Dear friends,
It is time for disclosures all over the world. Seems a new phase of activity has
stated and a new wind of change has started blowing all over the globe.
Just be ready in India as well for startling disclosures on way that will reveal
to us undreamt of surprizes as how millions of people in India were made to live
a condemned life and who a few gangsters who repeatedly misapropriated huge huge
amounts of public funds that could have made the life of all much better.
Media will play this down because it has a hand in the glove and we need
thousands of Team leaders who would carry the message to the masses and prepared
a beginning of a new ear of wakeful living in India.
Ashok Sharma
Report Fuels Calls for New Diana Probe
Mon Oct 20, 5:08 PM
By AUDREY WOODS, Associated Press Writer
LONDON - A letter reportedly written by Princess Diana expressing fears that
someone was plotting to eliminate her by tampering with the brakes of her car
brought the painful story of her death back to the front pages Monday and
prompted a call for a public inquiry.
AP Photo
The Daily Mirror tabloid said Diana wrote the letter to her butler Paul Burrell
in October 1996 — some 11 months before the Paris car crash that killed the
princess, her companion Dodi Fayed and the car's driver, Henri Paul.
Fayed's father, Mohammed al Fayed — who has long contended the crash was part of
a plot to kill the couple and not an accident — called on Prime Minister Tony
Blair (news - web sites) to hold a full and independent public inquiry or stand
accused of colluding in a cover-up.
The letter confirmed "the suspicions I have so often voiced in public and which
have thus far been ignored," al Fayed, the owner of Harrods department store,
said in a statement.
A French judge has ruled that the driver's use of drugs and alcohol and the
car's high speed caused the accident Aug. 31, 1997 in a Paris road tunnel. There
has never been an inquiry in Britain. A Surrey county coroner said in August he
would hold an inquest into Dodi Fayed's death, but no date has been set for it.
Buckingham Palace has said there will eventually be a British investigation of
Diana's death, since the law requires one, but no date has been announced.
The letter was included in excerpts from Burrell's forthcoming book "A Royal
Duty," published Monday in the Daily Mirror. The paper printed a photograph of
part of the letter.
The excerpts quoted the princess as writing to Burrell that "this particular
phase in my life is the most dangerous."
She reportedly wrote that someone was planning "an accident in my car, brake
failure and serious head injury in order to make the path clear for Charles to
marry."
The newspaper said Diana named the person she believed was plotting against her
but that it could not reveal the identity for fear of a lawsuit. The name was
blacked out in the photo of the letter.
The Daily Mirror quoted Burrell as saying that in the letter containing the
allegation she told him, "I'm going to date this and I want you to keep it ...
just in case."
Clarence House, representing Prince Charles, declined to comment on the latest
claims, and a spokeswoman for Diana's brother, Earl Spencer, said he was aware
of the newspaper story but had no comment.
Al Fayed criticized Burrell for keeping the letter to himself for so long.
"I'm disappointed that it has taken Burrell six years to reveal this
extraordinary correspondence and it raises questions as to what other important
secrets he may be harboring," Fayed said.
He suggested Burrell's silence was the result of pressure from the royal
household and pointed to the former butler's trial on charges of stealing some
of Diana's possessions. Burrell's trial collapsed last year after Queen
Elizabeth II (news - web sites) said he'd told her he was taking the items for
safekeeping.
The book excerpt said Diana suspected listening devices were planted in her home
at Kensington Palace and that he and the princess once rolled up the sitting
room rug and prised up the floorboards but found no such devices.
Burrell said Diana believed she was regarded as a nuisance once she and Charles
were divorced in 1996.
"She certainly felt that 'the system' didn't appreciate her work and that for as
long as she was on the scene Prince Charles could never properly move on," the
former butler was quoted as saying.
Burrell reportedly told the paper he had been uncertain what to do with the
letter.
"That letter had been part of the burden I have carried since the princess's
death," he was quoted as saying. "Knowing what to do with it has been a source
of much soul-searching."
He said he hoped it would bring a British inquest into Diana's death.
Over the past six years, Burrell was quoted as saying, "I have watched and
listened as many individuals have claimed to know the truth about the princess.
I know that what was claimed to be the truth is actually far from it."
"I believe the people of Britain and the wider world who loved the princess
deserve to know the truth about her life."
Ashok Sharma
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NEW DELHI: While keen on a pre-poll alliance with the Congress in
Maharashtra, Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar on Monday
firmly indicated that he was working for the emergence and victory
of a third front at the national level.
He said he did not visualise either a National democratic Alliance
(NDA) government or one led by the Congress coming to power at the
Centre after the 2004 polls.
"I will be happy if the type of situation as witnessed in 1996
arises,'' when neither the Congress nor the BJP could form a
government.
He said the verdict in the coming assembly elections in five states
might give signals about the future political realignments. In an
acknowledgement that his real power lay in Maharashtra, Pawar did a
virtual turn-around saying that his recent remarks against Congress
president Sonia Gandhi were "casual''.
"It was a casual remark..I had not taken the name of Sonia Gandhi.
You don't talk everything serious in public meetings.. Some jokes
and lighter things are also necessary,'' he said.
Who was the bigger enemy: BJP or Sonia Gandhi? Pawar said in public
life there were no enemies but ideologically he was far from the
BJP. Pawar declined to commit anything when asked whether he would
not raise the foreign origin issue of Ms Gandhi in the Lok Sabha
elections.
He said that his party believed that the country should be led by
those born and brought up here and high posts like president, prime
minister, Lok Sabha speaker and chief justice should be managed by
them.
Sonia bypasses issue: Congress president Sonia Gandhi, who ended her
two-day tour of Maharashtra by addressing a mammonth rally in
Kolhapur on Sunday, ignored the reported criticism of NCP chief
Sharad Pawar about her foreign origin and the demand for snapping
ties with the NCP.
Sonia's attitude is significant considering Pawar's remarks that had
led to a political crisis in the state.
Bk
New Delhi, Oct 20: Sharad Pawar seems to have climbed down a little
on the issue of Sonia Gandhi not being born in India. Today, the
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief made the first concrete
attempt to reach out to Sonia Gandhi, claiming that he never meant
to attack the Congress President personally.
"It was a casual remark. I had not taken the name of Sonia Gandhi. I
don't raise controversial issues against the Congress in
Maharashtra. You don't talk everything serious in public meetings.
Some jokes and lighter things are also necessary," Pawar said.
Sharad Pawar's apparent softening comes after Sonia Gandhi was in
Maharashtra where she attracted huge crowds. Pawar now wants talks
with the Congress on a pre-poll alliance to begin at once fearing a
break-up in the NCP-Congress could spell doom for the Maharashtra
government.
"We want the Congress to decide whether they want a tie-up. We want
a decision on this soon," he said.
Pawar declined to commit anything when asked whether he would not
raise the foreign origin issue of Sonia Gandhi in the Lok Sabha
elections, but emphasised he does not see the possibility of a
Congress-led Government at the Centre after the next Lok Sabha
polls.
On being asked about possible alliances with the Congress in other
states, Pawar maintained that he's not going to "commit anything at
this juncture".
