Two-G (2G) Spectrum Scam Tapes and follow-up

Pranav · Post by **Pranav** » 25 Jun 2011 12:07

In a bid to tighten the noose around Union textile minister Dayanidhi Maran, the CBI sleuths recorded statements of two London-based merchant bankers who have been cited as key witnesses by former Aircel owner Shivasankaran.

Shivasankaran has provided the CBI a list of over 10 witnesses, most of them based in London and Singapore.

The CBI team returned from the UK two days back after meeting the witnesses. The agency, which is conducting a preliminary enquiry into 2G spectrum allocations between 2001 and 2007, is required to take permission from the prime minister’s office before lodging an FIR against Maran.

“We are recording statements of all witnesses who have been named by Sivasankaranso that we can pursue our case for approval from the prime minister’s office to prosecute Maran,” said a senior CBI official.

http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_2g ... es_1558050

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 25 Jun 2011 18:13

Pranav wrote:
In a bid to tighten the noose around Union textile minister Dayanidhi Maran, the CBI sleuths recorded statements of two London-based merchant bankers who have been cited as key witnesses by former Aircel owner Shivasankaran.

Shivasankaran has provided the CBI a list of over 10 witnesses, most of them based in London and Singapore.

The CBI team returned from the UK two days back after meeting the witnesses. The agency, which is conducting a preliminary enquiry into 2G spectrum allocations between 2001 and 2007, is required to take permission from the prime minister’s office before lodging an FIR against Maran.

“We are recording statements of all witnesses who have been named by Sivasankaranso that we can pursue our case for approval from the prime minister’s office to prosecute Maran,” said a senior CBI official.

http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_2g ... es_1558050

So, DMK on it's way to absolute majority in Tihar Jail??

Good show here at least, even if not in Tamilnadu elections

anmol · Post by **anmol** » 25 Jun 2011 21:41

Pranav wrote:Are you being serious?

Investigative journalism is an integral part of democracy.

Sadly our Democracy has Lifafa > Sting > Blackmail Journalism. I remember our "Investigative journalists" stinging Modi while all these scams were going on..

Muppalla · Post by **Muppalla** » 25 Jun 2011 23:06

Pranav wrote:Are you being serious?

Investigative journalism is an integral part of democracy.

I am dead serious. Again with a lot of money you can create a bunch of Tehelkas and fake investigative journalism. All these investigative stuff using the subverted-establishment and bought out media houses with a conniving Ambanis roaming around the establishment will be one sided onlee.

Even if INC corruption is not exposed that is fine for me as it has no use unless the courts really get invovled and put them behind bars. For the courts to take action, there is not need of journalism for them. Atleast the opposition gets a chance to contest and convince the population. Now the system is scewed and it is just one sided.

Pranav · Post by **Pranav** » 26 Jun 2011 00:18

Muppalla wrote:
Pranav wrote:Are you being serious?

Investigative journalism is an integral part of democracy.
I am dead serious. Again with a lot of money you can create a bunch of Tehelkas and fake investigative journalism. All these investigative stuff using the subverted-establishment and bought out media houses with a conniving Ambanis roaming around the establishment will be one sided onlee.

Even if INC corruption is not exposed that is fine for me as it has no use unless the courts really get invovled and put them behind bars. For the courts to take action, there is not need of journalism for them. Atleast the opposition gets a chance to contest and convince the population. Now the system is scewed and it is just one sided.

The problem is that Indic and nationalist forces are disenfranchised and rendered voiceless in the media. So there is a need for Indic nationalists to take the initiative and make their presence felt. Instead of banning a Tehelka, you need 10 other media outlets who will counter it, and then go further and conduct their own sting ops against Mainovadis and anti-national elements.

