Captain Davendra Singh Jass is as great a hero if not ‘Greater’ than Sachin Tendulakar.

Updated Feb,26th.2010: Thanks to reader sarathy.amudhan for providing the photographs.

Capt-Devinder-Singh-Jass

Naik-Selva-Kumar and Imtiyaz Ahmad Thokar

Just as we are supping ‘Tea with Terrorists’ (Indo Pak FS level Talks) at Hyderabad House one brave Indian soldier would be on his last journey, not very far from the place.

I am appalled to see that no ‘Sec-Soc’ 24X7 Nuisance Indian Channels have shown courtesy to spare few moments for Martyred Captian Davendra Singh Jass.

Yesterday we saw how these 24X7 Nuisance Channels were ecstatic about Sachin’s 200 runs in Gawalior ODI. Not that I have anything against Sachin or his feat being celebrated. No not at all.

If Sachin is a hero- which indeed he is- then Captain Davendra Singh Jass is as great a hero if not Greater.

Captain Davendra Singh Jass a 26 year old brave man sacrificed his life fighting Islamic Terrorists in Kashmir and yet ONE BILLION SELFISH AND THANKLESS Indians and our 24X7 Nuisance Channels have no courtesy to spare some time in his memory!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What A Shame!

Captain Davendra Singh Jass: An IIIT alumnus and student of Management gave up his lucrative career and choose to serve the Nation and this is how the Nation treats him?

Shame is the only word which comes to my mind.

This PI salutes the Brave Captain Davendra Singh Jass and hope someday this Thankless One Billion Strong Nation would learn to treat the ‘Real Heroes’ with respect and honor they deserve.

PI.

ps: Can’t find any pic of him on net, readers please update me if u find please.

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Devil’s Advocate: What has changed since 26/11/2008? Nothing, except Shiv Raj Patil! Complete the ‘Farce’ bring him back too.

Mumbai Vigil: By Lighting Candles alone we want to wish away terrorism?

Kind Attention:

Extremely Respected Ma Balidaan Moorti Reverend Sonia ‘Maino’ Ji Gandhi.

Preamble: This is an earnest appeal to bring Back Shiv Raj ‘Zombie’ Patil as first anniversary of 26/11 approaches. I submit my case for ‘Zombie’s’ Political Rehabilitation, please consider.

As the first anniversary of Mumbai Mayhem is approaching, so has the Padamshris of MSM packed their bags and have camped in Mumbai. This Padamshri ‘tweeted’ “off to mumbai with half- a voice, for we the people! hoping to see some of you at the show, and others later on twitter. have a great day.”

Well who could have any objection (except Raj) for anyone to go anywhere in India, leave alone Indians any Rana, Hadlee, Bhatt can go anywhere; do whatever… for, we are ‘Socialist, Secular, Liberal, Progressive Society’ constantly under watch by our ever so efficient 24X7 ‘Sec-Soc’ MSM. So if our Padamshris and not yet decorated Media Gurus go and camp at Ground Zero, no one should have any grudge – especially I do not have any.

For I understand first anniversary of 26/11 Mumbai Mayhem is ‘VERY BIG MEDIA EVENT’ and like any other Professional Company MSM too has the right to milk the EVENT to it’s fullest.

However, I can foretell what we are going to serve with…

One Padamshri will hold ‘her’ Darbaar at Gate way of India with same set of people (who we saw last time lighting candles) appearing, saying same things they said last time.

Same Home Minister (Patil who was sacked then’ is back now) will mumble same inanities he mumbled last time.

Same lesson how the ‘Resilience’ of Mumbai is legendry and blah blah…

Same channels, same stories, same gory music in background, same footage of same events along with the same commentary of same anchors. Phew!!!!!!!!!

Same crocodile tears, same sermons about communal harmony, same theories about foreign hands – Now this is especially important for them to emphasize as a Son of a Motor Mouth Secularist too figures in investigation making it imperative for MSM to delink him of any wrong doing, if only to salvage the ‘secularists’ bruised ‘exaggerated ego’ in public eyes.

Equally sure  same time I am that the famous whipping boy of MSM, Narrender Bhai Modi would find more than ample scorn thrown at him for “Gujarat Holocaust”, HOLOUCAST!!!! Right Mr. PM? As we are to believe that terrorism of secular variety started from then on!

Some New Ideas for the First Anniversary of Mumbai Mayhem are however being implemented too.

Saw AB Jr. exhorting people to call each other for one hour (8.36 Pm to 9.36 Pm on 26/11/2009) that day as he ensures us that revenue earned will be given to victims. BUT then this IDEA is of a famous cellular company and they might be right (Sic!) in exploring public sentiments- if not to earn profit, for some publicity at least. These days- in any way- MSM ad slots are high and this stunt is far cheaper.

(One thing, lest I forgot, did you notice that how much RS. Are added to your phone bill when you send an SMS to News Channels? I DID AND THAT IS BIG FAT RS. FIVE. Got It? Where the normal SMS charge is 1.50 Rs. Alone! So who is making a kill?  Wonder why every TV Anchor asks you to SMS them Y/N for each stupid question? Scandalous! Need to be investigated.)

Now my point is: nothing has changed since then and nothing will ever. So why punish ‘Zombie’ Patil alone?

Last time faithful MSM had spread the public anger against the inefficient Congress Govt both at State and Center over the entire Political Class thus diluting the anger against Congress Govts. And that was a very cleaver and smart move by MSM- led by PadamShris (whom you (Sonia) blessed) from front. Move paid and MSM’s Favorite party is back in power again- so nothing has changed. Not even the public.

Now even if for a change we will see Same State Home Minister (who was sacked for his failure by your good self) paying tributes to those brave hearts!  Then what has the poor ‘Zombie’ Patil done? Therefore my humble submission is to Please bring back Shiv Raj ‘Zombie’ Patil – if not as Union Minister of Home then as Governor of Maharashtra at least.

As this is a farce alone, so why not complete it by including Shiv ‘Zombie’ Patil?

Why should only poor ‘Zombie Patil’  be deprived of the ‘Gala Media Event’? Is it fair?

Hail Democracy! Hail MSM! Hail One Billion Indians!

As for this ‘audacious’ PI. I…

Will not light candles.

Will not watch Media circus

Will not read paper’s detailed accounts.

In short I will not be part of this ‘farce’. PERIOD

I simply pay my tributes to those who fell in the line of duty and have become mere statistics. AND for those too who will soon fell and become statistics since nothing has changed nor it seems; will ever.

PI.

PS: Excuse me for my cynicism, but it is how it is.

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Oh Yes! I am Tweeting. WOW! I am ‘loving it’ too.

Tweety BatMan

Finally, I decided to download TweetDeck after almost 8 months of opening this tweet account. I was hesitant because I felt 140 words might not be sufficient to express one’s opinion. Well I was wrong.

For two three days I observed people (especially my fellow bloggers friends) and was amazed how this medium has brought the community more closer than ever. Tweets reach to large nos of people is amazing, so is the speed with which you communicate.  Sharing links, picking up clues, in real time could not have been better. Some of Tweets were complete post in itself ‘Micro Blogging’? Well Yes Indeed. I too did tweet    and enjoyed and believe me contrary to my apprehensions (what ever I had ) the response has not only been encouraging but simply great.

Thanks to you all.

Now if this ‘Tweeting’ becomes another cause of Barkha Dutt Didi’s concern -considering she has already and always been furious with bloggers – now this Tweet too? So be it. I must admit that the most of tweets I happened to read reflected some ‘undisputed and uncontested’ love for Barkha Didi and Rajdeep Bahiya such as these ‘PadamShris’ really deserve. 

Wonder some tweeter too might attract Barkha Dutt Didi’s special attention as the ‘Hapless’ Kunte invited – I most certainly do not want to be The One.

Anyway I do not see what the purpose of writing this post is! 

Well simply this: I am Tweeting and I am Here and most Importantly, I am enjoying it.

C u soon …. Happy Tweeting.

PI.

 

PS: BTW was Tweet available last year Nov 2008, Mumbai attack time? Will Some one please enlightens me.

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‘Perfidious Media’ v/s Narrender Modi: Modi wins hands down.

BJP under Narrender Modi in Gujarat has wrested five seats from the ‘Secular Congress’ in bye-poll held on Sept, 10^th 2009. In Gujarat, the BJP wrested Jasdan, Chotila, Dehgam, Danta and Sami-Hariz from Congress while it lost Kodinar to the Congress which managed to retain Dhoraji alone.

BJP also has won one each in Madhya Pradesh and Uttarakhand.

These results are significant for two reasons at least…

1. The media’s immoderate reportage, off-late, of whatever good or bad was happening inside the BJP, had reached to the nauseating crescendo. Media had almost written off BJP and anybody who is any damn body in MSM, had penned down the ‘obituary’ of the party.
2. The ‘Secular Congress’ and its ‘dirty tricks department’ choreographed a ‘magisterial’ report and ‘henchmen’ in Media lapped it up and splashed it all over on the eve of Bye-Election. Only to ensure Modi’s defeat by consolditing the ‘secular vote bank’ behind the Congress – as always. Only for their (MSM) pursuit of winning/securing favors from the ‘reigning queen’ of 10 Janpath.

But then, people of Gujarat and MP and Uttrakhand are wiser than these ‘media henchmen’ of Sonia ‘Maino’ Gandhi. People have voted and pronounced their verdict. Possibly, the chosen mandarin this time could not manage the BYE-Elections ‘as truthfully’ as he did during elections for Lok Sabha 2009.

As results were declared this afternoon (Sept, 14th, 2009) I am hardly surprised to see a complete mum on 24X7 Channels as if the ‘Cat has got their tongues’! Imagine: just incase the results were reversed in favor of Sonia ‘Mata’s Secular Congress!

Lucky for them (MSM), Sachin and Dhoni have – by scoring a century and half century respectively- given them (MSM) a face saver and an excuse to hide their shamed face.

24X7 ‘maudlin reporters’ are ‘NOW’ busy discussing ODI being played at Sri Lanka.

BTW, it would be really interesting to see what the Padamshri Barkha Didi, Padamshri Rajdeep Bhaiya and other ‘Padam’ awardees in MSM (including print media man too) answer and mollify Madame Sonia for their (MSM) collective failure in ‘maligning Modi Campaign’ on eve of By-Election this time, and as a policy 24 hours  365 days of year.

Padam Awarded Editors/Managing Editors/Editors in Chief etc and those ‘aspiring’ ones too have a lesson to learn from this: perfidy of yours was too well known to voting ‘prudent voters’ and they are the ones who matter.

Period.

As for you Padam Bhushans/Shris of MSM, here one of you ‘Padamshri’ Shri Shri Rajdeep had said I quote him with my comments in ‘saffron’ (communal color?).

So be it.

Padamshri Rajdeep Sardesai on June 26th, 2001 in a seminar.

Another reason for the problem is the changing self-image of the journalist, and his role in a democratic system. For a long time the journalist’s role was seen to be that of an independent observer of events. But observation alone can be rather tedious and not very financially productive either. So, over the years, the journalist has chosen to move from the margins of the fourth estate to being firmly on the centre stage, closer to the first estate (read first family Sonia ‘Maino’ Gandhi’). Ideological corruption is as much a part in this process as anything else. A journalist can get close to a political party (read Congress), business house (read Reliance Anil Ambani Group (update: then in 2001 now it is Mukesh as Madame wishes) or an individual (read Guru Amar Singh (update: he too is discarded after this)) in a manner that compromises his (read the journalists) independence (simply put: paid and paid for the job to do for ‘Madame’). Having acquired that proximity (with Congress and the Maino family), the journalist can then use his clout on a larger scale, playing kingmaker (as he DID) in cementing political alliances (By STILL not telecasting tapes) at the centre or in providing the (Help winning the political and/ or pay masters) link between a minister in the Union cabinet (?) and a business house (we all know, who.) in need of a favor. (Yes, do tell us please, is to serve the greatest cause of saving Hindustan from Communal forces?!)

Sonia ‘Maino’ Gandhi ‘owned’ congress is just a political ‘front’ for forces unseen, it is ‘perfidious MSM’ who have been playing games (for lucre and fame or may be what else sinister agenda they have and is not disclosed as yet) but ‘detrimental’ to Hindus and Bharat. Modi has given them a befitting reply and I pray: ‘let the Modi tribe grow’.

Modi’s win is a tight slap on not Congress’s face alone; but on ‘perfidious media’ and 24X7 sec-soc channels too, sorry we can not distinguish between you two.

24×7 and Padamshris, will you please, ‘Shut Up’ Now?

PI.

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It pays to be ‘secular’ when elections are on: SP Tamang’s report on Ishrat Jahan.

Sec Soc MSM's Crow Mentality.

Political observers have observed a ‘definite secular pattern’ whenever elections are due in Gujarat and/or in any state/states where the Balidaan Moorti’s Secular party has high stakes. 

Broadly the pattern is: As soon as the Election dates are announced the hunt to find an/any Issue which is emotionally sensitive to the Biggest ‘Secular Vote’ bank of the party begins. As if on a clue; some inquiry commission/committee, Human Terrorists Rights Flag bearers, some 100% SECULAR NGOS run by Padamshri (!) come out with a ‘damning Modi’ report in Media and then the entire ‘Sec-Soc MSM’ take command in their ‘Professional Hands’ – already ‘suitably greased’ with Padamshris, Bhushans, free plots, privileges etc.  – and they take care that the issue is discussed/debated on each and every program 24X7 till the voting date at least, from there on it is the able hands of ‘Election Commission’ under Shri Naveen Chawala to take care. 

As I am punching keys, North Gujarat and Saurashtra region of Gujarat are casting votes to fill up 7 vacancies in a by-election for state assembly. Maharashtra; a politically significant state for NCP and Sonia Congress, Harayana and Arunachal Pradesh shall go to polls on Oct 13^th- almost a month from now. 

Just couple of days before Gujarat goes to by-election, One Additional metropolitan magistrate comes out with an ‘inquiry report’ and ‘dutifully submits’ that to the Media and ‘sec-soc’ MSM not only laps it up; but splash that all over!!!!! 

SECULARISM AT FULL SWING on poll eve! 

Now what the report is about: Ishrat Jahan and her four male accomplices shot dead by Gujarat police as they (police) had reliable, actionable and confirmed information provided by the Centre (Manmohan Government).

Three days ahead of by-poll in Gujarat SP Tamang  [Additional] Metropolitan Magistrate  come to the conclusion that the police faked the ‘encounter’ with four ‘terrorists’, among them a young college student, Ishrat Jahan, to secure promotion and appreciation. 

Not only ‘conclusion’ which this AMM reached at, amazing is the speed at which he reached at! IN 25 DAYS FLAT! A Gujarat Govt source has told me in confidence that the report submitted is ‘hand written’. 

Amazing! Isn’t it that [Additional] Metropolitan Magistrate SP Tamang was in some tearing hurry!

Interestingly AMM SP Tamang thought it fit to release this report via Media on the eve of by poll!. 

Who did SP Tamang [Additional] Metropolitan Magistrate submit report to? 

Mukul Sinha: Defense lawyer got it before even Gujarat High Court did. 

What did Mukul Sinha the ‘defense lawyer’ does? 

He calls selected ‘Sec-Soc’ MSM and releases the report. 

