Sunday, June 26, 2011

FIR filed against Gujarath IPS Officer Sanjiv Bhatt

FIR filed against Gujarath IPS Officer Sanjiv Bhatt

June 26,2011
MNN-Ahmedabad: A constable working with Meghaninagar police station here has lodged a criminal complaint against IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt alleging that Bhatt forced him to file a false affidavit in post-Godhra riot cases to amicus curiae Raju Ramchandran during latter's visit to Gujarat on June 16.

Karan Singh Pant, 46, said that he was on traffic duty when there was a missed call on his cellphone. When he called back, he found that it was Bhatt who had called him.

According to Pant's FIR, Bhatt called him to his residence. Pant had worked with Bhatt when Bhatt was deputy commissioner of police (state intelligence).
Bhatt reportedly asked Pant to file an affidavit before the amicus curiae. When Pant protested saying that he had already appeared before the SIT investigating the cases on April 5 this year in which he had stated that he was on leave in February 2002 when the communal riots broke out in the state.
Pant alleged that Bhatt threatened him and coerced him to sign an affidavit saying that he had accompanied Bhatt to the meeting at the residence of Chief Minister Narendra Modi on February 27, 2002. According to the FIR, Bhatt also asked Pant to tell amicus curiae that he had recorded his statements before the SIT under pressure.

Pant alleged in the FIR that Bhatt first took him to state Congress president Arjun Modhwadia's residence. On the way Bhatt allegedly told Pant that Modi's government would not survive for long and it would be toppled soon by the UPA government at the centre.

Pant alleged that Modhwadia reportedly told him to say before amicus curiae what Bhatt had directed him to do so. The constable also told Modhwadia that Pant was present with him in Modi's meeting.

Pant, according to FIR, was then taken to a notary's house near the Gujarat High Court. There Pant was allegedly forced by Bhatt to sign an affidavit which was already prepared. Bhatt allegedly did not allow Pant to read the affidavit.

The affidavit was then submitted to amicus curiae.

Modhwadia, when contacted by media persons, denied having met either Bhatt or the constable. He said that he had been dragged into the issue due to political reasons.

However, he challenged Modi to order a CBI inquiry into the constable's allegations against him. "But I am sure Modi is afraid of CBI probe and will not agree to it because the truth will then come out and he will be exposed'', said Modhwadia.

Bhatt in April this year had filed an affidavit before Supreme Court stating that he was present in Modi's meeting on February 27, 2002 in which he had directed police officials to ignore the Hindu mobs attacking Muslims as he wanted to teach Muslims a lesson. Bhatt's allegations are the first direct accusation from government official against Modi for his conduct and role in 2002 riots.

Thursday, June 16, 2011

Narendra Modi gets support from Muslim music composer and Barelvi Ulema

16 June 2011 - 9:10am


Ahmedabad: After Deoband Darul Uloom rector Maulana Ghulam Muhammed Vastanvi and leading businessman Zafar Sareshwala having made strong pleas in favour of Chief Minister Narendra Modi, it is now Bollywood music composer Ismail Darbar and Barelvi Ulema Abdul Sattar Hamdani who are extending their support to Modi’s “developmental” and “anti-terror” policies.

While Darbar has high political ambitions and is reported to be planning to contest the next assembly elections in December 2012 from Surat, Hamdani has not yet made his political ambitions clear.

Darbar recently also called on BJP national president Nitin Gadkari in Nagpur for his entry into the party. At a press briefing in Nagpur, he reportedly appealed Muslims to forget what happened in 2002 and extend full support to Modi in Gujarat.

Hamdani is surprisingly an accused in the 1993 RDX and rifle landing case at Gosabara in Porbander district which was reportedly used by Dawood Ibrahim and his associates in serial bomb blasts in Mumbai.

The 60-plus Hamdani, having sizeable influence among the Barelvi Muslims in the state, was accused of having provided logistical support to the D-gang members in landing of the explosive materials and firearms and then its transportation to Mumbai.

But Hamdani along with 21 others from Porbander and nearby areas, accused in the case under Terrorist and Disruptive Activities Act(TADA), were later on acquitted by the court owing to lack of evidence against them.

A pro-Congress man, Hamdani since his release has, however, taken a 180-degree turn politically. Though he has not formally joined any political party so far, at a recent press conference at Porbander, he heaped praises on Modi and dubbed Sonia Gandhi’s political adviser and Congress strongman from Gujarat, Ahmed Patel, a “supporter of terrorists”.

