No end to Secularists' Hypocrisy !

Sikhs getting slaughtered in thousands = A MISTAKE.

Hindus getting tortured and killed in Kashmir = Political problem.

Muslims & Hindu getting killed in Post Godhra riots = Communal Anti- Muslim riots.

Poor protestors getting shot in leftist-ruled WB = Misunderstanding.

Banning Parzania in Gujarat = Communal.

Banning Da Vinci Code, Rushdie’s book, and Jo Bole So Nihaal = Secular.

Kargil Attack = Government failure.

Chinese invasion in 1962 = Unfortunate betrayal.

Fake encounters in Gujarat [Sohrabuddin] = BJP Communalism.

Fake encounters under Cong-NCP in Maharashtra [Khwaja Younus] = Oh, that’s just police atrocity.

Talking about Hindu interest = Communal. 

Talking about Vaticanization = Secular.

BJP freeing 3 terrorists to save 200 Indian hostages = Shameful.

Congress freeing 4 terrorists to save just 1 life of Mufti Mohd Saeed’s daughter in Kashmir [Rubiya Sayed] = Natural Political dilemma.

Attack on Parliament = BJP ineptitude. 

Not hanging Afzal Guru despite Supreme Court orders = Humanity and Political dilemma.

BJP worshipping Ram = Communal.

Congress questioning Lord Ram's existence = Secular.

Is there any end to secularists' hypocrisy?

OUR MP's !!!!!!! & THIER INCOME & BENIFIT

Salary & Govt. Concessions for a Member of Parliament (MP)
Monthly Salary : 12,000

Expense for Constitution per month : 10,000

Office expenditure per month : 14,000

Traveling concession (Rs. 8 per km) : 48,000 ( eg.For a visit from kerala to Delhi & return: 6000 km)

Daily DA TA during parliament meets : 500/day

Charge for 1 class (A/C) in train: Free (For any number of times)
(All over India )

Charge for Business Class in flights : Free for 40 trips / year (With wife or P.A.)

Rent for MP hostel at Delhi : Free

Electricity costs at home : Free up to 50,000 units

Local phone call charge : Free up to 1 ,70,000 calls.

TOTAL expense for a MP [having no qualification] per year : 32,00,000 [i.e . 2.66 lakh/month] TOTAL INCOME TAX on this income is NIL
TOTAL expense for 5 years
: 1,60,00,000

For 534 MPs, the expense for 5 years :
8,54,40,00,000 (nearly 855 crores)

AND THE PRIME MINISTER IS ASKING THE HIGHLY QUALIFIED, OUT PERFORMING CEOs TO CUT DOWN THEIR SALARIES…..

This is how all our tax money is been swallowed and price hike on our regular commodities........
And this is the present condition of our country:


855 crores could make their life livable !!
Think of the great democracy we have.................
PLEASE FORWARD THIS MESSAGE TO ALL REAL CITIZENSOF INDIA ....
but, STILL Proud to be INDIAN

THE SWING VOTE: DON’T JUST VOTE, MAKE IT COUNT

There is a myth that the Educated Civil Society, being small in numbers, can not influence the electoral outcome. Consequently majority of us are not motivated to engage with the political class and even abstain from voting because we believe that we are too small in numbers to change the ways of Indian politics. However, a closer analysis will reveal that in this age of coalition politics, with so many parties and candidates, victory margins are very small. In fact, most MPs win by margins of just few thousand votes.

Another myth is that Indian politics is decided by rural India. Hence issues relevant to the city dwellers and educated civil society are of no relevance to political parties as they do not need urban votes to come to power. The fact is that 2009 Lok Sabha will have 120 MPs (out of 543) from Urban Areas. Just concluded delimitation of constituencies has dramatically increased the number of urban constituencies, which will further grow as India urbanizes. 120 is a huge number, given the coalition politics where Mrs. Mayawati with potentially 50 MPs will have the real possibility to stake the claim for Prime Minister’s post.

We also need to note that in 2009 elections we have more than 10 Crore First Time Voters, mainly in urban areas. Compare this with the vote difference between Congress and BJP in 2004 Lok Sabha Elections – 98 Lakh.

ELECTIONs-2009 are DIFFERENT in many ways! Post 26/11 people are willing to get out and get counted. We have the real opportunity to MAKE A DIFFERENCE, this time around.

