A win for Congress-RJD would have been a trip back to the stone age for Bihar. Nitish Kumar has got an overwhelming mandate from the public.  No matter how much the Congress tries to portray that the win for Nitish was nothing but a rejection of Lalu’s politics, they cant deny the fact that people have virtually rejected them too.  For the party ruling at the center to win /lead in less than 10 seats in a 243 member assembly is a new low.

People are increasingly voting for roti-kapada-makaan and other necessities in life.  No one bothers about reservations, mandir-masjid, communal and other caste politics anymore.  There is a whole new generation of kids who have been born post the 1991 liberalisation.

The new India demands development.  Hope the Thuggerays in Bombay realise that probably they need to stop beating up the migrants from Bihar.  Sooner or later no one would want to end up in the corrupt and crumbling Slumbay Bombay anymore.  Hope the corrupt Congress in Maharashtra gets the message too.   Not to mention the constant feuding AP Congress.

3 Cheers again to Nitish Kumar for his developmental politics. May his tribe increase.

PS: Guess what is the other heartening news?  The complete rout of the commies

Above picture courtesy: IBNLive

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Today’s news reports that 5 people involved in the Satyam scam have been given bail. Dont be surprised when Ramalinga Raju who is living like a king in the NIMS hospital but refuses to appear in courts or even take part in a televideo trial will soon be released on bail too.

Every Tom, Dick and Harry can make out that the various excuses given by criminals and undertrials are fake and yet our courts accept those excuses and keep pushing the dates of the cases.  A friend of mine who was working under a famous lawyer in Hyderabad used to tell numerous stories of how his boss used to hoodwink the courts with fake medical leaves, out of station kinda excuses to not attend the court.  Heck, the lawyer even used to give excuses like his car’s tyre got punctured and excused himself from attending court.  I wonder if the judge didnt remind the lawyer that there is something called autos, taxis or other public transport that he could have taken to attend court.

Till the government amends the laws to ensure that every case needs to be wrapped up in a certain amount of time no matter what the excuse, this charade will keep going on.   It took 26 years for the courts to find the guilty in the Bhopal gas carnage.  People are still suffering the after effects.  The wounds of the survivors of the Sikh riots led by the Congress ministers, the muslims killed in Gujarat with the active participation of the ruling BJP and the current CM Narendra Modi, the riots of Bombay perpetrated by the Thuggerays….the list goes on.

Till the feet of our leaders are held to the fire and action demanded from them, i dont see any closure for the millions of people on whom the actual crime is not the injustice, but the judicial system and the government that was elected to keep them safe from harm insults them repeatedly by denying them justice.

Fraudulent sales, inflated invoices, accrued interest and understated liabilities were some of the major methods that Ramalinga Raju and his henchmen used in order to make Satyam Computers Services Ltd appear highly profitable and keep the share price high, so that he could take away a whopping Rs2,743 crore out of the company. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) explained this and other intricacies of its investigation into Satyam at a media workshop in Mumbai.

JL Negi, general manager, Reserve Bank of India (RBI), on deputation to the CBI explained how Ramalinga Raju falsified facts and puffed up results. He said, the company benchmarked its performance to that of Infosys. The financial numbers were massaged through fraudulent sales- invoices generated through “Excel porting”, which allowed the founder of Satyam and his co-conspirators to raise invoices bypassing the regular system and obfuscating an audit trail. In the period from April 2003 to December 2008, 7,561 fake invoices were created by a set of people close to Raju, who had access to the system. The fake invoices generated without purchase orders were shown as “hidden” and could only be accessed by a chosen core group. The CBI alleges that Mr Raju even asked his software team to develop certain products for seven non-existent customers.

These were Mobitel, Cellnet, E-care, Synony, Northsea, Autotech and Hargreaves. Fake revenue was recognized for these products by generating fictitious email as if they originated from these customers.  A domain was created in rediffmail to send these emails and 63 invoices were generated to raise Rs430.66 crore. The company even booked Rs31.18 crore as forex profit on account of fictitious sales.

Read this full article in livemint on how Ramanlinga Raju used his position in Satyam to perpetrate the scam.  You have to simply say hats off for the way he manipulated the scam.

Not to mention a big kick on the backside of the regulators, law enforcement agencies who let the scam happen for years and kept their eyes shut.

