Top 7 Reasons why Pratibha Patil isn’t Respected as much as other Indian Presidents

Pratibha Patil’s 5 year Presidential reign from 2007 to 2012 was the most uneventful 5 year period in the history of the Rashtrapati Bahavan. When her tenure was over, all of India heaved a collective sigh of relief.

No other President has managed to garner such universal hatred. The only people who still pretend to respect her are the rest of the congress loyalist stooges just like her.

Here are 7 reasons why she was the worst President in Indian History.

7. She was Unworthy of the High Office in the First Place

Dr. Rajendra Prasad, Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam; such are the names that have brought dignity to the office of the President and brought pride to every Indian. But Pratibha Patil was a nobody when she was selected to be the President. Nobody outside Maharashtra knew who she was. But that didn’t matter because she was well known to the Gandhi family. They say Indira Gandhi loved her Puran Poli. That might have qualified her to be the judge of the Indian Masterchef maybe, but the President of India? The truth is that she was chosen for her servility to the Congress high command.

6. She Used her Power to Help her Family

Even before she became the President she wasn’t an honest politician. You might say that there are no honest politicians but it was clearly known that she had always used her power to help her family. She started a Cooperative Bank that was shut down because it was giving loans to her family members on relaxed interest rates. After she became president she continued to help her son’s political career. While all politicians tend to favor their family, she could have restricted her abuse of power out of respect for her position as the first citizen of India.

5. Her Death Pardons

The only thing she did in her tenure was pardon death sentences without discrimination. While Pranab Mukherjee has decided to not pardon anyone, she had decided to pardon everyone. She pardoned many criminals who had committed brutal crimes, including rape and murder. While this can be attributed to her personal philosophy of forgiving every crime, it isn’t something to be proud of as the biggest achievement of her career.

4. Her Extensive Foreign Travels

When she was about to retire, jokes about her foreign travels started doing the rounds in Delhi. It was said that the people who would miss her most would be the pilots and crew of Air India. Another quip claimed that once she retires she’s taking a flight from Delhi to her home in Pune via Bali, Tahiti, Hawaii, California, Miami, Corfu and Dubai. All these jokes were made because of her extraordinary expenditure on foreign travel. She used her Presidency as a five year vacation paid for by Indian taxpayers like you and me.

3. Her Post Retirement Plans

Another black mark on her term as President came when she tried to grab defense land in Pune to build her retirement home. She then tried to get money from the government to refurnish and refurbish her home to prepare for her retirement. This is the condition of our President now when just a few decades ago Dr. Rajendra Prasad donated his own personal land to Vinoba Bhave.

2. She didn’t Live up to the Expectations from Our 1st Women President

When she became President, despite her unfamiliarity, many Indians were hopeful about the first women President of India. There were expectations to be fulfilled that she utterly failed at. During the last few weeks of her term as President there were horrible attacks on women and the whole issue of safety of women came to the fore. Our President was as mute as our Prime Minister.

1. She put Party before Country

In the end the only thing we can say is that she was just another paper pusher employed by the Congress Party. Between Manmohan Singh as Prime Minister and Pratibha Patil as President our nation’s rulers have never been so impotent. She never used her power as the President to question any of Congress’s actions. She just sat on her chair and signed where she was told to sign. That is the biggest reason why she is the worst President in Indian history.

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Sonia Gandhi diagnosed with cervical cancer

Congress president Sonia Gandhi is understood to have undergone a surgery for cervical cancer at Memorial Sloan—Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) private hospital—in New York on Thursday.

The surgery, said informed medical sources, was successful and Sonia is now in the hospital’s intensive care unit and recuperating well.

The surgery, conducted by a team of doctors led by leading Indian-American physician Dattatreyudu Nori, took about an hour, said the sources. Sonia may have to spend up to a month’s time for post-surgery follow-up treatment. It is not clear if she will be spending time in MSKCC for the whole duration of the post-surgical treatments.

The sources said the nature of the post-surgical follow-up treatment, including radiation therapy, would be known in a day or two, on the basis of cystography reports.

Reports from the US suggested that senior IAS officer Pulok Chatterji, who is set to return to Delhi as Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister in October from his current assignment in the US as Executive Director, World Bank, is understood to have arranged for Dr Nori to perform the surgery on Sonia at MSKCC where she was admitted as an “unlisted” patient. Chatterji has been a close aide of Sonia for a long time.

Sonia’s children— Rahul and Priyanka — and son-in-law Robert Vadra are with her. In view of the post-surgery treatments, it may take up to a month for the 64-year-old Sonia to return to India.

In the national capital, the Congress party, however, on Friday was very brief with the medical information regarding its leader, leading to speculations over the kind of ailment she suffered from.

A brief statement put out by the party said Sonia underwent a surgery on August 4 and the surgeon has indicated that the operation has been successful. It, however, did not disclose the reasons that necessitated Sonia to undergo the surgery. Nor did the statement mention the hospital or the country where she underwent the surgery.

“Presently Gandhi is in ICU,” the statement released by party’s chief spokesperson Janardan Dwivedi said, without elaborating. The statement requested that Sonia’s privacy be respected.

“This is a personal matter that pertains to her health and medical treatment. Her family requests that her privacy be respected,” Dwivedi said. Indicating that Sonia had a medical condition that required surgery, the party on Thursday announced the setting up of a four-member committee to look after the organisational affairs in her absence, comprising Rahul Gandhi, A K Antony, Ahmed Patel and Dwivedi.

Cervical Cancer:   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cervical_cancer

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Nathuram Godse : A Misunderstood Character

Godse is often a misunderstood character.

He is referred to as a Hindu fanatic. It is often hard to understand Godse because the Government of India had suppressed information about him. His court statements, letters etc. were all banned from the public until recently. Judging from his writings one thing becomes very clear – He was no fanatic. His court statements are very well read out and indicate a calm and collected mental disposition. He never even once speaks ill about Gandhi as a person, but only attacks Gandhi's policies which caused ruin and untold misery to Hindus. Another interesting point to note is that Godse had been working with the Hindu refugees fleeing from Pakistan. He had seen the horrible atrocities committed on them. Many women had their hands cut off, nose cut off, even little girls had been raped mercilessly. Despite this Godse did not harm even single Muslim in India which he could easily have. So it would be a grave mistake to call him a Hindu fanatic.

Let us start by studying the motive behind Godse's act. By seeing the nature of the assassination in public space and Godse's act of turning himself over to the Police, we can see that Godse did not do this for personal reasons. He very well knew that he would be hanged and his name would be disgraced as Gandhi was considered a saint. And again Godse could have ran away and escaped punishment. But he did the reverse. He called a police officer and courted arrest. Before we proceed it would be wise to understand the backdrop of the assassination.