Muppalla · Post by **Muppalla** » 26 Jun 2011 01:10

Pranav wrote:The problem is that Indic and nationalist forces are disenfranchised and rendered voiceless in the media. So there is a need for Indic nationalists to take the initiative and make their presence felt. Instead of banning a Tehelka, you need 10 other media outlets who will counter it, and then go further and conduct their own sting ops against Mainovadis and anti-national elements.

You will get zero outlets and even if they come they will not survive. You are just underestimating and are having illusions about the sheer power of political structrue of INC. Other than internet warriors on blogs and orkuts nothing will happen. Let me also tell you one more thing, achievement of Subramanum Swamy types is a big zero on the same lines. Whatever happened so far in the exposure of these scams, there are neither stings nor some super duper loud mouths like Swamy. There are some serious folks who are unsung and probably will remain unsung inside the government and probably inside congress party who exposed being inside. That is the only way things will happen and not due to these sting-doable outlets.

The bang for the buck is more sckewed towards wrong doing and destabilizing the country and not for positive effect. I would say let it go even if INC is insecure.

svinayak · Post by **svinayak** » 26 Jun 2011 01:42

http://www.ipaidabribe.com/sforms/view_reports_paid

Total reports: 10516 and counting...

Top 5 Cities (Bribe amount in Lakhs)
859 Bangalore
391 Mumbai
160 New Delhi
148 Hyderabad
137 Kolkata

Sushupti · Post by **Sushupti** » 26 Jun 2011 19:32

A clear Example of the Political Clout of Ambanis, Dhoots, Ruias & Tatas with CBI

http://www.2gscam.co.in/

Sushupti · Post by **Sushupti** » 26 Jun 2011 21:14

POSCO: A scandal far bigger than 2G scam

http://www.thisweekbangalore.com/?p=2057

chidambaram-raja in action

JwalaMukhi · Post by **JwalaMukhi** » 26 Jun 2011 22:13

Acharya wrote:http://www.ipaidabribe.com/sforms/view_reports_paid

Total reports: 10516 and counting...

Top 5 Cities (Bribe amount in Lakhs)
859 Bangalore
391 Mumbai
160 New Delhi
148 Hyderabad
137 Kolkata

It is a good indicator that things are going well in Bengaluru, compared to other places. The number of reports indicate that people are very aware and do not feel victimized to come out in open to report such things. In other places, it might still be case of victims scared of backlash and hence do not report mal-practices as often as is done in Bengaluru.
My bet would be Bengaluru, would clean up faster than other places, if at all, just because people either exhibit more hope or trust in things working out once the problems are made public. Recording more number of cases is actually a very good sign.

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 30 Jun 2011 00:16

Has anyone studied the Nira Radia profile yet? What are her contacts? whats her history etc? Who arehere backers? Why is she not in jail but Raja and rank are?
For some one so close to the scam we dont know much about her.

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 30 Jun 2011 00:59

Newsinsight.net writes

C O M M E N T A R Y

Game's over
Contrary to conventional thinking, early elections cannot be ruled out, analyses N.V.Subramanian.

29 June 2011: In the middle of the Anna Hazare-Baba Ramdev campaigns a few weeks ago, Nitish Kumar dismissed the possibility of mid-term elections. His reasoning was simple but cynical. Joining the government remained strongly attractive for those outside it.

J.Jayalalithaa, on the other hand, seems of a mind that there may be mid-term elections. She is not certain about it like Nitish Kumar is definite UPA II will complete its term. But she does not overrule the possibility of early polls.

Who is right or more likely to be correct?

Jayalalithaa.

Nitish Kumar conveys the conventional wisdom against early polls. Most political parties and leaders (save Jayalalithaa) hew to this line. The only other politician to speak on the subject recently was L.K.Advani, and he said previous to Nitish that UPA II would have to be suffered till 2014.

The conventional wisdom is based on the fact that fifty-nine per cent of the 15th Lok Sabha MPs are first-timers. They have spent large sums to get elected (that is not very politically correct to say in these times of a new expressed fondness for parliamentary democracy by those same villains who subvert it), and they are determined to stay so for the full five years of their term.

