Use VVPAT

Free and fair elections form the foundation of democracy in any democratic society. The public representatives who come out of elections are the ones who are responsible for the administration and smooth functioning of the government. They are responsible for the work done by the government and the decisions taken by the government because they are the government themselves.

If elections happen in a way that they can be easily manipulated then wrong people take over the government. Since they are the lawmakers they would make laws that would benefit them. Since people are going to have no say they won't give any importance to them. In short democracy will cease to exist. 

In the vidhansabha elections of Punjab,.Goa, UP the results surprised everyone, specially in Punjab where is was known to all that AAP will win. However tricks happened with the Indian Electronic Voting Machines that changed the results. 

The EVM is actually a simple device that is designed to only keep a count of the total number of votes cast and how many votes are cast on which numbered candidate. As shown in the video link mentioned below it can be manipulated by simply changing the motherboard which takes around 90 sec. 

However there is a workaround the VVPAT machines, which prints a slip that shows the symbol and name of the party you voted for, as soon as you press the button, for seven seconds and then falls into a box can be used. In case of VVPAT machines the voters knows if his vote has gone to the right person or not. In case of wrong functioning of the VVPAT machine the voter can immediately report it to the authorities and get the machine replaced. 

The recent Delhi Vidhansabha bypoll in Bawana constituency proves the point. Just four months ago AAP lost most of the municiple wards in Bawana because of EVM tampering. However the vidhansabhi bypoll was won by the AAP candidate. He got a over 45% of the votes that were cast. Many people simply did not vote because they thought that EVM tampering will lead to their going to the BJP but the VVPAT machines made sure that this did not happen. 

In many countries, the most technologically developed ones like US, Japan, Germanay etc EVMs are banned because they can be easily hacked. One just hopes that the Bawana bypoll result becomes a solid case for VVPAT repoll of Delhi MCD, Punjab and Goa elections where most probably EVM tampering happened. 

I sincerely hope that the nation never has to see another rigged election through EVMs again. 

Economic Effect of Demonetisation in India

Demonetization has been a disaster for the Indian economy. The Prime Minister has not done enough homework before taking that decision. 84% of Indian currency is in form of ₹500 and ₹1000 denomination. While it was announced on 8th November 2016 that the currency notes of the above mentioned denomination will no longer be valid. The government was not ready with new ₹500 and ₹2000 notes. They were not yet printed.

The result was huge ques outside banks and ATMs with all banks and ATMs running out of cash. Again the limit to which the money can be withdrawn per day was kept minuscule so people were made to go to banks and ATMs more frequently than they ever did. There have been over 70 deaths across the country till now when people died for not being able to exchange their money when they were in dire need of it. 

It has been 17 days till demonetization took effect but things are at the moment far from normal. Consumption has come down and this has lead to decline in business. Most businesses across the nation are badly affected. 70% of trucks are off the road, decrease in consumption has had a severe effect on the transport sector.

A CMIE (Centre for Monitoring of Indian Economy) report has mentioned that Indian economy is poised to lose ₹128,000 crore in the the 50 day window when the demonetization operation takes place. In the end the article mentions the amount is conservative and it is for the first 50 day period only. There are surely going to be long term devastating effects on the economy. 

The foreign tourism industry is destroyed as tourist are only allowed to convert only about $70 per week to Indian currency, which is just peanuts. The foreigners who visit India during this time will have to face lots of hardships and they will never comeback to this country. 

Each and every sphere of the economy is badly affected. As much as 400,000 or more jobs will be lost in labour intensive industries. It was expected that the demonetization operation would clean up the black money in the nation, however channels have opened up that is helping people to change their old hoarded black currency into new, thus effectively converting their black money into white for a 30% commission. 

There are many more things that are not reported in the media like broken marriages and other hardships faced by common people. The Prime Minister had announced that after 24 th Nov the amount of money that can be withdrawn or exchanged in the banks will go up. On the contrary the amount of exchange per individual has come down to ₹2000 per day and on 24th it was announced that people would no longer be able to exchange old 500 and 1000 notes, they only will be able to deposit them.

Now 47% of Indians don't have bank accounts, most of them are poor people. They would have saved their life long earnings in form of ₹500 and ₹1000 notes, what happens to them?

The entire demonetization operation has rather become a moneylaundring work in which the rich are the ones who are benefited while common people have to go through tremendous hardships. It will paralyze the Indian economy if proper action is not taken by the judiciary, which is now the only hope of the common man. 

Currency Recall in India

On November 8th when the world was glued to US presidential elections, the prime minster of India declared that Indian currency notes of denomination  ₹500 and ₹1000 were no longer valid from 24:00, Nov 8th. The news spread like wild fire across the nation. People thronged towards different ATMs to withdraw money of amount ₹400 per transaction so that they could get ₹100 notes many ATMs ran out of ₹100 notes. 

The following day was declared as bank holiday and then the banks were supposed to be open even on weekends. From November 10th one can see huge ques across all the bank branches and ATMs across the country. Many ATMs are shut down for the want of cash. 84% of the printed currency was in form of ₹500 and ₹1000 notes that are out of circulation now. 

