Congress Undemocratic Ideology - 4

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How about posting speaker Miera Kumar family members infamous Sun magzine photos. I have in my hard disk? Which made Indira Gandhi to scream?
Her family cheated thousands of people hard earned money.
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[acharya]

Jaitley: shun arrogance

Sandeep Dikshit

NEW DELHI: The new Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, Arun Jaitley, on Friday advised the government to shun arrogance and panic while charting the country’s destiny over the next five years.

In his maiden speech as the Leader of the Opposition, he urged the government to be more consultative with political opponents and cautioned against the bumps that might appear in ties with the United States.

Arrogance and panic led to the U.S. travel advisory claiming that India faced a “high threat” from terrorism, he argued while opening the Opposition salvo against the government on the Motion of Thanks on the President’s address in the Rajya Sabha.

It all started due to the government’s arrogance which forced even those claiming a “high intelligence quotient” to act in a partisan manner by refusing to hold the Indian Premier League tournament in the country. India could easily have hosted one match an evening instead of creating an atmosphere of “national panic.”

“We had cautioned the government that it should understand the consequences or it will be clubbed with Pakistan,” said Mr. Jaitley. It was because of this government-induced panic that the Australian tennis squad refused to play in the country. “The government needs to realise that it must stop treating issues as purely partisan. It should rise to the occasion and not create panic.”

The BJP would support the government on terrorism if it departed from its occasionally soft stand and was totally committed to “zero tolerance.”

On ties with Washington, the BJP had repeatedly said it stood for close cooperation with the U.S. but was opposed to the nuclear deal being the only touchstone for bilateral ties. He saw three potential areas of divergence from the U.S. – the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, agriculture goods access negotiations in the World Trade Organisation and the issue of carbon emission norms in climate change negotiations.

He supported the government’s move to implement soon the one-rank one-pension scheme for the armed forces, thus conceding a long-standing demand from those “who secure the country and deserve not to be treated in a discriminating manner.”

The President’s address at certain places exaggerated the government performance, and the borrowing of a U.S. President’s political phraseology to promise a “new deal” to the farm sector did not impress Mr. Jaitely due to the record number of farmer suicides in the past five years, irrigation woes, low remunerative prices and the lack of potable water and electricity.

Urging a proactive role in helping Sri Lankan Tamils, he wanted the government to examine the consequences of the Sethu Samudram project before “mindlessly saying” that it has the mandate to implement it. “Rather than polarise society, the government must seriously examine new routes.”

[ramana]

From Deccan Chronicle, 6 june 2009

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->PR used to check TDJune 6th, 2009
By Our Correspondent    Hyderabad, June 5:

<b>The Praja Rajyam chief, Mr K. Chiranjeevi, has given ample indications in the last two days that he was game for the Congress strategy to use him as a foil to weaken the Telugu Desam.</b>

<b>Surprising even his partymen, he announced on Friday that the PR would not contest from Tekkali if the Congress fielded a family member of Mr Revathipathi who died before taking oath.</b> He also announced support for the Women’s Reservation Bill to be piloted by the Congress.

Though Mr Chiranjeevi told mediapersons that <b>the decision not to field a candidate in Tekkali was taken on humanitarian grounds,</b> most people read more into it.  <!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tongue.gif' /><!--endemo-->

“Though it is a good gesture it would have been politically prudent for us to wait for the Congress to make the first move and then announce it,” said a Praja Rajyam MLA.

Party leaders feel that Mr Chiranjeevi’s attempt to make a positive impression might give people the feeling that <b>PR was sailing with the Congress</b>. The Congress is delighted by the megastar’s gesture since it will make it difficult for the TD to field its candidate. <b>Top advisers of the Chief Minister, Dr Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy, have already drawn up a strategy to counter the TD chief through Mr Chiranjeevi.</b>

This was <b>evident from the way the ruling party members kept thumping benches when the PR chief indirectly attacked the TD during his maiden speech </b>in the House. Mr Chiranjeevi had found fault with Mr Naidu’s stand on the Speaker election and this was appreciated by the treasury benches.

“He should cut into the TD base more than what he did in the recent elections for us to be comfortable in the coming local body polls,” said a senior minister.

