Buddha Comes out in Open to Defend the Indo US Deal
Defending the Indo-US nuclear deal as a "landmark agreement", External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee today rejected suggestions that growing ties with the US were aimed at "containing" China
Relations between Delhi and Kolkata are not that bad
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The Brahmins of Bengal have ensured the implementation of US Zionist Hindu agenda in Asia sidelining all Parliamentary nonparliamentary drama!
Somnath, Pranab and Buddhadeb trio has ultimately worked it out for Asian Nato to annihilate indegenous legacy in every sphere of life. The Man and nature is at the Mercy of the Galaxy order representaed by Brahminical Hindutva in India. Sriram is there to kill the demons once again!
VHP leaders will meet in New Delhi in a day or two to chalk out details of a nationwide agitation to be launched for the protection of Ram Setu, VHP general secretary Praveen Togadia declared. This Ramsetu issue is another excellent example of subvertion of genuine issuees by Indian Parliamentary political parties. The world has witnessed Pamela Bordes and Monika Levineski episode to shift the focus of world opinion on US Imperialism! CPIM did it earlier launching a false land movement to divert the international attention from Dalit Muslim Insurrection in West Bengal and elsewhere! It is said that Dr manmohan singh discussed the Ram Setu with the supreme state Power personified US President George Bush. I wonder whether the US agencies did some trick in fielding the Almighty Hindu God Sri Ram to save the Indo US deal!Government sent its response to the Left parties on their apprehensions over the Indo-US nuclear issue, which would be taken up for discussion at the UPA-Left Committee meeting on Wednesday. But the US supporter Zionist Hindutva has done enough to dilute the anti imperialist movement in India!
Atomic Energy Commission Chief, Anil Kakodkar has reached Vienna to attend a closely watched general body meeting of the board of governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency.While,the divide within the Left Front appears to be deepening as West Bengal Chief Minister and CPI(M) leader Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee came out in support of nuclear energy in India.Bhattacharjee today said the debate was more technical than political. "As far as I am concerned, we should go ahead with nuclear power, it just cannot be avoided," he said. The West Bengal Government is yet to decide on setting up a nuclear plant to augment power generation in the state, though a Central study team visited the proposed site at Haripur in coastal East Midnapore district recently. Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, earlier said the government had not taken the decision yet because of divided opinion on it. With this fresh stance on Nuclear Energy defying Party Polit Bureau and central committee the Capitalist Marxist CM has clarified that nothing may stop him running blind on the highway of Capitalist development with indiscriminate Urbanisation and Industrialisation! Braving opposition to industrial projects in parts of the state, West Bengal government today sought the industry's help in preparing a land acquisition and rehabilitation policy, while asserting there was no going back on Tata Motors' car project. Faced with stiff opposition against land acquisition for industry at Singur and Nandigram, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Monday sought the help of the Confederation of India Industry (CII) in formulating a proper acquisition and rehabilitation policy for land losers. Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Friday acknowledged that Nandigram was a political as well as an administrative Blunder.
You have to remeber the Historical Blunder once again. CPIM Polit Bureau and Central Committee pulled back Comrade jyoti Basu while the entire Nation wanted the Marxist Patriarch as the Prime minister of India!
How dares Buddhadeb, a lesser personality literally to go against Party`s declared stance on Nuclear Deal!
On the other hand,the wrangling in the Congress over the Ram Setu affidavit fiasco continued on Monday.In the latest squabbling over the issue, senior leader R K Dhawan has suggested that it would have been better if Culture Minister Ambika Soni had resigned on moral grounds.Dhawan said that Soni could have submitted her papers to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and party chief Sonia Gandhi, leaving the matter to them for a decision.The Congress Working Committee member further said Union Minister Jairam Ramesh should not have gone public over Soni's resignation issue. He maintained that Ramesh could have taken up the matter with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi.
