Kejriwal Fir Se

So after keeping Delhi in limbo for months the Lieutenet Governor was forced to announce the dissolution of the Delhi assembly(since in the next hearing the court may have ordered the dissolution of the assembly) . Last year in February when the Delhi Janlokpal bill was tabled int he Assembly, BJP and Congress joined hands to stop the bill from getting passed. Arvind Kejriwal had promised earlier that Janlokpal Bill would be passed if AAP came to power and incase they were unable to pass the bill, then all the MLA's of AAP will resign together . What AAP said, AAP did Arvind Kejriwal and all the other 26 MPs resigned .

        In Delhi Assembly elections held last year although the single largest party was BJP with 32 seats the first timers Aam Aadmi Party had won 28 seats . The Congress was left with mere 8 seats. The Congress by itself went to LG and announced unconditional support to AAP if it forms the government. So AAP did a public referendum and most people were in favour of AAP forming a government with Congress's support.

       The tenure of AAP in Delhi was rather short but it was full of action . In the first few days the electricity rates were halved ,then upto 20000 lts of water was made free per household per month. A call center was started where people could report  if any govt official asked for bribe. Some govt officials were removed when they were found asking for bribes. In fact a TV channel did a sting operation on which some officials some of them asked for bribes . Manish Sisodiya suspended them right then and there.

      The Sheila Dixit government of Delhi swindled all the money that was allocated for building Rain Baseras for the homeless especially in the biting Delhi cold. When AAP came to power it was  December and in December - January the night temperatures of Delhi can be as low as 4 or 5 degree celcius. The AAP govt acted briskly immediately arranged for Porta Cabinets and some old unused buses  were used as night shelters for the the homeless.

      The fact that the electricity companies were benefiting from tariffs set by the Sheila government can be gauged by the fact that when it was announced that an audit  would be done of the power companies by the CAG, the power companies moved to court to stop the audit. When they failed in high court they moved to supreme court. This shows that there is something wrong and Kejriwal is right when he alleges that the power companies have been benefited by the Sheila Government and they were hands in gloves.

      There were reports from friends living in Delhi that the roadside stall owners actually lowered the rate of their services during AAP's tenure, when asked for reason the person said that because of AAP's government the Delhi Police was scared to take bribes and this lead to savings. He decided to pass  it on to the consumers which resulted in him getting more customers. A friend reported that a rickshawalla actually charged less than what he usually charged the reason he gave was because of the AAP government he no longer has to pay the Rs 5000 hafta to police anymore.

     A few months ago e-rickshaws was banned by Delhi High Court , this e- rickshaws cannot be made legal till necessary amendment are made in the Motor Vehicles Act. In Delhi over 100,000 people had invested in e-rickshaws. They are from poor families and the livelihoods of their families depend on this. However the government did not show any urgency in amending the motor vehicles act. The result is the e-rickshaw drivers are not able to earn their livelihood. The government is elected by people so that it works for it and improves their standard of life . Unfortunately in India the ignorance of masses have resulted in corrupt and criminal people coming to power. This people rob the nation and leave the masses in poverty.

     The nation needs to wake up, Delhi needs to wake and don't let this opportunity go. If Delhiites want to live in a corruption free environment . If the people of Delhi wants a government that is committed to work for their well being. If the people of Delhi want their daughters and sisters  to be safe in the city and if they want an excellent future of their Kids then Delhi must vote for #AAP . Since Modi's BJP govt has continued the loot of the nation, it promised acche din but is doing exactly the opposite.

Enjoy this song sung by Vishal Dadlani

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDJIbLEoIGs

     

     
       

Crackers, Diwali and Black Money

First of all I wish all readers of this blog a very happy and extremely prosperous diwali. Diwali as we know is a festival of lights the mythological reason for celebrating Diwali they say is that it is the same day when Lord Ram came back to Ayodhya from Lanka after defeating Ravan on the mythical Pushpak Vimana. This day was celebrated by all the residents of ayodhya by lighting lots of clay lamps ( maybe as guiding light to Pushpak to where it should land). While this is from Ramayana and we don't know for sure whether it indeed happened or not but Diwali has been celebrated with great joy by people across India.

