A CALL TO INACTION B. K. Chaturvedi (formerly from IAS)” My comments.

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Good Morning India…..

When I read this article in todays Indian Express “ A CALL TO INACTION”
Punishment to former coal secretary will deter honest officers from taking decisions fearlessly
B. K. Chaturvedi (formerly from IAS)”

I wondered whether I was in Alice’s Wonderland or was the writer BK Chaturvedi out there, a former IAS Babu. I mean this gentleman is practically pleading that most of the babus or may be all, are as honest and pure as a new born baby’s pink bottom! This man, as he claims during his lectures at the Academy “Tried to instil the philosophy of uprightness, fair play and honesty and argued that the government always protected bonafide actions.” So also he keeps harping about these words “Bonafide” and "Honest Decisions” throughout his rambles on the Centre page of IE. What is Bonafide?
It means authentic, genuine, real, true, actual, sterling, sound, legal, legitimate, lawful, valid, unadulterated, unalloyed, proper, straight, fair and square; Informal / honest-to-goodness, legit, pukka.

Now if I apply my mind (which unfortunately resides in my knees due to my Army Service as many IAS babus claim) to the charges on which Shri Harish Chandra Gupta, the pseudo Raja Harish Chandra of today, as made out by his IAS friends, has been convicted and sentenced to jail by the CBI Court, Nothing appears "Bonafide" or "Honest Decision making" to me at all. I think the writer, this former IAS babu’s blood serum sodium could be off mark for such hallucinations or may be my sodium levels have fallen!!

Its one thing to not take money personally but is it OK to allow others to make money from your decisions? Can that be allowed? He may have wilfully allowed others to make money and became a pliant tool in their hands. Why did he not refuse to follow directives and if required resign, when the whole city of Delhi was aware that people were making money? This is a form of intellectual corruption to continue on such posts and to look for post retirement jobs. Does that not amount to corruption?

Whenever IAS people are caught and punished the entire fraternity raise a chorus of decision making in danger bogey. Left to me I would have scrapped these IAS and other Services a long time ago. There are better ways of managing a country than spreading and guarding the Poop of the British Raj.

Gupta has been charged under various sections including 120-B (criminal conspiracy), 409 (criminal breach of trust by public servants) and 420 (cheating) of IPC and under provisions of Prevention of Corruption Act. Some of the cases in which Gupta was summoned as accused by the court include those relating to alleged irregularities in allocation of Thesgora-B Rudrapuri coal block to accused firm Kamal Sponge Steel and Power Ltd (KSSPL) and allocation of Moira and Madhujore (North and South) coal blocks in West Bengal’s Raniganj area to Vikash Metal and Power Ltd.

He is also accused in a case of alleged irregularities in the allotment of the Amarkonda Murgadangal coal block to two companies of Jindal group and allocation of Brahmapuri coal block in Madhya Pradesh to accused firm Pushp Steels and Mining Pvt Ltd (PSMPL). While ordering framing of charges against Gupta and others in the case involving KSSPL, the court had observed that then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was kept in the dark by him. It said Gupta had prima facie violated the law and the trust placed on him on the issue of coal block allocations.

Parakh had pushed for auctions to bring sanity to the allocations, Soren over ruled him. As Parakh’s successor, Gupta was willing to play along with the flawed system. Why did he not insist on conducting auctions, as Parakh did and why also did he not put it on record and on noting, this brilliant Babu, the epitome of Mahatma Gandhi as chorused by his brother officers?
Worse, during his term from 2006 and 2008 the coal ministry’s records went into shambles. Often presentations made by the prospective companies along with the file notes about the same made by the screening committee disappeared. This was pointed out in the damning audit report by the CAG under Vinod Rai, which led to the filing of the cases from 2012 onwards. So this is what Mr. Chaturvedi think bonafide means. I am sorry I may be wrong as I have admitted earlier my brain and knee are in similar locations so maybe I perceive differently!

The CBI and the courts held the lack of evidence was a clear indication of foul play. But Gupta and even Parakh claimed the absence of papers could not be held as the sole reason to prove it was. Yet as of now it is the perceived conspiracy that has got Gupta into trouble. The CBI special court has held that it is not just missing papers but a case where the company was given coal from the 30.76 million tonne block to only manufacture sponge iron but instead diverted the mineral to the markets, a case of malafide. Without the papers, in none of these cases it is possible for the ministry to argue that a transparent system of decision making was adopted.
Unfortunately the bulk of them happened during Gupta’s term from 2006 to 2008. Post retirement, he had joined the Competition Commission of India as a member but as the charges got closer home, he had to resign.

So Mr. Chaturvedi Saheb I think there is no need to defend the indefensible so also put IAS Officers in the line of God Almighty, now that will truly indicate a sodium imbalance. The Supreme Court has also taken a call so let us wait and see. Instead of defending your brethren, you are further damming them, by writing such editorials. I am sorry that you think that honest officers of the IAS (hic) will be deterred from taking “fearless decisions”, because of this pseudo Raja Harish Chanders conviction. Now that is a big laugh, which again makes me think of Alice in wonderland and the big rabbit. Why does this man not assume that his Raja Harishandra may not have been that. 

