Appeasement Post Modern: Maya Envelop for CPIM

Appeasement Post Modern: Maya Envelop for CPIM

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Palash Biswas

It is Appeasement Post Modern!



It is Maya Envelop for CPIM!

Headstrong, Rigid CPIM General secretary JNU return Prakash karat knocked the Doors of a most Unexpected host in Communist History of India. The leaders discussed the India-U.S. nuclear agreement and the coming confidence vote. Mr. Karat drove to the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister’s residence in New Delhi for the meeting that lasted about 45 minutes.CPM General Secretary Prakash Karat and BSP supremo Mayawati, two staunch opponents of the Indo-US nuclear deal, met on Sunday in an apparent move to take on the government during the trust vote in Lok Sabha on July 22. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has powerful foes gunning for her. They want her to be forced out of power prematurely.Congress president Sonia Gandhi [Images] just does not like Mayawati challenging her. Rahulbaba wants to defeat Mayawati on her home turf. Their confidant-cum-advisor on UP affairs, Rajiv Shukla, simply cannot abide the Dalit devi .Mulayam Singh Yadav and Amar Singh of the Samajwadi Party are her sworn enemies.



Meanwhile, A crucial meeting of the Board of Governors of International Atomic Energy Agency to build a consensus on India-specific safeguards accord essential to help implement Indo-US nuclear deal has been postponed from July 28 and is likely to be held on August 1, IAEA sources said.They said informal consultations among 35 members of IAEA Board of Governors were on seeking the consensus and a formal meeting is likely on August 1.The safeguards agreement initialled by India and IAEA on July 7 this year was circulated among all 144 member-countries of the world body on the same day.The document was put on the website of the Ministry of External Affairs, a day after the Left parties accused the government of refusing to make it public.The IAEA safeguards agreement is an essential step India has to take to integrate with international nuclear commerce before it secures a one-time waiver from the 45-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group.

BJP President Rajnath Singh on Monday said that NDA would do everything to oust the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre.He, however, made it clear that BJP would not ”adopt unfair means” in this regard and requested Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to resign and seek fresh mandate.



”NDA will attempt that UPA government did not win the confidence vote. But we will not adopt unfair means in this regard,” he told reporters in Bhopal.Talking to reporters after addressing a Youth rally at the Lal Parade Ground, Singh said his party would contact all its MPs and apprise them about the losses the country would suffer after signing the nuclear deal.

Karat, who is spearheading the Left opposition on the deal, drove to the UP Chief Minister’s residence for the meeting.

This is the first meeting between the two leaders after the recent political developments that saw Mayawati withdrawing support to the government followed by the Left last week.



The Supreme Court will hear on July 28 the petition filed by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati challenging her prosecution in the disproportionate assets case.The Bahujan Samaj Party supremo is facing allegations of acquiring assets beyond her known sources of income and through corrupt means by misusing her status as Chief Minister during her previous tenure.Mayawati has challenged her prosecution on the grounds that the case has been registered against her by the CBI at the behest of its political masters and is aimed at maligning her reputation in the public.The CBI, in its counter affidavit filed last week, has, however, opposed her petition on the grounds that there is sufficient prima facie evidence to prosecute her under the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988.According to the CBI, Mayawati opened 94 bank accounts and she along with her relatives and family members acquired 96 immovable properties in Uttar Pradesh and Delhi. A large number of political leaders are also facing similar cases of corruption, who include former UP Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav and his family members, former Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh, present Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala, former Kerala Chief Minister K Karunakaran, former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, former Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy, Railway Minister Lalu Prasad, former Bihar Chief Minister Rabri Devi and others.Mayawati has also raised questions about the timing of filing of the counter affidavit by the CBI when the UPA government is facing a trust vote on July 21-22 in Parliament following withdrawal of support by the Left parties on the Indo-US nuclear deal.The Chief Minister withdrew support from the UPA government, while the Samajwadi Party is backing the Congress on the issue.According to Mayawati, the Congress is using the CBI to arm-twist her for opposing the Manmohan Singh government on the nuclear deal.In the Taj Corridor scandal, Mayawati could not be proceeded against as Governor T V Rajeswar refused to grant sanction for her prosecution as at that time she was having cordial relations with the Congress.The trial Judge in that case directed the CBI to obtain sanction from the Governor in spite of the fact that the apex court in the Parkash Singh Badal case had clearly ruled out that provision of sanction is not available to the public servants, both politicians and bureaucrats, who are facing allegations of the corruption.A review petition, filed by SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav, his son and SP MP Akhilesh Yadav and his daughter-in-law Dimple Yadav against the Supreme Court’s order directing CBI to investigate the allegations of corruption, is already pending in the apex court.Justice A R Lakshmanan, who is also presently Chairman of the Law Commission, had broken down in the open court when he got a faxed message at his residence casting aspersions on his personal integrity on the day when a PIL against Mulayam Singh Yadav was listed in his court. The Judge withdrew from the case.

In what is being seen as the first sign of revolt within the Left, West Bengal Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs Subhas Chakraborty backed Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee and said he should not quit as the Speaker before the trust vote in Parliament.

Chakraborty also said that the CPI-M should not vote with the BJP on the Indo-US nuclear deal as “voting with the saffron party will harm our party’s interests”.

