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Email this storyNot only RSS but CONGRESS, Marxists , Maoists and Ambedkarites are Partners in the War against Aboriginal Indigenous Nature Associated Communities and nature itself!
We have been insisting that the Hindu Nation and Hindu Nationality concepts were originally created by Congress and it shaped in Power transfer to Brahmin Bania Raj with Partition of the Geopolitics resultant in Continuous Holocaust, Displacement, Exclusion, Exodus and Ethnic Cleansing.Now the Brahamin Bania Raj has made India a peripherry of US Zionist Corporate War and Civil War Economy. The market Dominating Community, the Brahaminical Class has not only captured State Power, but governance, policy making and legislation have been endowed with Extra Constitutional Anti National Washington Slave LPG Mafia.
Gloabl Alliance of Hindutva and Zionsism, strategic realliance in US Israel lead has transformed the Indian nation into an INFINITE Gas Chamber in which Excluded Communities including Aboriginal Indigenous SC, ST, BC, OBC, Refugee, Slum dwellers and Converted Minorities have been subjected to systematic Ethnic Cleansing with Economic Reforms and Free Foreign Capital Inflow.
Yes, RSS famly is indulged in Hatred Campign and communal Politics! But the Original SIN was Committed by CONGRESS led by NEHRU Gandhi who ensured permanent Enslavement, Bondage and Exclusion of the Majority Indigenous Aboriginal Communities.
Since all Political Parties are led by the Brahamincal Class including the Left , Ambedkarite and the Maoist, they all are aligned with the Manusmriti Hegemony of Apartheid.
Thanks to Puna Pact, the majority masses have NO Representation in the Political system with Majoritarian Electoarl Manipulation of Demographic adjustment and readjustment Co Opting the SC, ST, BC, OBC and Minority representatives in the Rotten Brahaminical system to sustain the Manusmriti System!
Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh launched a sharp attack on the RSS and the BJP, likening their "hatred" towards Muslims to that of the Nazis towards the Jews and claiming that the "roots of terrorism" in India lie in BJP leader L K Advani's 1992 Rath Yatra.
He also sought to take the battle over the 2G spectrum allocation issue into the Opposition camp by alleging that the radiowaves scam originated under the NDA rule when late Pramod Mahajan was the Telecom Minister.
Seeking to turn the table on the Opposition on the issue of scams, Congress today launched a broadside against BJP and CPI(M) suggesting that the two were no different when it comes to corruption.
In a two-pronged attack on fundamentalism and corruption, Congress President Sonia Gandhi today said majority and minority communalism are dangerous and must be defeated and favoured fast-tracking all corruption cases, including those of politicians.
Addressing the Congress Plenary, she dwelt at length on the two subjects in the backdrop of a number of corruption charges hitting the party and the UPA government headed by it and the controversy surrounding Rahul Gandhi's comments about Hindu radicalism being "bigger threat" than groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba.
"The Congress party makes no distinction between organisations of the majority and of the minority communities who indulge in communalism and related acts of terrorism. They are all dangerous, they must all be defeated," Gandhi said in her 30-minute Presidential address to the two-day Plenary session that began today.
Maintaining that Congress has always fought against all forms of communalism, regardless of their source, Gandhi said, "communalism is the abuse of religion for narrow political purposes.
Welcoming the Reserve Bank's step of keeping the key policy rates unchanged, analysts said the measures were in line with market expectations and anticipated a hike in rates in January. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) may have lowered the minimum amount of bond holding for banks in order to encourage them to increase lending, bankers told Reuters.India Inc said it is "happy and delighted" at RBI keeping the key policy rates unchanged and announcing measures to pump in Rs 48,000 cr into the system.The Reserve Bank today cautioned against rising global commodity prices that can fuel inflation in emerging market economies, which are otherwise showing resilient growth.RBI cut SLR rate, which is a requirement for banks to keep portion of their deposits in government securities, cash and gold, by one 1% to 24% from 25%.Bankers on Thursday said the status quo in the monetary stance of the Reserve Bank is largely on expected lines
In its mid-quarter review of monetary policy today, the RBI kept its short-term lending and borrowing rates to banks unchanged at 6.25 per cent and 5.25 per cent, respectively.
Also, it maintained the mandatory cash reverse ratio at 6 per cent of banks' total deposits.
"The policy statement last time had an explicit statement that RBI is likely to pause in the next meeting - today's policy statement does not contain any such explicit guidance. In our view, this sets the stage for rate hike in RBI's meet on January 25," IIFL Economist Ashutosh Datar said.
RBI, however, reduced the statutory liquidity ratio (SLR), the portion of deposits that banks park in government securities, by one percentage point to 24 per cent with effect from December 18, which according to experts, is a big positive for markets.
With its move, the apex bank has eased liquidity by keeping key interest rates on hold, an expert added.
"The announcement by the apex bank on the key rates were on the expected lines. Keeping the rates unchanged is maintenance of the status-quo. On its implications on the broader market I think business will be as usual on the street," Unicon Financial CEO Gajendra Nagpal said.
Meanwhile, in a flip-flop show the Bombay Stock Exchange's benchmark index Sensex was trading flat at 19,660.71, up 12.94 points.
Besides, the rate sensitive sectors like banking, realty and auto were trading mixed, with auto trailing in red.
Echoing Datar's opinion, Gaurav Dua Head Research Sharekhan said, "Market expectations have been met as the RBI has kept the policy rates unchanged. This is only pause on the interest rate hike. May be in January we can see hike in the key rates."
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:: DATE ::
25th Dec 2010
(Saturday)
10.00 A.M
THAKUR
:: INAUGURATION ::
HARICHAND
GURUCHAND NAGAR,
RATHMELA GROUND,
DURGAPUR, WEST
BENGAL
:: VENUE ::
RASHTRIYA MULNIVASI SANGH
BAMCEF
&
Central Office: 4765/46, 3rd Floor, Raigarhpura, Karolbagh, New
Delhi-110 005.Tel.011-28726213, 09640955020 (Hyd)
Visit at www.mulnivasibamcef.org, www.mulnivasinayak.com,
www.youtube.com/bamcefvideo Email: mulnivasi@hotmail.com
25th Dec 2010
(Saturday) to 29th Dec
2010 (Wednesday)
Inaugurato : Er. V.V. Siddharth (Software Engineer, USA)
Chief Guest : Mr. Yogendra Yadav (Well Known Election Analysist)
Special Guests : Er. Jaswant Sonara (Engineer, France)
: Mr. Arjun Barde (Australia)
: Mr Prashant Rale (Australia)
: Mr. Rajkumar Norwa (Dr. Ambedkar Mi. Society, Spain)
: Mr. Sanjay Kumar Shah (MP, Nepal)
: Dr. A.K. Biswas (Retired I.A.S)
Presided by : HON'BLE WAMAN MESHRAM
(NATIONAL PRESIDENT, BAMCEF)
National G.S. (Org.) BAMCEF
SOMALAL KOTED ARJUN BHAI PATEL SHANTARAM RANSHRUNGARE
National G.S. (MANAGEMENT)
BAMCEF
Chairman, Rashtrawyapi Andalon
Nirman Samiti
:: YOUR'S ::
All BAMCEF activists, cadres and Mulnivasi students, youth, women, intellectuals, social activists &
well wishers are informed that the 5 days National Convention organized by BAMCEF and RASHTRIYA
MULNIVASI SANGH will provide detailed insights into the Mulnivasi burning issues as part of its brain
storming on burning topics. We appeal to the Mulnivasi Intellectual class, youth, students and social
activists to participate whole heartedly and contribute their time, talent, money and resources for
strengthening the Nationwide Phule-Ambedkarite Movement working for the liberation of Mulnivasis
(Indigenous people of India, i.e. SC/ST/OBC and Converted Religious Minorities). - JAI MULNIVASI!!
Educate! Organise!! Agitate!!! ::: NATIONAL CONVENTION SCHEDULE :::
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Inauguration:
Lunch/Dinner:
Tea:
- 25th Dec 2010 (Saturday), (10.00 AM to 02: 00 PM)
- 02: 00 PM to 03: 00 PM and 09: 00 PM to 10: 00 PM daily
- 05: 00 PM to 05: 30 PM daily
Saturday Date: 25.12.2010 International Representative Session – 1 Time: 03.00 PM to 05.30 PM
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Did the Eurasian Brahmins force upon Brahmanocracy in neighboring
country, Nepal in the name of democracy and republic? - A discussion
Today in Nepal, there is a big movement taking place. The attention of the world is on this
movement but along with it a hidden conspiracy is in progress. Nobody's attention is on that
conspiracy. Prachand, Koirala and current prime minister are all Brahmins. They are all
hardcore Brahmins. Almost all national parties and their main leaders are mostly Brahmins.
Brahmins have taken complete control of Nepal in the name of democracy and republic. To
highlight and bring world's attention towards this, this issue has been kept for discussion.
What should be done on the part of BAMCEF & NRI in order
to expand the BAMCEF'S Network at International level?
We are moving towards creation of nationwide mass movement. Keeping this in mind, it
is very important to spread the discussion of this nationwide mass movement internationally
and for this international networking is very important. How can this networking happen on a
large scale? This subject is kept for discussion to get suggestions on this
Speakers: Gour Bahadur Kapanji (Rashtriya Jan Mukti Morcha, Nepal), Kamal Chharang
(Rashtriya Jantantrik Morcha, Nepal), Mr. Kiran Deshmukh (Australia), Mr. Arasu Soman(Kuwait),
Mr. Shyamlal Shah (National President, RMS, Nepal), Mr. Bhagwan G (Gulf), Dr. Gopal Gurug
(President, Mangol National Org., Nepal) Mr. Gangadhar J. (Australia)
Saturday Date: 25.12.2010 Social Awakening Session – 1 Time: 06.00 PM to 09.00 PM
Unique Identification Number initiative is not just about denying
citizenship to the Bengali immigrants but also to keep an eye on Indian
nationals by branding them as criminals! Or
What should be done to make the Valmiki caste free from
Brahmanization & get them involved in Liberation Movement ?
Earlier the Unique Identification number allocation initiative merely seemed like a
conspiracy of denying citizenship to the Bengali immigrants. But it is our thinking now that it
is not just about denying citizenship to the Bengali immigrants but also to keep complete vigil
on all Indian nationals, specifically all mulnivasis, by branding them as criminals and threat
to the security.
Speakers: Lt. Col. Siddharth Barve (Maharashtra), Mr. A.T. Bala (New Mumbai),
Mr. V.T. Rajsekhar (Editor, Dalit Voice, Karnataka), Mr. Palas Biswas (West Bengal) prof.
Dr. L. J. Nesan ( T.N.)
Students, Youth and Advocate's ONE DAY NATIONAL CONVENTION
Sunday Date: 26.12.2010 Representative Session – 2 Time: 09.00 AM to 11.00 AM
Rahul Gandhi named RSS as a terrorist organization but
his party's complete inaction on RSS confirms the fact
that there is a secret agenda to help RSS - A discussion
During Bihar elections, Rahul Gandhi branded RSS as terrorist organization but
his own party is at the center. That central government does not ban RSS but has
banned SIMI. This shows that different rules are applied to both. By this we can
clearly see that this is a well planned hidden conspiracy of helping RSS on one hand
and on the other hand using Muslims of Bihar during elections as vote bank. Detailed
discussion on this is very necessary. That is why this topic is kept for discussion.
Speakers: Mr. Jitendra Kumar (New Delhi), Mr. Tilakraj Hitaishi (Executive, H.P.), Mr.
Narayan Garva (Gujarat), Adv. Gopal Ram (Bihar), Mr. Bhagwan Saksamudre (Maharashtra),
Mr. Dharmendra Kumar (Punjab), Dr. G.C. Singh (U.P.), Mr. Dalbir Singh Buriya (Principal,
ITI, Jharkhand), Er. Mahesh Lankesh (Jharkhand), Mr. R.R.Paswan (Jharkhand), Mr.
R.C.Sagar (Punjab), Er. Vijay Kumar Chanchal (Bihar), Mr. B.N.Dutta (Bihar), Er. L.R.Ahirwaar
(M.P.), Dr. S.P.Bhagat (Chandigarh), Mr. Gajendra Kumar Amliya (Rajasthan) Mr. Mourya Buddha (T.N.) Dr. Kamal Pasha (Professor Of History, Rted. Cochin University, Kerala)
Sunday Date: 26.12.2010 Social Awakening Session –2 Time: 11.00 AM to 02.00 PM
Lack of genuine leadership in OBC and MBC is the main reason behind non opposition of
Creamy layer and OBC census issues. ALSO, the decision of census enumeration of OBC
and MBC not happening along with national census and happening separately in middle of
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The population of OBCs is 52% and as per their population their basic problems are also
big and large in number. The solution for the same neither visible anywhere nor any possibility
of the solution in future. There is no voice raised against this. This is a peculiar phenomenon.
When we brain-stormed the reasons behind this we observed that the main reason behind
this is the lack of sincere and suitable leadership in OBC. But 99% of the OBCs are not aware
of this and they don't even realize this fact. That is why this subject is kept for discussion.
