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Congress Undemocratic Ideology - 2 - Guest - 11-18-2005
Sonia is a woman of substance: Shatru
Which substance ?? <!--emo&:unsure:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='unsure.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Congress Undemocratic Ideology - 2 - Guest - 11-22-2005
Sycophancy of Congressi leaders reaches new heights...
<b>The name game</b>
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->By Syed Amin Jafri
Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy seems to believe that the best way to retain the confidence of the Congress high command, that is, Sonia Gandhi, is to pay obeisance to the âtrimurthiâ of Indiaâs post-Independence dynasty â former prime ministers Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi. Right from the day he assumed power on May 14, 2004, he has been naming projects and schemes after these icons of the dynasty.
Rajiv Palle Bata, Rajiv Nagara Bata, Rajiv Yuva Shakti, Rajiv Internet Village, Rajiv Gruha Kalpa, Indira Prabha, Indira Kranthi Patham and Jawahar Knowledge Centres are some of the schemes and programmes launched by the Congress regime. Dr Reddy has also named several irrigation projects after the troika. The list includes Rajiv Lift Irrigation Scheme, Jawahar Lift Irrigation Scheme, Indira Sagar Project and Rajiv Sagar Project. Even the Hyderabad International Airport is christened after Rajiv Gandhi.
As if these dozen-odd schemes and projects are not enough, the Chief Minister has begun naming new schemes with acronyms of Indira Gandhi. The much-touted âAdarsh Andhra Pradeshâ project has been renamed as âIndirammaâ â an acronym for Integrated Novel Development in Rural Areas and Model Municipal Areas. The three-year scheme is aimed at creating model villages and municipalities at a massive outlay of Rs 23,000 crore.
Naming of schemes after his father and grandmother raised the curiosity of Rahul Gandhi during his recent visit to the State in October. At a luncheon meeting with Dr Reddy, Mr Rahul Gandhi watched a power-point presentation on the schemes and projects taken up by the Congress government. He could not resist asking Dr Reddy why all the schemes were named after Rajiv Gandhi and Indira Gandhi.
The Chief Minister explained that as prime ministers, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi had done a lot for the country and had even sacrificed their lives. They also had a close attachment with Andhra Pradesh and its people. Indira Gandhi was elected from Medak constituency and represented it till her death. Rajiv Gandhi gave a big push to information technology, biotechnology and other fields. The people of AP held Indira Gandhi in high esteem and called her âIndiramma.â
Whether you call it political expediency or sycophancy, Dr Reddy does not care. What matters to him is to keep the members of the dynasty in good humour. It is another matter that the schemes, programmes and projects named after the dynasty entail a gigantic outlay of Rs 51,000 crore over a five-year period. The State government perhaps hopes to get funding for these irrigation projects and other schemes from the Central government and the Central financial institutions by invoking the names of Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi.
The Chief Minister is also seeking financial assistance of international funding agencies for some of these projects and schemes. But will Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, finance minister P. Chidambaram, Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia and the foreign funding agencies sanction funds on the strength of the high-sounding names of the schemes?
Having swept the municipal elections and the cooperative polls in the State, the Congress is keen to perform a hat-trick in the panchayat raj polls slated in the later part of next year. Thus, Dr Reddy conceived the âAdarsh APâ scheme a month ago to create a model Andhra Pradesh before his tenure ends in early 2009.
Apparently, he does not want to raise the hackles of State Election Commission by announcing the new scheme on the eve of panchayat polls. The massive plan is to be implemented from April 1, 2006, with an eye on panchayat raj elections.  The omnibus scheme, now renamed as âIndirammaâ, focuses on provision of 10 basic amenities/facilities to the people in all villages and towns in a holistic manner.
What the Congress promises to do now is nothing new. Dr Reddy seeks to pool the finances available for schemes under different departments/ministries, chalk out integrated and coordinated plans and implement them in a mission mode. While Rs 19,000 crore are available under various ongoing schemes, the government has to raise the balance Rs 4,000 crore from lending agencies. Additional funds are being sought from the Central government and Central financial institutions.