        But in time from being festival of lights it has now become festival of crackers. Especially crackers that produce lots of sound . Chemicals like sulphur , phosphorous , aluminium, cadmium, copper etc are used in the making diwali crackers. When the crackers are burnt they release harmful gases and suspended particulate matter into the atmosphere which can lead to acute health problems. Just today a news report stated that the pollution levels in Delhi (which already has high pollution in normal days) is found to be five times higher the day after Diwali. The news reports this morning showed that the streets were filled with waste of crackers.

       Now where are this fireworks manufactured and who manufactures them. Most of the crackers are manufactured in Sivakasi and of course there are small and big manufacturers everywhere in the country and we have seen in news reports that most of the crackers are being made by children who are below the age of 14 years . This means that the fireworks industry employs child labour who with their bare little hands fill up the crackers with poisonous chemicals. The conditions in which they work are extremely harmful their skin is exposed to to the harmful chemicals mentioned above. In a firework factory where large amounts of such chemicals are used the surrounding atmosphere is bound to be highly and harmfully polluted. Imagine those little lungs being exposed to this poisonous chemicals. When it comes to pay they are given a pittance and are made to work 12 hours a day. You will find more information about it in this link 

When you buy and use crackers you actually steal the childhood of kid . If the money we spend on crackers is spent of the education of this kids the nation would change.

http://hs6110-child-labour.blogspot.in/2013/03/v-behaviorurldefaultvmlo.html

        Now what is the size of the firework industry in the country. People burn crackers depending upon their financial status there are one who spend crores and lakhs of rupees for just one night of Diwali fireworks. Even the poor people spend hundreds of rupees after fireworks so even by the most conservative estimates the average amount of money spent per individual on fireworks is at least ,at least Rs 100. So in a country of 125 crore people at the very least Rs 12,500cr was spent after crackers the actual figure maybe much more maybe 50,000 or 60,000 cr rupees . If this amount of money was spent on the underprivileged kids education like the ones who are working in the fireworks factories millions of kids would have benefited. The air and noise pollution won't have been there and Diwali indeed would had been a real festival of happiness and light. 

     So next diwali upwards I request every reader to say a big NO to crackers. 

Jai Baba Media Nath !(Media misinformation effect)

Hi all this lovely article is written by Mr Amitava Nandy (https://mbasic.facebook.com/amitava.nandy.7?fref=nf&refid=52&__tn__=C)on his facebook wall 

Jai Baba Media Nath !

“ Dekha, kayse Japan jit ke ghar wapas aya Modi Ji ?” Mr. Bajpai gave a smile of satisfaction to me from across the table !

This morning I have come from Delhi to Kolkata on an official tour. After a good lunch I was sitting at the table of Mr. Bajpai, Sr. Vice President ( Technical ), enjoying a cup of coffee with him !

“ Bajapai ji, you know that personally I like Mr. Modi. But still, even I could not find anything Modi ji did there that can be termed as winning Japan ! “

Bajpai ji’s smile became broader ! “ Have you seen how Modi ji threatened China ? No Prime Minister of India, not even Nehru or Indira dared to give such a strong warning to them !”

“ A warning to China ? But as far as I remember, Modi ji didn’t even take the name of China ! He only gave some oblique reference of expansionism ! May be he meant China, but that exactly is not giving a threat !”

“ Nandy ji, that is the way how a threat is given in diplomacy !” This time Bajpai ji’s smile was to underline my lack of knowledge ! “ Have you seen how China has offered bullet trains at a lesser price than Japan ?’’

