Holding the 10-day, Rs 20,000 crore-jamboree reflects a misplaced sense of pride and distortion of national priorities. If not on development of a chronically poor nation, the money could have been well spent on bringing basic sports to every mohalla and panchayat
Justice A P Shah, the best judge the Supreme Court never had, released a few days ago a sober, deeply researched, fact-based indictment of the Commonwealth Games by the Housing and Land Rights Network devastating precisely because it is so understated. The report has been met with thundering silence by the same media that is driving itself ballistic over the Bhopal gas tragedy verdict although the Rs 20,000 plus crore being spent on the Commonwealth Games extravaganza would have been more than adequate to compensate the victims of Bhopal beyond their wildest dreams.
My fundamental objection to the Games is the distortion it has introduced in national priorities and our sense of social justice, that privileges a spectacular Games, as the Prime Minister has assured the nation, over a spectacular reduction in child malnutrition running at 47 per cent of children under five. Is it fair that thousands of the poorest families entering the national capital migrant workers fleeing desperate poverty in the rural hinterland should suffer their shanty town on the right bank of the Yamuna being destroyed overnight in the environmental interests of protecting the unimpeded flow of the sewer we call Delhis principal river while promoting the Akshardham temple and now the Commonwealth Games Village on the left bank of the same river, ironically almost exactly opposite the demolished slum of Yamuna Pushta? In Gandhis India, does anything go in the name of God and Mammon?
And why, in the name of that same God and Mammon, the Commonwealth Games for the most prosperous part of the most prosperous city in India â.? the posh heart of New Delhi? The Commonwealth Games in Manchester were leveraged to rejuvenate the utterly rundown eastern section of the city where every family had undergone unemployment for at least a generation and some for two or three. Now, Walmart has its largest global store, employing 18,000 boys and girls, and Microsoft its European headquarters, in East Manchester thanks to the fillip given by the Games. Consequently, the 2012 Olympic Games are designed for the â.˛spectacular development of the 10 most underdeveloped counties of the Lea Valley on the far fringes of London.
Why then was the spectacular development of Bawana on the poverty-ridden edges of the capital not picked up, as originally proposed, for our Commonwealth Games? Indeed, why not the Games in Dantewada â.? which could well do with a Rs 20,000 crore-bonanza to cock a snook at the Maoists? Only because the partyhopping glitterati of the Organising Committee would not know poverty from plum pudding. They rate the Games as a party for themselves and their ilk not the dirty, filthy, evilsmelling aam admi of the real Bharat.
Let me enter a declaration of interest. As an officer of the Indian Foreign Service, I paid Rs 3 lakh for a flat in the Mayur Vihar complex. The Commonwealth Metro has increased its market value to over a crore while smashing to smithereens over 40 slum colonies, several in the immediate vicinity of Mayur Vihar, and driving the most wretched of the wretched our beggars off the streets so that no foreign visitor to the Games goes away with the wrong impression that 836 million Indians live on under Rs 20 a day, and 239 million of them on less than even a tenner (reference: the Arjun Sengupta Committee report). Whom are we trying to kid: the videshi mleccha or ourselves?
And what kind of an impression of our degradation will that same foreign visitor whose delicate eyes have been shielded from the gross reality of our poverty carry when he finds himself solicited at every Games corner by escort agency pimps offering desi maal at cut rates?
This national shame began when the Indian Olympics Committee hoodwinked Atal Bihari Vajpayee in May 2003 into authorising an Indian bid on the solemn assurance that the Organising Committee would require no more than a loan of Rs 150 crore of public money all of which would be reimbursed to the exchequer from ticket sale proceeds, sponsorships and advertisements. In the event, for the opening and closing ceremonies alone, the sanction has soared to nearly Rs 400 crore, and the total advance to upward of Rs 1,600 core a cost escalation of a thousand per cent, and still counting! Meanwhile, ticket sales on the opening day, announced in screaming headlines next morning, have crossed Rs 20 lakh. At this dramatic rate, it will be close to the 22nd century before the Organising Committee even begins to discharge its debt to the country.
And, of course, the innocent Vajpayee did not care to ask what the infrastructure expense would be. So sanction was given without a khota paisa being set aside for Games venues, flyovers and underpasses, shiny new airports, metro lines from nowhere to nowhere, and what not. No one knows or, at any rate, tells what that infrastructure expenditure might amount to: the most modest estimate is upwards of Rs 20,000 crore and the wildest printed estimate suggests Rs 60,000 crore.