I reproduce the Article below:

A call to inaction
Punishment to former coal secretary will deter honest officers from taking decisions fearlessly

B. K. Chaturvedi

NEWSPAPER REPORTS INDICATE that a CBI court has found former coal secretary Harish Chandra Gupta guilty of corruption and criminal conspiracy in the allocation of a coal block. There are a large number of other cases waiting in the wings for his prosecution. All these imply some irregu-
larity in allocation and Gupta, as chairman of a committee which used to look into
these cases, is said to be responsible. Thiscase raises certain critical issues of governance. Whether this will encourage officers to take decisions fearlessly is now debatble. It takes away the protection enjoyed by honest civil servants.

When we joined the civil service more than five decades back, many situations were iscussed. A guiding principle was that if you are honest and act in a bonafide manner, there is nothing in our system which can cause you harm. The "mantra" of success was your acting in a bonafide fashion.

Later, as cabinet secretary, I had several occasions to address young officers. I tried to in still the philosophy of uprightness, fair play and honesty and argued that the government always protected bonafide actions. It is extremely worrisome that these guiding principles are now being torn to pieces and a new philosophy is emerging which does not distinguish between honest mistakes
and criminal actions.

Gupta is considered one of the country's most honest civil servants. He has been found guilty because there were some shortcomings in the application for the allotment of a coal block. All such allocations were made by an inter-ministerial committee in consultation with state governments.
The block was allegedly given in violation of the prescribed procedures. All coal block allocations have, since then, been cancelled and allocations are now made through
auctions.There is no charge that he, or other civil servants also convicted in the case, got any
advantage, benefit, money, property or financial gain or made any other gains, finan- cial or non-financial. It is difficult to understand a corruption case in which a guilty person has received no benefits or even planned to get them. What sort of criminal conspiracy is this where you neither get any advantage nor expect any benefit and yet you are held guilty for conspiring?

Administrative systems all over the world are based on the ability of senior officers,leaders of teams, to take risks. Such leadership invariably focusses on outcomes with members of the team acting together to achieve results. At times, in taking such decisions, mistakes are made. In the normal
course, these are reviewed and corrective action is taken. Even in the private sector, which many of us admire for delivering excellent results, some decisions don't work out. Such mistakes are a part of governance structures. With this case, we are sending a clear message: "Do not take risks. Just focus
on procedures." It is a recipe for disaster in a developing economy.

In the 1950s, public investment used to be predominant with private investment lagging behind. The major driver of economic growth is now the private sector. In fact, in the 1990s, there were amendments in the coal act to permit the allocation of coal mines for captive use by private power, cement and steel units. Initially, there was not much demand. As the economy expanded, demand picked up. Private investments increased simultaneously. This required a larger number of approvals from the government for coal blocks, iron ore mines, land, water and environment.

It is necessary for the courts to interpret the law on corruption in a way that is consistent with these new economic realities. The courts must appreciate that bonafide mistakes do not constitute a criminal offence. Our courts have very often used the process of judicial review for public good. Many fundamental rights of citizens today flow out of a very positive interpretation of our "right to life" provided under Article 21 of the Constitution. In fact, the right to education as a fundamental right was first construed from that article.

The current law on corruption suffers from two major problems. First, it does notrequire mens rea to find public servants guilty. This is a major requirement in laws on corruption in most countries. This is also a part of the UN Convention against Corruption Under section 13( 1 )(d)(iii) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, a public servant is guilty even if no advantage was asked for by him or accrues to him or there is no quid pro quo.

Second, the concept of public interest, in violation of which public servants are deemed guilty of corruption, is not defined in the act If a decision is taken which has immense economic benefits for the nation but is not consistent with previously announced guidelines, how should that be treated?

Wi th an expanding private sector, due to the large increase in economic activity, the possibility of mistakes by public servants has increased. Unless bonafide decision-making
is protected, we may be promoting a culture of indecision — a supine civil service will be busy passing papers from one desk to the other.

Not taking decisions is more harmful than taking the wrong decisions. While the latter can be corrected and the country can then move on to the desired direction, indecision evokes the story of the donkey who is said to have sat on the vertex of an isosceles triangle and died of hunger while not able to decide the shorter route to the base where
plenty of green grass was available.

By punishing honest civil servants like Gupta, we may be promoting a civil service which shuffles files from one desk to the other with no outcomes. Our nation cannot afford this.

The writer is former cabinet secretary and Member Planning Commission

Turning India into a land only for Hindus goes against our nation, writes ex-FS Nirupama Rao. My comments...

Good Morning India....

After reading this piece and understanding and becoming conscious of the underlying subtle nuances, which expect this Nation of Hindus to be tolerant of all other religions what ever the cost? Quote Nirupama "Growing up, we were taught to respect all faiths and to be tolerant of differences." Unquote. My question to her was did Christianity teach her that? Given that she went to a Catholic Christian School and College?

Quote "Today we Hindus demand “empathy” from the minorities in our country. A Muslim dairy farmer transporting a cow, even with a permit, is not showing empathy for the majority religion" Unquote. Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. Tell me madam, did the Christians too ever exhibit empathy for the Hindu way of life during their rule over India? Why even today their agenda is conversion subtly and not so subtly. Not only in India but all over the world. As a matter of fact during my extensive travels in the African Continent, I found this breed of Christians to have subtly destroyed their religion, culture and the social systems of the native Africans. Preying upon poverty as a handle.

