Congress explanation that it was sold at 2001 prices so that increase in teledensity and benefitting the masses and PMs ridiculous statement on the Subsidies is all crap and will not hold in the matter of law. Because within 6 months of buying the licenses the Corporates sold the licenses for 8-10 times the original price and we are to believe that there are no kickbacks. even in that case the spectrum pricing for the end company who is going to provide service to the masses is already at 8-10 times the price for which the consumer has to pay , add to that the Operational costs of the company and his profit margin , its easily 20-25 times the original price which is about 32000 Crore. and it was sold for 1650 crore. This is the purported loss claimed by the CBI that the loss is 30,000 Crore. If there are kickbacks, add that to the Investment made by the companies to bypass the routes and jump the queue, that would mean we are talking about 33% taxes, commission fee atleast by Ruling party , regional party, Highest minister , and all the people along the chain which would then become atleast 50,000-60,000 crore. This is just the illegal worth of the spectrum through common sense , not even speculation since 8-10 times reselling clearly sets the benchmark of the whole value of the scam.
On top we have the 3 components, the entry fee, one time spectrum charge and the royalty charges that is annual
Royalty are percentages of the original price for the rest of the life of the license
The whole scams numbers keep going up just by bringing in all factors which constitute the overall cost
CAG also brought into the angle a fair component of including the Comptetion since it is a very scarce resource and india has 250 Million Cell phone users.Its not necessary that Tariffs should go high in the age of Advertisement business where 250 Million Subscriber base and each ad could bring in millions over the month.So the CAG assesement is fair mathematical assesement and govt. cannot digest the numbers reported publicly since their Image has taken a heavy beatingand their days are numbered if thorough probe is done by SC
Tuesday 27 September 2011
Chidambaram - Bye Bye
http://www.firstpost.com/politics/sc-ruling-today-on-swamys-plea-could-seal-chidus-fate-93142.html#en
http://www.firstpost.com/politics/cbi-note-shows-pm-chidu-had-43-days-to-stop-raja-but-didnt-89807.html#en
Today is one of the most critical days of the Anti Corruption movement in India.
Everything is in the hands of the Supreme Court , the highest court of the land which is last standing insitution which is honest and enhoys the faith of the country. More importantly it is the only institution to which politicians have a fear for , and who can curb their arrogant misuse of power. We the People have complete faith in SC which will see matters as they are without fear or favour.
Whats the case by Subramanian Swamy in the Supreme Court ?
Subramanian Swamy is asking not asking for prosecution of as of now HomeMinister P.Chidambaram but only for a CBI probe which should be easy case argument because
1. The CBI counsel which claims its matter of policy and cant probe Chidambaram has not even got into the details of all the records
2. The government counsel literally has no other arguments other than saying he is a Cabinet minister and this will affect the law and order situation (which will be a joke !)
Subramanian Swamy is clever one step at a time
1. His arguments will be simple, there are many incriminating documents sufficient to start a probe, if the CBi can have the arguments to investigate Arun Shorie and Jaswant Singh who were the Telecom and Finance ministers in 2003 against whom there is nothing either with policy or with criminal intent.There is no way in the world PC should not be investigated for all his participation in signing the letters and timing of why he chose to go along and say the matter is a "closed chapter".This is a grave blunder by the ruling government.
Further more they have bypassed answering to the Parliament who are the elected representatives (the Argument which the Congress likes to say to Civil society, that Parliament is Supreme) and goto Parliament and lie there as well by coverup. The FM did not submit anything in the JPC probe as well and sabotaged the PAC as well.
The only avenue for Accountability is the Judiciary and SC. Since he is a Union Home Minister only SC can order CBI probe against him to whom he reports to.
Given the tremendous background and Rajas statement in the SC that Raja, PC and MMS took all decisions together , even the PM must be summoned which will make his position untenable.
Pranab Mukherjee
The real beneficiary of this whole bomb is Pranab Mukherjee, if he decides to become PM until then , he can have both PM and PC with a CBi enquiry and track will go all the way upto Sonia but he is a very clever politician , he can get all this done through Proxy and procedure, after all he is longer in the congress than Sonia herself.
Sonia must be suspecting malafide Intent from Pranab but if he chooses to screw PC, no body can save him because he is the only problem fixer in the cabinet. How furious he must be with talks inside congress about Rahul Gandhi becoming the PM with Pranab Mukherjee around ?
Go Pranab go , put all the records on the public , We need the family dynasty to end once and for all. its worth 2g price of 40 Billion USd to bring down the dynasty.
http://www.firstpost.com/politics/cbi-note-shows-pm-chidu-had-43-days-to-stop-raja-but-didnt-89807.html#en
Today is one of the most critical days of the Anti Corruption movement in India.
Everything is in the hands of the Supreme Court , the highest court of the land which is last standing insitution which is honest and enhoys the faith of the country. More importantly it is the only institution to which politicians have a fear for , and who can curb their arrogant misuse of power. We the People have complete faith in SC which will see matters as they are without fear or favour.
Whats the case by Subramanian Swamy in the Supreme Court ?
Subramanian Swamy is asking not asking for prosecution of as of now HomeMinister P.Chidambaram but only for a CBI probe which should be easy case argument because
1. The CBI counsel which claims its matter of policy and cant probe Chidambaram has not even got into the details of all the records
2. The government counsel literally has no other arguments other than saying he is a Cabinet minister and this will affect the law and order situation (which will be a joke !)
Subramanian Swamy is clever one step at a time
1. His arguments will be simple, there are many incriminating documents sufficient to start a probe, if the CBi can have the arguments to investigate Arun Shorie and Jaswant Singh who were the Telecom and Finance ministers in 2003 against whom there is nothing either with policy or with criminal intent.There is no way in the world PC should not be investigated for all his participation in signing the letters and timing of why he chose to go along and say the matter is a "closed chapter".This is a grave blunder by the ruling government.
Further more they have bypassed answering to the Parliament who are the elected representatives (the Argument which the Congress likes to say to Civil society, that Parliament is Supreme) and goto Parliament and lie there as well by coverup. The FM did not submit anything in the JPC probe as well and sabotaged the PAC as well.
The only avenue for Accountability is the Judiciary and SC. Since he is a Union Home Minister only SC can order CBI probe against him to whom he reports to.
Given the tremendous background and Rajas statement in the SC that Raja, PC and MMS took all decisions together , even the PM must be summoned which will make his position untenable.
Pranab Mukherjee
The real beneficiary of this whole bomb is Pranab Mukherjee, if he decides to become PM until then , he can have both PM and PC with a CBi enquiry and track will go all the way upto Sonia but he is a very clever politician , he can get all this done through Proxy and procedure, after all he is longer in the congress than Sonia herself.
Sonia must be suspecting malafide Intent from Pranab but if he chooses to screw PC, no body can save him because he is the only problem fixer in the cabinet. How furious he must be with talks inside congress about Rahul Gandhi becoming the PM with Pranab Mukherjee around ?
Go Pranab go , put all the records on the public , We need the family dynasty to end once and for all. its worth 2g price of 40 Billion USd to bring down the dynasty.
Monday 26 September 2011
2g : PM is very much culpable for Lying to Nation
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_part-iii-the-pm-the-cbi-and-the-2g-scam_1591556
The CBI’s 124-page charge sheet in the Rs1.76 lakh crore 2G spectrum allotment scam reads like a clean chit to the prime minister (PM) for his role in this murky episode.
But, strangely, it ignores the role played by the group of ministers (GoM) set up by Singh to examine all issues related to the vacating of scarce spectrum and putting it up for sale in January 2008.
Now, documents released from the prime minister’s office (PMO) under the Right To Information Act to advocate Vivek Garg show that had the CBI looked at the GoM a little more closely, it would have been forced to question the PM, even if only as a witness.
These documents, shared by Garg with DNA, raise a series of disturbing questions about the PM’s role as he handled competing claims from various ministers and departments even as the path to the enormous scam was being laid.
On January 10, 2006, the PMO received two letters from two different departments making competing claims on Manmohan Singh. One, addressed to Singh’s principal secretary TK Nair, came from the planning commission; the other, from the telecom ministry, was addressed to Jawed Usmani, joint secretary in the PMO.
