Protect the village atmosphere, rivers, thods etc in Aranmula
which was declare as the 2nd Traditional Village India ie. Aranmula
by UNESCO. The land mafia and money greedy Congress party were trying to
destroy the village on the name of International Airport in Aranmula. It will affect the old temples in Aranmula and
Sarpa Kaavs (Snake Houses), etc. So join against this Airport proposal and
declaration of Industrial area in Aranmula which consists 2000 Acre land. This
paddy lands will go to the land mafia and they will destroy the centurion traditionalism
in Aranmula through life destroying Western modernism. SAVE ARANMULA!!! SAVE
NATURE!!! SAVE OLD TRADITIONS!!!
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Thursday, March 1, 2012
US Church baptizes Gandhi by proxy
US Church baptizes
Gandhi by proxy
A US church had posthumously baptized
Mahatma Gandhi by proxy on March 27 1996, the affirmation of which by a
researcher drew a sharp reaction from his grandson and others.
Arun Gandhi, a grandson of Gandhi who lives
in New York, told 'The Huffington Post 'that he was 'surprised' to hear about
the posthumous baptism. 'It bothers me in the sense that people are doing
something when a person is dead and gone and there is nobody to answer for that
person. That’s not the right thing to do, 'he was quoted as saying. Arun, an
activist who teaches nonviolence, also noted that his grandfather was against
proselytizing of any kind, whether it involved Hindus or others.
'He thought people must decide for
themselves which religion they want to follow and they should follow that
religion. Its not up to others to force them.
He was respectful of all the religions.
Gandhi was baptized by the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter- day Saints, headquartered in Salt Lake City in Utah on March
27, 1996; the confirmation of which was completed on November 17, 2007 at Sao
Paulo Brazil Temple, according to researcher Helen Radkey.
Gandhi was baptized by the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter- day Saints, which is more popularly known as Mormon Church,
one of the fastest growing churches in the US. Mitt Romney, the leading
Republican Presidential hopeful; Senator John Kerry, Chairman of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee; and John Huntsman, former US ambassador to China,
are among the few top Mormons.
Radkey, who has now been excommunicated
by the Mormons, made the revelation in e- mail to Nevada- based Hindu activist,
Rajan Zed. In the email, Radkey said she had viewed the record on baptism of
Gandhi but it had since disappeared and was no longer available in the database
of the church.
Incidentally, Hindus do not mark death
as the end of existence but rather believe in a cycle of birth and death. To
perform proxy baptism to a Hindu is 'deeply offensive 'because of the belief in
rebirth, said Suhag Shukla, cofounder of the Hindu American Foundation and now
its managing director and legal counsel.
'In Hinduism, each of us is innately
divine, which is diametrically opposed to this concept that we are innately
sinful and need to accept Jesus as our savior in order to cleanse our soul,’ she
said in an interview.
'Hindus do not believe there is only one
way to salvation.'
By : Sudhir Neerattupuram
Monday, October 17, 2011
Indian National Congress’s India Looting Scams
Indian National Congress’s India Looting Scams
2G Spectrum Scam - Rs. 1,76,000 crore
Commonwealth Games 2010 Scam - Rs. 70,000 crore
Coal Mine scam of Manmohan Singh - Rs. 26 Lakh Crores.
Boeing USA- Air India Scam - Rs 14 crore (US $ 11.5 million)
Goa Chief Minister’s iron ore mining scam - 40 billion rupees ($800 million)
Scam of Adarsh Society flat - Total 103 flats, 3 members belongs to
Kargil war (37 members from Army) & 66 flat owners were Congress leaders and friends.
Scams of YRS Reddy (late Andhra Chief
Minister (Congress),Father of Jaganmohan Reddy) - Rs. 3500 crores
India’s Black money in foreign countries - Rs 72,80,000 Crores (US$1.4 trillion)
By:- Sudhir Neerattupuram
For more details visit : http://bharathvoice.blogspot.com 2G Spectrum Scam
2G Spectrum Scam
The government's investigation and the government's reactions to the findings in the investigation were the subject of debate, as were the nature of the Indian media's reactions. The discussion around the reactions to the 2G spectrum scam became known in the media as the Nira Radia tapes controversy.
