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Tuesday, 27 September 2011

Anna Ka Drama...wake up India


1-अन्ना पाकिस्तान जा रहा है भ्रष्टाचार मिटाने..

2-अन्ना मनमोहन की तारीफ करता है,

3- अन्ना ने सोनिया गाँधी की तारीफ़ की और उनको इंदिरा गाँधी जैसा बन्ने को कहा.

4-अन्ना ने राजीव गाँधी को विकसित भारत का आधार बताया,

5- अन्ना ने अडवानी का वि...रोध किया रथयात्रा पर.

6- अन्ना ने मोदी का विरोध किया उपवास पर

7-अन्ना ने कांग्रेस को स्नातक और बीजेपी को phd बता दिया भ्रष्टाचार में

8-अन्ना के आन्दोलन में सबसे अधिक चन्दा नविन जिंदल ने दिया जो

कांग्रेस सांसद है.


9- अरविन्द केजरीवाल ने सभी चंदे अपने ngo परिवर्तन के नाम पर लिए

और उसका कोई रिकार्ड भी नही है की चंदा कितना है .और उसपर टैक्स क्या लगेगा

10-अन्ना खुद को संघ का साथी बताने पर ऐसे छटकता है जैसे isi का agent बताया जा रहा हो.

11- अन्ना राज ठाकरे को समर्थन देता है

12- प्रधान मंत्री ने सैकड़ों एकड़ जमीं बंगलादेश को दे दी तब सोये हुए थे अन्ना.

13-लोकपाल से सम्बंधित एक भी शर्त मानी नही गई,फिर भी अनशन तोड़ दिया गया.

14- मंच पर बार बार ये कहा जाना की अनशन तोड़ने वाली लड़की

मुस्लिम और दलित हैं क्या वैमनष्यता और जातिगत भेदभाव को प्रदर्शित नही करती.

15-बुखारी को मनाने के लिए केजरीवाल और बेदी को क्यूँ भेजा गया?


16- भारत माता की तस्वीर क्यूँ हटाई गयी?

17- वन्दे मातरम बोलने से परहेज क्यूँ किया गया?

18-रामदेव को धन्यवाद् नही दिया गया अनशन ख़त्म होने पर जबकि

विलास राव देशमुख और भय्यु जी महाराज और संसद को धन्यवाद् दिया गया.क्यूँ?


19- जो व्यक्ति अन्ना के समर्थन में मर गया था उसकी सुध क्यूँ नही ली गई?

20- कश्मीर को पाकिस्तान को कैसे दे दें.......................

अगर जवाब नही है तो उखाड़ फेकिये ऐसे लोग को जो अपनी माँ को माँ कहने से इसलिए

डरते हैं कि लोग क्या कहेगे. अन्ना को एक महीने से उपर हो गया अनसन

खत्म किये

हुए अब तक सिर्फ भाषण ही भाषण और कुछ नहीं किया, क्यों नहीं वो रामदेव की तरह

निकलता लोगो को जागरूक करने के लिए, मैंने भी उन का समर्थन किया था, पर अब लगता

है मैंने गलती की ??????

Tuesday, 6 September 2011

Why has PM not faced Anna Hazare between April and August?

Why Hasn't the PM met Anna Hazare between April and August?

The answer to that must lie between Dr Singh and his conscience, feels TVR Shenoy,(of "The Week" and "Indian Express" fame) who wrote this piece on 26 August, before the fast ended. Pls read the article below.

Years ago, back when I was growing up in the village of Cherai, I heard the parable of the 'Sticks or the Onions.'

'A thief was once caught stealing onions from a field. The village headman offered him a choice of punishment; he could either chew and swallow fifty raw onions in succession, or he could take fifty whacks with a stick. The thief chose to eat the onions, but his stomach started heaving after eating just five, and he gasped out that he would prefer the beating. Five solid swishes later he yelled out that he would return to the onions after all. This went on through the day until the headman smilingly halted both punishments because the thief by then had endured both fifty onions and fifty whacks.'

I heard this story over sixty years ago, and in the six decades since then I have never thought anyone could possibly be so stupid. Until, that is, I returned to Delhi after a long hiatus to watch the gyrations of the UPA government.

