Hats off to the new Rajya Sabha MP

Sachin has always been known for his honesty and dedication both on the field and off the field. Today, he proved it once again.

Legendary cricketer Sachin Tendulkar today refused to accept the government bungalow he is entitled to as Rajya Sabha member, saying such a stay would be a waste of taxpayer's money.

In his words - "I am not keen on staying in any govt bungalow when I will be in Delhi for only a few days. I feel this would be a waste of tax payers money and it would be better if the bungalow is allotted to someone else who needs the bungalow more than me. For me the honor of being nominated as a Rajya Sabha MP matters much more than the perks and privileges like being given a govt bungalow."

Tendulkar, who took oath as MP on Monday, said he would prefer to stay in a hotel in Delhi every time he is in Delhi. Ever since his nomination, there have been questions over whether he would be able to devote time for Parliament over his cricketing commitments.Replying the same Sachin said, "Not taking a government bungalow would not affect my responsibilities as Rajya Sabha MP. I do hope to attend few days of parliament in every session."

On Sachin becoming a Rajya Sabha member

Iconic cricket player Sachin Tendulkar, well known as a batsman and a good person in himself across the globe, was recently nominated to the Rajya Sabha by the Congress-led UPA government.

In each session of parliament, the President of India nominates few set of people for the Rajya Sabha from the fields of art, cinema etc. Rajya Sabha member is a very honorable post and people appointed for this have always been real deserving people.

After Sachin's nomination as a RS member, there has been a number of comments from well knows celebrities, politicians and socialists across the country. Some appraised this nomination but some were disappointed with this.

Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray even called it as the “Congress’s dirtiest play ever.” In his words this event is the real dirty picture directed by Congress-led UPA government. On the contrary to this, another popular celebrity from Maharashtra, the famous singer Lata Mangeshkar said that the ace cricketer will be a good parliamentarian provided he gets time for it. In her words, "I am very happy that Sachin is nominated for Rajya Sabha. Sachin is a very sincere, wise and good human being. I am sure he will make a name in parliament, the way he did in cricket. He truly deserves this but I don't know how will he split his time between cricket and parliament. Sachin is a busy person. There is a lot of international cricket happening and it will be a tough task for him to attend parliament sessions regularly. I don't know how he is going to manage."

Amitabh Bachchan, the iconic Bollywood actor popular as Big B, Saturday expressed happiness at the recent nomination of actress Rekha and cricket legend Sachin Tendulakar to the Rajya Sabha, while on the other hand another famous actor Sanjay Dutt was unhappy with Sachin becoming a parliamentarian. In his words,"It is an honour to be in the Rajya sabha. I am a fan of Sachin. He is the pride and jewel of India. But, I am not happy that he is a Rajya Sabha member. He should have been the way he is."

Sachin is undoubtedly a great personality who has made India proud a number of times earlier and ever recently. But politics is a dirty mire and Sachin, a person known for his simplicity and honesty(on field and off filed), probably that is the reason why some of the well known faces are unhappy with his entrance into the politics. 

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR OF "THE TIMES OF INDIA " TO THE PRIME MINISTER OF INDIA

Its a must read letter from the editor of Times of India to our honorable Prime Minister pertaining to the corruption and cozenage rooted deep inside the country. A very audacious and powerful letter....

LETTER OF THE EDITOR OF "THE TIMES OF INDIA " TO THE PRIME MINISTER OF INDIA

Dear Mr. Prime minister,

I am a typical mouse from Mumbai. In the local train compartment which has capacity of 100 persons, I travel with 500 more mice. Mouse at least squeaks, but we don't even do that.

Today I heard your speech, in which you said, 'NO BODY WOULD BE SPARED'. I would like to remind you that fourteen years have passed since serial bomb blasts in Mumbai took place. Dawood was the main conspirator. Till today he is not caught. All our Bollywood actors, our builders, our Gutka king keep meeting him, but your Government can not catch him. Reason is simple; all your ministers are hand in glove with him. If any attempt is made to catch him, everybody will be exposed. Your statement 'NOBODY WOULD BE SPARED' is nothing but a cruel joke on these unfortunate people of India.