The truth hardly matters now….. the damage has been done. The 2G spectrum allocation policy of 2008 has been condemned, & the 2G accused have been damnnified beyond repair. The 2G scam monster has been created & fattened to scary proportions.
And worse, in this kind of a poisonous vitreous environment, the 2G trial is proceeding, and charges to be levied on the 2G scam accused will be be decided on 15th September, 2011.
The 2G accused have diligently & painstakingly argued how they are being made scape goats in this matter. But to no avail. However legally sound they might sound, “corrupt and guilty” has already been jammed into the public minds due to the aggressive n relentless coverage of the media on the 1.76 lac crore loss to exchequer report created by CAG.
Who is CAG? Audit of government accounts (including the accounts of the state governments) in India is entrusted to the CAG of India who is empowered to audit all expenditure from the revenues of the union or state governments, whether incurred within India or outside.
The Comptroller and Auditor-General of India is appointed by the President of India[1] following a recommendation by the Prime Minister. On appointment, he/she has to make an oath of affirmation before the President of India.
Parties accused of involvement
The selling of the licenses brought attention to three groups of entities - politicians who had the authority to sell licenses, corporations who were buying the licenses, and media professionals who mediated between the politicians and the corporations.
Politicians involved
- A.RAJA , the Minister of Communications and Information Technology who sold the licenses
Corporations accused
- Unitech Group a real estate company entering the telecom industry with its 2G bid; sold 60% of its company stake at huge profit to Telenor after buying licensing
- Swan Telecom sold 45% of its company stake at huge profit to Emirates Telecommunications Corporation (Etisalat) after buying licensing.
- Loop Mobile
- Videocon Telecommunications Limited
- S Tel
- Reliance Communications
Media persons accused
- Nira Radia, a corporate lobbyist whose conversations with politicians and corporate entities were recorded by the government and leaked creating the Nira Radia tapes controversy
- Barkha Dutt, an NDTV journalist alleged to have lobbied for A. Raja's appointment as minister
- Vir Sanghvi, a Hindustan Times editor alleged to have edited articles to reduce blame in the Nira Radia tapes
- Rajdeep Sardesai, a CNN IBN senior editor
The current CAG of India is Vinod Rai, who was appointed on 7 January 2008. He is the 11th CAG of India. “We need such examples so that outstanding civil servants, with the courage of their conviction, can still influence the course of governance in these difficult times.” Said TSR Subramanian, a former cabinet secretary, about Vinod Rai.Well, what is the boundary upto which ‘CAG’, in particular Vinod Rai, should indeed ‘influence the course of governance’, one may ask?
Shockingly, in recent news, it was revealed that the second in command to CAG, R.P. Singh, Director General of Audit (post and telecommunications) – the man who actually led the audit of the 2G licensing process – was not in favour of making any estimation of the losses suffered by the government on account of the First Come First Served policy it followed. The man was of the opinion that it was impossible to know what the spectrum would have costed if it had been auctioned. He was uncomfortable with the methods that were being suggested to bring up a loss figure, any figure for that matter. The S Tel offer for a pan-India 2G license was meaningless since an offer made unsolicited and out of the sky in this manner has no sanctity in a government process. And also because the offer was later withdrawn.
Advani’s Jan Chetna Yatra to bring change in the system
Advani’s Jan Chetna Yatra to bring change in the system
Launching his "Jan Chetna Yatra" against corruption and Black Money, that would traverse across the country from October 11, 2011 to November 20. Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L K Advani claimed the yatra would bring in a transformation in the existing system on the lines of the JP movement in 1974. He said there was all possibility of the NDA getting a chance to form the next government at the Centre, but remained non-committal on whether he was still in the race for prime ministership.
"At present, the elections are not so near. The party will decide as to who will be its prime ministerial candidate when the elections come," he said when asked on the issue, clarifying that even in 2009 elections he had not declared his candidature for prime ministership.