The stick they face is the undoubted assault that the Congress must face should it stick to its guns, and present a Lokpal Bill with little or no output from Team Anna. That would immediately unite the Opposition, and perhaps embolden even those Congress allies within the UPA to attempt seizing the moral high ground.

Can you imagine Lalu Prasad Yadav's Rashtriya Janata Dal or A Raja's DMK solemnly castigating Dr Manmohan Singh ? Do not laugh, it is quite possible.

The lashing would continue outside Parliament too, in the court of public opinion and possibly even in the actual, judicial, courts. (The Supreme Court has already asked the Delhi police to explain a previous hamhanded action, against Baba Ramdev .) With elections due in various states in 2012 -- giant Uttar Pradesh among them -- the Congress may decide that it is better not to risk the fallout.

This leaves the Congress with the option of swallowing the onions, and there are plenty to swallow.

Frankly, a Lokpal Bill drafted entirely by politicians -- from any party really -- was never going to win public confidence. My friend K N Bhat, a renowned Supreme Court lawyer, put it rather neatly: "Asking politicians to draft a Lokpal Bill is like asking prisoners to draw up plains to build the jail's walls; they will plan escape routes before the foundations are laid!"

Having -- so they thought! -- dodged a bullet by persuading Anna Hazare to break his fast on April 9, the Congress appeared to believe that it could stymie the anti-corruption movement at the table if not on the street. It was at this point that Baba Ramdev -- and it is no secret that some in the Congress saw him as a potential rival to Anna Hazare --threw a spanner in the works.

When the yoga exponent proved too hard to rein in the Congress resorted to the Delhi police. (This just four days after a farce where senior ministers rushed to the airport to receive Baba Ramdev, the Cabinet secretary too in tow!) And with this began the first of the onions that the party must swallow to avoid the stick.

Here is how the onions came tumbling out:

June 5: 'A swami who teaches yoga to the country should not teach us political asanas.' Thus spake Kapil Sibal the Union human resource development minister, one day after the Delhi police forcibly broke up Baba Ramdev's camp at some crazy hour of the morning, well before sunrise.

The minister piously added that he hoped that the episode had been a warning to other agitators, a clear reference to Anna Hazare, who had vowed to go on another fast if the Lokpal Bill were not enacted by August 15.

June 26: Kapil Sibal announced that 'civil society' would not be used again in drafting a law, adding, 'In the given situation, the government was in, it is a decision that we took with open eyes and I don't consider it to be a precedent.'

July 27: Speaking at the Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies at Khadki, Congress spokesperson and Ludhiana MP Manish Tiwari slammed Anna Hazare, saying, 'He has a myopic vision. I believe that the Lokpal is not an issue.' (For good measure, Tiwari took on his own party's Mani Shankar Aiyar for having called the party headquarters a 'circus', describing his senior as someone that 'unfortunately has a reputation of being a loose cannon on the deck of Indian politics.')

August 14: This was a red letter day as far as Congress attacks on Anna Hazare were concerned, after the veteran Gandhian refused to back down from his proposed fast.

Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee , on a visit to Kolkata , told the media that nobody could dictate to Parliament as to on what terms a law should be enacted.

Digvijay Singh, the Congress general secretary, told the world that 'street protestors' could not frame legislation, and that the job must be left to elected lawmakers. According to reports, he doubted that anything more than ten thousand people would support Anna Hazare's second fast.

The highlight of the day was an all-out attack by the Congress spokesperson Manish Tiwari, who accused Anna Hazare thusly: 'We want to ask Kisan Baburao Hazare alias Anna that with what face do you talk of fast against corruption. You are involved in corruption from top to bottom, and we are not saying this, this has been said by a probe panel which was headed by a former Supreme Court judge.'

Manish Tiwari added, 'A few days ago, the Army received an RTI request seeking past records of Anna. The army wrote to Anna to find if he has any objection against it giving those records to the RTI applicant. Anna has not replied to the army's query to date.' (This gave the impression that Anna Hazare's service record was not above board.)

The Congress spokesperson wound up with, 'If someone was suffering from a combination of grandeur and grandstanding, then he needs to be shown his place. That's precisely what we have done today.'