Amid the opposition to the Indo-US nuclear deal from the left parties and demands not to ''operationalise the deal'', Kakodkar is under pressure to stay away from detailed discussions on an India specific safeguards agreement with the IAEA. Ahead of this meeting in Vienna, there has also been pressure from the United States for India to conclude the nuclear agreement at the earliest.Technical and expert level talks, to finalize the India specific safeguards agreement with the IAEA could be held soon.
Defending the Indo-US nuclear deal as a "landmark agreement", External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee today rejected suggestions that growing ties with the US were aimed at "containing" China. In carefully-worded comments, Mukherjee said that the civil nuclear cooperation "we are trying to have" would be a "landmark agreement" of bilateral cooperation in multilateral framework, "if it finally materialises". On tyhe other hand, West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya said Indian companies interested in agro-retail should be allowed to set up outlets, albeit with some restrictions.Admitting that his party had committed "serious mistakes" in the sixties and seventies, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today said the CPI-M was changing its attitude towards investment and foreign capital.
Mind you, the communist government of West Bengal state wants to create a low-tax zone on Nayachar Island, with incentives for chemicals, petroleum and petrochemical industries, despite it being protected by environmental laws.Government officials say Indonesia's Salim group is looking to develop the land in coordination with Indian state-run refiner Indian Oil Corp..About 3,000 people live on the 64 sq km (25 sq mile) island, most involved in fishing.
Nayachar was chosen after a plan to develop farmland in nearby Nandigram along the West Bengal coast met with protests from the farmers whose land was to be taken over. That plan was shelved after police fired on protesters in March, killing 14.But the environmental cost of the Nayachar project has provoked more protests from opposition groups, and drew flak from members of the communists own ruling alliance, who say a proper environmental assessment needs to be carried out.Conservationists say the plan could kill marine life, including hundreds of endangered river dolphins, and rob thousands of fishermen of their livelihoods by polluting the Hooghly River delta leading out into the Bay of Bengal.
The standoff between the Left and the UPA over nuclear deal is likely to precipitate early general elections. In fact, it's now just a question of when the next elections are to be held.
It all depends on when the Congress takes a next step on the Indo-US nuclear deal and how big does that step have to be for the Left to withdraw support.
Sources have told NDTV that Atomic Energy Commission Chief, Dr Anil Kakodkar will be holding strictly informal and not formal negotiations on a safeguards agreement with the IAEA.
However, there will be formal talks next month. The technical teams will then initial an agreement next month.
The IAEA chief Mohammed El Baradei announced on Monday that India has not approached them yet for talks on safeguards.
So, the question remains - Are informal talks setting out the ground rules for the final formal agreement enough for the Left to consider it to be operationalizing the deal? Probably not, but everyone is walking a narrow line.
The Left has said that if Kakodkar starts talks on safeguards it will withdraw support.
Ahead of this meeting in Vienna there has also been pressure from the United States for India to conclude the nuclear agreement at the earliest.
Technical and expert level talks to finalise the India specific safeguards agreement with the IAEA could be held soon.
"The world is changing. We are also changing. If you follow our party literature you will see our attitude towards investment and foreign capital. Most of our party leaders in the state and Central Committee understand the changes taking place in the world," Bhattacharjee, also a politburo member of CPI-M told the captains of Indian industry at an interactive session during the National Council meet of the CII in Kolkata.
Bhattacharjee's response was to a direct query on whether he supported the Indo-US nuclear deal and nuclear power as a source of energy at a Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) national council meeting - a gathering of some of the biggest industry captains of the country.
Even as the Left parties warned the central government on Sunday that only a government without their support could go ahead with the deal, Bhattacharjee came out in support though he mentioned that there were some doubts on environment impact, cost of setting up nuclear plants and pricing of power. "These will have to be properly assessed by scientists, planners, economists and corporates," he said. He also said that the power supply in West Bengal would have to increase. "Problem in our state is 96% is thermal power. India is basically dependent on thermal power, it may be different in the northern parts of the country," he said.
