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ABP Brand Buddha Launches Campaign for Us Capital and Nuclear Energy!

Palash Biswas
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ABP Brand Buddha Launches Campaign for Us Capital and Nuclear Energy! While the Political Drama styaged by the Ruling Indian comradors presnt Classical Soap Opera full of Melodrama content.The Indo-US nuke deal has put the UPA government in the dock with the US showing urgency and the Left warning it to pause the deal for six months.The government and its communist allies said on Wednesday they had constructive talks to resolve their row over a nuclear deal with the United States but more negotiations were needed to try and find a solution.Their comments came after a second meeting of a panel formed to address concerns of the left parties, whose opposition to the historic deal has destabilised Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's coalition and triggered fears of early general elections.The Left wants the government to tell the nation whether it will stick to the US time frame or address the objections to the agreement raised by the majority in Parliament.The panel, consisting of senior government leaders and communist representatives, was formed last month after the left parties warned the government of "serious consequences" if it did not dump the pact.The pressure from the Left is immense and it was perhaps visible on Wednesday in Vienna where Atomic Energy Chairman Anil Kakodkar carefully avoided the words N-deal and safeguards.Earlier, the UPA-Left panel met twice to sort out the differences on the issue, but it is break point again for the government.
And see! how dares the Chief Minister of West Bengal Party Parliamentaryrepresentation, Left Front, Party Polit Bureau and central; committe! Supported by the Brahminical Media in Bengal, Buddha continues to run blind on the highway of Capitalist development!The WB Industry Minister Nirupam Sen is going USA to fetch US capaital while the state party unit has made it more than clear taht it won`t tolerate any attempt to dislodge the World Bank government. Pranab Mukherjee and Buddhadeb fotrm a superhit Duet directed by Loksabha speaker Somnath cahtterjee. The nonagerian CPIM patriarch Comrade Jyoti Basu is the best defence for US interests in Left. What a coincidence! CPIM polit Bureau and central committe pulled Basu back while the Left could rule India. The CPIM policymakers did not permit Somnath to be the President. But this ultra hyped cpim descipline could not stop a Chief Minister. Only recently Kerela chief Minister had been suspended from party polit bureau.
What does all this nonsence mean after all?
ANBP publishers owning major Bengali daily Anand bazar patrika, The Telegraph and a prominent literary fortnightly DESH and TV channel Star Anand go all out to promote Buddha as a Brand and Icon committed to the interests of Bengal.
Are the intersets of India and the interests of Bengal different?
Is West Bengal a sovereign free State like Bangladesh which has nothing to do with India? Bengali Brahminical Nationality sounds so much Anti India as it is anti Muslim, Anti tribal, Anti Dalit, anti OBC and anti refugee!
Once Nirupam returns , Buddha himself would go to his dremland America.
Desh published a news story in its latest issue: Vietnaam Paare, Lal Bangla Paare naa. Means what Vietnam does , Red Bengal can not do! Exactly on the same line the capitalist Marxist chief Minister exclaims,` US investment happens to be the most in Vietnam. Does Vietnam cease to be communist Country! thanks! He is not quoting Chinese line!
Buddha says,` I am not against America.I don`t believe in anti Americanism! We may have differences on Indo Us Nuclear Deal, but it doesn`t mean that we don`t want US cooperation in fioelds like Education, IT and other industries!’
Prakash Karat has warned Dr manmohan singh ,` Don`t operationalise the Deal for six months’.
President Bush is not ready to wait and here, Buddha is also not ready to wait!
buddha seems all set for a grand coup to save the intersts of West Bengal as dictated by AbP and the entire Bengali Brahminical media and Intellegentsia Kolkata! Thes interests are amusingly identical with those of United sates of america! So what ABP branded brahminical Bengali Nationality is well extended to USA.
Seeking to dispel perception of differences in the party over use of nuclear power in the wake of West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's remarks about the need for nuclear energy, a senior CPI(M) leader today said what Bhattacharjee had meant was its use based on indigenous technology.
"There is need for nuclear energy for the country though it is highly expensive. We want it to be produced with indigenous technology and with the development of thorium of which there is a huge stock in the country. Bhattacherjee had meant this when he stressed the need for nuclear energy," CPI(M) central committee member Shyamal Chakraborty told reporters.
He denied there were differences on nuclear power between the Chief Minister and the party. Chakraborty, who is also state president of CPI(M)'s labour arm CITU, said "my party was not totally against the (Indo-US) nuclear deal but against certain provisions of it".
Asked whether it was not a contradiction to oppose the nuclear deal while the state government government here was wooing US investment, Chakraborty said "there is no harm in accepting the US capital or signing agreements on industries. The CPI(M) has objections to the nuclear deal because of the certain provisions." He said the UPA government was a 'minority' one and only existed with the support of Left parties. "So, it should not go ahead with the nuclear deal."
In New Delhi a different tune is played by entire left and Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee said the talks were constructive but senior Left leaders told NDTV that ''so far there has been no meeting ground between us.''The difference was clearly evident all through the day as a bitter public feud came out into the open.Reacting angrily to the US Ambassador David Mulford's timeframe that the deal should be completed in the life of this US Congress the CPM has demanded an explanation.Reacting to the developments at the IAEA, Left leader AB Bardhan says that America is pushing its own time table and the Congress is in a hurry. The Indo-US nuke deal has put the UPA government in the dock with the US showing urgency and the Left warning it to pause the deal for six months.The Left wants the government to tell the nation whether it will stick to the US time frame or address the objections to the agreement raised by the majority in Parliament.
The pressure from the Left is immense and it was perhaps visible on Wednesday in Vienna where Atomic Energy Chairman Anil Kakodkar carefully avoided the words N-deal and safeguards.Earlier, the UPA-Left panel met twice to sort out the differences on the issue, but it is break point again for the government.

The second meeting of the UPA-Left Committee on the Indo-US civil nuclear deal began here today even as the Left parties rejected the government's reply to concerns raised by them over the agreement.On the other hand,Top Left leaders on Wednesday rejected Government's response to their objections on the Indo-US nuclear deal, saying they were not convinced with even a ‘single contention of the government’ on the issue. The Left leaders met in New Delhi on Wednesday to chalk out their strategy ahead of the UPA-Left Committee meet. Meanwhile,There is growing pressure from the United States on the Indian Government to get on with closing the nuclear deal.

US Ambassador to India, David Mulford met India's Chief Nuclear Negotiator, Shyam Saran, on Wednesday and told him that the next steps — towards operationlising the deal — will have to be taken quickly.
Despite the Left's opposition to the Indo-US civilian nuclear deal, there seems to be a significant development at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) meet in Vienna.
In Kolkata, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee is staying focused on business and America seems to be listening more to the chief minister than Prakash Karat.Two US real estate funds have formally launched their Indian operations by investing in a Bengal township project.Chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has given his party a crash course in nuclear power by publicly stressing its indispensability.Many of his party colleagues have started finding virtues in the alternative source of energy that the CPM high command views with scepticism.On the other ahnd, Indian communists are not expected to soften their position over a nuclear deal with the United States at a meeting on Wednesday of a panel that aims to resolve their row with the government, left leaders said.The panel, consisting of senior government leaders and communist representatives, was formed last month after the left parties warned Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's coalition of "serious consequences" if it did not dump the historic pact.Opposition to the deal by the communists, whose support is key to the survival of Singh's coalition, has led to the worst political crisis since the government was formed in 2004 and sparked fears of a general election before it is due in 2009.

“You just cannot avoid nuclear power,” the chief minister had told business barons yesterday in reply to a question.The statement is the closest Bhattacharjee could have come to if his intention was to contest the leadership’s stand without breaking party discipline. The timing of the assertion — in the middle of a standoff in Delhi, where the CPM is insisting that nuclear power is unviable — also was too striking not to interpret it as an indirect reply to Prakash Karat.Scrambling to paper over differences that have spilled out in the open after the chief minister’s carefully worded reply, the CPM is putting the spin that he has “salvaged” the situation for the party.The party feels that Karat’s refrain on the nuclear deal had created an impression that the party is against nuclear energy as such, which is what Bhattacharjee has dispelled.
There seemed to be little headway over the Indo-US nuke deal impasse in the second round of UPA-Left talks held here on Wednesday. In a brief statement at the end of the meet, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee said that the ?discussions were constructive? and that talks will continue.
“We are not against nuclear power per se like the Naxalites, but opposed to the Indo-US nuclear deal which will make India dependent on the US and entangle us in conditionalities dangerous for the country’s sovereignty. We want an independent nuclear power programme based on thorium which is available in India and not on imported uranium,’’ CPM central committee member Mohammed Salim said.
The MP said: “Far from going beyond the party line, the chief minister has rather salvaged the party’s position. There was some confusion over Karat’s statements on the nuke deal as if the party was opposed to nuclear power and not concerned about the energy crisis. But Buddhada’s stress on nuclear power as an alternative source of energy made a balanced reflection of our position. It sends a right signal to industry and people.’’
CPM veteran Benoy Konar described nuclear energy as “one of the major sources of alternative energy in future”.
“As a Marxist party, we cannot be opposed to science. So, we are not allergic to nuclear power but we are only opposing the Centre’s hasty and anti-national deal with America,’’ Konar said.
CPM state secretary Biman Bose confined himself to what the chief minister had added yesterday, saying: “Let the scientists decide whether nuclear power is needed or not.”