It is a fact that the neighbouring countries of India are circulating counterfeit currencies in mostly of denomination ₹500 and ₹1000. The move to recall this notes will make the counterfeit currency useless. There are many bureaucrats, corrupt government officers, unscrupulous businessmen who have loads of black money hidden as cash in form of notes of ₹500 and ₹1000.

 However many black money holders have hidden their black money abroad in tax havens like Dubai, Switzerland, Singapore, Panama, Malta etc. Many have them locked in form of gold bars and jewellery. So these people won't be affected by the decision taken by the government. 

While the decision was necessary poor planning in implementing this project has created chaos across the nation and common man of the country is the one who is worst affected. To begin with proper arrangements were not made and extra counters were not opened for people to exchange notes. Many people in India don't have bank accounts specially in villages, where the nearest bank branches are many kilometers away, they have their lifetime of savings in form of these notes which they can't use immediately. 

It is said that this move was made to fight the menace of black money, however new ₹500 and ₹2000 notes are being introduced. So again the government is making it easy for the corrupts to keep their black money safe. Again the current ATMs are not calibrated for the the new notes, so people are unable to withdraw the new currency notes from the ATMs.

On November 9th many major national dailies had a front page full advertisement of an online app based money transfer app company which sported the picture of the prime minister of India. Now the declaration of banning the notes was made at around 8pm by Prime Minister. At 10pm the newspapers went for print. So if indeed the operation was confidential then how come within 2 hours such arrangements can be made. There is clear indication that the people close to the ruling party knew beforehand that such a decision was coming and they made all the necessary arrangements to overcome any situation of their unaccounted cash becoming useless. 

It is clear that out of the 14.5 lakh crore worth of notes in circulation before demonetization. A very small proportion of unaccounted cash will be collected by the government. Maybe around Rs 1 lakh core or a little more. However what matters is how the money is used. It is highly likely that the money will be stolen again and very little will be achieved by this move. Since the current ruling party and government does not have any interest in eliminating corruption because it is gaining from it and they are in politics to make money from corruption rather than serve people. 

Reducing rabies deaths and saving money

 Every year in India 20,000 people die because of rabies caused by the bites of road dogs. There are around 30 to 40 million road dogs across India. Now if these road dogs are caught and used as a source of food for the carnivorous animals in the various zoos of the country, not only we will save money on buying meat but also effectively reduce and contain the number of street dogs.

Lions, tigers, cheetahs, leopards, crocodiles have to be fed meat anyway. For that either a goat, buffalo or chicken has to be slaughtered. The meat is also expensive however with street dogs we are going to get the meat for absolutely no cost at all, at the same time we will successfully reduce the number of deaths caused by rabies.

So we effectively kill two birds with the same stone. Save lots of money that would have otherwise be spent on buying meat for animals and save the people of this country from rabies.  

From Russia with Love

After the second world war USSR emerged as a world power. The country conducted its first nuclear test in 1949 and that marked the beginning of the era of cold war between USSR and USA. Both the countries kept investing a lot in their nuclear capability and military research. The two nation conducted hundreds of nuclear tests, the most powerful being the Tzar Bomba test by Russians which was approximately 1500 times more powerful than the combined power of the atom bombs fired in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

There was competition between the Russians and Americans in space as well. The Russians were the first to send a satellite to space and the first man who went to space was a Russian name Yuri Gagarin. Ultimately the space race was won the Americans when they were able to land man on moon.

While the two nations were competing with each other on many fronts. The other countries of the world took their sides, some went with US while others supported USSR. India was a part of the non aligned movement. However India's relations with Soviet Union was very good.

When India attacked and annexed Goa in 1961, UK and USA moved a resolution condemning the act in United Nations. The resolution was however vetoed by USSR. Similarly in the 1965 and 1971 Indo - Pak wars, it was due to the Soviet Union that powers like UK, USA desisted from attacking India. In the 1965 US was a supporter of Pakistan and had supplied the latest tanks to the nation. In spite of having the latest tanks Pakistan lost the war.

In the 1971 India-Pakistan war that resulted in liberation of Bangladesh. The US, UK and China were in support of Pakistan but due to Soviet Union they were not able to take any drastic action on India. Russia has been one of the biggest military suppliers to India. We received a lot of help from Soviet Union in the initial stages of our space program. The cryogenic engines supplied by Russia were used in our GSLV till we developed our own cryogenic engine.

The world has changed a lot since then the attitudes of USA and UK has changed towards India. US in particular has realized its folly of supporting Pakistan after the 9/11 attacks on the twin towers of the World Trade Centre and its aftermath where it had to spend huge amount of resources in tracking down laden in Pakistan and killing him. Many US soldiers have lost their lives in the last decade in the war against terror. US had to spend over $1.7 trillion (1,700,000,000,000) in the war against terror that started after the September 11 attacks.

The cold war ended with the division of USSR, the USSR was economically destroyed because it followed a socialist system which ended up breeding lot of corruption and made the nation bankrupt. The world was no longer polarized. The attitudes of US and UK towards India changed, maybe due to the big number of scientists, doctors, engineers, businessmen etc from India living in this countries might have played some role.

Even after USSR, Russia is a world power and a major weapons supplier to India. India is now militarily strong enough not to be bullied by other nations, India is also a nuclear power. However the first few decades after independence of India was tough. With a few key nations against it survival was difficult. Russia in spite of being a communist nation had helped India during those tough times. India must always maintain good long term relations with Russia which is now turning into a democracy with market economy. 