But MPs are also grouped into political parties, by and large. Some are in the government, some outside. Some belong to the principal ruling party, some to the regional allies. And so on.

While their collective voice matters, they are also likely to be fragmented by the choices made by their respective political parties. They cannot en masse quit their parent parties and join the Congress to remain elected.

So let us begin with the proposition that though first-time MPs are a powerful factor against early elections, they cannot override other developments. For example, a UPA coalition partner gets both power and protection by remaining in the UPA, which is why the DMK ostensibly is supporting the government.

But if you look closely, especially in the aftermath of Kanimozhi's imprisonment, the situation has changed. The Congress leadership says it has no hand in Kanimozhi's incarceration, and that it is a matter between the Supreme Court and the CBI.

If that is the case, what does the DMK gain by being allied with the UPA?

Power? But what use is power when the DMK patriarch's daughter is in Tihar, and is being refused bail week after week?

A reset in DMK thinking about the Congress/ UPA may come soon, if it is not already a little evident in the manner of realignments within the BJP's Murli Manohar Joshi-led PAC.

As all those who follow the dismal news headlines know, the DMK and BSP of Mayawati have come to the side of Joshi in his doughty battles against a corrupt and scheming Congress establishment in the 2G scandal. If the DMK, BSP, the NCP (which dissociated itself from the diesel price-hike decision), etc, see no gain remaining associated with the UPA, what would the likes of Mulayam Singh Yadav get by joining the government if its parliamentary numbers fall short?

So Nitish Kumar's argument that the draw of power and gained protection will keep UPA II going with its allies falls on the wayside. Now consider the emergence of other factors that are battering the UPA.

The Supreme Court has taken over the 2G and black money (Hasan Ali) investigations. The government is powerless to protect the 2G crooks, and more will face exposure soon. One top Union minister is on the way to getting implicated. Separately, the credibility of the government has been destroyed by Anna Hazare.

What is left of the executive, then, is a shell presided over by a powerless prime minister called Manmohan Singh. Only a bankrupt government will plan a PR rescue for a virtually non-existent prime minister.

In truth, there is nothing remotely resembling a government today at the Centre. This corpse of government is being attacked by body-snatchers from the Congress, led by the likes of Digvijay Singh.

{Shades of zombie snatchers!}

So why should this farce continue? Frankly, it needs a single pullout by a major ally for the government to collapse.

Significantly, Jayalalithaa has indicated no desire to be part of the present Centre, barely being able to hide her disdain for it. That may be a cue for the DMK to pull out. Who knows?

This writer does not think a collapse is imminent. But it cannot be dismissed out of hand. The circumstances seem to be building towards a mid-term election, and there are all the signs that the Manmohan Singh government/ Congress party have few friends left across the political spectrum.

In all objectivity, the game seems to be over for the UPA.

So in effect the 2G scam is derailing the UPA-II. Its doing what the polticial opposition couldnt do.

RamaY · Post by **RamaY** » 30 Jun 2011 01:22

Ramanaji, it is the leaking of Radia tapes that brought 2G scam into open. Who could have done it? Anti-MMS or Anti-family?

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 30 Jun 2011 01:30

More importantly who are her backers? Form there you can see importantly whats happening. We are getting lost in the weeds while ignoring the trees.

Virupaksha · Post by **Virupaksha** » 30 Jun 2011 01:32

ramana wrote: So in effect the 2G scam is derailing the UPA-II. Its doing what the polticial opposition couldnt do.

even today the govt is afraid of convening the parliamentary sessions when it has thumping majorities, it is becoming afraid of parliamentary bodies like PAC, JPC where paradoxically UPA has the majority.

So I will not say that NDA didnt do anything. But as Nitish Kumar and LKA seem to suggest, their reading of the situation says that UPA will run till 2014. We might say that their analysis is wrong, but from their view point, this push would be peaking too early.