Starwood Capital Group Global and Walton Street Capital will partner the south-based Shriram Group to develop an integrated township at Uttarpara on Hind Motors’ excess land. The three will contribute equally to the Rs 5,000-crore project, which works out to over Rs 1,666 crore a partner.
This is the first time US private equity funds are investing in a real estate project in Bengal. Starwood Capital, part of the group that owns hotel chains like Sheraton and Le Meridien, has assets worth $30 billion. The Chicago-based Walton has assets of $14 billion.
“How does it matter if it’s a Left-ruled government? It is more important what is happening on the ground. We liked what we saw,” said Balaji Rao, the managing director of Starwood Capital India Advisors.
Rao said his US counterparts were not worried about the Left government in Bengal.
The project will come up on 314 acres. The 20-million-sqft developable area will have a residential project and infotech and auto ancillary parks. A hotel is also on the cards.
Sourav Goswami, the Walton Street Capital India managing director, said: “I feel the government is strongly business-oriented.”
The chief minister lived up to the assessment today, telling Left Front partners at a meeting that industrialisation would go ahead irrespective of the political uncertainty at the Centre. “The government cannot sit idle (waiting for the crisis to be over),” a front leader quoted Bhattacharjee as saying.
“The chief minister said industrialisation is going ahead as the general situation is favourable,” CPM state secretary and front chairman Biman Bose added.
Bose asked Bhattacharjee to submit a report on the investment scenario, instead of dwelling on the nuclear standoff, sending a signal that the Bengal unit is not in favour destabilising the current momentum. The chief minister listed investment proposals the state has received.
Bose said the meeting also endorsed the political “consensus” on Nayachar for a chemical hub. “We asked the government to proceed after taking into account all aspects,” he said, suggesting environment concerns were still an issue. The chief minister said they would be taken into account.
Soon after, the government announced that it would hold a meeting with “all stakeholders” on September 25 on industrialisation. Industries minister Nirupam Sen would preside over the discussion at a city hotel.
The meeting is expected to discuss land acquisition and rehabilitation with “the intelligentsia, business chambers and investors”.

The row over Indo-US Nuclear deal refuses to die down - in yet another warning from the Left to the Government, CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat said today (September 18) that the Government should not push the Nuclear deal for the next 6 months.
In a stern warning to UPA and Congress, Karat, said the deal should be "put off" until the next six months and that the Goverment should address the concerns raised by experts and discuss the issues exhaustively in Parliament.
"Do not operationalise the deal for at least six months. The government should wait for the outcome of a discussion in Parliament before taking any decision in this matter," Karat said.
The Left parties have already submitted a note containing their apprehensions over the nuclear deal and the Hyde Act, to which the government has responded. These notes would come up for discussion at the third meeting of the Left-UPA panel in New Delhi tomorrow.

The US ambassador to India, David Mulford says time is of essence with reference to the Indo-US nuclear deal.
He has contended that we need to move on to the next stage of the Indo-Us nuclear deal from '123 to 456'.
Mulford exhorts stakeholders to take up the last steps to complete the deal.
He also assures us that we are working towards bringing a new law to address India's concerns.Mulford said the deal must be endorsed by the current US congress and that the Bush administration was working with the Congress to produce an Act that reflects the spirit and terms of what PM Manmohan Singh and Prez Bush agreed on.
The UPA and its main allies, the Left have been at loggerheads with regard to operationalising the Indo-US nuclear deal.
The Left parties have already submitted a note containing their apprehensions over the nuclear deal and the Hyde Act, to which the government has responded. These notes would come up for discussion at the third meeting of the Left-UPA panel in New Delhi tomorrow.
Mulford's statement has come at the same time that Karat warned the government, "Do not operationalise the deal for at least six months. The government should wait for the outcome of a discussion in Parliament before taking any decision in this matter,"
Atomic Energy Commission Chairman (AEC) Anil Kakodkar played safe today (September 19) as he addressed the plenary session of the International Atomic Energy Agency, or IAEA General Conference in Vienna.
Even though Kakodkar did not mention the Indo-US Nuclear deal, he did give an indication of the government's view point on the subject.
Kakodkar said that India was looking forward to the opening up of international civil nuclear cooperation. Kakodkar alos said that India expected cooperation from the United States to be sustainable and free from interruptions.
India's demand for exemption
India has to reach a safeguards agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the NSG has to change its guidelines to allow international nuclear trade with India to operationalise the Indo-US civil nuclear deal.
In this context, a special meeting of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) is expected to be held tomorrow. The meeting is likely to discuss India's demand for exemption. Exemption will allow India to operationlise the Nuclear deal.
With the crucial NSG meet scheduled to be held on Thursday, the question is whether Kakodkar be able to avoid discussing an exemption for India.
Kakodkar: Nuke community wants early talks with NSG, IAEA
Even as the Left's opposition to operationalisation mounted, Anil Kakodkar said on September 18 in Vienna that everyone in the nuclear community wanted early negotiations between India and IAEA and Nuclear Suppliers Group to help implement the deal.
The AEC chief said India expects the US to work out clean and unconditional exemption. Kakodkar said,
"India has made its position very clear that it expects clean, unconditional exemption after recognising it as a unique country. Everyone in the nuclear community wants this to be carried out -- the sooner the better."
Indian Ambassador to Austria, Sheel Kant Sharma and other officials had a meeting with the NSG's 'Troika' - South Africa, Brazil and Germany as a part of the outreach programme of the NSG.

NSG likely to give approval: Reuters
Reuters correspondent in Vienna Mark Heinriech told TIMES NOW,
"India has yet to approach the International Atomic Energy Agency about an inspection regime for India to support the United States-India nuclear cooperation agreement, and the reason for the delay in negotiations is the internal political crisis in India whereby the Communist coalition partner is threatening to leave the Government if the US-India nuclear cooperation agreement goes through.
"However once the IAEA and India start their talks on a inspection agreement, that is expected to be sowed up pretty quickly. The next step would be for the Nuclear Suppliers Group to approve the India-US nulcear treaty. There is probably some skepticism among some NSG members about the implications of this treaty for the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty - however in the end they are expected also to approve the US-India agreement - in part because no one in the Suppliers Group would like to offend or anger both India and the United States in light of the fact that both are very large nuclear markets."
Kakodkar-El Baradei meeting
Meanwhile IAEA sources said Kakodkar is expected to meet IAEA Director General Mohammed El Baradei during the week. Kakodkar had meetings with his counterparts from the US, Russia, France, Vietnam, Bangladesh and South Africa on cooperation programmes.
Ahead of the much-discussed and debated meeting between Anil Kakodkar and El Baradei, the Indian Government has sought to defend the meeting which could lead to India negotiating a country-specific safeguards agreement with the IAEA.
Government sources have told TIMES NOW that, if Kakodkar meets El Baradei it will be a matter of governance and so Left parties could not call on Kakodkar to not meet with El Baradei.
"How can we help it if Baradei decides to bring up the issue? No one can prove what happened unofficially. India has time till the 6th of October to put the N-deal on the agenda at the IAEA," said the Government sources.
DIFFERENT TUNE
Communist parties have a history of being caught in the web of their own contradictions. But this is one consequence of his action that Prakash Karat could not have anticipated when he launched the Left’s crusade against the nuclear deal between India and the United States of America. His wisdom has now been questioned by none other than Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, who has openly defended nuclear power. It is not that he has done so for the first time. He had not only pleaded earlier for a nuclear power plant in Bengal but also identified a site for it. But the context in which he has reiterated his preference for nuclear power makes his position politically significant. The chief minister has thus challenged the contention of his own party that nuclear power is not the answer to India’s growing energy problems. The arguments actually go beyond nuclear power and relate to the Indo-US nuclear agreement. The prime minister, Manmohan Singh, and the Congress have defended the agreement primarily for what it can do to augment India’s nuclear energy. Mr Karat and his colleagues in the Communist Party of India (Marxist), on the other hand, think that nuclear power can make only a small addition to the country’s total power production and that too at exorbitant costs. Mr Bhattacharjee has almost demolished the party line.
However, politics, and not nuclear power, is really the significant part of the chief minister’s remarks. What does one make of the fact that his comments have come in the thick of his party’s threat to pull down the United Progressive Alliance government on the issue of the nuclear agreement? Also, the politburo and the central committee of the CPI(M) are scheduled to debate the issue once again in Calcutta later this month. It is reasonable to assume that Mr Bhattacharjee wants Mr Karat to reconsider his position on the nuclear agreement and on the Left’s equations with the UPA government. That, of course, begs the other question as to why he should think so differently from Mr Karat. The obvious answer is that Mr Bhattacharjee’s primary concern is Bengal’s development, whereas Mr Karat busies himself only with ideological hair-splitting. Mr Bhattacharjee owes it to the people of Bengal to force his party to shun Mr Karat’s brand of politics. If he succeeds, that could be his historic contribution to both Bengal and his party.
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123 to 456, US rubs salt into Karat cut
MANINI CHATTERJEE

