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Martin Luther King`s Dream Heralds Thundering Spring Obmania!
Troubled Galaxy Destroyed Dreams: Chapter 54
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The first known inhabitants of modern-day United States territory are believed to have arrived over a period of several thousand years beginning sometime prior to 15,000 years ago by crossing the Bering land bridge into Alaska. Solid evidence of these cultures settling in what would become the US is dated to at least 14,000 years ago.[

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I have been supporting Barrack Obama since the Day first.

For me, Martin Luther King`s Dream Heralds Thundering Spring Obmania!

I believe in History!

I believe in ideology!

I believe in Science!

I believe in the future of the indigenous communities, the real Mainstream of the life on this planet.

I support Barrack Obama because he belongs to the Main stream of black untouchables. His date with History is reminiscent to the dream of Martin Luther king!

My vision is made of historical and scientific analysis, I humbly claim!

Despite the fact that US Democrat presidential candidate Barrack Obama opened the Pandora's box in his acceptance speech in the early morning hours on Friday when he announced that there will be no tax sops for companies that outsource work out of the country, I don`t repent for my stance!

I may not forget the Aboriginal history of this World! from which our black brothers have emerged like Phoenix immortal making and proving themselves the mainstream of the most powerful Geopolitics in this Galaxy!

I may not forget the colonisation of Americas, Africa and Asia!

I may not forget the Imperialist Adventures by Columbus, Captain Cook and Vasco De Gama and the resultant ethnic cleansing continuous since then!

I may not forget Spartacus and martin Luther King!

Thus, despite knowing that no American President is allowed to overlap Americanism, American interests linked with Zionism, I have to support Barrack Obama! He is the symbol of the Black Brotherhood worldwide which proves its Indigenous potentials only in Olympic games!

I may not forget the social fabrics and realities inflicted by Caste System and Apartheid worldwide!

I want to remind you friends of the Industrialisation we have been habitual just three decades back. Mind you, our people , the Black Untouchables worldwide have been victimised by Industrialisation, Urbanisation, Colonisation and Imperialism from the first day of Capitalism! We bear the legacy of continuous Resistance! Continuous Insurrection! Continuous Annihilation!

Capitalism targets to grab all human and natural resources whatsoever cost may have to be paid for!

Just read the Wessex Novels written by Thomas Hardy!

Just read Charles Dickens!

I have written earlier how I was spellbound with the personalities of Abraham Lincoln, George Washington and john Kennedy!

Later, I read all the bloody principles and doctrines of American Presidents! I agree that Barrack Obama might prove a worse Imperialist than George Bush! Only for this assumption, I may not dare to support the Hindutva campaign to deny the Black aboriginal indigenous People of the world the opportunity to prove that they are the components of Main Stream! They may rise above the Cutt OFF line of History.

Thus, US Elections are not a constitutional affair for me. It involves the basic questions of enlightenment, awakening, organisation, empowerment, participation and sharing! It involves the Dream to change! And it happens to be the dream of Martin Luther king!

Moreover, we oppose the US Zionist corporate Imperialism and its Weapon mass destruction Economy. We recognise the democracy ensured for the Citizens of America, which is proved time and again and which has made it possible that today, Barrack Obama has a date with the history.

We respect the Human Right Activists , Peace Activists and green Activists of America who lead the global Resistance!

We recognise the role played by the Civil Society and intelligentsia in America during Vietnam War and Iraq War!

We may not forget the Anti Imperialism Resistance led by our American Friends!

I was reading all the details of Anti War movement in America during Vietnam War in my Village Basantipur in the Terai of Nainital. my Fater Late Pulin Kumar Biswas had subscribed Dainik Basumati edited by no one else but a legendary Journalist like Vivekanand Mukhopadhyaya. I was aware of the slogan, My name is viet Nam, Your name is Viet Nam!

Then, we witnessed how President Johnson was dislodged and Ronald Reagan took over. I had already landed in DSB college while Watergate episode unfolded.

Then we may not forget the Impeachment against Bill Clinton involved with Monica Lewinsky!

Details of earlier industrialisation worldwide have been documented well in History as well as literature!

But in India, Industrialisation was introduced with a lot of sharing and participation under British Rule! It was the first opportunity to break the sickles of Manusmriti as Indigenous communities got entry in Army as well as Industries breaking the age old caste system! Job Mobilisation was possible to break away with Dark Age! Our Gandhian and socialist Ideologues construct their logic on indigenous production system and self sufficient rural society without addressing the Manusmriti struck social realities and the untouchable black productive forces! The irony is that those who happened to be up against Industrialisation and urbanisation, the hypocrite Marxists, The Gandhian carbides and the Socialist Oxides never oppose the colonisation under neo liberal globalisation as the Brahminical Hegemony interests are adequately protected by the Zionist Hindu white Post Modern Manusmriti Galaxy Order run by US Corporate Imperialism!

Our people, the indigenous black untouchables felt a touch of liberation in Industrialisation under British Rule.Specially in Bengal,where untouchability was banned long before Dr Ambedkar launched Abolish untouchability Movement thanks to the Matuas led by Harichand Thakur.

Thus, only due to the strategic annihilation policies of the Ruling policy in India, some of our learned friends related to subaltern Ideology feel that English is the language of Empowerment. only for the sake of job mobilisation they tend to support indiscriminate Industrialisation and never believe the Brahminical resistance hegemony! Unfortunately, they tend to support Imperialism, MNCs, Hindutva, Zionism, Colonisation,Fascism and Globalisation!

I am afraid to say that those pro Imperialist friends fail to study History, Ideology and science and create such a mess to continue such an inherent division and partition amongst us to disintegrate our Power as Mainstream!

See, how the Republicans project the face of the new strategic re alliance of Hindutva Zionism and white dominance with Bobby Jindal as vice Presidential candidate to rally the racial support!