Virupaksha · Post by **Virupaksha** » 30 Jun 2011 02:49

The message I got from MMS after reading his interviews with editors is, Diggy Raja shut up about RG for some time.

RG is not going to become PM immediately and thus MMS had to show that he is strong. NDA's calculations proving correct.

Virupaksha · Post by **Virupaksha** » 30 Jun 2011 02:51

ok got it,

Dr. Manmohan Singh today met editors T N Ninan (Chairman, Business Standard), Raj Chengappa (editor-in-chief, Tribune), Kumar Ketkar (Editor, Divya Marathi), Alok Mehta (editor, Nai Dunia) and M K Razdan (editor-in-chief and CEO, Press Trust of India).

The ones who got the interview

i) Business Standard - business community, pampers MMS with the headline "Buck stops with me" - showing see how strong MMS is.
http://www.business-standard.com/india/ ... me/440962/
ii) Tribune -bengal on the same line "Manmohan Singh asserts himself" - see the superman MMS.
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2011/20110630/main1.htm
iii) Divya Marathi, should be actually called given to dainik bhaskar/DNA. Divya marathi started only this year. It has been giving multiple headlines - maharasthra

I may have been soft: Manmohan Singh on 2G scam - indicating I will be stronger in future
I am not helpless, says Manmohan Singh - indicating I am strong
Committed to 9-10 per cent economic growth: Manmohan Singh
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_i- ... gh_1560498
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_i- ... am_1560554

iv) Nai Dunia - an almost exclusive madhya pradesh newspaper
मुझे लोकपाल दायरे में आने से परहेज नहीं - indicating I am fearless
http://hindi.webdunia.com/%E0%A4%B9%E0% ... 9029_1.htm

v) PTI - PM says he is no lame duck - again strong

The ones who did not get it
i) So no times of India in the list, no wonder the headline from toi, with MMS accepting that he has been leading the most corrupt govt.

ii) Talk of drift, corruption is propaganda: Manmohan - hindu headline, basically a political one
http://www.hindu.com/2011/06/30/stories ... 980100.htm

So MMS is asking his media managers to show that he is strong,

interesting....... Any person who goes on shouting that he is strong is normally said to suffer from inferiority complex. No comments from my side, whether MMS has it

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 30 Jun 2011 21:54

Vilayat posted this some time ago in GDF..
http://forums.bharat-rakshak.com/viewto ... 0#p1025770

A relevant quote:

The Tata group was anyways away from all the fuss. These people were allowed to "invest" as they were securing the second tier proxy...

I think the 2G tussle is between these and the newer proxies.....

Muppalla · Post by **Muppalla** » 01 Jul 2011 08:25

ramana wrote: I think the 2G tussle is between these and the newer proxies.....

As long as there are no other western proxies behind these newer proxies then India is okay. If may also help in the long run. However, if there are stronger ones then it is East Indian Company all over again.

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 01 Jul 2011 10:31

I really think EIC never went away. It just changed its cloak.

Philip · Post by **Philip** » 01 Jul 2011 14:38

The only hope for the UPA/Cong led govt. is for the Rahul Gandhi brigade to demand a "new-broom" approach to the current crisis and a dramatic reshuffle of the govt. carried out with the induction of a host of new youthful Congressmen who have strong family ties with their electorates,in true dynastic style of the GOP.This is their only hope, because of the youth factor in the country and the number of new young voters who cannot identify themselves with the older generation of Gandhi-capped,dhoti-clad,paan-chewing.briefcase loving politicos. Younger Congress leaders may have a better rapport with the middle-class electorate as well.There is still enough time to stem the rot,since elctions are still sone time away, and the whole blame can be laid upon "coalition politics" and MMS's incapacity to deal with pirates in his govt.Sacrificing more outlaws like Maran and co. and pensioning off MMS in the near future-some say he wants a leg-up to become President (!) as a golden-handshake for his playing the role of a "hot-water bottle",waming the bed for the heir apparent.

