<b>BJP will stand by Varun politically and legally: Rajnath</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Unwilling to take any chances, the district administration in Etah, 300 km from the state capital Lucknow, <b>had said it planned to videograph the Rajnath Singh-Varun Gandhi meeting for security reasons</b>.
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Can they do it ? or it is some low life IAS officer brain cells again gone into drain.
Why no privacy?
<b>Sonia declares Rs 1.38cr assets; owns no car or house</b>
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->RAE BARELI: Congress president Sonia Gandhi has assets worth around Rs 1.38 crore but has no car or house in her name in the country. ( Watch ) Congress president Sonia Gandhi waves at her supporters as she makes way through the city to file her nomination in Rae Bareli. (AP Photo)
The Congress leader owns an ancestral house in Italy, which has an estimated market value of Rs 18.05 lakh.
The UPA chairperson has Rs 75,000 in cash and deposit of over Rs 28.61 lakh in UCO bank, according to the affidavit filed by her before the district electoral officer.
She also has investments of Rs 20 lakh in mutual funds and holds RBI bonds worth Rs 12 lakhs besides 10 shares of Maruti technical services private limited and 500 shares of Western India Tanneries Limited.
Gandhi has invested Rs 1.99 lakh in National Saving Scheme and has a deposit of Rs 24.88 lakh in personal provident fund (PPF).
The Congress president has <b>jewellery worth Rs 11.08 lakh </b>besides<b> 88 kg of silver ware worth Rs 18.37 lakh.</b>
Gandhi owns agricultural land worth Rs 2.19 lakhs in Sultanpur and Deramandi villages.
The Rae Bareli MP paid Rs 5.58 lakh as income tax in the 2008-09 besides paying a wealth tax of Rs 32,512.
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Another crorepati without job who enjoys life on Indian tax money.
<!--emo&:ind--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/india.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='india.gif' /><!--endemo--> Claiming the development achieved by Gujarat was an example, he pointed out that the Gujarat government (state-owned Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation) found huge gas reserves on the shores of Andhra.
"The Andhra government was sleeping. Now they are requesting me to do something for their face saving," he said, and assured people of Andhra Pradesh that they had as much right on these natural resources as Gujarat.
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Rahul Gandhi's new jackpot.
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# In 2004, he held bank deposits of Rs 11 lakh, £30,000 and $19,200; shares of Rs 3.9 lakh; LIC and other savings certificates in Rs 3.80 lakh; jewellery worth Rs 1.25 lakh; and a farm house worth Rs 9.8 lakh.
# In 2009, he holds bank deposits of about Rs 20 lakh, LIC and other savings certificates of Rs 10.2 lakh; land worth Rs 40 lakh, jewellery worth Rs 1.5 lakh; and two shops in a mall worth Rs 1.63 crore.
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The richest candidate so far, going by assets declared, is Lagadapati Rajagopal, the owner of power generation and infrastructure company Lanco, and the Congress
candidate from Vijayawada. He has shown assets worth
Rs 299 crore. In 2004, he had declared assets worth just
Rs 9.6 crore. In other words, during the five-year UPA rule, his assets went up 30 times or by almost 3000%.
And Rajagopal isn't the only politician whose wealth has grown. It's a general trend. There are many more who have bigger assets than the Rs 67 crore declared by D K Adikesavulu, the richest MP in the last election.
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Folks, I want to post this for any one who talks about Loksatta and greateness of Mr. Jaya prakash Narayan. I got sick of well to read and decent people who thinks great about this fellow. He is using the innocence to his actual hidden agenda. Next time if some one refers his we can refer to this post. I did research whole day to convince few folks on BR.
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<b>Regarding JP and Loksatta, </b>it seems like a lot of folks have some concern due to my allegations. Well I am biased against him and hence no point in going over the same again and again. My view is mine and rest can have their views. I have provided the basis for my views in the previous pages of this thread.
However here is my research and please take what ever is worth taking.
Particular interest is
<b>Foundation for Democratic reforms in India-FDRI (US-based support group and resource centre)</b>
This is an NGO based in US and no wrong in it. Most of the members are desi folks with India interests like many of us here. Nothing wrong so far.
