Love 4 Bihar: 2011

Sunday, December 18, 2011

BTN: सेना के अस्तित्व पर सवाल बना अनिल यादव हत्याकांड

respected sir,

please read this report only on www.apnabihar.org

with regards,

nawal

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Wednesday, November 16, 2011

BTN: Beware of Love Jihad in India

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From: sri venkat
Date: Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 7:07 PM
Subject: Love Jihad in India Exposed by IBN7 (हिंदी)
To:

Love Jihad in India Exposed by IBN7 (हिंदी)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqHyu47rr7E&feature=related

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

while Chidambaram is busy on Hindu terror and flirting with Afzal Guru

An apparent Jihadi attack killed 9 lives in new Delhi; several injured..

Rahul Gandhi already told - not possible to stop terror attack 100%

How do you feel ?

Is this not the time to raise voice and take steps....

Sunday, August 28, 2011

BTN: Swami Agnivesh as Congress agent

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlbrlfhqVKo
Taking to Kapil Sibbal
I never trusted that Maoist supporter..

BTN: NRI contribution to Anna's Victory/Our Victory

Dear Readers:

We have been publishing 'support Anna Hazare' articles, photos and videos from both Resident and non-Resident Indians.

I thought to share the following specific article, where you can watch a member of this group Mr. Aman Kumar Singh is addressing a gathering of Colorado NRIs, followed by patriotic songs by other NRIs.

NRI's of Colorado express their solidarity with Anna Hazare - 25 August

Thanks
Manoj

PS: Feel free to share your efforts in fighting corruption at hindtoday@gmail.com and we would be glad to share your effort with our global audiences.

Friday, August 26, 2011

BTN: A MUST SEE..... Lage Raho ANNA BHAI.........!

Rahul Gandhi's vision of a more corrupt India - Read his speech

Watch and if you like pass it on..

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Subject: A MUST SEE....

My Dear,

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Sardar Badnaam hua darling tere liye.......

sony===== Main aai hun UP/BIHAR.....nahin India lootle...

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Sunday, August 21, 2011

BTN: अन्ना के आंदोलन की दशा, दिशा और अंजाम

respected sir,

please read this report only on www.apnabihar.org

with regards,

nawal

Monday, August 15, 2011

BTN: Jan Lok Pal Bill vs Manmohan Singh's 'Joke Pal - The Bill to promote corruption'

Dear Readers:

Emergency is back. Anna & his team are detained and most likey Anna Hazare will be sent in a chartered plane, like Baba Ramdev.

Manmohan Singh thinks that we all are stupid and accept his version of Lokpal bill which is really a joke - a bill to promote corruption.. with a chance to appoint Kapil Sibbal, Manish Tiwari and Digvijay Singh as Lokpal. We already see, how our puppet President is working...

Manmohan Singh's 'Joke Pal - The Bill to promote corruption' Vs Anna Hazare's 'LokPal - The Bill to prevent corruption'

Read the difference (preared by Anna's team ) and circulate to your friends...

http://www.hindtoday.com/Blogs/Docs/ManmohansJokPalBill.pdf

thanks

Manoj Padhi

BTN: Act now to save our country from becoming a Banana Republic.

Let us scold the Jaichands and Ghoris, whose talks doesn't match their action..

SoN:Anna Hazare fighting the good fight w/ Manmohan 'Jaichand' Singh and Sonia 'Mohd. Ghori' Gandhi ?

Youtube link (if the above link is busy due to server overload ) http://youtu.be/t3WXRJGSpmU

View Public comments http://www.youtube.com/all_comments?v=t3WXRJGSpmU

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 1:35 AM, Pravin Patel <tribalwelfare@gmail.com> wrote:

Friends,

We are now in Sixty Fourth year of our gaining Independence that has come at a very heavy cost of sacrifices of many of our heroes who had big dreams that in the freedom and self rule, there will be all round prosperity for all.

Where we have landed on this day when our natural resources are looted, corporate houses rule the country from behind the curtain, farmers are committing suicide, their lands are forcibly taken away even at the cost of firing live bullets, 60% of our population are struggling to survive while Rajas and Ranis are looting the country but Dhrutrastra styled PM is in silent mode despite documents prove that he was in knowledge of what is happening under his nose.

We do not know much about present generation of great leaders like Subhas Bose, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad, Shaheed Bhagat Singh, one amongst many heroes who sacrificed their lives to get us free.

