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[url="http://janamejayan.wordpress.com/2010/11/26/dr-subramaniam-swamys-letter-to-the-pm-dated-24-11-2010/"][size="5"]Dr. Subramanian Swamy’s letter to the PM dated 24-11-2010[/size][/url]

November 24, 2010.



Dr. Manmohan Singh,

Prime Minister of India,

South Block,

New Delhi.



Dear Prime Minister:



You may by now have realized that the 2G Spectrum scandal is not only

bad for the country in the dimension of corruption, but now it

emerges that there is a national security dimension too. The RAW, IB,

CBI, ED all have enough material which they may have placed before

you regarding the dubious aspects of the principal player in this

scam.



According to my information two sisters, Anushka and Nadia, of Ms

Sonia Gandhi had received sixty percent of the kickbacks in this deal

i.e. Rs.18,000 crores each. The frequent travel of Sonia Gandhi and

her immediate family to Malaysia, Hongkong, Dubai and parts of Europe

including London requires to be probed under the law. What requires

your special attention is the mode of the travel, not by commercial

airliners, but by jets provided by the corporate sector which itself

is illegal under the DGCA Rules. I find that often Ms. Sonia Gandhi

and family have traveled to Dubai and then traveled onwards on

private jets provided by dubious Arab business interests to Europe.

It is not clear on what passport they have traveled. In Dubai they

were felicitated by agencies of countries which are hostile to India

including that of Pakistan.



You can no more not take a stand when evil is permeating in the

country in the form of terrorism, religious conversion and

demographic infiltration. The ill-gotten money in billions of dollars

equivalent, the money laundering and Participatory Notes have all

undermined our national integrity. The time is come for you to take a

stand.



I am familiar with the information and data with our intelligent

agencies. I also know that you can seek cooperation of other

countries especially the United States in pooling information

especially from inter Intelligence interaction that take place

regularly. I hope therefore you will rise to the need of the hour and

take effective steps to set right the sorry state of affairs in the

country caused by overtly and covertly resident foreigners. In this

connection I would like to meet you at the earliest. My Secretary

will be in touch with your Secretariat to fix a time.



Yours sincerely,



(Sd Subramanian Swamy)

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another scam-

[url="http://www.dailypioneer.com/299941/Recruitment-scam-cloud-over-top-intelligence-agency.html"]Recruitment scam cloud over top intelligence agency[/url]

One of the top intelligence agencies in the nation is passing through turmoil following the surfacing of a huge recruitment scam there.



According to well-placed sources, appointment of as many as 72 officers of the leading technical intelligence organisation — National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO) — from the level of Under Secretary to the Joint Secretary has been found to be irregular and not in harmony with Government rules. This fact was revealed in an internal inquiry conducted on the directive of the Prime Minister’s Office.

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“As of now, cosmetic actions like termination of Group D employees working on casual basis has been initiated. One or two cases of officers may also be processed for termination, but it’s unlikely that the axe would fall on so many officers as they are all well connected in the Government,” the sources added.

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Sonia’s certificate, PM’s ultimate humiliation



S Gurumurthy

Express News Service

It is a disgusting story. Let us begin it in lighter vein. ‘2G’ seems a highly popular name today. Type ‘2G’ in Google search, you will get 55.3 million results in 0.12 seconds! In Google terms, ‘2G’ is 29 times more popular than Shah Rukh Khan; 17 times as popular as Rajnikanth. It is equally as infamous, being the largest scam ever — Rs1.76 lakh crore loot. About something so famous, and at once infamous, the whole nation is asking Manmohan Singh one question: Mr Prime Minister what do you know about ‘2G’? Even as the PM is totally silent, here comes an SMS to all cell phones. ‘The PM finally breaks his silence and says: “The only ‘2G’ I know are: ‘SoniaG and RahulG’.’ Laughing? Here is something to cry about.