Acting on the “in-principle” approval of the PM to constitute a GoM on spectrum, both departments had pushed in their “terms of reference.”
The commission wanted 11 issues to be examined under four broad subheads. Key to this was to “suggest a spectrum pricing policy” and the possibility of creation of a “Spectrum Relocation Fund”.
The telecom ministry wanted more diluted terms of reference with just four issues that took a cursory glance at the existing policies and would allow the ministry to continue doing exactly what it felt like doing.
Several letters and internal documents in DNA’s possession clearly establish that this would be the PM’s call. He would be the final arbitrator of the competing claims. For instance a letter dated January 11, 2006, from then telecom minister Dayanidhi Maran to the PM clearly records that Singh had “approved the GoM for looking into the entire gamut of issues relating to spectrum availability”. Both the letters from the Planning Commission and the telecom ministry sent to the PMO a day earlier also establish beyond doubt that it would be Singh’s decision.
It is a fact that the final ToR that emerged on December 7, kept spectrum pricing out and was the watered down version that Maran successfully lobbied for. Now a bunch of internal file noting made by Pulok Chatterji, considered close to UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and the then additional secretary in the PMO, confirm that price for 2G spectrum would be kept low. “Although spectrum is scarce and therefore must be assigned a value, its pricing must not be so inflated as to make it financially unsustainable for the operators and subscribers.” He argued on January 6, 2008, just days before the allocation of spectrum.
These actions, in light of the CBI’s charge sheet against former telecom minister A Raja and his aides, who are all in jail, raise an even more disturbing question: Why was the PM, his principal secretary TK Nair and Chatterji not questioned as material witnesses during the investigations?
Former IPS officer and constitutional expert, Dr Ashok Dhamija, who is currently practising in the Supreme Court, told DNA, “It appears that the subsequent allotment of spectrum by Raja may not be directly linked to the aforesaid action of the PM. However, allowing the telecom ministry to single-handedly deal with the pricing of the spectrum instead of it being decided by the GoM, as initially contemplated, facilitated the subsequent wrongful actions of the telecom ministry.”
According to him any decision that contravenes the Transaction of Business rules is patently illegal. He also pointed out that the apex court has already directed the CBI to “conduct the investigation without being influenced by any functionary, agency or instrumentality of the state and irrespective of the position, rank or status of the person to be investigated/probed”. Therefore, according to him, “in any case it is necessary to examine the prime minister at least as a witness”.
Incidentally, this has been the consistent demand of opposition parties such as the BJP and those from the Left, that the PM must be questioned by the investigating agency. Prakash Jawadekar of the BJP told DNA that the PM’s role is “no longer one of whether he didn’t know or failed to act or show leadership. Now, it is a case of complicity and he must be investigated. A failure to do so will prevent the truth from coming out.” That might yet be.
The CBI’s 124-page charge sheet in the Rs1.76 lakh crore 2G spectrum allotment scam reads like a clean chit to the prime minister (PM) for his role in this murky episode.
But, strangely, it ignores the role played by the group of ministers (GoM) set up by Singh to examine all issues related to the vacating of scarce spectrum and putting it up for sale in January 2008.
Now, documents released from the prime minister’s office (PMO) under the Right To Information Act to advocate Vivek Garg show that had the CBI looked at the GoM a little more closely, it would have been forced to question the PM, even if only as a witness.
These documents, shared by Garg with DNA, raise a series of disturbing questions about the PM’s role as he handled competing claims from various ministers and departments even as the path to the enormous scam was being laid.
On January 10, 2006, the PMO received two letters from two different departments making competing claims on Manmohan Singh. One, addressed to Singh’s principal secretary TK Nair, came from the planning commission; the other, from the telecom ministry, was addressed to Jawed Usmani, joint secretary in the PMO.
Acting on the “in-principle” approval of the PM to constitute a GoM on spectrum, both departments had pushed in their “terms of reference.”
The commission wanted 11 issues to be examined under four broad subheads. Key to this was to “suggest a spectrum pricing policy” and the possibility of creation of a “Spectrum Relocation Fund”.
The telecom ministry wanted more diluted terms of reference with just four issues that took a cursory glance at the existing policies and would allow the ministry to continue doing exactly what it felt like doing.
Several letters and internal documents in DNA’s possession clearly establish that this would be the PM’s call. He would be the final arbitrator of the competing claims. For instance a letter dated January 11, 2006, from then telecom minister Dayanidhi Maran to the PM clearly records that Singh had “approved the GoM for looking into the entire gamut of issues relating to spectrum availability”. Both the letters from the Planning Commission and the telecom ministry sent to the PMO a day earlier also establish beyond doubt that it would be Singh’s decision.
It is a fact that the final ToR that emerged on December 7, kept spectrum pricing out and was the watered down version that Maran successfully lobbied for. Now a bunch of internal file noting made by Pulok Chatterji, considered close to UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and the then additional secretary in the PMO, confirm that price for 2G spectrum would be kept low. “Although spectrum is scarce and therefore must be assigned a value, its pricing must not be so inflated as to make it financially unsustainable for the operators and subscribers.” He argued on January 6, 2008, just days before the allocation of spectrum.
These actions, in light of the CBI’s charge sheet against former telecom minister A Raja and his aides, who are all in jail, raise an even more disturbing question: Why was the PM, his principal secretary TK Nair and Chatterji not questioned as material witnesses during the investigations?
Former IPS officer and constitutional expert, Dr Ashok Dhamija, who is currently practising in the Supreme Court, told DNA, “It appears that the subsequent allotment of spectrum by Raja may not be directly linked to the aforesaid action of the PM. However, allowing the telecom ministry to single-handedly deal with the pricing of the spectrum instead of it being decided by the GoM, as initially contemplated, facilitated the subsequent wrongful actions of the telecom ministry.”
According to him any decision that contravenes the Transaction of Business rules is patently illegal. He also pointed out that the apex court has already directed the CBI to “conduct the investigation without being influenced by any functionary, agency or instrumentality of the state and irrespective of the position, rank or status of the person to be investigated/probed”. Therefore, according to him, “in any case it is necessary to examine the prime minister at least as a witness”.
Incidentally, this has been the consistent demand of opposition parties such as the BJP and those from the Left, that the PM must be questioned by the investigating agency. Prakash Jawadekar of the BJP told DNA that the PM’s role is “no longer one of whether he didn’t know or failed to act or show leadership. Now, it is a case of complicity and he must be investigated. A failure to do so will prevent the truth from coming out.” That might yet be.
Saturday 24 September 2011
Poverty of Estmates
http://devinder-sharma.blogspot.com/2011/09/poverty-of-estimates.html
Everyone seems upset. Ironically, more upset with the definition of the poverty line and the criteria that has now become the butt of a national joke, are the economists and of course some members of the high-profile National Advisory Council. They have been doing the rounds of the TV channels expressing dismay at the threshold of what Planning Commission constitutes as the poverty line.
I was amused watching them express their concerns. In many ways it is like shedding crocodile tears. Amused because these were the same people who were either responsible for drafting the poverty line or were in a way the silent spectators. They had never challenged the 'below the poverty line' (BPL) criteria. Perhaps by remaining quiet or turning a blind eye to the gross injustice being perpetuated by the planners on country's vast army of poor and downtrodden, these economists stood to gain. I see no other reason why the entire community of economists had silently been using the same fraudulent BPL norms that they now find fault with (believe it or not, some of the most distinguished names are associated with the formulation of the poverty line).
This is what constitutes conspiracy of silence.
I have no hesitation in saying that the entire controversy following the questioning of the BPL norms by the Supreme Court has actually brought the economist class into disgrace. For nearly 50 years, they had not only prepared but also backed a bogus poverty estimate. They went on using the same useless poverty estimates into all their economic analysis. I wonder with such a faulty foundation what kind of analysis these economists must have produced. How reliable is their analysis, perhaps we will get to know provided the Supreme Court now gets into questioning the merits of the econometric analysis (that uses the poverty data) has been churned out in volumes over the years.
