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Election results india

noreply@blogger.com (R Dilip Kumar) — Tue, 19 May 2009 11:18:00 +0000

The Election results 2009 was a surprise to every one including the bookies who had been swinging with their odds of who will win. So surprising it was for everyone that the Stock market saw a record surge and there was happiness all around. But will this sustain? Is the Stock market only sentiment driven today? Will it come back to where is was in the next few days after the government presents the Union Budget?
Whatever the case may be, let us enjoy today and take a look at the Election results 2009 -

Party	Winners/No of Seats	Party Type
Bahujan Samaj Party	21	National
Bharatiya Janata Party	116	National
Communist Party of India	4	National
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	16	National
Indian National Congress	206	National
Nationalist Congress Party	9	National
Rashtriya Janata Dal	4	National
All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	9	State
All India Forward Bloc	2	State
All India Trinamool Congress	19	State
Asom Gana Parishad	1	State
Assam United Democratic Front	1	State
Biju Janata Dal	14	State
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	18	State
Jammu & Kashmir National Conference	3	State
Janata Dal (Secular)	3	State
Janata Dal (United)	20	State
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	2	State
Kerala Congress (M)	1	State
Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	1	State
Muslim League Kerala State Committee	2	State
Nagaland Peoples Front	1	State
Revolutionary Socialist Party	2	State
Samajwadi Party	23	State
Shiromani Akali Dal	4	State
Shivsena	11	State
Sikkim Democratic Front	1	State
Telangana Rashtra Samithi	2	State
Telugu Desam	6	State
All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen	1	UnRecognized
Bahujan Vikas Aaghadi	1	UnRecognized
Bodaland Peoples Front	1	UnRecognized
Haryana Janhit Congress (BL)	1	UnRecognized
Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik)	1	UnRecognized
Rashtriya Lok Dal	5	UnRecognized
Swabhimani Paksha	1	UnRecognized
Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katch	1	UnRecognized
Independent	9	Independents

The Verdict 2009

noreply@blogger.com (R Dilip Kumar) — Sun, 17 May 2009 03:43:00 +0000

Finally the verdict is here - the UPA swept the polls. There would be some analysis, some axes and some serious ponders over what happened and what went wrong for the other parties, including the BJP and the NDA. But the verdict is there and none can question it now.
What did the brave citizens of India vote for this elections? Was it terrorism, administration, a charismatic leader or, something else.
It was probably stability!
I as an Indian am fed up with the calculator politics and the uncertainty that surrounds every government that is formed at the center. A few handful greedy politicians lend their support to the governments on the pretext of getting a lucrative position and then when they are dissatisfied, withdraw their support to find the government hanging in imbalance.
Then comes another elections or, a vote-of-confidence and this in turn means unnecessary wastage of resources and money - my hard-earned money which should otherwise have gone into development activities.
Mr. Manmohan Singh, for gods sake, please do something for the development of the country, to protect us from terrorists and to protect us from the leaders whose wealth would otherwise grow 300 times than what they have today - like how it happened 5 years back.
What do you think is the reason for this verdict?
Cast your polls today...

An Election of Calculators

noreply@blogger.com (R Dilip Kumar) — Fri, 15 May 2009 04:05:00 +0000

The Calculators are out. Our politicians are busy adding and subtracting and so are the bookies. These politicians are excellent mathematicians, I should say. They know what to add and where and that is how they have been surviving all these years.
But is this how a democracy should behave like? India has about 2 National Parties, 60 recognized state parties and 730 unrecognized parties as per the list published by the Election Commission in 2005. What is the credibility of such an election? 90% of these parties play the role of party-poopers. You and I vote and find ourselves in a situation where the mainline National parties have to beg for the support of these party-poopers, to form a government. The hard part in this entire "politics of calculators" is that these parties who get a few votes have no ideologies or, principles. I have heard them say that they are secular parties and that they would not support the Bharatiya Janata Party, who is a non-secular party and then after a few days they support the same party just because they have been offered a cool position in the parliament. Absurd, isn't it?
I am of the opinion that the Election Commission should disallow the formation of any party till the time there is a set number of members to the party. This would discourage the formation of any such small parties and would in turn stop the splitting of votes during elections, thus helping one of the National parties form a government at the Center with a majority.
The Election Commission could even bar these small time parties from contesting the elections for the Lok Sabha and can let them contest the Vidhan Sabha elections.
We need the EC to act firmly if we are to stop mid-term polls happening frequently. This time again, it would be a situation where the alliance forming the government at the Center is going to be of a large number of small parties. This would mean that the government is going to be all the more unstable and could crumble at any one of these parties withdrawing support, if they are not offered a portfolio of their choice. We, the citizens of India, would then again be face-to-face with another mid-term polls. The answer to the question, who is going to bear the expenses of the polls again, is quite obvious.

The Dance of Democracy

noreply@blogger.com (R Dilip Kumar) — Sat, 09 May 2009 14:35:00 +0000

As the World's largest democracy went to vote in the past 2 weeks, there were quite a few news, highs and lows to be seen.

While the electronic voting machines showed the sophistication that the elections in India have undergone, the polling officers still seemed to be from the same old Harrappan Civilization.

There was a drive all over to get people to vote. Various campaigns in the media kept pushing people to exercise their right of voting, so that they have a right to crib over issues that they were dissatisfied with. But many of the voters had a question in mind. What do I do, if none of the candidates in the fray could impress me?