The central government had taken a decision — Pakistan will not be given Rs 55 crores. On January 13 Gandhi started a fast unto death that Pakistan must be given the money. On January 13, the central government changed its earlier decision and announced that Pakistan would be given the amount. On January 13, Nathuram decided to assassinate Gandhi.

Nathuram Godse was a learned man, very sharp and intelligent – editor of "Agrani" (one of the most famous newspaper of that time – with Nana Aapte). In his last editorial of "Agrani" which he changed overnight – he said "Gandhi must be stopped – at any cost" and he justified why Gandhiji's assassination was not only inevitable but also a delayed action, sth tht shud've happened LONG AGO.

In Nathuram's words - " I don't refute Gandhi's theory of non-violence. He may be a saint but he is not a politician. His theory of non-violence denies self-defence and self-interest. The non-violence that defines the fight for survival as violence is a theory not of non-violence but of self-destruction.The division of the nation was an unnecessary decision. What was the percentage of the Muslim population as compared to the population of the nation? There was no need for a separate nation. Had it been a just demand, Maulana Azad would not have stayed back in India. But because Jinnah insisted and because Gandhi took his side, India was divided, in spite of opposition from the nation, the Cabinet. An individual is never greater than a nation.

In a democracy you cannot put forward your demands at knife-point. Jinnah did it and Gandhi stabbed the nation with the same knife. He dissected the land and gave a piece to Pakistan. We did picket that time but in vain. The Father of our Nation went to perform his paternal duties for Pakistan! Gandhi blackmailed the cabinet with his fast unto death. His body, his threats to die are causing the destruction — geographical as well as economical — of the nation. Today, Muslims have taken a part of the nation, tomorrow Sikhs may ask for Punjab. The religions are again dividend into castes, they will demand sub-divisions of the divisions. What remains of the concept of one nation, national integration? Why did we fight the British in unison for independence? Why not separately? Bhagat Singh did not ask only for an independent Punjab or Subhash Chandra Bose for an independent Bengal?

I am going to assassinate him in the open, before the public, because I am going to do it as my duty. If I do it surreptitiously, it becomes a crime in my own eyes. I will not try to escape, I will surrender and naturally I will be hanged. One assassination, one hanging. I don't want two executions for one assassination and I don't want your involvement, participation or company. (This was for Nana-Apte and Veer Savarkar as they were against ghandhi's policies too, Godse wanted to assassinate gandhi all by himself and took promise from Nana Apte that he will continue helping Veer Savarkar in rebuilding India as a strong free nation.)

On January 30, I reached Birla Bhavan at 12 pm. Gandhi was sitting outside on a cot enjoying the sunshine. Vallabhbhai Patel's granddaughter was sitting at his feet. I had the revolver with me. I could have assassinated him easily then, but I was convinced that his assassination was to be a punishment and a sentence against him, and I would execute him. I wanted witnesses for the execution but there were none. I did not want to escape after the execution as there was not an iota of guilt in my mind. I wanted to surrender, but surrender to whom? There was a good crowd to collect for the evening prayers. I decided on the evening of January 30 as the date for Gandhi's execution.

Gandhi climbed the steps and came forward. He had kept his hands on the shoulders of the two girls. I wanted just three seconds more. I moved two steps forward and faced Gandhi. Now I wanted to take out the revolver and salute him for whatever sacrifice and service he had made for the nation. One of the two girls was dangerously close to Gandhi and I was afraid that she might be injured in the course of firing. As a precautionary measure I went one more step ahead, bowed before him and gently pushed the girl away from the firing line. The next moment I fired at Gandhi. Gandhi was very weak, there was a feeble sound like 'aah' (There are proof that Gandhi did NOT say "Hey Raam" at that time – it's just made up stuff ) from him and he fell down.

After the firing I raised my hand holding the revolver and shouted, 'Police, police'. For 30 seconds nobody came forward and I scanned the crowd. I saw a police officer. I signalled to him to come forward and arrest me. He came and caught my wrist, then a second man came and touched the revolver… I let it go…"

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Exposing 9/11 Attacks

Pig's Dump Agreement: Manmohan Singh

Nathuram Godse - His Last Speech

Reason: Division Of India

Bharat Divided Due to Neharu-Edwina-Jinna Relationship ! 

DEATH OF LAL BAHADUR SHASTRI STILL REMAINS A MYSTERY

The puny Lal Bahadur Shastri ( 2 October 1904 – 11 January 1966) was the second Prime Minister of the Republic of India and a leader of the Indian National Congress party. He joined the Indian independence movement in the 1920s and impressed and influenced by Congress leader MK Gandhi, he became his follower, first of Gandhi, and then of Jawaharlal Nehru. Following independence in 1947, he joined the latter's government and became one of Prime Minister Nehru's principal lieutenants and close aid, He served as Railways Minister (1951–56), and then in a variety of other functions, including Home Minister.He has become famous after his resignation as railway minister after a serious train accident owning responsibility. This was unlike what we see today. Rustic pan chewing Lalu Prasad Yadav claimed that he had no direct responsibility in accidents when he was railway minister and many accidents took place. He shamelessly stuck to his seat. Such are the changed values today. Shastriji was chosen as Nehru's successor owing to his adherence of Nehruvian socialism after Nehru's daughter Indira Gandhi turned down Congress President K. Kamaraj's offer of premiership. Kamraj although was great man , found glory in promoting dynastic succession. Indira Gandhi reportedly refused the offer.
Shastriji as Prime Minister continued Nehru's policies of non-alignment and socialism that took us nowhere. He became a national hero following the Indo-Pakistan War of 1965. His slogan of "Jai Jawan Jai Kisan" ("Hail the soldier, Hail the farmer") became very popular during the war and is remembered even today . But the slogan is now for only remembering. Everyday one can find news of suicides by farmers in media particularly in AP. Less said is better about treatment meted to army men. Recently we have seen how the issue of former Army Chief General VK Singh was handled by the central govt. The pay commission problems are known to the whole world. The supremacy of civil authority in a democratic setup has degraded Defense forces to such an extent that none of bright youth volunteer to join these services. There is a great shortage of officers in army and third rate or even fourth rate stuff keep knocking at the doors. Less said is better about ex- service men. Officers- class do not want to reveal their identity for the fear of finding themselves in humiliating condition in a civil society. Thus Jai Jawan and Jai Kisan slogan died with Shastriji long ago and it remains a mockery now. Mother is remembered in pain and a soldier is remembered in war. Rest of the time they are kicked around. This may be harsh fact unpleasant to some. But fact remains true. A sad naked truth to digest.
The war of 1965 was formally ended with the Tashkent Agreement of 10 January 1966; he died the following day, still in Tashkent, of a heart attack ( Reportedly). The nation was stunned receiving the news of his death and great calamity fell on the country at the tragic hour. Time and tide wait for no man. Soon Indira Gandhi was chosen as the PM of India although stalwarts like YB Chawan, Morarji Desai, and Gulzari lal Nanda were there. The bacteria virus of dynastic succession already entered the blood stream of Congress party leaders and they could never imagine any other one as a PM of India while the party was in power.
Sudden death of Shastriji in a far off land at the end of 1965 war with Pakistan resulted in many questions, doubts and theories and most of the answers remain doubtful although official versions indicated heart attack. The real truths still remain as mystery to the people of India. There are many speculations, riddles, unsolved puzzles pointing to some mischief in the death of Indian PM in a far off land . After Shastri’s death in Tashkent, USSR, on January 11, 1966 soon after signing the Tashkent Pact with Pakistan, his wife Lalita had alleged he was poisoned. Thus people of India are surely suspicious of the happenings in which Shastriji died.

