By Bijender Sharma | October 20, 2008 - 2:18 pm - Posted in Politics

This  is not  case a mental problem.  Its a goondagardi in this democratic setup created by alone person.But question is that  where is the government and law enforcing agencies of Maharashtra. The Chief Minister of Maharashtra and his  government has totally failed to  maintain the law and order in the state.In my opinion, state chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh is the mastermind behind instigating the Raj Thackeray and his Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS). In spite of several nuisances created by the sena, the government is still behaving like a silent spectator.

Action must be taken against government, instead of Raj Thackeray. The Union government must take action .

It’s a matter of utter surprise and dismay that MNS activists attacked railway board examination centers in suburban Mumbai, but any police case has not been registered against anyone.

They attacked more than 12 railway board examination centres in suburban Mumbai and protested ’inadequate representation’ to locals and chased away candidates from north India. Attackers even tried to tear exam papers and hall tickets of some of the candidates at Nerul in Navi Mumbai. In November 2003, Raj Thackeray’s supporters (then with the Shiv Sena) disrupted a railway board exam in suburban Kalyan by preventing candidates from other states, mainly north Indians, from appearing the exam.

Ironically, directions of the Supreme Court or any other court did not have any impact on the MNS leader.

By Hemant | September 15, 2008 - 10:48 am - Posted in Politics

It’s yet another time terror has struck the capital. With  media flooded with agonising faces of the victim’s and their kin, its high time we look for our safety ourselves.

I personally don’t think the Home Ministry and the intelligence agencies are competent  enough with their work. The rag pickers and vendors are far better.Its so pathetic that we have a careless chap like patil who doesn’t even care to remain present in his ministry office and tends to run away from the responsibilities.

I know he doesn’t even have the basic knowledge of handling the most imporatnt  port folio in the Cabinet but we can’t do anything as he’s Sonia’s trusted favourite.

Is our PM so helpless that he can’t remove him from the port folio.

Here we should remember that this is our very own Prime minister who rigidly moved forward with the support from Sonia on 123 agreement , just because the  bomb blasts don’t affect his vote politics for the next elections.

By Hemant | September 3, 2008 - 9:36 am - Posted in Politics

Every one clearly remembers the july 22nd and the days of uncertainity that surrounded it. Well, it might have been off from the  memory box of your mind but not from media.Amidst, all the hustle bustle there was a strong rumour of Mayawati becoming the candidate. Yesterday,  deve gowda reiterated his support to mayawati as the leader of the 3rd  front. He stressed on the need of a political alternative before the General Elections 2009.

By Dada | September 2, 2008 - 8:12 pm - Posted in Politics

Name is Obama. Barak Obama. For the Presidential election race due in November this year, besides all the American, Indians too are waiting for him to recreate, reconciliate and rewrite the history of United States because his name itself says it all:

 

O - Other

B - Black

A - American

M - Man/Male

A - Arrives

 

Barak representing Democratic party but watch out, who is backing him up - from Bill to Hillary Clinton. Indians however, are keeping their fingers crossed as well and waiting to see, how does he deal as far as India is concerned.

 

Because the ‘N-deal’ issue (read New Delhi instead of ‘Nuclear deal’) has put the country in jeopardy. It ripped the country’s political parties apart and at the end it had also witnessed the country’s biggest shame as ‘Cash-for-Vote’ issue on every television channels.

 

And now China has joined to pierce a hole in the N-deal. Well, to inform you all the word ‘China’ in Bengali language means – ‘not required’. If it so, then why China is poking its bloody nose into our affair rather they should oil their own machine.

 

India loves you, OBAMA! Not because of your colour or creed but because you believe in God. That is why a statue of Hanuman was sent to you to make you more mentally tough and stronger, so to eradicate any conflict that comes.

 

Wishing you luck for the election and do visit India after winning the fray as President. God bless you. “In God We Trust”.

 

 

By Kuntal Chatterjee | - 3:12 pm - Posted in Politics

To establish a successful democracy, it is perhaps become necessary for the law making institutions to shed the concepts like humanity and human rights and treat those people with brutality who do not comply with its autocratic norms. The conclusion could not have been drawn if the innocent people of north east India were not put under the ‘draconian act’ passed and enforced by the government of India.

The Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) was passed by the Parliament of India in 1958, which gives all security forces the unrestricted and unaccounted power to carry out their operations, in the areas declared as ‘disturbed’. Even a non-commissioned officer is granted the right to shoot to kill based on mere suspicion.

Since then, the personnel of Assam Rifles and Jammu and Kashmir Rifles have been continuing their atrocities in the name of ‘civil-order’, killing over 30,000 innocents adn who can forget the infamous ‘mothers’ nude protest’ in the streets of Imphal in July 2004 on the discovery of the mutilated body of 32 years old Thangjam Manorama, after she was picked up by the Assam Rifles.

In an interview with Tehelka magazine, former governor of Manipur and Nagaland gen (retd) V K Nayar, has supported the AFSPA and its repercussions but unfortunately Mr. Nayar may not be aware that the situation in the region has not improved but deteriorated. Read this:

In 1958, Naga National Council was the only militant group while there are over 50 militant groups exist in the region today. Manipur remains the most violent State — accounting for nearly 45 per cent of the fatalities in the Northeast. The finding was revealed after a study conducted differently by the Centre for Development and Peace Studies, Assam and Human Rights Alert, Manipur.

It has been over 60 occasions when some or other charismatic leaders of this ‘apolitcal independent nation’ have imposed their ‘electorally-motivated’ ideas on the real sovereign concerns.