How many of us know what is happening with 95 year old Prakash Kaur, younger sister of Shaheed Bhagat Singh! She is struggling for last 22 years to get justice for her son-in-law, Kuljeet Singh Dhatt who was killed in 1989, allegedly by five Punjab Police cops in Hoshiarpur district in an fake encounter. Even the Apex Court Intervention has failed to work on Punjab and Haryana high court where the case is pending for over 14 years. This is one example of how we treat the families of those who have sacrificed their lives to make us free.

Mr. Manish Tiwari, Spokesperson of Congress party in press conference demonstrates arrogance and labels Anna as total corrupt from Top to bottom. This is the height of fear and frustration in the congress party who are showing elephant teeth to fight corruption.

Manish Tiwari should very will understand that in the last election, Congress could manage to get only 34% out of total 60% of votes polled. How can he say that they represent 1.2 billion people of the country! Ridiculous.

This is the time to stand rock solid behind Anna Hazare who is in a decisive phase of struggle for second independence to free us from shackles of corruption that has made our country look like a Banana Republic in the entire world.

We can not remain silent spectator to what is happening and going to happen in next few days.

Happy Independence Day.

Pravin Patel

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Manoj Padhi

Friday, August 5, 2011

BTN: Why India can't feed its people, asks Canadian media,

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Date: Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 5:17 PM
Subject: India.ozg.in - Why India can't feed its people, asks Canadian media, Deccan Herald, July 19, 2011 [1 Attachment]
To:

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http://www.deccanherald.com/content/177194/why-india-cant-feed-its.html

Why India can't feed its people, asks Canadian media
Toronto, July 18 (IANS)

In this Year of India in Canada, India is making news in the media here -
not for the second highest growth rate in the world but for its ''absolute
poverty'' and failure to ''feed its people.'

The Canadian media has also likened "the boom in Bihar" to "a whimper.
Writing under the headline 'Why India can't feed its people,' the country's
biggest daily Toronto Star reported from New Delhi Sunday, "Food is an
all-consuming crisis here. Waste is only one facet. Agriculture,
infrastructure, inflation, innovation and corruption are others. It is a
scourge and challenge for this country of 1.2 billion people...''

According to it, "40 percent of Indian children remain chronically
malnourished,'' with this figure in some parts of India even higher than
some sub-Saharan countries.

Citing reports of hungry children eating mud in parts of Uttar Pradesh, the
newspaper story said, "Today, there is less food available for each Indian
resident that there was 30 years ago. In 2008, the most recent year for
which statistics are available, India produced 436 grams of food grains per
person per day, a drop from 445.3 in 2006.''

The report said, "As much as 40 per cent of all the fruits, vegetables and
food grains grown in India never make it to the market.

The country wastes more grain each year than Australia produces, and more
fruits and vegetables than the UK consumes.''

Blaming the lack of R&D for the crisis in the Indian agriculture sector
which has led to 200,000 suicides since 1997, the report said, "While China
pumps $3.5 billion into agricultural research - Chinese farmers grew 6.2
metric tons of rice per hectare in 2008, double India's output - India's
spends a fraction of that.''

In another story from Dharampur Mushahar Toll in Bihar, the national daily
Globe and Mail reported Sunday that "the boom in Bihar sounds more like a
whimper.''

Bihar, which has the lowest literacy rate, the highest child-mortality rate
and the lowest life expectancy in India, has become a synonym not for
intractable despair, but for turnaround under a new reformist government led
by "a pot-bellied, teetotalling socialist engineer named Nitish Kumar,'' the
report said.

But "to travel in Bihar - in the rural areas or in the capital, Patna, where
the streets are choked with garbage and the lights flicker out every couple
of hours - is to see both how the place has changed, and how terribly far it
has to go. And it is in this, more than anything else, that Bihar is
emblematic of India - of its dark side of absolute poverty and exclusion,
and how very difficult a task it is to change them,'' the report said.

The paper said, "*Half the children (in Dharampur Mushahar Toll) are without
clothes; a third of them have the deep hacking coughs and crusted snot of
chronic respiratory-tract infections. *In the newly built early-learning
centre, a gaggle of three-year-olds sits beneath one tattered poster of the
English alphabet - not that there is anyone around who can read it.

*Few people have any food in their tiny houses; they buy what they can each
day after working on the land of higher-caste villagers.''

*But giving credit to Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who inherited a "wretched
mess" after "15 years of misrule by a theatrical thug Lalu Prasad Yadav and
his wife Rabri", the report said that under him "the reign of the
criminals (has) collapsed;* now, in the evenings, the city streets throng
with shoppers and families out for ice cream.''

