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Sunday, June 24, 2012

Dictator Indira Gandhi's Emergency in 1975

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Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, the despotic daughter of the Blunder of Century Jawaharlal Nehru, gave Hindusthan THE darkest days in Bharatiya Democracy by unethically and unjustifiably declaring Emergency on June 25, 1975 till March 21, 1977. She followed in the footsteps of her corrupt Socialist and British stooge father Jawahar Lal Nehru, who had also imposed an Emergency when the bravado he had encouraged during the early stages of the war with China evaporated after humiliation in the Himalayas by the armies of Chairman Mao Zedong. During the dark period of Emergency, dictator Indira made many immoral changes to the Constitution including to the Preamble of the Bharatiya Constitution. Here are some famous pictures from the days of Emergency.

The famous cartoon by Abu Abraham showing the former President of India, Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, signing the proclamation of Emergency from his bathtub.

Dictator Indira Gandhi's despotic regime found this cartoon by Abu Abraham in Indian Express not fit for publication as it was critical of her censorship. Cartoon was CENSORED. See the rejection stamp.

One MAN Government.

श्रमेव-जयते or Shram-eva-Jayate was another slogan then. Indira Gandhi's stooges colleagues labored hard.

One of the outputs generated from Dictator Indira Gandhi's propaganda machine: Price of Liberty Indian people had to pay.

Dictator Indira Gandhi had ministerial colleagues during dark days of Emergency who all resembled this.

Frontpage of Indian Herald Newspaper when Emergency (Darkest days of Indian Democracy) was enforced by Indira Gandhi & Indian National Congress and opposition including great stalwart Indian leaders like Mr. Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Mr. Lal Krishna Advani, et al, the then opposition, were thrown in jail.

Frontpage of The Hindu Newspaper when Emergency (Darkest days of Indian Democracy) was enforced by Indira Gandhi & Indian National Congress and press censorship was imposed.

Jayaprakash Narayan (JP) leading people to Parliament Street against Emergency.

All vacant sites of outdoor media and billboards had to display such dictatorial messages.

Few examples of her tyrannies which made complete mockery of the Bharatiya Constitution and civil liberties:
* Suspension of Fundamental Rights
* Article 14 – Right to Equality before Law
* Article 21 – Right to Life and Personal Liberty
* Article 22 – Protection against Arrest and Detention in certain cases
* Gain of extraordinary power
* 39 th Amendment – Made proclamation of Emergency non-justiciable
* 40 th Amendment – Courts prevented from hearing against President, PM, Speaker
* 41 st Amendment – Conferred immunity to PM against criminal proceedings in just about every conceivable case
* 42 nd Amendment – Authorised President to amend Constitution for 2 years
* Abolished the need for quorum in Parliament (2/3 could make laws for India!)

Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger's Taped conversation: Indira Gandhi is a Bitch and an Old Witch

Experiences of AS Raghunath
GenNext must know what had led to Emergency, 37 years ago. Situation no different today. At least, there was JP then. Today? No one.

Emergency back grounder: Raj Narain, a socialist who was defeated by Indira Gandhi in the Rae Bareilly LS constituency, submitted to the Allahabad High Court charges of corruption in the election process against Mrs. G. In 1974, Jayaprakash Narayan, ex-socialist began to organize a campaign in Bihar to oust Indira Gandhi and her congress party from office on charges of corruption.

On June 12th, 1975, Justice Jagmohanlal Sinha of the Allahabad High Court, found the PM guilty on the charge of misuse of government machinery for her election campaign. The court declared her election "null and void" and unseated her from the Lok Sabha.

The court also banned her from contesting in any election for an additional six years. She was held guilty on charges such as building of a dais by state police and provision of electricity by the state electricity department and height of the dais from which she addressed the campaign rally.

The Times of India, a pro-establishment newspaper described her arrest as "firing the Prime Minister for a traffic ticket."

Strikes by labour and trade unions, student unions and government unions swept across the country. Protests led by Raj Narayan and Moraji Desai flooded the streets of Delhi close to the Parliament building and the Prime Minister's residence.

Justice Sinha stayed the operation of his judgment for 20 days allowing the Congress party to elect a successor to the Prime Minister.

Unable to find a competent successor, Mrs. Gandhi, on June 23rd 1975 appealed for “complete and absolute” stay which would have permitted her to be a voting Member of Parliament, as well as Prime Minister.

On June 24th 1975 Justice Iyer granted Indira Gandhi “conditional stay”. This decision gave rise to outcries from the opposition that she should resign. Mrs. Gandhi did not resign.

On the evening of June 25th 1975, JP Narayan called for a civil disobedience campaign to force the resignation of the Prime Minister. In response, the authority of the maintenance of Internal Security Act was used in the early hours of June 26th to arrest more than a hundred people who opposed Mrs. Gandhi and her party.

People arrested included JP Narayan, Raj Narain, Jyortimoy Basu (communist party-marxist), Samar Guha (president of the Jana Sangha). A proclamation of Emergency was issued on June 26th by President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, on the advice of Prime Minister Gandhi.


Democracy is alien to dynasties - By Kanchan Gupta, The Daily Pioneer
Thirty seven years ago this week, the Constitution was brutalised to turn India into a police state. One of the men who helped enforce Mrs Gandhi’s dictatorship is set to become the keeper of the Constitution.

News would travel fast in Jamshedpur, a small sleepy town in the 1970s where there were few distractions from the daily routine. This was some three decades before the advent of the Internet and cell phones. Computers were unheard of and television notionally existed, courtesy Doordarshan, in the big metropolitan cities. Few homes had telephones and still fewer had telephones that were not perpetually ‘out of order’.

In Jamshedpur, life was played out, frame by frame, in monotonous black and white, with occasional stretches of technicolour excitement. Jump cuts were considered too startling, but they couldn’t be avoided entirely: These usually came by way of unsettling news from the world beyond Jamshedpur, either borne by the Calcutta papers that came by the morning train and were distributed late in the afternoon, or riding the radio waves of Akashvani. People tuned into All India Radio to listen to Lotika Ratnam and Nilima Sanyal, not so much for what they had to say but to hear their voice so that they could imitate their accent. But that was okay, because, as I said, news travelled fast in Jamshedpur.

And so it was that although the Calcutta papers did not arrive on June 26, 1975, everybody knew by mid-morning of the events with cataclysmic consequences of the previous evening in faraway New Delhi. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had ‘recommended’ to President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed the declaration of Internal Emergency as she had information that there was “an imminent danger to the security of India being threatened by internal disturbances”. The President had complied without a murmur of protest.

At the stroke of the midnight hour, civil liberties and fundamental rights had been suspended; censorship imposed; Opposition leaders arrested; and, dictatorship of the dynasty had replaced democracy of the people. India was in chains all over again, this time enslaved by its own. “Don’t talk to strangers,” parents instructed their teenaged children.

Over the next few days a strange fear descended upon the people of this country — the fear of being punished and persecuted by the Emergency regime through its many agents and agencies. The dreaded midnight knock became the metaphor of those dark, terrible days when friends stopped trusting friends, relatives shunned relatives, teachers squealed on students and vice versa, and censors eager to please Congress bosses decided what was fit to print.

Not everybody, though, was appalled by Mrs Gandhi’s tanashahi — I learned that word from our physics teacher who was a tyrant in the classroom but would incessantly rage against the tyranny of what he would bitingly describe as an “illegitimate Government”. There were middle-class collaborators who, convinced that imitation was the best form of flattery, mimicked Sanjay Gandhi’s mannerisms and style of speech, and wore white kurta-pajamas similar to his. Hoodlums wore white kurtas over drainpipe pants and ran extortion rackets. Many people thought the Emergency was a good idea because trains ran on time and Vinoba Bhave endorsed Mrs Gandhi’s evil decision, calling the Emergency “Anushasan Parv”. Newspapers, barring honourable exceptions, caved in without a fight: Journalists, asked to bend, chose to crawl.

Meanwhile, dissent and its expression through protest was met with swift retribution. The RSS, which mobilised its vast network of swayamsevaks to launch an underground movement against Mrs Gandhi's dictatorship, was banned. But that did not deter swayamsevaks from persisting with their movement that was described by The Economist as “the only non-left revolutionary force in the world … its platform at the moment has only one plank: To bring democracy back to India.” The only other organisation which led from the front in the fight-back was the Akali Dal. Mrs Gandhi tried to coopt the Akalis, but they rebuffed her gesture; for them, freedom was far more important than power.

The Intelligence Bureau and the Central Bureau of Investigation were used for intimidating and harassing both rich and poor on mere suspicion of anti-Emergency activism. The Income Tax Department was instructed to let loose a reign of terror on trade union leaders. People were arrested and packed off to jail; many of them were brutally tortured to extract a confession that would serve the Emergency regime’s political interests — for instance, that he/she was a CIA agent.

