It is said that one shouldn’t speak ill of the dead.
Bal Thackeray.
While alive, you can not do that as well as you will be in danger of physical harm.
Some People achieve greatness mostly by speaking the most controversial , whether it makes sense or not, whether it is good for the Society in the long run.
People pay respect when they were alive for fear of Life or their livelihood.
After their death, people mouth inane tributes, while in their hearts would have been relieved.
Ffear of being attacked by the Leader’s followers makes them speak non sense as tributes.
Such a Man was Bala Saheb Thackeray who is like Anna, or Annaduari of the DMK in Tamil Nadu.
It may be noted that the Shiv Sena was was founded in 1966 after and in response to The DMK’s call and fight against North Indians and Hindi in 1962.
Bal Thackeray was shrewd enough to see the design to gain popularity among the locals and initially he drove Tamilians out and there was no mention of the North Indians in Mumbai then.
Shiv Sena of Bal Thackeray and the DMK of Anna are two outfits which consists mostly of the flotsam and jetsam of the Society,more like the Black and Brown Shirts.
Thackeray spewed venom on the so called ‘outsiders’ in Mumbai‘ and he is euologised for restoring the Pride , ‘Manoos’ of the Maharashtrains.
Maharashtrains had and still have their pride intact, no thanks to Bal Thackeray.
When people speak of restoring the Pride. what are they speaking about?
Attacking the poor from other States who have come to Mumbai to fill their belly?
The ‘belly fillers’ are the very people who have done Maharashtra proud, be it Raj Kappor, Amitabh Bachchan,Reliance,Tatas,Kishore Kumar,SD Burman, RD Burman,Salil Choudhary….the list is endless.
Try running Mumbai with out the Biharis and the other north Indian people who have come and are still coming to Mumbai.
Precisley the same tactic used by Anna durai in Tamil Nadu to capture power.
Bal Thackeray shrewd as he was posed a Hindu Fanatic and chose Muslims as his whipping boys.
Just as Annadurai, Thakeary knows when to retraet.
When Amiatbh Bachchan was attacked fpr being a non Maharashtra promptly came Bal Thaceray to the support of Amitabh, saying that he is more of a Mumbaikar, just as Annadurai, fearful of losing votes declared’ I do not Hate Brahmins, but only Brahminism!’
Both avowed that their parties will never seek power!
DMK promoted Personality cult based on their so called Love of the Tamil Language and Marathi Manoos.
Barring Annadurai , other leaders of the DMK, notably Karunanidhi, had made Tamil Nadu as a fiefdom of his Family.
Thackeray divided it between Uddhav and Raj Thackeray.
Both of them never felt shy of changing views.
For Bal Thackeray. Congress is to be wiped out but Indira Gandhi is the Greatest Leader
For Anna Durai Rajaji was an evil Brahmin ,later became ‘Acharyar'(Venerable Teacher).
What sort of a Leader sre you when Film Directors, producers ans Actors must seek your approval before their movies are being released, be it Dilip Kumar for ‘Aadmi’ Bachchan and Ram Gopal Varma for Sarkar, Mani Rathnam for Bombay!
Mumbai is closing down even to day as the whole of Maharashtra.
Fear of being attacked by the vandals, that’s all.
History Of Hate Speech.
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1969:
Only time Thackeray serves a jail term for the Sena’s violent agitation in the Karnataka-Maharashtra border dispute
1989:
Bombay high court holds Thackeray and Ramesh Prabhoo guilty of election offences. In 1995, Supreme Court upholds verdict. Based on this verdict, in 1999, Sena chief is stripped of voting rights by EC for 6 years.