Infrastructure construction is booming, school enrollments have doubled and
doctors and teachers show up for duty on time.

But "Mr (Nitish) Kumar, however good his intentions, cannot leapfrog his
state into the 21st century. He can drag it to 1950, or 1970. But not to
2011. And there are pockets just like Bihar all over India where this is
true.''

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One Man with courage is a Majority.
Andrew Jackson

Thursday, June 16, 2011

BTN: Jan Lokapal Bill - Govt agrees to 15 points out of 71

Black money feed back to govt - Acknowledgments of mail should be mandatory

Congress Party is trying to fool us with an e-mail id feedback.you may try to send an e-mail

In my opinion - the least every concerned citizen can do is as follows - login to youtube

create a video:

Anna Haraze Zindabad
Baba Ramdev Zindabad
Sonia Gandhi Murdabad
Puppet MM Singh Murdabad
MM Singh - Tum Gaddar Ho - that is why afraid of Lokpal
We want Lokpal Bill not JokePal bill
Declare Blackmoney as National Asset.

mail it to your e-group in addition to bm-feedback@nic.in

-Manoj Padhi

Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 10:46:47 -0700 (PDT)
From: Prashant Sahoo <pramita_sahoo@yahoo.com>
Subject: [Ornet] Jan Lokapal Bill - Govt agrees to 15 points out of 71
proposed.
To: ORNET <ornet@lists.cs.columbia.edu>
Cc: Sandip Dasverma <sandip.kumar.dasverma@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <41328.46561.qm@web161422.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>
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Very interesting news ... It seems after Ramdev bAbA, another storm is coming ....Anna will go for fasting with do or die kind of philosophy. Govt agrees to 15 points out of 71 proposed. I know all the politicians ( except a rare ones ) are crooks and corrupt. So how come the Govt. will agree to even 50% of the proposed points ?
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http://www.rediff.com/news/slide-show/slide-show-1-govt-agreed-to-only-15-of-the-71-points-of-lokpal-bill/20110616.htm
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Dear Ornetters,
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What can we do to support Anna's mission ? We could not do anything in case of Ramdev bAbA's mission of declaring Swiss Bank Deposits as National Property. Can we do something here even if on internet ?
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Prashant K Sahoo

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

BTN: Test Score - Vision on Corruption : Manmohan Singh - 0, Baba Ramdev -100

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Manoj Padhi	Test Score - Vision on Corruption : Manmohan Singh - 0, Baba Ramdev -100 - Do you agree with me that Dr. Manmohan Singh is a गद्दार [Traitor] PM ?
Blog	Posted By: manojpadhi on:6/7/2011 12:59:31 AM

There is no magic wand to fight corruption

Marks awarded = 0/100

There are plenty of ways by which we can fight corruption.

Marks awarded = 100/100

Qualification: Professor Economics, PHD 8th Pass, Yoga Guru

Inspired by Baba Ramdev's Hindi definition of corrupt – gaddar, I have been scolding such people since a while. When I designated our Prime Minister as Gaddar, many disliked that label. I 100% agree with Baba Ramdev's Hindi definition of corrupt.

After reading this, you may click any of the buttons above:

I agree ( that Dr. Manmohan Singh is a Gaddar PM )
I disagree
Can't say.

Per dictionary.com definition – the adjective corrupt is described as - guilty of dishonest practices, as bribery; lacking integrity; crooked.

So, when Manmohan Singh claims to be honest – his actions are not honest – as we will elaborate with examples – he lacks integrity and guilty of dishonest.

Dictionary.com describes the adjective honest as:

Honorable in principles, intentions, and actions; upright and fair: an honest person.

showing uprightness and fairness: honest dealings. gained or obtained fairly: honest wealth. be right per dictionary definition of honest

While I agree with almost 100% what Baba Ramdev says about corruption - Baba Ramdev and I differ only in case of Dr. Manmohan Singh – Baba says – "Manmohan Singh is politically dishonest; The PM as a person is honest but questions are arising on his honesty as a politician"

I say – Manmohan Singh is 3-in-1 - "dishonest" , "corrupt" and "gaddar (traitor)" as not only he fits in to the above definition of honest but his character also overlaps with the definition of "corrupt" and "traitor".

Now, let us examine the definition of "traitor" (noun) – gaddar.

Dictionary.com describes the word traitor as

"1. a person who betrays another, a cause, or any trust.