Delhi got AAP now its time for Punjab and Goa

Delhi is reaping in the advantage of voting for Aam Aadmi Party in the February 2015 Delhi Assembly Elections. They are now spending nothing on water, half the amount they used to on electricity. The corruption levels in government offices have come down due in spite of the Centre snatching away the ACB from Delhi government. 

Delhi government increased the budget allocations in education and healthcare. Thousands of new classrooms are now being added. A new school has come up that has facilities that surpasses the facilities provided by even big private schools. Earlier private schools arbitrarily increased the fees . However with the AAP government schools are not able to increase the fees and in many situations they are forced to give back excessive fees they charged from the parents. 

The conditions of hospitals of Delhi has improved. Over 100 Moholla clinics have been opened till now and by the end of the year the numbers are going to go up to 1000. There is lot more that has happened. While Delhi is reaping the benefits of a corruption free state government. One's thoughts goes out to the selfless AAP volunteers who worked hard on ground day and night to make this change happen. 

Many of them had given up their jobs, shut their shops to campaign for AAP. Many of them were arrested at times even beaten up by police. They did all this for the good of their fellow people without thinking about themselves. They worked hard to convince people to vote for AAP for their own good. 

While Delhi is reaping the benefits the rest of the country is suffering for voting for Modi in the General Elections of 2014. Not a single promise has been kept instead the people of the country are greeted with price rise in every commodity including petroleum products(in spite of the fact that the price of petroleum has come down over 3 and half times since Modi became PM), slow industrial growth and increasing communal intolerance. 

Modi is trying his level best to finish democracy in the country. The suicide rates of farmers has gone up. The people of the country got a golden opportunity in the 2014 Loksabha elections to make change happen by voting for AAP. But the fools went by the media rhetoric and chose to vote for Narendra Modi. 

The idiots of India did not realize the fact that such large scale advertisements costs hundreds of crores in terms of money. So if someone spends so much to become PM, after he achieves his target , he will loot the same people who voted for him. It is this stupidity of Indian public that the corrupt politicians have always taken advantage. 

Next year AAP will be standing for Punjab and Goa Vidhansabha Elections. I just hope that  the people of these two states are smart enough to vote for AAP for their own good. 

The government and JNU

In the last few days the news channels are filled with news of the JNU incident in which allegedly some students shouted a few slogans that were supposed to be anti India. The student wing of BJP, ABVP started agitations against this. The ruling government got Delhi Police to arrest JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar and book him under sedition charges. Delhi Police that reports directly to the home ministry raided the hostels of JNU students. 

It should be noted that Jawaharlal Nehru University is one of the best University in the country. Only students with exceptional merit make it to the University. The video footage shows that Kanhaiya Kumar was not at all involved in the incident. He did not raise any anti India slogans. A video of a speech given by him showS him saying that "He believes in the constitution of India", the video is not anti India at all, it is pro India. 

In reality RSS and BJP has used this incident as an opportunity to try and subvert the Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Expression granted by our constitution. What happened after that was even more ugly. When Kanhaiya Kumar was brought before the court. Some pro BJP lawyers stormed in the courtroom and beat up JNU students and media. A BJP MLA of Delhi O.P Sharma beat up a student alleging that he used the words "Pakistan Zindabad". Even journalists covering the incident were beaten up and abused. 

They repeated the incident the next day in spite of heavy police security. None of the rioters were arrested. This is a very ugly situation in the country where the ruling government is using its resources to terrorise students most of whom are innocent. 

Yes it is true that  if someone has given anti Indian slogans and tried to incite people into anti India activities, against such person action must be taken in accordance to the law of the land. But using it as an excuse to terrorise innocent students and public is a grave crime as well.

It is very much possible that the ruling government is doing this hide its own failures. An effort is being made to introduce an environment of hyper-nationalism in the country where opposing government's action can lead one to be tagged as anti national. 

One more very vital news that is being suppressed in the media due to the JNU incident is the massive increase in the amount of NPAs of nationalised banks, the defaulters are billionaire corporates. Already in tune of Rs 1,14,000 crore of debt has been waived off. The profitability of nationalised banks have come down. In fact just a few days ago IDBI showed huge net loss of Rs 2,184 crore in the 3rd quarter- highest ever by a nationalised bank. 

Ordinary people of India have their lifelong savings in this banks which are happily waving off the huge corporate debts under instructions and pressure from the central government. 

One just hopes that The Supreme Court of India and President of India take some action and restore sanctity in the country. I am confident that democrary will win. 

India and Pakistan- Why they were created?

In the 19th and early 20the centuries Britain were a force to reckon with. Great Britain ruled over many different nations across different continents. The sun never sat on the empire. They were a bunch of cruel and atrocious rulers. Millions were murdered in their rules. Millions had to live in abject poverty wherever they ruled. The were racists and treated people worse than slaves. Dear readers please note that this were the British people 100 years and not now. Today's Britain is way different and the people of that country are way better than their ancestors. 