How the rural voters respond to Dr Reddyâs wooing game remains to be seen. While the finances for schemes such as Rajiv Yuva Shakti, Rajiv Gruha Kalpa, Indira Prabha and Indira Kranthi Patham have been tied up, the government is yet to identify the sources of funding for major irrigation projects such as Indira Sagar (Polavaram, estimated outlay Rs 12,000 crore), Rajiv Sagar (Dummugudem, Rs 5,000 crore), Rajiv Lift Irrigation scheme (Bhima) (Rs 1,400 crore), Jawahar lift irrigation scheme (Nettampadu, Rs 1,400 crore). The government hopes to secure central funding for Polavaram project which is the first project for inter-linking of rivers in the state.
The State government is seeking external assistance amounting to Rs 7,000 crore for various projects and schemes. The list includes Nagarjunasagar modernisation project ($ 660 million), AP State Highways project Phase II ($ 320 million) from the World Bank, minor irrigation and livelihood project (Rs 1,930 crore) from Japanese Bank for Intern-ational Cooperation and Reproduction and Child Health scheme (Rs 800 crore) from the Department for International Development (UK). The third instalment of Structural Adjustment Loan (Rs 1,600 crore) is also due from the World Bank.
With an eye on continued funding from the World Bank, the State government contemplated changes in free power scheme for farmers, asked farmers to switch over to water-efficient crops during rabi season and sought to link the supply of cooking gas with ration cards. However, on all these issues, the Chief Minister had to beat a hasty retreat, in the wake of adverse reaction from the people. For the time being, the government will lie low but try to implement the changes later.
Recently, panchayat raj minister J.C. Diwakar Reddy had raised the hackles of political parties, including the ruling Congress, by announcing that the government proposed to reduce the number of gram panchayats. The idea was to cut down the number of gram panchayats from the existing 21,000 with the purported objective of making the administration effective at the local level. In the wake of stiff opposition from his ministerial colleagues at the Cabinet meeting, Dr Reddy shot down the proposal immediately.
The next few months will be crucial for the Congress government and the ruling party. The panchayat raj elections will be held sometime in August/September next year. The government will have to ensure uninterrupted power supply and drinking water to the people during the summer months. Many of the schemes launched in the last 18 months are expected to start yielding results in the coming few months.
Dr Reddy will need to take politically correct decisions rather than opting for unpalatable actions that may cause concern to various sections of society. The fact that the Telugu Desam is unable to regain the confidence of the people and that the Telangana Rashtra Samiti and the Bharatiya Janata Party are literally finished in the State is no guarantee that the peopleâs honeymoon with the Congress will continue indefinitely. The Left parties are usually the barometer of public opinion and they can be ignored at oneâs own peril.
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Congress Undemocratic Ideology - 2 - Guest - 11-29-2005
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Congress Undemocratic Ideology - 2 - Guest - 12-26-2005
<span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'><!--emo&:argue--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/argue.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='argue.gif' /><!--endemo--> Why Yudhishthers are silent?
While Duryodhnas have met their waterloo; Laloos, Natwars and their ilks including Queen of pack Sonia are looking the other side 'coz they have not been caught by media but by real people. Will media carry on sensationalising them too till such times they are also expelled?</span>
Congress Undemocratic Ideology - 2 - Guest - 12-26-2005
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->www.telegraphindia.com/10...o~memorial
<b>Singh, Sonia skip Rao memorial</b>
New Delhi: The area had been sanitised because <b>the Prime Minister was sure to come. After all, it was the first death anniversary of the man who gave him his first big break in politics, reports our special correspondent.</b>
<b>December 23 came and went, but Manmohan Singh did not come. Neither did Congress president Sonia Gandhi and most of the party top guns</b>.
Sources said Singhâs arrival at 9 Motilal Nehru Marg, the official residence of former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao, was certain. âWe donât know what transpired but, finally, our Prime Minister chose not to come and so did the other top Congress leaders, including Sonia Gandhi,â said a party worker.
The only bigwig from the Congress was Union home minister Shivraj Patil.
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Tells lot about Manmohan character??
Congress Undemocratic Ideology - 2 - Guest - 12-27-2005
:<span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'><span style='font-family:Geneva'><i>angry: Congress is a party established by a foreigner, running on foreign funds(Volcker report) and being run by foreigner <!--emo&:bcow--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/b_cowboy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='b_cowboy.gif' /><!--endemo--> Sonia. It's high time that party be disbanded and Sonia banned.</i></span></span>
Congress Undemocratic Ideology - 2 - Guest - 01-05-2006
After the VOlcker incident, the ITALIAN MAFIA is going berserk with the active co-operation of anti-national COMMIES and anti-national media.