There certainly was an answer to this question. The Indian Constitution provided its citizens, the right to forego a vote under section 49(0). There was a set way of doing it and quite a few people also, knew about it.

But.........

But the polling officers were absolutely unaware of it. They went on to question people who asked them about exercising this option, as to what they were talking about and that they were not talking sense. A few of the voters were even pressured to vote for one candidate. People who resisted were asked to leave and they left. The others who succumbed to the pressure voted under influence.

Election Commission, if you are hearing, please train your polling officers.

The value of relationships in politics.

noreply@blogger.com (R Dilip Kumar) — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:45:00 +0000

Talk about relationships in politics!! You might be wondering as to what relationships have got to do in politics. You are right. Relationships are a distant reality in politics. Once somebody takes to politics, he/she is a politician. He/she can then never be a brother or, a sister or, even a mother or, a father. Family quarrels then become a public spat and are used as a source of mileage to enhance the political image.
Take for example the case of Sanjay Dutt and Priya Dutt. Their father Sunil Dutt was a man of principles. he was a union cabinet minister and held posts like that of the Sports minister. He never compromised with his principles and was looked upon as an ideal for any young politician. If that is the case what is it that you would expect out of his children. The same ideology and principles, right? But how is that possible if the children have friends like that of Amar Singh and Mulayam Singh Yadav?
Priya Dutt took to politics after the death of her father and joined the Congress party. She was doing well in her career as a politician till once fine day when her brother Sanjay Dutt decided to join politics. He probably had different ideologies and hence decided to join the Samajwadi Party. But that was a decision of his and he should have had complete freedom to decide which party he wants to join.
Suddenly once fine day the news channels show a furious Priya Dutt passing some comments on her brother and the next day her brother retaliating. The remarks then take an ugly turn when these two accuse each other of not respecting each other even at home. Sanjay goes to the extent of saying that his sister has never respected his wife Manyata. The next day comes a controversy over using the maiden name, when Sanjay questioned the use of Dutt as the last name of Priya.
Doesn't such issue happen ine our homes as well? But do we take it to the public? The story is different here. This is politics.
I wonder how they would manage the country when they are unable to manage their own homes.

The politics of Calculators

noreply@blogger.com (R Dilip Kumar) — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 07:44:00 +0000

It is time for the Lok Sabha elections and it is time for the politics of calculators.
Yes, One the largest democracies in the world is going to polls in a month. And the calculators, the king makers, the alliance makers and the bookies are busy again.
Indeed, a democracy is a funny board of game where the ones who are able to accumulate the most numbers wins.
This is precisely what is happening in Indian politics these days. Till about a few days back there were two main fronts in the fray - the UPA and the NDA. One calling itself secular and the other the non-secular. So there were a few other parties that joined one of these alliances based on what their ideologies were (if you are wondering what idealogies mean, then these parties can explain it better). But all of a sudden the small parties that formed part of the big alliances broke-off due to a seat sharing debate and new equations began to fall in place.
Consider this - Lok Janshakti party leader Ram Vilas Paswan and Rastriya Janata Dal leader Laloo Prasad Yadav were the worst of enemies till a few days back swearing at each other, throwing dirt at each other and doing what not. All of a sudden they are together, embracing each other, praising each other and agreeing to a lok sabha poll aliance in Bihar. I, for sure am still not able to figure out what their idealogies were.
Trinamool Congress and Nationalist Congress Party were two factions headed by Mamta Banerjee and Sharad Pawar that were break-aways from the Congress. The reason why they broke away - difference of opinion and idealogy. They have agreed to form an alliance with the Congress Party. No wonder if you are guessing - then why the different factions if there is no difference of ideology when they can form a pre-poll alliance.
The answers to these questions are the trumps to winning this board game. Keep your calculators out and keep calculating because there would be many more such calculations when it comes to forming the government at the center.

A hatred Speech and an arrest

noreply@blogger.com (R Dilip Kumar) — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 16:04:00 +0000

What is the easiest way to become famous and ensure that you have all the support in the world - support good enough to get you elected from your constituency even if you had no chance of winning?
If you do not know the answer to this question then ask Varun Gandhi. The other son from the Gandhi family who has been writing poems for the past few years suddenly learn the formula of getting instant fame on the political scene in India, more so when the Lok Sabha elections were so close and he had to contest the election from a Constituency where his mother used to contest from till about some time.
The learned son of Maneka Gandhi, who is an animal activist, suddenly realized that human beings were not as worthy of animals and went out on a hatred speech in Pilibhit, a constituency in UP. Congress had earlier fielded a strong candidate from this constituency belonging to the Muslim Community. (They blame other parties of being anti-secular and they play a very smart game of doing that the diplomatic way). Varun Gandhi knew exactly what to do. he knew he had to woo the hindu vote bank there which was the only way of winning the elections. So there he appeared in Pilibhit as the savior of the Hindus and delivered a strong inflammatory speech with statements like, "any hand that is raised on the hindus - Varun Gandhi will chop it off". Probably he felt that he was the next avtar of the Vishnu.
But the Election Commission felt otherwise. They filed a case and an arrest warrant was issued against the young Gandhi. Varun Gandhi again knew how to use this to his benefit. He made a public appearance and courted arrest in full public view, thus garnering a few sympathy votes and quite a few followers. Finally he has learnt the dirty art of politics.
Was this speech required? Am I really bothered about things that Varun spoke to about in his speech? Probably I am not, but there are yet others who are bothered, I guess.
Politics, today is dirty indeed. The Bharatiya Janata Party garners support by being anti-secular and by promoting Ram and Ayodhya. The Congress party garners support by acting secular which they are not. It is just that they are smart enough not to make a public stageshow of anti-secularism. Yet others there in the meantime keep changing loyalties.