Before the British established their rule in India, India was quite a rich nation. However after they started ruling the Indian industries were destroyed because of British policies and major portion of the nation was now poor. It took many decades of freedom struggle both violent and non violent to achieve freedom of India. The second World War ruined England.  In 1946 the Bombay Naval Mutiny sowed the seeds of Indian freedom. After the Naval Mutiny which spread across to other wings of the armed forces, the British could no longer depend on Indian armed forces. They knew very well that it was impossible for them to rule a nation where the armed forces were against the rulers. So they decided to leave India and grant her independence. 

However history of England suggests that It has always tried to annex the country back to which it had given freedom. An example of that is USA, after giving them their freedom in 1776, UK tried to get US back through the War of 1812, however they lost. In India when the freedom movement started the British followed a policy of divide and rule, they divided the local populace on religious lines and made people of the two major religions Hindus and Muslims fight among themselves. They called this policy divide and rule and it worked quite well for them. 

When British decided to give freedom to India, they tried to divide the local populace on the basis of religion. For this they availed the service of one Mohammad Ali Jinnah, who advanced the two nations theory, under a pretext that in the newly freed nation it would be impossible for Hindus and Muslims to live together. Now when his demands were not met, he made a call for Direct Action. It was followed by lots of violence across the nation in which thousands of people died. 

Now Jinnah did not have the resources to create such mobs. How did the mobs come into existence? The infrastructure of such mobs were created by the British, who used it from time to time to make Hindus and Muslims fight among themselves. The quantum of violence was so high that out of desperation to stop the bloodbath, the leaders accepted the partition of the nation.

On the western part a huge part of Punjab,Sindh, Frontier Province and Baluchistan; on the eastern front the state of East Bengal were separated from India and a new country named Pakistan was formed. However this was just the beginning of the mayhem. There was a big movement of people across the borders of both nations and there was a great amount of communal violence during partition that lead to death of around 2 million people. There was tremendous amount of loss of property as well. Thousands of women were raped as well during this riots. 

Even this was not enough. Jinnah died within an year of formation of Pakistan and army became supreme in that country. For the army to maintain its influence, they needed a perpetual enemy, they found one in India. In 1965 Pakistan attacked India to annexe Kashmir, they were militarily better equipped than India, they had the latest Patton tanks, but in spite of that they lost the war. 

Meanwhile East Pakistan wanted to become free from Pakistan. The Pakistani army killed over 3 million people in East Pakistan and raped over 200000 women. In 1971 India defeated Pakistan in 14 day war and freed East Pakistan, the newly formed country was named Bangladesh. 

Since then Pakistan resorted to cross border terrorism to destabilise India. However the same terrorists hit back on Pakistan and even in that country thousands of people died because of terrorism. The Islamic terrorism spread across the world and today has affected almost each and every part of world. Pakistan gave a safe asylum to Osama Bin Laden in Abbotabad. So you see at the core of global terrorism is the division of India and Pakistan that happened due to the cunning British policies. 

The Odd-Even car formula in Delhi

Delhi is the capital city of India. Around 17 million people live in the city of Delhi. It is a cosmopolitan city which has people from different parts of India. Delhi also happens to be one of the most financially prosperous cities of India.

The economic prosperity has meant greater purchasing power of people. Hence a big proportion of Delhites own cars as compared to people of other Indian cities. The emission from the cars have resulted very high levels of air pollution in Delhi. The proportion of suspended particulate matter in air of Delhi is many times more than safe levels.

The air quality of Delhi is very poor. This has serious implications on the health of people. The citizens of Delhi can contract serious diseases. Also this pollution has the potential to destroy the immune system of people, thus making them vulnerable to many diseases. 

Although the city of Delhi has a good metro-rail system. The bus infrastructure is not very good. So people have to rely on self owned vehicles to commute around the city. Using cars in huge numbers has lead to rise in pollution levels. In India, diesel is far more cheaper than petrol. So a big number of cars are diesel cars and diesel cars pollute more than petrol cars. 

To overcome this huge air – pollution problem, the Delhi Government decided to introduce an odd-even scheme. Under this scheme on days when the date of the month is an even number, only even numbered vehicles can ply on the roads of Delhi. On odd dates, odd number vehicles will hit the streets of Delhi. 

The scheme has been introduced from January 1st. People have given a positive response but obviously there are some grievances as well. The initial dip in air pollution graph is encouraging. However the real effects of introduction of the odd-even scheme will be clear in a few days. 

People are encouraged to pool cars to go to office. The cars that run on CNG are exempt from this rule since combustion of CNG does not release any suspended particulate matter. Another category of people who fall under the exempt category are those who are physically disabled and single woman driving cars. Most VVIP's fall under the exempt category. The Delhi CM himself falls under the exempt category but he is pooling car with his ministers. 

Many MPs of Delhi pooled cars or used E-Rickshaws or motorcycles to go to work. Ambulances, police vehicles etc. fall under the exempt category. The AAP government has been quite successful in getting the point across to people regarding the health hazards of people. Otherwise such huge support of people to the Odd-Even formula was unprecedented. 

This again shows what a honest government in power can do. Pollution in Delhi is not a new problem, however the previous governments decided to sit on the problem instead of doing something about it. 

One just hopes the Odd-Even car formula and the future pollution control measures help Delhites live in a clean, clear and healthy environment.