We must be aware of the fact that they have stopped Maywati and they may stop Barrack Obama also!
Permanent land settlement system was the lifeline for elite Brahmins. Hindus as well as Muslim peasants with the sizable tribal population lost their land and remained farm labourers. New industries opened the doors of opportunities. Thus, the Jute Mills, Cotton Mills and tea gardens accommodated not only the Bengali SC ST OBC and Minorities but these classes belonging to UP, Bihar including Jharkhand, Orissa and southern states got job there on large scale. This bulk of population was liberated from Caste System!Mind you, the Rickshaw Pullers and Coolies from Jehanabad or Gaya continue to stay in Bengal just not only for their livelihood, but it is for their life`s sake also. they are predestined to be killed by the private armies of land lords on caste line in one or another massacre!

Jute, Cotton and Tea not only accommodated the Human Resources of the indigenous communities, but the small peasants also had a rare opportunity for supply of Raw material in those industries. The produce was also consumed by the same geopolitics. Thus, it proved to be benevolent and indigenous people felt empowered with those industries! The Black Untouchables were having their schools. It was the first opportunity of enlightenment which produced personalities like Jyoti Ba Phule, Savitri Phule, Periyar, Dr Ambedkar and Jogendra Nath Mandal. Since the High Castes in Bengal had always opposed job Mobilisation quoting indigenous production system and self sufficient economy as depicted in Gana Devta by Tara Shankar Mukhopaddhyaya, since the high castes always deprived the indigenous communities of the dignity of a human being and the opportunity of enlightenment and awakening, the knowledge, our people never involved in so called Freedom struggle of Zamindars and High Castes in the same way as the elite caste Hindus never supported the Peasant and indigenous insurrection including the first struggle of independence in 1857.

Industrialisation in neo Liberal era is never meant for the indigenous communities. They won`t get the skilled computerized numbered jobs anywhere despite reservation and quota! Black untouchables are displaced , uprooted and looted in Free India by the Ruling class on the name of Industrialisation, urbanisation and development! land Acquisition Act is misused in the best interests of the MNCs! Coast Line security act, Mining and Mine safety Act and all environment acts, RTI everything is violated to feed the capitalists.

SEZ, Nuclear Parks, Retail Chain, shopping Malls, Housing Colonies, Health centres, Multiplexes, Flyover, Metro and Aviation Links, IT, Chemical Hubs, Infrastructures, Power Projects, Big dams.. everything is meant for the Ruling class having adequate purchasing power with VISA, MASTER, Credit cards!

SEZ has a protection umbrella against taxation which creates deficit in the public revenue and the general public consisting of majority SC, ST, OBC and minorities have to pay for it. They never get the high profile jobs but they are destined to pay for the Pay Scale Hikes and Price rise and Inflation!

SEZ has the rare concession of Hundred percent Export. Local or any consumer in the geopolitics s may not get the product until imported. If some percentage of the product has to be catered in Indian markets, it is meant for the ruling Class as the much hyped NANO is destined!

The ruling Hegemony has killed the constitution and all democratic institutions! Laws are amended to protect the interests of the MNCs only. For example, the chemical law has no provision of Zero Pollution which is the characteristics all over Europe and Americas! Labour laws and company laws are changed abruptly. Citizenship Act is amended to make the NRI anti Indians bonafied Indians and deport the partition victim indigenous communities!

Our people have to be the bonded Peasants or bonded labour!

Our people have to be ejected out of retail market.

Our Natural Resources the water sources and the Jungles, the minerals are to be captured by MNCs. Our Ocean has become the War zone. Our Nationalities are used for target practice!

For whom is this Industrialisation is meant for?
is our Economy rely only on Out sourcing and IT industries and thus we have to react against barrack Obama!

With this, Obama has touched the raw nerve of many American citizens who have ostensibly lost out on jobs due to their being shipped to India.So when India woke up on Friday and caught on to the Democratic Presidential candidate's power speech, there were nervous exchanges of what Obama's anti-sourcing pitch could have meant or not meant.Infosys quarters started ringing with the reaction on how in a globalised world, outsourcing is a realty. HR Director of Infosys, Mohandas Pai said his company will wait and watch.According to the nation's premier IT lobbying association NASSCOM, "Obama probably meant manufacturing and not software. US companies themselves will back outsourcing. NASSCOM President Som Mittal said US companies would find the right balance, but having worked with us in the past, most companies increase their competitiveness when they work with India.

Earlier on August 26, Hillary Clinton's Speech at the Democratic National Convention had similar overtones. "We need to elect Barack Obama because we need a President who understands that America can't compete in a global economy by padding the pockets of energy speculators, while ignoring the workers whose jobs have been shipped overseas."

Forty-five years ago Thursday, Americans listened as civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. described his dream of justice and racial equality.

King delivered his now-famous "I Have a Dream" speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial at the end of a massive protest march through the nation's capital on August 28, 1963. He warned that, 100 years after the end of slavery, African-Americans were still "crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination."

In his speech, the civil rights leader detailed the suffering caused by racism in the United States, and he warned that African-Americans would no longer put up with second-class treatment.

But the speech also was seen as an affirmation of core American values. Vowing never to give up hope, King said he believed that "one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed" that all people are created equal.

At least 200,000 people marched through Washington, D.C. for the 1963 protest, called the March for Jobs and Freedom. They listened to speeches by civil rights leaders and performances by folk musicians like Bob Dylan and Joan Baez.

One year later, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, prohibiting segregation and re-affirming African-American voting rights.

Thursday, Barack Obama will formally accept the Democratic party's nomination for president. Obama is the first African-American major party presidential candidate, and his speech, coming on the anniversary of King's famous address, will be closely watched.

Obama on course for history date
K.P. NAYAR
Denver, Aug. 28: History will be made in America tonight when a person of colour accepts the presidential nomination of a major political party for the first time since the founding of the United States of America.

But history will be made for other reasons too. Barack Obama will accept the mantle of his party’s nomination exactly on the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington.

That stirring speech before a quarter million mass in 1963 became the clarion call of the civil rights movement, the culmination of which will be Obama’s candidacy for the highest office in the US, a dream that will come true tonight for millions of Americans.

It is an irony of history that Obama will realise King’s dream during a week that also marks the 88th anniversary of the 19th amendment to the US constitution that gave women the right to vote.

It is an irony because Obama’s presidential nomination is at the expense of the only woman who made a serious bid for the White House and lost it narrowly. Hillary Clinton’s lost cause would have realised the dreams of millions of American women who fought for decades against the discrimination of being denied their franchise.