Relying to a specific query as to who was his bigger enemy, BJP or
Sonia Gandhi, Pawar replied that there are no enemies in public
life. He however maintained that his party is also "fighting
communal forces" and said that the BJP is still the prime enemy for
him.
Bk
"As per Ajit Jogi's campaign he says Asli
Chattisgarihi Mukhyamantri Banega so if its true for
Chattisgarh it applies to All India and one must say
Asli Bharatiya hi PM banega"...... Venkaiya Naidu
NCP is not afraid of one woman but its afraid of India
having a PM of foreign origin irrespective of gender.
Infact we can say that she can announce any other
woman as a congress candidate for PM. and NCP will
take back its foreign origin issue.
santosh deshpande
--- Bharatkumar <bharatkumar007@...> wrote:
> Satara, Oct 18: Congress chief Sonia Gandhi today
> continued her
> tirade against the NCP while addressing a rally here
> today, saying
> that the NCP members were not nationalists in the
> true sense. Sonia
> Gandhi is on a tour of the drought-affected areas in
> the state.
>
> Maharashtra Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde
> announced various
> drought relief packages in the presence of the
> Congress chief. These
> will cost a total of Rs 2500 crore that the state
> exchequer can ill-
> afford. The schemes have been announced without
> discussions with the
> NCP, which is the Congress' ally in the Maharashtra
> coalition
> government. The announced schemes are being seen as
> a populist
> measure which may not be economically viable for the
> state.
>
> Sonia Gandhi had lambasted the NCP yesterday while
> addressing a
> Stree Shakti rally in Beed. While on the one hand
> she slammed NCP
> chief Sharad Pawar for raking up the issue of her
> foreign origin, on
> the other hand she asked why the NCP nationalists
> were afraid of a
> woman coming to power. She said that after marrying
> into the Gandhi
> family she had observed all Indian customs and
> traditions and was a
> true Indian.
>
> Bk
>
>
>
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MUMBAI: The Parel unit of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) has
threatened to launch an agitation against the Brihanmumbai Municipal
Corporation (BMC) for not initiating criminal proceedings against
KEM Hospital's seven employees, who were suspended last month on
charges of corruption and misappropriation of records.
Assistant dean Anant Bhamre and six others were accused of selling
17,000 kg of used x-ray films to a scrap dealer whereas the records
showed a sale of mere 3,000 kg for a sum of Rs 1.5 lakh.
NCP activist Baban Kanavje said his party had submitted a memorandum
to deputy chief minister Chhagan Bhujbal on this issue a fortnight
ago.
"The deputy CM had directed the police to take action. However, the
police have expressed their inability to do anything since the BMC
has not filed a police complaint,'' he said, adding that the NCP
would pressurise the corporation to initiate criminal proceedings
against the accused.
Bk
Satara, Oct 18: Congress chief Sonia Gandhi today continued her
tirade against the NCP while addressing a rally here today, saying
that the NCP members were not nationalists in the true sense. Sonia
Gandhi is on a tour of the drought-affected areas in the state.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde announced various
drought relief packages in the presence of the Congress chief. These
will cost a total of Rs 2500 crore that the state exchequer can ill-
afford. The schemes have been announced without discussions with the
NCP, which is the Congress' ally in the Maharashtra coalition
government. The announced schemes are being seen as a populist
measure which may not be economically viable for the state.
Sonia Gandhi had lambasted the NCP yesterday while addressing a
Stree Shakti rally in Beed. While on the one hand she slammed NCP
chief Sharad Pawar for raking up the issue of her foreign origin, on
the other hand she asked why the NCP nationalists were afraid of a
woman coming to power. She said that after marrying into the Gandhi
family she had observed all Indian customs and traditions and was a
true Indian.
Bk
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Raipur, Oct 15: In a major setback to ruling Congress in
Chhattisgarh ahead of December one assembly poll, prominent tribal
leader and former Union minister Arvind Netam today joined NCP.
"Netam joined NCP along with his several supporters," NCP state
president V C Shukla told here.
Bk
Dear Brother,
It is very sad thing to hear this,i have called up Mr.Najimuddin
Bookwala,Eminent Leader,as he is out of town,so unable to contact
him.
Friend as u have mentioned that u have married the girl so no one
can force u to divorce her,u get in touch with a good lawer and file
a case of threatning in the near by police station,if the PSI does
not accept ur case then meet the Police Station Incharge and give ur
request in writing to him against whom u want to file a case.
On the other hand u also give a written complaint to our Party
President Shri Sharad Chandra Pawar and also to Hon Home Minister
Shri Chaggan Bhujbal and also to shri R R Patil,NCP Mh State
President. If the NCP corporator is found guilty then severe action
would be taken against him/her.
Shri Sharad Chandra Pawar
Ph.Resi:022-23635222
022-23635244
Ph.Off: 022-22813007
Shri Chaggan Bhujbal
Ph.Resi:022-23630640
022-23631688
022-22025014
Shri Najimuddin Bookwala
Ph.Resi:022-26435927
Mob: 9821427592
022-31046090
Jai Hind Jai Rashtravadi
Bk
--- In nationalistcongressparty@..., shailesh palkar
<palkarsv@y...> wrote:
> To
> sir,
> My wife has been kidnapped by her sister who is NCP
> corporator in Chiplun Municipal corporation, Dist-
> Ratangiri,
> She wants my wife to be married in her caste while I
> have married intercaste with my wife.
> They have registered dovery case in Poladpur Police
> Station against me.
> They want divorce from me.
> Here I beg your kindly help.
> Plese help me.
> Her Telephone No. is 02355252298
> & name is Mrs. Nita Nayan Sadvilkar.
> My name is Shailesh V. Palkar
> palkarsv@y...
>
>
>
>
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diwali wishes to all of you..
i just want to ask onw que.... what happened to the the request that a
chiplunkar made in his mail last week... are higher officebearers of our NCP
aware of this...
Bharatkumar <bharatkumar007@...> wrote:
Friends,Countrymen,Wellwishers
I had recently visited Usmanabad District ,Marathwada,Mharashtra
State for some party work.
I met almost all top leaders of NCP in Usmanabad district on the
list were Dr Padamsing Patil,Shri Pawanraj Nimbalkar--Lokpriya
Neta,Shri Sanjay Desai--NCP President,Usmanabad District.
Every one was happy about our work and have given there goodwishes
for Diwali.
Special thanks to Shri Dilip Deshmukh and Rajesh Shetty (Anna)
Jai Hind Jai Rashtrawadi
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Friends,Countrymen,Wellwishers
I had recently visited Usmanabad District ,Marathwada,Mharashtra
State for some party work.
I met almost all top leaders of NCP in Usmanabad district on the
list were Dr Padamsing Patil,Shri Pawanraj Nimbalkar--Lokpriya
Neta,Shri Sanjay Desai--NCP President,Usmanabad District.
Every one was happy about our work and have given there goodwishes
for Diwali.
Special thanks to Shri Dilip Deshmukh and Rajesh Shetty (Anna)
Jai Hind Jai Rashtrawadi
Bk
To
sir,
My wife has been kidnapped by her sister who is NCP
corporator in Chiplun Municipal corporation, Dist-
Ratangiri,
She wants my wife to be married in her caste while I
have married intercaste with my wife.
