The commies have this uncanny ability to stay put in colleges by joining one course after the other (mainly the B.A, M.A variety of courses). Have seen this in Kerala during the 1990s and before.Jarita wrote:^^^ They are not a very attractive bunch are they - and how can 30-40 year olds be students
The Jan Lokpal Bill, Anna Hazare, and Baba Ramdev II
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Team Anna Behaves like Naxalites - Subr. Swamy
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/team- ... my/924121/
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/team- ... my/924121/
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http://news.outlookindia.com/items.aspx?artid=755786
Threatening to launch a "big protest" for a strong Lokpal bill, Anna Hazare today said the government will have to go if it does not bring a strong anti- corruption law.
He said he will campaign for a strong Lokpal Bill till the next Lok Sabha elections in 2014 and if it does not come by then, he will sit in protest in Ramlila Maidan in Delhi soon after declaration of polls.
"They have to bring (the law) or they will have to go. We will organise a big struggle," Hazare said addressing the India Today Conclave here.
Speaking during the session titled 'Yeh Dil Maange No More Corruption', he claimed more than half of the ministers in the UPA government would have been behind the bars if a strong Lokpal Bill was passed in Parliament.
Noting that the present laws are not effective in keeping the corrupt in jail, the 74-year-old activist alleged that the government was not bringing the law as it feels that it cannot function in such a scenario.
He said the RTI Act provides information on various issues but it does not have the power to send people to jails which signifies the need for an "effective" anti-corruption legislation.
"The RTI provides us information about corruption. Many papers came out. We came to know about Adarsh scam, the scam by Suresh Kalmadi. But the RTI cannot send people to jail. For that we need a strong Lokpal," Hazare said.
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Here is the speech....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM544h63 ... e=youtu.be
... and here is the "priviledge motion".
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/indi ... 306804.cms
Judge for yourself. Such are the jokers occupying parliament.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM544h63 ... e=youtu.be
... and here is the "priviledge motion".
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/indi ... 306804.cms
Congress MP Sajjan Singh Verma has served a privilege notice against Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal for calling MPs "rapists, murderers and looters" during an election campaign rally last month.
The Lok Sabha Secretariat has sought reply from Kejriwal following the receipt of the notice from Verma, a Congress MP from Madhya Pradesh's Dewas, a Team Anna member said here today.
Judge for yourself. Such are the jokers occupying parliament.
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^^
Actually Kejriwal is the joker here as the so called anti corruption movement itself has been turned into a joke by his ilk and him.
Actually Kejriwal is the joker here as the so called anti corruption movement itself has been turned into a joke by his ilk and him.
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/indi ... 386158.cms
The Lokpal bill is set to be scripted afresh, with a significant majority of political parties refusing to relent on their opposition to the prescriptive Lokayukta clause that they say intrudes on the rights of states and the government indicating that it can rethink its position too.
Apart from BJP and Left, regional parties like BJD, Akalis, AIADMK, JD(U), BSP, SP and TDP as well as Congress allies like Trinamool Congress and DMK made it clear at meeting convened by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday that legislating a state-level ombudsman should be left to the states. The central law could at best offer either a model law or guidelines. They account for a majority in Rajya Sabha: something that rules out the passage of Lokpal Bill in its current form in the Upper House and will require the government to go to the drawing board again to redeem its promise to have a fresh vote on the legislation.
Faced with opposition from across the board, with even allies like NCP stressing the need for consensus, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee said, "the situation has changed, the government is open to suggestions from various parties." Although he defended the version of the bill, saying it had been framed keeping in view the sense of the House resolution adopted by Parliament at the height of Gandhian Anna Hazare's protest last year, the readiness to relent was evident.
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And the next phase commences...
http://news.outlookindia.com/items.aspx?artid=757153
...posting in full.
http://news.outlookindia.com/items.aspx?artid=757153
...posting in full.
Reviving his Lokpal agitation with a day-long hunger strike in the national capital, Anna Hazare today launched a scathing attack on the government saying it should either bring a strong anti-graft legislation or prepare for a defeat in 2014 elections.
"Bring Jan Lokpal or go out of power in 2014 general elections," Hazare, who returned to hunger strike to demand justice for slain IPS officer Narendra Kumar and a strong law to protect whistleblowers after his flop show in Mumbai three months ago, said addressing his supporters after concluding his fast at Jantar Mantar here.
Accusing the government of lacking political will to bring an effective legislation to contain corruption, he said peoples' power will force the Centre to legislate a strong Lokpal Bill one day.
Before starting his fast, Hazare said many people have sacrificed their lives while fighting corruption and the government has not conducted any probe despite some incidents which happened three years ago.
"Their (whistleblowers') mothers, their children, their fathers, their wives are crying for justice. But this government has gone dumb and deaf. It is not listening to the cries of people.
"This government neither has any intention nor does it have any political will to bring a strong Lokpal Bill. We will not relent. We will have to keep struggling. I am confident that one day they will have to bring the Jan Lokpal Bill," said Hazare.
