Women Don’t Feel Safe in Delhi: Sheila Dikshit

A day after a man brutally assaulted a young girl who resisted rape attempt, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit today targeted Delhi Police once again, saying women do not feel safe here and “fears have risen” following the incident.

“Women don’t feel safe in Delhi. There is no feeling of security. What had happened yesterday in Lajpat Nagar is shocking. Fears have risen after the incident,” Dikshit said when asked to comment on the incident.

In yet another shocking incident, an electrician allegedly assaulted a young girl brutally in South Delhi’s Lajpat Nagar by shoving an iron rod into her throat when she resisted his attempt to rape her. The girl, a college student, was alone at home when Anil Kumar, 26, had forced his way into the house and tried to rape her.

Police arrested the man on charges of attempt to murder and rape while the girl is admitted to a private hospital where her condition was stated to be critical. The incident came less then two months after the December 16 gangrape of a 23-year-old which had triggred massive public outrage across the country.

Dikshit said her government would do everything possible to address safety concerns of women. A number of steps have already been taken in this regard, she said.

“When we talk about security, we know police is there. But there is no satisfaction about security which should be there,” the Chief Minister said.

“My government will do everything possible to provide a conducive atmosphere for women in the city,” she added.

Dikshit had been critical of functioning of Delhi Police and demanded the resignation of Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar in the wake of the gang-rape incident.

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Delhi government had last week sent a letter to Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde accusing the police of “completely deviating” from its core duties and “trivialising” the issue of safety of women. The Delhi Police functions under Home Ministry and reports to Lt Governor Tejendra Khanna.

Reacting sharply to Dikshit’s comments today, CPI(M) leader Brinda Karat criticised her, wondering what the Chief Minister was doing to instill confidence in women.

“She (Dikshit) is admitting that women are not secure in Delhi. Then what is her responsibility as Chief Minister? Where is the principle of accountability”? said Karat.

“Women security issue has become a political football between the state and central government. The Chief Minister blames the police. The central government defends the police. This is what is happening in Delhi. I think it is a shame,” Karat said.

10 punch lines from #NaMo’s speech at SRCC

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday pitched the state’s model of growth and governance. Modi said that vote bank politics has spoilt the country and emphasised the need for good governance to make India globally competitive.

According to Modi all three major sectors of the economy viz., agriculture, industry and services should be given equal importance for development. This, he said, helps in overall development.

Here is a look at ten choicest punch-lines from his speech:

Nation of Mouse charmers

Mouse charmers: The youth of the nation has its finger on the mouse of computers and is changing the world. India’s journey has gone from snake charmers to mouse charmers!

Ignoring protests outside, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today used a college platform to project himself nationally saying his focus was on development politics and not that of vote-bank, which he said has “ruined” the nation.

India has a huge growth opportunity

“The ambassador of a nation asked me what major challenges India faces and I said the biggest one is that how we use opportunity. When asked what the opportunity was, I said the youth. Europe buddha ho chuka hai, China budha ho chuka hai.”

According to Modi India has a huge growth opportunity in the form of youth.

“Our country is not poor. We have vast resources, see eastern India is full of them. But we are unable to use that. We are unable to utilise the opportunity,” Modi said.

P2G2: Pro-people, good governance

“We need P2G2. Pro-People Good governance“: Pitching for the role of ‘good governance’, Modi said that the people of the country have sunk into an overwhelming state of pessimism.

“Even after six decades of freedom, the nation awaits good governance,” Modi said.

Speaking in Hindi on ‘Emerging business models in the global scenario’, Modi said the nation can progress by following ‘Gujarat model’ based on P2G2 (Pro-people good governance) principle.

Youth: New-age power

Youth ‘new-age power’, not ‘new-age voter’ alone. Youth have changed the way India is perceived today. Modi stressed the role of youth in the development of the nation.

His extempore speech was telecast live by news channels. “I am Chief Minister for a fourth term and based on my experience, with the same law, same Constitution, same rules and regulations, same officers, same people, same files, we can move forward. We can do a lot. I am confident that we can change things,” he said.

