VK Singh asks for immediate dissolution of parliament

Former Army chief General VK Singh, who has joined Anna Hazare has called for the immediate dissolution of Parliament.

Since it's the former Army Chief, who retired only recently, is asking for dissolution, hope the Prime Minister responds immediately and dissolves the government.

What a joke, this is turning out to be !!

Ok.fine.Let the government go now itself - may be mid-night today itself.

Let there be an election and let another government comes.

Again, say, after 6 months Mr.VK comes again and calls for the dissolution of that parliament.And since it's Mr.VK who is asking, again let there be a dissolution.

And, and hope this continues !!

Narendra Modi's humiliating comments on another person's wife

Taking potshots at MoS Human Resource Development (HRD) Shashi Tharoor and his wife Sunanda Pushkar, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Monday called the latter "a 50 crore girlfriend".

"There was a Congress leader who was a minister in Parliament. He was accused of amassing wealth from cricket. He had said in Parliament that he is not connected to the Rs 50 crore that in the lady's name," said Modi. "Have you ever heard of Rs 50 crore girlfriend?" he asked.

Earlier, during the rally, Modi also took a jibe at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, calling him 'maun' Mohan Singh, in an indirect reference to his silence over most matters.

News Courtesy : http://ibnlive.in.com

Well, this is Mr.Low Class Narendra Modi speaking..!!

What else can you call a man, who has made it a habit to speak dirt.He is supposed to be the PM in waiting for the BJP. Hope he waits and waits.Hope India does not get this person who presided over one of the most shameful mass murders as her PM.And when he opens his mouth, he does not spare even women from his ugly comments!

Now coming back to charges against Sashi Tharoor : the charges against him has turned out to be not true.He has not received any kickbacks.As a person who got elected to Lok Sabha from Kerala, he showed interest in an IPL team for Kerala.That was his only fault.

Probably his inexperience in Indian politics and his tweets did not help.The person who created all the hungama, Mr.Lalit Modi, is now staying outside of India to escape all the charges he is facing.

Any way whatever that may be, to talk lowly about another person's wife, only Mr.Narendra Modi can do.That is Mr.Modi's culture. That is not Indian culture.

For Mr.Modi, if his intention was to draw attention to corruption, well, he should first ask his party president Mr.Nithin Gadkari to resign.Cowardly making vulgar comments on another person's wife is not what a self-respecting person will do.

I am not a Congress supporter, but what I find laughable is the grandstanding  that BJP always displays, even when they too have lot of skeletons in their cupboard.

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BJP Double yardsticks

BJP's double standards continues..

They accuse the Congress led UPA of being very corrupt..That's fine..

But as I have mentioned in one of my earlier blog post, those who are themselves sitting in glass houses should not throw stones at others..

There is credible evidence out there against BJP's president Nitin Gadkari.The BJP & RSS has chosen to give their  complete surrport to Gadkari, who has floated shell companies with even his driver being mentioned as director of many companies..

Hope, from now onwards, atleast for a few days - the BJP leaders should not utter a word against other party corruptions.First put your own house in order.The person who is accused of corruption is none other than the party president..

One of BJP's earlier president Mr.Bangaru Laxman who was caught red-handed accepting bribe is behind bars these days..

So don't give tutorials on morality to others..
If BJP had asked and made Gadkari to resign, they could have taken the moral high ground..Not anymore..

People are not fools..They know the level of all the politicians..Except for a few, most politicians have some thing or the other to cover-up..

India's IPL Blues

IPL - or the Indian Premier League - is slowly, but surely disintegrating.

Kochi tuskers terminated. Deccan Charges terminated.

Don't know the status of Royal Challengers Bangalore.

It's owner Vijay Mallya is in a soup with his Kingfisher Airlines employees not getting their salaries for about 7 to 8 months !!

And the less said about the IPL team's performance in tournaments like Champions League T20, the better.

The funny thing is after IPL has arrived, Indian team's T20 performances has gone down and the performances of other teams has improved.Players like Shane Watson, Chris Gayle, Kiren Pollard has gained tremendously.

It looks like it's high time BCCI terminates this venture. 

On the Uproar in Australia on Sachin

I too agree with former Australian player Mathew Hayden's comments that Sachin Tendulkar should not have been awarded the `Order of Australia`.

He has a point when he says such Australian national awards should be exclusively for Australian citizens only.

And I hope when he says this, this is the first instance this award was given to a non-Aussie.
Else questions will arise why people like him did not raise this issue earlier.

(Note : Sachin is not the first to be awarded this.)

Earlier Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, during her India visit, had announced that `Order of Australia` will be conferred on Sachin Tendulkar for his contributions to cricket.

There is lot of negative comments in the Australian press regarding giving this award to Sachin.They point to his role in the infamous monkey-gate involving Andrew Symonds and Harbhajan Singh.Whatever Sachin did, was to support his teammate.I don't think Sachin said or did any thing wrong.Australians also rallied around their players.So how is it that Sachin came out dented in that episode ??