Asking his supporters to keep up the pressure on the government, he said people of the country have woken up and they will not allow corrupt politicians to "loot" the resources anymore.
"We will have to bring real democracy in the country by ensuring rights of the common people who are supreme and send their representatives to Parliament and state legislatures," he said.
Hazare said from now onwards his supporters will work in cooperation with Baba Ramdev's movement against blackmoney to wipe out corruption.
About land acquisition, Hazare said there should a law which should make permission of gram sabha mandatory before selling land to anyone.
"There should be a law to ensure that permission is given by the gram sabha before selling land to anyone," he said.
On protection to whistleblowers, he said, "There will be a big struggle. Then the government will listen. The government came up with MNREGA but these people were killed for trying to improve it."
His return to staging protests comes after the Congress performed poorly in the recent assembly polls.
Former Karnataka Lokayukta and Team Anna member Santosh Hegde, who had expressed some reservations with regard to the Team recently, was present along with other members like Shanti Bhushan, Arvind Kejriwal, Kiran Bedi and Manish Sisodia.
Earlier Hazare, after his usual visit to Rajghat before any such protest in Delhi, came to the capital's dharna hotspot Jantar Mantar at around 11 am to loud cheers from tricolour-wielding supporters and chants of 'Vande Mataram' and 'Bharat Mata ki Jai'.
Family members of some of the whistleblowers who were killed while fighting corruption, including that of IPS officer Narendra Kumar, murdered allegedly by mining mafia in Madhya Pradesh, were also present.
During the Assembly elections, Team Anna had campaigned for a strong Lokpal though it had not named any single party. However, Congress leaders had claimed that the tone and tenor of their campaign was anti-Congress.
Team Anna said while the Jan Lokpal ensures security to the whistle blowers, the proposed bill on the issue floated by the UPA government is "inadequate and gives the responsibilities without powers to CVC".
At least 15 people, who tried to blow the lid on scams or fought the menace of corruption in other ways, have been killed since 2010, according to Team Anna.
This is the first hunger strike undertaken by Hazare after he called off his three-day fast for a strong Lokpal Bill in Mumbai last December owing to failing health and poor response. This is the fifth time he is sitting on a fast in the past one year, of which four of them have been in Delhi.
Addressing the gathering, Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal attacked some of the prominent UPA Ministers claiming that cases could have been registered against 14 ministers if there was a Lokpal.
Kejriwal took the names of around 25 politicians, including ministers Sharad Pawar, S M Krishna, P Chidambaram, Praful Patel, Kapil Sibal, Kamal Nath, Farooq Abdullah, Ajit Singh, Sri Prakash Jaiswal, Sushil Kumar Shinde, Vilasrao Deshmukh, MK Azhagiri and G K Vasan.
"If Lokpal Bill comes into force, FIRs will be lodged against 14 ministers of the Union Government," he said.
"Who will punsih people like them? Delhi Police or the CBI? No one knows because these people will never pass Lokpal Bill," Kejriwal said.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/26/world ... ?ref=world
“I am ready to fight again,” Mr. Hazare declared at the end of Sunday’s rally, as his followers cheered. “We want to change the country. This is the only opportunity we have.”
Indians remain furious about corruption. The question is whether Mr. Hazare remains the man best capable of channeling that public fury into action.
Sunday’s crowds did not match the large turnouts of last year, when Mr. Hazare held a 12-day hunger strike at Ramlila Maidan, a different protest site in New Delhi. But as many as 10,000 people were on hand on Sunday as Mr. Hazare and his advisers staged a one-day fast to honor people from around India, including a police officer, who have been killed while trying to expose corruption.
“We are here just to support Anna and to show our solidarity against corruption,” said A. K. Singh, a teacher, who attended the rally at Jantar Mantar, a famous protest site in New Delhi, and predicted that Mr. Hazare’s movement would keep growing. “You will find that within two or three years, the situation in India will change.”
Mr. Hazare has sometimes been dismissed as little more than a figurehead, with his advisers making the crucial decisions, yet he is clearly the attraction needed to draw public interest. Today, Parliament has still not passed Lokpal legislation; it is pending in the upper house of Parliament after lawmakers allowed the winter session to expire without a vote. The bill could be taken up again in April.
On Sunday, Mr. Hazare repeated his criticism of the government, calling for a strong Lokpal, but by highlighting the slain anticorruption workers, he also was signaling a broader focus for his movement. He promised to keep pushing for a Lokpal but also to lead a public campaign for a “right to reject,” which would allow voters to cast a ballot against all the listed candidates. He also pledged to take up the issue of land seized from farmers for development.
Mr. Hazare’s skeptics say that his moment has come and gone. His supporters disagree. “We are not interested in creating a political party, nor will we campaign against a political party,” said Rajinder Kumbhaj, 63, who traveled several hours from the city of Jaipur to attend the Sunday rally. “We just want to make people more aware. This agitation is becoming more mass-based. It is spreading more and more.”