Last evening when Obama’s nomination was passed by acclamation at the Democratic National Convention here, there were many black men and women among the delegates who had been refused service in white-owned grocery stores or not allowed to move into neighbourhoods populated by white families.

Many of them teared up when Nancy Pelosi, the chairwoman of the convention, announced the result of a voice vote on Obama’s nomination and then danced along the aisles of the Pepsi Centre here to Love Train, a 1973 No.1 pop song about unity by the Philadelphia soul group, 'Jays.

Hundreds of women delegates openly wept when Hillary sought an end to the state-by-state roll call which had her name on the nomination.When it was the turn of her home state of New York to vote on her nomination — along with Obama’s — Hillary took the mike and declared: “In the spirit of unity, with the goal of victory, let us declare together in one voice, right here, right now, that Barack Obama is our candidate.”

The entire scripted process in healing intra-party divisions was an exercise that squabbling politicians in other countries could learn from.

Hillary, who was close second to Obama in the Democratic primary contests, wanted her supporters to have their voice heard at the convention. So they wore Hillary pins and head scarves, sported placards declaring their support for her lost cause and demonstrated outside the convention on the streets of Denver.

When the New York Senator spoke at the convention on Tuesday, her supporters would not let her start her address because they cheered and cheered on their feet without a break.

And the party decided that her name would be on the nomination and a roll call would be taken among the delegates. Early yesterday, however, Hillary released her delegates from their commitment to vote for her, but she did not tell them how to vote. Hillary herself said she would vote for Obama.

In in an impassioned speech, she reasoned why every Democrat should now support Obama wholeheartedly. And when New York’s name was announced for the roll call, Hillary gracefully ended her dream of moving back into the White House — at least for now — by asking for an end to the process.

Last night also saw the rehabilitation of Bill Clinton among the Democratic Party faithful after he was severely criticised during the primaries for disaparaging Obama, bringing race into the campaign and generally lowering the tone of the primaries.

But last night, Democrats forgave their party’s most successful President in recent memory after he made what was probaly the strongest case by any speaker at the four-day convention for electing Obama.

His speech was a testimony to Clinton’s oratorical skills: eloquently, he told the Democrats the exact opposite of what he has been saying all along the primary season, but his audience roared in adulatory approval.
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Witnesses to King’s ‘Dream’ see new hope
MICHAEL POWELL

Martin Luther King Jr delivers his “I Have a Dream” speech in Washington DC on August 28,1963
Denver, Aug. 28: She figured this dream for dead so many decades ago.

Dezie Woods-Jones plans to stand with her California delegation in a stadium here and listen to Barack Obama, the first black major-party presidential nominee in the nation’s history, give his acceptance speech. Woods-Jones, now in her 60s, is one of a tiny handful of delegates who on the same day in 1963, August 28, stood with hundreds of thousands at the March on Washington and heard a young minister, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., deliver his soaring “I Have a Dream” speech.

“I was young, naive enough to think I would see that in 5, 10 years,” she said. “Then you see leaders killed, you see police brutality, residential segregation in cities. About 10 years ago I thought: I won’t see this. This is something for my grandchildren.”

She paused, her eyes now red-rimmed. “What to say except, ‘Oh, hallelujah!’ ” she said. “We have a lot of work, a lot, but we are so much closer than I expected.”

These veterans of the March on Washington are the living connective tissue to the America of 1963, when the police in some cities and towns still beat blacks with truncheons, and the story of their journey is as complicated as race itself.

At least five veterans of that march travelled to Denver this week as Democratic delegates, among them Representative John Lewis of Georgia, who is the last man alive of the 10 who spoke that day at the Lincoln Memorial.

This son of sharecroppers, who was almost beaten to death by police officers in Selma, Alabama, when he marched with civil rights activists across a bridge, stood on a sun-splashed street in Denver and considered the distance travelled.

His bald head still bears near half-century-old scars.

“We’ve had disappointments since then, but if someone told me I would be here,” Lewis said, shaking that head. “When people say nothing has changed, I feel like saying: ‘Come walk in my shoes.’ ”

Many veterans of the march will gather at televisions in their living rooms or sit with friends and old comrades and watch an event they would have considered impossible not just in 1963, but perhaps in 1983, or 1993. Theirs is often a cautious optimism; time has left them with a sense of the provisional nature of progress.

David R. Jones, now president of the Community Service Society in New York, recalled milling about in Washington in 1963, a 15-year-old there with classmates from a lefty school in Manhattan. Then King began to speak, and they fell quiet. “I never saw that kind of a speech,” Jones said. He was transported. But the years ahead often cast a deep shadow. Jones, who is black, was beaten by the side of the road in Maine. He fought for decades to integrate middle-class housing developments and saw young whites wave watermelons at black marchers in Brooklyn.

New York Times News Service

Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I Have a Dream"

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I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.

But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.

In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the "unalienable Rights" of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds."

But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.

We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.

It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.

The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.

We cannot walk alone.

And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead.

We cannot turn back.

There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their self-hood and robbed of their dignity by a sign stating: "For Whites Only." We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until "justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream."¹

I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. And some of you have come from areas where your quest -- quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.

Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends.

And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today!

I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

I have a dream today!

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; "and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together."²

This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with.

With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.

And this will be the day -- this will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning:

My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.

Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim's pride,

From every mountainside, let freedom ring!

And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.

And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.

Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.

Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.

Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.

But not only that:

Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.

Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.

Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.

From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:

Free at last! Free at last!

Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!³

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¹ Amos 5:24 (rendered precisely in The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible)

² Isaiah 40:4-5 (King James Version of the Holy Bible). Quotation marks are excluded from part of this moment in the text because King's rendering of Isaiah 40:4 does not precisely follow the KJV version from which he quotes (e.g., "hill" and "mountain" are reversed in the KJV). King's rendering of Isaiah 40:5, however, is precisely quoted from the KJV.