I have also keenly followed many of the quick news analysis that many economists and others have written. This was expected. The best way to overcome your guilt is to paint a picture that show how pained you are now to know that Planning Commission's poverty line for urban areas is Rs 31/day and Rs 25/day for the rural areas. If you are earning more than this, you are above the poverty line. In reality, this estimate is nothing but a revised estimate based on the current prices. Otherwise, Tendulkar committee had earlier drawn a line of Rs 19 per day for the urban areas and Rs 14 for the rural areas. The parameters that go into defining this BPL criteria remain the same. (Spend Rs 32 a day? Govt says you can't be poor Times of India Sept 21, 2011 http://bit.ly/qMWYRc).
In an interesting piece Playing with numbers, and lives (Indian Express, Sept 23, 2011) Rajya Sabha MP Brinda Karat writes: "The National Advisory Council, headed by Sonia Gandhi, had in its draft also included a clause that 'identification will be based on the criteria notified by the Central government'. One wonders whether the veteran activists who were part of the drafting committee in NAC were unaware of the poverty line which at the stage of their drafting was even lower than the Rs 26 line they are so articulately criticising today." She is referring to the public outcry being made by Aruna Roy, Jean Derez and N C Saxena.
I have always considered India's poverty line to be actually a starvation line. For over a decade now, I have been questioning the wisdom of fixing a stringent poverty line in which you can't even feed a dog. How can a human being survive in that amount? But believe me, none of the economists or NAC members (I am not sure of there is an exception) ever stood up to pose the same questions. They were very happy following the poverty prescription laid out. They obviously stood the gain by not questioning the poverty norms.
I have been asked as to what I think should be the way to determine real poverty. You can read what I had to say when the NAC came up with what I consider is yet another faulty path to removing hunger (Path to hell they say is paved with good intentions. http://bit.ly/iB2HDj). I also draw your attention to another article How to keep poverty low http://bit.ly/o60BsA. In my opinion, what India needs is not one poverty line. We need two lines: Poverty Line (what Arjun Sengupta committee worked out at 77 per cent population unable to spend more than Rs 20 a day), and an Antyodaya Line comprising 37.2 per cent othe population (which incidentally is the present poverty line).
Author : Devnder Sharma
Everyone seems upset. Ironically, more upset with the definition of the poverty line and the criteria that has now become the butt of a national joke, are the economists and of course some members of the high-profile National Advisory Council. They have been doing the rounds of the TV channels expressing dismay at the threshold of what Planning Commission constitutes as the poverty line.
I was amused watching them express their concerns. In many ways it is like shedding crocodile tears. Amused because these were the same people who were either responsible for drafting the poverty line or were in a way the silent spectators. They had never challenged the 'below the poverty line' (BPL) criteria. Perhaps by remaining quiet or turning a blind eye to the gross injustice being perpetuated by the planners on country's vast army of poor and downtrodden, these economists stood to gain. I see no other reason why the entire community of economists had silently been using the same fraudulent BPL norms that they now find fault with (believe it or not, some of the most distinguished names are associated with the formulation of the poverty line).
This is what constitutes conspiracy of silence.
I have no hesitation in saying that the entire controversy following the questioning of the BPL norms by the Supreme Court has actually brought the economist class into disgrace. For nearly 50 years, they had not only prepared but also backed a bogus poverty estimate. They went on using the same useless poverty estimates into all their economic analysis. I wonder with such a faulty foundation what kind of analysis these economists must have produced. How reliable is their analysis, perhaps we will get to know provided the Supreme Court now gets into questioning the merits of the econometric analysis (that uses the poverty data) has been churned out in volumes over the years.
I have also keenly followed many of the quick news analysis that many economists and others have written. This was expected. The best way to overcome your guilt is to paint a picture that show how pained you are now to know that Planning Commission's poverty line for urban areas is Rs 31/day and Rs 25/day for the rural areas. If you are earning more than this, you are above the poverty line. In reality, this estimate is nothing but a revised estimate based on the current prices. Otherwise, Tendulkar committee had earlier drawn a line of Rs 19 per day for the urban areas and Rs 14 for the rural areas. The parameters that go into defining this BPL criteria remain the same. (Spend Rs 32 a day? Govt says you can't be poor Times of India Sept 21, 2011 http://bit.ly/qMWYRc).
In an interesting piece Playing with numbers, and lives (Indian Express, Sept 23, 2011) Rajya Sabha MP Brinda Karat writes: "The National Advisory Council, headed by Sonia Gandhi, had in its draft also included a clause that 'identification will be based on the criteria notified by the Central government'. One wonders whether the veteran activists who were part of the drafting committee in NAC were unaware of the poverty line which at the stage of their drafting was even lower than the Rs 26 line they are so articulately criticising today." She is referring to the public outcry being made by Aruna Roy, Jean Derez and N C Saxena.
I have always considered India's poverty line to be actually a starvation line. For over a decade now, I have been questioning the wisdom of fixing a stringent poverty line in which you can't even feed a dog. How can a human being survive in that amount? But believe me, none of the economists or NAC members (I am not sure of there is an exception) ever stood up to pose the same questions. They were very happy following the poverty prescription laid out. They obviously stood the gain by not questioning the poverty norms.
I have been asked as to what I think should be the way to determine real poverty. You can read what I had to say when the NAC came up with what I consider is yet another faulty path to removing hunger (Path to hell they say is paved with good intentions. http://bit.ly/iB2HDj). I also draw your attention to another article How to keep poverty low http://bit.ly/o60BsA. In my opinion, what India needs is not one poverty line. We need two lines: Poverty Line (what Arjun Sengupta committee worked out at 77 per cent population unable to spend more than Rs 20 a day), and an Antyodaya Line comprising 37.2 per cent othe population (which incidentally is the present poverty line).
Author : Devnder Sharma
Tuesday 20 September 2011
Really good points made by Swapan Das Gupta
http://www.timesnow.tv/Debate-Race-for-PM-1/videoshow/4384457.cms
http://www.timesnow.tv/Debate-Race-for-PM-2/videoshow/4384458.cms
http://www.timesnow.tv/Debate-Race-for-PM-3/videoshow/4384459.cms
Modis message of Sadbhavana :
New definitions of Secularism - The real meaning of Secularism is treating everyone as all, development of all devoid of all kinds of Majority-minority , Hindu-Muslim , Poor-Rich, Highcaste-Lowcaste divide.
His new dimension to politics , that Sadbhavana - treating everyone same - new definition of secularism in India is a political kill to VoteBank politics.
This was beautifully captured by Swapan Das Gupta who is one of few journlaists with a detached eye for observation based journalism
http://www.timesnow.tv/Debate-Race-for-PM-2/videoshow/4384458.cms
http://www.timesnow.tv/Debate-Race-for-PM-3/videoshow/4384459.cms
Modis message of Sadbhavana :
New definitions of Secularism - The real meaning of Secularism is treating everyone as all, development of all devoid of all kinds of Majority-minority , Hindu-Muslim , Poor-Rich, Highcaste-Lowcaste divide.
His new dimension to politics , that Sadbhavana - treating everyone same - new definition of secularism in India is a political kill to VoteBank politics.
This was beautifully captured by Swapan Das Gupta who is one of few journlaists with a detached eye for observation based journalism
Narendra Modi, I imagine, should take it as a back-handed compliment that there are so many in India who loathe him so much. The interesting thing is that the congenital Modi-haters, if you look at them carefully, are neither the mythical aam aadmi over whom many crocodile tears have been shed; nor are they Muslims who allegedly bear Modi’s much ill-will after the 2002 riots in Gujarat.
No, the fact is that the Modi-haters fall into several categories: a) fans of the Congress and the Nehru dynasty, b) entrepreneurs who are making hay from divisiveness, c) vested interests with malign agendas and d) media entrepreneurs.
The first category is obvious. The Congress party is for all practical purposes a vehicle for the glorification of the Nehru dynasty, and not incidentally for assorted hangers-on who make out like bandits through large scale loot (perhaps you remember 2G, CWG, Bofors, and numerous other scams).
A genuine case can be made that Congress will adopt any and all techniques, including borderline constitutional coups, to stay on in power. A few examples will suffice:
1. The overthrow in 1959 of EMS Namboodiripad’s Communist government using the dubious means of Section 356, alleging failure of law and order.