The Constitution was slyly amended to declare India a Sovereign Socialist Secular Democratic Republic, an absurdity whose burden we are still forced to carry. To inspire confidence in the Supreme Leader, a massive Soviet-style propaganda offensive was launched. Billboards were put up with slogans like “The Leader is right, the nation’s future is bright!”In offices, including those in the private sector, Congress goons put up posters, urging people to “Work more, Talk less.” It was all very darkly reminiscent of the Third Reich.

Mrs Gandhi had the Supreme Court packed with handpicked ‘committed’ judges whose job it was to overturn the Allahabad High Court’s judgement of June 15, declaring her 1971 election as void and disqualifying her from contesting elections for the next six years. To demonstrate their ‘commitment’ to her, the judges also suspended the provision for habeas corpus without which India is no different from a police state ruled by a tin pot dictator.

By the time Mrs Gandhi called a general election in the spring of 1977, the people had made up their minds. On voting day they voted out the Congress! Mrs Gandhi and her son Sanjay were trounced in constituencies they considered to be their family heirloom and, therefore, theirs by right. A chastened Mrs Gandhi lifted the Emergency on March 21, 1977.

Thirty-seven years later, the excesses of the Emergency era may appear too distant in the past to be worthy of recall. But to believe that would be incorrect. There has been no change in the attitude of the Congress and the party’s first family makes no effort to hide its unshakeable belief that it has the divine right to rule India, either directly or indirectly, and not be held accountable for the many sins of omission and commission of which the Nehru-Gandhis are guilty. Indeed, to forget the Emergency would be a grave injustice to those who suffered so that liberty and rights would be ours.

It will forever be a matter of abiding shame for Bengalis that one of their own — Chief Minister Siddhartha Shankar Ray — came up with the idea of using the Constitution to kill freedom in India and drafted the declaration of Emergency to which Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed meekly appended his signature.

Those who are not well-disposed towards Mr Pranab Mukherjee would add the name of a second Bengali to the list of the villains of 1975-77 — his. As Minister of State for Finance (October 1974-December 1975) and later Minister of State with independent charge of Banking and Revenue (December 1975-March 1977) in those dark days he did Mrs Gandhi’s bidding and more than helped keep dissenters at bay through the expedient means of getting the Income Tax Department to ruthlessly hound them. Seen in this context, it’s only apt that he should resign from the Cabinet close to June 26, the 37th anniversary of Mrs Gandhi’s Emergency, to assume the charge of ‘Keeper of the Constitution of India’ as President of the Republic.

India Emergency 35th Anniversary – chronology of events

Corrupted And Perverted Mind Of Nehruvian Congress

Bursting bloated bladders of lies and pomposity

The Economist‘s Indira Gandhi circa 1984

The artwork for a cover of Indira Gandhi (1984) that led to The Economist being confiscated at airports in India

Penned just months before her assassination, It seems to have pretty much hit off every single thing you can think of: she’s in a vaguely Bharat Mata-gone-crazy pose that brings back memories of the “Indira is India” quote, wearing a sort of kitschy Bollywood rustic belle outfit, holding on to an angry man in a turban (a Sikh I suppose), a scimitar, another angry man trying to get her attention (the common man or a party worker?), a big bag full of cash, and stomping on Sri Lanka. She also has Madonna-worthy muscles, a couple of snakes for a necklace, a walnut for an eye and a pouchy tummy.

Image courtesy: Atlanta Journal-Constitution

 Image courtesy: The Economist

 The man of simple lines By H.K. Dua, Editor-in-Chief, The Tribune India
Those were bad times in India. Indira Gandhi had placed the country under emergency raj. Thousands of opposition leaders were arrested after midnight on June 25, 1975 and sent to undisclosed destinations.

A severe press censorship was imposed. Electricity of newspaper offices was switched off; the printing presses were locked. No one knew what would be the shape of things to come. The mood across the country was of anxiety and uncertainty.

Vidya Charan Shukla had been asked to take over the Information and Broadcasting Ministry. Apparently, Mrs Gandhi and her son Sanjay thought that he would do the job ruthlessly and Inder Gujral whom he had replaced would not. Shukla thought of addressing a press conference clearly to pass on the emergency message.

"We have imposed press censorship to stop the spread of rumours", Shukla said imperiously.
1975: The Emergency - "Democracy had been hijacked to serve personal interests"
By MJ Akbar

The Emergency of 1975, imposed by Indira Gandhi, was like mumps or chicken pox on the body politic of India: you had to suffer from it once in order to become immune. If it had come later, it might have proved fatal.

It was not the first proclamation of the Emergency by the Union Government. Indira Gandhi's father, Jawaharlal Nehru, also imposed an Emergency when the bravado he had encouraged during the early stages of the war with China evaporated after humiliation in the Himalayas by the armies of Chairman Mao Zedong.

But in 1962 Indians responded to the Emergency with a passionate display of unity and sacrifice, particularly after they learnt the bitter truth of defeat. The 1975 Emergency was imposed not because India was in danger but because Indira was in danger. The nation's reaction was stunned anger. Democracy had been hijacked to serve personal interests. It was the ultimate betrayal.

Everything that can be said has been written about when and why this Emergency was declared, and how it was manipulated through a craven Congress, an imprisoned Opposition and an obedient judiciary. Less is known about why it was lifted.

According to a source very close to Mrs Gandhi, and one important enough in the political pecking order to be mentioned in the succession stakes after her assassination, she took the decision in December 1976 to call for the overdue general election.

Word was put out to intelligence agencies and confidants to check the national mood. Her son Sanjay Gandhi, young, arrogant, dictatorial and completely insensitive to democracy and its values, was furious when he heard that his mother had gone "soft".

In Sanjay's scheme of things, they could have continued with the Emergency for another 20 years and, as he argued, "put this country right". Like Mussolini, he wanted the trains to run on time. That this would have turned India into another tinpot dictatorship of the kind prevalent all across the Third World was of little consequence to him. He put enormous pressure on his mother to reverse gear.

In the meantime, astrologers, the usual musicians of India's political symphonies, came into play and proclaimed that any announcement could be made only in the more auspicious second half of January.

The decision remained in doubt, said my source, till the first few days of January, when Mrs Gandhi decided that she needed the legitimacy of a popular victory to remain in power. Her words were significant as she took her decision: "If we do not go to the people now, we will never go to them again."

Cynics might take a less flattering view, and heaven knows that Mrs Gandhi gave sufficient reason for cynicism. But, with the perspective of three decades, I do believe that she was more a child of Nehru than the mother of Sanjay.

Power was important to her, but, in the final analysis, not more important than nationalism. We were lucky that the Emergency was a weapon that she chose to use, because by reversing it, Mrs Gandhi also made this Constitutional provision impotent forever.
Indian unity has shown the tensile strength to withstand rebellions in the north-west and north-east and murmurs in the south. But it is only as strong as Indian democracy, for it is democracy that gives every Indian a practical stake in his country's present and future. The Emergency of 1975 was a turning point precisely because time stood still during those 19 months.
What really happened during Emergency in India?
By Tejasvita Apte

This answer is both legal and political as law and politics played a major role before, during and after the emergency. It will therefore get a little technical. If you have any questions, I urge you to comment and ask.

Short answer -

The first thing you need to know about emergency is -

During emergency, Fundamental Rights are suspended. This means that the state can take any action and people have no recourse. During emergency thousands of people from the opposition were arrested and put behind bars without a trial. The press had absolutely no freedom to report. There was extreme censorship. Extreme measures like forced mass sterilization were conducted. The state policies were implemented completely.

This in short is what happened in Emergency.

Long answer  -

Emergency was declared in India from 1975-1977. 21 months. Indira Gandhi was the Prime Minister and Fakruddin Ali Ahmad was the President.

Background

From the beginning, there was a clash between the Legislature and the Judiciary in India. Immediately after independence, the government in view of its socialist policy carried out land reforms. Land was acquired by the government.
At that point of time, Right to property was still a Fundamental Right. A lot of amendments were carried out including removal of Right to property from Part III (It is now a legal right), creation of IXth schedule ( A schedule in the Constitution that gives immunity to laws. If a law is put in the IXth schedule, it cannot be challenged on the grounds of violation of Fundamental Rights).

The Supreme Court initially was very pro government as it saw these amendments as necessary to carry out reforms. In the cases of Sajjan Singh and Shankari Prasad, therefore, the Union of India won.

But 17 years after, the misuse of IXth schedule slowly came to light.

I.C. Golaknath v. State of Punjab

This was a landmark case in which the Petitioner won. This was a bench of 11 judges. Constitutional validity of a bunch of amendments as well as land laws (which were included in the IXth schedule were challenged).

