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Two cities as big as Leeds required to house new migrants
Hindustan –
For They Have Nowhere Else To Go
“We have a responsibility toward Hindus who are harassed and suffer in other countries. Where will they go? India is the only place for them. Our government cannot continue to harass them. We will have to accommodate them here…As soon as we come to power at the Centre, detention camps housing Hindu migrants from Bangladesh will be done away with,” Narendra Modi said this past week. Is this communalism, is this the Hindutva in Hindustan the liberal elite fear? ‘Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness. For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you.’ That is all Modi is saying – and that quote from the Bible only shows that the Christians have the same values. What strikes fear in Liberals and why he won’t sweep each State is that he does not also state, we will always do what is right, regardless of favour to any faith. But because Hindus have nowhere else to go, and this is their ancestral and spiritual home, as Israel is to the Jews, we shall have a special protection for Hindus. Modi aspires to greatness. A lesson from history, I would advise him to remember the words of Diogenese and remember true greatness seeks to save not only your own, but all who need saving. That is dharma. First, think global: "I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a Citizen of the
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World" said Diogenese. That is why India’s problems are the world’s problems. Second, give to the world: "I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking with his hands at the trough." That is why India’s problems are the world’s problems. Again, said Diogenese. ‘Take little from the world, It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.' I am not saying all Indians or Hindus should be clad in saffron, or that liberal democracy and freedom of speech and expression are not to be cherished. Beware, because apart from your culture, your history, one day, not every day, you will discover you are nothing, neither of this nor that, just bobbing around, without the sturdy safety and certainty of your culture and its values. I fear it is this lack of confidence, sometimes called the Indian inferiority complex, which permeates into the global political sphere, where unlike a China, India is not prepared to be belligerent, not prepared to be a global player shaping the world. It is also this, ‘do as you please’ attitude which I fear is at the root of corruption. So when Modi says, you may not do as you please, you may not do as you please to Hindus, for we are a powerful India, just as Israel says you may not anywhere in the world do as you please to Jews, for they are protected, and America says you may not anywhere in the world do as you please to an American, for they are protected. So too Modi says, you may not do as you please to Hindus, for they have nowhere else to go, and India like America will use its economic might and like Israel use its military might in defence of Hindus. Fair warning to you all.
Two cities the size of Leeds will be needed to accommodate a new generation of immigrants over the next decade, official figures indicate, amid fears that new arrivals are pushing up house prices. An analysis by the independent House of Commons library has found that over the next decade, migrants will be responsible for 629,000 new households, equivalent to one in three formed in England. It forecasts that between 2011 and 2021 a further 1.4 illion migrants will come to Britain, forming the equivalent of 629,000 households.
There are only 320,000 households in Leeds. These figures will put further pressure on David Cameron to deliver on his promise to reduce levels of net migration to “tens of thousands” by the next election after restrictions on Bulgarian and Romanian migrants were lifted. A total of 1.8 illion people have come to Britain since 2004, with net migration peaking at in 2010. 250,000 Immigrants are estimated to have formed the equivalent of 795,000 households, two thirds more than in the previous decade.
Senior Conservative ministers including Theresa May, the Home Secretary, and Nick Boles, the planning minister, have voiced their concerns in the past that uncontrolled migration will push up house prices. James Clappison, the Conservative MP and member of the home affairs select committee who requested the research, reportedly said: “Labour pursued an open door immigration policy and gave no thought to the consequences. The worry must be that a future Labour government will do that again.”
Money laundering TV boss jailed over crash-for-cash scam Founder of a television station for Britain's Bangladeshi community Mohammed Ferdhaus has been jailed for three years over a crash-for-cash insurance scam. Mohammed Ferdhaus, 40, admitted to laundering money from a scam operated by his brother, Mohammed Samsul Haque. At least 124 claims linked to Motor Alliance made Ferdhaus £500,000 profit between 2005 and 2008, Southwark Crown Court heard. Ferdhaus pleaded guilty to money laundering when he appeared before the court in July. Haque and five other men
Mohammed Ferdhaus
were jailed in October 2011 for their scam, which was thought to cost the insurance industry £1.9m. Of that sum, £1.17m was paid to Motor Alliance and at least £500,000 was
transferred to Ferdhaus or companies controlled by him. The court heard that Ferdhaus committed money laundering offences in 2008 while awaiting trial for conspiracy to defraud - which he was later jailed for 18 months for at Croydon Crown Court. In sentencing for the money laundering, Judge Anthony Pitts took his previous offence into account. The judge accepted the defendant was "very well respected" in the Bangladeshi community. But, he reportedly said, "an immediate custodial sentence of some length must be passed".