2. The manner in which the 1975 Emergency was imposed.
3. The 2008 cash-for-votes scam which saved the UPA regime that was about to fall.
4. The 2009 electronic voting machines, about whose integrity serious questions have been raised.
Thus, it should not surprise anybody that the votaries of the Congress have indulged and will indulge in any subterfuge to get rid of inconvenient foes. For instance, there was the appointment of a governor, whose only apparent brief was to get rid of a state’s chief Minister, by hook or by crook, which was achieved by utilising the lokayukta or ombudsman. The very same tactic, by the way, is being rolled out in Gujarat as well.
But this is to be expected. A number of Congress people and friends have become enormously wealthy by exploiting public funds to enrich themselves. A case in point is that of Andhra Pradesh, where the late Chief Minister YSR Reddy apparently built up a private empire of staggering proportions by judiciously manipulating the loaves and fishes of office. The ongoing trials and/or travails of A Raja, Dayanidhi Maran, and others – former friends of the Congress – proves this point.
Thus, it is fully in keeping with Congress tradition that all sorts of allegations should be levelled against Narendra Modi. They seem to believe Modi has committed an enormous crime: he is not taking bribes in Gujarat, nor is he allowing anyone else to! This strikes at the very root of the crony-capitalist culture that the Congress has nurtured – you scratch my back and I yours, and we shall both benefit at the cost of the alleged aam aadmi.
What do you do with those who threaten the status quo? Why, you silence them, that’s what you do. A famous example is Galileo Galilei. Naturally, he was to be burned at the stake, until he recanted. Another example is from the outstanding film Z by Costa-Gavras – a clean candidate for the presidency in Greece is eliminated by the ruling junta.
There is a new book by Stanford professor of history Richard White, titled Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America, which describes in detail how a small band of entrepreneurs, often called ‘robber-barons’, was able to divert public wealth into private pockets via the expedient of laying rails across that country. These tycoons plundered the public through large grants of land, repeated bankruptcies that were bailed out with public funds, and the fine art of creating arbitrary railroad lines where none were really needed or wanted.
The author compares this to the daylight robbery by investment banks that led to the financial meltdown in the West in 2008-2009. A better comparison would be to the political entrepreneurs of India, most significantly those of the Congress and its best friends such as the DMK, who have mastered the art of making public funds vanish in clear sight – see 2G, CWG etc. (In passing, is anybody amazed that there has been no progress in following the money trail into Liechtenstein, Germany and Switzerland to locate assets held by Indians in banks there?)
It is clear that the best way to make money in India these days is to be a political entrepreneur. Their rags-to-riches stories are legion; MPs and MLAs are no longer impressed by their peers’ exploits unless the take is measured in percentage of GDP: mere crores are nothing. And here comes that Modi swearing to shut down this lucrative business. Politicians and bureaucrats are, quite rationally, concerned: can you imagine what will happen if Modi becomes PM, perish the thought!
I read some time ago that though Modi is generally popular in most parts of Gujarat — if I remember right, he won his last election with a two-thirds majority — there is one place in the state where he is very unpopular. In fact he lost elections there — in the capital Gandhinagar. Quite rightly, the babus are voting against someone who is subverting their main mechanism of making money.
The second group are the NGO mavens, or those that can be called, loosely, Quangos, or quasi-NGOs. Many of the Quangos are so closely aligned with the Congress government that it is hard to tell them apart. One example is an NGO headed by an individual who has been repeatedly accused of outright perjury and witness tampering (by former aides and indeed the witnesses themselves), a felony in the eyes of most judiciaries. However, instead of being treated with suspicion, this unelected individual is tight with the powers that be, and in fact deeply involved in creating legislation!
Another Quango person, also unelected, but also deeply entrenched in the business of creating impractical and unfair legislation, is infamous for his purple prose about the Gujarat riots — he threw in every atrocity that he had ever heard of anywhere in the world, including Holocaust Germany, and attributed it to alleged mobs in Gujarat, claiming to be an eye-witness.
The fact that his writing was pure fiction – and that it was libelous and slanderous – has never stuck to him, Teflon person that he is. He has moved on, as they say, to bigger and better things.
There is an entire cottage industry of Quangos in India, as has been described in an explosive book by Radha Rajan and Krishen Kak titled NGOs, Activists and Foreign Funds: Anti-Nation Industry. More recently, there were revelations that many NGOs have been involved with or funded by a) the Ford Foundation, or b) Ghulam Nabi Fai, a Kashmiri-American who was recently arrested by America’s FBI as a front for Pakistan’s ISI. These are not exactly bodies that have India’s best interests at heart, to put it mildly.
A third group are the religious entrepreneurs who are looking to convert Indians to their respective faiths. Quite clearly, the second best way of making money in India is religious entrepreneurism. Interestingly, it was such a religious businessman who initially fed the British embassy the canard of “2,000 Muslims were killed” in Gujarat in 2002; which was happily repeated ad nauseam in the West, implying that it was a one-sided massacre.
In fact, the UPA government itself (and it has every reason to inflate the numbers) says 754 Muslims and 290 Hindus were killed: which is of the nature of a riot, rather than a massacre (or ‘genocide’ as the pundits pontificate solemnly).
Another pundit tweeted when there was a 6.8 Richter earthquake in Sikkim and vicinity on Sunday, and I quote verbatim: “Once in a while the earth does shake, or is it Modi’s stomach rumbling” [sic]. A singularly tasteless remark, considering that people were dying. And strangely reminiscent of Rajiv Gandhi’s comment in 1984 on the Sikh genocide: “But, when a mighty tree falls, it is only natural that the earth around it does shake a little.”
And that brings us to the Fourth Estate, the fourth category and possibly the most venal of the lot. India is singularly unfortunate to have some of the most thick-skinned journalists in the world. In other countries, lying journalists utter mea culpas and slink off into oblivion: as seems to be happening to Johann Hari of the UK Independent. I am disappointed, as I personally have liked Hari’s writing, but it seems he made up some of the quotes from others, and so he has apologised and has taken an unpaid leave of absence. At least there is some self-respect there.
Not so in the Indian english-language media. They report only “the news fit to report”, which generally means only those things that feed into their (generous) prejudices, or that which will bring them awards and goodies from the government. I will not go into the brazenness of the Den Mother of them all, who, caught on tape red-handed, did not have the decency to at least feign contrition and remorse. Well, it is quite lucrative to do what they are doing, so I guess they are also being journalist-entrepreneurs.
So all of these four categories of people have excellent reasons to hate Modi and to demean his fast.
However, they did not do the same thing to Anna Hazare. For several reasons: one is that the very same people latched on to poor Hazare. Half the crowd surrounding Hazare belong to one or the other of the above categories, so they knew they had infiltrated and rendered toothless his movement. No need, therefore, to attack him: he had already been neutralised, despite all his best intentions. Hazare might echo Pogo who said, “We have met the enemy, and he is us.”
On the contrary, notice how Swami Ramdev’s movement was crushed with an iron fist, with fascist fury. It is indeed ironic that Ramdev attracted far more of the aam aadmi, the rural salt of the earth, than Hazare’s movement, which consists mostly of the urban middle class. But the four groups above decided that, obviously, politics was too important to be left to the people. It is only PLUs, people-like-us, who have the right to protest. No sama, dana, bheda; just danda for the hoi-polloi, such as 51-year-old Rajbala, whose spine was damaged, and who is paralysed.
The writing on the wall is clear. Ramdev threatened the status-quo-ists because he openly challenged them. But he was not sophisticated enough to realise that they would try to liquidate him, or at the very least impose tejo-vadham (humiliation) on him. Similarly, Modi should be very vigilant about what the power-hungry may do to him. But he is more savvy, and knows that at least from the point of view of the public, his obvious achievements in governance and in producing sterling results make him a winner.