New Delhi, Sept. 18: US ambassador David Mulford today underlined that “time is of the essence” and “we must take the last steps” to finalise the 123 Agreement and then go on to “456” — his new coinage to describe a “comprehensive relationship” between India and America.
The utterances could well jeopardise any chance of an entente between the UPA government and the Left parties on the nuclear deal.
Mulford’s “time is of the essence” remark at the Indo-US Economic Summit this evening came hours after CPM general secretary Prakash Karat told a party rally that the government should wait “for at least six months” and discuss the deal in Parliament before proceeding any further.
The Left has repeatedly made it clear that the government should not take the “next steps” on the deal till opponents of the agreement — including the “majority” in Parliament — give the green signal.
Mulford, on the other hand, stressed the need to take the “last steps” which are exactly the same as the Left’s “next steps”.
These, he explained, “involve completing the IAEA-India Safeguards Agreement, and securing the Nuclear Suppliers Group rule change which will permit this initiative to be global in scope. Finally, the US Congress must vote once more on the 123 Agreement, an action best accomplished by this administration in the life of this Congress”.
Although Mulford did not spell out the time frame, his insistence on “this administration” ties in nicely with the Manmohan Singh government’s eagerness to seal the deal before President George W. Bush becomes a “lameduck” President, starting early next year.
It equally serves as a red rag to the Left which has been accusing the Prime Minister of being in far too much of a hurry to complete the deal and making it contingent on the Bush presidency.
If the US ambassador’s remarks on the timetable for the deal are calculated to raise the hackles of the comrades, his subsequent elaboration on the “456” trajectory in Indo-US relations could embarrass the UPA which has been trying hard to dodge allegations that there is more to 123 than just nuclear energy.
In words that seemed to echo Karat’s charge that the nuclear deal was aimed at ushering in a new strategic partnership, Mulford said: “We are at a great moment in the history of our two democracies. We have overcome past differences and are charting a new course for the future.”
He went on to say: “This new course moves us from 123 to what I call 456. This is the ‘comprehensive relationship’ I have spoken of so often…: encompassing both our official bilateral relationship and the multitude of private contacts and relationships that exist between our peoples. This is the broader, longer term vision for US-India relations that touches all fields of human endeavour for which civil nuclear (cooperation) is important, but only one part of the larger whole.”
In a statement that is certain to reinforce the Left’s fears of closer defence ties, Mulford said that “456” would cover every front. “We are engaging with India on virtually every important front, from defence and space cooperation to critical transnational issues such as counter-terrorism, health, education and climate change.”
Mulford underscored that “one engine to advance macro-economic activity across India is further liberalisation in India’s banking and financial markets” — something the Left has been stoutly opposing.
Similarly, his praise of the Prime Minister’s call “for a paradigm shift in the economic and commercial use of water” or his advocacy of “organised retail, especially in rural areas”, is likely to add fuel to the Left’s fire.
Nuclear power inevitable"
9/19/2007 10:36:17 AM

Speaking at the General Conference of the IAEA, Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Anil Kakodkar (File shot) made it clear that nuclear power was an "inevitable option”
Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Anil Kakodkar has made a strong pitch for international nuclear energy cooperation with India. Speaking at the scientific forum, an integral part of the General Conference of the IAEA, Kakodkar made it clear that nuclear power was an "inevitable option”.
"The world has to move forward with nuclear power as an inevitable option based purely on partnership on objective, reliable and predictable basis with holistic mutual understanding and trust as a pre-requisite," Kakodkar said.
Kakodkar's carefully-worded comments come amidst a raging political debate on the Indo-US nuclear deal, with Left parties and the opposition closely watching his approach at the IAEA.
Kakodkar also emphasised that in order to meet the huge energy demands of the world community, it was important to have inclusive partnerships and make sure that those countries which are keen to develop nuclear power for the first time should have basic minimum infrastructure and human resource needed for it.
Crucial UPA-Left meet
Meanwhile, the Left-UPA Committee on the nuclear deal will meet for the third time on Wednesday (September 19) amid a fresh warning from the CPI(M) against implementing the pact and to keep it on hold for at least six months.
CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat told the government not to operationalise the deal for six months and await the outcome of a discussion in Parliament. The Left parties have also warned that Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Anil Kakodkar, who is in Vienna for the IAEA meet, should not start negotiations on India-specific safeguards that would operationalise the agreement.
US pressure on nuke deal
A day after David Mulford, the US Ambassador to India, said that there had to be more movement on the nuclear agreement process between India and the US, there's renewed pressure on the issue.
The US has said that the nuclear accord should be moved as soon as possible keeping the political timelines in mind. This comes after the continuing crisis between allies Left & the Congress over the nuclear deal gains momentum.
The Assistant Secretary of State for South & Central Asia Richard Boucher said that the agreement is consistent with US laws, but at the same time fits all the requirements and parameters that was set down by Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and US President George W Bush.
The 123 agreement has to go through a series of steps for it to be fully operational, such as India coming to an arrangement with the IAEA, as well as meeting the democratic principles of both countries.
Govt defends Kakodkar's meet with IAEA chief El- Berdei
Ahead of the much talked about and debated meeting between Atomic Energy Commission Chief Anil Kakodkar and IAEA chairman El Baradei, the government has sought to defend the meeting which could lead to India negotiating a country specific safeguards agreement with the IAEA.Government sources have told TIMES NOW that India has time till October 6 to put the N-deal on the agenda at the IAEA.
West Bengal open to privatising water supply
The West Bengal government on Tuesday said it was open to privatising water and waste water services in industrial and commercial areas in the state.
"We are open to inviting private participation for water supply to industrial and commercial users, while municipal bodies will continue to carry out its services to domestic consumers," Urban Development Minister Asok Bhattacharya said on the sidelines of the Indo-UK seminar on water services.
The state government would sign an agreement within this month with JUSCO (Jamshedpur Utilities & Services Company Ltd) for water supply and sewerage management on BOT for the IT-hub, Sector-V in Salt Lake.
In domestic sector also, the government would consider privatising or outsourcing maintenance of water supply infrastructure.

Government specifies that Kakodkar meet with El-Baradei is a matter of governance.
US: Come clean on ties with Iran
9/19/2007 1:30:36 PM

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Now apart from the US stressing upon the constraint of time for the nuclear safeguards agreement to be finalised, it has also asked India to make clear its stand on the issue of Iran.
The Bush administration asked India to come clean on its military relationship with Iran. "The Indian government is aware of the concerns of India's military relationship with Iran. What we are trying to do is for everybody to understand the facts of the matter," said US Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia Richard Boucher.
Soon after, India's Defence Minister AK Antony sought to play down American concerns by reiterating that India sought friendly relations with all countries. More significantly, he also stressed that India's relations with each country were independent of one another.
"India has very friendly relations with Iran. It will continue to do so. India's friendship will not come in the way of good relations with any other country,” said the Defence Minister.
Meanwhile reacting sharply to the US stand on Indo-Iran relations the Left said that the US has no business interfering in India's matters and urged the Government to follow an independent foreign policy.

CPI leader D Raja said, "It is none of his business to dictate what India should or should not do, either with Iran or some other country. The point here is t

Political Votemonger Rodents ravage Entire Indian Geopolitics!
The enslaved majority has to be sacrificed once again as it is the Religion and noone dares to outrage Faith!
VHP's stay-off order is a setback for the BJP's original Ram brigade and So called Secularism is translated in soft Hindutva!
Palash Biswas
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The enslaved majority has to be sacrificed once again as it is the Religion and noone dares to outrage Faith!Amid talks of mid-term poll, the BJP is expected to fine-tune its strategy at a meeting of the National Executive in Bhopal starting Friday with the Ram Setu row and Sachhar Committe report to be at the centre of the proceedings. It is quite symbolic taht at least 177 villages have been ravaged by armies of rats in different parts of Mizoram as 'mautam' or gregarious bamboo flowering reaches its climax this year, Agriculture Minister H Rammawi informed the assembly. Rammawi, in a written reply to a query from Sailothanga Sailo of the Mizoram Peoples Conference, said 42 villages have experienced low intensity destruction. According to an estimate by the state agriculture department, the loss of crops could be 75 per cent this year. Of the 89,496 families of the state wholly dependant on agriculture, 78,195 are 'Jhumias' (Jhum cultivators) while 11,301 families were wet rice cultivators.
Mautam, a mizo word, is an ecological phenomenon that occurs in Mizoram every 48 years in which melocanna baccifera flowers, and is invariably followed by a plague of rats. After flowering, the bamboo dies and regenerates from the seeds. The rodents feast on these seeds available in plenty, and, as an indirect consequence, causes a sudden boom in its population. Once they exhaust this temporarily abundant food supply, they turn their attention to cultivated crops and cause famine.

Political Votemonger Rodents ravage Entire Indian Geopolitics!Seeking the abolition of the wage board, the Indian Newspaper Society on Wednesday accused the Central government of trying to curb the freedom of speech and independence of the media.
Hard Core Hinduva dictates the Nationality sentiment in Sensex Shining India and ruling comarador of the colonial government representing so called Secularism does nothing. This so called nationality is translated into Soft Hindutva!
Genocide Culture takes over Indian SuBcontinent once again as with the failure of Dalit Muslim Peasantry Insurrection as well as Antiimperilist movemnt led by the Left and absence of a National Dalit movement, The Nazi Hindutva revitalised with zionist allaince under Post Modern Manusmriti Order led from the Oval Office in Washington, have come forward with full fofce. Serial blast and transnational terrorism, a proxy war to promote Weapon Industry to save the Bankrupt US Economy have justified the War against Terrorism in this divided Geopolitics with Hindu ensalved psyache overshadowed by Islamophobia and dalit Hatred!The tourism secretary will replace Soni at the Incredible India festival in NY.First signs emerge that Ambika Soni, the Minister for Tourism and Culture may be worried. A week after the controversial archeological survey of India affidavit denied the existence of Hindu God Lord Ram, the minister has cancelled her September 23 trip to New York. She was supposed to attend the four-day Incredible India celebrations there.