Speakers: Dr. Ramakant Thakur (U.P.), Dr. Mohan patel (Gajipur UP), Adv. Pavan Kumar Chowdhary
(H.P.), Mr. Ranendra Pratap Swain (Orissa), Mr. Raghunath Singh (National President, Arjak Sangh,
U.P.), Adv. Kamal Chand (Hariyana), Mr. Deviram Saini (Hariyana), Mr. Bhavarlal Parmaar (Rajasthan),
Mr. Champalal Barwar (Rajasthan),Mr. Marry Reddy (A.P.), Dr. M.Sarngadharan (Director CONSPI
Academy of Management Studies,Kerala)
Without the caste based census enumeration, OBC will not get real justice OR
nationwide mass movement is must for implementing caste based census enumeration.
Taking census enumeration of OBCs in isolation separately is cheating OBCs. Such cheating should not be allowed to take place. There is one solution for this. Census enumeration
needs to be carried out for all castes. This will help get details of all castes and according to
their population, policies can be drafted for their welfare and by doing this those castes which
are excluded from OBC list by Supreme Court also will get justice. But Brahmins, who is the
ruling caste, will not allow this to take place and may do more injustice. In these circumstances
if we want the caste based census to take place then we have no other option but to create a
nationwide mass movement. Keeping this in mind and to prepare our people for the nationwide
movement, this topic is kept for discussion.
Speakers: Prof. Jagannath Parmanik (West Bengal), Dr. Munna Singh Yadav (U.P.), Mr.
Jayesh P Chithe (Gujarat), Mr. Davleshwar Bagh (Orissa), Mr. Bajrangi Prasad (Retd. Deputy
Commissioner, Jharkhand)
The budget of India is a black document that funds alms to the capitalists.
Sunday Date: 26.12.2010 Social Awakening Session – 3 Time: 03.00 PM to 05.30 PM
The Govt. of India had provided special package 4, 18,000 crores of rupees to the capitalists
in year 2009. And again in the year 2010-11, Special Package of 5, 40,000 crores of rupees
were given to the capitalists. This proves that the budget of India is a black document that funds
alms to the capitalists. But the Indian people have no such information about this. Therefore, to
inform public & make them aware of this conspiracy, this subject is kept for discussion.
The 2010 UNDP Report which used MPI measure revealed that 8 States in
India have more starvation and poverty than 26 African countries – A Report.
Brahmins, the ruling caste in India are propagating that India will be a Super Power. UNO
published UNDP Report which used MPI measure revealed that 8 States in India have more
starvation and poverty than 26 African countries. There is no discussion on such issues in
Indian Parliament or Media. The Media is hatching a planned conspiracy to hide this
information. To bring out the truth behind this conspiracy of planning to commit genocide in
front of world, this subject is kept for discussion.
Speakers: Mr. S.S. Yadav (Economist Maharashtra), Prof. Dilip Mandal(JNU New
Delhi),Prof. Jaimini Kadoo(Editor, Kunbi Darshan, Maharashtra), Prof. Harnek Singh
(Patiala, Punjab) Adv. Arulmozhi (Sr. Adv. Chennai High Court T.N.)
Sunday Date: 26.12.2010 Social Awakening Session – 4 Time: 06.00 PM to 09.00 PM
The denial of national recognition to Most Backward Castes,
which is key for their welfare, is the conspiracy of Brahmins.
The population of OBCs is 52%. This 52% is not a homogenous group. 52% OBC consists
primarily of 4 groups which are ex-creamy layer castes, MBC castes, Tribes and converted
mulnivasis. In this, only the upper layer OBCs are recognized and other 3 groups are not
recognized. In this, ex-creamy layer, NT, DNT and VJNT are not recognized; MBCs are not
recognized, also in these there are minorities which are also not recognized. In this session
the issue of non recognition of MBCs is kept for discussion.
Speakers: Ms. Sujatha Kale (National Vice-President, R.M.M.S.), Mr. Binod Bihari
Mandal (Bihar), Mr. Hari Narayan Kamti (Nepal), Dr. R.C. Kumavat (Jaipur, Rajasthan)
D Sherin Madam (President Velicham, T.N.)
One Day Women's NATIONAL CONVENTION
Monday Date: 27.12.2010 Representative Session Time: 09.00 AM to 11.00 AM
To continue keeping the Women helpless and weak is the
conspiracy of Brahmins to strengthen Brahminical system4
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The varna-vyavastha declared Women as Shudra and did not give them any rights and
also on other hand lot of customs and restrictions were forced upon them through which the
women were made weak and helpless. This pre-meditated conspiracy was implemented by
Brahmins to convert powerful women into powerless. It is very important to expose this
conspiracy to create awareness amongst women folks.
Speakers: Ms. Deeksha Gowtham (U.P.), Ms. Krishna Tamaag (R.D.T.M. M., Nepal), Ms.
Meena Baala (Maharashtra), Ms. Jyoti Bankar (M.P.), Ms. Kalpana Kamble (Maharashtra),
Ms. Nisha Neendriya (Gujarat), Ms. Phulatai Jadhav (Maharashtra), Ms. Anita Ahari
(Rajasthan), Ms. Sushila Kasyap (U.P.), Ms. Vidya Jyoti (Bihar), Ms. Asha Bharti (Punjab),
Ms. Anamika Ingole (Maharashtra), Ms. Sheetal Pillewaan (Maharashtra), Ms. Reena Raagni
(Bihar), Dr. Sunitha Kale (Maharashtra), Ms. Sheetara Lalit (U.P.), Ms. G.R.Lakshmi (Nepal),
Prof. Meenashi Magre (Maharashtra), Ms. Nainabain Bagood (Gujarat), Ms. Resham Bahen),
Ms. Meenakshi Geethe (Maharashtra), Ms. Radha Meena (Rajasthan), Dr. M. Kalpana
(Dharmapuri,T. N.)
Monday Date: 27.12.2010 Social Awakening Session – 5 Time: 11.00 AM to 02.00 PM
Will the Women's power get really strengthened by Women's reservation? OR will
the real representation of Women be killed by this reservation?
Brahmins are propagating that the Women's power will get strengthened by Women's
reservation. But we have strong doubt that if this reservation is implemented, just like the
Poona Pact, in all fields the real representation of Women will be replaced by Brahmin
nominated representation as done for SC/ST reservation implementation. This will kill the
voice of real Women leadership. This topic is kept for discussion to discuss how this will take
place and create awareness amongst the Women about the same.
Speakers: Dr. Nomi Priya (Moradabad, U.P.), Ms. Charubain Chouhan (Gujarat), Prof.
Kanchanlata Lanjeshwar (M.P.), Ms. Poornima Kaatkar (Gujarat), Dr. Madhuri (Bihar), Dr. Asha
Indhu (M.P.), Ms. Sufiya Khatoon (West Bengal), Prof. Raagniwala (Punjab), Ms. Veena
Mahemi (Punjab), Ms. Nisha (Hariyana) Vibha Rahi (Maharashtra)
Monday Date: 27.12.2010 Social Awakening Session – 6 Time: 03.00 PM to 05.30 PM
Maa Jijavu and Shivaji Maharaj's character assassination is a Brahminical conspiracy to stop
Mulnivasis from getting inspiration from our Mahapurush i.e., James Laine is not responsible
for the Character Assassination but the 14 bandarkari Brahmins are responsible for this.
In Maharashtra, bandarkari Brahmins has started a campaign of the character assassination of Maa Jijavu and Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and this conspiracy of maligning may cost
Brahmins a lot. That is why, they have made a strategy to use a foreign writer, James Laine,
for this purpose and tried to spread confusion amongst the masses regarding this. This subject
is kept for discussion to clear the confusion surrounding this and to expose and make naked
the bandarkari Brahminical conspiracy.
Speakers: Ms. Sumita Patil (National President, Rashtriya Mulnivasi Mahila Sangh),
Mr. Praveen Dada Gaikwad (Head, Sambhaji Brigade, Maharashtra), Ms. Mangala Thorat
(Maharashtra), Mr. Gangadar Banbare (Maharashtra)
Monday Date: 27.12.2010Social Awakening Session – 7 Time: 06.00 PM to 09.00 PM
The decision of the Lucknow High Court on the ownership of Babri Masjid in Ram
Janmabhoomi was not based on facts but faith which is against basic tenets of Judiciary.
Judiciary has made faith as the basis for giving the decision in "Babri Masjid-Ram
Janmabhoomi" case. It has ignored the real facts and evidences and gave the decision based
on faith which is totally against constitution and against basic tenets of Justice. That is why it
is very much necessary to have detailed discussion on this. This topic is kept to have detailed
discussion on this.
Speakers: Adv. J.S.Kashyap (U.P.), Mr. Muktika Papana ( Ex Judge, High Court, Orissa),
Mr. R.K.Ankodiya (Ex Judge and Ex Member, H.R.O. Rajasthan), Dr. Virendra Kumar (Head,
Ancient Studies, U.P.), Kazi Shapad Ahmed (W.Bengal), Mr. Hashim Pasmanda (U.P.), Adv.
R.S.Aadil (High Court, New Delhi), Mr. Vijendra Singh (IPS, U.P.) Adv. Ikbal Sherif (Karnataka)
One Day NATIONAL CONVENTION for Social Networking
Tuesday Date: 28.12.2010 Representative Session Time: 09.00 AM to 11.00 AM
Brahminism is in reality Terrorism OR the real face of Terrorism is Brahminism. – A discussion
In our country, for dishonoring & condemning Muslims and to instigate the SC, ST and OBC
masses against the Muslims, Brahmins are planning terrorist attacks and misguiding the SC,
ST and OBC masses by branding them Hindu and misusing them. That is why, it is very
important to expose the real face of terrorism. To expose this real face of terrorism and to stop
the misuse of SC, ST and OBC by creating awareness in them, this topic is kept for discussion5
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Speakers: Adv. Vibhuthi Bhusan Shetty (Orissa), Er. D.P.Singh (U.P.),J.C.Sehgal (Gujarat),
Mr. Govind Bhai Parmar (Gujarat), Ramesh Chandra Jena (Orissa), Nityanand Das (West
Bengal), Mr.Shersingh Boudh (U.P.), Dr. Mohanlal(Punjab), Mr.J.K.Sonkara (Gujarat), Mr. K.
Bounik (West Bengal), Mr. N.D.Sudiya (Gujarat), Syed Muksaad Hussain (Jammu Kashmir),
Dr. Nilmani Deep (Orissa), Abdul Shukoor (Karnataka),Mr. Riyazu Moosa (Kerala),K.
Madhiyalagan (Dy.Tahasildar Salem, T.N.), Mr. Sandeep Chavan (Project Manager, A.P) Mr.
M.C.Krishnan (Leader, Netaji Trade Union Erode, T.N.), Dr. V. V. Subrahmanyam (A.P. ) Dr.
D. R. Sekar (T.N),
Tuesday Date: 28.12.2010 Social Awakening Session – 8 Time: 11.00 AM to 02.00 PM
Renke Commission Report – This report was not bought for giving rights to
NT/DNT/VJNT but was bought with the aim of starting infighting between SC
and NT/DNT/VJNT – A discussion
People belonging to NT, DNT and VJNT think that government has brought this commission to solve their problems. But in a program in Pune, Chairman of Renke Commission has accepted that few representatives of government told him to write against SC
community but he has declined it. By this confession it is proved that this commission was
not brought for the welfare of NT, DNT and VJNT. In fact, this was brought to bring infighting between SC and NT/DNT/VJNT. To bring out the truth behind this conspiracy, this subject is kept for discussion.
Speakers: Mr. Ramesh Kushalkar (Maharashtra), Dr. Nilesh Rana (New Delhi), Prof.
Gangadhar Geete (Maharashtra), Mr. Subhash Rathore (Maharashtra), Mr. V.V.Jadhav
(Maharashtra), Mr. Brij Mohan (Hariyana) Mr. M. Giridhar Goud (Sr. Journalist, A.P.), Mr, K.
Murugesan (State G.S. Koravan tribles Peoples welfare Asso. T.N.)
Tuesday Date: 28.12.2010 Social Awakening Session – 9 Time: 03.00 PM to 05.30 PM
Brahmanization of Lingayat community is a conspiracy
to make Lingayats slaves of Brahminism.
Brahmins, who are in micro minority, have hinduized the SCs, STs and OBCs to show themselves as majority and by using this Hindu identity, they carried on Brahmanization of SCs, STs
and OBCs and made them part of Brahminism and enslaved them. In the similar way, Brahmins
are now trying to tell Lingayats that Lingayat religion is integral part of Brahminism. The reality
is, Lingayat religion is a separate religion of Mulnivasis and is totally against the Varna System
and Brahminism. This information was hidden from us till today. Now, this information has
started to come in front of all. That is why this topic is kept for discussion to completely expose
the Brahminical Conspiracy and to highlight the Lingayat Religion.
Speakers: Speakers: Mr. Korneshwar Appa (Lingayat Religious Leader, Karnataka), Er.