Enough is enough. As such, after seeing terrorist attack carried out by about a dozen young boys, I realize that if same thing continues, days are not far away when terrorists will attack by air, destroy our nuclear reactors and there will be one more Hiroshima.

We the people are left with only one mantra. Womb to Bomb to Tomb. You promised Mumbaikar Shanghai; what you have given us is Jalianwala Baug. Today only your home minister resigned. What took you so long to kick out this joker? Only reason was that he was loyal to Gandhi family. Loyalty to Gandhi family is more important than blood of innocent people, isn't it? 

I am born and brought up in Mumbai for last fifty eight years. Believe me, corruption in Maharashtra is worse than that in Bihar. Look at all the politicians, Sharad Pawar, Chagan Bhujbal, Narayan Rane, Bal Thackray , Gopinath Munde, Raj Thackray, Vilasrao Deshmukh all are rolling in money. Vilasrao Deshmukh is one of the worst Chief ministers I have seen. His only business is to increase the FSI every other day, make money and send it to Delhi , so Congress can fight next election. Now the clown has found new way and will increase FSI for fishermen, so they can build concrete houses right on sea shore.

Next time terrorists can comfortably live in those houses, enjoy the beauty of the sea and then attack our Mumbai at their will.

Recently, I had to purchase a house in Mumbai. I met about two dozen builders. Everybody wanted about 30% in black. A common person like me knows this and with all your intelligence agency & CBI, you and your finance ministers are not aware of it. Where all the black money goes?

To the underworld, isn't it? Our politicians take help of these goondas to vacate people by force. I myself was victim of it. If you have time please come to me, I will tell you everything.

If this has been a land of fools, idiots, then I would not have ever cared to write to you this letter. Just see the tragedy. On one side we are reaching moon, people are so intelligent; and on the other side, you politicians have converted nectar into deadly poison.I am everything  - Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Scheduled Caste, OBC, Muslim OBC, Christian Scheduled Caste, and Creamy Scheduled Caste; only what I am not is INDIAN. You politicians have raped every part of Mother India by your policy of divide and rule.

Take example of our Former President Abdul Kalam. Such an intelligent person; such a fine human being. But you politician didn't even spare him and instead choose a worthless lady who had corruption charges and insignificant local polititian of Jalgaon WHO'S NAME ENTIRE COUNTRY HAD NOT HEARD BEFORE. Its simple logic your party just wanted a rubber stamp in the name of president. Imagine SHE IS SUPREME COMMANDER OF INDIA 'S THREE DEFENCE FORCES. What morale you will expect from our defence forces? Your party along with opposition joined hands, because politicians feel they are supreme and there is no place for a good person.

Dear Mr Prime minister, you are one of the most intelligent person, a most learned person. Just wake up, be a real SARDAR. First and foremost, expose all selfish politicians. Ask Swiss banks to give names of all Indian account holders. Give reins of CBI to independent agency. Let them find wolves among us. There will be political upheaval, but that will be better than dance of death which we are witnessing every day. Just give us ambience where we can work honestly and without fear. Let there be rule of law. Everything else will be taken care of.

Choice is yours Mr. Prime Minister. Do you want to be lead by one person, or you want to lead the nation of 100 Crore people?

Prakash B. Bajaj

Editor Mumbai-Times of India

Sonia's visit to a school in a remote village of India

Once Sonia Gandhi went to a school in a remote village of India to interact with the children there.

After a brief talk she asked if anyone had any questions.

One boy raised his hand.

Sonia: "What's your name"?
Boy : "RAHIM"
Sonia: "What are your questions"?
Rahim: "I've 3 questions...

1.Why did you attack & kidnap Baba Ramdev without approval of Court?
2.Why there is no punishment to KASAB as yet? 

3.Why does Manmohan singh & the Congress party not support Baba against corruption?

Sonia: "You are an intelligent student, Rahim."

Just then the recess bell rang.

Sonia: "Oh students, we will continue after the recess is over".

After the recess...

Sonia: "Ok children where were we? So, anybody wants to ask a question"?

RAM raises his hand.

Sonia: "What's your name"?
Ram: "I'm Ram and I've 5 questions...

