In the past few days, Ms Mayawatiââ¬â¢s ââ¬Ågarland of currency notesââ¬Â and police inquiry into an alleged bee attack on a BSP public meeting in Lucknow have brought the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister into the centre of a fascinating debate on attitudes.
Her adherents and sections of ââ¬Ëprogressiveââ¬â¢ intellectuals have contended Ms Mayawatiââ¬â¢s ostentation has to be seen in the context of the oppression of Dalits for thousands of years. When the ordinary Dalit observes Ms Mayawatiââ¬â¢s grand statues, lavish birthday parties and currency-note indulgences, he apparently experiences a sense of pride. He feels, so the argument goes, the equal of upper caste folk whose political leaders have been behaving thus for years.
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I disagree with her. I wonââ¬â¢t vote for her. But I will definitely not follow the herd to condemn her, just yet. I am not going to judge her by what she demonstrates. That is mere positioning, an evocative, rebellious political stance. My analysis of Mayawati will be based on her work ââ¬â and thatââ¬â¢s something Iââ¬â¢m watching closely.
Over to Ramdev.
The intelligentsia laughed at him for the sincerity with which he has brought health ââ¬â in its most basic form, free of treadmills and other gadgets or air-conditioned gymnasiums ââ¬â to the forefront of Indians, in the Indian way. Using the medium of TV to communicate with the people at large and spreading the message of good health (no colas, for instance, something that both Coke and Pepsi are pledging not to sell in schools), Ramdev has earned a following that the media, the academics or the power elite cannot even begin to fathom. Singed by his sincerity, even Brinda Karat had to step back. http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/cutting-.../#more-407
Quote:ââ¬ËMinister involved in illegal arms dealââ¬â¢
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PTI | New Delhi,
A united opposition on Monday stalled proceedings in the Rajya Sabha pressing the government to come clear on the name of a union minister alleged to have links with a Bangladeshi arms dealer.
Opposition parties including the Left, BJP, AIADMK, Shiv Sena, SP, JD(U) and AGP persisted with their demand for a clearcut response from the government, stating it is a serious issue involving national security.
Raising the matter during Zero Hour, Moinul Hassan (CPI-M) said a central minister reportedly gave Rs 1.2 lakh to an arms dealer from Bangladesh through his partymen.
"This way, the minister and his colleagues are trying to destabilise the law and order situation in West Bengal," he alleged quoting a newspaper report, which said a central minister from the state gave money to buy illegal arms.
Unless the government discloses the name of the minister, the "needle of suspicion" would point at the entire council of ministers, who swear their allegiance to the Constitution, Leader of Opposition Arun Jaitley said.
The entire Opposition urged P J Kurien, who was in the Chair, to direct the government to respond. However, when Kurien said it was up to government to decide whether to respond, the members remained on their feet for about half an hour forcing adjournment of the House for 10 minutes.
When the House met again, pandemonium continued and the House had to be adjourned for 15 minutes ahead of the scheduled lunch break.
The response by the Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Prithviraj Chavan that the government takes all issues raised during Zero Hour seriously triggered another bout of protest from the members.
Quote:http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/City/...965721.cms "Someone who came with the ministers stole my mobile," he says ruefully.
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To a question from the media on Monday here, Singh said he was in a "privileged" position to be taking advice from his wife Gursharan Kaur as well as Congress chairperson Sonia Gandhi.
"I am privileged to have advice of Shrimati Sonia Gandhiji and my wife," the prime minister said when asked whose advice he values most - his wife or Sonia Gandhi's.
"Both deal with different issues and I welcome both their advice," he said, prompting laughter in the packed hall. The prime minister smiled too.
MMS at his naughtiest best.
http://news.in.msn.com/national/article....294&page=6
Badal took over her authority to repatriate state government doctors posted in Chandigarh following appeals that she was not even listening to ââ¬Ågenuineââ¬Â cases. Party workers, hoping she would be sympathetic to them, are also met with a steely ââ¬ÅNoââ¬Â for any ââ¬Åsifarishââ¬Â.
