Gohana(Sonipat)

[devdahiya]

Jaton Ko Bahar Wala Koi Nahin Hara Sakta,wo Sirf Apno Se Haar Sakte Hein.

dear all,
on 4th september there was recording of a programme on ndtv,the programme was in hindi...hum log. the topic was gohana .with their invitation i also reached there along with my wife. it was recorded in some studio in g k 1 new delhi.

when we reached there we could make out that it was by some fault that we have been called there.one could easily make out that it was the dalits who been called to give one side story,still we manage to settle down .the anchor of the programme was mr pankaj pachouri.

the programme was started with the sentence'' jataon ki panchayat ne jo gohana mein kia....... i objected to this very line...but the anchor was in no mood to listen to me..... it continued with all jat bashing...... fortunately there were around 4or 5 jats in gethering of about 100 odd ppl.and we did our best to tell them the story......we even had to give them in the language they understand ...... a stage came when one jat gentleman was asked to leave the studio..... but seeing our mood mr anchor cooled down.
very less was shown as far as we were concerend.the show was aired on same day at 10 p m

i have got no hasitation that it was all there to give bad name to jats .ndtv is all bent upon to play a partisan role in this episode.it has some ulterior motive behaind all this.what exactly is this ..i can't say... but its too bad and sad for jats....and jats should undersatand this, i feel this is the hightime we read writings on the wall.we should see our interests and not go by books.we better use our brain and see the enemy.its just there to give us the big kick.we can still fight it out if we stand united.

What you said is a first hand account and i take it as absolutely true. Another Chappy Of NDTV [hindi verson] was behaving like a Mulah for So called underdogs and was behaving as if he himself was INDIA and a supreme authority. Jis te bhi baat kari uske kappde nikal liye...be it Mr Sangwan[MP] Chief secratery Haryana, Mr Rai[SSP], Mr Goyal[DM] and a few more. His arrogance and biased reporting was disgusting.Infact More ofen than not electonic media is responsible when part of this nation burns. Ye Kasoota rang lete hein Freedom of press ke naam par.Maturity ka dhanss bhi nahi hei in ke paas. Our educated lobby,THOSE who have the kaum dharam in mind will have to tackle this anti JATS propagenda not only at local[people to people relation] level but more importantly at political and Bureaucratic level. Media then will automatically get managed as they hardly do any fair reporting. I ADVOCATE UNITY OF KAUM WITH AND FOR A PURPOSE[to save humiliation to the kaum] BUT WILL BE DEAD AGAINST A HATE FILLED/REVENGEFUL/ MURDUROUS campaighn in disguise of unity. HATRED WILL NEVER BE AN ANSWER AND WILL DO NO GOOD TO ANYONE OF US [neither indvidually nor collectively] We must be with the time and Should clearly understand the Design of some selfish people who are hell bent upon maligning and butchering our Peaceful , honest and hardworking kaum under a well planned strategy supported by almost all political parties[Say vote bank]. Let us all devote some time for the Prosperity and Well being of our future generatins else they might avoid and feel ashamed of calling themselves JATS. Let our kaum be known as TOLERENT, BRAVE, KIND, SECULAR, DESHBHAGAT and UNIQUE. FUTURE OF THIS KAUM IS ON OUR KANDHAS..&..CHOICES ARE NOT VERY MANY. UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE VANISH.

 

[rkumar]

To all Jats,

Please uncle jee,
Now this is the time to take some action against those channels. Now we all are ready to do what is required.

We should seriously create some action groups for such eventualities. We are running out of options. We should launch a poster war against these channels and if required, hold demonstration in front of their studios. They need to be paid back in the same coins. I remember when Vir Singhvi wrote against Sahab Singh Verma. We all flooded HT with emails and finally he had to apologise. Since we cannot send emails to TV Channels, only option left is poster war and street demonstrations.