What Does the ‘Sec-Soc’ MSM does? 

The Hindustan Congress Times splashes it, Barkha Didi’s 24X7 Channel shows 24X7 prominently so did Rajdeep Bhaiya  too jump in – lest Barkha Didi run away with ‘Better awards’ than him. Other channels too followed ‘cacophony’ and lo and behold: Modi is damned for killing an innocent ‘Collage girl’ as patriotic as you and me! And this line is toed by other sundry but equally secular Media pundits…and all this happens just three days before Gujarat goes to By Polls! 

This whole thing (submission and reportage of the ‘fake encounter’ report’) is acquiescently ‘choreographed’ by ‘Secular Brigade’ just ahead of Voting. 

In SP Tamang [Additional] Metropolitan Magistrate’s own words,

…that the police faked the ‘encounter’ with four ‘terrorists’, among them a young college student, Ishrat Jahan, to secure promotion and appreciation. The incident occurred on June 15, 2004, in the outskirts of Ahmedabad… 

Point taken Sir. 

Does the Tamang’s ‘lightening speed’ findings, submission of ‘handwritten’ report to Sec-Soc MSM just two days ahead of polling qualify to be ‘accused and imputed- as he does to the policemen’ - to the same motive… i.e  ‘ (to) secure promotion and appreciation’ from powers ruling India from 10 Janpath! 

After all ‘Modi Bashing’ is an industry and many ‘secularists’ have benefited from it by making millions and by securing Padamshris/Bhushans for selves. Teesta, Barkha, Rajdeep, Shekhar Gupta, Vinod Dua etc etc are some names which come to mind instantly. So does Retd.Justice UC Baneerjee or Justice (Retd) JS Anand and top of all Justice (Retd) Rajeender Sachhar. 

In short and in Rajdeep Bhayia’s own words, ‘Secular’

  “Hamam Mein Sab Nange Hain”

 

Sadly though,neither this is first time; nor will be the last, when ‘serving’ or retd members of Judiciary too have ‘acquiesced’. 

As if Secular Polity and Secular Media were not enough! Secular Judiciary too joins the circus. 

Ideally the Election Commission should have taken a suo-moto notice against this blatant violation of ‘code of conduct’ and held report and it’s reportage on hold. But then, it is under Shri Naveen Chawala of ‘emergency vintage’; so we all know what to expect. Don’t We? 

PI.

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‘Shame Less Surrender’ of Indian National Interest by Sonia’s Prime Minion to Pakistan.

National Interst? What? Sonia's Interest is what matters: MMS

The credentials of Shri G Parthasarthi are beyond reproach, especially in matters related to ‘foreign affairs’ he is an authority. G Parthasarthi is apolitical, unbiased and most importantly does not carry any ideological baggage and neither does he have an axe to grind unlike the Sec-Soc media and ‘Sonia stooges’ in MSM. I always look up to Shri Parthasarthi for a clear perspective on matters related to ‘foreign policy’, especially when it is related with Pakistan.

The abject surrender by the MMS and his team of worthies at Sharm – el- Sheikh is what Parthasarthi calls as ‘Sharm -less-  Surrender’ and this sums it all up and very aptly. No need to say anything more here, I leave that to the ‘foreign affairs experts’ to enlighten us.

Since after this ‘Shame Less Surrender’ MMS is back and has been facing flak – rightly so- from all quarters. There is an outrage and people are angry about the sell out and that ‘too’ to Pakistan. The new entrant to the Sonia family owned ‘secular party’, MOS foreign affairs Shashi Tharoor dismisses it as just…

“It’s all very well for the people to say that somehow India’s interest was compromised by a few words on a piece of paper that is not a legal document,” said Tharoor.

As if this was not enough…

“It (the joint statement) is a diplomatic paper that is released to the press different from legal papers,” he maintains.

Tell me again that this man ran for UNO Secretary General’s post!

Coming back to the ‘Shame Less Surrender’ to Pakistan and the subsequent reaction in India, I wonder what all this annoyance is about! Is it the first time that the prime minister (and all Congress men/women) has sold out India’s advantage to Pakistan in hope of consolidating and harvesting ‘secular votes’ during elections!

Foreign policy for any country is a serious issue and is taken with utmost sincerity. Only the ‘National Interest’ of their country is supreme most and all the countries in the world including Pakistan recognizes it, but Alas! We Indians are an exception. We are the ONLY country in the World (and mind you BILLION + STRONG) who prides in self for capitulating and shortchanging our ‘strategic, military and even diplomatic’ advantages over Pakistan for petty gains. And ‘petty gains’ for whom? For ‘we the people of India’? NAY- but for the petty gains of one Family and for their stooges alone.

This is not an accusation hurled at Sonia or at her Prime Minion in anger or in a fit of rage. No. PM after PM from the Congress stable has blundered with such sickening frequency. The Congress has perfected and copyrighted it in the hope of garnering ‘secular votes’. Congress’s unstated policy /belief is that Pakistan must be placated anyhow if Congress is to appear secular in the eyes of the Indian Muslims. This is an affront to Indian Muslims too, if only they (Muslims) understand it. My charge is that the Congress has failed India time and again and at the cost of India’s National Interest.

This is just to refresh your memory of certain misdeeds committed (at our and our beloved nation’s expense) by the Prime Ministers from the ‘secular party’.

Starting from beginning (the root cause of all problems) Pandit J L Nehru (Chachaji) could just not suppress his urge and compromised on the Indian claim to Kashmir. He went on radio to announce and then on to UNO, despite the sane advice of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel against doing so. But then Chacha Ji had the propensity of using, in my dear friend Sandeep’s words,

“How a man whom a lot of liberals consider the “architect of modern India” allowed the wrong part of his anatomy to interfere in strategic decision-making.”

Do Read and weep.

Chachaji did not stop here only, he went on and ‘traded off’ India’s historic and cultural influence over Tibet with the then Chinese PM for some hollow promise and see how China swallowed Tibet! Chachaji had big illusions of being a ‘World Leader’ so some shortchange of ‘National Interest’ in pursuance of that goal was ok with him.

Now I hold Shri Lal Bahadur Shastriji in high esteem, but even he too lost the strategic and military advantage over Pakistan in Tashkent, a deal brokered by the communist USSR. This was followed by the death of Shastri Ji @ Tashkent under not so clear circumstances.

Indira Gandhi – way back in 1971, whom Atal Ji then hailed as ‘Durga’ – is remembered and known ‘more’ for splitting Pakistan into two. As a matter of record Sam Manek Shaw drafted that victory and capturing 90,000 Pakistani soldiers alive was his ‘achievement’ and that too was squandered away by Indira ‘Durga’ Gandhi after the ‘infamous’ walk on Mall Road of Simla with wily Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.

What did India gain except some hollow promises from Bhutto in exchange of these POWs (Prisioners of War)?

Not for nothing my Grandfather who served Indian Army then in these two wars, derided  Congress Netas as ‘Gandhi Topis’  for squandering the military gains (at the cost of Soldiers lives)  across the negotiating table to Pakistan for known only to them ‘gains’.

Prince is no different either.

What explains then the release of 90,000 (NINTY THOUSAND PAKISTANI SOLDIERS AS POW) could they not have been used as a bargaining tool to settle all and any disputes with Pakistan for once and all and ON OUR OWN CONDITIONS? What then made Indira to let go free these 90,000 Pakistani soldiers? And now their ‘progeny’ make such a hue and cry of releasing four Pakistanis in exchange of 200 lives brushing aside the exchange of FIVE terrorists for Saeed’s daughter Rubihya!!!!

But No, both father (Chachaji) and daughter did nothing in the larger interest of Nation but for their petty gains. Both were seriously myopic and self centered .As for poor Shastri Ji, he died in mysterious circumstances and I have nothing against him.

Had things stopped here would have still been of some commiseration. But no, we are doomed to be misgoverned by Congress. PV Narsimha Rao though considered as the best PM among the Congress stable, aborted Nuclear Tests presumably under US pressure. It was for ABV to defy even the omniscient and omnipresent US Satellites to conduct that when he became Prime Minister.

If Chachaji and the original Mrs. Gandhi – born Indian at least - played havoc with Indian National Interest, could then a Prime Minion under a ‘Reluctant Indian’ of ‘Italian origin’ do better? So why the hell this outrage!!!!!!!

After all 15% of India’s  ‘secular’ population is to be kept in good humor for them to vote ‘en block’ during elections for the ‘secular party’  and voting ‘strategically’ against the ‘communal party’ – equating them (Indian Muslims)  with Pakistanis is not an insult to them, but Secularism! And this ‘Secularism’ propounded by Chachaji and followed by other Congress men/women/Babes and Babes is the key to power.

MMS is toeing the same line as his predecessors did; and his ‘ Big Fart’ at Sharm – el – Sheikh is nothing unusual, just in line of compromising Indian National Interest at the altar of a ‘few secular votes’.

Shameless are they?

No, they were in power and have ‘managed/manufactured’ another win too.

Now it is to us ‘The Billion strong nation’ to be shame faced and feel betrayed by yet another Congress Pm @ our cost. As for Sonia’s Prime Minion: he sure has ensured his ‘pension’ and ensuing perks.

PI.

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‘JAI HO’! Of Course, but whose? SONIA, MAN-MOHAN, PP or JANATA KE?

Jai Ho!       

Cartoon courtesy: Missplayers

The Election Commission has not only exceeded its brief but has made a fool of self by asking BJP not to field Varun Gandhi. It is sad if not outright stupid. Former Election Commissioner GVG Krishnamurthy explains why.

The Election Commission has no jurisdiction to take action against Gandhi” for his alleged inflammatory speeches.

The model code of conduct comes into effect only after President Pratibha Patil notifies the elections in the official gazette. Till then Gandhi cannot be considered an Election Commission recognized candidate.

The commission has acted in haste in moving against Gandhi for violation of the model code of conduct under the provisions of the Representation of Peoples Act 1951.

Only the police can move against him under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) for inciting communal passions.

As of now Varun is only a probable candidate and an ordinary citizen against whom action can be taken only under the IPC if he makes inflammatory statements.

The Election Commission has no role to play till the notification of elections by the president.

‘Wonder of Wonders’! This time I found this ‘Chamcha in Chief’ in agreement with me though he is still defending ‘Dynastic Scion’ albeit on the other side of political divide. Good going CIC. You know well how to keep the both sides of bread buttered.

The ‘really actual’ fun will began … of course at our cost…when Shri Shri Naveen Chawala will take over as the ‘CHIEF’ Election Commissioner on April 21st- right in the middle of this election 2009- courtesy the Sonia ‘Maino’ Gandhi’s handpicked Prime Minion and Your President. But then… for some, ‘Dynasty is always superior to Democracy’ despite this sane advice “If we fail democracy, democracy will fail us.”

JAI HO!

BCCI to stage IPL abroad over security issues.

JAI HO!

We a BILLION strong nation comes to standstill because we are a ‘Democracy’!!??

JAI HO?

With Sonia ‘Maino’ Gandhi as ‘Supreme most’ we can not hold a ‘domestic tournament’ even in our Billion strong nation!

JAI HO!

With ‘Economist’ Prime Minion ‘alleged’ to be at the helm of affairs of BILLION strong nation – hardly seen or reported or recognized as – even by the ‘babas and babes’ of Congress; leave alone ‘AAM ADAMI’!!!

JAI HO!

Last but not least three cheers for ‘Your President’ too…

JAI HO! JAI HO!! JAI HO!!!

My dear friend Mallika has posted this video asking who’s ‘Jai Ho’?

Congress Ki Ya Janata Ki?

See this video here and send to as many as you can. Congress might have BOUGHT the copyright and deservedly so. I choose to say ‘Jai Ho’…  

Mallika, JANATA KI HI JAI HOTI HAI OR HOTI RAHEGI.

IS LIYE ‘JAI HO’ JANATA KI.

PI.

 

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Devil’s Advocate: Varun Gandhi’s ‘Allegedly Communal’ Speech, Secular Wailing and BJP’s Confusion.

Varun Gandhi on March 4th while attending a ‘workers meet’ in Pillibhit is alleged to have made a speech which has in turn made the Sec –Soc MSM go into a frenzy and their ‘Secular Wailing’ has become unbearably nauseating.   

On Varun’s speech,Sandeep here has made an excellent post and I agree with him somewhat. Here is my take on this issue.  

To start with, Varun’s ‘alleged’ speech CD first. 

• Is it proven beyond doubt that this is what exactly he said?
• Is it proven beyond doubt that this CD was not doctored? After all MSM does not cover itself in glory when the matter relates to fake stings and dubious CDs, doing rounds of News Broadcasters, whenever elections are around.
• Why has the CD been not telecast earlier on 4^th of March when this ‘allegedly communal’ speech was made? Why was the matter delayed till 16^th March?
• Who all were holding this CD for 12 whole days and why?
• MOST IMPORTANT: Who has recorded this speech? On watching this video it is very clear that it was not recorded by a professional cameraman but by someone else. Where is that camera on which this video was recorded?

These are a few pertinent points that need to be considered before Varun is pronounced guilty of ‘hate speech’ and/or ‘inflaming communal passion’ and whatever adjectives MSM is using against Varun Gandhi. 

Furthermore, our country has a constitution with well laid down laws and procedures that need to be followed before pronouncing anyone guilty. So why is there such a great hurry to damn Varun even before his guilt is established? 

Well, the reasons are not difficult to comprehend when we look at the famous players behind this ‘Secular Wailing’!

Here is one Padma Shri Madame’s strongly secular 24X7 news channel chosen to telecast the CD after a gap of 12 whole days!!!! Since March 16^th the Padma Shri’s channel has been engaging the fast dwindling audiences with their secular rant and has already pronounced Varun guilty and just short of hanging him; has recommended all sorts of punishment that range from debarring him from the electoral race to sending him to jail for three years maximum!!!!  

Another Padma Shri of ‘Congress News Network’ has the gall to say, “…we must not allow Varun to get away so easily.”  AUDACIOUS! Pray May I ask him what should be done with you Sir for the role you played in rescuing the Baliddaan Moorti’s handpicked Prime Minion by ‘hiding the tapes’! HUH! 

‘Hamam Mein Sab Nange Hain’, of course! Hiding the tapes then and showing it NOW repeatedly! WOW! Look who is talking!

I am not sure about what Varun is supposed to have said, but if at all he has said what he is ‘alleged’ to have said, then I think that this is what most Hindus have been feeling since Her Majesty inflicted her handpicked Prime Minion on us.

The Muslim first policy and unabashed ‘minority (read Muslims) appeasement’ in the name of Secularism has done no service to either the Muslims or the Hindus but has only helped to widen the gulf. (It is foolish to think that this ‘gulf’ does not or did not exist by mouthing meaningless and hollow platitudes). If it is at all true what Varun is alleged to have said, it is only the manifestation of this simmering anger among the Hindus.  

Now BJP’s confusion. 

BJP’s confusion is pathetic to say the least. Flip Flop! I, for one, hold this opinion that ‘BJP lost 2004 not because of being seen as a Hindu party but for not being a Hindu Enough party’ which could be very simplistic but true nevertheless. I wish the BJP had learned some lessons from the past and not tried to be so enthusiastically ‘secular’.

PI.