Shashikanth Urgunde (Maharashtra), Mr. Sanjay Gaikwad (Maharashtra) Adv. Nagesh Kolli
(Gulbarga,Karnataka) Adv. Rajaram (Karim Nagar, A.P.) Mr. Baswaraj (Karnataka)
Tuesday Date: 28.12.2010 Social Awakening Session – 10 Time: 06.00 PM to 09.00 PM
In different parts of the country, various great men carried out social and religious movements against Brahminism. Just like Narayan Guru, Mahatma Jyotirao Phule and Basaveshwara, Guruchandji and Harichandji also ran socio-religious movement against Brahminism.
Out of this movement, Mathuva movement emerged and people accepted Mathuva religion.
But Brahmins penetrated into this religion also and carried on Brahmanization of Mathuva
religion. Against this Brahmanization and also to create awareness amongst the Mathuva followers, this topic is kept for discussion.
Brahmanization of Mathuva Movement is the program of cheating the Thakur
Harichandji and Guruchandji Movement
Speakers: Mr. J.C.Mandal (U.P.), Dr. Sudhipat Nashkar (West Bengal), Ms. Shivani
Biswas (West Bengal), Mr. Palash Biswas (West Bengal), Mr. R.N.Meena (Hariyana)
One Day Tribal's NATIONAL CONVENTION
Wednesday Date: 29.12.2010 Representative Session Time: 09.00 AM to 11.00 AM
What needs to be done to unite tribals and make them part of our nationwide
mass movement and to keep them away from the feeling of segregation.
SUBJECT
The feeling of segregation in Tribals has been instilled in a much planned manner so
that they will not join hands with anyone to solve their problems and will not come forward
to be part of any nationwide people's movement. To expose and triumph over this conspiracy, Tribals themselves will have to come forward and to bring forward the tribals, this
topic is kept for discussion.6
SUBJECT
SUBJECT
SUBJECT
Speakers: Dr. Shiv Bandari (M.P.), Mr. S.G.Damor (Gujarat), Mr. Bharat Chandra Singh
(Orissa), Mr. Hansmukh Patel (Gujarat), Ms. Sarai H.(West Bengal), Mr. Nawal Kishore
M.(Orissa), Dr. Nathi Bhai Patel (Gujarat), Mr. Doolabhai Dindor (Rajasthan), Mr. Shankarlal
Katara (Rajasthan), Mr. Shivajirao G. (Maharashtra), Mr. Khemji Maharaj (Gujarat), Mr. Himataram Boudh (Rajasthan), Dr. Swarupanand Patra (Orissa), Prof. K. Laxminarayana (A.P.),
Dr. P. Karunamoorthy( T.N.) Mr. B. Chennaiah (Nizamabad, A.P.)
Wednesday Date: 29.12.2010 Social Awakening Session – 11 Time: 11.00 AM to 02.00 PM
Operation Green Hunt – Conspiracy started by Brahmins to create fear amongst
Tribals and to gulp their land
The areas where Tribals reside are full of priceless natural mineral resources. That is why
it is not possible to possess these priceless minerals without acquiring these lands. So, to
acquire these lands, ruling castes of India i.e., Brahmins made a well planned policy. This
policy is to slander tribals by branding them as Maoists and Naxalites and to use military and
Para-military against them. By doing this they try to spread fear amongst tribals so that the
tribals in fear will either run away leaving their land or will agree to sell it to multinational
companies or Indian government. To fulfill this aim, Operation Green Hunt is started. But the
rightful people of this country are not aware of this truth. Our Mulnivasi Bahujan should know
about this pre-planned conspiracy. To create awareness amongst them, this topic is kept for
discussion.
Speakers: Dr. Narayan Singh Majhi (Orissa), Mr. B.S.Rawate (Deputy Commissioner,
Chhattisgarh), Mr. Vijay Kunjoor (Jharkhand), Mr. Durga Marandi (Jharkhand), Mr. H.D.Raute
(Deputy Commissioner, Maharashtra), Dr. R.P.Bharati (ISF, U.P.), Er. Arjun Singh (Bihar), Mr.
H.N.Raikwal (M.P.), Mr. Sharadchandra Naik (Orissa), Mr. Arjun Bhai Patel (Chairman, R.A.N
S.), Somalal Koted (National G.S. (MANAGEMENT) BAMCEF, Dr. Anil Kumar (Trivandrum,
Kerala) Mr. Rojal (Karnataka)
Wednesday Date: 29.12.2010 Social Awakening Session – 12 Time: 03.00 AM to 05.30 PM
In Uttar Pradesh, to get inspiration and keep alive the ideology of our great forefathers,
Kanshiramji came with a plan to build their memorials and as part of this planning, memorials
were being developed by Uttar Pradesh government. To stop the Mulnivasi Bahujans from
getting inspiration from their great leaders, Brahmins hatched a conspiracy and they filed a case
against it in high court. Supreme Court ordered to give the judgment in four months. Four months
passed away but still the Allahabad court has not given any judgment and even today it is
pending in court. In this matter, the behavior of judiciary is influenced by Brahminical prejudice.
To create awareness in public against this Brahminical prejudice and to start nationwide agitation
for this, we want to prepare the people. That's why, this topic is kept for discussion.
In spite of the orders of the Supreme Court, no judgment has been given about
our great forefathers memorials by Allahabad high court. This is a part of
Brahminical Conspiracy.
Speakers:Adv. Aslam Javed Siddhiqui (Lucknow, U.P.), Er. R.K.Ram (U.P.), Adv. Ashol Basotra
(Jammu & Kashmir), Adv. Basant Kumar Mahanto (Orissa), Mr. Harikishan Sampla (Punjab),
Adv. Sanjay Kumar Bharati (Supreme Court, New Delhi), Adv. R.S.Aadil (High Court, New Delhi),
Mr. T.Jayachandran (BAMCEF Cadre Madurai, T.N.), Mr. M.R. Prabhakar(Karnataka), Dr. Jilukara
Srinivas (A.P.), Dr. Shuhaib Riyaloo (Kerala)
Wednesday Date: 29.12.2010 Social Awakening Session – 13 Time: 06.00 PM to 09.00 PM
Brahmins with the help of Mughals kept India under slavery and later in the similar way Brahmins
joined hands with Britishers and suggested them to rule India by giving them share in ruling as was done
by Mughals. But Britishers did not listen to the plan of Brahmins. That is why, Brahmins started the war of
freedom against Britishers. In this fight for freedom, barrister Jinnah and Muslim League demanded equal
rights from Gandhi-Nehru but they did not agree. To stay in India and be part of it, Jinnah kept the proposal
of 33% representation for Muslim League in front of Nehru. Gandhi-Nehru thought that if 22.5%
representation is given to SCs/STs and 33% to Muslims then 55.5% representation will go to SCs, STs
and Minorities. Brahmins thought that even if they get hold of all remaining 44.5%, still it would not be
possible for Brahmins to rule over India. That is why they deduced that to get complete control over India
they will have to divide India. That's why, Gandhi-Nehru pushed for the division of India and partitioned it
so that Brahmins can rule over it. To save themselves from all the disrepute due to this, they fallaciously
blamed Muslims for partition and disgraced Muslims. In this way, Brahmins, who were responsible for the
partition of India, saved themselves from all the blames and disrepute. This topic is kept for discussion to
give more information on above controversy.
To take complete control of Free India in their hands, Gandhi and Brahmins
together partitioned India and blamed Muslims – A controversy
Speakers: Prof. Gurnam Singh (Punjab), Mr. B.K.Panda (West Bengal), Master Mansoor Ahmed Kunjoor
(Kosambi, U.P.), Md. Intesaar Nahim (Executive, Jamait-E-Islami Hind, Delhi), Mr. Jagadish Mandal (West
Bengal), Md. Asgar Ali (Chief Advisor, Muslim Samaj, Nepal), Mr. Mukti Mohammad Yusuf (PhuleAmbedkar-Shahu Vichar Muslim Munch, Maharashtra), Dr. Arun Kumar (Dept of Science and Technology,
Jharkhand), Mr. R.D.Prajapati (M.P.), Prof. R.D.Maurya (M.P.) Dr. N.Jayaraman (Pudukottai, T.N.)
All sessions will be presided over by HON'BLE WAMAN MESHRAM, National President, BAMCEF.
Radical Hindu units bigger threat than LeT: Rahul Gandhi
According to WikiLeaks, Rahul Gandhi told Timothy Roemer that the 'growth of radicalised Hindu groups' is a bigger threat than Lashkar-e-Taiba.
- RSS slams Rahul's remarks on Hindu groups
- 'Remarks impinge upon India's fight on terror'
- Cong sees 'conspiracy' behind release
- 'Terrorism of all types threat to India'
- Spectrum Scam & Lobbying
- TTSL hits back, asserts it never got any benefit
- Dubbing the slanging match between Ratan Tata and Rajya Sabha MP as 'futile', Tata Teleservices termed his attack as a 'cheap gimmick'.
- Chandrasekhar dares Tata on policy flip-flop
- Tata plea on excess airwaves rejected
- Both GSM & CDMA phones easy to tap
- Edit: Follow the law, strictly, on tapping
- Radia tapes: Lobbying needs to be monitored
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A combative Congress Sunday declared a no-holds war on right-wing groups, especially the RSS on its terror links, and also outlined a four-point agenda to fight the blight of corruption that has made the party-led central government the target of repeated attacks over numerous scams.
According to the political resolution adopted at the Burari meet, secularism, the lifeline of Indian democracy 'is threatened by the ideology of the BJP and its affiliate organisations like the RSS. The RSS and the VHP are insidious in their effort to break India.'
'The Indian National Congress calls upon the government to tackle this menace in the strongest possible manner and investigate the links between terrorists and the RSS and its sister organisations that have been uncovered in some recent cases,' the resolution said.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi, while addressing party leaders and workers at the party's 83rd plenary, outlined a four-point agenda to deal with graft involving officials and also politicians, including fast-tracking cases.
Gandhi set the tone for the meeting by speaking about the party's record of dealing with allegations of misconduct and corruption against its leaders and comparing it with the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) handling of complaints of nepotism against its chief minister in Karnataka.
The four-point agenda outlined by Sonia Gandhi, was: fast-tracking all cases concerning corruption, including of politicians; all corruption cases should be brought to closure in a defined time frame; clear and full transparency in all procurement cases and contracts; since discretionary powers in land allocation 'breed corruption', she asked Congress chief ministers and leaders to 'set an example by reviewing and relinquishing such powers'; and fourthly to bring a more competitive system of exploiting natural resources.
Gandhi also spoke of the Congress not making a distinction between organisations of the majority and minority communities which indulge in communalism and related acts of terrorism. 'They are all dangerous and must be all defeated,' she said.
She also firmly backed the prime minister, praising him for his 'unwavering devotion' to the nation's prosperity and calling the opposition's 'personal attack' on him 'despicable'.
Prior to the adoption of the political resolution, Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh mounted a fierce attack on the RSS, even likening it to the Nazis. 'The RSS in the garb of its nationalist ideology is targetting Muslims the same way Nazis targetted Jews in the 1930s,' Singh said, while taking part in the discussion on the political resolution.
He said the RSS had made its activists 'infiltrate' the bureaucracy and even the army and raised a question as to 'why all people involved in various bombings like Malegaon, Mecca Masjid, Samjhauta Express had links with' the organization.
He also launched a scathing attack on the BJP over 'demolition of the Babri Masjid'. Singh said L.K. Advani's 1990 Rath Yatra was responsible for sowing the seeds of terrorism in India and for creating a gulf between Hindus and Muslims.
Party general secretary Rahul Gandhi, who spoke during the discussion on the political resolution, talked in the same vein as his mother on the need to tackle corruption but elaborated on the need for the party to identify with the common man more closely.
'We will never build a nation until we build a system in which this man's (common man's) progress is based not on who he knows but what he knows,' Gandhi said in his speech that was in part delivered in Hindi.
The political resolution blamed the BJP for leading the 'disruption' of parliament. It said that the Left parties have also 'been working in tandem with the BJP in opposing the UPA (United Progressive Alliance government).'
The resolution said that parties like Telugu Desam Party, Janata Dal-United and Biju Janata Dal 'continue to work in collaboration' with the BJP.
The United Progressive Alliance government has been attacked over the 2G spectrum allocation scam that led to the resignation of A. Raja as communications minister, the Adarsh housing society scam that led to Ashok Chavan being asked to quit as Maharashtra chief minister, and the corruption allegations over the preparations for the Commonwealth Games.
Attacking the Left parties, the resolution said that the party rejects all attempts to perpetrate a cycle of violence for political advantages in West Bengal, Kerala and Tripura.
The resolution said necessity of coalition politics does not prevent party's state-level workers from 'hoping and dreaming of a larger political space wherever they may be.'
The resolution on the party completing 125 years lauded Sonia Gandhi for her leadership.
The plenary Monday will take up economic and foreign policy resolutions.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is also expected to speak Monday, the concluding day of the plenary.
The party has made elaborate arrangements for delegates who thronged the plenary venue in large numbers. Party leaders said that over 15,000 party leaders and workers will attend the two-day delegate meet. Arrangements had been made by the organizers for food and snacks for participants. A cultural programme was also organized Sunday evening.