1. Why did you attack Baba without approval of the court?
2. Why no punishment to Kasab as yet?
3. Why does Manmohan Singh not support the fight against corruption?
4. Why did the recess bell ring 20 mins before the time?
5. Where is Rahim?

Do we have democracy in India

We had CBI interrogations, we had raids but still there are no FIRs against ministers and top bureaucrats caught red handed. We have celebrated 61st birthday of our constitution which is not at all alive. We have democracy, equality, justice and law just left as few words in our country. Have a quick look at what came out after all these inquiries for the top 4 scams last year :
GOOD | NEUTRAL | BAD | WORST 
Adarsh Scam :

• The latest news is that Maharashtra’s former Chief SIC Dr Suresh Joshi – who moved the Adarsh file at two crucial points — has been appointed as Ombudsman of MERC.
• Former MMRDA Metropolitan Commissioner Ratnakar Gaikwad was made Chief Secretary of Maharashtra.
• Former CM Vilasrao Deshmukh elevated to Union Rural Development minister.
• Former CM Sushil Kumar Shinde continues as Union Power minister.
• State Information Commissioner (SIC) Ramanand Tiwari was suspended.
• Environment Minister ordered Adarsh to be demolished, and so far, State Govt. has adopted a tough stance. Water and power supply to the building have been cut off.
• Human Rights Commissioner Subhash Lalla and then Chief Minister Ashok Chavan resigned when the scam surfaced, and is lying low. (But sooner or later, both will be made a central minister.)
• NO FIR … NOT A SINGLE ONE AGAINST ANYBODY, BIG OR SMALL!

CWG Scam :

• Three of Suresh Kalmadi’s “key aides” – T S Darbari, Sanjay Mahendroo and K Jeychandran – have been released on bail, as CBI could not file a chargesheet within the 60-day period.
• At long last, Suresh Kalmadi and Lalit Bhanot, Chairman & General Secretary of Indian Olympic Association (IOA) were sacked from the Commonwealth Games Organizing Committee, “in the interest of impartial and unhindered investigations”. However, CBI and CAG are both nearing the end of their investigations, and therefore, this move is of token value. Kalmadi and Bhanot enjoyed over three months in their executive positions, giving them plenty of time to tamper with documentary evidence.
• NO FIR AGAINST KING-PINS SURESH KALMADI & LALIT BHANOT.

2G Scam :

• After Kapil Sibal took over the reins of the telecom ministry, he is busy covering up for his predecessor A Raja, and publicly brushing aside CAGs estimates of the staggering loss to the exchequer. Raja was left in his seat long enough to hide all the evidence.
• THE POSSIBILITY OF AN FIR AGAINST MR RAJA APPEARS TO BE ZERO.

Lavasa Scam :

• Ministry of Environment & Forests (MOEF) has concluded that Lavasa was built without the necessary permissions… but nobody is even looking at Sharad Pawar, Ajit Pawar and Supriya Sule, although their involvement is public knowledge.
• Nobody is looking at Lavasa Corporation’s chief Ajit Gulabchand, who has been allowed to practically steal a large part of Pune’s water-supply at its source.
• Instead of taking action to stop this criminal building activity, MOEF is exploring ways and means to regularize this ghetto of the super-rich.
• NO FIR IS IN SIGHT, DESPITE SEVERAL CRIMINAL WRONGDOINGS.

 GOOD | NEUTRAL | BAD | WORST 

Begining of a new era in Bihar

BIHAR, once almost synonymous to despondency, is rising from the ashes of gloom and murkiness. The nearly infamous GDP growth rate of 11.03% that was termed as miracle after the dreadful past that saw this north eastern state decelerating, deteriorating and degrading.

Nitish Kumar is increasingly seen as a reformer and renovator with sturdy administrational qualities. Today, the streets of Bihar resemble grace as opposed to the crumpling bridges and dilapidated highways a decade ago. An overwhelming 6800 kilometers of roads, more than 1500 bridges, and an almost equal number of cesspits were constructed during Kumar’s tenure. The saga has been threaded together with many such incredible deeds. Today no politician can openly challenge the state police; no gunda, don or bandit can roam free on the roads after committing a crime and no mafia will be given protection by the government.