Speaking specifically on the prospects of nuclear power in the state, he said : "Let the scientists debate for some time, and then we will take a call."
Nuclear deal apart, Bhattacharjee had to field many uncomfortable questions from the industry captains on the dichotomy in the stance of the Left Front at the centre and state levels.On Left Front at the centre versus state, Bhattacharjee said in a lighter vein, "Relations between Delhi and Kolkata are not that bad."
"We always debate among ourselves on FDI, SEZ, retail, and try to get a consensus. In the last five years, there are some very important issues that have come up at central committee meetings," he added.
Flanked by Bharti group CMD Sunil Mittal and ICICI Bank MD and CEO K V Kamath, Bhattacharjee said, "Our mindset is changing for better. We are not fools. We are realists and the party is changing. Old people are going and new generation leaders are coming."
Bhattacharjee also refered to the 1994 industrial policy of the state and said that had ushered in a change. Recalling his long association with the Communist party, Bhattacharjee said, "We had committed serious mistakes in the sixties and seventies. The word gherao is our contribution to the Oxford dictionary."
To a question, Bhattacharjee said he would prefer to remain in the state. "Let me serve the state first," he said when asked when he would take up responsibility at the national level.
The External Affairs Minister made the comments while interacting with diplomats and intellectuals here after delivering a lecture on India's Look East Policy. Elaborating, he said though the Indo-US nuclear agreement is a bilateral pact, "its implications will be involvement of large number of Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) countries and India-specific agreement with IAEA". The minister was asked about apprehensions that the US was strengthening its relations with India to "counter-balance" China.
"We do not believe in containing any country. Therefore, there is no question of the cooperation between India and US to act as some sort of containment of any country, including China," he said.
To drive home the point, he said India's relations with the US are independent of its ties with China.
'We should allow big retail companies like Spencers, Reliance and Wal-Mart in agro-retailing business. I know Mittals have joined hands with Wal-Mart,' Bhattacharjee said at the national council meeting organised by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) here Monday.
He said there should be certain restrictions in allowing these retail companies so that they cannot trade in food grains.
'Big retail stores should not be set up within city limits as it would add to more congestion. In the US and other foreign countries, all big retail stores are situated outside city limits,' Bhattacharya said.
Emphasising the importance of retail stores in the state, the chief minister said West Bengal produces about 11.6 metric tonnes of vegetables every year, of which 10-30 percent perish on the fields.
'The reason is we don't have sufficient numbers of cold storages in our state,' he said.
'If these retail stores come up, many people would get jobs. But at the same time, thousands of small vegetable vendors will be jobless. Thus, we should move very cautiously,' he added.
Last week, the chief minister said the state government had allowed Metro Cash and Carry to do their agriculture wholesale business in West Bengal on an experimental basis.
The Forward Bloc, one of the main constituents of the Left Front government, has been opposing agro-retail business, fearing it would harm farmers in the state.
The Forward Bloc as well as the West Bengal State Marketing Board (WBSM
, an autonomous body under the ministry of state agricultural marketing, has objected to the entry of Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance, apprehending its possible monopoly in the state's agricultural retail business
Future Group to raise Rs 2,000 cr from capital market
A Future Group company promoted by retail czar Kishore Biyani will hit the capital market in the next 3-4 months to raise Rs 2,000 crore in what would be the group's second public offer after Pantaloons India. "We will raise Rs 2000 crore from a proposed IPO by one of our group company," Kishore Biyani CEO and MD of Future group said on the sidelines of an interactive session with Young Leaders Forum members. Biyani, however, declined to name the company that would hit the capital market over the next three to four months.
Among the possible ventures which was expected to hit the market was logistics. The group plans to invest in a big way in logistics business and reportedly raise USD 500 million for the same. Logistics business would provide the group to stay competitive from the new large players in retail. The group has several retail formats including the garment brand Pantaloons, supermarkets Big Bazaar, specialty stores Central and Home Town and online market place Future Bazaar.