I had to comment and share my thoughts. I agree its a piece of good narrative yet yet yet......

Though a bit strong in its words, I try not beat around the bush.

Sometimes I do sympathise with people like Nirupama Rao, for they know not what they do. However the workings of their inner mind lie bared for the observant. I call this learned behaviour of attitudes and beliefs, which lead to a mire of subconscious intellectual and emotional feelings which we are at a loss to understand, and these dictate our thinking mind to respond and act.. I call it obtaining maturity out of religious wedlock.

Typically as I have experienced personally, I went to a primary school run by missionaries and then a second Senior Cambridge school for my final High School Education. Though this was not a Christian School per say, we had a compulsory "Divinity" period. (Later on I am told this period was made only for Christians) As it turned out I was more well versed in Christianity and the Christian way of life, that I used to ridicule my friends from local vernacular schools, who went to temples and rang a bell to wake up god to take his "Darshan".

I never really did get to the bottom of our Hindu way of life as practised at home. So much so that I used to laugh at stories told by our pandits at religious functions like Satyanarayan Pooja, Dashera pooja to name a few. Yet in the same breath would lap up ridiculous stories from the Bible as gods own truth. The religious upbringing in the Hindu way of life at home and the subtle and not so subtle Christian way at school, kind of bastardised my young mind between the two.

We see today the ridiculous extents this government is going to correct this anomaly. 

However they must understand that nothing can be done with the adult population, specially these pseudo Hindu intellectuals like me who have already become Bastardised between religions. What is now the need of the hour is to look after the members of the very young population which are in schools. To see that they are given proper non fanatic education in our Hindu way of life and to ensure that they are not influenced by these Christian missionary crusaders nor the Islamists. So also they be kept out of reach of criminal politicians who unfortunately own a majority of educational institutions. 

In fact I do not mind India being named as a Hindu nation, where is the harm in that? In fact I believe it will go a long way as far as religious tolerance is concerned, in that others will learn to live harmoniously within the parameters as dictated by a Hindu Rashtra. I am sure looking at the Hindu way of life, its tolerant principles of co existence this should not be too difficult.

We have to be more worried of our Nations future which lies in these young citizens than anti gau hatya brigades and Romeo squads. This is only scratching the surface of a far deeper shortfall. There will always be a running battle between the younger generation and the government in power. The generation gap will always be there. Fortunately our Hindu way of life, or the Sanatan Dharma, is tolerant to both so there is no need to get after the Kaccha Baniyan generation, as to how much body they exhibit in public, nor be the guardians of their virtues let them seek their inner selves within the flexibility of the Hindu way of life. Yet first it needs to be inculcated at a very young age. After all Darwins theory of evolution still holds for social and cultural evolution as it does for the physical. One cannot try to make a monkey from a homo sapien. Like these goons of Nav Nirman Sena, Gau Hatya Brigade, Romeo Squads and what have you, are trying to do........

Sanatana Dharma (which is loosely refered to as a Hindu way of life) is by its very essence a term that is devoid of sectarian leanings or ideological divisions. This is evident by the very term itself. The two words, "Sanatana Dharma", come from the ancient Sanskrit language. "Sanatana" is a Sanskrit word that denotes that which whichis Anadi (beginningless), Anantha (endless) and does not cease to be, that which is eternal and everlasting. With its rich connotations, Dharma is not translatable to any other language. Dharma is from dhri, meaning to hold together, to sustain. 

Its approximate meaning is "Natural Law," or those principles of reality which are inherent in the very nature and design of the universe. Thus the term Sanatana Dharma can be roughly translated to mean "the natural, ancient and eternal way."

When translated to English, Sanatana refer to Eternal, Perennial, Never Beginning nor Ending, Abiding, Universal, Ever-present, Unceasing, Natural, and Enduring while Dharma refers to Harmony, The Way, Righteousness, Compassion, Natural Law, Truth, Teachings, Tradition, Philosophy, Order, Universal, Flow, Religion, Wisdom, Divine Conformity, Cosmic Norm, Blueprint, Inherent \Nature, Law of Being, and Duty.

Sanatana Dharma do not denote to a creed like Christianity or Islam, but represents a code of conduct and a value system that has spiritual freedom as its core. Any pathway or spiritual vision that accepts the spiritual freedom of others may be considered part of Sanatana Dharma.

First and foremost, Sanatana Dharma is anadi (without beginning) and also a-paurusheya (without a human founder). It is defined by the quest for cosmic truth, just as the quest for physical truth defines science. Its earliest record is the Rigveda, which is the record of ancient sages who by whatever means tried to learn the truth about the universe, in relations to Man's place in relation to the cosmos. They saw nature — including all living and non-living things — as part of the same cosmic equation, and as pervaded by a higher consciousness. 

This search has no historical beginning; nor does it have a historical founder. This is not to say that the Rigveda always existed as a literary work. It means that we cannot point to a particular time or person in history and say: "Before this man spoke, what is in the Rigveda did not exist."

Turning India into a land only for Hindus goes against our nation, writes ex-FS Nirupama Rao.

