NATIONAL SPIRIT

Vol. No.1, Issue No.34 Mumbai: Friday, November 19, 2010 Rs.5/- RNI No. MAHENG/2010/32801

A Weekly Stirring up the Soul of Bharat

UPA’s Scandal Raj Gopikrishnan - the man

Why was the PM silent for 16 months?
Our Bureau
New Delhi, Nov. 17, 2010: The
Supreme Court on Tuesday questioned
the “alleged inaction and silence” on the
part of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
for 16 months in taking a decision on a
private complaint seeking sanction for
prosecution of A. Raja, who has since
resigned as Telecom Minister, in the 2G
spectrum scam.
“The Prime Minister could have said
that the material on record was insufficient
and declined sanction but he could not
have sat over the complaint for 16
months,” observed Justice A.K. Ganguly,
who was on a two-judge Bench presided
over by Justice G.S. Singhvi.
The Bench was hearing a special
leave petition filed by Janata Party
president Subramanian Swamy for a
direction to the Prime Minister to grant
sanction for prosecution of Mr. Raja. It
asked Solicitor-General (SG) Gopal
Subramaniam, representing the Prime
Minister, to go through records and inform
the court on Thursday what action was
taken on Dr. Swamy's complaint.
The entire 2G spectrum scam is
a multistage, well thought-out act in
which a criminal conspiracy was
hatched between private companies/
persons and officials of the
Department of Telecom-munications
(DoT) to circumvent an open,
transparent auction process by
choosing the first come, first served
route and thereby causing a huge loss
to the exchequer, counsel Prashant
Bhushan argued in the Supreme Court
on Monday.
During the hearing on Monday,
Mr. Bhushan disputed the DoT's
counter-affidavit that there was no loss
in the award of 2G spectrum and
quoted the final report of the Director-
General of Audit (Post and Telegraph),
according to which the scam resulted
in a loss of about 1.76 lakh crore. When
Justice Ganguly wanted to know whether
this was part of the CAG report, counsel
said it would be part of the final CAG
report, which was yet to be tabled in
Parliament.
Mr. Bhushan quoted the DGA report,
which said: “It was noticed by the CAG
that 13 applicants were ready with
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who felled a king
Chandan Mitra
November 16, 2010: For a long
time, I did not even know that J
Gopikrishnan was a stringer based in
Thiruvananthapuram working for The
Pioneer’s now-aborted Kochi edition. So
when he came to Delhi pleading for a job
at the headquarters once the Kochi edition
shut in 2007, I was rather sceptical. I told
Bureau chief Navin Upadhyay that
although I had noticed a few bylined
stories by him, Gopi had no exposure to
Delhi and, therefore, was unlikely to have
any worthwhile contacts here. Navin,
however, persuaded me to try him out for
three months. In fact, the letter of
appointment specifically mentioned this
along with a “stipend” that was truly
laughable by Delhi standards.
Gopi did not break any earth-
shaking stories during the trial period. But
his sincerity, diligence, dogged pursuit of
stories and pleasing personality made up
for that. He was given a proper
appointment letter after three months
although his salary remained rather low.
My opinion began to change after friends
in Left parties began to mention him to
me in Parliament’s Central Hall, pointing
to the depth of his knowledge of the
telecom sector. Officially, he was on the
Left beat so I still did not attach too much
significance to that.
Then the cascade began. Starting
mid-2008, he broke one story after
another on scandalous ramifications of
the 2G spectrum allotment. The issue was
complex and most people don’t
understand its intricacies even now. But
Gopi had cracked the scandal.
And as one exclusive report followed
another, information flowed to him like a
magnet attracting pins. Navin worked hard
on these reports, filling up missing links,
polishing them and quoting relevant
documents. The 2G scam was Gopi’s
passion and he scoured the Net, apart from
visiting officers in their offices and homes,
gathering material. He had friends across
the political “spectrum”; Gopi, despite his
Kerala origins, was ideology-neutral.
I don’t know how much pressure he
came under and from which quarters. But
I faced more pressure over these reports
than anything else in my 27 years of
journalism, of which nearly 20 have been
spent in senior editorial positions. I am
proud to have withstood them. But even
more proud that I gave a dynamic young
man from Kerala a break in the national
media, a break he used to do the nation a
sterling service. J Gopikrishnan has made
history and The Pioneer basks in his
achievement.
The Pioneer Investigative Team
asked Gopi to unravel his journey from a
fledgling political reporter to giant killer.
Excerpts from a chat:
Q: How did you come across the 2G
scam story?
A: We sensed a scam when Swan
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RSS Mass Dharna RSS vs Cong: unequal,

in Mumbai
Prof. Indira Satyanarayan
Mumbai, November 11, 2010: “This “Saffron is a color of Sacrifice, it is a
is the first public agitation of such a color of Purity” explains Shri Ram Naik to
mammoth scale of the RSS” says Ram me, “how can it be linked to terror?”
Naik former Petroleum Minister and a “Swami Vivekananda wore saffron
clothes, Shri Shankarcharya still
wears saffron clothes ….can
they be called Terrorists?” Shri
Ram Naik has raised a very
pertinent question indeed.
According to Swami
Vidyanand Ji, Hindu ethos is
such that it accommodates other
communities too. The result of
which is that while the population
of the other communities grew
in strength the Hindu population
dwindled. “Who was responsible
for the 9/11 terror attack? Who
prominent member of the BJP. November carried out the Madrid Train bombing?
10 is the day of Mass Dharna at the Azad Who attacked the Indian Parliament and
Maidan to protest against the misleading put Mumbai city to siege for three days
charges of “Hind” and “Saffron” Terrorism when the Taj Hotel was attacked on 26th
and the maligning of Hindu Saints and November 2008? Hindus have no enmity
Hindu organizations. (Continued on page 3)
Dangerous battle ahead
Sharad Mistry
Cultural Nationalism v/s rapacious
capitalism blended with increasingly
higher doses of corruption at all levels -
these are the two diametrically opposite
forces that finally came face to face for
the first time in India since independence
in 1947. Is this Maturing or degeneration
of India in the 21st century?
Last week was a rather shameful
week for India that just a week before had
the privileged visit of USA President Barack
Obama who among other things also "gave
India a ticket Mars" - meaning, USA is
supportive of India now getting the seat on
the world's high table of UN Security
Council, and also lent the powerful support
to India against its relentless fight against
terrorism based in Pakistan.
So, if the events that unfolded last
week resulting in the show of strength on
the road by the followers of the respective
forces - Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
(RSS) and the Congress (I) - the latter in
control of the government machinery and
also the mindset of the electorate was
seen to be leading ahead in what seems
to be the beginning of one of the most
unequal and dangerous battle that lie
ahead for India as a whole.
Congress has since decades
considered RSS as its arc rival right from
the years that led to independence in
1947. Even after independence, RSS has
been seen as a threat to the Congress
leaders - a corrupted mindset of which
was reflected in the words of Rahul
Gandhi, the new Prime Minister-in-the-
making. No wonder therefore, Rahul
Gandhi put RSS in the same category of
SIMI, the militant and dangerous outfit of
the Muslims. Congress supremo Sonia
Gandhi (Rahul's mother) and the
Congress politicians have of late begun
calling Hindus as a gang of 'terrorist' and
the RSS the fomenter of the "Saffron
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UPA’s Scandal Raj
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demand drafts and [they] even managed
bank guarantees. Evidently, these
applicants had advance information about
the issue of this notification by DoT which
enabled them to take appropriate advance
action to draw the demand drafts and
prepare other relevant documents for
complying with the LOI [Letter of Intent]
conditions in spite of the changed time
limit for compliance from 15 days to about
half a day.”
Counsel argued that the
department's contention that it had
followed the existing first come, first
served process “is a gross
misrepresentation. The modified version
is certainly aimed at benefiting the
“favourites amongst the favoured.”
Disputing the contention that 2G and
3G could not be compared, the petitioner
said “while DoT gave away 6.2 MHz for 22
circles, i.e.136.4 MHz of spectrum at
Rs.1,658.57 crore in 2008 at 2001 prices
(at Rs.12 crore per MHz), the same
government decided to auction 3G
spectrum, therefore, yielding 5 MHz for 22
circles, viz. 110 MHz for Rs.16,750.58 crore
(an average yield of Rs.152 crore per MHz).
So essentially, for 3G, the companies paid
12 times higher for each MHz, i.e., Rs.152
crore: Rs.12 crore, and yet, the first set of
voice services launched by Tata Docomo
has priced 3G voice lower than 2G voice
at 0.66 paisa per second.”