Centre sanctions Rs 100 cr for Swami Vivekananda birth anniversary
The Centre has approved Rs 100 crore proposal of the Ramakrishna Mission for nation-wide social projects from 2010-2014 to mark the 150th birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda.?The National Committee set up under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister (to commemorate Vivekananda?s 150th birth centenary) has approved our scheme of Rs 100 crore for various service?oriented programmes all over India from 2010 to 2014,? Mission General Secretary, Swami Prabhananda said at the 101st annual general meeting at its global headquarters here.
The programmes included child health improvement, all round development in 150 villages, educational development and self-empowerment of rural women in 10 villages, poverty alleviation in 10 selected pockets and value education for the youth, besides publication of books and production of films on Vivekananda in various languages.
During 2009-10, the Ramakrishna Math and Mission spent Rs 301.67 crore for developmental, educational and welfare projects.
Of this, Rs 171.46 crore were spent on education, Rs 88.37 crore on medical services, Rs 27.92 crore on rural and tribal development, Rs 7.21 crore on welfare projects and Rs 6.71 crore on relief work, Prabhananda said.
A commemorative volume on the Ramakrishna Mission and a booklet on its relief services on the completion of 100 years of the Mission?s registration with the Registrar of Societies were released on the occasion.
Tendulkar becomes first batsman to score 50 Test centuries
Indian batting maestro Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar on Sunday became the first batsman to score a monumental 50 centuries in Test cricket history.
The little master reached the coveted landmark when he completed his ton in 197 balls on the fourth day of the first Test against South Africa at SuperSport Park, Centurion.
Tendulkar takes a single off Dale Steyn to achieve the historic milestone.
The master batsman, enjoying a memorable year at age 37, has amassed 1,532 runs in thirteen Tests this year at an amazing average of more than 85 runs per innings.
Tendulkar has scored seven centuries and five fifties in the year 2010 with one more match to play against South Africa starting on December 26.
Test cricket's greatest run-scorer has till now scored more than 14,500 runs and scored 59 fifties along with the half-century of centuries.
With one more match of the three-Test series in South Africa scheduled for this year, Tendulkar has opportunity to surpass Mohammad Yousuf's record of 1,768 runs in a calendar year (2006).
Chinese media knocks off 1,600 km from China-India border
BEIJING: China appears to be making ground for claiming some 1,600 km of Indian territory judging by reports in the state-owned media on the length of China-India border.
Even as the two countries have been discussing the unresolved boundary issue for decades, the state-owned Xinhua and ' Global Times ., an English language newspaper published by the 'People's Daily', the official mouthpiece of the ruling Chinese Communist Party , have described the China-India border as nearly 2,000 km long.
The reports about the length of the border were carried in the Chinese official media ahead of Prime Minister Wen Jiabao's December 15-17 visit to India.
Xinhua on the eve of Wen's arrival in New Delhi had said the length of the border was nearly 2,000 km long.
This Chinese assessment contradicts the Indian figure of 3,500 km for the operational border between the two nations.
The Indian position was made clear once again by ambassador S Jaishankar during an interview with the " Global Times."
When asked about the reported tensions in the border, Jaishankar had said, "The reality contradicts any alarmist depiction of the situation on the border, whether in India or in China. We have a long common border of 3,488 km."
The "Global Times" while publishing the interview on Tuesday surprisingly chose to add a footnote to its report to say that the Chinese government often refers to the border length as being "about 2,000 km."
Jaishankar returned to Beijing from New Delhi on Sunday after Wen's Indian visit. Wen went to Pakistan on the second and final leg of his south Asian tour before leaving for Beijing.
There was no immediate comment from the Indian embassy on the reports in the Chinese official media on the length of the China-India border.
Wen's visit to India took place after the 14th round of boundary talks.
Wen while citing the Indian media's coverage of the situation on the China-India border had said at the end of his visit on Friday that "not a single shot had been fired" nor had there been any "exchanges in border areas" between the troops.
Faced with negative headlines on the outcome of his talks with the Indian leadership, the Chinese premier was also sharply critical of the Indian media, saying it was causing "damage" to bilateral ties.
Wen had told a group of editors and scholars before emplaning for Pakistan that he understood that the press in India had freedom but it should play a role in promoting friendship.
Still, the boundary question has "repeatedly been sensationalised" by the media after which leaders of the two countries have had to "repair the damage and harm", he said.
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Sonia Gandhi urged Congress party leaders on Sunday to rebuild and to remain attentive to voter concerns as it tries to shake off scandals and price rises ahead of critical state elections.
Sonia Gandhi, one of India's most powerful politicians, acknowledged for the first time publicly that Congress had to "candidly address weaknesses". She told party workers not to be "despondent" as they geared up for the polls.
The Congress-led coalition government faces multiple political crises, including debilitating corruption cases, price rises hitting its base voters and a poor showing in a recent state election.
"I am only too aware of how much work we need to do in some states," Gandhi told the party's plenary session, the first since 2006. "The recent election in Bihar has demonstrated that there is no alternative to earnestly beginning the process of reviving the party organisation from the grassroots.
"The road ahead will be long and arduous but we will persevere and we will succeed."
Since its re-election in 2009, Congress has seen much of its political capital eroded. It has been unable to run parliament as the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has blocked proceeding to demand a probe into a telecoms corruption scandal.
Policymaking has drifted into limbo, economic reforms have been delayed and leaders like Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh have been accused of neglecting governance issues.
"Mrs. Gandhi never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity to show real leadership," officials at the U.S. embassy in New Delhi wrote in 2007, according to cables released by WikiLeaks and published by Britain's Guardian newspaper.
Investors have shrugged off these issues, attracted by one of the world's fastest-growing economies, but say the glacial pace of reforms could drag on India's ambitions to expand its economy at the double-digit rates seen in China.
Congress sustained heavy losses in Bihar state polls in October-November, coming far behind the winning coalition that has the BJP as a junior partner.
A poor showing over the next two years in the key big states of West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and in Uttar Pradesh, would be seized on by the opposition as a sign of voter discontent ahead of federal elections in 2014 and could further delay reforms.
Congress is a junior partner in coalitions in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu and is a minor player in Uttar Pradesh.
Allies have proved to be a headache for Congress, blocking reforms and policymaking. Critics say PM Singh was unable to sack his telecoms minister on allegations of corruption because the minister belonged to a key coalition ally.
Gandhi suggested to party officials that the time had come to outgrow dependence on allies.
"This is a time for constructive action, including in those states where we are in coalition," she told the gathering.
She also asked Congress governments to heed the party.
"Let it not be forgotten that it is the party that has made the government. It is the primary responsibility of those in office to be sensitive to the voices coming from the party organisation and ranks," she said to wild applause.
The session, on the outskirts of Delhi, was the party's 83rd since 1885, when Congress was formed as an organisation that went on to lead the movement for independence from Britain.
PARTY BACKS PM ON CORRUPTION
India's season of scams has included charges $39 billion was lost in revenue due to corruption when lucrative telecoms licences were sold. Congress leaders have been linked to graft during the Commonwealth Games held earlier this year and in seizing prime property.
Andimuthu Raja, the telecoms minister during the licence grants, has resigned, but the BJP has said this is not enough and has threatened to shut down the February session of parliament.
Gandhi called for zero tolerance for corruption, which she described as "a disease spreading through our society". She defended Singh against opposition allegations he did nothing to prevent corruption and took no action against erring officials.
"I want to say something about our prime minister. He is the embodiment of sobriety, dignity and integrity ... The party stands solidly with him," she said.
"The BJP has unleashed a flood of corruption in the political arena just to grab power... BJP has demonstrated its moral bankruptcy and political hypocrisy; so too parties like the CPI(M) and others who have actively indulged in corruption in the States under their rule," the political resolution of Congress Plenary said.
Virtually toeing Rahul Gandhi�s line on Hindu radical groups posing bigger threat, Congress today said the links between terrorists and the RSS and its sister organisations needed to be investigated.
"The Indian National Congress calls upon the government to tackle this menace in the strongest possible manner and investigate links between terrorists and the RSS and its sister organisations that have been uncovered in some recent cases,� the party said in its draft Political Resolution moved in the Plenary.
The resolution was proposed by senior leader Pranab Mukherjee and seconded by Digvijay Singh.
The resolution noted that the role of religious fundamentalist organizations in challenging the security of the nation can no longer be ignored.
The mention of suspicion of links between RSS and terrorism in the resolution assumes significance as a controversy had erupted after Rahul Gandhi''s remarks to US Ambassador Timothy Roemer about Hindu radicalism being a bigger threat than terror groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba became public recently.
"Terrorism, from wherever it comes and whatever form it takes, must be dealt with firmly and effectively," it said.
Noting that the UPA-I government was supported by Left front, which subsequently withdrew support, the resolution said that the Left parties "thereafter have been working in tandem with the BJP in opposing the Congress and the UPA.
It said that a number of regional parties like TDP, JD(U) and BJD also continue to work in collaboration with BJP in opposing Congress and its allies in UPA.
Alleging that the BJP has a history of 'double standards and double speak' on issues of serious corruption involving senior-most leadership and occupants of highest offices including those of Chief Ministers and Ministers, the resolution said that the main opposition party "remained in a state of denial or stubbornly sought to divert attention by indulging in 'political theatrics'.
The party also mounted attack on the Left for the 'cycle of violence' in West Bengal, Kerala and Tripura where the latter is in power.
"Congress emphatically rejects all attempts to perpetrate a cycle of violence for political and electoral advantages by political parties," the party said in the resolution.
The party resolution also expressed concern over 'violence and intimidation' in the poll-bound West Bengal, where Congress-Trinamool alliance is confident of wresting power from the Left.
"Congress is alarmed about the increased instances of attempts to control and capture areas and zones by violent means and intimidation.
"Politics based on capture and recapture of areas and attempts to create safe zones by violence and physical intimidation against political opponents and general masses of population must be defeated," the resolution said alluding to the violence in Lalgarh area of West Bengal.
"Coerced displacement of people from their political persuasion and belief cannot be allowed. Congress condemns this politics," the resolution said.
The assertions are significant as Congress ally Trinamool Congress has umpteen times raised the issue of alleged harassment of Trinamool Congress workers at the hands of the CPI(M) led government in West Bengal.
18/12/2010
Congress' meteoric fall: Shekhar Gupta
New Delhi: Just a year back, everything looked as if it was playing out to script for the UPA government, and even more specifically, the Congress party. Now, it seems to have all gone wrong, much like the dramatic turn in a romantic couple's fortunes after the interval in a 1960s Hindi movie.
Except, just about 18 months into a five-year term, it isn't quite interval time yet for the UPA. And further, unlike a Hindi movie of the 1960s, or at any time, in politics a happy ending cannot be presumed or guaranteed.
The challenge UPA 1 had to tackle from difficult allies and the Left supporters from outside now feels like a breeze compared to the open war that has broken out among the members of the cabinet. More precisely, the Congress members of the cabinet. The senior-most ones are tired and disillusioned.
The "young" lot, as politicians in their late-50s and mid-60s are described in India (factoid: Wen Jiabao is happy to be addressed as grandpa by schoolchildren, while Prithviraj Chavan, the young, new Maharashtra chief minister is exactly his age), are fighting, bickering, bitching and leaking against each other.
It is no longer confined to whispers in any darkened corridors or the usual capital city scuttlebutt. It is a widely known fact, and easy to substantiate, that UPA 2 has emerged as the most internally fractious Indian cabinet since Morarji Desai's Janata in 1977.
On the eve of the AICC session, the party's leadership cannot even look at the states for succour and optimism. The Congress, today, has the most ineffectual chief ministers in the country. Its failure to stabilise Andhra after YSR's sudden death and to build a new leader is only matched by its utterly cynical greed and incompetence in messing up Maharashtra.
The party has now ruled the state for 11 unbroken years, under five chief ministers (Deshmukh served twice). You ask anybody in Mumbai about Prithviraj Chavan's prospects now, and the answer you get is: he may deliver, but only if the party stops harassing him for more "resources". And this, mind you, is no mere loose talk.
The unanimity on this argument, and the promptness and uniformity with which it is spoken, is frightening.The only other politically significant state the party controls, Rajasthan, presents an indifferent picture, even if not of alarm.
The chief minister, always a lightweight, is further weakened as the political centre of gravity of his state unit now resides in Delhi, in the form of PCC chief C.P. Joshi. The debacle in this week's by-elections and recent civic polls tells a story. Other Congress states, J&K, Haryana, Assam, Goa and Pondicherry, are insignificant.
Very few Congressmen dispute these facts. But, if you expected this sense of crisis to make them sober down or rethink their politics, you are mistaken. In fact, even if they tear their colleagues to shreds, or make patronising, even ridiculing remarks about the prime minister, the swagger is still all there.
And it comes from the question all of them throw at you: but where is the opposition? Look at the situation within the BJP. But, post-Bihar, there are some stirrings. Nobody in the Congress would ever dare question the leadership, but for the first time in the history of UPA coalitions, some Congressmen have begun to doubt if their party's future has indeed been pre-settled or whether politics hereon will play out to that script.In the three days preceding the Bihar results, I happened to run into at least six senior Congress ministers and two general secretaries.