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Amid the reports of Flood Riots in Bihar and Singur Stand Off in Bengal ,Our old Friend, the Robin Hood of Jharkhan, Disham Guru Shibu Soren has become the chief Minister of Jharkhand crossing across so many controversies the Indian Nation is quite aware of. Now Jharkhand Mukti Morcha is a ruling party after all. The party which spearheaded the Jaharkhand Nationality Movement once upon a time. Whereas in Orissa, communal flare up continues.
Hardening its posture, the Trinamool Congress ruled out any compromise with the West Bengal government or the Tata on Singur issue, threatening to intensify the agitation and take it to the doorstep of the state secretariat.

"Return 400 acres and we will leave Singur. But we will not bow our heads to the CPM and the Tatas and for that I am ready to sacrifice my life," Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee, who is on an indefinite dharna outside the Tata Motors plant since August 24 told a gathering.

"I am still holding my patience. It is not a movement by any political party but a farmer's movement. We have already agreed that the main factory of the plant will be set up on 600 acres. How much more blood of farmers do they want?" she asked.

Commenting on the concern expressed over the obstruction of movement of trucks as traffic on Durgapur Expressway, the busiest freight corridor in the state, remained paralaysed for the fourth day today due to Trinamool Congress's dharna in Singur, Banerjee said, "The government is now holding brief for the truck operators after looking after the interests of the Tatas."

"One road has been closed. Next it is turn of Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacherjee's doors to the Writer's Buildings (state secretariat) to be closed," she said.

She said instead of two-hour road blockade across the state beginning 3 pm on Friday it would be one-hour road blockade from 4 pm. "The step was taken considering the people's inconvenience in mind", she said.

With Bihar reeling under devastating floods, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will undertake a day-long aerial survey tomorrow of the worst-affected areas to assess the damage caused by the swirling flood waters of major rivers in the state.

The Prime Minister will fly over North Bihar which has borne the worst brunt of the current spell of floods in the state leaving millions affected.

Singh's visit follows demands by Bihar leaders cutting across party lines that the Prime Minister must assess the situation himself and sanction enough Central funds to tide over the problem.

After making an aerial survey, Singh is scheduled to review the relief and rescue measures launched by the state government at a high-level meeting with senior officials.

A delegation of UPA parties in Bihar led by RJD chief Lalu Prasad had called on Singh yesterday to apprise him of the grim flood situation in state and seek a massive relief package from the Centre.

Besides requesting the Prime Minister to visit Bihar, Prasad had asked UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi to visit the state and take stock of the flood situation in large areas of the state.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has announced an additional assistance of Rs 250 crore to the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) and Rs 20 crore to Majuli, world's largest river island, during his two-day visit to the state.

Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said today that Dr Manmohan Singh had reviewed the entire gamut of issues concerning security, development and welfare of the people with him during his two-day visit, which ended on Tuesday, to his home constituency.

I am closely linked with these three states besides my home states Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh! my mother late Basanti Debi belonged to Baripada, Orissa. Partition victim Bengali Indigenous refugees form a significant part of Orissa population. Specially the SEZ drive in Paradip area is involved with deportation of our people. Coastal areas are also inhibited by our people. More over, historically Bengal, Orissa and Bihar with Jaharkhand formed single geopolitics in recent past. Even the United Province was included in British Presidency area!

I am accustomed to calamities. Our life is full of calamities. We worshipped all natural forces to face all these calamities. We worshipped totems as we were connected with nature. We still happen to be the people of the Past rather than those of the Present!

Past is never past for us. Past always overtakes our Present as well as our Future.
Our people inhibited the River zone of East Bengal until they were ejected out of their homeland. Thus , we share the legacy of Floods,Tsunami, Earth Quake, Famine, Starvation, Poverty ,Epidemics and all the calamities!

Our live contact with the nature always saved us as the aboriginal tribes in Andaman and Nicobar survived Tsunami. Our folk culture, deep rooted Natural livelihood and economy with abundance of Natural resources, our totems, Myths, superstitions and rituals saved us for thousands and thousands years.

We are a combined human scape and We always feel the warmth of underground Fire within us. The human scape is often submerged, flooded, inflicted with epidemics,cold wave, heatwave and other calamities, but we never cease to feel the underground fire! This fire enables us to resist the ruling class for time infinite. Indigenous communities survive all aggressions divine or human, with this underground fire only. Our People, thus, lead the anti imperialist War worldwide. All the indigenous people in Americas, Africa, Europe, Australia and Asia happen to be our blood relations as we are the Black untouchables.

I felt the Underground fire within as well as out while I landed in Jharia Coal Field! Since then, I am habitual to see all the indigenous people from Himalayas to the Down South being submerged with either Floods or Tsunami. We are depressed for time infinite. We are deprived for time infinite. We have been kept in darkness for ever. We are inherent of injustice and inequality. We are enslaved. We are the submerged United geopolitics of Black Untouchables!

But we have got the Underground fire within us! So they brand us as Demons, Dragons, Devils, Rakshas, Asurs, Terrorists, Extremists, Separatists, Anti Nationals,Maoists and so on whenever we stand United rock solid to defend Man and Nature, whenever we try to protect our property the natural Resources, whenever we demand for empowerment and awakening, enlightenment and share, participation in so called democracy, whenever we demand to recognise our identity and right of self determination!

They have their religion and all the holy scripts!

They have the Ruling Hegemony equipped with Military Gestapo!

They have their bloody New Galaxy Post Modern Manusmriti Apartheid Order run by corporate MNC Zionist White Hindu Imperialism.

They are habitual of making our home killing fields.

They have hands full of Blood.

They have minds full of Venom. They play Mind control game to finish us, our languages, our culture!

They use all the calamities against us to uproot us from life and liberty! Most of the calamities are Man made, masterminded to annihilate us and capture our natural resources, self sufficient sovereign Indigenous Production system.
They call it development!
They call it Urbanisation!
They call it Industrialisation.
They call it Infrastructure!
They brand it as SEZ, Chemical Hub, Nuclear Energy, Retail chain, Information explosion and reality show and so on!

They have all the weapons of Mass Destruction.. Nuclear, chemical, Biological..

They have complete dominance on our soul, our spirit, our livelihood, our life and beyond our life, our space, our galaxy!
They own all the Black Holes to send us there only!