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Barkha Dutt & ‘Freedom of Speech’. HUH!

    

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Padam Shri Barkha Dutt Ji who is next on your hit list?

 

 

 

One blogger Chyetanya Kunte wrote an angry post after being rightly pissed off watching the TV reportage during Mumbai Mayhem. He has not only been forced to retract his post (google cache is available here) but publish unconditional  apology too. Presumably after being threatened with legal action by Padam Shri Barkha Dutt or NDTV or both. Well I am not surprised at all. Ms. Barkha Dutt has always held bloggers with contempt and has always been angry at them.

I join the bloggers fraternity and strongly condemn this highhandedness. Ms Dutt and NDTV forfeit any right to be sanctimonious about the ‘freedom of Speech’ and all that blah blah. So next time we hear you Barkha- preaching us about ‘Liberal’ values and all that, even my 10 year old daughter know what to do with the remote.

Ms Barkha Dutt and her 24X7 News Channel has picked on a poor blogger to settle some scores but will Barkha Didi answer why Kunte alone? Ms Dutt, did the Admiral not say the same thing?

Many in the media have managed to secure for selves one or another Padam Shri or Bhushan (despite this sane advice here) and they feel that they are above any scrutiny, criticism, and appraisal. Smug in their belief they feel only they have the right to speech and speak what ever they want! MSM has monopolized over the public discourse and force their opinions on the gullible public.

Now, Ms Dutta and her colleagues in media have started a new trend of intimidating the dissenting voices.

So next time when we see the Padam Shri Editor In Chief  of a channel sit over sting operation tapes he himself commissioned and let the favorite party win a crucial parliamentary fight, we sit and watch him.

So next time when a kid is brutally murdered; we watch the channels play endlessly porn reporting! We take no offence to the way channels report!

Any time any news channel frames a School Teacher and telecast the physical assault on her, live! We sit and watch!

Next time Ms Dutt or her esteemed collogues in MSM report the police action or preparedness for anti terrorist operation airing  live on air giving away the positions of security personnel thus jeopardizing their lives during any terror attack. We sit and remain silent.

We watch, read these champions of ‘Free Speech’ and ‘Liberal Values’ preach us 24X7 and dare we not question them EVER. Lest we are slapped with legal notices and the might of these mighty Padam Shris and Bhushans are unleashed.

What a glorious way to celebrate the spirit of ‘Democracy’! Shame!

So Barka Didi; am I to going to get a legal notice soon? Yes, in that case please do me a favor and type an apology your self on my behalf I will publish that but I wont retract this on any of earlier posts.

PI.

BTW here are some more interesting posts.

Barkha Dutt Ko Gussa Kyon Aata Hai?

‘An’ Admiral and ‘The’ Barkha Dutt.

 

Barkha Dutt and NDTV, the Joke is on You!

This is Where Barkha Comes From

NDTV’s Assault on Free Speech (the best)

When ‘free speech’ bears a price tag

Shame on NDTV and Barkha Dutt

A bedtime story about blog freedom

Throw the Constitution Away

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Sagarika Ghosh: Bloody Mary or Bloody Idiot?

Here she goes again, as if you ever expected any thing sensible from her! But this time she is hell bent to prove that she needs some immediate ‘Psychiatric Attention’. Well, it may sound harsh – but then sample this…

approximately 700 deaths in six years is not a very high figure, not a figure suggesting that we are ‘a nation at war’.

Yes! I am quoting her from this ‘enlightened piece’ published as Bloody Mary her weekly column in Congress Rag called The Hindustan Congress Times.

Indian cities have been raining with bombs; people are being blown to bits on weekly basis; Saturdays are incomplete with out a Bomb going off some where killing men/women/children and yet ‘the Lady’ has the audicity and doesn’t blink her ‘beautiful eyes lashes’ even once before asserting above?

Tell me, is she not a fit case for some deep ‘psychoanalysis’?

Now to start with: from where did she get this ‘700 deaths in six year’ figure? Even if for a moment sake I trust her figures but then.

May I ask… Ms. Bloody Mary?

Were these 700 lives Expandable?

Were they not Indians?

Did they not deserve the right to Live?

BTW Ms. Bloody Mary, I am sure none of your near and dear ones were among these 700 people! Or you would not have written the same. PERIOD.

But she does not stop at insulting the blasts victims alone. Rubbing salts over fresh wounds; she goes on to say…

Are these bomb blasts, acts of ‘terrorism’ in all the epochal evil and ideological potency that the word ‘terrorism’ today implies? Or are they simply acts of motivated criminality on which we are imposing our own ideological-political vocabulary. In the frenzy of television news, a crude bomb in a garbage bag acquires the same proportions as an aeroplane crashing into a building. But not every blast in a box is  9/11.

By her assertion we should patiently wait till another 3000+Indians perish at the altar of ‘secularism’ or/and  ‘some misguided’ youth take a cue from HER and blow up some more important building – since Parliament Attack was foiled – Rashtripati Bhavan should be the ideal NEXT one. Right? Ms. Sagrika Ghosh alias Ms. Bloody Mary?

Ms. Bloody Mary admits…

We are all guilty. When 24 hour TV news shows a dead body 60 times in the space of an hour, one death begins to look like a hundred.

For once I agree with her here on this point (and that has nothing to do with her a beautiful face and me a born flirt). But Ms. Bloody Mary does this apply universally? What about when an obscure church (a make shift Hut/Church) is attacked some where (in remote Dalit Christians VS ST Christians fight) and your 24X7 Channels keep showing it repeatedly as if all Churches in India have been gutted?

Read this

In the ‘encounter’ in Delhi’s Jamia Nagar, 17-year-old Sajid, 24-year-old Atif and Inspector MC Sharma of Delhi’s Special Cell died.

OUTRAGEOUS! SIMPLY OUTRAGEOUS

Two terrorists and One Brave heart Inspector are equated without a Sentiment for the MAN dying for us- The Billion strong  Nation!  DO any of you need more proof to know how perverse ‘The Lady’ is?

If her reference to 9/11 was not IDIOTIC enough, she hints at another one. Read

If our ‘terrorism’ is of the al-Qaeda variety, why are there no suicide bombers in any of the recent urban blasts?

Hello! O, you ‘misguided youths’, she ‘exhort’ – so it seems, if not insitigatating them- answer her please. As if Ms. Bloody Mary long to see the day when 9/11 happens in India! Sic!

Now, advocating for terrorists is one thing and that passes as the ultimate litmus test for the ‘secularists’. Any secularists worth his/her ‘secularism’ who come up with some more ‘inane’ and innovative,manufactured  defense/excuse/apology for a terrorist-  is a better ‘Secularist’ and  this is known to all of us and we are resigned to this fact. Well, some of us do keep contesting, but even then these guys have more reach, must admit howsoever unfortunate it may be.

Arif Mohamed Khan has exposed some games these islamists and their apologists – including Secular 24X7 Channels play. Read this eye opening article.

AMK tells us some facts about Jamia and surrounding areas

On the other hand, attracted by this large population, more than two dozen Muslim outfits have established themselves in this neighbourhood taking upon them the responsibility to lead and organise the religious and social life of the community. They include organisations like the Personal Law Board, Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat and Jamaat-e-Islami. None of these organisations is known for promoting social reform or education. Most of the time they are competing with each other in crying wolf and pressing the need to fight against imagined threats to the Muslim religion and identity. Occasionally they also succeed in securing positions of power for their nominees and this political patronage helps them to widen their network in the community.

Now is Mr. Arif Mohammed Khan a ‘secular’ person or not? Enlighten us Ms. Bloody Mary.

Mr. Arif exposes some of the tricks employed by these ‘secular forces’…

During the war in Afghanistan, public expressions of solidarity with Osama bin Laden were made and posters in his support were pasted in the area by some self-appointed champions of Muslim interests. This was done despite the knowledge that Osama and Al-Qaeda were directly involved in Terror activities in Kashmir.

He narrates another one…

The other organisation with headquarters in this area is Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat. On the slightest provocation they would call for a boycott of celebrations of Independence Day or Republic Day giving rise to communal tension. It is true that on every occasion they had withdrawn the calls, but that did not help in lessening the tension.

This about the most vocal All India Muslim Personal law Board whose members flock the Secular 24X7 studios.

The most important Muslim organisation operating from the Jamia neighborhood is the All India Muslim Personal Law Board and its affiliates. During their agitation against the judgment of the Supreme Court in the Shah Bano case, the members of AIMPLB made public exhortations to break the legs of Muslims who differed with their stand. Their supporters went to the extent of suggesting that Supreme Court judges are not competent to interpret Muslim personal law.

Since Mr. Khan – having said all this – is not a ‘Secularist’ therefore ‘Secular Jihadis’ forgot about this incident (murderous attack on Arif Mohamed Khan @ Jamia) and prefer to keep a mum on this. Read about this incident this MSM is afraid to tell.

In 1990, Prof Mushirul Haq, the vice chancellor of Kashmir University, was killed by terrorists in Srinagar. Since he was an old teacher of Jamia, his burial took place inside the campus. As an academician I had held him in great esteem and during the Shah Bano controversy had sought his opinion on several occasions. I went to attend his last rites and walked almost a kilometre with the funeral procession. After reaching the burial ground suddenly the lights went out and in that darkness I was attacked with an iron rod, causing head injury. Later, inquiries revealed that the students who had organised the blackout and attack belonged to the Jamaat-e-Islami. It is important to recall that the banned organisation, SIMI, was mostly manned by young activists inspired by philosophies like that of the Jamaat-e-Islami.

Mr. Arif has a ‘sane advice’ for Secular Jihadis like Ms. Bloody Mary in 24X7 secular media and Secular Parties alike.

The establishment must realise that the police can fight terrorists, not terrorism. Terrorism can be contained only by a strong political will that identifies and isolates individuals and organisations promoting a violent mindset and does not favour them with political patronage.

But will better sense prevail? Will the likes of Ms. Bloody Mary and her ilk in MSM and people like Zombie, MMS or Balidaan Morrti heed to Prudent advice?

I am afraid, NO. Why?

As Ajai Sahani has pointed out here ‘Bogus debate on terrorism’. He laments

There is a constant clamour about the failure to solve cases of terrorist attacks. But when a case is cracked and the guilty tracked, there is an immediate uproar over the ‘targeting of innocent Muslims’ and human rights activists come up with bizarre conspiracy theories.

It is absolutely apparent now that these ‘Secularist Jihadis’ are menace and it is high time that the people of India see through their nefarious designs and Arise!! Awake!! And Stop Not Till This terrorism is uprooted. Or else any one of us or all of us will be a mere statistics on this Bloody Mary’s next post.

Bloody Marry?  HUH! Bloody Idiot.

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Rajdeep Sardesai: Uuff! Skeletons have started tumbling out of Cupboard.

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Yesterday in this post I had said,

Now, this is my third and hopefully last post in the ‘honor’ of Padamshri Rajdeep Sardesai and his Congress News Network…

But I did not know then that would be writing another one, yet again that too so soon.

Yesterday three most crucial witnesses deposed before the ‘Parliamentary Committee’ probing the charges of ‘Cash- for- Votes – Scandal.

These three are…

Shri Sudheendra Kulkarni: Shri Kulkarni is an important aide to Shri Advani and is a regular columnist for Indian Express. Shri Kulkarni felicitated the CNN IBN commissioned ‘Sting Operation’.

Shri Sohail Hindustani: The man who played the role of ‘middleman’ between Amar Singh, Ahmed Patel duo ( both Vote Managers) and three BJP (Whistle Blowers) MPs. Sohail and CNN IBN team planned and executed the ‘Sting Operation’ commissioned by Rajdeep’s Channel CNN IBN.

Sanjeev Saxena: Man who delivered 1 Crore Rs. To three whistle blower BJP MPs.

Thanks to my dear friend Offstumped for publishing the ‘Detailed Written Statements’ as made by TWO most Important witnesses before the Parliamentary Committee probing the Cash-For-Votes-Scandal.

Read at Offstumped full written statement of Shri Kulkarni.

Read at Offstumped full written statement of Sohail Hindustani.

I am posting some snippets from the statements of Shri Kulkarni and Shri Sohail. Full read of statements for clear understanding is highly recomended.

My commentary is as usual in ‘communal color’.

Shri Sohail Hindustani

213 A, MS Flats Quarters

Opposite R.M.L. Hospital

Baba Kharak Singh Marg

New Delhi – 1100 001

To

The Honourable Speaker

Lok Sabha

New Delhi

Subject: Witness statement in the ‘Cash-for-Votes’ scandal in Parliament on July 22, 2008 involving Shri Amar Singhji, General Secretary of the Samajwadi Party, Shri Ahmed Patelji, Political Secretary to the Congress President, and Shri Reoti Raman Singhji, MP and Samajwadi Party leader

… Around this time, I came to know from the “market” that a large number (over 15) of BJP and NDA MPs were being targeted by Shri Ahmed Patelji, Shri Amar Singhji and other leaders of the Congress and Samajwadi Party. I felt that the victory of Dr. Manmohan Singhji’s Government through defections from the BJP was neither good for the country nor good for the Party I support.

It is a known fact that many Congress CMs were camping in Delhi for the management of Votes. Read this…

I contacted Shri S.P. Guptaji, an IAS officer of Haryana cadre who works closely with Shri Bhupinder Singh Hoodaji, Chief Minister of Haryana. He is the chief administrator of the Housing Board of Haryana. He was with me for over an hour at the coffee shop of the India Islamic Centre. He took the list of MPs from me and said, “I don’t want any money in this deal. But if your list of MPs is pucca, I will take you to meet Shri Hoodaji and Shri Ahmed Patelji, who will discuss the deal with you.”

How and when Shri Kulkarni enters in the picture…

On July 21, at around 11.30 am, I phoned Shri Sudheendra Kulkarniji, a senior BJP activist who was OSD in the PMO when Shri Vajpayeeji was the Prime Minister. (His mobile number is 98109 33222). I have considerable respect for him due to my acquaintance with him when he used to live in the party full-timers’ rooms in the BJP headquarters at 11 Ashoka Road. He now works with Shri Advaniji. Therefore, I felt that he was the right person for me to convey the message that over a dozen BJP MPs were being approached by Congress-SP leaders.

Just look at who else is involved…

In the afternoon, at around 1.30 pm, Shri Guptaji phoned me and asked me to meet him at Claridges Hotel. He promised to arrange my meeting with Shri Ahmed Patelji. As we were having soup in the restaurant, two persons came to meet us — Shri Lovely Singh (son of Shri Buta Singhji, former Home minister and Governor of Bihar) and Shri Aman Arora, who was introduced as Shri Lovely Singh’s friend. They came in a black-coloured Honda CRB car.

Incidently Shri Buta Singh was ‘instrumental in JMM Bribery Scandal too ( PV Narsimha Rao Govt Trust Vote. Circa: 1993.) This reminds of an interesting saying in Northern India

Pita Par Poot (Son), Jaat (breed) Par Ghoda,

Bahut Nahin Tu Thoda Thoda.

Whistle blowers and CNN IBN.

Late in the afternoon of July 21, Shri Kulkarniji introduced me to three BJP Members of Parliament (Lok Sabha) — Shri Ashok Argalji, Shri Mahavir Baghoraji and Shri Faggan Singh Kulasteji. Shri Kulkarni also told me that a team from CNN-IBN was coming soon to work closely with the three MPs, record their whistle-blowing operation and telecast it.