But Hazare, that was a different story. They got him, didn’t they? The good Gandhian has been turned into, well… another Gandhi: an object to trot out piously now and then and make grand speeches about, but to ignore in general. That other Gujarati, Modi, isn’t going to stand for that; and that’s what makes him dangerous. He is a proven leader and a manager, a giant in a land full of pygmies. That of course does not endear him to the pygmies
No, the fact is that the Modi-haters fall into several categories: a) fans of the Congress and the Nehru dynasty, b) entrepreneurs who are making hay from divisiveness, c) vested interests with malign agendas and d) media entrepreneurs.
The first category is obvious. The Congress party is for all practical purposes a vehicle for the glorification of the Nehru dynasty, and not incidentally for assorted hangers-on who make out like bandits through large scale loot (perhaps you remember 2G, CWG, Bofors, and numerous other scams).
A genuine case can be made that Congress will adopt any and all techniques, including borderline constitutional coups, to stay on in power. A few examples will suffice:
1. The overthrow in 1959 of EMS Namboodiripad’s Communist government using the dubious means of Section 356, alleging failure of law and order.
2. The manner in which the 1975 Emergency was imposed.
3. The 2008 cash-for-votes scam which saved the UPA regime that was about to fall.
4. The 2009 electronic voting machines, about whose integrity serious questions have been raised.
Thus, it should not surprise anybody that the votaries of the Congress have indulged and will indulge in any subterfuge to get rid of inconvenient foes. For instance, there was the appointment of a governor, whose only apparent brief was to get rid of a state’s chief Minister, by hook or by crook, which was achieved by utilising the lokayukta or ombudsman. The very same tactic, by the way, is being rolled out in Gujarat as well.
But this is to be expected. A number of Congress people and friends have become enormously wealthy by exploiting public funds to enrich themselves. A case in point is that of Andhra Pradesh, where the late Chief Minister YSR Reddy apparently built up a private empire of staggering proportions by judiciously manipulating the loaves and fishes of office. The ongoing trials and/or travails of A Raja, Dayanidhi Maran, and others – former friends of the Congress – proves this point.
Thus, it is fully in keeping with Congress tradition that all sorts of allegations should be levelled against Narendra Modi. They seem to believe Modi has committed an enormous crime: he is not taking bribes in Gujarat, nor is he allowing anyone else to! This strikes at the very root of the crony-capitalist culture that the Congress has nurtured – you scratch my back and I yours, and we shall both benefit at the cost of the alleged aam aadmi.
What do you do with those who threaten the status quo? Why, you silence them, that’s what you do. A famous example is Galileo Galilei. Naturally, he was to be burned at the stake, until he recanted. Another example is from the outstanding film Z by Costa-Gavras – a clean candidate for the presidency in Greece is eliminated by the ruling junta.
There is a new book by Stanford professor of history Richard White, titled Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America, which describes in detail how a small band of entrepreneurs, often called ‘robber-barons’, was able to divert public wealth into private pockets via the expedient of laying rails across that country. These tycoons plundered the public through large grants of land, repeated bankruptcies that were bailed out with public funds, and the fine art of creating arbitrary railroad lines where none were really needed or wanted.
The author compares this to the daylight robbery by investment banks that led to the financial meltdown in the West in 2008-2009. A better comparison would be to the political entrepreneurs of India, most significantly those of the Congress and its best friends such as the DMK, who have mastered the art of making public funds vanish in clear sight – see 2G, CWG etc. (In passing, is anybody amazed that there has been no progress in following the money trail into Liechtenstein, Germany and Switzerland to locate assets held by Indians in banks there?)
It is clear that the best way to make money in India these days is to be a political entrepreneur. Their rags-to-riches stories are legion; MPs and MLAs are no longer impressed by their peers’ exploits unless the take is measured in percentage of GDP: mere crores are nothing. And here comes that Modi swearing to shut down this lucrative business. Politicians and bureaucrats are, quite rationally, concerned: can you imagine what will happen if Modi becomes PM, perish the thought!
I read some time ago that though Modi is generally popular in most parts of Gujarat — if I remember right, he won his last election with a two-thirds majority — there is one place in the state where he is very unpopular. In fact he lost elections there — in the capital Gandhinagar. Quite rightly, the babus are voting against someone who is subverting their main mechanism of making money.
The second group are the NGO mavens, or those that can be called, loosely, Quangos, or quasi-NGOs. Many of the Quangos are so closely aligned with the Congress government that it is hard to tell them apart. One example is an NGO headed by an individual who has been repeatedly accused of outright perjury and witness tampering (by former aides and indeed the witnesses themselves), a felony in the eyes of most judiciaries. However, instead of being treated with suspicion, this unelected individual is tight with the powers that be, and in fact deeply involved in creating legislation!
Another Quango person, also unelected, but also deeply entrenched in the business of creating impractical and unfair legislation, is infamous for his purple prose about the Gujarat riots — he threw in every atrocity that he had ever heard of anywhere in the world, including Holocaust Germany, and attributed it to alleged mobs in Gujarat, claiming to be an eye-witness.
The fact that his writing was pure fiction – and that it was libelous and slanderous – has never stuck to him, Teflon person that he is. He has moved on, as they say, to bigger and better things.
There is an entire cottage industry of Quangos in India, as has been described in an explosive book by Radha Rajan and Krishen Kak titled NGOs, Activists and Foreign Funds: Anti-Nation Industry. More recently, there were revelations that many NGOs have been involved with or funded by a) the Ford Foundation, or b) Ghulam Nabi Fai, a Kashmiri-American who was recently arrested by America’s FBI as a front for Pakistan’s ISI. These are not exactly bodies that have India’s best interests at heart, to put it mildly.
A third group are the religious entrepreneurs who are looking to convert Indians to their respective faiths. Quite clearly, the second best way of making money in India is religious entrepreneurism. Interestingly, it was such a religious businessman who initially fed the British embassy the canard of “2,000 Muslims were killed” in Gujarat in 2002; which was happily repeated ad nauseam in the West, implying that it was a one-sided massacre.
In fact, the UPA government itself (and it has every reason to inflate the numbers) says 754 Muslims and 290 Hindus were killed: which is of the nature of a riot, rather than a massacre (or ‘genocide’ as the pundits pontificate solemnly).
Another pundit tweeted when there was a 6.8 Richter earthquake in Sikkim and vicinity on Sunday, and I quote verbatim: “Once in a while the earth does shake, or is it Modi’s stomach rumbling” [sic]. A singularly tasteless remark, considering that people were dying. And strangely reminiscent of Rajiv Gandhi’s comment in 1984 on the Sikh genocide: “But, when a mighty tree falls, it is only natural that the earth around it does shake a little.”
And that brings us to the Fourth Estate, the fourth category and possibly the most venal of the lot. India is singularly unfortunate to have some of the most thick-skinned journalists in the world. In other countries, lying journalists utter mea culpas and slink off into oblivion: as seems to be happening to Johann Hari of the UK Independent. I am disappointed, as I personally have liked Hari’s writing, but it seems he made up some of the quotes from others, and so he has apologised and has taken an unpaid leave of absence. At least there is some self-respect there.
Not so in the Indian english-language media. They report only “the news fit to report”, which generally means only those things that feed into their (generous) prejudices, or that which will bring them awards and goodies from the government. I will not go into the brazenness of the Den Mother of them all, who, caught on tape red-handed, did not have the decency to at least feign contrition and remorse. Well, it is quite lucrative to do what they are doing, so I guess they are also being journalist-entrepreneurs.
So all of these four categories of people have excellent reasons to hate Modi and to demean his fast.
However, they did not do the same thing to Anna Hazare. For several reasons: one is that the very same people latched on to poor Hazare. Half the crowd surrounding Hazare belong to one or the other of the above categories, so they knew they had infiltrated and rendered toothless his movement. No need, therefore, to attack him: he had already been neutralised, despite all his best intentions. Hazare might echo Pogo who said, “We have met the enemy, and he is us.”
On the contrary, notice how Swami Ramdev’s movement was crushed with an iron fist, with fascist fury. It is indeed ironic that Ramdev attracted far more of the aam aadmi, the rural salt of the earth, than Hazare’s movement, which consists mostly of the urban middle class. But the four groups above decided that, obviously, politics was too important to be left to the people. It is only PLUs, people-like-us, who have the right to protest. No sama, dana, bheda; just danda for the hoi-polloi, such as 51-year-old Rajbala, whose spine was damaged, and who is paralysed.