They have registered dovery case in Poladpur Police
Station against me.
They want divorce from me.
Here I beg your kindly help.
Plese help me.
Her Telephone No. is 02355252298
& name is Mrs. Nita Nayan Sadvilkar.
My name is Shailesh V. Palkar
palkarsv@...
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dear friends,
I still dont understand why Ranjit Deshmukh brings the
controversy of Delhi Speech to Maharashtra. I think
congress is in shock after Solapur by-election and
instead of accepting the defeat gracefully they find
NCP as a reason.
They denied the need of united fight against Narendra
Modi and failed miserabely, now they feel they can
have Maharashtra without SP.
Sonia's origin is definately a sensitive issue but
congress has no option now and unfortunately deaths of
leaders like Sindia and Pilot, congress can not move
even an inch without her.
Even though i dont agree that, her origin is a
political issue, I will always support my leader and
say
SHARAD PAWAR AAGE BADHO HUM TUMHARE SATH HAI.
santosh deshpande
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Our Political Bureau in New Delhi
Published : October 13, 2003
Rejecting the Congress ultimatum to his party not to rake up the
issue of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi's foreign origin, Nationalist
Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar today said the issue would be
raised during the forthcoming Assembly polls and curtly told the
Congress it was free to take any decision including snapping ties in
Maharashtra as threatened.
"The Congress is free to take any decision including snapping of ties
in Maharashtra. There is no change in NCP's stand on Sonia's foreign
origin," said Pawar, whose party is an alliance partner in Congress-
led Democratic Front government in Maharashtra.
In a clear rebuff to Congress Maharashtra unit chief Ranjit Deshmukh,
Pawar said the Congress leadership in Delhi had not said anything
about the ultimatum.
He said the Congress could take any decision but there was no
question of giving up the issue or diluting his party's stand on the
issue.
"We had to leave the party and form the NCP because we dared to raise
the issue of Sonia's foreign origin issue," Pawar said "Jab tak woh
sarkar chalana hai (in Maharashtra) tab tak chalaenge. Agar nahi
chalana hai to nahi hi sahi" (As long as they want to run the DF
government, we will run it. If they do not want to run it, we have no
problems), the NCP chief said.
Pawar, whose NCP has been sharing power with the Congress since 1999,
said, "We sincerely feel that our country with a population of 100
crore has enough competent leaders who can rule the country and we do
not need any foreign leader to manage its the affairs."
He was speaking on the sidelines of a function to inaugurate a
hospital and an educational institution of the Manikchand Group of
Industries, in Shirur about 60 kms from Pune.
In Delhi, the NCP said it had its own agenda and was not "bonded
labour" simply because it had an alliance with the Congress.
"The NCP is an independent political party and we are not bound to go
by whatever the Congress says. We also have our own views and our own
way of reacting to issues," said Praful Patel, NCP spokesperson.
Yesterday, Jaipal Reddy charged Pawar with seeking to run with the
hares and hunt with the hounds. Pawar made several derogatory
references to Sonia's foreign origins at a rally in New Delhi. He has
also declared that the NCP would set up candidates all over
Chhattisgarh to defeat Congress Chief Minister Ajit Jogi.
Reddy's contention was that everything the NCP was doing was
undermining the Congress, although the NCP was in power in a state
solely because of the Congress.
He had referred to Pawar's acceptance of the vice-chairmanship of the
National Disaster Management Authority, a job that has the rank of a
Cabinet minister, and said the NCP hardly ever joined the rest of the
Opposition in taking up issues that were critical of the BJP-led NDA
government.
"Sharad Pawar deliberately refrained from making any comment on the
Tehelka expose and boycott of George Fernandes," Reddy alleged.
Yesterday, the Congress gave a seven-day ultimatum to the NCP chief
to reconsider his stand or face dire consequences. Today Patel said
such notices were "childish".
This was in response to Maharashtra Chief Minister Sushil Kumar
Shinde's statement that Pawar should desist from criticising the
Congress leadership while he was in a coalition.
The NCP has already proved that if it becomes active, it can do
serious damage to the electoral prospects of the Congress.
Because of the NCP, the Congress suffered serious defeats by large
margins in between 16 and 20 seats in the Gujarat Assembly elections.
It is the Congress's poor performance that put the Narendra Modi
government in power in Gujarat.
The current spat with the NCP is also a result of the humiliating
defeat that the Congress suffered in the Solapur Lok Sabha by-
election for which the NCP was seen as solely responsible.
However, immediately after the by-election, the Congress sought to
make light of Pawar's personal role in the matter, by saying that he
had himself done everything, including expelling some NCP leaders
from the region for working against the Congress-NCP alliance
candidate.
But an attack on Gandhi's foreign origins is not something the
Congress can stomach mainly because of the domino effect it could
have, leading to serious political destabilisation of the Congress.
Significantly, a day after Reddy's condemnation of Pawar's remarks,
there was no organised campaign from Congress leaders in the party's
headquarters criticising Pawar, indicating the party was quick to
strike but afraid to wound.
AND RIGHTFULLY SO...
Islamic nations tell U.S. to leave Iraq --Muslim nations have demanded "eviction
of all foreign forces from Iraq" at the start of a summit in Malaysia with only
[U.S. bribed] Turkey defending plans to deploy its troops alongside the U.S.-led
alliance.
Islamic Nations Tell U.S. to Quit Iraq, Support Syria --Muslim nations demanded
"eviction of all foreign forces from Iraq" as they began a summit in Malaysia on
Saturday, with only [U.S. bribed] Turkey defending plans to deploy its troops
alongside the U.S.-led alliance.
OIC Urges 'Eviction' Of Occupation Troops From Iraq --The Organization of the
Islamic Conference (OIC) opened their conference Saturday, October 11, opened
with a call for "the eviction of foreign forces from Iraq".
Iraq Plunged Into Turmoil --Iraq's Shi'ite leader claims he has formed a new
government which will begin operating immediately. Moqtada Sadr's announcement
came at the end of a week of protests directed at the US-led occupation forces.
In other developments, a fire broke out on a pipeline in the Kirkuk oil fields
in northeastern Iraq. Resistance fighters have been 'blamed'.
Shiite Leader Forms Shadow Cabinet, Anti-U.S. Fervor Ups --Hundreds of Iraqis
took to the streets of this Shiite holy city October 11, in support for a shadow
cabinet formed a day earlier by anti-U.S. firebrand Shiite leader Moqtada
al-Sadr.
Iraqi Shia leader calls for rival govt --Iraq's prominent Shiite leader Moqtada
Al Sadr claimed he will form a new government in the country today. According to
the announcement made during Friday's prayers, the government will be a republic
without terrorism and without occupation.
Four arrested in raid by American troops --In three pre-dawn raids near Saddam
Hussein's hometown, US troops on Saturday detained four suspects - two of whom
are believed to be linked to the ousted leader's special security operations
force, according to the US military.
10,000 Iraqis protest Baghdad killings --As many as ten thousand Shiite Muslims
gathered in Baghdad's Sadr city district on Friday after two US soldiers and at
least two Iraqis were killed in what the US military says was an ambush. Shiite
Muslims claimed the deaths occurred in a gunbattle triggered after American
soldiers approached the Baghdad headquarters of a radical Shiite cleric opposed
to the American occupation.