The rendezvous with Ahmed Patel…

As mentioned earlier, Shri Lovely Singh had arranged my meeting with Shri Ahmed Patelji at 7.30 pm at the latter residence on Willingdon Crescent. Since the CNN-IBN team had not yet arrived, I requested for the meeting to be rescheduled. I was then informed that I could bring the MPs to meet Shri Ahmed Patelji to Le Meridien Hotel.

CNN IBN suppressed the Truth…

I am constrained to state here that, in CNN-IBN’s August 11 telecast of its sting operation on the ‘Cash-for-Votes’ scandal, the channel hid the information from its viewers that the visit to Meridien Hotel was to meet Shri Ahmed Patelji. The channel also showed no clips of the Congress leaders whom the two BJP MPs and I met in the hotel lobby.

All set to ‘Sting’…

Apart from Shri Argalji and Shri Kulkarniji, I met two other persons from CNN-IBN there. One was Shri Saif Kidwai, who introduced himself as a producer, and a colleague of his whose name I do not know. Shri Siddharth Gautam of CNN-IBN told us that instead of going out to meet anybody with hidden cameras, it was better to invite the person to a safe room since the quality of recording would be much better. Accordingly, his team fitted cameras behind curtains in the drawing room in Shri Argalji’s house, and a listening device in an adjoining room.

CNN IBN team who recorded the ‘Sting’…

During this meeting, I was partly inside Shri Argalji’s drawing room and partly in the adjoining room where Shri Siddharth Gautam, Shri Saif Kidwai, Shri Sudesh and the fourth member from the CNN-IBN team were listening to the conversation in the drawing room. Shri Kulkarniji was also present in the adjoining room.

Here enters the ‘King Maker’ and his ‘management skills’ are apparent and all this ‘Dealing Wheeling’ only because Amar Singh Ji Maharaj was working in the best interest of India and was so impressed with the merits of ‘Nuclear Deal’ that too after just an hour long meeting with NSA. Come on do not kid me, PLEASE.

Shri Amar Singhji welcomed the three of us warmly and treated us to dates and dry grapes. He was wearing white pyjama and a kurta of sky-blue colour. Thanking me for bringing the two MPs to meet him, he claimed that he had already “managed” the support of 275-285 MPs to ensure the survival of the UPA Government. Nevertheless, since Shri Reoti Raman Singhji had arranged the meeting, he would pay Rs. 3 crore to each MP if they abstained from the trust vote. At this point, Shri Argalji and Shri Kulasteji mentioned to him that they had one more BJP MP willing to abstain. Shri Amar Singhji told them that he would pay the same amount to Shri Baghoraji.

After this, Shri Amar Singhji spoke to somebody and informed that person that three more BJP MPs had agreed to abstain from voting. Once the conversation was over, he told us, “Aap ke baare mein main ne PM ko bata diya hai.” (I have informed the PM about you.) He then phoned Shri Ahmed Patelji from his mobile and said, “I have three more Kamals (Lotuses) here.” He made the two MPs speak to Shri Ahmed Patelji. From the conversation I could make out that Shri Amar Singhji and Shri Ahmed Patelji were working in a coordinated manner.

Shri Amar Singhji offered to pay the MPs a token amount of Rs. one crore and asked them to carry it with them. Shri Argalji and Shri Kulasteji said, “Hum nahin le jayenge. Bahar mediawalen khade hain.” (We won’t take it with us since mediapersons are standing outside your house.) Shri Amar Singhji then promised to send the amount with his assistant, Shri Sanjeev Saxena, within 10-15 minutes. The remaining amount of Rs. 8 crore, he assured them, would be paid to them after the trust vote

As we were coming out of his drawing room, I told Shri Amar Singhji, “Thakur Sahab, aap Thakur ho kar Marwadi ki tarah baat karte ho. Teen karod to bahut kum rakam hain.” (Thakur Sahab, being a Thakur you are talking like a Marwadi. Three crores is too small an amount.) He smiled at me and said, “Aap der se aaye. Raat ko MPs ko le aate to Ahmedbhai bhi yahin pe the.” (You came late. If you had brought the MPs last night, Ahmed Patel was also here and they would have met him.” I then asked him, “Thakur Sahab, mera kya hoga?” (What about my share?) He said, “Aap ka saamaan hum ne Golf Course mein rakha hai. Vahan jaa ke utha lena.” (Your amount is kept at Golf Course. Pick it up from there.)

While entering Shri Amar Singh’s house, I had seen Shri Siddharth Gautam and his colleague Shri Saif Kidwai. Also present were reporters and cameramen from several other TV channels. While I was inside Shri Amar Singhji’s drawing room, Shri Siddharth Gautam (his mobile no. is 98996 92321) phoned me on my mobile (9999996060) and said, “Please tell me what time you are leaving Shri Amar Singh’s house, so that I’ll be ready to shoot your car coming out of the house. I want to tell you that a lot of other mediapersons are also standing here.” This can be checked from my mobile call records and those of Shri Siddharth Gautam. We left Shri Amar Singh’s house at 10.48 am.

We left Shri Amar Singhji’s house to return to Shri Argal’s house at around 10.30 am. Within 15 minutes, his assistant Shri Sanjeev Saxena, accompanied by a well-built person, arrived at 4 Ferozshah Road in a white Gypsy car no. DL-3C-S-8562. The number was noted by a member of Shri Argalji’s staff. Before ushering Shri Saxena and his colleague (who was carrying two pistols hidden behind his clothes) into the drawing room, I told him, “Meri Shri Amar Singhji se baat karao, yeh maal bahut kum hai. Hum is par sauda nahin karenge.” (Make me speak to Shri Amar Singhji, because this amount is too small. We’ll not do not do the deal at this rate.”) Shri Saxena put the call through to Shri Amar Singhji, who told me that he would double the rate to Rs. 6 crore per MP. “If this is acceptable, the deal is on. Otherwise, I’ll ask my man to return immediately.”

I have ‘quoted’ some interesting – hereto un-known facts, do read the full statement. Now here are some highlights from Shri Kulkarni’s written statement.

Shri Sudheendra Kulkarni…

Sudheendra Kulkarni

17 Balwantrai Mehta Lane

New Delhi – 110 001

August 14, 2008

To

The Honourable Speaker

Lok Sabha

New Delhi

I am submitting the following written submission to you as an eye-witness in the “Cash-for-Votes” scandal that rocked Parliament and shocked the nation on July 22.

Shri Kulkarni has been consistent and unequivocal in his ‘criticism and condemnation’ of the way ManMohan Singh ‘managed’ the confidence of MPs.

Consequent to the withdrawal of the Left parties’ support to the UPA Government on July 8 over the Indo-US nuclear deal, I was deeply agitated by the unethical and fraudulent manner in which the UPA Government started to cobble up majority support. Well before the ‘Cash-for-Votes’ scandal broke out on July 22, I gave expression to my angry feelings and agitated thoughts in two columns. (‘From ‘Lal Salaam’ to Dalal Salaam’, July 13, 2008 and ‘Polluting Parliamentary Democracy’, July 20, 2008) After the scandal broke out, I wrote about it in three consecutive columns. (‘Where is the Proof?’ Asked the PM, July 27 2008; ‘Parliament on Sale’, August 3 2008; and Solzhenitsyn, Lies and Videotape, August 10, 2008).

Much of what Shri Kulkarni say in this written statement is in agreement and corborates well with what Sohail Hindustani deposed before the Parliamentary committee probing the which I feel personally is: The molestation of democracy if not out rightly ‘rape attempt’.

 

Shameful indeed it is to know how the supposedly ‘Mr. Clean and Honesty Personified ‘ManMohan Singh’s government stooped down to secure majority of the house.

Possibly, PM might not have been aware of things – but then it reflects on his leadership and ability to head a government of a Billion strong Nation. Then, Morality and Politics had divorced long time back, isn’t it?

But the most shocking thing is the role played by the Media House. Media prides in self as ‘Watch Dogs’ of Society. And when the man whom you ‘trust’ to safe guard you, stabs in your back and becomes an accomplice in crime – in this case betraying the trust first than suppressing the facts of the case – WHAT YOU CALL SUCH PERSONS AS…?

George Shelley explains…

He who promises more than he is able to perform, is false to himself;and he who does not perform what he has promised, is a traitor to his friend.

 

Prudent Indian

Truth must be unearthed, wherever buried, ‘Whatever it Takes’.

Tracking: Cash-for-Votes-Hide-the-Tapes-Scandal.

Related posts and updated links as the case progresses.

Amar Singh ‘Amar’ Raho.

ManMohan Singh/ Amar Singh Government Wins/ Manages the “TRUST” of India.

‘The Headmaster of a school for scandal’ by M.J.Akbar

Rajdeep Sardesai: Cash-for-Votes-and-Hide-the-Tape Scandal. ‘Hamam Mein Sab Nange Hain’, of course!

Rajdeep Sardesai: Answer Please, who disrobed Democracy?

Rajdeep Sardesai, Sagarika Ghose and their ‘Tunnel Vision Channel’ : CNN IBN.

Rajdeep Sardesai: Uuff! Skeletons have started tumbling out of Cupboard.

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Rajdeep Sardesai, Sagarika Ghose and their ‘Tunnel Vision Channel’ : CNN IBN.

Now, this is my third and hopefully last post in the ‘honor’ of Padamshri Rajdeep Sardesai and his Congress News Network, called so euphemistically CNN IBN. A couple of days back Padamshri’s beautiful wife and senior editor of Congress News Network (CNN IBN); Sagarike Ghose wrote an ‘angry piece’ in another Congress rag called ‘The Hindustan Congress Times’. Sandeep my friend noticed that as ‘Revenge of the Turd’ , as Sandeep said…

How dare the BJP, till now the favorite whipping boy of the secular media, call his (Rajdeep’s) bluff by demanding accountability? That is the source of Turdesai’s impotent anger.

So far, Media has been a holy cow and Media – especially the ‘Secularist English Media’ had reserved all the ‘probity’ and right to question only to themselves. In their infinite and extremely elastic ‘ethics’ they arrogated selves with the power to slander others (like they did in Aarushi murder case), to cast apprehensions on others, to ‘Brand Individuals and Political parties’ with tags like communal etc. Freedom of speech degenerated to ‘Freedom to Abuse’. Their Channels and Papers became useful ‘extended organs’ of one or another Political Outfit. For long, this MSM high jacked the ‘Public Discourse’ and set the tone and tenor of the debate.

These worthies decided that ‘Hindus’ were communal and any body with even a sympathetic look in their eyes for Hindus and/ or a voice for them, should be branded as ‘Communal’, thus must be ridiculed, abused, sneered at and must be ‘hauled up over coals’. They perfected the art of ‘secularizing’ every thing and anything and any and every body who could abuse Hindus in more and more ‘innovative’ abuses and ‘innuendos’ were invited to studios and encouraged to spew venom against Hindus in general and BJP, RSS in particular. If a riot broke out, they smelt an opportunity to increase their TRPs simultaneously, ensuring a PADAMSHRI for some ‘Teastas’ and self.

I dare both Padamshri Rajdeep ‘Bhai’ and Padamshiri Barkha ‘Ben’ to release the tapes of their reporting from Gujarat post Godhara. DOES RIGHT TO INFORMATION APPLY TO YOU? But then Bhai Rajdeep, who otherwise would spend millions to get a ‘Tehelaka’ or ‘Cobra’ do stings and air those, conveniently when election were on, sat on tapes he him self (his channel) recorded ! “The Journalist” in quest of some ‘secularism more’ or something else Rajdeep? Khushwant Singh, know how awards are won and he did tell us.

Objectivity, fairness, Pursuance of truth all fell by the way sides and got replaced with lure of titles and lucre. Rajdeep himself has admitted ‘The Journalist started demanding more’. From here on, the fall of MSM was inevitable. Cash-For-Votes-Hide-The-Tape proved ‘Rajdeep Correct’: Hamam Mein Sab Nange Hain. (OR BILKUL NANGE: My Emphasis)

Let me make it clear. I have nothing personal against Rajdeep or Barkha (both Padamshris J awarded by ‘Your President’ ), neither have any personal axe to grind. Since these two ‘eminent journalists’ heads the two big News Networks and hogs the maximum spotlight, they are equally responsible – in equal proportion if not more – for all the ‘omission and commissions’ too.

Matters get worst when one such ‘Padamshri’ transparently colludes with the ‘molesters of democracy’ in disrobing the democratic spirit of the Mother India. Moreover, the other Padamshri arrogates to her the role of ‘Peace Broker’ and ‘wittingly or unwittingly’ provides the services/forum to the ‘venom spewing anti national Hurryiats and their ilk’ on prime time!

This is what I object to. Media prides self as the ‘vanguard’ of people’s interest! They demand and get ‘privileges’ and most of times, claim immunity too for the noble cause of ‘finding facts’ and telling the ‘truth’. Ah! Of late, Media has ‘successfully’ managed to get caught cheating and obfuscating the facts… First Rajdeep with his active role in Cash-For-votes-Hide-The-tape-Scandal and then other’s blatant one sided (clearly ‘pandering to Anti Nationals’) Kashmir reportage to contrasting reportage on Jammu blaming RSS, BJP and others for what clear to every one is:The popular and Spontaneous outrage of Hindus against the ‘ever increasing’ Muslim appeasement in the name of ‘Secularism’ and denial of rights to Jammuiets in the name of ‘spurious’ Kashmiriat. Any one with an iota of common sense can see the difference.

As I said earlier, arrogant and power drunk MEDIA believes they are above scrutiny, if asked to account for their acts, they get mighty offended. Angry write ups follows and they seek to discipline the ‘errant bloggers’ like your truly, for their persistent questioning them. J

BUT then, yes we will keep an eye on you as well, that is watching the watch dogs. You like it or not, damn I care.

Mr. Arun Jaitley has thrown some more light on the ‘Molestation of Democracy’ scandal. In a strongly worded ‘rejoinder ’ he has put both ‘Husband – Wife team in the place, they rightfully belong to, i.e in the dock. J

I have merely highlighted some more facts as emerge out from this ‘rejoinder’.

Prudent Indian.

Channel Tunnel Vision

The political class is subject to permanent critical scrutiny. We are accountable to the electorate. So we must be constantly under the spotlight. As another pillar of democracy, the media, however, are accountable to no one. Sagarika Ghose’s assertion that the BJP’s urban space “will melt faster than the holy lingam at Amarnath” (Psst… We’ve finally lost it, Aug. 13) is a case of reckless assertion of hope over reality. As Senior Editor of CNN-IBN, Ghose is understandably angry with the BJP. Her channel has recently suffered a self-inflicted loss of credibility. If, like political parties, the media were exposed to the same level of scrutiny, how would CNN-IBN’s role in the ‘Cash for Votes’ issue be judged?