With political parties bracing themselves for the trust vote, CPI general secretary A B Bardhan on Monday accused the Congress-led UPA of horsetrading and alleged that the going rate of an MP is Rs 25 crore.Speaking at a press conference to announce a national campaign by the Left parties against the deal and the “anti-people” policies of the government, Communist Party of India leader A.B. Bardhan said he had been in touch with Ms. Mayawati and she had assured him of her support during the trust vote.

He said the CBI had become a “political tool” in the hands of the government and was being used to “switch on and switch off the so-called investigations.”

“It is so obvious and the intention is so clear. We have told her [Ms. Mayawati] that we condemn all such efforts,” Mr. Bardhan said.

"No one has principles anymore. It is not a question of few crores but Rs 25 crore for horsetrading," Bardhan said addressing a meeting to launch Left parties’ nationwide campaign against the government.

"I have never seen Rs 25 crore in my lifetime. I am sure that none of you (audience) have seen it either," the top CPI leader said.

With UPA government’s new found ally Samajwadi Party gunning for Reliance Industries, the company head Mukesh Ambani on Monday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and a host of other senior government functionaries to explain how demands for levy of windfall tax was bad economics. Ambani first met Singh and there were unsubstantiated reports that he followed this with a meeting with Congress President and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi.

Flying in from Mumbai this morning, Mukesh started a series of meeting with top bureaucrats, including a call to Cabinet Secretary K M Chandrasekhar.

Ambani’s visit assumes importance in the wake of Amar Singh raising a number of issues, including a demand for withdrawal of EOU status for RIL’s Jamnagar refinery along with a suggestion that Prime Minister should intervene to bring peace between Mukesh and younger brother Anil.

Sources said Ambani pleaded that the demand for levy of so-called windfall profit tax on private firms was no more than a populist slogan based on the misleading logic that with rising prices of oil across the globe, these companies are making profits far in excess of what they legitimately deserve.

While government shares production from oil and gas fields and is a beneficiary of high oil prices, the refinery business is highly cyclical and with new capacities coming on stream world over margins will decline precipitously. Ambani is believed to have told policy makers that fiscal revenue gain from a WPT would be short-term in nature, but the economic costs of introducing an unstable fiscal regime could be long lasting.

Ms. Mayawati charged the government on Friday with “targeting her” after the CBI filed a counter-affidavit in the Supreme Court in the “disproportionate assets case” against her. At a press conference here, she declined to divulge her strategy on the trust vote but made clear her opposition to the deal.

While Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has allegedly not furnished details of her Rs 9.78 crore deposits yet, the CBI has informed the Supreme Court that the BSP supremo had adopted delaying tactics by filing "numerous" petitions before the investigating agency.

Detailing her income in a counter-affidavit filed in the Supreme Court, the CBI alleged that Mayawati has not given the details of the institutions or banks where the deposits have been made.

"She has not given the details of other immovable properties in her name including agricultural land. Investigation in this regard is being carried out," CBI said.

What a rhythmic unity among the Left Front partners to indulge the communistts in subaltern politics of India at last!

In a realignment of forces in the wake of the Congress and the SP coming together, the Left parties Sunday made a common cause with the BSP by roping in Miss Mayawati to oppose the Indo-US nuclear deal. Reaching out to the ruling party in Uttar Pradesh, which has 17 MPs in the Lok Sabha, the CPI-M general secretary Mr Prakash Karat drove to the Uttar Pradesh chief minister’s residence here to hold the first meeting after the Left parties withdrew support to the UPA government over the nuclear deal. This came a day before the Left is to launch a nationwide campaign against the Congress-led UPA government.

After the 45-minute meeting, Mr Karat announced that the two parties would “cooperate” to ensure the defeat of the Congress-led government when the motion of confidence was moved in the Lok Sabha on 22 July.


“Mayawati reiterated her opposition to the deal. It was decided that there should be cooperation to stop the deal and in the struggle against the UPA government in this regard,” Mr Karat said. Sources said the Left parties sent feelers to Miss Mayawati three days ago with top CPI leadership seeking her cooperation “in the fight against the government”.

Significantly, Mr Karat’s meeting with Mayawati came a day after the CPI-M condemned the filing of a fresh affidavit by CBI against the BSP chief in a disproportionate assets case. BSP sources said that today’s meeting was an attempt by the party to ensure that it didn’t remain isolated on the national political scene, particularly at a time when the Samajwadi Party had begun to cosy up to the UPA. The BSP is already facing the heat what with Miss Mayawati facing trial in the disproportionate assets case.

The CBI action was also condemned by the CPI, whose general secretary Mr AB Bardhan raised questions about the timing of filing of the affidavit. Mr Bardhan told reporters after his party’s national executive that the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), former Prime Minister Mr HD Deve Gowda, and Mr MP Veerendrakumar had already got in touch with the Left, and expressed their opposition to the deal. Ms Mayawati had a telephonic talk with the TDP leader, Mr N Chandrababu Naidu, after meeting Mr Karat.



Marxist always neglected the Social realism in India.Marxist Think tanks never tried to understand the social fabrics in India. Indian Communist Movement always defended the interests of ruling Brahminical Hegemony. In West Bengal,where the Left Front has won consecutive seven assembly elections and held power for over three decades, only three percent Brahmins hold the key of Power in every speheres in life. No less than sixteen Cabinet Ministers belong to the single caste BRAHMAN . Sixty four MLAs are Brahman. It is all the way a Brahman Front. So is the case in Kerala, where Malyali Brahmins decide everything. Only it is Tripura, Marxists quote Ambedkar and dalit movement so often just to appease the Dalit Indigenous majority. CPIM passed a dalit agenda long before in Hyderabad Congress. Biman Bose finalised the manuscript with active help of Tripura Dalit Minister and Poet Anil Sarkar.