The glass is always full!

“I believe that the glass is full. One half with water and the other half with air.” There is despondency all over country but I am confident we can change the situation.

Picking up a glass of water, he said an optimist would say the glass is half full, while a pessimist would say it is half empty.

“I have a third point of view. For me the glass is always full — half with water and half with air. We can turn over the situation,” he said.

Milk in Delhi is from Gujarat

There must be no one in the audience who has chai without doodh from Gujarat in it. All the milk in Delhi is from Gujarat. Milk in Singapore is from Gujarat, Okra in Europe is from Gujarat.

Stating that the state’s agricultural sector has exhibited growth, Modi said, “If you go to Afghanistan, the people there have tomatoes that come from Gujarat.” Further talking about the development of the state, Modi said that the milk in Singapore and the ‘bhindi’ in Europe come from Gujarat.

Minimum government, maximum governance

Minimum government, maximum governance – this is my philosophy.

“This nation is being ruined by vote bank politics. This nation requires development politics. If we switch to politics of development, we will soon be in a position to bring about lasting change and progress,” Modi said.

“People feel nothing would change here. All are thieves, everything they do is waste. People consider it a curse to be born in India. They want to leave the country soon after completing their studies,” Modi said delivering the Shri Ram Memorial Oration.

Why not export teachers?

A businessman who goes abroad only captures dollars but a teacher influences a whole generation, said Modi while emphasising the need for education and promoting teaching as a vocation.

“We have created a university for teachers. I say we have so much youth and export so much, why not export teachers?”

Citing Gujarat’s mantra of success that can be emulated by the country for speedy progress, he said the focus should be on the manufacturing sector by making zero-defect products with good packaging.

Re-invent Made in India

Why shouldn’t we make the ‘Made in India’ tag a statement of quality for our manufactured products?,” he questioned.

Modi said there is a need to build the ‘Made in India’ brand. He drew a parallel between the credibility of a ‘Made in Japan’ tag and expressed the wish to have India reach such a level some day.

“The whole world says 21st century is India’s century. Some say it is Asia’s century, while some also say it is China’s century. I am confident that 21st century can be India’s century as knowledge is supreme,” he said.

Delhi’s Metro, Gujarat’s Coach!

Some years ago I launched a product which is now a part of Delhi. I launched a coach of the Delhi Metro! In Delhi all the metro coaches are coming from Gujarat.

Touting the recent ‘Vibrant Gujarat Summit’ which accepted the global relevance of Gujarat with the presence of 121 nations there, Modi said, “When the world sees this, they infuse confidence that we can do.”

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50% of Goa police physically unfit: Manohar Parrikar

More than 50% of Goa police force is not physically fit due to the “pressures and unexpected demands” they have been facing while on the job, chief minister Manohar Parrikar said on Sunday.

“If we do a medical checkup, 50% of Goa police force is physically unfit. They will have some or the other problems. I am not blaming them. There are pressures and unexpected demands which have become part and parcel of their profession,” Parrikar told a gathering of policemen here.

The chief minister was speaking after launching a ‘community policing initiative’, a programme unveiled by Goa police to reach to the people.

“50% of the crimes would be solved if you (police) have good relations with the people. I have experienced it. I regularly get feedback from the people informing me various things,” he claimed, adding, “there are good Samaritans in the society, who are ever willing to fight against the evils.”

“Community participation will also help police to make over their image,” Parrikar added.

State police have decided to hold community policing initiative so as to improve their connect with the people.

Parrikar said the police force was demoralised when he took over the reigns of the state in March this year and his government is working to reinstate confidence in them.

Chief Minister Sarkar: India’s Icon of Honesty

When politics is the tune that’s playing, one can’t help but notice the colossal taint in it, spoilt by corruption, mistrust, and lacking the most is faith. Can anyone defend its virtue, can’t say. But the virtue of a noble politician stands tall by the name of Manik Sarkar, Tripura’s Chief Minister.

He is India’s single Chief Minister without any house on his name or any unreasonable bank balance, not even a car. He declared he has no personal assets while submitting his nominations for the Assembly elections in 2008.