A mob torched a bus in a south Indian city and burnt two people to death, police said, blaming Hindu activists angry over the latest chapter in a row over the existence of Hindu gods.
A mob attacked the bus late on Tuesday night as it travelled from Bangalore, home to much of India's technology and outsourcing industry, to Tamil Nadu.Many Hindus oppose the project, believing the structure to be built millennia ago by Lord Ram and his army of monkeys to rescue his kidnapped wife.The government has said the structure was formed naturally by the ocean, and Karunanidhi said the issue was being used as a pretext to oppose the government and the project.The Karnataka Government on Wednesday assured protection to Tamilians in the state following the torching of a bus belonging to Tamil Nadu, in which two people were charred to death. There was attack on the house of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi's daughter in the city on Tuesday night.Condemning the incidents, Home Minister M P Prakash alleged that some anti-social elements were trying to create a rift between Tamilians and Kannadigas.
The anti-quota petitioners on Wednesday described the UPA Government’s legislation providing 27 per cent reservation to OBCs in Central educational institutions as ‘usurpation’ of judicial power.Contending that Parliament acted in a ‘hasty’ way in enacting the controversial OBC quota law, the petitioners pleaded before the court that the Central Educational Institutions (Reservations in Admission) Act, 2006 shows that the entire exercise should be treated as unreasonable.Pleading for the petitioners, senior advocate Rajeev Dhavan said before a five-judge Constitution Bench, headed by Chief Justice KG Balakrishnan, that the legislation providing for reservation was never debated seriously in Parliament where lawmakers of ruling coalition and some others were only engaged in praising their leadership.Noted jurist Fali Nariman questioned the criteria of ‘caste’ as the starting point of identification of socially and educationally backward classes (SEBCs) when the country strive towards the ideal of casteless society.

Hundreds of Dalits, including BSP activists, on Wednesday blocked the Delhi-Dehradun National Highway in Muzaffarnagar demanding arrest of 12 policemen accused of killing a Dalit youth in a fake encounter.Ajay (30) was allegedly shot dead by policemen in an encounter in Muzaffarnagar on Tuesday who claimed that Ajay was a criminal.SSP Sushil Kumar Singh said a case has been registered against the policemen including SHO New Mandi police station Har Pal Singh, three sub-inspectors RB Yadav, DS Kalia and Gyanendra.
Five persons were allegedly fined and warned for speaking to seven dalits who were earlier driven out of their village in Puri district for refusing to beat drums at a temple. Zeenews reports.Some residents of Goruala, located on the outskirt of Puri, claimed on condition of anonymity that the village committee imposed a fine of Rs 500 each on five persons, including an upper caste man, for interacting with the seven dalits during a recent rally against land acquisition for the proposed Vedanta University.
Puri Superintendent of Police Asit Panigrahi said the dalits, who had been driven out of Goruala for alleged refusal to beat drums at the temple several weeks ago, were recently taken back to the village at the intervention of the police. Panigrahi, however, expressed ignorance about imposition of penalty on five villagers saying no complaint of this nature was received by the police. Confirming that the village committee had asked the residents to refrain from interacting with those seven dalits, he said the police were trying to ascertain what exactly has taken place now. Village committe members also confirmed that the five had been given a stern warning for interacting with the dalits, but declined to share information on alleged pentlty.

The National Council of Dalit Christians on Tuesday stepped up their demand for granting Scheduled Caste status to all dalits irrespective of religion, and deletion of Para 3 of the Presidential Order of 1950. Constituents of the Council are also planning to resort to agitation to mount pressure on the Government.In a representation prepared at the national executive of the Council, signatories criticised the non-committal attitude of the Congress to this long-pending demand of Dalit Christians from across the country. Also, the Council has sought to remind the Congress of its 1996 and 2004 election-eve promise to extend SC status to dalit converts to Christianity.Along with the representation, the Council has attached a letter of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh supporting the demand.
The U.S. Congress has passed a resolution upholding the rights of India's Dalits. Members of the "untouchable" caste regularly face educational, economic, and religious discrimination, as well as occasional targeted violence. The nonbinding resolution seeks to "address the problem of the treatment of Dalits and Tribals in India in order to better meet mutual social development and human rights goals." Sixty percent of India's Christians come from a Dalit background, but many have yet to benefit from increased rights afforded Dalits, because Indian courts have ruled that when Indians leave Hinduism, they forfeit the rights of their caste. The All India Christian Council has been pushing for greater protections for Dalits since 1998.

With Ram back in news, the VHP has moved in but is asking the BJP to stay out.The VHP holds the BJP responsible for the failed Ramjanmabhoomi movement. The VHP's stay-off order is a setback for the BJP's original Ram brigade. Leaders like Vinay Katiyar were banking on the Ram Setu issue to end their vanvas or isolation.So they want the BJP to take charge and the VHP to get inclusive.Meanwhile,fresh violence erupted in Surat on Wednesday over the killing of a member of the Gouraksha Samiti or committee for the protection of cows on Tuesday in Mangrol tehsil.Surat's Mangrol district is tense after the death of local politician Jasubhai. An agitated crowd set fire to shops and vehicles on Wednesday morning. Jasubhai's supporters allege that he was killed by members of a rival group. The leader was on his way to a nearby village when a few men attacked him.
''The stir is the handiwork of the sadhus. They have their own leadership. The political parties are not needed here,'' said Praveen Togadia, Leader, VHP.
The Ram Setu controversy has once again highlighted the sharp divide within the opposition NDA.
''We are concerned about people who are alive. People are our temples and mosques,'' said Sharad Yadav, president, JD(U).
While the BJP is all for the cause attacking the government for questioning people's faith in Ram, JD-U leader Sharad Yadav has said his party believes in politics for the living.

''VHP shouldn't think that Ram belongs to any individual. Everybody should have a role to play in this,'' said Vinay Katiyar, General Secretary, BJP.
If the VHP has its way, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will be hit. The first test of the issue's electoral appeal will be Gujarat.
And with the RSS, that's unhappy with the BJP's track record on the ram front and is backing the VHP the BJP has little choice.
The BJP eyes electoral gains but unlike the Ramjanambhoomi episode the saffron brigade is divided. The disarray will disrupt its attempts to build a setu or bridge to power.
There is some positive news also heralding the much wanted change!
Sharmila Devi and Meena Devi carried their deceased father's body to the cremation ground though the bereaved family has three sons. The daughters even performed the last rites.
For the first time, women in Nawada village of Bihar have broken an age old tradition.Reports NDTV.Daughters and not sons are carrying out the last rites of the dead to bring about complete gender equality and what is truly new is that the men of the village openly support this initiative.The intention was to send out a message that daughters are as good as sons. If they can keep the hearth going, what's wrong with lighting a pyre?
''We want to send a message to the society that there is no difference between sons and daughters. Even daughters can do anything in the world,'' said Sharmila Devi, Ulas Mahto's daughter.
''There is no difference between sons and daughters. Both are equal,'' added Meena Devi, Ulas Mahto's daughter.
This unique initiative for gender equality in traditional Bihar came from a reformist organisation in Nawada, which believes real change can only take place when people are made aware that some of age-old customs need not be practised forever.
And surprisingly, even men support this call for change.
''In the old customs, women were not allowed to light the pyre. Our organisation Arjak Sangh is trying to change that and that is why women are here at the cremation grounds,'' said Brahmdeo Prasad, Secretary, Arjak Sangh.
For a state that has made news off late for vigilantism, this incident comes as a refreshing change.
But even these women know that it's only the first step in their long struggle to secure an equal footing with men.
As many as 500 Sikh pilgrimshave been denied visa from the Pakistan High Commission at NewDelhi. The visas were applied through Shriomani GurudwaraParbandhak Committee (SGPC), body's chief Avtar Singh Makkarsaid.
The Bombay has questioned the necessity of the security wall around the Siddhivinayak temple.The court also said that if the temple is going to occupy so much space in the city centre then it should be shifted out. However, it was a mere observation and there is no direction in this regard.A PIL filed by Vinod Desai and other residents of the Prabhadevi area where the temple is located, has taken objection to the security wall around the temple that was built when police apprehended Akshardham-like attack on the temple.The PIL contends that the wall blocks off three roads in the area, causing immense inconvenience to the residents.
"There were 26 passengers. All escaped but for two passengers who may have been asleep," said a police inspector on Wednesday, speaking anonymously because of police protocol. "Their bodies have been charred beyond recognition."Another police officer said the attackers were Hindu activists, enraged by comments by Tamil Nadu's chief minister, M. Karunanidhi, who has appeared in public several times questioning the existence of Lord Ram.
Shortly before the bus attack, a mob threw stones at the Bangalore house of Karunanidhi's daughter, where police found a hand-written note demanding Karunanidhi's arrest for deriding Lord Ram. No one was injured in the incident.
Union government sparked a national row with its Hindu-nationalist opponents last week when it filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court, since withdrawn, saying some of Hinduism's most revered texts are "mythological", and do not prove that Hindu gods exist.The Supreme Court is hearing a dispute over India's plans to bore a shipping canal through a bridge-like stretch of sandbanks and rocks between Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka.
The centre is in a spot over the Sethusamudram project but it could be in worse trouble after Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK chief M Karunanidhi's strong remarks.Soon after Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi lashed out at Ram Sevaks in an interview to TIMES NOW, in which he questioned the existence of Ram, the BJP has hit back saying he should not have made the statement. Meanwhile the VHP has also said that they will start a nation wide agitation over the Ram Sethu issue from Friday (September 20).The new political axis with ADMK chief Jayalalithaa has emboldened the BJP to come out openly against Karunanidhi who had dubbed Ram a “figment of imagination”.So far, the BJP has been extremely cautious about criticising the DMK. Even on Adams Bridge or “Ram setu”, it targeted the Congress leadership instead of key player T.R. Baalu, who too termed Ram and the Ramayan mythological.
Meanwhile,Ambika Soni has shut herself up in her house and gone silent.Her staff had only one terse message for journalists: “Madam will answer all your questions once she meets the Prime Minister.”However, there is no word yet on when Manmohan Singh would give his culture and tourism minister time, though he has been discharged from AIIMS and returned home in “good health” after prostate surgery.In Transport Bhavan in Parliament Street, another minister looked like he, too, was under the weather.Shipping and transport minister T.R. Baalu called the media to put up his first defence in a case that put the government, the Congress and the UPA on the defensive after the BJP and the Sangh hit the streets over the “Ram setu” controversy. The Congress today strongly condemned the attack on the house of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi's daughter in Bangalore and asked the Karnataka government to provide security to Tamils living in the state.