Each major party and candidate have their own committed vote bank based on ideology, caste, religion, region or language which they nurture and hold by giving sops, favours, appeasement and promises. So during the elections, what all political parties need and fear most are the SWING votes, which usually decide the winner. It is not difficult to bring together 25,000-50,000 educated people in each parliamentary constituency as SWING VOTE BANK, who will vote based on the issues of “Good Governance & Economic Development”. These ‘Educated Swing Votes’ will make every political party reach out to them and ask for their issues to be included in their agenda.

Now the question is, how do we organize these educated people, analyze & interact with major candidates/party and make an informed decision to VOTE with a real possibility of having a winner of our choice.

Use of technology will make it possible, Obama has shown it working. We are technology savvy and quick to adapt.

Reality of Bharat Nirman Propaganda...

Why CEC’s recommendation with regard to Navin Chawla must be accepted by Government

The current controversy surrounding Election Commissioner Shri Navin Chawla reminds me of a conversation I had had with Benazir Bhutto when she visited Delhi during the NDA regime. She had lunch with me that day and she shared with me a delicious dish of Sindhi curry, which my wife Kamala prepares excellently.

In the post lunch chat we had that day, I posed a question to Benazir: “How is it” I asked her, “that though both India’s as well as Pakistan’s political leadership had imbibed a similar political culture under British rule, India had managed its democracy with remarkable success but in Pakistan democracy had been a total failure.” Benazir’s reply was succinct: “I attribute your country’s success to two factors: firstly, your Army is apolitical; and secondly, your Election Commission is constitutionally independent of the Executive.”

Benazir had rightly identified the two guarantees for Indian democracy. For the first of these ― the Indian Army never nurturing political ambitions of any kind ― the credit goes entirely to our armed forces and those who have led it since independence, while credit for the Election Commission’s independence must be given to the Constituent Assembly.

There were, however, eminent participants in the Constituent Assembly debate on Art. 324, who wanted the Election Commission to be invested with even greater independence than given to it. These members did not approve of the fact that the Election Commission was to be appointed by the Central Government, and that the safeguards provided to the Commission were limited to its removal. Speaking on the occasion, Pandit Hriday Nath Kunzru said:

“ We are anxious, Sir, that the preparation of the election rolls and the conduct of elections should be entrusted to people who are free from political bias and whose impartiality can be relied upon in all circumstances. But, by leaving a great deal of power in the hands of the President we have given room for the exercise of political influence in the appointment of the Chief Election Commissioner and the other officers by the Central government. The Chief Election Commissioner will have to be appointed on the advice of the Prime Minister, and if the Prime Minister suggests the appointment of a party man, the President will have no option but to accept the Prime Minister’s nominee, however unsuitable he may be on public ground”.

In 2006, the then Chief Election Commissioner Shri B.B. Tandon, in a well-argued letter addressed to Rashtrapati Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, had pleaded with Government that just as in the case of the Central Vigilance Commission and the National Human Rights Commission, the appointments are made not by the Executive but by Committees in which the Speaker of the Lok Sabha and Leaders of Opposition in Parliament are also included, in case of the Election Commission also, a similar Committee should be authorized to do so. Shri Tandon concludes his letter to Dr. Kalam with the observation:

“This approach would not only be in keeping with the spirit and sentiment flowing from the debates in the Constituent Assembly but also further strengthen the faith of the people of our great democracy in the continued impartiality, neutrality and credibility of the Election Commission.”

In the context of the current controversy about Shri Navin Chawla, it would be educative to compare Art.124 dealing with the Supreme Court, with Art.324 laying down provisions relating to the Election Commission. Art.124 provides that neither the Chief Justice of India nor any other judge of the Supreme Court can be removed from his office except by a process of impeachment laid down by Parliament. In case of the Election Commission, however, this kind of protection is provided only to the Chief Election Commissioner, and not to the Election Commissioners. In case of the other Election Commissioners the Constitution says that they “shall not be removed from office except on the recommendation of the Chief Election Commissioner.”

On behalf of the BJP, Party General Secretary, Shri Arun Jaitley has rightly argued that the word ‘recommendation’ used in the second proviso of Article 324(3) must be construed as a binding recommendation. Jaitley has drawn attention to Article 217 of the Constitution relating to appointment of High Court Judges where the appointment is to be “after consultation with the Chief Justice”, the Chief Justice’s views has always been regarded binding.

The Party therefore, feels that the Chief Election Commissioner’s recommendation with regard to Shri Navin Chawla must be forthwith accepted by Government.

MEDITATIVE THOUGHTS

• Love is not only a word that expresses an affective feeling. When the Verb that  is used is TO LOVE, we don’t have to forget, exactly, that draft of a Verb, which is of something that  it must be realized in Action.
  

