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Villagers flee homes as anti-Maoist operation begins in WB
West Bengal,March 13 (ANI):With authorities prepared to launch an anti Maoist operation in west Bengal,villagers in West Midnapore district of the state have started to flee their homes in fear.About 35 villages falling under the jurisdiction of Belpahari police station wear a deserted look as villagers have escaped to safer places,believing that once the operation gets underway,it would be impossible for them to carry on with their normal lives.
Some of them,however,have even left their belongings and livestock.
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India likely to test-fire AAD missile tomorrow
Balasore: With an eye to develop a full fledged multi-layer Ballistic Missile Defence system, India is likely to test-fire its indigenously designed and developed Advanced Air Defence (AAD) missile from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) off Orissa coast tomorrow.
The AAD missile is capable of destroying any hostile ballistic missile at low altitude situation, defence sources said today.
Range integration work at the ITR for the proposed trial is complete and the test is likely to be conducted tomorrow, they said.
The target missile, a modified indigenously built 'Prithvi' posing as an enemy missile, would first be lifted off from a mobile launcher from the ITR at Chandipur-on-sea and the interceptor AAD missile using a radio frequency seeker on-board would be blasted off from Wheeler Island about 70 km across the sea from Chandipur.
The missile would destroy the target in mid air over Bay of Bengal. The interception is to take place at low altitude, the sources added. .
The seven-meter-long ADD interceptor is a single stage solid rocket-propelled guided missile, equipped with an inertial navigation system, a hi-tech computer and an electro-mechanical activator totally under command by the data up linked from the sophisticated ground based radars to the interceptor, defence sources said.
The interceptor missile has its own mobile launcher, secure data link for interception, independent tracking and homing capabilities and its own radars, they said.
Balasore district administration have made arrangements to temporarily evacuate about 600 families from five hamlets residing within 2 km radius of launch pad-3 of the ITR at Chandipur to nearby shelter camps as a security measure, official sources said.
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Matua Didi Mamata, the Human face of UPA Postpones Nuclear Disaster Progrramme just to Win Bengal Elections Imminent! On the other hand, CPIM plays Minority Card in a bid to sustain Power once again as West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Saturday said his government would work towards ensuring equal rights for the socially and economically backward sections - including Muslims - in the state.
Meanwhile,Trinamool Congress supremo and Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee held a meeting with Finance Minister Pranab Mukerjee at the latter's Parliament House office here today soon after the passing of the vote-on-account bill in the Lok Sabha.alking to newspersons, Ms Banerjee said several issues including those related to the CPI(M) and Maoist-led violence in West Bengal were taken up.
Responding to a question on whether she raised the issue of the withdrawal of service tax on Railways, the Railway Minister merely said, "we discussed many issues".
Earlier, in the day her party MP's excluding her and other Ministers sat on an hourlong dharna commencing from 1030 hrs in front of Mahatma Gandhi's statue inside the Parliament complex to draw attention to alleged CPI(M) and Maoist-led violence, which she said, was bent upon undermining Parliamentary democracy in the country.
Later in the day, the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) delegation led by the party Chief Whip Sudip Bandhopadhya called on Home Minister P Chidambaram at his office and held a meeting with him.
They requested the Home Minister to visit the trouble-torn districts of the state to get first-hand information of the ground reality.
Mr Bandhopadhya said Mr Chidambaram accepted their request to visit the state and assured that he will soon visit the affected districts to get more information about the Maoists as well as CPI(M) led terror in the state to enable him to take right steps.
The Protection of Ruling Hegemony affliated Market Dominating Brahaminical ruling Class aborts the Fiscal Policy in Womb itself and no surgery may Save the Endangered Economy inflicted with Power equations full of Inequality, Injustice and Corruption. Since the Mandate, Statics and Policies are Manipulated, since Policy making is the Sphere of only Brahamins, Since in Administartive Top Psitions as in Secretary Level in the Centre, SC, ST, OBC and Minority are subjected of Deprivement, since Civil and Human Rights are Violated, Since India Incs has to decide Citizenship and it is endowed with all tasks of Governance, Legislation, Media,Intelligentsia, Judiciary, Administration, Policy Making, Administartion, Since SEGREGATION of Aboriginal Indigenous Humanscape and Landscape is the TREND to acomplish Mass Destruction Agenda, Mind Control is the game, Constitution, the Republic, Democracy, Freedom and Parliament STRANGLED, Diversion and Mind Control game focuses on the Blame game against the Officials involved in Corruption so that Manipulation of Policy Making and Hegemeny Rule Never be targeted and whatsoever Resistance should be DETRAINED or Dealt with the Military power in assocaition with Mossads and CIA. Thus, Urging legislators to sternly deal with corruption and inefficiency in governance, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday said that power needed to be regarded as a 'societal trust' and used for public good.
'Legislators appraise contemporary legislation and enact new laws. To discharge their responsibility effectively, they should not only be alert and well informed but should also be alive to the basic concerns of Indian polity,' Manmohan Singh said at the opening of new Tamil Nadu assembly and secretariat complex.
'All power has to be regarded as a societal trust and to be used for public good. Only then would our legislators be able to work effectively towards providing our people a life of dignity and self respect,' he said, terming legislators the 'watchdogs of public finances'.
