Raja has looted India more than the British: Jayalalithaa

Raja has looted India more than the British: Jayalalithaa

November 12 , 2010

Kartik Shuddha Saptami, Kaliyug Varsha 5112

Chennai: Jayalalithaa has slammed her political rival, the DMK, for allegedly shielding Telecom Minister A Raja in the 2G scam. Raja's resignation has been demanded regularly by Jayalalithaa's AIADMK and other Opposition parties. In 2008, his decision to award licenses for 2G spectrum -instead of auctioning it- is reported to have cost the government more than one lakh crore rupees.

The Congress party has tried to give the impression of ensuring a degree of probity in public life. Shashi Tharoor was made to quit as Union Minister of State as soon as accusing fingers were pointed at him about his alleged complicity in a murky IPL deal. After charges of corruption and malpractices surfaced in connection with the conduct of the Commonwealth Games in Delhi, Suresh Kalmadi, who was presiding over CWG affairs was allowed to continue till the Games were completed. Now he has been eased out of his powerful office as Secretary of the Congress Parliamentary Party. He will face the high-level inquiry into the CWG scam without the protection provided by his position. Similarly, Ashok Chavan has been removed as Chief Minister of Maharashtra in the wake of the Adarsh Housing controversy. The delay of a few days was only to ensure that Maharashtra had a full-fledged chief minister in place during US President Barrack Obama's sojourn in Mumbai. Hours after Obama left India, Chavan's resignation offer was formally accepted.

But, despite trying to project itself as a role model for impeccable public morality, the Congress has not emerged with a halo around it. The reason for this is the continued presence of A Raja in the Union Cabinet as the Minister of Telecommunications. Raja has presided over what is easily the "mother of all scams" - the 2G Spectrum scam, that has caused, according to calculations worked out by no less an authority than the Comptroller & Auditor General of India, loss to the Indian exchequer to the extent of Rs. 1,76,379 Crores!

The British, during 90 years of Imperial rule from 1857 to 1947, is credited, at today's rupee value, with having looted India to the extent of Rs. 900 Crores. The entire Nation rose in revolt against Britain for this. Led by Mahatma Gandhi, a virtual revolution took place in this country. The people rose as one against British rule. The fire did not die till the 15th of August 1947, when the last of the British rulers left India's shores.

Raja's scam, perpetrated with just a few signatures over a few hours, outclasses the British loot by 200 times! If this money was available with the Central Government, we need not have gone for the controversial increases in petroleum prices that have broken the back of India's middle class. Houses worth Rs. 1 lakh each could have been built and distributed free to as many as 2 crore poor, homeless Indians. The Ganga could have been cleaned and could have been linked to a cleaned-up Cooum... So much could have been done. So many benefits could have accrued. Raja's pro-active role in this massive, unprecedented scam has been made public not merely by opposition politicians and the media but by the Central Vigilance Commission, the High Court of Delhi, The Supreme Court of India and the Comptroller and Auditor General of India.

Raja, the DMK's poster-boy in Delhi, hails from a party that lacks morality. So, it is not reasonable to expect him to quit on moral grounds. Neither will his party leader ask him to quit, considering that a sizeable portion of the loot has ended up in his household. Though it is over two years since the scam first surfaced and its specifics have been getting murkier by the day, the Congress party that dominates the ruling coalition in Delhi has not been able to muster the courage to demand his resignation either. They are worried that such a precipitate demand would end up with Karunanidhi pulling out of the fragile UPA coalition leading to its premature collapse.

The repeated demands for Raja's ouster by me and other right-thinking political leaders and opinion makers have therefore fallen on deaf ears. The time has come for the people to step in. I call upon the people of India - no, I do not mean the members of my AIADMK party, I don't even mean the people of Tamil Nadu, but every concerned citizen of India - to express their sense of outrage. The CAG report has been submitted to the President of India.

Now the President officially knows that a loot of Rs. 1,76,379 Crores has taken place. It is now for the people to let the President know how they feel about it. I therefore call upon all Indians to send a one line telegram to the President of India at Rashtrapathi Bhavan, Delhi, demanding the dismissal of Union Telecom Minister A Raja. This has to be done, if India is to be saved. People power alone can save the Nation.

http://www.hindujagruti.org/news/10618.html

Congress’s corruption Raj

November 14, 2010 12:31:54 PM

The Pioneer Edit Desk

Sacking Chavan or Kalmadi a mere ruse

The Congress has clearly painted itself into a corner over the issue of corruption in the UPA Government and in Maharashtra where the party is in power with Mr Sharad Pawar’s NCP. When the involvement of Chief Minister Ashok Chavan in the Adarsh Cooperative Housing scam — in which prime property belonging to the defence forces was grabbed for building a block of exclusive apartments by violating every possible rule and law — was exposed, the Congress’s top leaders were understandably stunned. They could not have expected such damning evidence of senior party leaders being caught with their hands in the till; worse, the disclosures came within weeks of the scandalous loot of public money in the guise of organising the Commonwealth Games becoming public knowledge. Earlier, the Congress had desperately sought to gloss over the corrupt ways of a senior Minister in the Union Cabinet affiliated to the DMK, a major ally of the party. But its efforts to pretend that Mr A Raja had committed no wrong in what has come to be known as the ‘2G scandal’ have come to naught: The party which leads the UPA itself stands denuded of probity and integrity; it cannot be expected to cover up for others. True, the Congress has tried to cut its losses by issuing marching orders to Mr Chavan whose name shall now feature on Maharashtra’s rather long list of former Chief Ministers, but in the popular perception this ‘disciplinary’ action is too little, too late. After all, it’s not Mr Chavan alone who was involved in the Adarsh scam but a large number of Congress leaders in Maharashtra. Similarly, little will be achieved by the Congress in sacking Mr Suresh Kalmadi, chairman of the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee, from his post as parliamentary party secretary. Once again, he alone is not to blame for the ‘Great CWG Robbery’ which took place under the watch of the Congress Government in Delhi headed by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit. If the Congress had been sincere about purging the party of corrupt leaders, then it would have acted against others too. The sacking of Mr Kalmadi is no more than a ruse, a ploy to distract attention from the party’s failure — critics would say reluctance — to punish those who are to blame for the shame and ignominy heaped on India for their brazen misappropriation of taxpayers’ money.

We will no doubt see the Congress feigning hurt innocence; the party will accuse the Opposition of levelling baseless allegations to soil its pristine image. But that’s unlikely to carry conviction. Whenever the Congress has come to power, its leaders have resorted to every possible trick to feather their nests. The story of the Congress and the saga of corruption in India are part of the same narrative of declining ethics and vanishing probity. It is this cynical attitude that ensures corrupt Ministers affiliated to the Congress’s partners remain untouched despite overwhelming evidence against them. It is this criminal indifference that makes a Prime Minister whose publicists do not tire of projecting him as a man of impeccable integrity hostage to the misdeeds of his Cabinet colleagues. And it is this abuse of power to protect corrupt individuals that has led to the exoneration of crooks like Ottavio Quattrocci. India, which is seen as one of the most corrupt countries in the world, deserves far better than a party which sees nothing wrong with public money being diverted to private accounts. Probity must be restored to public life.

http://www.dailypioneer.com/295392/Congress%E2%80%99s-corruption-raj.html

'Karunanidhi doesn't have a good track record'

The Rediff Interview / V S Chandralekha

On October 12, for the first time in the 308-year history of the Madras corporation, a mayor will be voted to power. The battle between Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi's son, M K Stalin, and the former IAS officer turned politician V S Chandralekha promises to be tough. Also in the fray is a comedian from Tamil films, S S Chandran, of the MDMK.

When Dr Subramanian Swamy, president of the Janata party, appealed for support for Chandralekha, who heads the party's Tamil Nadu unit, little did he realise that support would come from an unexpected quarter. Former state chief minister Jayalalitha Jayaram withdrew her AIADMK party's candidate in Chandralekha's favour.