And for the privilege of spending this humungous sum (on, inter alia, relaying pavements on the best pavemented roads of Lutyens Delhi!), Vajpayee, on the telephone, in the middle of the Indian night, agreed to the Indian delegation at Montego Bay offering an incentive of $100,000 to every Commonwealth country Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand included to train their participants. Would I be inviting defamation charges in calling this sweetener a bribe?
When the government changed, we could and should have revised our offer to host the Games, or at least put a lid on what government would spend. Instead, the same finance ministry and Planning Commission which solemnly reminded us that we are a poor country when Rs 600 crore was sought to finance gram nyayalayas to bring justice to the doorstep of the poor became completely open-handed in meeting every demand of the Organising Committee and every estimate of the infrastructure implementation agencies. Why? Why are we like this, only?
Just one reason: false prestige, a belief that we can earn standing in the international community by financing a 10-day sports circus while retaining the position we have held on the UN Human Development Index for the last 15 years position no. 134 (almost the same as we would have held in medal tallies if the number of Commonwealth countries was 134).
Poor, poor Mahatma Gandhi, who said the India of my dreams is an India in which the poor of India will be the focus of public attention and every Indian, however poor, will feel he is a participant in the building of new India. Go, tell that to the tribals of Abujmarh and perhaps they will tell their Naxal cousins.
Our middle class and our political class are so committed to these false values, this loot of the moral legacy of our Freedom Movement, that not even the ticking of the adding machine could stop the relentless forward movement of the expenditure clock.
As minister of sports, I tried to stop it and found myself in a minority of one. I was soon out on my ear. The Planning Commission, which was not even squinting at the Organising Committees demand for Rs 6,000 crore for a 10-day tamasha, found itself unable to agree to the same sum being spent over 10 years on bringing basic sports facilities to every panchayat and every mohalla of this viciously poor nation.
China not only hosted the Olympics, it also picked up the highest number of medals because their sports authorities first ensured that every Chinese child plays sports and games and thus widens to the full the net which catches the top-rung talent. We do next to nothing about bringing our children in the sporting net and, therefore, show up our comic side when medals are announced.
The only good that will come out of the Commonwealth Games would be a decision to never again bid for such games until every Indian child gets a minimum to eat, an assured basic education and a playground with trained coaches to discover the sportsperson in himself or herself. That, alas, is no part of our self-satisfied middle class dream for India which is why the Maoist is knocking at our gates.
Mani Shankar Aiyar
Friday, June 25, 2010
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Komatireddy Venkat Reddy - a fraud
Komatireddy Venkat Reddy, IT Minister of Andhra Pradesh, has been proclaiming himself as a B.Tech graduate from CBIT. Well, he is not. He joined CBIT to pursue civil engineering in 1982 and was a student until 1990. Even in 1990, he did not clear all his subjects and never obtained a degree.
There is nothing wrong in pursuing a degree for that long. But it is definitely wrong to claim himself as an engineer when in fact he is not. The issue takes more prominence as the person in question is an MLA and a cabinet minister.
In a TV9 interview, when asked whether he was indeed an engineer or not his answer was “I wrote the backlogs and due to being busy with business consignments and politics, I forgot about them”. The who-is-who published by the 13th legislative assembly also identifies Komatireddy Venkat Reddy as an engineer. When asked about whether he should have requested for a correction, his answer was “I forgot”.
Even the previous chief minister, Y.S.Rajashekar Reddy, chose him for jalayagnam consultations based on his qualifications. When all other parties were choosing engineers to represent them, Komatireddy was chosen by YSR to represent congress. When somebody who has this type of credentials is involved in consultations for a project as prestigious as jalayagnam, we should definitely be worried. He was also appointed as the IT minister by YSR solely because he was an engineer.
It is evident that he has been fooling everybody about his qualifications. Unfortunately, even now the state government will not take any action against him. He continues to be the IT and Sports minister of Andhra Pradesh.
There is nothing wrong in pursuing a degree for that long. But it is definitely wrong to claim himself as an engineer when in fact he is not. The issue takes more prominence as the person in question is an MLA and a cabinet minister.
In a TV9 interview, when asked whether he was indeed an engineer or not his answer was “I wrote the backlogs and due to being busy with business consignments and politics, I forgot about them”. The who-is-who published by the 13th legislative assembly also identifies Komatireddy Venkat Reddy as an engineer. When asked about whether he should have requested for a correction, his answer was “I forgot”.