He stressed that they must ensure that there was no wasteful use of public money and that the resource mobilization processes did not adversely affect the incentives for savings, risk bearing and the quest for entrepreneurship and pursuit of innovation.
'Collectively, they need to deal sternly with corruption and inefficiency in our governance processes. All this is a tall order but I am sure that in these new premises, we will witness new heights of legislative competence and legislative propriety, with discussions being guided by the spirit of tolerance, accommodation and deep and abiding concern for the well being of the common people.'
'Legislatures are sacred places. Our sisters and brothers have bestowed their belief on us to work for them. Legislators have to discharge their responsibility responsibly and effectively,' Manmohan Singh said.
Urging Tamil Nadu's legislators and civil servants to think out-of-the-box the prime minister said: 'They should show the way forward. I hope we shall see a new India with Tamil Nadu showing the way for others.'
The prime minister said that 'India is on the cusp of change'.
'The time has come for a qualitative change and a quantitative leap forward. As a nation, we must strive to do things differently,' he emphasised.
Praising 86-year-old Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi, the prime minister said the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government has benefited immensely from his wisdom.
'I have turned to him for advice. Under Karunanidhi's leadership, Tamil Nadu has marched forward as a model of development. It is the cynosure of our nation because of its advancement in education and urban development,' Manmohan Singh remarked.
Speaking at the function, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi said: 'The first woman to sit in any legislature in India was in Tamil Nadu. It was Dr. Muthulakshmi Reddy.'
Stressing that all is well with the Congress' relationship with the DMK, Sonia Gandhi added: 'Karunanidhi is the pillar of strength to the prime minister and the coalition. The women's reservation bill could not have been possible without his support.'
Thanking Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi for visiting Tamil Nadu first after the passage of the women's reservation bill in the Rajya Sabha, Karunanidhi said: 'Congress and the DMK have been winning elections successfully. Attempts were made by some to break the relationship undertaking several journeys also with the use of media.'
He urged the central government to replicate his government's welfare measures for the differently-abled and implement them nationwide.
The chief ministers of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Puducherry, and several union and state ministers participated in the function.
'We can only progress if we can provide equal rights to the economically and socially backward sections of our society. We have to provide facilities so that the poor and minority communities can also come forward and get proper education,' Bhattacherjee said while addressing a programme in Nadia district, more than 100 km north of Kolkata.
He said his government had finally succeeded in securing 10 percent reservation in jobs under OBC (other backward classes) category for the educationally, socially and economically backward Muslims in the state.
'If we can provide them with equal facilities, we will be able to benefit in the future. It will not be a proper growth story if we only think about one particular section. We must do something good for the poor population as well,' he said, adding 'We cannot let it happen where one particular section will have enough food and the rest will simply starve'.
Talking about initiatives the state government had taken, Bhattacharjee said: 'The Left Front government is now focusing on how to improve the basic income scale of poor people living in West Bengal.'
The chief minister also urged the backward population to participate in educational activities.
'We don't want anybody to claim that he cannot study just because he or she belongs to the backward communities,' he said.
FDI in 'sensitive list' may be under post-investment scrutiny as India has emerged as the second fastest growing investor in the United States after the UAE between 2004 and 2008, a top Obama Administration official has said. while, Business standerd reports that Reserve Bank to buy IMF notes worth $10 b...The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has signed an agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to purchase notes worth up to $10 billion to improve the ability of the international lender to provide timely and effective balance-of-payment assistance to member countries. Permanent increases in IMF's resources are expected to take place through an increase in quotas and standing borrowing arrangements currently under negotiation.
IMF will issue the notes in the special drawing rights (SDR)-denominated form. The pact was a temporary bilateral arrangement for one year, which might be extended to two years, RBI said on Friday.
The pact is part of the international effort to support IMF's lending capacity following the decision of the Group of 20 nations at its London Summit (held in April 2009) to treble IMF's resources to $750 billion.
Generally, IMF will give a five-day notice to RBI about its intention to issues notes, including the amount. It will restrict issuance to a principal amount not exceeding SDR 500 million in any calendar week.
At the beginning of each quarter, IMF will also provide estimates for the amount for which notes will be issued during a three-month period.
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The Committee of Secretaries (CoS) set up to formulate changes in the foreign direct investment (FDI) policy in sensitive sectors that are now under the automatic approval route has added a rider subjecting them to post-investment surveillance.
The department of legal affairs, under the law ministry, has been asked to draft appropriate legislation enabling the government to go in for such surveillance.
The CoS has also directed the ministry of home affairs to come out with a list of "sensitive locations" where FDI will come under security scrutiny.
This is the first time that such a formal list is being put in place through the government has disallowed telecom equipment orders to Chinese companies supplying state-owned BSNL in border areas.
The CoS has also decided to tighten disclosure norms irrespective of whether the FDI proposal is under the automatic route (meaning it only requires informing the Reserve Bank of India) or the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) route.
The 21-member committee, which met in the first week of March, also decided that all proposals that get FIPB approval but fall under the"sensitive list" or are in "sensitive locations" will need prior security clearance from the home ministry.
The CoS consensus of March 6 dilutes a February proposal by the National Security Council (NSC) designating some 15 industries as "sensitive sectors" (meaning they entail possible security risks) and subjecting them to FIPB approval.
