News Analysis India | October 2011

Bull fighting between Anna Hazare and Digvijay Singh

By Premendra Agrawal at October 30, 2011 19:17
Filed Under: Current Affairs

 

 

Congress freed Digvijay Singh to fight Anna Hazarre and his team

 

Digvijay has said that Rahul's help not needed. He is sufficient to fight alone with the Anna Hazare and his team.

Is Digvijay Your Spokesperson?: BJP Asks Sonia, Rahul - Outlook ...

Does Digvijay Singh battle for himself or Rahul? - Rediff.com News

 

 

Digvijay Singh described Anna Hazare as "a
mask of all anti-Congress parties",

 

New Delhi, Oct 27: With Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh's spat with anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare and his team grabbing media headlines every single day, the latest rhetoric to come from Singh is when he tweeted, "Plan A - Baba Ramdev. Crashed. Plan B- Anna. ? Plan C - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar soon to start his campaign.”

With the jibe hitting an all-time low, the latest lambast has caused the irk between Congress and Team Anna to widen further. With the Art of Living founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's name being dragged into the matter, Digvijay Singh alleged that the RSS first used Baba Ramdev, then Anna Hazare and is now all set to use

 

Videos for anna hazare team vs digvijay singh: Direct: Digvijay Singh targets Team Anna - YouTube

Hazare blasts Congress leader Digvijay Singh - Arab News: Digvijay Singh's remark is highly objectionable and slanderous. Being a member
of Anna Hazare team, I would like to voice my concern .... We will also not post
comments that advocate breaking the law or committing crimes. ...

 

Bullfighting is a traditional spectacle of Spain, Portugal, southern France and
some Latin American countries (Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru and
Ecuador), ... Bullfighting is the most indefensible type of animal abuse… The art and history of Bullfighting in Spain, a popular custom and tradition., Now it is going on Indian Political scene.

 

Man vs Bull is also common in India. In fact this was in the news recently, because first the Supreme Court banned the four-century-old ‘Jallikattu’ – event that attracts thousands of people (including tourists) during the Pongal harvest festival in the state of Tamil Nadu, as a “barbaric” way of treating animals, and then due to pressure from Karunanidhi, the Chief Minister, the ban was overturned. Karunanidhi said it would be hurting the religious sentiments of people – and this is the same person who has made statements against the Hindu religion! More likely that he knows that too much money rides on this sport to ban it all of a sudden. It’s also a popular sport and that will cost him votes.

Jallikattu by the way is different from the Spanish bull-fighting as the bull isn’t killed, and the man does not use a weapon. What happens is (Wiki):

 

India Inc says scams, corruption hitting growth

 

India’s top industrialists appear increasingly concerned over procedural bottlenecks, corruption, delayed reforms and the logjam in Parliament impeding long-term growth and driving investments away from the country. In an “open letter” to “leaders” on Monday, 14 eminent corporate captains related stories

Lokpal bill soon, PM tells Anna

and policy analysts described the nexus between certain companies, politicians, bureaucrats and power brokers as the “biggest threat” to the economy.

 

The eminent citizens, including Deepak Parekh (chairman, HDFC), Azim Premji (chairman, Wipro), Jamshyd Godrej (chairman Godrej and Boyce) and Bimal Jalan (former RBI governor), said citizens and small entrepreneurs face “continuous daily harassment” in almost every interface with government officials.

 

This was the second letter by them since January highlighting issues concerning governance deficit and corruption.

 

“We support the need for urgent passage of a well-crafted lokpal bill by Parliament,” the group wrote, adding that the draft bill could help deal with “episodic corruption” but is unlikely to have any significant impact on “day-to-day corruption, which is insidious and demeaning”.

Sd/-
Mr N Vaghul             Mr Deepak  Parekh                Dr Ashok Ganguly
Mr Jamshyd Godrej Justice Sam Variava   Prof M Narasimham
Mr Yezdi Malegam     Ms Anu Aga    Dr A Vaidyanathan
Dr Bimal Jalan Mr keshub Mahindra  Mr Azim Premji
Mr Nachiket Mor  Justice B N Srikrishna

Above signatories believe that through urgent, concerted action in which we are ready to lend a hand, positive change can be achieved.

 

 

 

 

By Premendra Agrawal

Dead Silence on the killers and contract killers of Lal Bahadur Shastri?

By Premendra Agrawal at October 29, 2011 20:25
Filed Under: India, World

 

 

The Soviet newspaper Tass put the cold message: «The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and the Council of Ministers of the USSR is sad to notice that 11 Jan, 1966 in 1 hour and 32 minutes in Tashkent died a distinguished statesman, Prime Minister of India Lal Bahadur Shastri ».

 

 

The USSR government presented a façade of investigation by arresting the Soviet cook Sattarov and also others, on suspicion of poisoning the Indian Premier, but later absolved them of the charges.  Are these facts not throwing dim light towards the killers and contract killers?

 

In 2009, Anuj Dhar, author of CIA's Eye on South Asia and India's answer to the X-Files, asked the Indian Prime Minister's Office (PMO) under a Right to Information (RTI) plea that Shastri's cause of death be made public. In July 2009 the PMO refused to oblige, claiming this would lead to harming of foreign relations, cause disruption in the country and cause breach of parliamentary privileges. The PMO did reveal that it had in its possession one document related to Shastri's death. Why it should not be in public domain?

 

 

The PMO admitted that it had a classified document on Shastri's death, but refused to declassify it. The PMO argued that declassifying the Shastri document could harm foreign relations, create disruption in the country and cause a breach of parliamentary privilege. It not only acknowledges having something to hide about Shastri's death, but also indirectly admits that the secret is explosive.

 

The above refusal of Indian Government clearly showed that Lal Bahadur Shastri’s death was not by heart attack.

 

In fact there were bloody hands of the heads of country or countries and those might be CIA, KGB, ISI or ……. That was a war-time prime minister who died suddenly not just while in office, but while attending a critical summit in a super power foreign country to discuss terms to end the war. Why dead silence still on the Shastri’s death?

 

Who hired arrested suspected killers to kill Lal Bahadur Shastri? Who had kept and still is keeping dead silence on the mysterious death of Shastri jee?

Analysis by Premendra Agrawal

 

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