Strongly opposed to the Tablighi Jamaat, Hamdani allegedly described the Tablighi Jamaat an outfit supporting terrorism. Stating that Ahmed Patel was a Tablighi, Hamdani said that Ahmed Patel by virtue of being a Tablighi was a “terrorist”.

Regarding Modi, he said: “Modi is fighting terror.”

It may be mentioned here that three senior IPS officers are facing trouble because of Hamdani. They are Atul Karwal, H P Singh and Satish Verma. On June 11, they were served notices by the state government for allegedly not taking prompt action against Hamdani during their posting in Porbander. The notices were issued on the orders of the Gujarat High Court on a PIL filed by senior advocate Yatin Oza.

These developments seem to be in favour of Modi who has been trying to project himself as a man of development with a view to playing a role at the national level in BJP and become prime minister in the event of BJP-led NDA winning enough seats to capture power at the centre.

Saturday, June 11, 2011

Sonia most unpopular leader ever-Survey says

Asia Poll: Survey of Indian Public Opinion 2011
Sonia most unpopular leader ever”

Asia Poll: Survey of Indian Public Opinion 2011

Asia Poll, which is the Asian subsidiary of the largest polling organisation in the world, has conducted an extensive survey of over 60,000 Indians across the sub-continent on their opinions of political parties and leaders and their voting intentions in view of the serious cases of corruption against senior politicians.

Summary of findings

Unsurprisingly, Sonia Gandhi came out as the most unpopular politician since independence with only 2% of the population considering her suitable to lead the country. The main reason given by the public was that she was the major cause of corruption in India (90%). On a secondary question, 70% attributed her unpopularity to her foreign nationality and 60% to her being a Christian. Qualitative findings from focus groups found that many believe Sonia Gandhi is becoming a foreign dictator in India.

The Congress Party itself did not feature as badly with support from 18% of the sample compared with 40% for the BJP.

Some of the key survey findings are given in the following tables;

Politicians people think have the best leadership qualities to lead the country

Possible Leaders

% of sample

Sonia Gandhi

2%

PM Manmahon Singh

7%

Pranab Mukherjee

10%

Sharad Pawar

14%

Arun Jaitely

15%

Sushama Swaraj

20%

Narendra Modi

22%

Don’t know

20%

Whe questions were asked about Rahul Gandhi and Prijanka Gandhi, the outcome was equally negative with only 4% thinking Rahul Gandhi would make good leader and less that 1% preferring Prijanka.

Political party rankings:

%

BJP

40

Congress Party

18

CPIM

10

Others

32



Urban/Rural split: Sonia Gandhi was only popular among Christians in the survey, 70% of whom stated they would vote for her regardless of Party affiliations. Most educated urban Indians were strongly against the re-election of Sonia Gandhi as Congress leader or any members of the Gandhi family (69%) as were rural Hindus (82%) as there was a strong view these were foreigners subverting India’s independence and encouraging Christian conversions and were the root of all corruption scandals in India.

Another strongly expressed view was that Sonia Gandhi has packed regional government with her Christian supporters and the names of prominent Christian Ministers of State were frequently mentioned by the polled population.

Full details of the poll are available on the Asian Poll website www.asianpoll.com

Sunday, June 5, 2011

India heading towards 1975 like emergency..

After suppression of Baba Ramdev's Satyagraha by undemocratic mean,it seems that Union Government may impose political emergency in India to squelch social unrest in country that might hurt ruling Congress government.
By invading Satyagrah sight with rifles and tear gar shells,Union government has crossed all limits of brazen reckless politics.Government is fearing Egypt like political crisis in India that might dislodge government on corruption and black money issue.
In 1975,Indira Gandhi's election to Loksabha has been declared illegal by Allahabad High Court and simultaneously Jaipraksh Narayan's movement had taken a full pace in Bihar,that eventually spread like wildfire across India.Indira Gandhi refused to stepped down as Prime Minister and declared emergency in India.Fundamental rights denied to citizens of India,prominent socio-political figures from across the country put behind the bars,non-congress state government dismissed by using notorious article 356 of the Indian constitution and press numerous prohibitions imposed on press to deny freedom of expression.
Present UPA government trying to repeat 1975 like scenario in present India by forcefully quashing Baba's agitation.Indian citizens should mentally prepare themselves to emergency like situation.

Friday, June 3, 2011

Is the government afraid of the RSS?

