UPA's Survival On 22nd July? And Aftermath -2

[acharya]

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[Capt M Kumar]

<!--emo&<_<--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/dry.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='dry.gif' /><!--endemo--> Reliable sources told The Tribune that Manmohan Singh during his visit to Chatterjee yesterday offered him the position of Indian High Commissioner to the UK. That apart, the day for the Speaker remained packed with coveted political attention; the first bouquet of wishes for the Lok Sabha Speaker on his birthday came from UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi.
It was meanwhile learnt from reliable sources that the Speaker might resign before the monsoon session of Parliament, tentatively scheduled between August 11 and September 5. “That was the Speaker’s earlier plan also. He may well resign before the monsoon session and after he returns from his Commonwealth Parliamentary Meet in Malaysia,” said sources. The meet is schedule to be held Kuala Lumpur between August 1 and 10.
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2008/20080726/main2.htm

[Capt M Kumar]

Money transferred through Speaker's office: Yechury
Senior CPM leader Sitaram Yechury

The truth will come out if an enquiry is held, says the CPM leader

Tiruchirappalli: Senior CPM leader Sitaram Yechury suspected that the Lok Sabha Speaker's office was allegedly indulged in transferring money for the opposition MPs, who voted in favour of the UPA government during the trust vote.

He told media here on Friday that "I learn from the media and was directly informed that money was transferred to the MPs through the Speaker's office. The truth will come out if an enquiry is held. We want the truth to come out as early as possible." <!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo-->

http://news.in.msn.com/national/article.as...umentid=1589022

[Guest]

<b>BJP seeks narco test of PM and Amar Singh</b>

They should use Islamic way to find truth out of them.

[Bodhi]

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->New Delhi , 27th July 2008

Shri Somnath Chatterjee
Speaker
Lok Sabha
New Delhi

Subject : Whistle-blowing operation by three BJP Members of Parliament (Lok Sabha) — Shri Ashok Argal, Shri Mahavir Baghora and Shri Faggan Singh Kulaste — in the ‘Cash-for-Votes’ scandal that rocked Parliament in the recently concluded special session dedicated to the Confidence Motion moved by the UPA Government

Ref : Petition to you, dated July 25, 2008, by the three BJP MPs complaining against three UPA leaders in the ‘Cash-for-Votes’ scandal

Dear Shri Chatterjee,

I am writing this letter to you in connection with a serious corruption scandal that rocked Parliament last week and the crude attempts to cover it up. The following is a response to your decision to set up a committee to inquire into the above-mentioned complaint made by the three BJP MPs.

The right to information of the public is paramount. It stems from the Constitutionally guaranteed freedom of expression, which is indispensable for any vibrant democracy. Indeed, the right to information and freedom of expression supplement and complement each other, and together support a vigilant citizenry and accountable democratic institutions.

It is for this reason that the Right to Information Act has now been made a part of the statute. A principal object of the RTI is to provide a legal tool to the citizens to demand transparency and expose corruption in the functioning of democratic institutions.

Democracies around the world have also come to regard media-assisted whistle-blowing as a right of conscientious citizens. Indeed, it is on the basis of media reports about a whistle-blowing operation that a parliamentary committee set up by your Honourable Self disqualified as many as 11 Members of Parliament in 2005 in what came to be known as the “cash-for-queries” scandal.

You will agree that the “cash-for-votes” scandal is far more serious, murky and dangerous than the “cash-for-queries” scandal. In latter case, the three MPs belonging to my party have claimed in their petition to you that they acted as whistle-blowers to expose the murky horse-trading dealings of the senior functionaries of the constituent parties of the UPA. They have also affirmed that CNN-IBN agreed to work with them in investigating the matter and sent a team that actually recorded almost the entire trail of the bribery operation. The details of the joint operation by them and the CNN-IBN team is attested by the three MPs in their petition to you.

In any such investigation by a media organisation, the investigated material does not become the private property of the investigator. It is held in trust for the public of India and the information its contents must be shared both with the people at large as well as with the whistle-blowers (in this case, the three MPs), without whose permission and cooperation the channel could not have conducted the investigation.

The channel had assured the whistle-blowers that the recorded tape would be telecast “soon”. However, this was not done. In any democracy, it would be the grossest impropriety if the whistle-blowers are let down by the media organization that conducted the investigation.

It is unfortunate that the TV channel is now treating the investigated material as its private property and chosen to impose a mysterious self-censorship on itself.

Soon after our three MPs had displayed in Parliament the currency notes they had received as a token amount from one of the UPA leaders for abstention from the trust vote on July 22, the channel had announced that it was in possession of the tape and had handed it over to the Speaker. However, I learnt later that the tape was actually delivered to your office the following day, after a lapse of over 24 hours. Although the channel has stated that it retains a copy of the tape and reserves the right to telecast at a future date, the long delay between the recording of the tape and its telecast (if and when it happens) would naturally raise grave doubts as to whether the tape is authentic or doctored.

Our suspicion in this regard has become stronger by media reports. A front-page report in today’s Hindustan Times says: “The secret videotapes believed to contain images related to the bribes-for-votes scandal have turned up grainy footage of poor quality picture and audio quality, sources said.” The three MPs have told me that the tapes shown to them immediately after the recording were of excellent quality.

Against this background, I would like to state the following:

1) The display of the currency notes by the three whistle-blower MPs was watched by millions of people across the nation. Therefore, it stands to reason that CNN-IBN’s recording of the whistle-blowing operation must also be seen by the people at large for them to come to a well-informed and fair conclusion. People’s right to information cannot be circumscribed in any manner Hence, we urge you to make the tape public without any further delay.

2) As explained above, the investigation material pertaining to the whistle-operation by our three MPs cannot be treated as the private property of the channel. Hence, we urge you to ask the channel to share the entire unedited tape with the three MPs concerned immediately.

3) There is need to ensure full transparency and fairness of the inquiry. The partisan and collusive manner in which the JPC on the Bofors scam functioned is well known to the people of India. Indeed, you and several opposition leaders at the time had criticized the JPC both for its functioning and its final report. The Nation expects that this is not repeated in this case.

