Sangha is the largest Non-political organization in world- Harihara Nanda

HINDUTVA A WAY OF LIFE FOR THE UNIVERSE

HINDUTVA    ,  SAYS  MAHATMA  GANDHIJEE ” IS THE SOUL OF INDIA”  WITHOUT HNDUTVA INDIA OR RATHER THE UNIVERSE ITSELF WILL BE SOULLESS.without soul DEVILISHNESS WITH THRIVE.

HINDUTVA IS NOT UNDERSTOOD IN ITS PROPER  MANNER BY THE MAJORITY . IN FACT IF ONE CAREFULLY PURSUE THE LOGIC OF HINDUTVA, IT WILL BE MANIFEST THAT THE MODERN CONCEPT OF SECULARISM AND DEMOCRACY WAS PRACTISED BY ANCIENT HINDUS WITH IMPUNITY AND IT IS BECAUSE OF THIS THAT LL OTHER RELIGIONS FLOURISHED ININDIAALONG WITH HINDUTVA.

HINDUVTA PRINCIPLES UNLIKE OTHER RELIGIOUS PRINCIPLES IS MEANT FOR THE PROGRESS AND WELFARE OF ALL BEINGS IN THE UNIVERSE ESPECIALLY HUMANS AS A CLASS.

THE HINDUTVA RELIGION IS RATHERA WAYOF LIFE RATHER THAN A RELIGION. IT WAS MADE INTO A RELIGION ONLY WITH THE ADVENT OF OTHER RELIGIONS.HINDUTVA WAYOF LIFE WAS RATHER POLLUTED AND CORRUPTED BY THE PRIESTLY CLASS,IN ORDER TO SECURE THEIR HEGEMONY AND CONTROL OVER THE SOCIETY.

EVERY BODY MAKES FUN OF HINDUS WORSHIPPING INNUMERABLE GODS AND GODDESSES. BUT ACTUALLY HINDUTVA ADVOCATES OF ONLY ONE GOD , ADDRESSED AS

OM

IN ALL HUMAN BEINGS  THERE IS A PARTICLE OF GOD , THIS PARTICLE IS CALLED SOUL, AND THIS BEING SO BASICALLY ALL HUMANS ARE EQUAL AND ALIKE AND SHOULD BE TREATED EQUALLY. MAYBE THEIR CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES DIFFER.IT IS ON THE BASIS OF THIS PRISTINE PRINCIPLE OF HINDUTVA THAT EQUALITY OF ALL HUMAN BEINGS  ORIGINATED AND HAS NOW ATTAINED UNIVERSAL ACCEPTANCE AND SIGNIFICANCE. A REAL HINDU WILL NEVER TREAT HUMAN BEINGS DIFFERENTLY AND CATEGORISE THEM INTO CONTENDING CLASSES.

FROM THIS SPRINGS FORTH THE COROLLARY THAT GOD MEANT HUMANS TO  STAND TOGETHER . ANYONE WHO DIVIDES HUMAN BEINGS INTO CONTENDING CLASS,CASTES,RELIGION ETC AND TREAT ES THAM DIFFERENTLY BASICALLY ARE DEVILS DISCIPLES.

ORIGINAL PRISTINE HINDUTVA BELIEVED IN ONLY ONE GOD ADDRESSED AS “OM”

THIS REFINED AND UNIVERSALLY ACCEPTABLE CONCEPT WAS EVOLVED AFTER CONSIDERABLE PERIOD OF TRIAL AND ERROR. THE PRIESTLY CLASS WHO IN ORDER TO BRING THE SOCIETY UNDER THEM AND CONTROL IT AS THEY WISHED TO FURTHER THEIR  PROSPECTS CREATED THE CASTE SYSTEM . THIS CASTE SYSTEM WAS EARLIER BASED ON THE AVOCATION OF PEOPLE. THIS BEING THE CASE EARLIER  A MAN COULD CHANGE HIS CASTE BY CHANGING HIS PROFESSION OR AVOCATION. LATER THE PRIESTLY CLASS IN ORDER TO SECURE THEIR POSITION MADE THE CASTE SYSTEM RIGID AND ONE COULD NOT CHANGE HIS CASTE. THESE PRIESTLY CLASS WHO  MONOPOLISED IN THE WORSHIP OF GOD ,IN ORDER TO PRESERVE THEIR  CONTROL OVER THE SOCIETY AND FURTHER THEIR INTERESTS  AND PROSPERITY CREATED INNUMERABLE GODS AND GODDESSES.THIS WAS DONE MAINLY TO PRESERVE THE WEALTH AND EMPLOYMENT OF THIS PRIESTLY CLASS. THE GREATER NUMBER OF GODS THE ORE WORK FOR THESE PRIESTS ,AS  ALL GODS HAS TO BE WORSHIP ED.IT IS THESE PEOPLE WHO BY INVENTING DIFFERENT RITUALS AND SACRIFICES,UNAPPEALING TO REASON ANS SCIENCE POLLUTED HINDUTVA.THESE PRIESTLY CLASS EVEN INTRODUCED THE METHOD OF CLEANSING SIN BY PERFORMING PUJAS AND OTHER RITUALS.THE ALMIGHTY ” OM ” WAS DIVIDED BY THESE PEOPLE INTO THREE GODS FIRST, NAMELY VISHNU, SHIVA AND BRAHMA AND LATER ON INTO DIFFERENT GODS AND GODDESSES.