1/ The MP money for Questions was purely done by ITALIAN QUEEN and local anti-natiopnal media to divert SONIA's involvemen in Volcker scandal.
2. Now we heard AMAR SINGH's phone was tapped. This was done by the ITALIAN B1TCH to subvert/blackmail MULYAM before UP elections.
3. Now JayaLalaitha alleges that her phone is being tapped too.
This administration is WORSE than EMERGENCY time. Unfortunately, the BJP is in a turmil to take advantage of any of this. Advani is undercutting RSS and RSS is undercutting BJP and they are not paying any attention to the damage being cause to the fabric of the nation.
This is resulting in PAKI terrorists taking over full charge and full-blown conversion brigade getting patronage from every CM beding at the feet of SONIA to facilitate religious conversions.
Will the BJP and RSS wake up and smell the coffee?
Congress Undemocratic Ideology - 2 - Guest - 01-06-2006
<!--QuoteBegin-vijayk+Jan 5 2006, 08:50 PM-->QUOTE(vijayk @ Jan 5 2006, 08:50 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->After the VOlcker incident, the ITALIAN MAFIA is going berserk with the active co-operation of anti-national COMMIES and anti-national media.
1/ The MP money for Questions was purely done by ITALIAN QUEEN and local anti-natiopnal media to divert SONIA's involvemen in Volcker scandal.
2. Now we heard AMAR SINGH's phone was tapped. This was done by the ITALIAN B1TCH to subvert/blackmail MULYAM before UP elections.
3. Now JayaLalaitha alleges that her phone is being tapped too.
This administration is WORSE than EMERGENCY time. Unfortunately, the BJP is in a turmil to take advantage of any of this. Advani is undercutting RSS and RSS is undercutting BJP and they are not paying any attention to the damage being cause to the fabric of the nation.
This is resulting in PAKI terrorists taking over full charge and full-blown conversion brigade getting patronage from every CM beding at the feet of SONIA to facilitate religious conversions.
Will the BJP and RSS wake up and smell the coffee?
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What a great analysis?
Telecom sector was opened to private sector to the tune of 74%. Now foreign mafia is controlling telecom. This was started by BJP and they are the staunch supporters of privatisation. Govt. control over the telecom industry is marginal now.
BJP and RSS has no time in waking up. Thye are happy with bribes for questiosn and MP fund. In Kerala they are too busy with vote sale.
Italian queen is far better than Bhopal mad queen.
Congress Undemocratic Ideology - 2 - Guest - 01-06-2006
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->BJP and RSS has no time in waking up. Thye are happy with bribes for questiosn and MP fund. In Kerala they are too busy with vote sale.
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The only person who needs to wake up are the cong chamchas, seems like the alarm that went off at Bihar wasn't loud enough for you guys.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Italian queen is far better than Bhopal mad queen.
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And why's she 'mad'? Because you say so <!--emo&
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='rolleyes.gif' /><!--endemo--> Hey, at least Bhopal queen isn't flushing the constitution in the toilet and tapping phone calls like your madam. Or install governors who'll try to get CMs who can't get elected via backdoors. Or offer senior cabinet berths to people who can't even get elected by a common man.
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We eagerly await your analysis on Volker issue Basu babu.
Congress Undemocratic Ideology - 2 - Guest - 01-06-2006
<!--QuoteBegin-jyothibasu+Jan 6 2006, 03:55 PM-->QUOTE(jyothibasu @ Jan 6 2006, 03:55 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteBegin-vijayk+Jan 5 2006, 08:50 PM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(vijayk @ Jan 5 2006, 08:50 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->After the VOlcker incident, the ITALIAN MAFIA is going berserk with the active co-operation of anti-national COMMIES and anti-national media.
1/ The MP money for Questions was purely done by ITALIAN QUEEN and local anti-natiopnal media to divert SONIA's involvemen in Volcker scandal.
2. Now we heard AMAR SINGH's phone was tapped. This was done by the ITALIAN B1TCH to subvert/blackmail MULYAM before UP elections.
3. Now JayaLalaitha alleges that her phone is being tapped too.
This administration is WORSE than EMERGENCY time. Unfortunately, the BJP is in a turmil to take advantage of any of this. Advani is undercutting RSS and RSS is undercutting BJP and they are not paying any attention to the damage being cause to the fabric of the nation.