The manner in which the government is making overturers to Baba Ramdev
gives an impression that they are extremely afraid of his movement. I
wonder if it is due to the support the RSS has extended to him, and the
mobilisation of the Swayamsevaks in the cause.

To understand, perhaps we should look at the history of the Emergency of
1975-77. At the time, The Economist, in recognition of the situation,
wrote: "The underground campaign against Mrs Gandhi claims to be the
only non-left-wing revolutionary force in the world, disavowing any
bloodshed and class struggle. Indeed, it might even be called
right-wing, since it is dominated by the Hindu communalist party, Jana
Sangh, and its banned "cultural" (some say para-military) affiliate, the
RSS. But the plat苯orm at the moment has only one non-ideological plank:
to bring democracy back to India." [The Economist (London), "The
Opposition to Indira Wins Friends and Influence" (December 4, 1976)]

The full article is enclosed for your reference. It needs to be
mentioned that a huge majority of those jailed during this period (some
say it is more than 80%) were members of the RSS and its affiliates.
Also, the leaders who had gone underground were actively supported by
the people of all economic and social strata.
(Article by Shri.Ashok Chowgule)


THE OPPOSITION TO INDIRA WINS FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE
The Economist, December 4, 1976.

India's underground movement has changed its strategy. Until a few
weeks ago it had tried to press Indira Gandhi - through mass
demonstrations, clandes負ine propaganda and open petitions - into
lifting her emergency rule. But last month's formal postponement of
elections for yet another year - breaking explicit promises to members
of the ruling Congress party - has convinced the underground leaders
that the present gov苟rnment is irreversibly authoritarian. So their
prior虹ty now is to get Mrs Gandhi out.

Not by violence. The underground campaign against Mrs Gandhi claims to
be the only non-left-wing revolu負ionary force in the world, disavowing
any bloodshed and class struggle. Indeed, it might even be called
right-wing, since it is dominated by the Hindu commu要alist party, Jana
Sangh, and its banned "cultural" (some say para-military) affiliate, the
RSS. But the platform at the moment has only one non-ideological plank:
to bring democracy back to India.

The underground movement has become progressively bolder in the 17
months since the emergency was im計osed, partly because of tacit support
from the forces of Mrs Gandhi's law and order. Last week sympathetic
policemen helped one of its most wanted leaders, Dr Subramaniam Swamy,
to slip out of the country through a major airport. Sympathetic censors
have passed politi苞al messages through the post and in and out of jail;
agents in post offices have disconnected troublesome taps on telephones;
civil servants have provided access to official files.

One of these files which was leaked to the opposi負ion provides an
explanation for Mrs Gandhi's unexpect苟d decision to postpone the
election. Several of her intelligence services are said to have told
her that under present circumstances she would win only 220 to 270 seats
in the lower house - at best 130 fewer than the Congress party won at
the last election in 1971 and only a bare majority in a 520-seat house.

Communications have become so easy for the under茆round that its top
leaders talk by telephone almost every day - sometime on international
lines - using codes and false names. When vulnerable urban printing
presses are confiscated, clandestine newspapers are duplicated on
hundreds of small local machines and de衍ivered by truck and bicycle.
Money is no object for the movement: 60,000 to 70,000 small
contributions have been collected. Underground leaders are given
sanctu苔ry in homes throughout the country, even when they are known to
have high prices on their heads. The movement claims that not a single
activist has been caught be苞ause of an informer. Some 30,000 men on
the wanted list are still at large.

The ground troops of this operation consist of tens of thousands of
cadres who are organised down to the village level into four-man cells.
Most of them are RSS regulars, though more and more new young re苞ruits
are coming in. The other opposition parties which started out as
partners in the underground have effectively abandoned the field to the
Jana Sangh and RSS, especially since the arrest last June of India's
most notable fugitive, the Socialist railway leader, George Fernandes.
The Socialists had been carrying out an independent campaign of railway
sabotage: this con負inues today as a freelance effort by disgruntled
rail趴aymen.

The function of the RSS cadre network - and of the thousand or so
militants who are travelling throughout India at any one time - is
mainly to spread the anti-Gandhi word. Once the ground is prepared and
political consciousness raised, so the leaders argue, any spark can set
off the revolutionary prairie fire.

One likely flashpoint, according to underground strategists, would be a
protest against forced sterili貞ation. There were 21 incidents this
autumn in the state of Uttar Pradesh alone in which Mrs Gandhi's
cen負ral reserve police fired on angry crowds; 467 people are alleged to
have been killed.