RK^2

 

[priti]

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This is what NDTV says about itself on its website. Nowhere in this description is mention of any principles or values of journalism. It is all about profits and how professional they are at 'gathering' news. How about some 'mission', 'vision' and 'values'...even tobacco companies nowadays have morals...British American tobacco (BAT) consciously discourages underage smoking in europe through its marketing and advertisements.....you know why....because there is an active civil society here which questions the actions of corporates....NDTV is a news company and that too of a developing country...where is its morality....

I am disgusted by what Mr. Rajender has described....if they have to represent only one side of the story...why call a debate over it....just say what you have to ....their viewers do not have the intelligence to question it anyway...where are the principles of journalism let alone social responsibility of these media channels??

How many journalists do we have amongst us? even if there is just 1, i would request her/him to ask their employer this question.....

how many of us watch these news channels...most of us are their consumers...why are we not asking them...embarrasing them into thinking on what their underlying principles are when reporting....believe me it does work...

 

[rkumar]

let us flood NDTV with emails and tell them that how unhappy we Jats are from their methods of painting us in black....I will sending them an email staright away..

RK^2
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PS: This is what I have written to NDTV;

Dear Sir,

I am really disappointed with your channel in portraying the whole Gohana incidence as an act of vandalism by Jats. You channel has not cared a say a word about the murder of Jat youth at the hands of these so-called Dalit hoodlums who are being pampered by all political parties and the communists in particular. Your channel forgets that Jats are the most secular community of India and have sacrificed the most in defending the nation. Its we who have lost maximum lives in wars to protect India. Jats have been living with all other communities peacefully for over centuries in all the villages and there is not a single incidence where we have harmed any dalit.

Honest journalism would have been to look at all aspects of event and represent a balanced picture. Painting a patriotic and law abiding Jat community in black will harm the cause of national integration more.

Jats in general are extremely agitated with biased views presented by your channel. Hope you would clarify the matter live as soon as possible.

Thanking you
Sincerely Yours
Rajendra Kumar Kalkhande
Village Simbhalka
PO Shamli
Distt. Muzaffar Nagar (UP)
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[mkrana]

let us flood NDTV with emails and tell them that how unhappy we Jats are from their methods of painting us in black....I will sending them an email staright away..

RK^2

I respect your enthusiam but do you truely think that NDTV will take pain to go through our mails and change their story under that pressure ... I doubt that.
Don't we have political leaders from our community - who boast to have supports from "Jat-Dominated-Areas" in Delhi/Haryana/UP/Punjab?
Should not they also speak? Or are they waiting for elections?
I think they should be flooded with mails ... the 'jaat-leader' image is their bread-and-butter and they should also dare to stand for their image.

Can anyone provide contact information for these leaders?

 

[priti]

Manoj

Something is many times better than nothing....even if 50 of us write to them...atleast they will know in their conscious that somebody is opposing their stand on the issue...

on the other hand...if nobody writes....they will automatically think that what they are doing is right....

On the leaders front, their involvement in this inconsequential at best. Leaders should always be caste neutral....the fact that they are not so at the moment are the root cause of incidents like Gohana....on one hand we condemn 'dalit' leaders and on the other we want our leaders to be 'jat' leaders...this will be hypocrisy on our part...

 

[priti]

my response to ndtv:

Feedback on programme broadcasted on 4th of September 2005, Hum Log, Topic: Gohana.

Respected Madam/Sir

I am not very regular writer to NDTV on its programs. Maybe that is why you might want to consider this feedback seriously, you will be encouraging or discouraging atleast one of your viewer from providing a feedback in future.

I was watching the program called 'Hum Log' last sunday and I felt that the views expressed in the program were completed distorted and one sided. The whole cliched statements about 'Dalits' and their oppression seem too easy to believe. I am from Jat community and I understand how things function in this community at social level. We have never been one to discriminate people on the basis of their caste and making their lives difficult. We believe in our simple living, not unnecessarily disturbing other communities and not be disturbed ourselves and yes, we believe in honour. Of course, like any other community we have our share of bad apples but kindly do not portray jats as having hegemony over other communities.

