Onion Crisis

PM steps in to write a letter to agriculture minister Mr. Sharad Pawar. If the government is saying that they are continuously working for the common people. Where are the common people in their agenda? Since UPA II has been came in power in 2009 the price rises of food items including all the items which are necessary for common people. Mr. Prince will always say we will continue with common people. On all front government fallen down. All necessary items prices have been gone out of reach of common people. How they can control because if the one person of cabinet has been made more than Rs.1, 74,000Crores money in just six years. And our PM says, we will get rid of price rise of onion and what about all other product.

Our PM will say always that we can control of the inflation rate next Jan, next June, Next Dec……….How many time frame they will ask from common people. Government is saying we are getting 8-9% growth rate, but the 13-16% food inflation rate and 8-9% inflation rate. How the common people will survive? If you are saying it is your good achievement that you should about China has 11% of growth rate and 2-3% of inflation rate. Where is the growth rate effect? Is it affecting our common people taking their valuable money towards making money by their minister? But I am sorry Mr. Prime Minister you will have to answer the common people that when and how you will control the food inflation rate.

Onion prices over the globe are following:
Russia- Rs.80/Kg
Germany-Rs.100/Kg
United Kingdom-Rs.60/Kg
Islamabad-Rs.60/Kg
Don’t this how could be onion can sell in Indian rupees in foreign country, it is accumulated prices in their perspective country’s currency.

Some time ago Islamabad and Rawalpindi were importing the onions but now we are importing the same onion which we have been exported them. This is the policy of our government, first we will export than import. Where is the government working for common people?

Tendulkar @50th Test centuries

Congratulation to Master to become the first ever batsman in history of cricket to hit a 5oth test centuries. Time stood still on Sunday as Sachin got to his 50th Test hundred a day after his father’s birth anniversary. This milestone was just a formality waiting to happen. Just a number, as Sachin later agreed. However, the towering nature of this achievement would leave you breathless any day.

Congratulation again!

Scams in India since Independence

Talking specifically about scams, I think the major scams which have haunted 'Mother India' . Since Independence are as follows:-

Mundhra Scandal
The Mundhra scandal involved then finance minister T T Krishnamachari, who pressured the government-owned Life Insurance Corporation of India into bailing out Haridas Mundhra, a Calcutta-based industrialist, by buying shares worth Rs 1.24 crore in six companies owned by him.

Fodder Scam
Fodder Scam is a scam related to Animal Husbandry Department of Government of Bihar in which irregularities of nearly Rs 950 crores (US $ 210 million) were detected. The scam was unearthed in 1996 during the regime of chief minister Lalu Prasad Yadav.

Bofors Scandal
The Bofors Scandal was a major corruption scandal in India in the 1980s; the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and several others were accused of receiving kickbacks from Bofors AB for winning a bid to supply India's 155 mm field howitzer.

Security Scam
In April 1992, the Indian stock market crashed, and Harshad Mehta, the person who was all along considered as the architect of the bull run was blamed for the crash. It transpired that he had manipulated the Indian banking systems to siphon off the funds from the banking system, and used the liquidity to build large positions in a select group of stocks.

Lakhubhai Pathak cheating scandal
Lakhubhai Pathak, an Indian businessman living in England alleged that Chandraswami and K.N. Aggarwal alias Mamaji, along with Mr. Rao, cheated him out of $100,000.00. The amount was given for an express promise for allowing supplies of paper pulp in India, and Pathak alleged that he spent an additional $30,000.00 entertaining Chandraswami and his secretary.

Hawala Scandal
The Hawala scandal or hawala scam was an Indian political scandal involving payments allegedly received by politicians through hawala brokers, the Jain brothers. It was a US$18 million dollar bribery scandal that implicated some of the country's leading politicians.

Lavalin Scandal
The Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) signed an MoU with Lavalin in August 1995. Under the provisions of the MoU, the funds for the renovation were to be arranged by SNC Lavalin from the Export Development Corporation (EDC), Canada, and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). The Board did   so, ignoring the CEA's recommendation that immediate replacement of the generating units at the Pallivasal power station was not called for as the plant was in fairly good condition.