The channel’s participation in the ‘sting’ was entirely voluntary. Its editor has publicly asserted that its interest in a sting was prompted by AB Bardhan’s claim that MPs were being lured with Rs 20 crore to side with the UPA in the June 22 trust vote. The three BJP MPs were merely whistle-blowers. The channel was told that the MPs had been approached by those managing the UPA’s survival strategy and if it wished to expose corruption, it could undertake a sting. CNN-IBN chose its own team and used its own equipment. It recorded the three sequences: the interaction with Samajwadi Party MP Revati Raman Singh; the arrival and departure of the MPs to Amar Singh’s residence; and Amar Singh’s associate Sanjeev Saxena’s visit to Ashok Argal’s house to deliver the money.

After the sting was completed, strange things began happening. First, CNN-IBN claimed that the tapes were not of ‘telecastable’ quality — a spurious claim in the light of their subsequent showing. Then the channel claimed it didn’t have enough time to complete the investigation. The reality was far grimmer. The channel abandoned all pretence of any investigation and focused on finding fault with the existing evidence. Pious assertions couldn’t conceal the fact that the channel was embarrassed by its own story.

Yet, faced with immense public criticism and loss of credibility, the channel decided to telecast the tapes on July 26. I was approached the previous day and agreed to participate in a programme at 8pm. Shortly before the proposed telecast, CNN-IBN informed me that the ‘Speaker’s office’ had requested the channel not to telecast the tapes. The Speaker later asserted that it was for the channel to decide whether to telecast or not.

The most pertinent question in the ‘Cash for Votes’ controversy was: on whose behalf did Sanjeev Saxena deliver the money to the MPs? It is an established fact that he did deliver cash. The channel was in possession of the sms that Saxena had sent to its own reporters on July 20 inviting them for Amar Singh’s press conference at 7 pm that day. It concealed this message.

The car in which Saxena travelled was registered in the name of a company controlled by Amar Singh’s family member. The number of the car was noted by the CNN-IBN team and given to me both by a member of the team and the MPs. Subsequently, the CNN-IBN reporter publicly denied knowledge of the car.

These two evidences in possession of CNN-IBN were further proof of Saxena having come on behalf of Amar Singh. In view of the CNN-IBN having abandoned the investigation, the BJP investigated the Saxena-Amar Singh link and produced it as corroborative evidence. More corroborations have followed.

Meanwhile, CNN-IBN sought to create a perceptible equality and moral equivalence between the bribe-giver and the whistle-blower. Was it interested putting the collusive sting on par with its own genuine recordings? Amar Singh’s utterances in the programme telecast by the channel gives me the uneasy feeling that the tapes which were withheld from the public were privately screened for him. Why else would he confidently reveal in a pre-recorded comment what is on the tapes and what is not?

I am clear that it is for CNN-IBN to decide its own programming. But there is a fundamental difference in the relationship of a whistle-blower and an investigator. When a whistle blower alerts an investigator, the investigated material is held in trust for public interest by the investigation. It does not become the private property of the investigator. This is the misconception the channel suffered from.

The channel’s freedom of expression may include the right to conceal. It may include the right to abuse the BJP. Yet, it seems to end where Amar Singh’s nose begins.

Arun Jaitley is Rajya Sabha MP and General Secretary, BJP

Truth must be unearthed, wherever buried, ‘Whatever it Takes’.

Tracking: Cash-for-Votes-Hide-the-Tapes-Scandal.

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Rajdeep Sardesai: Answer Please, who disrobed Democracy?

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Rajdeep Sardesai: Answer Please, who disrobed Democracy?

Finally on August 11^th, 2008 Padmashri Rajdeep Sardesai choose to share the here-to hidden tapes of Cash-For-Votes-Scandal.

 

What was so ‘auspicious’ on this day? Well, only Padmashri Rajdeep Ji know and can answer. BUT, why did he not telecast the tapes on 22^nd July the day MMS BOUGHT the confidence of MPs and lost the Trust of Nation? Are, still not clear. But Padmashri Ji did give following reason for not airing those. He Said and I quote…

 

“Why have we not telecast the story so far? Quite simply, we have chosen not to telecast the story yet because we did not feel that the story was complete. Credible journalism is based on accuracy not speed, facts not sensationalism, reportage not allegations and assumptions. Our rigorous editorial protocol demands that even a hidden camera shoot is absolutely water-tight. In this particular story, there were many loose ends that needed to be cross-checked, corroborated and investigated further before the story could be aired. … […]

 

This is what forced Padamshri Rajdeep Sardesai to with hold telecasting sting…

1. Story was not complete.

2. As per his channel’s strict and ethical standards, the sting did not come true to their standards.

3. And finally most importantly, HE needed some more time to investigate the charges further.

 

Laudable Indeed! Well, skeptics in any case knew why tapes were with held, as you’re truly too wrote here why? Many people still gave Padamshri Rajdeep Sardesai a ‘benefit of doubt’, believing him for the mentioned reasons excuses, cited above.

 

Since the fateful July 22^nd, 2008 all of sudden there were spurt of CDs released. ‘A circus of absurd’ was unleashed in the capital of World’s Largest Democracy. Democracy; which was ashamed on July 22^nd!

 

… Teri CD… Meri CD… Us Ke CD… Kis ki CD

Meri CD Teri CD Se Tez Hai.

Tu Jhootha Mein Sacha….

 

For full 20 days, every body was accusing every body else and Mr. Padamshri – except for once – kept a Sphinx like silence. Then came August 11^th, 2008. World awaited with ‘baited breath’ to know these modern day Dushashans (Amar and Co.), Durdoyans (Laloos, Shibhus,Mulayams,Paswans), Bhishams (who presided over humiliation of democracy, who else than ManMohan and Dada?), Dhritshashtra Mata (Ma Sonia Maino ) etc, who disrobed ‘Democracy’ that day Rajdeep.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For full two hours and thirty minutes, I just sat watching, infect after tapes ran through once – which showed what I knew already, was expecting Mr. Padamshri to enlighten me with his some more NEW findings… but I kept waiting and the MR. Padamshri wound up the program and left for home… leaving me wondering, what the fuck is/was all this fuss all about!

 

If this is what Rajdeep ‘had been hiding’ or was it all he had to say? Then he could very well have aired these tapes on July 22^nd too!

 

What Rajdeep showed on 11^th was no surprise at all, look here just after a week on 31^st July Cash-For-Votes-Hide-The-Tape-Scandal this humble your truly had published the dates and time wise details of what had happened. FULL 12 days AHEAD OF Mr. Padamshri’s ‘Whatever it Takes’ journalist driven channel!

 

Now there are two moot questions which still remain unanswered and once again the whole sting operation is open to speculations and – as Rajdeep grudge against– ‘innuendos’ too.

 

Mr. Padamshri you with held tapes for more than 20 days, yet you reached to NO conclusion (as you said then, that you with held tapes for since it were inconclusive on 22^nd)?

 

Mr. Padamshri, you also neither substantiated the charges nor refuted them! It still is as ‘loose ended’ as it was on 22^nd July!

 

Rajdeep Sar, you had full 20 days and had you or/and your channel CNN IBN so wanted, you could have easily ‘sought and got’ the phone records of Sanjeev Saxena and Guru Amar Singh and for sure, could have either established the ‘alleged allegations’ made by Shri Arun Jatiley or refuted them unequivocally! STRANGE you needed this PI’s suggestion to apply common sense!

 

One more thing, you said some thing about ‘Credible Journalism’- what ever this means – and said it was another factor for you to ‘decide’ to not to air tapes on 22^nd, as promised to ‘whistle blowers’. Forgive me Rajdeep for my ‘cynicism’; I am reproducing a small portion from my last post published in your honor.

Rajdeep your own words…

Another reason for the problem is the changing self-image of the journalist, and his role in a democratic system. For a long time the journalist’s role was seen to be that of an independent observer of events. But observation alone can be rather tedious and not very financially productive either. So, over the years, the journalist has chosen to move from the margins of the fourth estate to being firmly on the centre stage, closer to the first estate (read first family Soinia ‘Maino’ Gandhi’). Ideological corruption is as much a part in this process as anything else. A journalist can get close to a political party (read Congress), business house (read Reliance Anil Ambani Group) or an individual ( read Guru Amar Singh) in a manner that compromises his (read the journalists) independence. Having acquired that proximity (with Congress and the Maino family), the journalist can then use his clout on a larger scale, playing kingmaker in cementing political alliances (By STILL not telecasting tapes) at the centre or in providing the (Help winning the political and/ or pay masters) link between a minister in the Union cabinet (?) and a business house (we all know, who.) in need of a favor. (Yes, do tell us please, is to serve the greatest cause of saving Hindustan from Communal forces?!)

Who is this ‘The Journalist’ Rajdeep Sardesai?

 

STRANGE, you did not answer this too brother!

 

Anyway, why you with held telecast when it mattered most or why you did telecast tapes defying all the reasons excuses you offered then… is only for Madame Sonia, Dr. MMS, Guru Amar Singh Ji, Anil Ambani or/and Amreeka to comprehend. J For a lesser mortal like me, I am still just as ignorant even today as I was on 22^nd July.

 

Since I am neither a journalist nor a lawyer not even a well known one… what ever I say does not affect you – rather why should to you – or matters. So I take leave of you SAR, but before I leave, do want to tell you what your own ‘fraternity’ has to say about all this… good or bad, settle among selves… and yes, if you settle debates over some ‘drinks’ and feel like inviting me too! SAR, let me tell you my choice. I prefer Bacardi ‘on the rocks’. Cheers!

 

 

 

Why Mr. Padamshri did not air tapes on 22^nd July?

Francois Gautier explains why.

There was a deafening silence on the role of Rajdeep Sardesai and his channel CNN-IBN’s role in helping the Congress win the vote. Sardesai sat on a sting tape which clearly showed someone who was close to Amar Singh handing over a crore to BJP MPs. If the tape had been aired it would have immediately led to the postponement of the trust vote and the UPA would have ultimately lost it. Instead, he handed it over to the Speaker only at 5 pm, knowing that it would be too late and that most likely Somnath Chatterjee would avoid taking immediate action.

Why did Mr. Padamshri telecast on 11^th August, 2008?

Do Read this. An excellent analysis by ‘Ramanajum’ at THE HOOT.

 

Finally, this is what Eminent jurist Fali S Nariman said.

He said: “This particular episode could have been released immediately and if it was not released immediately on legal advice then I believe it should have awaited the results of the Parliament committee’s investigation”.

 

J

 

Ek Sher arz hai Chacha Ghalib ka, Mulihija farmayeen…

 

Har Ek baat Pe Kahete Ho Ki, Tou Kaya Hai!

Tum he Kaho, Ki Yeh Andaz-e- Guftogo Kaya hai?

Ragoon Mein Dod-ne Phirney Ke Hum Nahin Kayal.

Jo Ban Ke Aankh Se Na Tapka Ta Lahoo Kaya Hai?

 

Chaltey Chaltey…

 

Ja Ko Rakhe Sonia, Maar Sake Na Koi.

PadamShri Pradan Kare. Jug Roye Tou Roye.

On a very serious note Rajdeep…

Rajdeep if you are really truthful to your own profession, you should find out Sanjeeve Saxena as soon and urgently as possible and take full care that no harm is reached to him since he is a very important and crucial link to the truth. The TRUTH you are professionally bond to unearth and tell the world. I hope you have not forgotten the ‘Shashi Nath Jha’ murder. I am sure you have fairly good idea about how did ‘witnesses’ either mysteriously disappeared or managed to get self killed under some ‘errant/drunk’ truck driver’s wheels. Remember Fodder Scam Sir?

Remember, When Draupdi was ‘disrobed and humiliated’, Sri Krishan saved her ‘honor’. This time it is Democracy being ‘disrobed, humiliated and being molested’, lest it is ‘raped’ too, do your Kartavya. Or else, you your self too will not be able to pardon self, leave alone us.

 

Prudent Indian.

Truth must be unearthed, wherever buried, ‘Whatever it Takes’.

Tracking: Cash-for-Votes-Hide-the-Tapes-Scandal.

Related posts and updated links as the case progresses.

Amar Singh ‘Amar’ Raho.

ManMohan Singh/ Amar Singh Government Wins/ Manages the “TRUST” of India.

‘The Headmaster of a school for scandal’ by M.J.Akbar

Rajdeep Sardesai: Cash-for-Votes-and-Hide-the-Tape Scandal. ‘Hamam Mein Sab Nange Hain’, of course!

Rajdeep Sardesai: Answer Please, who disrobed Democracy?

Rajdeep Sardesai, Sagarika Ghose and their ‘Tunnel Vision Channel’ : CNN IBN.

Rajdeep Sardesai: Uuff! Skeletons have started tumbling out of Cupboard.

 

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Rajdeep Sardesai: Cash-for-Votes-and-Hide-the-Tape Scandal. ‘Hamam Mein Sab Nange Hain’, of course!

Power corrupts. And absolute power corrupts absolutely. Power is simply to either ‘Grant an Undeserved Favor or Snatch a Rightful Right’. Right?

How the barbs thrown at others come back ‘haunting you’! In other words, when you dug a pit for others, you too might fall in that – some day!

We all have been passed on for generations this ‘Time Tested Wisdom’ that, “Lies have no feet. To cover up ‘a’ lie told; you invent another Hundreds of Lies. Eventually, you end up get caught in a web of your own lies’.

CNN IBN commissioned sting (cash for vote scandal) has made a storm not only in political circles but has been a hot topic among the media and many speculations are doing the rounds, ever since the eminent journalist Shri ‘Bharat Vibhushan’ Rajdeep Sardesai refused to air the tapes.

Yesterday CNN IBN issued a long statement – after 10 whole days – explaining why they (CNN IBN) did not telecast the sting.

Statement starts with, “In the last week, there has been speculation over an alleged ‘sting’ operation… […]

Mind the use of word ‘alleged’ in the opening sentence! Now read this,

“The ‘sting’ operation conducted by our investigation team… […]

Huh!

“Why have we not telecast the story so far? Quite simply, we have chosen not to telecast the story yet because we did not feel that the story was complete.Credible journalism is based on accuracy not speed, facts not sensationalism, reportage not allegations and assumptions. Our rigorous editorial protocol demands that even a hidden camera shoot is absolutely water-tight.In this particular story, there were many loose ends that needed to be cross-checked, corroborated and investigated further before the story could be aired. … […]

Pray tell me Rajdeep, since when you have assumed the role of being an investigative agency head? And do tell us how many ‘sting operations’ aired at CNN IBN had been proved ‘complete’ and conclusive’?

The hoot asks, “Is it the job of a TV channel to provide proof to any Constitutional authority, in this case the Speaker, before telecasting the news to its viewers?” Any answer, Bharat Bhushan Rajdeep Sardesai SAR?

The statement says, “As it transpired, even before we could complete the process of investigation, three BJP MPs made allegations in parliament of having been bribed and displayed cash in the House… […]

I am taking liberty to publish the sequence of the events and let us see what Rajdeep has to offer.

Following is the sequence of events, as told by ‘ A Confidential Source’. Let me make it clear. I am under no obligation to disclose my sources, (Isn’t it Rajdeep? J What you enjoy as ‘the privilege’ to with hold naming sources, I too reserve the same)

This is what ‘most probably’ had happened on Monday, 21^st July 2008 and Tuesday, 22nd July 2008.