On November 24, 2010, ‘SoniaG’ certified, “Manmohan Singh is more than 100 per cent honest”. The next day, she proclaimed her ‘zero tolerance’ to corruption. What a tragedy? Certificate of probity from Sonia to Singh! Could anything be more humiliating? For, only five years ago, Manmohan Singh had saved her from the Bofors scam by calling back the red corner notice against her Italian friend Ottavio Quattrocchi (Q), recipient of a third of the pay-off from Bofors. Here is that shameful story in brief. Sten Lindstorm, who was the head of the National Investigation Bureau, equal to the CBI here, had probed the Bofors pay-off in Sweden. He told Outlook (April 6, 1998) that Sonia must explain how the companies owned by Q got fat payoffs from Bofors; what was her nexus with Q; who introduced him to Bofors. Lindstorm said that Q got Bofors payoffs was confirmed. Six years later on April 8, 2004, he wrote that Sonia must be questioned on the scam, asserting, “I know what I am saying”.



The diary of Martin Ardbo, managing director of Bofors and the bribe giver, had mentioned his meeting with “Gandhi Trust lawyer”. Finally Q, who came to India long back virtually as Sonia’s baggage from Italy, behaved exactly like a thief when proof against him emerged; he slipped away from India in 1993, thanks to P V Narasimha Rao yielding to pressure from Sonia. In 1999, Sonia defended Q, pleaded he was innocent; she alleged that the NDA government was hounding him. Ten years later Singh chided his own government for harassing Q. Sonia protected the corrupt Q; Singh allowed him to escape prosecution. And Sonia, a suspect in Bofors bribery, is now the president of the Congress, and chairperson of the National Advisory Council. She condescends to certify Singh’s honesty and shamelessly proclaims that she is zero tolerant to corruption. Isn’t it a double tragedy?



Tsunami of scams



A tsunami of scams in quick succession in recent months has swamped the public domain. First of course is the ‘Raja of Scams’, the 2G Spectrum sale involving a loot of Rs 1,76,000 crore; second, how intriguingly the prime minister, now certified by the Bofors scam suspect as ‘Mr Clean’, silently first and openly later, allowed the scamsters to loot that national asset; third, how the ‘Mr. Clean’ PM sat on Subramanian Swamy’s plea to prosecute A Raja for the scam and is now hiding in legalisms to escape the blame for the delay; fourth, the transcript of the tele-conversation of the high profile PR executive Niira Radia, in which not just the politicians, but many media stars and business magnates stand naked in public for different things, including for having lobbied to make Raja telecom minister; fifth, the Commonwealth Games fraud involving Rs 8,000 crore; sixth, the Adarsh housing scam involving some Rs 600 crore. The gross value of the three loots touches almost Rs1.85 lakh crore, equal to 18.5 per cent of the national budget. Here is a sideshow, the Yeddyurappa scam. Compared to the dacoits who have looted almost Rs1.85 lakh crore, Yeddyurappa, like a frightened pickpocket who when caught, has returned the purse — the land permits — he had picked. Yet, his corruption, though petty in comparison, does make the BJP guilty of moral deficit; he has helped the Rs1.85 lakh crore-loot-accused Congress to accuse the BJP.



Fraudulent policy



The first four items relate to the 2G Scam. The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) estimates the 2G loot at between `67,000 crore and `1,76,000 crore. That the public lost heavily by the 2G Spectrum loot was evident on day one. Spectrum is the electromagnetic wave through which the wireless calls, SMSes and data travel from one phone or computer to another. Fraud inhered in the very policy to make spectrum available in 2008 at the price set for it in 2001.



What does selling the spectrum in 2008 at 2001 prices mean?