Any flare up of the Under Ground fire sends off global alert and all the killing instinct combined, we are targeted! They call it war of Ideology! War of Culture! War against Terrorism. War against Maoism!

How do they work aligned!
just see!
Warning that 'fear psychosis' was being created to slow down projects of national interest, India's corporate leader Mukesh Amabni on Wednesday threw his lot behind Tata's Nano project in Singur saying industry and politicians need to work together.

"A fear psychosis is being created to slow down certain projects of national importance. This will be counter productive for the country's economic growth, its global image as well as our ability to attract investments from across the world," the Reliance Industries Chairman said in a statement.

Ambani called for the Indian industry and the political leadership to work together to meet aspirations of millions of Indians in urban and rural areas.

Justifying its stand on scrapping of SEZ projects in Goa, the state government has said the Centre has the power to denotify those which are not operational within the stipulated timeframe.

"During my talks with Union Commerce Minister Kamal Nath, he said that SEZ projects should be completed within a particular time or else the Centre has the power to denotify them," Chief Minister Digambar Kamat told the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday.

The Chief Minister said the State Government's stand on SEZs is very clear and there is no change in it.

12 SEZs have been scrapped in Goa while three zones are pending denotification. In all seven SEZ developers have filed cases in the Bombay High Court against the State Govenment-run Goa Industrial Development Corporation's (GIDC) move to issue show cause notice to them seeking to revoke allotted land.

Earlier, Leader of Opposition, Manohar Parrikar had alleged that government was not seriously applying its mind over getting rid of SEZs.

Parrikar had said he does not doubt government's intention but felt that it is not serious on implementation.

Replying to the contention, Kamat said that there will be no laxity in defending the cases against SEZs in the Court.

"We will engage best of lawyers in the country," he said.

Kamat also added that he would examine the possiblity whether GIDC can take back the land from SEZ developers under lease agreement.

Feel the striking Power of the Repressive ruling Hegemony!
Minister of State for Defence M M Pallam Raju on Wednesday said forces inimical to India were trying to disrupt the forthcoming elections in Jammu and Kashmir but asserted that the government was well prepared to neutralise any problem that may arise.

"The election process is on (in the state) and we expected that there will be attempts to disrupt the process and infiltration is part of that bid. But we are prepared as a nation to quell any problem that may arise," Raju told reporters on the sidelines of a defence seminar here.

"Forces that are behind the disruption want to show that they exist. We are taking all efforts to see that they do not get a upper hand and they will be neutralised," he said.

Stating that increase in infiltration and militant attacks were anticipated as this being an election year for J&K, Raju said there may be plans to disrupt the normal process of polling.

"That is why we are aware and prepared. It is unfortunate that this (militant attack) is happening. I hope that it will discontinue in the near future," he said.

Discounting the Amarnath controversy as a prime reason for the trouble the border state faced today, Raju said row had nothing to do with the increase in infiltration or the terror attacks. He said the terror attacks and infiltration bids are entirely to disrupt the elections slated for October this year.

"The Amarnath controversy has happened at a wrong time unfortunately. But it has nothing to do with it (infiltration and terror attacks)," the minister said.

Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday "firmly condemned" the violence in Orissa and called upon Indian religious and civil authorities "to work together to restore peaceful co-existence and harmony between the different religious communities!

What is the stance of the Secular UPA Centre?
Here you are!
In the wake of violence in Kandhamal and other districts of Orissa which claimed nine lives, Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil said no political party or group should be accused without proper evidence.

"Who has actually done it (killing of VHP leader Laxmanananda Saraswati or indulging in violence that followed) we have to find out. Some people say this party or this section of society having this kind of ideology has done it... Let it be decided," Patil told news channel Times Now.
"I have been in contact with the chief minister (of Orissa) and I have told him that the incident in which the Swami was killed has to be condemned. But it should not cause damage to others and it is the responsibility of the state government and all of us that different sections of society should not be attacked," Patil said.
Patil agreed that initial reports suggested involvement of Naxals in the killing of Saraswati but said, "Unless and until it is proved who has done it, acting against some section of society is wrong."
Saraswati, a VHP activist, had been active in the area for the last four decades.
The Home Minister informed that 20 companies of paramilitary and helicopters have been provided to Orissa to deal with the violence that continues to rock the state. Minister of State for Home Sri Prakash Jaiswal is visiting the state to take stock of the situation.
In the violence that followed the murder of Saraswati, at least nine people have lost their lives and several have been injured. Unofficial reports put the death toll at 14.
Fresh wave of communal violence hits Orissa 27 Aug 2008 14:05:00 GMT
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Orissa, a state of just under 40 million people in east India faces many development problems. It is one of the poorest states in India with almost half of its people living in poverty, it faces natural disasters such as flooding and drought on an annual basis, and now it is in the midst of communal violence that has seen at least 9 people killed over a three day period.
Orissa has suffered from communal tension between Hindus and Christians in the past but the current wave of violence has spread far wider than any previous incidents. The killing of an elderly Hindu religious leader and five of his followers in the district of Kandhamal late on Saturday night triggered the current violence. Despite Maoist rebels being blamed by the police for the killings many Hindu leaders are blaming Christians for the attack and as a result a severe backlash against Christian institutions, NGOs and communities has been witnessed over the past 2 days. Some of Trócaire's local partners have been caught up in the violence. Kandhamal has a history of communal violence, the most recent being last Christmas when at least 5 Christians were killed, hundreds of Christian owned houses and shops were destroyed, and many churches were attacked.
The entire state was brought to a standstill on Monday when a day long strike was called by supporters of the murdered Hindu leader. Fanatical mobs caused mayhem at will in many pockets of the state. In the capital city, Bhubaneswar, life was brought to a halt with all offices and shops closed and traffic forbidden to move. Anyone who ventured out risked facing the wrath of the mob and many people were injured as a result.
Churches and church-run institutions were and continue to be attacked at will across much of Orissa, not just in the Kandhamal area. The government has imposed a curfew in the worse affected areas and Rapid Action Force personnel have been deployed to several sensitive areas of Kandhamal. However, this action came too late for many. At least three people have been killed in the district and many NGOs have had their offices looted. One Trocaire partner had their office burnt to the ground and all their vehicles destroyed. Many staff of that organisation are currently in hiding as police have been unable to offer sufficient protection from the fundamentalists.
Reports from other parts of Orissa are equally depressing with churches and Christians facing attack. In one horrifying incident a missionary-run orphanage in western Orissa was set a light and a female employee caught inside the building was burnt to death.
Trócaire has been working in Orissa since 1999 when the state was hit by a devastating cyclone. We work with a mix of Christian headed, Hindu headed and non-denominational NGOs in rural Orissa. We are closely assessing the developments in the state and will work with our partners and other international organisations to help those most affected by the current violence.
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After days of political upheavals in the state, Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) chief Shibu Soren was finally sworn-in as the Chief Minister of Jharkhand on Wednesday.Soren was invited to form the government on Monday by Governor Syed Sibtey Razi.Soren gained the numbers to form the government in the state with the support of Madhu Koda, who recently resigned as the chief minister of Jharkhand.
Koda, who was forced to step down on Saturday to make way for Soren, took a U-turn and extended his support to the JMM chief after a meeting with him and RJD chief Lalu Prasad.