Even the previous chief minister, Y.S.Rajashekar Reddy, chose him for jalayagnam consultations based on his qualifications. When all other parties were choosing engineers to represent them, Komatireddy was chosen by YSR to represent congress. When somebody who has this type of credentials is involved in consultations for a project as prestigious as jalayagnam, we should definitely be worried. He was also appointed as the IT minister by YSR solely because he was an engineer.
It is evident that he has been fooling everybody about his qualifications. Unfortunately, even now the state government will not take any action against him. He continues to be the IT and Sports minister of Andhra Pradesh.
Jalayagnam beneficiary - Mr. Komatireddy Venkat Reddy, Minister in AP Government
Komatireddy Venkat Reddy has a front company called Sushee Hi-tech which is a prime contractor in the Jalayagnam projects. He has cornered more than Rs. 1000 crores worth of projects through this front company. No wonder he is supporting Mr.Ponnala Lakshmaiah.
Naidu showed YSR how to make money the easy way
Chandrababu Naidu screamed his lungs out about YSR's corruption and he still is screaming about corruption in the congress party. Back when he was chief minister, he had his share of loot. Here is what the late YSR had to say:
Dr. Rajasekhara Reddy made a frontal attack on Mr. Chandrababu Naidu for alleged corrupt practices, often quoting a report carried recently by a website titled ``Andhra CM Chandrababu Naidu: richest politician in India,'' the gist of which was subsequently published by The Statesman. Amidst wild Telugu Desam protests, he declared that Mr. Naidu's was a glaring case of ``disproportionate assets to known sources of income'' meriting a CBI probe. He stated that Mr. Naidu, while being in power as Chief Minister, amassed wealth to the tune of Rs. 2,000 crores, and spent Rs. 3 crores each in the Badvel and Giddalur by- elections.
Dr. Reddy gave a long list of assets purported to have been acquired by the Chief Minister through ``corrupt means'' and they included 120 acres of land at Hitech city and an orchard at Madhapur, both in Hyderabad, a shopping mall in Malaysia, a hotel in Singapore, 100 acres of land at Gopalpur in Orissa, a nursery of synthetic pearls run with technology from a Central institute in Visakhapatnam, and 45 acres on Hosur road, near Bangalore, which was planned for his corporate office, another unit of his Heritage Foods and a fruit pulp factory.
He alleged that all these acquisitions were made through corrupt means, recalling that Mr. Naidu himself had specified Rs. 36,000 as his sole income from agriculture in an affidavit filed before the High Court in 1989 while dealing with a petition filed by Mr. P. Changal Reddy, and took the same to Rs. 20 crores in 1994 disclosing his assets before the Legislature Secretary. Could a person increase his income to Rs. 20 crores within five years he questioned, amidst desk-thumping by Congress members. The Congress floor leader alleged that "crores changed hands" for giving licences to short-gestation power plants and for allowing IMFL trade at rates higher than those in Karnataka.
The Congress leader quoted the Chief Minister as saying to his Cabinet colleagues last year that ``our influence at the Centre remains undamaged with whoever is in power,'' and said, the Chief Minister developed a clout at the Centre and learnt the art of ``manipulating and managing everybody.'' He mentioned about Mr. Naidu having some ``financial advisers,'' including chairmen of a financial consultancy firm and Global Trust Bank with the latter extending ``advances'' to the Telugu Desam for electoral purposes. He said because of such nexus, the GTB vouched for Andhra Pradesh Government to the tune of Rs. 151 crores on three different occasions, quoting an internal memo issued by the Reserve Bank of India. He also alleged that Mr. Naidu had a "vested interest" in shifting Government funds from State Bank of Hyderabad to UTI Bank and GTB at different points of time, denying the benefit to Andhra Bank which, in fact, was serving people in several ways.
Dr. Rajasekhara Reddy made a frontal attack on Mr. Chandrababu Naidu for alleged corrupt practices, often quoting a report carried recently by a website titled ``Andhra CM Chandrababu Naidu: richest politician in India,'' the gist of which was subsequently published by The Statesman. Amidst wild Telugu Desam protests, he declared that Mr. Naidu's was a glaring case of ``disproportionate assets to known sources of income'' meriting a CBI probe. He stated that Mr. Naidu, while being in power as Chief Minister, amassed wealth to the tune of Rs. 2,000 crores, and spent Rs. 3 crores each in the Badvel and Giddalur by- elections.