It is not just the inflation difference for eight years. It is like selling land in 2008 in a city (that has also grown 100 times since) at 2001 land prices. In 2008 alone the real estate stock prices rose, believe it, by 20 times. The only reason that Raja cited for this throwaway pricing was that, in 2003, the NDA government did it at 2001 prices. Look at the comparative facts, then and now. In 2003, only five out of 1,000 Indians owned a phone, globally among the lowest; the total telephone owners were 13 million; and telecom companies, in dead losses till 2006, needed support. But, between 2003 and 2008, the picture changed dramatically. The phone owning population grew by 14 times; telephone owners per thousand population by more than four and half times; telecom revenue by almost four times; telcos stock index by 4.4 times; market capitalisation of telcos by several times. The number of total cell owners was 3 million in 2001; 13 million in 2003, 180 million in 2000; now it is 688 million, 53 times more than in 2003; phone owners per thousand population rose from 3.6 in 2001 to 5 in 2003, and to over 22 in 2008; now it is over 58; Telcos’ revenue rose from Rs 48,000 crore in 2003 to 1,69,000 crore in 2008.



These data mean that the profit earning potential of spectrum was several times more in 2008, as compared to 2001. Again, the Indian mobile phone sector grew even faster after 2008. Since 2004 it was, even now it is, the fastest growing one in the world. It now adds every month 20 million phone connections; this is seven times the total all India connections of just 3 million in 2001. There is huge prosperity ahead too. The mobile phone subscriber base is expected to go up to 993 million by 2013. It needs no seer to say that selling licences in 2008 at 2001 prices was like selling gold in 2008, which will become diamond in 2013, at coal prices in 2001.



PM objects, acquiesces, defends



In September 2007, Raja announced policy to sell new mobile licences/spectrum at 2001 prices. On September 24, he announced that the cut-off date for new applications would be October 1; 575 applications were received by October 1. But a week later, on November 2, Raja stipulated that the applications received after September 25 would not be considered; that is retrospectively the cut-off date was advanced to September 25. Then, after 100 days, suddenly, at 2.30 pm on January 10, Raja announced that those who had filed their applications before September 25, could depute their representatives by 3.30 pm, that is, within 45 minutes, to collect the response and before the day ended, pay for spectrum on First Come First Served (FCFS) basis. There were skirmishes at the DoT office on January 10 to be first in the queue. This process disqualified 454 of the total of 575 applications. But, the chosen ones knew what would happen on January 10. The CAG report says, “13 applicants were ready with DDs drawn on dates prior to the notification itself” — a clear proof that they had prior information.



As the deal began to stink even earlier, in November 2007 the PM, though a month after September 24, objected to the Raja model and asked him to be transparent. Raja responded to him, within hours, insisting that he was only going by the policy (of the previous government) in force. The PM took one whole month and on January 3, 2008, he, quite intriguingly, just ‘acknowledged’ Raja’s letter — virtually giving a go-ahead to Raja. On January 10, Raja completed his fraudulent mission. But the story doesn’t end.



Finally, 15 months later, on May 24, 2010, the PM admitted that Raja had told him that he was only following the policy laid down previously — virtually approving the fraud. It needs no seer to say that to say the loot was no secret affair. It was daylight robbery; as transparent as the PM had wanted it to be. Not just Raja, the PM also must be questioned on why he objected first; why he fell into silence later; why he acquiesced subsequently and why he defended it finally.



Stench out in three ways



The stench of the scam began leaking out in three different ways. First, even before the licences were issued in January 2008, one of the aspirants for all India licence, STel Limited, made an offer to Raja in November 2007 to pay Rs13,621 crore for the licence which Raja was selling at Rs1,658 crore — that is almost nine times the 2001 price. When its offer was rejected, STel moved the Delhi High Court, which allowed its petition. Then Raja’s ministry appealed to the Supreme Court. At that point, under threats, STel owners backed off from the case. But they had set the benchmark. On the basis of STel’s offer the CAG has estimated the loss to the public at Rs 67,300 crore.