2. a person who commits treason by betraying his or her country.

Let us integrate the above 3 definitions and try to correlate to see whether his actions are merely "talk the talk" or he is a "walk the talk" person using his record of the past 7+ years as PM.

Here is what I inferred and I would provide reasoning for each of my charge.

Dr. Manmohan Singh is guilty of

guilty of dishonest practices –( see definition of corrupt)
zero uprightness and zero fairness (see definition of honest )
Betraying a cause and trust. (see definition of traitor)

Let us elaborate his actions.

Charge -1 : Betraying a cause
He says	He ignores	He does
there was no magic wand to end corruption The government is serious and we are concerned about corruption and black money. There is no doubt. But there is no magic wand	Bringing out an ordinance to declare illegally stashed money as National Asset He was evasive when asked – "whether PM should be brought under Lokpal" He wouldn't act laws where corrupt get life imprisonment. A Swiss window to black money the UPA won't look into [Note that our serious Dr. Manmohan Singh wouldn't look in to this window – why?] Egypt court sentences former finance minister to 30 years jail Madoff Sentenced to 150 Years in Prison - NYTimes.com Europe, US Battle Swiss Bank Secrecy [Note that our serious Dr. Manmohan Singh was not part of that battle – why?]	Doesn't sign the UN anti-corruption treaty since 2005. His negotiator Kapil Sibbal tells Baba Ramdev – "find out the names and Bank account details of all the people, who stashed money abroad" When Baba Ramdev asked – he unleashes CBI and ED to audit his companies. Promises a committee Wouldn't televise live the Lokpal bill discussion of Anna Hazare and team, which is very common in Unites States using C-SPAN. http://cspan.org/ ]
Conclusion: Deterrent and Transparency are the real magic wands, which Dr. Singh says "not". If Ramalinga Raju, Raja and Kanimozhi were knowing about a potential 150 years of punishment – they wouldn't have dared to risk their life in jail. Now, they are most likely to get 5 to 7 years in jail and would get a waiver of the time spent in jail before their conviction i.e. during the trial. They were allowed to eat home foods – Idly, Vada – special treatment for VVIP Chors.

Charge -2 : Betraying trust , zero uprightness
He says	He ignores	He does
Would n't hesitate to appear before PAC Was not aware of that CVC was corrupt	JPC and wasted a parliament session Dr. Subramanian Swamy and Mr. Arun Shourie's early warning and allows the scam happen under his nose – knowing that CAG can catch that only at the end of the yearly audit. Would he do the same, if he were told that his home is being burgled by Raja, who took all his cash and all the gold ornaments of his wife are looted by Kanimozhi? He would jumped from his chair and instructed CBI to rush to his home. Would appoint tainted CVC P.J.Thomas to cover up 2G scam in spite of warning by leader of opposition Ms. Sushma Swaraj. The President of India is already a puppet. A non-puppet president Dr. Kalam was kicked out after one term because, he ruined Ms. Sonia Gandhi's PM aspirations. CBI was used to blackmail Ms. Mayawati to muster numbers during Presidential election The President Pratibha Patil was also tainted in a rural bank scam and yet got elected. Mr. L.K.Advani alleged that the puppet President accepts a memorandum and does nothing. The President's office clarified that she does send it to PM/Cabinet – but forgot to mention whether she ever follows up and informs the people the status of their memorandum? CBI gives Lalu Yadav a reprieve in Corruption Case Lalu Yadav has been returning the favor by scolding Baba Ramdev. Mayawati and Mulayam were repeatedly blackmailed by CBI and forced to support the minority Government of Dr. Manmohan Singh.	Blackmails Mulayam Singh using CBI and gets number at PAC. Dr. M.M.Joshi's PAC report was designated as "scrap" and politically motivates. They avoided a debate on PAC report. Note, if there were No JPC and Supreme court probe - there would not be any 2G scam courtesy the Zero Loss (Kapil Sibbal) argument of Kapil Sibbal He asked his minister to take the blame for Thomas recruitment.
Conclusion: CBI was misused by PM , who also closed his eyes during huge scams; ignored major warnings. Avoided JPC probe and wasted a whole parliament session before succumbing to demand of opposition. He doesn't want to come under jurisdiction of Lokpal, in spite of independent charge of several ministries.