• Saying simply” I love you “!” or “I Love!” he cannot have no meant. To complete instead a Loving Action, even made in Silence, is a way to say “I love you” without the use of the words, but sure more TRUE.
  

• If I say I love you “!” but after that  I am  absent in the moment of Your need, I have only expressed  a sentimental emotion the end of his self, eventually only  for my need to hear that You answer to me: “Oh… you know… I love you a lot, too!”
  

• All this is cheap sentimentalism, because not sustained by acting in agreement with the meaning of the word  LOVE.
  

• We cannot ever forget that TO LOVE it is a verb, and for that reason it previews very precise actions.
  

• If to the expression “I love you!” they don’t make followed actions of Love, we have only fantasies on the wave of a nonexistent feeling.
  

Mumbai attack plotted on our soil: admits Pak

Ten weeks after the terror attacks in Mumbai that shook the world and sent India-Pakistan relations in deep freeze, Islamabad finally owned up that "a part of the conspiracy" was hatched in the country.

India welcomed as "positive" Pakistan's probe, but reminded Islamabad to take "credible action" and "dismantle the infrastructure of terrorism" in its territory.  

Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik said at a crowded news conference in Islamabad that the terrorists, who slaughtered some 170 people in Mumbai in November and who India says were Pakistanis, were "non-state actors" - meaning, the Pakistani establishment had nothing to do with the massacre that has been roundly condemned around the world.

"This is an individual act, act of individuals or non-state actors. Their purpose is to create terror for their own motives. These motives need to be determined. Both India and Pakistan need to work it out," Rehman said. "A part of the conspiracy has been done in Pakistan," the minister admitted, "but a major part was shaped in India."

He said a first information report (FIR) was registered in Islamabad Thursday. The FIR has named nine people, including Zakiur Rahman Lakhvi, leader of the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba, Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone surviving attacker captured during the Mumbai mayhem, as well as Javed Iqbal of Barcelona who had allegedly played a role in funding the attackers.

"The incident happened in India but part of the conspiracy has been done in Pakistan. Therefore, it is abetting conspiracy and facilitation. Anybody (Pakistani national) who directs or conspires to do an act of terrorism abroad is deemed to have done so in Pakistan," Malik maintained.

"The alleged mastermind has been located and is under investigation," he said, without giving out his name.

He added that a total of six men have been arrested in Pakistan for their links with the Mumbai massacre. These included Lakhvi of the LeT, which did the "planning" of the attacks.

All these "have given us a complete picture. Obviously these accounts lead to the (terrorist) leadership also", Malik said.

This is the first time Pakistan has admitted the involvement of its nationals in the terror attack on India, breaking the patterns of repeated denial and obfuscation in the past.

Welcoming the Pakistan probe, the Indian external affairs ministry said in a statement: "In their official response, the Pakistan authorities have admitted that elements in Pakistan were involved in the terrorist attacks on Mumbai."

"They are still in the process of investigating the attacks, and have taken certain actions including the arrest of some of those who were involved and filing a first information report," the ministry said. "This is a positive development," it added.

Responding to Pakistan's demand for more information and material relating to the Mumbai atrocity, India also agreed to examine the issues and will share whatever it can with Pakistan. 

New Delhi, however, made it clear that it was determined to pursue the Mumbai attacks to its logical conclusion and asked Islamabad "to take credible steps to dismantle the infrastructure of terrorism in Pakistan."

"It remains India's goal to bring the perpetrators of the terrorist attacks on Mumbai to book, and to follow this process through to the end," the ministry said. "We would also expect that the Government of Pakistan take credible steps to dismantle the infrastructure of terrorism in Pakistan," it stated.  

The Indian government's response came after Pakistan's Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir gave Islamabad's official response to India's dossier to New Delhi's High Commissioner Satyabrata Pal. India had given a dossier to Pakistan Jan 5 containing material that established connection between elements in Pakistan and the Nov 26 Mumbai attacks.

Pakistan, under increasing pressure to crack down on Islamists who have virtually taken over large areas bordering Afghanistan, had initially sought to deny any links with the 10 terrorists who sailed to Mumbai by sea from Pakistan Nov 26 and then went on a horrific killing spree that lasted three days and traumatised a nation.

Nine of the terrorists were killed and Kasab was captured. India said the terrorists were linked to LeT, which has reportedly had close links with the Pakistani intelligence.

"Our leadership is fully concerned and serious in bringing all the culprits to justice," Malik said. "I would like to assure the government of India, the people of India, we are with you."

