Answer: Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law, Robert Vadra, holds a managing shares and 20 percent stake in Unitech -- one of the firms that benefited from Raja's scheme.
Source: http://www.rediff.com/news/slide-show/slide-show-1-swamy-goes-after-chidambaram-over-2g-scam/20110323.htm
Now that explains why the truth will never come out regarding this scam...
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Showing posts with label current affairs. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Election Freebies: DMK vs AIADMK
NOTE: I changed my blog heading now... Its not anymore just DMK...
The DMK, in its manifesto, has promised (a) a concrete house worth Rs.1,00,000 (b) grant to women folk of a sum of Rs.5,000-Rs.10,000 through women self help groups (c) free mixie or grinder (d) laptop worth around Rs.20,000 or more for students (e) free bus travel to senior citizens worth around Rs.2,000 per month at current rates (f) 35 kg of rice worth around Rs.175 and (g) PMK's promise of direct cash transfer of around Rs.1,500 - which approximately totals over Rs.200,000 over the next five years per family.
Now lets see AIADMK, and how can they lag behind....
Highlights of AIADMK's manifesto: (source NDTV)
Isn't that we call a bribe????
God save Tamil Nadu!!!
The DMK, in its manifesto, has promised (a) a concrete house worth Rs.1,00,000 (b) grant to women folk of a sum of Rs.5,000-Rs.10,000 through women self help groups (c) free mixie or grinder (d) laptop worth around Rs.20,000 or more for students (e) free bus travel to senior citizens worth around Rs.2,000 per month at current rates (f) 35 kg of rice worth around Rs.175 and (g) PMK's promise of direct cash transfer of around Rs.1,500 - which approximately totals over Rs.200,000 over the next five years per family.
Now lets see AIADMK, and how can they lag behind....
Highlights of AIADMK's manifesto: (source NDTV)
- Fans, mixies and grinders free for all women
- 20 kg free rice for all ration card holders
- Free laptops for all higher secondary students and engineering students
- Four gram free gold for poor brides for mangalsutra
- 60,000 free cows for 6,000 villages to increase milk production
Isn't that we call a bribe????
God save Tamil Nadu!!!
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Corruption in India - From The Economist
Take a look at corruption in India from the perspective of a foreign publication - The Economist. Though the situation in India is bad, it also presents some hope to the people of India. It also points out some states where things are done differently - for instance - Bihar (thankfully after Lalu's regime) is doing itself a good job under Nitish and for all those Narendra Modi bashers - Gujarat is also mentioned for its innovative approach to tackle corruption.
Click http://www.economist.com/node/18338852 for more details.
Click http://www.economist.com/node/18338852 for more details.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
2 contradicting lives of a politician
I was browsing through the news websites today and found something interesting....
Abhishek Manu Singhvi, spokesperson of the Congress party lives two contradicting lives every day. No he doesn't become wolf by night... He does something even worse.
1st Life occurs during Day-Time: He goes to supreme court (as a lawyer) and defends his clients Aircel & Vodafone with an argument "his clients could not be compared with those who got licences in 2008 when far too many irregularities were allegedly committed." (source: http://ping.fm/4XT0M) .
Now let's see his other life.
2nd life during Night-Time:- He jumps from one tv channel to the other and tells the world (as a Congress spokesperson) that the ambit of the 2G scam should be extended to 2001 when BJP gave away 2G waves for free to operators like Vodafone & Aircel.
Phew!!! Another "Great Indian Tamasha"
Abhishek Manu Singhvi, spokesperson of the Congress party lives two contradicting lives every day. No he doesn't become wolf by night... He does something even worse.
1st Life occurs during Day-Time: He goes to supreme court (as a lawyer) and defends his clients Aircel & Vodafone with an argument "his clients could not be compared with those who got licences in 2008 when far too many irregularities were allegedly committed." (source: http://ping.fm/4XT0M) .
Now let's see his other life.
2nd life during Night-Time:- He jumps from one tv channel to the other and tells the world (as a Congress spokesperson) that the ambit of the 2G scam should be extended to 2001 when BJP gave away 2G waves for free to operators like Vodafone & Aircel.
Phew!!! Another "Great Indian Tamasha"
Sunday, January 30, 2011
State of affairs -
I wanted to write a blog for quite some time on the current state of affairs of Indian governance...I will take this post as a cumulative exercise adding to this post (as I find some interesting details), instead of a one time post... Here I go.