The writing on the wall is clear. Ramdev threatened the status-quo-ists because he openly challenged them. But he was not sophisticated enough to realise that they would try to liquidate him, or at the very least impose tejo-vadham (humiliation) on him. Similarly, Modi should be very vigilant about what the power-hungry may do to him. But he is more savvy, and knows that at least from the point of view of the public, his obvious achievements in governance and in producing sterling results make him a winner.
But Hazare, that was a different story. They got him, didn’t they? The good Gandhian has been turned into, well… another Gandhi: an object to trot out piously now and then and make grand speeches about, but to ignore in general. That other Gujarati, Modi, isn’t going to stand for that; and that’s what makes him dangerous. He is a proven leader and a manager, a giant in a land full of pygmies. That of course does not endear him to the pygmies
Monday 19 September 2011
Sushma Swaraj on Modi
Sushma Swaraj is a stirring speaker as was seen from the Lokpal debate or her wonderful articulation and political will in tackling the Congress party and MMS inside the house
Who would forget the way even MMS was forced to agree when she said "MMS speaks very little and when he speaks , no one listens , referring the undermining of the stance taken by RahulGandhi on issue of Lokpal. Please listen to him because he says the right things." Everyone including MMS did not know hat to answer
She made a stirring speech on the policies of Narendra Modi and ordeal he had to go through to survive the onslaught by media and misinformation vicious NGOs working at the behest of congress party
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Who would forget the way even MMS was forced to agree when she said "MMS speaks very little and when he speaks , no one listens , referring the undermining of the stance taken by RahulGandhi on issue of Lokpal. Please listen to him because he says the right things." Everyone including MMS did not know hat to answer
She made a stirring speech on the policies of Narendra Modi and ordeal he had to go through to survive the onslaught by media and misinformation vicious NGOs working at the behest of congress party
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Sunday 18 September 2011
Modis Sadbhavana Mission
Dear NaMo Bhai
The vultures of so called secularists and Congress appointed activists like Mallika Sarabhai are after you more intensely during Sadbhavana mission than they were before , because they cannot digest the fact Supreme Court refused to look into specific charges to implicate you as Co-accused to conspiracy. All the victims hue and cry about justice , that this is the most inhuman government to rule the planet where Everyone is given decent share of the development Pie , is outright absurd and nothing short of Vicious Blackmail and smear campaign. Congress will loose once and for all in the center if you get a 5 year term and serve the country , then the nation will know what Gujarat has seen , the No Nonsense adminsitrator and the selfless patriot Narendra Modi is.
I was wondering whats the basis of the fast, as a purficatory practise. I am sure you are guided by divine in form of a guru or divine astrologers that starting with your 62nd Birthday, you are meant for higher purposes for making India the Super power in future world order. But the forces of ignorance are so dense and thick , that they are at the moment too powerful with their money power and misinformation power.
The statement made by you touches the heart of every patriotic Indian, "I wanted to serve Bharat Mata and during last 10 years when stones were pelted we tolerated whatever was thrown at us and gathered them and built the Vikas (development) of Gujarat.
I am sure the sages and Rishis blessings are there with you, the purpose of the Sadbhavana and there are devil forces amptly represented by congress which is trying to disrupt. I pray to the divine energy to protect and lead you in all your endeavours.
Santhosham
Vijay
The vultures of so called secularists and Congress appointed activists like Mallika Sarabhai are after you more intensely during Sadbhavana mission than they were before , because they cannot digest the fact Supreme Court refused to look into specific charges to implicate you as Co-accused to conspiracy. All the victims hue and cry about justice , that this is the most inhuman government to rule the planet where Everyone is given decent share of the development Pie , is outright absurd and nothing short of Vicious Blackmail and smear campaign. Congress will loose once and for all in the center if you get a 5 year term and serve the country , then the nation will know what Gujarat has seen , the No Nonsense adminsitrator and the selfless patriot Narendra Modi is.
I was wondering whats the basis of the fast, as a purficatory practise. I am sure you are guided by divine in form of a guru or divine astrologers that starting with your 62nd Birthday, you are meant for higher purposes for making India the Super power in future world order. But the forces of ignorance are so dense and thick , that they are at the moment too powerful with their money power and misinformation power.
The statement made by you touches the heart of every patriotic Indian, "I wanted to serve Bharat Mata and during last 10 years when stones were pelted we tolerated whatever was thrown at us and gathered them and built the Vikas (development) of Gujarat.
I am sure the sages and Rishis blessings are there with you, the purpose of the Sadbhavana and there are devil forces amptly represented by congress which is trying to disrupt. I pray to the divine energy to protect and lead you in all your endeavours.
Santhosham
Vijay
Friday 16 September 2011
Narendra Modi , Spiritual Early Years
For Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi keeping away from food is no big deal. Since many years he has been fasting during the Navratri
A thorough believer, Modi is very well-versed with different types of fasts in his personal life.
Of course, there is not an iota of doubt that the three days of fasting that he will undergo -- starting from his 61st birthday which falls on 17 September -- are political in nature where he is desperately searching for new political language to address, simultaneously, all 'Gujaratis,' including Hindus and Muslims. But, fasting is a part of Gujarati culture and Modi's life, too. It will be difficult to find a Gujarati woman who has never observed fast in her life.
Modi was born at Vadnagar in Mehsana district of Gujarat. It's a charming mystical town of temples. The temples of Vadnagar are ancient, rich in culture and are known for its divinity.
Fasting is quite common in Gujarat, particularly in the temple towns. Modi comes from a family of grocers. Maganlal Ranchoddas, Modi's great grandfather, had started a grocery store in Vadnagar after migrating from Navdotra village in Banskantha district.
Fasting is quite common in Gujarat, particularly in the temple towns. Modi comes from a family of grocers. Maganlal Ranchoddas, Modi's great grandfather, had started a grocery store in Vadnagar after migrating from Navdotra village in Banskantha district.
On 17 September, 1950, Modi was born in the house of "brick and mud" which had a corner full of frames of God. Since childhood he has been religious, and has been practicing jaap and doing prayers. His favourite temple in Vadnagar is the Giripur Mahadev.According to a book written by M V Kamath and Dr Kalindi Randeri on Modi's life, he initially wanted to become a 'sanyasi.'
In fact, a holy man had seen his horoscope many years back, where he had professed that, "If this boy gets into politics, he would be as powerful as an emperor, or else he may become a sanyasi and eventually turn out to be like Shankaracharya."Modi had so much attraction for sadhus, ways of fasting, tapsaya, jaap and meditation that he had ran away from home as soon as he finished school.
In fact, a holy man had seen his horoscope many years back, where he had professed that, "If this boy gets into politics, he would be as powerful as an emperor, or else he may become a sanyasi and eventually turn out to be like Shankaracharya."Modi had so much attraction for sadhus, ways of fasting, tapsaya, jaap and meditation that he had ran away from home as soon as he finished school.
After wandering from Ramkrishna ashram of Belur in West Bengal [ Images ] to many other places, he took fascination of the Himalayas. Here he wandered aimlessly and stayed with unknown but yogic sadhus for weeks and months. All those months Modi was trying to 'know himself'. Modi told the authors of his biography that he wanted to do something, but did not know exactly what.
In those teenage years Modi was immensely attracted towards the life and teachings of Swami Vivekananda.
After two years of wandering in Himalayas without money and with just two pairs of clothes, he suddenly decided to return back to 'sansar'.
While growing up in the RSS establishment in Gujarat under the influence of Marathi-speaking pracharkas, he also came under the spell of Chattrapati Shivaji.
In his early life Modi was a deep believer of mantra-tantra.
The Baglamukhi Devi's mantra is considered powerful by the hypnotic goddess's followers. In Ahmedabad few years back, some Brahmins had done Baglamukhi Devi's mantra-jaap for Modi's well-being when he was facing crisis.After the burning of the Sabarmati train in Godhra in 2002, which sparked off widespread riots in Gujarat, Modi has not spoken much on how the events unfolded and how decisions were taken in his office, in his party and in his government.