Charge -3 : Zero fairness
He says	He allows	He does
Recall during Anna Hazare's fast two months before– there were no precedence of including Civil society in drafting any Bill	Binayak Sen, Arudhanti Roy, John Dayal, Sabnam Hasmi, Kashmir separatists are welcome to talk separation of Kashmir from India. / Naxlite are victims argument. In a recent artcle dated 29-May-2011, titled "Pre-emptive Sangh offensive on the Bill to prevent communal violence" , activist Dr. John Dayal reveals that - several liberal eminent bigoted activists were invited by Ms. Sonia Gandhi since 1.5 years to append sections, in the proposed "Communal Violence Bill" that would put Hindus at disadvantage, just like the Dowry act put many Husbands at disadvantage. This engagement did bear fruit. The National Advisory Council headed by United Progressive Alliance chairperson Mrs Sonia Gandhi set up a working group coordinated by two NAC members, journalist-activist Farah Naqvi and former bureaucrat and NGO activist Harsh Mander – with members from the various religious communities. The three members from the Christian community included this writer, together with two lawyers, Sister Mary Scaria and P I Jose of Delhi. Major activist-members included Shabnam Hashmi of Anhad, Teesta Setalvad of Mumbai and Vrinda Grover and Usha Ramanathan, and both jurists, from Delhi. After sittings lasting more than a year and a half, the working group, finally assisted by Additional Solicitor General Indira Jaisingh, came up with a draft law, and called the Prevention of Communal and Targeted Violence (Access to Justice and Reparations) Bill, 2011. The Bill has been put on the NAC website and people's reactions have been sought with a deadline of 10th June 2011. The draft will then be sent to the government to undergo the processes which will finally see it being presented in either House of Parliament, presumably later this year in the Monsoon or winter sessions. This writer, and Ms Shabnam Hashmi and jurists Vrinda Grover and Usha Ramanathan have expressed their own reservations to the NAC about several aspects of the Bill, especially in areas of Centre-State relations, impunity, and trigger mechanisms to make operative central intervention, the powers and structures of the Central and State authorities sought to be created to oversee the control of violence and issues of reparation and so on and finally to ensure the empowerment of the victims and ending impunity. Several Muslim members have also wanted the draft law to be tweaked in several areas to meet the challenge of hate campaigns, violence, rehabilitation and reparations	Drafted by India's most biased bigots to put Hindu's in jail :: PREVENTION OF COMMUNAL AND TARGETED VIOLENCE (ACCESS TO JUSTICE AND REPARATIONS) BILL, 2011 To draft the Anti-Corruption bill – Civil Society activists like Anna Hazare and his team are not welcome – PM said- No precedence.While Congress President has been involving bigoted activists to draft the communal violence bill since January 2010. Baba Ramdev was threatened, warned and discouraged from the airport – much before the June-4 satyagraha date. It was Baba's presence of mind and false promises that stumped those cunning and dishonest people like Kapil Sibbal. Our Chanakya baba Ramdev demonstrated – "Sathe Sathyem Samacharet" and in stead of surrendering to injustice, he had done a Shivaji Maharaj, a move unexpected by any one.
Conclusion: So, when comes to convicted criminals like Binayak Sen and Separatists – they are welcome to draft bills. But when comes to Baba Ramdev – he was depicted as RSS agent, who are patriots and doesn't agree with the Congress definition of Secularism (appeasement of minorities – read the bill to know). When Anna Hazare want to be included in the draft of Lokpal bill – no precedence – while since Jan 2010, bigoted activists like John Dayal, Teesta Setalvad, Sabnam Hasmi have totally revised the communal violence bill to put Hindus in jail. Now, a Muslim terrorist don't have to become a suicide bomber; he just has to go to a Hindu area and start a squabble and when beaten up, lodge an FIR under the PREVENTION OF COMMUNAL AND TARGETED VIOLENCE (ACCESS TO JUSTICE AND REPARATIONS) BILL, 2011 Afzal Guru is not hanged since last 6 years because we have a puppet President and Gaddar PM. Period.

Our egoist PM Dr. Manmohan Singh has beaten up sleeping people in Ramlila ground to satisfy his ego – "How dare Baba Ramdev flip-flop even though no timeline was provided for his demands?" (He thought Baba was stupid as unlike Anna Hazare he didn't demand a timeline in advance) - but wouldn't visit the hospital to see the victims– wouldn't introspect – pending the Baba-beat-up order, why he let Mr. Chidambaram go to Chennai to attend Narayan Murthy's son's wedding?