I was reading some article on Indian corruption and one statement caught my eyes. It reads like this and is a classic:
"I am not as educated as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh or Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee. Yet, I can run the house much more efficiently than the way they are running this country" - Dipali Mahapatra (Homemaker)
Another one reads like this...
"I would have to stop sending my 7-year-old son to school from next month as my priority at the moment is to provide food for the family" - Ram Prasad Mondal(Vegetable vendor)
Just give a moment to the above statements....
These are very serious statements from people who come from the biggest group in India - THE POORS!!!
Mr.Prime Minister, being a sensible man would listen to what these guys are saying and do something about it.
Cumulative details 1 (Added on Feb 1,2011) .....
Why the wrath of the common man cannot be left unattended for a long time? The answer lies in the current state of affairs in the Arab world. The common man was ignored for 20 something years there. The trigger - Tunisian crisis - was itself triggered by the apathy of the common man. A fruit vendor (like our own Ram Prasad Mondal as referred to above) burnt himself alive because of the high handedness of the government and its officials. And the result shook not just Tunisia but the entire Arab world - Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Yemen....
More details on Tunisian crisis here
The lesson to be learnt by our own politicians is simple. Don't ignore the common man (we prefer to call him the aam aadhmi)..
Cumulative details 2 (Added on Feb 15, 2011)....
Dr.Manmohan Singh (MMS) - The Indian Prime Minister. Every one calls him the saint, man of integrity and what not. But is integrity without accountability? Now consider a good hearted boss not knowing how to manage his team? That is what is happening. MMS - the good guys is not able to control his team. Its ironic that the most corrupt government of post independent India is lead by the person considered to be the most honest PM in post independent India.
But the point I want to discuss here is if MMS guilty of a moral corruption here? Its not like MMS did not know about 2G scam 3 years back when whole of India was screaming about the most obvious. And MMS, dismissed it with disregard. Did not even pay heed to the scream. Now CBI, its own puppet department says the same thing, as though something new is being said. MMS indeed is the weakest PM of independent India and there is no doubt about it. It goes on to show the country that we just don't need good people but good administrators. We made that mistake once in the form of Jawaharlal Nehru, who was a good person but not a good administrator. Some of Nehru's follies, India is still repenting.
To be continued.....
I was reading some article on Indian corruption and one statement caught my eyes. It reads like this and is a classic:
"I am not as educated as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh or Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee. Yet, I can run the house much more efficiently than the way they are running this country" - Dipali Mahapatra (Homemaker)
Another one reads like this...
"I would have to stop sending my 7-year-old son to school from next month as my priority at the moment is to provide food for the family" - Ram Prasad Mondal(Vegetable vendor)
Just give a moment to the above statements....
These are very serious statements from people who come from the biggest group in India - THE POORS!!!
Mr.Prime Minister, being a sensible man would listen to what these guys are saying and do something about it.
Cumulative details 1 (Added on Feb 1,2011) .....
Why the wrath of the common man cannot be left unattended for a long time? The answer lies in the current state of affairs in the Arab world. The common man was ignored for 20 something years there. The trigger - Tunisian crisis - was itself triggered by the apathy of the common man. A fruit vendor (like our own Ram Prasad Mondal as referred to above) burnt himself alive because of the high handedness of the government and its officials. And the result shook not just Tunisia but the entire Arab world - Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Yemen....
More details on Tunisian crisis here
The lesson to be learnt by our own politicians is simple. Don't ignore the common man (we prefer to call him the aam aadhmi)..
Cumulative details 2 (Added on Feb 15, 2011)....
Dr.Manmohan Singh (MMS) - The Indian Prime Minister. Every one calls him the saint, man of integrity and what not. But is integrity without accountability? Now consider a good hearted boss not knowing how to manage his team? That is what is happening. MMS - the good guys is not able to control his team. Its ironic that the most corrupt government of post independent India is lead by the person considered to be the most honest PM in post independent India.
But the point I want to discuss here is if MMS guilty of a moral corruption here? Its not like MMS did not know about 2G scam 3 years back when whole of India was screaming about the most obvious. And MMS, dismissed it with disregard. Did not even pay heed to the scream. Now CBI, its own puppet department says the same thing, as though something new is being said. MMS indeed is the weakest PM of independent India and there is no doubt about it. It goes on to show the country that we just don't need good people but good administrators. We made that mistake once in the form of Jawaharlal Nehru, who was a good person but not a good administrator. Some of Nehru's follies, India is still repenting.
To be continued.....
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