Gujrati union minister named in subversion

Associated Press, OTTAWA  

A Canadian official on Tuesday alleged that Home Minister Amit Shah ordered a campaign of violence, intimidation and intelligence gathering, targeting Sikh separation  activists, in Canada. 

Deputy Foreign Affgairs Minister David Morrison told Parliament members of the national security committee that he had confirmed Mr. Shah's name to The Washington Post, which first reported the allegations.

"The journalist called me and asked if it was that person. I confirmed it was that person," Mr. Morrison told the committee. 

Mr. Morrison did not say how Canada knew of Mr. Shah's alleged involvement. 

The Hindu,  Thursday,   October 31, 2024

time for a new PM candidate

Something changed.  I cannot put a date to it. Something opened up. 

The election was transiting in phases; so was the public mood. 

The common refrain was, "chunav palat gaya hai"; the election has turned. 

This election was not contested by political parties, it was contested by the people. 

The BJP is likely to fall well short, of the majority mark of 272. 

In the context of the party's stranglehold over money, a servile media, spinelessness of institutions like the Election Commission, any number below 300 would be a defeat for the regime. 

Yogendra Yadav,     June 01, 2024,      The Indian Express

meri marzi . . . ?

Present leadership decided to replace 3 Rajya Sabha MPS and ordered to them, to resign - Swati Maliwal, Harbhajan Singh and Raghav Chadha. The three were conspicuous by their absence, when the leader was arrested and incarcerated.

Swati was in the US for months, Chadha stayed away in London and Harbhajan refrained from campaigning for the party in Punjab. The cricketer is accused of striking discordant notes, on political issues.

Alleged assault was unleashed on Swati, when she went to discuss the issue of her resignation from the Parliament. She said that the party was built by combined efforts of a lot of people. And all have earned the positions they have got. And refused to give up her seat. 

Harbhajan also has opposed the hukum to sack him. And tweeted that he cannot start canvassing without the party giving him a programme. 

Chadha has returned from London and met the present chief.

The New Indian Express,    May 20, 2024

drowned in the allure of money

I counselled him to pay attention to his character, to his conduct, to his pattern of thoughts. 

Counselled him to not grab, but to let go; to live without blemish.

Arvind began by doing good work, initially.

When liquor  trade brought in loads and loads of money, he drowned in it. 

Anna Hazare

High time to change AAP leadership

chief minister passed on the mike to Sanjay Singh and refused to answer questions. 

If he is innocent in the matter, it screams for a response from him. Incident has happened in his residence, and involves his personal assistant. 

And there is a strong inference that it was done at his behest. And that inference gets stronger, with his continuing silence and his inaction.

Do you think that the personal secretary is going to misbehave with a Rajya Sabha member, who the chief minister has praised in the past - unless there is a tacit consent in this matter?   

AA Party now consists people who are a close cabal of criminals. .

Already there is a criminal case of money laundering, against the AA party. The party itself has been named as the accused. 

Birds of a feather flock together, and not one party member has stood up to condemn the assault. Their behaviour has now exposed them Clearly something terrible has happened. And it has happened in the chief minister's residence. The offences are serious, and some of them non bailable. Yet the chief minister, is silent. 

Mahesh Jethmalani,  Times Now

Federal Gem - Bharat Ratna

. . . . . was angry with the Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao when his government - in 1992 - decided to appeal against the  Delhi high court's decision, to quash a police complaint  in Bofors gun case, says senior party leader Margaret Alva. 

"What does the Prime Minister want to do? Send me to jail?", snapped the Congress President, when Alva met her. 

"What has the congress government done for me? This house was allotted to me by the Janata party's Chandrashekar government. I am not seeking any favors for myself or my children,  from him," she told the minister who was trying to patch peace.

"She was really angry," says Alva in her autobiography. 

Hindustan Times,     July 16, 2016

rollback disastrous bill

Civil societies demanded roll back of the Forest Amendment Bill 2023.

It is disastrous for forest resources and livelihood of millions, they said. 

Even renamed Janata party ruled states are unhappy and oppose some clauses of FCA bill 2023. 

"The proposed amendment would grossly shrink the purpose and jurisdiction of the original Forest Conservation Act 1980, by removing restrictions on conservation of any Forest land," said Pradip Chatterjee  Convenor to the National Platform for Small Scale Fish  Workers. 

The New Indian Express, Saturday    July 22, 2023