In person, Manish Tiwari is affable and relatively soft-spoken, and, being a lawyer by profession, one can only assume that spewing such vitriol was his party's brief. Competent attorneys follow briefs; great attorneys know they must occasionally tell their clients not to act like fools. Neither insinuation holds any water, and Manish Tiwari's credibility has been badly damaged.

Following Tiwari's attack, Subhash Chandra Agrawal used the Right to Information Act to ask the army itself about Anna Hazare. The response was uncompromising: Anna Hazare never deserted any post, no punishment was ever accorded to him during his years in the army, and that he was 'honourably discharged' after serving for twelve years. The army's response also noted that five medals had been notified to Anna Hazare, including the Sangram Medal and the Paschimi Star. (According to his colleagues, the scar on Anna Hazare's head is the result of a Pakistani bullet.)

As to the corruption allegations, the Sukthankar Task Force -- appointed by a Congress chief minister, mind you! -- concluded that 'it cannot be gainsaid that these offences are relatively minor and are of a technical nature,' and that there was no indication of any malafide intention or dishonest motives of the trustees.

Can there be anything more wounding than to hint that a retired soldier with an unblemished record had behaved dishonourably, or that a crusader against corruption was himself corrupt?

There was a final onion to be launched -- and from the ramparts of the Red Fort no less.

Speaking on Independence Day, the prime minister said, 'There are some people who want to create disturbances in the country so that our progress gets stalled,' if anyone missed the import of that, the prime minister helpfully added that anyone who disagreed with his government's version of the Lokpal Bill 'should not resort to hunger strikes and fasts unto death.'

Was this the final straw?

That evening, Anna Hazare made an unscheduled visit to Rajghat, where he sat before Mahatma Gandhi's samadhi without saying a word. His silence was more eloquent than Dr Manmohan Singh's words of that morning.

The next morning, August 16, Anna Hazare and his team were arrested (for reasons never made clear), and taken to Tihar jail (the same that is now home to A Raja and Suresh Kalmadi ). The outpouring of public anger was so fast and so ferocious that the government was on the run from the moment go. (So much for Digvijay Singh's 'ten thousand'!) There followed the classic trinity of 'Order, Counter-order, Disorder.'

There were a few more onions in store, but these were mere bulbs, not full-blown plants. Union Home Minister P Chidambaram spoke of a 'painful duty' in arresting Anna Hazare (hours before all charges were dropped, and while denying all knowledge of the details of the operation).

Rashid Alvi, another Congress spokesperson, raised the bogey of a foreign hand -- 'It needs to be considered whether there is any power which is supporting this movement which wants to destabilise not only the government but the country,' before the party hastily dropped this line of attack.

Each onion must be swallowed before amity is restored.

A start has been made. Ten days after his 'create disturbances' speech, the prime minister told Parliament that his government 'applauds' Anna Hazare and 'respects' his idealism. Oddly, between April and August, the Congress's 'Mr Clean' has never actually faced Anna Hazare. Why is that?

The answer to that must lie between the prime minister and his conscience. As far as the Lokpal Bill is concerned, however, its own miscalculations have left the Congress pondering over another question.

Will it be the stick or the onions?

http://www.rediff.com/news/column/column-anna-hazare-india-lokpal-corruption-manmohan-singh/20110826.htm

T V R Shenoy

Saturday, 27 August 2011

BJP supports Anna's Jan Lokpal Bill, asks govt to withdraw its version


PTI Aug 25, 2011, 08.30pm IST

NEW DELHI: Opening up its cards for the first time on Anna Hazare's agitation, the BJP on Thursday came out in support of hisJan Lokpal Bill saying it should be made the basis of discussion in Parliament over creation of an effective ombudsman and asking the government to withdraw its version of the legislation.

"The BJP supports Jan Lokpal Bill proposed by Team Anna. It should be introduced in Parliament. We will make it as the basis of discussion. The government's Lokpal Bill has gone to the parliamentary standing committee. The government can withdraw its bill with the opposition's consent," BJP president Nitin Gadkaritold a press conference at the party headquarters here.