Sonia G has to be a "good butcher" ,the hallmark of every great leader and ruthlessly sacrifice the deadwood and disgraced members of her tribe.If the GOP drifts any longer under the constable's farcial misrule,all will be lost.The Congress will suffer at the electorate's hands a defeat similar in nature to what the DMK has suffered .

There is also a limit to how much the civil society can accomplish,apart from disgracing the reputation of a corrupt-ridden govt.Parliament ultimately is sovereign and extra-constitutional attempts to "wag-the-dog" are unacceptable.Ms.JJ has just pointed out the danger from foreign powers who will use their influence with NGOs/civil society groups,to undermine the PM's authority if he is also comes under the LokPal's scrutiny.

krishnan · Post by **krishnan** » 01 Jul 2011 14:40

All quiet on this front, they are more bothered about the 200 cr that kanni and others seems to have got, no one seems to be bothered about the rest of the money

VinayB · Post by **VinayB** » 01 Jul 2011 21:14

in the context of appointed and not elected PM since 2004, Nira tapes on cabinet appointments, NAC framing laws outside parliament etc, terms like PM's authority, parliament's sovirginity are interesting.

JwalaMukhi · Post by **JwalaMukhi** » 02 Jul 2011 19:47

Let the competition begin amongst the trio kanimozhi, raja and kalmadi as to who is most VIP amongst them? Can the money decide that?
Well corruption follows to Tihar jail... one can take corrupt to prison, but one cannot take corruption out of the corrupt.
http://www.rediff.com/news/report/tihar ... 110702.htm

Authorities from Tihar jail on Saturday ordered an inquiry into reports claiming that sacked Commonwealth Games [ Images ] organising committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi [ Images ] is getting special treatment inside the jail premises.

Jail Superintendent S C Bharadwaj, in whose room Kalmadi was reportedly found having tea by inspecting trial court judge Brijesh Kumar Garg during a surprise visit to the jail on June 30, has also been transferred to Port Blair but the officials said it was not related to the alleged incident.

JwalaMukhi · Post by **JwalaMukhi** » 02 Jul 2011 19:54

It will be an interesting problem, if there is a Tihar jail Scam. So where will Tihar Jail Scamsters be lodged, Parliament?

Vashishtha · Post by **Vashishtha** » 02 Jul 2011 20:07

^^Loool!!!

vijayk · Post by **vijayk** » 02 Jul 2011 20:52

Kalmadi is taking a hit for the ITALIAN MAFIA. What else would they do? This scum is enjoying his stay for covering for the 2Gs.

shyamd · Post by **shyamd** » 04 Jul 2011 22:24

If I said S Swamy was US backed, what would people say?

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Meanwhile one of the few patriotic institutions left.
SIT for black money probe-its unique

Posted on July 4, 2011 by Vicky Nanjappa

The Supreme Court of India issued a very unique order today when it directed a Special Investigating Team be set up to monitor the investigation into the issue of black money.

Former judges say this order is a commendable one and the intention was obvious that it wanted to set up a body which is independent of any political interference.

Justice M F Saldanha, former judge of the Karnataka and Bombay High Court says that the Supreme Court does appoint panels to over see matters and the order that was passed was very much within the right and powers of the Supreme Court. However setting up an SIT is unusual in nature since the Supreme Court has not done something of this sort before.

However what we need to look at is that the Supreme Court has made its intention very clear. They have clearly stated through this order that it does not trust anyone but itself to monitor the investigation. Usually the Supreme Court in earlier cases has said that it would monitor the investigation directly and the investigating agency would report to it directly. However now what it has done it has set up an exclusive body which would monitor the on going investigation. This body is independent of any agency and would report exclusively to the Supreme Court of India.

In the case of black money the allegation is that each and every political party has some stake in it and the court took into account that precious little was happening because of this.