In the last three years, Chawla has distanced herself from both her party colleagues and workers in her constituency. She neither attends any social function nor accepts sweets from anyone. http://www.tribuneindia.com/2010/20100528/main6.htm
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, like some other economists before him and after, was appointed as the economic affairs secretary, and that too at the age of 44! He should, in fact, revive that tradition and bring in world class professionals to head key ministries of the government, with no attention to age and seniority but only to competence and performance. The civil services in India have become trade union-like, resisting lateral entry on the one hand and extending their claim over newer institutions, including regulatory authorities, academic and other institutions, on the other. Indian administrative, police and foreign services are in desperate need of reform and modernisation. http://www.business-standard.com/india/n...le/396479/
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According to the BBC, Hong Kong-based group, Political and Economic Risk Consultancy surveyed more than 1,300 business executives in 12 Asian countries and came to the conclusion that India had the worst levels of excessive red tape.
The report ranks bureaucracies across Asia on a scale from one to 10, with 10 being the worst possible score. India scored 9.41. http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news...010315.cms
However, it says that there has so far been no response to the report from the Indian civil service.
[quote name='Shankar' date='03 December 2003 - 08:02 PM' timestamp='1070461440' post='3140']
This is a thread that will explore the various ways Indian governance can improve so as to provide better value to the people.
In this regard, I propose the following
1. More courts, faster justice
2. Higher pay for Police and Administrative services to discourage corruption. The (initial ) reduction in man-power will have to be supported by more people's involvement in such services.
3. Extremely high pay for the elected politicians.
4. Decentralizing governance, a Zilla/district as a fundamental unit of the Indian federation
5. Central government only handles External security, foriegn policy, common law.
Administration is no different from industry, an efficient administrator must be paid as much as a Industry CEO with similiar responsibility gets paid. The police and judges should be elected by the people. The people should be able to recall them easily if they do not deliver.
As representatives of the people, the elected politicians should be paid by the people who elect them. Obviously the richer the district the more competition for getting elected from there. The poorer the district -> there is an incentive to develop the district and make it richer.
States should not be doled out money on the basis of their populations, instead all money should go to a confederation of central banks of India and should be disbursed as a loan to various entities (state govt., private companies etc etc). The idea is that money put into a state must be returned with interest. obviously then only projects that good return on investment shall pass. The Entities that borrow ,money shall be a state govt. who will be responsible. Inshort there should be no Political parties but political companies.
Of course some of these ideas are not feasible and may create problems. But there is convincing evidence that the current political system of India cannot deliver peace and prosperity to its people.
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[url="http://www.hindustantimes.com/50-RS-MPs-have-assets-worth-over-Rs-1250-cr/H1-Article1-560531.aspx"] About 50 RS MPs have assets worth over Rs 1250 cr[/url] Quote:Nearly 50 newly-elected members to Rajya Sabha have declared total assets of over Rs 1,250 crore with liquor baron Vijay Mallya topping the chart having properties worth over Rs 615 crore.
According to an analysis, Independent candidate from Karnataka, Mallya, has declared assets worth over Rs 615 crore followed by properties worth nearly Rs 190 crore by Telugu Desam Party's (TDP) Yalamanchili Satyanarayana Chowdary from Andhra Pradesh and Rs 82 crore declared by Kanwar Deep Singh, a Jharkhand Mukti Morhca MP.
Chowdary is a known industrialist from South India, associated with Sujana Group of Companies, while Singh is a Chandigarh-based known business tycoon.
The lowest assets --Rs 2.7 lakh-- was declared by BJP's Anil Dave, who won the Rajya Sabha berth from Madhya Pradesh, followed by Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Ram Kripal Yadav with assets worth about Rs 27 lakh and Biju Janata Dal's (BJD) Shashi Bhushan Behera who has properties of nearly about Rs 30 lakh.
Yadav has won from Bihar and Behera from Orissa respectively.
The analysis was done by Association of Democratic Reforms-National Election watch (ADR-NEW), an umbrella body of about 1,200 NGOs across the country, after carefully analysing affidavits of contestants who fought Rajya Sabha polls in 12 states.
The elections for 55 seats for the Upper House of Parliament in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Orissa, Maharashtra, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Bihar, Jharkhand and Andhra Pradesh were held in two phases on June 14 and June 17.
The analysis for Tamil Nadu could not be done due to the unavailability of candidates' affidavits.
According to the analysis, a total of 38 winning MPs have movable and immovable properties worth about Rs 1,285 crore.
Noted lawyer Ram Jethmalani who was elected from Rajasthan on a BJP ticket has declared assets worth Rs 29.60 crore, Bahujan Samaj Party's Satish Chandra MIshra (Uttar Pradesh) has declared assets of Rs 24 crore and Congress's Ambika Soni (Punjab) and Oscar Fernandes (Karnataka) have assets of Rs 17.7 crore and about Rs 15 crore respectively.