The CoS' decision, which will require Cabinet clearance, implies that the automatic approval benefit stays but these proposals will be subject to home ministry scrutiny once investments begin. Sensitive sectors under 100 per cent FDI automatic approval include drugs and pharamaceuticals, greenfield airport, chemicals and industrial explosives, gas pipelines, ports and private sector refining.
The CoS will consider appeals for review made by the administrative ministry concerned only for those proposals in which the home ministry has denied security clearance.
The decision by the CoS, which is headed by Cabinet Secretary K M Chandrashekhar, takes into account strong objections by several ministries such as commerce, external affairs, highways and chemicals to NSC's suggestion that "sensitive sectors" be subject to mandatory approval by FIPB approval plus a supra-FIPB body that has representatives from security agencies.
Up FDI in telecom under automatic route to 74%: DoT
The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has suggested raising the limit for automatic approval for FDI in telecom from 49 to 74 per cent but with post-investment scrutiny for security issues. DoT's suggestion marks a major relaxation of FDI in telecom services. It was made at the committee of secretaries meeting on March 6. Currently, FDI in this sector under the automatic route is permitted up to 49 per cent and FDI between 50 and 74 per cent is subject to FIPB approval. For manufacturing, 100 per cent FDI is allowed under the automatic route, and operators have been lobbying for a similar relaxation for services.
The recent years have seen the drift toward a newer group of investors from countries such as the UAE, India, Spain and Chile, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs Robert D Hormats said in his address to the US Council for International Business.
While historically European nations have been the leading investors in the US, the fastest growing between 2004 and 2008 have been the UAE, which has shown a 230 per cent average annual increase over four years, followed by India with 64 per cent increase, Spain with 60 per cent, Chile 50 per cent, Switzerland with 38 per cent), South Korea with 31 per cent, China with 30 per cent and Indonesia with 27 per cent.
"I doubt that most Americans are aware of how much new investment is coming from this group of countries," Hormats said, adding the challenge for the US now is to embrace this new dynamic.
Among top investors, European countries hold 62 per cent of the stock of FDI (foreign direct investment) in the US, with Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, France, and Spain as the main investing countries.
The next largest group of investors is Japan, Canada, and Australia, said Hormats.
"Not only must we maintain and grow the historic trans-Atlantic investment relationship, but we also must reach other potential investment partners to draw more FDI to the US," he said.
He said the BRIC economies (Brazil, Russia, India and China) are becoming important investors globally as they recognize the importance of such investments for their own economic success.
The State Department, he said, is taking this opportunity to build on common ground.
"We are taking critical steps to forge multilateral investment policy in the OECD and UNCTAD, and in our dialogues with the EU and BRICs. Our aim is to strengthen and expand sound investment policies and practices in more and more countries, with the objective of seeing the emergence of a coherent rules-based international system," he said.
On the role of investments in the country's economy, Hormat quoting from Texas governor Rick Perry's statement said, "At last count, there was $92 million worth of direct foreign investment in Texas by Indian companies. And there are 317 Texas workers employed by companies based in India. The benefits of investment are more than just financial gains in our state. Foreign direct investment creates new jobs and unleashes an infusion of innovative technologies, progressive management strategies, and effective workforce practices."
Sibal cuts short Hyderabad visit after being heckled
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Hyderabad: Pro-Telangana students on Saturday heckled union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal at the Hyderabad Central University, prompting the leader to cut short his visit to the city and return to New Delhi.
The pro-Telangana students stopped the minister when he arrived at the university to address the vice-chancellors' meet. They raised slogans of 'Jai Telangana' and demanded that the government table a bill in parliament for the formation of a separate Telangana state.
If Andhra bifurcated, Rayalaseema wants to go with Telangana
The protesters also raised slogans against the Srikrishna committee formed by the government to look into the demands for and against creation of a separate state.
Police had to intervene to bring the situation under control. The minister cancelled his visit to the English and Foreign Language University (EFLU) on the Osmania University campus where he was to inaugurate a newly-constructed building of EFLU, and returned to the national capital.
Sibal's junior D. Purandareswari was also scheduled to attend the function, which was cancelled following an advisory by the police who had anticipated trouble during the ministers' visit.
Osmania student commits suicide for Telangana
Osmania University is the nerve centre of the Telangana agitation. A student early this week committed suicide to protest the delay in formation of a separate state.
Attacking dissent has long been a feature of reactionary power. The attackers popularize a fear of dissenters and of even a whiff of association with dissent. And that fear serves to bury any consideration of the interests pursued and protected by reactionary state power, and of the policies of the state. It is a old script. Will the Joseph McCarthy's of India, and throughout the world, succeed today? Can the people who care, dare to treat this as a spectator sport, or do we need to take a stand?