I am a Hindu by birth and by enduring faith. The house that I was born into that my grandfather built, had no special puja room — but the plaster of Paris statue of a flute playing Krishna, the Ravi Varma oleographs of a Lakshmi rising from a lotus with elephants trumpeting their joy at her presence, the veena-playing Saraswati, and our special deity Lord Guruvayurappan, with beautiful Kartikeya and his "vel"(spear) and his vehicle, the peacock made up the pantheon of our isthtadevatas.

On my trips to my "native place" as we say in Indian English, I remember how every evening, the vilakku (bronze lamp) was lit with cotton wicks we lovingly made, dipped in gingelly oil, and brought out to the verandah of the tharawad (Hindu matrilineal family) house, with the heralding word: "Deepam" (lamp) repeated two or three times, quietly, with deep reverence. We would greet the sight of this burnished lamp and its brave, bright flame in a prayerful namaskar with bowed heads in a moment of blessed quietude, as imaginary and heavenly angels murmured in the dusk of a tropical Kerala garden around us.

Wherever we lived as children travelling the length and breadth of India with my army officer father, my homemaker mother would gather us three sisters together at dusk to say our prayers after she had lit the little vilakku that graced a small corner of the bedroom, auspiciously positioned.

We sat down cross-legged on the bare floor, put our hands together in prayer, and recited our Om Namashivaya, and sang a few bhajans including Gandhiji's favourite "Raghupati Raghava". We must have sung with youthful fervour and reasonable harmony because in one of the towns we lived in, the neighbouring Malayalee Catholic family with whom we shared a wall, the Pereiras, would listen tell my mother how much they loved our “evensong”. Them being Christian, and our being Hindu did not matter in those simple days.

I went to Catholic school till I finished high school and to a Catholic undergraduate college after that. I read Bible history as a young girl and was equally fascinated with the stories of Moses, N the Ark of Noah, and the life of Jesus as I was with the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. 

Growing up, we were taught to respect all faiths and to be tolerant of differences. We grew into self-confident Hindus, secure in our faith and respectful of our Christian and Muslim classmates and friends.

In this recalling of memory, I am reminded of the saying that "the past is another country". Where is that far-off land? What starship are we voyaging on today? Today we Hindus demand “empathy” from the minorities in our country. A Muslim dairy farmer transporting a cow, even with a permit, is not showing empathy for the majority religion, an NRI friend said recently. India is a Hindu nation he added and the minorities should respectfully acknowledge this and adjust to this basic reality.

Ensconced in the United States, I do not believe he had any doubt in his mind that Hinduism should constitutionally be India’s national religion. Having lived in Sri Lanka, I was reminded of the manner in which that island country made Buddhism its state religion, with its Buddhist clergy being the most powerful source of authority in the land, and all the momentous repercussions of that approach for civil society and the Sri Lankan minorities.

Is India a wounded civilization? If our religion as Hindus has survived intact despite the depredations of conquest and empire over the last millennium, then are we not prepared to face the next with the steadfastness of faith and the confidence that Hinduism with its capacity for tolerance and accommodation can create the India of our dreams? Are we instead, intent on moulding our lives on the basis of religious militancy and a fundamentalist interpretation of belief? Are we intent on the subjugation of our religious minorities so that they conform to what our idea of their place in our society should be?

Pepita Seth, the English woman who has become a Hindu, and made Kerala and particularly Guruvayur her home, has a passage in her book, Heaven on Earth: The Universe of Kerala's Guruvayur Temple, that eloquently sums up how I define my being Hindu:

“In northern Malabar there is a Theyyam deity, Kshetrapalan, the guardian of temples, who once demolished a semi-ruined shrine and built a mosque to give a growing community of Muslims a place of worship. This, in essence is a sharing of cultures and spaces, even as the other is respected. This fineness shows India’s profoundly pluralistic dimension. It is beyond me to suggest what can be done, political will being what it is. The great hope is that our children can, at an early age, be shown what is common to us all, that with opened minds they come to recognize that this will give them a share of the wider whole. As India is railed against for the dreadful things that now too often happen, it can help to recognize that the other side of the coin exists. And that I have been lucky to experience it."

India’s is a map of many migrations. She speaks to both East and West, those twins of history, when she demonstrates the fact that labels like Hindu, Muslim, Christian are no more than starting points. We are a blended nation. Our long traditions, our languages, our home states, these cultural geographies have blurred and indistinct boundaries, interrelated contexts of meaning. There are many echoes, spirits and voices that inhabit our gardens. Separation and distinctiveness are not their defining features. Human life is not about separation but about connection.

Gandhiji drew inspiration from the devotional traditions of Hindu faith as expressed in the ideals of the religious poets and preachers of rural Gujarat, as also from Thoreau and Tolstoy, and even Christianity. He wove these influences into his life and made them work in a manner that was magnetic, riveting and resoundingly powerful. There is power in his example. The Indian answer to the question “who am I” which is “I am that” or Tat Tvam Asi, signifies a oneness with all creation. The Chinese saying: There is me in you, and you in me bridges divisions of race or creed. The Sanskrit word, Viswabodh or, awareness of the whole world, should apply in everything we do.