Past articles on the Satyam scam

The Satyam shocker continues…
Ramalinga Raju – The fraud King
Satyam’s pack of lies crumble
The Satyam – Maytas flip flop

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Three Shiv Sena legislators complained Monday that their police security cover had been withdrawn, and accused the Congress-NCP of getting back at them for their recent opposition to the government.

Two of the three lawmakers, Jogeshwari MLA Ravindra Waikar and Andheri MLC Anil Parab, were among the 342 Shiv Sena activists who were detained last week for waving black flags at Rahul Gandhi during his visit to Mumbai. Before that, Parab had led a march to Shah Rukh Khan’s home to protest the star’s statement that Pakistani players should have been part of the IPL.

The third lawmaker, Bandra MLA Prakash (Bala) Sawant, said he had not taken part in any protests but had visited police stations to talk to Sainiks who had been detained.

MLAs and MLCs in Maharashtra are provided security by the Protection and Security Department of the Mumbai Police, and are assigned policemen not above the rank of constable who carry a small weapon and work in 12-hour shifts.

Sawant complained he had been targeted despite his not having taken part in the protests. “I had only gone to meet activists detained at various police stations,” Sawant said. He added he would write to the police to ask them to restore his security. “My constituency is very sensitive and if anything happens to me the state government will be responsible.”

Read the full news here

I have always believed that all these morons dont deserve even a single police constable’s protection around them.  Since they have no qualms whipping up communal and regional feelings and exhorting their supporters to beat up innocent people, the police should also let them be at the mercy of people who want to take revenge from them.

Let them also be beaten into pulp while the rest of the world watches the fun.

Picture source: Moneytrader

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Stunned by his party’s third consecutive defeat at the hustings, Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray today blamed the people of Maharashtra for “pushing the state back into hell” by re-electing the Congress-Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) combine.

In an editorial in the Shiv Sena mouthpiece Saamna, which expressed the party’s shock and anguish over its rout in the 2009 assembly polls, the Sena chief and the newspaper’s editor wondered what were the great achievements of the Democratic Front government in the past 10 years that made people to vote for it.

“There was corruption, load-shedding, Maoist terror which killed policemen, suicides of thousands of farmers, Mumbai terror attacks, etc,” Thackeray noted in the editorial.

The results of the assembly elections held Oct 13 gave the Congress 82 seats and the NCP 62 — totalling 144 in the 288-member assembly. The opposition alliance got a drubbing with only 90 seats, the Shiv Sena getting 44 and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) 46. The Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) got 13 seats.

Thackeray blamed the people for the defeat of the Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) saffron alliance and for bringing back a “naalayak” (useless) government.

Rest of the news here

I would seriously miss this fellow when he steps into the grave.

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Rashtriya Swamsevak Sangh (RSS) mouthpiece Organiser has slammed Pakistan founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah calling him a hate figure.

The Organiser editorial said that Jinnah was a frustrated, piqued and egoist person and added that he cruelly and constantly insulted Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and other Congress leaders for their correct and nationalist stand of not accepting Muslim League as the sole representative body of the Muslims.

It also said Jinnah was a hate figure like Mohammad Ghori, Mohammad Ghaznavi, Babar and Aurangzeb but is disliked more because his actions are fresh in memory, and millions of victims of his hate campaign are still alive.

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A good article in the Open magazine on why the BJP loves Jinnah so much.

Apart from their senility, I can only think of one explanation; they envy him his achievement. He has created a nation in their image, a nation based on the faith of the majority with no room for diversity. In Pakistan, the BJP finds its ideal.

The truth contrary to what Jaswant Singh says is that Jinnah has not been demonised enough. There is a strange complicity between men such as Jaswant Singh and a certain stream of liberal Indian thought that continues to argue that Nehru should have accommodated Jinnah’s ambition and prevented the Partition. It is a strange and baffling argument given all we know about Jinnah. By the perverse logic of that argument, we should reach out to Narendra Modi and offer him the post of PM to end the divisiveness that plagues us today. The BJP’s real problem is that they cannot lay claim to the Freedom Movement, nor are Gandhi and Nehru figures they can come to terms with. Under the circumstances, the best they can do is to devalue them. And what better way to achieve this than to compare them unfavourably with Jinnah?

