Fact About Fiction - II
   Date :28-Dec-2019

Fact About Fiction - II_1 
 
It is unfortunate that Mr. Gandhi is indulging in a lot of lie-telling about Mr. Modi and his Government. It is he and his cronies in the Opposition ranks now trying to tell people rather slyly that detention camps are something like concentration camps (without using those many words, though).
New Delhi, December 26 (PTI): The Bharatiya Janata Party, on Thursday, hit back at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for his ‘liar’ jibe at the Prime Minister, and dubbed him as “jhoothon ka sardar” (master of lies) and said that detention camps in Assam were set up when the Congress party was in power both at the Centre and in the State.
... BJP spokesperson Sambhit Patra alleged that after apologising to the supreme Court on the Rafale issue, Rahul Gandhi was now spreading lies on detention camps. Patra asserted that Prime Minister had only said that there was no such detention camp in which Muslims of India would be placed after NRC. ...
THE manner in which the words “detention camps” are being tossed about in domestic politics currently by the Opposition parties and their leaders indicates that they are purposefully confusing those with what used to be derided as “concentration camps” that had been put up by the Nazis in Germany initially to punish and finally to execute Jews who were being subjected to a racial purge by the so-called purist Nazis led by Adolf Hitler. The references to “detention camps” are being brandished in such a manner as to give an impression that those places are no different from “concentration camps”.
However, the stupidity in the effort is clear to the common people who do not find anything abnormal in any places where illegal migrants are placed before they are deported to their respective home countries. Factually, these detention camps or centres have been a fact of life in India for long, much before Mr. Narendra Modi came to power. Those camps were set up in Assam under the Congress regime at the Centre and in the State. The purpose of those camps was to offer temporary support to the illegal migrants who could not be allowed legally to stay on in India and needed a place to live before being sent home.
The camps, thus, were set up for a good and official purpose. It is common knowledge that such camps are in existence in all countries facing the problem of illegal immigrants, and India has been no exception. Some stories may be doing the rounds that the occupants of detention camps were being treated unfairly. But it has been proved time and again that most of those stories are fiction.
Unfortunately, to serve their petty ends, Opposition parties and their leaders -- like Mr. Rahul Gandhi -- are trying to spread lies about the detention camps. It is because of this reason that the BJP now has to dig out facts and present those to the people so that all the deliberate falsehood is exposed. In the past some days, the BJP and the Government spokespersons have done a commendable job in bringing to fore the truth about detention camps.
One of those truths now bared is that the detention camps in Assam were set up by the Congress regime years ago when the authorities realised that the problem of illegal immigrants was becoming truly menacing. Reports are available that during the Congress regime, countless people were placed in detention camps for temporary periods after the authorities detected them. The practice, thus, of using the arrangement of detention camps had been an integral part of the process of detecting illegal immigrants, isolating them, and then finally sending them back to their home countries.
The issue of illegal immigrants has been dogging the North-Eastern States nearly for seventy years, much before Bangladesh was formed following 1971 War. Because of the horrible living and political conditions in East Pakistan, hundreds of thousands of people crossed the international border at several places and made India their home. These people often put a lot of pressure on India’s resources, which led to stricter scrutiny of all immigrants.
It is because of such a high incidence of illegal immigrations that the then Prime Minister Mr. Rajiv Gandhi signed the famed Assam Accord with the leaders of the Assam Gana Sangram Parishad of which All Assam Students Union (AASU) was a part. As per that accord, the concept of National Register for Citizens (NRC) was introduced. It was following that accord that the authorities started clamping down, though only in small measures, on illegal immigrants. The arrangement of detention camps was first introduced at that time.
Thus, the NRC is not the find of the Modi-Government, which either Mr. Rahul Gandhi does not know, or he wants to keep it under wraps deliberately and blame Mr. Narendra Modi, as is his wont.
It is unfortunate that Mr. Gandhi is indulging in a lot of lie-telling about Mr. Modi and his Government. It is he and his cronies in the Opposition ranks now trying to tell people rather slyly that detention camps are something like concentration camps (without using those many words, though).
This is pure fiction and utter nonsense, which the common people now know fully. The common people also know how Opposition is spreading falsehood and how it is trying to malign the Prime Minister and his Government.
In politics, propaganda is permissible to an extent, but that should never be indulged in at the cost of facts. And because the Opposition is refusing to learn appropriate lessons even after having been blasted on several occasions for spreading falsehood, the people are very likely to teach them one more lesson that they would never forget (or in other words, would want to forget or get past it at an earliest possible moment).
Fact is clear to the common people that detention camps are not what Mr. Rahul Gandhi is trying to portray, and that they are a global phenomenon brought into practice officially for a good purpose.