West Bengal needs SEZs to compete with other states: CPM
Not subscribing to the Left parties' stand against the UPA government's decisions on Special Economic Zones, the major Left Front constituent CPM said on Sunday that it favoured SEZs in West Bengal to boost the industrialisation drives of the Left Front government here.
"When other states like Maharashtra and Gujarat are setting up a large number of SEZs, the West Bengal also needed SEZs to compete with them in the industrial growth", CPM central committee member Mohammad Selim said.
"The Left Front government here is in favour of multi-product SEZ and not product specific SEZs," he said.
He said that Left parties have already submitted a detailed note to the government demanding substantial changes in the SEZ Act and rules, including curtailing exorbitant tax concessions provided for the SEZs and in the land acquisition policy.
Countering the speakers at a discussion that the CPM was following a policy of double-standard by opposing the economic reforms in Delhi while implementing the same here, he said that West Bengal is not a sovereign republic of Bengal.
"Policies are framed in Parliament and in a federal setup the state have limited powers," Selim, a CPM MP said.
People in West Bengal ask for food, not nuclear deal 'nonsense'
From our ANI Correspondent
Durgapur (W, Sept 17: Faced with shortage of food, people of Bankura village in West Bengal let out their anger at a CPM's protest rally against nuclear-deal, saying they want food and not nonsense.
Villagers also beat the CPM leaders.
Nearly a thousand villagers clashed with police, forcing the latter to open fire. A schoolboy (16) and another man (23) were injured in the police firing. Nine other villagers were injured in the baton-charge. They have been admitted to hospital.
Police arrested ten other villagers.
Earlier on Sunday, a dozen villagers from Radhamohanpur, about 250 kilometers from Kolkata, had come to complain against hoarding by ration-shop owners to the CPM leaders, who were holding an "anti-imperialist" meeting.
The villagers erupted when panchayat chief Pabitra Mondal - who was on the dais trying to convince a crowd of 200 daily wagers about the dangers of the 123 Agreement - tried to shoo them away.
One man jumped on the dais, snatched the microphone and began abusing the assembled CPM leaders.
"We'll teach you a lesson. You can't give us rice and wheat, instead you talk mumbo-jumbo. We don't understand the nuclear deal, give us food," the Telegraph quoted a villager, as saying.
Mondal said: "I had never seen a mob so angry. They dragged me from the dais and beat me. I ran to the panchayat office but they dragged me and four others out and beat us."
As the news of violence at the CPM meeting spread, violent protests against ration dealers were reported from elsewhere in the district.
Men and women came out of their homes, armed with sticks, knives, burning torches and even brooms. The dais, party banners and festoons were soon in flames.
The police were driven out as soon as they arrived.
The mob could only be controlled by a bigger police team, together with the Rapid Action Force, who caned the mob and rescued the CPM leaders.
A police officer was also injured in the incident, besides 11 villagers -- two in police firing and nine in baton-charge.
Arjun Mondal, 30, a farmer, said: "We didn't get rice or wheat from the ration shops for nearly a year. The dealers sell in the black market with CPM backing."
The local CPM party officials blamed the Trinamul Congress, BJP and Maoists for the violence. Trinamul leaders denied the charge.
State CPM Secretary Biman Bose, who admits that the Left's stand against the Indo-US nuclear deal lacks the force of bread-and-butter issues and will be difficult to sell to an electorate, said he hadn't heard about the incident but would find out what happened.