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The Maoists and Us
Could the cry of "Maoist terrorists" be the Congress led UPA governmet's equivalent of the cry of "Islamic terrorists" during the BJP led NDA government? — asks PK Vijayan
On 20th February, the Hindustan Times, reporting on the chargesheet produced by the Delhi Police against Kobad Ghandy, stated that Ghandy was alleged to have been in direct contact with GN Sai Baba, a professor in Delhi University, and who is alleged to be in control of the CPI (Maoist)'s tactical counter offensive against Operation Greenhunt. Reporting on the same chargesheet, on the same date, the Times of India reported the investigators' claim that civil rights groups like the PUDR and PUCL were actively helping the Maoists to spread their base; while Mail Today stated that there was an active Maoist operation amongst Delhi University students, specifically identifying the Democratic Students Union (DSU). Elaborating on this same chargesheet report the next day, the HT adds that a prominent research scholar and a human rights activist have been specifically identified by Ghandy as Maoist leaders in the capital, although they are not named by the newspaper. Interestingly, each of these details appears only in the particular newspaper mentioned, and not in any of the other papers: like the blind men and the elephant, it is as if each has 'found' something unique in the chargesheet, that characterises the contents of that document – but unlike the blind men in the story, who after all are each seeking to describe the same beast but end up describing only the part that they sense, these newspapers presumably all have access to the same 'beast' in its entirety (i.e., the chargesheet), but have chosen to report only on specific – but different – aspects of the extensive Maoist network that it alleges exists in Delhi. What, we may ask, is going on?
Very simply, if each newspaper reports on any one branch of this alleged Maoist network, each will have apparently reported something unique; further, each newspaper's readership will have been made aware of one crucial way in which the Maoist 'menace' is apparently already in their neighbourhood, and spreading like a virus. But the total effect of all the reports is the imaging of a hydra, a Ravana, a many-headed monster conceived in the savage and distant tribal terrains of Jharkhand, Chhatisgarh and Orissa, and that is now slouching towards the safe cosmopolitan world of the NCR to be born. What is most disturbing in this picture – which would be fantastically ridiculous if it were not so dangerous – is that the heads of this monster that have been identified in the newspapers are intellectuals, civil rights bodies and university student organisations: the classic sites of dissent in any free society. In other words, Operation Green Hunt (or OGH) is no longer just 'out there', but is now itself slouching around in the NCR: dissent towards OGH is gradually itself being targeted under OGH.
Troublingly, sections of the press appear to be participating – wittingly or unwittingly – in this urbanisation of OGH. The fact is that if each of these papers had presented all that the others had also reported, the larger picture would have been self-evident, the elephant would have stood revealed as the state preparing to trample on intellectual dissent. One does not need to be particularly gifted visually or intellectually to see the connection between intellectuals, university students and civil rights activists. Every modern state has sought to control these sections of its society – and usually the press too – precisely because they have always been sources of political discomfort. When the press decides to go along with the state, or confines itself to being the voice of the state, it must ring a bell for us – in this case a very loud alarm bell, that tolls the names of Joseph Goebbels, over and over again. The question before us is, did the newspapers noted above choose to remain blind men? Or were their reporters deliberately fed partial information by the police, to ensure that the fear of the Maoist virus spreading would be treated as a 'real' threat, and not be perceived for what it patently is: a strategy for clamping down on any questioning of the government's armed offensive against large populations of its own citizenry, in the name of cleansing the Maoist 'infection'? Even if it was the latter, it was and is incumbent on any press worth its name – as another important site of dissent in any free society – to have sought out the information in its entirety, before rushing to press. Otherwise, in true Goebbelsian fashion, it will simply be blindly repeating the lies, over and over again, till the lies become the truth.
That this did not happen, for whatever reason, is closely related to another issue, which is the absence in the mainstream press and media in general, of any real understanding of or interest in the anxieties and apprehensions that OGH has given rise to, and of the consequent concern over it. This anxiety and concern has been emanating from several very diverse quarters, and essentially pertains to whether it is appropriate for the state to take arms against its own citizenry. Very few of these voices may be considered even remotely sympathetic to the Maoist cause; several of them have explicitly, repeatedly and sometimes even vehemently spoken against it. Irrespective of their take on Maosim, however, these voices have focused on the fact that OGH is an operation that is unconstitutional, violative of fundamental human rights and pretty evidently underway in order to further the interests of big corporate investments in the 'infested' areas. They have repeatedly sought to point out that the perceived 'infestation' actually constitutes the local tribal populations living there. If large sections of the tribal populations in these areas – threatened with displacement, destitution and/or violent death at the hands of big-money private armies and/or the state's own military and paramilitary apparatus – should choose to resist this apparently inexorable process of internal colonisation, sometimes violently, then should we in Delhi be surprised? Delhi's denizens are now world-famous for resorting to fists, lathis and the odd baseball bat on what might be considered the slightest provocation: it might be a neighbour parking his car in my space, or another's washing hanging over my balcony – our sense of our space as sacred is powerful. Then, when the tribal – for whom it is not parking space but her very livelihood, history and future that are being stolen with her land – decides to protest, should we not be stirred by sympathy? If we are not, we need to wonder why we are not. And at least part of the reason for that is because we have been buying into the Goebbelsian lies of the state: that these tribal movements are all controlled and managed by Naxals/Maoists; or that the tribals are actually being coerced by Maoists; or that there are no tribals, only Maoists. That these are people fighting for rights sanctioned to them under the Fifth Schedule of the Constitution, is a fact that gets drowned in all the noise.
The Indian state – which is thus explicitly enjoined by the Constitution (among other documents) to protect the social and economical interests of tribals in these scheduled areas – is financially and politically too deeply invested in the project of clearing these areas and making them accessible to corporate exploitation, to acknowledge this. It would lose legitimacy and become a global scandal. Or it would simply reveal what most states under this stage of capitalism are doing. Hence the extended exercise of labelling all tribals protesting its actions 'Maoist'; all intellectual and civil rights attempts to dissuade it, 'Maoist sympathisers'; and all dissent in general is increasingly being viewed as 'terrorist'. This, as will be easily recognised, has long been the hallmark of McCarthyism. And as with that form of political repression, no doubt a chain of arrests will be initiated based on ostensible 'confessions', beginning with Kobad Ghandy's, and spreading out in a network that will be produced as Maoist, with no way of knowing if it actually is.