10,000 protest at killing of Shias --About 10,000 Shia Muslim demonstrators
surged on to the streets of Baghdad yesterday. They were protesting against the
Americans after a night that left two US soldiers and two Iraqis dead.
Was It All Worth It? Blair hears war questioned at Iraq service --No amount of
talking about ideals makes this easier, you know the cost in a unique way -
Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams said yesterday. Poodle Tony Blair went
to a sombre service yesterday for Britain's fallen heroes in Iraq - to hear the
war criticised by the Archbishop of Canterbury. Another churchman insisted on
remembering the Iraqi dead alongside our own. And a heckler shouted: "You
bastard!" at Mr Blair as he left St Paul's Cathedral.
Two Iraqi oil pipelines ablaze --Two oil pipelines have burst into flames in
northern Iraq after being hit by blasts on a day when two oil employees were
also killed. [Is Halliburton having the pipelines blown up so that they can
justify the money they 'need' to rebuild them, and make a tidy profit in the
process? Just a thought.]
Bush says Iraq returning to normal [Hello, McFly?!?] --Dictator moves to ward
off criticism of postwar policy --Seeking to bolster public support for his
foreign policy, Dictator Bush on Saturday offered a portrait of Iraq as a
country where life is returning to normal after war, insisting that "Iraq is
making progress" despite a steady drumbeat of bad news.
Many soldiers, same letter --Newspapers around U.S. get identical missives from
Iraq --Letters from hometown soldiers describing their 'successes rebuilding
Iraq' have been appearing in newspapers across the country as U.S. public
opinion on the mission sours. And all the letters are the same. A Gannett News
Service search found identical letters from different soldiers with the 2nd
Battalion of the 503rd Airborne Infantry Regiment, also known as "The Rock," in
11 newspapers. [Will the national media cover this Reichwing campaign of Bush
lies?]
Feds Condemn Robertson for Nuke Comment --The U.S. State Department has
condemned an on-air suggestion by religious broadcaster [and Reichwing whackjob]
Pat Robertson that the agency ought to be blown up with a nuclear device.
World crude-oil prices surge --Energy watchdog sees 'tight crude supplies'
[corpra-terrorist hoarding] this winter --World oil prices surged Friday,
gaining nearly a dollar per barrel and touching nine-week highs amid dealer
worries over thin petroleum stockpiles ahead of winter.
G.O.P. Leadership Interceding in Energy Talks --The top Republicans in the House
and Senate will intercede in talks about a new energy policy to keep
consideration of the legislation from slipping into next year, Congressional
aides said on Friday. Issues include electricity regulation, gasoline additives
and tax breaks for a natural gas pipeline from Alaska.
Ghoulish thought! Cheney visiting to attend GOP fund-raiser --Vice pResident
Dick Cheney will be in Southwest Florida on Oct. 31 to take part in a
fund-raiser for local Republicans. Cheney will meet with at least 1,000
contributors and supporters at the 'Thank You Southwest Florida' dinner at the
Hyatt Regency Resort & Spa on Coconut Point Road in Bonita Springs. [Let the
protests begin! Keep track of protest details with the CLG Actions page.]
http://legitgov.org/action.html
Deception Dollars presented to congress (deceptiondollar.com) On October 6,
2003, activists in Seattle presented Congressman Jim McDermott with 87 one
billion Deception Dollar notes along with a four by three foot poster. On
October 8, Mr. McDermott presented the special edition Deception Dollars and the
poster to Congress.
Redistricting stalled again by House Democrats' walkout --Texas Republicans'
hopes of adopting a new congressional map have been pushed back by yet another
Democratic walkout.
GOP Report Feeds Furor Over Texas Redistricting --The Texas Legislature neared
final passage of a Republican-sponsored congressional redistricting plan last
night amid bitter partisan battling that was further inflamed by an internal GOP
analysis of the plan's likely impact on the state's congressional delegation.
According to both Democrats and Republicans, the plan, if it survives a legal
challenge by the Democrats, could give the GOP a gain of seven or more
congressional seats, virtually assuring the party's continued control of the
House at least through this decade.
Schwarzenegger picks Jeb Bush's budget chief as California auditor
--Gov.-S-Elect Arnold SchwarzeNazi's choice to head the audit of California's
$99 billion budget is known as a fiscal conservative not afraid to cut spending,
say those who have worked with her. Donna Arduin, the budget director for
Florida Gov. Jeb Bush since 1999, will lead the team of auditors combing through
California's budget for 'waste' and 'duplication'.
Schwarzenegger Appoints [Jeb Bush's] Budget Auditor --Donna Arduin, who is on
loan from Gov. Jeb Bush's misministration in Florida where she is budget
director, has pledged to complete her work by January when Arnold Schwarzenegger
is required to submit a spending plan for California.
Gov. Davis Does 'Top Ten' on Letterman --Gov. Gray Davis got a made a cameo
appearance Friday on David Letterman's "Late Show," reciting the "Top Ten." 10.
"When you realize you don't know what you're doing, give me a call."
Half of US voters want Bush out; put Bush and Clark in dead heat: poll --A
rising number of US voters would replace US Dictator George W. Bush in the 2004
s-elections, a new poll said, while Bush is in a statistical dead heat with
Democratic hopeful Wesley Clark. [Will Diebold engage in more vote-fraud, to
ensure another Bush coup d'etat?]
Source Confirms Limbaugh Investigation --Conservative commentator [and Reichwing
whackjob] Rush Limbaugh stunned listeners of his nationwide radio show by
announcing on the air that he's hooked on painkillers and is checking himself
into rehab. Law enforcement sources who spoke on condition of anonymity
confirmed to The Associated Press that Limbaugh was being investigated by the
Palm Beach County, Fla., state attorney's office.
Yucca Mt. nuclear waste parked at school bus stop --Consumers Energy started
shipping a 565,000-pound package filled with concrete and a nuclear reactor
vessel on Tuesday from the closed Big Rock Point nuclear power plant in
Charlevoix, Mich., to a low-level radioactive waste storage facility in
Barnhill, S.C... The truck carrying the vessel broke an axle en route between
Charlevoix and Gaylord, Mich., and it pulled over to the side of a road, where
it was fixed. The company then parked the truck Tuesday night near a gas station
-- that also serves as a bus stop for 13 elementary and high school students --
until the waste could be transferred to a train that stops in Gaylord. Company
officials expected the transfer to take two to four days.
Study heightens fears over GM superweeds --Cross-pollination between GM plants
and their wild relatives is inevitable and could create hybrid superweeds
resistant to the most powerful weedkillers, according to the first national
study of how genes pass from crops to weeds.
Thousands unite to send anti-GE message to Government --Some 9000 protesters
marched through the centre of Auckland today to show the Government the
groundswell of opinion against genetic engineering.
Student Sued Over Paper on Defeating CD Copy Protection --Three days after a
Princeton graduate student posted a paper on his Web site detailing how to
defeat the copy-protection software on a new music CD by pressing a single
computer key, the maker of the software said on Thursday it would sue him.