The important issues are:
1. There were dark spots and cut marks on abdomen of the dead leader. No post mortem was conducted on the dead body. The question is from where such cut s have come?
2. A query was later posed by Anuj Dhar, author of CIA’s Eye on South Asia, under the Right to Information Act about his death but the government had refused to part with classified information on the issue. The Prime Minister’s Office, while refusing information under the RTI Act on the cause and circumstances of Shastri’s death, had said revealing these details could harm India’s foreign relations and would violate Parliamentary Privilege
3. The government had admitted no postmortem was conducted on Shastri. However, his personal doctor R N Chugh and some Russian doctors conducted a medical examination.
4. The Russian butler attending on Shastri at the time of his death was arrested for suspected poisoning but released later.
5. Kuldip Nayars statement offers insight into the issue (4). During an interview he stated, “Shastri has been forgotten by the nation. He has been pushed into the background. I have no doubt that there was a Congress conspiracy to underplay Shastri after his death. The Congress is the party that should have put him to the fore but I remember visiting a Congress meeting where Shastri’s portrait was not even displayed with respect. They even protested against inscribing the slogan – Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan on his samadhi. Then again, only when Mrs Shastri threatened to go on a hunger strike was it was allowed.”
6. Dr R.N. Chugh, the accompanying physician was found dead in a roadside accident
7. After some more time, Dr Chughs wife and one son died in a road accident. How mysterious is that Dr Chugh who was the key witness to the incident died in a strange circumstances followed soon by his wife and a son.
8. The suspicions among people in this regard to Shastris death as summarized byDebasish Battacharjee are (5) (6) :
i. Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose was inside a jail in USSR (He died in 1976)
ii. USSR was threatening Jawaharlal of Netaji’s release if business not done with them.
iii. USSR made good business relation with India showing Netaji inside jail.
iv. Jawarlal died and Lal Bahadur Shastri became Indian PM
v. USSR can’t threaten him because if Shastri knows about Netaji, he will tell to release Netaji and welcome him.
vi. USSR wanted somebody in power who can be threatened and utilized.
vii. Indira Gandhi was consulted by Sr. Defence Official (He wrote in Diary)
viii. In Tashkent (USSR), Shastri was given poison in the milk.
ix. He went to Coma and died.
x. There was no inquiry / committee given to check the whole thing.
xi. Media was made silent.
xii. Indira gandhi came into power.
xiii. USSR had good business thereafter.

The above suspicions could be conjectures, but people of India are suspicious of some plot and clever execution at some high level that has been kept great secret over the years. Netajis disappearance has been a unsolved mystery till date.Nana sahib Peshwas disappearance in 1857 war has also been a great mystery. Hero of 1857 war Tantya Tope’s hanging has been also a mystery and people are not accepting government versions.
Thus we see that the death of Shastriji is surrounded in mystery and it is necessary that it be solved. Will it remain one of the many unsolved mysteries of the world?

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Did Sonia forced Rajiv to be a Christian?

"Mera juta hai japani, yah patllon Englistani, sar pe lal topi rusi, fir bhi dil hai Hindustani” (My shoe is Japanee, this full pant Englistani, red cap on the head, yet heart is Hindustani) Sonia wears Sari but her ‘Dil (heart)’ is Italian. Never mind that Sonia smears her forehead with a "Tilak" and also wears a Sari. She is no more Hindu than the other Christian Missionaries in India who are posing as "Swamis.

Sonia symbolizes Christian power in India. Such was the Maino family's devotion to their Church and their religion that it insisted not only on her continuing to be a Christian but also on her husband -- to embrace the faith. People have information that both Rajiv and Sonia listed themselves as Christians . Priyaka Gandhi married in a converted Christian family 'Vadera'.

Christians are busy changing their tactics and are assuming the posture of "Secularism," as an indigenous Indian faith (Christianity) and not an alien faith. They are using a variety of strategies to put forth their new secular image. The Christian Ashram Scheme is an attempt to give Christianity the Indian face and the lavish title of Secularism, without changing any of the basic doctrines of Christianity. Smart Hindus do not fall for this facade but lot of dupes and unsophisticated Hindus fall for this Christian wickedness and fraud.

Christian Congress governments of North-East India are openly telling the Non-Christians that "this is a Christian State and that Non-Christians have no business or domicile here. Either they get converted or they will be eliminated or kicked out."

Think: Why ‘Bharatrat ratn’ to Mother Teresa, ‘Padmashree’ to Glady Staines, Govt. welcome to fraud Benny Hinn and Jail to Kanchi Mutt Seer? Why three days mourn on the death of Pope II? Why she is Super PM to devalue PM post? Who forced Jayalalitha to draw back anti-conversion bill? Why protests by Christian against Anti-Conversion bill of Rajasthan and Gujarat?

This is a war between Rome-Raaj and Ram-Raaj. No body should have any doubt what is in the mind of Sonia’s powerful Christian Lobby including Glady Staines and wife of Benny Hinns.

Christians are using immoral means to convert Hindus into Christianity. Sari wearing nuns enter poor villages with food, clothing and money. The rest is history. People should fight whichever way possible against to counter it.

Bangladeshi infiltration for conversion in to Christianity
But more than this, the findings have also revealed that illegal Muslim migrants from Bangladesh too have been increasingly reporting as Christians "guided by survival strategy and adverse economic conditions." Obviously, the Christian leaders are using militancy to intimidate the illegal migrants, particularly in the Christian -dominated hilly regions, to convert them to Christianity. They too, like the Hindus, are being lured with all kinds of economic benefits to get converted.