It is particularly instructive that Joseph McCarthy's strategy of labelling all dissent 'communist' arose at a time when the capitalist economy of the United States was, post-Depression, impatiently seeking to lose the shackles of Franklin Roosevelt's socially oriented New Deal policies. Thus, any policy that carried even a whiff of being social-welfarist was immediately branded communist and dumped, and its proponents attacked socially, politically and legally.
The parallels are clear with our own context: we live, as the old Chinese curse goes, in interesting times – when our own capitalism is kicking with impatience at obstacles to (irony of ironies!) 'economic reforms'; when its increasing population of dollar billionaires are panting to go forth and multiply their billions by raping the hinterlands of the country; when the state is itself eager to role back measures like the PDS and to massively fudge figures on poverty, even as prices of especially essential commodities continue to escalate and farmers continue to commit suicide; when 'Islamic terror' – that bogeyman that allowed the BJP to simultaneously terrorise the Muslim community as well as steamroll its own version of economic reforms through – has given way to the 'red terror' of 'Maoism' (after all, the Congress can't be seen as anti-Islamic), but to the exact same end. While there may appear to be a kind of poetic irony in our own Chinese curse seeming to be Maoism, the not so poetic fact is that it is not the spectre of Maoism that haunts the land today but the multiple spectres of unbridled corporate capitalism, state collusion with and participation in this capitalist expansionism, the consequent and unprecedented assault on the lives and livelihoods of millions of tribals in the 'infected' areas. And the ideological cover for all this in our own brand of McCarthyism: OGH or 'anti-Maoism' (which is less of a mouthful than Chidambaramism, although that would probably be a more accurate term). (We shall for now not even touch upon the absurdity, in an ostensible democracy, of banning an ideology, as has happened with Maoism; who or what, we might well ask, even if we do not subscribe to this ideology, is being sought to be protected by this ban?) The Indian state is, it seems, learning well from Joseph Goebbels and Joseph McCarthy; perhaps it will very soon look to Joseph Stalin's Great Purge too. And it seems, the first to be purged from the metropolises will be the nuisances identified above: inconvenient intellectuals, university students and civil rights activists who will all be identified as 'Maoists' (never mind that they may actually be socialists, Gandhians, environmentalists or other such 'beasts') and removed from 'shining India'. And once the intellectuals and activists and students are disposed of, Mr. P (Joseph?) Chidambaram will no doubt find an able ally in Mr. Kapil Sibal, to ensure that they do not surface again – for the latter as we know, is already working hard to dismantle the higher education system and sack it off to private and foreign institutional interests – but that is another tale. Suffice it for now to reiterate that, thanks to Mr. Chidambaram and his ilk, we do indeed live in interesting times, and all the interest is accumulating in the pockets of our dollar billionaires.
P K Vijayan is Asst. Prof., Dept. of English, Hindu College, DU
Indian writer Arundhati Roy ready for Maoist talks role
By Rajesh Joshi
BBC News, Delhi
Writer and activist Arundhati Roy
Arundhati Roy welcomed the latest offer of peace talks
Indian writer Arundhati Roy says she is ready to be an "independent observer" if the Indian government agrees to peace talks with Maoist insurgents.
She gave her reaction following a fresh proposal for talks made by the rebels.
Maoist military wing leader Koteshwar Rao - or Kishenji - called the BBC from an undisclosed location.
He said the group would stop violence if the government invited intellectuals and rights activists like Ms Roy and B D Sharma to mediate in peace talks.
Although refusing to be a mediator in any talks, Ms Roy told BBC Hindi radio that she would be happy to participate in talks as an independent observer.
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"I am a writer and I know for sure that I don't have the skills of a mediator," she said.
She added that she couldn't act as a representative for the Maoist party, but she supported the offer of talks made by them.
"I think it is very important that Kishenji says his party is ready for talks and the government should welcome the offer," said the Booker Prize winning author.
Maoist rebels in Chhattisgarh
Maoists have fought for a communist state for 20 years
The government and the insurgents have been locked in an armed conflict which has claimed hundreds of lives in recent years.
The rebels say they are fighting for the rights of poor people.
But Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has described the insurgency as the "biggest internal threat to India since independence".
Recently, a senior home ministry official, G K Pillay, said that some retired army officers were helping Maoists plan out their military offensive.
He said that the way the Maoists plan and execute their military operations indicates they get help from trained military people.
But Kishenji has denied that his party gets any help from retired army officials.
Indian Home Minister P Chidambaram has already said that he would accept "no ifs, no buts and no conditions" for talks after the Maoists made a conditional ceasefire offer.
The Maoist movement originated more than four decades ago in a village called Naxalbari in the state of West Bengal.
It is believed that the rebels now have a presence in 223 out of about 600 districts in India.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8553983.stm
War Against Naxals: The War Against People – Public Meeting Updates!