This is resulting in PAKI terrorists taking over full charge and full-blown conversion brigade getting patronage from every CM beding at the feet of SONIA to facilitate religious conversions.
Will the BJP and RSS wake up and smell the coffee?
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What a great analysis?
Telecom sector was opened to private sector to the tune of 74%. Now foreign mafia is controlling telecom. This was started by BJP and they are the staunch supporters of privatisation. Govt. control over the telecom industry is marginal now.
BJP and RSS has no time in waking up. Thye are happy with bribes for questiosn and MP fund. In Kerala they are too busy with vote sale.
Italian queen is far better than Bhopal mad queen.
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Well... let us see...
CONwoman decides to use Govt. authority to tap Opposition leader's phone and leak it to blackmail them into electoral arrangement in UP or to discredit them enough to increase tally in next upcoming to UP elections.
That is the fault of foreign mafia.
That is the fault of BJP.
That is the fault of privatisation.
That is my fault too.
It is not the fault of CON woman and her chamchas who plan this and use Govt. authority to subvert the law.
Make me understand since you seem to be the brightest bulb on the earth.
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What does this mean?
Since communication interception is legally supported, can your lovely ITALIAN MAFIA Queen order and be rebuffed by a private telephone company? Can CBI request phone tapping and rebuffed by private telephone company? If it is true, ITALIAN MAFIA will have a big problem.
Bhopal mad queen may be anything but not anti-national unlike your ITALIAN MAFIA Queen's buddies in Bihar where the UPA''s MP is being charged with sedition.
Congress Undemocratic Ideology - 2 - Guest - 01-06-2006
<!--emo&:cool--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/specool.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='specool.gif' /><!--endemo--> u have made the case for disbanding of Congress.
ek dhakka aur do
Cong ko chhor do
Cong ko chhor do
Cong ko torh do[FONT=Impact][SIZE=7][COLOR=green]
Congress Undemocratic Ideology - 2 - Guest - 01-06-2006
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Sonia Gandhi <b>reconstitutes CWCÂ </b>
Pioneer.com
Agencies / New Delhi
Ahmed Patel continues to be the political secretary to Congress President Sonia Gandhi while B K Hariprasad and V Narayanswamy were inducted as general secretaries as Gandhi reconstituted Congress Working Committee and the AICC secretariat.
Gandhi retained Ambika Soni, Ashok Gehlot, Digvijay Singh, Janardhan Dwivedi, Margaret Alva and Mukul Wasnik as general secretaries but Satyavrat Chaturvedi has been dropped but made a permanent invitee to CWC, AICC General Secretary Janardhan Dwivedi announced on Friday.
With Rahul Gandhi's name does not figure for any organisational post, party circles expected he could be given a responsibility in the government.
Besides Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, other members of CWC include Arjun Singh, A K Antony, Mohsina Kidwai, Pranab Mukherjee, Saif-ud-din Soz, Shivraj Patil and Urmila Singh. Moti Lal Vohra continues to be the tresurer.
Soz was brought into CWC for the first time and represents Jammu and Kashmir after senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad took over the reins of Chief Ministership of the state.
Rajya Sabha MP Karan Singh was appointed Chairman of the party's foreign affairs department, a post earlier held by former external affairs minister K Natwar Singh.
Natwar Singh had been dropped from CWC following the Volcker report which named him as a beneficiary of the oil-for-food scam during Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq in 2001.
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Congress Undemocratic Ideology - 2 - Guest - 01-06-2006
Produced & directed by 10-Janpath'
http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=60989
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->âI am not afraid of blackmail and will expose those behind the entire operation,â he said addressing a press conference shortly after he told the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh about the industrialist and the MP behind the operation.
<b>âThe whole thing against me is produced and directed by 10-Janpath,</b>â Singh alleged and demanded that it should be made public.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>He claimed that at least 60 tapes involving leaders of different political parties, including that of BJP and Congress were in the possession of Sonia Gandhi </b> and said he would be meeting non-Congress leaders to caution them.
<b>He alleged that the entire phone-tapping plan was executed by AICC general secretary Ambika Soni, former aide of Sonia Gandhi Pulak Chaterjee, principal secretary (Home) Delhi government R Narayanswami, the journalist MP and several other associated with 10-Janpath.</b> Congress and the Central government have already denied the charge.