Moody's Cuts Motorola to Notch Above Junk --Motorola Inc.'s unsecured debt
ratings were cut on Friday to one notch above "junk" status by Moody's Investors
Service, citing the world's No. 2 mobile phone maker's struggle to boost profit
amid intense competition.
[October 10 lead stories:] Bush regime change vision #1: Bush seeking ideas for
regime change in Cuba --Dictator Bush has directed his secretary of state and
his Cuban-born housing secretary Friday to recommend ways to achieve a
'transition to democracy' in Cuba after 44 years under Fidel Castro. [should
read: 'transition to corpra-terrorist hegemony']
Bush Talk of Cuba Sanctions Alarms Canada --Canada expressed concern on Friday
at Dictator Bush's announcement of more measures against Communist Cuba, and
hoped that many Canadian firms doing business with the island would not be
affected.
Bush regime change vision #2: US hawk warns Iran threat must be eliminated --An
American official warned yesterday that the potential threat posed by Iran's
nuclear programme had to be "eliminated" and predicted Tehran would try to
"throw sand" in the eyes of the world to avoid a confrontation at the UN.
Bush regime change vision #3: South American Area Is Cited as Haven of Terrorist
Training --The Bush dictatorship's point man on terrorist financing said on
Thursday that the training and financing of terrorists remained a problem in the
region of South America where the borders of Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina
intersect. [The 'terrorist funding point man' should hurry up and get on the
case of the *problem* of Carlyle group's funding Bush family business partner,
Osama bin Laden. ...our regime change vision: undoing the Bush coup d'etats]
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Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 18:00:24 -0400
From: UN News Service <UNNews@...>
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Subject: SLUMS FORM 40% OF URBAN HOUSING, UN AGENCY REPORTS
To: news11@...
SLUMS FORM 40% OF URBAN HOUSING, UN AGENCY REPORTS
New York, Oct 3 2003 6:00PM
The world's population increasingly favours city life, but 40 per cent of
housing in urban areas can now be classified as slums, the United Nations Human
Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) said in a report issued today ahead of World
Habitat Day next week.
Nairobi-based <"http://www.unhabitat.org/">UN-HABITAT has estimated slum
populations by looking at the percentages of poor households lacking access to
permanent housing in compliance with local law, to water within 200 yards
(meters) of a dwelling and to sanitation, electricity and sufficient living
space per person. The theme of World Habitat Day is "Water and Sanitation for
Cities."
"Slums are not inevitable, although they exist," UN-HABITAT Executive Director
Anna Tibaijuka told a news conference today at UN Headquarters in New York.
The first report on slums worldwide, called "The Challenge of Slums: Global
Report on Human Settlements," recommended that increased political will,
investment in infrastructure, pro-active urban planning and the empowerment of
the urban poor were all ways of tackling the slum problem, she said.
Joining her were Jeffrey Sachs, Director of Columbia University's Earth
Institute and Special Adviser to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the
Millennium Development Goals agreed on at a summit in September 2000, and Naison
D. Mutizwa-Mangiza, UN-HABITAT's chief of Policy Analysis.
Mr. Sachs identified urbanization as one of the most powerful trends today, but
he added that while cities promised long-term economic growth, urban migrants
were not finding productive employment or other income-generating activities and
did not have access to the necessary infrastructure. The real challenge lay in
empowering local communities, which involved finding new ways to mobilize
financial resources, he said.
Mr. Mutizwa-Mangiza said Asia had about 550 million people living in slums,
followed by Africa with 187 million and Latin America and the Caribbean with 128
million. Another 54 million people lived in slum-like conditions in the
high-income countries.
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PUNE: Guardian minister Vijaysinh Mohite-Patil's attempt to
highlight the developmental works done by the Congress-NCP
government in Pune backfired on Friday as the minister did not have
anything to say on the key issues confronting the city.
Patil, who is also the PWD minister, was addressing a press
conference on the developmental works undertaken by his government
in Pune division in the last four years.
While he highlighted the road projects, worth Rs 140 crore,
undertaken in the district, the minister declined comment on the on-
going controversy over the Bharati Vidyapeeth road, where his
colleague and fellow minister, Patangrao Kadam, is pressing for the
deletion of the public road from the city's development plan.
Asked about the government's policy on the proposal to delete the
road (a vital link between Satara road and Ambegaon) from the
development plan, Patil said: "I will communicate your feelings to
the government."
About the inordinate delay in completing the easterly bypass, which
will help divert the traffic from Mumbai to Solapur and Ahmednagar,
the guardian minister was once again at a loss for words.
PWD officials assisting Mohite-Patil said the work was being done by
the Maharashtra state road development corporation (MSRDC) and that
land acquisition hassles had delayed it.
Mohite-Patil also declined to comment on the controversy over the
status of the Rs 260-crore budgetary allocation for the construction
of flyovers in the city.
While senior Congressman and Rajya Sabha MP Suresh Kalmadi recently
charged that the MSRDC had slashed the allocation to Rs 120 crore,
minister of state for PWD Balasaheb Shivarkar claimed that nothing
of this sort had been done.
BK
By: Deepak Lokhande
www.chalomumbai.com
October 10, 2003
The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) wants to `secularise' the
state's madrassas by introducing modern subjects.
NCP state unit chief and Rural Development Minister R R Patil has
written to Chief Minister Sushilkumar Shinde seeking a board for
madrassas and grants which will give the state a say in how they are
run.
State says
Patil said, "At present, madrassas in the state teach only in Arabic
and not much beyond the Koran. They could be used for teaching Urdu
too. They have no uniform syllabus. Through the board, we could
provide a skeletal syllabus that may contain elementary math and
languages of their choice.
"The Madhya Pradesh government has done it and the scheme is working
well. There's no harm in trying it here too."
There are 2,637 madrassas in the state, of which 1,211 are registered
with the government.
About two lakh students are enrolled in these religious schools, most
of which are supported by local Muslims. Maulanas double up as
teachers in the schools and are paid salaries starting at Rs 1,000
depending on the madrassa's size.
The length of a course in a small madrassa, where they teach Koran,
hadith (sayings of the Prophet) and sunah (traditions) is about a
year, while a student may continue up to eight years in a bigger
madrassa, where he learns to recite the Koran by heart.
Jobs for those educated at madrassas are hard to come by, and most
end up as maulanas or madrassa teachers.
There are 10 to 12 big madrassas in the city while the number of
smaller units could be more than 200, according to Ibrahim Tai,
president of the Muslims' Council.
Muslim Council wary of state say in madrassas
The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) wants the state to have a say in
the functioning of madrassas and introduce modern subjects
to `secularise' them.
The state says this has already been introduced Madhya Pradesh, where
it is working well. They feel there's no harm in trying it in
Maharashtra.
Here's what the Muslim Council and the Bharatiya Janata Party say:
Muslim Council: Tai said a grant and a board for madrassas was a
welcome idea as long as the state government did not
enforce "unwanted syllabus on us."
"Our teachings are mainly Islamic. English and knowledge of computers
is being introduced in some madrassas. It will be ideal if the state
could introduce English and teaching of some craft skills. But we
will not tolerate anything else in the name of patriotism. We, as a
community, are being portrayed as anti-nationals, which is not true
and is grossly unfair," he said.