On Feb 20, 2010, in MGR Nagar, Chennai a huge public meeting was organized by PALA and its revolutionary organizations. The meeting was successful in exposing the actual objective of the Operation Green Hunt; that it is not just a state-declared war against the Maoists, but that it is war by the state and the ruling classes against the common people. PALA and its revolutionary organizations had campaigned about Operation Green Hunt among a large number of people in street corner meetings, factory meetings, and in buses and trains across Tamilnadu. Comrades met hundreds of people and distributed about 1.5 lakh pamphlets; 10,000 booklets of the essay, The Heart of India is Under Attack by Arundathi Roy; a collection of English essays (published in various magazines and newspapers) exposing the Operation Green Hunt; Hall Meetings in various district headquarters; and Hindi and English pamphlets. Evidence of such a concentrated campaign for over 50 days was seen in thousands of people who had come to attend the public meeting.
Com. Mukundan, President, New Democratic Labour Front, Tamilnadu, presided over the meeting, which started off with the revolutionary salute to the martyrs. Com. Balan, advocate at the Bangalore High Court, addressed the meeting first. He listed in detail the various minerals available in the states of Orissa and Jharkhand. He also discussed how if all this mineral wealth were to be mined and taken away by the multinational corporations in the next 50 years, we will be forced to beg them for our needs in the future. He stressed on the fact that recolonization was not something that was happening only in Orissa and Jharkhand, but very much in Tamil Nadu as well. To illustrate his point, he talked about the Goundi-Vediappan hill in Thiruvanamalai, TN, which the government had sold out to Jindal, a multinational corporation. According to the deal, the government will receive only 0.02% of the total profit as royalty!
Com. Varavara Roa of Revolutionary Writer's Association, Andhra Pradesh, exposed the imperialist gains behind this state-sponsored war against the Maoists. He reminded of how adivasi leaders from Birsa Munda to Alluri Sita Rama Raju had organized valiant and revolutionary struggles against colonial powers. He also added that after the birth of the Naxalbari movement, the adivasis led by the Maxist-Leninist ideology, are fighting not only to stop the plunder of their resources, but also to capture the state power. Talking about the changes in the state machinery and global trends in the times of imperialist globalization, he drew people's attention how Manmohan Singh, an ex-world bank official; P.Chidambaram, the advocate of various MNCs; and George Bush, an ex-CIA president could become politicians and world leaders without any prior political background. He also highlighted the fact that both national and regional parties have become supporters of imperialist globalization. He pointed to the recent interview of the secretary of CPI(Maoist), Com.Ganapathy, where he had declared that the Maoists were ready for talks. Then, he spoke about how P. Chidambaram always spoke in two tongues with regard to talks and declared amidst thunderous claps that this fight against the Operation Green Hunt will continue undaunted, regardless of the number of lives that may have to be sacrificed.
The next speaker, Com. Marudhaiyan, General Secretary of PALA, drew parallels between Operation Green Hunt and the US invasion of Iraq. Just as how the US invasion of Iraq claimed it was supposedly for tearing down Saddam Hussain's dictatorship and not for Iraq's oil, Operation Green Hunt is projected to be a war against Maoists, when in reality, it is actually to take over the mineral and forest wealth of those regions. The state that is grabbing the land from adivasis in the name of development is not starting any public sector mines, rather is giving away the land to the MNCs. And, this is not happening only to the adivasis; it's happening to various other people and sectors. He termed this brutal, grabbing of forests, ocean wealth, public undertakings, small businesses, and agriculture from people to be given away to imperialist MNC's as the war of recolonization. Exposing the actual face of the state that advertise 'free schemes' to people, but actually robs people to fill the coffers of the capitalists, he listed about the tax redemption of over 700 crore to the Indian comprador capitalists, the privileges given to the TATA Nano in Gujarat, and the land given to Anil Ambani in Maharashtra to make his own airport! Talking about the TN CM's habit of putting his face on the yellow bags in which ration rice is distributed to the common people, Com. Marudaiyan wondered whether the CM packaged similarly the privileges he gave to Ford, Hyundai, and Nokia! He concluded his speech by saying that we have nothing to talk to the terrorists, and that Manmohan Singh and P. Chidamdaram perfectly fit the description of terrorists.
The talks were followed by a cultural program by PALA's cultural troupe. The program depicted the life circumstances and oppression faced by the Adivasis. The revolutionary songs, in various aspects, showed how the ruling classes and parliamentary parties only sell away the country and how only Naxalites continue to guard the country through their relentless struggle and sacrifice.
The enormous gathering of people at the MGR Nagar market, the red-attired comrades among the crowd, the people's response to each call for action, and the uproarious claps to each time the word Naxalbari was used were evidence of the amount of support and popularity the Naxalite movement enjoys among the people. It also showed people's anger against the policies of recolonization. The Chennai public meeting reinstated the hope that this war against the people, declared by the ruling classes, will be completely vanquished by the red wave that will rise from the people.
Courtesy: Puthiya Jananayagam, March 2010
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Photographs of the meeting are given below. To watch videos of the meeting, please check: http://vimeo.com/user3210324/videos/sort:date
Inagural Address by Com.Mukundan, President, New Democratic Labour Front, Tamilnadu.
Com.Balan, High Court Lawyer, Bengaluru addressing the meeting.
Com.Varavara Rao, VIRASAM (Revolutionary Writer's Association), Andhra addressing the meeting.