अन्ना हजारे के आंदोलन पर पहली बार के लिए अपने पत्ते खोलते हुए , उनके जन लोकपाल विधेयक के समर्थन में गुरुवार को भाजपा कह रही है कि यह एक प्रभावी लोकपाल के निर्माण पर संसद में चर्चा के आधार बनाया जाना चाहिए और सरकार से अपने पुराने विधयेक को वापस लेने को कह रही है.


जो लोकपाल विधेयक टीम अन्ना द्वारा प्रस्तावित है भाजपा उसका समर्थन करती है ,यह संसद में पेश किया जाना चाहिए. हम इसे चर्चा का आधार बनायेगे. भाजपा अध्यक्ष नितिन गद्गादी पार्टी मुख्यालय में एक संवाददाता सम्मेलन मै कहा कि . -सरकार जिस लोकपाल विधेयक को संसद की स्थायी समिति के लिए भेज चुकी है उसे विपक्ष की सहमति के साथ बिल वापस कर सकती है.


(Hindi Translation by Anurag and Neha)



BJP, Left in agreement with most points of Jan Lokpal

BJP


NEW DELHI: On a day Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi expressed his differences with Anna Hazare's idea of Lokpal, BJP and Left parties appeared to be converging on salient points, including bringing the Prime Minister's Office under its ambit with safeguards.

Leaders of Opposition Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley on Friday moved resolutions for debate and vote in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha on their recommendations on the bill. "Discussions with civil society groups and non-UPA political parties are converging towards the same position," Jaitley told reporters. Anna Hazare's team had meetings with senior BJP leaders on Thursday night and the Left parties on Friday morning.

The BJP exuded confidence that its resolution on setting up an independent Lokpal, if passed in the House, would end the deadlock over the bill. According to it, the law should have the widest coverage, including the Prime Minister, with the exception of his national security and public order functions. The resolution said it should create an appointment mechanism for appointing Lokpals independent of government domination and also provide for an independent and autonomous CBI.

On the issue of judiciary, it said the appointments and accountability mechanism should be regulated by a national judicial commission. It said the law should cover all levels of government servants and provide for a framework for setting up of Lokayuktas with similar powers in states which would also create a grievance redressal mechanism. BJP sources said Hazare's team was on board on 90% amendments recommended by it to the Jan Lokpal bill. The party also conveyed to the delegation that it would not agree allowing Lokpal to tap phones.

However, there are still sticky points like inclusion of lower bureaucracy under Lokpal and conduct of MPs inside the House. To a question about lower bureaucracy, Jaitley said "we as a political party want a solution to the impasse. We want the entire bureaucracy covered. We are flexible in this area because we do not want the impasse to continue." He said the party had clinched nine points.

"We felt it was time to get into specifics and gave notices under Rule 184 (Lok Sabha) and Rule 168 (Rajya Sabha), Swaraj said addressing a press conference, along with Jaitley, after an all-party meeting. The government resolution said "the document Jan Lokpal bill drafted by members of the civil society under the leadership of Shri Anna Hazare as also the proposals by prominent civil society groups and eminent citizens for addressing issues of corruption". BJP rejected the resolution dubbing it as tame.

The Left, which is "broadly" in sync with BJP's proposals, wants the lower bureaucracy to be under vigilance cover and corruption by MPs inside the House, as in the cash-for-votes scandal, to be under Lokpal. "Barring these, we have no objection to BJP's recommendations," CPM leader Basudeb Acharia said. The BJP does not want MPs behaviour inside the House to fall under Lokpal's ambit.


जिस दिन कांग्रेस महासचिव राहुल गांधी ने लोकपाल पर अन्ना हजारे के विचार के साथ अपने मतभेदों को व्यक्त किया, भाजपा और वाम दल सुरक्षा उपायों के साथ अपने दायरे के तहत प्रधानमंत्री कार्यालय लाने सहित मुख्य बिंदुओं पर सहमत होते दिखाई दिये.


नेता विपक्ष सुषमा स्वराज और अरुण जेटली द्वारा उनकी सिफारिशों पर लोक सभा और राज्य सभा में बिल पर बहस और मतदान के लिए संकल्प ले जाया गया."सिविल सोसाइटी और गैर - यूपीए राजनीतिक दलों के साथ चर्चाएँ एक ही स्थिति की ओर जा रही हैं" जेटली ने संवाददाताओं से कहा.