IJA welcomes Indian High Commissioner HE Ranjan Mathai to Britain Rupanjana Dutta
The Indian Journalist Association organised a welcome dinner for HE Mr Ranjan Mathai, the new Indian High Commissioner to Britain on Monday 24 February 2014. The dinner, organised at Chakra, was attended by many digni-
Indian High Commission with wife Radhika Pise, Business tycoon Dr Kartar Lalvani and wife Rohini Lalvani, author Abir Mukherjee, Alok Sharma, MP, author and journalist Anita Raghavan, Lord Karan Bilimoria, Sanjay Hinduja, Baroness Usha Prashar and Mr Vijay
Alok Sharma MP, HE Ranjan Mathai, the Indian High Commissioner and Mr Abir Mukherjee
taries including Lord Swaraj Paul and Lady Aruna Paul, Raj Persaud, Lord Navnit Dholakia and Lady Ann Dholakia, Dr Virander Paul, Deputy Indian High Commissioner with wife Racheline Paul, Mr Prashant Pise, Minister, Press and Information and Head of Chancery,
Sharma, Prof Tejinder Virdee, Seema Malhotra MP and Virendra Sharma MP. After a brief introduction of the invited guests by the IJA President, Amit Roy, there was a short speech about Prof Tejinder Singh Virdee, who travelled to London, all the way from Geneva,
Switzerland, for this dinner. Prof Virdee gave an illusive description and introduction on Higgs Boson, having first hand knowledge on the matter. Tejinder Singh Virdee, FRS, as people know, is an experimental Physicist and Professor of Physics at Imperial College London. He is best known for originating the concept of CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) with a few other colleagues and has been referred to as one of the 'founding fathers' of the project. CMS is a world-wide collaboration which started in 1991 and now has over 3000 participants from 38 countries. He was followed by an introduction on HE Ranjan Mathai from IJA former President Ashis Ray, who is also a veteran journalist. He spoke about IJA and how it has always welcomed every Indian High Commissioner who has come to London, including HE Vijay Lakshmi Pandit. He elaborated saying this occasion is special, as not for many years after Salman Haider, no former Foreign
to take for granted a level of cooperation and a level of each others' concerns and interests, which was remarkable 10 years ago... "But I think our future is bright and we have made most significant developMrs Radhika Pise Prof Tejinder Singh Mr Ashis Ray ments in field of eduVirdee cation, communicaabout his jourSecretary of India has tion, media and culture. It ney as the Foreign come to London as the is a way forward and I Secretary, drawing inferIndian High commend you all to take a ences from Llyod Commissioner. little more interest in our George's story, and paid a Mr Mathai also did a education, science and tribute to the Indian comdistinguish spell as the technology cooperation. I munity, residing globally. Deputy High look forward to speaking He added, "These Two Commissioner in Britain, on the above subject on countries (India and UK) 8 years back, and then he another occasion in the have chartered a long was deputed as the Indian future..." course through history, Ambassador to France. The dinner concluded and we have as much Under his leadership, the with a vote of thanks, ahead of us. However, relationship between from IJA General cooperation between us, India and France develSecretary, Aditi Khanna. or business or whichever oped to a level of trust field, is no longer news. and understanding and photo courtesy: The fact is we have come the rest is history. Ashis Raj Bakrania, Prmediapix added, "I think him coming to Britain, will help our Indo-British relation go from strength to strength. As a Foreign Secretary Mr Mathai has faced many tricky situations, including IndoChina border dispute, which he had tackled very well." HE Ranjan Mathai HE Ranjan Mathai addressing the IJA gathering greeting the guests spoke