The decision shocked many Madras residents who have not forgotten the persistence of Dr Swamy and Chandralekha in bringing to light several misdeeds of the Jayalalitha regime. Not a day passed without Swamy producing some fresh revelations about Jayalalitha's misdeeds.

And Chandralekha? She is the bureaucrat on whose face acid was flung during Jayalalitha's rule, scarring her countenance forever. Several months in hospital and after numerous operations, Chandralekha resigned her job as an IAS officer to join the Janata party. She has been trying to get justice ever since. The case is now with the Central Bureau of Investigation. Ironically, the DMK used the acid incident to win votes in the assembly election.

How could she accept Jayalalitha's support? Chandralekha clarifies her stand in this interview with Shobha Warrier.

Why did you decide to contest this election? Is it because Karunanidhi's son Stalin is a candidate for the mayor's post?

Initially, I had no intention to contest the election. It was decided at the very last moment. When it became clear that the DMK was going to field Stalin as a candidate. Leaders of the Congress party, our alliance partner, Kumari Anandan, Tindivanam Ramamurthy, Krishnaswamy, Maragatham Chandrashekhar and Vazhappadi Ramamurthy felt this kind of flouting of all democratic norms should be strictly opposed.

It was their decision that I should be fielded as a candidate because they felt I have all the necessary qualifications to be a good mayor.

Is it because you were once an IAS officer?

As an IAS officer, I held various important positions in the government. As of now the corporation's administration needs a lot of improvement, and they felt I would be able to provide a good administration. I was persuaded to be a candidate. It came as a surprise to me.

In Tamil, they call the mayor Nagara Thanthai(father of the city). Whoever called the mayor so expected only a man to be mayor. As a woman, do you think you have an advantage over the others?

I have never felt disadvantaged because I am a woman. In my political life and earlier in my career, I never found that being a woman was a disadvantage. So it is neither an advantage nor a disadvantage.

If you win the election, they will have to change the gender.

(laughs) May be Nagara Annaior something like that. I think I'll get the support from all sections of society. There is a general feeling among women that the DMK is anti-women. The DMK had always been unpopular with women. The image of the party is such that generally women don't feel secure when the DMK is in power. Therefore, women will certainly support my candidature.

In the assembly election, the DMK-TMC alliance swept the poll. Soon we will have corporation elections. How do you assess your chances?

They swept the assembly election, not because of their inherent merit or strength. They actually won because of the campaign done by Dr Swamy and myself. We didn't have an organisation, so we could not reap the benefits. They harvested what we had sown. Because they had an organisation. Like in the zamindari system, what the tenants cultivate the zamindars take away. They won because people felt disgusted with corruption. So it was an anti-corruption vote, not a pro-Karunanidhi or pro- Moopanar vote.

Karunanidhi doesn't have a good track record. In his first term as chief minister he institutionalised corruption. All corrupt officers were given important positions and coterie rule was brought into Tamil Nadu during his time. The various corrupt deals are documented in the Sarkaria Commission report.

He is not a paragon of virtue. So, it is not that people thought he would give an excellent rule and voted him to power. They might have felt a lesser evil should be voted to power.

Now that he is in power, he doesn't show any signs of improving the state or rooting out corruption. Many corrupt officers are back in the saddle. It (the anti-corruption move) is only being used as a political strategy to threaten the AIADMK, break the party so that it will pave the way for his son's rule in the future.

The main Opposition party is the AIADMK, so if the AIADMK is weakened he feels it is advantageous not to his party, but to his son whom he wants to succeed him in future. That is what he is doing now. I am not holding a brief for AIADMK, please. All that I am saying is that he is going slow in all the cases. Though he is in power, he is doing nothing about it.

Take my own case. Four months have passed. The confessional statement of Surla (the man who is alleged to have thrown acid at her)was in the hands of the police. There was no stay from the Supreme Court as far as the trial was concerned but the government did not move one foot in the case. All they want to know was the advantage they can get from all the cases.

In your manifesto, you have promised to check corruption. As a mayor, how much can you do?

Corruption is built into the system, so you have to attack the system if you really want to root out corruption. There is so much of corruption everywhere because there is too much of government control. Now you take the case of the corporation, you have building rules and various other rules which are so complex that the official who is implementing them can manipulate them the way he wants. The moment you get a chance to manipulate, corruption is going to creep in. So, what you have to do is, simplify the rules so that the common man will understand them. That is one way, may be the only way, you can root out corruption.

Also involve neighborhood groups in the activities of the corporation so that people's participation is there. They can take up issues when something wrong happens. When the official knows that people are watching his moves, it will definitely check him from being corrupt.

'The party is not Jayalalitha's property'

When you asked for support from various political parties, did you expect support from the AIADMK?

No. I didn't. The appeal was a general appeal. It came as a bolt in the blue.

Did it surprise you when it came?

It really surprised us. We were totally taken by surprise. I think it is a very intelligent political move on her part.

Did you think twice before accepting the support?

See, it was not support that was sought. It was support that was given. I didn't have to reject it. After all, she is the general secretary of a party. When she is giving the support, it is the party that is giving the support. What do I have against the party? I have nothing against the cadres. In fact, Karunanidhi tells them, Chidambaram tells them that they (the cadres) can always come and work for them.

You should understand that the party is not her (Jayalalitha's) personal property. So when she is extending support, it is the party that is extending support, not she. You have to a make a distinction between the two. I am not compromising on any of my cases. The cases are with the various investigating agencies. They are not in my control at all. They are either with the state government or the central government. I am not giving anything away by accepting her support.

The general feeling is quite different because it was Dr Swamy....

No, the general feeling is not so. A section is trying to spread that deliberately. They want to divert the attention from the dynastic rule and Stalin so that the entire issue gets diverted. It is not correct at all. She gave the support because it suited her.

Will Dr Swamy stop attacking her (Jayalalitha) now?

No, why should we? See, it is not attacking. I think the film culture has taken hold of all of you in a big way! You all have such wonderful imagination. What is this attack? The attack had never been personal.

On her wealth.

Okay. We are not going to leave that. Cases are all there. Why are you assuming that something is going to happen to the cases? Has anything come in your way to show that we have slowed down in the process?

No.

Then, why are you imagining things?

Is not a delicate situation now? She has extended her party support to you and, if Dr Swamy continues attacking her..

Why should there be any embarrassment? We didn't ask for her support. But I am not going to say no to a support that came.

I have heard that you very close to Jayalalitha when you served the state as an IAS officer. Was it true?

Yes. I have known her. I do not know what you mean by close. I have known her. Then the SPIC deal came through and I differed with her.

Was that the only reason why the relationship got strained?

You see, there was never a close relationship. So there was no question of the relationship getting strained. What do I say? Yes, I have known her. But I'll not say I was close to her. I have been a friend of hers, but always maintained a distance as I was a civil servant. As a civil servant, you may have many friends. But there is no such thing like straining of a relationship.

Straining of the friendship, then.

Once she became chief minister , where is the question of a friendship? She was the chief minister, and I was a civil servant. That was all about the relationship.

I have also read in some papers that it was you who introduced Sasikala to Jayalalitha. Is it true?

Yes, that is true. Sasikala also admitted it. I had sent a recommendation to her (Jayalalitha) to take Sasikala as her videographer. She had a video shop then. As propaganda secretary of the AIADMK, Jayalalitha's programmes used to be videographed. This lady (Sasikala) came and requested me whether I can talk to her (Jayalalitha) and see that she was made her (Jayalalitha's) permanent videographer. So I recommended her.

Will you ever be able to forgive the person who was behind the acid attack on you?

I am not a vengeful person. I don't carry any grudge. If there is real repentance on the part of that person, may be I'll forgive. Because ultimately one should leave everything to God, shouldn't we?

Did that incident leave any scar inside you, like the scars that are there on your face?

I'll tell you something that happened in the hospital. One of my friends brought a Mother Superior from a convent to meet me. I was all bandaged. She prayed for me and told me, 'I see light and know you will recover to a great extent,' which I have. See it could have been worse. She told me not to have any negative feelings and not to keep any anger inside me because she felt that would delay the healing process.