Check Demographic slide
However, against the national growth rate of 22.6 per cent, Nagaland reported as high as 69.2 per cent growth, followed intriguingly enough, by Gujarat with 56.3 per cent growth of Christian population, by Orissa 34.8 per cent, Meghalaya 42.1 per cent, Chhattisgarh 32.5 per cent, West Bengal 34.3 per cent, Punjab 30 per cent and Mizoram 30.7 per cent. However, Kerala, which accounted for the largest share of Christians in the country, reg!
istered only 7.8 per cent growth while Andhra Pradesh reported minus growth (-2.8), the findings said. So Christian Rajshekhar became CM there to increase the figuge. Tripura for example, during 1991-2001, the Hindu population grew by 15 per cent while the Christian population grew by 121 per cent.

Trilochan Singh of Minority Commission said that there was a tremendous increase of Christian population in Northeast states. In fact, conversion is taking place on a mass-scale in large parts of the Northeast where poor, backward tribal fall easy prey to the lure of money and other inducements to embrace Christianity. But if they don't, the job is taken over by the militant groups, most of which are operating in the region only to convert people to Christianity under the guise of insurgent outfits. There are a couple of such outfits operate!

While nobody should have any objection to such a development in a secular country, what every secularist must object to is the fact that, while the Muslim population is rising alarmingly due to illegal influx from Bangladesh, the Christian population is rising due to conversion, both forced and induced, of mostly the gullible Hindus who do not have any means to defend themselves. It is high time all the States including Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur and Tripura passed anti-conversion laws with stringent penal provisions to at least partially check this demographic slide without any further delay.

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Dead Silence on the killers of Lal Bahadur Shastri ?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Quota for promotions

If the Idea of India as envisaged at the time of Independence was premised on the erosion of caste identities, two developments today validate the shameful fact that not only does caste-based discrimination persist, it continues to be perpetuated, including as an instrument of state policy.
The first of these reports relates to the experience of a Dalit cook in a school in a Tamil Nadu village, who faces social ostracism from caste Hindu Vanniyar parents who are refusing to send their children for the nutritious noon meal scheme on the grounds that it is a “sin” to eat food cooked by a Dalit.
That such regressive caste-based notions of ‘untouchability’ continue to be perpetuated even 65 years after independence may seem shocking enough, but the response of the district administration was even more astounding. According to The Hindu, rather than sensitise the Vanniyars in the village and caution them on the folly of what was at its core a criminal act of discrimination, officials transferred the cook to another school on deputation. But even in her new posting, she faces a social boycott, as do six other Dalit cooks in the village.

 

Meanwhile, over in Delhi, the Union Cabinet put its stamp of approval on a Constitutional Amendment provision to clear the residual legal hurdles in formalising reservations for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in promotions in government jobs. Although it is packaged as an affirmative action proposal intended to uplift the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes who, as the Tamil Nadu experience illustrates, continue to face discrimination, the measure will end up accentuating and reinforcing caste identities in a regressive way.
If passed – and it surely will, given the near-unanimity across political parties to be seen to be advancing the interests of Schedule Castes and Schedule Tribes – it will be the 98th amendment to the Constitution – in only the 66th year of independence. It’s a sign of how far we’ve come from the sterling document that our founding fathers, in their infinite wisdom, had drawn up.
Like artless monkeys shredding a garland, our leaders and political parties have over the decades hacked and plucked away at the Constitution that had been drawn up by minds that were far more visionary than anything we’ve seen since. In the name of improving upon that document, they have effectively ripped it to pieces.
The supreme irony of the upcoming Constitutional amendment provision to strike down all the legal challenges in implementing and institutionalising the quotas-in-promotion enterprise is that it violates the spirit – and letter – of what everybody from BR Ambedkar and Jawaharlal Nehru downward wanted to see: the erosion of divisions along caste lines, and the winding down, over time, of all reservations.
The evolution of the reservation policy in these 65 years and the manner in which the abuse of the original intent has played out over the decades portends ill for the country. From being a mere enabling provision to confer a discretionary power on the State as a temporary expedient to uplift a small section of the socially oppressed, it has become an instrument that advances competitive casteism and institutionalises caste-based divisions, with vast numbers clamouring to claim reservations as their birthright.
What started off as a temporary provision for just Scheduled Castes has over time extended to cover Other Backward Classes, and is being sought to be extended to religions minorities as well. And successive governments have over the years been pushing to extend the provision to promotions as well. The proposed Constitutional amendment will do it for Schedule Castes and Scheduled Tribes, but you can be sure – given the precedent – that the facility will be extended to OBCs as well.
Every time the provision for quotas in promotions was struck down by the Supreme Court or other courts, successive governments have responded with alacrity to amend the Constitution – and dilute and expand the provisions of the law to drag it to the lowest common denominator. In that enterprise, virtually every political party has been complicit.
The most striking warning of what lies in store came long ago, from Nehru. Addressing the Constitutent Assembly, Nehru had said that he and the others were opposed to reservations, particularly on caste and religions considerations, but had “reluctantly” agreed to “carry on with some measure of reservation” for the Scheduled Castes, given the history of discrimination that they faced and the expectation that the reservation would be limited to just 10 years.
It was a theme he would return to over the years, with a sense of growing alarm and despondency. In June 1961, in a letter to Chief Ministers, Nehru wrote: “It is true that we are tied up with certain rules and conventions about helping the Scheduled Castes and Tribes. They deserve help, but even so I dislike any kind of reservation… I react strongly against anything which leads to inefficiency and second-rate standards.”
The notion that reservations were being extended even to promotions caused Nehru immense anguish. “It has amazed me to learn that even promotions are based on communal or caste considerations. This way lies not only folly, but disaster,” he warned, with amazing prescience.
With today’s approval for the Constitutional amendment that will overcome the repeated legal challenges that the proposal faced, India may be well on the road to “folly” and “disaster

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Did Pranab Mukherjee play a role in the Netaji mystery?

The latest book by journalist Anuj Dhar on the mystery of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's death/disappearance points to a discouraging role by Pranab Mukherjee  in resolving it, writes Vicky Nanjappa.

India's Biggest Cover-up, the just-released book authored by Anuj Dhar is expected to set the cat among the pigeons. The insight into the Subhas Chandra Bose mystery relies on official records, bulk of them still security classified in violation of democratic norms, to invalidate the air crash theory about Netaji's death.
Dhar has spent more than a decade in making sense of the vexed issue. In the course of his efforts, Dhar obtained information from the Taiwan government ruling out the alleged air crash which supposedly killed the nationalist leader. In a previous book Dhar reached this conclusion, which was later upheld by a former Supreme Court judge tasked with investigating the matter afresh.
In his new book, Dhar piles up freshly uncovered facts and insights further invalidating the air crash theory, and supporting the view that Bose escaped to the former Soviet Union with Japanese help, and painting up a most interesting "dead man" angle.