Second, two of the new players — Unitech and Swan — who got licences on FCFS basis, sold off a major chunk of shares in their companies at values which were many times the amount they had paid for the licences. Unitech, which had paid a licence fee of Rs1,658 crore, sold 67 per cent of its licence for Rs 6,120 crore; this meant that the full licence value was Rs 9,100 crore. Swan, which had paid Rs 1,537 crore, sold 44.7 per cent of the licence at Rs 3,217 crore; it meant that its licence value was Rs 7,192 crore. STel, which got small licences by paying Rs 25 crore, sold 5.61 per cent of its licence for Rs 238.5 crore; it meant that the value of its licences was Rs 4,251 crore. On the basis of these sales of licences the CAG has calculated the loss at between Rs 57,600 and 69,300 crore.



Third, on the basis of the value realised by the government by auctioning of the licences/spectrum for 3G telephony, the CAG has computed the loss in the sale of 2G licences at 2001 rates, without bidding process, at Rs1,76,645 crore. It is the CAG report that has made the stench unbearable. It came just before the Parliament Winter Session was to open. The opposition got a full toss to hit, which it promptly did. The Parliament has become dysfunctional.



What, who made PM U-turn?



The 2G loot took place in the open, to the view of all including ‘Mr Clean’ Singh and zero-corruption-tolerant Sonia. When CBI raided Raja’s ministry on October 28, 2009, and there were demands that Raja resign, he retorted, “why should I resign? I had done everything in consultation with the PM”.



The PM did not deny that statement. But, months later, on May 24, 2010, the PM said that Raja had “discussed” the issue with him. Any difference between Raja asserting that he had “consulted” the PM and the PM admitting that Raja “discussed” with him? The story is self-evident. The PM’s objection in November 2007 turned into no-objection in January 2008 and finally became his approval in May 2010. But, now, with the CAG exposing the fraud, the PM’s lips remain zipped despite demands from everyone including the Supreme Court that he speaks. Why? Here is a compelling hypothesis.



Between November 2007 and January 2008, someone must have hinted to the PM not to meddle with Raja. There is no other way PM’s November objection could become a meek non-objection in January. Who except Sonia Gandhi could turn the PM’s strong objection into a meek non-objection? And who else could make the PM defend Raja in May 2010. Assume this, then everything falls in place; otherwise nothing is explainable.



Raja, Radia, media



But a parallel development also made the stench difficult to contain. The story here is both spicy and serious. The income tax department had legally tapped the telephone lines of Niira Radia, Delhi’s most enterprising PR executive, who holds the honourable Tata group, on the one hand and the fearsome RIL group on the other. Her nine telephones were tapped for about 180 days from August 20, 2008 and again from May 11, 2009 to July 11, 2009. On the request of the CBI, which began to probe the scam in October 2009, the IT department provided, on November 20, 2009, not the whole, but a small part of the recordings. This in itself has forced many politicians, businessmen and media stars run for cover.



There are 5,400 telephonic conversations involving Niira Radia reportedly recorded; available on the Internet are a mere 102, of which only 23 have been transcribed and printed. So one can estimate the bombs still hidden.



According to the IT department’s brief to the CBI, the transcripts reveal stunning facts like: one, Niira Radia was very close to Raja and was involved in getting 2G licences for three operators, namely, Unitech, Swan, and Datacom; two, Raja himself has equity stakes in the licences he has issued; three, Radia and Kanimozhi worked through Vir Sanghvi and Barkha Dutt, two famed journalists, for negotiating to get Raja in as telecom minister after the elections in 2009; four, Radia was also close to the auditor of Rajathi Ammal, (Karunanidhi’s second wife and Kanimozhi’s mother); five, Radia was also involved in advising on the resale of the licences by Swan and Unitech; and so on. It is a shameful account whose full details are not out yet.