On the other hand,Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee(SGPC) president Avtar Singh Makkar has warned RSS not tointerfere in affairs of Sikhs. Speaking to this correspondent, Makkar said that RSS is interfering in affairs of Sikhs by issuing statements regularly. While condemning the RSS, Makkar said that it was not justified that RSS journal dragged Sikhism and its sacred holy Granth-Guru Granth Sahib into the Sangh Parivar's row with the Congress-led government over the Rama affidavit. He said that before issuing any statement about Guru Granth Sahib , RSS needed to have a deeper study of Gurbani.
He said that SGPC is against UPA government for filing a controversial affidavit on Ram Setu and on the same time it also condemns RSS role for dragging Sikhism in the controversy. He reiterated his stand and sought apology from the UPA government over the controversy and it had hurt the religious sentiments of people. On the one hand, people talk about Ram Rajya and on the other they question his (Ram's) very existence, which has definitely angered people of Hindu faith," the SGPC chief said.

The BJP already sought legal action against M. Karunanidhi for insulting Hindu sentiment and asked the Congress to clarify if it endorsed his remarks on Ram.There was no such demand in the statement it released on Tuesday but spokesperson Prakash Javadekar said as much when asked why his party was going soft on the DMK chief.
“His remarks are more offensive than the affidavit. We think that invites legal provisions as the affidavit did. We demand legal action against him too,” he said.
Karunanidhi had on Sunday said at a public meeting: “Some say there was a person over 17 lakh years ago. His name was Ram. Do not touch the bridge constructed by him. Who is this Ram? From which engineering college did he graduate? Is there any proof of this?”
Javadekar said the BJP strongly condemned Karunanidhi’s “direct affront” to the Hindu faith with his sarcasm about Ram’s degree.

Today (September 19), hours after a mob attacked TN Chief Minister M Karunanidhi's daughter's house in Bangalore and another razed a Tamil Nadu state bus killing 2 people over his anti-Ram remarks - the defiant DMK strongman added fuel to the fire questioning the culture of Ram Sewaks in an exclusive interview to TIMES NOW's Dhanya Rajendran.
"Is there proof in history about the existence of Ram?" asked Karunanidhi in the interview. He also said there was also no proof of Lord Ram having constructed a bridge and having attended "engineering college." Condoling the death of two persons in the bus burning incident in the Tamil Nadu-Karnataka border, he said 'the culprits have shown that this is the culture of the Ram Bakthas'.
A dangerous game
Though the BJP swiftly condemned the acts of vandalism - it has categorically said no Sangh Parivar member was involved. Moreover reacting to Karunanidhi's statement on Ram, BJP Leader V K Malhotra said Karunanidhi should not have made such a statement being a UPA partner.
"It is very very clear - in Tamil Nadu there is Rameshwaram where Ram came and created a Shiv lingam. I think Karunanidhi should not have made such a statement, he is a partner of UPA and there has to be some common minimun programme. The Congress cannot be absolved of all responsiblity in what is happening," said Malhotra.
Senior BJP leader L K Advani had yesterday said that Karunanidhi's statement was a symbol of "psuedo-secularism".
"Let the Chief Minister say something identical about any other community, any other religious group other than the Hindus - dare he say it? He will never say it. That is precisely what I regard as pseudo secularism," Advani had told TIMES NOW.

VHP: We will agitate nationwide
Meanwhile, VHP leader Ashok Singal has also come down heavily on DMK chief Karunanidhi for his statement on Ram. The leader said they will be taking out protest marches throughout the nation.

"Karunanidhi has made such statements to deliberately insult the Hindus. He has mocked Ram saying he was not an engineer. We will take out yatras and go to each district and village, and let the people know what is happening, that Ram Setu is being destroyed," said Singhal.
Meanwhile the CM of Karnataka HD Kumaraswamy has requested the people of Karnataka to not get emotional or indulge in acts of vandalism.
"Even yesterday's (September 18) the incident which took place in on the Bangalore- Tamil Nadu highway, police officers are already probing. I request the people of Karnataka not to encourage this kind of unhealthy incident. Our police officers will take strict action.
Caste bias? What’s that, asks AIIMS
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New Delhi, Sept. 18: The All India Institute of Medical Sciences has trashed a government panel’s findings on rampant caste discrimination on its campus.
It has also levelled counter-accusations, inviting the possibility of retribution from the health ministry.
Ignoring dozens of pages of documents that suggest a deep-seated caste divide, the institute administration has accused the government of bias against it.
The institute has also accused a member of the panel, headed by UGC chairman Sukhdeo Thorat, of physically pushing a senior faculty member.
K. Shyamprasad, who is vice-president of the health ministry’s National Board of Examinations, termed the allegation “shocking”.
“It is shocking to see the depths to which AIIMS will fall to cover up the caste discrimination. Needless to say, it is a complete lie,” Shyamprasad told The Telegraph.
Health ministry officials said they had not yet read the AIIMS report but hinted at strong action, both disciplinary and legal.
“The administration will have to prove each thing they have said. Their allegations against a government committee are serious,” an official said.
“There will have to be some response. Lies cannot be allowed to become the truth,” another Thorat panel member said.
The “AIIMS committee”, set up to look into the Thorat panel’s report, said all the findings were “without basis” and the recommendations “needless”.
The Thorat panel, set up at the Prime Minister’s behest following allegations of caste bias at AIIMS, found the institute guilty of creating a divide between students.
The report said there was enough evidence to suggest that the administration, headed by director P. Venugopal, had connived with anti-quota medicos who paralysed AIIMS during a strike last year.
In its internal report, AIIMS has denied the charge. But a letter written by then AIIMS Resident Doctors’ Association president B. Patro, thanks Venugopal for his “assistance” during the agitation.
AIIMS has also refuted the commission’s indictment on caste discrimination in hostels. The Thorat committee found that many reserved category students had sought a change in rooms after being hounded out by upper-caste students. But AIIMS said only one student had sought such a change.
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070919/asp/nation/story_8334206.asp