He has not given glimpses of his thinking on the post-Godhra time that Gujarat has passed through and how he shaped political events thereafter. One is sure that he must be having his own defence which he has not spelt out well.Modi's idea of sadbhavana and harmony between communities of Gujarat will remain incomplete without knowing his mind on the events that made him terribly infamous, and stunningly famous, simultaneously.
On his return he met his mother briefly in his village and came to Ahmedabad [ Images ] and ran a canteen at the state transport office and soon joined the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangha.Rest, as they say, is history.
Wednesday 14 September 2011
Point by point Reply to Letter from Congress Opposition leader Gohil to BJP Progressive leader Narendra Modi
Leader of opposition Shaktisinh Gohil also made public an open letter to Modi questioning the sincerity of his fast. Here are the excerpts...
Dear Bhai Shri Narendrabhai
I was amused to read about your Sadbhavna Mission and your cathartic announcement of a three day fast.
This is nothing but a political gimmick.
Vijay >>Why do you write this letter Mr.Gohil , is this not a political gimmick ?
Modi can express his wish for social Harmony and peace &unity since
that is fundamental requiste for good development and growth. If his fast is solidarity for such why not ?
You were the chief minister in 2002. I would have heartily welcomed your Sadbhavna initiative and your fast and would have volunteered to come with a glass of juice if you had displayed any moral fibre by going on a fast in 2002 or expressed any sadbhavna then.
Vijay >> Congress party is still hell bent on implicating their judgement on Supreme Court of India for Modi to be guilty. If his Sadbavana can be misinterpreted by Congress now, what about 2002 then even without the Development and good governance platform. Please ask the same question to MMS when he talks about Anti-Corruption, Price Rise, Anti-terrorism and Secularism.
Can you ask Madam ji for democracy , of I know you are family lickers and suckers to be leader of Congress at Statelevel
Your own party leader and prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee had asked you to follow Rajdharma. Vijay >> What the hell does that imply ?
Bhai, if you would have displayed any signs of Rajdharma, if you would have genuinely believed in Sadbhavna, 2002 riots would not have happened. Vijay >> 2002 riots happened because of Godhra, not because of Modi.
I wish that instead of fasting or this publicity and political stunt, you would apologise for 2002.Vijay >> Apogelise for what ? And what would you do then ? He tried his best , any apology would be used as Admission of Guilt , please stop this non sense political
mud slinging
In 2002, you did not even bother to go to a single minority's house and wipe any tears.... Bhai, the SC has yet not given you a clean chit. How has it come to an end? Why are you misleading the people of this country when the matter is still sub-judice?
Vijay >>Where is the mention of Godhra Carnage when you mention in so much detail about wiping the tears of minorities , are hindhus not human beings ? What a ironical statement Mr Gohil , Congress leaders requirement for joining the party i guess would be whats the level of hypocrisy you can reach to ?The matter is Subjudice , Courts have no evidence to file a FIR after 2 SITs and amicus curiae , how can you pass judgment that he is guilty if matter is Sub judice
Your narcissism is legendary like your hypocrisy. Wearing funny cowboy hats must be fashionable for you and I don't want to dispute your personal sense of fads and fashion but slaughtering cows is not fashionable for six crore Gujaratis especially during our religious festivals of Paryushan. I hope you know that in a democracy it is not fashionable to sponsor riots. Also in your characteristic megalomaniac style, you combine Gujarati asmita with your own self. As if that is one single identity! Bhai you are NOT Gujarat. Gujarat is Mahatma Gandhi and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. Gujarat is a place where Jains ensure that they do not even kill a mosquito. It is only in your regime that whether it is cows or human beings, there is no value of any life. It is because of you that Gujarat has been defamed.
Vijay >> Ask any common Gujarati , most of patriotic Indians , Modi stands for Indian National pride and Gujarati pride. am not a BJP supporter or from Gujarat. am from Tamilnadu.Please dont assume imaginary things and put the blame on Modi because you cannot win the ballot. On what basis do you conclude he sponsored riots , it was created by congress and its biased media and full time Congress NGOs. If your words are taken for what it is , 2g is No loss to country , Hindu Terror ()imaginary one is far bigger than LeT terror , India is growing and there is no corruption to tackle
You are criticised because you happen to be the only chief minister in the country who has been charged of mass murders. You are the only chief minister in this country who has sponsored riots. Like, you are the only chief minister in the country who has been denied a visa because of your dismal human rights record.
Vijay >> Every article ill written was a congress creation with its biased media , how can you charge him of murders if the matter is Sub judice , that means you dont have respect for judicary and even the Supreme court ?
When you say, "Hate is never conquered by hate" in your letter, it sounds like a dirty vulgar joke. Because it reminds six crore Gujaratis of how you had said "every action has a reaction" in 2002 and had shamelessly defended those fanatic rioters who were out on the streets killing innocent people.
Vijay >> Every action has a reaction and Hate is never conquered by hate , both are realities. When did he defend the rioters , were 250 Hindhus not killed because of firing people ? was army not brought in in 24 hrs? Congress party has no guts , not even a single congress men behind bars for Sikh riots.
Bhai Narendrabhai, today you are preaching unity and harmony. I will just ask you one simple question. You roam around with 300 security guards. Why doesn't a single guard of yours belong to minority community? Why have all minority belonging security personnel removed by you from the ministerial enclave? On one hand you systematically eliminate minorities around you and on other hand you write about social harmony and how you care for minority development? Please stop cheating the people of this country.
Vijay >>Minority , Minority and Minority -> Modi is not a congress man he cannot think minorities separately like you do. please dont divide further and further.
Who is cheating whom ? The congress has been cheating the country for the last 64 years.
Shaktisinh Gohil
Vijay >>please change your name to Shakhil "Minority" Gohhal
Leader of opposition Shaktisinh Gohil also made public an open letter to Modi questioning the sincerity of his fast. Here are the excerpts...
Dear Bhai Shri Narendrabhai
I was amused to read about your Sadbhavna Mission and your cathartic announcement of a three day fast.
This is nothing but a political gimmick.
Vijay >>Why do you write this letter Mr.Gohil , is this not a political gimmick ?
Modi can express his wish for social Harmony and peace &unity since
that is fundamental requiste for good development and growth. If his fast is solidarity for such why not ?
You were the chief minister in 2002. I would have heartily welcomed your Sadbhavna initiative and your fast and would have volunteered to come with a glass of juice if you had displayed any moral fibre by going on a fast in 2002 or expressed any sadbhavna then.
Vijay >> Congress party is still hell bent on implicating their judgement on Supreme Court of India for Modi to be guilty. If his Sadbavana can be misinterpreted by Congress now, what about 2002 then even without the Development and good governance platform. Please ask the same question to MMS when he talks about Anti-Corruption, Price Rise, Anti-terrorism and Secularism.
Can you ask Madam ji for democracy , of I know you are family lickers and suckers to be leader of Congress at Statelevel
Your own party leader and prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee had asked you to follow Rajdharma. Vijay >> What the hell does that imply ?
Bhai, if you would have displayed any signs of Rajdharma, if you would have genuinely believed in Sadbhavna, 2002 riots would not have happened. Vijay >> 2002 riots happened because of Godhra, not because of Modi.
I wish that instead of fasting or this publicity and political stunt, you would apologise for 2002.Vijay >> Apogelise for what ? And what would you do then ? He tried his best , any apology would be used as Admission of Guilt , please stop this non sense political
mud slinging
In 2002, you did not even bother to go to a single minority's house and wipe any tears.... Bhai, the SC has yet not given you a clean chit. How has it come to an end? Why are you misleading the people of this country when the matter is still sub-judice?