The New Villian - Judiciary

noreply@blogger.com (R Dilip Kumar) — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 18:12:00 +0000

Citizens in a democratic country is not free of villains, rather I should say they are surrounded by villains. Most of these villains are the ones who were made to protect the citizens of these democracies. Politicians, police, and now the Judiciary.
I wonder why is it that we call this a democracy. Probably because we have the right to ask and they have the right to deny. The Judiciary has always been playing the villain but till date they were playing a passive role. They only ensured that no politicians or, people with power were punished, thereby paving the way for these unpunished criminals to harass and humiliate the innocent citizens of the democracy.
But now they have decided that enough is enough. They felt that they now had to come to the forefront and show their power.
That is when the Chief Justice of India issued an ordinance challenging the RTI Act. They said that the officials in a Judiciary do not require to furnish information sought under the Right to Information Act because such information could compromise the security of the country.
Worth a laugh, isn't it?
This is probably how terrorists made a mockery of the system in the Mumbai terror attack.
This is how terrorists set-up the serial blasts in New Delhi, Ahmedabad and Jaipur.
And this is precisely how the terrorists set-up the local train blasts in Mumbai.
Isn't it?
Hasn't the security of the country been compromised till date? Is it because of some information that a Judiciary official has divulged?
What security information would the information on the assets of a Chief Justice of the country have?
Difficult to understand, isn't it?
But our Chief Justice feels so.
Then the judiciary came out with a libel ruling. Bloggers will be responsible for any comments that involve hatred or, communal remarks on their blogs.
Funny!!!
So henceforth I need to control the expression of somebody else. That is freedom of expression. Isn't that moral policing?
Why should we be penalising only the Sri Ram Sene?

The Chand Mohammed Love Story

noreply@blogger.com (R Dilip Kumar) — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 06:47:00 +0000

At time I feel pity at the condition that Indian Politics is in, give the kind of stupids that our politicians are. When I draw a comparison between a leader like that of Barack Obama to anyone in the Indian Political scenario, I feel as it I am insulting Mr.Obama.

Consider the case of an ex-Dy. Chief Minister of Haryana, Mr. Chander Mohan who went onto embrace Islamism and changed his name to Chand Mohammed. A few weeks back this foolish politician went into hiding and nobody could trae him. He was sacked from the position of the Deputy Chief Minister. All of a sudden he made a public appearance and called up a press conference letting everyone know that he has changed his religion and has accepted Islamism and that he did this because of love. He rendered a long lecture on what love was and about the extent to which a man in love can go to. He had along with him his newly found love Fiza, originally named as Anuradha Bali though he was married and had two children.
The Indian law prohibits Polygamy but, there was no law questioning Mr.Mohammed. The next few days the couple was all over the news channels and the new channels were also shamelessly airing this news. But the irony is that the drama did not end here.
After a week, another new surfaced that Mr.Mohammed had been kidnapped and the basis of this news was a complaint filed by Ms.Fiza at a nearby police station. To add to the fun, all of a sudden Mr.Mohammed appeared before the news channels saying that he was absolutely fine and that he was never kidnapped. He went on to ask the media, "Am I a child who can be kidnapped?"
The day after the next, the news became even hotter. Ms. Anuradha Bali, alias Fiza attempted suicide and was admitted to the hospital and proclaimed in front of the media that everything was not fine between her and Mr.Mohammed. That was an end to the relation between the two. The next days newspaper carried a news quoting Mr.Chand Mohammed that, "he misses his first wife very much."
How ridiculously foolish can a politician alias a leader be. He who is to set an example for the people of the country has made a mockery of himself and the political system. Pity my minister! Pity!

The Obama Swearing in ceremony

noreply@blogger.com (R Dilip Kumar) — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 07:10:00 +0000

This is a video of the swearing in ceremony of Barack Obama. A look at the crowd that had gathered to witness the inauguration and the ceremony, makes one ponder at the popularity that Obama commands amongst the people of the US. It is for a fact that he is a true leader and only true leaders get such huge followings.

The resignation of Kalyan Singh

noreply@blogger.com (R Dilip Kumar) — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:55:00 +0000