He had demonstrated such ego when Shri L.K.Advani labeled him as a "weak PM" during last Lok Sabha Elections. He wouldn't ready for a face-off election debate with Mr. Advani and yet claim that he is "strong".

He again demonstrated the same while replying to the 2G scam in Parliament. Blamed BJP regime for the scam and justified his inaction.

He is the only PM of India, who has been scolded by Supreme Court time and again and yet claims that he is "honest".

So, when people designate him personally honest and politically dishonest – I would not buy those arguments, because a man acts based on his "character", which is usually developed over the years based on one's upbringing, religious beliefs, ethics, and moral convictions. Former PM Vajpayee didn't succumb to Ms. Jayalalitha's blackmail (She requested misuse of CBI) and preferred to go to the people.

Now I rest my case and would like to ask you – "Do you agree with me that Dr. Manmohan Singh is a गद्दार PM (Traitor) ?.

Sunday, June 5, 2011

BTN: इंटर विज्ञान की परीक्षा में अंजनी कुमार सिंह का जलवा

respected sir,

please read this news only on www.apnabihar.org

with regards,

nawal

BTN: भ्रष्टाचार, बाबा रामदेव, पूंजीवाद और काले धन की वापसी

Respected sir,

please read this news only on www.apnabihar.org

with regards,

nawal

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

BTN: Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn.

- Gajendra

Gajendra Thakur
Mr at Home
New Delhi Area, India

Confirm that you know Gajendra

Monday, May 16, 2011

BTN: Osama Bin Laden, Pakistan and the US Cartoon Factory...

Pakistani/Muslim Point of View

The death of Osama -By Dr Ghayur Ayub

Death of Usamah Bin Laden: Freedom Fighter or Terrorist? -By Yamin Zakaria

Death of Osama bin Laden and Changing World -By Ram Puniyani

Rest of the world...

On Osama Bin Laden, The US and Pakistan...

Compiled and forwarded by:

Phil Masters.

Saturday, April 16, 2011

BTN: Jan Lokpal bill: addressing concerns by Prashant Bhushan

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From: Milap Choraria

Opinion - Leader Page Articles

http://www.hindu.com/2011/04/15/stories/2011041556271000.htm

Jan Lokpal bill: addressing concerns

Prashant Bhushan

The draft bill seeks to create an institution that will be independent of those it seeks to police, and will have powers to investigate and prosecute all public servants, and others found guilty of corrupting them.

A number of commentators have raised issues about the provisions in the draft of the Jan Lokpal Bill. They have asked whether it would be an effective instrument to check corruption. They have pointed to the manner in which Anna Hazare's fast put pressure on the government. It is therefore important to understand the provisions of the bill and how it seeks to set up an effective institution to deal with corruption.

Corruption in India has grown to alarming proportions because of policies that have created enormous incentives for its proliferation, coupled with the lack of an effective institution that can investigate and prosecute the corrupt. Under the garb of liberalisation and privatisation, India has adopted policies by which natural resources and public assets (mineral resources, oil and gas, land, spectrum, and so on) have been allowed to be privatised without transparency or a process of public auctioning. Almost overnight, hundreds of memorandums of understanding (MoUs) have been signed by governments with private corporations, leasing out large tracts of land rich in mineral resources, forests and water. These allow the corporations to take away and sell the resources by paying the government a royalty, which is usually less than 1 per cent of the value of the resources.

The Karnataka Lokayukta, Justice Santosh Hegde, has pointed out in a report on mining in Karnataka that the profit margins in such ventures are often more than 90 per cent. This leaves huge scope for bribe-giving and creates incentives for corruption. The same thing happened when A. Raja gave away spectrum without a public auction to companies at less than 10 per cent of its market price. Private monopolies in water and electricity distribution, airport development and so on have been allowed to be created, where huge and unconscionable levels of profit can be made by corrupting the regulator and allowing private monopolies to charge predatory prices. Tens of thousands of hectares have been given away to corporations for commercialisation in the guise of airport development, construction of highways, creation of Special Economic Zones and so on, at prices that are less than 10 per cent of the value of those tracts of land.

Apart from creating huge incentives for corruption, such policies have resulted in the involuntary displacement of lakhs of the poorest people, leaving them on the brink of starvation and forcing many of them to join the Maoists. The beneficiaries have stripped the land of natural resources (a good deal of which is exported) and destroyed the environment. Most ominously, such deals have resulted in the creation of monster corporations that are so powerful and influential that they have come to influence and virtually control all institutions of power — as we see from the Radia tapes.