The question was - Whether the Parliament has unlimited power to amend the Constitution or not.

Article 13 of the Constitution lays down that the State shall not pass any law which violates Fundamental Rights. The meaning of the word 'law' came up for interpretation. Did it include Constitutional amendments? That was the second question.
If it did, then amendments could not be made to the Fundamental Rights. If it did not apply to Constitutional amendments, then the Parliament could amend the Fundamental Rights (even take them away) but could not pass a law that violated them (Ironically!).


The SC held by a majority of 6:5 that the word 'law' in article 13 included Constitutional amendments.

Effect -

The effect of this judgment was that Parliament became powerless to amend, alter any part of the Fundamental rights enshrined from 14-32.

This verdict (highly criticized) resulted in creating a major rift between the judiciary and the legislature. It also resulted in a legal battle that continued through a series of cases and a lot of Judicial transfers!

These landmark cases are - Privy purses case, Benett Coleman Case, Bank Nationalization case, Kesavananda Bharti case, Minerva Mills case, etc.

Privy Purses case and Bank Nationalization case did not go as the government desired.

The Political storm

Meanwhile, a political storm was brewing which was owing a lot to the economic situation in India. In hindsight everyone today would agree that India's socialism hasn't really helped her, but at that point of time, it was highly in vogue.

1971 - Garibi Hatao (Eliminate poverty)

This was the catchy slogan used by Indira Gandhi to win a stunning victory in 1971. Immediately after that, the government's top priority was to over rule Golaknath's case along with Privy purses and Bank Nationalization cases. Consequently, Constitution was amended. There was many vicious changes like the word 'compensation' was replaced with 'amount'.
So initially, if a person's land was acquired, the government as per law was required to pay them compensation. Now, they were required to pay an 'amount' which could very well be Rs. 1/-.

Meanwhile from 1973-75, there was huge unrest with strikes and lockouts in the country. The government was highly criticized and it faced several no confidence motions in the Parliament.

Indira Nehru Gandhi v. Raj Narayan

This case further added to Mrs. Gandhi's troubles. Raj Narayan who had contested against Indira Gandhi and lost, filed cases of election malpractice against the sitting Prime Minister!

Justice Jagmohan Sinha of the Allahabad High Court found the Prime Minister guilty of the charges. Apparently, the judge's stenographer was forced to live in the judge's house with his family as there were threats to his life! Indira Gandhi appealed and lost.

This case was like the final nail in the coffin!

Jayprakash Narayan was organizing rallies against the government and this was probably the time Indira Gandhi would have thought of declaring emergency and seizing power. In her biography, it is written that this was probably the most difficult time for her and she was extremely insecure.

Emergency was declared on 25 June 1975 citing threats of national security and bad economy.

There were widespread arrests without trials, violation of Human rights, police brutality, mass sterilization, etc.

Aftermath -

The Emergency came to an end on 23 March 1977. Fresh Elections were called for and Janata Party (opposition) won. Ironically, in 1980, Indira Gandhi again won majority owing to ideological divides in the Janta government.

Current legal position as to amendability of the Constitution -

The SC in partially over ruled Golaknath's case in the landmark case of Kesavananda Bharti v. State of Kerala.
It has laid down that the Parliament has the power to amend any part of the Constitution as long as it doesn't violate the Basic Structure of the Constitution.



Following is a summarize chronology of her autocratic rule during emergency:

Educating Dr Manmohan Singh - Presentation Transcript

1. Educating Dr. Manmohan Singh ‘ What is L.K. Advani’s contribution to our national life?’ -Dr. Manmohan Singh, when releasing Congress Party Manifesto on 24 March 2009
2. An online volunteer recounts the horrifying, yet true story of the darkest days of Indian democracy that every Indian should know and take lessons from! Emergency: Democracy Imprisoned
3. LK Advani was one of the leading fighters for the country’s freedom when the Emergency threatened our very existence Dr. Manmohan Singh, when releasing Congress Party Manifesto on 24 March 2009, asked: ‘ What is L.K. Advani’s contribution to our national life?’
o Dr. Singh conveniently forgot India’s traumatic experience of the Emergency Rule (June 1975 till March 1977), when L.K. Advani, along with many other stalwarts of the Opposition courageously fought for the restoration of democracy.
o The incumbent Congress Government headed by Indira Gandhi sent Advani, along with tens of thousands of pre-democracy activists to jail for 19 months.
o Dr. Singh does not consider this a worthy contribution to our national life. Not surprising since he didn’t utter a word of protest against the Emergency – then or later.
“ Freedom and hope don’t go hand in hand. They can steal your freedom, but can’t take away your hope.” - Laurie Hendricks, Amsterdam (one of the many international messages sent to L.K. Advani while in prison) Advani revisits Bangalore Central Jail where he had spent 19 months during Emergency (2000)
4. Why is there a need for this today? Emergency took away our most prized possession: FREEDOM
* Without Freedom, a Nation is stripped of its honour
* A lot of blood and tears were shed before we earned our Freedom
* However, it was lost in 1975 during Emergency
* Thousands, including the stalwarts from the Opposition, were put behind bars
* No recourse for appeal to courts
* Newspapers became stenographers to Government
* Foundations of judiciary were hacked
“ Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it.” - George Santayana Wide-spread ignorance about facts related to Emergency
* No mention of post-Independence era in our history books
* A large section of our country still ignorant about Emergency
* Congress party, that enforced Emergency, is still at the helm
* Politicians like Smt. Indira Gandhi that enforced Emergency, are still eulogized
5. The Emergency lasted for almost 2 years – the darkest days in the history of Free India “ Freedom of the human personality, freedom of the mind and freedom of the spirit has become the passion of my life and I shall not see it compromised for bread, for security, for prosperity, for the glory of the state or for anything else.” - Jayaprakash Narayan
6. The Allahabad High Court ruling triggered a chain of events that converted the world’s largest democracy to the second largest dictatorship “ I have decided to declare an Emergency. The President has agreed. I will inform the Cabinet tomorrow.” - Indira Gandhi (on the night Emergency was imposed) Political Unrest
* Congress practiced electoral fraud to win 1971 elections
* Jayaprakash Narayan’s agitation in Bihar for change in provincial government
* Congress defeated in Gujarat by Janata Party
Allahabad Conviction
* Case filed against Indira Gandhi for election fraud and misuse of state machinery
* Allahabad High Court finds PM guilty on the charge of misuse for election campaign
* Declares her election null and void; unseated from her Lok Sabha seat
* Huge protests all over the country by students, trade-unions against the PM
* Persistent efforts received praise worldwide
Declaration of Emergency
* President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed declared a state of Emergency upon the advice of PM on the midnight of 26 June 1975
* The Cabinet did not even meet to pass the resolution before Emergency was declared
Famous cartoon by Abu Abraham showing Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed (the then President of India), signing the proclamation of Emergency from his bathtub
7. Invoking Article 352, PM granted herself extraordinary powers and launched a massive crackdown on civil liberties and political opposition. Justice HR Khanna (Supreme Court) - “If a person jailed during the Emergency is shot down by those in authority for personal reasons, do you mean to suggest that his associates have no judicial remedy?” Attorney General – “I do not feel happy saying this, but legally, Lordship, that is precisely the position.” Thousands of protestors and strike leaders were arrested
* Notable politicians arrested
* Jayaprakash Narayan - L.K. Advani
* Morarji Desai - Chandrasekhar
* A.B. Vajpayee -Ramkrishna Hegde
* LK Advani authored 5 underground essays while in prison used by people campaigning against Emergency
* Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and many other organizations were banned
Complete mockery of the Indian Constitution and civil liberties
* Suspension of Fundamental Rights
* Article 14 – Right to Equality before Law
* Article 21 – Right to Life and Personal Liberty
* Article 22 – Protection against Arrest and Detention in certain cases
* Gain of extraordinary power
* 39 th Amendment – Made proclamation of Emergency non-justiciable
* 40 th Amendment – Courts prevented from hearing against President, PM, Speaker
* 41 st Amendment – Conferred immunity to PM against criminal proceedings in just about every conceivable case
* 42 nd Amendment – Authorised President to amend Constitution for 2 years
* – Abolished the need for quorum in Parliament (2/3 could make laws for India!)
8. Freedom of Press was curtailed as never before, even worse than during the British Raj “ Is it an accident that nowhere in the (new) Code of Conduct (for the Press) does the word ‘freedom appear?” - V.K. Narasimhan, Chief Editor, The Indian Express (during Emergency) Press was abused and misused to meet PM’s objective
* Atrocities committed on Press
* - 253 journalists were arrested (110 - MISA, 110 - DIR, and 33 – other laws)
* Entry into India was banned for 26 foreign journalists (including Mark Tully)
* Govt. disaccredited 51 journalists and expelled 7 of them
* Strict censorship imposed
* Govt. officer appointed as censor for every newspaper/news agency
* Incompetent censors indiscriminately censored anything remotely ‘politically incorrect’
* New code of conduct prepared and foisted upon Press
* Crime even to publish any information about who was in detention and where
* Media used for propaganda and brainwashing public
* All India Radio and the entire mass media used for propaganda
* People made to believe that liberty, civil-rights, press freedom, judicial independence were ‘elitist’ concepts
* National Herald (Congress party’s own daily newspaper) eulogised one-party system in countries like Tanzania
9. There were serious charges against the Government, under Prime Minister Indira Gandhi Abuse and torture of detainees and political prisoners Misuse of public and private media institutions Arbitrary destruction of the slum and low-income housing Complete disregard for Indian Constitution
o Prisoners were segregated on the basis of religion
o No distinction made between political prisoners and criminals
Wanton detention of innocent people
o 34,988 persons were detained under MISA
o 75,818 were arrested under Defense of India Rules (DIR)
Forced vasectomy
o Thousands of men forced to undergo vasectomy
o Abusive and forcible treatment of poor people
o Slum and low-income housing in Turkmen Gate and Jama Masjid area destroyed
o Hundreds of relatively prosperous families reduced to the status of impoverished and needy
o AIR and Doordarshan used as tools for propaganda
o Indian Press subjected to censorship which was worse than during the British Raj
o Almost all parts of Constitution including the Preamble was changed
o Aimed at substituting a democratic form of government by an authoritarian form of government
“ As borne out by the records of the Government and the depositions of several responsible Government servants, dishonesty and falsehood became almost a way of official life during the Emergency” - Shah Commission (appointed to inquire into all the excesses committed during Emergency)
10. However, there were heroes who fought a determined battle against all odds and championed the cause of democracy “ If India ever finds its way back to the freedom and democracy, someone will surely erect a monument to Justice H.R. Khanna” - New York Times, 1976 Jayaprakash Narayan
* Called for Indira Gandhi to resign after Allahabad HC ruling
* Inspired millions to fight against the Emergency
* Championed the coalition of Opposition parties against Congress
Justice Hans Raj Khanna
* Stood up against the might of a muffling Indian state during Emergency
* Adjudged : Parliament cannot take away the basic rights of an individual
* Adjudged : Parliament cannot change the basic structure of Constitution
Mahommedali Currim Chagla
* Fought case for Emergency detenus against the Indian government
* Argued against detention of Opposition leaders under MISA
* Stood resolute despite of failing health and having quit legal practice
11. … And ultimately, it was the people of India that came out triumphant Janata Party voted to power; Congress trounced
* PM forced to announce elections because of increasing isolation
* Elections announced on 23 rd January, 1977; held in March
* Jayaprakash Narayan declares formation of Janata Party
* Members of Janata Party – Jana Sangh (pre-curser of BJP, Congress (O), Socialist Party and Lok Dal
* Janata Party wins a clear majority of 295 seats in a House of 542 seats; Indira Gandhi loses her own LS seat
LK Advani restores freedom of Press as I&B Minister
* Morarji Desai sworn in as new PM; L.K. Advani gets Information and Broadcasting portfolio; A.B. Vajpayee becomes External Affairs Minister
* Advani’s First task: Presented a White paper on misuse of media during Emergency
* Ensured all restrictions and controls imposed during Emergency were removed
* Restored freedom of Press – an integral part of a true democracy
“ If the Emergency was the darkest period in India’s post-Independence history, the righteous struggle following it was undoubtedly the brightest” - L.K. Advani LK Advani undertaking oath of office as I&B minister in 1977 Jayaprakash Narayan administering an oath of unity and service to Nation to all Janata Party MPs at Rajghat
12. Shri LK Advani was one of the leading fighters against Emergency which threatened the basic ideals of Justice, Liberty and Peace that our country is built upon If this is not contribution to National life, then what is?
* Authored 5 underground essays in prison
* Smuggled out of prison by anti-Emergency fighters
* Circulated across the country in anti-Emergency campaigns
* Strong defiance of censorship imposed by Government
* Inspired thousands to join protest against Emergency
* Full text: http://www.lkadvani.in/eng/content/blogcategory/96/422/
* Spent 19 months in prison during anti-Emergency struggle
* Challenged the Government in Karnataka High Court
* Received mass support from people all over India
* Restored Freedom of Press as I&B Minister
* Withdrew all directives issued for Press censorship
* Repealed the Prevention of Publication of Objectionable Material Act
* Restored the Parliamentary Proceedings Act
* For the first time, allowed all national and state-level political parties to broadcast their election campaigns with equal time
“ I see in Advaniji a multitude of roles ..as an erudite journalist with Organiser, .. as a crusader for democracy and fellow-prisoner during the Emergency.. , as one who assisted me in forging the NDA; and as my able deputy in steering the ship of nation for six years.” - Atal Bihari Vajpayee
13. Dear fellow citizens! The country looks up to you again… Perform your duty… Think and Vote! - by An Indian