The most pessimistic estimate of Congress seats was 20. Of course the most optimistic was 60 and the person who made it would be most embarrassed if I mentioned his name now. But just four? Congressmen now wonder -- once again, only in whispers -- if something indeed has, or is, going wrong.They do not have to look far.
Many, in fact most, of the Congress party's current problems lie in the fact that they misread the verdict of 2009 to believe that the opposition had been vanquished for ever. Since May 2009 Congressmen have been celebrating the "victory" of 2014 and posturing, preparing, and of course poisoning their likely 2014 rivals' lunch already.
We know politics is the art of the possible, but jockeying for positions in a 2014 (Rahul Gandhi) government from May 2009 is about as illogical as a cricket team, however formidable and all-conquering, wanting to play the second innings first. This is where the party has blundered.
All the problems that bedevil it today, squabbling ministers, restive allies, impatient and insecure general secretaries and apparatchiks and, worst of all, a frighteningly weakened prime minister and, more specifically, his PMO, are rooted in this.
Several members of this cabinet make no bones of their "belief" that they draw their power from the Gandhi family and as long as they "have their backing" they have nobody to fear and, frankly, respect, and that includes the prime minister. In the Westminster system, whatever his personality, the prime minister is where the cabinet's centre of gravity resides. If you look at UPA 2, it has not seemed to be the case at least in the last six months.
When it comes to political and strategic intellect, the Congress is blessed with an embarrassment of riches. You will see these on display at the AICC session. But all their collective wisdom and cleverness will not reverse the downslide unless they start to look within rather than draw comfort from the BJP's situation.
And if they pull themselves out of complacence, or are pulled out by the Gandhis, they will also see two new realities in the Indian national political balance of power.One, the post-2004 party-government compact where the party, or more precisely the Gandhi family, totally de-risked itself by distancing itself from its government's major decisions so it could later claim the credit for successes and disown its setbacks, like Sharm el-Sheikh, will no longer work.
It won't work because people won't accept it. And the party cannot go to the polls in 2014 seeking an anti-incumbency vote against its own government. So, from economics to environment, from diplomacy to terrorism, the party and the government have to work firmly on a sink-or-swim together basis.
Two, the party has to accept that the days when pan-national leaders could swing entire elections are over. Political and electoral power have now moved to the states. Look at the Indian election now like a best-of-nine-sets tennis match. The nine "sets" are UP, Bihar, Rajasthan, MP, AP, Kerala, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.
Together these send 351 MPs to the Lok Sabha. Any coalition that wins five of these will automatically get close to 200 seats and the rest will then fall in place. How well-placed is the UPA of December 2010 in this nine-set game of electoral tennis? An honest answer to that would be a sobering and useful theme to the AICC session, rather than the usual swagger, verbose platitudes and loud declarations of loyalty and sycophancy.
Source: The Indian Express
19/12/2010
'US was worried about possible Third Front govt formation'
New Delhi: Ahead of the 2009 general elections in India, the United States was worried about a possible Third Front coming to power with the Left parties playing a major role in it.
In an assessment on February 12 that year, the US Embassy here had said that while Congress and BJP would not come to power on their own, "the worst scenario for the US-India relationship would be one in which a 'Third Front' forms a government that excludes both the Congress and the BJP.
"Under those circumstances, the Communist parties will likely wield great influence in a coalition," an Embassy cable released by whistle blower web site Wikileaks said.
The general elections were held in April-May, 2009.
The cable, signed by then Ambassador David C Mulford, also noted that both BJP and Congress would support a closer US-India relationship.
But if these two parties forged a coalition with regional parties to form the government, "their ability to move forward aggressively (on Indo-US relations) will be constrained by the disproportionate power of smaller parties, which have narrower agendas that frequently do not extend to foreign policy issues," the cable, meant for then US Special Representative Richard Holbrooke, said.
Observing that the Indo-US nuclear deal and closer strategic relations between the two nations had generated "an extraordinary public debate" in India, the envoy said, "We have won this debate hands down and, as a result, the US-India relationship has a strong foundation on which to grow over the coming decades".
In the same cable, Mulford categorically says that the implementation of the nuclear agreement "requires India to take a number of steps", like bringing its IAEA safeguards agreement "into force and filing a declaration of safeguarded facilities" to initiate civil nuclear cooperation.
"For the United States to fully realise the commercial benefits of cooperation, India must also follow through on its commitment to set aside nuclear reactor park sites for US firms -- as it has already done for France and Russia -- and address other industry concerns, such as patent protection and adoption of domestic liability protection," the cable said.
Successful implementation of the agreement will provide access to an estimated USD 150 billion in commercial opportunities for US firms and lead to the creation of up to 30,000 American jobs over the next three decades, it added.
Source: Agencies
18/12/2010
Ajmer blast mastermind Joshi was killed by his own men
Bhopal: The Madhya Pradesh Police on Friday claimed to have solved the mystery behind the murder of Sunil Joshi — former RSS pracharak and alleged mastermind of the blasts in Ajmer and Mecca Masjid, Hyderabad — saying he was killed by his own men because he mistreated them.
Joshi was shot dead on December 29, 2007, when he was on his way to his hideout in Chuna Khadan locality of Dewas. The MP police had virtually closed the investigation in his murder when the Rajasthan ATS arrested Harshad Solanki in connection with the Ajmer blast case.
The MP police said Solanki, who was in their custody for nearly two weeks, had confessed to the murder. Vasudev Parmar, a resident of Dewas, and Anand Raj Kataria, a resident of Indore, were also arrested by the police for hatching a conspiracy to kill Joshi, while three other accused are still missing.
Solanki was remanded in judicial custody till December 30 because the police did not seek further remand, while Parmar and Kataria were remanded in police custody till December 24.
Investigating Officer Vinod Kushwaha told The Indian Express that Solanki was upset with Joshi because he would often hurl invectives at him, often calling him good for nothing and occasionally kutta (dog). "They were fed up of the constant ill-treatment and wanted to eliminate him but were not getting a chance," Kushwaha said.
Joshi, who was also wanted in connection with the murder of a Congress leader, was living incognito in the town. Four accused in Vadodara's Best Bakery riot case, Solanki, Ramesh Gohil, Mahesh Gohil and Jayantibhai Gohil also lived with Joshi in a small room in Dewas for more than a year.
While Joshi, who sported a long beard, was known as Guruji in the locality, the four assumed false identities as Raj, Mohan, Mehul and Jayanti Ustad respectively. Since all were wanted criminals, they maintained a low profile, avoiding the local people.
On the day of murder, Joshi had gone to his mother's place but got a call on his mobile that his accomplices were waiting for him in the room. According to Kushwah, Joshi's motor-cycle developed a snag and he was going on foot when his accomplices came on a two-wheeler and shot him dead.
The police claimed the mobile phones used by Joshi and Mehul had been seized but not the weapon which has passed hands. The police said the accused stayed in various towns of Gujarat after committing the murder.
Joshi delegated responsibilities to all the co-accused in a secret meet at Jaipur, and is the man who recced, and planted the bomb at Ajmer and Mecca Masjid.
The MP Police had been criticised by their counterparts in Maharashtra and Rajasthan for not cooperating in the terror cases involving Hindu extremists. The MP Police had made no progress in the Joshi murder case with police officials admitting to political pressure.
Source: The Indian Express
19/12/2010
2G scam: Justice Regupathi says not interested in blame-game
Chennai: Amid contradictory claims by former CJI K G Balakrishnan and Justice H L Gokhale, retired Madras High Court Judge Justice R Reghupathi today said he was "not interested in any blame-game" on the controversy over former IT minister A Raja's alleged attempt to influence him in a criminal case.
As the controversy refused to die down, Justice Regupathi also said it was not proper for him to pursue the matter further.
"I am not interested in a blame-game. It is unfortunate that a section of media reported some allegations against judges and that I was scared and confused...I feel damage has been caused to me (by the report), a person who was always transparent," he said.
The issue of Raja's alleged attempt to influence Justice Regupathi came into focus again last week when Justice H L Gokhale, then Madras High Court Chief Justice and now a Supreme Court judge, issued a statement contradicting former Chief Justice of India Balakrishnan's remarks that he had not named Raja in his report to him.
Balakrishnan's comments had come after the Madras High Court recently suspended Tamil Nadu Bar Council Chairman R K Chandramohan, who had last year allegedly approached Regupathi taking the name of Raja for securing bail to an accused in a criminal case probed by the CBI.
The court had enclosed the letter written by Justice Regupathi to Justice Gokhale in which he is purported to have named Raja.
Justice Balakrishnan had been insisting that Raja's name was not mentioned in the report by Justice Gokhale, who, however contradicted it.
Asked whether Raja had tried to influence him in the case relating to a father-son duo in a marksheet scam, Regupathi, now practising in the Supreme Court, said today he did not wish to discuss the matter.
"Regarding the issue concerned, I am not willing to discuss the merits and demerits. It is not proper on my part to pursue this matter further from my end. It is upto the citizens and jurists to pursue it further or leave it as such," he said.
"I have great respect and regard for higher judiciary. All along I was strictly following judicial code of conduct and maintaining my silence," he said.
On the claim of Balakrishnan that he was not aware that Raja was the Minister who had tried to influence him, Regupathi said he did not want to be drawn into a blame-game.
In his letter a portion of which was appended by the High Court, Regupathi had reportedly stated that Chandramohan had entered his chamber last year and pleaded that the case of the father-son duo for anticipatory bail be considered favourably as they were "family friends of a Union Minister by name Raja."
Reghupathi, in his July 7, 2009 letter to Justice Gokhale, had said he had discouraged such conduct of Chandramohan and the case would be disposed of in accordance with law if it was listed before him.
Source: Agencies
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In a two—pronged attack on fundamentalism and corruption, Congress President Sonia Gandhi today said majority and minority communalism are dangerous and must be defeated and favoured fast—tracking all corruption cases, including those of politicians.Addressing the Congress Plenary, she dwelt at length on the two subjects in the backdrop of a number of corruption charges hitting the party and the UPA government headed by it and the controversy surrounding Rahul Gandhi's comments about Hindu radicalism being "bigger threat" than groups like Lashkar—e—Taiba.
"The Congress party makes no distinction between organisations of the majority and of the minority communities who indulge in communalism and related acts of terrorism. They are all dangerous, they must all be defeated," Ms. Gandhi said in her 30—minute Presidential address to the two—day Plenary session that began today.
Maintaining that Congress has always fought against all forms of communalism, regardless of their source, Ms. Gandhi said, "communalism is the abuse of religion for narrow political purposes.
"It is the abuse of religion and to spread hatred and bigotry. It is the abuse of religion to polarise our society and to divide us."
In an apparent attack on saffron forces, she said the country cannot ignore the pernicious impact of individuals, institutions and ideologies that distor history and thrive on spreading religious prejudice and inciting people to violence using religion as a cover.
Ms. Gandhi's attack on communalism of all hues comes as an apparent damage—control exercise in the wake of controversy surrounding Mr. Rahul's remarks to US Ambassador Timothy Roemer against Hindu radicalism that came under attack from BJP and RSS.
Corruption
Dwelving on the issue of corruption over which the government and the party have been under attack, the Congress President expressed concern over the fact that it has "become a disease" at all levels throughout the society.
She underlined the need for instituting a new system of fast tracking all cases that concern corruption by public servants, including politicians.
"Such cases drag on interminably and undermine public confidene and trust. Why can't we put in place systems that bring corruption cases to closure in a defined time—frame? This would bring the guilty to book quickly and clear those unfairly charged," Ms. Gandhi said.
Although she did not mention any specific case of corruption, she was obviously referring to corruption charges that have tarnished the image of the government and the party like 2G spectrum scam, CWG irregularities and Adarsh Housing Scam in Maharashtra.
Ms. Gandhi, who prescribed a four—point action plan to battle corruption, asked party Chief Ministers and Central Ministers to relinquish discretionary powers in land allotment, declaring that "we must corruption head—on".
She said there was "ample evidence" that all discretionary powers, particularly in land allocation, breed corruption. "I would like all Congress Chief Ministers and Ministers both at the Centre and the States to set an example by reviewing and relinquishing powers."
Noting significantly that there was no clapping from the delegates on this suggestion, the Congress President reminded party leaders of the need to be clean in public life.
Simplicity, restraint and austerity
"Congressmen and women, holding office, must not allow any doubt about their probity and integrity. It ill becomes representatives of a party claiming to speak for the poor to indulge in greed, extravagance and luxury.
"Simplicity, restraint and austerity must be our chosen way. We cannot make this a law. But in a country where poverty is still widespread, let us at least have moral sensibility to avoid vulgar displays of wealth and waste," she said.
The Congress unseated Ashok Chavan from Maharashtra Chief Ministership in the wake of Adarsh Housing Society scam, removed Suresh Kalmadi from the post of Secretary of the Parliamentary Party after charges of irregularities in CWG.
A Raja, a representative of DMK, was also forced to resign as Union Telecom Minister in the wake of 2G scam.
BJP under scrutiny
In this context, Ms. Gandhi hit out at BJP questioning whether it had removed anybody facing corruption charges.
"Even when no charge has been established, we have asked ministers and Chief Ministers to step down, pending inquiry.