Mind you, Anil sarkar runs a string of Ambedkar Mission Branches in Tripura as well as West Bengal. He happens to be a well known poet in Entire North East and holds the key of majority indigenous vote bank in Tripura. Sarkar also happens to be the Chief patron of Dalit Sahitya Movement in two Marxist ruled Bengali speaking states in India. He is equally popular in Bangladesh as well as among the dalit Bengali refugees scattered countrywide. He happens to be the organiser of annual Dalit Sanskriti Utsav and Agartal book fair.



I myself have been the Chief Guest in Dalit Sanskriti Utsav,2002 in Tripura. Sarkar also manages annual prize ceremony on Bengali dalit writing. Adawit Mallaburman Prize is instituted by Anil Sarkar. The leaders of West Bengal Dalit Sahitya Andolan and Dalit Samanyaya Smiti are the main reciepants of the Adwait Malla Burman Prize for literature. He is often censored by the party Leadership for his links with Non Marxists and dalit Movement.



Anil Sarkar wrote poems on Mayawati just after Mayawati won the Uttar Pradesh elections with land slide majority. party leaders including Brinda Karat and Subhasini Ali were agitated most. Sources tell, Anil sarkar had been issued show cause Notice for his poems on Mayawati, widely circulated by mainstream media.

Marxists hated most Mayawati and dalit movement in the Cow Belt. Marxist are known for their alliance with RSS, Congress and OBC leaders mulayam singh Yadav and lalu Prasad Yadav. Marxists never had any alliance with dalit leaders and dalit movement. Thus, anil sarkar is as much hated a person as Subhash Chakrabarti in West Bengal. High Caste CPIM leaders despise Anil Sarkar as they hated Ambedkar.As Subhas has always been cut to size, the same prescription is prescribed for the Tripura leader. But the two dissident most leaders in CPIM survive creating so much headache for the Party all these years.



Now it is a REVERSE Historical as CPIM General secretary knocked the doors of the dalit Leader Mayawati praised as Incarnation revolution by Anil Sarkar.It is considered to be a masterstroke by the CPIM leader to appease its MUSLIM DaliT prominent Vote Bank in West Bengal where the Party has to face the maximum damage if the UPA government falls and fresh election held.On the other hand, the Left parties may have snapped ties with the UPA over nuclear deal on an acrimonious note, but the CPM is not averse to supporting the Congress-led coalition after the next elections provided "that they do not betray it like this time". Senior CPM politburo member Sitaram Yechury said the present "experience will be a shadow" in the ties but did not rule out Left extending support to Congress based on the "circumstances and policies" it follows.

It seems Marxist leaders have opted for a Third Front led by no one less, But the Dalit Queen from Uttar Pradesh.Sand witched between RSS and Congress , it might be the best Escape route to keep intact prestige as well as VOTE BANK! It might also open the door for primeministership for a dalit Leader for the first time provided the fresh Elections trows up another Hung parliament. Mayawati has proved her capacity of social Engineering as well as Power bargaining despite unpleasant Corruption scandals and viscios personal ambition. She is well equipped to set new power equations and upset the Apple cart of Lal Krishna Adwani. Karat Knocking may be the first sign of the Future untold!



Both Congress and the CPI-M are not ready to face election ‘right now’, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Monday said while stating that she would decide whom to support in the trust vote keeping in mind the interest of the people of West Bengal. The TC leader who is the party’s lone Lok Sabha member said, "I will vote only after considering the interest of the people of Bengal." She said she would decide after her party’s programme in Kolkata on July 21. Referring to the issue of Lok Sabha Speaker’s continuance in office, she told a press conference that with so many voices the CPI-M was on the road to disintegration. Saying this is not the first time it has joined hands with the BJP, having done so earlier in 1977 and 1989, she said the party demonstrated lack of principle on the question of the Lok Sabha Speaker’s continuance in office and survival of the UPA government.



"This becomes the consequence if a party remains in power for a long time," she emphasised.

"The controversy over the Speaker (Somnath Chatterjee) is not merely an internal party affair of the CPI-M, but also a political and constitutional issue," she told a press conference here.

Saying she hated horse-trading, Banerjee said "What is going on in Delhi is unfortunate. The battle should be fought on the basis of ideology and principles."

With the Lok Sabha polls less than a year away and with Mayawati planning to make the BSP a national force at the expense of the Congress (whose election symbol is the Hand), it was time for Mulayam and Sonia to patch up even if the immediate provocation was the Left Front’s decision to withdraw support from the UPA once the PM announced that the government would approach the IAEA “very soon” for ratification of the safeguards agreement on the Indo-US nuclear deal, which is the pre-requisite for taking the deal to the Nuclear Suppliers Group.


All of which should lay to rest any talk of a bipartisan Indian foreign policy! A ‘bad’ nuclear deal can become a ‘good’ one for the SP if it helps the party regain its relevance in India’s largest state of UP.

On the other hand , in accordance an Indian Express story, Attempts to revive the United National Progressive Alliance (UNPA) received a major boost on Sunday when BSP supremo and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati called up Telugu Desam Party chief N Chandrababu Naidu while he was touring Khammam under his “Mee Kosam (For You) Yatra”.
Sources said Mayawati spoke to Naidu on the phone after CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat called on her at her Delhi residence.