Regards,

Yours sincerely,

L.K. Advani

http://bjp.org/Press/july_2008/july_2708_p.htm
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First of all, it shows lack of maturity of BJP. CNN-IBN is the best they could find to partner up for something as important as this? What had happened to Hindu-minded journos? If BJP is only as good as this in media management - nay in common sense - then its days are numbered and sooner it gets evaporated the better for Hindus! Idiots and Morons! They had done this gaffe earlier with NDTV too - during Agra Summit - where NDTV telecasted the Mush's tape without informing Indian officials.

[acharya]

<b>
Karat denies contradiction in party stand over Somnath</b>

Kolkata (PTI): The CPI(M) on Sunday dismissed suggestions that there was contradiction in its stand on Somnath Chatterjee, saying he was as much free to decide whether he would continue as the Lok Sabha Speaker as the party to decide if he would remain in it.

"I am not entering into a discussion. Whether he continues to be the Speaker, it is for him to decide. But whether he should be there in the party is for the party to decide", CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat said.

He was replying to a question whether Chatterjee's expulsion was contradictory in nature since the CPI(M) had stated before the trust vote it was for Chatterjee to decide to continue as Speaker and then expelled him for 'seriously compromising the party position'.

Emerging from a two-day meeting of the West Bengal party state committee here, Karat was non-committal on the possibility of taking Chatterjee back to party fold when asked if there was any provision to take back a person expelled under Article 19 Clause 13 of party constitution.

"Our party constitution has various provisions for appeal. I do not want to say anything as far as this matter is concerned," Karat said.

[G.Subramaniam]

Zee tv is sympathetic to hindu causes
Why was Zee tv not used by the BJP

[acharya]

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CPI(M) move to tie up with BSP triggered horse trading: Vayalar Ravi</b>

Special Correspondent

“There were incidents of cross-voting in Opposition and ruling fronts”

KOCHI: It was the CPI(M)’s move tie up with the Bahujan Samaj Party of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati that led to the “horse trading” during last week’s confidence vote in Lok Sabha, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi, who was one of the floor managers of the ruling coalition, said on Sunday.

At a news conference on Sunday, he pointed out that there were incidents of cross-voting in the Opposition and ruling fronts. “Even we [the UPA] lost seven votes,” Mr. Ravi said.
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He was optimistic that the Congress and the UPA would easily form a government after the next general election. Of course, if the Left offered its support, that offer would not be turned away.</b>

Mr. Ravi said the UPA would address the concerns of the Muslim League’s “suspicions and concerns” over the nuclear agreement.
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Asked if the Manmohan Singh government would be able to finalise the India-U.S. nuclear deal before its term ended, Mr. Ravi said it depended on the time taken by the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) and the NSG (Nuclear Supply Group) to complete their formalities.
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Contradictory to public impression, the Minister said, Russia and France would be supplying India the required nuclear reactors, and not the United States.

He appreciated the stand taken by Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee.

[acharya]

<b>
Democracy drugged, debauched and depraved</b>

V.R. Krishna Iyer

The grave constitutional issues that were recently thrown up in Parliament demand the Supreme Court’s attention.

Members of Parliament, a pro-tem Prime Minister, some power-hungry parties and certain sinister political power-brokers blasphemed India before the world during the recent session of the Lok Sabha. They demoralised Indian humanity, which puts its sacred trust in swaraj and the Constitution. The people’s confidence in parliamentary institutions and the Cabinet system was shaken and scandalised. Whoever might have won the confidence motion in numerical terms, the country lost its confidence in the travesty that passed for democracy. The special session proved, thanks to the manner of operation of the parties and the politicians, Dr. Samuel Johnson’s definition: “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”
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Gandhiji, euphemised by a national fiction as the Father of the Nation, wrote against “wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice and politics without principles.” </b>Sensitive humanists and dedicated democrats, viewing the notorious debate, the bumptious ballyhoo, the berserk behaviour and the bedlam proceedings, may suspect our activist bourgeoisie polluting public life as being guilty of the Mahatma’s anathematic prescription.

Or was Winston Churchill’s assessment during a Commons debate of Indian leaders in 1947 true now? He categorised our political leaders asking for Independence as “rogues, rascals and freebooters.”

The Indian Parliament has seen grand debates and eloquent speeches but has suffered a dark decadence and a satellite syndrome. Some suspect mushroom parties have been beset with a propensity for lucre and power and, as the means to an end, pathologically corrupt conduct. Going by the betrayals and great abstentions seen during the voting process, our integrity seems to have gone haywire and taken a holiday. Even the respected and impartial Speaker has come under controversy.

The pro-Bush Prime Minister, known for his probity, verity, decency, dignity and simplicity, faces pungent political polemics. His covert ‘deal’ with the internationally domineering and globally condemned lame-duck President has left the country’s policy of non-alignment in disrepute.

Is the Sonia Gandhi-Manmohan Singh perspective anti-Jawaharlal Nehru, anti-Indira Gandhi and pro-big business, and retrograde? Parliamentary democracy will remain healthy so long as there is a plural party system with the loyalty of members, the integrity of ideologies and the implementation of principles and policies set out in its manifesto and commitment to the constituency. It is regrettable that during the confidence vote crisis almost every party found some of its members betraying party integrity in the voting or in abstaining from it, contrary to political propriety and basic morality.

A verdict by Parliament on a crucial motion of political paramountcy commands moral authority when the majority vote truly represents every member’s judgment on the proposition at issue. But if the process suffers deception and other fundamental flaws, Parliament is sick and its verdict is weak, though legally the Speaker pronounces who has won the vote and that holds good.
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Dr. Manmohan Singh claims to have secured a victory in his confidence motion after the debate. The glory of the parliamentary system lies in the free, frank, fearless, lucid, lucent expression of views by members without affection or ill-will, but true to one’s conviction and conscience, and any party mandate. If money corrupts, if pressure and threat tamper, if temptation for office or other extraneous considerations vitiate, if voices are muffled by noises, if members behave in berserk fashion and the House degenerates into bedlam, if sanity is silenced by sound and fury, if acrobatics, theatricality and looney display of crores of rupees worth of currency notes pollutes the sanctity of the solemn Lok Sabha, the efforts of the Speaker, great though he be, will be in vain as he tries to regulate order but fails to restore peace and check the chaos.</b>

In such cases the morality of the verdict becomes dubious. The speeches of many members who spoke during the session were inaudible. Even the Leader of the House, the wonder whose speech the House and the country waited to hear, could not perform because of the stridency of the Opposition benches. The Prime Minister handed over his manuscript eloquence to the Speaker, denying the country the right to hear him. Was that a debate, just a presentation and a noetic submission? Or was it a situation where intelligent expression and sound argument became the casualties? Yet, the Speaker, with rare dexterity and deft management skills, got through the allotted hours. The counting of votes followed, the anarchy subsided, and the Chair pronounced that the motion was carried.