Ketan Parekh Scandal
Companies when raising money from the stock market rope in brokers to back them in raising the share price. Ketan Parekh formed a network of brokers from smaller exchanges like the Allahabad Stock Exchange and the Calcutta Stock Exchange. Ketan also used benami or share purchase in the name of poor people living in the shanty towns of Mumbai. Ketan's rise to fame occurred at the same time as the worldwide dot-com boom (1999-2000) and he relied primarily on the shares of ten companies for his dealings.

Barak Missile Scandal
The Barak Missile Scandal is a case of defence corruption relating to the purchase of Barak Missile Systems by India from Israel. The case is currently   under investigation by the Central Bureau of Investigation, and several people including the Samata Party ex-treasurer R.K. Jain have been arrested. Others named in the First Information Report include politicians George Fernandes and Jaya Jaitly, and arms dealer and ex-naval officer Suresh Nanda, who is the son of retired chief of naval staff S.M. Nanda.

The Tehelka expose
In 2001 a sting operation conducted by Tehelka, alleged that 15 defence deals made by the government had involved some sort of kickback and the Barak deal was one of them.
The NDA government set up a commission to investigate the matter. The UPA government, currently in power, has rejected the part-report by the commission and the whole matter is now being investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
Telgi Fake Stamp Scam
Telgi was arrested in 1991 by Mumbai police for fraud. During his subsequent prison sentence, he reportedly learned the art of forgery from an expert. He was released and, in 1994, acquired a stamp paper licence from the Government of India. He began printing fake stamp paper. He appointed 300 people as agents who sold the fakes to bulk purchasers, including banks, FIs, insurance companies, and share-broking firms. His monthly profits have been estimated as being in the neighbourhood of Rs 202 crore.

Food for Oil Programme Scandal
The Then External Affairs Minister, Natwar Singh was removed from the post on November 7, 2005 (though retaining a cabinet role as minister without portfolio) following a controversy over his alleged involvement in the United Nations Iraqi Oil for Food scandal. The Independent Inquiry Committee under Paul   Volcker had reported on October 27, 2005 that he and his son Jagat Singh were non-contractual beneficiaries of the Oil for food programme.

Mid Day Meal Scam
In January 2006, the Delhi Police unearthed a scam in the Mid-Day Meal Scheme. In December 2005, the police had seized eight truckloads (2,760 sacks) of rice meant for primary schoolchildren being carried from Food Corporation of India (FCI) godowns in Bulandshahr District of UP to North Delhi. When the police detained the trucks, the drivers claimed that the rice was being brought all the way to Delhi to be cleaned at a factory. However, according to the guidelines, the rice has to be taken directly from FCI godown to the school or village concerned. Later it was found that the rice was being siphoned off by a UP-based NGO, Bharatiya Manav Kalyan Parishad (BMKP), in connivance with the government officials.

An analysis of the Scams committed since 1992 reveal that these scams involved huge money.Let us evaluate in monetary terms the magnitude of these Scams.

The monetary value of the Scams committed since 1992 are as follows:-
1992 -- Harshad Mehta Scam was worth Rs 5000 Crores.
1994 -- Sugar Import Scam was worth Rs 650 Crores.
1995 -- Preferential Allotment Scam was worth Rs 5000 Crores.
1995 -- Yugoslav Dinar scam was worth Rs 400 Crores.
1995 -- Meghalay Forest Scam was worth Rs 300Crores.
1996 -- Fertilisers Import Scam was worth 1300 Crores.
1997 -- Sukhram telecom Scam was worth Rs 400 Crores.
1997 -- Lavalin Power project Scam was worth Rs 374 Crores.
1997 -- Bihar Land Scam was worth 1200 Crores
1997 -- C R Bhansali stock scam was worth Rs 1200 Crores.
1998 -- Teak Plantation Scam was worth rs 8000 Crores.
2001 -- UTI Scam was Rs 4800 Crores.
2001 -- Dinesh Dalmia Stock Scam was worth Rs 596 Crores.
2001 -- Ketan Parekh security scam was worth Rs 1250 Crores.
2002 -- Sanjay Agarwal Home Trade Scam was worth Rs 600 Crores.
2003 -- Telgi Stamp paper Scam was worth Rs 172 Crores.
2005 -- IPO Demat Scam was worth Rs 146 Crores.
2005 -- Bihar food relief Scam was worth 17 crores.
2005 -- Scorpene submarine Scam was worth Rs 18,978 crores.
2006 -- Punjab's city centre project scam
2006 -- Taj Corridor Scam was worth 175 Crores.
2008 -- Pune Billionaire Hasan Ali tax default scam was worth Rs 50,000 crores.
2008 - Satyam Scam was worth Rs 10.000 Crores.
2008 -- Army Ration Pilferage Scam was worth Rs 5000 crores.
2008 -- 2G Spectrum Scam was worth Rs 60.000 Crores.
2008 -- State Bank of Saurashtra Scam was worth Rs 95 crores.
2008 -- Illegal money in Swiss Bank is worth Rs 71,00,000 Crores.
2009 -- Jharkhand Medical equipment scam was worth Rs 130 Crores.
2009 -- Rice export scam was worth Rs 2500 crores.
2009 -- Orissa Mine scam was worth Rs 7000 crores.
2009 -- Madhu Koda scam was worth Rs 4000 crores.
2010 - IPL fraud involving swine called Lalit Modi option was worth?
2010 -- Commonwealth Games loot is worth?