The Indian Express in its July 9 edition had reported that the BSP and TDP were trying to establish contact and that this could lead to a realignment of political forces at the Centre.

Sources said that the BSP supremo and TDP chief discussed in their “over 10-minute-long chat” the need to adopt a common strategy when the UPA Government faces a trust vote on the nuclear deal on July 22. Naidu is likely to take time off his yatra to visit Delhi on July 19 and 20, when he’s likely to meet Mayawati among other leaders.

With the Samajwadi Party leaving it in the lurch, the UNPA will more than welcome the BSP’s addition. Both the BSP and TDP, in addition to the Left, are against the nuclear deal, and cannot afford to take any position other than a “policy of equidistance” from the Congress and BJP in their states.

Sources privy to the discussions told this paper that if things fall in place, post-trust vote, Mayawati could be projected as the leader, and thus a contender for the Prime Minister’s position. Naidu is looking at having both the CPI(M) and CPI on his side, apart from adding the BSP to his alliance, for the ensuing Assembly elections in the state.

Meanwhile,far away from West Bengal, in London Biman Bose, one of India’s most influential Marxist leaders, has said that the Left can consider supporting a BJP-led coalition if that party sheds what he called its "communal agenda". In surprising remarks made in London Thursday, he also said the Left may have made "a mistake" by not withdrawing its support from the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government earlier and accused the Congress of trying to "bail out" the Republican Party through the nuclear deal ahead of US elections. Bose, one of the most senior leaders in West Bengal and a member of the Communist Party of India-Marxist’s (CPI-M) politburo, made his startling remarks while briefing a select group of British diplomats, bankers, and government and Commonwealth officials over dinner in London Thursday night. IANS was the only Indian media group invited to this meeting.

The dinner was hosted by industrialist Shishir Bajoria of the Kolkata-based multinational, Bajoria Group. Bose, who is general secretary of the West Bengal CPI-M, was asked pointedly if there were any circumstances under which the Left would support a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led coalition in New Delhi.

Striking the first note of dissent within the CPM over party moves to seek Somnath Chatterjee’s resignation as Speaker and vote alongside the BJP against the trust vote being sought by the UPA government, Subhas Chakraborty, West Bengal Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs, said “the Speaker’s case should not be viewed as a CPM party affair” and “voting with the BJP will harm our party’s interests”.
Asked about the CPM pressure on Chatterjee to relinquish his post as Speaker, Chakraborty, a six-time minister, initially declined comment on what he said was the party’s “internal matter.” But then said: “The Speaker’s case should not be viewed as a CPM party affair. One must remember that when Somnath Chatterjee was chosen as Speaker of Lok Sabha, he was the unanimous choice of all coalition partners. His candidature and position should not be viewed as one that is backed by only one party. So any decision regarding him should have unanimity.”

Chakraborty was candid on the other big issue that has been troubling the party rank and file — voting with the BJP against the UPA. Asked what was his assessment about the CPM decision to vote alongside the BJP during the floor test in Parliament, he said: “Voting with the BJP will harm our party’s interests.”

Mayawati targeting Big B and me: Amar Singh
13 Jul 2008, 2000 hrs IST,PTI

MUMBAI: Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh on Sunday accused Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati of implicating him and superstar Amitabh Bachchan with the help of an investigating officer. ( Watch )

Talking to reporters here, the SP general secretary showed clippings of the "sting operation" carried out on K K Dwivedi, a UP Police officer investigating his case, and alleged that the BSP supremo was indulging in "vindictive politics."

Singh claimed that the "sting operation" was carried out by himself with a button camera attached to his shirt during the interrogation by Dwivedi.

The SP leader said Dwivedi had told him he was being allegedly forced by Mayawati to implicate him and Bachchan. Amar

Singh uses Aarushi to further malign Mayawati
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Amar Singh harped upon Aarushi’s issue to further malign Mayawati. He talked about all details of Aarushi’s details and blamed Mayawati for the fiasco.

He alleged that she tried to take back officers from UP cadre who were deputed to CBI to adversely affect the investigation. He said that Mayawati does not have respect for family values since she does not have a child.

One cheer for Mayawati
13 Jul 2008, 0127 hrs IST, Gurcharan Das
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On July 1, 86 lakh children in class I and II began to learn English in government schools of Uttar Pradesh. It fulfilled a longstanding demand of parents who believe that they have lost two generations to Hindi chauvinists. They know that a child who learns English by age 10 has a natural advantage for the rest of its life. Shortage of English speakers is one reason why software companies, call centres, export oriented industry has been slow in coming to UP and the caricature of the ‘bhaiya’ persists.

Mayawati’s decision on English was hailed by Dalits, and for good reason. A study in Mumbai shows that among Dalit women, those who learn English rise economically and socially by marrying outside their caste. About 31% of Dalit women who knew English had inter-caste marriages compared to 9% who did not know English. This makes sense. Knowing English gives a Dalit woman a chance to work in call centres and other modern jobs where there are fewer caste barriers. Is Mayawati finally realising that there may be more votes in meeting people’s real needs than in erecting statues to Ambedkar? She has also ordered toilets for girls in 90,000 primary schools.