Patil hopes that bringing in a state board will also clear any air
over the use of madrassas for anti-national activities. "At present,
things are being said without any verification. Once we set up an
authority and offer grant-in-aid to registered madrassas, false
propaganda could be negated," he said.
BJP: The Bharatiya Janata Party and other right-wing outfits have
charged that madrassas have been hotbeds for terror activities and
jihadi elements.
Patil said if state control was established, any such activities, if
at all happening in a miniscule number of these bodies, could be
immediately curtailed.
BJP state office-bearer Atul Bhatkhalkar said the proposal to set up
a separate board and offer aid to madrassas smacked of Muslim
appeasement.
"Why a separate board? Why can't they bring them under the existing
boards? This is nothing but Muslim votebank politics and will keep
Muslims away from the mainstream. The party will oppose tooth and
nail any such move," he said.
Article 30 hurdle
Article 30 of the Constitution might hinder the state's madrassa
reform plan. Under the article, all minorities, whether based on
religion or language, have the right to establish and administer
educational institutions of their choice without interference from
the state. However, if and when the state offers aid, it gets a say
in the functioning of the educational institution. This was
underlined by an October 2002 Supreme Court judgement.
Dear Mr. Ashok Sharma,
I fully agree with your views but can you pls let me know how you are going to
act, what will be team leaders role,are you talking of NGO.....
I would be very grateful if you give details...
and yes I am interested o be a volunteer.
GALAXICINDIAN <galaxicindian@...> wrote:
TIME TO ACT IS NOW
Dear friends,
We all know perhaps the nature of termite in Indian socio-political set up
and are also more or less aware what the problems are. Is it not time to
start something practical that will helps in bringing good events closer to
us and at the same time tackle such forces that are in fact 'enemies within'
India. The forces that create hatred and differences between different sects
and majority of my countrymen are forced to watch the ' irritainment ' provided
in a reckless and thoughless manner by media all over the country. Is there
a grain of truth that these channels are contributing towards the wellness of
society? Is not precious national time and resources in millions wasted
every minute without any plan of bring the ' facts and real truths ' and some
hope to entire nation? A 30 minute TV serial is decked with 15 minutes of
commercial advertisement time and 15 minutes of Prime time news loaded
with News of what movie is going to be released and who are the actors.And
as if this was not sufficient the owners of commercial channel will find every
4 minutes yet another commercial break. Tender human mind is being bombard
in a non stop manner and this all is being engineered and directed to to make an
average city man remain in opium mind and altogether stop reflecting on the
issues that are very critical to all of us. I wonder where we are leading to...
There are scores of others problems as well that need our immidiate focus.
TEAM LEADERS
We are in process of identifying " Team Leaders " in every district and town of
India who are energetic, truthful and of humanitarian traits and willing to fuel
the fire within their hearts more and more to serve society and people and also
take up responsible tasks in coming weeks. This will be a volutary effort and
men and woman whose simple hearts revolt at the double standards of our
system may please contact me for initiating future process.
Best regards
Ashok Sharma
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Dear friends,
We all know perhaps the nature of termite in Indian socio-political set up
and are also more or less aware what the problems are. Is it not time to
start something practical that will helps in bringing good events closer to
us and at the same time tackle such forces that are in fact 'enemies within'
India. The forces that create hatred and differences between different sects
and majority of my countrymen are forced to watch the ' irritainment ' provided
in a reckless and thoughless manner by media all over the country. Is there
a grain of truth that these channels are contributing towards the wellness of
society? Is not precious national time and resources in millions wasted
every minute without any plan of bring the ' facts and real truths ' and some
hope to entire nation? A 30 minute TV serial is decked with 15 minutes of
commercial advertisement time and 15 minutes of Prime time news loaded
with News of what movie is going to be released and who are the actors.And
as if this was not sufficient the owners of commercial channel will find every
4 minutes yet another commercial break. Tender human mind is being bombard
in a non stop manner and this all is being engineered and directed to to make an
average city man remain in opium mind and altogether stop reflecting on the
issues that are very critical to all of us. I wonder where we are leading to...
There are scores of others problems as well that need our immidiate focus.
TEAM LEADERS
We are in process of identifying " Team Leaders " in every district and town of
India who are energetic, truthful and of humanitarian traits and willing to fuel
the fire within their hearts more and more to serve society and people and also
take up responsible tasks in coming weeks. This will be a volutary effort and
men and woman whose simple hearts revolt at the double standards of our
system may please contact me for initiating future process.
Best regards
Ashok Sharma
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Dear Friends,
This is sent to me by another activist Dr Carol Wolman and would make an
interesting reading. I thought of sharing this with you here.
Truth emerges faster than thought as burried for ever by those who make sins
against
communities. We in India too, as I wrote earlier, are being manupulated on many
fronts
and, my dear friends, it is our duty to know facts and not remain subject to
various manipulations and bad handling that we are subjected to. With my best
regards....
Ashok Sharma
==============================================================
Oil, War And A Growing Sense Of Panic In The US
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4855.htm
"Don't tell me that America would have invaded Iraq if its chief export was
beetroot" -Robert Fisk -quotes for research and critique:
01 October 2003:(The Independent) Oil is slippery stuff but not as slippery
as the figures now being peddled by Iraq's American occupiers. Up around
Kirkuk, the authorities are keeping the sabotage figures secret - because
they can't stop their pipelines to Turkey blowing up. And down in Baghdad,
where the men who produce Iraq's oil production figures are beginning to
look like the occupants of Plato's cave - drawing conclusions from shadows
on their wall - the statistics are being cooked. Paul Bremer, the US
proconsul who wears combat boots, is "sexing up" the figures to a point
where even the oilmen are shaking their heads.
Take Kirkuk. Only when the television cameras capture a blown pipe, flames
billowing, do the occupation powers report sabotage. This they did, for
example, on 18 August. But the same Turkish pipeline has been hit before and
since. It was blown on 17 September and four times the following day. US patrols
and helicopters move along the pipeline but, in the huge ravines and tribal
areas through which it passes, long sections are indefensible.
European oilmen in Baghdad realise now that Iraqi officials in the oil
ministry - one of only two government institutions that the Americans
defended from the looters - knew very well that the sabotage was going to
occur. "They told me in June that there would be no oil exports from the
north," one of them said to me this week. "They knew it was going to be
sabotaged - and it had obviously been planned long before the invasion in
March."
Early in their occupation, the Americans took the quiet - and unwise -
decision to re-hire many Baathist oil technocrats, which means that a large
proportion of ministry officials are still ambivalent towards the Americans.
The only oil revenues the US can get are from the south. In the middle of
August, Mr Bremer gave the impression that production stood at about 1.5
million barrels a day. But the real figure at that time was 780,000 barrels
and rarely does production reach a million. In the words of an oil analyst
visiting Iraq, this is "an inexcusable catastrophe". quotes for comment...
But it can't make the oil flow. The cost of making it flow could produce an
economic crisis in the US. And it is this - rather than the daily killing of
young American soldiers - that lies behind the Bush administration's growing
panic. Washington has got its hands on the biggest treasure chest in the world -
but it can't open the lid. No wonder they are cooking the books in Baghdad. A
Lesson in Obfuscation Don't Mention Oil or Ask About the Victims
http://www.counterpunch.org/fisk09302003.html ... Wisdom welcome - Harold
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Dear Mr Bookwala,
I visited the site you referred. It is good. However, if you think on
reducing the font size and rearranging the colors on the page it may
further enhance the esthatics and may accomodate data in colums
to look more presentable. This wouldalso create some more space
as well.