The report of the Comptroller and
Auditor General (CAG), which lent an
edge to the clamour for A Raja's ouster
as telecom minister, has also come down
hard on the corporates who benefited from
the controversial 2G spectrum allocation.
The report, specifically focuses on
how facts about a top industrialist's
substantial stake in Swan Telecom - it far
exceeded 10% - were concealed while
applying for the 2G spectrum licence.
According to the guidelines, no entity
can hold more than 10% stake in two
telecom service providers operating in the
same circle. Since a telecom company
controlled by the industrialist - who also
has interests in energy and entertainment
- has a pan-Indian presence, Swan should
have been disqualified. Yet, it stayed in
the ring and went on to pip several
established contenders. The industrialist,
one of India's richest, has denied any link
with Swan.
Nira Radia gets fresh
ED notices
New Delhi, November 16, 2010:
After A Raja, investigating agencies have
trained their guns on corporate lobbyist
Nira Radia.
Radia, who has been dodging the
agencies for long, was issued fresh
notices by the
enforcement
directorate
(ED) on
Monday for
a l l e g e d
involvement in
the 2G
spectrum
scam.
The British passport-holder was
earlier issued summons on two occasions
but did not appear before ED, forcing it to
issue a third notice on Monday. Failure to
appear personally this time may result in
ED taking a stern step, sources said.
Radia had strongly lobbied for Raja
to be made telecom minister in the UPA-
II government in June 2009.
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CAG's indictment of corporates for
use of "fraudulent means" to qualify runs
into several pages. The report lists not just
companies but also the violations the
auditor has found them guilty of. The
licences issued to various companies
floated by corporates such as Swan,
Unitech, Loop and Datacom Allianz Infra
involved several violations, the auditor has
pointed out. As many as 85 of the 120
licences were illegal, the CAG has said.
The auditor has held Raja guilty of
favouring a select group of companies in
the way he went about issuing a press
release on January 10, 2008 at 2.47 pm,
giving companies just 45 minutes to
assemble at DoT to collect response
letters to their applications. Raja's
favourites, who knew of the press release
in advance, were able to be ready with
performance bank guarantees, financial
bank guarantee and other requirements
in time. What's more, the auditor found
that 13 applicants were ready with
demand drafts drawn on dates prior to the
press release being issued, proof that they
were aware of the minister's move.
The report also demolishes Raja's
claims that he went by the first-come-first-
served (FCFS) concept followed in the past
by the department of telecom, accusing
him of tampering with even that system to
favour select private companies.
The CAG audit is unique in many
ways. For perhaps the first time in the
history of CAG, the auditor has provided
as an annexure file the notings of a
cabinet minister in order to indict him.
Raja's personal notings that altered even
the FCFS policy are part of the CAG report
annexure. Under the approved FCFS
practice, all applications were first
received in the central registry section of
DoT where the date of receipt and serial
number are posted, and seniority was
decided based on this. However, Raja
altered this, by applying FCFS on the
basis of who first complied with the Letter
of Intent conditions such as bank
guarantee and entry fee.
While the CAG has not endorsed
any particular amount as the loss to the
national exchequer, it has applied at least
three assessment methods. At the
maximum, Raja has caused the
exchequer a loss of over Rs 1.77 lakh
crore, it says. The auditor's findings on
private companies are damning.
Sources said the Union finance
ministry has asked ED director Arun
Mathur to expedite investigation against
the PR consultant.
Last week, Radia had furnished
details sought by ED. The details included
cash flow statements of her four
companies from 2005 and personal and
company bank transactions. But sources
said ED was not convinced.
Radia’s aide Rohit Dubey of
Vaishnavi Corporate Communications
said, “We have submitted all documents
asked by ED. We are not aware of any
fresh notice.”
Meanwhile, Central Bureau of
Investigation has not been able to get a
laboratory report of a recorded
conversation between Radia and Raja.
Radia and aides’ connections with
high-profile people in the telecom sector
and Raja came to light after the income-
tax department put their phones under
surveillance for 120 days in 2008 and 180
days in 2009.
Mumbai, November 19, 2010
CBI and ED tighten
noose around Raja
(Our Bureau)
New Delhi, November 14, 2010: The
noose is tightening around Union telecom
minister A. Raja in the Rs 1.7 lakh crore
2G spectrum allocation scam. He is likely
to be questioned by the Central Bureau
of Investigation (CBI) and the
Enforcement Directorate (ED) soon for his
alleged involvement in what is being billed
as the biggest scam in independent
India's history.
The minister's possible links with at
least one of the beneficiary companies are
also being probed, sources said.
Both agencies have stumbled upon
key leads after questioning top officials of
several companies that benefitted from
the spectrum allotment in 2008. These
include Unitech Wireless and Swan
Telecom.
It is learnt that the investigators plan
to question the Department of Telecom
(DoT) top officials about their alleged
"benami" stakes in certain foreign-based
subsidiaries.
Sources confirmed that the first
round of investigation in the spectrum
scandal is complete and reports have
been received from all the beneficiary
companies.
The ED has completed questioning
of top officials of companies including
Swan Telecom (now Etisalat DB), Unitech
Wireless (Now Uninor), S Tel, Tata
Teleservices, Loop Telecom, Data Com
Services (now Videocon
Telecommunications), etc. Now, strategic
investments made in foreign companies
such as Etisalat Mauritius, Telenor Asia
Pvt Ltd and BMIC Ltd, are being
investigated, sources said.
An official source said the focus of
the investigation will be on Unitech
Wireless and Swan Telecom and their
subsidiaries. Unitech and Swan had no
prior telecom experience, and had sold
their stake to foreign companies at much
higher prices. The companies, however,
denied any wrongdoing and stated that it
was a perfectly legitimate business
exercise. The DoT, too, insists that the
companies only inducted strategic
partners as investors by issuing additional
equity shares to them. But ED sources
said the agency will also investigate the
routing of funds in some companies
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Terror". There are much more heinous
allegations that the Congress has been
craftily and meticulously unleashing
against the RSS and its leaders… almost
like push-come-to-shove.
No person in his/her right mind, nor
any party of the stature of the RSS would
want to silently swallow these increasing
foolishness heaped upon it. So, for the first
time since 1948, RSS was forced to come
out in the open against the government
across the country - along with its various
operative of its sister-organizations
including the political wing Bhartiya Janata
Party (BJP), the Vishwa Hindu Parishad
(VHP), the Bajarang Dal and many more -
highlighting to the peoples the wrongs
being committed by the Congress and the
UPA, including the instances of the
rapacious corruption in the just concluded
Commonwealth Games, the multi-crore
scam by the defiant telecom minister A
Raja, the so-called Adarsh Society in
Mumbai, the failure of the government to
protect Mumbai and the nation from the
repeatedly unleashed terrorist activities,
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through tax havens. Official sources said
they will also consider attaching "assets
of beneficiary companies and of top DOT
officials" as they would be construed as
proceeds of a crime under the Prevention
of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). This will
happen only after the CBI, which has
registered a case against unknown
officials, files a chargesheet in the
spectrum scandal.
The investigating agencies are
learnt to have fine-tuned their strategy at
a meeting held on Saturday, during which
serious differences emerged between two
top government legal officers. The CBI
and ED, citing conflict of interest, had
refused to share their secret findings with
DoT officials and legal representatives.
The spectrum case is slated to come up
before the Supreme Court on Monday and
the agencies are expected to give their
status report.
Intriguingly, the meeting was
facilitated by a top government legal
luminary who insisted on investigating
agencies sharing their report with the DoT,
raising the agencies' eyebrows.
The principal Opposition party BJP
said on Saturday that this meeting
between Raja's lawyer, the solicitor
general and a CBI official to chalk out a
unified strategy on the 2G spectrum case
was proof of the government's coverup
plan and is tantamount to contempt of the
Supreme Court.
According to a PTI report, BJP
spokesperson Prakash Javadekar said:
"Such a meeting is unheard of, is totally
unethical and is clear proof of the
government's coverup plan." PTI, quoting
reports, said a "law officer had called a
meeting of Raja's counsel Anita Shenoy, DIG
(CBI's Anti-Corruption Bureau) S. K. Palsania
and the investigating CBI official concerned
Vivek Priyadarshi in the presence of solicitor
general of India Gopal Subramaniam." "The
Prime Minister has a clean image but he
cannot remain a mute spectator to these sins,
crimes and scams for so long," Javadekar
was quoted by the PTI as saying. "The
BJP also asks Sonia Gandhi and Rahul
to explain their stand. They can choose
not to speak on inconvenient issues, but
they should not forget that nobody can fool
all the people all the time."
the unduly rising prices of essential
commodities, the inflation dragon… and
much more.