Vijay >>Where is the mention of Godhra Carnage when you mention in so much detail about wiping the tears of minorities , are hindhus not human beings ? What a ironical statement Mr Gohil , Congress leaders requirement for joining the party i guess would be whats the level of hypocrisy you can reach to ?The matter is Subjudice , Courts have no evidence to file a FIR after 2 SITs and amicus curiae , how can you pass judgment that he is guilty if matter is Sub judice
Your narcissism is legendary like your hypocrisy. Wearing funny cowboy hats must be fashionable for you and I don't want to dispute your personal sense of fads and fashion but slaughtering cows is not fashionable for six crore Gujaratis especially during our religious festivals of Paryushan. I hope you know that in a democracy it is not fashionable to sponsor riots. Also in your characteristic megalomaniac style, you combine Gujarati asmita with your own self. As if that is one single identity! Bhai you are NOT Gujarat. Gujarat is Mahatma Gandhi and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. Gujarat is a place where Jains ensure that they do not even kill a mosquito. It is only in your regime that whether it is cows or human beings, there is no value of any life. It is because of you that Gujarat has been defamed.
Vijay >> Ask any common Gujarati , most of patriotic Indians , Modi stands for Indian National pride and Gujarati pride. am not a BJP supporter or from Gujarat. am from Tamilnadu.Please dont assume imaginary things and put the blame on Modi because you cannot win the ballot. On what basis do you conclude he sponsored riots , it was created by congress and its biased media and full time Congress NGOs. If your words are taken for what it is , 2g is No loss to country , Hindu Terror ()imaginary one is far bigger than LeT terror , India is growing and there is no corruption to tackle
You are criticised because you happen to be the only chief minister in the country who has been charged of mass murders. You are the only chief minister in this country who has sponsored riots. Like, you are the only chief minister in the country who has been denied a visa because of your dismal human rights record.
Vijay >> Every article ill written was a congress creation with its biased media , how can you charge him of murders if the matter is Sub judice , that means you dont have respect for judicary and even the Supreme court ?
When you say, "Hate is never conquered by hate" in your letter, it sounds like a dirty vulgar joke. Because it reminds six crore Gujaratis of how you had said "every action has a reaction" in 2002 and had shamelessly defended those fanatic rioters who were out on the streets killing innocent people.
Vijay >> Every action has a reaction and Hate is never conquered by hate , both are realities. When did he defend the rioters , were 250 Hindhus not killed because of firing people ? was army not brought in in 24 hrs? Congress party has no guts , not even a single congress men behind bars for Sikh riots.
Bhai Narendrabhai, today you are preaching unity and harmony. I will just ask you one simple question. You roam around with 300 security guards. Why doesn't a single guard of yours belong to minority community? Why have all minority belonging security personnel removed by you from the ministerial enclave? On one hand you systematically eliminate minorities around you and on other hand you write about social harmony and how you care for minority development? Please stop cheating the people of this country.
Vijay >>Minority , Minority and Minority -> Modi is not a congress man he cannot think minorities separately like you do. please dont divide further and further.
Who is cheating whom ? The congress has been cheating the country for the last 64 years.
Shaktisinh Gohil
Vijay >>please change your name to Shakhil "Minority" Gohhal
Monday 12 September 2011
Communal Violence Bill
The so called Prevention of communal violence bill is actually a Communal violence Bill for perpetration of crimes against one community against another.
http://www.firstpost.com/politics/why-should-taxpayer-fund-the-nac-time-to-pull-the-plug-81668.html
Nice counter points provided by FirstPost surprisingly "Modi-Basher" 18 Network website
The problem with the NAC is that it is not “national” in character, since its membership is picked on the basis of Sonia Gandhi’s personal preferences. It is not truly representative of a wider cross-section of opinion, and certainly not inclusive – a key watchword in the UPA’s vocabulary.
The NAC’s charter says it “has been set up as an interface with civil society”. But if this is so, one wonders why the UPA government had so many problems with Anna Hazare’s movement, since it was surely one more representative of civil society – and certainly demonstrated wider public support than the NAC.
Harsh Mandar - a crack and cronie of Sonia Gandhi picked civil society provides the following Enlightened version for divinding the society to create and preserve communal harmony
Most of its members are people she is comfortable with and some of its members are, in fact, there in order to target the Congress’ principal principal opponent, the BJP.
This is the reason why we have Harsh Mander – who has made a career out of targeting the Gujarat government after the 2002 riots – the key steward of the Communal Violence Bill.
Mander’s justification for the Bill was published by The Indian Express recently:
He concludes: “Let us not allow this debate to be muddied by the same tired script about Hindus and Muslims, just because that is the only prism the right-wing refracts itself through
We could accept that statement at face value, but for this exclusion. Missing from Mander’s long list of targeted minorities is the case of Kashmir – and the ethnic cleansing of the Pandits by the majority community in that state. Was this instance a deliberate or inadvertent exclusion?
It is difficult to see how a Communal Violence Bill can be effective without carrying all major political parties with it. If the BJP – everyone’s prime contender for the label of “communal” – is excluded, how will the Bill obtain bipartisan support?
The bottomline is this: the NAC has lost its neutrality with this bill and no longer qualifies as a credible civil society representative.
If Anna Hazare was criticised for appropriating the robes of civil society, the NAC has even less legitimacy than it as it has been handpicked by a political party.
It is time to pull the plug on the NAC. There is no reason why the taxpayer should fund a body that seems politically partisan and, anyway, can only be one voice of civil society.
http://www.firstpost.com/politics/why-should-taxpayer-fund-the-nac-time-to-pull-the-plug-81668.html
Nice counter points provided by FirstPost surprisingly "Modi-Basher" 18 Network website
The problem with the NAC is that it is not “national” in character, since its membership is picked on the basis of Sonia Gandhi’s personal preferences. It is not truly representative of a wider cross-section of opinion, and certainly not inclusive – a key watchword in the UPA’s vocabulary.
The NAC’s charter says it “has been set up as an interface with civil society”. But if this is so, one wonders why the UPA government had so many problems with Anna Hazare’s movement, since it was surely one more representative of civil society – and certainly demonstrated wider public support than the NAC.
Harsh Mandar - a crack and cronie of Sonia Gandhi picked civil society provides the following Enlightened version for divinding the society to create and preserve communal harmony
Most of its members are people she is comfortable with and some of its members are, in fact, there in order to target the Congress’ principal principal opponent, the BJP.
This is the reason why we have Harsh Mander – who has made a career out of targeting the Gujarat government after the 2002 riots – the key steward of the Communal Violence Bill.
Mander’s justification for the Bill was published by The Indian Express recently:
Innumerable commissions of enquiry and fact-finding reports confirm recurring abdication of state responsibility, bias and even complicity of local administration, law enforcement and criminal justice machinery. They fail to prevent, control or provide basic relief. These include the targeting of Dalits and tribals across states; of Biharis in Maharashtra, Assam and elsewhere; of Sikhs in several states in 1984; of Muslims in Nellie, Bhagalpur, Bhiwandi, Mumbai, and Gujarat; of Tamils in Karnataka; of Christians in Kandhamal. Contrast this with any instance in which Muslims in Gujarat attack the dominant group or Biharis in Maharashtra attack the dominant group. The might of the state machinery would come down and prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law and beyond. This is the reality.
He concludes: “Let us not allow this debate to be muddied by the same tired script about Hindus and Muslims, just because that is the only prism the right-wing refracts itself through
We could accept that statement at face value, but for this exclusion. Missing from Mander’s long list of targeted minorities is the case of Kashmir – and the ethnic cleansing of the Pandits by the majority community in that state. Was this instance a deliberate or inadvertent exclusion?
It is difficult to see how a Communal Violence Bill can be effective without carrying all major political parties with it. If the BJP – everyone’s prime contender for the label of “communal” – is excluded, how will the Bill obtain bipartisan support?
The bottomline is this: the NAC has lost its neutrality with this bill and no longer qualifies as a credible civil society representative.
If Anna Hazare was criticised for appropriating the robes of civil society, the NAC has even less legitimacy than it as it has been handpicked by a political party.
It is time to pull the plug on the NAC. There is no reason why the taxpayer should fund a body that seems politically partisan and, anyway, can only be one voice of civil society.
Friday 9 September 2011
Purpose of the blog
This blog is being written so that all the frustration regards to national interest can be spilled out and expressed , so that I can be empty inside and start having better focus on work.
Bluntly speaking , writing is way for venting out emotions and views and inside can be made good.
This blog will be a no non sense blog
Bluntly speaking , writing is way for venting out emotions and views and inside can be made good.
This blog will be a no non sense blog
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