Remembering Emergency days

Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi recounting excesses, atrocities, and brutalities by Indira Gandhi during Emergency

Thursday, May 3, 2012

Dr Subramanian Swamy's letter against Sonia Gandhi to President Abdul Kalam in 2004

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Dr Subramanian Swamy letter against Sonia Gandhi to President Abdul Kalam in 2004

FIRST APPEAL UNDER SECTION 19(1) OF RIGHT TO INFORMATION ACT


Smt Rasika Chaube

Joint Secretary & Appellate Authority

President’s Secretariat

Rashtrapati Bhawan

New Delhi-110004


Sir

I vide my RTI petition dated 11.04.2012 sought complete and detailed information together with related documents/file-notings/correspondence etc on under-mentioned aspects relating to formation of government at the centre when Dr Manmohansingh was appointed Prime Minister for the first time in the year 2004:

1. Complete and detailed information together related correspondence/documents/file-notings etc on Honourable President of India inviting Dr Manmohansingh to take charge as Prime Minister of India

2. Copies of letters/correspondence etc by individuals, political parties and others etc staking claim to form the government before Dr Manmohansingh was ultimately invited to form the government

3. Copies of replies, if any, by Honourable President of India and/or President’s Secretariat to any such claims to form the government together with related correspondence/doicuments/file-notings etc

4. Is it true that certain individuals, political parties and/or others etc had objected against some particular person being invited to form the government?

5. If yes, copies of all such letters together with replies, if any, by Honourable President of India and/or President’s Secretariat to any such objections together with related correspondence/doicuments/file-notings etc on drafting such replies

6. Is it true that Dr Subramanium Swamy has also made some correspondence with Honourable President of India and/or President’s Secretariat on the aspect/s referred in queries above?

7. If yes, copies of letters by Dr Subramanium Swamy together with replies if any enclosing also file-notings/correspondence/documents etc on drafting such replies

8. Any other related information

9. File-notings on movement of this RTI petition also


Learned CPIO vide response number 0062/RTI/04/12-13 dated 26th April 2012 declined information on points (6) and (7) exempted under section 8(1)(e) of RTI Act. It is surprising that when author of the letter namely Dr Subramanium Swamy is openly revealing through media about contents of the letter, how President’s Secretariat could claim information to be fiduciary in nature! Significantly CPIO has himself confessed that the then Honourable President of India exercised his to appoint thr Prime Minister based on that letter. At the most, CPIO could invite ‘Third Party’ comments under section 11 of RTI Act on disclosing the said letter from Dr Subramanium Swamy within five days of receipt of RTI petition, which was not done making the provision infructuous now at this stage.


Otherwise also, it is an aspect requiring disclosure under section 8(2) of RTI Act which allows access to information if public-interest outweighs the harm to be protected, because the important issue relates to possible denial of claim for the post of Prime Minister to an Indian citizen and distinguished Parliamentarian as evident from media-reports. People have right to know how and why the claim for the post of Prime Minister by the said dignitary was refused because of objection raised by Dr Subramanium swamy. Honourable Mr Justice S Ravindra Bhatt of Delhi High Court in the matter “Bhagat Singh Vs. CIC (W.P.(C) No.3114/2007)” has held that the Right to Information Act being a right based enactment is akin to a welfare measure and as such should receive liberal interpretation. I appeal that learned CPIO may kindly be directed to provide sought information together with related and sought documents but now to be provided free-of-cost under section 7(6) of RTI Act.