The ruling party is also trying to taunt the TD by giving more time to Mr Chiranjeevi to speak.

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Something that was suspected earlier but not understood. Looks like C'jeevi is a bigger fool than he appeared for the INC in AP is now an EJ machine and will take him to the cleaners.

[Capt M Kumar]

<!--emo&:o--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ohmy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='ohmy.gif' /><!--endemo--> From Where does this online paper gets it's news?

http://www.politicsparty.com/rahul_mayawati.php <!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo-->

[Husky]

Read between the lines. But it's actually transparent.
Bangladeshi and TSP jihadi illegals to get "first (sole) claim on resources" in India.
This is no benevolent charity, although they will certainly play it as a great secular philanthropic show.
This, then, was another objective of the slummovie 'slumdog millionaire': to evoke blind uniform sympathy for all islamaniacs in slums even when they are illegals in the country, merely *because* they live in slums.

Poor Hindus should make sure they take everything offered. Beat the evil christo government's nasty schemes to legitimise illegal islamic presence.

timesofindia.indiatimes.com/UPAs-target-A-slum-free-India-in-5-years/articleshow/4618346.cms
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>UPA's target: A slum-free India in 5 years</b>
5 Jun 2009, 0600 hrs IST, TNN

NEW DELHI: UPA government on Thursday adopted an ambitious target of making India slum-free in five years with President Pratibha Patil
announcing the launch of a special housing scheme for urban poor and slum-dwellers.

Aiming to "create a slum free India" in five years, Patil unveiled the housing scheme — Rajiv Gandhi Awas Yojana — on the lines of the Indira Awas Yojana being implemented in the rural areas.

Addressing a joint session of Parliament, the President said, "My government's effort will be to create a slum free India in five years through the Rajiv Awas Yojana."

<b>The scheme will extend financial support under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) to states "that are willing to assign property rights" to people living in slums.</b>

Patil said the existing schemes for affordable housing, including interest subsidy offer, would be dovetailed into the Rajiv Awas Yojana to make it a pilot project on affordable housing for urban poor.

"The scheme for affordable housing through partnership and the scheme for interest subsidy for urban housing would be dovetailed into the Rajiv Awas Yojana which will extend support under JNNURM to states that are willing to assign property rights to people living in slum areas," the President said.

"Over 15 lakh houses are under construction for the urban poor. There is a need to focus urban housing programmes on the poor living in slums," Patil added.

Though the government has announced to make India slum-free, it is not going to be easy for the housing ministry and urban poverty alleviation ministry to fulfil the promise in five years.

According to the ministry's data, urban housing shortage is around 25 million units and most of it, around 98%, is in the low income group and economically weaker section category.

Continuing with the ambitious aim to revamp crumbling infrastructure in cities, the President emphasised that JNNURM will continue to focus on infrastructure and basic services with enhanced support to upgrade city public transport.

"JNNURM, with approval of projects of nearly Rs 50,000 crore in the last four years, is reshaping our cities and has been widely welcomed. It will continue to focus on infrastructure, basic services and governance reform and increase support to cities to upgrade public transport," the President said.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->In the South like Kerala and TN, lots of temple lands are already given to the 'minorities' by christo governments like DMK. (Including such events as: DMK's Open Challenge to Hindus - From Krishnadevarayar Mountain to Syed Basha Mountain!)

[Bharatvarsh]

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Hire more from minorities, govt tells businesses
16 Jun 2009, 0147 hrs IST, Pankaj Doval, TNN

NEW DELHI: Making a pitch for increased "affirmative action" from the corporate sector in terms of providing jobs to minorities, the government on 
Monday said it has sought details from industry over their representation in employment. Corporate affairs minister Salman Khurshid, who also holds the portfolio of minority affairs, told TOI that the share of minorities in the corporate sector should be enhanced, though this should be done without any legislation that mandates reservation.

"We are talking about affirmative action here... engaging (the industry) through dialogue," Khurshid said while making his assertion on increased representation for minorities. He said the higher participation of minorities within the private sector was desirable. "However, there is no need for a legislation or reservation for this," he emphasised.

The minister said the government was getting in touch with the corporate sector with this thought. "It is basically like how many people are you already employing from the minorities and how is it possible to have more," said Khurshid, who is reportedly in favour of offering fiscal sops to those who consider such affirmative action.