What is the truth? It is a riddle, a mystery and an enigma. The Prime Minister continues to govern since the Speaker has declared the motion as carried. The moral majority is a speculative search.

Why did not the police act when crores of rupees were handled by Members of Parliament as bribe received, under plainly culpable circumstances? The Penal Code prevails and corruption remains a crime. The rulings of the Supreme Court or the provisions of parliamentary business do not oblige the police to abdicate their duty to initiate action and investigate when a crime is credibly suspected to have taken place. They need not wait for an inquiry by the Speaker or proceedings by the Privileges Committee. Voting and speaking in the House are immune to judicial scrutiny, but taking money illegally under criminal circumstances comes within the jurisdiction of a police investigation.

All these factors raise the question whether bogus debates or phoney proceedings can reduce Parliament to a fictitious instrument, demolishing the basic structure of the Constitution. These grave constitutional issues demand the Supreme Court’s hearing and judgment, or at least a thorough constituent power exercise. This is not a dummy democracy. The people of India shall not submit to a simulacrum of a system that does not fulfill justice — social, economic or political.

The nadir of debating reality in the Lok Sabha may be compared to the well-known ‘no confidence motion’ moved against British Prime Minister Winston Churchill during the Second World War. His celebrated reply ran thus: “This long debate has now reached its final stage. What a remarkable example it has been of the unbridled freedom of our parliamentary institutions in time of war. Everything that could be thought of or raked up has been used to weaken confidence in the government, has been used to prove that Ministers are incompetent and to weaken their confidence in themselves, to make the Army distrust the backing it is getting from the civil power, to present the government as a set of nonentities over whom the Prime Minister towers, and then to undermine him in his own heart, and, if possible, before the eyes of the nation. All this poured out by cable and radio to all parts of the world, to the distress of all our friends and to the delight of all our foes! I am in favour of this freedom, which no other country would use, or dare to use in times of mortal peril such as those through which we are passing.”
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Here in India our Prime Minister was not allowed to speak by the use of noise terrorism — which was a pathetic and bathetic barbarity. In the language of Shashi Tharoor, “Let us make haste while the sun shines.” Recently he wrote what is valuable national advice with which our Prime Minister is familiar. “In this strategy, the sun occupies centrestage,” the Prime Minister memorably said, “as it should, being literally the original source of all energy. </b>We will pool all our scientific, technical and managerial talents, with financial sources, to develop solar energy as a source of abundant energy to power our economy and to transform the lives of our people.” Dr. Manmohan Singh added, and this was no hyperbole: “Our success in this endeavour will change the face of India.”

[acharya]

<b>‘Cash-for-votes’: BJP on offensive</b>
Special Correspondent
Senior leaders address meetings
Similar meetings to be held in other parts
Hundreds of workers participate
BHUBANESWAR: In their effort to take the issue of alleged bribing of three of their Members of Parliament by the United Progressive Alliance government to the people, the Bharatiya Janata Party organised a protest meeting here on Sunday.

Senior leaders of the party who addressed the meeting at Master Canteen said that they would organise similar meetings in different parts of the State to ‘expose’ the real face of the Congress-led UPA government.

State Industry Minister and leader of the BJP legislature party Biswabhushan Harichandan termed the alleged payment of bribe to the party MPs in New Delhi as the handiwork of Congress to undermine the democratic values of the country. Congress party had the habit of bribing MPs, he observed. Hundreds of workers, including a large number of women, participated in the meeting which was presided over by the party’s State unit president Suresh Pujari. Among others who addressed the rally include party’s Sundargarh MP Jual Oram, Deogarh MP Dharmendra Pradhan and Minister Manmohan Samal.

In their address, they criticised the Congress and its allies for offering bribe to their MPs a day before the confidence vote in Parliament on July 22.
Greater Jharkhand

The leaders also came down heavily on the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha president Shibu Soren for his reported demand for merger of the districts of Mayurbhanj, Keonjhar and Sundargarh with Jharkhand for the formation of Greater Jharkhand.

Mr. Soren had reportedly made this demand as one of the many conditions he put before the UPA government for supporting it during the July 22 trust vote.

[shamu]

<!--QuoteBegin-G.Subramaniam+Jul 28 2008, 03:35 AM-->QUOTE(G.Subramaniam @ Jul 28 2008, 03:35 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Zee tv is sympathetic to hindu causes
Why was Zee tv not used by the BJP
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I'm guessing:

One of the highest priotity goal should be to discredit the pseudo-secular media. If CNN-IBN has doctored the video that was submitted to Loksabha Speaker, I think they can be legally targetted once BJP comes to power.

Even otherwise, CNN/IBN can be publicly discredited for biased sting reports. Definitely their current actions can be used if the do another sting operation in future.

[acharya]

August 03, 2008

Editorial<b>

When Sonia-Manmohan shamed the nation</b>

Pranab tried to score browny points by picking holes in Advani’s brilliant speech. He said how could Jawaharlal Nehru have thought of NPT, since he was not alive when it came into being in the 1970s? He was replying to Advani’s charge that even Nehru and Indira Gandhi had not thought of accepting NPT, though Nehru especially was against raising a huge military. The fact is, the NPT was first initiated by Irish Foreign Minister Frank Aiken in 1958 and text was opened for signing by sovereign states in 1968. It took 10 years to finalise the text. Nehru died in 1964. Hence Nehru was alive for six years when NPT was being debated at various levels.