The author exactly nails the point.  No matter what BJP says, its never believed in the secular fabric of India.  It simply cannot reconcile to the fact that Indians believe in different religions yet they are proud to be Indians.  The fact that our founding fathers believed in the right of every religion to be followed.  BJP  loves Jinnah so much simply because they see in Jinnah a person who managed to get a country all for himself based on Islam.  But inspite of their hate politics, the Indian public doesnt fall for their tactics.

There is nothing more comical than seeing the chaddi gang pressing the self-destruct button.  Fearing the worst that Arun Shourie might spill some more beans of the fakeness of the fake iron man of India, LK Advani,  the BJP has just asked Shourie to explain what he meant in his outburst the other day.

The BJP was full of morons was already known.  The fact that they dont understand english has just been confirmed.  Jaswant Singh has been daily dropping one bomb after another on how Advani knew of the terrorist exchange in Kandahar, but lied in his book that he was kept in the dark.  How he kept quiet when the butcher of Gujarat, Narendra Modi let his dogs free on innocent civilians and more.

Am waiting to read more fun from the stables of the chaddi gang in time to come.

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First we saw the bully Raj Thackeray exhorting his goons of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) to beat up migrant workers from UP and Bihar who came to Bombay to find work.  And when the government removed the Z category security, he panicked and started accusing the government of making plans to eliminate him.

Same is the case with Varun Gandhi.  Only an idiot would agree with the mother-son claims that the CD showing Varun Gandhi using threatening and vulgar words against the Muslim community and the Prime Minister were morphed or somehow tampered with.

Even a layman could make out that Varun went on with his hate filled speech which was gleefully applauded by the chaddi gang till someone filmed the speech and bought the crime to light.   The same Varun Gandhi who once threatened to cut down people of a certain community is now quivering in fear and is hiding under his mamma’s pallu as there are rumors that the sharp shooters of underworld don, Chhota Shakeel are on the lookout to eliminate him.

In the wake of the arrest of six sharpshooters of the Chota Shakeel gang, who were allegedly planning to kill the lawyer of Varun Gandhi, Bharatiya Janata Party Member of Parliament Maneka Gandhi on Sunday shot off a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, saying she was concerned about her son’s safety.

“It is with the deepest concern for my son’s life and safety that I write to you today,” she said in her letter in the wake of the arrest of the gang members.

In a separate statement, Varun, 29, said while he was not personally intimidated by such cowardly threats, strong precautions must be taken to defeat the desperate designs of extremist elements.

“The Home Ministry should respond with the urgency and responsibility that behoves those entrusted with the safety of a whole nation,” he said, claiming that it was a plot against his life by dangerous underworld criminals.

The Delhi police on Saturday claimed that the gang had come to the capital to allegedly kill Varun’s lawyer.

Read the rest of the funny news here.

Honestly, such hatemongers are at best dead and buried.

Raj & dog’s pic source: Amreekandesi; Varun & Menaka pic source: TribuneIndia

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Veteran Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani today asserted that the party’s leadership should shed its “train compartment mentality” and evolve a system to encourage young leaders.

Delivering the concluding address to the party’s two-day national executive meeting here, Advani said: “The party has to urgently evolve a system of encouraging younger leaders at all levels.

“But I have heard many young activists tell me that they are not given opportunity to serve the party more effectively,” said Advani, 81.

He lamented: “It is sad that a certain ‘train compartment mentality’ has got developed within the party, which makes those in leadership positions to ignore promising, talented and committed cadres who are standing ‘outside’ and waiting for the door to open.”

He said this had to change and the party must think into the future. Advani said: “We must identify, train, groom and empower third, fourth and fifth generation of leaders in the BJP. Our leadership planning should take into account the party’s needs for the next twenty years.”

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After a few days of chintan baithak, the BJP decides that they should follow something called Inclusive Hindutva.  Not sure what it means.  Is BJP accepting that its brand of rabid Hindutva project has failed and its time to find out if people will fall for another game called “Inclusive Hindutva”? If so, what will hate mongers like Varun, Modi, Muthalik and the rest of the chaddi gang do then?

As per this tweeter, Inclusive Hindutva sounds more or less like…

BJP talks about Inclusive Hindutva. Hmm how about Vegetarian Tandoori Chicken?