Importantly, the minister said he would take "support" of the Sachar Committee report as he goes about implementing his idea. The Rajinder Sachar Committee, appointed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during the UPA government's previous tenure, looked into the social, economic and educational status of the Muslim community of India and recommended a number of measures to improve the living condition of the minorities.

Khurshid's assertion that he was not for a legislation to mandate his point on the welfare of the minorities should come in as a major relief for the industry that also advocates voluntary action instead of a law.

DS Rawat, Secretary-General of industry body Assocham, said the corporate sector was open to the suggestion and was taking steps by itself towards getting in more representation of the minorities. "We strongly believe that there is need for taking up affirmative action, but also say that this should be done voluntarily," Rawat said, though clarifying that this does not mean that the industry's actions would be unaccountable. "The actions of the industry towards this end must be reflected," he said.

Rawat said Assocham was already preparing a report on the status of the minorities and the backward classes in the corporate sector. "We had filed a report last year and would be submitting a new one very soon," he said. 

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[Guest]

Remember Kalavathi. No, no one remembers. Can't blame you.
Well she's a farmers wife(/widow?) from Maharasthra who became famous when last summer Rahul Gandhi used her as an example in Parliament of how UPA govt will give funds for her kids education, free electricity, loan waivers etc etc etc.. the proverbial populist '<i>chicken in every pot</i>' argument.

That was a year ago. And she's in news lately since nothing that Rahul's told her a year ago has materialized. Another long string of empty promises.

But some of Congress fans assures us that such policies take time. <!--emo&:beer--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/cheers.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='cheers.gif' /><!--endemo-->

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<b>Caste, religion column finds its way in Congress office bearers list</b>
Panaji, June 23 : A facsimile from the All India Congress Committee (AICC) allotting senior positions in the party's state hierarchy allegedly on the basis of caste and religion has sparked a controversy in the state Congress unit.

The cause for the controversy is a column titled 'community', adjoining the names of the six newly appointed office bearers. The column specifically mentions the religion and caste of the officials, along with their designation and area of operation

A copy of the facsimile is available with IANS.

<b>Newly appointed Goa Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) secretaries Pravin Kunkolienkar and Gurudas Natekar have been categorised as 'Hindu Saraswat' and 'Hindu Maratha', respectively. The new vice presidents Kanta Gawde and Vithoba Desai have respectively been slotted under 'Hindu ST (Scheduled Tribes)' and 'Hindu minority' categories.

"The honourable Congress president has been pleased to approve the following list of additional office bearers,"</b> GPCC general secretary B.K. Hariprasad said.

However, some Congressmen have called the list of officials a not too subtle manifestation of the party's penchant for caste and religion over commitment and integrity when it comes to inner party functioning.

<b>"The party high command has not done well in making caste and religion a criteria for promotion within the party. How different are we from the communal BJP or other regional parties which thrive on caste politics," </b>a member said.

Speaking to reporters, GPCC president Subhash Shirodkar said the reference to caste and religion was not an accident and that it was in concurrence with the Congress policy of inclusion of all sections of society within the party.

"There is surely no mistake. We give every information about prospective office bearers to the high command... they decide whom to choose according to their wisdom," Shirodkar said.

<b>The state party president further insisted that the presence of the caste and religion column was intentional. </b>
--- IANS
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-60406.html

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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Violence in Azamgarh after BJP leader killed</b>
22 Jun 2009, 1228 hrs IST, IANS
LUCKNOWL: The murder of a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader sparked off violence and tension Monday in Uttar Pradesh's Azamgarh district, police said.

<b>Agitated over the killing of Bhairav Singh (50), who was shot dead Sunday</b>, a large number of party workers took to the streets and targeted several private and public vehicles in parts of Azamgarh district, police added.

"In the wake of the series of protests, we have deployed additional security in various areas of Azamgarh," district police chief Ramit Sharma said over telephone.

<b>Singh, who was also a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) activist, was shot dead by two motorcycle-borne men, just a few metres away from his house</b>. Even as the reason for the murder is yet to be ascertained, police suspect the incident could be the fallout of political rivalry.