"There is a possibility of early polls under the present situation because of corruption and black money," he said.
Offering tributes to Lok Nayak Jay Prakash Narayan, popularly referred to JP, at his birthplace at Sitabdiara on his birth anniversary, Mr Advani said, inspired by the ideologies of JP, who was instrumental in bringing a change in the guard, he had decided to kick start the rath yatra from here to launch his campaign against corruption and to demand that the Government take steps to bring back black money stashed in illegal bank accounts abroad.
Advani said people were imputing motives now on the purpose of his yatra. "It is not possible for people to imagine that someone can take out a nation-wide yatra on the issue of corruption."
Advani's six yatras in 21 years
From Somnath in 1990 to Sitab Diara in 2011
BJP leader LK Advani, accompanied by his daughter Pratibha Advani and other party leaders including Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley, on Tuesday visited the ancestral house of late Jai Prakash Narayan and garlanded his statue.
They then arrived at the Gandhi Maidan, from where Advani's Jan Chetna Yatra was to roll out, paid tribute to the departed Lok Nayak.
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Deputy Chief Minister S.K Modi (BJP), also reached Sitabdiara.
Hitting out at the Congress-led UPA Government over absence of leadership leading to scams and price rise, the veteran leader said, “The mood in India today is one of anger about the quality of politics and governance. This anger has grown on account of inadequacy of leadership provided by the Central Government.”
The Jan Chetana Yatra will be Advani’s sixth for his party in the last 21 years. Let's have a look at his yatras and their motto:
1. Ram Rath Yatra (From Somnath to Ayodhya)
25 September 1990
25 September 1990
The Ram Rath Yatra began from Somnath on September 25, 1990, Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya's birth anniversary, and was supposed to culminate at Ayodhya on October 30, after traversing 10,000 km.
Advani was arrested in Samastipur by then Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav before he could reach Ayodhya.
Ram Rath Yatra's aim was to raise three fundamental questions:
•What is secularism? What is communalism?
•Can national integration be achieved by constantly pandering to minority communalism?
•Cannot Government reject the cult of minorityism?
•Can national integration be achieved by constantly pandering to minority communalism?
•Cannot Government reject the cult of minorityism?
Late Pramod Mahajan was behind the idea to redesign a mini-bus as a rath for Advani's Ram Rath Yatra in 1990.
2. Janadesh Yatra (Four-pronged yatra began from different places and ended in Bhopal)
11 September 1993
Advani took the lead in mobilising public opinion and planned a four-pronged yatra led by senior leaders of the party. Thus was born the Janadesh Yatra with the purpose of seeking the people's mandate against the two Bills - the Constitution 80th Amendment Bill and the Representation of People (Amendment) Bill.
The BJP stalled the Bills in Parliament and the debate was deferred, although the Bills were not withdrawn. Then, Advani planned a four-pronged yatra to seek the people’s mandate against the two Bills.
The four yatras began on 11 September 1993 from four corners of the country. Advani led the yatra from Mysore, Bhairon Singh Shekhawat from Jammu, Murli Manohar Joshi from Porbandar and Kalyan Singh from Kolkata.
Travelling through 14 States and two Union Territories, the yatris congregated at Bhopal on 25 September in a massive rally.
3. Swarna Jayanti Rath Yatra (To celebrate 50 years of India’s independence)
18 May 1997
In 1997, when India competed 50 years of India's independence, the BJP decided to pay homage to all the heroes and martyrs of the freedom struggle by visiting different places associated with them across the country.
It was Advani's brainchild and he thought the yatra would help him strengthen his own position and the BJP’s nationalist ideas.
The yatra took place in four continuous phases in 59 days through as many as 21 states across the country.
4. Bharat Uday Yatra (India Shining campaign)
(From Kanyakumari and Amritsar and from Rajkot to Jagannath Puri)
10 March 2004
The Lok sabha poll-oriented road campaign took place in March-April 2004. The much-hyped yatra was flagged off in Kanyakumari on 10 March and reached Amritsar on 25 March. Five days later, it resumed from Rajkot and culminated at Jagannath Puri on 14 April.