“ But that shows a bad deal actually, isn’t it ? If Modi ji finalized the contract with Japan for a higher amount than what China is offering, how can it be good business ? And moreover, this whole Bullet Train business I consider superfluous, unnecessary, extravagant and to use stronger words, anti people ! To spend 11 Billion USD for some business men to travel from Mumbai to Ahmedabad and back; when they could very easily travel at the same price by air; ignoring the crying need of up gradation of the dilapidated railway track we inherited from the British, at most places in the country, is simply ignoring the masses for the so called benefit of the moneyed few !”

“ No, no, this is technical development ! Gradually we’ll have bullet trains all over the country ! It’ll save so much of time ! If you want development, you must make good use of time ! “

I didn’t tell him, to lay bullet train tracks all over the country, we’ll become bankrupt ! And I can bet, after this Mumbai- Ahmedabad bullet train, there will not be any other such train ! We simply can’t afford that ! If we can strengthen our tracks so that the Rajdhani & Satabdi trains can run at 200 km/hr, that will be a very good achievement ! 
I also didn’t tell him that I got stunned to know that Japanese aid is being taken for a 10MW Solar Power plant at Gujarat ! A 10 MW power plant ?

In India in the private sector, we build each year many 10 MW Power Plants at a cost of less than Rs. 20 crores each in which the fuel is waste material ! The agricultural wastes like, rice husk, sugar cane fibers after all juice had been taken out of them ( baggasse) or dried up mustard stalks left on the field after harvesting ! And we are taking Japanese assistance for a 10 MW power plant ? How can that be good business ?

Frankly speaking, this Japan tour of Modi ji, though I was very excited in the beginning, looked like more of a PR exercise to me ! All the time the focus was on what Modi ji had worn, how Mr. Abe had come to meet him in Kyoto, how Modi ji played the band or the flute, how he playfully tugged at the ears of a child or how he met the school girls ! The seven billion dollar annual loan is too puny to be called winning a country ! But all our media is busy in tom tomming the highly successful visit to Japan ! Jai Baba Media Nath Ki !

Only two things will stay in my mind ! After seeing the Lotus symbol at the feet of Buddha, Modi ji told Mr. Abe that it is his party’s symbol ! And not that, lotus is India’s national flower ! And while shaking hands with Mr. Abe across the table, Mr. Abe was looking at him, but Modi ji had his face turned towards the camera ! A strictly no, no thing in the diplomatic protocol ! 

But a man like highly educated and highly placed Mr. Bajpai is happy ! Most of India go by what the media tell them, so they are all happy !

And so, when the head line is “ Out of Form AAP’’, they believe that ! Who has the time to read the text which tells how painstakingly the organizational set up is being built by the party, how Kejriwal himself is everyday working on it and every week he addresses the volunteers in Google Hangout Session, listens to all suggestions and grievances and tries to sort those out ! Most people just brush aside all claims of good work being done by the AAP volunteers among the masses with comments like, ‘Kejriwal is finished’, because media tell that to them 24 X 7 !

                                -----------------------Amitava Nandy

तेजपात (Indian Bay Leaf)-
भारत में उष्णकटिबंधीय एवं इसके अतिरिक्त उपउष्णकटिबन्धीय हिमालय से भूटान तक ९००-१५०० मी तक की ऊंचाई पर सिक्किम में २४०० मी तथा सिल्हट एवं खसिया के पहाड़ी क्षेत्रों में ९००-१२०० मी की ऊंचाई तक तेजपात के जंगली वृक्ष पाये जाते हैं | इसके पत्तों को धूप में सुखाकर प्रयोग में लिया जाता है | पत्तियों का रंग जैतूनी हरा तथा ३ स्पष्ट शिराओं युक्त तथा इसमें लौंग एवं दालचीनी की सम्मिलित मनोरम गंध पायी जाती है | यह सदा हरा रहने वाला वृक्ष है | आज हम तेजपात के औषधीय गुणों की चर्चा करेंगे -