This revealing of its dark side by the
RSS was getting unbearable for Congress
and its UPA allies. Just as it was preparing
to retaliate, the RSS was itself pushed into
a soup-like situation by none other than by
one of its former Sarsanghachalak K S
Sudarshan. In his speech Sudarshan called
Sonia Gandhi to be a foreign agent, that
she had some role in the deaths of her own
mother-in-law (Indira Gandhi) and also her
husband (Rajiv Gandhi) and that Rajiv
Gandhi wanted to leave her (Sonia Gandhi).
While the BJP distanced itself from
Sudarshan's remarks, the RSS the next
day issued a carefully worded statement
saying that the views of its former chief
were not the views of the Sangh. In
addition to this, the RSS ideologue M.G.
Vaidya on Saturday urged Congress chief
Sonia Gandhi to file a defamation suit
against K.S. Sudarshan for using
defamatory language against her. And
there were reports in the section of the
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RSS Mass Dharna in Mumbai
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against anyone so when Hindus are
accused of terror activities it looks like , ‘Ulta
chor kothwal ko danta’.’’ Shri Vidyanand Ji
said that when Rahul Gandhi says that SIMI
and RSS are one, he is spitting on himself.
In Christianity God sends his son
down to earth, in Islam a messenger is
sent, but in Hindu religion God himself
descends to earth in the form of Avaatar
– incarnation - to save Humanity. Such is
the greatness of the Hindu religion said
Swami Bodhananad Ji. Kashmir is an
integral part of India. There is no doubt
about that said Shri Bodhananad Ji. As
for Arundhati Roy who stated that Kashmir
was never a part of India - “Arundhati Roy
is a Surpanakha whose nose has to be
cut off” said Shri Bodhananad Ji. If
Kashmir is not a part of India how come
Shankaracharya traveled all the way to
Kashmir and stayed there to revive Santan
mbai
Dharma? asked shri Bodhanand Ji.
In Sri Nagar district there is this
temple of Shri Shankaracharya. Those
who say that Kashmir is not a part of India
do not know the history well.
Lauding the social service rendered
by the RSS Shri Raj Purohit said that
during the Latur and Kutch earthquake
and the Andhra Cyclone the RSS had
reached out to the affected people with
support and relief materials.
Shri Sunil Ambekar – All India
Organizing Secretary of ABVP was a
Dynamic speaker. Firing in eloquent
Marathi he said that the Central
Government was trying to defame the
RSS but the RSS is not scared to confront
problems. “Rashtriya Bhakti Tera Naam
RSS hai”, he said. When Indian culture
and tradition is put in text books it is called
as Saffronisation of education, he
lamented. There will no compromise on
the Kashmir issue, said Shri Ambekar. The
Amarnath Yatra was an Yatra of victory
RSS vs Cong: unequal, Dangerous battle ahead
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print media that said RSS regret over its
former chief's statements has apologized
for Sudarshan's views.
Undoubtedly the supporters of the
Congress and its allies in the UPA were
peeved off by Sudarshan's remarks. They
were on the streets the very next day,
burning effigies of the RSS… The
uncalculated retaliation against RSS was
very aggressive across the country.
On Nov 10, in Mumbai, the RSS-led
rally got an enthusiastic response and the
media had almost blacked it out. The two
main speakers - the revered saints -
impressed the audience about the wrong-
doings of the UPA and the sheer
foolishness, including the latter's allegation
of branding even the Hindus as terrorists.
Directly or indirectly, the anti-Hindu
wave is gaining strength and therefore,
these are one of the most critically
challenging times unfolding for India.
Challenging and historic times have never
been smooth, neither will this one be. So,
while the leaders of the RSS wants the
nation building Cultural Nationalism to be
at the fore in the minds of the peoples at
these times, the Congress (I) led UPA
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for the Hindus.
When Shri Dattaji Hasbole took over
the mike he said that Hilter’s Minister
Joseph Gobbels had said that if you tell
lies a 100 times it becomes the truth. But
even if the Congress were to lie a hundred
times that the RSS is involved in Terrorist
Activities, the Truth – which is that the RSS
is a patriotic organization, engaged in the
service of the Nation - will prevail. When
the Congress talks of Democracy it should
remember the Sikh massacre that took
place after Indira Gandhi’s assassination.
Why are so many Bangla Deshis allowed
entry in to India? he asked
According to Shri Muzaffer Hussain,
recipient of the Padma Shri award, to call
the RSS as Terrorists is nothing new. Even
Bhagat Singh was viewed as a terrorist
once but now he is acknowledged as a
martyr. Similarly time will tell that the RSS
is the only organization which lives and
dies for the Country. Using a simile Shri
Hussain said that if the need arises
Hindus should be willing to wage a 4th
Panipat war to have Kashmir. Shri Ram
Temple has to be built in Ayodhya said
shri Hussain Ji.
Prakash Mehta the BJP MLA
spreads out his hands and says, “this is
the first time that the RSS has come
together as one family on a stage”.
“Equating SIMI with RSS is dirty politics”
says Prakash Mehta.
There is a significant point made by
Shri Ram NAIK Ji which needs the RSS
introspection. Shri Naik Ji said that though
the support for the Rss is increasing, the
number of the Shakas is decreasing.
To increase the number in the
Shakas we have to evolve the youth,
motivate them to do more Shaka work and
social service . As an echo to my thoughts
I see Harsh – the young handsome son
of Shri Prakash Mehta standing next to
him . “He has come to attend the Dharna
with me” says a proud Mehta Ji. Shri
Prakash Mehta explains further that his
son is pursuing his B.Com degree through
correspondence course as he wants to
devote more time for party work. RSS
needs to work more to increase the
number of youth in its fold. There were
more Senior Citizens and elders at the
Dharna than youth. When you take in the
youth you are infusing an organization
with zest, energy and fresh oxygen. The
RSS should take note of this.
government wants to throw India's
millennia old culture to the winds, rout this
concept of Cultural Nationalism and its
supporters from the minds of the peoples
across the country and is all out to
appease all sections of the peoples more
with splash of money and conducive
policy support, the maximum gainers of
which are the Muslims, and to some extent
those of the BPL - below poverty line.
For their own respective reasons,
neither the Muslims nor the extremely poor
peoples are in any which way concerned
with the culture of India; and the vast
middle class that India is famed for and
nurtured by Congress is currently blinded
by the gains of capitalism - individuality,
hedonism and of course stark indifference
to cultural nationalism.
All this calls for the RSS and its
thinking leaders to urgently work out a plan
that would be acceptable also by the new
gen members who are keen to contribute
in the overall progress of the country.
It is because of this fast-changing
mindset of the peoples of India that the
ensuing battle between the RSS and the
Congress-led UPA government is
unequal, and therefore, also dangerous.
Mumbai, November 19, 2010
Gopikrishnan - the man who felled a king
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and Unitech started offloading shares at
whopping prices of Rs.4,500 crore and
Rs.6,200 crore in September 2008.
Bureau chief Navin Upadhyay asked me
to dig for information and luckily we got a
great whistleblower, who knew the ins and
outs of the Telecom Ministry. He once told
me the PM was totally unhappy with Raja
and had summoned him to ask what was
going on.
Slowly, the whistleblower narrated
the entire range of corruption in the
Ministry. Those days, Minister Raja was
making false claims that he had followed
his predecessors. This young
Government officer told me about the
parking of funds in front companies by the
Minister and his associates in the name
of relatives. He told me who the actual
beneficiaries of the scam were, including
corporates, politicians and lobbyists.
This officer asked me to talk to my
Editor and get his consent and only then
would he reveal further. The Editor told
me to go ahead and the whistleblower
became a goldmine of hidden information
for The Pioneer. Days and nights of
discussion and checking the authenticity
of facts happened in his office and at many
crowded places in the city, once it became
important to avoid detection.
Q: Which was the first story you did
and what was the reaction?
A: After finding out the gamut of front
companies dealing in real estate, we
decided to expose Raja’s ill-gotten wealth.
Chandan Mitra and Navin Upadhyay saw
all documents and decided to go ahead
with the series. The first story appeared
on December 11, 2008, on Raja’s main
real estate front company, Green House
Promoters. The details of other
companies and hidden irregularities in the
spectrum scam were published over the
following days.
Q: Did you come under pressure to
stop the campaign? How did you ward
them off?