The following is a link that has a lot of other unrelated information ( ignore). IE can crash because of the size of the text file. However, you can save it and read it.
I am copying here some interesting info/links to FDRI and what it does in association with Berkley University CA. <!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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<b>The FDRI/Berkeley Conference on Indian Democracy held at the University of California, Berkeley, on September 26 and 27, 2008, had a 2-hour session on the human rights situation in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh.</b> The panel consisted of Justice Srikrishna (former Justice of the Indian Supreme Court), Vishwa Ranjan (DGP of Chhattisgarh), Nandini Sundar (Professor of Sociology, University of Delhi), Sunil Kumar (Editor, Daily Chhattisgarh) and Dipti Bhatnagar (Students for Justice in Chhattisgarh).
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Chhattisgarh is the site of an ongoing conflict between Naxalites (Maoist insurgents) and state security forces, including the state-backed "Salwa Judum" vigilante army. Counterinsurgency programs have displaced over 300,000 tribals from their villages. The state security forces, including the Salwa Judum, have been implicated in many instances of extrajudicial killings, rapes, extortion, torture and theft from adivasis, the main inhabitants of the mineral rich southern part of the state. <b>Human rights activists who have criticized state actions, journalists reporting on state atrocities, and tribals resisting forced dislocation have been aribitrarily detained, harassed and/or imprisoned under the draconian Chhattisgarh Special Public Security Act of 2005, and accused of working for the Naxalites.</b> <i>{Mytake: How to help Naxals is the remote agenda}</i>
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The Demands
Apart from the unconditional release of Dr. Binayak Sen and other political prisoners, community members also demanded that the Salwa Judum be disarmed, the Black Law (Chhattisgarh Special Public Security Act of 2005) be repealed, and the use of child soldiers in counter-insurgency measures be prohibited.
Videos:
1. DGP Vishwa Ranjan on Ajay TG's case: http://tinyurl.com/3lqm5c
2. DGP Vishwa Ranjan answering Srividhya's question on Dr. Binayak Sen's arrest: http://tinyurl.com/422bbr
3. Attorney Rajeev Dhavan says charges against Dr. Binayak Sen false; asks DGP to resign: http://tinyurl.com/45cp56
4. Protestors chanting slogans after the session is over:http://tinyurl.com/52dvcq
1.FDRI/Berkeley conference is an annual conference organized jointly by the
Federation of Democratic Reforms in India (http://www.fdri.org ) and the Center for
South Asia Studies, Berkeley
2. Human Rights Watch report on Chhattisgarh: "Being Neutral is Our Biggest
Crime" Government, Vigilante, and Naxalite Abuses in India's, Chhattisgarh
State, 2008 http://www.hrw.org/reports/2008/india0708/index.htm
3. Faculty Petition with signatures: http://tinyurl.com/3mywo7
4. Questions for the DGP available at : http://tinyurl.com/4yjvjf
5. Front and Back copy of the post card signed by DGP of Chhattisgarh,
Vishwa Ranjan : http://tinyurl.com/42ne68
6. Text of the speech delivered by Dipti Bhatnagar: http://tinyurl.com/4yzjmp [See selected slides ]
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A lot of folks have a good understanding about many of the orgs above. I rest my case regarding the links of JP to what kind of NGOs are these.
Now I want to take a little bit further regarding JPs statement after recent blasts in Hyderabad (inside the Lumbinpark and Gokul chat). <i>{please do not ask me for links and proof again <!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo--> as I don't want to dig them}. </i>He said on TV that he neither want to condemn who did these not want to condemn government. A great statement.
Next if there are any great admirers of JP please enlighten this forum about what he thinks of Nation, nation state, national security and importance of armed forces etc. I don't see any such references in his free flowing lectures.<i><b>{My Take: he belongs to candle kissers}</b></i>
People from AP may know another name called as Kannabhiram (AP Civil liberties association leader). He used to protest against any shooting of naxals or maoists.
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see the content of the link -
President K. G. Kannabiran {Many APites know this fellow}
General Secretary Pushkar Raj
To me JP is just a modern avatar of such folks and the dhimmis are just following him and wasting their votes and time. I rest my case.