How many other parties can make such a claim? Can the BJP do so in regard to Karnataka where corruption is rampant or other states?"
She attacked the Opposition parties for not allowing the Winter Session to function, asking "can anything justify bringing Parliament to a halt? Can the Opposition justify undermining the norms on which a Parliamentary democracy functions?
"Surely, Parliament cannot be held hostage to political expediency. Parliament itself is the forum to discuss and resolve contentious issues."
As part of the action plan to take corruption head—on, Ms. Gandhi suggested that the government should consider how best to take forward the proposal of State funding of elections.
She also said that the government must ensure through legislation and clear procedures full transparency in public procurement and contracts.
"It is the duty of the administration to ensure that there is no subversion of due process. And should it come to pass, whistle—blowers must be protected," she said.
There is also need for an open competitive system of exploiting natural resources, which has now assumed much greater urgency, the Congress chief said.
Singh said it was under Mahajan's tenure that allocation of spectrum was made on the first-come-first-serve basis as against the prevailing auction of circles.
In a hard-hitting speech, he also demanded fast-tracking of probe against two chief ministers of Uttar Pradesh who allegedly own assets disproportionate to their known sources of income. Singh, the AICC general secretary and in-charge of party affairs in Uttar Pradesh, did not take any names.
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PrintThere are disproportionate assets cases against Chief Minister Mayawati of BSP and former chief minister and Samajwadi Party (SP) supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav.
Hitting out at the RSS, Singh said, "In the 1930s Hitler's Nazi party attacked the Jews... similarly the RSS ideology wants to capture power by targeting Muslims under the garb of furthering nationalism."
Singh, who was seconding the political resolution moved by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee at the 83rd Congress Plenary in Burari, singled out senior BJP leader L K Advani for "sowing the seeds of division" among the Hindus and Muslims by undertaking the controversial Rath Yatra in 1992.
He said the "demolition of the Babri Masjid is the darkest patch in the history of India. The roots of terrorism in India lie in BJP leader L K Advani's Rath Yatra".
Accusing the BJP of maintaining that all Muslims are not terrorists but all terrorists are Muslims, Singh said, "Can we apply the same logic and say that all Hindus are not terrorists but all Hindu terrorists arrested in various blast cases are RSS activists."
The RSS has been "sowing the seeds of Muslim hatred" in the minds of the new generation through 'Shishu Mandir' schools and "this is the biggest danger for us", he claimed.
Singh also claimed the RSS had made its activists enter the bureaucracy, police and even the Army.
He said the rise of RSS-BJP "ideology of violence and hatred" posed the "biggest challenge" before the nation. The other big challenges were the Communists and regional political parties, he said.
He said the Congress needs to take steps to convert into trust the mistrust in the minds "of our Muslim brothers".
Singh claimed that the 2G spectrum scam originated during the NDA rule and BJP's demand for a JPC probe into spectrum allocation was "only to delay the ongoing investigations" by CBI, Income Tax officials and the Enforcement Directorate.
The political resolution states that secularism is the lifeline of Indian democracy "that is threatened by the ideology of the BJP and its affiliate organisations like the RSS, which spreads hatred and violence.
"The RSS and the VHP are insidious in their effort to break India," it said.
Maintaining that the "failure to protect all citizens will cast a shadow over our future," it said the BJP and RSS-VHP "continue to hide their prejudice and the atrocities committed by them behind the rhetoric of economic progress and pseudo-nationalism" and asserted it was imperative that the Congress and the people "call their bluff".
In an attack on Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, it said, "we cannot be indifferent to the plight of our fellow citizens in Gujarat who have suffered untold misery - by denying their humanity we will betray our own".
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Though Congress president Sonia Gandhi repeatedly emphasises her commitment to 33 percent reservation for women in the Lok Sabha, it was hardly reflected at the party plenary Sunday.
Of the nearly 100 top leaders seated on the dais, less than 10 were women. Among the 1,200 people in the Congress members' section, not more than 20 percent were women.
Besides party chief Sonia Gandhi, other women leaders on the dais included Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, Vidya Stokes, Rita Bahuguna Joshi and Jayanti Natarajan.
Asked about the under-representation of women, a Congress member said: 'If we have Sonia Gandhi alone, it is enough and more. It adds more weight than any other Congress leader.'
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Rs.15 crore spent on plenary?
The arrangements at the 83rd Congress plenary seemed simple but elaborate, and event managers said the cost of organising the two-day meet was about Rs.15 crore (over $3 million).
There were giant cutouts, seating arrangements were on the floor as is customary, and the colours of the Congress flag - saffron, white and green - were splashed all over. The big tents were also erected in the party colours, as were the pillars.
'We have erected a simple stage where right from the Congress president, Sonia Gandhi, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and other senior leaders, were seated down with 'diwans' (mattresses) to showcase our culture and the tradition,' a Delhi Congress member told IANS.
Party leaders were, of course, tightlipped about the expenditure!
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Mahatma, Subhas Bose - and standalone Rahul too!
A hoarding with pictures of 12 Congress leaders made for a colourful backdrop to the stage at the party plenary session.
Images of Mahatma Gandhi, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress president Sonia Gandhi were in place alongside images of past leaders like Subhas Chandra Bose, Sarojini Naidu, Sardar Vallabbhai Patel, B.R. Ambedkar, Abul Kalam Azad and Lal Bahadur Shastri.
A king-size, standalone cutout of Rahul Gandhi got special prominence close to the stage.
Sonia Gandhi: We made ministers resign, can BJP do it?
NDTV Correspondent, Updated: December 19, 2010 17:26 ISTNew Delhi: Addressing the 83rd Congress plenary, party president Sonia Gandhi has taken the war to the Opposition's camp. She hit out at the Opposition by saying there can be no tolerance for corruption.
"There should be no tolerance for corruption and we must confront it. We made ministers to resign, can BJP do it?" questioned Sonia. (Watch: Sonia's full speech)
The party president said Congress Chief Ministers should set an example by giving up discretionary powers in land allocation. This clearly pointed towards BJP's inability to remove Karnataka Chief Minister Yeddyurappa, who is allegedly involved in land scams.
While asking her party to fight corruption, Sonia Gandhi laid out an elaborate four point anti-corruption plan. She said:
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Print- There is merit in a new system of fast tracking corruption cases including public officials, including politicians. Bring corruption cases to closure within a defined time-frame
- Must ensure through legislation a clear procedure transparency in public supply and contract. Whistleblowers must be protected
- We have ample evidence that all discretionary powers particularly in land distribution breed corruption. Would like all CMs and ministers, to set an example by relinquishing such powers
- Need a competitive system for selling natural resources; has to be pursued with greater urgency
Sonia also defended Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and slammed the Opposition for attacking him in the 2G scam.
"The PM is a man of integrity and dignity. The Opposition has made unsavoury, personal attacks on him. I want to say the party is with him and completely supports him," said Sonia.
Speaking on the winter session of the Parliament which went on without even a day of work, as the Opposition kept demanding a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) in the 2G spectrum scam, Sonia said the Parliament cannot be held hostage to political blackmailing.
She said that Congress needs to stick to its core values and needs to focus on its weaknesses as it is facing many challenges.
"Our party has seen many ups and downs, many challenges. We can look back with pride. It is important for us to introspect the inheritance we have got, how far have we stayed steady on it. We are not here to only celebrate our past. We are here for a new decision of progress," she said.
The Congress president also said there is no difference between majority and minority terror, without mentioning the RSS or its alleged links to terror.
Even Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh spoke out on the Congress' newly coined right-wing extremism, attacking the RSS and accusing Advani of creating a divide between Hindus and Muslims.
"The biggest challenge to the country is RSS and BJP. The way in 1930s, Hitler's Nazi party had targeted Jews, in the same way RSS is targeting Muslims. Even in the army, they have sent their people. In Malegaon blasts, two army officers were caught. Babri Masjid demolition is its biggest taint on history. The terror in the entire country has roots in Advani's Rath Yatra which created divide between Hindus and Muslims," said Digvijaya. (Watch: Blame Advani for Hindu-Muslim divide, says Digvijaya Singh)
The Congress plenary, in its second day today, is being held at Burari, and leaders from across the country are meeting to brainstorm on the future of the party.
Opposition reacts to Sonia's speech
The BJP has countered Sonia Gandhi's attack. Senior BJP leader LK Advani says it is wrong to equate terror with a religious group. He also said the BJP has spearheaded the entire campaign on corruption and will pursue it. (Watch: Corruption a serious malady, says Advani)
The left has reacted by saying the Opposition has not held the Parliament to ransom, and the demand for a JPC was reasonable.
"It is wrong to say we blackmailed the government. The Opposition has every right to raise issues, demand JPC, said D Raja, National Secretary, CPI.
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Need to know what has alienated Kashmiri youth: Sonia Gandhi
Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Sunday said the country needed to find an answer to what has caused alienation among the youth in the Kashmir Valley.Addressing the party's 83rd plenary session at Burari in northwest Delhi, Gandhi said: "We have to find an answer in Jammu and Kashmir why an entire generation that has witnessed nothing but violence is feeling isolated. We should look at it."andhi said the appointment of three interlocutors for the troubled state battling an unending separatist campaign was a step toward this process.
"We have appointed interlocutors and we want to do this," she added.
She further said that we should understand the reason behind violence in the Valley.
'There are unresolved political and economic issues' that are being exploited by external forces," she added.
Citing the recent bomb blast in Varanasi, Gandhi said this has reminded one and all that vigil cannot be relaxed.
"Let there be absolutely no doubt about our determination to confront those elements and organisations who operate from across the border to spread terror, to destroy our social fabric and weaken us economically," she added.
Fight corruption, 93-year-old freedom fighter tells Sonia, PM
A 93-year-old freedom fighter Sunday asked Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to fight against corruption even at the cost of sacrificing the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government.Ram Vilas Pandey, the freedom fighter from Uttar Pradesh, made this appeal to Manmohan Singh in a brief speech he made.
'Let the government go, but punish those guilty... be it (former communications minister) A.Raja or (Tamil Nadu Chief Minister) M. Karunanidhi,' he said.
Pandey said that Manmohan Singh and Gandhi had a clean image and it was necessary for them to fight against corruption.
'Being the top leader you should punish them if anyone is found guilty......it does not matter whether the government remains,' he added.
He also referred to the Local Area Development Fund for MPs, and said Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has taken the right decision by ending a similar facility for state legislators.
'Forty percent of the fund ends up being paid as commission...now I hear the MPs want the fund to be increased from Rs.2 crore per annum to Rs.5 crore,' he said.
The prime minister shook hands with Pandey after his speech.
Sonia asks government to keep prices at 'affordable levels'
Concerned over inflation, Congress President Sonia Gandhi today asked the government to keep prices of essential commodities at affordable levels."Prices of essential commodities particularly must always be kept at affordable levels and inflation kept in check," she said in her inaugural address at the 83rd Plenary Session of the Congress Party here.
While praising Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for steering the economy on to the high growth path, the UPA Chairperson said there were crucial challenges facing the country.
Describing inflation as one of the crucial challenges, Ms. Gandhi said the government was addressing the issues and the rate of price rise has moderated in recent times.
"As we sustain the momentum of high growth, we face some crucial challenges... our government is dealing with these challenges. The inflation rate has declined considerably in recent months," she added.
Inflation declined to 7.48 per cent in November from 8.58 per cent in October. It had hovered above the 10 per cent mark during the six months till July, following which it came down to a single digit figure.
However, food inflation jumped to 9.46 per cent for the week ended December 4 from 8.69 per cent in the previous week.
It was over 20 per cent a year ago.
With regard to growth, Ms. Gandhi said, "Since May, 2004, under our Prime Minister's leadership, the economy has moved on to a much higher growth path. His stewardship through the global crisis is acknowledged universally.
"It is this high economic growth that has enabled us to fund our social welfare programmes and schemes," she added.
The Indian economy was expanding at over 9 per cent before the global financial meltdown moderated the rate to 6.7 per cent in 2008-09. Thereafter, the growth rate, spurred by the stimulus provided by the government and the Reserve Bank, moved up to 7.4 per cent in 2009-10.
In the current financial year, the economy expanded by 8.9 per cent in the first half (April-September). The average growth rate for the entire fiscal is expected to be at the pre-global crisis level of around 9 per cent.
Ms. Gandhi also underlined the need for ensuring the benefits of growth reach all sections of society. "The benefits of growth must be shared equitably with the weaker sections of society," she added.
She further said subsidies meant for the poor much reach the targeted section of the population.
"Subsidies enjoyed by the relatively well—off must be redirected to those in need," she added.
There is also a need for protecting and regenerating the environment, forests and biodiversity, she said, adding that the quality of public education and healthcare needs to be improved, as they are the vital building blocks of an inclusive society.
No tolerance for corruption, says Sonia
Declaring that there should be no tolerance for corruption or misconduct, Congress president Sonia Gandhi today asked the party and the government to take on the menace "head—on" even as she hit out at the BJP for its "personal" attack on the Prime Minister on 2G spectrum issue.
There should be "no tolerance for corruption or misconduct," Ms. Gandhi said, who had left out the corruption issue at the AICC meeting last month despite the party being confronted by a rash of scams allegedly involving some of its leaders and those of allies, said at the Congress plenary here.