What a pyrrhic win it was. It lasted only a day. When the voting for the confidence motion in the Lok Sabha started on July 22 evening Dr Manmohan Singh’s government was in minority. Twenty four hours after he convincingly won the confidence motion he was again in minority. By that time the thick-skinned turncoats were identified and expelled from their respective parties which naturally will result in their disqualification.

So Manmohan Singh if he again has to face the test of numbers will have to go for another round of shopping and deal making, of course with a new set of market forces. It takes only a few hundred millions, corporate backing and dalal street demeanor, to hoodwink democracy, the UPA has proved.

Votes he won, trust he lost, screamed headlines. Never in India’s political history was such a sordid drama played out in full public gaze. It shamed the nation. It created doubts and revulsion in millions of minds. Political commentators described it the saddest day for Indian Parliament. But Dr Manmohan Singh waved the V-sign and claimed that he emerged a full-fledged political actor and leader who asserted his conviction. For long the media painted him clean, honest, apolitical technocrat. Not hankering after power, a Prime Minister by accident and politician by circumstances, a willing but dignified tool of Sonia Gandhi. If that was the case he would not have condoned what his party did to manufacture a majority. Nor would he have allowed his office to become a bargain counter.

As the motion was put to vote the Congress had the support of only 260 members in the 543-member house including known defectors from other parties, some of whom eligible for disqualification under the anti-defection law. When the votes were counted it managed 275 against 256 of the opposition with ten abstentions. The nine BJP MPs, one each from Shiv Sena, Akali Dal, JD (U) and BJD supported the motion and all of them will get disqualified. The two MDMK, two TDP and one JD(S) members, though defied the whip, might survive because of the limited strength of their respective parties. It is surprising that the Congress and the Samajwadi Party have not taken action against their six rebels who voted with the opposition. Perhaps these parties have not given up on them, and are hopeful of managing them to the ruling side for another trial of strength, if and when it becomes necessary.

How did the image-conscious Prime Minister manage 24 members from different parties to change their loyalty? His admirers will claim that it was not he but the dirty work was carried out by Sonia Gandhi, Amar Singh and Ahmad Patel. How many will believe this claim? The corporate compromises and cabinet berths are offered only at the top level. We all witnessed how JMM leader Shibu Soren after a meeting with the PM, revealed that he will support the government after he was assured of cabinet berth with coal ministry, another post of MoS and deputy chief minister post in Jharkhand for his son.

The CBI reports directly to the PMO. The BSP members told the Lok Sabha that they were being intimidated, cajoled and coaxed by a CBI official to support or abstain from voting. The matter is being investigated by the Speaker. The members told the Lok Sabha that they have no faith in the government or the Home Minister to investigate their allegations.

It is the murkiness of market that he has brought into the hallowed portals of democracy. Not once but twice complaints were made by harassed members of Parliament, first from the BSP bloc and then from the main opposition party, the BJP that the cronies of the ruling coalition were intimidating them. The brazen politicisation of the CBI, which for long enjoyed a reputation for fair play came to such a pass that the BSP members told a stunned Lok Sabha that the CBI sleuths threatened them that if they voted against the Manmohan motion, the BSP leader Mayawati will face revenge. That the agency was on the job for the last one month since the UP chief minister withdrew support to the UPA was clear from the sudden surfacing of an old case concerning disproportionate assets against Mayawati which had in the early days of Congress-BSP honeymoon got buried. Then, Mulayam Singh was at the receiving end. His worries stopped the day he made up with the Congress. One Shiv Sena member was sneaked away to prevent him from voting. The BJP suffered too. The government could have been easily voted out if all the NDA members had obeyed their party whip.

There BJP members came to the house a few hours before voting with stacks of bundled thousand rupee notes offered to them by the ruling party minions to shift loyalty. They placed on the table of the house the offered booty for the entire nation to see. Again the matter is under investigation. The BJP leader L.K. Advani described the incident more scandalous than Bofors and threatened to take the issue to the people. The Prime Minister had the previous day, confronted by allegations of horse trading, pooh-poohed the matter and demanded proof. Here was proof. The Congress response, however was, that it was all stage managed. If there was no attempt on the part of the ruling side to purchase loyalty why did it go about claiming majority when it was clear as daylight that the UPA lost majority the day the Left withdrew support? The combined strength of the Samajwadi Party and other smaller groups and independents made up only for 251 seats. Normally governments when reduced to minority either resign or try to cobble up new allies or engineer split in other parties, not to invite the anti-defection law. It is most disingenious of the UPA to have thought of just surviving the day of voting by acquired temporary immunity.

This is unprecedented and there is nothing in the Indo-US deal that warranted such daylight murder of democracy. Limpet like, to recall Rajiv Gandhi’s famous words, the UPA can hang on and postpone facing the electorate for a hundred more days. Was the duplicitous villainy worth it? No other Prime Minister has stooped so low. India has a tradition of Prime Ministers demitting office on the first whiff of distrust. Morarji Desai, Ch. Charan Singh, V.P. Singh, Chandrasekhar, Deve Gowda, I.K. Gujral and Atal Behari Vajpayee have set this precedent. But here is one who is not even a member of the Lok Sabha—again unprecedented—who thinks establishing majority is a determinant of market forces. Has it got something to do with globalisation? Perhaps voters do not matter.

What a shame, that we are all shamed but he has no such feelings. He is rather proud and grateful to his mentor for delivering him this day and he thanked his friends who made it possible. What a fall.

The defence from the ruling side in the two-day debate was lacklustre and indifferent. The PM’s speech failed to address specific concerns expressed by the opposition especially Leader of Opposition L.K. Advani on the Nuclear Deal. The PM ignored the allegation that he reduced Parliament to a bazar. Dr Singh proved that he is a small minded, scornful, vindictive person and he resorted to deplorable levels in personally targeting the Leader of Opposition and the CPM leadership.

Pranab Mukherjee who meandered through the benefits of the deal with unconvincing data failed to impress. But he tried to score browny points by picking holes in Advani’s brilliant speech. He said how could Jawaharlal Nehru have thought of NPT, since he was not alive when it came into being in the 1970s? He was replying to Advani’s charge that even Nehru and Indira Gandhi had not thought of accepting NPT, though Nehru especially was against raising a huge military. The fact is, the NPT was first initiated by Irish Foreign Minister Frank Aiken in 1958 and text was opened for signing by sovereign states in 1968. It took 10 years to finalise the text. Nehru died in 1964. Hence Nehru was alive for six years when NPT was being debated at various levels. Again Advani is right when he contended that Nehru was disinclined to NPT. Congress obviously has no patience for details.