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peqNu6Tq ... e=youtu.be
Anna Hazare speech at Jantar Mantar on March 25, 2012.
Anna Hazare speech at Jantar Mantar on March 25, 2012.
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/indi ... 428881.cms
The Lok Sabha today moved censure motion against anti-graft activist Anna Hazare and his team members, asking them to refrain from using derogatory language against members of Parliament. The censure motion, if adopted and voted in favour by a majority in the House, would mean that Team Anna members would be criticised but won't be called to the House unlike under a privilege motion.
Lamenting over Team Anna's derogatory remarks against parliamentarians, MP and senior JD (U) leader Sharad Yadav said "slamming MPs is a trend now".
Condemning Team Anna's derogatory remarks against MPs, Sharad Yadav said "Team Anna has developed a trend to criticise parliamentarians and steps must be taken to restore beliefs in Parliament".
According to sources, the opposition and ruling benches joined hands on the issue, if moved, it would be one of the rare occasions when both sides would be voting in favour of a same motion.
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/indi ... 426809.cms
With Team Anna and lawmakers on a collision course, Anna Hazare on Tuesday targeted politicians saying their "who are you to question us" attitude is an "insult" to the Constitution.
In his latest blog 'Politicians raise some questions and my answer to them', Hazare however sought to blunt criticism that he was against Parliament by contending that only the House can make laws and there was no doubt about it.
But, he reminded, the Lokpal Bill came in the Parliament for passage eight times and it could not clear the hurdles.
"Who is responsible for this? People are the masters of this country and they have sent their servants to Parliament. When servants don't make laws, then masters have the right to ask why Jan Lokpal Bill was not passed," he said.
"Lawmakers and bureaucrats are servants of people. But their 'who are you to question us' attitude is an insult to Constitution," Hazare said.
The blog came against the backdrop of MPs cutting across party line criticising Hazare and his team for the language used against Parliamentarians and political parties during Hazare's one-day fast at Jantar Mantar on Sunday.
The 74-year-old activist said Britishers used to frame laws to suit their interests and loot the country.
"Now India is a democratic country. Now if you want to frame laws, then you have to take along experienced people while drafting the laws. Then it should go to Parliament. I hope that people in politics understand this," he said.
Hazare said "experienced" people should be involved in the law drafting process and then it should be sent to Parliament for its passage.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGruaM5fRxQ
Press Conference by Arvind Kejriwal, Prashant Bhushan, Shanti Bhushan and Kumar Vishwas on Defense Matters. April 10, 2012.
Press Conference by Arvind Kejriwal, Prashant Bhushan, Shanti Bhushan and Kumar Vishwas on Defense Matters. April 10, 2012.
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http://www.firstpost.com/politics/in-pr ... 74811.html
The President of India is entitled to a comfortable retirement home after her term is over.
But does that mean spending Rs 8 crore of public money, pulling down two defence bungalows and grabbing 261,000 square feet of cantonment land?
That’s what a group of ex-servicement are alleging, on the basis of an RTI request, in a story in MoneyLife that has gone viral on social media. The story has caught enough fire that the President’s office has been forced to respond calling it “malicious.”
So what are the allegations? And how strong is the denial?
What is Pratibha Patil building?
She is building a 4,500 sq feet bungalow on 261,000 sq feet of land in the Khadki Cantonment of Pune. Two defence bungalows have been pulled down to make room for her bungalow. The MoneyLife article was headlined “President Patil grabs 261000 sq feet of land meant for soliders and officers.”
It is perhaps unfair to complain that Patil is building herself a palatial bungalow in Pune on defence land even as jawans there do not have enough residential accommodation for their families. “Those jawans who decided to get their families to Pune nevertheless, live in slum-like conditions in one-room dwellings, near the Pune cantonment, with no drinking water facility,” writes Desmukh.
Stung, the president’s office retorted that just because she has chosen to retire in the cantonment area does not mean she “is apathetic or indifferent to the welfare of soldiers.” That is true. It is not as if that land, or those bungalows, had been earmarked for jawans and their families and Patil is de facto evicting them. “We are saying that let her keep the 2,000 sq ft she is entitled to and give away the remaining land forconstructing official accommodation for soldiers and officers,” says Col. Patil.
However the very specific allegations raised by MoneyLife remain unanswered. Why is a perfectly good bungalow being pulled down if it is just “renovation”? Why does the president need 261,000 sq feet of land for her 4500 sq feet bungalow? Does pulling down two bungalows to build another one constitute “occupying a government accommodation” just because it happens to be on government land? Can A1 Defence land be used for any purpose other than a strictly military one? Read all the questions raised by Deshmukh here.