The legally recorded phone conversations indicate that it was Radia who first confirmed to Raja on May 24, 2009 that his name has been cleared for the telecom ministry. Go to http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?268064, and click for the tapes, you can hear Raja asking Radia: “My case is clear, yes?” and Radia replying: “Yours is clear, yeah. Your case was cleared last night only.” The tapes, running to over a hundred, of which only a small part is out in the open, are said to be both juicy and sensational. For instance Radia narrates to Vir Sanghvi on May 23, 2009, at past 10.26 pm about how Dayanidhi Maran was exerting pressure through Karunanidhi’s kin Stalin, Dayalu Ammal and Selvi to get into the Cabinet, and tells, “I believe that Maran has given about 600 crores to Dayalu, Stalin’s mother”. Interesting — and disturbing — isn’t it to hear particularly about sale of ministerial positions within the political family for hundreds of crores? Space constraints cut the shameful long story short for now; more on it later.



The loot is too huge for Raja. The main beneficiaries are obviously hiding behind him. Raja could never have defied the PM on the strength of the DMK alone. The DMK could never have ditched the UPA on this issue. The fear that the DMK would walk out of UPA could not be the reason for the PM to acquiesce. The fraudulent venture must have had the backing of someone more powerful than the PM. That only explains Raja’s defiance of the PM; and the PM acquiescence first and finally his defence of the deal itself.



QED: The PM has now lost the remaining sheen as ‘Mr Clean’. The condescending certificate of honesty from Sonia, who he had saved from the Bofors case, is his ultimate humiliation.

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[url="http://janamejayan.wordpress.com/2010/11/29/dr-swamy-prompt-the-p-m-now-that-raja-is-gone-the-you-should-act-on-the-shady-chidambaram/"][size="4"]Dr.Swamy prompt the P.M.: Now that Raja is gone the you should act on the shady Chidambaram[/size][/url]



[size="6"]Dr. Subramanian Swamy reveals that the Home Minister is a national security risk.[/size]



27.11.2010



Dr.Manmohan Singh,



Prime Minister



South Block,



New Delhi.



Dear Prime Minister:



I am happy that you finally acted and went over the head of your Home Minister P.Chidambaram (who malafide vacillated), to order the arrest of Joint Secretary in the Home Ministry Mr.Ravi Inder Singh IAS., for betraying the country.



It is now high time for you to consider all my earlier letters regarding Mr.Chidambaram, regarding his being guilty of conduct unbecoming of a Minister. I had written to you earlier about his visiting massage parlours in a seedy Government hotel where Uzbeki girls frequent, driving off in jeans and dark glasses without a driver or anyone else to Greater Kailash in New Delhi– without informing anyone, and beating up a Times of India photographer for taking pictures of him late night in a Bangalore discotheque and thereby fracturing his own toe in the scuffle. You may also be aware of what I wrote to you about a lady IAS officer in Finance Ministry whose husband (also IAS) had requested her transfer of posting because she was being harassed.



I have been recently informed by my friends in London that the British Intelligence MI-6 had video photographed Mr.Chidambaram while he in the company of an escort service European girl provided by an Indian company with which he has had a formal fiduciary relation, as a paid Director. You also must know that his 2009 elections to Lok Sabha is a complete fraud. His certificate of election from the Returning Officer was extracted under duress by the DMK CM, Mr.Karunanidhi despite Mr.Chidambaram losing the election by 7000 votes to the AIADMK candidate.



But now, it is disturbing to learn that your Government has through Mr.Chidambaram conveyed approval to J&K CM Omar Abdullah to allow return from PoK of all those who had left the troubled State since 1989.



This is a dangerous step that seems to have been decided by a back channel person who has been hell bent on India parting with J&K by hook or crook. It seriously undermines and jeopardizes the national security of the nation. It will help the ISI of Pakistan to better co-ordinate subversive and terrorist activities in India. The agencies of Pakistan have been meeting Omar Abdullah in Dubai and London. I never thought this promising youngster will go to seed like this. Who has been the baneful influence on him? In any case, I urge you overturn this decision.



Most of all, as a safeguard, I urge you to obtain the resignation of Mr.Chidambaram because has de-facto become a national security risk. He has consistently failed to concentrate on the work of the Ministry.