There is nothing for the UPA to crow about this bogus vote. What a way to win a trust vote? It needs tremendous insensitivity to democratic values for a government to survive this way.

[acharya]

Does a nation like India need a Prime Minister like Manmohan?
Here is a chosen (not elected) Prime Minister, who doesn't have the capacity to control his cabinet ministers (both his own party men & allies), apart from being subservient to his 'party president', who is neither accountable nor responsible, but, powerful. He has shown on many occasions his incapacity to take decisions making a pathetic display of Prime Ministership. Does a nation like India need a Prime Minister like Manmohan?

In the aftermath of the tainted victory over a disgraceful confidence motion plagued with votes of 'mistrust' and miserably losing his carefully groomed 'honest' image, he has lost his moral authority to continue in office. He will not quit at the fifth year in office, for only honest persons will value morality, but he must realise that he is at the end of his political career. The nation has closed its doors.

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In his reply to the marathon debate on the confidence motion moved by him, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said, 'Adwani has chosen to use all manner of abusive adjectives to describe my performance. He has described me as the weakest Prime Minister, a nikamma Prime Minister, and of having devalued the office of Prime Minister. To fulfill his ambitions, he has made at least three attempts to topple our government. But on each occasion, his astrologers have misled him. This pattern, I am sure, will be repeated today. At this ripe old age I do not expect Adwani to change his thinking. But for his sake and India's sake, I urge him to at least change his astrologers so that he gets more accurate predictions of things to come'.

This sounds not so much as defiant riposte but as desperate rhetoric of a man looking to clutch at the straws of a career that is petering out tamely. If a responsible Prime Minister functions without authority and leadership, it is quite natural for the opponents to call him weak and that was what Adwani did and there was nothing 'abusive' in his language at all. Instead of replying to Advani's pointed charges, Manmohan in a maladroit response said, 'Can our nation forgive a Home Minister who slept when the terrorists were knocking at the doors of parliament? Can our nation forgive a person who single-handedly provided the inspiration for the destruction of the Babri Masjid with all the terrible consequences that followed?'

It is amusing that the Prime Minister himself has failed to introspect before charging Adwani. Can a nation forgive a Prime Minister who loses sleep on seeing the plight of terrorists and their families? Can a nation forgive a Prime Minister who doesn't loose sleep on seeing the plight of terror victims and their families? Can a nation forgive a Prime Minister who delays the hanging of the dreaded terrorist who master minded the parliament attack in which a dozen security personnel have been killed? Can a nation forgive a Prime Minister, who sticks to a party, which massacred more than three thousand people belonging to his own community?

Training his guns on the Left, he has said, 'they wanted me to behave a like a bonded slave'. Very true! How dare the Left want him to be their slave, when he is already bonded to his party president? But, the Left has called him a 'blatant liar' and its criticism of Manmohan is more vociferous than the BJP's! As he has won the confidence motion through deceitful means and lost the trust of the nation, it is imperative for the general public to retrospect the last four years of his governance right from the day he was 'chosen' for this job.

After becoming Prime Minister in June 2004, he had said that he was indebted to his Party President and thanked her for providing him with an opportunity to serve as PM. Then during the press conference after completing one full year in office, he said, 'I will give 60% marks for my performance and for that performance, Soniaji has been my source of strength'. What an 'incredible' statement from such an experienced & qualified person!

In the last four years, the nation has seen many instances, where in, things have happened without the knowledge & consent of Manmohan, and in many other instances he had remained as a silent spectator watching his cabinet colleagues both from his own party & the alliance parties, going ahead with their own agendas of governance.

Many events have unfolded and many things have happened in the last four years showcasing his lack of authority, control and decision-making. The dismissals of Goa, Jarkhand & Bihar governments have happened at the behest of his party boss. The attempt for a Muslim Head count in the armed forces, Reservations for Muslims on religious grounds, IMDT Act in Assam, also fell in the same category.

Minority status for AMU and reservation for OBCs in elite institutions have happened because of the self-styled champion of social justice Arjun Singh, who earned the adage 'Human Resources Destructions' Minister. The Prime Minister, who rightly formed the unique 'National Knowledge Commission', could not deal with the maverick Arjun singh, which caused the resignation of a few good and efficient people from NKC defeating its very purpose of formation.

In the ugly 'Quattrocchi' episode, Manmohan, who is also in charge of CBI, was not even aware of the visit of a CBI officer to London to facilitate the de-freezing of Q's bank accounts as per the arrangement of the Law Minister Baradwaj on the instructions of the Congress President. Then in the infamous Volcker report episode, he gave a 'clean chit' to Natwar Singh initially, without knowing the intention of his party boss to make Natwar a scapegoat, which ultimately resulted in Natwar's quitting from the party itself.

All the above-said episodes along with the Office of Profit issue, Sehtusamudram Ship Channel Project and Amarnath Land dispute, etc. etc. have become dreadful exhibitions of subversion of Constitution and abuse of power through Ministries of Law, External Affairs & Defense, which are proof incriminating enough, not only for his weakness, but also for his 'other' side.

He has not exercised his authority even once and he has never projected himself as a 'decision maker'. The whole country knows that the office of the PM had lost its dignity, respect & honour, the day he was 'chosen' to head it and the day he said that Sonia was his source of strength. Notwithstanding his subordination to Sonia, he has always been bullied by the Left front on one side and the other allies like DMK, RJD, PMK & others on the other side. He could not have his own prerogative even for the appointment of his own cabinet colleagues. His cabinet has been 'decorated' with political novices, criminals & criminals' spouses to the extent that a minister has been awarded life imprisonment for murder!

In the aftermath of every terror attack, he had said 'I strongly condemn this act of cowardice and we will not allow the terrorists to destabilise this country and the government cannot be cowed down by such terror attacks. I appeal to the people to stand united and defeat the communal designs of the terror elements'. The terror attacks are continuing and his statements too, the latest being the serial blasts in Bangalore. Immediately after the Malegon blasts, while on board the flight to Havana, he had said, 'The role of Hindu fundamentalists cannot be ruled out', but finally ate humble pies when the involvement of Islamic terrorists was proved later.