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Activist serves notice to President Secretariat based on Moneylife report
Andhra Pradesh-based Dr VS Prasanna Rajan has sent a notice under section 80 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 to the secretary of President Pratibha Patil seeking detailed report or explanation on a story published by Moneylife (Ref [1]). President Pratibha Patil grabs 2,61,000 sq ft of land meant for soldiers and officers
Here is what Dr Rajan has sought within two months from the President Secretariat...
a) A detailed report, explanation containing the progress made by the concerned official(s) to bring to cognizance of the report vide Ref [1] in the media exposing the instance land grabbing by the current President of India, in utter violation of statutory rules and regulations.
b) A detailed report, explanation containing the initiatives taken by the concerned official(s) to appraise the current Honourable President, the relevant legal provisions and Supreme court judgments against grabbing excess land resource in violation of the relevant rules, regulations in force, for the same, so that corrective actions can be undertaken by the current Honourable President, to settle the controversy reported vide Ref [1], and to avoid unwarranted, avoidable court procedures, whereby the image, prestige, honour, credibility of Her Excellency, is enhanced before the citizens of India.
g) If no such progress is made in any of the aforesaid queries, if no explanation, report is available for some, all, part of the queries in this notice, if it is decided officially not to act on this notice, then a detailed explanation, report, supported by cogent reasons for the same.
As per a judgement by the Supreme Court, public authorities and officers must be given a notice under section 80 of Civil Procedure Code, 1908 before moving courts against them.
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Rediff uvacha
So digvijay singh who is off TV screen after UP debacle will make a comeback. Guru's, will the janata hold the hands of hazare&ramdev this time?? or will this be again mumbai repeat??Anna announces a nationwide anti-black money stir on May 1 and a joint fast with Baba Ramdev on June 3.
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^AH's initially surge in delhi came from BR's followers.
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Drama at Team Anna meet; Muslim member storms out
Can safely assume a INC ka haath in this "drama"High drama was witnessed at the Team Anna core committee meeting in Noida on Sunday with the group expelling one of its members Mufti Shameem Kazmi for allegedly recording its proceedings even as he claimed that he quit the movement as it was turning anti-Muslim.
Kazmi stormed out of the meeting attended by Anna Hazare on Sunday afternoon and announced his resignation to the media outside the venue, alleging that the movement was turning "anti-Muslim" and there was no place for him in it.
He alleged that some of the prominent activists like Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia were running the show on their own like "authoritarians". "I was the lone Muslim member in Team Anna core committee and I am out of it now. They don't want Muslims in it," he said.
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and this is how sickularism is undone..
I like babaji for this precise reason. he has no pretense of showing himself as secular.. on his dias, muslim leaders sat with sadhvi ritumbhara.. without any such pretense, for a common cause, forgetting the differences.
I like babaji for this precise reason. he has no pretense of showing himself as secular.. on his dias, muslim leaders sat with sadhvi ritumbhara.. without any such pretense, for a common cause, forgetting the differences.
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From the same linksum wrote:Drama at Team Anna meet; Muslim member storms out
Can safely assume a INC ka haath in this "drama"High drama was witnessed at the Team Anna core committee meeting in Noida on Sunday with the group expelling one of its members Mufti Shameem Kazmi for allegedly recording its proceedings even as he claimed that he quit the movement as it was turning anti-Muslim.
Kazmi stormed out of the meeting attended by Anna Hazare on Sunday afternoon and announced his resignation to the media outside the venue, alleging that the movement was turning "anti-Muslim" and there was no place for him in it.
He alleged that some of the prominent activists like Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia were running the show on their own like "authoritarians". "I was the lone Muslim member in Team Anna core committee and I am out of it now. They don't want Muslims in it," he said.
One can hardly say that Anna or anyone else is 'authoritarian' when proceedings were recorded without knowledge.However, soon after his outburst, Team Anna members Kumar Vishwas and Shazia Ilmi alleged that Kazmi was ousted from the group as he was "found audio-recording" the proceedings ..
Team Anna sources said he was "secretly" recording the proceedings and when he was asked why he was doing it, he suddenly got up and left.
..they believed that he was sending the audio to some journalists. "It was a breach of trust. Team Anna has asked him to stay away," Ilmi and Vishwas said.
On his part, Kazmi alleged that Kejriwal was acting as an authoritarian. "I have been with the movement since its beginning. Anna is a good man. Kejriwal and Sisodia were using Anna Hazare for their own purpose," Kazmi claimed.
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The movement had only a miniscule partnership from muslims even when the Ramlila grounds were occupied which is right next to a Masjid and is Old Delhi area. And this non participation is voluntary.sum wrote:Drama at Team Anna meet; Muslim member storms out
Kazmi stormed out of the meeting attended by Anna Hazare on Sunday afternoon and announced his resignation to the media outside the venue, alleging that the movement was turning "anti-Muslim" and there was no place for him in it.
He alleged that some of the prominent activists like Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia were running the show on their own like "authoritarians". "I was the lone Muslim member in Team Anna core committee and I am out of it now. They don't want Muslims in it," he said.
Reality is people see Congress and its leaders as the reason for this corrupt system. So anybody who has anything vested in these Congressies and their corrupt system, has kept himself aloof. They off course wants the benefits to flow to them but don't want having to put any effort.