SUBHASH CHANDRA AGRAWAL

(Guinness Record Holder & RTI Activist)

1775 Kucha Lattushah

Dariba, Chandni Chowk

DELHI 110006 (India)

03.05.2012

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Dr. Subramanian Swamy explains 2G scam in detail

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Former Union Commerce Minister, renowned Economist, proud Hindu, and Harvard faculty Dr. Subramanian Swamy explains in great detail how 2G Scam was allegedly committed by corrupt Sonia Gandhi run CONgress govt. Dr. Swamy explains how special laws were allegedly enacted by P Chidambaram and Pranab Mukharjee to facilitate black money involved in the scam. He also exposes the national security issues involved in 2G Scam as Dawood Ibrahim man Shahid Balwa was key figure in buying spectrum & ISI front companies were also involved as per Home Ministry reports. Dr. Swamy further explains the alleged revelations done by A Raja about Sonia Gandhi, Karunanidhi, Kanimozhi, Chidambaram, Kapil Sibal, et.al. and their share in the total loot of 2G scam.

At IIM, Karnavati, Gujarat


At Begaluru (Bangalore), Karnatak


At Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Indraprasth (Delhi)


Subramanian Swamy exposing Sonia Gandhi, Robert Vadra and P Chidambaram on Chauthi Duniya










At Tilak Mandir, Poona (Pune), Maharashtra


















Sunday, October 16, 2011

Indian-Americans protest against Sonia Gandhi & in support of Dr. Subramanian Swamy

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Indian-American community protests against Antonia Maino aka Sonia Gandhi and in support of Dr. Subramanian Swamy outside Indian Embassy in New York city.







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Dear Colleagues:

MEMORANDUM SUBMITTED TO CONSULATE GENERAL OF INDIA IN NEW YORK RE: HARASSMENT OF DR. SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY

Enclosed herewith please find a copy of the Memorandum which was submitted today to the Consulate General of India in New York, expressing our legitimate revulsion against the unwarranted harassment of Dr. Subramanian Swamy by governmental agencies.

Dear Friends you will be happy to note that a lot of supporters of Dr. Swamy are flying from Chicago and driving more than 250 miles from neighboring states to participate in this Protest on Sunday, October 16th from 11:00 to 01:00 pm at 64th Street and 5th Ave.

Please join us in a big number with your friends.

Respectfully yours,

Narain Kataria

(718) 478-5735/(718) 271-0453.

_________________________

INDIAN AMERICAN INTELLECTUALS FORUM

Tel: (718) 478-5735/ (718) 271-0453

Katarian@aol.com

MEMORANDUM TO CONSULATE GENERAL OF INDIA October 13, 2011

Consulate General of India

3 East 64th Street

New York, New York 10065

PROTEST AGAINST UNWARRANTED HARASSMENT OF

DR. SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY, PRESIDENT, JANATA PARTY

Hon. Prabhu Dayal ji: Saadar Namaskar:

We, the undersigned, hereby submit this Memorandum to you to express our disgust and abhorrence against the unwarranted harassment of Dr. Subramanian Swamy, President, Janata Party and a prominent Indian leader who has emerged as the embodiment of resistance against totalitarian and corrupt system.

India is neither a Banana Republic nor a fiefdom of any Dynasty. It is a full-fledged and vibrant democracy in which freedom of diverse views is constitutionally guaranteed to all the citizens.

Dr. Swamy is being hounded by the Governmental agencies for writing an article three months ago in an Indian newspaper in which he had expressed his opinion as to how to solve the problem of Islamic terror in India. In that article he had also appealed to all the Hindus to unite against the challenge of Islamic terrorism. There were no communal disturbances due to that article.

Calling Dr. Swamy “anti-Muslim” is a lie perpetrated by corrupt and anti-nationalists.

It is a matter of great regret and shame that truthful, bold and honest Indian leaders like Dr. Subramanian Swamy are being threatened by Congress volunteers and Jihadists.

It is alleged that under pressure from Home Minister Shri Chidambaram, a frivolous FIR has been registered against Dr. Swamy in New Delhi.

In addition to that India Govt. refuses to act on his request for housing in a safer environment in New Delhi to protect himself and his family from ruffians. Here are some examples of attacks:

Aug 8, 2011: Dr. Swamy’s house in New Delhi was attacked by Congress workers
Feb 21, 2009: Dr. Swamy was physically assaulted in Tamilnadu by lawyers, right in front of High Court Judge.
Oct 25, 2008: Dr. Swamy’s party office was ransacked in Madurai.

The intent behind all the above insidious activities is to muzzle Dr. Swamy’s voice, slander him in the eyes of public and ultimately put him in jail.

We are afraid that once Dr. Swamy is put in the jail, sinister attempt would be hatched to immobilize him physically as well as mentally for ever.

Hence, we request you to please convey our feelings to the Government of India.

We would also like to bring to your attention that our protest should not be construed as an anti-India activity. India is the country of our origin. We assure you that we will never do anything that would bring disrepute or indignity to our Motherland. However, we are compelled by the circumstances to resort to this type of action.

Respectfully yours,

sd/-

Narain Kataria

President/Organizer

Sd/-

Arish Sahani

Vice President/Organizer

Sunday, October 2, 2011

List of known Scams under CONgress, Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, Manmohan Singh led UPA and other corrupt governments

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List of known Scams under CONgress led United Progressive Alliance (UPA), Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, Manmohan Singh's corrupt government, and others:





2012 Scams List










Nursery Rhyme our children will learn
A - Adarsh Scam

B - Bofors Scam

C - CWG Scam

D - Devas-Antrix Scam

E - Employment Guarantee Scheme (EGS) Scam

F - Fodder Scam

G - Ghaziabad Provident Fund scam

H - Harshad Mehta Stock Market Scam

I - IPL Scam

J - Junior Basic Trained teachers’ recruitment scam

K - Ketan Parekh Stock Market Scam

L - LIC Housing Scam

M - Madhu Koda mining scam

N - Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFC) Scam

O - Oriental Bank Scam

P - Punjab State Council of Education Research and Training (SCERT) Scam

Q - Quest for Gold Scam

R - Ration Card Scam

S - Satyam Scam

T - Telecom 2G Scam

U - UTI Scam

V - Volkswagon Equity Scam

W - West Bengal Telecom Scam

X, Y, Z

Protest or be dead, because this corrupt govt will cheat money out of even pig's bread.

If you do not want your children to learn this rhyme, take this as a challenge and join the world's largest anti-corruption movement - Bharat Swabhiman Andolan.

http://www.facebook.com/swami.ramdev

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This is OUR money. Approximately रु ९१० lakh crores.

Dr. Subramanian Swamy's letter to PM Manmohan Singh seeking to prosecute Sonia Gandhi

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Dr. Subramanian Swamy's letter to puppet regent Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seeking his permission to prosecute Antonia Maino aka Sonia Gandhi on corruption charges. Unsurprisingly, Mr. Singh rejected Dr. Swamy's plea.

Featured on page 123 is the letter that Dr. Swamy had sent to former President APJ Abdul Kalam which prevented Italian citizen Sonia Gandhi from becoming Prime Minister of Bharat.

Please SCROLL BELOW to read the whole letter on this page.

Subramanian Swamy letter to Manmohan Singh to prosecute Sonia Gandhi

Thursday, September 8, 2011

CONgress: A story of Suppression & Subjugation

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Indian National CONgress: A story of Suppression & Subjugation

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English:

Sunday, July 19, 2009

Blunder list of Manmohan Singh's Congress government

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"Mr Singh has proved a hopeless decision maker as Prime Minister."
- Financial Times, London, April 15 2009

"The Government has assaulted and weakened every constitutional office: the Election Commission, Governors and Parliament."
- Outlook, March 2 2009
Please also read, "Manmohan Singh agrees with Indian Mujahideen terrorists?".
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Even before the Bharatiya (misnomer: Indian) election results were out, I took this decision that no matter who wins I will try to maintain a list of blunders that the new government commits. A list which will expose their Anti-Hindu decisions, hypocrisy, fake secular extremism, sellout media bias, heartless shameless decisions and ignorance regarding terrorism, corruption, sycophancy, self-glorification, etc. I will try to keep it as updated as possible but due to time consideration I may miss some important news. So I welcome you, the readers and everyone to contribute to this list. As it will help everyone during the times of next elections to be informed about the blunders that this new incumbent Christo-Muslim Rightist Congress nonsecular government commits in this new 15th Lok Sabha.