Why elect honest politicians?

In India it is common to have cost and time overruns in almost all infrastructure projects. This results in huge losses. Most of the time and cost overruns are due to extreme corruption in the government machinery. The extra money assigned to the project goes into the pocket of the politicians in different ways. 

Many a times the materials required for the project are sourced from a contractor at a cost way above normal market rate. Many a times this expensive materials are of substandard quality. There have been dams made that leaked within a few weeks of inauguration. Bridges built that were damaged in no time. One can see newly constructed roads being washed away in monsoon because of the low quality materials used in its construction. 

Now corruption happens in case of sports as well. Millions of dollars allocated to build sports facilities are stolen. The Common Wealth Games of 2010 held in New Delhi are the biggest example of the levels of corruption in sports. Rs 70,000 crore were lost in the games. A similar incident of corruption happened in the Feroz Shah Kotla cricket ground upgradation.

A budget of Rs 24 crore was set for upgrading the Feroz Shah Kotla stadium, the project went over budget and it was finished with a 5 year delay. It cost Rs 114 crore to upgrade the stadium. If you watch the Kotla stadium on TV, you would realize that it has a horrible design. It cannot be called world class.

Recently the stadium at Dharmasala was made for a budget of  Rs 22 crore. The world class stadium of Rajkot was built at a cost of Rs 70 crore. So surely there has been tremendous corruption in the upgradation of the Feroz Shah Kotla stadium. Cricket is not just a game but a religion in India. But it is a well known fact that a good amount of corruption exists in cricket as well. Cricket is a money spinner in India. India contributes the maximum amount of revenues to ICC. 

India lacks infrastructure in terms of roads, power, education and medical facilities since the money is not spent properly. The loss is due to dishonesty. It is because of people who don't give a damn about people of the country, the kind of leaders people have elected are only interested in filling up their coffers at the cost of common people. 

India is home to maximum number of starving people in the world, close to 200 million. 400 million others are living a life of extreme poverty. Why this poverty exists? It is all because of governmental corruption. Huge amounts of money belonging to Indian nationals are deposited in banks overseas, in tax haven nations like Switzerland, Singapore, Malta, Linchestin, Isle of Man etc. 

Now look at this example of what a honest politicians can do. In Delhi, AAP government build a flyover that was budgeted at Rs 250 crore, not only before scheduled time, but also at a cost of Rs 150 cr, 60% of the budgeted amount. The money that is saved goes as investment into other infrastructure projects.

So you see whom you vote for matters a lot, if you vote for honest people development and prosperity will follow. If you vote for dishonest people, if you vote for criminals and thugs, you are destined to be ruined as a nation. So the button of vote is in your hand, value it high and vote for honest. 

CBI raid on Delhi CM's office

On 15/12/2015, the Central Bureau of Investigation, that directly reports to the Central Home Ministry raided the Delhi CM's office. The pretext that was given was about some complaint relating to the principal secretary. However, the CBI raided the office of Delhi CM along with the office of the Principal Secretary.

This was surely done to get access to the files relating to the case related to the DDCA scam in which Arun Jaitley is involved. The files in Delhi CM's office are not more than 15 days old. So they investigators were not likely to get anything on the case that involved the principal secretary. However it was known that Delhi Government was working to set a committee to probe the DDCA scam. 

2 years ago the Supreme Court of India has said that the CBI is a caged bird. Every ruling party has used the CBI to its own advantage the present government is also using the CBI against the current Delhi government. The BJP has been badly beaten in Delhi, Bihar and also it seems to be loosing grip in its traditional fortress Gujarat, where congress won the panchayat elections.

Since Modi became the Prime Minister, his work has hardly impressed anyone and his popularity has come down significantly. The debacle in Delhi, Bihar and Gujarat seems to have got into the nerves of the PM and he ended up giving some ridiculous orders. 

This would only work to the benefit of Arvind Kejriwal since it is now proved that Narendra Modi is behaving more as a dictator. The CBI questioned Rajendra Kumar and then ultimately left him, since they were unable to make any case against him.

When BJP was in the opposition it complained time and again about the centre using CBI against the opposition. Now that it is in power it is doing the same thing. 

Surely Narendra Modi is bound to lose public support, which has already come down significantly. His bullet train ambitions will find no takers, people are distressed when they buy pulses at Rs 200 a kilo. 

People voted for Modi with a hope that he would change the face of the nation.Of course BJP did succeed in spreading the myth of Gujarat Model(which exists only on paper) and people were carried away by the advertisements on TV that promised acche din. However Modi was not able to deliver on any of its promises. What he has given to us since he became the Prime Minster of the nation was only lectures and nothing else. 

Modi has just worked for a couple of crony corporates who has helped him win the Loksabha elections by their  money power. 

This morning Arvind Kejriwal uploaded this images of the list of things taken away by CBI, all the documents have nothing to do with Rajinder Kumar's case .






The above list is enough to prove that the raid was not regarding Rajinder Kumar's case but they wanted to look into the DDCA file. Probably the investigators even might have taken snaps from the file to give it to their masters. 

However the reactions across the internet indicate that it is Modi who is going to be the ultimate loser in this game. Its surely going to boomerang on BJP and BJP will keep losing seats all across the nation. 