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Iirc the standing committe he lead was for 2G scam. Guru's correct me.Abhishek Manu Singhvi quits as chairperson of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on law and justice AND as spokesperson of the Congress party.
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http://www.firstpost.com/politics/bofor ... 86710.html
Bofors ‘Deep Throat’ reveals all: How Rajiv protected Quattrocchi
Bofors ‘Deep Throat’ reveals all: How Rajiv protected Quattrocchi
The evidence against Ottavio Quattrocchi was conclusive. Through a front company called A.E. Services, bribes paid by Bofors landed in Quattrocchi’s account which he subsequently cleaned out because India said there was no evidence linking him to the Bofors deal. Nobody in Sweden or Switzerland was allowed to interrogate him.
And in the pecking order of protection, Quattrocchi merited greater protection than even Rajiv Gandhi’s relative Arun Nehru: ”He [Managing Director of Bofors Martin Ardbo] had written in his notes that the identity of N (Nehru) becoming public was a minor concern but at no cost could the identity of Q (Quattrocchi) be revealed because of his closeness to R (Rajiv Gandhi). ”
So determined was the Indian government to cover up the scandal that when Bofors officials arrived in India with a list of names, “nobody of any consequence received them.” And yet even the VP Singh administration, which was voted to power in late 1989 on an anti-corruption platform, does not come out looking any better. According to Lindstrom, only one team of Indian investigators met with the Swedish team even after VP Singh took power, and their primary aim was to force him to link the Bachchans to the kickbacks. When he refused to do so, they planted a story in a leading Swedish newspaper instead – for which the paper was successfully sued by the Bachchans.
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RTI application on Ms. Anasuya Salwan recommendation as judge
http://rti4citizens.blogspot.com/2012/0 ... -vats.html
http://rti4citizens.blogspot.com/2012/0 ... -vats.html
1) All "information" (as defined in RTI Act) which is (a) maintained,
or (b) accessible to, or (c) held by the Hon'ble Chief Justice of
India or his Office concerning the consideration of one Advocate Ms.
Anusuya Salwan, or suchlike, for appointment and/or elevation as a
Judge of the Delhi High Court. NB: If the same has been weeded out, a
copy instead of the weeding out order(s)may be provided to me.
2) A true copy of the videographic information, if any, which caused
the Hon'ble Chief Justice of India to return the proposal for
appointment of Ms. Anusuya Salwan as a Judge of the Delhi High Court
and/or the Supreme Court..
3) A copy of the letter from Ms. Meenakshi Arora , Sr. Advocate,
withdrawing her consent for consideration for appointment as a Judge.
It is pertinent to mention that I am filing this RTI request very
reluctantly and with the utmost regard and respect for this Hon'ble
Court where I am a litigant appearing in person.. My cause of action
is an obscene video allegedly featuring 2 prominent advocates
indulging in unnatural sexual acts in consideration for this judgeship
which is being circulated over the internet over a notorious
international pirate website which has defied all efforts to shut it
down. The details of the obscene video are given below.immediately
under my own particulars, and considering its contents I suggest it be
opened, if at all, by a person of the male gender as it is sure to
offend the tender sensibilities of the female gender..
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http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/lokpa ... herstories
The anti-corruption Lokpal Bill will be brought to the Rajya Sabha again next week.
This version will have amendments to the bill that was debated vigorously in December on the last day of the winter session, which was concluded controversially without a vote.
Late last year, the Lokpal Bill was passed by the lower house or Lok Sabha. It then moved to the Rajya Sabha for consideration by the upper house. Because no vote was held, the process of considering the bill in its new form will start all over again. From the Rajya Sabha, the bill will go to the Lok Sabha which will re-examine it because this is a different version than the one cleared earlier.
The government has begun consulting with different political parties to build consensus around the bill.
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Welcome to India - The Most Corrupt Country
Led By = Sonia Gandhi
http://www.sify.com/finance/a-sea-of-tr ... ibcff.html
Led By = Sonia Gandhi
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It's been a year since Baba Ramdev kick started the whole thing.
Seems like the movement is well and truly over.
Where are all these guys NEways?
Seems like the movement is well and truly over.
Where are all these guys NEways?
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city ... 114600.cms
BHUBANESWAR: If the Union government does not bring a strong Lokpal Bill by May 22 when the ongoing Parliament session ends, India Against Corruption (IAC) will launch another nationwide movement, Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal said here on Saturday.
In Bhubaneswar to interact with India Against Corruption (IAC) volunteers here, Kejriwal said the biggest ever campaign will demand three things: The Jan Lokpal Bill should be passed. Any bill introduced in the Parliament and assemblies should first be referred to the gram sabhas and maholla sabhas for taking people's opinion. The members of Parliament and assemblies should make their case based on the will of the people. Thirdly, the looting of land of poor farmers by corporate should stop. Land can be transferred only after written agreements by farmers elaborating the conditions thereof. And there should be strong Lokayuktas in every state, he said.