Mob overpowers troops in Manipur
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Imphal, Sept. 18: The army act grants them special powers, but a posse of Assam Rifles personnel were rendered powerless when hundreds mobbed them during a search operation at a zila parishad candidate’s house in Manipur last night.
Around 11.30pm, the troops in civvies descended on Moulvi A. Rahaman’s house at Sangaiumham in Thoubal — chief minister Okram Obobi Singh’s district — to search the house for militants. The Assam Rifles team claimed to have information that militants had taken shelter in the house.
Rahaman’s supporters thought the team had come to pick up their leader. Enraged, they surrounded the soldiers, who tried to escape by firing a few rounds in the air but were soon overpowered.
Hearing gunshots, another Assam Rifles team that was patrolling the area drove towards Rahaman’s house, only to meet the same fate.
“The supporters of the candidate kept the personnel, about 20 of them, confined to a house near the candidate’s residence for nearly one-and-a-half hours. The mob also torched the Tata Sumo and the Maruti Gypsy in which the personnel had come to the candidate’s house,” a witness told the media today.
The protesters then pushed the Tata Sumo into the Thoubal river.
On receiving information about the incident, a police team, led by superintendent of police (in charge) Th. Radheshyam, rushed to the spot and rescued the Assam Rifles personnel.
The police this morning handed the damaged Gypsy to the paramilitary force. The Sumo had not been retrieved from the river until late in the evening.
The Assam Rifles spokesman, Col L.M. Pant, claimed he was unaware about any such incident. The paramilitary force did not file any complaint with the police either. Rahaman described the Assam Rifles’ attempt to search his house for militants as political “instigation”.
“The Assam Rifles came to my house at the behest of one of my rivals,” he said.
Rahaman did not name the candidate.
Zila parishad elections are slated for tomorrow in the four valley districts of Imphal West, Imphal East, Thoubal and Bishnupur and parts of Sadar Hills in Senapati district.
Last month, the police found 12 militants and a cache of arms and ammunition in the official residences of three MLAs and a former legislator of the ruling Congress in the state’s most heavily-guarded zone.
The morning raid on Babupara VIP Colony in Imphal East was not the first, but never before in the long history of insurgency in Manipur had militants, weapons, ammunition and incriminating documents been found in the residences of legislators.
The three sitting legislators whose quarters were raided are W. Brajabidhu Singh, K. Meghachandra Singh and K. Bijoy Singh. All three were home, as was their former colleague N. Sobhakiran Singh, when the police came calling.
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Ritual sacrifice may involve offering to deities as payment for favorable interventions in an event of special importance, to forestall unfavorable events, or to purchase disclosures about the physical world. Human sacrifice has been practiced on a number of different occasions and in many different cultures. These include:
* Sacrifice by Indian adherents of Tantrism who believe that human sacrifices to the gods can change their fortune.
* Sacrifice to accompany the dedication of a new building like a temple or bridge. Chinese legends hold that thousands of people were entombed in the Great Wall of China, which may be a factual historical event (or a metaphorical one, considering the labor and investment of the construction).
* In ancient Japan legends talk about Hitobashira ("human pillar"), in which maidens were buried alive at the base or near some constructions as a prayer to ensure the buildings against disasters or enemy attacks.[1]
* Sacrifice in Aztec and Mayan cultures to diverse gods.
* Sacrifice of his daughter by a victorious Biblical general Jephthah, and Abraham's near-sacrifice of his son to prove his loyalty to God.
* Sacrifice upon the death of a king, high priest or great leader; the sacrifices were to serve or accompany the deceased leader in the next life. Mongols, Scythians, early Egyptians and various Mesoamerican chiefs could take most of their household, including servants and concubines, with them to the next world. This is sometimes called a "retainer sacrifice," as the leader's retainers would be sacrificed along with their master.
* Sacrifice by ritual combat. Aztecs killed prisoners in ritual combats such as gladiatorial or bloody games.
* Martyrdom or sacrifice through war, a controversial argument that asserts military combat to be ritualistic and hence a kind of ritual human sacrifice.
* Sacrifice for divination; a priest would try to predict the future from the body parts of a slain prisoner or slave. According to Strabo, Celts stabbed a victim with a sword and divined the future from his death spasms.[2]
* Sacrifice in times of natural happenings. Droughts, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and comets were seen as a sign of anger or displeasure of gods and sacrifices were made to appease the divine ire. Ancient Minoans may have tried to avert destruction by earthquake by using a man as a sacrificial victim within the temple of Anemospilia.[3]
Mainstream, Vol XLV, No 39
A New Milestone in the Movement for Dalit Emancipation
by Subhash Gatade
Tuesday 18 September 2007
If we do not struggle
If we do not persist in our struggle
The enemy would finish us with his bayonets
And pointing to our bones he would tell the rest of the world
Look, these are bones of slaves!
Look, these are bones of slaves!!
(A Hindi couplet)
D. Dhanraj from Tsundur (Guntur, AP) possibly does not know how the rest of the world remembers the 6th of August. Neither possibly he knows that there is a city called Hiroshima in far- away Japan which was nearly obliterated that day. But for him also the very day symbolises deaths and destruction and an endless wait for justice.
He can still recollect each and every incident on that fateful day way back in 1991 when five people from his own community were lynched before his eyes by a mob of marauders belonging to his village itself. In fact, the blood-thirsty mob had nearly lynched him also but somehow he was saved. The streets of Tsundur that day witnessed deaths of a total of eight people, all of them Dalits, when a 400 strong armed mob of Reddys—a landlord caste which has dominated the politics of AP since independence—attacked the Dalits to teach them a lesson. The perpetrators of the massacre were so brutal that they cut the dead bodies into pieces, put them in gunny bags and threw them in the nearby Tungabhadra canal.
But as of now the wait for justice seems to be finally over. The recent judgement of the Special Court—which was the first of its kind formed under the provisions of the SC and ST Prevention of Atrocities Act (1989) at the scene of offence—has rather vindicated their sixteen-year old struggle. Twenty one of the accused have been given life imprisonment while 35 of the accused have been asked to serve one-year rigorous imprisonment. The court have acquitted the rest of the accused showing lack of evidence, but a coalition of Dalit organisations have been pressing upon the government to file a petition in the upper court to challenge the acquttal.
A brief recap of the events in this ‘historic case’ tells us that the upper caste (read Reddys) used the pretext of of alleged harassment of a Reddy girl by a Dalit youth in a cinema hall to attack the Dalits. The planned nature of the attack was evident also from the fact that within no time a few

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All set: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and BSP chief Mayawati waves to supporters in Vadodara on Sunday as she prepares for the coming Gujarat ...She has waged war to topple the Ruling equation and if the expected midterm is averted , the credit goes to none else than Mayawati! The Brahminical ruling Calss is afraid of Mayawati`s casteology. Common masses understand caste identity. They identify with the most powerful dalit Leader and this is danger ahead to escape the mid term elections avoiding her devastating social engineering. Whether mayawati contributes to the expected national Dalit Movement or the Global Black untouchable anti imperialist allaince, it is a different question. But it is sure that Mayawati is successful to break the Brahminical Hegemony. Now, the Brahmins have to surrender to A dalit woman to get share in power!
Mayawati has alleged that there is a conspiracy by the Congress and BJP for not providing reservations to poor among the upper castes.
''I had met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh demanding reservations for poor among upper castes and told him that BSP was ready to support the ruling alliance to make an amendment in the Constitution,'' Mayawati said at a Bahujan Samaj Party rally organized to kick-off party's election campaign in Gujarat.
''However, the Prime Minister had replied in negative about the proposal of the BSP,'' said Mayawati, who aims to repeat her success of backward class-Brahmin alliance in Gujarat after acquiring power in Uttar Pradesh.
After coming to power in UP, her party has implemented reservations of 10 per cent each for scheduled castes, scheduled tribes, minorities and weaker sections of upper castes in new industrial units or projects in UP, she added.
''If it can be done in UP, then why it cannot be done at national level?'' she asked.
''Both the parties (Congress and BJP) are closer to corporate houses and capitalists, so they will oppose such amendments in the Constitution,'' she said.
Chief Minister Mayawati on Sunday said the work on an ambitious 1,000 km, eight-lane ultra modern expressway connecting Ballia in the east with Noida in the west will begin soon.
"The Eastern UP (Varanasi-Balia) to Western UP (Noida) Ganga expressway will link Balia with Noida. This eight-lane expressway will be constructed using the latest technology and it will have all the modern facilities as well," she said.The expresssway will connect the Delhi suburb to Varanasi and linking the Western and Eastern boundaries of Uttar Pradesh with a high-speed corridor.After completion of the project, the travel time between Eastern and western UP will be cut short to eight hours only, which at present is 20-24 hours. This will save the time as well as fuel.The expressway will originate from Balia and pass through Varansi, Allahabad, Pratapgarh, Unnao, Shahjahanpur, Badaun, Bulandshahar and link Noida with Poorvanchal. It will have world-class amenities like petrol pumps, telephone booths, cybercafes, food courts and emergency medical facilities etc.The expressway will be constructed by setting up flood control embankments on the Ganga, Mayawati said. The expressway's connectivity with Delhi will open new vistas for the unemployed youths of Uttar Pradesh, she added.The project will also help in re-energising the traditional industries based in places like Bhadohi, Kannauj and Khurja and also help the weavers and craftsmen to improve their economic condition effectively.The expressway will be built as far as possible upon bunds (embankments) along the left bank of Ganga for checking the problem of floods, a senior official of the UP government said.
The Mayawati government has already invited expression of interest (EOI) for creation of the project development special purpose vehicle (PDSPV) to implement the project.
The Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday booted out 3,964 more constables of the civil police and Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) and suspended five more IPS officers, bringing the total number of such dismissals to 10,468 since the first round on September 11.
The government has also ordered registration of FIRs against all members of the 10 recruitment boards who allegedly committed irregularities in the appointments.
This time, recruitments conducted in Moradabad, Sitapur, Ghazipur, Etah, Gonda, Sonebhadra, Gorakhpur and Fatehpur have been cancelled. The axe has fallen on 3,664 constables of the civil police and 300 of the PAC.
State Principal Secretary (Home) J.N. Chamber told journalists here that the Shailja Kant Mishra Committee had submitted 18 more reports and the government had taken a decision on 10 of them. He said seven reports were currently being scrutinised by the government.
The Maywati government had sacked 6,504 constables on September 11 and registered FIRs against 12 IPS officers and other board members who were responsible for the recruitments. A similar procedure is being followed in filing FIRs against members of these 10 boards.
Officers who were suspended on Tuesday are Ramendra Vikram Singh and Ashok Kumar (both DIGs), B.R. Meena, and Vijay Singh Meena and Neelabja Chaudhury (all SPs). Those found guilty again of committing irregularities -- S.K. Mathur, B.B. Bakhshi, Akhilesh Malhotra and Daljit Singh (all DIGs)-- had already been suspended. Apart from the FIRs lodged by the police against these four officers on September 11, fresh FIRs would be filed, Chamber said.
The government has, however, given a clean chit to DIG Prashant Kumar, who had conducted the recruitment in Saharanpur. But an adverse entry would be made in his annual confidential report, Chamber said.
Resentment was rife among the dismissed constables. Many of them assembled at the
Samajwadi Party headquarters here to meet the former chief minister.
The Allahabad High Court will hear a petition challenging the dismissals on Wednesday.