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MANAGING SLUMS in MUMBAI DELHI KOLKATA CHENNAI and...
SLUMS FORM 40% OF URBAN HOUSING, UN AGENCY REPORTS fromNew York, Oct 3 2003
6:00PM
The world's population increasingly favours city life, but 40 per cent ofhousing
in urban areas can now be classified as slums, the United Nations
HumanSettlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) said in a report issued today ahead of
WorldHabitat Day next week.Nairobi-based <"http://www.unhabitat.org/">UN-HABITAT
has estimated slumpopulations by looking at the percentages of poor households
lacking access topermanent housing in compliance with local law, to water within
200 yards(meters) of a dwelling and to sanitation, electricity and sufficient
livingspace per person. The theme of World Habitat Day is "Water and
Sanitationfor Cities.""Slums are not inevitable, although they exist,"
UN-HABITAT ExecutiveDirector Anna Tibaijuka told a news conference today at UN
Headquarters in NewYork.The first report on slums worldwide, called "The
Challenge of Slums: GlobalReport on Human Settlements," recommended that
increased political will,investment in infrastructure, pro-active urban planning
and the
empowerment ofthe urban poor were all ways of tackling the slum problem, she
said.Joining her were Jeffrey Sachs, Director of Columbia University's
EarthInstitute and Special Adviser to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on
theMillennium Development Goals agreed on at a summit in September 2000, and
NaisonD. Mutizwa-Mangiza, UN-HABITAT's chief of Policy Analysis.Mr. Sachs
identified urbanization as one of the most powerful trends today, buthe added
that while cities promised long-term economic growth, urban migrantswere not
finding productive employment or other income-generating activities anddid not
have access to the necessary infrastructure. The real challenge lay inempowering
local communities, which involved finding new ways to mobilizefinancial
resources, he said.Mr. Mutizwa-Mangiza said Asia had about 550 million people
living in slums,followed by Africa with 187 million and Latin America and the
Caribbean with 128million. Another 54 million people lived in slum-like
conditions
in thehigh-income countries. 2003-10-03 00:00:00.000 ________________UN News
Centre at http://www.un.org/news
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good article
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Friends,Indians,Countrymen
NCP today condemned the attempt by naxalites on the life of Andhra
Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu at Tirupati and said it
was aimed at spreading terror and creating chaos in the country.
After the peace march meeting on 2 oct 2003, at Mani Bhuvan,Mumbai,
NCP Mumbai President Shri Sachin Bhau Ahir,expressed his distress
over the attempt on Naidu's life. Further he said "Such cowardly
acts of violence were bids to spread terror in the public mind. The
attack must be condemned in the strongest terms and such heinous
acts of terrorism must be put down with an iron hand."
We all condem this shamefull act of cowardness and act of voilence.
Bk
Dear Bharat,
Thankyou for your write up on Gandhiji.
Bapu was much ahead of his times and it is sad to see that none of his
ideals could be realized in independent Bharat. Country has remained
a voilent hot bed of violence within our boundaries and the oft repeated
rhetoric from our leaders that increased the venom and animosity with
our neighbours. Youth has to find a meaning and significance of Gandhi's
ideals and strive very hard in dispelling those powers that are trying to
make Gandhi and his thoughts irrelevant today. In our psuedo-modern
society corruption unemployment and hatred have found roots and to me,
the solution is removing all those people from the seats of power that do
not care about a billion people. Gandhiji served an example of serving the
communities while the leaders of our time stick to seat of power without
any feeling for the service of the masses. I do hope that stalwarts of
NCP will make it a point to address the problems that the youth faces
today and bring to fore the fogotton golden values for which Gandhiji lived.
We decorate our drawing rooms with marble and or other metallic statues
of Buddha and soon we shall find Gandhi's portait in saleable modern art
in the drawing rooms of many people but what purpose does it serve to have
a langotiwala in modern art fotos in our living rooms when we have missed
to imbibe his values in our lives.
Ashok Sharma
Bharatkumar <bharatkumar007@...> wrote:
Gandhi is the best known icon from India -- shaven head,
bespectacled face, frail and bare-bodied with hand-spun loin-cloth
attire, a hanging pocket-watch, walking stick and charkha.
His photographs and statues can be seen all around. Several
universities, colleges, schools, hospitals, ashrams, localities,
parks, roads, shops, societies and even persons have been named
after him. We pay floral homage to him regularly.
However, while we continue to raise his pedestal, we bury him
deeper in our deeds. Even the roads have shrunk to MG Marg. Although
ritualistic and hypocritical obeisance is paid to him lavishly, his
ideals have nearly vanished in thin air. In 1938, he wrote, "To
declare my birthday as a holiday should be declared as a cognisable
offence." However, we do not carry out his desire.
On August 30, 1947, he declared that "Merit alone would count in
independent India, and not one's community, major or minor, with no
particular group of them favoured or disfavoured." Today, law of
exponential academic decay operates around often, with people deftly
organised under castes, regions and religions. Nepotism rules the
roost. Gandhi wanted the ministers to sit on their chairs lightly
but not tightly. Attitudes have changed.
Some of them stick to their chairs nearly as limpets till a court
detaches them by imprisonment. On May 22, 1947, Gandhi said, "The
Congress was fast becoming an organisation of selfish power-seekers
and job-hunters. Instead of remaining the servants of the public,
the Congressmen had now become its lords and masters. The Congress
was torn by petty intrigues and group rivalries."
The gulf between our thoughts, words and deeds has over the years
become longer, deeper and wider. The disease has spread. We live now
in an age of guided missiles, and misguided men, creating moral
wastelands. Vultures of violence feed, breed and soar around. In
short, we deify Bapu on one side, while discard him on the other.
His classical ideals of simple living and high thinking have nearly
become extinct. Even the great khadi experiment is now limited to
Ashrams. Shades of swadeshi have changed beyond recognition. One of
the grimmest jokes doing rounds has been: What would Gandhi have
done, had he been alive today? He would have said, "Please take my
photograph off your currency notes."
Gandhi was indeed a unique phenomenon. His life was an open
experiment with truth. He believed that truth hates secrecy. Untruth
and violence are twin sisters. Truth, love and God - all three are
interchangeable. He was non-violence personified. He preached and
practised tolerance. He showed how means and ends are convertible
terms.
The two are inseparable - as the means, so the end. He laid the
foundation of passive resistance in South Africa; and later led
massive non-cooperation movements in India. In 1922, he called off
the movement, when members of a Congress and Khilafat procession in
Chauri Chaura burnt down a police station, killing 22 police men.
His defence of the untouchables was one of the bravest and most
successful campaigns.
Gandhi was an economist par excellence. He said the earth had
enough to fulfil everybody's need but not enough to satisfy even one
person's greed. He opposed the culture of consumerism and
acquisitiveness. These are at the root of the environmental problems
today.