१- तेजपात के ५-६ पत्तों को एक गिलास पानी में इतने उबालें की पानी आधा रह जाए | इस पानी से प्रतिदिन सिर की मालिश करने के बाद नहाएं | इससे सिर में जुएं नहीं होती हैं |

२- चाय-पत्ती की जगह तेजपात के चूर्ण की चाय पीने से सर्दी-जुकाम,छींकें आना ,नाक बहना,जलन ,सिरदर्द आदि में शीघ्र लाभ मिलता है |

३- तेजपात के पत्तों का बारीक चूर्ण सुबह-शाम दांतों पर मलने से दांतों पर चमक आ जाती है |

४- तेजपात के पत्रों को नियमित रूप से चूंसते रहने से हकलाहट में लाभ होता है |

५- एक चम्मच तेजपात चूर्ण को शहद के साथ मिलाकर सेवन करने से खांसी में आराम मिलता है |

६- तेजपात के पत्तों का क्वाथ (काढ़ा) बनाकर पीने से पेट का फूलना व अतिसार आदि में लाभ होता है |

७- इसके २-४ ग्राम चूर्ण का सेवन करने से उबकाई मिटती है |

From Acharya Balkrishna

Guj govt scams under modi

This post is not written by me but taken from the following link( https://mbasic.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=532730666856127&id=486418844820643&refid=17 )

Some scams under Modi Govt. in Gujarat :-

1) Land for Nano plant at low rate
The state government allotted 1100 acres of land
to Tata Motors Ltd (TML) to set up the Nano plant 
near Sanand. The land was allotted allegedly at 
Rs.900 per square meter while its market rate was 
around Rs10,000 per square meter. Simply put, the 
government gave Tata Motors total monetary benefit of
Rs.33,000 crore.

2) Land sold cheap to Adani Group Land was allotted to
Adani Group for the Mundra Port & Mundra Special
Economic Zone (SEZ) at Re1 per square metre. This is 
grossly lower than the market rate.

3) Cheap land for ind, not for air force The Gujarat government allotted 3,76,561 square meter of land to real estate developer 
K Raheja at Rs.470 per square meter, while the South-West Air Command (SWAC) was asked to pay Rs.1100 per square meter
for 4,04,700 square meter land.

4) Agriculture University land allotted for hotel State government allotted 65,000 square meters of land belonging to Navsari Agriculture University in Surat to Chatrala Indian Hotel Group 
for a hotel project despite objection from the institute. This deal
was allegedly brokered by the chief minister through his office causing a loss of Rs.426 crore...

5) Border land for chemical firms. A huge plot of land near the Pakistan border was allotted to salt chemical companies said 
to be close to BJP leader Venkaiah Naidu.

6) Essar Group's encroachment State government has allotted
2.08 lakh square meters of land to Essar Steel. Part of the 
disputed land is CRZ and forest land that cannot be allotted as
per Supreme Court guidelines.

7) Land given to Bharat Hotel. Prime land was allotted to Bharat
Hotels without auction on Sarkhej-Gandhinagar Highway in Ahmadabad. The company has been allotted 25,724 square meter
land.

8) Corruption in allotment of lakes. State government, in 2008, awarded contracts for fishing activities in 38 lakes without 
inviting any tenders;bidders were ready to pay Rs.25 lakh per lake.

9) Land given to L&T Larson & Toubro (L&T) was allotted 80 hectare land at Hazira at the rate of Re.1 per square meter.

10) Land allotted to other industries Instead of auctioning prime land in the major cities of the state, the Gujarat government had allotted the land to some industries and industrialists who had signed MoUs in the five editions of VGGIS.

11) Cattle feed fraud. The Gujarat government had purchased 
cattle feed from a blacklisted company at Rs.240 per 5 kg. 
whereas the market rate is just Rs.120 to Rs.140 per 5 kg.