In Kerala, where imperialism is a word that sells like hot cakes, the biggest international issue figuring in the campaigns for the 15th Lok Sabha election is not meltdown or the US attack on Iraq. It is: Who all are the âagentsâ of Israel in Kerala?
In the eye of this storm are two Congress candidates â former UN Under-Secretary General Shashi Tharoor and former State Minister KV Thomas. Almost all Muslim organisations have declared that they will work against these two candidates.
But the issue of Indiaâs growing interest in relationship with Israel does not end there. The CPM has wielded this as a sharp weapon against the UDF candidates. The CPM is doing it just for concealing its own frailties: The SNC Lavalin corruption case, in which party State secretary Pinarayi Vijayan is an accused, and the issue of poll pact with Abdul Nasser Madani.
But the UDF is worried. The first victim of such a campaign is the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), a constituent of the Opposition UDF. They are contesting two seats, on which one of the candidates is none other than Union Minister of State for External Affairs E Ahmed.
The IUML has been on the defensive on international issues. Ahmed refused to resign as the Minister when the 123 Agreement issue came up. He voted for the UPA Government in the trust vote in July last.
<b>Brave Sikh Journalist flings shoe at Chidambaram</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->April 7, 2009
A shoe was thrown at Home Minister P Chidambaram during a press conference in New Delhi on Tuesday.
The shoe was thrown by a journalist from the <b>Dainak Jagran daily </b>, Jarnail Singh, who was asking a question on the 1984 Sikh riots.
The man was immediately taken off the conference room and has been detained. While speaking to reporters, Jarnail Singh said that it is his way of protesting against the clean chit given to Congress leader and riots accused Jagdish Tytler.
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If you watch background of Chidambaram, why Congress party election symbol and Sonia pictures? They are breaking rules.
<b>BJP promises to check illegal immigrants with ID cards</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->"The introduction of ID card to every Indian will help the government identify illegal immigrants, especially from Bangladesh, and deport them," Advani said at an election meeting in central Karnataka, about 200 km from Bangalore.
The ID card will also help the government to prevent infiltration from across the borders and check the terror activities indulged by many of them, Advani told a gathering of about 15,000 people amidst tight security.
Accusing the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government of compromising on national security and failing to check infiltration or to deport illegal migrants from the north-east region, Advani said though the Supreme Court struck down the Illegal Migrants (Determination by Tribunals) Act (IMDTA) in July 2005, infiltration and influx of illegal migrants continued unabated from Bangladesh into north-eastern states.
"One of the root causes for escalating terrorism is unchecked infiltration and entry of illegal immigrants from Bangladesh in thousands. We need to find a permanent solution to end this menace," Advani asserted.
Highlighting the salient features of the party's manifesto and the IT vision document released for the general elections, Advani said besides computer literacy for all, the party's IT strategy would usher in e-governance across the country to infuse transparency across every layer of administration.
Karnataka is scheduled to go to polls April 23 and 30, with 17 constituencies in the first phase and 11 in the second phase.
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Congress, Commies and low life corrupt babus will provide fake IDs to illegal for vote, money and other kind of favors from illegal immigrants.
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Lucknow: A young Uttar Pradesh official's suicide due to alleged demands for bribes by his superiors is threatening to become an election campaign issue and has also refreshed public memory about the lynching of a government engineer in January in similar circumstances.
Syed Ghayas Ahmed, a 26-year-old assistant manager of the Uttar Pradesh Pradeshik Cooperative Federation (UPPCF), ended his life by hanging from a fan in his hometown Allahabad on Saturday.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<b>Shiromani Akali Dal announces cash award for shoe-throwing journo</b> <!--emo&:cool--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/specool.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='specool.gif' /><!--endemo--><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->New Delhi, April 7 (IANS) Praising Delhi journalist Jarnail Singh for his 'courage and bravery' in hurling a shoe at Home Minister P. Chidambaram during a press conference, Sikh political party Shiromani Akali Dal Tuesday announced a cash reward of Rs.200,000 for him.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
How about donkey ride to home minister, with black paint on his face and neck decorated with sleepers?