•Monday 11.30 am: After an unnamed “intermediary” approaches the three BJP MPs, party trouble-shooters contact the CNN-IBN. Faggan Singh Kulaste and Mahavir Bhagora are driven to the Le Meridien Hotel, supposedly to meet Congress leader Ahmed Patel. They are wearing button cameras provided by the channel. But there is no sign of Patel in the hotel.

•Monday 1.30 pm: An unnamed “contact” informs the three BJP MPs that SP MP Reoti Raman Singh would meet them at Ashok Argal’s residence at 4, Ferozeshah Road. The drawing room is fitted with bugging devices and the CNN team is listening in an ante-room. Reoti Raman Singh claims Amar Singh is the person who will finalise the deal.

•Tuesday 9 am: Argal and Kulaste go to Amar Singh’s house in Lodi Road. The MPs do not wear button cameras. They are filmed entering and exiting the house.

•Tuesday 2 pm: At 4, Ferozeshah Road, the three MPs get a visitor called Sanjeev Saxena who is allegedly carrying “advance” money for them. The hidden cameras are in place. In Saxena’s presence, the MPs remove the bundles to check the notes. After Saxena leaves, the CNN-IBN reporter interviews each MP. The serial numbers of the Rs 1,000 notes are filmed as proof that the cash delivered is the bundle taken to Parliament.

CNN IBN had an understanding with the ‘whistle blowers’ to air the tapes before ‘Trust Vote’ on that fateful day, Rajdeep did have a look on tapes (a fact he doesn’t deny but so evasively confirms in an interview to rediff.com

“Did you supervise the story?

My two reporters did the job. I may have had a look. Said Rajdeep.

As far as this your truly know or can ascertain, The Editor in Chief would have had no problem airing the tapes had the sting limited to BJP MPs accepting the bribe offered, but for new found ally and Ahmed Patel featuring in, He decided against it.

After all, Bharat Vibhushan was not rewarded for nothing! Time to pay back Rajdeep? We all know how awards are won, right from the horse’s mouth.

Rajdeep’s channel says, “We would like to reiterate that at CNN-IBN we remain committed to quality and independent journalism. Our commitment is to the truth. Truth that cannot be partial, inconclusive or sensational, but one that must adhere to exacting standards of fairness and accuracy. … […]

Wow! But for your so Nobel thoughts; Sweet Heart! J, who will judge what truth is? YOU, AMAR SINGH, MADAME or DADA? And how many times before your channel had assured all ‘that’ before airing all the ‘stings’ you did air so far?

Rajdeep, I have a nasty habit of reading ‘between the lines’. You are a busy and NOW too important a man, I won’t accuse you if you have forgotten what you said on June 26th, 2001 in a seminar.

(Reading between the lines… with my usual ‘Communal’ and biased yet true interpretations)

Rajdeep your own words…

Another reason for the problem is the changing self-image of the journalist, and his role in a democratic system. For a long time the journalist’s role was seen to be that of an independent observer of events. But observation alone can be rather tedious and not very financially productive either. So, over the years, the journalist has chosen to move from the margins of the fourth estate to being firmly on the centre stage, closer to the first estate (read first family Soinia ‘Maino’ Gandhi’). Ideological corruption is as much a part in this process as anything else. A journalist can get close to a political party (read Congress), business house (read Reliance Anil Ambani Group) or an individual ( read Guru Amar Singh) in a manner that compromises his (read the journalists) independence. Having acquired that proximity (with Congress and the Maino family), the journalist can then use his clout on a larger scale, playing kingmaker in cementing political alliances (By STILL not telecasting tapes) at the centre or in providing the (Help winning the political and/ or pay masters) link between a minister in the Union cabinet (?) and a business house (we all know, who.) in need of a favor. (Yes, do tell us please, is to serve the greatest cause of saving Hindustan from Communal forces?!)

Who is this ‘The Journalist’ Rajdeep Sardesai?

You say very too often, “Hamam Mein Sab Nange Hain”, Aree Bhai Aap Kahan Hain?

Rajdeep, simply telecast these tapes ‘unedited and uninfluenced’ with out a second delay lest it is confirmed, that you are all but what you claim to claim here,

“…we value our credibility and independence above all else… […]

It is not only you and CNN IBN whose credibility is at stake; it is of the entire media. Especially the always sermonizing, ‘holier than thou’ 24X7 channels. We have not forgotten how you guys played ‘havoc’ with the lives of Aarushi’s parents. We are in no mood to let you play that again with the very basic and fundamental principal of Democracy and to know what happened is our basic and fundamental right.

Telecast those tapes and let Billion Strong Prudent Indians judge. Period.

Prudent Indian.

STOP PRESS: An Important update from Yossarin. Boycott CNN IBN

Update: Offstumped snubs Rajdeep.

CNN-IBN Boycott – Many Sins

Excellent post must read.

So what Mr. Sardesai is saying is that his channel is really about the same old intellecutual arrogance and elitism of the so called “progressive liberals” who think they know what is right for us and hence will sit in judgement on what ought to be dished out to as news and opinion and what ought not. [...]

Another Update: A convenient forgetfulness. Francois Gautier.

There was a deafening silence on the role of Rajdeep Sardesai and his channel CNN-IBN’s role in helping the Congress win the vote. Sardesai sat on a sting tape which clearly showed someone who was close to Amar Singh handing over a crore to BJP MPs. If the tape had been aired it would have immediately led to the postponement of the trust vote and the UPA would have ultimately lost it. Instead, he handed it over to the Speaker only at 5 pm, knowing that it would be too late and that most likely Somnath Chatterjee would avoid taking immediate action.

Truth must be unearthed, wherever buried, ‘Whatever it Takes’.

Tracking: Cash-for-Votes-Hide-the-Tapes-Scandal.

Related posts and updated links as the case progresses.

Amar Singh ‘Amar’ Raho.

ManMohan Singh/ Amar Singh Government Wins/ Manages the “TRUST” of India.

‘The Headmaster of a school for scandal’ by M.J.Akbar

Rajdeep Sardesai: Cash-for-Votes-and-Hide-the-Tape Scandal. ‘Hamam Mein Sab Nange Hain’, of course!

Rajdeep Sardesai: Answer Please, who disrobed Democracy?

Rajdeep Sardesai, Sagarika Ghose and their ‘Tunnel Vision Channel’ : CNN IBN.

Rajdeep Sardesai: Uuff! Skeletons have started tumbling out of Cupboard.

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‘The Headmaster of a school for scandal’ by M.J.Akbar

As kid, I and my elder sister used to fight a lot. Invariably it used to be my sister to file first complaint against me with Dad and I was scolded. Adding insult to injury, she used to show me thumb mocking and infuriating me further. Exactly the same way as we see MMS doing in above pic. after ‘Managing’ the Confidence of the Lok Sabha simultaneously loosing the ‘Trust Of Nation’

Coincidently, this pic above and a link emailed by a friend are more illustrative than 1000 words.

Sharing with you all. Do Read this…

Prudent Indian.

The Headmaster of a school for scandal

BY M.J. AKBAR (Byline)

IN THE end it’s the jokes that get you, isn’t it? SMS, that deadly virus, has been spreading sound bites like “Sting is King”. Its first cousin, email, has been circulating emotional pleas to the heartless Finance Minister:

“Don’t you know how old MPs are? They have bad backs! Can’t you print Rs 100,000 notes instead of measly little thousand-rupee notes??? Do you know how heavy a sack of 30 crores is?” There are heart-rending stories of MPs breaking down because they did not know how to take their loot, collected in Delhi, back to the security of their small towns.

One email was untouched by levity and weighed by hurt and anger. Dr Manmohan Singh had repeated Guru Gobind Singh’s famous battle hymn, in which he asked the Lord to ensure that “shubh karman mein kabhu na darun [may I never be afraid to do right]” before the debate began. How could the Prime Minister have recited this just before he launched into unprecedented “dushkarman [misdeeds]“?

The Prime Minister won his battle in July. He may have lost the war that is only a few months away. He won the confidence of the House only to lose the trust of the nation.

Dr Manmohan Singh’s reputation for personal honesty was the last remaining undiluted asset of the Congress after four years of government. The voter did not ever believe his ministers to be clean. Some of them have established fresh records in corruption. But he was certain that the Prime Minister was an honest man. After the cash-for-votes-and-hide-the-tape scandal, Manmohan Singh is just another sullied politician, willing to feast on Grub Street in the company of the most famous bagmen, and travel the Gravy Train chatting with fixers and pushers in order to remain in office.

As the cash disbursers have proved, the Congress is full of calculators. It needed a mathematician. A strategist would have analysed the cost-benefit ratio and sabotaged the cash-and-carry operation on grounds of common sense. What has been won is nothing compared to what will be lost.

There is enough evidence that the voter punishes corruption and rewards probity. Leaders like Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, Naveen Patnaik, Nitish Kumar and Narendra Modi have won support because they are believed to be personally honest. It may not be the only reason for re-election, but it is a primary reason. The Congress had that advantage in the image of Dr Singh. That reputation has self-destructed.

Inflation had already weakened the voter’s confidence in Dr Singh’s abilities as an economist. His second asset was wiped off the books in July.

The Prime Minister cannot hold his nose above the stink anymore. He was personally involved in the purchase of MPs. He was visibly uncertain at his own dinner on the eve of the debate, despite the fact that Shibu Soren had already been bought in what should be called the real “1-2-3 Agreement”: the cash-stoked coal portfolio for Soren, deputy chief ministership of Jharkhand for his son, and a second ministerial berth for a party MP in Delhi. By Monday morning, the Prime Minister was smiling, and waving the V sign as he entered Parliament. Late at night he received word from his money-managers that enough MPs had switched, or been neutralised, to ensure a comfortable victory. Parliament had become a sleaze house, but so what? The mask of morality used to fool us for four years now lies in that great receptacle called the dustbin of history.

There is a problem when you tread on sleaze. You can slip on it, hurting yourself badly, even as your fall becomes the source of cynical laughter.

The Prime Minister’s face turned visibly ashen when three BJP MPs threw bundles of currency notes into the well of the House. For the nation, that was the turning point of the debate. They may or may not have understood the intricacies of the Hyde Act. But they did recognise the corruption that had been hidden.

Sections of the urban middle class which welcomed the idea of closer relations with America [you could call them the Green Card Party of India] felt utterly betrayed by a man they had trusted, and besmirched by corruption.

In the process, Dr Manmohan Singh has one remarkable achievement: he has united the Opposition. For the last three decades, this has been the most difficult act in Indian politics. The irony is that he subverted what Mrs Sonia Gandhi had woven in order to bring the Congress back to power: she had used the Gujarat riots to create a formidable coalition against the BJP. Dr Singh has destroyed that framework by breaking with the Left and turning the Congress into an irredeemably right-wing organisation, with a foreign policy to match its economic thrust. This turn to the right will change the character of the Congress irrevocably.

By opting for the Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh, he has catapulted a dynamic agent of social change, Mayawati, into the leadership of the Third Front. Mayawati is the only regional leader with a national base, for she has a constituency in every constituency of India. She can lend Dalit support to an ally in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh as easily as in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Maharashtra. Her candidates do not have to win; by contesting they slice enough Congress votes by ensure its defeat. It would have made more sense for the Congress to keep Mayawati as any ally, but that would need a leader who was a mathematician instead of a cash-broker. The Government is trying very hard to “prove” that Mayawati is corrupt. Mrs Sonia Gandhi and Dr Singh must be regretting deeply that they let her off in the Taj-corridor development case during those happy days when they were attempting a deal with her instead of Mulayam Singh. The important fact is that Mayawati’s voters are unimpressed by such accusations against their leader. She has empowered them and they are grateful to her.

Corruption is not a sudden swerve into perdition for the Congress: the first jeep scandal [an extremely innocuous, by today's standards, desire for vehicles] broke out before the first general election in 1952. But flexibility in election expenditure is one thing; the purchase of elected MPs at exorbitant rates quite another. Venality turned into a rot when PV Narasimha Rao purchased Shibu Soren and his MPs in order to save his minority Government. Dr Manmohan Singh was finance minister, and no one heard the mildest protest from him. Perhaps he thought that he could repeat what his guru Narasimha Rao had managed. What was it that Marx said? History repeats itself, first time as tragedy and the second time as farce. But Dr Singh does not read Marx.

Power seems to have changed Dr Singh’s character and temperament in crucial ways. Was it too much to expect some grace from him in this purchased victory? Instead, in his reply to the House he descended to the personal. That is not done.

But what is the point of expecting decorum when Parliament has been turned into a School for Scandal?

M J Akbar is Chairman and Director of Publications, Covert

 

Truth must be unearthed, wherever buried, ‘Whatever it Takes’.

Tracking: Cash-for-Votes-Hide-the-Tapes-Scandal.

Related posts and updated links as the case progresses.

Amar Singh ‘Amar’ Raho.

ManMohan Singh/ Amar Singh Government Wins/ Manages the “TRUST” of India.

‘The Headmaster of a school for scandal’ by M.J.Akbar

Rajdeep Sardesai: Cash-for-Votes-and-Hide-the-Tape Scandal. ‘Hamam Mein Sab Nange Hain’, of course!

Rajdeep Sardesai: Answer Please, who disrobed Democracy?

Rajdeep Sardesai, Sagarika Ghose and their ‘Tunnel Vision Channel’ : CNN IBN.

Rajdeep Sardesai: Uuff! Skeletons have started tumbling out of Cupboard.

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ManMohan Singh/ Amar Singh Government Wins/ Manages the “TRUST” of India.

The Money Gate/Slight Of Hand…

Another “Tryst” with Tyranny, Irony or Destiny?

Dr.ManMohan Singh manages to be the ‘PM’ on ‘Borrowed Oxygen’ for another 108 days…

Good Luck, Sir, With a Doctor like “The Amar Singh”, we knew it had been coming. All fellow PRUDENT INDIANS have watched you ‘retaining’ the seat.

How Honorable!

CONGRATULATIONS ! Dr. Sir.

BTW, some pics from the ‘OT’ room Sensitized from ‘foreign particles’.

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Last word has not been spoken, yet. Wait for the Prudent fellow country men/women to answer.

PI

Shall update as and when get new information.

update: CNN IBN “Singh Is The King”! Yes,Of Course. King of Shameless, that HE is.

Truth must be unearthed, wherever buried, ‘Whatever it Takes’.

Tracking: Cash-for-Votes-Hide-the-Tapes-Scandal.

Related posts and updated links as the case progresses.

Amar Singh ‘Amar’ Raho.

ManMohan Singh/ Amar Singh Government Wins/ Manages the “TRUST” of India.

‘The Headmaster of a school for scandal’ by M.J.Akbar

Rajdeep Sardesai: Cash-for-Votes-and-Hide-the-Tape Scandal. ‘Hamam Mein Sab Nange Hain’, of course!

Rajdeep Sardesai: Answer Please, who disrobed Democracy?

Rajdeep Sardesai, Sagarika Ghose and their ‘Tunnel Vision Channel’ : CNN IBN.

Rajdeep Sardesai: Uuff! Skeletons have started tumbling out of Cupboard.

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Amar Singh ‘Amar’ Raho.

If ever there was any friend ‘worth’ his weight in suitcase of cash gold then it is Amar Singh. We all had been listening it ‘A friend in need is a friend indeed’ from the time we started to crawl. But very few understood it really and applied it. All those who applied it – list isn’t very long, at least, not yet – are celebrating today as Diwali, baki sab khali.