It was Rabindranath Tagore who, when he spoke of the idea of India, which as he emphasised was not just a geographical expression, (“I love my India, but my India is an idea and not a geographical expression”), stressed the assimilative outlook, the irreducible diversity that characterised the civilization of India. In a similar way, life in my home state of Kerala has been largely marked by the tenor of coexistence between Hindus, Muslims and Christians. Each community left the other to come to terms with his God in his or her own fashion and in the words of the writer Krishna Chaitanya, realising that difference here in no way militated against close cooperation in activities that ensured the livelihood of all.

The great twentieth century poet in Malayalam, Vallathol, a Hindu, wrote a narrative poem on Mary Magdalene which is treasured by the Christian community both for its spiritual high notes as well as its sheer beauty. The story of Genesis is seen integrated with the Hindu myth of origin of the churning of the primeval ocean by the gods and demons. This is the true symbiosis that India should seek to treasure and to preserve.

Today, at evensong, even as I celebrate my being Hindu, I pray for India. I pray for peaceful coexistence, and for us to conduct our lives as citizens of a great and grown-up nation. Let us not leave our destinies to the vagaries of fate, or the tyranny of the closed and confined mind.

The author is a former Foreign Secretary of India

The Officials Secrets Act HOW EASILY IT CAN BE GOT AROUND WHILE THE HELPLESS NSA WATCHES……

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Good Morning India…

The anti Government, the Anti national communist slanted newspaper has done it again. Got hold of and published secret and confidential information, pertaining to a veteran Naval Commander who has been awarded the death penalty in Pakistan by a Kangaroo Military court in Pakistan. This Indian Express, its Chief Editor the Communist Seema Chisti has done it again. Published information prejudicial to the well being of a retired Defence Officer, the Security of this Country, and highly detrimental to the efforts of the Government of India whose members are trying very hard to save the life of this innocent ex Navy Officer. This paper and its cohorts have provided ammunition to an enemy country, Pakistan to internationally justify the beheading of an ex Indian Navy Officer, by publishing classified information obtained from two retired RAW officers as well as a serving RAW officer, who come under the purview of the Officials Secrets Act. This information very nicely obfuscates the efforts of the GOI to save the Naval Commanders life, as well as lends credence to the Enemy Country Pakistan’s Charges of the Indian National being a spy and justifying his beheading.

Some relevant extracts of the Official Secrets Act….

5. Wrongful communication, etc., of information

(1)   If any person having in his possession or control……… information which relates to or is used in a prohibited place or relates to anything in such a place, or which is likely to assist, directly or indirectly, an enemy or which relates to a matter the disclosure of which is likely to affect the sovereignty and integrity of India, the security of the State or friendly relations with foreign States or which has been made or obtained in contravention of this Act, or which has been entrusted in confidence to him by any person holding office under Government, or which he has obtained or to which he has had access owing to his position as a person who holds or has held office under Government, or which has been entrusted in confidence to him by any person holding office under Government, or which he has obtained or to which he has had access owing to his position as a person who holds or has held office under Government, or as person who holds or has held a contract made on behalf of Government, or as a person who is or has been employed under a person who holds or has held such an office or contract-.

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             (b) Uses, the information in his
                  possession for the benefit of any
                  foreign power or in any  other manner
                   prejudicial to the safety of the State………….He shall be
                  guilty of an offence under this section.

                  A person guilty of an offence under this section shall be punishable with
                 imprisonment  for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with
                 both.

                 When a company is seen as the offender under this Act, everyone involved with
                  the management of the company including the board of directors can be liable
                 for punishment.
                 In the case of a newspaper everyone including the editor, publisher and the
                 proprietor can be jailed for an offence.

    15.    Offences by companies.

             1 If the person committing an offence under this Act is a company, every person
                who, at the
                time the offence was committed, was in charge of, and was responsible to, the
                company for the conduct of business of the company, as well as the company,
                shall ------------------------------------------------------------- be deemed guilty of the
                offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly. It is
                proved that the offence has been committed with the consent or
                connivance of, or is attributable to any negligence on the part of, any director,
                manager, secretary or other officer of the company, such director, manager,
                secretary or other officer shall also be deemed to be guilty of that offence and
               shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.

SO MR NSA DOVALJI   UNDER THE NATIONAL SECRETS ACT:

1.      WHY ARE 2 EX AND ONE SERVING  RAW OFFICERS  ROAMING FREE INSTEAD OF BEING BEHIND BARS ON CHARGES OF TREASON FOR DIVULGING SECRET AND SENSITIVE INFORMATION TO THE INDIAN EXPRESS?

2.      WHY IS THE CHIEF EDITOR AND ALL COHORTS OF THIS SORRY NEWSPAPER NOT BEHIND BARS ON CHARGES OF TREASON AND AWAITING TRIAL?

The Communist Seema Chisti and her favoured columnist the Anti National Pratap Bhanu Mehta are at it again.

If you read today’s IE you will find his article on centre page. These commies and pseudo seculars have nothing better to do.
Modi is practically saying India is a Hindu country and shall remain so. Personally I feel let us stop this hypocrisy of pseudo secularism. We have had enough of it during the long useless and wasteful rule of the hypocritical Congress. If as time progresses India becomes a Hindu Rashtra, let it be so. As a matter of fact in a true Hindu Rashtra all religions, social and cultural systems will be safe to coexist and prosper, but within the tenets of Hindu philosophy of non violence and tolerance. I am sure once this happens people like Adityanath will no longer require being violent in their approach of protecting their religion and culture looking for extreme measures. So also Islam and Christianity will definitely prosper within their own, without muscling into Hindu culture and Philosophy. If they still try to do so then they will be taken care of by the state, no need of individuals taking the law in their own hands. So by and large if this Congresee idea of tolerance /intolerance is rejected by the people of all religions and cultures in India then Sab ka vikas is sure to follow.