From that moment onwards I told myself that I will not entertain any negative feelings in me. It has helped me, helped me a lot.

http://www.rediff.com/news/1996/0510lek2.htm

Letter to Mr.Rahul Gandhi, MP

Mr.Rahul Gandhi MP,
Tuglak lane.
New Delhi
Dear Mr.Rahul Gandhi,

Sub: Congress affairs in Tamil Nadu-regarding

I an old Congress member from Tamil Nadu. As you may be interested to know that I had moved closely with Pandit Nehru and Kamaraj and other senior leaders in the early 1960s and also worked at the AICC when the late Kamaraj was the AICC President and when was live.

In 1967 I was at the AICC and I wrote the Congress election pamphlets.

I and my other Oxford friend, Rudolf de Mello became ardent Congress members when we were both at Oxford in the early 60s and after coming back to India De Mellow became the Youth Congress President.

I later became an MLC in Madras in 1968 when the Congress was defeated by the DMK in 1967.

When Kamaraj and the Congress were defeated and were out in the cold, my election victory as an independent was hailed by Kamaraj as the first victory for the Congress in the state.

But alas! The history of the Congress from 1969,the split in the party, the coming of the Emergency, the later coming of the Janata government and later in 1980,the coming back of Mrs.Indira Gandhi are all now history.

The point I want to bring for your serious attention is that after 1967, the Congress party never recovered in Tamil Nadu and today, for the past 43 years the DMK and the Dravidian parties ruled the state.

I was in Tanjore just now, on the 27th of June I went to one village, Needamangalam, near Kumbakonam and I participated in a Congress meeting and the newly-elected Youth Congress workers, both young men and young women were present.

Now, I am leading a broad national front, called Kamaraj Peoples’ Front, comprising the Congress loyalists, mostly those Congress party workers and leaders who strongly feel the Congress party must contest independently, break off its alliance with the DMK and organise a front with other parties.

Of course, this broad feeling is still not fully articulated.

As for the Youth Congress and from what I have spoken to the newly-elected youngsters, they said that experts had come from New Delhi and trained them. When I asked them what training they got they said they would propagate the Central government’s welfare schemes to the people.

Now, I have had long experience with the Indian Youth Congress. Starting with Rudolf De Mellow time to Sanjay Gandhi, then Rajiv Gandhi days, from Kamaraj to Indira Gandhi times, the Youth Congress was always used as a prop by the parent party.

When the elections come the parent party just ignores the youth cadre and selects and distributes tickets on factional strengths of leaders.

So, in Tamil Nadu what chance for the Youth Congress workers when the 2011 Assembly elections come?

As I see and these are the realities I want you to know.

The DMK had now thoroughly corrupted the Congress party. The TNCC is under the vice-like grip of the DMK. The TNCC President works at the beck and call of the DMK chief. TNCC doesn’t do any work, doesnt do any party propaganda except to issue press statements to support the DNMK’s many ant-Congress propaganda.

It is an open secret in TN that the Congress MLAs, some 35 of them are under the hold of the DMK, rumours float about how many of the MLAs and the TNCC are on the pay roll of the DM, party and government.

Why the MLAs and the TNCC?

There are wild rumours that even the Central Ministers are “bought out”, the Ministers, insiders say, wont upset the DNMK applecart, the Ministers would only work for the present status quo. That is, the DMK-Congress alliance would be continued, even there is talk, the DMK’s strong man, and elder son of the DMK chief that the DMK might even threaten to go alone if the Congress doesn’t oblige the ruling party to do what it wants to do.

So, what chance for the Youth Congress workers? Will they get some seats in the DMK-Congress alliance talks?

There is every chance that the Youth Congress workers hopes might all become dashed!

The DMK would see to it that even in the Congress only those candidates, who have been corrupted as of now, might get renomination.

The point here is that whatever your efforts in other states, be it UP or Bihar might work, that might not work here, for the DMK is a more powerful machine, its manipulative skills are very great and even if the Congress President or yourself want to change the equations in the state, the very Congress unit in the state might not play to the dictates of the AICC.

The DMK is a fascist organisation in a democracy.

This, I hope, you have realised. If not, it is time to realise this harsh truth!

So, I have formed the broad nationalist front, there are so many outfits, small and big parties, NGOs and other social and cultural forces, secular forces and the very mass of the Tamil people who are all disgusted with the corruption and maladministration (there is no administration whatever, police is made powerless, there is an irretrievable trend towards an one-party, one-person dictatorship in a democratic cover-up.

I have a few suggestions to make here.

One, the Congress must encourage outsiders, those who are not within the TNCC, there is a vast reservoir of Kamaraj loyalists who are now dejected and outside the official party and also the very general public, comprising of the rural and urban poor, the middle classes and the very rich upper cuts who are all disgusted with the DMK’s autocratic rule and want to vote out the party. But this can’t be done by the TNCC alone, as I have already said is corrupt to the core and also in the pay roll of the DMK.

The intellectual class is thoroughly disgusted. The just concluded International Tamil Conference at Rs.500 crore expenditure was a thorough waste of poor people’s tax receipts only.

But the emotional appeal of the Tamil language is very real and the Congress can’t hope to capture the imagination of the Tamil people, unless the party also takes up the Tamil cause, Sri Lankan Tamil cause etc.

Second, I propose to issues a platform, some definite programme, say what the party would do if it is voted to power. There has to be a state-specific programme of action.

I would put abolition of corruption at the top, establishment of a Lok Ayukta, on the Karnataka model, closing down of the much-hated TASMAC liquor shops, police reforms etc. The DMK and the ADMK and other caste parties, along with the extremist outfits and the Communist parties won’t disappear in a day!

So, there must be an immediate revamp of the TNCC. Now, the same man, who is so corrupt and people wonder what is the need for continuing the same face for the second time. Is the TN unit not capable of getting the right persons for the jobs?

TNCC is so bogus, it is almost non-existent. There must be a fair representation for the DCCs, the DCCS themselves need some revamp.

I am sure the Congress President must be fully aware of the sorry state of the state unit of the Congress.

I personally don’t want any post or office, now or after. This I want to make clear.

I am a member of the Indian National Congress since 1962.I shall remain so even after any other changes. The party is 125 years old and I am fully aware what politics mean and what it should mean for the mass of the India people.

I had met and talked with some of the greatest names in history, Pandit Nehru, first of course whenever he used to visit Santiniketan when he was the chancellor of Visva Bharati, then in England I had visited the Irish President Eamon de Valersa, the French Premier of the Fourth Republic Guy Mollet and many others.

I am even now by purely altruistic motives and this is now an endangered virtue! Then, this is what I am!

With regards,

Yours sincerely,

V.Isvarmurti

http://www.isvarmurti.com/2010/07/02/letter-to-mr-rahul-gandhi-mp/

PM silent on Raja, says pact with DMK on 'as of now'

Declining to be drawn into the alleged spectrum scam involving Communications Minister A. Raja as the matter was in court, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Friday said the Congress party's alliance ''as of now'' continued with Raja's DMK.

He also declined any knowledge of a proposal from AIADMK chief J. Jayalalithaa offering support should the Congress choose to part ties with her DMK rival, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi.

"Parliament is in session. It is not proper for me to comment on a subject which is also probably in the court," the prime told journalists while returning from a three-day visit to South Korea since Wednesday for the G-20 Summit.

Asked for his reaction to an offer of support from Jayalalithaa to the United Progressive Alliance (UPA), that now has the DMK as a constituent, Manmohan Singh said: "This is a subject which I am hearing for the first time."

He said it was for the Congress high command, led by party president Sonia Gandhi, also the chairperson of the UPA, to decide on Jayalalithaa's offer.

"I don't know what Dr. Jayalalithaa has said. We are in alliance with the DMK and that alliance stands as of now."

Opposition parties have been mounting pressure on the government to act against Raja over his alleged role in the allotment of 2G spectrum in 2008, which it claims is a Rs.1.76 trillion ($40 billion) scandal.

Parliament was adjourned on successive days earlier this week after opposition members continued to press for Raja's ouster, which led to the disruption of business in both the two houses Wednesday-Thursday.