Acting on the complaint of Singh's family, police have registered a case against two men of the Raidapur area in Azamgarh. (<i>Why their names are not mentioned ?-must be congis &/or muslims)-NK</i>

"The two are absconding. We are carrying out raids in various areas to nab them," said Sharma.

Azamgarh is about 300 km from Lucknow.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/article...7,prtpage-1.cms
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[Capt M Kumar]

<!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo--> it is being rumored that Veerapa Moily(hailing from karnatka; also notorious for Moily tapes), the current law Minister of India is doing the spade work for ex-law Bhardwaj who is now the governor of Karnatka
http://www.politicsparty.com/bjp_topple.php
So, Moily is the dark horse in the race and once toppling is done, Bhardwaj and Moily will swap; of course Moily as CM of Karnatka.

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How can a CM make racist remarks, asks BJP
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The Congress party is facing serious flak for Mizoram Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla's reported remarks about he being a victim of racism himself in India, during a conference in Singapore on June 25.

Addressing a networking session on the 'business of water in India', Thanhawla touched upon the issue of identity crisis among Indians with regard to northeastern states and said: "<b>Even after landing here, many people ask me: 'You do not look like an Indian!' Even in my own country, wherever I go to, Delhi [ Images ] or down south, while I say 'I am from Mizoram,' (I am asked) where is Mizoram? I tell them that this is in their own country. And, I ask many people, who claim themselves to be national leaders: 'Why do you not accept that our great country is populated by at least three major races of the world?'</b>"

The chief minister's remarks have evoked strong reactions from the Opposition. Bharatiya Janata Party [ Images ] leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi has demanded that the Centre come clean on Thanhawla's statement. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Gee, does Sonia madam get same questions as this Thanahawla?

[Guest]

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Congress gag on officials </b>
OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
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Sonia Gandhi 
New Delhi, June 28: <b>The Congress has advised its functionaries not to comment out of turn on policy matters or sound “more Left than the Left” or like the BJP’s Murli Manohar Joshi.</b>

<b>The party has issued orders that all officials can convey to Sonia Gandhi and her aides any reservations they have with the Centre’s policy announcements or the conduct of individual ministers.</b>

Sources said that if the party saw merit in their opinions, it would take up the issue at an “appropriate” forum, such as the core committee that meets on Fridays and has Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Sonia as members.

The orders have been issued in the context of the criticism levelled at human resource development minister Kapil Sibal’s blueprint for education reform last week.

<b>A Congress official, who counts himself as “close” to Sonia, had talked openly of how the minister “transgressed” his mandate by going public with the roadmap without consulting anybody.</b>

He had said that before unrolling changes that “struck at the kernel” of the education system, Sibal should have met Congress Working Committee members and representatives of the parliamentary standing committee on human resource development.
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[Husky]

^ Mudy's post more important.


<!--QuoteBegin-Viren+Jun 29 2009, 08:43 PM-->QUOTE(Viren @ Jun 29 2009, 08:43 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->How can a CM make racist remarks, asks BJP
<!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The Congress party is facing serious flak for Mizoram Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla's reported remarks about he being a victim of racism himself in India, during a conference in Singapore on June 25.

Addressing a networking session on the 'business of water in India', Thanhawla touched upon the issue of identity crisis among Indians with regard to northeastern states and said: "<b>Even after landing here, many people ask me: 'You do not look like an Indian!' Even in my own country, wherever I go to, Delhi [ Images ] or down south, while I say 'I am from Mizoram,' (I am asked) where is Mizoram? I tell them that this is in their own country. And, I ask many people, who claim themselves to be national leaders: 'Why do you not accept that our great country is populated by at least three major races of the world?'</b>"

The chief minister's remarks have evoked strong reactions from the Opposition. Bharatiya Janata Party [ Images ] leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi has demanded that the Centre come clean on Thanhawla's statement. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Gee, does Sonia madam get same questions as this Thanahawla?
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<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->1. Thanhawla shouldn't worry about it. KKKongress went to convent-madrassas and so the KKKongress KKKlan have not heard of Mizoram. In fact, Teesta's map is what congress uses: where Kashmir floats off 'independently' (eventually onto TSP - "it's a miracle!")

Sadly, the pseculars of India also went to state-sponsored convent-madrassas and don't know Mizoram and hence can't imagine that Mizos are Indian.