1993:
Case filed by govt for inflammatory editorials during riots. In 2000, Thackeray ‘surrenders’ before a metropolitan court. Magistrate throws out case since govt sanction to prosecute not acquired. In 2007, HC throws out state’s appeal against lower court order
1993:
Ex-civic chief J B D’Souza files petition urging action against Thackeray for ‘inflammatory’ editorials during riots. Police say 4 cases have been filed in lower court, maintain D’Souza should have gone to cops or Press Council first. HC agrees, dismisses petition. In 1995, SC upholds HC verdict
1997:
Sentenced to two years by HC in a contempt case. In 2004, SC overturns verdict
1998:
Srikrishna Commission says on riots: ‘There is no doubt that the Shiv Sena and the Shiv Sainiks took lead in organising attacks on Muslims…, from the level of Shakha Pramukhs to Shiv Sena Pramukh Bal Thackeray’
1998:
Action Taken Report of Sena-BJP government says: ‘The Government totally disagrees with these totally distorted statements of the Commission’
RIOT LOG
In two dozen criminal complaints filed against Thackeray, prosecution sanction was not granted in 16. In seven others, chargesheets were filed but the Sena-BJP government withdrew the cases in 1996. The remaining case also did not survive.
Time action is taken by the people of Punjab. to nip these tendencies in the bud.
And the Centre which is controlled by The Congress is not taking a tough stance on this issue, because it wants to unseat the Akali Dal!
At the same time ,people like Tytler and those who indulged in senseless orgy on the assassination of Indira Gandhi go are scot-free on technical grounds.
Scoundrels !
If action against them is not taken the Sikhs’ anger is justified.
Treading cautiously over the sensitive issue of construction of a memorial inside the Golden Temple for the ‘martyrs’ of the Operation Blue Star, the Centre on Wednesday said it would not like to interfere in the matter and respect the rights of the Shiromani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC) bestowed by the Constitution.
Stating that the government was fully aware about the construction of the memorial in Amritsar by the committee that runs prominent Sikh shrines, home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said, “There are certain things which certain organizations do. They enjoy certain rights and we do not want to impinge on them”.
I have, here below, provided some Links and information on Sonia Gandhi,the De facto Queen of India, about whom hardly any negative news is reported by The Indian Media.
It is in the internet that one comes across information provided one knows what to look for.
I have blogged on her passport details.her Swiss bank connections, her involvement with the KGB.
The following information is available at the Links provided below.
Draw your conclusions.
“Sonia Gandhi was born as Edvige Antonia Albina Maino on December 9, 1946. A naturalized citizen of India, she has become a very powerful figure in Indian politics. She is the President of Indian National Congress, one of the major political parties of India. She is Italian-born daughter-in-law of the late Prime Minister of India, Mrs. Indira Gandhi She is the wife of Rajiv Gandhi who is a former Prime minister of India and an accused in the Bofors scam
The Indian media rarely publishes articles on Sonia Gandhi. This article is based largely on the exposes by Dr. Subramanian Swamy on websitehttp://janataparty.org/sonia.html
Sonia Gandhi doesn’t have a valid degree. She was a waitress when Rajiv Gandhi met her. Her formal education is (i) Three years course in foreign languages (English & French) completed in 1964 at Istituto Santa Teresa, Turin, Italy (ii) Certificate in English from Lennox Cook School, Cambridge, U.K. completed in 1965
Prime minister episode
Following the unexpected defeat of the NDA, Sonia Gandhi was widely expected to be the next Prime Minister of India. On 16 May, she was unanimously chosen to lead a 15-party coalition government with the support of the left, which was subsequently named the United Progressive Alliance (UPA). The President APJ Abdul Kalam reportedly had communicated to Ms. Gandhi on the afternoon of May 17, 2004, that if she insisted on being invited to form the government, he would want first to clarify, on a reference to the Supreme Court, whether in view of this proviso her appointment as PM could be successfully challenged in the court.
In India naturalised citizens are not barred from becoming the Prime minister. But President has correctly acted on a proviso to Section 5 of the Indian Citizenship Act[1955] which requires the Union Home Ministry to lay down conditions to Indian citizenship acquired by foreigners by registration, condition based on the principle of reciprocity . In Ms Gandhi’s case, such of those conditions that apply to Indians on becoming citizens of Italy, would apply to her.