A: I met Raja after the first report,
as directed by the Editor. He alleged that
I was being funded by his rivals in the party
and even told me some names. He was
visibly shaken asking me how I got the
details of his personal assets. He
requested me to avoid writing. My reply
was that I had been deputed by the Editor
only to take his version, nothing else. Raja
agreed to speak, but repeatedly
requested me to stop writing further on
this. Similarly, many corporate groups
were after me with the same plea. I must
say none threatened or behaved badly.
Those days, Raja was planning to
conduct the 3G auction at cheap base
rates without Cabinet’s approval. Many
agents from the corporate sector
requested us to stop our series of
exposes, saying our reports would force
the Government to refer the 3G auction
to an EGoM. We told them that was
exactly what we wanted. But I must say
some friends with contacts in high places
warned me I may be targeted. It was a
hidden warning, which I ridiculed. It would
not be fair to reveal what kind of offers
were made by different entities to avoid
the 3G issue going to an EGoM. But finally,
the Cabinet referred it to an EGoM, which
put Raja out of the picture and the nation
netted `1.06 lakh crore.
Q: Did any political or corporate
entity offer you financial inducements to
stop writing on this?
A: Yes, they did. The figures were
mind-boggling. Corporate lobbyists and
Raja’s people even asked me to stop
informing the Editor and end the series
abruptly. I told them even the meeting with
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them was in the knowledge of the Editor
and the Bureau chief. Some shameless
fellows tried to access Raja, claiming
friendship with me. Some were acting as
double agents. One top lobbyist was
actually a double agent. That person was
leaking information against Raja while
providing information to him too. Pressure
on the whistleblower was enormous by
now, but he stood by us fearlessly. There
were several politicians who enlightened
and encouraged me. Some bureaucrats
and police officials also guided our
investigations.
Q: Do you think the matter will end
with Raja’s resignation or will more heads
roll?
A: I personally feel the court cases
filed by Subramanian Swamy and
Prashant Bhushan would come to logical
conclusions, leading to the cancellation
of all licences which were found illegal by
CAG. The court may direct auctions to be
held like the old petrol pump scam of
Satish Sharma. I don’t expect anything
from the Government in this matter. Some
persons, including Raja, may face the
wrath of the law. I don’t think anything
harsh will happen to corporates from the
Government’s side. After the CAG report
and PAC findings, if the Government has
the willpower, it can - by executive order -
cancel all licences and order auction,
which will definitely fetch around Rs.2-3
lakh crore.
Q: How do you think the Government
can make the spectrum policy transparent
and above board?
A: Spectrum management should be
handed over to ISRO, but no politician
would like that for obvious reasons. In
India, spectrum is not yet audited. No one
knows how much spectrum is available.
This was purposefully done for making
easy money. First the Government should
ask an organisation like ISRO to audit
spectrum availability in all departments.
Only then will transparency come.
Q: After Telecom what? Do you have
more targets in mind?
A: No idea. I felt totally exhausted
upon learning of Raja’s resignation. I was
expecting good news on Sunday, when
sources told me Pranab Mukherjee had
firmly asked Karunanidhi at 11.30 am to
remove Raja. This was doubly confirmed
when they later said Raja was forced to
sign the papers around 5.30 pm. Anyway,
no idea what’s for me next…life will go
on. I was covering Health and Left
(parties) those days. By a stroke of luck,
Raja came on our radar…
Virtual pat on back
Within minutes of A Raja submitting
his letter of resignation to the Prime
Minister late Sunday night, India’s
twitterati erupted into joyous celebrations.
Pouring ridicule and vitriol on the scam-
tainted Minister, twitterers across India
heaped praise on The Pioneer and
tweeted congratulatory messages to J
Gopikrishnan by the hundreds. Several of
the tweets were RT’ed, or re-tweeted,
amplifying the overwhelming outpouring
of goodwill for the paper. Had the news
not broken on a Sunday, that too late in
the night, when people are usually offline,
both The Pioneer and Gopi would have
trended globally, which they almost did,
such was the enthusiastic response. The
congratulatory tweets continued to pour
in through Sunday night and Monday from
Indians around the world. Tellingly, many
of the tweets pointed out that The Pioneer
persisted with a story that no ‘big’ paper
would touch or 24x7 news channels would
report. Along with Raja, Delhi’s self-
appointed ‘MSM’, or mainstream media,
was the clear loser!
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shown India’s Glory?
Radhakrishna Revanur, Chennai
Obama was particularly interested in
India's culture and glory and made
repeated references to Mahatma Gandhi,
and how he inspired him, Indian
Mathematicians, invention of Zero.
etcetra. Mark Twain, the American Author,
1835-1920, has described India as "cradle
of human race, birthplace of human
speech, mother of history, grandmother of
legend, great grand mother of Tradition,
whose yesterdays bear date with the
mouldering antiquitiies of the rest of the
nations.".
Alas Obama was shown none of
India's glory by the UPA. He was shown
missionary schools & colleges in Mumbai
followed by Humayun's Tomb in Delhi as
cased to him even if he would have liked
to see and hear about them !
It is pertinent to remember that the
US Congress was inaugurated with
versus read from Rig Veda. The only trip
to golden temple in Amritsar was
cancelled for unknown reasons.
The UPA Govt could have arranged
a brief meeting of the Obamas with some
of our spiritual leaders like Sri Sri Ravi
Shankar, Yoga Master Baba Ramdev or
Swami Dayananda Saraswathi, to know
more about our ancient roots.
Again the PM's Dinner List, smacks
of Vote Bank Politics! M F Hussein should
have also been specially invited with a free
passage to India and Mr Kasab should

Now prosecute Raja if it is critical to Indian culture!

Nothing with the 'H' word, was show-
have been flown from Mumbai to occupy
the Main table along with Afzal Guru!

for loss to the nation I was asked for

What could have been a graceful exit without losing the last vestige
of dignity finally turned out to be a forced departure from office. By last a bribe: Tata
weekend it was more than clear that Mr A Raja staying on as Union Telecom
Dehradun, November 15, 2010: In
Minister had become both untenable and undesirable, not least because a sensational disclosure, Tata Group
the ridicule it was fetching the UPA Government, more so the Congress chairman Ratan Tata on Monday revealed
which heads the ruling alliance. that he was asked for a bribe of Rs 15
It could be argued, without resorting to exaggeration, that the crore when he wanted to start a domestic
airline in the 1990s.
Congress is as much to blame as the DMK for not bringing the unsavoury Tata said that he had approached
Raja episode to a swift closure. The party need not have waited so long three Prime Ministers to push for his case
for the proverbial green signal from the DMK, nor did the Prime Minister but all his efforts were thwarted by an
have any cause to be so timid: He could have exercised his discretion “individual”.
and sacked this wayward Minister long ago. Instead, Mr Manmohan Singh Later, he was asked to pay Rs 15
and his party bosses tried to gloss over Mr Raja’s sins of omission and crore as bribe to the Union minister to get
a favourable government response to his
commission in the allotment of 2G Spectrum licences which, according to proposal to start an airline.
the Comptroller and Auditor-General, led to a whopping, mind-boggling "Several years ago, Tatas were
loss of Rs 1.76 lakh crore in revenue to the public exchequer. The same trying to set up a domestic airlines in
publicists of the Congress - and the Prime Minister - who are now slyly collaboration with Singapore Airlines.
trying to seize the moral high ground by pretending to be practitioners of
rectitude were till Saturday insisting that there was no evidence to suggest
wrong-doing on Mr Raja’s part. Even the importance of the CAG’s damning Rs 6000-cr nuclear
report was sought to be minimised if not debunked as inconsequential.