अन्ना हजारे की टीम से गुरुवार रात को BJP के वरिष्ठ नेताओं के साथ और शुक्रवार की सुबह पर वाम दलों के साथ बैठकें होगी.


भाजपा को खुला विश्वास है कि एक स्वतंत्र लोकपाल की स्थापना का संकल्प पूरा हो जायेगा ,यदि सदन में पारित विधेयक पर गतिरोध खत्म होता है. इसके अनुसार, कानून मै अपनी राष्ट्रीय सुरक्षा और सार्वजनिक व्यवस्था कार्यों के अपवाद के साथ व्यापक कवरेज, प्रधानमंत्री सहित, होना चाहिए.


संकल्प ने कहा कि यह सरकार प्रभुत्व के स्वतंत्र Lokpals की नियुक्ति के लिए एक नियुक्ति तंत्र बनाने के लिए और भी चाहिए एक स्वतंत्र और स्वायत्त सीबीआई के लिए उपलब्ध कराने के.


न्यायपालिका के मुद्दे पर
, यह कहा कि नियुक्तियों और जवाबदेही तंत्र एक राष्ट्रीय न्यायिक आयोग द्वारा विनियमित किया जाना चाहिए. इस मै यह भी कहा कि इस कानून मै सरकारी कर्मचारियों के सभी स्तरों को कवर करना चाहए और राज्यों में इसी तरह के शक्तियों के साथ लोकायुक्त को स्थापित करने के लिए एक रूपरेखा प्रदान करना चाहिए. जो एक शिकायत निवारण तंत्र होगा.


भाजपा सूत्रों ने कहा है हजारे टीम द्वारा 90% जन लोकपाल बिल के लिए सिफारिश की संशोधन पर बोर्ड पर था.


पार्टी ने प्रतिनिधिमंडल को बताया कि यह लोकपाल को फोन टेप करने के पक्ष में नहीं है .

हालांकि, लोकपाल के तहत निचले नौकरशाही और सदन के अंदर सांसदों के आचरण के शामिल किए जाने पर सहमत नही है. निचले नौकरशाही के बारे में एक सवाल के जवाब में जेटली ने कहा कि "हम एक राजनीतिक दल के रूप में गतिरोध के लिए एक समाधान चाहते हैं,हम पूरे नौकरशाही कवर करना चाहते हैं. हम इस क्षेत्र में लचीला कर रहे हैं क्योंकि हम गतिरोध जारी रखना नहीं चाहते ." उन्होंने कहा कि पार्टी पोइंट्स पे सहमत है.


सर्वदलीय बैठक के बाद स्वराज ने अरुण जेटली के साथ एक संवाददाता सम्मेलन को संबोधित करते हुए कहा की हमें लगता है कि यहाँ विशेष समय मिले और नियम 184 (लोकसभा) और नियम 168 (राज्य सभा) के तहत नोटिस दिया, के साथ एक. सरकार के संकल्प "दस्तावेज़ जन लोकपाल श्री अन्ना हजारे के नेतृत्व में नागरिक समाज के सदस्यों द्वारा के रूप में भी प्रमुख नागरिक समाज समूह और भ्रष्टाचार के मुद्दों को संबोधित करने के लिए प्रतिष्ठित नागरिकों द्वारा प्रस्ताव का मसौदा तैयार किया बिल" कहा. भाजपा के रूप में यह वश नरम संकल्प को खारिज कर दिया.


वाम, जो "मोटे तौर पर भाजपा के प्रस्तावों के साथ में है पर चाहती है की - निचले नौकरशाही सतर्कता कवर में आये और सदन के अंदर सांसदों द्वारा भ्रष्टाचार के तहत, घोटाले नकदी के लिए वोट के रूप में, लोकपाल के तहत लाना चाहते है. "इन को छोड़कर, हम भाजपा की सिफारिशों को कोई आपत्ति नहीं है" सीपीएम नेता वासुदेव आचार्य ने कहा. भाजपा सभा के अंदर सांसदों व्यवहार है लोकपाल के दायरे में नहीं चाहता है.


Hindi Translation done by Anurag, Vineet and Neha)