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It's a shame that CBI is playing Cong stooge
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Earlier this month, <b>CBI had given a clean chit to 1984 anti-Sikh riots accused Tytler and sought permission from the court for the closure of the case against the Congress leader.</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Couple years ago:
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How come Laloo's held to a different standard compared to Jaswant Singh?
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How come Laloo's held to a different standard compared to Jaswant Singh?
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In India, seperate law for Sonia's shoe licker class and Aam janta.
Aam janta is least important. CBI, Indian Embassy, IAS , IPS, IFS babu corrupt class works for 10 Janpath and paid my Aam Janta tax money.
<b>Bogus claims of Congress</b>
Gautam Mukherjee
<i>This general election is not just about âunityâ and âdivisivenessâ, about âsecularismâ and âcommunalismâ, as the Congress would have us believe. The Congress speaks of âunityâ as an euphemism for appeasement and lets terrorists roam this land and strike at will. Its unabashed poll-time talk of âunityâ is both appalling and sinister</i>
<b> Jolt to SP on poll eve as State secy resigns</b>
The struggling Madhya Pradesh unit of Samajwadi Party (SP) trying to consolidate itself got another jolt on the eve of the parliamentary elections when its secretary and in-charge of the Bhopal parliamentary constituency Shamsul Hasan alias Balli resigned from the party here on Tuesday.
<b> Sushma warns BJP workers against overconfidence </b>
Senior BJP leader and in-charge of Lok Sabha elections in Madhya Pradesh Sushma Swaraj has urged the Assembly segment in-charge and sector in-charge of Vidisha parliamentary constituency to continue election campaigning seriously.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Shabnam Mausi aims for new record by entering Lok Sabha</b>
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PNS | Panna
Independent candidate from Khajuraho Shabnam Mausi, who was the first eunuch legislator from the country, is not fond of silver jewellery but owns property worth lakhs of rupees.
Shabnam, 48, has become cynosure of all eyes in her constituency courtesy her unique style and interesting mannerism. She prefers gold jewellery and possesses <b>85 'tola' gold jewellery. However, she has kept 200 gm silver as a token</b>.
Shabnam was elected to the Madhya Pradesh State Legislative Assembly in 1998 from Sohagpur constituency in Shahdol district. She now aims for a new record by entering the Lok Sabha.
In an affidavit filed along with her nomination,<b> Shabnam stated that she had Rs 11 lakh in two bank accounts, a post office account and Rs five lakh LIC policy</b>.
<b>Besides, she owns a Sai Baba temple worth Rs 20 lakh at Jamunia Hola here and possesses a Bolero jeep</b>. Shabnam said she had entered the fray with the intention of selfless service. She promised to bringing a new era in backward and poverty-stricken Bundelkhand region.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Amar Singh threatens to quit SP over Azam Khan</b>
SP general secretary Amar Singh has threatened to quit the party over his differences with senior party leader Mohd Azam Khan.
"It seems that the party can exist without me, but not without Azam Khan," Singh said while talking to reporters during a seminar on Muslims' issues here on Tuesday. He said Azam Khan had used foul language against him on several occasions. "If the party leadership thinks that Azam Khan is essential for the party, I am willing to leave the party," he said tersely.
"There is a limit to my patience. I have always been asked by the party leadership to exercise restraint and not to retaliate. I may be small fry compared to Azam Khan but<b> I will not tolerate abusive language from anyone," </b>he said.
Trouble between Amar Singh and Mohd Azam Khan, one of the SP's founders and the Muslim face of the party, has been brewing <b>ever since Jaya Prada contested the Lok Sabha election from Rampur in 2004. It was Amar Singh who brought in Jaya Prada as the candidate from Rampur.</b>
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SP disowned any allegiance to programme and said that Azam has turned rebel. Talking to TOI, city party president Nasseruddin said, "The way Khan saheb is behaving I think he is no mood to reconciliate despite repeated positive overtures given by SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav. I also think that he has started playing in the hands of Congress who is trying to polarise Muslim voters in the name of Azam."<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
04-08-2009, 12:18 PM (This post was last modified: 04-08-2009, 12:18 PM by Bodhi.)
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