The ‘India Shining’ and ‘Feel Good Factor’ campaigns came in for a lot of criticism after NDA's defeat in Lok Sabha polls.
5. Bharat Suraksha Yatra (Against UPA govt's policies against terrorism)
6 April 2006
The yatra was split into two campaigns, the first one was led by Advani from Dwaraka to Delhi and the other one led by Rajnath Singh from Jagannath Puri to Delhi.
6. Jan Chetna Yatra (From Sitab Diara in Bihar to Delhi)
October 11, 2011
Advani begun his 38-day 'Jan Chetna Yatra' from Jai Prakash Narayan's birthplace Sitabdiara in Saran district on Oct 11. The 84-year-old BJP leader plans to cover around 300 km a day in his modified 'rath' during his 12,000-km anti-corruption yatra.
His yatra aims at creating public awareness against corruption and black money.
Hitting out at the Congress-led UPA Government over absence of leadership leading to scams and price rise, the veteran leader said, “The mood in India today is one of anger about the quality of politics and governance. This anger has grown on account of inadequacy of leadership provided by the Central Government.”
Advani said that his yatra would mobilise people against corruption. “Corruption is eroding faith in democracy and governance. Time not to change the system, not just the government,” he added.
The rally will head to Uttar Pradesh and will end at Ramlila Maidan in Delhi. It would cover 23 states within a span of 38 days before ending on November 20.
Commonwealth Games scam - 2010
Commonwealth Games scam - 2010
The Commonwealth games scam as it is known involved large scale misappropriation of money during the preparatory phase and conduct of the 2010 Commonwealth games held in New Delhi. The total value of the scam is estimated to be Rs. 70,000 crore.
Like any other scams it involved politicians, bureaucrats and corporate acting in collusion
Politicians involved
§ Suresh Kalmadi, the Congress party representative to 15 LokSabha from the Pune constituency. He was the Chairman of the Organising Committee of the Delhi Commonwealth games.
§ Sheila Dikshit, Chief minister of Delhi: Was indicted for several irregularities in the CWG processes both by Shunglu committee and also by the CAGCorporations involved
§ AM Films * AM Cars * SIS Live
§ Jaypee Group, Its alleged that the proceeds of corruption are parked here through financial involvement of Suresh Kalmadi's son, Sumeer Kalmadi in the F1 circuit project at Greater Noida.
§ MTNL * HCL Infosystems
Businessmen involved
§ RSP Sinha, MTNL CMD
§ SM Talwar, Executive director MTNL
§ NK Jain, GM (Corporate Sales) MTNL
§ Jitendra Garg, DGM MTNL
Whistleblowers/ Law enforcers
The scam was unearthed by CAG even before the conduct of the games. Presently the scam is being probed by the CBI.
Scam
The various contracts were manipulated by Kalmadi and team and allegedly misappropriated huge amounts in the process.
Time scoring results system
Kalmadi has been accused of awarding illegal contracts to a Swiss firm for Timing-Scoring-Result system for the Games causing a loss of Rs 95 crore to the exchequer.
Queens baton relay
The Enforcement Directorate is probing the flow of funds and forex during the Queens Baton Relay held in London prior to the Commonwealth Games, apart from investigating the overlays-related works of the Games under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.
Broadcast network
CBI registered another case in the Commonwealth Games scam and searched residences of officials of Mahanagar Telecom Nigam Limited, or MTNL, and Noida based HCL Infosystems for allegedly inflating cost of setting up a broadcast network for the Games by nearly Rs 400 crore.
Recruitment to Organising committee
CBI sources lodged Preliminary Enquiry report against unknown persons in the Games organizing body after it received several complaints and references from the Central Vigilance Commission claiming violation of norms in the appointments. They said the complainants alleged involvement of sacked OC Chairman Suresh Kalmadi, who is at present in judicial custody, and his close aides for irregularities in the recruitment process.
Response to scam
§ Kalmadi and Bhanot was sacked from the Organising Commitee by the Sports ministry on Jan 2011
§ Shunglu panel was constituted by Prime minister Manmohan Singh to go into the irregularities in the conduct of the Games.