Interestingly, the book, published by the Delhi-based Vitasta Publishing run by former journalists, makes some startling claims based on over 200 documents, 90 of which are still classified.
Interestingly, it deals with a Pranab Mukherjee angle to the mystery. Anuj Dhar tells rediff.comthat when Mukherjee was the external affairs minister, the controversy about Bose had been revived with claims from the recently collapsed state of USSR that Bose was there after 1945.
Contrasting the Bose case with the tragedy of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, Dhar claims in his book that despite there being intelligence and other reports about Bose's presence in Soviet Russia [ Images ], the Government of India [Images ] never asked the former Communist country to shed any light on the recurring rumours.
Like Bose, Raul Wallenberg was said to be in the Soviet Union after 1945, when he was reported dead. Repeated highest level approaches by the Swedish government made the Soviets to come out with one outright denial after another. But after a decade, threatened with souring of bilateral relations, the Soviets admitted Wallenberg's presence in their country as a KGB prisoner.
Dhar says, 'In 1990s a number of Indian scholars visiting Russia returned to claim that there were records about Bose in accessible intelligence and security-related archives." The "still secret" records reproduced in India's Biggest Cover-up show that the matter was addressed by the ministry of external affairs.
'RL Narayan, then a joint secretary and a future ambassador, doubted the official Russian response to an Indian approach made a little earlier that they did not have records on Bose.
'He advised in an official note still classified as "secret" that a démarche be issued to seek facts from the KGB archives. Dhar says the diplomat's recommendation was struck down after Pranab Mukherjee "saw this note and scrawled at the end that FS (then Foreign Secretary Salman Haidar) should discuss the issue with the JS (EE) 'urgently'".
'The outcome of the meeting was evident in the actions that followed, writes Dhar. No démarche was ever issued, as was recommended by Narayan. On the contrary, he started taking a hardline against the Asiatic Society scholars who were raising a demand for an access to the secret Soviet records.
"It was almost as if Narayan came under a spell of Bengal ka kala jaadu, black magic of Bengal," says Dhar, explaining the JS's change of heart.

In 1994 the ministry of external affairs, in a response to a top secret ministry of home affairs query about the Japanese government's confirmation of Bose's death by way of furnishing a proper death certificate, replied in the negative since the Japanese records were obviously fake.
I'n 1995, in deference to the advice of the Intelligence Bureau, the Union Cabinet decided not to bring the so-called ashes of Bose to India from Japan [ Images ]. But Mukherjee flew to Germany [ Images ], and according to unverifiable claim of a former MEA official, says Anuj Dhar in his book, tried to bribe Bose's Austrian wife to certify his death by giving a written approval to take the ashes to India as that of Netaji's.
Netajis' octogenarian wife Emilie Shenkel was enraged at Pranab's proposal and asked him to leave her house as she, like most of her family members, believed that Bose was in Russia after his death -- a fact glossed over by a recent book by Sugata Bose, son of former Congress MLA and Mukherjee's friend the late Sisir Bose, says Dhar.
Later, when a report misquoted Mukherjee saying that Emilie had given the permission to bring the ashes to India, she lashed out saying, 'Pranab Mukherjee was propagating an untruth for reasons best known to him and the government of India', the new book says.

'A decade later, Pranab Mukherjee was described in the Justice Mukherjee Commission of Inquiry report as one of the seven witnesses who had testified before it in favour of the story on Bose's death.
'In an ironical twist, Pranab Mukherjee, having returned to power in 2004, then sat in judgment on the commission report along with his other Cabinet colleagues. In March 2006, when Justice Mukherjee's report saying that Bose hadn't died in 1945 and that the ashes in Japan were not his was yet to be made public, and Mukherjee was back as the external affairs minister, Sugata Bose secretly brought to Kolkata [ Images ] some human remains as that of Bose,' writes Dhar.
'Such intriguing transfer couldn't have been possible without some tacit approval of the authorities. The same year Pranab was accused of trying to scuttle the commission's inquiry and that probably led to his facing "mob fury in Kolkata" while his car was entering a hotel on June 18, 2006.
'The attackers owed allegiance to All India Forward Bloc, a leftist offshoot of Bose's Forward Bloc, which is now backing Pranab as a presidential nominee in the name of "Bengali pride",' notes Dhar.

The issue of Netaji's fate and controversy about his remaining alive until 1985 was probed by former Supreme Court Justice MK Mukherjee between 1999 and 2005, which was rejected by the United Progressive Alliance [ Images ] government with the Action Taken Report laid in Parliament stating no reasons whatsoever.

'For any government in a mature democratic polity such a public damnation over a national icon would have sprung the head of the government to issue clarification. But it was not for nothing that Narasimha Rao was likened to the Sphinx.

'A feeble counteroffensive was launched in December 1996. Researcher Joychandra Singh told the media there was nothing more to the Bose mystery other than the Taipei crash. He claimed that Russia too upheld this theory. This he attributed to a response he had received from the Russian defence ministry archives in Moscow [ Images ]. 
'Quite remarkable that a private citizen like Singh should have been able to elicit a direct response from the Russians, who hardly ever entertained such requests. But Singh had strong credentials. He had the tacit support of the government. He had earlier been able to procure a counterfeit death certificate for Bose issued by Dr Yoshimi in 1988.

'The MEA records show that a Russian defence ministry note verbale dated October 28, 1996, was received by the Indian embassy from the Russian foreign ministry enclosing a letter from the head of the archives in response to Singh's letter,' Dhar writes.
'There are no records with the Central Archives of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation about the catastrophe in August 1945 and death of...Bose.
'Joychandra Singh put his own spin on this to give journalists the impression that Russia upheld the Indian government-approved theory. He harped on his "12-year-old research" on the issue, which had been inspired by a communication from the Indira Gandhi [ Images ] government urging him to propagate the Taipei death story.

'Singh ran out of steam soon after, while Dr Purabi Roy continued to take the government to task alone: "If they are confident that Netaji was actually killed in a plane crash in 1945, why have they always tried to scuttle any fresh investigation? If they are clean, let them provide us access to the two archives and see what's there?"
'In 1996, she chanced to reach out to the prime minister of the Russian Federation. Viktor Chernomyrdin mooted the idea of an Indo-Russian commission to investigate the missing Indian nationals within the territory of the erstwhile USSR.

'But was anyone interested in India? RL Narayan, the joint secretary in charge of Europe East Division of the External Affairs Ministry -- JS (EE) -- made an assessment of the situation in 1996. In the note of January 12, 1996, Narayan, who had had two stints in Moscow, admitted that 'from time to time various articles have appeared in the Soviet/Russia press insinuating, though without any actual proof that Netaji in fact stayed/was incarcerated in the Soviet Union after 1945', Dhar writes.