Get the right thing from Japan- Bullet Train is not one of them (Updated on 14/12/2015)

Japan is a global leader in the field of Technology. Japan is well known for bullet trains, the country has some of the fastest bullet trains in the world. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has shown interest in getting Japanese bullet trains to India and recently a deal has been signed between two nations in which  Japan would set up a bullet train line between Ahmadabad and Mumbai, the cost of this project is estimated to ₹98,000 crore.

₹98,000 crore will be spent on a railway line between the two cities whose length will be around 530 kilometers. It will bring down the travel time to 2 hours from the current 8 hours. However looking at the cost of the project, when the trains are up and running, the ticket prices for the trains have got to be very high. So high that it will more than the airfare between the two cities.

The time taken to fly between the two cities is around 1 hour 10 minutes. So people who can afford to use bullet trains already have a faster mode of transportation than bullet trains. So this raises serious questions regarding the economic viability of the project. The present bullet train project may not succeed at all.

The quality of railway transportation in India is not very good. The train fares have been increased but hardly anything has been done to uplift the quality of services offered by the Indian Railways. It would have been much better if the money was spent to improve the current railway infrastructure than spend it on a project that is aimed at the rich.

India does have a lot to learn from Japan. After the second world war, Japan was completely devastated. But the Japanese rose back as a global technology and economic superpower. Japan relentlessly focused on science and technology. A lot of research in the field of science and technology is done in Japan. India has to learn this from Japan. I just hope instead of bullet trains Modi actually invested in building excellent research and development centres in India.

Japan is a nation with very little corruption in the government. So can Modi emulate the Japanese and remove corruption from India as well? Since he has become the Prime Minister of India, the amount of corruption has not changed at all.

Japan is a nation that achieved tremendous economic success in spite of limited natural resources. India has far more resources than Japan however in the first 68 years after her independence, India stays way behind Japan. Huge population of India lives under poverty line. While poverty is virtually non existent in Japan.

The above portion was written yesterday. However I got some more information about the project from the Huffington post article. 

According to the above mentioned article, Japan will give a loan of almost ₹80,000 crore to India at 0.1% interest, it will have a moratorium of 15 years - which means the loan repayment can start after 15 years of taking the loan. Also, the loan repayment period will be 50 years. If we take inflation into account, the cost of things and correspondingly incomes are going to go up. So by then when the loan repayment period begins, the tickets, I guess will be quite affordable to most people.

However there is always a risk. What if there is some destructive technology that makes travel even faster and cheaper, with science and technology, you never know what's coming next. 

Citizens Charter Bill passed by AAP Delhi Government

In India it is common knowledge that it is not possible to get any work done in a government office without giving bribes. If you don't give bribe the one tactic the government officials follow is to delay your work for months or years. There are many people who are made to run pillar to post just to get their pension. Government offices in India are not only stinky and dirty but also the work is done there at snail's pace. You will invariably find officials reporting to work late and leaving early. 

One of the major promises of Delhi AAP government was the enactment of the Delhi Janlokpal, but it is likely to face some challenges in the Centre. So the Delhi government separated the Citizen's Charter from the Janlokpal into a separate bill.

Yesterday on 26th November 2015, the Delhi Citizen's Charter Bill was passed in the Delhi Assembly. Now people of Delhi will be entitled to get time bound services in all the offices that comes under the Delhi Government. There would be time limit fixed for each and every work to be done. In case of a delay the citizen would be entitled to a compensation and the money for the compensation would be deducted from the salary of the official who is responsible for the delay. 

This will surely make work faster in Delhi Government Offices and Corruption would become much less in the government offices of Delhi. On Monday 30th November 2015. The Delhi Janlokpal Bill will be passed in the Delhi Assembly. 

The AAP government in Delhi is delivering what it promised. In fact its going beyond that. 

Mohalla clinics in Delhi

Health care is a basic human right and it is the duty of every government to provide it. In India due to inadequate infrastructure and facilities in government hospitals and clinics people are forced to go to private hospitals and clinics. People are in general forced to pay the high fees of the doctors this way. We know very well that as compared to other developed nations only a small fraction of India's budget goes to health care and this year the allocation has come down instead of going up. Add to that due to corruption a big percentage of the money allocated to health care gets stolen. 


However the AAP government in Delhi instead of decreasing the health care budged has almost doubled the budget. The conditions of government hospitals are being improved and private hospitals that does not take in poor patients under the EWS quota have been fined around 203 cr Indian rupees. 

The Delhi government has already opened one Mohalla clinic, that treats 300 patients a day. The government has now decided that it will open 1000 such Mohalla clinics in the next 6 months, an allocation of Rs 209 crores has been made for this. The Mohalla clinics give free treatment to patients. 

If each Mohalla clinics give 300 free treatments a day then the 1000 clinics can given 300,000 free treatments each day. Thus annually it can give 300000X365 = 109500000 free treatments each year. That is 10 crore 95 lakh free treatments. For international readers the number is 109.5 million free treatments each year. 

This shows that if intentions are clean then excellent work for people can be easily done by the ruling government. Hats off to Arvind Kejriwal and his government. 