In his salary he donates 12, 500 to the CPI (M) Party fund, in return gets 5, 000 as the final payout.

When he was asked about making a living on this trivial amount, he said that his wife’s pension is enough to sustain both of them. Even the idea of finding a new accommodation if asked to vacate the state house provided to the Chief Minister seems just manageable. All he says “we’ll see”.
He further informs that his expenses are small like a packet of snuff and a Charminar cigarette a day. For breakfast he has rasmalai and cashewnuts, while the music of Bhimsen Joshi, his favourite vocalist plays on the system in the bedroom, as reported by Kaushik Deka for India Today.

At sharp 10 a.m. the official vehicle picks him up, which is off limits even to his wife, Panchali Bhattacharya, a former employee of the Central Social Welfare Board. Bhattacharya retired last year from her services and now mostly commutes by rickshaw in Agartala, with no security.

She has never intervened in the Chief Ministers work, just once, very subtly 7 years ago, on his idea of going on morning walks on the streets of Agartala. His security officer who almost flipped asked Panchali didi to talk him out of it. And so she did by buying him a treadmill.

The CM practicing honesty is seen in the decision of Left Front‘s strategy for the February 2013 Assembly polls. At 63 he is the Tripura’s longest-serving chief minister. He still believes the Left final frontier will return in West Bengal and Kerala. Not leaving Tripura as the final Left’s frontier, as they received 41 percent of the votes in last polls in West Bengal. Does it mean there is a striving chance for good faith or just a surviving one?

At present Sarkar has to prepare for a difficult task of tackling the resurgent Congress headed by its new state President Sudip Roy Barman, 48, the son of former chief minister Samir Roy Barma, is sour about the lack of jobs situation in Left Front rule. He said “Over 40,000 posts are lying vacant in the state. No primary teacher has been appointed in 14 years of his rule”. On Sudip’s concern, Sarkar’s wife retaliates and said “Unemployment is Tripura’s biggest problem. But it is not only our problem, it’s India’s” as per India Today.

Sudip has questioned Sarkar’s honesty saying it’s just a projection. He wants to know how Sarkar can afford an Ora spectacle worth Rs 60,000 or sandals for Rs 6,000, also the hundreds of white kurta-pyjama sets. Well how Sudip managed to estimate these figures are unknown, off course. He goes further with the attempts to reveal how Sarkar controls the ministers by blackmailing them after letting them involve in corruption. This way he erases most threat or challenges to his post.

About the job situation Sarkar holds the Center responsible for not creating policies to generate jobs majorly in the rural areas. And with the corruption acquisition imposed by the Opposition which he has asked them to produce evidence and names, and is adamant to take action if required. He agrees the ministers have been inefficient but not dishonest.

Sarkar has his ways to play politics, as revealed by an anonymous source, a professor from Tripura University, who said “He may be an honest person, but Sarkar is a ruthless politician. If he feels threatened by anyone, their wings are clipped. Yet, the Congress has little chance to dethrone him, thanks to its internal rivalries.”

Explaining himself the Chief Minister said “Where is the power? It’s with the Centre. Small states like Tripura suffer. We have to fight for everything that is rightfully ours.”

He does make a remark at the end. He said “My spectacles cost Rs 1,800. My sandals are also cheap. I love to look neat, but that doesn’t mean I buy expensive stuff”. Giving the details of the amount of decadence he is said to be indulged in, the Tripura Chief Minister has hopefully cleared certain doubts. But there will be those who will question his conscience as long as he is in the political game.
Is it a mindset that politicians can barely be as clean and neat as the white attire they don, or stay true to the motto they herald? Manik Sarkar has maintained the integrity and honesty which is hard to come by in politics and that’s the emblem the country salutes to, and aspires for. But will there be more like him or is he the last of his kind, let’s hope not.

Narendra Modi calls for a mass movement against gutka in Gujarat

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Friday appealed to the people of the state to launch a mass movement against gutka.