'The note then set out to tackle the Asiatic Society's poser that "unless the ministry of external affairs of our government prevails upon the Russian authorities to allow our scholars access to KGB archives it is absolutely impossible for the scholars to pursue the matter further either of this country or of scholars of Russia".

'Explaining the backdrop, Narayan mentioned that there are broadly three kinds of archives which may be of relevance. Papers relating to the Stalinist period (KGB archives) are kept separately and have so far not been accessed by foreign and even Russian scholars, with the exception perhaps of very limited and selected scholars like the late historian Volkogonov, who has published biographies of Lenin and Stalin on this basis.
'Papers relating to the post-Stalin period fall into two categories -- governmental and Central Committee/Politburo (these are again kept separately). The Russian foreign ministry's note verbale suggests that their disclaimer about Netaji may be based essentially on perusal of these latter archives.
'With this setting in mind, Narayan opined: 'It would be unrealistic for us to expect the Russian authorities to allow our scholars to access to KGB archives. What we can do is to request the Russian authorities to conduct a search into these archives, and let us know if there is any evidence of Netaji's stay in the Soviet Union. It is recommended that we may request our ambassador in Moscow to make a suitable démarche to the Russian authorities on the above lines.'
'Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee saw this note and scrawled at the end that FS Haidar should discuss the issue with the JS (EE) "urgently".

''The details of that meeting between Haidar and Narayan are not known. Haidar goes off on TV these days talking at great length about all sort of happening in remote corners of the world, never saying a word about Bose.
'But the outcome of the meeting was evident in the actions that followed. No démarche was ever issued, as was recommended by Narayan. On the contrary, he started taking a hardline against the Asiatic Society scholars. Narayan was confronted with the problem yet again after Subhas's nephew Pradip, son of Suresh Bose, wrote to the prime minister drawing his attention to the information said to be available in Russia.

'The joint secretary now articulated in his note dated March 7, 1996, that the Asiatic Society scholars had 'unearthed no hard evidence of Netaji's stay in the Soviet Union' and yet requested the government to make a formal request to the Russians.
'Pradip Bose', he noted, 'has gone a step further and has requested (the) government of India to seek access to these files for the scholars'. Narayan opposed it tooth and nail, saying that 'no country in the world would permit access by foreign governments, let alone scholars from foreign countries, to its intelligence files. We have no evidence that such files exist; on the contrary, the Russian government has categorically told us that they have no evidence in their archives that Netaji was in the USSR after 1945. ...In the circumstances, it is felt that it would not be appropriate for Government of India to request to the Russian government to open the KGB/Presidential archives to the Asiatic Society scholars. This would amount to our disbelieving the Russian government's categorical and official statement on the subject'.

'This note was seen by Prime Minister Narasimha Rao, who issued the following instruction through his secretary: PM would like our ambassador in Moscow to make discreet enquiries at a high level to ascertain, if possible, the existence of such information in Russia; and the possible reaction of the Russian side if we were to request access. Foreign Secretary may kindly see.
'It is quite clear that the PM was well aware of the importance of a "high level" contact. But whatever the ambassador did in Moscow did not change anything. In his November 1996 note, Narayan charged the Asiatic Society scholars with wanting to access to Russian archives "essentially in order to go on a fishing expedition in search of material on Netaji" which they "have convinced themselves, exists in these archives', Dhar writes.
'Therefore, our seeking to obtain access to these classified archives on behalf of the Asiatic Society, after the Russian government has repeatedly and formally told us that they have no evidence of Netaji having been in the Soviet Union after 1945 can therefore be easily misunderstood by the Russian side.
'From the present perspective of Indo-Russian relations, such a request would serve no positive purpose, but could well have a negative impact. Narayan -- a would-be ambassador -- also tried to reason why India could not seek access to security and intelligence-related archives in Russia like the Presidential Archive, the archives of the Foreign Security Service and the Archives of the Army General Staff,' Dhar explains.
Image: Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose
Vicky Nanjappa

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-06-26/india/32423707_1_pranab-mukherjee-air-crash-theory-circumstantial-evidence

Pranab Mukherjee behind ‘cover-up’ on Netaji’s air-crash, alleges book
Himanshi Dhawan, TNN Jun 26, 2012, 07.11AM IST
NEW DELHI: A soon-to-be-published book claims that finance minister and UPA's presidential nominee Pranab Mukherjee was engaged in an elaborate "cover-up" on the last days of Azad Hind Fauj founder and national leader Subhas Chandra Bose.
Penned by former journalist Anuj Dhar, the book that is likely to hit the stands in July, dismisses the official version that Bose died in an air-crash inTaiwan in 1945. The book, India's Biggest Cover-Up, is based on records declassified by the US, British and Indian authorities and several documents that continue to be kept secret over 65 years after the incident.

Dhar says that Mukherjee, in his capacity as the foreign minister, went the extra mile to support the air-crash theory despite evidence negating it. Referring to an incident in 1996, Dhar says that the then joint secretary (JS) in the ministry of external affairs suggested in a secret note that India should issue a demarche to the Russian Federation that they should conduct a search for any evidence about Bose in the KGB archives.
The book says, Mukherjee saw this note and directed foreign secretary Salman Haider to meet the JS. After this meeting, the JS forgot about the demarche and became increasingly cynical and eventually noted that to seek access to the KGB archive would harm Indo-Russian relations. "Mukherjee remains India's foremost proponent of the Bose died in Taiwan theory,'' he writes.
Dhar also claims that in 1994 the MEA in response to a top secret home ministry query about the Japanese government's confirmation of Bose's death by way of furnishing a proper death certificate replied in negative since the Japanese records were obviously fake.
A decade later, Mukherjee was described in the Justice Mukherjee Commission of inquiry report as one of the seven witnesses who had testified before it in favour of the story of Bose's death. Ironically, Mukherjee returned to power in 2004, and then sat in judgment on the Commission report with his other Cabinet colleagues, rejecting the report's conclusions.
The author believes that there is enough circumstantial evidence to show that Bose was possibly in Russia after the crash, and between 1945 and 1990 the Indian government did not bother to ask the Russian authorities about it.
When asked what he believed actually happened if Bose did not die in 1945, Dhar said, "There is some evidence to suggest he died in Faizabad but the question can only be incontestably settled when government undertakes comprehensive declassification especially of those documents held by intelligence agencies."

http://www.missionnetaji.org/blog/intelligence-bureau-faked-documents-prove-netaji-dead