The opposition has toughened its position, demanding Raja's resignation after a report from the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), which is believed to have indicted Raja, was submitted to the government.

The spectrum, or radio waves, was sold to private telecom service firms in 2008 and the opposition says the price which the exchequer got was a fraction of what was legitimate on account of the alleged scam.

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/112136/raja-rules-resignation.html

Raja Spectrum Fraud - Part 2 ( How it unfolded)

The below link contains a little part of 2G Spectrum scandal with due supporting documents. One might understand while reading the content from top to bottom.

http://www.haindavakeralam.com/hkpage.aspx?PageID=11164&SKIN=B

The Fruit of Coalition politics with the DMK

The Fruit of Coalition politics with the DMK

A deadly dead-end!

By: T R Jawahar

In the last few days, Minister Raja has made a momentous comeback into limelight and therefore merits mention in these columns. And by some inscrutable association of thought, the Maoists too keep rising to the mind whenever the minister does. Now what earthy connection do the trigger-happy Maoists have with the tele minister? Nothing! And that’s precisely the point and problem!

But let’s rise a bit above Raja for he is no longer just an individual. This man has suddenly become a metaphor for ministerial malfeasance, a mega metaphor rather, valued at anywhere between Rs 60,000 to Rs 100,000 crores of public money. This mother of all scams at one stroke puts all other corrupt deals, jointly and severally, thus far, in the shade. And on the other end of the spectrum are the militant Maoists claiming to be fighting this very ‘entrenched’ establishment as represented by the corrupt ruling classes and their exploitation of the poor masses. At the risk of sounding sinisterly suggestive, does it not seem strange that the ‘moralistic’ Maoists have never had a tryst with such ministerial marauders and their minions yet?

We are now on dangerous terrain! But then, we all entertain dangerous thoughts, all of which do not become action, fortunately and unfortunately. The provocations of modern life are so dire to us, as individuals and as part of society. Even the primitive man had his primal fears and a resultant predatory instinct. But we are supposed to have evolved since and become ‘civilised’. We talk of such lofty things as rule of law, people’s will, freedom of expression and organised living as the touchstones of that ‘civilisation’. Modern instruments like Jurisprudence and Democracy are supposed to have insulated us from individual indignation and ire under the assurance that the higher power, State, in which they are vested instead, would take care. Indeed, the State is the modern God, protecting and preserving order. So, when such a State fails its dependent-subjects and worse, becomes itself their oppressor, will there not be righteous anger against those who personify it? And even more against those who perpetrate it personally?

Peaceful activism is the usual first response; but disillusionment sets in fast, thanks to public impotence and indifference. To such a disenchanted individual, the temptation to pick the gun and render vigilante justice to the most immediate and visible oppressor becomes pervasive. History is replete with groups that try to instituionalise this individual indignation, give it an ideological gloss and make it an organised mass movement. The Maoist label, having its roots in the Marxian stable, is one of the most popular brands in this anger-market. Classical Communist theory talks of the State ultimately ‘withering away’, after all inequalities have been levelled. By their book, that ‘red-letter day’, would be preceded by a revolution, often bloody. But even after many such revolutions and much blood, if egalitarian equality still eludes those societies, the fault clearly lies in both the mother ideology and the methods. The Marxist-Maoist ‘revolutionaries’ have only ended up converting vibrant righteous indignation aimed at deserving villains into raw anarchic violence against no one in particular.

And the contradictions have been stark too. Even in the Soviet Union, when the State actually withered away, it was not the culmination of the Communist ideolgy, but bad economics that made it happen. Or take China, the land of Mao that is also the current fatherland of the Maoists and the Marxists alike here. Chairman Mao, who is the posthumous mentor of all of these self-styled underground vigilante outfits, was in reality more of a ruler than a revolutionary. Much against the Communist moksha of withering away, the State under him was a nasty instrument of suppression. He purged his own comrades, pillaged the treasury, pulverised millions of his countrymen and put to nought all norms of governance. His personality took precedence over all professed principles. Indeed, Mao and his Leftism hardly had anything right in them. A movement born of his parentage is bound to be perverted. But even more incongruent are the targets chosen by the Maoists. These ‘Left-liberals’ who claim ‘public ownership’ as the cornerstone of their movement have no qualms in destroying public property; Their victims, running into several thousands, are rarely the classic exploiters like politicians or black-marketeers but predominantly, petty constables and poor civilians. Their ambit covers has fast Rajadhanis, not fradulent Rajas, wrought-iron bridges, not corrupt judges, the man on the street, not the street-smart babu or tout! We are not insinuating anything but only trying to highlight the Maoists’ skewed sense of justice!

There is a lesson here. The sum of all individual anger can hardly make for a mass movement, as mobilising minds is not a number game. Organised vigilantism simply does not work. The first few recruits may be highly motivated, but as the movement becomes an entity, it develops its own dynamics even as individual ire dissipates. The cadre swells not by the power of the idea, but by the accretion of lumpen, unemployable elements for whom Marx and Mao may well be distant uncles. In time, organisational challenges take precedence over goals, and as monetary interests rise, leaders get more paranoid and secretive. Comrades turn foes overnight as the fastest gun-puller becomes the undisputed despot. From Stalin to Mao to Castro to X, Y & Z, most dictators have had Marxism on their lips and revolvers at their hips. Having thus lost their script, violence for them becomes a way of life, a self-fulfilling orgasmic itch! In time, their guns are bound to backfire and the red corridor will get redder by their own blood too. But by their misplaced ‘priorities’ and misdirected violence, they would have also killed many legitimate causes that can actually do with some gunfire! For, even if I had a gun and a grouse, would I want to be dubbed a Maoist or join a band that knows not at who and why they are shooting? And that’s how the vile get their reprieve from retribution!

That really makes the world a safe place for the corrupt and the criminal. They are beyond the reach of law and the outlaw too. They dominate the ballot, can duck the bullet and easily dodge the adalat. The higher their position greater their impunity and immunity: None less than the CMs, PMs and super PMs of the land will rally around them to form a safety spectrum! So as Rajas go scot free with their bountiful booty, the prajas have no where to go: At the local police station the greasy cop may make a grab for your pocket, and if your are a woman, even grab you. At court, the judge may grab your land, given recent trends. And your elected rep, having already grabbed your vote by paying pittance, is in the grip of his own deals. Maybe some divine intervention is in order, but wonder why the Almighty is not taking our call! He had better hurry because 3G auctions are due anytime!

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http://newstodaynet.com/col.php?section=20&catid=30

Shekhar Iyer, Hindustan Times

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New Delhi, May 06, 2010

First Published: 00:08 IST(6/5/2010)

Last Updated: 00:10 IST(6/5/2010)

Why Karunanidhi can’t ditch ‘Spectrum Raja’

When DMK chief M. Karunanidhi invoked the Dalit card to brush off the demand for Telecom Minister Andimuthu Raja’s resignation, no one in the DMK expected him to act otherwise — even if controversies relating to the 2G spectrum allocations were hitting the ceiling.

“Spectrum Raja”, as he has been nicknamed by his AIADMK rivals, knew Karunanidhi had to defend him.

Since he became a MP in 1996 and a Union Minister in 1999, Raja (47) learnt early on what ticked in the DMK.

Do exactly as told by the party boss, Raja often told close friends. “That’s the way you stay close to the DMK patriarch, and out of the rivalry involving his sons, M. K. Alagiri and M. K. Stalin”. The other ‘golden’ rule, Raja learnt, was to ensuring that “you contribute more for the party than for yourself”.

Between 2004 and 2009, Raja’s contribution to the DMK coffers was more than that of T.R. Baalu, Transport Minister in UPA-I, who couldn't make it to UPA-II Cabinet, recalled a party insider.

Unlike Baalu, Raja did exactly what the party said and his contribution for the DMK's treasury for the 2009 Lok Sabha polls impressed Karunanidhi, another DMK official said.

Whether it was destiny or fortuitous circumstances, like Baalu, Raja got close to Karunanidhi’s second wife, Rajathi and their daughter, Kanimozhi. They seemed to be quite impressed with his sense of “business promotion”.