§ After his arrest on 25 Apr 2011, Suresh kalmadi was suspended by the Indian National Congress
Arrests made
§ TS Darbari and Sanjay Mahindroo was arrested by the CBI on 23 Nov 2010
§ Suresh kalmadi was arrested on 25 Apr 2011 and the next day was sent to eight days police custody.
Conviction
Nil as of 15 Oct 2011.
Coal Mine scam of Manmohan Singh
Coal Mine scam of Manmohan Singh
Another scam from UPA stable. This happened right under the nose of honest PM Manmohan Singh who is not weak or lameduck. Maybe again someone misled him, but the enormity of the corruption surpasses the 2G scam.
In this scam coal blocks to the tune of proven reserves of 21.69 billion tons was given away free to private companies and also middlemen.
§ Manmohan Singh, the Prime minister of India
Scam
This is the tale of 2006-2007 when Shibu Soren was in jail and the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was holding the coal ministry. In this period Dasi Narayan and Santosh Bagdodiya were ministers of state for coal. It was under the Prime minister that the coal ministry gave out the maximum number of captive coal blocks free of cost. The most glaring and blatant fact is that the coal mines were given out free at the lower than nominal cost of Rs. 100 royalty per ton of coal that would be extracted. It was done at a time when the market price of coal was over Rs. 2000 per ton.
Thus, in this period coal blocks to the tune of proven reserves of 21.69 billion tons was given away free to private companies and also middlemen.
The Prime minister Manmohan Singh was the coal minister during this period and all this bungling and embezzlement happened under his very nose, maximum number of blocks were squandered under him only. Manmohan Singh gave away 63 blocks for free. But why did he do so? During these four years (2006-2010) almost 175 blocks were gifted to brokers and capitalists of different shades.
From 1993 to 2010 208 blocks of coal were alloctaed for free. This tantamounts to coal reserves of 49.07 billion tons. Out of the 208 blocks 113 blocks were given to 184 private companies for free. This amounted to coal reserves equal to 21.69 billion tons. If the value of this coal is calculated at the market price of Rs. 2500 per ton, it comes out to 5,382,830.50 Crores. If out of this Rs. 2500, Rs. 1250 is deduced giving space for Rs. 850 as cost of production, transportation etc and Rs. 400 is deduced as profit, then also the country was inflicted a revenue loss of about Rs. 26 Lakh Crores. So this is the ‘Father and Mother of all Scams’. This is surely India’s biggest and scariest scam ever as also perhaps, the biggest ever in any country in the world.
The UPA government squandered the mineral resources of the nation to which all 120 Crore citizens have an equal right. The breath-bating sum of 26 Lakh Crores could have been used for the multitude of deprived and marginalized of this country.
Latter is the job of Sri Prakash Jaiswal who made no amends whatsoever. Till 2003 40 blocks had been allocated. Out of this only 24 have started production. So why have the licenses of the rest of the 16 companies not cancelled? In 2004: 4 blocks were allotted and none has started production. Similarly, in 2005: 22 blcoks were allotted and only 2 have started production. In 2006: 52, 2007: 51, 2008: 22, 2009: 16 and in 2010 0ne block was allotted. But the report till 18th January says that none have started production. So first the government allots coal blocks to private interests. Then keep the Mines and Minerals Act pending in the Parliament, while the embezzlement keeps going on, then when mines allocated to middlemen does not start production (they were not meant to start production at all) then nobody cancels their licenses. Now none needs to be a rocket scientist to see behind the official maze and fathom what went on between the government and middlemen. Had there been no covert collusion and nexus, only 26 out of 208 mines would not be producing.
It is not so that the presence of middlemen in this process is a matter of conjecture; actually a company in Maharashtra which has nothing to do with coal was allotted a free coal block which it sold for Rs. 500 Crores. Pure and simple profit without investing a penny. So the coal blocks were turned into Dalal Street wherein coal was bought and sold like shares with no accruing benefits to the people of India.
Response
BJP has demanded investigation as of July 2011, more to be seen.
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