Don't worry, Hindoos know the map of Bharatam.
Even I have seen this map now and again, in spite of being somewhat geographically challenged.


2. But what does Thanhawla mean with "our great country is populated by at least three major races of the world"?

I'm confused, being a Hindoo mowglee onlee.

<i>What "3 races"???</i> The japhetites, semites and hamites? <!--emo&:blink:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='blink.gif' /><!--endemo-->
(He couldn't have been referring to the 3 major linguistic categories, since only convent-madrassa education teaches that "linguistic group==population group". Even then, where 'race' comes into the equation is beyond me.)

Oh wait. Sorry for being so slow. He used the wrong word ('race'). I think he means that in Bharatam, there's
1. the Dharmics,
2. the traditionalists of non-Dharmic traditions (Parsees, Jews), and of course
3. the alien, uninvited, unwanted, parasitic christoislamicommuniterrorists (nazis for short).

I agree.
So, which of these does Thanhawla identify with? (Mizoram being significantly christist)

[Husky]

http://rajeev2004.blogspot.com/2009/06/mor...rise-which.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>more from the UPA thugs - no surprise which party this is</b>
so much for democratic principles - eh? I guess it is the logicla last step for the UPA thugs. what after placing a pliant president and that chawla in the election commission. it is abut time they get to the judiciary too


timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Union-minister-tried-to-influence-me-HCjudge/articleshow/4717850.cms
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[Guest]

<b>Union Minister tried to influence me, says HC Judge</b>

My guess is Ramadoss, he is one of the most corrupt politicians and must be saving his friend another Doctor behind.

[Guest]

<b>Andhra MP booked in slapping incident, Cong orders inquiry</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Hyderabad/New Delhi A Congress MP in the eye of a storm for slapping a rural bank manager in Andhra Pradesh--an incident caught on camera-- has been booked by police and an inquiry was ordered by the party leadership on Wednesday.
M Jagannath, the Congress MP from Nagarkurnool, said he was "sorry" for the incident in Mahabubnagar district on Monday but denied having slapped the manager.

<b>The MP claimed his hand only touched the cheek of Ravinder Reddy</b> <!--emo&:furious--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/furious.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='furious.gif' /><!--endemo--> , a manager of a AP Grameen Vikas bank branch, when he tried to put it round his shoulder.

Employees of the Grameen banks in the Congress-ruled state were up in arms and staged protests in several districts and stopped disbursal of loans under government schemes. The bank branch where the incident happened has threatened to go on strike from Thursday.

Police booked a case against the MP on charges of assault and use of criminal force to deter a public servant from discharge of his duty and said investigation was on.

"We have booked the case on various charges like assault. Investigation is on," a police official said.

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He said he did not intend to slap the bank manager who, he claimed was not disbursing loan amounts to the SC/ST beneficiaries.

<b>The MP, who said he will meet party president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday, claimed he was treated with disrespect because he was a Dalit. </b> <!--emo&:devil--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/devilsmiley.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='devilsmiley.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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He should resign from Parliament or declare Indian Parliament is gathering of criminals.

[Husky]

http://rajeev2004.blogspot.com/2009/06/rva...abroad-are.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>rvaidyatolen funds secreted abroad are not just a tax issue</b>
jun 29th, 2009

more good stuff from the good professor.

http://www.dnaindia.com/money/comment_indi...evasion_1269625
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http://www.dnaindia.com/money/comment_indi...evasion_1269625
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>India's illegal wealth abroad is not just an issue of tax evasion</b>
R Vaidyanathan

Though not a part of the UPA government's agenda for the first 100 days, the issue of illegal money in tax havens like Switzerland has fortunately not been brushed under the carpet post-elections.

The finance ministry has indicated it is taking steps to recover the amounts and also said the government of Germany has given a list of names of those whose money is lying in the LGT Bank of Liechtenstein. The response also shows steps have been taken in the case of Pune stud farm owner Hasan Ali Khan's illegal transactions through the UBS Bank of Switzerland.