Then, after the (in)famous hand shake with Pakistan President Musharaf in Havana, he said, 'Pakistan also being a victim of terrorism, we have agreed to have a joint terror mechanism'. Since then more terror attacks have happened on our soil, but the so-called 'joint-terror mechanism' is not to be seen at all. He had never lost his sleep on the plights of the families of terror victims, but he had lost sleep for the family of terror suspects. Even as the terror attacks are continuing unabatedly, as evidenced by the latest Bangalore serial blasts, he could not do anything concerning Home Minister and his ministry, as he was directly reporting to the party boss superseding the Prime Minister. So much for his government's deftness in handling terrorism!

While accepting the Doctorate from Cambridge University, he appreciated the British for their Rule over India, a remark no patriotic Indian could digest! In course of the government's minority appeasement policies, he said that Muslims have the first claim on our resources and they would get priority in getting loans from banks, exhibiting his utmost contempt for the Hindu majority, which constitutes almost 85% of this great nation. He also said that the Madarasas would be modernized and special schools for girls would be started in Muslim dominated areas. None of his predecessors have taken such audacious and divisive initiatives!

Recently in reply to BJP's charge that he was a 'weak' Prime minister, he had said, 'The BJP wishes for my early death. They didn't even believe that I would last as PM and some leaders even did 'havans' that I should die on a certain day'. How childish!

Despite being a renowned economist, in his four years of tenure he has not done anything remarkable in the economic front too. The Sensex has experienced heavy upheavals quite often due to the manipulation of a few people through 'participatory notes' and 'hedge funds' resulting in looting of Indian money by foreign companies and individuals. While the farmers are committing suicides in thousands and selling their cattle in millions nothing constructive has been done to improve their pathetic conditions, but instead, their loans have been waived to the tune Rs.70, 000 crores emptying the treasury. The agricultural minister has been busier with his cricket schedules as the President of the BCCI than with his agriculture ministry, and as he was a strong ally, the Prime Minister couldn't have a control over him.

Along with the Finance Minister and the Planning Commission Deputy Chairman, both of whom are supposed to be financial wizards, he has led the country to near collapse in the economic front. The inflation has been the highest ever and is expected to increase further and the skyrocketing of the prices of essential commodities has made the poor and middle class to suffer in silence. With regards to internal security, the less said the better.

Here again the Home Minister is directly reporting to the party boss and the PM has no control over him. This has been the scenario with almost all ministries.

Here is a chosen (not elected) Prime Minister, who doesn't have the capacity to control his cabinet ministers (both his own party men & allies), apart from being subservient to his 'party president', who is neither accountable nor responsible, but, powerful. He has shown on many occasions his incapacity to take decisions making a pathetic display of Prime Ministership. Does a nation like India need a Prime Minister like Manmohan?

In the aftermath of the tainted victory over a disgraceful confidence motion plagued with votes of 'mistrust' and miserably losing his carefully groomed 'honest' image, he has lost his moral authority to continue in office. He will not quit at the fifth year in office, for only honest persons will value morality, but he must realise that he is at the end of his political career. The nation has closed its doors.

[acharya]

<b>BJP MP H T Sangliana</b>

'BJP opposed the N-deal for the sake of opposing'

July 24, 2008


Former Bangalore police commissioner H T Sangliana, the man who arrested stamp scam kingpin Abdul Karim Telgi, won the Bangalore North Lok Sabha seat in 2004 on a Bharatiya Janata Party ticket. He defied the party whip and voted for the United Progressive Alliance's trust motion on Tuesday.

He speaks to Nistula Hebbar on why he did so, as well as his plans for the future.
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Why did you defy the party whip?</b>

From the day the special session dates were announced, I made up my mind that I would vote for the nuclear deal. This deal is good for the country and I felt that the BJP was just opposing it for the sake of opposing it. The party was just afraid to share credit with the government. I kept my own counsel and at the time of voting, I cast it in favour of the government.
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Did you defy the whip because you had a problem with the state unit?</b>

Why should I have a problem with them? May be they had a problem with me; I don't know.
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We saw how the party leaders, Ananth Kumar, Sadananda Gowda and MP Siddheshwar, surrounded you after the seat-wise vote was revealed, and you voted again on paper. What exactly happened?</b>

My vote machine misfired and my vote did not register. These leaders came up when they noticed it and asked me about it. I told them that I have to vote with the Ayes. I went up to the secretary general and asked for a yellow slip and voted for the Ayes.

After that they surrounded me and roundly abused me. They also asked me to sit on the side of treasury benches, and gestured with clenched fists. I simply saw and listened to all this and flatly said "I am leaving the BJP because of people like you". My vote is not your private property. The way they behaved was a like a fish market.
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What problem do you have with the party?</b>

I don't have a problem with the BJP but I am leaving it because of third-rate leaders.

You sat through the division with a lot of heckling from the BJP and were staring straight ahead. What was going through your mind?

Nothing was going through my mind, I was just looking at the board where the electronic voting scores were displayed. There was a sign of peace in me, in my heart and my mind. My confused conscience was resolved, and I finally did what my heart had decided.
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There is talk that you are against an anti-conversion Bill the Karnataka government is allegedly mulling over?</b>

I am against wrongful conversion and I would be the first to complain if any such thing happens. However, our Constitution guarantees the freedom of religion. Every Indian should be free to choose their religion. There should be no interference. Such conversions should not be considered religious or even political poaching. Rather it is important to encourage every Indian to seek God and religion and be god fearing.
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What about you future plans? Have you been in touch with the Congress high command?
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I am not yet fully in touch with them (Congress). As for the future, I will continue to work for the poor and the marginalised, as I did as a policeman and later as an MP.

As far as politics is concerned, there are two possibilities: either I fight in Mizoram -- my native state -- or Bangalore, the city I gave the prime of my life to and with which I identify myself. In fact, I may even stand as an independent candidate, preferably from Bangalore Central.