The State unit, which has to fight elections, favours caution while taking a decision on toppling the UPA government over the nuclear deal in contrast to the party's central leaders, who have never contested polls.
http://www.dailyindia.com/show/174804.php/People-in-West-Bengal-ask-for-food-not-nuclear-deal-nonsense
Please read this edit of Dalit Voice:
If Manuwadi marxists are first rate humbugs, PM proves a cut-throat: Rulers want bomb, we need bread
The high-voltage drama over US nuclear deal in Delhi is over. Brahminical rulers managed the whole thing. But the deal has once for all exposed Manmohan Singh as one interested only in India’s ruling class at the cost of the country’s vast oppressed. Not only that. The deal further proves that as the agent of imperialist America he wants to turn India into a war-monger aiming at China. And making India a tail of the sinking America.
As over 60% of India’s people are poor, illiterate and dumb-driven, the tiny 15% upper caste rulers are goading the PM to lead the country into doom and gloom so that the nuclear deal can keep them as rulers. If this is not treachery what else it can be?
We have written enough on the treacherous qualities of the Indian PM. But what the nuclear deal has cleared is that India’s Manuwadi communists are first rate humbugs. All their public show of opposition to the nuclear deal is nothing but an exercise to rescue the sinking West Bengal Marxist Govt. which was about to fall under the fire of Dalits and Muslims in the recent SEZ agitation. The noisy but fake opposition the marxists raised was to fool the public. The Brahmins and other upper castes controlling the CPM are as much interested in the US nuclear deal like their jatwalas outside their party.
China’s fear: Parliamentary democracy is not producing honest political leadership in India.
That means all the fuss that was made in parliament on the nuclear deal by the communists was just a farce. There is no doubt of the deal getting the parliament’s nod and India getting the atom bomb. We have already made this clear in our previous Editorial. (DV Edit Sept.1, 2007: “US arming India to fight China? Manmohan Singh selling our future to please upper castes”).
China has already expressed its opposition to the US deal with India. It said US was using India as a stick to beat China. USA may be worried over the rise and rise of China but why should India play into US hands and manufacture bomb?
250 bombs: It was this very same Khatri Sikh who once led the Congress attack on May 28, 1998 in parliament when the Vaidik Vajpayee Govt. exploded bombs in Pokhran-II. Today the same fellow is bargaining with America to make bomb.
The PM is not interested in addressing the crying needs of India’s over 85% oppressed — food, clothing, shelter, health-care, education. Not a single priority has been fulfilled. This is clear from the report of the Millennium Development Goals report of India (DV Sept.1, 2007 p.24: “UN report calls Indian govt. bluffs: claims of 10% growth rate”).
According to experts the US nuclear deal can help India make 250 bombs making us the most hated country in Asia and once for all converting India as a permanent slave of USA.
This is exactly what our Brahminical rulers want and the PM is fully serving their needs. This is the secret of the entire ruling class and its Brahminical media singing praise of the PM.
The people are not told the truth of the nuclear deal. The PM is lying. And the Manuwadi marxists are dishonest. BJP, which also made the bomb, is dishonest to the core in its opposition to the deal. Being Brahminical its heart is in USA and bomb.
The other opposition parties being inside the UPA as partners of the Congress are helpless. The media is misleading. As a result, the country’s oppressed Bahujan masses are being taken for ride.
Earlier, BJP did dupe us but at least they were honest enemies. But the Khatri PM putting on a cloak of “honesty” has proved a cut-throat.
Support to Israel: In fact, the Congress PM is proving himself a better enemy of Dalits and Muslims than the Vaidik Vajpayee. His all-out support to the zionist state, Israel, is becoming a public knowledge with its Mossad having a free ride over Kashmir. His Defence Minister, a Syrian Christian from Kerala, has simply embraced Israel buying billions of dollars worth miliatry hardware.