So when Dayanidhi Maran was forced to quit as telecom minister in April 2007, Raja fit right in.

Karunanidhi was livid that Dayanidhi and brother Kalanidhi had become too ambitious, holding popularity contests against Alagiri in their newspaper, whose office was burnt down.

Raja did not take charge of the telecom ministry alone. Kanimozhi was to remain his "guide". He was focused.

His alleged underselling of the 2G spectrum (a designated part of the airwaves for use by mobile phone operators), which caused a loss of Rs 22,466 crore as per the CBI's estimate, surfaced.

Reversing Maran’s decisions, Raja did not auction the spectrum, but sold it on a first-come-first serve basis. It was not at 2007 prices but at the 2001 price of Rs 1,650 crore.

Whether it was directive from the Prime Minister or the TRAI, Raja did not see any hurdle in violating any rule. In October 2009, when the CBI registered cases against "unknown" telecom officials and raided his ministry for causing loss to the exchequer, he was unruffled. He said the PM was in the know of all his decisions.

Raja knew what he learnt as a lawyer in Perambulur, that his Dalit background was strong enough to dissuade anyone to mess with him.

Furore in Lok Sabha

The Lok Sabha was adjourned on Wednesday as AIADMK members created uproar waving newspapers carrying reports of an alleged scam in allocation of 2G spectrum and demanded the resignation of Telecom Minister Minister A. Raja.

The AIADMK members rushed to the well displaying copies of the newspaper soon after Speaker Meira Kumar called for Question Hour.

Left members also joined the members in the well demanding an apology from Trinamool Congress member Sudip Bandopadhyay for his remarks against CPI(M) member Basudeb Acharia.

Kumar's repeated appeals to allow Question Hour to continue went unheeded.

PTI, New Delhi

http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/Print/539916.aspx

Life under ‘Kannagidaasan’ Karunanidhi’s rule in Chennai

The man with several wives claimed that his rule was better than the golden rule of Raja Raja Chola!

The expressbuzz reports:

“Chief Minister M Karunanidhi on Sunday sought to draw parallel to the rule of King Raja Raja Chola, considered to be the second golden era, to that of the DMK regime led by him now(!)”

That was his audaucity!

Was there a single corruption under Raja Raja Chola’s rule? Or stealing and raping Brahmin girls by his sons, never mind the murders perpetrated?

I watched the celebrations in Thanjavur for the millenium celebrations of Peria Koil . With all the persecutions of the Brahmins in the last sixty years of DMK rule the show was gloriously conducted by two Brahmins – MC Ramanan made his extempore kavi on the glory of Shiva and Raja Raja and the danseuse Dr. Padma Subramanian who brought a thousand dancers mostly Brahmins who paid their way to be there at their own expense. Two of the three songs were in Sanskrit and one of them composed by Adi Sankara and all of them composed by Brahmins!

Disturbing trend of moral ‘policing’ in Chennai

CHENNAI: On September 13, a research scholar in Madras University was humiliated by a police sub-inspector of Kotturpuram station as she was sitting with a friend near the Indira Nagar Mass Rapid Transport System station on Rajiv Gandhi Salai (OMR). After the woman took up the case with the City Commissioner of Police, the subinspector was suspended. Though the incident led to some public outcry following the media attention it drew as the woman had the courage to speak up, people complain that policemen generally get away with such bad behaviour.In fact, there are multiple instances of men and women being pulled up in public places and abused by foul-mouthed policemen that go unreported.Even married couples choose to remain silent despite being handed out threats and forced by the cops to pay up. Educated men and women often cringe at the outbursts of policemen, who behave as though they had caught a ‘wanted’ criminal while confronting a couple in a lonely spot.That most victims are scarred forever and fail to report it to the police or others is mainly because they themselves are not aware of their rights. Besides, the standard threat, “I will book you under brothel case,” would be humiliating and intimidating for any self-respecting woman. Most of the time the men — if they protest — are beaten up, as happened in the case of the research scholar.Sub-inspector N Varghese slapped the man in public when he summoned the courage to ask if they could have a civilized conversation.The policeman’s argument was that a married woman was sitting next to another man. “You are a Tamil woman. How can you sit with another man?” he questioned. Then came his one-liner: “This is Tamil Nadu, not America!” His threats during the 45 minutes he spend humiliating the two persons, included calling up the woman’s husband to the police station and telling him that he saw his wife in a compromising position with the man. The sub-inspector even tried to take the woman in a police jeep with no woman constable. His parting shot: “Take up the matter wherever you want.” The same day, a senior high court lawyer in his mid-40s was subjected to similar treatment when he was coming out of the Triplicane railway station with his wife. The policeman wanted to know who the woman was.When the lawyer interjected, saying the cop could show more decorum, pat came the reply: “Should I get down from the jeep and bend before you?” Which brings us to the question: must policemen always snarl at couples when they see them in a public place at night? It’s nobody’s case that there should be nil policing. But the other extreme — harassing, abusing and getting their pockets lined — is equally appalling. But do cops really care about sullying their image?

Patrolling is cultural hangover, feels CoP

Chennai City Police Commissioner T Rajendran, who acted quickly in suspending the sub-inspector who humiliated the research scholar, is categorical that the police cannot do moral policing.He has been taking steps to reorient the police force to the changing urban lifestyle here and has given clear instructions to officials in the lower ranks — from that of inspectors and below — not to pull up couples. The force, he says, has been told during the daily roll call to stay away from the private lives of individuals.However, he sees the whole issue as ‘delicate’, which needs sensitive handling. Recalling his experience in London, Rajendran says he witnessed a pair young lovers hugging and kissing in a seat just in front of him in a public bus. “None of the people inside the bus reacted to it any way. Will the members of the public ignore a couple canoodling in a bus in our country?” he wonders.“Ours is a changing society with deep roots in cultural traditions.” He feels that policemen in lower ranks hail from rural backgrounds and come with those cultural hangovers.“When they spot a couple sitting alone and holding hands, they immediately take a parental position and over-react, which obviously complicates the problem.’’ He agrees that the police force needs to walk the tight rope between enforcing law and changing nature of the society. While Section 75 (1) of the City Police Act, which provides punishment for drunkenness or riotous or indecent behaviour in public places, needs to be enforced, action must be moderated taking into account the emerging cultural complexities of modern society vis-a-vis relationships.“We have instructed ground level officers to politely tell couples found exceeding the limits of decent behaviour in a public place and indulging in obscene acts, to leave the place,” he says. Couples should also be advised not to go to secluded places, where they could invite the attention of anti-social elements out to misbehave with women or rob people of their valuables, he adds. Thus far and no further, he advises cops.Rajendran points out that instances of couples openly displaying their affection in public places have increased in the post-liberation era.Such things were rare in the early 70s, he says attributing the present trend to modern day communications like mobile phones, internet and TV.“As the face of society changes, the police force is also facing new challenges and we are trying to address them,’’ he signs off with a smile.

Horror stories from the beaches

Recently married couple, Yoga and Rahul (names changed), were on a pleasant drive through a road near Thiruvanmiyur beach on a Friday night last month when things suddenly took an ugly turn with a two policemen signaling them to stop. “They stopped us and asked a zillion shady questions like why were we out, what we were up to next and whether our parents knew where we were and doing what. Then they told us they could put us behind bars for ‘doing something inappropriate,’” recalls Yoga.“When I told them that we were a married couple, he refused to believe me. Then I showed my metti (toe ring).” He lectured us not to misuse public places like the beach. We did not want to create a scene and land in unnecessary trouble. We guessed he wanted some easy money, so we offered Rs 200.When he gave a nasty stare, we offered Rs 300 more and bought our way out of trouble,” informs Rahul.Another pair of lovers faced a different situation at Besant Nagar beach. Recalls N Rohini, who is doing her MPhil: “I was sitting with my boyfriend; mind you, we were not even sitting that close. But two constables came and started barking at us. We left immediately fearing trouble.”