Interestingly, the response of the Union government in the SC indicates that tax demands of Rs 71,848 crore have been raised against the said person, his wife and other associates. If this were the tax demand, the income on which it is raised may be more than Rs 1.5 lakh crore, taking into account compounding, penalty etc. This is a mind-boggling figure, given that our national income for this year is about Rs 50 lakh crore. But something more interesting has been reported.

"Swiss authorities told an Indian news magazine that Indian authorities submitted in the case of Hassan Ali Khan, who has a Swiss bank account, a request in January 2007 for legal assistance to the Federal Office of Justice. Swiss authorities, upon domestic inquiry, found that the banking information provided with the request for legal assistance contained 'forged documents'.

Swiss authorities want to provide further assistance in that case if the Indian authorities could satisfy the Swiss government's demand to establish dual criminality -- what is crime in India is a crime in Switzerland. The Swiss also wanted to know whether the offence was an object of Indian money-laundering. Since April 2007, the Indian government has not responded," it was reported.

The Indian government says it cannot disclose the names provided by Germany as they have been obtained under the Double Taxation Treaty but it has initiated proceedings against the accountholders under tax laws.

This begs the question -- why did the government of India ask information under the Double Taxation Treaty when the LGT Bank issue doesn't have any link to that? Besides, where is the question of confidentiality when dealing with criminals? Germany has released its own list; how then is it asking India not to release it?

A report in a financial daily said out of 50 names in the LGT Bank list, 25 were from Mumbai, none being big industrialists or well-known individuals. Not surprising -- big industrialists and politicians will hardly hold these accounts under their names.

They will be under benami names. Tax authorities have reopened the assessment of all the 25 tax evaders under section 148 of the Income Tax Act. This implies that the government is treating the case only as tax evasion and not as capital flight and corruption. These are international crooks that have deprived India of huge resources by capital flight. This can be equated with financial terrorism.

Tax havens are against transparency. There are concerns that a lot of money is being generated through bribery, receipt of kickbacks, drug-backs, drug-trafficking, insider trading, embezzlement, computer fraud, under invoicing, and other scams, all of which have a major impact on common people.

Ill-gotten money can be laundered through companies floated in tax havens. If a terror outfits decides to transfer resources to India from Monaco or Luxemburg, or some of the islands in the Caribbean Sea, or some dot-like country in Micronesia or Polynesia, it can adopt a simple strategy. Its investment manager can structure some device or product for transferring resources into the target country, maybe through a subsidiary or a conduit company in a tax haven.

Some check was being done when income tax authorities investigated the cases of the non-residents to see the profile of the real operators and beneficiaries to prevent persons of the third states from taking advantage of bilateral treaties. The effect of Circular No. 789, issued by the Central Board of Direct Taxes in 2000, is to subvert this check. The circular made the Certificate of Residence granted by a tax haven government conclusive for two things
(i) the authenticity of the fact of residency
(ii) the beneficial ownership of income

Due to the mandatory directive, income tax authorities won't be able to know the real operators and income earners. Terrorism can flourish under such circumstances. Those who issued this circular didn't seem to have thought they were unwittingly facilitating terrorism and anti-India activities.

It was recently reported that Citibank was told to suspend retail sales over money-laundering in Japan. It was suspected that the bank has allowed 'anti-social' bodies to open several hundred accounts. Recently, the US media reported on Saudi money being used to finance terror outfits in Bosnia and Pakistan possibly using tax havens as conduits. These should make us much more alert as we are the worst-affected by terrorism.

India should move the UN Security Council and other multilateral bodies to close these tax jurisdictions. The sooner, the better.

The writer is a professor of finance and control at Indian Institute of Management-
Bangalore and can be contacted at vaidya@iimb.ernet.in. Views expressed here are personal and don't reflect those of the organisation<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

[Husky]

2. http://rajeev2004.blogspot.com/2009/07/ram...-setu-good.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>ram setu = bad; rajiv setu = good. nomenclature terrorism at large.</b>
jul 1, 2009

india is positively like north korea. everything is named after the 'great leader'.

i understand bombay's bandra worli sea link is now called 'rajiv gandhi setu'. oh, lovely.

i understand that chennai's IT highway, the old mahabalipuram road, is now called 'rajiv gandhi road'.

is there anything in india that is not named after this guy, or his mother, or her father?