ACHIEVEMENTS OF AAP GOVERNMENT SINCE 14 FEBRUARY 2015

Kindly note that this post is not made by me. It is taken from Mr. Aravind Gangadharan's Facebook post.

1) Power tariff cut to half for domestic consumption till 400 units
2) CAG Audit ordered for Electricity tariff and Audit Completed. No power tariff hike for first time in 4 years.
3) Electricity made available continuously in summer with week-wise planning
4) Water tariff withdrawn till 20000Litres per month consumption/per connection. Tanker Mafia under control. Water supply to more area.
5) Started Anticorruption Bureau and arrested 35 corrupt officers. Corruption reduced.
6) Made arrangements for Electricity mammoth bill dispute resolution
7) Rs.50,000 per hectare compensation given for farmer's crop fail
8) Infrastructure improved in schools. Job security given to teachers on contract.
9) Ensured welfare of contract labourers(CL). 50000 CL regularised.
10) Dengue fever controlled with Health workers and volunteer participation
11) 1500 Home guards deployed as 28 teams in buses as Marshals for women's security. Installed 200+ CCTVs in buses.
12) Deployed e-Rickshaws for last mile connectivity to ensure women's safety
13) Controlled the price of onion to Rs. 35 per kg.
14) Rescued children captured under child labour / beggar mafia
15) Single window clearance for events
16) Cleaning of Yamuna, Water sports start up.
17) Rs. 1 Cr. Compensation to security personnel who die in harness.
18) A/c Mohalla Clinic serving 300 people per day free of charge
19) Education Loan of up to 10 Lakh with Delhi Government guarantee.
20) First time a SWARAJ budget was prepared with people's participation. Huge increase in budget share for education and health care.
21) PWD roads repaird on reciept of call reporting gutter on same day.
22) Electronic Ration Cards (E-Ration cards with Ration tracking)
23) Registration and issue of House numbers to unauthorized colonies.
24) Pick and drop facility for children with special needs.
25) Rs. 5 Lakh Compensation to Sikh Riot Victims.
26) Completed 6Lane highway budgeted for 242 Cr. at only 147 Cr. by Delhi PWD.
27) Made 200 Toilets for slums.
28) Rs 209 allocated for the construction of 1000 Mohalla clinics around Delhi. 

Your so called Acche din.

While the Modi government is spending hundreds of crores of rupees to broadcast advertisements appealing people to give up their LPG subsidy(after significant drop in global oil prices its hard to believe that any real subsidy is given). 

The MPs enjoy highly subsidised Parliament canteen food and look they have ordered 55 superluxurios Mercedes Benz Cars for themselves, while people have to suffer from corruption and high prices of essential stuff. Dal is being sold at Rs 200 per kg, onion Rs 70 per kg. 

The so called ACCHE DIN for idiots. 




 

Encouraging Communalism in India

As expected, the BJP led government in the centre has triggered communalism in the country with incidences of communal violence against minorities. Just a few days ago the father of an Indian air force soldier was killed, because a temple priest spread a rumour that there was beef in his refrigerator. 

Although the meat, that was there in his refrigerator was mutton and not beef, but a crowd of 200 communal and crazy fools murdered the man. Even if the meat was beef, one just cannot justify the murder of an innocent man. 

Recently at different places in Gujarat, people from other religions except Hindus are barred from this year's Navratri Garba celebrations. Having lived in Gujarat myself I have seen people from other religions taking part in Navratri. So it is clear that Gujarat is way more communal than it used to be. 

Anti Muslim and anti Christian statements are made by elected BJP MPs like Sadhvi Pragya, Shakshi Maharaj every other day. It is their ploy to divide the nation on communal lines to create vote banks. 

One reason why communalism is encouraged more and more by the ruling government is to divert people's attention away from the failures. The BJP government has failed miserably to bring in any growth, contain price rise even on diplomatic level they have been failures. Corruption is rampant and it has only gone up. The prices of pulses and onion are sky high and the ruling party is hands in gloves with the traders who are hoarding and profiteering from this products. 

This is exactly the reason why in the last few weeks over 41 writers have returned their Sahitya Academy Awards and the numbers are going up. The Indian media is a paid media that shows paid news and is bought by the people who are making great amount of money by dubious means because of the current ruling government. 

The BJP government promised acche din (Happy Days), but in reality it is acche din for the crony corporates and corrupt netas. The 31% idiots who voted for Modi, have been given a middle finger by the greatest beneficiary of Gujarat riots. Most spiritual gurus whom you see on Television these days are actually frauds who are interested in making money by fooling people into believing that they can bring them good luck or are simply infuriating people against other religions. 

Cows have become the best source of creating communal divide. Some idiotic books written after Buddhist times proclaim cow to be a mother and ban slaughter of cows. The sad reality is many Indians who happen to be born in Hindu families and follow Hinduism, believe in this. The leaders of the ruling government one hand create communal hatred on the issue of cow slaughter. On the other hand some of them own butcheries directly or indirectly, where bulls and cows are slaughtered and now India is the largest beef exporter in the world. So they make money by slaughtering cows at the same time they get votes by giving lectures about cow protection. 

As long as people keep getting fooled by them, this guys would simply loot them. One hopes that like Delhi people in other parts of India become more aware and vote for honest alternative. 