It must have taken some courage to challenge the teachers’ union and the Hindi establishment. So, why do i offer only a single cheer to Mayawati? I would give her three cheers had she attacked the basic disease of teacher absenteeism. The famous Kremer-Murlidharan report shows that one in four teachers is not present in school, and one in four present is not teaching. As a result, 53.1% of UP’s children in Class V cannot read a Class II text, according to ASER surveys. Nearly 67.2% of children in urban UP and 29.1% in rural UP are now in private schools. What is the answer? Quite simply, the government should fund students and not schools.

When a child reaches age 5, the government should give parents a voucher (like a scholarship), which can only be exchanged for education at a school of the parent’s choice. Since all parents want a good school for their kids, vouchers will create competition among schools. As vouchers will be the only source of a school’s income, and as teachers will be paid salaries only from vouchers, teachers will show up and even teach with inspiration. Teachers will have an incentive to perform. Good teachers will be able to earn more thanks to higher voucher income earned by their school. Teacher morale will thus rise. They will be accountable to parents rather than remote officials in the state capital.

Competition for vouchers will improve both government and private schools. Bad schools will close down, good ones will flourish. The poorest parents will be able to send their child to a quality school. The ability to exit their children from a bad school is hugely empowering — it is like having a‘voice’ in a democracy. The rich have it because of their money power. Vouchers will give them purchasing power and a ‘voice’. A poor child will get the same opportunity as a rich one to rise in the world, and we will progress to our dream of equality of opportunity.
Mayawati used to be a teacher. So, she will appreciate this public-private partnership. Teachers’ unions will oppose
her, of course. She will be scared of losing lakhs of teachers’ votes, but she must remember that she will gain crores of votes of grateful parents. I’m convinced that more and more sensible policies will come from Dalit/OBC leaders who have fewer vested interests to protect (like teachers’ unions).

Maya introduces tough law to check organised crime
31 Oct 2007, 1918 hrs IST,PTI

LUCKNOW: The Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh has introduced a tough legislation to prevent, tackle and control organised crime with death penalty as the maximum punishment.

Under the provisions of the Bill, the government would not provide police security to members of the crime syndicate whose list would be kept at police stations, a move seen as the government’s attempt to withdraw security to politicians with criminal antecedents.

Tabling the Uttar Pradesh Organised Crime Control Bill, 2007, Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Lalji Verma said the Bill was necessitated as existing legal provisions appear to be inadequate to tackle and control organised crime.

It is apprehended that there is a nexus between organised crime syndicates and terrorists outfits and there are reasons to believe that such syndicates are active in the state, the Bill said.

The Bill provides for capital punishment or life imprisonment and a minimum fine of Rs. one lakh in case of death of a person as a result of the crime.

Those providing shelter or facilitates commitment of such a crime would face imprisonment for a minimum period of five years besides fine.

According to the Bill, organised crime would include terrorist activities, kidnapping for ransom, trying to obtain government tenders by force, contract killings, occupying a vacant government or private land through forged documents or by force, money laundering, indulging in human trafficking, manufacture of spurious drugs.


New panel to probe UP recruitment scam
5 Oct 2007, 0145 hrs IST,TNN

LUCKNOW: In an attempt to tighten the noose around former PWD minister Shivpal Singh Yadav, the Mayawati government has decided to set up a new committee to probe the charges of corruption and political pressure in the recruitment of police and PAC constables during the Mulayam regime.

The new committee will be headed by chief secretary P K Mishra. The decision was taken at a cabinet meeting presided over by CM Mayawati in Lucknow on Thursday. The two other members of the panel are DGP Vikram Singh and divisional commissioner, Lucknow, Vijay Shanker Pandey.

The move is being seen as a retaliation by CM Mayawati as it comes a day after Shivpal, Mulayam’s brother, made unprintable comments against her, while Mulayam threatened to have Shailja Kant Mishra, ADG, special task force, arrested on coming to power. While declaring war on the government, the Yadav brothers went hammer and tongs against the S K Mishra committee report.

Meanwhile, the cabinet decided to wind up the Mishra committee which completed its inquiries into all the 42 recruitment boards and submitted its reports to the government. The cases of two boards are pending before the Allahabad High Court and those of eight others have been referred to the advocate-general for action.

The new committee will suggest how to proceed with fresh recruitment process and also suggest ways to prevent recurrence of the irregularities committed during the previous regime.

Besides, the committee will also examine the recommendations made by another panel headed by home secretary Renuka Kumar on improving the recruitment process. The most important task assigned to the new committee is to look into the allegations of corruption against those who put undue pressure on police officers for recruitment.

Maya shutters farm retail stores of Reliance, RPG
24 Aug 2007, 0107 hrs IST,TNN

LUCKNOW: After opposition in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Jharkhand to retail chains selling farm produce, it was the turn of Uttar Pradesh to slam its doors on Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Fresh stores and also RPG group’s Spencer’s.

In a sudden policy switch, chief minister Mayawati and her cabinet on Thursday decided to order closure of 10 Reliance Fresh stores which had opened in Lucknow on Wednesday. The opening of the stores coincided with Mayawati’s completion of 100 days in office.

There was confusion about the scope of the government’s decision. While the CM referred to "opposition of people to the opening of Reliance Fresh stores in Lucknow and Varanasi," she did not specify whether the ban would cover malls and Reliance Fresh stores in Ghaziabad and Noida though there have been trader demonstrations in Ghaziabad as well against retail chains.

A senior government official later clarified that counters selling fruit and vegetables were also to be closed
and so would Reliance Fresh stores in Ghaziabad and Noida. The order comes into immediate effect.