People should bring BSP to power in Gujarat as well, she said at the rally, which was delayed by two hours due to poor turnout at the Polo Ground.
BSP chief Mayawati, who was here to launch her party campaign for the Gujarat assembly polls scheduled later this year, said that the expressway will be the first of its kind in the world.
Mayawati, while reiterating her resolve of creating an atmosphere free of injustice, crime, fear, corruption, which is conducive for development, and also establishing rule of law by the law and ending the jungleraj, said that our Government had achieved splendid success at all the fronts during its four month long tenure. She said that the people of the State had given a clear cut mandate in favour of our programmes and policies. The Chief Minister was addressing media persons at the Hotel Taj Residency, here today. She said that our Government honoured its words and did not indulge in false promises like other political parties. The Government, without wasting any time, immediately began its work after coming into power. This has given some good results. The people of the State were appreciating the administrative acumen of the Government and our policies were also being appreciated. She said that when she came into power the criminals were ruling the roost in the State and people were fed up with the injustice and criminals. The State Government had taken some tough measures against the mafias and criminals and brought the law and order of the State back on the track. Notorious brigand Dadua, who was synonym of terror for 27 years, was eliminated. Km. Mayawati said that the State Government followed the policy of bringing all the sections together instead of creating a fragmented society. All the sections would be provided equal opportunities of development. Our Government had given top priority to development and improvement in law and order situation of the State. Some historic decisions had been taken for achieving the objective. Our party's Government has decided to adopt a policy of 'Sarvajan Hitai, Sarvajan Sukhai' and make U.P. a front line State of the country. For that, our Government has begun some important programmes to honour its promises. Budgetary provisions had been made to support these programmes. The Chief Minister said that through the policy of 'Sarvajan Hitai, Sarvajan Sukhai' the Government had brought the deprived sections of the society like SC/ST, OBC, backward classes of the religious minorities and poor people of the upper caste together. They had been brought into the mainstream of development, she pointed out. Our aim is to remove the caste and high-low barrier prevalent in the society and create an atmosphere conducive for development. We want to draw inspiration from personalities like Mahatma Jyotiba Phule, Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj, Naraina Guru, Periyarji, Baba Saheb Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar and Manyawar Kanshi Ramji and establish a society based on equality where all the sections could prosper and develop. The country could not progress and development would not take place until all the sections did not progress in a uniform manner, she pointed out. She said that she had demanded from the Government of India to provide reservation facility to the poor people of the upper caste so that their poverty can be removed to some extent. She said that she wanted to implement similar system in Gujarat as well, so that people here could also develop and progress ahead. The C.M. said that it was only our party which could prop up the country as it did not believe in discrimination and partiality. Some important decisions taken in U.P. prove that only BSP could improve the lot of the people of the State. She said that the BSP had come to power in U.P. for the fourth time and this time it was a clear majority. Welcoming media men, she said that the positive results of the U.P. experiment should be given proper publicity in the media at the national level. The Cabinet Minister Mr. Satish Mishra, Cabinet Secretary Mr. Shashank Shekhar Singh, Secretary and Director Information Mr. Diwakar Tripathi and other officers were present on the occasion. ***

BSP will do well in Lok Sabha polls

Bangalore: The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) will win at least 70 out of the 80 seats in Uttar Pradesh in the next parliamentary elections and have an important say in the formation of the Government at the Centre, according to Veer Singh, MPand general secretary of the party.
Speaking at a function organised here on Saturday to induct members of the Brahmin, Reddy, Lingayat and Gowda communities into the BSP, he said that Mayawati stood a good chance of becoming Prime Minister as well. The BSP was gaining strength in Karnataka too where the Congress and the BJP had “proved to be no different from each other” and the JD(S) “changes its colours every now and then” in pursuit of power, said Mr. Singh. BSP’s experiment of embracing people from all castes had paid off in the “UP lab” and the trend was catching up everywhere

GULBARGA: A delegation of 60 farmers from 24 taluks of four districts of the Hyderabad Karnataka region will visit villages in Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh to study the success stories of farmers who had adopted cow-based natural farming in the fields.

State BSP president B. Gopal said the party was being strengthened in Karnataka and he was confident that the party would do well in the next Assembly elections using the same formula that enabled it to record a thumping victory in Uttar Pradesh. “We will also open our account in the municipal elections,” he said.
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Mayawati Kumari
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mayawati Naina Kumari (b. January 15, 1956, Delhi) is an Indian politician, and the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. She is the president of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), and is widely perceived as the architect of the stunning BSP victory in the Uttar Pradesh Elections, 2007. Earlier, she had been the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh three times, briefly during 1995 and 1997, and from 2002 to 2003 with support from the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Mayawati is the first Dalit woman to become the Chief Minister of any of India's states[2]. She belongs to Jatav caste which is at the upper-end of the Dalit caste hierarchy in Uttar Pradesh. Although her politics started with a Dalit platform, she has been increasingly reaching out to Brahmins and other upper castes, and her 2007 victory in assembly elections has been widely hailed as a result of such caste rainbow policies[3].
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayawati
http://www.freeindia.org/biographies/narayanaguru/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._R._Ambedkar

How to stop Mayawatibecoming PM?
COMRADE AYYANKALI
There are enough indications about a global economic crisis which India will never be able to escape. The ruling upper castes are literally foaming in the mouth, going mad and losing sleep over how to stop Mayawati from becoming PM. Even without becoming PM, Mayawati has managed to initiate private sector reservations and now YSR’s Congress Govt. in AP is also copying Mayawati.
But despite all these stunts, all “national” parties including CPM, BJP as well as Congress are going to face a shock defeat in the coming parliament polls. Our Aryan apartheid savarna chauvinist Bhoodevata heroes will then get pneumonia, loose motion, heart attack as well as mental shock — all at the same time. When the global economic crisis also adds to their shock, they will simply panic and clamp down a naked Brahminical dictatorship with the help of RSS and army. In the beginning, however, they may talk of things like all-party unity govt. but when they develop serious differences they will clamp a dictatorship since they will not be able to face the verdict of democracy in which the Hindus don’t believe. The Outlook magazine’s Bombay office was attacked on Aug.14 by the Shiv Sena. In South India, VHP swamis are openly advocating violence to “save Rama Sethu”. Several metro-born youth are saying that they will emigrate to Canada or Australia if Mayawati becomes PM.
What do all these signs indicate? It is clearly leading to varna yudha or civil war which DV has already predicted. Under the pretext of curbing the violence, which will be unleashed by the savarnas themselves, they will clam a naked Brahminical dictatorship. It will be social anarchy plus economic chaos. The likely implementation of the Srikrishna Commission Report may even lead to riots in Bombay.
That is why we must lose no time to get prepared to defend ourselves. There will be total massive social and economic chaos if we use “caste identity” theory in Indian Army, BARC and ISRO.
http://www.dalitvoice.org/Templates/sep_a2007/articles.htm
New York (Ambedkartimes Bureau): In New York, India’s Independence Day Parade was held on Sunday, the 19th August, 2007. Indians attended the parade from far off places. The credit for taking the float of Baba Sahib Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, the first of its kind in the world history, goes to Shri Guru Ravidass Sabha (New York) and the Sangat. Their participation in India’s 60th Independence Day Parade has reminded the sacrifices made by Baba Sahib Bhim Rao Ambedkar. For the Dalits of India, celebration of two days (26th Jan. and Aug 15) is of utmost importance. It was on January 26th that Baba Sahib presented the Constitution of India (written with great efforts) to Rajinder Parsad Ji then the President of India. After the Independence Day (August 15th) the constitution came into effect on January 26th, 1950 and we got the chance to live freely in free India. While presenting the constitution in Parliament, Baba Sahib Ji said, “If this constitution will not be implemented honestly by Manuvadi Governments, then I will be the first who will burn it”. Even though the Indian constitution has not been implemented fully by the Manuvadi Governments, the day is not far when this ‘Golden Constitution’ which is praised all over the world, will be implemented. This parade has not only made the Indians but the Americans as well to know about Baba Sahib. People from tri-state also distributed literature with the message that by now they have woken up. Their message was clear that they do not want a separate state in India, what they want is to implement the constitution in letter and spirit by following the teachings of Dr. Ambedkar. By uniting on one platform, Dalits from far and near have set up an example that they are not dependent on anyone now. Before Independence, they say that they were under dual subjugation: Britishers and the Brahmanical landlords. The Float of Baba Sahib was so tastefully decorated for the first time in America, that all were praising. The spectators were quite impressed with the float that was made up by volunteers themselves. This unity of Dalits in New York was unseen before 19th August parade. Dalits of New York have told the world that now they are subjugated to none is it in India or abroad. On the completion of its 250 years, the Columbia University of New York conferred the Degree of Father of Modern India on Dr. Ambedkar.
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S. Singha Choudhury, Ramakrishna Polley, Danesh Sk. Lane PO, Howrah - 711 109: This is a reply to Vidhata Bache’s Letter (May 16, 2007 p. 24) crying foul against the DV website from its devout readers and writers. To reply effectively such a social ignoramus as Bache, who comfortably pass their time in sweet sleep not only for the last 50 years but from millennium, is so difficult and yet so important.
(1) Such letters like Bache’s are more important and deserve attention as typical of upper caste attitude. They think caste system has been going well since vedic time as it is ordained by god, their god but Dalits’ tormentor. Most of the educated Brahmins are like Bache. Read the Annihilation of Caste by Dr. Ambedkar to open your limited vision. He must know the caste system is based on hatred, the hatred he so acutely complains of and the hatred ordained by Hinduism (Brahminism) is for the benefit of the Brahmins.
(2) The Brahmins are moulded by the idea of Hinduism which means casteism, and casteism only, for the absolute benefit of only Brahmins. Because the system is old, very old and living only in India, it is believed the caste system is ideal and harmonious and allows all to live under it with peace of mind and happiness. There was no protest against it from the Brahmins. On the contrary, the history of India is the history of abominable upper caste tyranny over the low castes. It is not written because as Hegel said India has no history because it has the caste system. Tyranny here is taken as normal and natural order as ordained by god.
(3) Hinduism has given a trash of morality: don’t hate others’ prosperity achieved by good works in previous births. This morality has been enforced by brutal punishment on low castes, which could not show the least of the littlest inclination under the iron rod held high over their head to break it to rise from hell. So a make-believe has been made: how a community can progress by hating (other community) i.e. how Dalits can progress by hating Brahmins, though the Brahmins community always hates them.
(4) If Brahmins can progress not only by hating, depriving Dalits of their dues through sheer fraud, cunning, chicanery and dishonesty, why Dalits, the majority, can’t? The fact is the Dalit can’t progress without undoing Brahmin privileges, which are heavy blockades against Dalit aspiration. Look, how the Brahmins are sore against reservation knowing full-well there is no alternative to it.
(5) If there is, why the Brahmin rule over the years since “independence” failed to adopt it for the benefit of the Dalit?
(6) The Brahmins are not only living, they are the only section of India’s society which is progressing both absolutely and relatively. Bache should read not only reports of Mandal Commission but other accounts given by other authorities.
(7) The Dalits are not just 20 of the total population of India. They are 85% or more. Only the Untouchable Dalits are 20% of our population. Bache is raw, woefully novice. He needs to be educated.
(8) Bache is blissfully ignorant of how a society can progress. No progress is possible without removing bottlenecks against such a progress. It is the Brahmins and their Brahminism which are the formidable bottleneck against this progress. Because Brahminism has no patriotism, no love for the people of the country because the caste system is based on hatred, not love. The slave is tolerated so long as he complacently goes on as slave. The Brahmins are the worst casteist in the sense they will never, ever agree to break the stranglehold of casteism. On the other hand the Dalits are casteist in the sense they hate the caste system as it is and ready to break it.
(9) The tone and temper of regret of Bache’s are the same as they are of whole upper castes. They have an ideal, abstract picture of India created by their own intellectuals that India is a country of peace, harmony and natural cooperation between diverse castes and communities. They rue the disappearance of that sort of society of India where the low caste Hindus and the Muslim share-croppers took their low places silently in the upper caste house-holds to offer their pranams to the Hindu lords from some distance of the porches of the lords. They swallowed the humiliation, insult, fun and numerous other foibles of moods without a syllable of protest breaking out from their lips. Tagore noted this and moaned.
(10) The Brahminic thought (or escape from thought) as leader of the thought-world in India, created such an illusory ambience that the intellectuals (bred in it) could discuss (whatever the depth) any theme on earth except caste, which they assumed as no problem at all and would automatically go and vanish. Some pontificated “caste as dead as do-do” with unspelt out “hai hai” locked in lips, if of course they were Brahmins. If anybody out of temerity referred to caste as evil, the fashionable intellectual circle of upper castes jeered him down as out-dated. In fact, low-caste intellectuals were louder to defend the modern lore only to keep the company of upper caste circle often times than the Brahmins/Brahminised intellectuals. Nehru, the supreme Brahmin intellectual, is more responsible to create this trend of concealing caste as the dominant villain. He used to avoid the long, castigating, sarcastic swipe of Lohia inside and outside Parliament at him and to Brahmins in general. Who could join issue with him? The embarrassed defeat they would take as their glorious victory in abashed silence.
(11) Brahmin intellectuals have formed an irremediable habit of taking a caste as “a nationality”. The usual mode of reference to any caste by any other caste is rendered “they” in opposition to “us”. Even young intellectuals of today refer to SCs etc like this: “They” do not like to go to school, they like to remain secluded, “they” like their superstition, even their caste position as divinely ordained and hence it is no transgressable/supersedeable. The UNDP programme I attended last at Hyderabad University (the organisers no longer invite me for unknown reasons. One of m friends who attended the programme told me aside, outside the hall, you dominate the pogramme, they did not like it). I noted that even budding intellectuals of upper castes regard Dalit problem as “their problems”, not a national problem.
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Sindhia Inaugurates Campaign for Municipal Elections at Anekal on 16th Sept.2007