Falsification of personal details
First, her real name is Antonia not Sonia. This was revealed by the Italian Ambassador in New Delhi in a letter dated April 27, 1983 to the Union Home Ministry which letter has not been made public. Antonia is Sonia’s real name as stated in her birth certificate. Second, Sonia was not born in Orbassano as she claims in her bio data submitted to Parliament on becoming MP, but in Luciana as stated in her birth certificate. Third, Sonia Gandhi has not studied beyond High School. But she has falsely claimed in her sworn affidavit filed as a contesting candidate before the Rae Bareli Returning Officer in the 2004 Lok Sabha elections, that she qualified and got a diploma in English from the prestigious University of Cambridge, UK.
Earlier, in 1999 in her biographical data given under her signature to the Lok Sabha Secretariat and which was published in Parliament’s Who’s Who, she had made the same false claim. But later she wrote to the Lok Sabha Speaker, after Swamy had pointed it out to him in a written complaint of a Breach of Ethics of the Lok Sabha, that it was a “typing mistake”. Strange but true.
Scindia episode
Madhavrao Scindia and a German by name Stiegler are worth mentioning as other good friends of Sonia. Madhavrao’s friendship continued even after Sonia’s marriage to Rajiv. In later years, Madhavrao had become privately critical of Sonia, and told some close friends about his apprehensions about her. It is a pity that he died in mysterious circumstances in an as yet uninvestigated aircrash of his private plane in the year 2001. Mani Shankar Aiyar and Shiela Dikshit were to be on that flight too, but were asked to stay behind at the last moment.
Swiss bank accounts
A stunning exposure on Sonia Gandhi’s secret billions in Swiss banks came, surprisingly, from Switzerland itself, where the world’s corrupt stash away their booty. In its issue of November 19, 1991, Schweizer Illustrierte, the most popular magazine of Switzerland, did an exposé of over a dozen politicians of the third world, including Rajiv Gandhi, who had stashed away their bribe monies in Swiss banks. Schweizer Illustrierte, not a rag, sells some 2,15,000 copies and has a readership of 9,17,000 — almost a sixth of Swiss adult population. Citing the newly opened KGB records, the magazine reported ‘that Sonia Gandhi the widow of the former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was controlling secret account with 2.5 billion Swiss Francs (equal to $2.2 billion) in her minor son’s name’. The $2.2 billion account must have existed from before June 1988 when Rahul Gandhi attained majority. y any calculation the present size of the $2.2 billion secret funds of the family in Swiss banks seems huge — anywhere between Rs 43,000 plus to some Rs 84,000 crore!
KGB records
Another expose emanating from the archives of the Russian spy outfit KGB, is far more serious. It says that the Gandhi family has accepted political pay-offs from the KGB — a clear case of treason besides bribe. In her book The State Within a State: The KGB and its Hold on Russia-Past, Present, and Future, Yevgenia Albats, an acclaimed investigative journalist, says: “A letter signed by Victor Chebrikov, who replaced Andropov as the KGB head in 1982 noted: ‘the USSR KGB maintains contact with the son of the Premier Minister Rajiv Gandhi (of India). R Gandhi expresses deep gratitude for the benefits accruing to the Prime Minister’s family from the commercial dealings of the firm he controls in co-operation with the Soviet foreign trade organisations. R Gandhi reports confidentially that a substantial portion of the funds obtained through this channel are used to support the party of R Gandhi’.” (p.223). Albats has also disclosed that, in December 2005, KGB chief Victor Chebrikov had asked for authorisation from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, “to make payments in US dollars to the family members of Rajiv Gandhi, namely Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Ms Paola Maino, mother of Sonia Gandhi.” And even before Albats’ book came out the Russian media had leaked out the details of the pay-offs. Based on the leaks, on July 4, 1992, The Hindu had reported: “the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service admits the possibility that the KGB could have been involved in arranging profitable Soviet contract for the company controlled by Rajiv Gandhi family”.