[Capt M Kumar]

BJP works on no-trust motion
Suman K JhaPosted online: Monday, July 28, 2008 at 0020 hrs Print EmailOn agenda of NDA meeting today; to mobilise not-so-keen JDU, BJD, Shiv Sena
New Delhi, July 27: The BJP is mooting a no-confidence motion against the UPA Government, and the issue will figure prominently in the NDA meeting scheduled for Monday. “We will discuss a no-confidence motion against the UPA Government in the NDA meeting,” BJP deputy leader in the Lok Sabha Vijay Kumar Malhotra told The Indian Express.

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[acharya]

<b>Error attack hits BJP: Blasts plot to win Muslims, cover vote-note</b>
Suman K Jha
Posted online: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 at 0224 hrs Print Email
NDA IN DELHI Allies JD(U), Akalis, BJD, Sena squirm, slam BJP

New Delhi, JULY 28: Various NDA constituents have taken strong exception to BJP leader Sushma Swaraj’s remarks that the recent blasts in Ahmedabad and Bangalore were “a conspiracy to divert attention from the ‘cash-for-votes scandal’.”


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“I see a conspiracy to divert attention from the cash-for-votes scam,” said Swaraj at a press conference after an NDA meeting here today. “The Muslim votes got scattered from them (the UPA) because of friendship with the US. They are raising the bogey of the BJP to bring them back into their camp.”

She also claimed that the blasts, within 24 hours, in the two states ruled by it also made it believe that there was “something more than meets the eye.” Asked if she was alleging that the UPA had a role in the blasts, she said: “I have said what I wanted, it is for all of you to interpret the rest.”

These remarks angered the BJP’s allies who stopped short of calling Swaraj’s statement as outrageous.

Said Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader S S Dhindsa: “Without any pro, there’s no point in making these kinds of allegations.” Added Janata Dal-United’s (JD-U) Prabhunath Singh: “I don’t quite agree with this assertion. There’s no co-relation between the trust vote and the blasts.” Biju Janata Dal (BJD) leader Braj Kishore Tripathi said that he had “no information to this effect”.

In Patna, speaking earlier, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had said it was not time for “finding fault with functioning of intelligence agencies” after the serial blasts in Bangalore and Ahmedabad. “It’s time to strengthen communal harmony to foil divisive designs of terrorists. Political bickering could only make us fall in trap of extremist elements. Blaming an agency or community would not serve any purpose but standing united would surely do in this hour of crisis.”

It was the Shiv Sena that took the BJP to task on the issue. Its leader Anant Geete told The Indian Express: “National security is above everything else. There should be no politics on terrorism. There was no discussion on this issue in the NDA meeting.”

Sushma, however, stood by her statement. “This was not part of the NDA briefing. This was my personal remark and I stand by it,” she told this paper.

Earlier in the day, too, the BJP was over-ruled by its allies on the twin proposals of “a no-trust motion against the government” and “mass resignations from the Lok Sabha”. When the main opposition party mooted the idea of a no-trust motion, the allies were far from convinced. “What’s the logic in the move, when our MPs, who voted along with the UPA during the July 22 trust vote, continue to be members of the House?” asked the leader of an NDA constituent.

“The BJP’s suggestion lacked conviction. The allies overwhelmingly voted the suggestion out,” added another leader. The meeting, however, agreed that the NDA should block any new bill in the House as the government’s “trust vote was sullied by the ‘cash-for-votes scandal’.”

“Let the government check its majority in every bill they introduce. After all the cash they paid was for the trust vote and the UPA hence may not have the support of the members who voted in their favour in the confidence motion,” Swaraj later said.

The issue of “mass resignations from the House”, too, was vetoed by the allies. With BSP MPs toying with quitting the House en masse to preempt any CBI action against its leader Mayawati, the BJP doesn’t want to come across as an also-ran in its opposition to the UPA, a reason why the issue figured prominently in the meeting.

The suggestion, though, didn’t find favour with the allies even when the Biju Janata Dal saw a “Bofors-like potential” in the issue. While allies like the Shiv Sena and SAD were strongly against mass resignations, the JD-U argued that resignations, if absolutely necessary, should be considered only on “issues like price rise”. Coming around, the BJP then suggested that “the struggle would continue in the House as well as outside the House”. BJP’s L K Advani, Rajnath Singh, Sushma Swaraj and V K Malhotra; JD-U’s Sharad Yadav and Prabhunath Singh; Shiv Sena’s Manohar Joshi and Anant Geete; SAD’s S S Dhindsa and BJD’s B K Tripathi took part in the deliberations.

Later, referring to reports that the UPA government was considering postponement of Parliament’s monsoon, scheduled for August 11, Sushma said: “There is no reason for cancellation or postponement of the session. We will oppose any such move tooth and nail. A debate on the nuclear deal is yet to be held in the Rajya Sabha.”

[Capt M Kumar]

Despite cash for votes scam, parliament's first interns remain optimistic
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By Devirupa Mitra. Delhi, India, 10:30 AM IST

Unobtrusively and quietly, five young men and women have been making history in the Indian parliament for the last six months - working as its first interns and given unprecedented access to parliamentary operations.

While their yearlong internship had so far been uneventful, the cash-for-votes political drama last week did not leave the three women and two men unscathed. After all, months of close proximity to the ground zero of Indian democracy had further highlighted their awareness.

http://www.indiaenews.com/politics/20080729/135157.htm

[ravish]

A very positive article carrying the impressions of the interns. It is exactly for the reasons mentioned by them that there is great demand today in Parliaments around the world to send their officials to learn on legislative drafting, rules of procedure etc. Shri Kashyaps book on Parliamentary practices is also in great demand particularly amongst the presiding officers of many of the new democracies abroad.

I am sure the action of Speaker and the manner in which he conducted the proceedings during the turbulent two days must have been keenly watched by many other presiding officers in both Westminster type and Presidential type of legislatures. The only spanner in the whole process has been the exhibiting of the currency notes in the House. Let us hope the truth will come out soon.