The total monetary worth of the Scam committed since 1992 in India is worth more than around Rs 1,00,00,000 crores (One Crore Crores).

If analyze these scam using your commomsense, you would come to the conclusion that the real thieves robbing our Country are essentially "Polticians, industrialists and stock broking dalals of dalal street". And one more thing if Mrs. Gandhi is so much strict on corruption in this country so why not realize that how much congressman are corrupt after reading the above list. I request Mrs. Gandhi to read this list and realize how much scam takes place in congress’s regime.

Indian Black Money in Swiss Bank

Top five countries having deposits in Swiss Bank Association:

India—- $1,456 billion (Public loot since 1947) Scams in India since Independence

Russia —$ 470 billion

UK ——-$390 billion

Ukraine – $100 billion

China —–$ 96 billion

According to Global Financial Integrity Indian politicians, IAS, IRS, IPS and people from entertainment and sports industry have deposited $ 325 billion in last five years in Swiss accounts. This may be the picture of deposits in Swiss banks only. What about other international destinations? There are presumably more than 70 Tax havens in the world. Indian wealth could be more in Switzerland and various British /US islands. At least forty countries market themselves aggressively as tax havens. India has more money in Swiss banks than all the other countries combined.

Interestingly Swiss government agreed to disclose the names of the account holders only if the respective governments formally asked for it but Indian govt. is not asking for the details. Annually more than 100,000 Indians travel to Switzerland, of whom 35,000 travel very frequently. A few corrupt Indians have 1.5 trillion dollars of black money.

India and Switzerland signed the amended Double Taxation Avoidance Treaty, which will help the government seek details about the ill-gotten money allegedly stashed away by Indians in Swiss banks. ‘Our government has to ratify the amended treaty. It is just a formality. The Indian government has informed us that the treaty has been ratified by it’.

A large number of Indians are alleged to have assets worth billions of dollars in banks in Switzerland. And the issue of Indians having secret Swiss bank accounts was a poll plank during last year’s general elections. The German government has announced that it would share information on accounts held in the tax haven with any government that wants it, for free. Intriguingly, Indian government was silent on this issue and did not approach the German government for a long time for a look into that data. Later, it wrote a cursory letter under pressure from Opposition but has not disclosed the response of the German government.

It is common knowledge that trillions of dollars of Indian money is in various tax heavens like Antigua, Switzerland, Bahamas, Liechtenstein, Isle of Man, and St Kitts, etc. In a socialistic way, all leaders, be they from business, politics, film, sports or bureaucracy, participated in creating what we may call secular wealth cutting across caste and creed. Also, good portion of the defense commissions were settled abroad. Plus some of our bureaucrats and entertainers and artists have also accumulated wealth abroad. This lobby is well-entrenched and one of the main losers in the appreciation of the rupee.

Worst part of the story is the loss of these deposits to Swiss banks themselves up on the death of some of these depositors who have not passed on the relevant account information to their progeny. These are operated using codes but most of them require passport and its number as a proof. That is the reason one finds some persons traveling to Switzerland with all expired passports. Zurich is the only European town which has Hindi slogans written on the side of its trams. Of course it is supposedly linked to Bollywood, but the India traffic to Zurich has to be seen to be believed.