The gohana incident happened because there were dalit miscreants, some of whom raped a local jat girl and some of whom killed a jat boy and many involved in drugs and thefts. I am not saying that burning their houses was justified course of action. Jats are hotblooded and when provoked (and believe me murder and rape are enough provocations if we leave aside the trouble this bunch of so called oppressed dalit were created for the local people including shopkeepers).

My only request to you is to uphold your principles of journalism and represent the whole true picture and not get into the the debate of 'upper-caste oppressing lower caste'. Instead please view it as a community protecting itself from menace created by some people....they would done the same thing if these menacing people were jats themselves...and then i guess it would not have been 'news'!

Thank you.

Priti Shokeen

 

[mkrana]

Priti,
Yeah I agree in pure hypothetical idealistic sense it would have been hypocracy on my part to call leaders as 'jat-leaders' - since as you rightly put 'leaders should be caste-neutral. But are they?
But does being caste-neutral means you should keep quiet even when something obviously wrong is being portrayed because opposing that will portray you as favouring a particular caste? Keeping quiet on sensitive-communal issues like this ... are they really 'caste-neutral'?

If leaders are not speaking (may be to appease their masters in Delhi) then what is the use of them (I am not favoring any particular party/person)? I would not have included them into scenario unless 'dalit leaders' are were not their to put their weight behind the incident. They will raise the issue in parliament, use government machinery to protect their interests and all we want to do is whatever little we can !!! Where is the level-playing field?

I don't think to portray the correct picture we should hesitate including them if some of them still has soul to stand and speakup.

I appriciate the your letter contents and should be drafting my own very soon.

 

[jitendershooda]

Ndtv Feedback ......

You can write or call us at :

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PRITI ...THANKS A LOT FOR GIVING THIS IDEA TO WRITE TO THEM ...

I WROTE THEM AND REQUEST EVERY JAT TO WRITE TO THEM SO THAT THEY CAN FOUND WHAT THEY DID WAS WRONG ...


Hello,

I want to bring to your notice about your coverage of Gohana Kand. I was watching your channel and really likes the words of your advert.,"Sach dikahte hein Hum ....... "

BUT I DONOT FOUND ANY ATTEMPT OF YOUR'S TO FIND OUT THE TRUTH AND TO POTRAY IT LIKE A MATURE TV CHANNEL. YOU PEOPLE ARE JUST ON THE EASY WAY TO GET POPULARITY AND NOT AT ALL CONCERNED WITH THE TRUTH.

REPORT THAT ONE OF YOUR CORRESPONDANT GAVE THAT DAY FROM GOHANA-

"The reason is this that like all over India here also there is a gap between the upper(SAMANTHWADI) and dalits and the upper caste here is JATS those can't bear that these dalits have their possession on the important lands in the cities. And that is why they are doing such acts to fear them off."

WHAT A CHEAP MENTALITY YOU PEOPLE ARE HAVING. HAVE YOU DONE ANY ATTEMPT THERE TO FIND OUT THE REALITY.

LET'S ME TELL YOU THE REALITY OF THOSE SO CALLED INNOCENT DALITS THERE IN GOHANA ..... HOPE THAT YOU ARE KEEN TO LISTEN TO YOUR DRAWBACKS AND WILL BE WILLING TO RECTIFY THEM IN FUTURE .... IF NOT GOD BLESS YOU AND I WILL NOT BE WATCHING YOUR CHANNEL ANY MORE ....SHOW WHAT THE HELL YOU WANT TO SHOW THEN ... AND THIS IS NOT ONLY MY ANGER FOR YOU MOST OF THE COMMUNITY PEOPLE ARE HAVING THIS FEELING FOR YOUR COVERING ...IN THIS EPISODE ...SO AGAIN THINK OF YOUR DOINGS...