12) Scam in Anganwadi centres. Two bidders apparently formed 
a cartel and bid for supplying supplementary Nutrition Extruded
Fortified Blended Food (EFBF) to Anganwadi centres of the state. One company bid for three zones, while the other for only two. Guidelines were violated, causing the state exchequer a loss of Rs.92 crore.

13) GSPC . Despite an investment of Rs.4933.50 crore, GSPC 
has been able to earn only Rs.290 crore from the 13 out of 51 blocks of oil and gas discovered by the company. Contractual relations of Geo-Global and GSPC deserve investigation since
Geo-Global is to be hired for a higher fee, above profit-sharing.

14) Luxury aircraft used by CM Instead of using commercial flights or state-owned aircraft and helicopter, chief minister Narendra Modi had used private luxury aircraft for around 200 trips in five
years. The cost had been borne by the beneficiary industries.

15) Rs.500 crore SSY scam. The Rs.6237.33 crore Sujalam Sufalam Yojana (SSY) announced in 2003 was to be completed by 2005 but it is still not completed. Public accounts committee of Gujarat assembly unanimously prepared a report indicating a scam of over Rs.500 crore which was not tabled.

16) Indigold Refinery land scam. Around 36.25 acre farmland in Kutch district was purchased and sold in violation of all norms by Indigold Refinery Ltd.

17) Swan Energy. 49% of the shares of Pipavav Power Station of GSPC were sold to Swan Energy without inviting any tenders.

18) Gujarat Rs.400 Crore Fishing Contract Scam

19) 'Saheb'love-affair with a girl and spying her thru illegal use of state machinery.

20) fake encounters

21) thousand of sikhs thrown out from boundary of Kachchh GuJrat for availing their land

22) death sentence to his minister Madhu kodnani for riots cases. (later 28 yrs. prison) 

23) highest number of malnutrition children in the country

24) Destroyed more then 200 hindu temple in gandhi nagar gujrat

25) A Clear cut line of separation and discrimination for Muslims colonies in Gujrat (No electricity, No water, No sewerge, No Toilate, No School, No health care)

26) second most dirty river in India is sabarmati

27) Highest numbers of primary school closed in last 3 years (around 23000 )

28) Bharat ka teesra sabse karjdar rajya Gujrat

29) Behind 5 state (including Odissa, maharashtra and bihar ) in Development and growth index 

30) No Lok-aayukta in Gujrat even after supreme court order

First month of government( Acche Din?)

Acche din were promised by Modi government and look what the nation has got within one month. First of all natural gas prices are now hiked to $8.4. Bangladesh gets the same gas from Niku from the Krishna Godavari basin at $ 2.34. So you see acche din was promised not for the ordinary people but for Ambanis. Secondly there was a promise of control of prices but on the contrary price of almost every commodity is going up . There is 14% hike in rail fare but hardly any initiative to prevent corruption in the railways . Instead of hiking prices had the government cracked down on the corruption in the railways , the gains would have been so big that there would have been no need to hike the ticket prices.

       The PM who boasted of a 56 inch chest needs 1000 black cat commandos to protect himself , his security costs the nation a whopping Rs 300 cr and another Rs 200cr is pumped into a tunnel made for the PM. 

       The govt has announced 100% FDI in defense a sector of paramount importance that puts the security of the nation at stake. There hardly has been any initiative to crack down on corruption at all since they are the beneficiaries of corruption , crores were spent on the election campaign  this money came from crony corporates and now they will have a field day looting the nation by aligning decisions and policies in their favour. 

       There hardly has been any intent to improve the education system of the nation , how can that be when the HRD minister herself is just 12 th pass. Along with removal of 4 year degree courses from Delhi University , courses like B. Tech and BMS(Bachelor of Management Studies ) were also scrapped off one wonders what ideas are there in the mind of the HRD minister. In all Kendriya Vidyalaya's the ministers quota admissions are back. 

      One of the funny incidents have been that on the Launch of the the isro satellite the Prime Minister tweeted comparing the satellite launch to his vision, as if the entire programme started after his tenure began.