It’s only after the Opposition closed its ranks and went on the offensive,
holding up proceedings in Parliament, and the Congress was confronted
research centre soon
Kolkata , November 14, 2010: Saha
with mounting popular outrage that the Prime Minister and his party
Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP) will
colleagues decided to ‘act’. soon join the premier club of five top
On its part, the DMK came to the conclusion that it couldn’t risk walking nations by setting up a high-energy third
out of the UPA and contesting next summer’s Assembly election in Tamil generation synchrotron source, which will
Nadu without the Congress as its ally. Hence, Mr M Karunanidhi, ever so facilitate cutting edge state-of-art cross-
disciplinary scientific research. The project
reluctantly, ‘advised’ Mr Raja to put in his papers. And so it came about will cost Rs 6,000 crores.
that the man who presided over what could well turn out to be the biggest “Synchrotron is the process of
scam in India’s history - Ms J Jayalalithaa insists it is the biggest scam in moving a particle through an
the “history of humankind” - exited office but not without letting it be known electromagnetic field in such speed that it
that he had brought about a “revolution” in the country’s telecommunication provides us photons or lights. The photons
services. The meaning of ‘revolution’, obviously, has transmogrified under produced through this system have a wide
range spetrum-- from radio waves to
the the joint tutelage of the Congress and the DMK. infrared light, visible light, ultraviolet light,
It would, however, be a pity if Mr Raja’s exit were to result in the 2G X-rays and gamma rays. The synchrotron
Spectrum scandal becoming no more than a footnote in the history of light is used for measurements in basic
corruption in India. With popular concerns being increasingly moulded by research and technological development
all over the world,” explained M. K. Sanyal,
the 24-hour news cycle of today’s media, it is more than likely the outrage
director of SINP.
over Mr Raja’s loot will abate in the next few days as media looks for other The facility will boost indigenous
‘breaking news’. Resignation is not punishment enough. Mr Raja deserves research in various areas like drug
to be prosecuted and punished for doing everything that militates against development, automobile, nano
the very notion of probity in public life without which good governance can technology, environment pollution, arsenic
never be delivered. mitigation and preservation of artefacts
and heritage architecture. “The presence
The 2G Spectrum scandal offers an excellent opportunity to identify of a third generation state-of-art high-
venal politicians, corrupt bureaucrats and lobbyists for whom integrity is a energy synchrotron facility in India will
term of abuse; hold them accountable for such mammoth loss to the provide beams of light with outstanding
nation; and, give them exemplary punishment. Anything less than this will brilliance and stability for investigation of
only encourage those for whom holding public office is a means to self- materials ranging from medical
applications to nano technology. For India,
aggrandisement. which is perceived as the future economic
(Courtesy: The Pioneer Edit Desk) leader, developing this key technology is
Even though we were pioneer in airline
industry, we had enormous problems if
you remember through the reports in the
media,” Rata Tata told reporters here.
"We approached three Prime
Ministers also. But an individual thwarted
our efforts to form the airlines," he added.
"I happened to be on a flight once
and another industrialist who was sitting
next to me said: 'I don't understand. You
people are stupid. You know the minister
wants Rs.15 crore. So why don't you pay
it?'," Tata said, about the conversation.
"I just said: 'You can't understand it.
I just want to go to bed at night, knowing
that I haven't got the airline by paying for
it'," he said.
extremely important,” said Helmut Dosch,
director general, Deutsches Elektronen-
Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg, Germany,
which will be helping India in setting up
the facility.
While several countries all over the
world have synchrotron sources, only
Japan, USA, Germany and European
Union (Switzerland) have the high-energy
third generation synchrotron source.
“India will be the fifth nation to have this
facility. On November 11 we had a meeting
with the directors of third generation
synchrotron source of the four countries.
They have agreed to help us setup the
facility which would be executed over the
12th and 13th plan period,” said Sanyal.
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre,
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research,
Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic
Research, Variable Energy Cyclotron
Centre and Raja Ramanna Centre for
Advanced technology will help SINP in
setting up the facility.
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and comments from readers, on
current affairs, politics,
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 National Spirit
Merger and integration of J&K
The three musketeers which were
dispatched to Kashmir as interlocutors have
created more political pollution than the ISI
and other agencies had added confusion. The
interlocutors took briefing from the Union
Home Minister whose immediate agenda was
to provide oxygen for the political survival of
the Chief Minister. The Union Home Minister
supported the so-called doctrine propounded
by the Chief Minister that J&K was never an
integral part of India. To create further
confusion the Home Minister briefed the
interlocutors to go to Kashmir to create a
political climate in favour of the Chief Minister
by defining the Kashmir situation as "Kashmir
Dispute" and supporting 'Azadi'. Interestingly,
one of the interlocutors Mr. Ansari, who
disagreed with the proposition deserted his
'co-musketeers' and returned to Delhi. Credit
goes to him for keeping silent throughout even
after his disagreement with other interlocutors.
The Prime Minister may do good by recalling
these interlocutors who have violated the
conduct and discipline which was essential
element for an interlocutor to observe.
The Prime Minister should have taken
steps for the implementation of the
recommendations of four Working Groups
who were appointed by him and had done a
comprehensive exercise on all issues
including the basic issues relating to regional
discrimination and reorganization of the State.
Working Group-V failed to conclude its work
for reasons unknown. The Prime Minister may
do good by reconstituting Working Group-V
which was supposed to prepare a
comprehensive report on the State-Centre
relations. Autonomy, self-rule and
reorganization need to be discussed in depth.
The interlocutors had no role at all. The Prime
Minister had provided ample opportunity to all
sections of the society in J&K, to the civil
societies and all shades of political opinions.
Those political elements sponsored by those
who intend to destabilize the country did not
choose to accept the invitation of the Prime
Minister who visited Kashmir half a dozen
times to meet anybody and everybody. After
Prime Minister's personal hearing of the public
opinion, there is no scope of any interlocutor
except diluting the gains from Prime Minister's
direction and personal initiative taken. The
interlocutors have done more form to the
national interest and security by making highly
objectionable and seditious remarks in public
than made by the ISI agents. The background
of the present crisis and confusion can be
traced from the anti-national and seditious
remarks made by the Chief Minister of J&K
on the floors of the Assembly on 6th October,
2010.
The Chief Minister of J&K failed to hide
his hidden agenda he conceived during his
visit to Pakistan in 2007 though he had lot of
time on his side to take up the same. His
utterances on the floor of the Legislative
Assembly in Srinagar last month proved
counter-productive though he chose the venue
because a Legislator enjoys immunity from a
criminal action for the words used inside the
Legislature. This is the immunity which is not
enjoyed by a legislator in SAARC countries
except Sri Lanka. The statement of the Chief
Minister deserved a serious attention of those
who claimed to be experts on J&K affairs. The
Chief Minister made several irresponsible and
offensive observations in his hate-India
speech which challenged the mandate and
authority of the Constitution. It invited lot of
wrath from different circles. Firstly, he declared
in high pitch that J&K acceded conditionally
to India and was not integral part of the Union.
One part of his speech referred to his intention
to revive 'Anglo-American Dixon Plan' without
naming. His reference to creation of so-called
sub regions of Rajouri-Poonch and Doda
Districts Jammu province by granting them
regional autonomy deserved a careful analysis
of his latent intentions which were recited by
his grandfather in 1953. The proposal was
recommended by Justice Owen Dixon in his
report to dissect Muslim majority Districts from
Jammu province to establish a so-called
Greater Kashmir. Owen Dixon was sent as a
special UN observer to J&K in 1950 when
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Prof. Bhim Singh
Pakistan refused to withdraw from occupied
areas of J&K as per UNCIP direction in its
resolution dated 13th August, 1948. To bail
out Pakistan, he recommended creation of
'Greater Kashmir' to divide the State on
communal lines which the people had
opposed in 1947. This proposal was
sponsored by Anglo-American Bloc. Pt.
Jawaharlal Nehru, for a change, rejected this
Dixon Plan right in 1950. Grandson of Abdullah
in his first opportunity vomited his family's
hidden agenda out of frustration least realizing
that half a century has elapsed since Anglo-
American Axis tried to sell out this plan through
Sheikh Abdullah in 1953. Sheikh Abdullah's
support to the Dixon Plan earned wrath of Pt.
Nehru resulting in Abdullah's dismissal and
arrest. He also declared that J&K was not
integral part of India that might have created
unbearable embarrassment to the coalition
partner, the Congress.
Undoubtedly, J&K is as good integral
part of India as State of Mysore which now is
renamed as 'Karnataka' or any other state is
concerned. The Chief Minister, it seems is
adamant to continue his advocacy for his lost
cause out of frustration and mental agony. His
father is a member of the Council of Ministers
in the Centre besides being head of National
Conference. His silence on his son and party
Chief Minister is intriguing. If he does not
accept J&K an integral part of India what right
he has to sit in the Union Cabinet. One
wonders how Dr. Farooq Abdullah is still a
Cabinet Minister in the Central government
when his son does not believe that the state
is integral part of the Union. Mr. Omar Abdullah
himself served as a Minister in the Central
Govt. in the government of Shri Atal Bihari
Vajpayee. One may ask him in how he took
oath of allegiance to the Constitution of India.
What he had been doing for two years in the
South Block, simply spying for his hidden
masters? Ali Shah Geelani, a Jamaat leader
of Kashmir which does not enjoy more than
6% of support of the Kashmiri Muslims has
been exploiting the failures, corruption and
inefficiency of the ruling 'NC' got an opportunity
to raise the burning issue which touched the
nerves of the oppresses masses. He got
elected twice as a Legislator in J&K and since
has been drawing full pension for his services
as MLA. His recent visit to Delhi on the
invitation of 'undesirable elements' and his
hate shouting for the speech wit others has
unfortunately generated a kind of communal
Police officer
tension in the capital and other places.