Adityanath, elected five times to the federal parliament from Gorakhpur in eastern Uttar Pradesh, has been magnanimous in victory, pledging to uphold Modi's slogan of 'sabka saath, sabka vikas' ('all together, development for all').

'Everyone who is prejudging the decision is doing it at their own peril - these arguments were also used in the case of Prime Minister Narendra Modi,'
'Almost three years down the line there is no departure from 'sabka saath, sabka vikas'; there is no let up in providing governance and improving delivery to the poorest; and there can be no distinction between citizens on the basis of their faith, region or identity.

Further it is trumpeted that he faces criminal cases including attempted murder; intimidation; promoting religious enmity; defiling a place of worship; rioting; and trespassing on burial places. This is the common chant of pseudo sekulars and commies. So why are the likes of Congresses Sonia bhakts and Communists crying foul when their own brethren 30% of MP’s and more of MLA’s are facing criminal cases of rape, molestation and murder? In fact since Independence Congress has a string of Scams and criminal cases to its name with serious ones attached to the Nehru Gandhi family? If you look closely it starts from Jawahar Lal Nehrus imported jeep scandal for the Army post Independence !!

Adityanath has been elected through a process that has a Constitutional sanctity, and our Constitution is sufficiently resilient to take care of anything that goes against it.

Ours is democracy wherein Hindus are in majority, and the collective will of the majority will naturally prevail. The minorities in India should be thankful for the fair treatment they are receiving in India. Its too early to pre-judge and start calling names. Let him deliver on the people's mandate, till that time hold on to your guns (and yes, your tongues!). The minority-appeasement card has played itself to its eventual death (as evident in the UP elections); let his deliverance as a CM prevail upon the final judgement and not his religious background.

One of his first tasks may be to fulfil an election manifesto pledge and close slaughter-houses that are mostly operated by Muslims. So what is wrong in that? Scientists in western Countries are yelling their heads off to stop beef and meat consumption. Why? In fact meat farming, is one of the most serious causes of emission of Bio gasses and global warming.

Of the 95 million tons of beef produced in the world in 2000 (it has nearly doubled today), the vast majority came from cattle in Latin America, Europe and North America.
1.3 billion tons of grain is consumed by farm animals each year — and nearly all of it is fed to livestock in the developed world and in China and Latin America.

The highest total of livestock-related greenhouse-gas emissions comes from the developing world, which accounts for 75% of the global emissions from cattle and other ruminants and 56% of the global emissions from poultry and pigs.

Above all else, the study underscores that while meat production will need to change in the future, so will meat consumption. It’s difficult to get a full and proper accounting of the total environmental impact of livestock production. A 2006 report from the Food and Agriculture Organisation estimated that livestock were responsible for about 18-25% of human-caused greenhouse gases. So let us reduce or stop meat consumption, it will be good for the earth as well as your heart.

Livestock also serves a different function in the developing world. “Cattle and poultry can be walking banks in the developing world,” says Mario Herrero, an agricultural-systems scientist at CSIRO and a co-author of the paper. “They provide manure to small-holder farmers in addition to many other products without killing them. There’s a tremendous social role for livestock that can’t be ignored.”

At age 44, Adityanath is eight years younger that Amit Shah, the party’s hardliner president, and 22 years younger than Narendra Modi, the prime minister. He is a new type of face among the younger generation of BJP leaders, and presumably could rise to the top if he succeeds in his first task of ensuring that the party does well in the 2019 general election, with UP returning at least if not more than the state’s current 71 MPs, and is then re-elected as chief minister UP in 2022.

The UP victory shows he has now won the support of the poor, who want to move on from the Congress Party’s sops and corrupt aid schemes, mostly named after the Gandhi dynasty, to positive development policies and an attack on the rich and powerful – epitomised (wrongly) in their view by Modi’s demonetisation note-ban project. Why do the likes of Pratap Bhanu Mehtas feel uncomfortable when the word intolerance is linked with Islam? Every time the word 'intolerance/tolerance' is used with respect to Islam and Christianity, it raises the hackles of Congees and Commies.

Actually Islam tolerates nothing, especially other religious groups. Islam undermines and tries to control other ideologies and in the same breath screams out for the same tolerance it refuses to give others. So do the Christians. The Christian missionaries as well as NGO’s who have and are still striving to spread Christianity keep shouting about religious intolerance, when in actual fact successive Congress Governments have given both a free hand to do what they wish. 

When the Hindus start talking of Hindu intolerance in a land where the Hindu population is more than 80%, it gets their goats?

Look at the Attitude of Muslims in any certain area:

0-10%- We are minorities here. Let's live peacefully. No religion teaches hatred. Let's Coexist. We are secular.

10% - 30%- We want special rights. You must safeguard us because we are minorities otherwise you are communal. We want reservations in Govt job and Separate law code.

30-50%:- We want freedom to practice our religious rites even if law of your land doesn't allow it. We have right to practice our religious rites anywhere. If you don't allow, You are a human rights violator.

