A great expose of the innards of Indian "democracy". But then, only in a "democracy" such expose is possible.
Sukla On 19 November 2010 18:17, Kamayani <kama...@gmail.com> wrote: > ALSO IN THIS STORY > > India, the republic, is now on sale. Participating in the auction is a > group of powerful individuals, corporate houses, lobbyists, bureaucrats and > journalists. Just before the 2G spectrum allocation scam became breaking > news, the Income-Tax department was busy tapping the phones of Niira Radia, > a lobbyist whose clients, the Tatas and Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries > Ltd, have interests in several key sectors such as telecom, petroleum and > natural gas. > > Radia’s conversations show how even cabinet berths can be decided by this > select oligarchy. Her interface with discredited (now former) telecom > minister A. Raja, DMK mp Kanimozhi and Ranjan Bhattacharya, the foster > son-in-law of former prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, shows how she > successfully lobbied for several cabinet berths. The transcripts suggest > that journalists Vir Sanghvi and Barkha Dutt also lobbied for Raja with the > Congress party. However, both journalists, in separate statements, decried > the use of the label “lobbyist” and termed their conversation with Radia as > part of their normal journalistic duties. Other journalists such as Prabhu > Chawla, G. Ganapathy Subramaniam and M.K. Venu also had elaborate > conversations with Radia on issues ranging from telecom to the Ambani > brothers’ dispute on gas pricing. At times they proffer advice and trade > information. > > The more than 104 conversations involving Radia that were tapped by the I-T > department expose a systemic rot. These tapes are now annexures in a Supreme > Court petition by lawyer Prashant Bhushan seeking Raja’s prosecution. > MORE----- > > http://outlookindia.com/article.aspx?268071 > > -- > Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal > +919820749204 > skype-lawyercumactivist > > The UID project is going to do almost exactly the same thing which the > predecessors of Hitler did, else how is it that Germany always had the > lists > of Jewish names even prior to the arrival of the Nazis? The Nazis got these > > lists with the help of IBM which was in the 'census' business that included > > racial census that entailed not only count the Jews but also identifying > them. At the United States Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, there is an > exhibit of an IBM Hollerith D-11 card sorting machine that was responsible > for organising the census of 1933 that first identified the Jews. > > *SAY NO TO UID CAMPAIGN- SPREAD THE WORD AND JOIN FB GROUP* > *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/ > http://questioningaadhaar.blogspot.com/* > http://www.youtube.com/my_playlists?p=B67A798223F96E73 > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Free Binayak Sen" group. > To post to this group, send an email to free-binayak...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > free-binayaksen+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<free-binayaksen%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/free-binayaksen?hl=en-GB. > -- Peace Is Doable -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send an email to greenyo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to greenyouth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB.