News like the one that reads, "Kalyan Singh quits BJP" makes one wonder as to what are the ethics and ideologies of a National Party. Veteran leaders quit parties saying that they have lost faith in the ideologies of the party. The 2 primary National parties in India are the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party. Over the past few years, both these parties have moved away from their core beliefs and ideologies. We have seen both these parties teaming up with parties that were at the opposite end in principles, just to form a government. We have also seen these parties compromise on their basic ethics multiple times, though nothing is yet proven (ah! what has proven till today).
This time round it was the turn of the BJP vice-president Mr.Kalyan Singh, to resign. This is the second time that he is doing this. Earlier he returned to the party after resigning in 1999. This time again Mr.Kalyan Singh went on to say, “I am not a bonded labour of the BJP”. He said that "OBCs constitute 50 per cent of the population, yet there is no honour and place for OBC leaders in the BJP."
These statements make one wonder as to what is it that Mr.Singh was expecting. I believe he wanted a special treatment just because he was an OBC. If this is not the reason there is no other reason, we can see, especially when Mr.Singh was serving the party as its Vice-President.
There is also a second story to it. Mr.Singh's son (the next generation politics) was yet to be seen on the forefront in the political arena. It was very unlikely that he would be pushed to the front or, given a ticket to contest the elections by the BJP. This meant that the political legacy was at a full-stop after Mr.Kalyan Singh. Mr. Singh saw a saviour in the Samajwadi Party, who agreed to give a ticket to his son, Mr. Rajvir Singh and for this to happen, he but obviously had to quit his party. What a move, Mr.Singh.
I wonder what is Samajwadi Party upto. It seems they are setting up a new business called politics.

A Cultured Spokesperson

noreply@blogger.com (R Dilip Kumar) — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:50:00 +0000

A few days, all the news channels were airing a statement from a Spokesman of the Bahujan Samaj Party (Read, the Mayawati party). The Spokesman was commenting upon some press conference the always-in-the-headline-for-the-wrong-reasons politician, Amar Singh had made a day before about the-cleanest-character-on-earth politician Ms. Mayawati.

Mr. Amar Singh, was informing the press about a sting-operation (these seem to be the hottest thing today, hotter than the A-Certified movies) that was done on the UP Chief Minister Ms. Mayawati, where she was shown calling herself, "The daughter of money" and saying that she lives for money. The fact of the matter is that nobody has yet seen this sting-operation video. Nevertheless, Mr.Amar Singh, himself has nothing to do the whole day, hence he thought he would engage some reporters who also had nothing to do for the entire day. A few specific parts of this conference was being aired repeatedly (one would be made to assume that the tape was stuck at that point), on all so-called News Channels.

Suddenly the Spokesman appeared and our reporters knew that they have a scoop. They rushed to him and like all other cultured ministers and politicians, this spokesman read out his party's statement. If you hear the statement, you would wonder if it is being made for a politician who is called respectable by a few section in politics and by a spokesman from a respectable party - as BSP is called. The statement is question said, "It seems Mr.Amar Singh has lost his mental balance and in not in his senses. Our party would say that the right place for Mr.Amar Singh is the mental asylum and we recommend that he get himself treated from a good psychologist."

Are you now wondering why we call it, "Dirty Politics".

The Shekhawat Storm

noreply@blogger.com (R Dilip Kumar) — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 10:36:00 +0000

What is it that would prompt a person who is 85 years old to jump into the fray in a Lok Sabha elections and that too, projecting himself as the Prime Ministerial Candidate? This question assumes more importance if the person has already been into politics for more than 50 years. My guess is as good as yours.
I would not go by the fact that this is because of his love to the country and its people. Nor would I accept the fact that he is still left with quite a lot of things to do for his countrymen. Rather I would it is the love for power and money that he is doing this.
Yes, the man in question is Mr. Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, the earlier Vice President of India. Mr Shekhawat who was a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party, had earlier served as the Chief Minister of Rajasthan on at least 3 occassions before becoming the Vice President. He later resigned from this position after losing the Presidential elections to Smt. Pratibha Patil. Is there something else that he will be able to do for the country and its citizens, more so considering the fact that he is already 85 years old.
I would have no answer but Mr. Shekhawat would probably have. Money, Power and what not? That is the crude saga of politics. Indian politics is today an arena where even the dead would want to come back to.

Change is here - The New generation politicians

noreply@blogger.com (R Dilip Kumar) — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:33:00 +0000

The results in the Jammu and Kashmir polls was a welcome change in politics. It finally seems that the older generation is handing over the reins of politics to the younger one. In one of my earlier blogs I had mentioned about Barack Obama and the need for such a leader in India. It finally seems that India is getting such leaders.
The verdict also finally showed that the extremists and hardliners in the valley have finally been defeated. There was much hype till about a few days back that the people of Kashmir wanted an independent governance and that the hardliners would win if there were elections held. The voter turnout in Kashmir was at an all time high of about 64% which showed that the people of Kashmir wanted a chance to voice their opinion.
Omar Abdullah, the CM-to-be of Kashmir is the youngest Chief Minister in India. His first press conference was also impressive and when he said, "I have to bring governance back on track which has come to a halt after the summer turmoil and then model code of conduct. Unlike my predecessors, I would have to devote less time on security situation and would have a more comfortable cushion to focus on governance. The voters want basic stuff, like good roads, safe drinking water in taps, electricity at a decent price. My style is simple. I don’t believe in revenge, so you would not see arrests. There will be no massive transfers because I don’t expect officials to swear in the name of National Conference. I won’t be corrupt, so I can catch those who are".
Isn't that impressive for a young Chief Minister?