       Modi had promised to be strict on Pakistan once he came to power but look he is rather busy getting emotional about the saree given by Nawaz Sharief to his mother than think about the the soldiers who were killed on the Line Of Control (LOC) . 

       Just a few days ago we saw images of BJP supporters beating up police officers in a riot in Lucknow, not only that they barged into a govt hospital and forced people out of emergency wards. 

     Not to mention immediately after the formation of the govt Delhi has to reel through days of long power outages the maximum temperature at that time was more than 40 degree celcius on the hottest day it was 47.8 degree celcius. 


        So it is pretty clear that the so called promised acche din was all gimmick to get to power , in reality both Congress and BJP are sponsored by the crony capitalists to loot the nation. The real losers are the people of this country who have voted mindlessly believing in what TV channels had showed them. Now its time that the Indian voters pay for the great mistake that it has committed. 31% on the votes went for BJP another 19% went for Congress and because of this voters who voted like fools the entire nation would be suffering . 

      There are 800 million poor people in India the govt figures of poverty removal is just an eyewas 2/3 of the nation is poor and for the next 5 years since this loot is going to continue great things cannot be expected about changing the face of the nation , the only thing that we all can pray is that it does not go any worse. Also pray that some divine or extraterrestial influence on Modi and his cabinet of minsters makes them do some good work for the nation. 

India -opportunity lost

Its amazing we now 186 criminals in the parliament honest people like Medha Patkar, Kumar Vishwas, Arvind Kejriwal have lost. An entire bunch of corrupts have won the elections and they have become our policy makers, law makers and they can make laws and polices that can easily fill up their pockets. I really don't expect India to become a developed nation by 2020 since the loot is destined to go up and with over 800 million poor people development remains a distant dream. Its heartbreaking to see people vote in religious and communal lines even in 2014. Media has contributed to the spreading of the Modi myth after being nicely paid by the crony capitalists.

Just today Arvind Kejriwal was arrested in a defamation suit filed by Nitin Gadkari , Arvind Kejriwal exposed Nitin Gadkari with proof . The court asked Kejriwal to furnish a bail bond of Rs 10000 which he refused since Kejriwal has done no wrong. In principle this is right similar thing was done by Mahatma Gandhi in 1917. This also shows a side of Indian judiciary many poor people remain in jail but the rich get away by paying bail and then cases run for years.

Its a very sad state of India that 186 criminals are now in Parliament but the honest ones are in jail something needs to be done about it soon. The media which is well fed by crony corporates are now day in day spreading false news about Aam Aadmi Party. AAP needs to file a defamation suite on this channels recently a defamation suite filed by an individual made Times Now pay a bond of Rs 100cr in Supreme Court. This way the media would be scared to lie about AAP.

Its amazing how people got carried away by the “Abki baar Modi Sarkar “ rehteoric on TV channels , lies after lies after lies were spoken during his election campaign. The channels were showing fake news as they stood to gain from crony capitalists for showing fake news. The picture of Narendra Modi was made larger than life.

The real loser are the people who after having voted foolishly will have to face the brunt this time the worst ever . When they will have no work done in government offices without giving money they would understand what they have done , when the farmers would get a pittance for their farm produce they would regret having voted for Modi. When people would have to shell out a fortune to for the education of their children they would realize what they have done.

In earlier elections people did not have any options but in these elections people did have an honest option as AAP had filled candidates in over 400 seats across the nation. None of them had any criminal background not even any criminal court cases against them.

4 AAP MPs are all that is given by the state of Punjab not a bad start but could have been so much better if people were more intelligent . Well lets hope that 11 million plus votes that have come for AAP multiplies by a factor of 30.

If not these elections in the next general elections people would vote for the honest and honest only so that we can make our country corruption free and in the meanwhile I wish and hope that AAP does well in the state elections that would take place.

Keeping hopes alive to make the nation corruption free.

                                                                                            ------------------------Rakesh