The key Team Anna member said Members of Parliament have cheated people of the country by breaking their promise made in Parliament on August 27 last year. "To break Anna's fast they made tall promises. Now, the government is bringing a weak Lokpal, which will increase corruption. We totally reject it," Kejriwal said.
He said in the current central cabinet, 16 ministers have serious charges against them and if Jan Lokpal Bill is passed at least 12 ministers will be behind bars. This may be the reason why the current establishment does not want Jan Lokpal. There is a need for cleansing the political system, Kejriwal reiterated.
He said that the Jan Lokpal Bill says broadly two things. One, the corrupt must be punished in one to two years time, his/her property should be confiscated and he/she should be dismissed from service. Two, there should be timely delivery of service by government servants, failing which the Lokpal will ensure compensation to victims and penalty for defaulters.
Stating that the Odisha government has a very weak Lokpal, Kejriwal said, "I am told that 26 out of 30 reports of the Lokpal have not even been presented before the state assembly, let alone any action taken against the corrupt. Investigation report against Vedanta is one such report."
Kejriwal said after Lokpal, Team Anna will have focus on electoral reforms, including right to reject and right to recall. Besides law making can't be left to Parliament and assembly alone. "People should be consulted while making law. Our fight will be for direct democracy," he said.
Kejriwal said a nonpartisan member should be made President of India, not owing allegiance to any political party. "An ideal presidential candidate would be someone with political background, but not in party politics currently," Kejriwal said. "There are some such deserving names but it would not be proper for me to comment on it," he added.
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http://news.outlookindia.com/items.aspx?artid=762424
Anna Hazare has invited Army Chief Gen V K Singh to join his team after retirement in the countrywide campaign against corruption.
"I am personally not inclined to ask or request anyone to join our agitation against corruption but we have fought two wars including one against Pakistan during my service in the Army. Now we have to fight the enemy within us," he said in Chandrapur in Maharashtra.
The anti-corruption crusader said this fight is more important than the earlier ones, he said.
"And we need like minded people in our team and if interested, Gen V K Singh is welcome to join us after his retirement. It would be his choice," Anna told reporters last evening when they asked him whether he would like to invite the Army Chief to join his team.
The anti-corruption crusader is currently touring Maharashtra to campaign for a strong Lokayukta Act in the state.
The 35-day long state-wide tour, which ends on June 5, will be his first major assignment after the December 2011 agitation in Mumbai. Hazare also plans to step up his campaign in the run up to the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.He will visit Delhi on June 3 to take part in an agitation by yoga guru Ramdev at Jantar Mantar.
Hazare said that the government was unwilling to bring Right to Information (RTI) Act into force, but had budged after several years of agitation and implemented it in Maharashtra in 2002, and it was later brought into force throughout the country.
Hazare's invitation to Gen Singh was welcomed by Team Anna member Kiran Bedi who urged ex-servicemen to participate in the campaign against corruption.
"Anna's invite to General VK is most appropriate. Imagine if ex-servicemen join Anna they can become a formidable voice against corruption," she tweeted.
This is the first time Team Anna is extending a direct invitation to Singh to join his movement.
The Army Chief had in August last year shown tacit support to Team Anna's campaign against corruption. "We are witnessing the power of democracy, the power of the people," he had said.
Last month, Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal while extending support to Gen Singh had said he was sure that the Army Chief will take a decision on what he will do after retirement on May 31 on the issue of fighting corruption.
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http://www.rediff.com/news/column/arvin ... 120513.htm
Arvind Kejriwal's musings on the state of Indian Democracy and Parliament... insightful!
Arvind Kejriwal's musings on the state of Indian Democracy and Parliament... insightful!
MPs are reduced to bonded labour of their parties
May 13, 2012 11:06 IST
The People are supreme, not Parliament.
But unfortunately, in India [ Images ], the People do not have any control, whatsoever, on the functioning of Parliament, says Magsaysay Award winner Arvind Kejriwal in this hard-hitting article. Exclusive to Rediff.com
Earlier in our series to salute the 60th anniversary of the first sitting of the Joint Houses of Parliament:
Gandhiji wrote this about the British parliament in Hind Swaraj in 1908:
'That which you consider to be the Mother of Parliaments is like a sterile woman and a prostitute. Both these are harsh terms, but exactly fit the case. That parliament has not yet, of its own accord, done a single good thing. Hence I have compared it to a sterile woman... It is like a prostitute because it is under the control of ministers who change from time to time...'
'As a matter of fact, it is generally acknowledged that the members are hypocritical and selfish. Each thinks of his own little interest. It is fear that is the guiding motive... When the greatest questions are debated, its members have been seen to stretch themselves and to doze. Sometimes the members talk away until the listeners are disgusted. Carlyle has called it the "talking shop of the world".'
'Members vote for their party without a thought. Their so-called discipline binds them to it. If any member, by way of exception, gives an independent vote, he is considered a renegade... Parliament is simply a costly toy of the nation. These views are by no means peculiar to me. Some great English thinkers have expressed them.'
It would be useful to examine how much of Gandhiji's observations about the British parliament applies to the Indian Parliament today.