i propose that india be renamed as (drum roll...) 'rajivstan'. yeah, just like 'pakistan'. so that the indian ocean can be renamed the 'southwest china sea', reflecting what the chinese think it is.
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Read comments, this is interesting if true:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>nizhal yoddha said...</b>

    kapi, i believe 'neher' means 'stream'. the nehrus were ferrymen is one version i have heard.

    the other version is that 'ganga dhar' (note that there is no 'nehru', that is the full name) was a mohammedan, giyazuddin ghazi, in disguise. 'ganga dhar' is supposed to be their family patriarch. apparently, after the british sacked delhi in 1857 and started beating up on the mohammedans, giyazuddin, who was a kotwal in delhi, ran away and reincarnated as 'ganga dhar'. adding credence to this is the fact that the only known portrait of 'ganga dhar' shows him in a full pathan outfit. hardly likely that a hindu kashmiri would spend a fortune on a photograph decked out in a beard and pathan clothes. implication: 'ganga dhar' was a pathan, period.
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^ Mudy's post more important.


[quote=Viren,Jun 29 2009, 08:43 PM]How can a CM make racist remarks, asks BJP




2. But what does Thanhawla mean with "our great country is populated by at least three major races of the world"?

<i>What "3 races"???</i> The japhetites, semites and hamites? <!--emo&:blink:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='blink.gif' /><!--endemo-->
(He couldn't have been referring to the 3 major linguistic categories, since only convent-madrassa education teaches that "linguistic group==population group". Even then, where 'race' comes into the equation is beyond me.)

Oh wait. Sorry for being so slow. He used the wrong word ('race'). I think he means that in Bharatam, there's
1. the Dharmics,
2. the traditionalists of non-Dharmic traditions (Parsees, Jews), and of course
3. the alien, uninvited, unwanted, parasitic christoislamicommuniterrorists (nazis for short).

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im sure the 3 race-clines of India he refered to are the usuall and wrong description of India races:
-caucasian
-australoid(dravidian)
-mongoloid
Lets see in more detail

First ,how race-clines are formed?
BY isolation from each other for 10.000-20.000 years in different climatic conditions .
Caucasoids are isolated from afroids by Sahara desert and from mongoloids by Himalaya barrier.
Australoids(Australia,Papua,Andaman islands) are isolated from everybody else by Indian ocean.Because the ecuatorial climate they live ,they preserve the afro-look(but whit many differences).
What is a caucasoid?
Is a middle race formed betwin India and north Africa .The lack of important genetic barrier in this region(like Sahara and Himalaya) lead to a relative uniformization of this area.
What is the difference betwin caucasoid and and mongoloid comparative whit afroid and australoid?
Caucasoid-mongoloid developed a neo-teny(child-like) complex meaning they have more gracile bones and features.
Mongoloids have even more neoteny caracteristics comparative whit caucasoids.

Are dravidians australoids?
By skin color and broad nose(the normal adaptation to tropical climate) they are similar whit afroid-australoid complex.But because of their neoteny complex they go in the caucasoid group.Same it goes for african and midlle east caucasoids.
Dravidians are in the same caucasoid category as north-indians.
The only real australoids are in the Andaman islands.

For India ,the race-cline could be described like that
-95% caucasoid
-5%mixed caucasoid-mongoloid
-0,1 % mixed caucasoid-australoid.

All from above if we really care about the race and other minor differences.
The semitic-hamitic-iafetic sistem or language base race is obsolete.

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Minister A. Raja tried to influence judge: Jaya
AIADMK chief J. Jayalalithaa on Thursday alleged that it was Union Communications and Information Technology Minister A. Raja who had tried to influence Madras High Court Judge R. Reghupathy in a case involving a doctor-son duo.
The case pertains to the anticipatory bail pleas of a 3rd year MBBS student and his father. The two were booked by the CBI for allegedly using the services of a Pondicherry University official and a middleman to increase marks.
Reghupathy had said a union minister sought to influence him to release the petitioner on anticipatory bail. Though he did not name anyone, Jayalalithaa said: "It does not require super human intelligence to conclude it was none other than the telecom scam-tainted A. Raja. He deserves to be sacked from the Cabinet.”
Jayalalithaa also claimed that Raja knew the accused doctor and son.