Dr. Reddy gave a long list of assets purported to have been acquired by the Chief Minister through ``corrupt means'' and they included 120 acres of land at Hitech city and an orchard at Madhapur, both in Hyderabad, a shopping mall in Malaysia, a hotel in Singapore, 100 acres of land at Gopalpur in Orissa, a nursery of synthetic pearls run with technology from a Central institute in Visakhapatnam, and 45 acres on Hosur road, near Bangalore, which was planned for his corporate office, another unit of his Heritage Foods and a fruit pulp factory.
He alleged that all these acquisitions were made through corrupt means, recalling that Mr. Naidu himself had specified Rs. 36,000 as his sole income from agriculture in an affidavit filed before the High Court in 1989 while dealing with a petition filed by Mr. P. Changal Reddy, and took the same to Rs. 20 crores in 1994 disclosing his assets before the Legislature Secretary. Could a person increase his income to Rs. 20 crores within five years he questioned, amidst desk-thumping by Congress members. The Congress floor leader alleged that "crores changed hands" for giving licences to short-gestation power plants and for allowing IMFL trade at rates higher than those in Karnataka.
The Congress leader quoted the Chief Minister as saying to his Cabinet colleagues last year that ``our influence at the Centre remains undamaged with whoever is in power,'' and said, the Chief Minister developed a clout at the Centre and learnt the art of ``manipulating and managing everybody.'' He mentioned about Mr. Naidu having some ``financial advisers,'' including chairmen of a financial consultancy firm and Global Trust Bank with the latter extending ``advances'' to the Telugu Desam for electoral purposes. He said because of such nexus, the GTB vouched for Andhra Pradesh Government to the tune of Rs. 151 crores on three different occasions, quoting an internal memo issued by the Reserve Bank of India. He also alleged that Mr. Naidu had a "vested interest" in shifting Government funds from State Bank of Hyderabad to UTI Bank and GTB at different points of time, denying the benefit to Andhra Bank which, in fact, was serving people in several ways.
GHMC Corruption Saga - Crores of assets unearthed from GHMC town planner
The Anti-Corruption Bureau(ACB) officials have unearthed disproportionate assets worth many crores, allegdly belonging to a town planning supervisor here on Tuesday.
The ACB registered a case of disproportionate assets against Mr R.E. Nageswara Rao, the town planning supervisor (assistant city planner)at the office of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC), and conducted simulatneous searches at different places covering his office, residence and unearthed movable and immovable assets possessed by him in his name and in the names of his family members worth about Rs 1 crore.
The immovable assets include one house, twelve house plots,three commercial shops, 11.11 acres of agricultural land and a farm house, according to a ACB release.
The searches also unearthed Rs 2.17 lakhs in cash,and gold ornaments and other house hold articles.
The searches are in progress and the case is under investigation, the release added.
The ACB registered a case of disproportionate assets against Mr R.E. Nageswara Rao, the town planning supervisor (assistant city planner)at the office of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC), and conducted simulatneous searches at different places covering his office, residence and unearthed movable and immovable assets possessed by him in his name and in the names of his family members worth about Rs 1 crore.
The immovable assets include one house, twelve house plots,three commercial shops, 11.11 acres of agricultural land and a farm house, according to a ACB release.
The searches also unearthed Rs 2.17 lakhs in cash,and gold ornaments and other house hold articles.
The searches are in progress and the case is under investigation, the release added.
GHMC Corruption Saga - Navin Mittal Corruption
The state government on Friday ordered chief commissioner of land (CCLA) Pankaj Dwivedi to probe allegations of corruption against GHMC special commissioner Navin Mittal.
The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), despite being on the Mittal trail for long, has been unable to raid the officer as he is alleged to be close to a VVIP in the current political dispensation.
But a probe became inevitable after elected representatives from Hyderabad, cutting across party line, sought strong action, highly placed sources said. Mittal, an IAS officer of the 1996 batch, served as Hyderabad collector from March 24, 2008 till April 06, 2010.
The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), despite being on the Mittal trail for long, has been unable to raid the officer as he is alleged to be close to a VVIP in the current political dispensation.
But a probe became inevitable after elected representatives from Hyderabad, cutting across party line, sought strong action, highly placed sources said. Mittal, an IAS officer of the 1996 batch, served as Hyderabad collector from March 24, 2008 till April 06, 2010.