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5 years ago admist the uncertainity over the economic reforms , the stock market crashed by over 790 points to finish at around 4200 points as the UPA with the support of the Left came to power in May 2004.   Since then, the market touched 22000, crashed to 8000 and is now hovering around 12000.

With the commies not around this time and a decimated BJP, its time for the UPA to look at the real issues on ground.  We could look at FDI in retail and that’s sure to give a fillip to the economy in general.  Its probably time for Singh and his team to unleash the 2nd generation of reforms.

Montek Singh Ahluwalia seems to be in running for the post of Finance Minister.  Chidambaram would go back to his Home ministry (and hopefully do a good job of overhauling the creaking law and order machinery and intelligence gathering in the country).  Pranab Mukherjee is poised to be the External Affairs minister.  India would need his expertise a lot considering a volatile neighbourhood.  Hope Dayanidhi Maran comes back to Telecom/IT ministry.  We need a good minister for the post of Highways and surface transport unlike the previous scumbug, TR Baalu.  AK Antony will be the Defence Minister again.

Thank God, the moron Ramadoss is gone.  He was a pathetic joke.  Hope we will have some good Health minister who will work on the lousy public health that we have and the pathetic conditions of government run hospitals than spend his/her time watching if SRK is smoking on screen or picking up fights with the AIIMS chief.

Wonder if Advani has gone to the gym in the morning.  My prediction that Advani will NEVER become the PM of India came true.   He was, is and always will be an also-ran. At least with his new found love for exercising, he will die a healthy man physically.  Unfortunately, there can be no cure for his crooked and power hungry mind.

Here’s the best wishes for a great 2nd innings to the UPA led government.

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Given below is the results on the poll on this blog

According to the latest trends and the declared results, its been a virtual sweep for the UPA.  The NDA has been utterly humiliated in a lot of places. There are several reasons for both the results but the most important lesson for BJP is this.  LK Advani will NEVER be the PM of India.  NEVER. Dump him and his kind of politics if it really wants to challenge the Congress / UPA on a pan-India basis.  The only reason why the NDA / BJP won the elections in 1999 was because it had a moderate leader in the form of AB Vajpayee.

BJP / NDA lost the elections the moment it declared Advani as its PM candidate.  In one stroke, not only did it alienate all the minority votes, but also the moderate Hindus. Same is the case with Modi.  I have always believed that Modi would remain confined to Gujarat as its probably the only state where his type of politics work.  It has been confirmed again in this election.

The also rans and regional parties have also bitten the dust.  The message is simple, the people of India are fed up of regional, communal, communist and other divisive characters.  Time to strengthen the hands of a government that can unite people and not divide them on the basis of religion, region, caste, creed etc.

I would love to do a detailed analysis of this elections.  But that’s only after a few days.  Would like to see the voting patterns in all the states, the percentage of votes etc and then write.  Meanwhile here is the leads / results as at 1930 hrs (IST) on 16th May 2009.

UPA  – Won 192 – Lead 66 – Total 258

NDA – Won 123 – Lead 41 – Total 164

Third Front – Won 53 – Lead 24 – Total 77

Others – Won 29 – Lead 15 – Total 44

The BJP abused Sonia Gandhi in 2004 and lost.  They abused Manmohan Singh in 2009 and lost.  What does that prove?  A significant number of Indians might be uneducated and poor, but one thing that they do realise is that they never give into negative campaigning.

The “goongi gudiya“, “baccha” kind of comments are only good for claps.  They dont fetch you votes.  The earlier the BJP realises this, the better it is for Indian politics.And when, Manmohan Singh said these words, he hit the nail on the head

Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh on Friday said he did not wish to have a live television debate with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) prime ministerial candidate Lal Krishna Advani, as he did not want to accord him the privilege of being an alternative prime minister.

Bingo.

The commies can go back to the gutter from where they came.  Or else, they can migrate back to their mother country China as its their dictates that they follow anyway.

3 cheers to the public of the country.  3 cheers to the Election Commission of India for running a free and fair and relatively incident free elction.

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On May 16th when the votes are counted, i will put up a comparison between the results of the poll on this blog and the actual results announced by the Election Commission of India.

Let’s see if our predictions come true or the people of this country have something else on their minds.  Please note that multiple votes are not encouraged.

Thank you for participating.

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