The Intelligence Bureau faked documents to prove Netaji dead!!!
July 11, 2012 by admin
Press release : Anuj's New book questions IB’s role in Netaji ‘death’ case
A just published book on the fate of Subhas Chandra Bose has claimed that the Intelligence Bureau doctored a British-era document to support the Nehru government’s stance on the freedom fighter’s reported death. India's biggest cover-up by former journalist Anuj Dhar has further charged that this doctored document has since been repeatedly used to shore up support in favour of the official view, lastly in a 2011 book by a grandnephew of Bose whose parents were in Congress party.
The book chronicles the controversy surrounding Netaji’s reported death and “afterlife”, and dubs the issue an officially sanctioned cover-up. To bolster his startling claims, the writer has furnished images of many rare documents in the book. Some 90 of these images are of still classified records. The book has been published by New Delhi-based Vitasta Publishing being run by former journalists. The digital version of the book is available from Amazon. [Click to read a summary of the book]
Dhar utilises a set of secret and declassified records, including those obtained under the Right to Information, to make a case against the IB. In 1955 then Director Intelligence Bureau (DIB) and the father figure of the Indian intelligence community BN Mullik despatched a dossier to the Shah Nawaz Committee. This committee had been set up under public pressure by an unwilling Jawaharlal Nehru to go into the question of Bose’s reported death following an air crash in Taiwan. The IB dossier for Shah
Nawaz Khan, a Congress party MP and former Indian National Army officer, contained a selection of reports by various investigating officers. The first report was from Phillip Finney, an assistant director with the IB who had been sent to S-E Asia along with other officers to ascertain the facts. The copy of Finney’s report dated November 1945 supplied by the IB to the committee appeared to confirm the Japanese announcement of their ally’s death in August 1945, just at a time when the British were preparing to arrest him.
The Intelligence Bureau faked documents to prove Netaji dead!!!
July 11, 2012 by admin
Press release : Anuj's New book questions IB’s role in Netaji ‘death’ case
A just published book on the fate of Subhas Chandra Bose has claimed that the Intelligence Bureau doctored a British-era document to support the Nehru government’s stance on the freedom fighter’s reported death. India's biggest cover-up by former journalist Anuj Dhar has further charged that this doctored document has since been repeatedly used to shore up support in favour of the official view, lastly in a 2011 book by a grandnephew of Bose whose parents were in Congress party.
The book chronicles the controversy surrounding Netaji’s reported death and “afterlife”, and dubs the issue an officially sanctioned cover-up. To bolster his startling claims, the writer has furnished images of many rare documents in the book. Some 90 of these images are of still classified records. The book has been published by New Delhi-based Vitasta Publishing being run by former journalists. The digital version of the book is available from Amazon. [Click to read a summary of the book]
Dhar utilises a set of secret and declassified records, including those obtained under the Right to Information, to make a case against the IB. In 1955 then Director Intelligence Bureau (DIB) and the father figure of the Indian intelligence community BN Mullik despatched a dossier to the Shah Nawaz Committee. This committee had been set up under public pressure by an unwilling Jawaharlal Nehru to go into the question of Bose’s reported death following an air crash in Taiwan. The IB dossier for Shah
Nawaz Khan, a Congress party MP and former Indian National Army officer, contained a selection of reports by various investigating officers. The first report was from Phillip Finney, an assistant director with the IB who had been sent to S-E Asia along with other officers to ascertain the facts. The copy of Finney’s report dated November 1945 supplied by the IB to the committee appeared to confirm the Japanese announcement of their ally’s death in August 1945, just at a time when the British were preparing to arrest him.
Dhar obtained this report in 2007 after he and his friends scored a partial victory against the Ministry of Home Affairs in a long-drawn RTI battle. [Click to read Hindustan Times story]





Both the Shah Nawaz Committee and Khosla Commission used Finney’s report to claim that the inquiries by the British officers had concluded that the Japanese announcement of Bose’s death was correct. The same line was carried on by Prof Sugata Bose in his much hyped book His Majesty’s opponent in which he asserted that Finney had “reached definite conclusion” about his granduncle’s death. Prof Bose is the son of late Dr Sisir Kumar Bose, a Congress party MLA and a friend of President-designate Pranab Mukherjee. [Click to read the Times of India story about Pranab Mukherjee’s role in the matter]
A scrutiny of the document by Dhar however revealed that Finney’s report in the IB dossier [accessed under RTI in 2007] had been censored to expunge its last three and the most crucial paragraphs. Dhar located a complete copy of the same report in a declassified Ministry of Defence file at the National Archives in New Delhi.






A plain reading of the portion removed from the report given to Shah Nawaz showed that Finney was actually not sure of Bose’s death. “That’s why he and other officers continued to inquire into the matter for many more months afterwards,” says Dhar, who has quoted from several post-November 1945 reports in his book. [Click to read the relevant chapter “Bose mystery begins” here]
“Whoever tempered with this record did so with the intention of conforming to the government view about Netaji’s death,” he alleges.
Taking his charge of “cover-up” further, Dhar claims in the book that “serving and retired intelligence officials appearing before Shah Nawaz and Khosla bolstered the impression created by the Finney’s doctored report with their misleading statements”. He accuses Mullik of lying on oath when he was summoned before Khosla Commission as a witness in 1970. Mullik practically headed the entire Indian intelligence apparatus from 1948 to 1968. Today, the heads of IB and R&AW (the foreign intelligence agency created out of IB in 1968) change in every two years or so. Commenting on the record of his
deposition before the commission that he accessed using RTI, Dhar writes that it gives one an “impression as if Mullik had been living in a cave all the while the Bose mystery was raging in India”.
Interestingly, during his cross-examination Mullik was repeatedly asked whether or not the IB had snooped on Shaulmari baba, a hermit alternatively described as Netaji in disguise and a “plant” by the Intelligence Bureau. Every time he was put the question, Mullik replied that the Government never asked the IB to track Shaulmari baba and nor did the agency did that on its own as the issue “did not concern national security”.





“Anything concerning the security of India would bring the Intelligence Bureau into picture,” Mullik had said on record.
But in his book Dhar has reproduced formerly Top Secret records establishing that as DIB Mullick personally supplied information to Prime Minister Nehru on Shaulmari baba.




India’s biggest cover-up also appends still classified IB records showing the agency’s unusual interest in Shaulmari baba—who was certainly not Bose according to Dhar— many years after the controversy about his real identity had petered out.

Netaji - Ten Truth seeking Questions

The saga of Netaji continues - his biography is read by millions Indian households as a part of children's awakening of patriotism. Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose - His Majesty's Opponent- the Indian Freedom Fighter who fought the colonial rules tooth and nail, Gandhiji's Patriot of patriots. Netaji's life's abrupt end shrouded with dubious plane crash and Govt of India's setting up of three Enquiry Commissions still not able to resolve the mystery. Rather, the Truth seekers and researchers on Netaji are increasingly getting a sixth sense feeling that a distinct quarter in the corridor of central power since the Nehru days are desperate to hide certain very serious facts from the people of this country.
The feeling and belief that has grown stronger with each passing year since 1945 is that World War Allied forces’ governments and the Government of India( even after change of guards) has continued to act and behave consistently in a surprised uniformity of attitude despite the change of guard at the centre – a government of the own people has behaved so strangely over the years and left a lot of foot prints to make a man of common intelligence wonder – what has gone wrong with these rulers at the central corridor of power ?