While adopting policies that thus create huge incentives for corruption, we have not set up effective institutions to check corruption, investigate and prosecute the corrupt and bring them to justice. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) continues to be under the administrative control of the government, which is seen as the fountainhead of corruption. Thus, no action is usually taken by the CBI to effectively investigate high-level corruption — except once in a while when the court forces its hand. Often we see the CBI itself behaving in a corrupt manner, with no other institution to investigate that. The Central Vigilance Commission (CVC), which is supposed to supervise the CBI, has failed to act, since its own appointment process is riddled with conflicts of interest. The Prime Minister, the Home Minister and the Leader of the Opposition (who has been a Minister and hopes to become Prime Minister one day) want to avoid their own accountability and are thus interested in having weak and pliable persons to man the institution that is expected to supervise the CBI. Moreover, the CVC and the CBI have to seek the government's sanction to investigate and prosecute wrongdoers; such sanction is usually not given when it comes to high-level corruption. The CVC depends on vigilance officers in various government departments. They are often middle-level officers from the same departments and cannot be expected to exercise vigilance over their bosses who write their confidential reports. The judiciary, which must try and convict the offenders, has become dysfunctional and is afflicted with corruption due to lack of accountability of the higher judiciary.

The draft Jan Lokpal bill seeks to create an institution that will be largely independent of those it seeks to police, and which will have effective powers to investigate and prosecute all public servants (including Ministers, MPs, bureaucrats, judges and so on) and others found guilty of corrupting them. Since corruption involves misconduct and gives rise to grievances, the draft proposes that the Lokpal will supervise the machinery to pursue disciplinary proceedings against government servants (the Vigilance Department) as well as the machinery to redress grievances. Thus, misconduct by government servants, and grievances, will come under the ambit of an independent authority rather than the government — where the machinery has become ineffective due to conflicts of interest. It is proposed that if the Lokpal finds that a contract is being given for corrupt considerations, it can stop the contract. It cannot otherwise interfere with government decisions or policy.

It has been said that this would create a super-cop with enormous powers and no accountability. There is a misconception that the proposed Lokpal will have judicial powers; there is no such provision in the bill. The need of the hour is to have an effective cop who can investigate and prosecute the high and mighty without interdiction from the very people who need to be prosecuted.

The bill seeks to make the Lokpal accountable. First, it is mandated to function transparently so that everything related to its functioning is known to the people (without compromising the investigation itself). Exemptions from disclosure provided in the Right to Information Act could be included. Secondly, the Lokpal's orders will be subject to review in the High Courts and the Supreme Court. Lastly, the members of the Lokpal could be removed for misconduct, by a five-member bench of the Supreme Court.

There has been some criticism of the Lokpal selection committee and the selection process. Given the erosion in the integrity of most of our state institutions, it was thought that the best bet would be to have a broad-based selection committee and build transparency and public participation into the selection process, while trying to keep out those who are most likely to be within the ambit of the Lokpal's investigations. That is why in the draft bill Ministers were sought to be kept out.

One criticism has been that this shows contempt for democracy. We have seen how the "democratically elected" Prime Minister, Home Minister and leaders of the opposition have normally selected weak and pliable CVCs. So the draft bill proposes a selection committee comprising the Lok Sabha Speaker, the Rajya Sabha Chairman, the Comptroller and Auditor General, the Chief Election Commissioner, the two seniormost judges of the Supreme Court, two seniormost Chief Justices of High Courts, the Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission and the outgoing members of the Lokpal. This proposed composition of the committee will certainly be discussed, and perhaps improved upon, during public consultations and discussions within the drafting committee that will now take place.

It has been said that putting the function of redress of grievances on the plate of the Lokpal would make its work unmanageable. Though the Lokpal will only reorganise and supervise the grievance redress machinery (rather than dealing with each grievance itself), this is an issue that will be discussed openly by the committee. By next week, a website that will formally take in all the opinions and suggestions on the Jan Lokpal bill will be launched and announced. People are welcome to read, understand and send their comments on it, to be taken note of.

One must not, however, be under any illusion that the Lokpal law by itself would solve the problem of corruption. Unless we tackle and change the policies that create enormous incentives for corruption and monster corporations that become too powerful for any institution to control, the fight will be incomplete. The judiciary too is in need of comprehensive reforms.

But an independent, credible and empowered Lokpal is a necessary, though not a sufficient, condition to effectively control corruption. Let us work at least to put that in place.