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
YS JAGAN BUILDING HUGE PALACE ON 1 ACRE OF LAND IN BANJARA HILLS - LOTUS POND
Younis Sultan, who was the MLA candidate for Congress from Khammam district, gave his site to Jagan in return for his MLA ticket. This site along with others is where Jagan is spending his ill gotten wealth on.
The Kadapa MP, Mr Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, will shift his base from Bengaluru to the city permanently.
Sources said the decision was made, as the schooling of Mr Jagan Mohan Reddy’s daughters — Harshini and Varshini — is over.
A mansion is being built for him in a one acre land near Lotus Pond in Jubilee Hills. The construction is expected to be completed in six months.
Close associates say he will focus more on state politics. Mr Jagan Mohan Reddy will embark from West Godavari on a state tour from April 2.
Sources also say Mr Jagan Mohan Reddy, who plans to build a good rapport with the Chief Minister, Mr K. Rosaiah, plans to invite him to dinner at his present residence in Sagar Society.
On Saturday, four MLAs from Kadapa — staunch supporters of Mr Jagan Mohan Reddy — met Mr Rosaiah and requested him to consider his dinner invitation. The Chief Minister reportedly told them that he had no objection but is yet to get an invitation.
The MLAs also told the Chief Minister that some leaders were trying to create a rift between him and Mr Jagan Mohan Reddy.
Mr Jagan Mohan Reddy has not met Mr Rosaiah since the latter’s becoming the Chief Minister despite his mentor, Mr K.V.P. Ramachandra Rao’s telling him to pay Mr Rosaiah a courtesy call.
YSR & YS Jagan corruption is valued as Rs 78,000 Crores
It took some decades for TATA,RELIANCE,BAJAJ,INFOSYS,WIPRO,ADITYA GROUP and many more corporate houses in India to become Billion Dollar Companies .
But For our YSR Family & Co it took Just 4.5 Years to become Emperor for Rs 78000 crore corrupted Kingdom.
Andhra Pradesh Annual Budget for 2008-2009 is Rs 1,00,000 Crores ............. YSR Family Market Capitalization is 78000 Crores
1 Family ==1 State .
The share Value of NTPC (23000MW capacity) is 290Rs........ The share Value of YS Jagan's Sandoor Power (22.50 MW Capacity) is Rs 675........ Its the time for Financial Institutions & Market experts to learn from YSR Family & Co .
The Market Capitalization of Jagathi Publications(Mother of Saakshi Daily & TV channel) is worth of Rs 3600 crores ........Its the Magic of Yuvaraja YS Jagan Mohan Reddy .
In 1956 power generation capacity of AP is 213 MW........ It took 53 years to increase the Capacity to 12500 MW.......... In Bihar Still it is 4000 MW only ............ But Athena Energy (One More Company from YSR's family & Started 2 yrs back) is planning to Generate 14000 MW with in 7years , again its the Magic of YSR Family & Co. Corporate World Should learn lessons from YSR&Family for reaching this much heights within short time.
In Raghuram cements YS Jagan Mohan Reddy share was 45 crores when he purchased. With in Few years it was renamed as Bharathi Cements and the share value increased to 6500 Crores.......What an idea Sir ji !!!
If we call the RS 5000 crores fraud in Satyam Computers as India’s Biggest Financial scam ....what is the name we can use for 78000 crore scam done by YSR Family & Co ....... No body can dare to name it, Thus YSR & YS JAGAN have prooved they are best in corruption .
Long Live YSR , Long Live YS Jagan Mohan Reddy ... LONG LIVE CONGRESS CORRUPTION .
But For our YSR Family & Co it took Just 4.5 Years to become Emperor for Rs 78000 crore corrupted Kingdom.
Andhra Pradesh Annual Budget for 2008-2009 is Rs 1,00,000 Crores ............. YSR Family Market Capitalization is 78000 Crores
1 Family ==1 State .
The share Value of NTPC (23000MW capacity) is 290Rs........ The share Value of YS Jagan's Sandoor Power (22.50 MW Capacity) is Rs 675........ Its the time for Financial Institutions & Market experts to learn from YSR Family & Co .
The Market Capitalization of Jagathi Publications(Mother of Saakshi Daily & TV channel) is worth of Rs 3600 crores ........Its the Magic of Yuvaraja YS Jagan Mohan Reddy .