Yours sincerely,



(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

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[url="http://www.hindustantimes.com/Corruption-watchdog-won-t-oversee-probe/H1-Article1-632988.aspx"]Corruption watchdog won't oversee 2G scam[/url]

Why Sonia appointee had to resign? Everyday shoe licking pays well.

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[url="http://janamejayan.wordpress.com/2010/12/02/bjp-and-congress-are-one-party/"][size="3"]‘BJP and Congress are one party’[/size][/url]



Arun Shourie

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Bangalore: Corruption is something which every Indian is familiar with, just like his mother tongue. Now, when I say lobbying and its increasing effect on policy making in the country, surely a questioning eye brow and a sharp stare will barge in from here and there. But before we give a thought about lobbying as a practice which can check a corrupt democratic setup like ours, we should definitely understand the contours at which corruption and lobbying differs. http://www.siliconindia.com/shownews/Wil...Subscriber

Pl do post your opinion on this esp those who are living in USA and may have 1st hand knowledge of this process.

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"Raja got 10 per cent, Karunanidhi 30 per cent and Sonia's two sisters have got 60 per cent of the loot". -- Dr Subramanian Swamy on 2 G scam

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[url="http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/2g-spectrum-scam-what-about-nda-regime-asks-court-71300"][size="4"]2G spectrum scam: What about NDA regime, asks court[/size][/url]

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NEW DELHI: Holding that corruption has become a "way of life", senior Supreme Court judge Altamas Kabir has said "sensitivity" and values in governance are required to curb the menace. http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news...064633.cms



"Why are we still floundering with our values? Why is it that the people are still helpless? The answer is simple, now it (corruption) has become a way of life... it has been accepted as a way of life," Justice Kabir said.

[Capt M Kumar]

Simply put, this money - Rs176,000 crore - belongs to the people of India but went into the pockets of colluders in the swindle that includes the minister, officers, regulators and the beneficiaries who connived in this crime against nation.



Coming to the debate of how to recover the loot and how to prevent such a swindle in future, there are three options before us: http://www.dnaindia.com/money/report_3-s...ts_1478183



One, the government should order forfeiture of licences of erring companies and make the existing players with excess spectrum pay up for that at market rates.



Two, the government must impose a windfall tax on companies who have made money. Three, the government can cancel all the licences, take back the spectrum, and sell it at market rates and recover the entire value that was lost.

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Latest Conversation released by Outlook.



http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?269050

http://images.outlookindia.com/uploads/a...162017.mp3 (download)

Radia calls up Vir Sanghvi on June 20, 2009, the day before his Counterpoint column appears in HT. “Wrote it”, says Sanghvi, “[size="4"]I’ve dressed it up as a piece about how public will not stand for resources being cornered, how we’re creating a new list of oligarchs…[/size]” Niira Radia replies: “Very nice, lovely, thank you, Vir.” Sanghvi goes on to say, “It’s dressed up as a plea to Manmohan Singh, so it won’t look like an inter-Ambani battle except to people in the know.”

So we have here a case of a partisan party masquerading their interests as an instance of anti-imperialism (being against oligarchs). Entire secular anti-imperialist movement is smae character from Arundhati Roy to Romila Thapar. These neocolonial criminals have stolen the anti-imperilaist narrative from Vivekananda and heathens

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[quote]K V Sarma J



Folks, there are more tapes on Outlook just that they are not transcribed, so not posted as links. Heres how Outlook is doing it.



Every page is titled as an aspx page

http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?268734



When you increment the last number in the page, you get to a new tape.I do not have linux right now on my PC.



Can some one write a simple perl script that



1) accesses each of each link by incrementing the last number in the http link mentioned above



2) gets the title of each page (which is the file name of the tape corresponding to the link)



and then



3) downloads the tape (mp3 format) to a local disk using the following link



http://images.outlookindia.com/uploads/audio/mp3/<title i.e., tape_name>.mp3



Rest assured, this is not hacking as the links are not protected. They are on the server but no links have been posted on the site itself. That is all.



Let me know if anyone can do this for me. Thanks.