Please also read "Timeline/Chronology of Major Terrorist attacks in Bharat" for complete list of terrorist attacks in Bharat (misnomer: India) especially 47 major terrorist attacks in 68 cities under Congress in past 5 years.
  1. July 20 2008
    Third class biased treatment to Hindus, Nonexistent Development and False Promises: While Muslim Rightist Congress spent over Rs 500 crores (as per CAG report) on Hajj subsidy and Andhra CM Samuel Reddy is giving subsidies to Christians to go to Bethlehem, Hindu devotees are mistreated worse than 3rd class citizens and Hindu Holy places are in dilapidated conditions while the Daan (selfless donations) that Hindus willfully give for up keep, protection, research and development of these Mandirs (Hindu Temples) and tax payers money is redirected for Muslim-Christian subsidies. No such service is provided to Hindus for any holy pilgrimage. What kind of secularism is this?
    • बद्रीनाथ यात्रा के दौरान फंसे ११ हजार श्रद्धालु
      उत्तराखंड में बद्रीनाथ की यात्रा के दौरान करीब ११ हजार श्रद्धालु अब भी फंसे हुए हैं। इन लोगों को निकालने की कोशिशें की जा रही हैं। बद्रीनाथ से २० किलोमीटर दूर लामबगड़ में बना पुल बादल फटने से नदी में बह गया। ऋषिकेष-बद्रीनाथ राजमार्ग पर बने पुल के बह जाने से भगवान के दर्शन कर वापस आ रहे करीब १२ हजार श्रद्धालु बद्रीनाथ में ही फंस गए। इनमें से एक हज़ार को वहां से सही-सलामत निकाल लिया गया है। इन तीर्थयात्रियों को दूसरे रास्ते के ज़रिए बाहर निकाला गया। बाक़ी फंसे तीर्थयात्रियों को भी अब इस रास्ते से निकालने की कोशिश की जा रही है। चमोली जिला प्रशासन का कहना है कि वो सेना की मदद से नदी में कच्चा पुल का निर्माण कर सभी तीर्थयात्रियों को ऋषिकेष भेजने का प्रबंध करेगा। लेकिन ये तभी संभव है जब नदी में पानी का बहाव कम हो। रात में बारिश के चलते राहत काम में बाधा पड़ी है। प्रशासन का कहना है कि जरूरत पड़ने पर बद्रीनाथ में फंसे तीर्थयात्रियों को वहां से निकालने के लिए हेलीकॉप्टरों की भी मदद ली जा सकती है।
    • बादल फटने के कारण बद्रीनाथ मार्ग बंद
    • बद्रीनाथ के हजारों यात्री फंसे

  2. July 19 2008
    Devaluation of Institutes, Corruption and Partisanship: Due to the step motherly attitude, constant ridiculing, communal nonsecular divisive Muslim headcount, being under paid, denial of pension and discrimination by bureaucracy under Antonia Maino-Manmohan Singh's government, Army has been constantly loosing its standards and employees. By some estimates, attrition rate has been at its all time high under Muslim Rightist Congress government. So what do you expect when Army goes to recruit new talent? All it gets is this unprofessional, uncivilized and uncontrollable rowdy acts of violence by would-be army men & women who have no shred of discipline. Such a shame!

    Since there was no news of any Muslim or Christian dying in the stampede that happened during Army recruitment a Polytechnic College in Chandoli, Uttar Pradesh so none of biased Indian English media even cared to print the story nor did Overrated World Renowned Mythical Economist and Dhimmi Regent PM Mr. Manmohan Singh loose his sleep on this. Both the media and government are busy playing their divisive caste politics in Rita Bahuguna hate speech case or brushing under the carpet the disastrous diplomatic surrender of India by Sonia Gandhi-Manmohan Singh government to Pakistan. Who cares if a few Hindus died during fictitious peace time, not by the hands of enemy but even before they could even apply to join the army to face the enemy. As proved by the diplomatic surrender by Sonia Gandhi-Manmohan Singh, Indian blood is too cheap.
    • यूपी: सेना भर्ती में भगदड़, २ की मौत

    • सेना की भर्ती में हंगामा, फायरिंग से एक की मौत
      उत्तर प्रदेश के चंदौली में रविवार को सेना की भर्ती के दौरान मची भगदड़ के बाद फायरिंग में एक अभ्यर्थी की मौत हो गई। भर्ती में गड़बड़ी का आरोप लगाते हुए हंगामा कर रहे युवकों पर मिलेट्री पुलिस की फायरिंग में तीन अभ्यर्थी घायल भी हुए हैं। इसके बाद बेकाबू युवाओं ने पूरे शहर में तोड़फोड़ करने की कोशिश की। हंगामे के कारण दिन में करीब चार घंटे तक शहर में अफरातफरी रही। पुलिस ने कड़ी मशक्कत के बाद हालात को काबू में किया है। अपुष्ट सूत्रों के मुताबिक फायरिंग में पांच युवकों की मौत हुई है। उपद्रवियों ने सरकारी दफ्तरों में तोड़फोड़ व आगजनी की। चंदौली रेलवे स्टेशन पर तोड़फोड़ के कारण यातायात प्रभावित रहा। लंबी दूरी की कई ट्रेनों को दूसरे स्टेशनों पर रोक कर रखा गया। इसके अलावा उपद्रवियों ने कुछ वाहनों को फूंक डाला और जिला अदालत में तोड़फोड़ मचाई। भर्ती रैली में आसपास के इलाकों के साथ पड़ोसी राज्य बिहार से करीब दो हजार युवाओं ने भाग लिया था। युवाओं ने शारीरिक परीक्षण के दौरान धांधली की शिकायत की थी और उसके बाद ही सेना अधिकारियों से उनका विवाद हो गया था। सेना अधिकारियों का कहना है कि युवकों ने पथराव शुरू कर दिया था।

    • यूपीः चंदौली में सेना की भर्ती में भगदड़, एक की मौत

    • सेना की भर्ती के दौरान छात्रों का हंगामा

  3. July 17 2008
    Under-funded projects: It was a proud moment for all Hindus and Bharatvaasis around the world on the initial success of Chandrayaan, all credit to the Scientists at ISRO. But since ISRO is severely under funded organization as it can't get votes to the government, ISRO has reported that Chandrayaan has developed technical snags and failures.
    • Video: Chandrayaan sensor fails
      Chandrayaan-१, India's first lunar probe, is facing a serious technical snag that might cut its journey short. According to ISRO, the craft's Star Sensors, which helps the spacecraft direct towards the moon, have failed.

  4. July 16 2008

  5. July 15 2008
    • Hate Speech, Spiteful politics and Sellout Media bias: Uttar Pradesh's Congress chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi made some really vicious and slanderous remarks against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in a hate speech but media supports her contrary to how it demonizes Varun Feroz Gandhi because spoke for Hindu rights and liberties.
    • Terrorism: Serious and severe terrorist threat to Shri Somnath Mandir and other important national assets from Islamic terrorists who can attack from Sea route.
      • Video: Terrorist threat to Shri Somnath Mandir
        Security has been up at all vital establishments including the famous Somnath Temple in Rajkot district of Gujarat following a terror threat.Indian intelligence agencies say that Lashkar-e-Taiba, a militant organisation, is planning to target iconic buildings and industrial installations in Gujarat and Maharashtra.
    • Terrorism: Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram of Congress Government has admitted that government failed to curb Naxal Maoist terror.
      • Video: Government failed to curb Maoists: Home Minister
        Government has failed to curb the Maoist menace, Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram said on Wednesday addressing a session of the upper house of parliament. He said this in the wake of recovery of a consignment of communication equipment meant for Maoists in Jharkhand by the police on Tuesday.

  6. July 12 2008
    Corruption: The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India's audit report has exposed a scam involving the Armymen's obsession with the game of golf.
    • Armymen's love for golf tees off a scam (Caution: This news report is from a known Anti-Hindu biased news channel, readers discretion is advised.)
      It seems like the Armymen have been channelising funds meant for Defence services' budgetary needs to fulfil their passion for the sport. The CAG report on Friday confirmed that nothing can come between the Army brass and their love for Golf. Successive chiefs of the Western Command ignored audit objections to continue buying golf carts by diverting 1.17 crore rupees from emergency operational funds by misrepresenting facts. The Comptroller and Auditor General says that the Army's Golf course in Delhi has been functioning in an unauthorised manner for the last 20 years. It is reported that Army personnel say the Government does not authorise its legitimate social requirements and therefore the exercise. The golf cart scam has blown the lid off the Army's unauthorised social activities. Most of its 93 golf courses across the country are illegal so far.