What setting up an SIT would do is that it would dedicate itself to this case. The situation where black money is concerned is grave and hence such a body was needed. It is unusual and innovative on part of the Supreme Court since such a thing has not happened before.

The SIT appointed by the Supreme Court would act as a watch dog. Although it would only monitor the investigation it would still have powers to order the investigating agency the manner in which the probe needs to be conducted. More importantly it can pull up and also question the investigating agency about the probe and also ask it to look in the direction it would want it to. It can call for records and also direct the investigating agency to speed up the probe.

However this body would have to report to the Supreme Court from time to time and can only disclose details regarding the probe to the court. However it would all depend on how the Supreme Court handles this committee. The government as we have seen in the past is quite capable of frustrating the process and the Supreme Court as well as the SIT would have to deal with these aspects.

We need to see whether this innovation on part of the Supreme Court would work or not. But I must add that it is a very important and innovative order on part of the court.

This team would be slightly different when compared to the rest of the committees appointed by the Supreme Court. The other committees have been more of fact finding institutions which go into issues by itself and also rely on the rest of the agencies. However the SIT is an independent body which will be an authority over all the agencies which are looking into the issue of black money. Basically one would have to say that the jurisdiction of this SIT is very vast.

Atri · Post by **Atri** » 04 Jul 2011 22:52

Muppalla wrote:
ramana wrote: I think the 2G tussle is between these and the newer proxies.....
As long as there are no other western proxies behind these newer proxies then India is okay. If may also help in the long run. However, if there are stronger ones then it is East Indian Company all over again.

http://www.thegodfathertrilogy.com/gf3/ ... cript.html

MICHAEL: I have always believed helping your fellow man is profitable, in every sense, personally and bottom line. My fellow shareholders, if Europe and America can learn to cooperate -- if we can learn to pool our wealth, share our markets, we can defeat, any competition, anywhere in the world. Let me thank you for the time you have given me here today, and I hope, that you will look favorably upon my proposal. Thank you.

Please to watch Godfather-3 for clue..

What Swamy, Vishwabandhu, Ramdev et al are shouting, and what many of the posters here have the "Asphuta" gut feeling in their minds, have already been said and shown in this movie..

Sushupti · Post by **Sushupti** » 04 Jul 2011 23:19

svinayak · Post by **svinayak** » 05 Jul 2011 12:45

‘Murli Deora quits Cabinet, wants son named MoS’
zeenews.india.com
Corporate Affairs Minister Murli Deora is reported to have quit the Union Cabinet, just before an imminent reshuffle of the Council of Ministers.

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 05 Jul 2011 12:57

Acharya wrote:‘Murli Deora quits Cabinet, wants son named MoS’
zeenews.india.com
Corporate Affairs Minister Murli Deora is reported to have quit the Union Cabinet, just before an imminent reshuffle of the Council of Ministers.

papa deora is on the run, wants son to cover him.

The CAG report on the "oil industry" has indeed cut a wide swath.

A major mumbai based oil major has hired a very expensive and very distinguished consultancy firm to go over with a fine tooth comb the contract it had for revenue sharing with the GOI. Of particular interest is the very issue CAG raised, that of gold plating expenses to cover some very intriguing and interesting capex numbers.

The concerned regulator is also likely to be arrested,

A Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report had come down heavily on the oil and petroleum ministry last month, observing that the DGH had provided undue benefits to several private companies, including Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), Cairn India and British Gas.

Amitabh · Post by **Amitabh** » 05 Jul 2011 15:55

Prem wrote:
ramana wrote:The e-book "Polyester prince" is quite revealing about the deep nexus between Reliance and INC. They are totally embedded and intertwined.
In case people were wondering why onlee Reliance was successful in discovering big gas fields. DGHC shenanigans are also part of the same scam. There is deliberate policy to keep Indian dependence on foreign energy sources and manipulations. The rot is congressi cancerous and killing evrything healthy in the body.