"I have extended support to Shibu Soren. No one is above the UPA (United Progressive Alliance)," Koda had told reporters.

The Koda government was reduced to a minority in the state legislature after the JMM withdrew support to it on August 17. Koda stepped down following advice from the Central UPA leadership.

While the Congress and the RJD announced their support to Soren, he managed to win over eight Independents, including Koda, one after the other.

On Monday, Deputy Chief Minister Stephen Marandi in the Koda government also announced his support to Soren.

Soren, who was chief minister of the state for 10 days in March 2005, had long dreamt of returning to the post. He got an opportunity when his party supported the Manmohan Singh government in the crucial Trust Vote on July 22.

How Shibu Soren has changed!
How the Marxists known for the land reform drive, anti imperialist anti feudal movements, peasant and labour movements, cultural activities, Tebhaga, Telengana, Food Movement, Rural development, decentralisation of power and so on... have changed !
Marxists are known for their Ideology!
Shibu Soren is not an individual of Ideology!
Had Comrade AK Roy changed, I would have been shocked!
He is as intact as he always has been.
AK Roy is a man of ideology!
Just see the changing color of the Marxists!
The CPI(M) on Wednesday distanced itself from West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's remarks that he does not support any bandh, which has generated a country-wide repercussion, forcing the Left allies to plan to raise the issue at its next meeting.
"This is not our party's stand," the state secretary of the party Biman Bose, who is also the Left Front chairman, told reporters today when his reaction was sought on the Chief Minister's anti-bandh remarks.
Later, at a meeting to mourn the death of Harkishan Singh Surjeet where the Chief Minister was also present, Bose said that it was the fundamental right of workers to take recourse to strike to fulfil their just demands.
"If workers are deprived by owners, they cannot take law in their own hands. Strike is a weapon to fulfil their demands."
West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Wednesday said that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was responsible for breaking the UPA coalition which had resulted in withdrawal of Left support to the government.
Speaking at the condolence meeting of former CPI-M general secretary Harkishan Singh Surjeet here, Bhattacharjee said that the Left's support to UPA government was not unconditional.
"We had been opposing the 123 deal as it would undermine the country's sovereignty," he said.
We condemn Buddha Brand and the Blind Run of the Ruling Left on the super Highway of capitalist development.
Let us evaluate the tradition of revisionism right from PC Joshi, Nambudaripad,Nag Bhushan Patnaik, Vinod Mishra, Jyoti Basu and Surjeet!
Just read between the lines as uttered by comrade Buddhadeb, the Brahmin!
West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Wednesday said that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was responsible for breaking the UPA coalition which had resulted in withdrawal of Left support to the government.
Speaking at the condolence meeting of former CPI-M general secretary Harkishan Singh Surjeet here, Bhattacharjee said that the Left's support to UPA government was not unconditional.
"We had been opposing the 123 deal as it would undermine the country's sovereignty," he said.
He said that the Prime Minister had broken the coalition by trying to enter into the civil-nuclear deal with the US.
The Left parties are in such a situation now that they have to ward off dangers posed by the Congress on one side and BJP on the other. "In this scenario, we will have to build up a separate front," he said.
Referring to BJP, he said that although the party was not in power, it was trying to raise its `ugly head' as manifested in the recent violence in J&K and Orissa.
Recounting Surjeet's contribution to coalition politics, he said that the Left parties should garner enough strength to fight communal forces.
West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Wednesday reviewed the Singur situation at a high-level meeting at Writers' Buildings.
The meeting was attended by Chief Secretary A K Deb, Home Secretary Ashok Mohan Chakraborty, DGP A B Vohra, city police Chief Gautam Mohan Chakraborty and IGP (law and order) Raj Kanojia, besides Industry Secretary Sabyasachi Sen.
Kanojia said that other 'important issues' also figured in the meeting.
He said that the police had been instructed not to be provoked under any circumstances while keeping watch on the situation at Singur.
"Adequate police deployment has been made at Singur under the supervision of senior officers," he said adding that the situation there was 'peaceful' during the day.
He said that many vehicles from here were being diverted through old Delhi road as the Durgapur Expressway was still blocked due to dharna by Trinamool Congress activists.
He said that talks were still on to reopen one side of the expressway to facilitate movement of stranded vehicles.