"Both as a party and the government, we must confront the government head on," she said.
Gandhi, who is also UPA chairperson, said, "Simplicity, restraint and austerity must be our chosen way.
We cannot make this a law.... Let us at least have the moral sensibility to avoid vulgar displays of wealth and waste."
Ms. Gandhi termed as "downright despicable" the opposition BJP"s attack on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
"He is the embodiment of sobriety, dignity and integrity. The BJP's personal attack on him is downright despicable," she said.
Complimenting Mr. Singh "for his wise leadership, for remaining calm amidst the storm and for his unwavering devotion to progress and prosperity of the nation", Ms. Gandhi said the party "stands solidly with him".
She recalled that even when no charge had been established, the party had asked the ministers and chief ministers to step down pending enquiry into corruption allegations.
"How many other parties can make such a claim? Can the BJP do so in regard to Karnataka where corruption is rampant or other states," Ms. Gandhi asked.
Taking the principal opposition to task for paralysing Parliament on 2G spectrum issue, she said, "Can anything possibly justify bringing Parliament to a halt? Can the Opposition justify undermining the norms on which parliamentary democracy functions."
She said Parliament cannot be held hostage to political expediency as it was the forum to discuss and resolve contentious issues.
Turning to communalism, the Congress President said her party always fought against all forms of communalism, regardless of their source.
"We cannot ignore the pernicious impact of individuals, institutions and ideologies that distort our history, that thrive on spreading religious prejudice and that incite people to violence using religion as a cover."
Ms. Gandhi said that Congress made no distinction between organisations of the majority and of the minority communities which indulge in communalism and related acts of terrorism.
"They are all dangerous. They must all be defeated," she said.
Opposition didn't hold parliament hostage: CPI
By Indo Asian News Service | IANS India Private Limited – Sat, Dec 18 2:18 PM IST
New Delhi, Dec 19 (IANS) Communist Party of India (CPI) leader D. Raja Sunday said it was 'wrong' on Congress chief Sonia Gandhi's part to hold the opposition responsible for holding parliament 'hostage' to 'political blackmail' during its winter session.'It is wrong to say that we blackmailed the government,' Raja, the party's national secretary, told reporters, reacting to the Gandhi's charge at the Congress plenary earlier Sunday.
Raja said the Left parties' demand for a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the 2G spectrum scam was also 'reasonable'.
Raja, whose party has joined ranks with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in asking for a JPC in parliament's winter session, however, asked the principal opposition party not to have 'double standards' while raising the issue of corruption.
The BJP has been accused of shielding its Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa on the issue of corruption, while raising the same issue with Congress.
PM is ''disturbed'', says Pawar
PTI – Sat, Dec 18 10:58 PM ISTPrime Minister Manmohan Singh is "disturbed" about the current spate of scams but he will definitely intervene and the situation will improve, says Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar.
"I suppose if something is happening, of course, he (PM) will be disturbed.... I think he might be worried. But I am also confident that he would like to improve and he will improve," Pawar told NDTV.
Asked if the Prime Minister, a renowned economist who is known for his honesty, will intervene, Pawar said, "100 per cent he will intervene and the situation will improve".
On the leakage of tapped phone conversations, Pawar said, "The government is already in the process (of finding out how the tapes were leaked)."
He appeared to defend Ratan Tata, who also figures in the tapped conversations with lobbyist Niira Radia, saying Tata was also a "brand for this country" and should not be dragged into a controversy.
Defending the Lavasa project in Maharashtra which has been hit by environmental concerns, Pawar said, "I have always been supportive of all development projects."
He maintained that Lavasa stood out in terms of investment climate, basic infrastructure like power and roads, among others.
Pawar, however, distanced himself from the polemical statements of Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh on the circumstances of ATS Mumbai Chief Hemant Karkare''s death, saying the whole world knows about the involvement of international elements in 26/11.
"I don''t know what to say and where to point a finger," he said, adding Karkare had a long chat with him sometime before 26/11 where he briefed him about his investigations.
He praised Karkare, saying he was a very competent and honest officer who was not interested in creating sensationalism.
Bhopal gas tragedy: Out-of-court settlement records missing?
Has the file relating to the two-decade-old out-of-court settlement between the Government and the Union Carbide in Bhopal Gas tragedy case gone missing?The crucial file containing developments, which had led to the settlement in February 1989, and details of views expressed by officials and file notings on it "could not be located" in the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilisers, an RTI reply has revealed.
On the intervening night of December two and three, 1984, lethal gas methyl isocyanate leaked from the plant of Union Carbide in Bhopal, killing over 15,000 people.
In the 1989 settlement, the Union Carbide agreed to pay USD 470 million which included insurance along with interest in a full and final settlement of its civil and criminal liability in the worst industrial disaster.
An RTI applicant had sought from the External Affairs Ministry all documents relating to the settlement. The Ministry did not send any reply initially. It was only after the Central Information Commission issued a show-cause notice, the Cabinet Secretariat said the application had been "erroneously" referred to it.
The Cabinet Secretariat forwarded the matter to Chemicals and Fertilisers for a reply as the matter was closely related to that Ministry.
"It is informed that the relevant documents related to the out-of-court settlement done with Union Carbide Corporation, as required by you, could not be located in the Department despite efforts," the Ministry of Chemicals said in its reply. It added that documents may be obtained from Supreme Court Registry.
The out-of-court settlement of 1989 had come under heavy criticism from all quarters. As against the demand of compensation of Rs 3,900 crore, the government had settled only Rs 615 crore.
"The entire House, cutting across party lines, should adopt a resolution to scrap the 1989 agreement and send back the waste material to the US," Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj had said during a debate in the House in August.
Demanding that Parliament pass a resolution scrapping the 1989 out-of-court settlement between Union Carbide and the government, she said what was witnessed in Bhopal was "a case of corporate manslaughter" and not of "mere negligence".
Doors for dialogue with extremists must be kept open: Sonia
Voicing concern over spiralling extremist violence, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi today said while such elements need to be combated, the doors for dialogue must remain open and the prospect of "political accommodation" should be kept alive.She also made it clear that the efforts of forces operating from across the border to spread terror in the country would be fought with determination including in Jammu and Kashmir, where the government has appointed interlocutors to give "new energy and focus" to the political process.
"We are confronted with terrorist groups in Jammu and Kashmir. In a number of states, Naxalites are using violent methods to undermine the basis of the democratic system. In parts of northeast, militant groups disturb peace," the Congress President said addressing the party plenary in Burari here.
While these elements have to be combated with "all the means at our command, the door of dialogue has to be kept open and the prospect of political accommodation kept alive in the troubled spots," Ms. Gandhi said.
In J&K, there was a need to address "the alienation of the whole new generation of youth that has known nothing but conflict". At the same time, Ms. Gandhi said security forces were facing a difficult situation with courage and fortitude.
"The political process must get new energy and focus.
That is what our government has sought to do by appointing interlocutors," she said.
Citing the recent bomb blast in Varanasi, Ms. Gandhi said this has reminded that the vigil cannot be relaxed. "Let there be absolutely no doubt about our determination to confront those elements and organisations who operate from across the border to spread terror, to destroy our social fabric and weaken us economically".
In the Naxal—affected areas, the Congress President emphasised the need to resolve issues of daily concern to tribal communities, particularly the loss of land and livelihood and the absence of even the minimum basic services.
"This must go on hand—in—hand with upgrading police capabilities and effectiveness," she said.
Congress focus on corruption, cross-border terrorism
Smita GuptaThe Congress looked all set on the opening day of the 83rd plenary session to adopt a tough posture on a range of issues — from corruption to cross-border terrorism to home-grown communal violence — issues, critical to its credibility, and capacity to take on an aggressive opposition. Indeed, the draft resolutions discussed on Saturday by the party's top leadership, recalled the dark pre-Emergency years, and the last years of Rajiv Gandhi as Prime Minister, and pointed to the need for vigilance, lest the party falter again before a belligerent Opposition.
But the resolutions are not just tough talk. The political resolution, top party sources told The Hindu, looks at the achievements of the United Progressive Alliance, dividing it into two sections — from May 2004 when it came to power to the last plenary session in Hyderabad in January 2006 and then during the post-Hyderabad period — focussing on the rights-based social security architecture that it has sought to put in place: if the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme and the Right to Information Act are cited as the positives of the first phase, the Right to Education Act and the promised Food Security legislation are seen as a continuation of those efforts.
Similarly, in the economic resolution, the party acknowledges the "reality" of living with price rise, while taking credit for protecting the economy from the negative impact of the global economic slowdown and stresses that once the Right to Food is enshrined, it will go a long way in protecting the vulnerable sections of society. It also talks of the need for a coherent land policy to protect the farming community. Phrases like "sustainable development" and "inclusive growth" occur in this resolution. In the discussion on the economic resolution, many members expressed their concern on the growing gap between the rich and the poor.
The political resolution has a section on corruption and probity, but it simultaneously takes the Opposition to task for stalling Parliament and points out the need for reasoned debate.
To counter the Bharatiya Janata Party's criticism that the UPA government is 'soft' on terror, there is a section on dealing firmly with cross-border terrorism in the foreign policy resolution. The political resolution seeks to put the BJP on the mat by asking the government to investigate the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh's terror links, but it avoids using the word "Hindu," informed sources said. The volatile situation in Jammu and Kashmir and the worrying internal security position in the country are also discussed in the resolutions.
Rahul's intervention
If Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi kept their own counsel — both are scheduled to make speeches in the next two days in Burari — party general secretary Rahul Gandhi made two interventions: one was on development for all sections, a line that he has articulated publicly on many occasions. But the second — on the importance of justice for the minorities — attracted more attention. The context was a discussion on Ayodhya when Mr. Gandhi stressed that the destruction of the Babri Masjid was not an instance of "vandalism" but a "crime." Later, senior party sources told The Hindu, "I think in the coming days we are likely to hear Rahul expand on this subject, just as he was earlier focussing on the welfare of Dalits."
Indeed, Mr Gandhi's intervention on the minorities assumes significance, coming on the heels of the WikiLeaks relating to a conversation he had last year with the U.S. Ambassador to India in which he had said that Hindu extremist groups springing up in response to the LeT's activities were more dangerous than support for the LeT among a section of Indian Muslims.
Mr. Gandhi, too, is likely to speak on Sunday, where sources say he may expand on this issue.
Panel meets
The party's brass – named the Subjects Committee – met at the Parliament House annexe to go over the four drafts, ahead of the two-day session in Burari on the rural northern edge of Delhi, where the resolutions will be adopted after an open discussion in which State-level delegates will participate.
The political and the 125th anniversary resolutions were taken up between 12 noon and 1.45 p.m. and the economic and the foreign policy resolutions between 2.15 and 4 p.m. It was also decided that the terms of the Congress president and the State presidents will be increased from three to five years.
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Mamata Banerjee awarded for layout designing
KOLKATA: The artistic talent of Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee was recognised today when she bagged an award for designing the cover layout of the Puja number of her party organ 'Jago Bangla.'
The award carrying a cheque of Rs 10,001 and a replica of a pen was handed over to her by actor Mithun Chakraborty and painter Jogen Chowdhury .
Banerjee is known to have a passion for painting and is often seen in front of an easel in her spare time.
"I always admire art and literature. I would want that art and literature advances in future keeping pace with time," she said after receiving the award.
She requested the organisers to create a fund for destitute artists and donated her award money as the first contribution to the fund.
The award was organised by Bengali daily 'Sambad Pratidin' along with some corporates and NGOs.
Congress unveils a 5-pt action plan against corruption
Buffeted by staggering scams and controversies over suspected involvement of right wing elements in terrorism, the Congress today unveiled a five-point action plan to deal with corruption and counter attacked BJP by demanding probe into "links" between RSS and its affiliates and terror.
A party plenary attended by over 15,000 delegates held against the backdrop of 2G spectrum, Adarsh and CWG scams heard Congress President Sonia Gandhi as well as her son Rahul Gandhi calling for strict and speedy action against corruption, including those involving politicians and bureaucrats in a "defined time-frame".
In her Presidential address on the opening day of the two-day conclave at Burari on the outskirts of Delhi, Sonia Gandhi unveiled a five-point action plan to battle corruption by fast-tracking all cases against public servants including politicians "like us".
Corporate sector dictating govt policies: Forward Bloc
DHANBAD: Forward Bloc General Secretary Debabrata Biswas today expressed concern over corruption and corporate sector's dominance on government policy.
"Corruption and increasing control of corporate sector over the government policy have come up as new challenges for the country," Biswas said while addressing inaugural session of 11th national convention of All India Youth League (AIYL) at Kala Bhawan campus here today.
Biswas alleged that big corporate houses are dictating education, farming and industrial policy of the country.
"In fact present UPA government is by the corporate houses, for the corporate houses and of the corporate houses," he alleged.
Condemning the killing of seven tribals in Purulia district of West Bengal two-days ago, who were Forward Bloc members, Biswas said he did not know what type of politics the Naxals are doing.
The villagers who had been killed were not capitalists or money lenders, Biswas said.