Reliance was awarded the D6 field in 2000. There was an "Indic and nationalist" government in power at the time if memory serves me right.

Reliance doesn't just own a dukan - it owns a retail chain (and I don't mean http://www.ril.com/html/business/business_retail.html).

AjayKK · Post by **AjayKK** » 05 Jul 2011 18:22

X post from Psyops thread

chetak wrote:Gone in the next cabinet reshuffle??

Someone is gunning for this guy.

Krishna spent Govt money to watch Wimbledon SF

Day in and day out, the ministers and the unelected cabal are targeting each other. Currently, the list of ministers against whom leaks have taken includes all the heavyweights from PC to Sibal to Pranab da. It is a free for all. Everyday, Firstpost.com has a good wrap-up of the political games of the various camps and tentwallas in the UPA.

http://www.firstpost.com/author/jagannathan

But one good thing is now clear. MMS sahab is doing a Narsimha Rao on the Party and, this time he is in no mood to become a Sitaram Kesari. As it is said, the guru is honoured if the shishya goes one step ahead than him

As for all those attacking him and asking for "RG as PM", what would happen if after half-a-dozen scams and leaks against all high-fliers, MMS steps down "due to health reasons" and places the garland on RG's shoulders sometime in 2012-2013 ?

vijayk · Post by **vijayk** » 05 Jul 2011 18:49

http://greatandhra.com/viewnews.php?id= ... 15&scat=16
Sonia Gandhi's Eye On Padmanabhan Temple

The entire nation is currently caught in awe of only one topic- the wealth being unearthed from the Padmanabhan temple in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. Already, official estimates are putting the wealth at more than Rs 1 lakh crores so one can imagine the impact it has created.

Meanwhile, this has also caught the attention of another person. She is none other than Sonia Gandhi, as per sources. Buzz is that ‘Madam’ has ordered for a confidential enquiry on the ongoing situation in the temple and was reportedly discussing on the means to ensure the wealth is acquired by the government.

Those who heard this say at one point a similar attempt was made on the Tirumala Tirupathi Devasthanams as well but that didn’t work. For now, the Kerala government has made it clear that it will not put its hand into the funds. With the grapevine about Sonia’s eyes on the temple wealth, it remains to be seen what consequences that will lead to.

Where there is money, there is Madam...

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 05 Jul 2011 18:52

AjayKK wrote:X post from Psyops thread

chetak wrote:Gone in the next cabinet reshuffle??

Someone is gunning for this guy.

Krishna spent Govt money to watch Wimbledon SF
Day in and day out, the ministers and the unelected cabal are targeting each other. Currently, the list of ministers against whom leaks have taken includes all the heavyweights from PC to Sibal to Pranab da. It is a free for all. Everyday, Firstpost.com has a good wrap-up of the political games of the various camps and tentwallas in the UPA.

http://www.firstpost.com/author/jagannathan

But one good thing is now clear. MMS sahab is doing a Narsimha Rao on the Party and, this time he is in no mood to become a Sitaram Kesari. As it is said, the guru is honoured if the shishya goes one step ahead than him As for all those attacking him and asking for "RG as PM", what would happen if after half-a-dozen scams and leaks against all high-fliers, MMS steps down "due to health reasons" and places the garland on RG's shoulders sometime in 2012-2013 ?

Yuvraj is a disaster without any responsibility. Imagine him trying to run the country!!

Do any of you think that the country or the opposition will keep quiet and let some mama's boy be fostered on the unwashed faithful??

Rajiv Gandhi's time was different. With 24x7 TV coverage and the internet it will be impossible now to get this yuvraj guy into the gaddi.

MMS is an intellectual dwarf compared to PVNR.

No comparison in any way.

merlin · Post by **merlin** » 05 Jul 2011 19:34

I think it is precisely with 24x7 coverage that getting baba into gaddi might not be that difficult.