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[url="http://www.hindustantimes.com/CBI-raids-Niira-Radia-ex-TRAI-chief/H1-Article1-638559.aspx"]CBI raids Niira Radia, ex-TRAI chief[/url]

CBI on Wednesday raided corporate lobbyist Niira Radia's Delhi home and office in the 2G spectrum scam case. Raids were also carried on at former TRAI chief Pradip Baijal's house

Why so -late? just give her a chance to use shredder as Rajiv and Sonia used Pasta making machine to shred some bags of papers after Emergency.

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[url="http://www.thehindu.com/2010/12/15/stories/2010121556911200.htm"]NDA plans anti-corruption rallies[/url]

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[url="http://www.dailypioneer.com/304079/DMK-rattled-Cong-plays-down-searches.html"]DMK rattled, Cong plays down searches[/url]

The CBI and Enforcement Directorate raids that reached the doorstep of the DMK first family have upset and tormented the rank and file of the party and triggered speculation about the survival of the seven-year-old alliance with the Congress.



There has been no official reaction from the DMK or its chief M Karunanidhi, who returned on Tuesday night from a hill resort retreat on Monday. Reports said party’s Lok Sabha member TR Baalu, who had called on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi on Monday, later met Karunanidhi at the Yelagiri hills.



Already there is divided opinion within the party and the Karunanidhi family and two of his sons want him to abandon Raja.



With Assembly elections in Tamil Nadu just four months away, the Congress has tried to play down the political fallout of the raids. The Congress leaders are worried over a meeting of the DMK slated for Saturday to discuss the political fallout of the CBI raids on ruling party in the southern State. Sources said the DMK is likely to discuss and review its ties with the Congress.



“Talks between the Congress and DMK are going on through backdoor channels. We are convinced that the alliance with the DMK will continue. We have not heard anything from them as yet,” highly placed sources in the Congress said.



Sources further said the[color="#FF0000"] Congress is trying to explain the inevitability of the raids as they are being monitored by the Supreme Court.[/color] Moreover, the Congress is trying to clarify to its ally the pressure on the Government to take a stand against corruption.

List of people raided



A Ramachandran, Chinayapan Krishnamurthy, T Silvarajon, A Kamras, Rev Father Jagath Gasper Raj, C Sathyanarayanan, Valavan, MS Shaqir, Md Hassan, Mahesh Jain, JG Exports, Alok Jain and Boby



List of cos raided



Greenhouse Promoters, Equuas Estates, Kadir Kamang Trading, Shivam Trading, Kowai Shelters, AGM Investment and Finance Limited, Welcome Communication, Genex Exim Venture, Shelly Thermo Plastic, JG Exports (three branches in Chennai), Aiyappa Enterprises, Shelley Road Systems

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[url="http://www.rediff.com/news/special/special-raja-raids-end-of-the-road-for-the-dmk-congress-alliance/20101216.htm"]Raja Raids: Is the end of the DMK-Cong alliance?[/url]

"They were informed in advance about the raids," said a Chennai-based political analyst close to the party leadership. "But the DMK did not anticipate it will be so severe and get so close to the first family."



One of the organisations raided was the non-governmental Tamil Maiyyam, which has Kanimozhi on its board of directors.



"The raids have achieved two things," the source said. "The DMK has been humbled. Second, this batch of raids has inched that much more closer to Karunanidhi's family. They are one step away from the family. If the CBI implicates Rajathi Ammal (Kanimozhi's mother and Karunanidhi's third wife) in the scam, or even hints at anything like that, the DMK will pull out of the alliance, irrespective of the consequences."

What's the point having raid, when you inform party before hand? What a sham is Central Government?