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Congress Undemocratic Ideology - 2 - Guest - 01-06-2006
http://ia.rediff.com/news/2006/jan/06flip.htm?q=tp&file=.htm
Who tapped Amar Singh's phone?
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->This raises another troubling question. It is not probable that Amar Singh was the only politician whose communication were being monitored. I understand that Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa too now claims that her phones were also being tapped. Who else is being tapped?
<b>The Delhi police got it right in claiming that there is some 'very influential' person behind it all. Just look at the sums of money that are involved. Bhupendra Kumar, the private detective, who carried out the actual nuts and bolts operation on Amar Singh's phones, was being paid Rs 5 lakh (Rs 500,000) every week for the job.
He had received at least half a crore (Rs 5 million) on the job before the scandal resulted in his arrest. How many people are there who can put out that kind of money? Or many times more if I am correct in assuming that Amar Singh was not the only man being tapped.</b>
<b>It all reminds of the sickness that infected India thirty years ago, during the Emergency. Most Opposition leaders had, of course, been thrust behind bars. </b>That did not, however, prevent a paranoid government from keeping an ear on every other group that seemed to be against it -- judges, lawyers, journalists, and so on.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->First, Amar Singh's phone was being tapped.
Second, the tap was illegal.
Third, some private detective was being paid a crazy amount of money to do the job.
Fourth, the Delhi police admit that they have a fair idea about the identity of the 'influential' person behind it all.
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Congress Undemocratic Ideology - 2 - Guest - 01-08-2006
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1363100.cms
I-T orders came from Delhi: Bachchan
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Taxmen who had forced Amitabh Bachchan to pay Rs 5 crore even while he was in ICU, had flaunted a communication from Delhi â from the Central Board of Direct Taxes â to justify their controversial action.
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The ITALIAN MAFIA B1TCH WANTED TO KILL AMITABH.
Congress Undemocratic Ideology - 2 - Guest - 01-08-2006
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Chidambaram refuses to answer in Hindi</b>
Mumbai, January 7: Finance Minister P Chidambaram's refusal to answer a query in Hindi on Thursday in Mumbai threw the media off balance.
Media persons were a bit surprised when Mr Chidambaram told reporters at the function organised by Bank of Baroda (BoB), "I cannot answer this question
if you put it in Hindi, (after a pause), unless you have a translator."
A reporter from a Hindi news channel asked the finance minister on the sidelines of the function whether the present rally of the Sensex at 9,640.29 points was unexpected and whether it was a bubble.
Interestingly, the scribes were trying to find reasons for Mr Chidambaram's denial this time, when on earlier visits to Mumbai he replied in English to the questions posed in Hindi.
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Congress Undemocratic Ideology - 2 - Guest - 01-08-2006
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>RSS & Hindu Mahasabha responsible for partition :Congress</b>
www.zeenews.com
Bhopal, Jan 07: Holding the RSS and Hindu Mahasabha responsible for partition, senior Congress leader and Union HRD Minister Arjun Singh today claimed that the BJP would collapse like a pack of cards due to "its inner contradictions and hollow principles."
"Though Mohammed Ali Jinnah is considered the propounder of the two-nation theory, history is witness that Hindu Mahasabha and RSS were instrumental in projecting Hindus and Muslims as separate and claiming they cannot stay together," Singh said at a seminar on 'the real face of BJP' here.
"It is true that Jinnah took advantage of the two-nation theory when the country was about to get independence by seeking formation of Pakistan, but the first to conceptualise the division were Hindu Mahasabha and RSS," Singh said, accusing the Sangh of giving a wrong direction to history.
Hailing the role of Congress leaders, Singh said if they had given up their efforts to keep the country intact, India would have remained backward like Pakistan without experiencing development.
Ridiculing the BJP for "shedding tears for partition" and blaming the Congress for it, the Minister said that the Muslim population in India is much larger than that in Pakistan.
"They are here not due to helplessness or compulsion but because of an atmosphere of trust and confidence," Singh said adding that while accusing Congress of appeasement, BJP must realise "it is meant for our own people and countrymen."
Describing the BJP as a party suffering from inherent contraditions and hollow principles, Singh said "it is like a pack of cards and one cannot imagine how it will collapse. But someone has to blow the wind."