“This is the time to rise to the occasion together and create a mass movement to remove gutka from our lives and save our youth from the menace of cancer,” Modi wrote on his blog, while reminding people about the new legislation banning gutka in the state from September 11.

“Come 11th September 2012, there will be a comprehensive ban on gutka consumption across the state. It is our determination to create a society where no woman is widowed due to hazards of gutka eating in the family. We want to see a day when no child loses a parent or no mother prematurely loses a son due to gutka consumption,” Modi said.

Drawing attention of the people towards the dangers of gutka, he said, “The menace of gutka is much more serious than what you would like to believe it would be. You will be shocked to know that gutka is even more expensive than almonds. But those who consume it never realise this and move towards a path of self-destruction, from which, there is no return.”

The chief minister has also appealed to people to use social networking media as a tool to spread awareness about the gutka menace.

“Social media users may like to take up the cause on that platform by posting & spreading messages. This is how together we can take small steps that will make a big difference,” he added.

Gutka has been banned in other states including Maharashtra.

 

 

 

CM exposes Centre’s anti-people move related to providing cooking gas

CM expresses indignation over Centre’s unjust move of snatching the Gujarat government’s right for installing gas pipelines and distributing cooking gas through the state’s own gas network

• Gujarat has spent Rs.5000 Cr for laying 2,200 km. high pressure gas pipeline and Rs.5,000 Cr for 8,000 km. low pressure gas pipeline

• If the Centre allows Gujarat to lay gas pipelines, it would save 3.5 crore gas cylinders every year, and benefits of billions of rupees to the Centre exchequer, which would otherwise be used in giving subsidy

Chief Minister Narendra Modi has expressed indignation over Centre’s unjust move of snatching the Gujarat government’s right to distribute cooking gas through the state’s own gas pipeline network. “Gujarat is the only state which has set up a 2200 km. gas grid with a view to make available cooking gas at cheaper rates compare to LPG cylinder provide by the Centre. But, at one hand the Centre is multiplying the troubles of crores of women by rationing the LPG cylinders and on the other hand, from last two years, it is also not allowing Gujarat to lay more gas distribution pipelines and provide gas at cheaper rates”, he said.

Speaking at the Vivekanand Yuva Vikas Yatra the chief minister said, “The Centre itself does not have capacity to provide adequate gas cylinders and moreover, by rationing the gas cylinders, it compels people to buy gas at high prices from black market”. Gujarat has laid 2,200 km. high pressure gas pipeline at the cost of Rs.5,000 crore, as well 8,000 km. low pressure gas pipeline also at the cost of Rs.5,000 crore. Besides, about 10 lakh LPG connections have been given to the households at the cost of Rs.1,000 crore with partnership of government and private companies, he said.

Cooking gas is being provided to about 350 villages and cities of Gujarat at the cheaper rates compare to the Centre’s cylinder gas through the gas grid. This amounts to a saving of Rs.600 crore for the Centre in the form of subsidies. But since there is BJP government in Gujarat, the Centre keeps political enmity and has snatched from last two years the state’s right of laying gas distribution pipelines, he said.

“If Centre allows Gujarat to lay gas pipelines, the state government would be able to give 30 lakh cooking gas connections in the state in next three to five years. This means that Gujarat alone can save 30 lakh gas cylinders every month for the Centre. This amounts to saving of 3.5 crore gas cylinders every year, and benefits of billions of rupees to the Centre exchequer, which would otherwise be used in giving subsidy”, he said.

But the Centre’s Congress government harbours perverted mentality of rendering troubles to Gujarat even at the cost of people’s money, he said.

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U.S. Congressman Campaigns for Modi’s U.S. Visa

Joe Walsh, a United States lawmaker and Congressman has launched a campaign to fight against the denial of U.S. visa to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. Walsh wrote to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asking her to “consider granting a diplomatic visa to Chief Minister Narendra Modi of the Indian State of Gujarat’’, reports Aziz Haniffa of Rediff.