THE REALITY:

1. Those innocent Dalits were involved in Smake,Drugs and loot-paat.

IF YOU ARE REALLY WANT TO DO SOMETHING THEN GO AHEAD AND EXPOSE THIS .... YOU CAN FOUND SO MUCH OF EVIDENCES THERE ...

2. They do murders, kidnaps ... taking money for the same...

3. Ask the locality surrounding them who donot let their Ladies move out of their houses early or late (IN THIS 21ST CENTURY AND ONLY 2 HOURS RUN FROM DELHI .... HAVE YOU EVER IMAGINED THIS SITUATION) because these innocent Dalits used to Tease them ...pull them sometimes into their houses for pleasure ...but it is ok as they are INNOCENT DALITS ...

4. Only few months ago ... they only murdered one guy from near by village BUTANA and the cases are going on very smooth and calmly as they go in INDIA ...

5. Only another small mistake these INNOCENT did was to RAPE one girl from village KATHURA ...

6. Recently they did again that childish mistake to kill a financer from village Garhwal and that also in a very decent manner in public openly as they were very HELPLESS, INNOCENT and SECULAR.

SEE THE SCENE HOW THAT GUY WAS KILLED, I AM TRYING TO ILLUSTRATE IT ---
6 DALITS STOPPED ONE SAMANTHWADI UPPER CASTE GUY WHO WAS ON THE WAY FOR HIS BUSINESS TO LEAD HIS HOUSE AND TO FEED HIS SMALL FAMILY. THEY DRAGGED HIM ON THE ROAD PUBLICALLY. THEY BEAT HIM IN ALL POSSIBLE MANNERS AND POSES THAT THEY HAD EVER WATCHED IN MOVIES ....AND THEN AFTER A PUBLIC SHOW OF 30 MINUTES THESE BROKE DOWN HIS NECK LIKE A MANLLY HERO ACT ....


****** I WANT TO ANGRILLY WANT TO TELL THAT CORRESPONDANT OF YOURS THAT THIS WAS THE REALITY AND THERE IN NO WHERE THE INTEREST ON LAND IN THIS EPISODE ... CLEAR YOUR MINDS AND DONOT EXPLOIT PEOPLE TAKING UNNECESSARY BENEFITS OF THE MEDIA'S FREEDOM.

ACT ACCORDINGLY TO YOUR ADVETISEMENT THAT YOU SHOW ...... "SACH DIKHATE HEIN HUM .... "

I THINK YOU HAVE ANY MORAL LEFT IN YOU THEN YOU WILL AGAIN GO BACK TO THAT PLACE AND WILL TRY TO FIND OUT THE REALITY ....

THANKS,
JITENDER SINGH HOODA
ROHTAK -124001
HARYANA

 

[mkrana]

Objection regarding coverage of Gohana incident

Here it goes one more:

Dear Sir/Madam,
I have been a regular viewer to NDTV for so long. And was really impressed about the contents and presentations of some of your programs - specially 'Big-Fight' and regular news delivery.
But I found the recent coverage of Gohana incident was far below the standard I had set for NDTV - or any news media for that matter. The one sided manner in which the incident was reported was not only 'unethical' to media profession but also 'disgusting and provoking'. The media coverage seemed to be targetted at generating sympathies for Dalits. The act of local outburst of anger against - continued 1st degree criminal acts commited by Dalits repeatedly and later political and administrative impunity provided to them - was portrayed as an act of Dalit oppression by 'Jaats' and were given vague reasons like land-ownership issues.
I am not asking you to revert your story, go for public apology or any other kind of demage control. If I get any kind of response from you in this matter - that would help me to understand the truth behind other similar news coverage that I was taking for granted 'to be true' for so long. I know this story is presented with distortions, I just wanted to know whether it was an isolated incident of such distortions.Frankly speaking at this time I am in real doubt what to beleive and what not to.
Hope to get a response from you.

Thanks
Manoj Rana
New Delhi.