In 1956 power generation capacity of AP is 213 MW........ It took 53 years to increase the Capacity to 12500 MW.......... In Bihar Still it is 4000 MW only ............ But Athena Energy (One More Company from YSR's family & Started 2 yrs back) is planning to Generate 14000 MW with in 7years , again its the Magic of YSR Family & Co. Corporate World Should learn lessons from YSR&Family for reaching this much heights within short time.
In Raghuram cements YS Jagan Mohan Reddy share was 45 crores when he purchased. With in Few years it was renamed as Bharathi Cements and the share value increased to 6500 Crores.......What an idea Sir ji !!!
If we call the RS 5000 crores fraud in Satyam Computers as India’s Biggest Financial scam ....what is the name we can use for 78000 crore scam done by YSR Family & Co ....... No body can dare to name it, Thus YSR & YS JAGAN have prooved they are best in corruption .
Long Live YSR , Long Live YS Jagan Mohan Reddy ... LONG LIVE CONGRESS CORRUPTION .
BOTSA leads the liquor mafia
The corruption and the illegalities of the Congress ministers are seeing light day by day. After Ponnala Lakshmaiah, Danam Nagendar etc, it is the turn of another minister, Botsa Satyanarayana, to face the heat.
Apparently Botsa is leading a 'liquor mafia' in the North Andhra regions where all the liquor shop owners have to sell liquor at around 40% more than the MRP. And if anyone sells the liquor for less, then the minister and his men makes sure that the shop is targeted.
Ask anyone in Vizag about Botsa and his past and they will tell you that he was a "broker"!
And the excise people dont dare to target the shops for selling at higher prices, since they have the full support of the minister.
Well, there is atleast one good thing out of all this. Atleast few people would desist from drinking due to high prices while the minister gets his share from the excess money that the shops get for selling the liquor at prices more than the MRP!!
Once upon a time people used to abhor the liquor contractors and owners but times have changed now the society considers liquor business as a profitable and prestigious profession.What a change in the mindset!
Apparently Botsa is leading a 'liquor mafia' in the North Andhra regions where all the liquor shop owners have to sell liquor at around 40% more than the MRP. And if anyone sells the liquor for less, then the minister and his men makes sure that the shop is targeted.
Ask anyone in Vizag about Botsa and his past and they will tell you that he was a "broker"!
And the excise people dont dare to target the shops for selling at higher prices, since they have the full support of the minister.
Well, there is atleast one good thing out of all this. Atleast few people would desist from drinking due to high prices while the minister gets his share from the excess money that the shops get for selling the liquor at prices more than the MRP!!
Once upon a time people used to abhor the liquor contractors and owners but times have changed now the society considers liquor business as a profitable and prestigious profession.What a change in the mindset!
REAL REASON for RANT against Ponnala
Today the senior Congress leaders including Palvai Govardhan Reddy, Gutta Sukhendar Reddy etc met the AP governor, Narasimhan and explained him the massive corruption being promoted by the irrigation minister Ponnala Lakshmaiah.
The leaders informed on how the minister amassed properties worth more than 2000 crores by indulging in corruption.
But why are the Congress leaders revealing about the illegalities of the minister now, after keeping mum on the issue for many years?
Sources say that last month, Gutta Sukhendar Reddy and others recommended a contractor to the minister. But the minister himself was promoting his own set of contractors and indulging in corruption.
After their 'request' was rejected, the senior Congress leaders ganged up and vowed to not to rest till the minister is shunted from the ministry.
In turn the Congress leaders are exposing the level of corruption that exists in the YSR and the Rosaiah's cabinet.
The leaders informed on how the minister amassed properties worth more than 2000 crores by indulging in corruption.
But why are the Congress leaders revealing about the illegalities of the minister now, after keeping mum on the issue for many years?
Sources say that last month, Gutta Sukhendar Reddy and others recommended a contractor to the minister. But the minister himself was promoting his own set of contractors and indulging in corruption.
After their 'request' was rejected, the senior Congress leaders ganged up and vowed to not to rest till the minister is shunted from the ministry.
In turn the Congress leaders are exposing the level of corruption that exists in the YSR and the Rosaiah's cabinet.
Congress demands action against their own party man - Ponnala Lakshmiah
Internal differences within the ruling the Congress in Andhra Pradesh came to the fore on Sunday with a group of senior leaders and MPs demanding the resignation of the state irrigation minister, Mr Ponnala Lakshmaiah, for the alleged irregularities in irrigation projects.