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 06 Jul 2011 12:07

Illegal cabling: Noose tightens around Maran

According to investigators, in a belated attempt to regularise the unauthorised cabling, these applications were filed in April 2008, two years after the actual laying of cables.

Sources said that the applications were filed on the behalf of KAL TV, a group concern of Sun TV network, and filed in 2008 to different State Government organisations including Chennai Corporation for digging the roads for laying four kilometre-long fiber cables. This was eight months after CBI found the illegal cabling connecting Dayanidhi Maran’s home and Sun TV.

According to sources, the CBI also found graphic details and maps of four kilometre cable laying and the designs provided by the KAL TV, which suggests that the cables connection originates from the Boat Club premises, where the company chief Kalanidhi Maran stays, the same compound were his Union Minister brother also stays.

CBI sources said the illegal cabling happened in mid-2006 and the Sun network’s subsidiary filed the formal application after the issue came out in public.

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 06 Jul 2011 12:48

Atheist Karunanidhi's family visits temples

Interestingly, the clan's pilgrimage to Khalahasti and Tirupati comes in the wake of heightened speculation in the local media that Kanimozhi might possibly spill the beans on the scam to the CBI. Denied bail by the Supreme Court, she is cooling her heels in Tihar Jail. In an attempt to pacify her, the patriarch has visited her twice and Stalin met her this week.

Pranav · Post by **Pranav** » 06 Jul 2011 19:28

The Walls Have Ears
The proposed Privacy Bill seems skewed towards the state rather than the citizen
Saikat Datta

Sometimes the best of intentions can camouflage the worst of motives. On the face of it, the government’s bid to bring in a privacy bill is a welcome move, a long-overdue measure. But after an initial approach paper prepared by lawyers and bureaucrats in November last year, the government went into a secretive huddle. Now a leaked April 19, 2011, version of the bill raises several disturbing questions.

While recognising the need for privacy, the government has also slipped in several clauses that could severely restrict the freedom of the press if enacted in its current form. Worse, it could actually make journalists liable for prosecution as well as imprisonment up to five years. And if that was not bad enough, it does little or nothing to prevent the government from invading a citizen’s privacy. In fact, it will legitimise all forms of intrusion by the state and collection of a wide variety of data from individuals.

TV news channels could be the most affected by this. Sting operations could become a very risky thing in the future, with section four of the proposed bill saying that any form of filming/recording can be deemed as surveillance and anyone doing so without proper authorisation would be liable for prosecution. So if someone was to secretly catch on camera MPs accepting cash for posing questions in Parliament, or record a bureaucrat demanding bribes, chances are he/she will be doing time in jail.

While the proposed draft draws a distinction between data and personal information, it still leaves little room for journalists. For instance, if a reporter were to use “personal information” of an individual for an article without his/her written consent, it will amount to a civil offence and immediately attract a penalty of up to Rs. 1 lakh. If the journalists were to repeat the “offence” by publishing another story using the same material, the penalty goes up to Rs. 5 lakh. So, is the UPA government, under the scanner for a plethora of scams, trying to muzzle the media? It certainly seems so.

Now when it comes to the government’s right to invade a citizen’s privacy, the proposed legislation offers little immunity. It will uphold all existing laws of phone-tapping, interception of communications, collection of statistics and personal data with impunity. “The proposed bill doesn’t change any system or structure of surveillance that are in place today,” says Usha Ramanathan, a law researcher who has worked extensively on privacy issues. “Look at the Collection of Statistics Act passed by Parliament last year. You can be penalised for not sharing the information that the government seeks from you. This is very disturbing.”

Ramanathan’s discomfiture has its reasons. “In the past three years, the government has become far more intrusive than it ever was. All this is asserting the sovereignty of the state over the citizen when the Constitution says that the citizen is supreme. This bill, in its current form, also brings in an element of pre-censorship that violates our fundamental right to speech as well as several judgements of the Supreme Court that ruled against pre-censorship.”

http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?277470