The criminals police see in the dark

Imagine standing on a Chennai street, talking to a few friends, after sunset. A cool breeze wafts by followed by a Chennai Police patrol car.A policeman spews venom at you from inside and commands you to scram.Stalinist though it may seem, you don’t have a choice. Any appeal on your part to the cop’s good sensibilities will be met with threats of retribution. The cop knows you will back down, and you do. You and your friends slink away, wondering if you had broken any rules.The situation would have been exponentially worse if there were girls in the bunch. Even if she were your sister, sinister motives would be seen and awkward questions asked. All this for what? A harmless streetside chat with friends.“This is ridiculous,” frets Jaya (name changed on request). “It is like the Chennai Police hates women. They seem to think any woman outside her house after sunset could be up to no good. And believe me, I am making that sound polished,” she fumes. Jaya says cops have, on occasion, threatened to book her and her other female friends under a ‘brothel case’ if they did not leave the spot immediately.Her latest run-in with the police happened right outside her office on a busy road in T Nagar. Jaya says an amiable work-related discussion, which started as she was leaving her office with her colleagues, had continued on to the street outside. “Soon, a cop car materialised and they started asking us what business we had there. That’s fair. But they told us it was late and that ‘it was not right’ for men and women to be talking to each other on the road that late in the night.It was just 7.45 pm for crying out loud,” Jaya says with disbelief.She argues that it is not right to consider every person on the street a criminal once the sun goes down. But policemen disagree. They painstakingly build a case against their perceived misogyny and high-handedness. “Prevention is better than cure, isn’t it?” asks a retired police official in a practised tone. “That’s why the law gives the police the authority to break up any gathering that arouses suspicion,” he says, adding that one should meet friends at home and not by the street.And there is support for the police’s point of view. Anand and his friends have been meeting at a tea stall in Ashok Nagar right from their college days. For eight years, the place had been the arena for discussions on worldly issues. But the friends are not able to gather anymore, thanks to constant police patrolling.“They started asking us not to gather here after some incidents of chain snatching, robbery and even a murder close by. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that,” he says.

http://expressbuzz.com/cities/chennai/disturbing-trend-of-moral-policing-in-chennai/210296.html

2G Raja spectrum scam: Who are corruption partners?

November 12, 2010

Press statement issued by BJP National Spokesperson and MP, Shri Prakash Javadekar
12 Nov. 2010

The affidavit of the Govt. in the Supreme Court on the 2G Spectrum allotment is testimony of the abject and complete surrender of the Congress before its partner DMK for mere survival in the office. The shameful justification of corruption in 2G Spectrum allotment is the proof of a complete paralysis that has set in the Govt.

The Govt is defending the indefensible. NDA Govt. in 2003 decided in the cabinet that the spectrum in future will be allotted by auction only. Mr. Balu and other DMK ministers were part of the decision. Thus, the Govt. is fooling that they are pursuing the NDA policies. It is absurd that the resources like spectrum, which has become scarce, could be sold in 2008 at the price of 2001. The teledensity, which was merely 7% in 2001 is now more than 60%. So the argument of teledensity is also not valid.

BJP seeks answers from the Prime Minister on following questions;

1.
Has PMO given its assent to 2G Spectrum allotment without auction, as is being suggested by DoT or Mr. A. Raja ?

2.
Was the decision to allot 2G Spectrum without auction taken by DoT or by the Cabinet ?

3.
Is it not a fact that the PM was fully informed about the TRAI position on the issue and the fact that TRAI has never recommended 2G Spectrum allotment without auction ?

4. If 2G allotment without auction was right mode of allotment, then why 3G Spectrum was allotted through auction ?

Every time when confronted, Mr. A. Raja stressed that he has sought guidance and permission from the Prime Minister at every stage. This casts heavy responsibility on the PM to clarify whether he has personally approved the procedure, which Mr. A. Raja was adopting. PM’s silence on this is therefore more eloquent. The paralysis on the part of the Prime Minister to take action against Mr A. Raja on the worst scam India has ever witnessed proves that he was also partner in the decision.

BJP demands immediate sacking of Mr. A. Raja and an explanation from the Prime Minister.

(Shyam Jaju)
Headquarter Incharge

http://www.bjp.org/content/view/3680/394/

Antonia Maino-Raul Vinci Mafiosi, their lies and a fake state

Delhi witnessed a scene which would have been unimaginable in any other country with a governance that speaks for the land and its people. A person known as Syed Ali Shah Geelani, allegedly a known hawala racketeer and a backstabber Kashmiri who is a qualified Pakistani agent demanding “Azadi” from India, was allowed to speak at a meeting on “Azadi the only way”. And the patriotic Indian protesters were arrested while the traitors were given law’s khaki protection.

Geelani, even by a modest definition, is a traitor who has no qualms about accepting Indian money for his medical treatment and getting Indian security for his life, and still abusing Indian democracy and people. He is the one who had more than a hundred Kashmiri youth killed by instigating them to pelt stones while his own kith and kin are enjoying foreign jaunts and a secure future abroad.

 And lo and behold, this is what our home minister, P Chidambaram, said, “Geelani will be punished if sedition charges proved”. He added that the proceedings of Thursday’s seminar had been videographed and the footage was being checked to see if there was any violation of law in Geelani’s speech at the seminar organized by sympathizers of Kashmiri separatists.

 It’s like taking a picture of a caged jackal and sending it to wildlife experts to “have it examined” and figure out whether it’s a jackal or a rodent.

 The seminar’s subject was clear. The organizers and the speakers were known anti-India schemers who abuse Indian democracy and guarantees of freedom of speech. The speeches made at the meeting were dismissive of the Indian state and insulted the spirit of the tricolour. In spite of the evident sedition, the Sonia-Rahul government has decided to go soft and further cause injury to the morale of those soldiers who have been sent to Kashmir by the state power to protect the Constitution and India’s integrity. Why should a soldier fight and die for such an enemy-friendly government? If the voices of sedition are to be allowed to spread venom against the armed forces and patriotic people of India and then the home minister, confused and much-maligned by the Sonia loyalists, issues such ridiculous statements that reflect his “mazboori” to placate the traitors, then at least the armed forces should be spared the humiliation of being the target of both the traitors and the rulers in the valley.

 Except during the emergency, I have never seen such a terrified media and a fearful section of the opposition that feels scared to call the bluff of the ruling elite putting Indian security and morale of the forces at its lowest ebb. It was left for the fighting spirit of an opposition leader, Arun Jaitley, to come out with a statement that reflected the anguish of the Indian patriotic people. Where have all other leaders gone? Is the tricolor and its honour the responsibility of just one party? Can the rest can speak in favour of secessionists or maintain silence, looking for the right kind of vote-gathering opportunity? The professor who should have been sent to the gallows for conspiring against the Indian state is seen leading the attack on the nation’s integrity again, rather than feeling grateful to the democratic ironies of our society where the social secular sirens helped him to get a new lease of life.

Freedom of speech cannot be an absolute right etched in stone. Those who made use of this freedom in Delhi to assault the sentiments of millions of Indians do not give this right to anyone in their respective areas of influence. Geelani not only instigates his hired hoodlums to silence the other voices in the valley but is the main instigator to push Kashmir into the black alley of backwardness and Talibanism. He is, by any modest definition, a traitor, who has no qualms about accepting Indian money for his medical treatment and getting Indian security for his life and still abusing Indian democracy and the people.

 Freedom of speech has limitations. Hence hate, secessionism and pornography do not constitute essential parts of the right to speak and write. As Stanley Fish puts it, “free speech, in short, is not an independent value but a political prize”. No society has yet existed where speech has not been limited to some extent.

 I must quote a few lines from the invitation that was circulated for the “Azadi” meeting. It said, “The happenings in Kashmir over the past few months need no retelling. The situation has deteriorated to extreme levels with unarmed civilians, mostly young teenagers, being killed by the Indian armed forces with impunity. The toll from June 11 has reached 109, with the numbers of injured, maimed, and blinded much more. Curfews, bullets, tear smoke have become a routine to suppress the peaceful democratic protests.