He did nothing wrong.

See, these chit-chats on the playing field, it's the Australians who are any way the pioneers - what with Steve Waugh calling it the Australian way of mentally disintegrating the opponents !
So they too are bound to get some thing in return for what they give to the opposing teams' players.

Now coming back to the 'Order of Australia' award,  I don't think Indians or for that matter Sachin Tendulkar is so desperate to get this award.It's the Australian PM who announced it like pulling a rabbit out of the hat.

For what she did, it's not fair on Mathew Hayden, who also said make Sachin the Aussie PM, or for the Aussie media to target Sachin.

Take back your award - we don't want award + insults.

Glamour of being corrupt

The glamour of being corrupt is no longer there.The main culprit for this is Arvind Kejriwal.

With his almost daily instalments of exposes on politicians, people have lost the WOW factor.

Now it's considered normal to be corrupt, especially if you are a politician.

I have no doubt in my mind that whatever Mr.Kejriwal does, people will still continue to vote for these people.

Politicians with serious murder charges and in jail have fought elections and won!

What Mr.Arvind's only achievement is to snatch away the glamour quotient from the word 'corrupt'.

Now those politicians who does not have a corruption charge against them, for Arvind to expose, feels like some college boys who feel ashamed of not having a girl friend..

The Transfer !!

Transfer is state policy.Any body who does a honest job, be it a policeman or an IAS officer, transfer is a weapon that politicians in power use, without any remorse.

Honesty is not some thing that can be tolerated!!

T20s - For whom!

Champions League T20 going on these days in South Africa.The question is for whom??

T20 world cup just got over a week or so back.There is too much T20 cricket going around.

Even a diehard cricket fan like me is fed up and I am not watching any of the matches except for a match or two.

The surprise is the participation of Sachin Tendulkar.He is not doing his reputation any good by participating in these sort of meaningless T20's and by getting out cheapily to little known bowlers.

Any body there with credibility?

Ok now the new expose CD of wannabe politician Arvind Kejriwal is out today.It's against BJP president Nitin Gadkari.And BJP which till now was enjoying the expose on Congress is saying IAC has no credibility..wow..

The problem with BJP is they themselves are sitting in glass houses and hence they cannot throw stones at others.

This is what essentially Arvind also wanted to tell the people.That is, both ruling and opposition parties are corrupt, so the option for the people is the new, yet to be named, party of Arvind.

Only problem is, some of the new party's members are themselves living in glass houses!!

Is Mr.Arvind Kejriwal's politics any different ?

The promise of a new dawn in politics by Mr.Arvind Kejriwal is slowing, but surely, playing out on prime time news channels.

It's a politics of blackmail and reality show style, timed, revelations..

The question is, if he has proof against some politicians, why is he revealing them part by part - in installments.This, obviously, is to gain political mileage and to keep himself in the media glare always.This is not the clean politics that India expected from him.

He goes to houses and restores electricity, of defaulters of electricity bills.The question is not whether or not the bills were inflated or not, the question is - is he right in restoring it ? If  people think they have got inflated bills and does not pay and then forecfully restores supply, will that lead to anarchy in our Country.Are there no other means to fight inflated bills in our Country??

Mr.Arvind Kejriwal's intentions may be very noble, but his means of achieving those are deeply disappointing.

As a humble citizen of this Country who is fed up with all the scams that's occurring, I too was initially very excited with the emergence of Anna Hazare and his team.But it's now slowly becoming more of the same, more of the same sort of ugly politics.

Mr.Arvind defends the Bhushan's when corruption charges are made against them, but jumps to take centre-stage if it's of other party politicians.
He surely should bring out corruption charges against others - that's fine.But he cannot have double standards.

When Kiran Bedi was shown to be claiming inflated travel bills, Arvind defended her.Nothing is being said about that now by any one.

This is not the sort of politics we expected.If his party comes to power, and if his party-men indulge in corruption, he will surely defend them, that's what his defence of the Bhushans and Bedi showed.
And that's what is exactly the Congress,BJP and other parties does when there are corruption charges against any of their party-men.

Add to this people like Mr.Prashant Bhushan, who does not believe Kashmir should be with India, are the leading lights of India Against Corruption group.He has others who are naxalite sympathizers.

These are not good indicators..

Mr.Kejriwal these days is behaving like the self appointed policeman, lawyer, judge and executioner  of India.Bringing out corruption charges, which were held behind closed doors like that of Mr.Robert Vadhra's is fine, but he himself pronouncing the final verdict is dangerous.He is saying no need for any further inquiry and Mr.Salman Khurshid, should be send to jail, about the allegations against Mr.Khurshid !!

Well, what to say.The new Poli-Tricks..

Threatening Law Minister

Whether or not the corruption charges against India's Law minister Salman Khurshid and his wife have any merit or not can be contested by Congress and the minister himself.It's their right to tell the people that the accusations are not true.They should do this by providing facts which will show that the overwhelming evidences of documentary and signature forgeries are wrong.