Breach of Indian laws
As insurance agent
Sonia Gandhi, was acting as an insurance agent of a public sector insurance company[Oriental Fire&Insurance] during tenure of Indira Gandhi, giving the Prime Minister’s official residence as her business address, and using undue influence to get insured the officers of the PMO, while remaining as an Italian citizen[thus violating FERA]. There was an uproar in Parliament, but Mrs. Indira Gandhi had no alternative but to cut her losses. She made a rare admission in a written reply a few days later that it indeed was so, and that it was by mistake, but that Sonia had resigned from her insurance agency
A C Gupta Commission
The Supreme Court Justice A.C. Gupta Commission set up by the Janata Party government in 1977 came out with a voluminous report on the Maruti Company then owned by the Gandhi family, and has listed eight violations of FERA, Companies Act, and Foreigners Registration Act by Sonia Gandhi. She was never prosecuted, but can still be prosecuted because under Indian law, economic crimes are not subject to the statute of limitation.
Enrollment as voter while being an Italian
In January 1980, Indira Gandhi returned as Prime Minister. The first thing Sonia did was to enroll herself as a voter. This was a gross violation of the law, enough to cause cancellation of her visa [since she was admittedly an Italian citizen then]. There was some hullabaloo in the press about it, so the Delhi Chief Electoral Officer got her name deleted in 1982. But in January 1983, she again enrolled herself as a voter even while as a foreigner [she first applied for citizenship in April 1983]
Subramaniam Swamy has alleged that Sonia’s mother, Paola Maino, and sister Anushka Winci owned the shops, Etinica in Rivolta and Ganpaty in Orbassano, the Mainos’ hometown in Italy. The CBI had to seek Interpol’s help after the Italian foreign ministry refused to part with the information, saying the matter should be taken up by the “Indian judicial authority directly with (the) Italian judicial authority”.
Scams
Bofors scam and freeing Quattrocchi
After the Congress under Sonia Gandhi came to power in 2004, Quattrocchi was quickly relieved of all hardships.
In June 2003, a London branch of the Swiss bank BSI AG was found by the Interpol to have two accounts held by Quattrocchi and his wife Maria, containing Euros 3 million and $1 million. These accounts were then frozen upon the request of the CBI. However, on December 22, 2005, the Indian government position changed rather suddenly. The law minister Hansraj Bhardwaj deputed the additional solicitor general of India, Mr. B. Dutta, to London to specifically request release of these accounts. However, it appears that the law ministry never consulted the investigating agency, CBI in this matter
Even though On 6 February 2007, Quattrocchi was detained in Argentina on the basis of the Interpol warrant, the CBI let him go free by seemingly deliberate errors on its part.
In April 2009, The Interpol removed the red-corner notice issued against Ottavio Quattrocchi after a request from the Central Bureau of Investigation
A major chapter in the 25-year-old Bofors saga was closed with a Tis Hazari court here discharging Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi from the payoffs case after allowing the CBI to withdraw prosecution against him.
After the UPA came back to power in 2004, ENI Italy started exploration of oil along the west coast of India and Andaman islands to name few. The company had links with Quattrochi and is rumored to have Massimo Quattrochi in senior advisory position. ENI is the owner of Snamprogetti which got many contracts during the Rajiv Gandhi regime.
2G scam
As per Subramanian Swami, a large part of the 2G bribe went to the hands of Sonia Gandhi. More details and evidences are awaited.
A 22-year-old IT professional Rahul Krishnakumar Vaid from Gurgaon, Haryana was arrested by the Pune police for his remarks on about Congress chief Sonia Gandhi on an orkut community named — “I hate Sonia Gandhi”. Vaid was charged under section 292 of Indian Penal Code and section 67 of the Information Technology Act because he created a profile and then posted content about Sonia Gandhi in the community. Amol Bhokare, a Congress activist from Pune had lodged a complaint with Deccan Gymkhana police station against unknown persons in December 2007.