The Murderous MLAs of UP

noreply@blogger.com (R Dilip Kumar) — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 04:18:00 +0000

It sounds funny most of the times when you read about a murder by an MLA and you start to wonder as to what is the ream meaning of an MLA - is it "Men Leading Atrocities"? Probably that is what it. Add to this, the fact that stupid Chief Ministers who aspire to be the Prime Minister of India supporting them and the story is complete.
A leading newspaper reported that of all the BSP MLAs in UP, there are about 67 who have criminal records. When the newspapers know this, would it be possible that the Prime Minister aspirant would not know this. When the whole world knows this, why is it that the election commission not acting on this?
At the first place should such people with criminal records be allowed to contest elections? Our election commission says that no one can be called a criminal till such time the crime is proved. But has our judiciary ever been able to punish one such politician on any criminal offences. So when such punishments would not happen, then such criminals would contest elections and win. If your question is, how do they win, then the answer is not difficult. Just visit one such polling booths and see for yourself.
This has to change somewhere. If the judiciary cannot punish them, then the election commission should bring some changes in its rules and laws. It should not allow anybody who has a criminal complaint against him and is under investigation to contest elections. The Judiciary will also have to change. What to change is something that I will have to leave to the imagination of the legal intellects.
This time round the murderous MLA was Shekhar Tewari. He allegedly lynched a PWD engineer to death only because the engineer denied a couple of lakh rupees as contribution to for PM aspirant, Chief Minister of UP, Mayawati's birthday celebrations which has always been a gala affair. What's more, the next day the chief minister comes out with a statement defending her able MLA, saying that the murder was a result of internal enemity in the PWD. What more can you expect from a person who has earlier stooped to such low that she tried to prevent a Youth Congress leader from entering one of the colleges in UP only because she wanted to prove her supremacy.

Cashing in on a Controversy

noreply@blogger.com (R Dilip Kumar) — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 07:39:00 +0000

It is not new for our politicians to cash in on any controversy. Be it Lalu Prasad Yadav, Mulayam Singh Yadav, Ram Vilas Paswan (who otherwise is not heard of ever) etc. are among a few who have been using this to their advantage. A few renowned personalities (never heard off, to be true) from the Left parties are always ready to pounce on any such contorversial comments that can lead them to glory.
These politicians are very smart some way at least. They would wait for some time after somebody has made a controversial statement or, remark. They wait to see the number of people for it and against it. If he number of people for it is high, they would go out with a statement favoring the group that is against it, else they would do otherwise. That ways they know that the news channels would keep flashing their names for the comments that they make and thus stay in people's minds. To say the truth, that is the only way they have to stay in people's minds because they would hardly have done something for the constituency that they were elected for.
Now take for example the idiotic comment made by the Minor Minister (I would prefer to call him so instead of the Minority Minister) Mr. Antulay. He found quite a few takers from here and there. Needless to mention here that all takers and supporters to his comments came from the category that we discussed above. Having said that, the truth still remains that Antulay is not alone. There are quite a few idiots ready to join his bandwagon.

Idiocy at its best!!

noreply@blogger.com (R Dilip Kumar) — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:59:00 +0000

If you ask even a kid today as to what is the height of idiocy, he would point to a politician addressing a press in the television. I wonder if sell their brains also in order to make some extra money because that is the kind of impression that they give most of the times.
Take, for example the case of our honorable Minority Affairs minister, A.R.Antulay. For no rhyme or, reason, he went on to state that the death of ATS chief Hemant Karkare, the martyr at the Mumbai terror attacks, should be investigated to find if he had fallen prey to a setup. He went on to question the reason behind Mr. Karkare going to Cama hospital and also hinted that even some of the top officials in the department could be involved. Doesn't it seem that the minority affairs minister is minority in brains.
As soon as these foolish politicians have figured out that everything is back to normalcy and people are slowing forgetting the incident, they have started coming out with such follish remarks, questioning the intergrity of the ones who were at the forefront in protecting us. Where were these idiots when the terrorists were holding the public at ransom.
Mr. Antulay, it is time to rest. Please let the ables ones rule the affairs of the country.

The Cash for vote scam

noreply@blogger.com (R Dilip Kumar) — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:16:00 +0000

A few months back when I first wrote about the cash-for-vote scam where MPs were shown holding bundles of currencies in the parliament accusing a few opposition party MPs of trying to bribe them to vote for the government in the no-confidence motion voting, I also wrote that there is nothing that is going to be done of these accused MPs.
The verdict is finally in. A panel of committee specially set-up for the investigation finally adjudged Amar Singh the main accused in the scam, not guilty. That stamped the fact that in India, no politicians can be punished.
I wonder why we spend so much money on these committees and investigations. We should rather dismiss these cases at the onset itself, so that at least we save on this money (hard earned money of ours that we pay as tax) and use that in some other better way. Here again, one would question the better way, because the better way would then be into the pockets of these politicians itself.
We need more of the peace march that we did to the Gateway of India after the Mumbai terror attacks. We need a revolution and a revolution can only happen when we, the mob wakes up.

Finally they unite

noreply@blogger.com (R Dilip Kumar) — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:19:00 +0000

It was good to see the Lok Sabha session today. I wonder what brought the changes - the election results or, the Gateway of India march. Whatever was the reason the change is now imminent and visible. The people wanted to get rid of the corrupt politicians. They wanted actions against the insensitive politicians who couldn't stand by their people at the time of crisis like in Mumbai and they forced the government to take action.
By going to the polls in huge numbers in the recently concluded Vidhan Sabha elections in 5 states and electing back the governments that have worked towards to the development of the respective states and pulling down the ones that did not, they exhibited the power of democracy. They showed the "Good-for-nothing" politicians that they have a choice and that they know what their rights are. They can make or, break the ones who they feel should be governing their country and protecting them. It was the power of the mass.
This brought about was a sudden shift in the stance of the opposition as well. The opposition who had always demanded resignation from the governments who were in power when anything like that of the Mumbai incident happened, now went on to say that they stand by whatever the government will do towards countering the attack of terrorism. When Mr. L.K.Advani, the leader of the opposition and the BJP candidate for the post of PM in the Lok Sabha polls ahead, was showering praises on the things that the government has done to counter terrorism and the investigations that they were doing to find the culprits at the Mumbai terror attacks, for a minute anybody would have felt - "Yes, My Minister, You can do it".