  7. July 11 2009
      Anniversary of 7/11/2006 Islamic Jihadi Terrorist Attack in Mumbai
    • Corruption and False Promises: As per new Railway Minister Ms. Mamata Banerjee, former Railway Minister of previous Congress led UPA government and known Unethical, Immoral and Unrighteous) pseudo-secular fundamentalist rabble-rouser politician Mr. लालू प्रसाद यादव / Lalu Prasad Yadav of राष्ट्रीय जनता दल / Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) lied to the nation. He is also known for his hate speeches against Gujarat and Bharat's best Chief Minister Mr. Narendra Modi and for his Goonda Gardi (hooliganism and public misbehavior). As per Ms. Mamata Banerjee, Mr. Laloo Prasad fudged the financial report numbers and mislead the nation by claiming that Railways had a cash surplus of Rs 90,000 crore while the fact says otherwise that railway surplus stood at Rs 8,361 crore. Overrated World Renowned Mythical Economist and Dhimmi Regent PM Mr. Manmohan Singh wouldn't loose his sleep on this, would you?
      • Mamata calls Lalu bluff on railway surplus
      • PM can't abdicate himself of Lalu's financial deeds: BJP
        With Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee promising a white paper on the ministry's performance during Lalu Prasad's tenure, BJP on Saturday said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh could not abdicate himself of the "financial jugglery" committed during that period. "The Prime Minister has said the white paper will uncover the reality. This vindicates BJP's stand that in the last five years there has been financial jugglery in the Railways. The PM cannot abdicate himself as Prasad was a part of his cabinet," BJP spokesperson Rajiv Pratap Rudy told reporters. He hoped the promised white paper would expose the "black deeds" of Prasad and not attempt to cover them. The BJP said Prasad's image as a politician and administrator has not been clean. "We have seen the Rs 1,000 crore fodder scam in which he was sent to jail," Rudy said, adding, "the nation could be heading towards a major scandal". Rudy accused Prasad of misleading management institutions like IIMs and Harvard Business School through his claims of turning around Indian Railways. Debunking Prasad's claims, Banerjee has said that after meeting all expenses, the Railways were left with a surplus of just Rs.8,361 crore and not Rs.90,000 crore.
      • Lalu a juggler, Nitish echoes Mamata
        On the surplus funds with the railways, Mr Banerjee had on Thursday said that a corpus of just Rs 8,361 crore remained after expenditure of Rs 13,600 crore on account of Pay Commission award last year and Rs 2,600 crore this year. Accusing Mr Prasad of misleading the country on the issue of railway profits during his tenure as minister, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar said the RJD leader now stood exposed. “From Mr Prasad’s claim of the railways achieving a cash surplus of Rs 90,000 crore to Mamata Banerjee’s disclosure of cash surplus of around Rs 8,361 crore, the jugglery of figures in the budget with respect to the profits is amply evident,” Mr Kumar said. The chief minister said that he had always wondered how a man who “ruined” Bihar for 15 years was “doing exceedingly well” in the railways.
      • Lalu should apologise to the nation: Nitish
        Prasad had "hoodwinked and misled" the nation and the people, Kumar, a former railway minister, said it was "the biggest-ever offence" committed by any public servant in office since Independence. "Prasad owed an explanation to the nation and people," Kumar said, adding the RJD supremo should apologise to the nation. "A person who earned laurels and sobriquets of being a management guru and was invited by several management institutions in India and abroad for lectures for hollow claims of the turnaround by the Railways stands exposed now," Kumar claimed.
    • Corruption and Substandard projects: 3 people have been killed and 11 injured when a Delhi Metro bridge collapsed near Lady Shri Ram College in Dhamrutpur near Lajpat Nagar around 0520 HRS. What has suddenly happened to Delhi Metro which used to have a stellar record of public safety and before deadline completion rate that suddenly after the revelations that its Anti-Corruption Anti-Political-Pressure Leader Mr. E Sreedharan wants to quit that since past one year or more work site accidents and unexplained delays have increased. Especially after the Hyderabad Metro Rail corruption case exposed by Mr. Sreedharan on September 28 2008 for which he was threatened with a defamation case by Muslim Rightist Congress Government in Andhra Pradesh led by Evangelical Christian Y Samuel R Reddy. There are also reports that there is unnecessary pressure on the DMRC to finish the work because of Common Wealth Games in 2010 which may leading to substandard development. As expected from a person of Mr. Sreedharan's incorruptible stature, he offered to resign from the post of MD taking full moral responsibility for the incident even though he was not directly involved. 3 people died and Sreedharan resigns. Compare this to former and the worst Home Minister of Bharat Shivraj Patil who had to be halfheartedly removed even though more than 3000 people died to 47 Islamic & Christian terror attacks under his tenure.

  8. July 2 2009
    • Price Rise and False Promises: Muslim Rightist Congress led UPA government reduced the fuel prices just before elections as a Pre-Poll gift and after forming the Government it has raised prices again. They had reduced petrol prices by Rs 5 a litre, diesel by Rs 2 and cooking gas by Rs 25 per cylinder. The new prices became effective from midnight on January 29 2009.
      • Petrol price hike noble thanksgiving by UPA: BJP
      • Congress raises price again
        In one of the steepest hikes ever, the government on Wednesday jacked up fuel prices by Rs 4 a litre for petrol and Rs 2 for diesel, triggering ominous talk of freight-rate hike by transporters. This means, apart from a hike in your car-running bill, vegetables and food items, will become even costlier. But with international crude prices rising to a seven-month high of around $73, and the finance ministry worried about a growing fiscal deficit, the government has finally bitten the bullet. But truckers and transporters promptly announced they would pass on the burden by raising freight rates. IFTRT said truck rentals would go up 3-4% and retail freight rates 20-25%. This is the first fuel price increase effected by UPA-2. Petrol and diesel prices were last raised by Rs 5 and Rs 3 a litre, respectively, in June 2008. They were reduced by Rs 10 for petrol and Rs 4 for diesel in two equal instalments in December and January just before elections.

    • Leaderless skills, Hypocrisy and Secularism in full force: For the record, Hindu & Sikh Minorities are being persecuted and forced to pay Jizya (Islamic Tax) by Muslim extremist Taliban in Pakistan but apparently the matter is not serious enough for Overrated World Renowned Mythical Economist and Dhimmi Regent PM Mr. Manmohan Singh to loose his sleep. Kudos to Mr. Lal Krishna Advani for raising this very important issue about Hindu Human Rights and Civil Liberties. So for the record, Muslim Rightist Congress doesn't care about Hindu & Sikh Genocide in Pakistan but BJP does.
      • History repeats itself, Hindus in Pakistan agree to pay jazia to Taliban
      • Advani airs concern at jizya on Hindus, Sikhs in Pakistan
        Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader LK Advani has expressed concern at Taliban-imposed jizya - protection money being forcibly collected from religious minority in Pakistan - and urged the Indian Government to take steps "to prevent hardships and persecution of Hindus and Sikhs" in that country. "The BJP urges the Indian government to take all necessary steps with the government of Pakistan to prevent any further hardships and persecution of the Hindus and Sikhs in that country," the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha said Wednesday. Advani in a statement said: "The BJP urgently calls upon the Pakistan government to protect the lives and properties of the Hindus and Sikhs in Pakistan and to ensure that they are safeguarded and that they are not subjected to any discrimination and harassment." "The BJP is greatly concerned at reports emanating from Pakistan that the Taliban has asked to pay a jizya tax of Rs.6 million," he said. "This is a direct outcome of the highly pampered existence that the Taliban have enjoyed, till very recently in Pakistan, in terms of which they have enjoyed the patronage of important organs of the state," Advani said.
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    • Corruption and Halfhearted Under-researched policies: Bihar Chief Minister Mr. Nitish Kumar exposed discrepancies in Muslim Rightist Congress government's vote bank policies.

  9. July 1 2009
    • Abuse of Power and Unbecoming of Minister: Muslim Rightist Congress's Lok Sabha Member of Parliament (MP) from Nagarkurnool, Andhra Pradesh Mr. Manda Jagannath slapped and assaulted Mr. Ravinder Reddy, Bank Manager, Andhra Pradesh Grameen Vikas Bank in Mahabubnagar district for not releasing loans to SC/ST beneficiaries. Despite visual evidence he denies assaulting the Manager. He says I was catching his shoulder. Someone should teach him the laws that even laying a finger on someone or spitting at someone is considered a battery and assault. At least in civilized world. Its such an irony that when he was assaulting Mr. Reddy we can see Mr. Mohandas Gandhi's picture in the background. So much for all ballyhoo about Gandhi and Peace by Muslim Rightist Congress. Would Antonia Maino aka Sonia Gandhi or Manmohan Singh take any action against the culprit? I really doubt that because as per similar precedents they may just question him for show and then let him go.

    • Abuse of Power, Unbecoming of Governor: Governor Syed Sibtey Razi due to his alleged partisanship with Muslim Rightist Congress is not dissolving Jharkhand Assembly and denying Civil Right to people of Jhakhand to vote and elect the representatives as they wish.
      • BJP demands Jharkhand Assembly dissolution
        BJP on Wedenesday demanded dissolution of Jharkhand Assembly and sought fresh election in the state. "The assembly which is in suspended animation should be dissolved. People should get the chance to elect their representatives instead of experimenting another government," BJP's state unit president Raghuvar Das told a news conference here. "Governor Syed Sibtey Razi should be recalled as he has become a rallying point of Congress. During the last six months of President's Rule, law and order has worsened and the progress on development front has stalled," he said. Das alleged state UPA leaders have been "camping" in New Delhi to "plead" with the Central leadership to form a new government in the state. JMM chief Shibu Soren and JPCC president Pradeep Kumar Balmachu are among several UPA leaders who are in the national capital to meet the Central leadership of the alliance, he said.