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Congress Undemocratic Ideology - 2 - Guest - 01-09-2006
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Even PM's phone is tapped: Amar Singh</b>
Staff Reporter
Opposition should fight the menace: Naidu
HYDERABAD: Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh told presspersons here on Sunday that even Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's phone was being tapped. "My source surprised me by saying that I had spoken to the Prime Minister. Asked how he knew, he replied that Dr. Singh's phone was also being tapped".
He said he was receiving threats. If anything were to happen to him and his family, the UPA Government would be held responsible.
Seek high-level probe
Mr. Singh briefed Telugu Desam president N. Chandrababu Naidu about the phone-tapping issue.
Demanding a high-level, impartial probe, they said Chief Ministers Jayalalithaa, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and Nitish Kumar could monitor the probe.
Mr. Naidu said it was time the Opposition came together to fight the menace.
"Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa has gone on record that her phone is being tapped and so has former Prime Minister Deve Gowda. BJP leader Venkaiah Naidu has said that his leader L.K. Advani's telephonic conversations are being monitored. It is time that all of India, particularly the Opposition parties, fights off the threat to democracy," he said.
"Political parties always have the choice of fighting it out at the hustings. This is illegal, unethical and absolutely condemnable," Mr. Singh and Mr. Naidu said.
http://www.hindu.com/2006/01/09/stories/2006010906311200.htm
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Congress Undemocratic Ideology - 2 - Guest - 01-09-2006
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>My phone too being tapped: Chandrababu</b>
Omer Farooq/ Hyderabad
Leaders lend ears, back Amar Singh's campaign ---- Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh, who is mobilising countrywide political support on the issue of alleged phone-tapping by the UPA Government, on Sunday received a major shot in the arm from TPD president N Chandrababu Naidu.
After Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa had said her phone too was being tapped, Mr Naidu also said that his phone and those of other TDP leaders were being tapped.
"Some people have informed me about this but I will come out with it only when I get some solid evidence," he told newsmen after meeting Mr Singh at his Jubilee Hills residence.
"Since the matter was raised by many opposition leaders, I demand that an impartial inquiry should be ordered to bring forth the facts and clear the apprehensions," Mr Naidu said.
The hour-long meeting focused on the controversy, which erupted with Amar Singh levelling serious charges that, his and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav's phones were being tapped. He directly held UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi responsible.
Alleging that he was being threatened, the SP leader told newsmen that if those behind the tapping can spend crores of rupees tapping phones, they can do any thing. "If any thing happens to me, the UPA Government will be responsible," he said stressing that his life was under threat.
Mr Singh said he would make Reliance Infocomm a party to the petition he proposed to file in the Supreme Court in connection with the tapping of his telephone at his house in New Delhi as the private telecom company was the service provider.
"Questions have so far been asked why I did not make Reliance Infocomm the party. The allegation against me is that Anil Ambani is my friend. Friendship has its own place. I will make the Reliance Infocomm a party to the Supreme Court because the company was the service provider," Singh told reporters here after a meeting with Mr Naidu.
Mr Amar Singh also alleged that the phone of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was being tapped but he was unaware of it. "I came to know about tapping when an intelligence official asked me whether I had talked to the Prime Minister over phone a day earlier. When I asked how he knew about it, he told me with a laugh that your telephone was being tapped."
"Even the phone of the service provider (Reliance Infocomm) was also being tapped. My telephonic conversation with Anil Ambani was also tapped," Amar Singh said.
Mr Naidu supported the earlier demand that there should be an impartial inquiry into the whole episode by three Chief Ministers, namely West Bengal's Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, Tamil Nadu's Jayalalithaa and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.
He recalled that earlier BJP president Venkaiah Naidu had also raised the issue and alleged that the phone of Mr LK Advani was being tapped. Former Prime Minister Deve Gowda and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa had also made similar allegations.
<b>"If Congress indulges in such undemocratic actions, what will be the fate of democracy in the country. Where are we going," </b>asked Mr Naidu.
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Congress Undemocratic Ideology - 2 - Guest - 01-09-2006
Telephone tapping seems to be booming business these days!
UPA's fast helping lower the unemployment numbers <!--emo&:beer--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/cheers.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='cheers.gif' /><!--endemo-->
My phone also being tapped: Mamata