The country may be crumbling but our Khatri Sikh PM is unperturbed. He is only interested in supporting the Brahminical highway robbers.
http://www.dalitvoice.org/Templates/sep_a2007/editorial.htm
'Operation Northwoods' - Terrorist Side of US Military Even Hurting Americans and GIs
Friday September 14 2007 19:33:53 PM BDT
Deepak Sarkar, Canada
Before 9/11/2001, world didn’t know much about virtual Al-Qaeda; attacking countries at peace were meant to be War Crimes. Before US-Led illegal invasion and destruction of peaceful Iraq, entire land was Green Zone void of Al-Qaeda, suicide bombings, sectarian violence and friendly fires! But under massive US-British-Australian brutal occupying forces – the only Green Zone became new US Embassy Fortress (Late Saddam Hussein’s Palace) and virtual Al-Qaeda seems to be omnipresent dividing Iraqis while prolonging oppressive occupation! How and why?
Recently declassified Pentagon documents, after more than 40 years, highlight a set of terrorist proposals on Cuba by the US military Joint Chiefs of Staff codenamed OPERATION NORTHWOODS.
Details of Operation Northwoods can be found in ABC News and US National Archives (ARC Identifier: 305036, Title: Northwoods, U.S. Military Intervention in Cuba, 1962), as well as the book on US National Security Agency 'Body of Secrets' from Doubleday by author James Bamford.
The document, titled "Justification for U.S. Military Intervention in Cuba" was provided by the then American Joint Chiefs of Staff, President Eisenhower appointee Army Gen. Lyman L. Lemnitzer, to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara on March 13, 1962, outlining the key components of Operation Northwoods.
The top secret document was written in response to a request from then Chief of the Cuba Project, Col. Edward Lansdale describing U.S. military plans to covertly engineer various terrorist pretexts leading to justification of invading Cuba.
The proposals -- part of a secret anti-Castro program known as Operation Mongoose – included:
· Staging the assassinations of Cubans living in the United States,
· Developing a fake "Communist Cuban terror campaign in the Miami and other
cities of Florida, as well as Washington DC,"
· Sinking a boatload of Cuban refugees (real or simulated),"
· Faking remote controlled Cuban air force attack on a civilian jetliner, and
· Concocting a "Remember the Maine" incident by blowing up a U.S. ship in
Cuban waters and then blaming the incident as Cuban sabotage.
Details of the plans described in ‘Body of Secrets’ suggest deliberate U.S. military casualties as obvious from quote: "We could blow up a U.S. ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba," and, "casualty lists in U.S. newspapers would cause a helpful wave of national indignation." It is now obvious how 9/11 US media coverage helped destroy Afghanistan and Iraq, without investigation.
President Kennedy rebuked the idea and Gen. Lemnitzer was transferred to another job after a month. President Kennedy was assassinated on November 22nd, 1963, Friday, in Dallas, Texas, in broad day light.
Operation Northwoods is an ideal example that US military can plan & execute 9/11 style precision well coordinated terrorism blaming on prefabricated Islamic militants and their leader Osama Bin Laden.
The proof is simple as anomalies of official version are shown in the poem 9-11-Hijacking, elaborated in Simple Proof, and substantiated in the Thesis 9-11 Truth, supported by 9-11-time-line from the 9/11 commission report.
It is time the Americans, United Nations, and the World open an honest investigation upholding rule of law to end ‘War of Terror’ in disguise of most racist crusade of our time ‘War on Terror’!
http://www.bangladesh-web.com/view.php?hidRecord=171090
At last,President Bush says he will start pulling some US troops out of Iraq this month because his decision to send reinforcements earlier this year has been a success.
It was after all a false alarm. The hopes of the CBI to get hold of the elusive LTTE fundraiser Kumaran Padmanathan have been dashed.
The development comes in the wake of External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee saying that it was conveyed to the Indian mission in Bangkok that Kumaran has not been detained as reported.
Mukherjee who is on a three-day visit to Thailand, said this in Bangkok on Friday.
Thai Interpol had earlier conveyed to the CBI that there is no immigration record of Kumaran entering Thailand in the last two years.
CBI wants Kumaran as he is believed to be the one who funded the Rajiv Gandhi assassination.
Kumaran is also high on the Interpol's wanted list.