The memories of the Past haunts me violently as I witnessed joint Rallies of JMM and Marxist co Ordination Committee led by our dearest comrade AK Roy, the ex M.P. from Dhanbad!
I was unfortunate enough to be present in the JMM Convention when Suraj Mandal succeeded to alienate AK Roy from JMM. Only Binod Bihari Mahato accompanied AK Roy until he breathed last. I don`t know the where about of Suraj Mandal, the mastermind behind the division!
I also was lucky to visit underground bases of Shibu Soren in the forests of Jharkhand. I witnessed how unexpected changes changed the man.
I landed in Dhanbad very dramatically. I started for Allahabad University as soon as I got the Marks sheet of my M.A. Final exams. I intended to complete the research work and then adjust myself in either Nainital or Almora Campus of Kumaun University. I reached Allahabad and took a Rickshaw to get in the house of eminent Hindi Writer Shailesh Matiyani in Colonel Gaunj. he sent me immediately to the University. Where I met Dr Raghuvansh, then the head of Hindi Department. he suggested me to work in Hinidi. Then, I met Dr Manas Mukul Das with whom I debated modern poetry for hours in Nainital. He had already registered six students and could not accommodate me. He introduced me to Dr Malviya and he agreed to guide me and I agreed to assist him editing his career mag!
Dr Batrohi from DSB college had stayed with Matiyani in sixties as a student. But the room was occupied by a close relation of Matiyanis. I shifted myself in another Kumayooni House. Shekhar Joshi was our Ideal as a short story writer. I used to write short stories in my earlier days. In fact , I have got two books of short stories later. Mr Joshi resided in a rented house , 100, Looker Ganj, Allahabad with two sons Pratul, Sanjay, daughter Bunty and their IZA means mother. I stayed in the house and searched for job as I had already discontinued to rely on my family since I passed B.A... I did work as a freelance journalist during my student life as part of mass mobilisation for Chipko Movement. I had a post graduation degree. thus, I believed to earn enough to support myself. I applied for Northern India Patrika beside doing some translation work for Mitra Prakashan thanks to Bhairab Prasad Gupta and Amarkant. editors working there.
Mr Mathur was the most powerful News Editor I have ever encountered. He was the recruiter in Northern India Patrika and he rejected my application. Manglesh Dabral was the magazine editor. Biren Dangwal was also in Allahbad in those days. i befriended with Neelabh and Ramji Roy. Very soon, I became a part of Progressive students` Union. I have friends in SFI also.SFI friends got an accomodation for me in Mamford Ganj.i had some tutions also. Then, manglesh suggested me to go to JNU. Birenda and Neelabh endorsed. I was introduced to Urmilesh and we got Vaishali express and landed in Poorvanchal hostel of JNU. I had to do M. Phil in Linguistics. The next day, iIwas out to search for job. I got one in Delhi Press. but I could not stay there. I was getting some assignments and translation works.
Meanwhile, I visited my village. Where i came to know that DSB College english department was looking for me. I just rushed to Nainital. Captain LM sah was the head of the department. He drafted the application and recommended it. I had to meet the Vice Chancellor. I visited the VC office in Brook Hill. I had to wait for some time. Meanwhile, so impulsive I had been, my student life experience and encounters with the VC haunted me and I decided against surrendering to the corrupt VC. i never knew, it ended my academic career.
Yes, I had been very impulsive as Namashudras are best known for. All Indigenous communities suffer from this sever personality disorder. I had to pay for it so often!
I returned to my village Basanti Pur and got involved in a quarrel during a drama festival. My friend Tekka was beaten. it enraged me so much that I stopped the show as I enjoyed the support of the youth and students whom I used to lead.
My father was very angry. it was a hot exchange as he suggested me that I had to be cool and work for peace!
The next day, I got a letter from Urmilesh. he had visited Dhanbad and was offered a job in a daily News paper. He was not interested. But he knew that I could do the job as I had a soft corner for Nationality Movement and Jharkhand.
Immediately I rushed to JNU. I told Urmilesh that I would be working there until next session opens. I wanted to have a feel of Indian Economy and I believed I might get the experience in Jharkhand. In 1980, Jharkhand was a part of Bihar. I was proud of Bihar`s indigenous History and present. i was aware of mass movements and general consciousness and awakening in Bihar. I wanted to be a part of all this. My family was not involved in all this vital decisions. Having reached Dhanbad I stayed with Hindi Poet Madan Kashyap who was a sub editor in Daily Awaz.
Brahm Dev Sharma, the editor and Bankim Babu, the manager welcomed me. Having joined Awaz, I informed my father.
Very soon, I was involved with Jharkhand movement. Beer Bahrat talwar was in Dhanbad and he and Man Mohan Pathak were publishing Shalpatra. Professor Prabhakar singh and Professor BB Sharma led the pro Jharkhand Intelligentsia.
Ak roy organised Prem Chand Jayanti. Mahashweta Debi was the chief guest. I had read all her prominent works including Hazar Churaseer Ma, Aranyer Adhikar, Chotti Mundra Teer and so on. In fact, I was introducing mahashweta literature to the readers of Awaz in my column in Awaz. Madan kashyap was to speak. but he had to leave Dhanbad for personal work. eventually I spoke. it was my first public exposure in Dhanbad. Mahashweta Di became a permanent Relation since that day. I was now very close to AK Roy.
Then, I began writing on Mines accidents. I joined classes in Indian School of Mines and CMRS. It was an interactive campaign which made me a journalist which I never intended. coal India had to declare officially that all mines are Unsafe and Mining is hazardous!
I got married in 1983. my wife Sabita belonged to Bijnore, U.P... She could not adjust in the coal fields. Then I shifted in Ranchi, in Prabhat Khabar. Finally I landed in Meerut, in 1984.

Since 1980 onwards , I am privileged to have a very responsive and favourable readership in Bihar as well as in Jharkhand. My novel Amerika se Savdhan was published serially in Awaz from Jamshedpur as well as Dhanbad since 1995 to 1997...

The Kosi swallowed fresh areas in Supaul, Saharsa, Araria and Madhepura districts of Bihar on Wednesday even as bad weather stopped three IAF choppers from conducting relief sorties. The death toll in the floods has mounted to 55 with nine more deaths reported from the region.
"Nevertheless, personnel of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), Special Auxiliary Police (SAP), Sashastra Seema Bal (SS, state police and one column of the Army battled the elements to reach succour to victims," Additional Commissioner of Disaster Management Pratyay Amrit said.
With flood situation in Bihar turning grim, state Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and sought central assistance of Rs 1,000 crore and one lakh tonnes of foodgrain immediately for the affected people.
After meeting Singh, Kumar told reporters here that "the Prime Minister has assured me all help. I am confident of getting full support of the central government."
"I requested the PM to give the state a relief package of Rs 1,000 crore and one lakh tonnes of foodgrain, preferably rice, to be distributed among the flood victims", Kumar said adding the PM will be carrying out an aerial survey of the flood-hit areas in Bihar tomorrow.
Pointing out that evacuation of marooned people stuck is on the top of his government's agenda, Kumar feared that the situation could turn worse in the months to come when the Kosi river releases more water.
Kumar also sought boats and tents in large numbers from the Centre to evacuate the flood victims and shelter them in safer areas.
"People in the worst-affected areas need to be evacauted early. The evacuated people may have to be kept in safer areas for a period of two to six months, which require a huge expenditure", the Chief Minister said.
Kumar said the number of affected people currently is 11 lakh, which can go up to 25 lakh if there is a further rise in the water level of Koshi, as has been the trend during September-October.
The government is currently estimating to keep 10 to 15 lakh people in tents, he said.