Walsh mentioned that Modi was refused a diplomatic visa to visit America in the year 2005, which according to a state diplomat official is because of the rules which come under  ”Section 212 (a)(2)(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act.”As per U.S. laws, if the state department believes that a foreign government official is responsible for involving in violations of religious freedom, they will be forbidden entry to the country.
“It should be noted that when reading this section of law further, it specifically states that these violations cannot have occurred 24-months prior to application for a visa’’, argues Walsh.

 ”The communal riots that occurred in the State of Gujarat that took place in 2002 are undeniably tragic and resulted in many deaths of innocent Indians,” but noted, “This region has worked for years now to bring to justice those that committed serious crimes and many strides have been seen towards reconciliation among Muslims and Hindus in the region’’, Walsh informed Clinton.

“Ten years have passed since the violence in Gujarat and much progress has been made. Modi has been recognized across the world for establishing Gujarat as the most business-friendly state in India and is widely believed to be a serious contender for the 2014 election for Indian Prime Minister,” he added.

Moreover, he also said that “It is time the state department reconsiders permitting Modi into the US.”I appreciate you looking into this matter and hope you will take full consideration of this request to reconsider granting Modi entry into the US.”

Tarun Surti, a communist activist and supporter of Modi in U.S. has recently contacted the Asian American Association of Hotel Owners (AAHOA) to invite Modi keynote AAHOA’s annual convention which is going to be held in the month of May. They have also approached many lawmakers in U.S. asking them to permit Modi to U.S.

Surti has also called for a “nationwide media campaign in the US to promote the good work Shri Narendra Modi has done and correct the misconception in the media that he is a murderer and anti-Muslim.”

“The US law is clear that states or government officials responsible for carrying out serious violations of religious freedom are ineligible for a visa”, says the State department.

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Politics in India, a Safe Haven for Criminals

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati tops the list of chief ministers with the maximum assets in the five election-bound states. Her assets are worth 87.27 crore and 35 percent of her ministers have criminal cases pending against them as per the report from National Election Watch (NEW) and Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) based on the affidavits submitted before the Election Commission.

The data reported that RTI responses from five states showed Mayawati has the highest assets worth 87.27 crore. Chief Minister of Manipur Okram Ibobi Singh has the lowest assets at 6 lakh. Around one-third of a total of 100 ministers in the five states of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Goa and Manipur have self-declared pending criminal charges.

Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal was noted to have assets worth 9 crore while Goa Chief Minister, Digambar Kamat has assets worth Rs 3.2 crore. Uttarakhand Chief Minister B.C. Khanduri has assets worth Rs 1.69 crore.

28 percent of MLA’s which means that, out of 690 legislators analyzed, 190 have criminal cases against them. 89 of them had serious charges against them. Prakash Badal is the only one who has a criminal case amongst the 5 Chief Ministers and faces charges of cheating, forgery and criminal conspiracy.

The report also suggests that Uttar Pradesh has the maximum percentage of ministers (35 percent) with pending criminal cases. Dhirendra Pratap Singh of BSP in Uttar Pradesh was seen having the highest number of criminal cases – 29, followed by Sushil Kumar also of the BSP in Uttar Pradesh with 14 cases pending against him. The charges were related to murder or attempt to murder.

Another finding from the report suggests that except for Okram Ibobi Singh, everyone else has declared their PAN information. It was noted that 35 percent of the total analyzed MLA’s are crorepatis. Punjab has the maximum crorepati MLA’s at 67 percent, followed by Goa at 55 percent, Uttar Pradesh 32 percent, Uttarakhand at 16 percent and Manipur at 2 percent.

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Is Narendra Modi’s Gujarat Really Vibrant?

Everything is black and white somewhere! Gujarat‘s grey areas are now being increasingly noticed. While Gujarat may have a high per capita income leading to the rhetoric of a ‘vibrant Gujarat’, much on the lines of ‘India shining’, its economic model seems to be faulty somewhere with glaring deficiencies in certain developmental indexes. Few are aware that Gujarat has been faring poorly in many areas for many years now. About two decades back, Gujarat’s growth story was quiet different. The state had grown between 12 and 13percent when the national average was only 6percent. Gujarat today has an average growth rate of 11percent with the national growth rate at 10percent. This should tell some of the story. Gujarat is now very much rich. In What? Poor People!