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[url="http://eponymousflower.blogspot.com/2010/12/jesuit-worships-god-shiva-with-ravi.html"]2-G scam Jesuit Worships the God Shiva with Ravi Shankar[/url] <img src='http://www.india-forum.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />

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[url="http://www.dailypioneer.com/305047/Siege-mentality-making-Congress-abuse-Opp-BJP.html"]Siege mentality making Congress abuse Opp: BJP[/url]

Launching a counter-attack on the Congress, which has used its ongoing plenary session for raking mud on the Sangh Parivar, the BJP on Sunday accused the ruling party at the Centre of deflecting attention from its failures by “abusing” the Opposition.



With Congress president Sonia Gandhi and party general secretary Digvijay Singh hurling a slew of charges on the main Opposition, the BJP hit back at the Congress, saying it suffered from a “siege mentality” and hence used “abusive” language against the Opposition to deflect attention from its failures.



“The Congress is suffering from a mentality of a party under siege. Sonia Gandhi’s speech sounds like the reaction of a party under siege. Instead of answering calls from the people on core issues, we see her replicating the Congress conduct when they were under attack for the Bofors scandal,” BJP president Nitin Gadkari stated.



Accusing the Congress of indulging in “pretended aggression” to divert attention from its failures in checking corruption, non-performance of the UPA-II dispensation, the party’s “alienation” from people and “mistrust” among its allies, Gadkari said, “We shall definitely raise these questions at various public fora and make sure the Congress answers (to these).”



Targeting Sonia Gandhi, Gadkari said that in speaking like an Opposition leader she (Gandhi) had “betrayed her complete failure at governance” as the leader of the ruling party and attempted to mislead the Indian people by voicing the “very same questions which have been asked of the Congress” by the Opposition in the Budget and the Winter Session of Parliament.



“Has she forgotten that she is the president of the party in power at the Centre?” Gadkari asked.



Pointing out that Sonia had failed to answer the BJP’s posers on a series of recent scams and called the main Opposition party’s demand for a JPC probe as political blackmail, Gadkari said, “Only the Congress party, which imposed the state of Emergency, can use such language for the legitimate demands of Opposition.”



BJP spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman also defended the stalemate in Parliament over 2G spectrum scam and rebutted Gandhi’s charge. “Pranab Mukherjee has also chosen to say in a resolution that the principal Opposition party has led Parliament towards almost a subversion of the Constitution. These are not the ways in which the ruling party is expected to come with its answers to the people,” Sitharaman said.



The BJP also targeted Congress general secretary Digivijay Singh for his comments on Hindu terror. “Today we see Digvijay Singh speaking about things which, till yesterday, he Congress party wanted to distance itself from. Today, the Congress has provided an official forum for such talk,” the spokesperson said. She insisted that Singh should not be taken seriously as he had failed to prove his contentions about his talks with martyred ATS Chief Hemant Karkare.



The BJP alleged that the Congress allegations of a “conspiracy against secularism” were not substantiated. “I wonder where the conspiracy is happening. They are still not sure of their position on secularism.... What is their stand on secularism? Sonia has spoken about minority and majority fundamentalism. I have a feeling that Congress is having a churning on what constitutes terror in their definition,” Sitharaman added.



Asked about the charges of corruption against the BJP Government in Karnataka, Sitharaman said the party was waiting for the report of its in-house inquiry. “The Congress will never have a moral high ground on corruption. The party had allowed (Bofors kickbacks accused) Ottavio Quattrochchi and (Union Carbide chief) William Anderson to get away,” Sitharaman pointed out.

[Capt M Kumar]

Reacting to Manmohan Singh's speech at the Congress Plenary where an aggressive Prime Minister hit out at his detractors saying that he would be "happy" to appear before the Parliament's Public Accounts Committee in the 2G spectrum issue as he has nothing to hide, BJP leader Arun Jaitley reiterated his party's demand for an investigation by a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC).

Jaitley also accused the Prime Minister of "hiding something" in the 2G scam.



"The Prime Minister can't answer the questions before a auditor or PAC. It's a JPC which must look into all these issues. The Prime Minister is hiding something," said Jaitley in New Delhi on Monday. http://ibnlive.in.com/news/bjp-accuses-p...ml?from=tn