The Bihar government has been quick in filling the enormous number of vacancies in the police force, and what ensued was no surprise. Crime rates plunged by 50% straightaway, and the number of kidnapping followed by demand of ransom, which was once thought to be the only vocation in Bihar, has plummeted drastically from 1390 in the previous government’s term to 315 in Nitish Kumar’s tenure.

Tourism plays a part in the economy undoubtedly, and for Bihar in the past few years, the number of foreign tourists has gone up four-fold from near about 1 lakh to almost 4 lakhs. On the other hand, private educational institutions have come up and the creators of tomorrow – the teachers, as many as 100000 joined primary schools as a part of a major recruiting drive by the Nitish Kumar government.

So, is the effect of Nitish’s Panacea that with the BJP, Nitish's Janata Dal (United) won 206 of the 243 seats in last election registering a historical win for any state in India.

Scam & Cozenage redefined in India

Due to the active participation and dedication of early Congress leaders in the fight for freedom, the very popular Congress ruled India for continuous 30 years after British rule, before first non Congress govt. led by Morarji Desai came into power. Congress party was not just a party at that time, it was true leader in all means.

But now the glory and wisdom of Congress has diminished and it is no longer the same Congress of yore. We all are well aware of the scams and cozenage in lakhs of crores in last few years led by these Congress Leaders, at the same time when hundreds of people are dying everyday because of hunger and poverty. We have seen the black money $1,456 billion deposited in Swiss Bank by these corrupt leaders and bureaucrats which is 13 times the country's foreign debt.  Forwarding mails, SMS, in-office and on-road discussions regarding theses scams have made politicians like Koda, Radia, Kalmadi, Raja and Pawar very popular and they are now hot topics of discussion.

 
But the question is, how are we going to end this corruption and corrupted leaders? This is sure that forwarding mails and discussions are not going to work it out.

Hereon, I invite your ideas to bring down the rising curve in India's corruption graph because we all Indians have to change ourselves before we change India.

And they call India a poor country

A very shocking news!
If black money deposits were an Olympics event. India would have won a gold medal hands down. Here are the details of black money deposits in Swiss bank :

• India      $1,456 billion
• Russia    $ 470 billion
• UK          $390 billion
• Ukraine  $100 billion
• China     $ 96 billion

Now do the maths - India with $1456 billion or $1.4 trillion has more money in Swiss banks than rest of the world combined. The second best, Russia has 4 times lesser deposit. US is not even there in the counting in top five!!

Dishonest industrialists, scandalous politicians and corrupt IAS, IRS, IPS officers have deposited in foreign banks in their illegal personal accounts a sum of about $ 1500 billion, which have been misappropriated by them.

This amount is about 13 times larger than the country’s foreign debt. With this amount 45 crore poor people can get Rs 1,00,000 each. This huge amount has been appropriated from the people of India by exploiting and betraying them.
 

The good news is Swiss bank is ready to unveil the names of the account holder only if the country govt. requests the same but due to well known reasons Indian govt. is not ready for the same. Lets forward it worldwide to spread this message to all Indians to expose the high and mighty and weed out corruption !!

2010 : A year of scam in India

So we are in the new decade, one month already passed. We Indians have an extra-ordinary talent of digesting almost anything in a blink of time. A few months back we have come to know about some record breaking scams be it in sports or in real state.

Our leaders and bureaucrats are well trained to get the best out for their personal benefit misusing their rights. Talk about the CWG scam, Hon'ble Kalmadi had sincerely put all his efforts into his shameless deed that has put a large black spot in the name of the country. Most of the goods were hired for a price of much more than their original market price. Talk about 2G Spectrum Allocation Scam, it was the largest political corruption case in modern Indian history. A set of leaked phone conversations of lobbyist Niira Radia sparked an a chain of events, that not only claimed A Raja's telecom ministership, but also paralyzed Parliament for 23 straight days. Adn the recent Adarsh Society Scam, its hike of shamelessness that a tribute to martyrs of Kargil war has ended up with a long list of politicians, bureaucrats and builders involved who were allocated flats.

We, the common indian people will have to wake up from our deep sleep and ignorance to put an end to this record breaking scam list year after another.