BJP's Chandan Mitra (Madhya Pradesh) has assets worth Rs 9.41 crore, M Venkaiah Naidu (Karnataka) has properties of about Rs 7.72 crore, Rajiv Pratap Rudy (Bihar) has Rs 4.40 crore and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi (Uttar Pradesh) has declared movable and immovable assets worth Rs 2.61 crore.
Congress MP from Chhattisgarh Mohsina Kidwai has assets worth Rs 2.20 crore, LJP's Ram Vilas Paswan (Bihar) has Rs 1.90 crore, Shiv Sena's Sanjay Raut (Maharashtra) has Rs 1.51 crore and Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh, who won from Andhra Pradesh, declared assets worth Rs 61 lakh.
"Our aim is to bring transparency and to bar the entry of criminals in politics," said Anil Bairwal, National Coordinator, ADR.
From where, these politician are able to save crores on MP salary. This is mind boggling.
A united opposition on Monday stalled proceedings in the Rajya Sabha pressing the government to come clear on the name of a union minister alleged to have links with a Bangladeshi arms dealer.
Opposition parties including the Left, BJP, AIADMK, Shiv Sena, SP, JD(U) and AGP persisted with their demand for a clearcut response from the government, stating it is a serious issue involving national security.
Raising the matter during Zero Hour, Moinul Hassan (CPI-M) said a central minister reportedly gave Rs 1.2 lakh to an arms dealer from Bangladesh through his partymen.
"This way, the minister and his colleagues are trying to destabilise the law and order situation in West Bengal," he alleged quoting a newspaper report, which said a central minister from the state gave money to buy illegal arms.
Unless the government discloses the name of the minister, the "needle of suspicion" would point at the entire council of ministers, who swear their allegiance to the Constitution, Leader of Opposition Arun Jaitley said.
The entire Opposition urged P J Kurien, who was in the Chair, to direct the government to respond. However, when Kurien said it was up to government to decide whether to respond, the members remained on their feet for about half an hour forcing adjournment of the House for 10 minutes.
When the House met again, pandemonium continued and the House had to be adjourned for 15 minutes ahead of the scheduled lunch break.
The response by the Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Prithviraj Chavan that the government takes all issues raised during Zero Hour seriously triggered another bout of protest from the members.
"Government should come clear whether the news item was a story or a reality. If it is a reality, the name should be revealed, otherwise the guessing game will go on. Right from the Prime Minister, everybody comes under a question mark," S S Ahluwalia (BJP) said.
CPI-M leader Sitaram Yechury said his party would move a substantive motion naming the minister.
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Jyoti Devi, a doctor by qualification, picked up pots outside the House and broke them one after another. At one point of time she held the plant and hurled it like an athlete would do in a hammer throw event. Spinning the pot, she threw it at the watch and ward staff yelling furiously.
She then took another pot and used it as a shot-put to throw it at a staffer of the House. Hurling abuses in choicest of words, she soon spent her hysteric steam when the staff picked her up and took her away to a hospital. http://news.in.msn.com/national/article....89&page=15
A man, crawling on all fours, is searching for something under a tree on a hot summerââ¬â¢s day. A curious passerby stops and asks: ââ¬ÅWhat are you looking for?ââ¬Â The man replies: ââ¬ÅIââ¬â¢ve lost my watch.ââ¬Â The passerby asks: ââ¬ÅAre you sure it fell near this tree?ââ¬Â The answer: ââ¬ÅItââ¬â¢s cooler looking in the shadeââ¬Â.
Governments work something like this. They do what they think is easier to do rather than what is right. When confronted with a problem, they do one of these three things. They will either ban it (or threaten to), or they will throw money at the problem. If they donââ¬â¢t know what they want, they will appoint a committee.