They need more security!!

noreply@blogger.com (R Dilip Kumar) — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:26:00 +0000

Do you remember the name Sharad Yadav? Probably you won't. Even if you do you would not remember his face. Let me remind you.
He was once the President of the Janata Dal (United) in 1998, probably. I do not even recollect the year and very few people would, except for the ones who had to learn this again and again for some competitive exams. Do you find a reason why the terrorists would attack this no more useless politician?
When this "NETA" of ours was asked if he would sacrifice his security for the security of the citizen of his country, he was at loss of words initially. Then he goes on to say, "Your question itself is baseless. How would anybody's security affect the security of the citizen?" I pray that he should have been staying in "The Taj Hotel" during the terrorist attack. He would have got his answer.
Another politician Sajjan Kumar, who is under trial for several murder charges against him has about 12 people as security personnel around him. The irony is the fact that he is not even a minister.
A look at the statistics on the security cover being provided to our politicians reveals some startling facts:
Total expenditure on security - Rs. 250 Crores per annum
Total personnel involved - more than 15,000 (Out of these about 1400 are specially trained NSG commandos)
Politicians who are not serving ministers are many amongs these who are provided this security. An excerpt from "The Times of India" -

{Over Rs 250 crore is spent on VIP protection — including VIPs like Deve Gowda, Amar Singh, Ram Vilas Paswan, Sajjan Kumar, B L Joshi, R L Bhatia, Sharad Yadav, Rameshwar Thakur, E Ahmad, Murli Manohar Joshi, Brij Bhushan Sharan and Pramod Tiwari. Most of these worthies are said to be facing little real risk. It's also questionable whether lakhs of rupees should be spent on the protection of some others, like Sajjan Kumar, who have murder cases against them.
The explosion of VIP security has led to a ridiculous situation in which commandos meant for anti-terror operations have been diverted to protect politicians. The NSG, set up in 1984 for anti-hijack and anti-terror operations, has two wings--the Special Action Group (SAG), comprising army personnel on deputation, and the Special Rangers Group (SRG), comprising personnel from the ITBP, CISF, CRPF, BSF and SSB. More than half of SRG has been diverted to VIP security.
This is in addition to the Special Protection Group (SPG) that is exclusively meant for providing security to the PM, former PMs and members of the Gandhi family. Interestingly, the SPG budget for 2008-09 is Rs 180 crore, up from Rs 117 crore the previous year, while the 2008-09 budget for NSG, which is meant to protect over a billion people from terror, is Rs 158 crore, down from Rs 159 crore crore the previous year.
It's not only the SPG and NSG that protect our netas. In addition to them, every state diverts a sizeable number of policemen for VIP security. In Delhi, where the number of self-important politicians is highest, as many as 14,200 policemen have been deployed on round-the-clock VIP security duty.
VIP security is broken up into five levels — SPG for those at the top of the heap, followed by the Z-plus, Z, Y and X categories. Z-plus security is provided by NSG `black cats' consisting of six personal security officers, two head constables, 12 constables, one escort and one pilot vehicle. Thirty politicians like L K Advani, Mayawati, Narendra Modi, Jayalalithaa, Murli Manohar Joshi, Amar Singh and Paswan are provided this cover.
The pyramid gets wider at the lower level of security — 68 VIPs get Z category protection, 243 get Y category and 81 X category. Of course, all of them get to flash red lights on their cars and flaunt their status, generally viewed as a nuisance by the aam admi . So intrusive is their security that the Delhi high court was recently provoked into saying, ``Politicians are not national assets that need to be protected.''}

When a few of these honorable politicians were asked if they were willing to sacrifice a few of their security men for the security of the citizens, they refused. That is the kind of concern they have their citizens who vote for them and elect them as ministers. Also notable is the fact that all that money that is spent on these rogues is funded by common men like you and me.

How they reacted to it?

noreply@blogger.com (R Dilip Kumar) — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:26:00 +0000

When all hell was let loose on the politicians for their spineless behavior during the Mumbai terror attacks, they reacted. They reacted without keeping in mind the fact that they are there just because of us-the common man. They have started assuming themselves as being demi-gods. Like the colossus they feel today. But beware! Oh, netas! It would not take minutes before you would be down on the earth. All that it requires is a determination from the Janta.
These were the reactions of some of our "Netas" -

This honorable minister Muktar Abbas Naqvi did not think twice before he said, “Some women wearing lipstick and powder have taken to the streets in Mumbai and are abusing politicians, thus spreading dissatisfaction against democracy”.
I wish to ask Mr. Naqvi, "Is it that this dissatisfaction developed in just those 60 hrs"? Mr. Naqvi, when you were somewhere in the comforts of your home, it is these 'women wearing lipsticks', that bore the brunt. It is they who lived in terror for more than 60 hrs. You would never realize what terror is when you have 20 guards to protect you.