India is said to be the biggest democracy in the world. It is the biggest just because we are the most populated country. But is it really a democracy? Do people have any say in governance other than voting once every five years? So we have universal adult suffrage, but can just that be called democracy?
I elect someone once in five years. But in the next five years, neither do I have any say nor does my representative have any say in Parliament. That representative never gets back to me or consults me before voting in Parliament. After elections, he is under statutory obligation to take orders from his party and vote in accordance with the whip issued by his party on various issues.
MPs are reduced to bonded labour of their parties. If anyone dares to speak against his party, he could lose his membership.
For instance, the Congress has 207 members in Lok Sabha today. None of them can vote independently. They will have to vote according to what (Congress President) Sonia Gandhi [ Images ] decides. Likewise, the Bharatiya Janata Party [ Images ] has 114 members in the Lok Sabha. They will have to vote according to what (BJP President) Nitin Gadkari [ Images ] decides.
Ilyas Azmi, a former MP, says the Lok Sabha is a chessboard with 542 pawns who are controlled by the leaders of a few political parties.
Doesn't India become a dictatorship of the leaders of the ruling party in between two elections? These few men and women control Parliament and the executive for the next five years. They are influenced, either through money power or some other influences, by various lobbies.
Who are these leaders accountable to?
They are accountable to none. This is a very dangerous situation. So, we have a pretence of elections every five years, through which we hand over the country's control to a few individuals. And there is a very good understanding among the leaders of all parties.
They are different and separate only in name and for public consumption.
Behind the scenes, they are all the same, united and together. They publicly curse each other, but never punish each other when they come to power.
Else, how do you justify that the Bofors scam never reaches its logical end after several decades despite governments of all parties having been in power? Those from the Opposition are also well taken care of by the ruling party by giving contracts to their kin.
So, parliamentary democracy, as it exists today, has become a very well-oiled system to systematically loot the country. Public interest is incidental.
Is Parliament as sensitive to the pains and sorrows of the people of India as it is to its own members? When (Agriculture Minister) Sharad Pawar [ Images ] was slapped, Parliament moaned for two precious hours.
But when farmers commit suicide, when farmers died recently in police firing, when Narendra Kumar (the IPS officer) was murdered, the same Parliament did not spend even a few minutes on it.
They debate the Lokpal Bill for 42 years, yet don't pass it. But they pass the Bill to increase their own salaries within a few minutes.
Now, let us look at the character of the present Parliament. One hundred and sixty-two MPs in the Lok Sabha and more than 40 in the Rajya Sabha have pending criminal cases against them, and several others face serious allegations of corruption.
How can we expect them to ever pass Bills to strengthen the criminal justice system or to punish corruption? There is a direct conflict of interest.
And if you raise these fundamental questions, you are threatened with parliamentary privilege.
The biggest problem is that Parliament is completely disconnected with the people of India. There is no mechanism for the people to intervene in the affairs of Parliament, to direct Parliament to enact laws on particular subjects, to prevent it from passing certain other kind of laws.
The People are supreme, not Parliament.
But unfortunately, in the Indian system, people do not have any control, whatsoever, on the functioning of Parliament.
In several countries, through the mechanism of referendums, people are able to amend or nullify the laws passed by parliament. Through the mechanism of initiative, people are able to initiate enactment of laws. This not just enables people to directly intervene, it also keeps parliament on its toes and under check.
In India, as a beginning, why can't each MP be required to send a copy of a Bill to all the villages and municipal wards falling under his constituency? We can make a beginning with only certain types of Bills which have far-reaching consequences.
Let the people in each village and ward assemble as gram sabhas or mohalla sabhas, discuss the contents of the Bill and give their feedback to their MP. The suggestions received from all gram sabhas and mohalla sabhas could be compiled by the MP and presented as his opinion in Parliament rather than the dictates of his party.
That would be real democracy.
Arvind Kejriwal
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From Lokpal's Facebook feed: "Just in: There has been an attack on Anna's convoy near Chitnis Park in Nagpur, Maharashtra. Anna was not in the car that was attacked, this car carried was carrying pamphlets. Anna is safe! Ravindra Ambekar, IBN7 journalist says Congress workers behind the attack. | अभी-अभी: नागपुर में चिटनिस पार्क के नजदीक अन्ना के काफिले पर हमला। अन्ना सुरक्षित हैं। जिस कार पर हमला हुआ अन्ना उसमें नहीं थे, इस कार में प्रचार सामग्री रखी हुई थी। आईबीएन7 के संवाददाता रवींद्र आंबेकर के मुताबिक, घटना में कांग्रेस कार्यकर्ताओं का हाथ।"
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^^ Not surprise at all! The CON SCUMS and DIEnasty are becoming bolder as CON PRESSTITUTE media casts any fight as Hindu vs Muslim or FC vs BC vs SC and derails it. Too many stupid Indians fall for these tricks. The BJP has proved to be nikkammas with them trying to undermine state leaders such as NaMO.