50%-80%- We are the fastest growing religion. We can't let kafirs to blossom in our land. Allah ho Akbar. We will conquer the whole world. It's Jihad time baby.

80%-100%:- All religions except Islam are blasphemy. Our Lord Allah has instructed to Kill all kafirs until there is no disbelief left. All religions except Islam are banned. Secularism can go to hell. Whole world will be Islamic. Insha Allah.

I am neither a Christian nor an Islam hater. In fact being from the Army I have wined and dined from the same mug and plate with Muslims, Christians and all others. The best times of my life were spent with them. I have trusted my Muslim and Christian brethren with my life. Some of my best and lifelong friends are from among them. Therefore it is my prayer that all religions, cultures and social systems should have a bit of faith on the oldest known way of life which is "Hinduism". It will also be well to believe Adityanath to have enough wisdom and maturity to do what is right. As is rightly said different strokes for different folks and different approaches for different situations.

After reading Mr Pratap Bhanu Mehta's article in the Indian Express today I thought I must comment on it with what I feel.

This is with reference to the Editorial page 8, left hand editorial column of the Indian Express of 18 Feb 2017

Good Morning India.........

People interfering with anti-terror operations in Jammu and Kashmir will be considered anti-nationals and will face action, army chief Bipin Rawat said on Wednesday, acknowledging and adding that the hostile conduct of locals was causing higher casualties in the Valley.

“If they become a problem in our operation and if that causes losses to our soldiers, we will not hesitate to use weapons,” Rawat said in no uncertain terms.

Very blithely the editorial condemns what Gen Rawat said and from it I quote “He speaks for a Nations policy and so must choose his words with care.”
I think this person who wrote the editorial and the one who vetted it has got things wrong, either deliberately or due to sheer knowledge famine, the latter I doubt. The COAS does not have the luxury nor the authority to speak about this Nations Policy. 

This is not Pakistan here, it is India at its best (hic). In this instance he purely speaks his concerns about the Security Forces trying to clean up the poop of Physically, Intellectually, Morally and Emotionally Corrupt Indian politicians and in competent to boot at that, piled up since this country attained its Independence, right from the days of Jawaharlal Nehru. He is neither responsible for what followed since 1947, nor is it his responsibility to lay down policy to clean up the mess. He can only follow the orders of his Political Masters.

So also at the same time, the Chief of the Army Staff, is duty bound first and foremost, as per the oath we all took while passing out from the portals of the Indian Military Academy's Chetwoode Hall, to look after the welfare, the well being and the safety of the men we Command. Specially so when his soldiers are ready to lay down their lives for whatever he stands for, at the drop of the hat. Here the Security of Nation is not involved persey, as this is not a battle against an aggressor enemy across the boarders threatening the integrity of this Nation. If that be so, it would certainly come first. 

I think I would be right to say that resolving any internal threat to this Nations integrity is not the job of the Indian Armed Forces, there are others who have been raised, earmarked and trained for that. If those have failed in their duty, then first take to task those nincompoops responsible for this state of affairs, before you prestitutes start chucking mud balls on our faces.

The COAS cannot morally justify tying back the hands of his troops when they face death and defeat for no fault of theirs. The sooner the nation and the prestitutes understand this fact the better it will be.

The ratio of Indian soldiers getting killed during counter-insurgency procedures to the number of terrorists neutralised are steadily going up. According to data from South Asia Terrorism Portal, 41 soldiers sacrificed their lives in 2015 as opposed to 113 terrorists getting killed. A year later, 88 security force personnel were killed while 165 terrorists were executed. 

In less than two months this year, eight soldiers have already laid down their lives. The number of injured is obviously many more.

In several recent instances, the army has withstood huge interference from civilians acting as cover for the terrorists. That interference frequently lapsed into severe provocation in some situations where soldiers, under siege from terrorists, had to hold their fire due to a battery of local youths forming a cordon and pelting stones and non-lethal missiles at them. This gives enough time for the militants to escape.

On Tuesday a Pakistani terrorist from Lashkar-e-Taiba managed to give security forces the slip at Hajjin in Bandipora. Terrorist sympathisers came out with lathis, rods and threw stones on the security forces. In south Kashmir's Frisal, counter-insurgency forces came under attack from locals so that the terrorists could escape from the hideout.

In another instance, three soldiers faced heavy stone-pelting at Parray Mohalla of Bandipore on Tuesday when they were about to launch an operation, reports Hindustan Times. The terrorists took this chance to fire hand grenades and automatic rifles leaving three troopers dead and some injured.

Lt General Syed Ata Hasnain (retired), former GOC of India’s Srinagar based 15 Corps, explains this relatively new operating procedure of terrorists in his column for Swarajya magazine. He says "paid rabble rousers in villages use the local mosque's public address system and social media to generate a flash mob" as soon as their intelligence networks bring information about an impending army operation.

He writes, "This does three things to the situation: Prevents the army from closing on the target hideout, obviates CRPF from being effective in the cordon, and diverts attention from focus of operations. It makes an already difficult situation far more challenging. Momentary loss of focus leads to casualties as exposure from cover is liable to make troops easier targets."
There are two arms to this asymmetric battle, funded and planned from across the border.