(Prashant Bhushan is a senior Supreme Court lawyer and member of the joint committee to draft the Lokpal bill.)

Also read:
Since Anna Praised Modi - For Activists, Dalits and Muslims - 'All hell broke loose'....more

Friday, April 8, 2011

BTN: Anna Hazare - Can He Help with Passing INDIAN COMMUNALISM BILL

Dear shabana:

Your thought is noble but I will show you today's realities

I am optimistic that some day Hindus and Christians will get along - as Christian community in India are by and large a peaceful community - only issue being religious conversions.

It is highly unlikely that Hindus (more specifically Right Wing) and Muslims of this generation can get along. Moderate Muslim opinion has been hijacked by radicals and fundamentalists.

The divide seems deep. Even if they live in peace in one community, during crisis - they get carried by community emotions. Watch this movie Delhi-6 - How best friends can become worst enemy.
It is a must watch movie.

Rishi Kapoor,Waheeda Rahman and Abhishek Bachchan talking to each other

Rishi Kapoor,Waheeda Rahman and Abhishek Bachchan talking to each other

Please read this
Why Hindus are angry at Muslims in India ?

Mr. Anna Hazare's fast unto death won't be able to help here; even Gandhiji had failed to stop the partition massacre.

The situation of Muslims are complicated by - the Activists, Radicals and Imams.

After 9/11 - American Muslims are also facing tough time.; so it is not an India only problem.
'Radicalization of American Muslim' - Rep. Peter King killed CAIR today and a few moderate Muslim leaders are born today

It is a global phenomenon and a Muslim only problem i.e. only Muslims have to deal with their radicals to live in peace and earn the lost trust.

So, I think, it may take generations to heal the Hindu-Muslim divide.; Anna and Amir can't help.

This is of course my personal opinion..

Good luck to your noble thoughts..

BTW, communalism has nothing to with India's super power ambitions. It is "attitude" that matters - it is a little word but makes big difference. If we can deal with corruption - that is a first step towards becoming a Super Power.

Thanks
Manoj Padhi

On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 12:41 PM, shabana qureshi <shabanaqureshi1977@yahoo.com> wrote:

Mr. ANNA HAZARE is an OUT Standing Personality & Great that he has taken Fast for

a   Noble Cause i,e CORRUPTION.



APART FROM   CORRUPTION , COMMUNALISM is Another ROAD BLOCK which

can PREVENT   INDIA FROM BECOMING A   SUPER POWER IN THIS   DECADE.

( Losers are all HINDUS ( GODHRA ), CHRISTIANS ( Orissa ) , SIKHS ( 1984 ) .... Majority Being Muslims   who are Facing Riots since Partition Major being 1992 ( Mumbai ), 2002 ( Gujarat ) etc.,

HOPE SOME ONE TAKES UP THIS CHALLENGE & Get the   COMMUNALISM BILL

PENDING IN INDIAN PARLIAMENT PASSED .

IF    Mr.Hazare or   Swami AGNIVESH   or  Film Actor Mr.AMIR KHAN can take up this Challenge MANY INNCOCENTS LIFE &   PROPERTY of   INDIAN CITIZENS can be saved.

--

Manoj Padhi

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

BTN: Jan Lok Pal bill is the only hope - Both Congress and BJP seem panic

http://indiaagainstcorruption.org/

Dear fellow citizens:

Please go to the website and read the comparision of both Government bill and Jan Lokpal bill.

Salute the people who initiated this.

Hopefully, Anna Hazare will rescue our Nation.

You may note that while Congress has a culture of corruption

BJP was pretending to be honest.

It seems that Digvijay Singh was right when he told US Ambassador (Wiki Leaks), that the corrupt Establishment lobby in BJP won't like to see Shri Narendra Modi as PM.

If Anna Hazare gets support of BJP - Congress leaders have to follow suit.

Where are the RSS and VHP ? Why can't they make a phone call to Mr. Advani to support the Jan Lokpal bill ?

Sitting CMs Yedurappa, Mayawati, Sheila Dixit, Naveen Patnaik etc. will end up in jail with in 2 years..

Let's make that happen

Go to the above website and Write to PM. Support Anna. I can't fast even for 1 day - he looks like our Gandhi, (not like YSR's son Jagan) and mean it.

PM has accept Jan Lokpal Bill to save Anna from death. Write to Mr. Advani /Ms. Sonia Gandhi and RSS Chief as well.

Thanks

Manoj Padhi

BCC: Ms. Sonia Gandhi/Shri L.K.Advani