Com.Marudhaiyan, General Secretary, PALA addressing the meeting.
Musical drama performed by PALA Central Arts Troupe, Tamilnadu
People at the gathering
People at the gathering
Images and Video Courtesy:http://vinavu.com
source:http://springthunder. wordpress.com/2010/03/08/ meetingupdates/
UPA may cut quota to 20%
New Delhi, March 12: Crisis managers in the ruling UPA are working on a proposal to bring the 33 per cent quota for women in the Lok Sabha and state Assemblies (in the bill passed by the Rajya Sabha earlier this week) down to 20 per cent.
This suggestion emerged before the UPA's managers at their recent meeting with the three top Yadav leaders (Mulayam Singh, Lalu Prasad and Sharad Yadav), as well as with railway minister Mamata Banerjee and the DMK's T.R. Baalu, well-informed sources said.
While all political parties continue to stick to their publicly-stated positions on the controversial legislation, the realisation is growing that it will be difficult to get it passed in the Lok Sabha in its existing form. The current bill is being strongly resisted by large numbers of Lok Sabha MPs, cutting across party lines.
The UPA managers are likely to discuss the proposed changes with Congress president Sonia Gandhi in the next few days. The sources said the three Yadavs, Ms Banerjee and Mr Baalu had already been sounded out informally.
The next step will be to consult the BJP and its allies as well as the Left leaders. All of these parties have publicly said they are opposed to any dilution of the bill: what remains to be seen is if they are willing to let the deadlock continue or will help to break it.
Finance minister and the Leader of Lok Sabha Pranab Mukherjee and agriculture minister Sharad Pawar will talk to the political parties separately to see how the impasse can be broken during the parliamentary recess which begins early next week. They hope to have the matter resolved by the time the Budget Session resumes in the second week of April.
"Calling a joint meeting of floor leaders now will not serve any purpose as they will reiterate their stated positions," a UPA leader pointed out.
Some Union ministers confirmed, meanwhile, that the crisis managers were working on a 20 per cent reservation formula.
Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, meanwhile, on Friday raked up his old demand that all political parties should be required to give 20 per cent of election tickets to women, and that the registration of parties which failed to do so should be cancelled. "We are in favour of (women's) reservation, but we don't want more than 20 per cent. In that 20 per cent too, parties should be given the right to decide on which seats to give to women," he said in an interview to a television channel.
The SP president denied that he had ever demanded a "quota-within-quota" in connection with the Women's Bill, and described it as "false propaganda".
Congress president Sonia Gandhi, addressing party general secretaries, senior members and PCC presidents on ways to commemorate its 125th foundation day at a meeting here, said the bill was part of the Congress' abiding commitment to the empowerment of the aam aadmi (common man) along with several other pieces of legislation.
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India and Russia sign defence dealExpress Buzz - 1 hour ago NEW DELHI: India agreed to pay $2.33 billion more for the upgrade of aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov, re-christened INS Vikramaditya, and signed a $1.5 billion contract to buy 29 MiG-29K naval fighter jets. Video: India, Russia sign NUCLEAR pacts, seal Gorshkov deal Asian News International (ANI)India, Russia sign nuclear pacts, Gorshkov deal Hindustan Times 'Dark forces of terror' scuttle bid for peace with Pakistan: TharoorDaily News & Analysis - 27 minutes ago PTI New Delhi, Chandigarh: India today said it has repeatedly tried to make peace with Pakistan, but the "dark forces" of terror operating there openly have consistently undermined these efforts. Pakistan should rein in LeT: Blake The Hindu Times of India - Economic Times - Outlook - Daily News & Analysis Email this storyJayalalithaa urges parties to unite on Women's BillThe Hindu - 1 hour ago All-India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam general secretary Jayalalithaa has called upon all political parties to look beyond narrow divides and ensure that the Women's Reservation Bill becomes a law without further hiccups or delays. Video: Govt succumbs to pressure UTViWomen MPs, rich but not that privileged IBNLive.com Jammu & Kashmir government may introduce bill to amend school education actDaily News & Analysis - 1 hour ago PTI Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir government today said it would make efforts to introduce a bill during the current session of the state assembly seeking to amend JK Board of School Education (BoSE) Act to meet the requirements of new trends in education ... Pune blast probe: Top cop blames German bakery staffTimes of India - 2 hours ago PUNE: A month after a blast in Pune killed 17 people, city police commissioner Satyapal Singh on Saturday charged the staff of the German Bakery and its customers with "utter negligence" and said the bag with the bomb had been lying unnoticed for over ... IBNLive.com - Daily News & Analysis - Indian Express - Hindustan Times Email this storyDeal sternly with corruption, inefficiency: ManmohanThe Hindu - 1 hour ago PTI Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi at the inauguration of the new Secretariat complex in Chennai on Saturday. Press Trust of India - Calcutta Telegraph - Express Buzz - Sify Email this storyFresh violence in Bareilly; several shops set on fireNDTV.com - 6 hours ago Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh continues to simmer as fresh violence erupted at a vegetable market. Many shops have been set afire even as the state government is rushing more police reinforcements