Why people of India has to take selective pain-staking individual pursuits in foreign archives of Russia, seek information through a legal process in American  secret files, and the Government of India snores and look the other way!

What has gone wrong with these rulers at the central corridor of power? While the Supreme Court Judge appointed by NDA though only on the basis of one High Court directive and the judge concludes with painstaking facts that Netaji never did die in an air crash. And as people see, this ruling class of UPA whose central party is Indian national Congress, has again played the bad man through the rule of law. All the loop holes of law UPA would exploit to ensure that Netaji era is blacked out and no new facts are established. As law says, report of no Commission is binding but is of advisory capacity. So, what has gone wrong with these rulers at the central corridor of power? Noting has gone wrong. They have stuck to their party’s dictates as kept and carried through lips since Nehru.
This is the saddest part of Indian modern history of political science. People and the government are poles apart – Government has been trying to hoodwink the people. But in a era of  blogs, net and border less societies, news and information spread so fast and truth are conveyed in a matter of click and this blog - net -email is now the crusader not only against the anti-people government but against the media of PAID NEWS.

I was surprised and happy to see the warmth of love and the desire in the people’s heart across all corners of India to give a proper burial of doubt about the Netaji saga – its last question mark “1897 - ? “

Now contrast this to a large media ruled and reigned by the corrupt political class – without naming them, I can assure that the first seeds of divide in a country are sown by the media – they would explain each issue related to Netaji with a prefix adjective “Bengali” and the infection spreads. When two doyens of India died in quick succession this year leaving behind lacs of  fans and admirers across India and world in a spell of shock, the media reported the first breaking news story as ….”Assaam’s Bhupen Hazarika


What has gone wrong with these rulers and their acting hands of power – some visible some invisible? I have a small ten point list. I, as a citizen of India, needs the answer from the current ruling power – the same power that have had scuttled each and every effort of Netaji and his legend Azad Hind Fauji  from living a life of respect and recognition.

My Ten Questions to Government of India on the auspicious occasion of Netaji’s birth anniversary falling on 23rd January

1.      What happened with the INA Treasures and its declassified contents during Nehru era?
2.      Why Nehru felt the need to inform British Premier Atlee about Netaji’s presence in Russia – under what understanding and agreement, Govt of India informed?
3.      Why Pranab Mukherji, Central Minister of UPA-I had visited Netaji’s wife abroad in 2008 asking her to accept the ashes of Netaji kept at Ramoji Temple, Japan while now it is confirmed to Government as per Justice Mukerjee Commission report and other foreign declassified reports and reports, reflections of various witnesses and a few path breaking research abroad that the ashes at ramoji temple was not of Netaji and was fake, Will Government of India make official announcement rectifying its record on the basis of truth revealed and show its respect and honour to son of the soil ?
4.      Why Nehru’s and Government of India’s relation suddenly climaxed from 1953 onwards after change of guards in Russia. Was there a secret swap deal with Krushchev involving Netaji, since Russian archive records hints about Netaji alive in Russia in 1953.
5.      The first commission formed by Govt of India to quell people’s unrelenting demand inside parliament and outside led to Nehru announcing a Commission of Enquiry. Why this report was accepted by GoI despite the report was not signed by one of the commission member who did not agree to the content of the report. Why a report was accepted without visit and enquiry to the crash site by commission members? The excuse of not having diplomatic contact with Taiwan, how long the GoI would continue to site the same argument as now, when a new commission has visited and cross examined the witnesses, the skeletons of lie has fallen from the cupboard. Will GoI consider findings of all the three commissions together and make its stand clear before people of this country whose emotions and anxieties they are deemed to represent?
6.       On a plain reading of all the commissions efforts, why it gives a crystal clear signal that those sitting in central government did not offer the fullest cooperation and at many critical junctures created obstacles for further evidence gathering
7.      Why Russian Research Scholar Purabi Roy who went on her own and accessed Russian archives and Russian connections and was able to open up some ground breaking clues had to return empty handed with sudden cold stand of Russian government to part with the documents – was it at the behest of Government of India,  as is believed in the wide circle of truth seekers?
8.      Why Government of India has consistently played the spoil sport as far as collecting the memorial items for the golden trails of INA, just to site a few –  the recent harassment of a INA fauj waiting to  handover two revolvers used by Netaji in Singapore
9.       While INA soldiers were court marshalled at Red Fort in 1946 and INC non-violent followers including Nehru  fought and ensured for their unconditional release, but there are continued harassment of INA members for support in rehabilitation, in getting pension, in getting recognition and in getting admitted into armed forces of free India – why this discrimination and apathy against INA soldiers ?
10. , While a group of Netaji truth seekers including Anuj Dhar, ex-journalist of reputed news media filed a request to CIC under RTI and wanted to bring all classified files and records related to Netaji  be declassified and brought to the knowledge of people of this country, why GoI refused to deliver on the pretext that disclosure would lead to riots in some states – an utter lie. When would the GoI come out clean on classified documents?

We , the truth seekers would wait for ages  till we reach to the black  hole that sucking  the light off all facts and figures and events related to one of the untainted purest of the pure soul Indians are proud of - the patriot of patriot, as Gandhiji called him and Deshnayak  as Tagore gave him the ornamental title.

Some may ask, what the hake of it, to do spends people's many to just find a dead corpse's expiry date. The other day I found a sad image hosted by a careerist professional - the images of Netaji, Bhagat Singh, Shivaji, Rana Pratap, Kirti Azad;
and asking his friends Who are they?
Another Indian pro gave a painfully lewd comment - all wud luv Shivaji be born in neighbour's home.
The third fb friend joined - my children wud know only about SRK, Katrina, Karena or Salman!

This above live discussion is just indicative of the decay and rot set into the educated class of  Indian society. They have become greedy, hedonist and expert in palm greasing. Sacrifice for nation is a foreign word of unknown variety.The political and social agents who governed for sixty five years and shaped the society cannot now shirk responsibility by pointing fingers at other short lived governments. But my worry is, a country who teaches its children wrong history and fail to honour its freedom fighter getting the rightful place in history, is going to doom. A nation that do not honour its heroes dies.That is inevitable unless the people make a course correction through ballot.Indian people's dilemma  is to remove a thief and replace with a superior and more cruel and more religiously fanatic thief? But let the alarm bells ring!! Jai Hind!

http://indian-writer.blogspot.com/2012/01/netaji-ten-truth-seeking-questions-to.html

Netaji: Rare Photos