The Union Home Minister may be the
Jammu and Kashmir out Prem Kumar
dead
of U.N. list of disputes
UNHQ, November 11, 2010: In a
significant development, Jammu and
Kashmir has been removed from the United
Nations list of unresolved disputes, in a
setback to Pakistan which has been asking
the world body to intervene on the issue.
The omission of Jammu and
Kashmir from the list of disputes under
the observation of the Security Council
was noticed by Pakistan, whose envoy
has filed a protest.
“The Jammu and Kashmir dispute
was not mentioned in the context of
unresolved long-running situations,”
Pakistan's acting envoy to the U.N. Amjad
Mumbai, November 19, 2010
first Union Minister in the country who
described J&K situation as a 'political dispute'
and Accession as 'unique'. This leads to
believe that Mr. P. Chidambaram is online with
Mr. Ali Shah Geelani and Mr. Omar Abdullah.
The three musketeers dispatched from Delhi
as interlocutors may gather fragrance of
Kashmir for the echelons of power in Delhi.
They have started reciting the so-called
'Kashmir dispute' which Geelani has been
insisting to be accepted. The interlocutors
have crossed the limit of basic norms and
harping for a dialogue with Pakistan was that
in their agendas. There is a forceful belief that
interlocutors have been dispatched with full
freedom to recite the irresponsible utterances
of the Chief Minister to justify him. This is being
done to prolong the life line of his tenure as
Chief Minister.
What has happened to the eight point
declaration of the Union Home Secretary in
Srinagar which was meant to rescue the Chief
Minister and which the latter described as a
'trespass' into his domain? The Chief
interlocutor has surprised his admirers with
his statement in Srinagar that the problem
'dispute' as he called it, cannot be resolved
without taking Pakistan into confidence. Are
three musketeers (interlocutors) building their
new bridges for their entry to Pakistan? Shall
they represent MEA also besides Union Home
Ministry?
The immediate remedy to restore peace
in Kashmir lies in relieving the Chief Minister
of his job which he has miserably failed to
perform in accordance with the Constitution
and to the satisfaction of the people. A short
spell of Governor Rule can help restore peace
and rebuild confidence of the people. The
Chief Minister has lost credibility and
acceptance both. Any delay in his exit may
prove security risk. Fresh Assembly elections
may be unavoidable to addressthe aspirations
and wishes of the people who desire freedom
from corruption, inefficient and biased
government. That may open the door of
democracy for all including the angry Kashmir
leaders. This message has to go to every
Kashmiri as well as to every citizen of India
that J&K is as good integral part of India as
Delhi, Punjab or Mysore is. Had J&K not
merged constitutionally, Indian Parliament
could not have interfered by introducing Article
370. Moreover, after Sheikh Abdullah the
author of 'Quit Kashmir' movement and
principle actor of abolition of monarchy had
himself signed an Accord with Mrs. Indira
Gandhi in 1975 accepting entire constitutional
arrangement with the Union. The National
Conference cannot be allowed to question the
integration or the mandate of the Constitution.
Describing such 'absurd' issues as 'dispute'
only to save their power-caps the NC leaders
shall not be allowed to exploit the innocent
people any more. J&K merged through
Accession with the Union thus formed its
integral part. Any challenge to its status needs
to be dealt with according to the law of the
land. 27th day of October is for the people of
J&K, what 15th August is for the people of the
entire country.
Hussain B Sial said. “We understand this
was an inadvertent omission, as Jammu
and Kashmir is one of the oldest disputes
on the agenda of the Security Council,”
he said, speaking at the General
Assembly session, which was discussing
the functioning and reform of the Security
Council.
It was organised by the U.K., which
holds the presidency of the Security
Council this month.
Pakistan has been asking the U.N.
to intervene to help resolve the issue, but
India has always maintained that the
dispute has to be resolved bilaterally.
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Explain
position on
Roy, Geelani
case: HC to
Delhi Govt.
New Delhi, November 15, 2010: The
Delhi High Court today issued notice to the
city government seeking its response as to
why criminal case should not to be
registered against hardline Hurriyat leader
Syed Ali Shah Geelani, writer Arundhati Roy
and Delhi University professor S A R Geelani
for allegedly making anti-India speeches.
Justice Hima Kohli asked the
government to file its response to a petition
seeking criminal prosecution of Geelani
and others under the charge of sedition
and other offences. The court passed the
order on a petition seeking initiation of
criminal proceedings against them.
Advocate Sugriva Dubey, appearing
for the petitioner, submitted that the
government should be directed to take
action under section 124 A IPC (sedition).
"The freedom of speech alone never
includes the freedom of propagation of
ideas against national interest and one
has to ensure that speeches should not
be allowed to be made only for the
purpose of provoking innocent people,"
Dubey submitted while referring to the
speeches made by Geelani and others in
the capital on October 25.
The advocate alleged that Roy, in
her speech, had said that Jammu and
Kashmir is not an integral part of India and
that she had called upon the youth of the
state to make sacrifices for Kashmir.
The court, after hearing his
submissions, issued notice to the Delhi
government and asked it to file its
response by January 27 when the matter
would be taken up for further hearing.
Two complaints have already been filed
in the lower court against the Hurriyat leader
and others for making anti-India speeches.
A metropolitan magistrate had on
November 10 decided to record pre-
summoning evidence of the complainants
who have sought prosecution of the three
speech-makers.
In another case filed against them,
another subordinate court has directed the
Delhi Police to a file status report on
November 16. Geelani had shared the
dais with Roy and pro-Maoist leader Vara
Vara Rao among others during a
convention, 'Azadi-The Only Way' here.
Chennai, November 16, 2010:
Jayalalitha’s confidant and former
Superintendent of Police Premkumar, who
played a an evil and devious role in
harassing the Kanchi Acharyas in the
Sankararaman murder case has been
suffering from kidney failure and a few other
diseases, as he was an acute diabetic.
Premkumar, who had a controversial
track record, was placed under suspension
when DMK came back to power in 2006,
and subsequently dismissed.
As his condition worsened, he was
brought to Chennai and admitted in a
private hospital in Vadapalani this
morning. Immediately after the admission
he died. He was 55.
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Ship docked in Mumbai
'invites Hindus to Islam'
Mumbai, November 12, 2010: A
Kuwaiti flagship vessel docked at
Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) has
come under the scanner of security
agencies after some members of the crew
were allegedly found distributing a 12-page
pamphlet named Nimantran Patra,
underlying words “inviting people practising
Hinduism to a better religion called Islam”.
The vessel, CGM Everest, steered
by a Pakistani captain, Sayed Hader, had
travelled from Karachi Port. It had been
allowed to leave JN Port and it had set
sail, but it was then asked to return to port.
IG (Konkan region) Parambir Singh said
the ship has been detained.
The pamphlet is from the Islamic
Dawa and Guidance Centre, based in
Kuwait. The crew of 33 includes an
Egyptian engineer, Karim Rehman, and
two Pakistanis apart from the captain.
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The incident, according to senior
security officials, is the first reported instance
in India where a vessel travelling in
international waters has been used for
religious propaganda. Certain crew members
allegedly distributed the pamphlets among
port labourers and provisions supply agents
who had access to the ship. “They were not
coming on shore but were distributing the
pamphlets to Indians entering their ship,” an
officer in Navi Mumbai said.
Officials have noted the “target
audience” for the conversion pamphlets
were specifically Indians as all 12 pages
were written in chaste Hindi, along with a
covering letter.
A police officer in New Mumbai said,
“This is a significant. Nowhere in India have
we noted any such propaganda through an
air carrier or ship. This calls for guidelines
on regulation if this is indeed being done.”
Mumbai, November 19, 2010
Muslim mob attack
police outpost during
Chhath celebrations
Hazaribagh, Jharkhand, Nov. 13,
2010: A mob of over 2,000 attacked a
police outpost here today, pelting stones
and torching a DSP’s jeep, to protest
against alleged inaction after Muslims
complained about loudspeaker use during
Chhath celebrations yesterday during the
time of Friday prayers.
Five policemen of Pelawal police
outpost were injured while 13
troublemakers have been arrested.
The mob gathered at the outpost
around 10am after which DSP Naushad
Alam and sub-divisional officer Binay Rai
asked that 10 members of the group come
in for talks.
While this was being negotiated and
10 chosen representatives were coming
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inside, the mob started pelting stones, forcing
the senior officers to take shelter inside.