God is Great. BUT Amar Singh is GREATEST. He is Omniscient, Omni Present and of course at a ‘price’ this Omni Fixer is bountiful too.

‘A friend in need is a friend in deed’, in-fact; was only and only for to prove that Shri Amar Singh is here for the rescue of friends, and rescued them he did.

“Yada yada he tou Phhase Jaye, Income tax Mare Chhappa,

Tadataman Sharan me Aaao meri, Bhar Kar Suitcase mein Paisa.

Kashat mein door Karoon Sab Ka, Aise Phenkoon Passa;

Apana Ullu tou Seedha ho; Tum log Bhi Dekho Tamasha’”

(Read it @ Kaka Hathrasi style)

Bolo Shri Amar Singh Maharaj ke JAI!

Offstumped here and Retributions too failed to understand the importance of Shri Shri Amar Singh Ji Maharaj. Come on man! After all Amitabh, Anil Ambani, Suborto Sahara and of course Mulayam too are not his ‘friends’ for nothing! And when need arose, even for the rescue of the almighty ‘Balidaan Moorti’ Ma Sonia and Dr. Economist MMS, came Shri Shri Amar Singh Ji Maharaj.

Yada Yada Hi CPI(M) sya, Galai-ni Bharv-ita Sonia

Pavitra –ye- Manmohan Naam,

Vinash – E – che BHAJAPA Kaam.

Secular-E-NaaM Sansthanpana-E

Sambhavimi Amar Mulayam Yug –E Yuge.

Sab ‘Prem’ se Bolo Amar Singh Ji Maharaj ki Jai.

I warm all those who call Shri Amar Singh Ji Maharaj as a ‘fixer’ or dealer or in simple term as a ‘Dallal’. Dare, you call him a name, lest I take you to court for ‘hurting my religious’ sentiments.

I am Amar Bhakat from now on.

After all Amitabh, Anil Ambani could not have been wrong- incidentally, I too share my first allaphabate of name with Amar, Amitabh and Anil.

Regards.

Truth must be unearthed, wherever buried, ‘Whatever it Takes’.

Tracking: Cash-for-Votes-Hide-the-Tapes-Scandal.

Related posts and updated links as the case progresses.

Amar Singh ‘Amar’ Raho.

ManMohan Singh/ Amar Singh Government Wins/ Manages the “TRUST” of India.

‘The Headmaster of a school for scandal’ by M.J.Akbar

Rajdeep Sardesai: Cash-for-Votes-and-Hide-the-Tape Scandal. ‘Hamam Mein Sab Nange Hain’, of course!

Rajdeep Sardesai: Answer Please, who disrobed Democracy?

Rajdeep Sardesai, Sagarika Ghose and their ‘Tunnel Vision Channel’ : CNN IBN.

Rajdeep Sardesai: Uuff! Skeletons have started tumbling out of Cupboard.

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Veni, Vidi, Vici. Narendra Modi.

 

 

Veni, Vidi, Vici: Narrendra

 

 

Modi.

 

 

(I came, I saw, I conquered: Narrendra Modi)

If ever an election which was ever fought and observed not only in India but also ‘for’ India, it is this 2007 Gujarat elections. Deservingly, ‘India’ won and Won hands down. Reconfirming my belief “That India is Invincible”, India had always been and shall always be “Invincible”.

23rd December 2007 will be remembered for long and for all the right reasons. Some are…

1. Gujarat Won.

2. BJP Won.

3. Modi Won.

4. Nationalism Won.

5. INDIA WON.

This humble ‘you’re truly’ has witnessed this election from close quarters – keeping his ears grounded to earth and keeping eyes wide opened – have some insight, which I would like to share with you all

So starting from start…

Gujarat Won

Yes indeed! Who Else? Who Voted? Gujaratis voted and they voted for Modi and voted him ‘IN’ third time in succession. The vote is a ‘positive vote’.

BJP Won.

Of Course! Which party Modi was leading in this election? BJP, who else? Who you think those 2000 plus workers working day in day out and millions of supporters you saw on you TV screens, working for? BJP, of course. BJP unlike Congress (single family) is a party of mass workers.

Nareendra Modi Won.

Defying anti incumbency, demolishing the ‘Hate Modi Campaign’ unleashed by the ‘vested’ Media. Challenging the dissents from with in of a small section of ‘petty’ politicians including some ‘has been Greats’ of the party. Touring each and every constituency of Gujarat, establishing a one to one dialogue with his fellow Gujaratis. He emerged ‘Victorious’. “Veni, Vidi, Vici.” Truly and comprehensively.

Nareender Bhai Damodar Dass Modi’s sheer Determination + Dedication + Discipline outweighed all the ‘political machinations’ of all adversaries of all hues and colors.

My Salute to the ‘Man’. How I wish we had more men like Modi!

Nationalism Won.

Yes. Yes, each one of those who believe in Nationalism voted for a Nationalist.

India Won.

Let me say it in no uncertain terms that the ‘Idea of Bharat’ won with this win. (Shall elaborate it further in some another post as I am hard pressed for time and the subject is very vast).

In Short this win is not only a win for BJP or Modi in particular, but for us, We the People of India in general.

My Heartiest Congratulations

… To all Gujarati ‘Bhen and Bhai’ who voted decisively for a positive vote overcoming all other caste and religious considerations.

… To BJP for choosing Modi to spear head this election and to all my friends starting from Shri Arun Jaitely and his team to the boy who worked 24×7 to make this happen.

…To all those who have the ‘National Interest’ supreme most in their mind.

Victory will be incomplete with out the ‘special thanks’.
Lion’s share of thanks is reserved for the Mother, Son duo of Congress Pariwar (Sonia Family) for single handedly delivering this huge mandate to Modi. Thanks to their lackluster campaign and confused state of mind, Modi would not have been more pleased to find them working for his win. As a proverb goes that why should you kill some one who is hell bent to commit hara-kiri…so be it.

Sonia Ji did attract crowds – hugely exaggerated by ‘loyal’ media, but Balidaan Moorti just could not establish any ‘rapport’ with them. Attracting crowds is very easy especially when you have ‘White Skin’ but winning their confidence is another thing. In any case majority of Indians do look back at ‘foreigners with white skins’ in curiosity, but with suspicion in mind.

Even if we believe the ‘exaggerated’ reporting of crowds attending her rallies the question arises is where did this crowd vanish on the polling day? It reflects very poorly on Sonia, isn’t it? One is forced to believe that her so-called ‘charisma’ is nothing but the ‘Media Creation’.

Same for “Crown Prince” Rahul Baba. His “Road Shows” hogged most of the headlines and TV time, “He is attracting huge crowds”, we were told. “How a girl (With Muslim sounding name) kept waiting for hours just to have Rahul Baba’s Darshan”, were the flavor of the campaign.

But then what did it turn out to be…

Rahul Baba did two “Road Shows”, one in Surat city. All three seats of West Surat, East Surat and North Surat Congress lost to BJP, with huge margins.

Another “Road Show” in Baroda Rural, Cong lost to BJP…

Wonder, who Rahul Baba was campaigning for! Not Congress for sure!

BIG ‘Thanks’ Rahul JI.

This election will also be remembered for one single sentence that turned the whole election in BJP’s favor and both the ‘Reader’ and ‘Writer’ need to be thanked profusely.

Dec 1,2007. Sonia Ji thundered “Mout Ke Saudagar” and lo and behold it proved out to be nemesis of Congress, for whatever little prospects they ever had in the first place. Big Thanks To Sonia Ji for delivering it so effectively and Bigger thanks to ‘Javed Akhtar’ for writing it, really Gabbar Singh yaad aa gaya “Tera Kaya Hoga Kaliya…” By God! Thanks ‘Javed Bhai’.

Victory will still be incomplete with out the ‘very special thanks’ to the “Secular, Liberal and Progressive” Main Stream Media (MSM).

MSM ‘participated’ in this election as an ‘interested party’ – where as its mandate is to report objectively and truthfully- and they threw all their weight (!) behind the single objective to defeat MODI by ‘hook or by crook’! No tricks in their bag were spared, motivated sting operations, singularly biased reporting against Modi, questionable and motivated ‘exist’ polls, screaming headlines, breathless accusatory tone, etc. etc.

At times it seemed as if “they” were fighting elections against Modi!

But I still thank them for, but for their incessant ‘Hate Modi Campaign’; Modi probably would not have won with this margin.

Thanks MSM, well it is really amazing that, they still have not learnt the lessons and are still engaged in reading and seeing things which do not exist anywhere! Still they are engaged in peddeling some “fantastic theories” like their recent ‘rumblings’ about Modi won but BJP lost or Modi is bigger than BJP or BJP central leadership is threatened by Modi’s victory!!! These ‘guys’ surely live on some another planet.

Wise men say that ‘it is easy to wake up a person who is fast asleep, but you can not wake a person who is awake but pretending to sleep.’ This applies to MSM. MSM is on a self destruction mode. They are bitten numerous times, but still not shy!

Once again ‘Congratulations’ to Modi, his party, his co-workers, his team and all the people of Gujarat.

I hope and pray that Modi will come true to the expectations of millions of Gujaratis who have reposed such a faith and confidence in him.

Million others outside Gujarat too will be watching him and will subject him to close scrutiny. So it is all the more ‘imperative’ for him to prove his critics wrong and take Gujarat to new hights.

Wishing Modi and his team all the best.

PI.

Now some Gossips… ‘Unconfirmed but true, nevertheless’.

>A media reporter of a channel spent more time hitting the bed than reporting.

>BJP campaign managers were feeling uneasy until Sonia Mata delivered a ‘Javed Akhtar’s’ penned speech calling Modi ‘Mout Ke Saudgar’. Yes, can say with some certainty that it was written by Javed (incidentally or by design it was ‘he’ who rushed to SC to file a complaint against Modi On Sohrabuddin comment).

>In some meeting- as an option –was decided that if Modi manages less than 100 seats, than he will not be CM but will gracefully refuse and a close confident women minister of his cabinet will be CM. No Names Please.

>BJP was smarter and ordered for Modi Masks as these were/are not covered under ‘Model Code of Conduct’ as per EC. Some smart thinking by BJP campaign managers as posters and banners were banned. Modi mask did make a great impact among voters.

>PI, heard that a certain Election Commissioner (whose loyalties are suspect or rather confirmed) kept on visiting loo rather more often than natural – apparently taking instructions from “U know Who”- when BJP team visited Nirvachan Sadan to file complaint against Madame.

Merry Christmas to all

Readers.

anil.

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We Simply Hate Modi: Media.

I am posting the unedited copy of the affidavit filed by Narrendra Modi,Chief Minister of Gujarat and a key contender for the post once again,as the Election process is on.

Your truly,had earlier pointed out to you how the “Main Stream Media” has unleashed all its might,against one man.In this post ‘suspected terrorists’ and in this another one ‘Frankly Speaking…’ I exposed the ‘conspiracy’ of the supposed to be a ‘secular,Liberal and Progressive’ media pundits.

Some people like Testa who have made ‘Modi Bashing’ as a full time career and a Javed Akhatar who gets selective pangs of ‘secularism’ – Please note,his heart did not melt when people (mostly Muslims) were butchered in Nandigram.!Because of this ‘Red Hands’ – rushed to EC and SC crying foul over Modi’s ‘alleged’ justification of Sohrabuddin’s encounter.

I Ask media if they are so interested in ‘liquidating’ Modi then why do they not come directly and fight against him electorally?

Since the day Modi filled his reply to the election commission,this same media has been ‘quoting’ and reporting very selectively.I believe that more than a lie it is the half truth or selective truth which is more dangerous. So here I publish the unedited copy of the affidavit.

Interestingly Congress has chosen to keep the affidavit a secrete -which they filled,after a notice was served to them only after Modi had submitted his reply on Dec.8th for a notice served for a comment he is ‘alleged’ to have made on Dec.6th while the notice to Sonia was served on 8th.Dec for the comment she made on Ist.Dec (Well, well Well!!)

Would Congress make their affidavit public? If yes then when? And if not,then why? What is that they are hiding?

Prudent Indian.

 

Unedited copy of the affidavit by the Gujarat Chief Minister to the notice sent by the Election Commission:

8th December 2007.

From:
Narendra D. Modi
Gandhinagar.

To
The Election Commission of India
Nirvachan Sadan,
Ashoka Road,
New Delhi.110001.

Subject: Your Notice dated 6th December 2007 to Shri Narendra Modi, Chief Minister, Gujarat State.

Sir,

I am in receipt of your notice dated 6th December 2007 wherein on the basis of the media reports and a complaint dated 5th December 2007 filed by Teesta Setalvad, I am alleged to have made an open exhortation to violence and misused of religion for political ends. The Election Commission has further stated that by linking the name of Sohrabuddin to terrorism in my speech amounts to indulging in activity which may aggravate existing differences, creating mutual hatred and causing tension between different communities .I deny this charge in its entirety.

1. The Commission has acted on the basis of a complaint which alleges that my stand is contrary to what the State of Gujarat has stated in its affidavit before the Supreme Court. The basis of the complaint appears to be a report dated 5th December 2007 of the Times of India by one Shri Prashant Dayal. The relevant extract in the Times of India reads as under:

Modi…….you tell what should be done to Sohrabuddin?
People at the rally: Kill him, kill him.
Modi: Well, that is what I did. And I did what was necessary.”

The last sentence of the report of the Times of India has generated controversy in the whole nation. Television Channels and News Papers have made comments to the effect that I have stated that ‘Sohrabuddin got what he deserved’, or that ‘it is a confessional statement by me’ or that ‘Modi has justified a murder’. All other news papers cuttings which the Commission has taken into account are dated 6th December 2007, which do not report my speech delivered on 4th December, 2007 but are comments inspired by false imputation in the Times of India. This last sentence is not reflected in the CD as having been used by me.

2. ‘The Statesman’ dated 6th December 2007 quoted me as having said –
“he (Sohrabuddin) has got what he deserved”: The Hindustan Times of 6th December quoted me as saying “Well then, that’s it.” I had on 6th December 2007, immediately after receiving Election Commission’s notice requested that I may be supplied copy of the CD of the speech and also various inputs which have influenced the issuance of the notice. I have since received the copy of CD on the evening of 7th December 2007 at 5.45 p.m. I find none of the above statements are contained in my speech as recorded in the CD. The .E.C. notice is issued on the basis of unverified and false media reports.

3 As I am also involved in a campaign I am sending this as a preliminary reply, which I am sure would satisfy the Election Commission with regard to the contents of my speech. Before I answer specifics raised in the notice and the complaint, I wish to state that India is governed by Rule of law and Constitution. I am entitled to my right of free speech. Free and fair election involves a debate on the political issues in the market place of politics. When statements are made by political opponents, others are entitled to reply to them. The tone and content of the statement must necessarily adhere to the Model Code of Conduct. I wish to categorically state that I regard the Election Commission as a constitutional authority under an obligation to ensure free and fair election which will also defend my right of free speech against those who have started hate campaign against me.