The minister said Pakistan desired more information from India. He said a set of 30 questions has been sent to New Delhi through its envoy in Islamabad. These included fingerprints of all the dead terrorists and also better pictures of the men who were killed by Indian commandos.

"It's a positive step," commented Lalit Mansingh, a former foreign secretary. "The government should take it seriously and consider answers to some of their questions to bring the perpetrators to justice."

"At least they have admitted that part of the conspiracy was hatched in Pakistan," he said.

Analysts noted that the admissions come a day after the visit of Richard Holbrooke, US special envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan, and in the wake of President Barack Obama's telephone call to President Asif Ali Zardari.

"International pressure seems to have worked on Pakistan," said K.Subrahmanyam, India's pre-eminent strategic analyst. "They have accepted handlers were in Pakistan." 

Al-Qaeda video warns India of more attacks

A top al-Qaeda commander, who was reported killed in a US drone strike last year, has appeared in a video warning India of more Mumbai-style terror attacks if it tried to attack Pakistan.

"India should know that it will have to pay a heavy price if it attacks Pakistan," Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, believed to be al-Qaeda's military commander in Afghanistan and ranked behind No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahiri, said in a 20-minute video in Arabic received by BBC.

Yazid, who the Pakistani military said may have been killed in fighting last August in the Bajaur tribal region, said, "The Mujahideen will sunder your armies into the ground, like they did to the Russians in Afghanistan. They will target your economic centres and raze them to the ground."

Yazid denounced the ban on militant groups in Pakistan following the Mumbai attacks and asked the people of Pakistan to rise up and overthrow the government and President Asif Ali Zardari, the BBC reported.

The al-Qaeda leader is said to have been involved in a number of terror attacks, including last year's Danish Embassy bombings, in Pakistan and had claimed the responsibility of assassinating former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto.

He was last heard in August 2008 when he confirmed the death of al-Qaeda chemical-weapons expert Midhat Mursi al-Sayid Umar.

I can do it, you can do it, India can!

I could not resist sharing the following incident that has happened during Action 2020 - UnConference.

The Event was held in Ramakrishna Mission Higher Secondary School (South) at T Nagar. The School was working for half a day. Dr Kalam was scheduled to address the participants over phone after 2.30 PM. Few of the students who came to know that Dr Kalam would be speaking

over phone, stayed back and ere waiting to listen to Dr Kalam.

Dr Kalam came online over phone at 3 PM and interacted for nearly 22 minutes. At the end of the interaction session, he wanted the participants to repeat along with him - "I can do it; We can do it; India can do it". The enthusiastic participants repeated this mantra along with Dr Kalam three times and ended with Jai Hind.

One of the 10th standard student Mr Venkatraman, who was present there listening to Dr Kalam's interaction session, came to us and asked us whether there was any student group amongst the participants. Immediately, we connected him to Kalam Nagappan, Founder of Young Helping MInds, a group of nearly 500 students.

Immediately, the student told us," Sir, I have in my hundi around five thousand rupees, saved out of the pocket money given by my parents. Now the entire money, i want to spend to the society and to the Nation. I do not want to spend lavishly."

It was so exciting to see how the mantra, " I can do it, We can do it, India can it" administered by Dr Kalam could change the mind of an young boy towards National development.

This incident has proved one important aspect. We have lot of youth amongst us with commitment and fire. What they need is only proper guidance and opportunity. There is a great task ahead of us.

There is a lot of spirit and committed in changing the indian system.. yes dear friends we have to reach the goal of sos mumbai.

Jai Hind !!!

Major humanitarian crisis unfolding, hundreds of civilians killed, please help

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Please help the suffering Tamil civilians in Sri Lanka. Call for an immediate cease fire in Sri Lanka so that civilians may escape the conflict zone.

300,000 Tamil Civilians are trapped in a terrible warzone in Northern Sri Lanka, with hundreds being killed every day. The size of the war zone is just 15 kilometers by 20 kilometers, and there are 300,000 civilians packed into that tiny piece of land, which is constantly being bombed and shelled by the Sri Lankan government. All reporters and international aid agencies have been banned from the warzone by the Sri Lankan government, so that the international community cannot know what goes on.

On January 24th alone, 300 civilians were killed in the government designated "safe zone" by Sri Lankan government artillery fire. The following shocking video shows the terrible situation the children in the war zone are facing every single day.

VIDEO ON YOUTUBE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y0_e1fhKaM

Please forward this video to your friends, and call for an immediate ceasefire in Sri Lanka so that these civilians may escape from the war zone.