It is estimated that between $500 billion and $1,400 billion is hoarded in Swiss banks and add with that the money stashed in territories like Virgin islands and Bahamas and other assorted tax havens. We need to take steps to bring it back to India. The mechanics can be worked out in terms of amnesty and Swiss bonds issued against these dollars. It can tremendously boost our foreign exchange reserves and facilitate infrastructure investment.

“No criminals” in politics is a good campaign. But can we have leaders with funds stashed abroad? The black money abroad is the Gangotri of all crimes.

Hindu radicalism

Attack on fundamentalism and corruption, Congress President Sonia Gandhi said majority and minority communalism are dangerous and must be defeated and favoured fast-tracking all corruption cases, including those of politicians. Addressing the Congress Plenary, she dwelt at length a number of corruption charges hitting the party and the UPA government headed by it and the controversy surrounding Rahul Gandhi's comments about Hindu radicalism being "bigger threat" than groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba. "The Congress party makes no distinction between organisations of the majority and of the minority communities who indulge in communalism and related acts of terrorism. They are all dangerous, they must all be defeated.

"It is the abuse of religion and to spread hatred and bigotry. It is the abuse of religion to polarise our society and to divide us." Dwelling on the issue of corruption over which the government and the party have been under attack, the Congress President expressed concern over the fact that it has "become a disease" at all levels throughout the society. She underlined the need for instituting a new system of fast tracking all cases that concern corruption by public servants, including politicians.

Rahul Gandhi feels that the "the bigger threat (to India) may be the growth of radicalized Hindu groups, which create religious tensions and political confrontations with the Muslim community". While comments from Congress Party leaders about internal threats from radical Hindu groups are not new. The candid disclosures to Americans of such critical observations about internal security also comes at a time when Pakistan continues its defense of terrorism as a state policy, articulated most recently by former military dictator Pervez Musharraf, who suggested that there will not be any roll-back of the policy unless the Kashmir issue is settled. India, with its vast Muslim community living side-by-side with Hindus, was having difficulty identifying the sources of radicalization, Narayanan is cited as explaining, adding that even Muslim leaders were confessing they were "losing control of their flock."

I am asking to Mr. Gandhi first, if he thinks that Hindu radicalism is more threat in India for communal harmony than what they are doing to resolve it. If 60% of population is threat for his own country than who are most community to suitable for this country’s communal harmony. If he is ok on his words than he is trying to play with sentiments Hindu community who are majority in this country if they don’t forget it so. If you are the top politician of country than you have license to speak anything about our people, I think so because there are lot of example recently have been set by our top politicians. Once speak and again sorry I taking back my words. I think they forget the proverb “Words from your mouths once out, that will never back”.

Migrate to Delhi

If our responsible person's like ministers or chief minister not able to handle the pressure they will always blame on migration, it doesn't matter who it is from Congress or BJP whether it is Sheila Dixit or P Chidambram. Mr. Chidambram has been forgotten that in all hospital's in India 80%+ nurses are coming from Kerala. Nobody blame on those people because they know they are doing good work. 1% of powerful rich people always blame on 60% + poor people of India and everybody knows who is responsible for that if those poor people work hard to made a successful event like CWG-2010 in Delhi than they are good now those people don't have the rights to live in Delhi or surroundings. This is not good. If people are migrating to Delhi from all part of India because of employment, if our government provide them a good employment in their home why they will migrate. If the people can't migrate and take up an opportunity in their own capital than what is the difference between Delhi and Jammu & Kashmir. In Delhi,almost everybody is an outsider. In 1934,the total population of the city was 3-4 lakh only and there were waves of people coming from other places that added to it. Be it the Punjabis from Pakistan or others from other parts of the country. It is true that criminals from NCR do commit crimes here and escape but it is patently wrong to insinuate that the daily wage earner is into crime. They have no time for it. They have to earn his daily wage.

It will better to provide them good environment to live-in rather than comment on their migration to hide our failures.

Congrats Saina Nehwal

Congratulation! Saina Nehwal to win Hong Kong Super Series badminton final in Hong Kong. She kept her promise to all Indian including her Mom. We have proud to having such a wonderful sports person in India for Badminton after having long time. Saina Nehwal landed her careers best win by clinching the Hong Kong Super Series title. I think she is the great kind of sports person has been produced by India in Badminton, who can be in the class of top sports person of India.