Literacy

Literacy is not education, but surely literacy is the begining of education. A literate person can later on teach himself, by reading books and analyzing the information and content in there. Literacy is equivalent to giving a person a key to the world of knowledge. 

If the person is literate he would be able to use computers, read the manuals and learn to use machines. He would be able to communicate with anyone through mails, blog posts etc. And what is literacay, its knowing the letters of a particular language, ability to compose words and write sentences.

So necessarily the person is only learning a code that would allow him to read whatever he wants. For a nation achieving 100% literacy is a must. Education is a lifelong process and runs well beyond formal education. 

Random Facts

• Prostitution is considered to be the oldest profession of mankind. However the sources for this information is unknown, definitely the first requirement of humans is food and how do you get food?By hunting or agriculture. So hunting and agriculture definitely existed much before prostitution. Again another way of gathering food back then was simply plucking fruits and vegetables from trees and plants which occurred naturally. 
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• Before the existence of money in form of coins, the way in which trade was done was through barter. Two individuals exchanged say one unit of meat for five units of rice. Money was created for convenience of people, for example it is not possible to carry tonnes of rice to the market to buy some clothes. So they would sell their produce to the government and in return they got money in terms of coins out of which they would avail other products and services.

• In India, the Hindus worship god reciting mantras from books written thousands of years ago. Now those mantras are in Sanskrit and hardly anyone knows the meanings of the words except the purohit. No one ever bothered to change the language of the mantras to current language. Most people perform pujas because they believe the it would bring them good luck and god would be happy by that. Isn't this questionable, how repeating few words in front of an image or an idol can connect one to the almighty again that too in a language that one does not understand.
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• In the caste system that existed in India, the bramhins were considered the highest cast. They held the right to knowledge. They made the rules which society were supposed to follow, while initially anyone could have become a Bramhin the system got rotten with time and later on only those were born in a bramhin family were considered bramhins no matter how dumb the person was. This led to people from lower castes being discriminated and they were being looked down upon. Naturally the people from lower castes developed lower self esteem and this was the real begining of the downfall of India. 
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Beef and Meat Eating In India

This days some state governments in India are busy banning meat for a certain amount of time citing religious reasons. All of these states are ruled by a political party which is formed out of an extremest outfit. It is busy spreading hatred among different communities. The beef ban and ban on other meat products is basically aimed to create religious tensions. 

Although today in India a major part of the population is vegetarian, but still there are at least 400 million plus people who consume meat of some kind or other. In reality the food habits of people depend on the environment and the geographical location that they live in. It depends on the availability of the type of grains, fruits and vegetables of that place. Also the health impact of different food stuff varies, depending upon the weather. 

You invariably find communities living besides sea cost consume lots of sea food. In western and southern parts of India where lots of rice is grown, there the normal staple diet of the people is rice. However in northern parts of India, wheat is grown in plenty and they consume wheat in large amounts. 

It is a well known fact that in ancient India meat was consumed, even cow's meat was consumed. In fact a Brahmin was not considered to be a good Brahmin if he did not consume beef. To quote Swami Vivekananda in this regard:

"There was a time in this very India when, without eating beef, no Brahmin could remain a Brahmin; you read in the Vedas how, when a Sannyasi, a king, or a great man came into a house, the best bullock was killed; how in time it was found that as we were an agricultural race, killing the best bulls meant annihilation of the race. Therefore the practice was stopped, and a voice was raised against the killing of cows ."[Source]

This also shows us why the practice of consuming beef was stopped. India was then primarily an agricultural country. In ancient times cows and bulls were very important for agriculture and as a means of transport, there used to be bullock carts. Also we must remember that back then there was no refrigeration technology available so the the cow or bull once slaughtered must be distributed fast and in the village, where few people lived, not everyone was able to consume all the meat. Hence a major portion of the meat would go waste , hence for consumption of little beef a large animal had to be slaughtered. This surely must have led to the reduction of population of cows and bulls, which would have had tremendous impact on the society and the economy back then. 

Hence religious rules were made in regards to beef consumption. Killing cows was totally banned and to make sure that people didn't disobey, the idea of cow mother and killing a cow as a sin was inculcated. In time the subsequent generation practiced this laws more and more strictly and in ignorance they started comparing cows to gods,and stopped its slaughter altogether. Very strict punishment was meted out on those who disobeyed the law. As Indians became more and more conservative many Indians gave up meat eating, also there was an emperor Ashok who was extremely cruel and ambitious to begin with, but later on became a Buddhist and spread the message of peace and non-violence. 

Emperor Ashok sent his men to different parts of world to get different crops and vegetables and once they were introduced he banned all kinds of animal killings. Ashoka's over reaction was probably due to excessive guilt for him being the reason for the death of millions of innocent people. Buddha himself was a meat eater, he only protested against the unnecessary killings of animals in which even the meats would have gone waste. 

Today we are no longer dependent on bulls for transport or farming. We have trucks, buses etc and for farming we have machines and tractors. So bulls are useless except for their seamen from which other cows are born. Even in case of cows, only those cows that can give milk are of any use,otherwise they are completely useless. So there is no need to feed this useless bulls and cows, one can simply get them slaughtered and sell the meat. It is a great source of cheap protein.