"Minister Lakshmaiah should be held responsible for various irregularities. He should immediately resign. IAS officer, Mr C.V.S.K. Sarma, the former secretary in the irrigation department, is now in the Chief Minister's Office. Mr Sarma should take 100 per cent responsibility of the irregularities," Ms Palvai Govardhan Reddy, a senior Congress leader, said.
Several MPs and other leaders from Telangana region held a meeting at Mr Govardhan Reddy's residence on Sunday.
Mr Lakshmaiah, who also hails from Telangana, has been the irrigation minister since Congress assumed power under the leadership of the late chief minister, Y.S.R. Reddy, in 2004.
Nalgonda MP, Mr G. Sukhender Reddy, said he and his colleagues would meet the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, and party president, Mrs Sonia Gandhi, to apprise them about the alleged corruption in the irrigation projects.
He demanded a change in the design of Polavaram irrigation project in coastal Andhra to "save the lives of hundreds of people in the region and to prevent submergence in Telangana". (More) PTI
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Goondaism of congress minister from Hyderabad
A businessman on Saturday complained to the police alleging that the Minister , MR. D. N. , was harassing him.
One Mr Rami Reddy, a builder, has lodged a complaint against the minister with the Banjara Hills police station stating that the minister was threatening and harassing him. The police have registered a case and taken up investigation.
Meanwhile, it is learnt that the issue figured in the Cabinet meeting on Saturday, leading to an argument between the Home Minister, Mr. N. . According to information, Ms IR lamented that the police was being made to register criminal cases even against the ministers.
Reacting sharply, Mr N is believed to have told the Home Minister that it would be better if she verified facts before talking about him. However, the issue was quickly subsided with the interference of other ministers.
It is a well known fact that Mr. D. N. is a goonda and was the lackey of the late Mr. P. Janardhan Reddy.
One Mr Rami Reddy, a builder, has lodged a complaint against the minister with the Banjara Hills police station stating that the minister was threatening and harassing him. The police have registered a case and taken up investigation.
Meanwhile, it is learnt that the issue figured in the Cabinet meeting on Saturday, leading to an argument between the Home Minister, Mr. N. . According to information, Ms IR lamented that the police was being made to register criminal cases even against the ministers.
Reacting sharply, Mr N is believed to have told the Home Minister that it would be better if she verified facts before talking about him. However, the issue was quickly subsided with the interference of other ministers.
It is a well known fact that Mr. D. N. is a goonda and was the lackey of the late Mr. P. Janardhan Reddy.
GHMC Mayor and corporators
It is a well known fact that politicians spend huge amounts of money for getting elected and then they recover that "investment" from the general public with a huge return. The modus operandi of the mayor and corporators in Hyderabad is they extort money from new constructions houses, apartment complexes, and commercial complexes. Their job is not to see how the common is being affected by lack of municipal facilities but to extort money from hard working tax payers.
The mayor and other women corporators are just mouth pieces of their husbands. It is a well known fact that the husbands go to their wives offices and run things in their lieu. An example ->
"The Mayor observed that husbands of all women corporators in GHMC had come to the Corporation meeting and her husband was one among them. Apart from accompanying her, he did not interfere with any of the official matters.
Secunderabad MLA Jayasudha alleged that the Mayor’s husband, Banda Chandra Reddy, had interfered with the constitution of ward committees in her constituency and threatened to complain to the party high command on that matter."
The mayor and other women corporators are just mouth pieces of their husbands. It is a well known fact that the husbands go to their wives offices and run things in their lieu. An example ->
"The Mayor observed that husbands of all women corporators in GHMC had come to the Corporation meeting and her husband was one among them. Apart from accompanying her, he did not interfere with any of the official matters.
Secunderabad MLA Jayasudha alleged that the Mayor’s husband, Banda Chandra Reddy, had interfered with the constitution of ward committees in her constituency and threatened to complain to the party high command on that matter."
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
A voice against corruption
My fellow citizens. I started writing this blog out of disgust to the level of corruption that I see in day to day Indian society and how immune people have become towards it. It has become a way of life for the Indian bureaucrat and politician. It has become accepted by society and has somehow become honorable to be corrupt. Politicians and bureaucrats are judged to be great on how corrupt they are.
This is my way of venting my anger and frustration of this society. Please join me by writing your own blogs or sending me comments on how you are being affected by corruption.
This is my way of venting my anger and frustration of this society. Please join me by writing your own blogs or sending me comments on how you are being affected by corruption.
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