I found this interesting piece posted by Srimanthan Arya in Haindava Keralam.
Home Minister Chidambaram wrote a confidential letter to Swami Agnivesh (memo no. D/3082-HMP/2010 dated May 11, 2010), requesting his intervention in the Maoist issues. The home minister wrote: “I would encourage you to reach out to the CPI (Maoist) and persuade them to accept the government’s offer for talks...” The letter was written on the letterhead of the government of India
Chidambaram also wrote: “While I respect your views and urge you to help find a solution, I would like to clarify the government’s position for your kind consideration.” He continued, “to start with, they could say that, they will not indulge in any violent activities beginning a specific date, say June 1, 2010 (this is only an example and it could be an earlier date too)...prepare a response well before the specified date...the response will include an invitation to the CPI (Maoist) to hold talks...I would appreciate if you could kindly keep the contents of the letter confidential." At last, the home minister requested Swamiji, "the sole condition being that the CPI (Maoist) should abjure violence.”
How did the media get this "confidential" letter?
Swami Agnivesh, born in Chhatisgarh, graduated from St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata. He was once education minister of Haryana. Originally called Shyam Vepa Rao, he is an Arya Samaj activist, preaching Vedic socialism.
A few days ago, he visited Sonia Gandhi with radical Muslim leaders demanding 10 percent job reservations for Muslims.
Srimanthan Arya has posed the following questions:
1. Why did Mr. Chidambaram request Swami Agnivesh to intervene in this serious issue?
2. Why did Swamiji leak the contents of the letter to the media despite the home
minister's request?
Haindava Keralam adds the following information regarding Swami Agnivesh. The same information can be found in Wikipedia.
Swami Agnivesh, who is a fraudster, is not related to the Arya Samaj in any way. Seventeen of the 19 Arya Samaj Prathinidhi Sabhas in India
The Arya Samaj movement has been demanding answers from him ever since he became the self-declared president of the World Council of Arya Samaj, an organization founded by him. He has not yet responded to the 372 outstanding questions posed by Arya Samaj.
Readers’ responses to the above article are also quite interesting.
K. M. Rajan says that “Swami Agnivesh is not an Arya Samaj leader, but a communist and a co-traveler of so-called secularists and even Jihadi outfits. He is also a Maoist sympathizer. He somehow captured position in Arya Samaj and this was questioned in the Delhi Court
Srinivas Rao Avvaru says that he is a “lobbyist to Christian and Islamic groups.”
R. Abhed Kiran Kandamath has the following points to add:
- Agnivesh has formed an India Chapter for World Parliament of Religions and United Nations Voluntary Trust.
- Although the Arya Samaj has disowned his several times, he still acts as if he is a Hindu representative, calls himself an Arya Samaji, and a Vedic Hindu.
- He is known to attend many functions organized by Jama' 'aths and fatwa-issuing moral police jehadi bodies.
- Agnivesh is a well-known critic of the Sangh Parivar.
- In his book, “Harvest of Hate: Gujarath Under Siege” co-authored by Rev. Valsan Thampu, a missionary, he accuses Narendra Modi of fascism, fundamentalism, and murder.
- He had once publicly challenged the Shankaracharya of Puri and has said several times that the RSS, the VHP, and the BJP follows terrorism, fascism, and pseudo Hinduism.
Source: Haindava Keralam, “Chidambaram Seeks Fraud Swami Agnivesh’s Support to
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