The three-day convention of AIYL was inaugurated by its national chairman Moiuddin Sams. Around 500 delegates across the country are participating.
AIYL General Secretary G Devrajan, Sanjay Bhattacharya, Jharkhand forward block president Aparna Sengupta, General Secretary Janardan Pandey are also participating in the conference.
As 2010 ends, global economy in better shapeAs 2010 draws to a close, the health of the global financial system appears to have improved, with the economic clout of emerging nations on the rise even as developed countries continue to grapple with debt woes.
Ushering in the New Year, the global economy seems to be in the middle of the worlds of austerity and stimulus.
In signs of improvement, the world economy is estimated to have expanded by around 5 per cent this year, in sharp contrast to the lower output witnessed in 2009.
On either side of the Atlantic, the efforts to contain fiscal deficit and bolster economic growth have been in different trajectories. While crisis-hit Europe is clamouring for severe tightening measures, the United States continues to print more dollars.
"Uncertainty and struggling to regain itself in the aftermath of the global economic slowdown has been the hallmark of most economies during 2010," global consultancy firm Deloitte India's Principal Economist Shanto Ghosh told PTI.
In the wake of the ravaging crisis, power has shifted from the once-unshakable developed world to rapidly growing nations such as India and China.
In a testimony to their rising economic clout, India and China are all set to get more voting power at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The G-20 grouping has emerged as the most influential voice, with increased focus on nations such as India and China, whose consuming power is leading the global recovery.
Meanwhile, the word 'stimulus' continues to remain the buzzword for the world's largest economy, the US. Apart from continuing with a near-zero interest rate regime for three years, the US is now exploring newer ways to boost the still-sluggish recovery.
Federal Reserve Chief Ben Bernanke has hinted at further quantitative easing measures, after unveiling a plan to buy USD 600 billion-worth of government securities. What is more, President Barack Obama has announced fresh tax cuts and earlier this year, initiated steps to discourage outsourcing.
The justification for these steps, and more, lies in numbers. The US economy, which expanded by 2.5 per cent in the September quarter, is threatened by a high jobless rate. The jobless rate in the US stood at 9.8 per cent in November.
With Uncle Sam pumping in more dollars to rejuvenate the over USD 14 trillion economy and create more jobs, the spillovers are nightmarish. The cheap dollar has fuelled excessive fund flows into emerging nations, including India and China, which in turn has stoked concerns of overheating and asset bubbles.
In terms of currencies, both China and the US are attracting criticism for the relatively low value of their respective currencies.
Furthermore, the euro -- the common currency binding 16 European nations -- is even blamed for limited choices in tackling the debt turmoil faced by countries such as Greece and Ireland.
Surviving on multi-billion dollar bailout packages extended by the European Union and the IMF, euro zone members Greece and Ireland can only opt for austerity, as they are tied down by the common currency.
Many experts even believe that the euro is not the right answer for weak and not-so-prosperous European nations. Greece was assured of a bailout package of 110 billion euros, while Ireland's is pegged at 85 billion euros.
'Per capita income can double in 9 yrs at present growth rate'
The Planning Commission today said the country's per capita income would be doubled in nine years with the economy expanding at current rate of growth.
"With the current growth rate, per capita income of India will get doubled in nine years," Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia said addressing on the occasion of the convocation at Amity University in Noida.
The per capita income at current prices during 2009-10 is estimated at Rs 44,345 per annum as per the latest government data.
Amity University also conferred honorary degree of Doctor of Philosophy to Ahluwalia.
The economy has grown by 8.9 per cent in the first half (April-September) this fiscal. The government estimated 8.5 per cent economic growth this fiscal with 0.35 per cent variation on either side.
The gross domestic product (GDP) growth was 7.4 per cent in 2009-10.
On this occasion Ahluwalia also stressed on the need for more public private partnerships in the education particularly in higher education.
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Stricter scrutiny planned to get weak PSUs on track
NEW DELHI: The government is considering stricter financial supervision of loss-making public sector units (PSU) as it explores ways to make them profitable again.The losses of sick PSUs have increased over the years. Fifty-four out of 213 central PSUs posted a combined loss of Rs 14,424 crore in 2008-09 , a 40% increase over the previous year. National Aviation Co Of India (now Air India Ltd) registered the maximum loss at Rs 5548 crore, followed by West Bengal-based Eastern Coalfields and Jharkhand-based Bharat Coking Coal with losses of Rs 2,109 crore Rs 1,380 crore, respectively.
The growing losses have forced the Central government to pump in taxpayers' money into these companies to prevent their closure. But it hopes more rigorous oversight will help in their early revival.
"The new parameters will help in mapping their revival process and bring out the areas where there needs to be more focus," said a senior official with the department of public enterprises in the ministry of heavy industries and public enterprises. The department oversees the functioning of all state-run companies.
The format calls for the evaluation of these companies on the basis of targets achieved under the revival plan, such as upgrade of technology and efficient utilization of non-performing assets.
The proposed rules are based on the recommendation made by a government-appointed panel. "This (new criteria) will be included in the memorandum of understanding (MoU) that is signed with PSUs," the official quoted above said requesting anonymity. "The evaluation committee can also consider relaxation or addition of new parameters at the time of signing the MoU."
State-run companies are required to sign MoUs with the department of public enterprises every year under which they commit to meet certain performance parameters.
Loss-making public sector companies are referred to the Board for Reconstruction of Public Sector Enterprises . The board, which was set up in 2004, has the mandate to devise strategies for the revival of sick enterprises.
The board has so far proposed revival packages worth . 23,591 crore for 40 of the loss-making central PSUs.
Attack on PM despicable, Congress solidly behind him: Sonia
By Indo Asian News Service | IANS India Private Limited – Sat, Dec 18 7:44 AM IST
New Delhi, Dec 19 (IANS) Congress president Sonia Gandhi Sunday said the party 'solidly' supports Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for his 'unwavering devotion' to the nation's prosperity and called the opposition's 'personal attack' on him 'despicable'.'Manmohan Singh has shown unwavering devotion towards the progress and prosperity of the nation. The party stands solidly behind him,' the Congress chief said in her address to the 83rd plenary being held here.
'I want to say something about our prime minister. He is the embodiment of sobriety, dignity and integrity. The BJP's personal attack on him is downright despicable.'
'On our behalf, I want to compliment his wise leadership for remaining calm amidst the storm, for his unwavering devotion to the progress and prosperity of the nation,' she added.
The strong support by Sonia Gandhi to Manmohan Singh comes at a time when the Bharatiya Janata Party and other opposition parties have criticised the alleged inaction of the prime minister in the 2G spectrum scandal and other graft cases.
Terrorism must not be linked to any particular nation or religion: Jiabao
By ANI | ANI – Sun, Dec 19 5:09 PM ISTIslamabad, Dec 19 (ANI): Terrorism must not be linked to any particular country or religion, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said on the last day of his three-day visit to Pakistan.
"There should be no dual standards in this regard," the Dawn quoted Jiabao, as saying, while addressing the Parliament on Sunday.
He strongly voiced China's stance against terrorism, and called for making efforts for addressing the real reasons leading to terrorism.
"China's stance is clear and consistent. China, while standing along with Pakistan and the international community, was making sincere efforts to promote cooperation in this regard," he said.
"China and Pakistan ties will get deeper, closer and stronger," he added.
Jiabao, who is the first Chinese and sixth world dignitary to address the joint sitting, began his speech by greeting the parliamentarians "Asalam-o-Alaikum".
Pakistan was passing through a difficult phase as it was facing many challenges and problems, he said, adding that he was confident that the government and people of Pakistan were determined to tackle these, and would move ahead.
"The government and people of Pakistan are united and moving forward to safeguard solidarity, prosperity and sovereignty of the country," he said.
During his speech, Jiabao also extended scholarship offers for 500 Pakistani students.
Opposition leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan thanked the Chinese Premier, and said that Pakistan was united in its views on China, and that all political parties agreed on Pakistan-China friendship.
Later in the day, Jiabao and his delegation were seen off at the airport by Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani, federal cabinet members and other civil and military officials. (ANI)
ED starts fresh questioning of telecom firms in 2G scam
PTI – Sun, Dec 19 9:27 AM ISTNew Delhi, Dec 19 (PTI) The Enforcement Directorate has initiated the second round of questioning of telecom firms as part of its probe into the multi-crore 2G spectrum scam.
Official sources said the Directorate has recently started fresh questioning of representatives of certain telecom firms after analysing thousands of pages of documents submitted by them during the first interaction.
The documents submitted by the firms pertained to their income tax returns, shareholding patterns, subsidiaries and funding routes, the sources said.
The ED had registered a case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) and is working in close cooperation with the CBI which is also investigating the scam.
Sources said the fresh questioning will focus on funding routes and their subsidiaries in tax haven countries like Mauritius.
The Directorate will also look into the stake sellout deals carried out by certain firms after bagging the spectrum.
Sources said the ED, meanwhile, is also focusing on hawala operators allegedly connected with the scam. The Directorate had recently joined CBI in its raids across different locations in Delhi, Noida and Tamil Nadu including the premises of two brothers, alleged to be hawala operators.
Both ED and CBI are exchanging notes on the seized documents and have been holding extensive meetings with each other on the case.
The ED, which has already sought the assistance from about 10 foreign countries for information regarding certain firms associated with the case, is also preparing grounds for sending out Letters Rogatory.
Former telecom minister A Raja was forced to resign from the post on November 14 in the wake of 2G spectrum allocation controversy.
The CAG report had pointed out that the rates at which 2G spectrum was allotted to telecom companies resulted in loss to the tune of Rs 1.76 lakh crore to the exchequer.
Over three in ten UK varsities are training Islamic terrorists?
By ANI | ANI – Sun, Dec 19 11:59 AM ISTLondon, Dec. 19 (ANI): Chiefs of the British intelligence service M15 have already warned 39 universities in the country that they have a serious problem with Islamic "violent extremism".
They have expressed alarm over the fact that 14 out of these 39 institutions have chosen not to seek government grants to help them deal with the issue.
Their hopes of getting tough and positive action now lie with Professor Malcolm Grant, the Provost of University College London, who, with a small team of academics, has been commissioned by UK Universities to address the troubling situation.
Professor Grant's report for UK Universities, the advisory body for the country's 133 universities, will be published early in the New Year, the Daily Express reports.
Grant is seen as the ideal person to write new guidelines on dealing with student radicalisation not just because of his academic brilliance but because one of his former students, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, tried to blow up a jet over Detroit last Christmas Day.
Inquiries however suggest that his report may not deliver the much-needed wake-up call to chancellors and vice chancellors.
Sources fear it is likely to be a wordy academic -discourse which tries to balance the need for freedom of speech and -academic freedom while also tackling extremism, a stance which some argue is a recipe for fence-sitting.
Cynics say the report will not suggest a foolproof system of spotting the dark side of students, and that graduates of terror will be not be easier to spot, and that the system will remain largely as it is without the reform desperately needed.
Professor Anthony Glees, director of security studies at Buckinghamshire University, said: "It is a very serious issue which could require new laws and definitely tougher procedures so this committee would be ideal for the job." (ANI)
It was scams, rebellion and Yeddyurappa surviving all odds!
PTI – Sun, Dec 19 11:22 AM ISTM Siddaraju
Bangalore, Dec 19 (PTI) Allegations of corruption and land scam cast a long shadow over Karnatakaduring the entire year with dissidents joining the Opposition giving sleepless nights to B S Yeddyurappa, though the chief minister succeeded in retaining his chair but not without some drama.
The year will also be remembered for the country''s worst air disaster in a decade when an Air India Boeing overshot Mangalore airport''s tabletop runway and burst into flames on May 22, killing 158 people.
On the political front, it was charges and counter charges galore as the ruling government and Opposition crossed swords over various scams. Opposition JDS, with all vindictiveness, levelled charges against the first BJP government in the south, embarrassing the party leadership.
The Opposition parties tried to put the Yeddyurappa government in the docks over illegal denotification of land by him favouring his own family members, compounding the problems of the chief minister who was facing a rebellion from a section of his own partymen.
The simmering discontent among BJP rebels against the "dictatorial" attitude of Yeddyurappa reached its peak in October when 16 MLAs, including five Independents, withdrew their support to the government on the ground that they did not want to be part of the "corrupt regime".
Yeddyurappa, however, managed to save his government from the brink of collapse by getting the rebels disqualified from their Assembly membership by Speaker K G Bopaiah.
The disqualified MLAs are now engaged in a legal battle challenging the action after the state high court upheld the Speaker''s decision.
Amid intense political activities, Yeddyurappa was forced to take the floor test twice in four days but emerged victorious both the times.
After he won the first trial of strength on October 11 by a voice vote amid pandemonium, Governor H R Bhardwaj rejected the outcome and recommended President''s rule. In a sudden turn of events, Bhardwaj asked Yeddyurappa to take the second floor test on October 14, after the Centre did not act on his recommendation.
Though the BJP government managed to survive its internal revolt, it had to face a series of land scams and corruption charges in the wake of the JDS releasing documents to the media to substantiate its claim.
The allegations of illegal denotification of land favouring his family members including sons and son-in-law and allotment of lands to them triggered demands for his ouster.
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