab land. Not save it.

And so we come back to those who defend anything that stops development, if you notice. So the likes of Roy, and Sarabhai etc will go against Modi, and will keep chanting his name whatever good he does for the state. The same type of egoist people, hungry to be always called intellectuals, will also fight for the Maoists. Supported by equally desperate Communists, who are either down and out everywhere you can look, or are rogues in a suit, like Chavez. Some Maoists follow Che Guevara's example. They surely deserve to end just like he did - chased and shot in a Bolivian forest. And their so called "activist" sympathisers, already sidelined, should be further ostracised.