The police team nabbed Vaid at his residence brought him to Pune by flight and produced before the Shivajinagar court. Vaid has been remanded to police custody till May 21. If proved guilty, Vaid could be imprisoned for up to five years and may have to pay a fine up to Rs one lakh.
The CBI is awaiting information from Italy on the ownership rights to two antique shops in Rivolta and Orbassano, allegedly owned by Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s family, after Janata Party chief Subramaniam Swamy filed a petition in Delhi High Court.
Swamy alleged in the petition that Sonia was smuggling antiques from India to Italy and getting them auctioned abroad at hefty prices.
In an affidavit filed before Justices Usha Mehra and Pradeep Nandrajog, the CBI said it had sought information through Interpol about the legal owners of the antique shops in the Italian districts.
Swamy alleged that Sonia’s mother, Paola Maino, and sister Anushka Winci owned the shops, Etinica in Rivolta and Ganpaty in Orbassano, the Mainos’ hometown in Italy.
“It is submitted that at present since no criminal case relating to the subject matter is pending investigation, it may not be feasible to send a letter rogatory to the Italian judicial authority for seeking information,” the CBI affidavit said.
The CBI did not register a case against Sonia owing to the Centre’s pressure, Swamy alleged.
“Nevertheless, the CBI has again elicited the desired information from Interpol, Rome, whose reply is awaited,” the bureau’s affidavit said.
It has been more than two months since the CBI wrote to Interpol in Rome, requesting information on the shops. Reminders, too, were sent.
SONIA GANDHI, the daughter of an Italian housebuilder, is likely to become’s India’s new Prime Minister this week — the culmination of a political career that had its beginnings in a Greek restaurant in Cambridge.
Mrs Gandhi was an 18-year-old student at a small language college in Cambridge in 1965, making ends meet by working as a waitress in the Varsity restaurant, when she met a handsome young engineering student.
That first encounter with the future Indian Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi, has remained imprinted on her mind as the most romantic moment of her life.
“As our eyes met for the first time, I could feel my heart pounding . . . as far as I was concerned, it was love at first sight,” she wrote later in a rare moment of self-revelation.
“I had a vague idea that India existed somewhere in the world with its snakes, elephants and jungles, but exactly where it was and what it was really all about, I was not sure.”
The man she had met in Cambridge belonged to India’s greatest political dynasty — the son of Indira Gandhi and grandson of Nehru. She, on the other hand, was Sonia Maino, the daughter of a modest Roman Catholic family from Orbassano, near Turin.
But as well as being the source of happy memories, her time in Cambridge has in recent weeks created some political difficulties for Mrs Gandhi.”
Waitress to Empress.
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By Glen Owen and Nick Meo
SONIA GANDHI, the daughter of an Italian housebuilder, is likely to become’s India’s new Prime Minister this week — the culmination of a political career that had its beginnings in a Greek restaurant in Cambridge.
Mrs Gandhi was an 18-year-old student at a small language college in Cambridge in 1965, making ends meet by working as a waitress in the Varsity restaurant, when she met a handsome young engineering student.
That first encounter with the future Indian Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi, has remained imprinted on her mind as the most romantic moment of her life.
“As our eyes met for the first time, I could feel my heart pounding . . . as far as I was concerned, it was love at first sight,” she wrote later in a rare moment of self-revelation.
“I had a vague idea that India existed somewhere in the world with its snakes, elephants and jungles, but exactly where it was and what it was really all about, I was not sure.”
The man she had met in Cambridge belonged to India’s greatest political dynasty — the son of Indira Gandhi and grandson of Nehru. She, on the other hand, was Sonia Maino, the daughter of a modest Roman Catholic family from Orbassano, near Turin.
But as well as being the source of happy memories, her time in Cambridge has in recent weeks created some political difficulties for Mrs Gandhi.”
Source:
Thanks Hindu Idf,India
Related:
The issue the government has been dodging,the names of Indians in Swiss Bank is out in the open.