Union Minister and LJP President Ram Vilas Paswan on Wednesday ridiculed the Bihar government’s claim of an “unprecedented tsunami” wreaking havoc in five districts of the state.
The state government’s claim about the unprecedented tsunami is ridiculous. We can say the devastation caused by the floods in Bihar has been like that of tsunami”, Paswan told reporters at the airbase in Purnea after making an aerial survey of the affected areas in flood-hit Araria, Samastipur, Saharsa, Supaul, Purnea and Madhepura. He advised the state government to give up the confrontational attitude with the Centre, which was ready to provide all possible support and financial assistance to tackle the situation.
“The state government was alerted by the Meteorological department about the possibility of ravages likely to be caused by change of course of river Kosi in downstream Nepal.
Had the state government been alert, the situation could have been tactfully handled and the magnitude of damage minimised,” Paswan said.
Meanwhile, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's opposition to bandhs today invited sharp criticism from his party and allies alike who said it was "unbecoming" on the part of a veteran marxist like him to make such remarks.
The opposition Congress and Trinamool dubbed it as a "volte face" and said that staging bandh was a "fundamental right" of the workers which cannnot be curtailed at the call of Bhattacharjee.
Kerala Chief Minister and Bhattacharjee's party colleague V S Achuthanandan resented the anti-bandh remarks.
"I don't think he had expressed such an opinion. If he had said so, then it is wrong," Achuthanandan told reporters in Thiruvananthapuram.
West Bengal CITU General Secretary Kali Ghosh said "this is his personal belief. We have nothing to say against individual opinion.
"We believe workers will resort to strike as long as capitalism and exploitation are there," he said pointing out that the issue raised by Bhattacharjee should have been discussed within the party.
There were ripples within the Left Front with major partners CPI, RSP and Forward Bloc criticising his remarks as "undesirable from a communist leader".
Opposing Bhattacharjee's view, AITUC general secretary Gurudas Dasgupta, MP, said, "It is very unfortunate, more so as he is a leader of the communist movement.
"Strike is the last resort and it does not take place off and on. It also happens in industrialised countries".
CPI leader D Raja expressed surprise over the remarks saying "staging bandhs is a democratic right. How can it be curbed?.
Addressing an industrialists' meet yesterday, Buddhadeb had said he was opposed to bandhs and would not allow gherao-type agitations in the state as they were "illegal".
Reuters India reports from Patna
Food riots erupted on Wednesday in eastern India, where more than 2 million people have been forced from their homes and about 250000 houses destroyed in what officials say are the worst floods in 50 years.
One person was killed in Madhepura district when angry villagers fought among themselves over limited supplies of food and medicines at overcrowded relief centres.
The Kosi river in Bihar, one of India's poorest states, smashed through mud embankments and changed course last week, unleashing huge walls of water that inundated hundreds of villages and towns. The floods have since killed nearly 50 people in Bihar.
Stranded villagers waved at passing helicopters and sent text messages to local authorities from rooftops of flooded buildings.
"Time is running out for me and there is no relief in sight and I have not eaten for days," a message from flood victim Sanjeev Kumar read.
Torrential rains have killed more than 1,000 people in South Asia since the monsoon began in June, mainly in India's northern state of Uttar Pradesh, where 725 people have lost their lives. Other deaths were reported from Nepal and Bangladesh.
Some experts blame the floods on heavier monsoon rains caused by global warming, while others say authorities have failed to take preventive measures and improve infrastructure.
Officials said flood victims had looted grain at some places in Bihar. Others ran for miles under helicopters that were dropping food packets. One boy was killed and about 30 people were injured in Supaul district when food packets fell on them.
"We have enough stock of food grains but the problem is that we have limited means of transport to supply them among the villagers," Rajesh Kumar Gupta, a government official in Madhepura, told Reuters by telephone. Continued...
http://in.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idINDEL14385520080827

Mamata plays hardball over Singur compensation deal
Bano Haralu
Wednesday, August 27, 2008, (Kolkata)
Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee's unflinching stand on her demand is forcing the government to try and work out a better compensation package.
This, despite the government maintaining that the compensation package by them is one of the best in the country.
For instance, for every acre of single-crop land bought in Singur the West Bengal government paid almost Rs 8 and a half lakhs and upto Rs 12 Lakh for each acre of multi crop land.
Whereas in the neighbouring state of Orissa the maximum compensation offered was Rs two lakh per acre in the case of the Kalinganagar Tata steel project.
The government claims the rehabilitation scheme is also catering to nearly 3000 employable persons from the acquired land area.
"When the land acquisition notice was issued at that time there was an advertisement and we requested all those land losers to register their names who are employable," West Bengal Commerce & Industries Minister Nirupam Sen said.
As a result, nearly 3000 people have registered their names in the WBIDC camp. Out of that, more than 500 are women and more than that 500 are agricultural people and agricultural laborers.
Their qualifications have been categorised and they are being provided with different kinds of training so that their skill upgradation can take place
But Mamata is neither impressed with the statistics nor the rehabilitation scheme.
However, her demand that 400 acres should be returned could perhaps scuttle the Nano project. That's because this land is not contiguous.
In a state like Bengal where 90 per cent of available land is fertile, it's inevitable that land acquired for industry will include agricultural land. But for Mamata, Nandigram or Singur are no longer about economics but about politics.
After 30 years of Left rule the opposition have latched on to an issue with which they can put pressure on the government.
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