Sanjay Kumar, the DSP’s
bodyguard, managed to escort the group
inside. “But when I came out again, a huge
boulder hit me on the chest. I fell down
and lost consciousness,” Kumar said.
By then, policemen inside the outpost
took position and began firing teargas
shells. But, the mob had other ideas. As
the police were using short-range shells,
some of the agitators picked them up and
lobbed them back at the outpost.
“We began suffocating inside and
were, therefore, forced to come out,” said
Arun Kumar Singh, one of the policemen
firing the shells. The police then started
firing long range shells, which worked, and
the mob began to recede. As many as 48
rounds were fired.
Alam’s driver, Binod Kumar, then
tried to drive away using his boss’s jeep,
but he was hit by a stone. The mob then
beat him up and set fire to the jeep. But
the SDO’s driver managed to speed away
and save his vehicle.
Earlier, the mob had dragged out a
policeman’s motorbike from the outpost
and set it afire. Another bike belonging to
a journalist, who was with officials inside
the outpost, was also torched.
Deputy commissioner Ravindra
Kumar Agarwal and SP Pankaj Kamboj
ordered a search of nearby houses and
identified and arrested 13 culprits.
A local politician, Razi Ahmed, who
had to come intervene, was also detained,
but was later released.
Yesterday in Pasai, 6km from the
district headquarters, Muslims objected to
the use of loudspeakers by Chhath vratis
while namaz was being offered at a nearby
mosque. Chhath devotees also objected
to water from the mosque spilling onto the
road that was being used by the vratis.
This led to an altercation followed
by pelting of stones. As many as 17 people
were injured. While some were sent to
Hazaribagh district hospital, a few others
were shifted to Ranchi.
Talaq on
cellphone
valid, says
fatwa
Deoband, Nov. 15, 2010: 'Talaq'
uttered thrice by a Muslim man on a
mobile phone will be considered valid
even if his wife is unable to hear it all the
three times due to network and other
problems, a fresh fatwa has ruled.
The fatwa was given by Darul-Ifta,
the fatwa department of leading Sunni
Islamic seminary Dar-ul-Uloom Deoband,
in reply to a query by a man.
The man in his query had asked that
in case no witness was present when he
utters talaq thrice to his wife over phone
whether it would be considered valid or not.
In its reply, Dar-ul-Ifta said: “If you
have given three talaqs to your wife, all
the three took place and she became
haram (forbidden) for you.”
“It is not necessary for talaq to take
place that the wife hears it or the
witnesses are present,” it ruled.
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IAIF defends
KS Sudarshan
New York, November 15, 2010: The
Indian American Intellectuals Forum has
come to the defence of KS Sudarshan,
former Sarsanghchalak of RSS. In a Press
Release, the Forum’s President, Narain
Kataria, states:
“It is a matter of great disgrace and
shame that Congress Party adherents in
India have taken to the streets and set fire
to the effigy of the former
Sarsanghachalak K.S. Sudarshan of the
Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh (RSS)
for alleged derogatory remarks against
AICC President Sonia Gandhi.
AICC General Secretary Janardan
Dwivedi is reported to have said that “the
reaction of the society should be such that
no one dare speak in such language in
future.” He further said that “if
Congressmen and people of the country
do something (untoward), they (RSS) will
be responsible for it."
The above statement is motivated by
a sinister design to instill fear in the minds
of the opponents of Sonia Gandhi and
silence them. At the same time, it is a
signal to the Congressmen to go ahead
and attack RSS offices and volunteers.
It is a paradox that these
congressmen, because of the feudal
environment and their obsequious
servility, jump around and vie with one
RSS welcomes judgement
Kolkata, November 12, 2010: The
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) on
Friday welcomed a judgement by the
Kolkata High Court banning the slaughter
of cows for religious purposes.
The weighty judgement comes days
ahead of Eid Al-Adhha also known as
‘Bakri-Eid’ being observed by Muslims
across India by sacrificing goats and even
cows in some places.
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another to win laurels from their boss!
They show great vigor and vitality when a
Hindu leader is to be attacked but look
the other way and go underground when
the issue of Islamic terrorism or egregious
inequities of other minorities comes up.
Indian citizens have every right to
know about the background of their
elected officials. Shri Sudarshan has
raised four serious issues: (i) Sonia
Gandhi is a CIA Agent; (ii) there was a
conspiracy to assassinate her husband
and former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi
and his mother Indira Gandhi; (iii) her
pedigree is unknown; and (iv) she had lied
about her birth date.
We do not see anything wrong in the
above allegations. Conversely, Shri
Sudarshanji has provided an opportunity
to the nation to debate the above issues
and remove the lingering doubts from the
minds of Indian citizens about their rulers.
Sonia Gandhi is an elected Member
of Parliament. She is holding a high public
office. She has been widely publicized
as the 9th most powerful person in the
world today. India is a democratic country.
India is not the personal fiefdom of the
Gandhi Dynasty and its sycophants. She
is not above the law. Instead of indulging
in hooliganism and behaving like ruffians,
it is time to resolve these issues once and
for all through deliberation and discussion.
In this connection we would like to
inform the public that in 2008, the Indian
National Overseas Congress of Sonia
Gandhi (INOC) had filed three defamation
cases in the amount of $220 million
against me (Narain Kataria), Arish Sahani
and Satya Dosapati in New York and New
Jersey courts, for publishing a full page
advertisement regarding Sonia Gandhi in
The New York Times.
The Indian community in the USA
supported us wholeheartedly in these
frivolous lawsuits without any merit. We won
two of the cases and the third one was
withdrawn. The purpose of these cases was
also to harass us and individually and
collectively gag our voices”.
The division bench of Chief Justice
J N Patel and Justice Asim Ray of the
Calcutta High Court on Friday declared
the practice of sacrificing cow and its
progeny for religious purpose as
‘unlawful’, the RSS statement said.
The Organisation added that it
expected the judgment to have “far
reaching ramifications in the minority-
centric domestic politics of West Bengal”.
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Ban on Cow Slaughter
by Kolkata HC
Tapan Kumar Ghosh, President,
Hindu Samhati has issued the following
statement on the Ban on Cow slaughter for
Bakri Idd by the Hon’ble Kolkata High Court.
“On 12th November, 2010 the
Honourable Kolkata High Court passed an
important judgment banning the slaughter
of cows for ritual sacrifice on the occasion
of Idd-ul-Adha, popularly known as Bakri
Idd. In actuality the Kolkata High Court has
only upheld a similar judgment passed by
it in 1995, which was further endorsed by
the Supreme Court of India, banning the
slaughter of cows as religious ritual on
Bakri Idd. The Court has also instructed
the Govt to pass this judgment as notification
to all its administrative and law enforcement
units and to make sure that this injunction
of the court is observed in its entirety.
Hindu Samhati welcomes and fully
endorses this judgment of the Kolkata
High Court and has instructed all its units
to keep a close watch on any incidence
of cow slaughter on the occasion of Bakri
Idd. If any such activity is detected the
local HS workers are to immediately notify
the local Police Station with the
information regarding the place where the
outrage has been committed and, if
possible, the names of the persons
involved. The reverence with which the
Hindu Samaj regards the cow cannot be
over emphasized and Hindu Samhati
workers have vowed to ensure that Hindu
sensitivities are given their due respect
in the occasion of Bakri Idd. Towards this
objective Hindu Samhati has mailed
copies of the judgment to the West Bengal
State Police HQ and requested that the
provisions of the judgment be maintained
Congress intimidating
its critics: Swamy
November 12, 2010: Dr.
Subramanian Swamy, President of the
Janata Party, has issued the following
Press statement:
“The Congress Party deserves to be
condemned for taking to the street and
engaging in violent protests against the
RSS for the disclosure made regarding
Sonia Gandhi’s past by former Sarsang-
chalak KS Sudarshan. Any party which is
committed to democracy, which the
Congress Party have proved in the Emergey,
it is not, should resort to media rebuttal or
court action to counter the disclosure
made by Shri Sudarshan. But obviously
Sonia Gandhi cannot address a press
conference or go to court on this matter.
In 2008, the Congress Party had
filed a defamation suit in the New York
State Supreme Court seeking equivalent
Love of Red for Green
Thiruvananthapuram, Nov. 16,
2010: After several attempts like
introduction of Islamic bank, Free
coaching classes , scholarships and
Hostels for Muslim students, Pension for
Maulavis, Rupees 5 crore charity to
Pakistan, here comes yet another blind
appeasement to win the heart of fanatic
jihadis in Kerala. As part of Islamization
of Kerala, Government has issued a
circular to all Ration dealers in Kerala to
provide rice at a subsidized price of two
rupees per kg to all Madrassa teachers.