Only problem is, the kind of language that the law minister of the Country is using to defend himself betrays a certain level of nervousness.A nervousness perhaps born out a feeling of guilt. ( well, it's another point whether politicians ever feel guilty!! )

He is calling India Against Corruption activist Arvind Kejriwal and the disabled people who were protesting against him as - 'Blackmailers, rabble-rousers, third rate people doing third rate things' !!

He was also shown on television threatening Kejriwal with comments like - we will take care of him in due course, 'we will fight tooth and nail. Whatever it takes, we will fight' - etc..

Who are you Mr.Khurshid ???
Do you feel like our good old American president - issuing threats to Iraq ?!

You have every right to defend yourself against corruption charges.But comments like these?? These are not helping you,Sir..Not helping you one bit..

Sir, you are the law minister of INDIA, please behave yourself befitting the post you are holding..Pls..

Other than these blatant threats, Mr.Khurshid does not seem to have any thing to say which will convince the people that he is a 'Mr.Clean who is accused of nonsense' !

Sorry to say this - this man, even if the corruption charges against him turns out to be wrong, should not have any moral authority to continue as the 'LAW MINISTER OF INDIA'..

For billions of Indians, INDIA is our dear Motherland, not the banana republic that your party president's son-in-law  believes India is..It's another fact that people like 'that son-in-law' is trying to make India a banana republic..

Coming back to the point here - Mr.Salman Khurshid does not need to educate the people of India about who are the third rate people in India currently.

People are watching - they know who deserves that Law Ministerial title - 'Third Rate'..

Our Motherland deserves better language from her law minister.We don't need a person who can only threaten those who point out that 'The King is Naked'..

On a lighter note - Mr.Khurshid's anger might be completely justified.In these times of muti-crore corruption charges, he and his wife are accused of siphoning off only Rs.71 Lakh / Rs.67 Lakh.So he might be feeling ashamed.His cabinet colleagues are 'Multi-crorepatis'..!! A prestige issue indeed...

Mr.Khurshid right now is an angry old man, with a Law Ministry in hand.So Mr.Kejriwal and 'third-rate people' and 'mango men' should be worried and should wind up their protest and go to the Himalayas..

Shut up and get lost is the message from the Multi-talented Law Minister of the Land.No more corruption charges.Corruption will be there as a routine daily activity.No force on Mother Earth can stop it.If you try to bring it out - we will find you, we will take care of you, we will handle you.."..
So beware - that's the 'open source' message..

Tune-in to National Television for the latest threats from the Ministry of Law.Mr.Khurshid, as I write this, is about to land in India from London.Threats till now were from Great Britain..
Hoping for more spice and masala once he is in India.We are all in for some 'song & dance' in the days ahead :|

RTI should be curtailed says Manmohan Singh

The Prime Minister of India, who till a few years ago was the proverbial Mr.Clean in Indian politics - seems to have lost all his sheen!

He now seems to have achieved pioneering status with respect to inventing means and ways to hide blatant loot of our Motherland..

He is reported to have said that RTI, Right To Information act, should be curtained if it violates people's privacy !!

Hold on, what sort of privacy is he talking about ??

Privacy to hide corruption charges - whatever it is, the timing of his statement is horribly wrong.

With all the corruption charges against his government and members of the Congress party, details about which mostly came via documents gathered via RTI and because of media investigations and India against corruption team's efforts, to say that RTI should be curtailed is purely to hide further dirt coming out from the closet!!

Humble request to the PM is - don't hide behind glorified terms like 'privacy'.

If you are a public servant, you should be clean both in your public life and private life.
Other wise, please resign and lead a private life.As long as you don't have anything to hide from your activities, no one will intrude into your privacy !!

If your government and your party has looted the Country, truth will emerge, hopefully, and it will hurt you.

Corruption and Hikes

Two words omnipresent in India at the moment are : Corruption and Hikes..

Corruption at all levels, scams..

Politicians are looting the Country..
People like Suresh Kalmadi, A Raja - are back now in important parliamentary committees !!
Serious corruption charges are still pending against them..

Then there are hikes : masquerading as reforms..

Hike in oil prices, cooking gas, train fares, electricity.. You name it..
Cost of living has sky-rocketed in the last few weeks..
Common man, poor people of this Country are finding it difficult to live..

Talking about oil prices : It's any body's guess as to where the petrol, diesel prices are headed..

Going by current trend, it's petrol price that will reach the 100 figure mark first..But you never know..

What one fail to understand is, oil companies swiftly increase prices, or re-adjust prices, as they call it; but when global oil prices goes down, it seems oil companies goes for a sleep..They are extremely reluctant to decrease the price!!

From October 1st onwards, oil companies are reportedly making 2 Rupees/Litre profit, as a result of climbdown in global oil prices..

Today is 6th October, still not a word as to when there will be a price reduction in India..