[acharya]

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I won’t apologise to BJP leaders: Sangliana</b>

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: Bangalore North MP H.T. Sangliana, whose disqualification has been sought by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for voting against the whip in the crucial trust vote in the Lok Sabha, has categorically refused to apologise to the BJP leaders for voting in favour of a rival party. Mr. Sangliana was speaking to presspersons here on Tuesday after participating in a “Solidarity Fellowship” programme organised by his admirers and well-wishers.

Mr. Sangliana said in his view national interest should be above political interest and that he would not compromise with those who shared a contrary view. “Electricity is the need of the hour and Karnataka is facing severe power shortage. The issue should not be opposed just for the sake of politics,” he said. He said the BJP had expelled him and it had submitted a letter to the Speaker of the Lok Sabha to disqualify him. “After the Speaker’s ruling, I will decide my future course of action,” he said.

Blaming the State BJP leadership for ignoring his advice on giving a higher representation for minority communities in the last Assembly elections, he said had the State leaders accepted his suggestion, the party would have secured a comfortable majority in the State.

On whether he would contest the Lok Sabha elections, Mr. Sangliana said he was not the one to run away from the people’s call. On the attacks on his office, he said the Centre had provided him “Z” category security.

[dhu]

Sushma Swaraj stands by her blasts theory

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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Message to UPA Cheerleader Sonia:: Merg SIMI with Congress youth wing..
by KMR Overseas

Apparently, SIMI is the military wing of Congress.
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not a conspiracy theory, please read
by Arjun

US instructed it all using ISI as a proxy as usual. but this time congressis asked cia to teach a lesson to bJP for cash-show. The trust vote almost got delayed and if it had been post-poned by a day more congress would have lost it. congress was in a big shock and avenged it. cia now has both opposing pawns in its hands. Ultimately US wants Ndeal most & hence winning trust vote was must. After deal, the trust vote, its easier for cia to play India against china. cia wants india as launching pad against china hence it is gradually taking over indian media, indian politicians and India's intel agencies. PMO was compromised long time back. US-NRIs don’t know what they have got India into whatever good intentions they have. Shamefully bjp would have done the same under the pressure of its own NRI lobby. What NRI didnt recognise is that they being played by CIA since long time. The deal should have been stalled till obama’s days. game is all over for Indian democracy and civilization. soon US will start using India as an ammunition against china. As slave of US, India will become like pakistan in next 20-30 years. Expect no change in jihadi attacks as ISI is CIAs pet against russia. but forget that all. At the moment congress is now at war with bjp and using ISI-jihadis as pawns. Now SP has joined hands with congress expect terrorism to get worst in India. Remember this is same SP who defends SIMI in UP courts. We are in the middle of war with ourselves strings pulled by USA.
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it is not what it looks as potrayed by govt sponcered media
by Arjun

Indian intels are pretending to fumble on order. There are six types of jihadi terror attacks in India:

1) by naxals instructed by missionaries, cIA-funded-ngos when actions are taken against illegal coversions, foreign funds, undercover cia agents working as church priests are arrested. Targets local law enforcement police, army commandos etc

2) by bangla jihadi cells instructed by huji instructed by isi to divert attention from horrors in pak e.g. jaipur, zaveri-bzr

3) by joint paki and indian muslim jihadi cells instructed by isi directly to actually cause social tensions, economic damage to India. horrific carnage, e.g. 711, ayodhya

4) by abandoned local indian muslim jihadi cells to vent out frustration when caught. e.g. UP court, IISc, Hydrabad, Ajmer

5) by local blind indian muslim jihadi cells used by indian sickular political parties (gress,sp,nc-hc) to achieve social divisions for political reasons, avenge national embarrassments e.g. amdabad-bglr

6) by unknown foreign nationals (most likely afgani, uzbeks etc) instructed by ISI instructed by CIA or Chinese to achieve psy-ops on Indian public. e.g. Kandahar, parliament, Akshardham

Please don't forget ISI being pet of both china & cia has upper hand over Indian Intel. Please remember who benefits from war between India-pak and social tensions in India. USA-weapon sales, china-weaken India, Congress-gain back scared muslims. It is a big game. isi is doing contract work for BIG players. Mayawati be careful.
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Well done, Smt Sushma Swaraj. We need bold leaders
by Bharat Kr

Is it wrong to speak truth? The whole nation knows Congress is the mother of terrorism and riots. They take help from diverse Terror groups to come to power and sustain power by hook or crook.

In Asom, ULFA was founded by the Congress to destroy regional party AGP and they succeeded. In AP, they took help of naxalites-maoists to come to power. Lists goes on. Who created Bhrindanwale? By the Congress under Indira Gandhi. Who created LTTE and Prabhakaran? Congress under Indira trained him and Congress under Rajiv declared war against it.

Why Congress-led govt repealed the anti-terror law POTA, the very first act after coming to power? Why Congress don’t allow anti-Terror laws? Why Congress don’t allow to pass the Rajasthan and Gujarat anti-terror laws? When Congress repealed anti-terror law and don’t allow enacting anti-terror laws, it is clear that they facilitate, support terrorism (for their vote-banks and power).

BJP must made it clear to Congress-led illegal minority govt and the President that, as they are not allowing any anti=terror laws, they are solely responsible for all terror attacks (esp. in BJP-NDA ruled states). And BJP must make this statement clear by filing it in the Supreme Court.

I salute Smt Sushma Swaraj, for speaking out the heart. Not many people have guts to speak out heart, as all politicians want to be politically correct. Let Congress prove they have not done it to divert attention from Cash for Vote scam. Let Congress tell the nation
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RE:Well done, Smt Sushma Swaraj. We need bold leaders
by Bharat Kr
Contd from above: Let Congress tell the nation, why they don't allow anti-terror laws, and allowing terror after terror attacks in the country. The fact is that Congress-led govt itself a fraud on the nation, what right this illegal govt have to govern the nation? Is India today any different from lawless African nations?
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RE:Well done, Smt Sushma Swaraj. We need bold leaders
by Pradip Parekh

the gandis have not denied the charge. gandis are definitely guilty of ommission if not commission. gandis have created a climate in which terrorists are able to gather all sortsa info on thier intended targets for easy execution. it is like the goi is securing the beachhead for the terrorists.
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Prevent Communal Riots in City
by P

The main purpose of terrorist activity like Bomb explosions etc, is to get started communal riots between two major community.

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