Analysts opines that this love of red
for green, is over the realisation that
Kerala will witness a huge demographic
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in letter and spirit. All the local units have
been similarly instructed to submit copies
to their local Police Stations. As per our
reports, this process of prodding the police
and administration is being vigourously
pursued by all our units throughout West
Bengal as well as a strict vigil is being kept
up for any outrage.
However, as the Kolkata High Court
stated, the original judgment was passed
in 1995 and till then 15 Bakri Idds have
passed. In these occasions the Hindus of
Bengal have witnessed thousands of
cows beings slaughtered in Kolkata and
hundreds of thousands throughout West
Bengal. The Government did nothing to
enforce the law and the court took no
cognizance of this misconduct. Even on
this very day, in the Muslim localities of
Kolkata, cows are openly corralled on the
wayside waiting for slaughter on Bakri Idd.
They are displayed brazenly before the
Hindu populace, taunting their
discomfiture and inability to do anything
about this insult. Confirming the popular
belief that Court or government, judgment
or police, everything is inconsequential
before the consolidated power of Muslim
votes and the debilitating political
correctness of the Hindu elite.
Like 15 Idds before, on this Bakri Idd
too hundreds of thousands of cows would
be slaughtered by the cruel halal method.
The judgment of the Kolkata High Court
would be just ink on paper and WB
government has tucked its tail a long time
ago before the might of the Muslim vote.
It will only go to prove to the whole wide
world that the writ of Indian law does not
run in ‘Muslim’ Bengal.”
of Rupees five hundred crores as
damages from three NRIs based in US,
namely, Mr. N. Kataria, Mr. Arish Sahni and
Mr. D. Satya for bringing out a fullpage
advertisement in the New York Times
precisely making the same disclosure
which Mr. Sudarshan has made yesterday.
The New York State Supreme Court
however dismissed their defamation suit
and the Congress Party chose not to
appeal to the Federal Supreme Court in
Washington. Obviously going to court
would lead to further disclosures that Sonia
Gandhi would be required to make on the
witness box during her cross examination.
Hence she has chosen the path of all
dictators to engage in violent acts to
intimidate her critics. Unfortunately such
violent acts against Shri Sudarshan will
only boomerang against Sonia Gandhi.
change in coming years and more and
more constituencies will become Muslim
majority. Comrades hope that by such
dole outs they can withstand the Jihadi
wrath over them.
This incident once again reaffirms the
'True Secularism' upheld by our comrades.
Temple priests in Kerala are struggling to
survive in devaswom board temples as
they are treated in par with temple
sweepers when it comes to their salary
scale. On top of that Devaswom Board has
issued circular banning tempe priests
accepting dakshina from devotees.
According to Communist Government
such 'Dakshinas' are considered as bribes!
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National Spirit Vol.1, Issue No.34 Mumbai, November 19, 2010 Page 8

Dr. Abdul Kalam Mandir and Dharmik

in Canada
6th October, 2010 : In the back
ground of the above picture is Dr. Abdul
Kalam. He was at the the Sringeri Temple
in Toronto, Canada, recently. The girl in
the fore-front was singing the national
anthems of both Canada & India. She
rendered them both beautifully.
Kalam Saheb was in the
background. He should have been in the
fore-front, where Mrs.Prathiba Patel is
now. He would have been there had he
chosen to invest his loyalties with the
ruling powers, but he identified himself
with progress and future of the nation.
How can anyone in India be expected to
hold on to political appointments in India
with such an progressive approach?
But is he really in the background?
One has to be at his meets to see why he
is respected that much. He started off his
speech by saying that he is on the 79th
orbit of earth. That was a scientist
speaking. We never have heard anyone
explain their age in that perspective. He
asked the children sitting in the front row
what his age could be. A girl replied 78.
He said to that girl, "you get 100 marks".
That laid the tone for his speech. It was
interactive, it was not a monologue as
most other speeches were, it was lively
and most importantly he was telling that
he is listening. Listening to what people
have to say. Listening to the problems that
a nation and its people have to encounter
as they navigate their place on earth.
To test if we were listening to the fact
that he was listening he narrated an event.
An event that happened only once 1947,
15th August. He was in school and was the
day after Independence the newspapers
had picture of Mr. Nehru hoisting the flag.
He paused and said. The father of the nation
who bought us freedom was on that day
dousing fires of a communal riot. He
summed it by saying the leader is present
where problems are! Powerful message
explained in a subtle way.
He rendered a poem he wrote the
earlier day watching the mighty Niagara
Falls. In his poem he asks Niagara, what
is its message to the people? Niagara
replies that the power of its flow of water
is telling the youth of the world that they
also the same power in them to change
the world. The applause was spontaneous
and resounding.
He then asked them to repeat an
oath, called "Righteous in Life" It was
simple but was oozing with morals. The
entire audience repeated it. He was
recalling his recent meet at Tirupathi
where one hundred thousands young
people were present. When they said they
would do anything, he asked them to
repeat another oath, "I will make my
mother happy, because if my mother is
happy, the family is happy, if the family is
happy the society is happy". Before he
started that oath he asked the youth to
repeat it, and also people who felt youthful
can take the oath.
At another session there was a Q &
A session and one question he was asked
was, "You are called a man of peace and
you are also called the missile man. Aren't
those contradictory.?" He responded by
saying that in the 5000 years of Indian
History, Indians ruled themselves only for
500 years. The rest were ruled by
foreigners. That sums up this man and
his passion for India.
Hearing him talk it was hard to think
that he is a Muslim. He has demonstrated
that he is an Indian first. His appointment
as the president of India cannot be
political compulsions by BJP government.
If it was determined it could have bought
a Hindu leader as president. The BJP
government had the vision to appoint Mr.
Kalam as the president of India.
This brings us to our pet theme that for
Muslims, India is the best place to be. Wish TN entrepreneurs to start industries in
all Muslims acknowledge this simple truth.
Sanstha Mahasangh
Launched
Navi Mumbai, November 14, 2010: takeover act, Anti superstitious bill, etc.
Mandir and Dharmik Sanstha Also free legal and monetary help
Mahasangh, with an aim to protect Hindu to the temples and also religious
Dharm , Temples and Mutts, was launched education to devotees will be given by
at Navi Mumbai. The function to launch Mahasangh.
the Organisation was held at Jhulelal Co-ordinator Shri Shivaji Vatkar said
Mandir Hall, Nerul on 14th November. that the delegation of Mahasangh will
All trustees of Mandir,
Gurudwara, Jain Temples,
proud Hindus and social
workers were present at
this auspecious ceremony.
The Inaguration was done
by H.H. Swami Krushanand
Saraswati.
On this occasion H.H.
Devatmand Swami of
Chinmay Mission, Sanatan
Sanstha’s Saint H.
Rajendra Shinde, H.H.
Ganesh Maharaj of
Varakari Sampraday, Hindu Janjagruti meet Governer, Cheif Minister, etc. and
Samiti spokeperson Shri Ramesh Shinde, will give memorandum to oppose anti
Shri Motilal jain of Jain temples etc. were Hindu laws and also for the walfare of
present on the dias. temples.
All of them congratulated A meeting has been called on
Mahasangh and expressed the need of Sunday, 21 Nov. at 7pm at Shri Ganesh
joining this Mahasangh for protecting Mandir, Sector 12, Nerul. All are cordially
Hindu Dharm and temples. invited for this meeting so as to decide
The Co-ordinator Shri Mannanur the next course of action by Mahasangh.
Ravindran said that the Mahasangh will (Contact: Shivaji Vatkar, Tel.
oppose anti Hindu Laws e.g. Temple 09322533595)
Did your English Paper
report this today?
K.Vijayan
The Tamil daily, Dinamalar, Chennai India, he has come with a Team of
edition of 15-11-2010 carries a half page Secretaries who will help people seeking
item headlined “Phenomenal growth in to set up any industry – micro, small, or
Gujarat: Modi creates a stir in Chennai” medium in Gujarat with no delay whatsoever.
(translation). Apparently the Main Stream Media,
It appears that Narendra Modi, CM apart from projecting a positive and
of Gujarat has paid a visit to Chennai laudatory picture of Traitors,
recently with a team of Secretaries to woo
Secessionists, Terrorists, Cheats and
Crooks, has been ordered to totally black-
Gujarat. He has impressed people here out any news of Modi.
with his dynamism, and how his Not much of the Head has been

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