Gujarat may be creating some of India’s wealthiest, but it is not known widely that the state has the highest percentage of poor population, an incredible 31.8percent. 31.8percent population of Gujarat are below the poverty line, followed by Andhra Pradesh (29.9 per cent), Tamil Nadu (29.8 per cent), Himachal Pradesh (22.9percent), Punjab (20.9percent), Kerala (19.7percent), Jammu and Kashmir (13.2percent) and Haryana (2.1percent).

On the investment front too, the actual story is quite different. In 2005 claims for Rs 106161 crore had been made for investment. Out of that, Rs 74019 crore (63percent) was made as stated by Chief Minister, but the truth is quite different. According to the information procured under RTI, only Rs 24998 crore (23.52percent) projects were under implementation. Similarly in 2007, Modi Government claimed to have mobilized capital investments of Rs 451835 crore. The State Government claimed to have made an investment of Rs 264575 crore but as per the figures of Industry Commissioner of Gujarat, only projects worth Rs 122400.66 crore (27.08percent) were under implementation. All in all, in 2003, 2005 and 2007, only 20.28percent of projects were implemented in Gujarat.

Gujarat being the number one destination for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is also proving to be a myth. In the Reserve Bank India’s (RBI) 2011 10-year report on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), FDI inMaharashtra was worth Rs 17 lakh crore, in Delhi, Haryana and NCR (including some parts of UP) it was worth Rs 10 lakh crore, but in Gujarat in the last 10 years, it was just Rs 2.8 lakh crore.

Moreover, Gujarat also lags behind in social development index. Reserve Bank of India in its February 2007 report placed Gujarat as 17th among 18 large states in social sector budget allocation. With 31.6 per cent budgetary expenditure on social sector, Gujarat dropped from 12th spot in 1991(then there were 15 large states category) to 17th of the 18 large states list, as expenditure on social sector fell considerably during Modi’s regime. Former President Abdul Kalam had also in the past commented on the need for Gujarat to focus more on its social development index.

The vibrancy rhetoric might have moved on from “investment drive” to “inclusive growth”, but the reality is otherwise. The Survey of Industries data shows workers’ share as wages in Gujarat fell from 23 to 8percent in 2010. The gap between incomes of the rich and the poor has also widened beyond the national average, states a 2010 research by Rajesh Shukla of the National Council of Applied Economics.

 Coming to educational standard, Gujarat fares worse than Bihar. The Annual Status of Education Report by Pratham, a NGO, puts Gujarat’s students behind their Bihar counterparts. The report sponsored by the likes of Google, Oxfam and UNICEF states that the percentage of students reading textbooks, doing basic mathematical operations, telling time are far lower in Gujarat compared to Bihar.

Gujarat fares poorly on hunger index as well. A 2010 report by IFPRI, a U.S. based organization, favoured by 64 governments, had listed Gujarat among the five worst performing states of India in hunger levels, along with Jharkhand, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. Gujarat was shockingly ranked 13th in the 18 states list.

Employment and agriculture in the state are not in good shape either. The agricultural production has been declining steadily. From 65.71 lakh tones in 2003-2004, the agricultural productivity dropped to 51.53 in 2004-2005. A NSS (National Sample Survey) conducted survey of 2005 had revealed that approximately 40percent of state’s farmers want to leave agriculture. Recent studies have also shown that in the last decade, agriculture and labor both suffered extensively in Gujarat.

 What about Infant Mortality Rate (IMR)? It is the same story! IMR in Gujarat was 69 per 1,000 in 1991 compared to 80 of India. While the national IMR became 58 per 1,000 in 2005, in Gujarat it became 54. So, while India on the whole really did really well to cut down its IMR, Gujarat’s performance was not really inspiring.

On the whole Gujarat is facing a great disparity in the levels of living conditions, between rich and poor poor, men and women, majority and minorities. Narendra Modi will have to look into these lacking spheres before he can really chant the slogan of ‘Vibrant Gujarat’.

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