No oil to cook with

Another potential source of spontaneous combustion are the price rises
and shortages many Indians are suffer虹ng from despite the
well-publicised stabilising effect of the emergency. A disappearance of
cooking oil in Bombay recently led to attacks on ration shops and
obliged the government to rush in supplies from other states. Mrs
Gandhi conceded at the recent Congress party meeting at Gauhati that
price control is weaken虹ng - and blamed it on a relaxation of the
emergency.

This claim about relaxation is hotly contested by her opponents. True,
some well-known political figures have been released from jail but an
estimated 10,000 others are said to have been arrested since June.
About half of these were taken into custody in Bombay at the end of
October during a visit by Mrs Gandhi's son Sanjay, although most were
released the next day. Another category of prisoner, however, is still
filling the jails - such as the Times of India assistant edi負or, Mr
Sundar Rajan, who was recently arrested for a piece he wrote for a
foreign newspaper. He is one of some 270 imprisoned journalists.

Another index of increasing repression cited by the opposition is the
number of prisoners who have died under mysterious circumstances. These
include a well-known lawyer and a smuggler who was an ally-turned-ene衫y
of Sanjay Gandhi. The smuggler's body was found in the Jumna river, 11
miles from Delhi's Tihar jail from which he allegedly escaped.

Stories like these are grist for the underground mill which circulates
news (and rumors) not fit to print in India's censored press.
Underground papers also reprint critical foreign reports on India to
con赳ince the timid that the outside world cares. One re貞ult of 17
months of underground propaganda, say its purveyors, is that the timid
are becoming less so.

They say there is a greater willingness to grumble in public; that
people sometimes now hoot at Mrs Gandhi's picture in cinemas, and heckle
at political meetings; and that political posters have been defaced so
that Mrs Gandhi's 20-point emergency programme is amended to read 420 -
the number of the fraud section in India's penal code. Another sign of
anti-Gandhi feeling is a series of defeats for the Congress party in the
few local elections which have not been post計oned under the emergency.

Still, the underground leaders do not delude them貞elves that revolution
is round the corner. Public opinion, they accept, needs to be further
prepared. Another four key target groups must be mobilised: dis貞ident
Congressmen; dissident bureaucrats and police; students; and organised
labour. The Jana Sangh is not counting on the peasants as a
revolutionary force in the Maoist style because it will not promise
radical land reform. But it is trying to educate the peasants - and
solicit their money.

Students and labour, it claims, have already been largely won over: the
Jana Sangh controls most of the important student unions, and in October
three impor負ant trade unions - one pro-Jana Sangh, one pro-Social虹st
and one pro-Marxist - combined forces to fight for a restoration of
workers' bonuses through a series of one-day strikes and petitions.
Bureaucrats and Con茆ress party members are harder to draw into the
opposi負ion camp because they have more to lose. Corrupt and
power-hungry civil servants and policemen have been the major
beneficiaries of the emergency: the going rates for services rendered
are said to have multiplied four to ten times. But many officers and
officials are un苞omfortable in their new roles and play both sides.

Dr Swamy, who last month became the first member to be expelled from
India's parliament on political grounds, characterises the present
system as a bureau苞ratic dictatorship. "If Mrs Gandhi had a party
run要ing this country, I would have been apprehensive. But by
transferring power from the party to the bureaucra苞y, she has made it
overbearing, irresponsible and cor訃upt. This is our single biggest
advantage."

Names not on the list

Members of Mrs Gandhi's Congress party have not been insensitive to this
erosion of their power. Some mem苑ers of parliament now insist on
police protection when they tour their constituencies. Others have a
more specific reason for opposing the new regime: their names are not on
Sanjay Gandhi's list of 250 new candi苓ates to replace sitting members.

Until recently Congress discontent was expressed largely in private
criticism, although some party men have gone so far as to offer support
and hospitality to underground leaders. In the last month more than 150
members of the Congress party actually took a public stand. Before the
recent constitutional amending ses貞ion of parliament a group of
Congressmen told minis負ers of their reluctance to vote for the
amendment bill. They were persuaded to support it - by 366 votes to
four - in exchange for a pledge that the election would be announced
soon. When the bill for postponing the election was tabled only days
later, the government vote dropped to 210 with over 150 Congressmen
abstain虹ng and the normally faithful Communist party voting against.

"What the Congress party is waiting for", said an opposition spokesman,
"is evidence that Mrs Gandhi is not all-powerful." This is what the
underground hopes to provide.

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