Ghaziabad has 12 Reliance Fresh outlets, 13 of Subhiksha and three Spencer’s stores. Noida has three of Reliance Fresh, six Subhiksha outlets and one of Spencer’s.

There are also some other retail chains for fruits and vegetables. It’s not immediately clear whether the ban would affect all these stores or would be restricted to Reliance Fresh and Spencer’s.

Political ammo in Ambani rift
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Mukesh and Anil Ambani: Battle intensifies
New Delhi, July 13: The battle between the Ambani brothers, till now confined to the boardrooms and courts, is threatening to spill into the political arena, though all concerned deny it.

Elder brother Mukesh, who is believed to be close to several Congress leaders, could be in a fix if certain “suggestions” for changes in the retail and oil policies made by the Samajwadi Party are accepted.

The party, with Amar Singh leading the charge, have not only ruled out foreign direct investment in the domestic retail market but also suggested the setting up of a regulator to ensure that small stores were not affected by the bigger players. Mukesh, through Reliance Fresh, is setting up one of the biggest domestic retail chains in the country.

The Uttar Pradesh-based Samajwadi Party, an offshoot of the Socialist movement, has also demanded a tax on the “windfall” profit made by Mukesh’s Jamnagar refinery from selling petroleum products in the global market. The refinery enjoys the status of an export-oriented unit and is tax exempt.

Samajwadi Party leaders say their demands have nothing to do with the rivalry between the Ambani brothers, though younger brother Anil is known for his proximity to the party. Their contention is that the tax, if imposed, could fetch the government Rs 100,000 crore in revenue.

The party is also believed to have demanded that the production of gas from newly discovered fields be allowed only after court proceedings over the gas allocations are settled.

The brothers are caught in a legal spat over the pricing and allocation of gas from the Krishna-Godavari basin, where Mukesh’s Reliance Industries has made a huge find.

In telecom, Mukesh has claimed the right of first refusal over a stake sale in Anil’s Reliance Communications (R-Com).

The younger Ambani at one stage was reported to be considering the transfer of a significant chunk of R-Com to South Africa’s MTN as part of a complex reverse merger deal.

The party has also made some other suggestions that could impact the way telecom firms compete.

Amar Singh had demanded in a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that GSM operators be charged a one-time market-linked fee for spectrum held beyond 6.2 Mhz.

While this is yet to be accepted, the telecom regulator, nudged some say by the government, has agreed to hike the minimum base price by 25 per cent to Rs 2,200 crore for the auction of pan-India 3G licences.

Many believe that Mukesh has enough clout in Delhi to be able to counter moves that could impact his business empire.

Suspense over Chatterjee continues

Press Trust of India / New Delhi/Kolkata July 14, 2008, 17:50 IST
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Suspense over Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee continued today with CPI(M) appearing to put further pressure on him but a senior party leader came out in support of his continuance in the post.


With Chatterjee apparently reluctant to quit the post, CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat issued a statement in which he said he has already stated that any decision will be taken by the Speaker himself.

"This has been reiterated by the Speaker through a statement by his office on July 10, 2008," he said in the release.

Interestingly, Karat called the Speaker as "Comrade" Somanth Chatterjee and refered to a lot of speculation in the media regarding his position.

"We do not want the office of the Speaker being dragged into any unnecessary controversy," Karat said.

While there was no word from the Speaker, maverick CPI(M) Leader from West Bengal Subhas Chakrabarty, considered a protege of Marxist patriarch Jyoti Basu, said the post of Speaker has its sanctity and is above politics.

Chatterjee was elected unanimously by members of all parties and his case should not be viewed as a CPI(M) party affair, he said.

While withdrawing support to the UPA Government on July nine, the Left parties put the Speaker’s name in the list of MPs for the purpose.


You are Comrade Somnath first, Basu tells LS Speaker
14 Jul, 2008, 0149 hrs IST, ET Bureau

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NEW DELHI/KOLKATA: With CPM general secretary Prakash Karat making it clear that he will have to quit the Speaker’s post, Mr Somnath Chatterjee may find it difficult to delay the inevitable. Mr Chatterjee, who travelled to Kolkata for a meeting with Jyoti Basu, is learnt to have got the same advise: Toe the party line.

After Mr Prakash Karat included Mr Chatterjee’s name in the list of MPs snapping ties with the government, the Speaker’s office had argued that the Speaker cannot be dragged into a partisan political controversy. It reminded that he was elected by the Lok Sabha, unopposed.

Mr Karat, however, made it known that Mr Chatterjee, who was elected on a CPM ticket, should take the line of the party and ‘dissociate from the government’. Incidentally, the Speaker’s post was a price for the CPM’s wholesome backing for the Congress’ power project. When the offer was made in 2004, the party had deliberated on the issue at length. The offer was taken up under pressure from its West Bengal unit.

While there is no confirmation on whether Mr Basu had actually urged him to step down, top political circles close to the developments hinted that it was nearly certain that Mr Chatterjee would relinquish `Speakership’ as his party had included his name in the list of Left MPs that has been submitted to President Pratibha Patil in the run up to a trust vote against the UPA government.

Mr Chatterjee had reportedly taken exception to his name being included in the list of Left MPs to the President.
Mr Chatterjee’s meeting with Mr Basu came two days after chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and industry minister Nirupam Sen met the Marxist veteran reportedly at the instance of the party leadership to persuade the Speaker to step down. Mr Basu, according to party insiders, stressed on projecting a united face of the Left on the trust vote issue.