The first part involves, as has been described, pushing through terrorists who take advantage of local support to implement a shoot-and-run strategy. So far, the army has been exercising "maximum restraint" during counter-terrorist operations to avoid civilian casualties. But clearly, this has emboldened the terrorists and resulted in higher fatalities for our security forces.

It is in this context we must place General Rawat's statement on Wednesday.

The Communist Seema Chisti and her Government of India and specially the Indian Army bashing paper and Communist thinking supporter “The Indian Express” virtually appears more and more like a paid prestitute from the wrong side of the International Border.

The government has downgraded the status of military officers compared to their civilian counterparts, a new defence ministry letter.

A civilian principal director, who was equivalent to a brigadier, has been equated to a two-star general, a director-ranked officer to a brigadier and a joint director to a colonel, triggering widespread resentment in military circles.

Until now, a colonel was equivalent to a director and a lieutenant colonel to a joint director.

The letter, dated October 18, talks about rank “equivalence” between defence officers and “armed forces headquarters civil service officers”. It says issues regarding rank equation were examined in detail.

“By this equation, a captain is equivalent to a civilian Group B section officer. This isn’t mischief, but mischief-plus by bureaucrats,” said an army officer on condition of anonymity.

The letter, signed by a joint secretary, says the government has referred to administrative orders issued by the army, navy and air force during 2003-08. Several serving officers HT spoke to said the orders mentioned in the letter were only for internal cadre management.

“They have deliberately misinterpreted the orders. It’s an attempt to reverse clearly established protocols established by successive pay panel reports and court rulings,” said another officer, who did not wish to be named. He said the diktat was also against the spirit of recommendations made by a GoM headed by Pranab Mukherjee after the 6th Pay Commission report.

Good Morning India........
Desperate babu's and the saffron brigade playing with fire. God please forgive these ignoramuses for they do not know what they do. They do not understand on what the Army  soldier runs on. Not on money or I'll gotten wealth but on Izzat (Self Respect and Pride in himself that he is the cream of cream)  and Izzat alone. I hope for the future welfare and well being of this Nation a Modern day Chanakya be born. 

“History does not repeat itself,” it is famously said, “but fools repeat history.” Philosopher-poet George Santayana put it slightly differently when he wrote— “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

CHANAKYA SAID 500 YEARS PLUS AGO:

“Pataliputra reposes each night in peaceful comfort, O King, secure in the belief that the distant borders of Magadha are inviolate and the interiors are safe and secure, thanks only to the Mauryan Army standing vigil with naked swords and eyes peeled for action, day and night, in weather fair and foul, all eight praharas (round the clock), quite unmindful of personal discomfort and hardship, all through the year, year after year.

“While the citizenry of the State contributes to see that the State prospers and flourishes, the soldier guarantees it continues to EXIST as a State! To this man, O Rajadhiraja, you owe a debt: please, therefore, see to it, on your own, that the soldier continuously gets his dues in every form and respect, be they his needs or his wants, for he is not likely to ask for them himself.”

MR MODI PLEASE LISTEN VERY CAREFULLY MR MODI:

Then Kautilya, known also as Chanakya gave his king this blunt warning: “The day the soldier has to demand his dues will be a sad day for Magadha for then, on that day, you will have lost all moral sanction to be King!”

Mr Modi now things have gone way beyond what Chanakya had said. Way Way beyond. Now your blundering babus and the saffron Brigade blunderasses have stamped on the head of the soldier which is nothing but his izzat. The Army Mr. PM can do without money can face all hardships, will lay down their lives for you Mr. Modi, yet they are also capable for laying down their lives for their own IZZAT what ever the consequences.

You Mr. Modi are nearing the day, when you would have lost all moral sanction to be the PM.

For the saffron brigade has already forgotton what their very own loved and admired Lord krishna, and the Gita said 

यदा यदा हि धर्मस्य ग्लानिर्भवति भारत ।
अभ्युत्थानमधर्मस्य तदात्मानं सृजाम्यहम् ॥४-७॥

परित्राणाय साधूनां विनाशाय च दुष्कृताम् ।
धर्मसंस्थापनार्थाय सम्भवामि युगे युगे ॥४-८॥

The verse in Roman script—
Yada yada hi dharmasya glanirbhavati bharata
Abhythanamadharmasya tadatmanam srijamyaham

Paritranaya sadhunang vinashay cha dushkritam
Dharmasangsthapanarthay sambhabami yuge yuge

The meaning of these two slokas is:

Whenever there is decay of righteousness, O Bharata,
And there is exaltation of unrighteousness, then I Myself come forth ;

For the protection of the good, for the destruction of evil-doers,
For the sake of firmly establishing righteousness, I am born from age to age.

Whenever virtue subsides and immorality prevails, then I body Myself forth. For the protection of the good, for the destruction of the wicked, and for the establishment of Dharma, I come into being, in every age." Whenever the world goes down, the Lord comes to help it forward; and so He does from time to time and place to place.

Life is short, but the soul is immortal and eternal, and one thing being certain, death, let us therefore take up a great ideal and give up our whole life to it. Let this be our determination, and may He, the Lord, who "comes again and again for the salvation of His own people", to quote from our scriptures — may the great Krishna bless us and lead us all to the fulfilment of our aims.