4. On 1st December 2007, AICC President Mrs. Sonia Gandhi visited Gujarat and referred to me by suggesting those who are ruling Gujarat are “liars, dishonest and merchants of fear and death (Maut-ke-Soudagar).” On 3rd December 2007, AICC General Secretary Mr. Digvijay Singh visited Gujarat and referred to it as a State which has unleashed “Hindu terrorism.” The newspapers reported these statements extensively. Separate complaints with regard to the violation of the Code of Conduct were sent to the Election Commission by the Gujarat Unit of BJP. No action has been taken against those responsible for these statements by the Election Commission. I am sure the Election Commission would at least now proceed to take action on those reports.

5. One of the critical issues in our country is the problem of terrorism. India has lost the lives almost 90,000 of innocent citizens and security personnel in the last 17 years to terror. In the last four years, 5,619 innocents have been killed by the terrorist. The Government of Gujarat has a strong policy against terrorism. I believe that UPA and Congress party is indulging in Vote Bank politics and have sent soft signals on terrorism. My party and I have repeatedly made these charges against the Congress Party. In Gujarat only one life has been lost in the last four years through terror. This is a result of our strong policy against terrorism. The Nation and the people of Gujarat are entitled to witness a fair debate on terrorism. If any of the view point is censored or not permitted it will be interference in the right of free speech. Our Constitution and the election commission’s obligation to conduct free and fair election will not extend to preventing me from expressing my strong views against terrorism..

6 My speech, therefore, has to be read entirely in this context. It was a political response to Mrs. Sonia Gandhi referring to me as those who rule the Gujarat as a ‘Mout-ke-saudagar’. Surely it cannot be policy of the Election commission first to ignore the violation of the Code of Conduct in her statement and then censor my political response to that statement. I have gone through my speech on the CD supplied. It is merely a response to Mrs. Sonia Gandhi calling me “Mout-ka-Saudagar”.

7. This part of my speech was entirely against terrorism. I criticized the Congress President for calling me a ‘Maut Ka Saudagar´. I responded that the “Maut Ka Saudagar” are all those who attacked parliament It is the Congress party which is delaying the execution of the guilty accused. I have made a reference to the Sohrabuddin’s case and mentioned the allegations against him. I have accused the Congress of suggesting that I have engineered a fake encounter. I said that I am open for any action on this count. At no point of time I have either justified the specific encounter of Sohrabuddin’s case, nor have I used the specific inculpatery sentences used in the Times of India Report. It is clear that my comment is a part of my speech where on several occasions I have put questions to the audience which the audience has answered. It is my political response to Smt. Gandhi’s allegation that I am Maut-ka-Sodagar. I have replied back alleging that the Congress party is helping those who have spread terrorism in the country. It is clear that Times of India’s article which began this controversy, invented my comment to the effect “Modi: Well that is what I did. And I did what was necessary”. The CD clearly indicates that this sentence was an invention of author and not the orator. The comments in the media that ‘Modi justified murder’ or that ‘he made confessional statement’ as being privy to murder or that Modi declared in the meeting that ‘Sohrabuddin got what he deserved’ do not find a mention in the CD.These are journalistic inventions intended to engineer a ‘Hate Modi’ campaign and not evidenced in the CD supplied by the Election Commission. My criticism in the media was concocted and engineered by this ‘Hate Modi’ Campaign. No where in my speech have I explicitly referred to the religion of any person. I have spoken against terrorism. It is not my speech but the complaint which assumes terrorism is linked to a religion.

8 Am I to be prevented from giving my point that terrorism will not be allowed on the soil of Gujarat or that Congress is soft on the terrors and thereby helping “Maut-ka-Sodagar” If Election Commission imposes any such regulation, it would offend our constitutional values and my right of free speech. At no stage I have controverted the affidavit filed by the Gujarat Government in the Supreme Court of India. I have already clarified my position that I do not support fake encounters. Encounters can occur but there should be no fake encounters. I have nowhere tried to prejudice any pending litigation. I am fully committed to the enforcement of the Model Code of Conduct by the Election Commission and shall comply with it. I believe that the Election Commission should not be misled by motivated media reports which are based on falsehood.

I, therefore, request the Election Commission to withdraw this notice.

(Narendra Modi)

Date. 8.12.2007.

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Rajdeep Sardesai:Modi,Mody & Co.

Hi! Friends, Welcome back.

Let me begin with thanking you all for reading my ‘sick’ blog time and again. Today Feb.2nd.2007 happens to be the ‘second’ anniversary since the first attempt I made to air my “communal and rabid” views in this wonderful world called Internet. I admire the ‘guts’ and ‘patience’ of my readers/friends/critics for ‘tolerating’ all the ‘bullshit’ dished out time and again by this ‘communal’ blogger. Thanks Once Again!

BUT, the fault is not entirely mine, you know? YOUR Dear Mr.Priya Ranjan Dass Munshi, Minister Information and Broadcasting, had done a wonderful job by ‘BANNING’ this blogger too with ‘hundred’ others thus saving you from the ‘communal and rabid forces’. BUT please blame “those” people” who made “us” to defy the ban and blog anyway.

From today onwards, every now and then, I shall read the “Secular, Liberal and Progressive” Editors and share with you all, BUT the way I read them: Between The Lines. 

(My rabid interruptions are, as usual in communal color)

Regards,

Part I

Reading Between The Lines.

Rajdeep Sardesai

Media: Omni-Scient, Omni-Present and Omni-known, Ever ‘vigilant’, Guardian of Democracy, Fourth Estate, Opinion Makers, Vanguard of ‘Secularism’ etc.etc.!!!!!

Beyond The Byte 

Rajdeep Sardesai‘Vibrant’ Gujarat is an economic success. But its social fabric is in tatters.

Modi, Mody & Co.

There are two Mr Modis I know in Gujarat. One spells his surname with an ‘i’, the other with a ‘y’. Narendra Modi is a familiar household name. He is the Chief Minister (an ‘Elected’ one Sir, not a ‘selected’ one unlike our PM) of a ‘Vibrant Gujarat’ (Even the Statistics prove that), his political constituency’s ‘Hindu Hriday Samrat’ (much to the chagrin of ‘secular’ forces) and the BJP’s man-in-waiting (NO DOUBT). After more than five years in power, he is the unquestioned leader of the Gujarat BJP and easily the most popular political figure in the state today. In the last five years, he has won (UNLIKE as Congress WON?) every election in the state with a comfortable majority, from panchayat polls to a two-thirds victory in the assembly elections. His face adorns hoardings across the state and his supporters and well-oiled propaganda machine have anointed him Gujarat’s modern-day sardar (Now! Here the ‘Secularist’ takes precedence over a journalist…well-oiled..Read RSS). Truly, in the last five years, Narendra Modi has been catapulted from a relatively faceless RSS pracharak to becoming a larger-than-life figure within the Hindutva (?) pantheon.But this article is not meant to be about the Modi you know (There goes the ‘WELL OILED SECULARIST PROPOGANDA MACHINE’ AGAIN [sic]…the Modi You know….). Let me introduce you to another Mr Mody from Gujarat, the one who spells his surname with a ‘y’. It’s unlikely you’ve ever met, or heard of, Dara Mody. In his early 40s, Dara Mody is the typical anonymous Indian. He works in the Gujarat government’s Science City in an Ahmedabad suburb as a projectionist in an Imax theatre. Driving around in his two-wheeler across the city, he is a God-fearing Parsi, soft-spoken and rather shy. Television cameras are unlikely to follow him, no one will chant his name (and so you too never did) and he hasn’t ever appeared on a hoarding. He is very different from the other Mr Modi, and yet the fate of the two men are strangely linked. (Even if they were not linked, I have no doubt that you will link them)For the last five years, while Narendrabhai has been winning election after election (Again! Is this a disqualification dear Mr.Sardesai?) and building an ever-rising personality cult (Just look who is talking? Personality Cult…Mr.Rajdeep?!What have you people been doing by projecting BaliDaan Devi ..Oops..Madame Sonia ‘Maino’ Gandhi…Oops …sorry again..Mrs.Sonia Gandhi!?), Dara Mody has been roaming the streets of Ahmedabad and its police stations in search of his son. Dara’s 14-year-old son, Azhar, went missing on February 28, 2002, the day the post-Godhra (POST GODHARA?! What about GODHARA?) violence tore apart parts of Gujarat. It was a defining day in the lives of both the Modi(y)s. While the violence transformed Narendra Modi into a modern-day hero (Vibrant Gujarat, You said it Sir!) of hatred and a ‘saviour’ of Hindus, Dara Mody’s humdrum middle-class life was shattered irrevocably.Dara lived in Ahmedabad’s Gulberg society. When he left for work at 9 am that February day, he could have scarcely imagined how his little world would be changed forever. Gulberg was the scene of one of the worst massacres (Massacres? Or Riots? What do you call 1984?Anti Sikh RIOTS. Right?) of the 2002 Gujarat riots, where more than 49 people were butchered (butchered?  What had happened at Godhara?) (there is no other word that can be used to express the savagery) to death. Among them was the former Congress MP, Ehsaan Jaffrey. Dara’s teenaged son, Azhar, was with his mother, Rupa, and sister, Binaifer, when the mob attacked Gulberg. A frightened Rupa held on to her two children (Eye Witness Account!), desperately telling the attackers that she was a Parsi and not a Muslim (Oh…ho! Look at the ‘EMPHASIS’…she was a Parsi and not a Muslim). Her son was snatched away, never to be found. She and her now 13-year-old daughter have lived to tell the tale of horror and bestiality.While Narendrabhai has thousands of supporters cheering him on, Dara has his distraught wife and  shell-shocked daughter for company. What binds Dara’s family together is their search for their lost son, his memories captured in a fading photo album, including the last image of Azhar in his school uniform, proudly holding the tricolour. In the last five years, Dara, like the other families in Gulberg society, has been unable to return home. Their three-room house is still locked, a portrait of Zarathustra and a wall calendar with a February 2002 dateline the only reminders of what was once a happy, innocent little world. Time has stood still in Gulberg, a burst of bougainvillea in the central garden the only sign of life in an abandoned neighbourhood. Not one person has been convicted for the Gulberg massacre, and Dara can’t hope to return to his home for fear that the killers may be roaming on the streets outside the colony.(Let me be ‘Honest’ to say that, I share the grief of Mr.Mody’s family and indeed feel sorry for their plight. I pledge my unconditional support for whatever little I can do for them. NEITHER it is my intention to poke fun. My only ‘objective’ is to expose and read between the lines, comments/intentions that are ‘there’ but not ‘visible’.)[The above para is very moving and stirs the ‘right’ emotions, how I wish Mr. Sardesai had written the same way for 59,innoncent Women, Men and Children, roasted alive in Sabarmati Express at Godhara.]Till a few weeks ago, Dara’s story was just another statistic on the bloody map of Gujarat 2002, (Mr.Sardesai does not say anything about the ‘riots’ that took place before 2002,mind it was Congress chief Ministers then) a map that includes both those who lost (LOST…Pregnant with so many theories..Including mass suicide as ‘parroted’ by Justice Banerjee commission) their loved ones in the Sabarmati train tragedy (Just see the difference Godhara Is a TRAGEDY and GULBERGA was MASSACRE) and those who suffered in the riots. At least the families of those who died  (died?) in the Sabarmati blaze have the comfort of knowing that the alleged perpetrators have been arrested under Pota (BUT Did you not oppose POTA and urged the ‘Secular Government’ to repeal? Which they DID, FIRST THING when THEY WON!) and are awaiting sentencing. By sharp contrast, there has not been a single conviction in any of the major riots cases. Ask Dara what he feels today, and the eyes become moist. “How can I feel anything when I have lost my teenaged son,” he says, without, remarkably, any trace of rancor (He might not have genuinely). And then, with a hint of a smile, he reminds you, “I work for the government in Science City. How can I say anything about my employers!”  (Since he might not have ‘RANCOR’ genuinely, so impute one. Smart wordsmith!)Now, Dara’s story is the subject of  a major movie, Parzania (So! Now! We know why all this, Mr.Sardesai is Promoting a film. Well! Nothing wrong with that. BUT, by an Editor?), a film that has already won critical acclaim  across the world, but is unlikely (unlikely, right I agree but mind you it has not been banned like Da-Vinchi-Code in Congress ruled states) to be screened in Gujarat itself. Why should we have to revive the ghosts of 2002, Gujarat has moved on, runs the argument. On the face of it, Gujarat has indeed moved on. The state ranks second today in terms of new investments — proof, say Modi’s fan club, that Gujarat’s entrepreneurial spirit has triumphed over the scars of violence. The ‘Vibrant Gujarat’ conclave — the showpiece of the Modi government — has been seen as a resounding success, with 363 MoUs being signed, and investments worth thousands of crores being promised. With the entire weight of India Inc — from Ratan Tata to Mukesh Ambani — lining up behind the Chief Minister, Gujarat’s pariah status is gone. Five years ago, CII and several corporates had questioned the Modi government’s handling of the riots. Today, virtually every business house is extolling the virtues of the Chief Minister, widely seen as being non-corrupt and administratively efficient ((Come On Man! Give him his due). In a state where the Opposition is feeble, and where previous chief ministers (Congress chief Ministers and Turncoats like Vaghela?) have been seen as either corrupt or ineffectual, Modi stands out as someone who has brought a muscular energy and a reputation for financial probity to the CM’s office.Why then should pesky ‘secularist crusaders’ spoil the party by repeatedly raising the ghosts of the 2002 violence? Why should human rights activists from outside Gujarat hold public hearings in the state to find out about missing persons? Why should only the stories of grieving families of the riots cases be told? Why not make a film on the Panchal family, whose four members died in the Godhra train burning? (All right! So many Whys, but the answer is one and simple: Because of “Secular Brigades” vested interests. ‘Secularism’ is an industry worth millions of Rs.This industry churns out ‘activists’ who get Padma Awards by the ‘secular’ governments. Remember Teesta Stelwad? She too has ‘begged’ one this year).  And why give so much attention to Dara Mody, when the real hero of Gujarat is perhaps the other Modi? Unfortunately, those who ask these questions fail to answer certain more basic questions: how can the quest for individual and collective justice be seen in narrow, partisan terms? How can the political ascent of an ideology be used to sweep aside the human dimension of a tragedy? Can a state’s success be measured only in terms of monetary investments? What about the social fabric that remains badly ruptured? Is the shining present good enough to sweep aside the darkened recent past?(If I am right then Mr.Rajdeep, Bihar was a shining example of ‘communal Harmony’, YET no body ‘dared’ to go to Bihar. Ask any Bihari, and you find so many of them at all the places working ‘honestly’ and earning a respectable living hood except in their own ‘communally harmonious state’. As for Gujarat, even the ‘secular brigade’ is allowed to roam freely)Perhaps, some answers can be found if the two Modi(y)s meet. Maybe, Narendrabhai may wish to consider placing his arm around Darabhai’s shoulder, maybe he might find the time to share Dara’s grief, maybe he could even consider doing something as simple as saying sorry to the Mody couple. It is not just communal hatred that divides Gujarat even today. It is the absence of a sense of remorse or compassion (remorse or compassion, indeed! And for Godhara Victims?). In the long run, this cannot be the recipe for a ‘Vibrant Gujarat’. (Whatever you mean, this sounds as a ‘threat’ Mr.Rajdeep) Rajdeep Sardesai is Editor-in-Chief, CNN IBN and IBN 7 

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