* I have posted direct in my blog the same information minus the text as the image portion of the document goes off quite often.
Ramarao had granted bail to Reddy May 12. The mining baron, however, remained in Bangalore jail in another illegal mining case.
The high court chief justice took action against the judge Thursday after the CBI lodged a complaint with him, according to officials.
The CBI reportedly found that the bribe money was stashed in bank lockers of the judge’s kin.
The investigating agency has asked the concerned banks not to allow the judge or his kin access to the lockers.
The high court has asked the suspended judge not to leave Hyderabad without informing it.
The chief justice also ordered a probe by the legal department and the anti-corruption cell.
CBI Court Principal Judge A. Pullaiah has been given additional charge of the first additional CBI judge.
Ramarao granted bail to Janardhana Reddy while presiding over the second additional CBI court in the absence of the regular judge.
There was only one CBI court in Hyderabad till last month. Three additional courts were formed to deal with the increasing number of cases. Justice B. Nagamurthi Sharma, who was the judge of the special CBI court, was appointed second additional CBI judge.
The OMC case was transferred to CBI principal court. However, Janardhana Reddy requested that since Nagamurthi Sharma had been hearing the case all along, the case be transferred to him. As Sharma was on leave, Ramarao heard Reddy’s bail plea and granted him the bail.
Kautilya also imparts this Technic to Chandra Gupta.
When you are faced with an enemy whom you think is powerful,diminish his strength by separating him from his associates by being friendly with his associate and turn him into an agent of yours.
This charlatan called Swami(?) Ramdev, after initial bonhomie with Anna Hazare started to go away from him by mumbling about Civil Society‘s Members, then denied it.
Simultaneously he exchanged broad sides with Digvijay Singh,indirectly called Sonia Gandhi as Most Corrupt.
At the same time he holds meeting in secret with Rahul Gandhi.
Congress General Secretary and heir apparent held a secret meeting with yoga guru Baba Ramdev and spent an hour with him. A meeting with Congress president, Sonia Gandhi, is also planned. Baba Ramdev revealed exclusively to Zee News on the programme Kahiye Janaab.
Giving details and going public on the matter for the first time, Ramdev said that he had discussed vital issues concerning the nation with Gandhi.
Now PM and Pronob Mukherjee are bending back wards to woo him.
Ramdev now denies having agreed to exclude PM from the ambit of Lokpal!
He will be to Sonia Gandhi/Congress what Bhindranwale was to Indira Gandhi.
Read about his credentials and his remarks.
Baba Ramdev’s assets include a 300-bed multi specialty hospital, a yoga research centre, a university, an ayurvedic pharmacy, a food park and a cosmetics manufacturing unit.
Ramdev declares himself to have come in the traditions of Rishis and that he owns nothing and the Trust owns all the money!
On Digvijay Singh’s poser to Ramdev that Ramdev should first investigate those who have donted to his Trust.
Agreed.
Ramdev also alleged that a big wig in Congress has over 11,000 Crores asset.
Is Digvijay Singh/Congress prepared to inquire into the Companies, Quottachchi et al?
Both these people are providing entertainment at people’s cost.
BJP, supposedly a party with principles, sides with Ramdev for political gains and a Congres leade states that Ramdev should not speak on the subject of Corruption in Non-Political Forum!
Neither they nor we have any sense of shame.
We vote these corrupt politicians to power and venerate charlatans.
Swami Ramdev is even reported to have acquired a Scottish isle for about £ 2 million a few years ago to set up a wellness retreat. According to unconfirmed reports, Patanjali Yogpeeth has also acquired major stakes in the Aastha TV channel.
A Charlatan ,who misinterprets Yoga,making money out of it,has amassed wealth illegally.
Read.
Baba Ramdev’s assets include a 300-bed multi specialty hospital, a yoga research centre, a university, an ayurvedic pharmacy, a food park and a cosmetics manufacturing unit.
Ramdev declares himself to have come in the traditions of Rishis and that he owns nothing and the Trust owns all the money!
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