Views in brief: what’s hot!

By Philip Mudartha
Bellevision Media Network

16 Mar 2025:

The satellite spectrum allocation to Elon Musk: 

 

 

Remember Prashant Bhushan? The public interest lawyer and activist who was among the co-founders of AAP? His motto is do and say what is just fair and in public interest, regardless of immediate fallout.

 

Reacting to the news that Elon Musk’s satellite communications business has tied up with Jio, Airtel and Voda to offer the services in India, he has tweeted:

 

“Government of India has not yet auctioned satellite spectrum. But still, Airtel signed MoU with Starlink; Jio also. IT Minister welcomed it.

 

“Had this happened before 2014, Media & Bhakts would have labelled it a SCAM, but today it’s a Masterstroke”

 

The reference is to the bogus claim of 2G Scam under UPA-2. The then CAG of India, Vinod Rai had produced a voluminous report claiming a presumptive loss of several lakh crore rupees to the exchequer.

 

Trump is a Hindutva Bhakt like us:

 

Modi Bhakts believe that Trump is one of their own. Hasn’t he, as presidential candidate in 2015, promised a blanket ban on Muslims entering the US?

 

"Yes, we have to look at mosques,” he had said. “Because something is happening in there. Man, there’s anger, and we have to know about it.” The Hindu Sena calls Trump a “messiah against Islamic terror”.

 

The real Trump, however, puts his mouth where money is! His family owns businesses in the proudly Islamic Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and many other Muslim states.

 

 

’Somebody exposed India’:

 

Despite what Modi Bhakts believe, Trump believes India is one of the countries that is ‘ripping off’ the US. “It’s very unfair. India charges us auto tariffs higher than 100 percent,” he declared in his speech to the Congress. For Trump, no country is his friend or ally. He is aware that his MAGA supporters elected him to show that America alone matters.

 

 

There is not much truth in his claims. India has progressively cut its import tariffs on US products.

 

During a joint press conference with PM Narendra Modi in the White House last month, Trump said that India has “been very strong on tariffs”. “I don’t blame them, necessarily, but it’s a different way of doing business. It’s very hard to sell into India because they have trade barriers, very strong tariffs,” he said.

 

 

Trump said that the US trade deficit with India is almost USD 100 billion. He and Modi agreed that “we’ll begin negotiations to address the long-running disparities that should have been taken care of over the last four years. But, they didn’t do that”. In his anti-Biden jabs, Trump is known for falsehoods. The chart below shows the true picture.

 

 

Delusions of Trump’s friendship:

 

In a crude display of brute American power, plane loads of illegal Indians emigrants were bound, shackled, and shoved on to military aircrafts. Were they Muslims? No, Hindus, many Gujarati Hindus. Could Trump’s Hindutva fans do anything? The brutal deportations of Indians will continue as if the Indian objections mean nothing!

 

So, for all the Sangh parivar members who cut cakes and sang ‘Happy Birthday’ to Donald Trump, what can one say except welcome to the real world?

 

 

Donald Trump is not pro-Hindu or anti-Hindu. He is pro-American. None of this Hindutva stuff matters to him.