“It is important at this juncture to bring the attention towards the fact that the basic issue at hand regarding the Kashmir dispute is the Self-Determination of the people of Jammu & Kashmir, for which they have been steadfast and hence been the target of the repressive military machine of the Indian State. The people of Jammu & Kashmir are clear about the fact that what they want is Azadi, which they have time and again defined in coherent terms of letting them decide their own future.

“The latest people’s resistance” which forms part of recently launched˜Quit Jammu & Kashmir Movement’” needs to be viewed as a continuity of the Resistance movement (Tehreek) which the people of Kashmir have been sustaining for over six decades.

“The political dispute vis-a-vis Kashmir need not be confused with the superficial measures like the removal of AFSPA, human rights violations, other draconian acts, stopping of unlawful killings, torture, enforced disappearances, etc. Though all these things do exist and need to be stopped at any cost, they manifest only symptoms of a broader and deeper malaise” militarized governance used to maintain a military occupation of the region by the Indian state, through its armed forces, numbering at least 7,00,000.”

Lies, absolute lies. You can talk to an honest enemy. You may have a dialogue with a secessionist who is sticking to his guns with some integrity and conviction. But how can you have a debate with a dishonest pleader?

Who are the people of Jammu & Kashmir waging this “Tehreek”? Is it true that “unarmed civilians” are being killed by the Indian armed forces? Or the violent and hateful stone pelters fell victim to Geelani’s instigations to attack Kashmir police, which is 95% Kashmiri Muslim? Why is the name of Indian armed forces being falsely dragged by these stone pelters’ Delhi shields?

Aren’t they playing the game of Pakistan by attacking the Indian armed forces, while everyone knows they are not at all at ground zero in the valley and all the active assignments of enforcing the law are being executed by J&K police or by CRPF, that too at the instructions of the state government, which is headed by Omar Abdullah, the “confused Indian and an uncertain Kashmiri” CM.

Who are these people, working as journalist in a mainline paper or dollar gatherer jugglers of words of an anglicized tribe to hold a brief for the “self-determination of the people of Jammu & Kashmir”? Do they know what constitutes J&K? Do they even know where Ladakh is? Do they know the patriotic people of Ladakh? And Jammu? And of the valley too? A small pro-Pakistan coterie of the Wahhabism, not more than 10% of the entire population of the state, is trying to grab the centre stage through violence and forcefully exiling its minority Hindu community. Why is this factor never discussed by or seen on the radar of “Azadi” seekers and their traitor friends in Delhi and Aligarh Muslim University?

Who is this Wazahat Habibullah, the backroom boy of the ruling family, speaking for the secessionists? Is he trying to repay some kind of a debt to his mentors?

India has fallen victim to a fake state – rulers who are taking the angst and patriotism for granted – inviting an unavoidable storm.

Author: Tarun Vijay

http://janamejayan.wordpress.com/2010/10/

Exit Christ! Exit Conversion!!

V. SUNDARAM

“We must get rid of that Christ, we must get rid of that Christ!” so spoke Ralf Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), one of the wisest and one of the most loveable of men. Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), wrote thus in 1850, “If I had my way, the world would hear a pretty stern command – EXIT CHRIST!”

The great English poet P.B Shelley (1792-1822) paid this poetic tribute to Jesus Christ: “Who was Christ? He is called the “divine teacher”. Yes, -

He led
The crowd, he taught them justice, truth, and peace,
In semblance, but he lit within their souls
The quenchless flames of zeal, and blessed the sword
He brought on Earth to satiate with the blood
Of truth and freedom his malignant soul!”

Since the days of Emerson and Carlyle in the 19th Century, a revolution has taken place in the thoughts of men all over the world and more particularly in Europe, U.S.A and the Western World. From their minds Jesus Christ has made his EXIT. To quote the words of Professor Goldwin Smith, “The mighty and Supreme Jesus who was to transfigure all humanity by his divine wit and grace --- this Jesus has flown.” The Supernatural Christ of the New Testament, the God of Orthodox Christianity, is dead in the West. NOT SO IN A PSEUDO-SECULAR ANTI-HINDU, CHRISTIANITY-EMBRACING COUNTRY LIKE INDIA. The UPA II Government of India, under the stranglehold of a woman Catholic usurper from Italy (the firangi memsahib to be precise), is functioning as the most potent marketing manager of proselytising Catholic Christianity and Protestant Christianity. India today has become a despicable land of rampantly fraudulent Christian conversions with the full political support of Sonia Congress UPA II Government in New Delhi.

The solid foundations of today’s Christian Church thievery and state-assisted dacoity in India were solidly laid during the colonial days of British Raj. Recently, I came across a copy of a journal called ‘THE ARYAN PATH’. I have presented the Front Cover of the August 1944 issue of this Journal below.

I came across the following news item in this issue of ‘The Aryan Path’

“Verrier Elwin’s renewed protest against the proselytizing activities of Christian Missionaries in the Wholly and Partially Excluded Areas deserves immediate attention. His account of proselytizing methods, particularly in the Mandla District, appeared in the Bombay Chronicle of 14th June. Not only, he indicates, are conversions effected through the offer of facilities, e.g., schools, but more objectionable methods are reported of exploiting the ignorance and poverty of the tribal people. Money-lending in impoverished India offers great opportunity, no doubt, through disinterested philanthropy, but it does establish a hold on the borrower. It should, in their own reputation’s interest, be eschewed by those who have a stake in getting helpless illiterates under their influence. Mr Elwin cites a case in which a too zealous missionary propagandist resorted to a threat of force against one of Mr Elwin’s own workers if he dared to oppose the Christians. Already the Dutch Catholic Missionaries are operating through more than a hundred minor centres, besides their Sijhora Training School with its thirty buildings. The withdrawal of a part of the Government Grant to this institution has apparently embarrassed them not at all. And Mandla is being invaded by Protestant missionaries as well. Mr Elwin charges openly that nearly every day he hears of new converts being “tricked, bullied or purchased into the Church”. The fact that the areas are nominally segregated has been helpful in avoiding public scrutiny of proselytizing methods “that would have been considered disgraceful in the Middle Ages”. The ostensible segregation was designed to preserve the cultural and religious integrity of the aboriginal population, and this is the way their cultural interests are being guarded. Without imputing any deliberate connivance on the part of the Government, its allowing of foreign missionaries an almost free hand must lay it open to misunderstanding. Mr Elwin demands that all schools opened in Mandla District since the passing of the Act of 1935 be taken over by the Government and that missionary money-lending and proselytizing activities generally be prohibited in all Excluded Areas.”

Verrier Elwin (1902–1964)

Verrier Elwin was a self-trained anthropologist, ethnologist and tribal activist, who began his career in India as a Christian missionary. He was a charismatic figure who first abandoned the clergy, to work with Mahatma Gandhi and the Indian National Congress, later converted to Hinduism in 1935 after staying in the Gandhian ashram.

After Independence, Nehru appointed him as an adviser on tribal affairs for north-eastern India. Later he became the Anthropological Adviser to the Government of NEFA (now Arunachal Pradesh). His autobiography, The Tribal World of Verrier Elwin won him the 1965 Sahitya Akademi Award in English Language, given by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters.

Priyadarshan Pant

My esteemed friend Priyadarshan Pant from Mumbai has sent me a beautiful article written by him in which he has written with great feeling of anguish against forced or induced Christian conversions in India and how many traditional Hindu families get wrenched from their ROOTS. He has rightly compared this pernicious process with what he calls the UPROOTING OF TREES in a forest. I am giving below the full text of this article:

OF TREES FLOATING IN THE GARDEN

Normally, trees growing anywhere are known by the locality they grow in. Thus, a tree which is growing in Rani Lakshmibai Park would be termed as belonging to Rani Lakshmibai Park. Similarly, if a tree is growing in my garden, I might say that that tree belongs to or is part of my garden and so on. On the other hand, if there is a tree lying uprooted in a field and finding that there is no cavity in the ground where that tree may have once stood, if someone were to ask where that tree belonged to, the answer might be – I don’t know. Why? Because we don’t know where its roots were!