to the city. 20 shops torched on curfew bound Bareilly Indian Express LeT threat prompts security upgrade at Afghanistan and Nepal missionsEconomic Times - 14 hours ago NEW DELHI: Even as an additional ITBP platoon leaves for Kabul on Saturday to further secure the Indian mission there, a security upgrade is also underway at the Indian embassy in Kathmandu in view of fresh terror threats from ISI-backed jihadi outfits ... Indian envoys in Afghanistan face kidnap threat Times of India Security of Indians reviewed in Afghanistan IBNLive.com Women officers in Forces win historic battleEconomic Times - 13 hours ago NEW DELHI: In a significant judgement, the Indian Air Force and Army have been asked to grant Permanent Commission to women officers. Video: Women Army officers fight for their right NDTV.comCalcutta Telegraph - Daily News & Analysis - Indian Express - Chandigarh Tribune Email this storyTDP alleges 'hidden agenda' behind its expulsionThe Hindu - 4 hours ago PTI TDP leaders from Telangana region alleged that TRS chief K. Chandrasekhar Rao had a "hidden agenda" behind their "expulsion" from Telangana Political Joint Action Committee (JAC). Telangana JAC expels TDP MLAs Times of India Express Buzz - Daily News & Analysis - Fullhyd.com - The Hindu Email this storyCentral Universities can utilise assets by introducing courses: Kapil SibalDaily News & Analysis - 1 hour ago PTI Hyderabad: Union HRD minister Kapil Sibal today said that Central Universities (CU) can start some courses under Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) to maximize the use of their idle assets. Govt forms committee to study possibility of CET Press Trust of India Former BJP minister summoned by Gujarat riots probe panelTimes of India - 10 hours ago AHMEDABAD: Former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) general secretary Nalin Bhatt has been summoned by the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) for questioning in connection with the 2002 communal riots in Gulberg society. Video: BJP, Congress tread cautiously on Modi NDTV.comSIT call: Does Narendra Modi have much to worry? Daily News & Analysis Swami will avoid 'experiments' unacceptable to society from now onDaily News & Analysis - - 1 hour ago Bangalore: Ten days after clips of Swami Nithyananda allegedly frolicking with a Tamil actress were flashed on TV screens across the country, the 33-year-old 'godman' said they were just 'experiments' that rubbed society the wrong way. Swami says not guilty on Net Express Buzz 'Massaging leg is only service" - Ranjitha Times of India Maoists start killing dogs in Jharkhand, BengalHindustan Times - 3 hours ago Carcasses of killed dogs have been found in the jungle areas of Jharkhand and West Bengal, triggering anger among animal lovers who say the Maoists are killing dogs to prevent them from barking and alerting security forces. Green Hunt: Forces employ Naxal tactics, win over locals Times of India Bruised, wounded Maoists running helter-skelter Economic Times Indian Express - Calcutta Telegraph - The Hindu - Mumbai Mirror Email this storyGeelani calls for boycott of local body polls in KashmirSify - 6 hours ago -K), Mar 13 (ANI): Separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani has called for a boycott of village and urban local body polls in Jammu and Kashmir due to be held next month. Govt responsible for Chinkipora arson: Geelani Rising Kashmir Mirwaiz snubbed, chairman Geelani in Pak invite Indian Express I am like Lord Shiva: Lalu YadavZee News - 24 minutes ago RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav, in an exclusive interview with Swati Chaturvedi of Zeenews.com on her programme Kahiye Janab, brings out the hard facts about national politics, his disillusionment with the Centre, his take on the Nitish government and ... Railways' Harnaut workshop to be completed by year-end Times of India Nitish towers over Sharad India Today Gurshan remembered at memorialSakaal Times - 5 hours ago PTI MELBOURNE: Mourners today bid a tearful farewell to three-year-old Gurshan Singh Channa remembering him as a "loving and bubbly" child as his parents prepared to take his body to India for the last rites, more than a week after it was found dumped ... Man who dumped Indian boy being probed for immigration fraud Hindustan Times Mother says pray for toddler's re-birth Indian Express Carlos Slim richest person in the worldThe Hindu - Mar 11, 2010 NEW YORK: Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim has emerged the richest person in the world with $53.5 billion in assets, while Indian industrialist Mukesh Ambani, chief of Reliance Industries, ranks fourth with $29 billion in US magazine Forbes' annual list ... Mukesh Ambani, Lakshmi Mittal among world's 5 wealthiest Economic Times Himachal pradesh Budget raises VAT, entry taxBusiness Standard - 21 hours ago The Himachal Pradesh Budget for 2010-11 has proposed to raise the value added tax (VAT) from the existing 4 per cent to 5 per cent on all items, except edible oils and foodgrains. Himachal Pradesh witness over 1.23 crore tourists in 2009-10 TravelBizMonitor 1% increase in VAT on IT products, drugs Financial Express Vedanta violating forest laws in Orissa: environment ministrydomain-B - 3 hours ago Multinational mining company Vedanata Resources has violated certain provisions of the Forest Conservation Act, a three-member team of the ministry of environment and forests has reported after a site inspection at is mining site in the Niyamgiri hills ... 'Vedanta infringed clearance guidelines' Times of India | Featured photo Miner Vedanta flouting Indian rules: ministerAFP - 4 hours ago NEW DELHI - India's environment minister on Saturday accused London-based resource giant Vedanta of violating local laws with a mining p... ImagesThe Hindu Outlook Indian Express Calcutta Telegr...  Calcutta Telegr... The Hindu Oneindia The Hindu GreaterKashmir.... |
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