Two recent developments ââ¬â in the world of microfinance and airline fares ââ¬â serve to illustrate this point. Ever since the media began reporting on the usurious rates charged by microfinance lenders, the latter have been put in the doghouse. http://www.dnaindia.com/opinion/main-art...be_1478685
The ugly politician, who has looted India shaming even the British and the Turks, must be decimated and we must see the dawn of a new, young Indian whose faith would be Bharat. Who will feel the pain of a farmer forced to commit suicide, who will uplift the sulking morale of the family having to live a miserable life on the footpaths of Mumbai and Delhi and reflect that anguish of the citizen in his daily behaviour promising economic empowerment and forgetting all other gods and goddesses till a single Indian goes to sleep empty stomach. An Indian who will not discriminate on the basis of faith or caste. An Indian who will look at the nation as his motherland and not as a platform to make money looting the people and stashing it in Swiss banks. Is it too much to pray for on the eve of 2011? http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com...ange-india
Former CVC P J Thomas has decided to move the Supreme Court seeking review by a Constitution bench of its March 3 judgement quashing his appointment, claiming that judiciary has no right to decide his eligibility for the post without prior reference from the President. His counsel Wills Matthews said that Thomas was waiting for the Centre to file a review petition and in the event of it not being filed the former CVC would file it before April 2.
A review petition has to be filed within 30 days of the judgement.
On March 3 the Supreme Court quashed the appointment of Thomas as Central Vigilance Commissioner, holding that the recommendation made by the high-powered panel--headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh--did not consider the relevant material and therefore its advice "does not exist in law". http://www.dailypioneer.com/323944/Thoma...tment.html
[url="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/assembly-elections-2011/tamil-nadu/Equal-share-for-2-wives-in-Karunanidhis-Rs-41-crore-assets/articleshow/7783477.cms"] Equal share for 2 wives in Karunanidhi's Rs 41 crore assets [/url] Quote:CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu chief minister M Karunanidhi disclosed assets worth Rs 41 crore, collectively between him and his two wives, while filing his nomination papers for the Tiruvarur assembly constituency on Thursday.
His wives, Dayalu and Rajathi, are worth about Rs 36 crore, while Karunanidhi holds Rs 4.92 crore, primarily in bank deposits. The DMK patriarch has more or less maintained parity in the distribution of assets between his wives. While Dayalu has assets worth Rs 17.34 crore, Rajathi's assets add up to Rs 18.68 crore.
Dayalu is the mother of four, including Union chemicals and fertilizers minister M K Alagiri and Tamil Nadu deputy CM M K Stalin. Rajathi is the mother of Rajya Sabha MP Kanimozhi. Karunanidhi's first wife was Padmavathi, and he has a son, M K Muthu, from her.
After Padmavathi's death, he married Dayalu in 1948. During a debate in the assembly, when a member asked him about Rajathi, Karunanidhi referred to her as his daughter Kanimozhi's mother. Kanimozhi is 42 years old now.
In his 2009-10 income tax returns, Karunanidhi had showed an income of Rs 37.3 lakh, Dayalu Rs 64.37 lakh and Rajathi 1.67 crore.
None of the three owns any agricultural land. Karunanidhi has no jewellery, car or house in his name.
Dayalu's 60% stake in Kalaignar TV is valued at Rs 6 crore. She has jewellery worth Rs 13 lakh, bank deposits worth Rs 6.6 crore and a house in Tiruvarur worth Rs 5.51 lakh. She owns a 2005 model Honda Accord car.
Rajathi owns a bungalow, constructed on roughly four grounds (one ground is 2,400 sq ft) in CIT Colony in south Chennai. Hardly any appreciation has been shown for this house, which is valued at Rs 3.14 crore in the affidavit. It was valued at Rs 3.02 crore in the 2006 affidavit. She also owns a company, Westgate Logistics, in which she has invested Rs 2.5 crore. Rajathi has other financial investments worth Rs 2.57 crore. Her jewellery is worth Rs 9.85 lakh.
[size="5"]Karunanidhi is not the only politician to declare the assets of more than one wife. His cabinet colleague and Salem strongman Veerapandi S Arumugam, who filed his nomination on Tuesday, has also declared the assets of his two wives. In the 2009 parliamentary elections, former Union minister T R Baalu, who contested from Sriperumbudur constituency, had declared the assets of his two wives.[/size]
How they do it?
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These guys came out with another round of prediction, very scary for India.
My comments published in response to the article:
Capt M Kumar (Houston)
Mayawati is 1 of the most astute politician of the country. She had innings w/ both SP and BJP in the state. 3rd front is remote possibility and even if possible, there may be other stalwarts. The only person she is indirectly grooming is Rahul Gandhi and will use him and Con(gress) party to fulfill her state and national ambitions.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news...430617.cms
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