Human beings are much the same as trees, as far as their roots are concerned. Humans too have roots and sometimes these roots are much stronger and deeper than roots that are visible to the naked eye. Amongst other things, Patriotism grows out of these roots.

A tree takes in air, water, minerals from its environment and gives back to its environment – clean air; flowers; fruits; cool shade; eco-balance; a beautiful ambience; poetry; literature; music and more.

A man living in a particular country would normally be taking sustenance from things in that country. He would observe the local rules, customs, norms, mores etc. and have much in common with other citizens of that country. Much the same as monkeys live with other monkeys he too would feel at home in his home country since he has so many things in common with others around him. This is the normal scenario.

Unlike trees which cannot float and live, a man can! He can continue to live in one and the same place and, only by programming his mind, a “disconnect” could be created between him and his surrounds. Thus, when a man converts to another religion, at least in India, he starts learning and speaking the language that is perceived as belonging to that religion – for instance, Urdu and Farsi for a convert to Islam, and English for a convert to Christianity. A woman convert may start wearing burqas or frocks as the case may be; her name would become Ayesha or Mary; men would shave off their moustaches and start wearing dirty perforated caps with short pyjamas and long kurtas to boot; Id and Christmas start getting celebrated – just as they are done in the respective lands of their origin; psalms are sung instead of bhajans and the loud speakers shout azans at a deafening 200 db; Mama must become Mamu or Uncle and Chacha must become Chachu or Uncle and so on. Local Hindu customs are discarded as being pagan, heathen or plain kafiri in the new religious incarnation. What were once the customs and religion of their forefathers for thousands of years and continue to be so for crores of their brothers and sisters, in an instant become things to fight against and “root” out. The human being thus shows itself out to be a strange kind of Tree – one that will bite, cut and destroy its own roots!

The jihadis and the crusaders say that their religions and only their respective gods are true. Neither the jihadis nor the crusaders pause to answer a few questions – What is the real name of God? Does he have a name at all? Why should {a (hopefully) just and correct thinking} God favour one set of men (say, Muslims or Christians) and not another (Hindus)? Does God have a religion? If God is Christian or Muslim, would he not be going to a Church or Mosque? If he is God then does he need to go to a Church or Mosque or a Temple?

Some Hindus go to temples and some don’t; some Hindus believe that God has form and some don’t; some Hindus believe in caste and some don’t and so on. The plain and simple fact the Hindus know is that God is known by many names; He has many forms but is only one! How come this is missed by the other religionists? It could, of course, be that now they have come to know the truth from the Hindus but they do not want to acknowledge it as that might lead to terrible monetary and political losses.

Why do people convert to other religions? The reasons are as varied as one can think them out but the major ones are – pecuniary or plain conning.

The harm that is done to a country that is beset with the accursed problem of “foreign religious conversions” is terrible, to say the least. Even as it is, there are so many divisions in society – language, money, caste, regions and regionalism as promoted by the government etc. On these are superimposed the foreign religious divides. INSTEAD OF UNIFYING US, FOREIGN RELIGIOUS CONVERSIONS DIVIDE US. The problem of blind beliefs (religious beliefs too are blind for the vast majority) continues; poverty, ignorance, follow-the-stupid-leader, indiscipline etc. all continue. Why then should any government interested in the well-being of a country allow foreign religious conversions? This could have only three possible answers – the government is stupid, a knave or both!

Whether religious conversions are mainly foreign in nature can be easily answered by the gargantuan proportions inflows of foreign funds have taken. These funds go into Christian and Muslim organizations, churches, mosques, so-called charities etc. The funds are then made to flow through many streams (books, pamphlets, television, teams upon teams of proselytizers etc.) into breaking Hindu Society, building more churches and mosques and even into jihadi terrorism.

The question we must ask of the government and the floating trees is how far will they go – would they even sell our own mother to gain, be it political power, money and other within-nose-tip-range benefits? VANDE MATARAM!

Swami Dayanand Saraswati, the Convenor of the Hindu Dharma Acharya Sabha views every act of Christian conversion as an act of unprovoked violence. In this context, let me quote the words of this great and revolutionary champion of Hinduism and Sanatana Dharma

“Christians, regardless of their denomination, are mandated by their theology to ‘bear witness to Christ’ which, in simple terms, means sharing the faith with a stranger. Why share the faith with a stranger? The vast majority of Christian believers are firmly convinced that unless a person ‘accepts Christ as his saviour’, he is, at the very least, denied entry to Heaven. More extreme, but not less common, believers are convinced that he will definitely go to Hell - and forever. So, given the theological compulsion to share the faith with a stranger, a serious Christian has no option except to exert and ‘save’ the person, inevitably a non-Christian, from such a fate. That is to say convert him to Christianity. See the effect. Obviously the theological belief that no faith other than Christianity can guarantee salvation, or that other faiths can only lead to Hell, cannot amount to honouring non-Christian religions. Can a Christian, who believes this, view a non-Christian religion as anything but inferior or, as is often the case, dangerous? So in the innocuous mandate to ‘bear witness’ to Christ inheres the denigration of the religion of the ‘other’, if not explicitly, certainly implicitly. Herein lies concealed the propensity and the potential for disharmony, for, when one’s religion is denigrated a great violence is done to what one holds most dear. … Conversion comes at the cost of extermination of native people’s cultural diversity and way of living. Without preserving as they are, the existing religious traditions and the people that practised them, we cannot access these knowledge-bases that contain the lessons of harmonious co-existence. I would unhesitatingly call the Jewish, the Zoroastrian and the Hindu traditions as non-aggressive traditions for just this reason: they do not convert. Conversion UPROOTS individuals, devastates families, creates discord in communities and destroys ancient cultures. … Destruction of culture is destruction of religion. Destruction of religion is destruction of culture. If this destruction is not violence, what else is violence? Aggression need not be physical. It need not be the Kargil type. There are a varieties of aggression. You can either be emotionally, economically or verbally aggressive. But, the worst aggression, more than physical aggression, is cultural aggression or religious aggression. That is why we say ‘Conversion is Violence’. It is the deepest and most profound violence.”

I would like to end this story with a poem titled Pagan Questions by Padma Sundaram which poetically brings out the points of view of both Priyadarshan Pant and Swami Dayanand Saraswati.

Pagan Questions!!

India is no longer the PUNYA BHOOMI (Holy land)
envisaged by our ancestors
It has become a NARAK BHOOMI (Land of Hell)
What with Quota Mad Politicians
And Quislings of pseudo-secularism
Islamic terrorists and
Christian Evangelists
Oh God we Hindus feel Hell is a better place
For in hell at least there is no Quota
For the ABC’s and EFG’s of Quota Raj
Or reserved treatment for Christians and Islamists


India is surrounded by vultures even before the people are dead
The vultures of Islam and hyenas of Evangelizing Christianity
Islam says convert or die, for Indiaslambad belongs to us
Evangelists tempt you with
Vanilla Ice-cream (Seventh Day Adventists!)
Chocolate Ice-cream (Catholics!)
Pista Ice-cream (Born-Again Christians!)
Cassata (Pentecostals!)
Tutti-frutti (Anglicans!)
For the Evangelists say
Why fall for Islam
When we have so many varieties to offer you!!
With Christian compassion and benediction


But when the Hindus cry out
We don’t want to convert, Leave us alone!!
The Soul-saving Evangelists say
But you cannot remain a black dirty heathenish pagan,
For when we offer you the chance to become
A black clean Baptist Christian
How can you ever say no!
To this offer of Christian heaven on earth
From a trans-national departmental store
For your total salvation


Terrorist Islam says
In terms Jihadic
You leave them to us
We know how to bring these infidels to heel
They are not fit to be offered ice-cream and such dishes delectable
They must know
It is Believe The Book or else it is sure death
Dear God, I as a devout pagan Hindu cry out
I have nothing to do with the Book
I know nothing about the Book
For God’s sake
Leave me alone in peace.


OM SHANTI! OM SHANTI! OM SHANTIHI!

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