Though he described property as a "sin against humanity", he was
against its violent confiscation for that impoverished society for
it lost out on the talent of those who knew how to make money.
Instead, he proposed a system of trusteeship voluntarily with use of
minimal force.
Gandhi had witnessed the dreadful impact of untamed
industrialisation upon the great mass of the people in London. This
might be a reason why he spoke against technology without a human
face. He felt that the labour saving devices give more body comfort,
but lesser attention to the inner being.
Tagore came down heavily on the cult of his charkha. He considered
it as inadequate for economic development and also because it does
not require anyone to think, one simply turns the wheel of the
antiquated invention endlessly, using the minimum of judgement and
stamina.
However, Gandhi was very simple and candid in his response, "If you
can provide full employment to the people through other programmes,
including that of large-scale industries, I shall burn down my
wooden charkha and cook a day's meal, without shedding a single
tear".
On September 1, 1947, Gandhi wrote, "Whenever you are in doubt or
when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test:
Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have
seen, and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be of
any use to him..."
(The writer is former vice-chancellor, Gorakhpur University and
Rohilkhand University, Bareilly)
Bk
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Gandhi is the best known icon from India -- shaven head,
bespectacled face, frail and bare-bodied with hand-spun loin-cloth
attire, a hanging pocket-watch, walking stick and charkha.
His photographs and statues can be seen all around. Several
universities, colleges, schools, hospitals, ashrams, localities,
parks, roads, shops, societies and even persons have been named
after him. We pay floral homage to him regularly.
However, while we continue to raise his pedestal, we bury him
deeper in our deeds. Even the roads have shrunk to MG Marg. Although
ritualistic and hypocritical obeisance is paid to him lavishly, his
ideals have nearly vanished in thin air. In 1938, he wrote, "To
declare my birthday as a holiday should be declared as a cognisable
offence." However, we do not carry out his desire.
On August 30, 1947, he declared that "Merit alone would count in
independent India, and not one's community, major or minor, with no
particular group of them favoured or disfavoured." Today, law of
exponential academic decay operates around often, with people deftly
organised under castes, regions and religions. Nepotism rules the
roost. Gandhi wanted the ministers to sit on their chairs lightly
but not tightly. Attitudes have changed.
Some of them stick to their chairs nearly as limpets till a court
detaches them by imprisonment. On May 22, 1947, Gandhi said, "The
Congress was fast becoming an organisation of selfish power-seekers
and job-hunters. Instead of remaining the servants of the public,
the Congressmen had now become its lords and masters. The Congress
was torn by petty intrigues and group rivalries."
The gulf between our thoughts, words and deeds has over the years
become longer, deeper and wider. The disease has spread. We live now
in an age of guided missiles, and misguided men, creating moral
wastelands. Vultures of violence feed, breed and soar around. In
short, we deify Bapu on one side, while discard him on the other.
His classical ideals of simple living and high thinking have nearly
become extinct. Even the great khadi experiment is now limited to
Ashrams. Shades of swadeshi have changed beyond recognition. One of
the grimmest jokes doing rounds has been: What would Gandhi have
done, had he been alive today? He would have said, "Please take my
photograph off your currency notes."
Gandhi was indeed a unique phenomenon. His life was an open
experiment with truth. He believed that truth hates secrecy. Untruth
and violence are twin sisters. Truth, love and God - all three are
interchangeable. He was non-violence personified. He preached and
practised tolerance. He showed how means and ends are convertible
terms.
The two are inseparable - as the means, so the end. He laid the
foundation of passive resistance in South Africa; and later led
massive non-cooperation movements in India. In 1922, he called off
the movement, when members of a Congress and Khilafat procession in
Chauri Chaura burnt down a police station, killing 22 police men.
His defence of the untouchables was one of the bravest and most
successful campaigns.
Gandhi was an economist par excellence. He said the earth had
enough to fulfil everybody's need but not enough to satisfy even one
person's greed. He opposed the culture of consumerism and
acquisitiveness. These are at the root of the environmental problems
today.
Though he described property as a "sin against humanity", he was
against its violent confiscation for that impoverished society for
it lost out on the talent of those who knew how to make money.
Instead, he proposed a system of trusteeship voluntarily with use of
minimal force.
Gandhi had witnessed the dreadful impact of untamed
industrialisation upon the great mass of the people in London. This
might be a reason why he spoke against technology without a human
face. He felt that the labour saving devices give more body comfort,
but lesser attention to the inner being.
Tagore came down heavily on the cult of his charkha. He considered
it as inadequate for economic development and also because it does
not require anyone to think, one simply turns the wheel of the
antiquated invention endlessly, using the minimum of judgement and
stamina.
However, Gandhi was very simple and candid in his response, "If you
can provide full employment to the people through other programmes,
including that of large-scale industries, I shall burn down my
wooden charkha and cook a day's meal, without shedding a single
tear".
On September 1, 1947, Gandhi wrote, "Whenever you are in doubt or
when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test:
Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have
seen, and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be of
any use to him..."
(The writer is former vice-chancellor, Gorakhpur University and
Rohilkhand University, Bareilly)
Bk
The divide in the Mumbai Congress was evident with Mumbai Congress
chief Gurudas Kamat organising a morcha to Raj Bhavan and Minister of
State for Home Kripashankar Singh leading another morcha to the
collectorate.
Both camps had the same agenda — highlighting the failures of the BJP-
led NDA government at the Centre and asking for its dismissal. Both
groups claimed the rival camp's morcha had flopped.
After Kamat was appointed, Congressmen MP Sunil Dutt and Murli Deora
had a tiff with him. Several ministers, MLAs and corporators went
against him after a new committee for the Mumbai Congress was
appointed.
Kamat claimed he had legislators Sohail Ashraf, Suresh Shetty, Sayyed
Ahmed, Sudha Joshi, Hussain Dalwai, Dr M A Aziz, PCC president Ranjit
Deshmukh and minister Patangrao Kadam in his morcha from August
Kranti Maidan to Raj Bhavan.
Kamat was very vocal in his protest about the Congress divide. He
said, "The committee blessed by Sonia Gandhi received public support
today and had over one lakh people in the morcha.
We gave the governor a letter addressed to the President. Pressure
politics in the Congress has never paid dividends to anyone. And
elected representatives who have called on the Congress president
with their grievances should leave the matter to her rather than
making a public spectacle of themselves and damaging the party's
image."
"The huge turnout for the official rally has given a clear-cut
message to these representatives who are what they are mainly because
of the Congress president and Congress workers," he added.
As Sunil Dutt was abroad, his morcha was led by Kripashankar Singh.
Their camp alleged that Kamat had closed down factories in Thane,
Navi Mumbai and Kalyan to bring workers for the morcha. Singh said he
had MLAs from Mumbai — Naseem Khan, Eknath Gaikwad, Madhu Chavan,
Baba Siddique, Baldev Khosa, Janardhan Chandurkar, P U Mehta — and 47
corporators.
Reacting to Kamat's statement, Singh said, "Let him say whatever he
wants. Kamat claimed AICC general secretary of Maharashtra affairs,
Vyalar Ravi, would participate in his morcha, but he didn't show up."
Congress sources said Minister of State for Medical Education Suresh
Shetty wanted to play safe and attended both morchas.
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