P.G.R. Sindhia
Bangalore: The former Minister and senior Janata Dal (Secular) leader P.G.R. Sindhia, who caused a flutter sometime ago by challenging the JD(S) leadership, has now joined the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP).
I campaign for BSP candidates in the elections to the urban local bodies, as I will a part of the BSP.”

There are many other leaders in the Bharatiya Janata Party, the Congress and the JD(S) who are in touch with BSP leaders. One of them is the former Health Minister H.C. Mahadevappa, who is part of the Siddaramaiah group, which shifted its allegiance to the Congress.

Discussions on

BSP general secretary in charge of Karnataka, Veer Singh, MP, has been in the State for holding discussions with several political leaders although they are unlikely to take the plunge before the term of the current Assembly ends.

Performance of The Uttar Pradesh Government

C.M. constituted 6-member committee for suggestion of pending cases in the High Court
Directives issued to complete pending works of Dr. Ambedkar villages by December 31 at all costs

Mayawati to develop gram sabhas

Work to be staggered in five phases beginning January 2008

Separate scheme for the 23 urban-based constituencies soon

UP suspends 12 IPS officers, 6500 cops sacked Tuesday, September 11 2007 21:05(IST

C.M. directs officers to take stringent action against rioters

30,000 from U.P for Haj

C.M. imposes ban on elections of student unions
“They disrupt studies in the classroom”

“Create law and order problems

Lucknow: The United States plans to set up an office here to assist on issues like such as commercial, cultural and emergency counselling and act as a communication platform, a senior diplomat of the country said here on Thursday.

Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh Government has suspended an Additional Superintendent of Police for his alleged role in the smuggling of woods, official sources said.

The force is deployed in six districts of the State

Two lakh houses to be constructed for the poor

Bio-fertiliser unit to be established in Lucknow

Travel time between Eastern U.P. and Western U.P. to be cut short by 16 hours

Lucknow : September05, 2007 The Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Km. Mayawati has said that a 1000 km.-long ultra modern expressway would be constructed on the banks of river Ganga. This would be first of its kind in the world. The 'Eastern U.P. (Varanasi-Ballia) to western U.P. (NOIDA) Ganga expressway would link Ballia with NOIDA. This 8-lane expressway costing about Rs. 40,000 crore would be constructed by using the latest technology and it would have all the modern facilities as well. She said that to translate the project into reality, work would begin very soon. After the completion of this project the travel time would be cut short to eight hours only which is at present 20-24 hrs. This would save the time as well as the fuel of vehicles. After a visually-aided presentation of the project at her 5-Kalidas Marg residence here today, the Chief Minister, addressing a press conference said that the decision to construct the project had been taken with a view to create a network of world-class roads in the State so that the people could be benefited by fast moving travel system. The State Government has included creation of development-oriented atmosphere in its top priorities. Moreover, creation of employment opportunities is not possible without developing infrastructure. Therefore, while deciding the priorities of infrastructure to ensure all-round development, giving a boost to sectors like energy, employment infrastructure development centres, world-level infrastructure of roads, excellent transport system, agriculture and urban regeneration has also been emphasised. Giving information to the media persons, Km. Mayawati, said on the occasion that the expressway would originate from Ballia and pass through Varanasi, Allahabad, Pratapgarh, Unnao, Shahjahanpur, Badaun, Bulandshahr and link NOIDA with Poorvanchal. It would have world class latest amenities like petrol pumps, telephones booths, cybercafés, food-courts and emergency medical facilities etc. This expressway would be constructed by building flood control embankments on river Ganga. This multi-purpose and ambitious project would benefit entrepreneurs, traders, citizens and people of the rural areas among others. It would ensure rapid development of the backward areas situated on the left bank of river Ganga. She said that after the completion of the project the economic and social development would get a new dimension. The C.M. said that keeping an eye on the uniform development of the backward areas situated on the left bank of river Ganga, the State Government intends to complete the multi-purpose project in quick time. The allround development of Poorvanchal was the first and foremost commitment of the Government, she pointed out. This project would remove the regional imbalances and benefit farmers, labourers, unemployed youths and other sections of the society, she said. Expressway's connectivity with Delhi would open new vistas for the unemployed youths of the State, because a large number of Business Process Outsourcing (B.P.O.s) and IT industries would set up their units here she added. Km. Mayawati said that the major benefit accruing from this project would be that it would drastically cut short the distance between the far-flung areas of eastern U.P. and Delhi. Smooth plying of vehicles had become very difficult because of uncontrolled entry of vehicles on the roads and a large variety of vehicles. This had sent the State's transport system into disarray, adversely affecting the State's business activities, as constant impediments caused delay, increase fuel consumption and transport cost and the goods start decaying as well. This project would benefit the entrepreneurs and traders by cutting down, both travel time and fuel expenses. The project would also help in re-energising the traditional industries based in areas like Bhadohi, Kannauj and Khurja etc. and also help the weavers and craftsmen to improve their economic condition effectively. Besides, it would also ensure revival of ancient and historic cities like Mirzapur, Bithur etc. situated on the bank of river Ganga. The C.M. said that proposals for linking other prominent cities of the State like Agra, Jhansi, Lucknow, Gorakhpur, Saharanpur, Banvasa etc. with this expressway were also under consideration. Detailed proposals were being prepared, so that the pace of development could be accelerated and U.P. could become a frontline and prosperous State of the country. Km. Mayawati said that the setting up of the industrial areas along with the 'Eastern U.P. (Varanasi-Balia) to Western U.P. (NOIDA) Ganga Expressway Project was also proposed. This would ensure rapid economic development of the area on one hand, while on the other it would provide employment opportunities to a large number of youths in the region. This expressway would also provide opportunities to the farmers to transport their crops, especially those which decay quickly, to Delhi and other remote markets in a considerably short time. This would help them increase their income and their crops would also not decay. The C.M. said that the project would ensure all-round development of Poorvanchal. The project would have dual benefits as it would ensure smooth transport facilities on one hand, while on the other it would stop erosion of land and save lakhs of hectares of cultivable land. A large number of people residing in villages situated on the banks of river Ganga and facing the fury of floods year after year would be the biggest beneficiaries of this project. The present U.P. Government was making efforts for the progress of backward areas by removing regional imbalances. In this regard, the Chief Minister had met the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh on July 20 last and demanded a special package of Rs. 80,000 crore for t