The Dy.CM of Maharashtra, Mr.R.R.Patil was one step ahead, he went on to say, "“Itne bade shahar me ekadha hadsa ho jaata hai” meaning that, "it is common for a few such instances to happen in a City so huge". Mr.Patil should have been sent into the Taj Hotel when the security forces were in a combat with the terrorists. he should have asked to negotiate with the terrorists and he would have realized the gravity of the "hadsa". Mr.Patil, if the death of more than 200 people and about 300 others getting injured is a "Normal hadsa" for you, you don't even deserve the grave. Shame of you!

Finally the COWARD as he is Raj Thackeray proved it. He sent his wife out to speak on his behalf. Shame on this entire family. Mrs. Sharmila Thackeray is indeed a true wife. She stands by her husband at all times. She went on to send text messages saying, "All those who had lost their lives while saving this city are Marathis. MNS workers are busy donating blood, helping police for rescue operations and lifting bodies". How foolish can somebody be? Mrs.Thackeray should get her facts right. Better go and check the records to find how many Marathis lost their lives in saving your Mumbai. If I am to go by what she says, I will have to believe that the NSG and such other forces recruits only Marathis and that Major. Sandeep Unnikrishnan was also a Marathi. But Raj Thackeray indeed proved that he is a proud marathi by attending the funeral for the martyr Hemant Karkar, though he shouldn't even have been allowed to go near. How idiotic can this family be?

The Kerala Chief Minister proved that he is the worst human being that you would ever see. First of all he did not even visit the house of Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan in Bangalore, who incidentally is a Malayalee initially, probably because that was the last thing in his agenda. Then when he did visit, he was driven away by the grieving father of the Major. And to this the honorable chief minister reacts saying, "If it had not been (Major) Sandeep’s house, not even a dog would have glanced that way". Worst that he was not even apologetic about it until he was forced to apologize. A man with a dark heart in a white dress. Mr. Achutananthan, you are no more than a devil - a stupid devil.

For god's sake, I would requrst all our dear Netas to leave the country on its own and go and shove their faces into some dark corners of the world.

The Politicization of the terror attacks

noreply@blogger.com (R Dilip Kumar) — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 08:19:00 +0000

After more than 60 hours of terror in Mumbai and a death toll exceeding 200 and more than 250 injured, it is now time for politicizing the issue.
Our politicians are back to their normal games. The first of this was the L.K.Advani, Manmohan Singh split visits to Mumbai each quoting different reasons, then Narendra Modi with his compensation and now the resignations of Home Minister-Shivraj Patil and Maharashtra Dy.CM - R.R.Patil and the Maharashtra C.M.'s offer to resign.
Isn't that brilliant politics? Shivraj Patil took the blame on him and resigned. So will this solve the purpose? Will the people who are dead come back? Or, will the Home minister hang himself for what has happened? If he thinks he is to blame himself for the incident, it means that he is agreeing to the fact that there was laxity in security and that he knew about it. In that case shouldn't he be tried and punished for the incident under section related to homicide. The same should be applicable to the Dy.CM and the CM of Maharashtra. The Dy.CM Mr. R.R.Patil a couple of days back went on to say that the Mumbai incident was a minor incident. Is it because none of his kins died in the incident. The two of these should be hanged in public to whatever they have let happen in Mumbai for the past few months including the bloodbath and acts of the coward Raj Thackeray.
But the objective behind all this is something else. What these political parties are trying to show is that they are really touched by the incident and feel that they are the reason for whatever has happened. This would in turn stimulate a public sentiment, which would in turn mean that they don't loose out too much on the already lost votes, in the Lok Sabha elections that are to come. What a ploy!
Hail politicians in India!
Mr.Politicians, Stop politicizing the incident and stop this resignation drama. Instead take some stern steps on whatever evidence has been gathered reather than issuing useless threats to the neighbors. Implement things that would ensure that no Tom,Dick and Harry can enter our country and keep our security forces at bay for more than 60 hrs.
ACT Minister and politicians!ACT!

A Salute to the Martyrs at the Taj terrorist attacks

noreply@blogger.com (R Dilip Kumar) — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 05:22:00 +0000

The fight is over. Another valiant effort by the "Men in uniform" with an all round support from the citizen of Mumbai, saw the terrorists being gunned down finally after a 56-hour long ordeal. But in the process, if we sit and think about what we gained there would be nothing much. But in terms of losses, we have a lot of talk about.

We lost many able army men and bright and brilliant officers like Hemant Karkare, Ashok Kamte, Salaskar and Major Unnikrishnan. The families lost their son, husband and father whom they would always be proud of.

This post is a tribute to the Martyrs of the Mumbai terror attacks, who laid down their lives to ensure that we sleep in peace. I pray to god, only if petty politicians like that Raj Thackeray who was hiding somewhere under the bed along with his coward men, learn from the lessons that these martyrs have taught us - that the nation is always a priority against your self-interests.