    • Self Glorification and Sycophancy in full force: Muslim Rightist Congress and Christian Rightist DMK who have planned to destroy World's Ancient Heritage Shri Ram Sethu have conveniently renamed Bandra-Worli Sea link in Mumbai as "Rajiv Setu" and Old Mahabalipuram Road in Chennai as Rajiv Gandhi Road to rub it in Bharatvaasi (misnomer: Indians) and Hindus face. Beware Mayawati, you got competition and they have a 60 years head start.

  10. June 30 2009
    Talibanization of Society and Secularism in full force: Muslim Rightist nonsecular Congress changes its stand and drags its feet on Gay Rights a day after Muslim Extremists protested against decriminalization of Gay Rights.

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  13. June 7 2009
    Sellout Media bias: Biased Sellout section of Indian Media pays its debt and kisses Congress governments a*s by immorally depicting Mr. Advani's demand for 26/11 Islamic Jihadi Terrorist Attack in Mumbai by Pakistan as political move. But also agreed with him in the second half of their news entertainment commentary.

  14. June 6 2009
    For the record: Arrogant and Shameless Home Minister P Chidambaram of Congress led UPA government finds Mr. Advani's demand for inquiry into 26/11 Islamic Jihadi Terrorist Attack in Mumbai amusing and funny. Congress led UPA government does not want to find out why 26/11 happened and hence, doesn't care to stop future such terrorist attacks.

  15. June 5 2009
    • Lal Krishna Advani of BJP demands central panel/inquiry commission to probe 26/11 Islamic Jihadi Terrorist Attack in Mumbai by Pakistan

    • Bharatiya (misnomer: Indian) President Pratibha Patil known for her partisanship for Congress said that zero tolerance policy towards terrorism will be pursued by the government. Really? Just like it was pursued during last 46 major terrorist attacks in 67 cities under Congress government in past 5 years. This is the same person who is not passing an order to hang December 2001 Parliament Attack convicted terrorist Mohamed Afzal Guru may be because of communal nonsecular Muslim-Rightist vote bank politics of the government. On one hand Ms. Patil talks of farcical zero-tolerance policy of Congress government towards terrorism and on the other hand Congress punches holes in her statement by refusing to set up an inquiry commission to find out the reasons behind 26/11 Islamic Jihadi Terrorist Attack in Mumbai by Pakistan. Who is lying, you decide!

  16. June 2 2009
    Secularism in full force: Another Hindu Seer brutally murdered in Orissa

  17. May 29 2009
    Secularism in full force: Christian Taliban strikes again. Hanumanji statue demolished

  18. May 26 2009
    Secularism in full force: Kanya Kumari renamed as Kanya Mariam and declared as Christian District

  19. May 15 2009
    Muslim-Christian Rightist Congress led UPA government re-elected

  20. May 13 2009
    Secularism in full force: Kanya Kumari's Communally polarised Christians vote only for Christians.

  21. April 4 2009
    Abuse of Power, Unbecoming of Minister: Christian Rightist DMK's TR Baalu's reign of Corruption
    • Mantra for TR Baalu officials: Public money, private profit
      The officials in the TR Baalu’s Ministry of Road Transport and Highways are at it again. They have adopted a new mantra to help out a private firm get Government contract by using Public Private Partnership route. The Ministry had recently approved a grant of Rs 75.47 crore to IL&FS Transportation Networks for strengthening and construction of paved shoulders on the 119-km Beawar and Gomti carriageway crossing Rajasthan even though it was the lone qualified bidder.

  22. March 17 2009
    Secularism in full force: Anantnaag to renamed as Islamabad. What Indian Media chose not to Highlight. Names of over 700 villages in the valley have been changed by Anti-Hindu Omar Abdullah's Muslim-Rightist government.

  23. March 5 2009
    Abuse of Power, Unbecoming of Minister: Christian Rightist DMK's A Raja's reign of Corruption
    • Max greed: Raja’s friend shows how to mint profit
      Even as the dust is yet to settle on the 2G and 3G scandals allegedly involving A Raja, the Union Telecom Minister is embroiled in another controversy. This time, it is to do with the allotment of franchisees for BSNL’s recently-launched WiMax services to a company owned by one of the Minister’s close associates from Perambulur. The company, Wellcom Communications India Pvt Ltd, has applied for licences to seven most revenue-generating of the 16 circles in India. According to sources, the revenue-sharing pattern agreed upon is 75 per cent to the private party and 25 per cent to BSNL. Sources said that if the company gets the nod for the 20 Mega Hz spectrum, it may sell off stakes to foreign players at huge profits, like in the 2G case. Wellcom Communications is represented by T Silvarajoo (55) with 15 per cent shares. The other two directors are Dato Vijayakumar Ratnavelu (47) and T Gunasegaran Thiagarajan, both Tamilians with a Malaysian citizenship. Dato Vijayakumar is also running a company with the same name in Malaysia. Silvarajoo hails from Raja’s constituency Perambulur and is a close associate of the Minister. He is also associated with Dr C Krishnamoorthy, in whose building Raja had begun his legal practice in the constituency. Silvarajoo is currently a sub-contractor of CPWD’s road works. He supplies pellets from a quarry owned by Krishnamoorthy for the ongoing Chennai-Tiruchirappally National Highway (NH-45) project. Though the BSNL had invited franchisees a year ago, it postponed the bid several times allegedly due to pressure from the Minister who, sources said, kept adding names to the original list. Apparently under Raja’s pressure, BSNL chairman and managing director Kuldeep Goyal initiated the franchise-awarding procedures in mid-January.

  24. January 15 2009
    Pakistanis fraudulently claim Indian territory and border on Google Maps

  25. September 28 2008
    Corruption, Halfhearted Under-researched policies and Substandard projects: Anti-Corruption and Anti-Political-Pressure Delhi Metro's fearless Leader Mr. E Sreedharan known for his spotless career exposed discrepancies in Muslim Rightist Congress led Andhra Pradesh government's Hyderabad Metro Rail Project. He termed the project as a scandal.
    • Sreedharan's Hyderabad Metro comments stir controversy
      Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) managing director E. Sreedharan calling the Hyderabad Metro Rail project a "scandal" in the making has caused embarrassment to the Andhra Pradesh government and has triggered upheaval in political circles. Stung by Sreedharan's charges in a letter to Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia, the Congress government has sought an unconditional apology, failing which it threatened to sue him. Sreedharan's letter, in which he expressed reservations over the way government awarded contract to Maytas-led consortium, is likely to provide ammunition to the opposition's attack on the government as they gear up for next year's elections. The main opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP), which announced a two-month long state-wide campaign from Oct 2 against corruption in the government, alleged that Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy himself was involved in this "scam". Sreedharan's objection to the way the government allowing private consortium to commercially exploit prime land has also brought into focus the sensitive issue of land. Sreedharan, who served as a consultant for Hyderabad Metro project, remarked that making "available 296 acres of prime land to BOT (build, operate and transfer) developer for commercial exploitation was like selling the family silver". He also felt that the land concession could lead to a "big political scandal some time later". "It is apparent the BOT operator has a hidden agenda which appears to be to extend the metro network to a large tract of his private land holdings so as to reap a windfall profit of four to five times the land price." Sreedharan's letter surfaced four days after the state government signed a concession agreement with Maytas-led consortium, which was awarded the contract to build the ultra modern rail system at an estimated cost of Rs.121.32 billion on a BOT basis in public private partnership (PPP) mode. The BOT developer agreed to pay Rs.303.11 billion to the state government over the concession period of 35 years, which could be further extended by another 25 years. "Sreedharan had, however, pointed out that Hyderabad's success in BOT model should not be cited as an argument for changing the policy of the government for funding metro projects in the country," it said. The consortium with Navabharat Ventures, Ital Thai and IL&FS as other partners refused to seek any grant from the government of India though the latter sanctioned Rs.23.63 billion or 20 percent of the project cost under Viability Gap Funding (VGF) scheme. Expressing his concerns over the private sector's direct involvement in building the metro rail, the DMRC's MD cautioned that BOT mode could backfire. "World-wide the experience has been that no metro project has succeeded so far on BOT basis. ...Our sole example of Mumbai Metro-I has not given us the required confidence in the BOT route," said the DMRC chief. "The example of Hyderabad Metro is quite misleading as the negative viability gap funding has resulted solely on account of 296 acres of prime land being made available to the BOT operator for commercial exploitation." Expressing doubts about BOT projects for being "expensive in long run", he said the "main beneficiary" in such projects would be the private party.
    • AP to file defamation case against Sreedharan