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/indi ... 318153.cms
NEW DELHI: With the Budget session set to conclude on Tuesday, the much-debated Lokpal Bill, instead of being brought in the Rajya Sabha, could be referred to a Joint Select Committee amid lack of consensus on its key provisions.
"A decision will be taken tomorrow", a Union minister involved in the process said when asked whether the bill would go to a Joint Select Committee or Select Committee. When a Bill comes up before a House for discussion, it may be referred to a Select Committee of the House or a Joint Committee of the two Houses. The Select or the Joint Select Committee considers the Bill clause by clause just as the two Houses do.
A senior Congress leader, who declined to be identified, said the possibility of the bill being referred to a Joint Select Committee, cannot be ruled out.
Reports said that in the absence of consensus on key provisions of the legislation including the one dealing with Lokpal's superintendence over CBI appears to be deterring the government from bringing the bill in the Rajya Sabha this week. The bill has already been passed by the Lok Sabha.
Uncertainty hung over the bill coming up in the Upper House in the current session with finance minister Pranab Mukherjee saying yesterday that the Business Advisory Committee of Rajya Sabha will take a decision.
The original plan was to move official amendments to the Lokpal Bill and bring it for passage in the Rajya Sabha on May 21, the penultimate day of the current session. But, the reluctance of BJP and other parties to soften their stand on other amendments sought by them seems to have come in the way of government's consensus-building exercise.
BJP has been insisting that the legislation should be passed before the end of the current session, criticising the Union government over the delay in the passage of the Bill for creating an anti-corruption ombudsman.
Congress MP Abhishek Singhvi, who had headed the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Law and Personnel, that went into the Lokpal Bill, however, downplayed any possible move to refer it to the Joint Select Committee.
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/indi ... 358333.cms
Games people play... and the country suffers!!
Games people play... and the country suffers!!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-18141956The much-debated Lokpal Bill was tabled in the Rajya Sabha by the government on Monday evening.
Even after amendments being made in the bill, several points of contention remain. The opposition BJP still objects to the CBI not being made independent of the government.
According to sources, minister of state for personal and public grievances V Narayanasamy and minister of state for parliamentary affairs Rajeev Shukla met leader of opposition Arun Jaitley on Monday morning in an effort to develop a consensus on the bill, but the meeting remained inconclusive.
Sources from the BJP added that if the bill is taken up very late in the day, the party will protest as the upper house will not get enough time to discuss the legislation.
India's controversial anti-corruption Lokpal bill has been re-introduced in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of parliament.
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http://daily.bhaskar.com/article/NAT-PO ... 99832.html
Jalgaon: Anti-graft crusader Anna Hazare-led Team Anna on Monday revealed its cards to start a fresh stir from July 25 at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar to lay emphasis for strong Lokpal Bill.
However, Veteran Gandhian Anna Hazare will only sit in the agitation to lead his team but won’t fast.
Addressing reporters Anna said “The Congress-led UPA government does not want a Lokpal".
"It is going back on his words on constituting a strong Lokpal to check corruption in the country”, he added.
The government, today, took up the Lokpal Bill in Rajya Sabha and referred the Lokpal Bill to the Joint Select Committee of the Parliament as Lokpal Bill lacks consensus.
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http://www.timesnow.tv/Direct-Anna-Haza ... 402610.cms
Anna Hazare on the events in the RS today re: the Lokpal Bill and his future course of action...
Anna Hazare on the events in the RS today re: the Lokpal Bill and his future course of action...
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http://www.timesnow.tv/Debate-Lokpal-de ... 402620.cms
http://www.timesnow.tv/Debate-Lokpal-de ... 402621.cms
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It seems patently clear by the actions of the present government and the Congress party that they have no interest in passing an effective Lokpal Bill. The smugness of individuals like Renuka Chaudhary personifies the disdain and the disconnect that this government has with the country's masses and their genuine issues.
What a pity...
http://www.timesnow.tv/Debate-Lokpal-de ... 402621.cms
http://www.timesnow.tv/Debate-Lokpal-de ... 402622.cms
It seems patently clear by the actions of the present government and the Congress party that they have no interest in passing an effective Lokpal Bill. The smugness of individuals like Renuka Chaudhary personifies the disdain and the disconnect that this government has with the country's masses and their genuine issues.
What a pity...
In yet another twist, the controversial Lokpal and Lokayuktas Bill was today referred to the Select Committee of Rajya Sabha, further delaying the setting up of the anti-graft ombudsman which has been hanging fire for 42 years. The Bill, on which debate had remained inconclusive in the Rajya Sabha during the last Winter Session, was referred to the Select Committee through a motion soon after Minister of State for Personnel V Narayanasamy moved it for consideration and passage. TIMES NOW's Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami debates the issue with Renuka Chaudhary, Congress leader, Chandan Mitra, Editor-in-Chief, The Pioneer & MP, BJP, Shazia Ilmi, Core Committee Member, Team Anna and Shekar Singh, Member, NCPRI.