CPM politburo member Sitaram Yechury said in Delhi on Saturday that the Speaker understands the political situation and would take an appropriate decision at the appropriate time.

Earlier in the day, external affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee called on Mr Basu to assess the CPM’s stand on Mr Chatterjee’s continuance as the Speaker. Mr Mukherjee, who was with Mr Basu for 15 minutes, said he met the CPM leader to explain the circumstances under which the coalition collapsed.

Describing Mr Basu and Mr Harkishan Singh Surjeet as architects of the UPA-Left coalition, he said he thought it was his moral duty to explain to Mr Basu why the coalition arrangement between the Left parties and the UPA failed.

Mr Mukherjee was at his affable best following his session with the CPM patriarch. “After all, Mr Basu was the architect of the UPA government as it was he who had convinced his party leaders back in 2004 to support the Congress to run the central government, primarily to keep the BJP at bay.


Accordingly, I believed it was my duty to meet the veteran leader and explain why we had failed to continue our relationship with the Left. Basu is also the most respected national leader,” he told reporters on Sunday outside Indira Bhavan.

Congress sources indicated that Mr Mukherjee had tried to convince Basu that the “Left parties, especially the CPM, should not play a major role in pulling down the UPA government.

While the CPM has all along maintained that it is dead against the Indo-US nuke deal, Mr Mukherjee is learnt to have told Mr Basu that “the Left should not do anything which would help the BJP to topple the Congress-led government before it completes its five-year term”.

Congress sources added that Mukherjee had alerted Basu about BJP’s intentions to hold CPM responsible for the fall of the UPA government.

Congress pins hopes on Jyoti Basu
13 Jul 2008, 1356 hrs IST,Times Now

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KOLKATA: Senior Congress leader and India’s Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee met the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) veteran Jyoti Basu here on Sunday to explain the reasons of the Cong-Left split. However, the visit was presumably aimed at ensuring Basu’s help in making sure the Left does not vote against the UPA government in the trust vote.

Though Mukherjee termed it a courtesy call, it’s believed Pranab Mukherjee was trying to persuade the Left to abstain during the trust vote against the UPA government.

Pranab Mukherjee’s meeting comes ahead of Basu’s meeting with Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee.

Basu had asked the top CPM leaders on Friday to refrain from voting against the UPA.

"When this UPA-Left coalition was established, four years two months ago, then Jyoti Basu and Harkishen Singh Surjeet were the two architects of this coalition arrangement between UPA and the Left. I thought as the leader of Lok Sabha, it is my responsibility to explain, why this coalition failed. I took this opportunity to explain that." Mukherjee said.

Not War, Philosophy of Love agaist Terrorism

Written by
Palash
In that war for Equality
Baba sahib attacked the Heaven!
The gods were trembling
And the Almighty lost his on eye!
Continue the War
It is not stopped at all
How much we stotre
Even today Intact is
the Stone( Untouchability)!
Let us join the War
The war Between
Dalits and Aristrocrates!
Sometimes it happens
To be a carnival
Sometimes Bloodshed!

From Anil sarkar on Ambedkar

Prof T B Vijayakumar from Thrissur,Kerala called me few days back and wrote a thoght provoking mail involving SC ST OBC status in Left ruled states in India. I had a telephonic talk with the Professor and seeking answers to his burning questions. Meanwhile, I got an opportunity to meet the Marxist Minister and Poet Anil Sarkar, one of the architect of CPIM`s Dalit agenda passed in Hyderabad congress years passed. Anil sarkar was also present on the dias of National Dalit Bengali Refugee convention held in Abedkar Bhavan, New delhi on 21st August last. Anil Sarkar is one of the most powerful and respected political leader in North East. He advocates for developemental Corridors in NorthEast while he continues his war for Social Justice for dalits, tribals and minorities. He prefers literature and culture as tools of changes to mere politicalistion and vote Bank mobilisation. He philosophises: Since all the lyrics and literature have roots in the folk, cultural revolution must begin only from there! He considers Chaitanya Mahaprabhu the greatest rebel who provided the common masses the right to love and ensured the freedom of faith and religion.Vaishnav Andolan was the most powerful brekthrough to break the Brahminical Hegemony challanging State Power.In addition to his deep influences on Hinduism (some contend that Hinduism in Bengal might have been eradicated but for him), Chaitanya’s cultural legacy in Bengal remains deep, with many residents performing daily worship to him as an avatar of Krishna. Some attribute to him a Renaissance in Benga, different from the more well known 19th century Bengal Renaissance. Salimullah Khan, a noted linguist, maintains, "Sixteenth century is the time of Chaitanya Dev, and it is the beginning of Modernism in Bengal. The concept of ‘humanity’ that came into fruition is contemporaneous with that of Europe". Chaitanya also influenced the Baul movement of Bengal, which some say was established by the son of his close friend Nityananda and is credited with locating a fragment of the lost scripture, Brahma Samhita.
Although He is the Supreme Lord, Krishna, He posed as a devotee, and revealed the most sublime sentiments and the natural disposition of a devotee. He taught us by His own example how to establish a connection with the Lord through the practice of pure devotion. When Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu appeared in this world, He brought His dearest servitors with Him, personalities such as Lord Nityananda Prabhu, Sri Advaita Acharya, Sri Gadadhar Pandit, Srivas Thakur, and other exalted associates, and along with these devotees He spread the Yuga-dharma, or the practice most recommended for the attainment of pure love for Sri Sri Radha-Krishna. That process is Harinam Sankirtan, or the congregational chanting of the Holy Names of the Lord:

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare
The marxist minister, an eminent dalit poet Anil Sarkar is the Patron for The boul convention to be organised on 19th and 20th september ahead by Tripura tribal Autonomous council in its headquarter Khumlung. Chief erxecutive member Aghor Deb Burman and another memebr Radhacharan Deb Burman are mobilising thousnads of bouls in North east to launch the Philosophy of Love to resist Terrorism! He is also the patron of more tahn fifty ambedkar mission units all over Tripura. ambedkar Mission has its units in bengal also. Anil Sarkar reinvents the dalit and subaltern ideology around Ambedkar, Karl Marx and Rabindra Nath Tagore.He sees through history rather as an Ambedkaraite and rejects all the myths as false!He visualise social justice in a cultural revolution with campaigning for folk culture. Folk festivals are the dearest medium for mass mobilisation for him. His dalit movement begins with folk essentially. He also projects casteology and the concept of Caste Struggle and believes in liberation via Class Struggle.Anil sarkar reads rabindra literature identifying its dalit content and negating brahminical bangla nationality. His nationality is essentially a dalit nationality which is identical with gautam Buddha, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and Ambedkar and nowhere it contradicts materialist interpratation of history or the ideology Marxism!

Anil sarkar earlier had demanded to identify Creamy Layer in Caste Hindu Society while the Creamy Layer was identified to deny reservation. He demanded Constition amendment to accomodate deprived communities including OBCs and religious minorities in reservation and quota! Anil sarkar is prompt to support karunanidhi for his decision for reservation to religious minorities. He claims that governemnet of Tripura has implemented reservation and quota cent percent.He regrets that Tripura has not got a private sector as it is untouchable literally due to lack of connectivity. He is sure that in that case Tripura would have implemented the quota. In Tripura the population ratiohappens to be as follows: Tribals 31 percent, SC 17 percent, minorities 8 percent and OBC 24 percent. Despite insurgency problems, Anil babu claims that Tripura is the rare example of coexistence of Tribal Population with the mainstream nontribals!

Anil Sarkar demands that Judicial barriers should not be hinderance in the way of Social justice! He wrote poems on Mayawati but criticises her for withdrawing reservation recommendations for dalit Bengali refugees in UP. He demands that Ms Maywati shoud give SC status to namoshudras and Pods, the dalit Bengali refugees in UP.
The Marxist minister asys that the partition victim bengali dalit refugees who are rehabiliated or resettled themselves in different parts of the country are the most deprived lot in post independence India. they have to pay for freedom! He also recognises these communities as the main forces of National dalit Movement in Pre Independence India! He alleged that barring Assam,Orrissa and West Bengal , nowhere the dalit Bengali Refugees were granted resevation even after full sixty years of independence as these people were ejected out of their homeland , the base of National dalit Movement. Only these people electd and ensured the entry of Dr Ambedkar to the constitution Assembly and in return Ambedkar made reservation a mandatory provision in the constitution of Independent India. Ironically for whom the Dalits SC, ST and OBC enjoy reservation and quota , they themeselves remain deprived of.
He said,` At last we organised the National dalit Bengali Refugee Convention in Ambedkar Bhavan, New delhi on August 21st last. Vrinda karat and varadarajan led the event.It is tragic that the most militant community in India, The Namoshudras have been dehumanised and they live a subhuman life. They have no opportunity in Independent India. With this convention I am sure that they would mobilise themselves and return to Delhi in lacs to get their rightful right of reservation,education and mother tongue!’
He said,` There is no historical reality of the Myth of Rama. In North Rama is worshipped whereas in South Ravana is worshipped.Michael Madhusudan Dutta, the 19th century Bengali poet painted Rama as a villain in his classic Meghnad badh Kavay whereas Ravan`s Son Meghnad happens to be the hero and his wife Pramila , the heroine.So the matter is controversial and debated all along the history of Indian Intelligentsia!It is debated till this date.But roughly, it iis quite unfortunate that Indian opportunist Politics cunningly depends on this false Myth of Rama! Just to mobilise favourable Vote Bank!’
According to the Poet, who was awarded by Poetry Foundation only last evening in Kolkata for his contribution to the genre and whose poems on dalit Kanya Mayawati have been flashed worldwide as his idetity basically is based on his Marxist ideoplogy, war against Terrorism is not the answer to Terrorism. It rather provokes the chain reactions, he says. He may not accept, but as I know and believe he is not asupporter of military solution of nationality problems in North East and in the Rest of India or anywhere inthis Galaxy.
Anil sarkar says that the philosophy of Love is the best answer to terrorism! He mobilises the folk artists, the Bouls, singers and folk artists of different genre to resist subvertive activities.
Should President Bush learn a lesson?
I have detaild discussions with him ranging to Ram, Ram Mandir and Ramsetu to SC ST and OBC Minority staus in general all over the country. Understandablly he avoids particular questions involving West Bengal and Keral as a responsible seniormost minister of tripura, an Untouchable state itself. But he rather focuses on his own state while dealing with SC ST OBC Minority issues.
I have to answer some of the questions of Prof Vijay Kumar anothjer day.