Another Attack on Bombay

noreply@blogger.com (R Dilip Kumar) — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 09:34:00 +0000

As I wrote the last post about the increasing terror attacks in India and the Congress Governments failure in curbing it, little did I knew that, in a couple of days I would be writing about the biggest terror attack ever to happen in India. This time round the attack was so open as if it felt that the terrorists were throwing an open challenge mocking at us and our security systems. The way in which they have launched this attack killing more than 132 people in the process and a few able security personnel, they made a mockery of the security system.
Our honorable Prime Minister was again seen on television, with the same old statements, issuing warning to the neighboring countries who he assumes to have a part in the terror attacks. It is been long that we have been hearing to such statements, Mr. Prime Minister and the consequence is that we have seen the highest number of attacks this year and the highest number of casualties. Our honorable politicians would be considering this attack a blessing in disguise, because they would now have something to talk about as an agenda to their election campaigning. But what is the fate of we civilians.
As we leave our houses to go to work or, spend some time out, we don't even know if we would come back home. How would we, with terrorists roaming on the streets, shooting people at will? Does the Prime Minister have an answer to it? Can he guarantee a safe return for us and our families.
A peek into the terror attacks in the Taj Hotel and Trident Oberoi hotel in Mumbai would show the kind of seriousness that this government has shown towards curbing terrorism. Our ministers keep saying that it is the neighboring country which is sending in infiltrators. If they are so sure about this then why is it that they are unable to find a permanent solution to it. Instead of doing this, they drop open our gates to Samjhauta Expresses and Trains, and in the process kill innocent civilians from both the countries who would never even have thought of the fate awaiting them.
The United States saw one attack on their country and they destroyed nations. Terror in the US is now a distant dream for the terrorists. Here in India, an entire battalion of terrorists capture a couple of 5-star hotels and engage the security forces for almost 2 days. Just imagine the kind of preparation that they would have done. If they were to carry such huge amount of am munitions into a five star hotel, just imagine the apathy of the security checks that we have here in India. After such a terrorizing attack in one of the Metro's in the country, one would be surprised to see the laxed attitude of the security personnel in a Capital city like that of New Delhi.
Will there be an end to this? Why is it that we as the citizens boycott the elections this time round and hold these corrupt politicians at ransom till they provide us with a solution to this?
That's enough now, My Minister, that is enough!!!

The Election Campaigning

noreply@blogger.com (R Dilip Kumar) — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:53:00 +0000

A few days back, I was switching through the new channels when I suddenly stopped at this channel that was airing an election campaign speech from the honorable Congress Chairman - Ms. Sonia Gandhi.

An excerpt of what she said -
"Terrorists are terrorists. They have only one religion to spread terror in society,'' she said. "We consider it (terrorism) a national issue and want to take all communities with us to address the problem. We want everybody's support,'' she said at her first public appearance to seek another term for the Congress in Delhi.
"Those who create fear in the name of religion or caste may come to power for some days. But they cannot escape the responsibility of plunging the future of the country into darkness,'' she told the enthusiastic crowd in her Hindi speech.

I just cannot resist from calling her a genuine politician. She is the leader of the same party who in the past few days took a dig at the accused who were all Hindus, in the Malegaon blasts. This very genuine Congress leader never spoke about terrorists ans terrorism till about a few days back. Today because it is elections, she thought that she should touch the most sensitive nerve in the voting banks. In the last part of the speech ,what confused me was the 'Those who'. Who exactly was she referring to - Was it the BJP or, was it the SIMI who was working with the intention of spreading terror in India?

These power thirsty politician are funny in their election campaign speeches. They forget about everything else and are sure to hit the vote bank where it hurts the most.

I am at least happy with Ms. Sonia Gandhi, that she is considering 'terrorism' a national issue. We never knew that the Congress Party ever considered it so, at least from what we have been seeing. A statistics of the blasts in the past few years when the Congress has come to power is as mentioned below;

Year 2005 - 1 blast:

October 29, 2005: Sarojininagar blasts: 61 people were killed in three separate blasts at Sarojini market in New Delhi.

Year 2006 - 3 blasts:

March 7, 2006: Varanasi blasts: 21 persons lost their lives following three blasts

July 11, 2006: Mumbai train blasts: 7 deadly blasts on local trains in which 209 people lost their lives.

September 8, 2006: Malegaon blasts: Two blasts killed 40.

Year 2007 - 4 blasts:

February 19, 2007: Samjhauta Express blasts: 66 persons killed in two blasts on Indo-Pak Samjhauta Express train.

May 18, 2007: Mecca Masjid blasts: 9 persons were killed in a blast at the Mecca Masjid at Hyderabad. 5 persons were killed in police firing which ensued later.

August 25, 2007: Hyderabad twin blasts: 42 persons lost their lives in twin blasts at Lumbini Park and Gokul chaat.

October 11, 2007: Ajmer blasts: Blast at Ajmer dargah kills two

Year 2008 - 9 blasts:

May 13, 2008: Jaipur blasts: Serial blasts at Pink city claims 68 lives.

July 16 2008, Ahmedabad blasts: 57 dead in serial blasts in Ahmedabad.

July 25, 2008: Bangalore blasts: One person dies in Bengaluru serial blasts.

September 13, 2008, New Delhi blasts: Blasts at New Delhi claims 26 lives.

September 27, 2008, Delhi blasts: terror strikes Delhi again in which 3 people were killed.

September 29, 2008, Modasa blast: One killed in blast at Modasa in Gujarat.

September 29, 2008, Malegaon blasts: Five persons killed after bomb placed on a motor bike went off.

October 21, 2008, Imphal blasts: 17 killed in blast near Manipur police commando complex.

October 30, 2008, Assam blasts: Eleven blasts kill over 40 persons in Assam.

The statistics is for anybody to understand about the seriousness of Congress's approach towards "Terrorism" as a National Issue.