IT IS THESE PRIESTLY CLASS WHO POLLUTED THE REFINED AND UNIVERSALLY ACCEPTABLE AND APPLICABLE  PRINCIPLES OF HINDUTVA AND MADE IT UNBELIEVABLE.

VIVEKANANDA YOGA KENDRA GUIDE YOUTH TO BECOME NATIONALIST

It is a good occasion for Odisha  to teach nationalism to local youth power. Vivekananda yoga kendra, Bhubaneswar organised a youth development programme at Hi-tech medical college campus.More than 700 youth stay here for seven day to gain knowledge about yoga, Life of Swami Vivekananda and nation.  

KASHMIRI LAND SHARKS SWALLOW TEMPLE LAND

TEMPLE LAND GRAB in Kashmir Valley.

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KASHMIRI LAND SHARKS SWALLOW TEMPLE LAND
By Chitranjan Sawant
Vitasta ambles through the Kashmir valley. The hills around and the natural forests comprising deodar and pine trees present a pleasing sight to residents and visitors coming to the Kashmir valley from far and near. Of course, Vitasta is now renamed Jhelum and the demography too had undergone many changes many times.
Kalhan , the great Sanskrit poet sat in the thickly wooded picturesque Kashmir valley many thousand years ago and wrote Rajtarangini describing the important kings and queens, men and women who had contributed to the rich cultural heritage of the valley, hills and dales. Even the invaders from Central Asia who showed the prowess of their arms in the culturally rich valley were in turn influenced by the Kashmiriat of the pre-Islamic era. The history of Kashmir bears out that the Shiva temples and the Shaiv heritage was flowing in the veins of an average Kashmiri as smoothly as the Jhelum river through numerous bends, twists and turns without losing her majestic gait sans a sense of hurry. 
The Afghan invaders wrested the peace and culture of the Kashmir valley from its rulers and residents forever. He Mughals were also lured into the heaven-like hills and dales and went in for laying the large scale gardens. The maximum damage was, however, done by the Afghans to change the skyline from the temple dominated Kalash to roof-hugging minarets of mosques and Sufi places of worship that meant singing praise of the Lord for long. The Sanskrit language was replaced by the Persian language and some non-descript dialects like Dardi and Pushto from Kandahar region also made a debut. An upheaval of sorts in the realm of religion, culture, languages and apparel of both sexes was in the offing. The milieu of Kashmir stood changed in the middle ages. However, Kalhan and his Rajtarangini were as dear to the linguistically transformed man and woman of the middle ages as they were to the pre-Islamic people.
The Hindu resurgence brought the Dogra rulers back to the throne and temple Kalash were more in evidence on the Kashmir skyline than ever before. The Hindu-Dogra kings encouraged the composite culture of Jammu and Kashmir and it continued to be called a Heaven on Earth.
WHEEL OF TIME
The Wheel of Time is never stationary. It moves on and on. The Dogras were replaced by an elected government but the Peace on Land remained as elusive as ever before. In 1990, the Islamist Terrorism came with full fury. The Hindus were driven away but the Hindu temples remained. The famous Shankaracharya temple on the high hill dominating the Srinagar valley is the most important landmark for locals and visitors alike. A large number of Hindu temples with land attached to them for maintenance remained at their respective places. The Mahants and Purohits were, generally speaking from the Kashmiri Pundit class except for some who came from the famous Namboodari family of Kerala. By the way, the famous Adi Shankaracharya who defeated the Buddhist bigwigs and revived the Hindu Dharma in Bharat, belonged to the Namboodari class of Brahmins from Kerala.
Right from the year 1990 when the full fury of the Islamic terrorism came into evidence, a large scale exodus of the Hindus from the Kashmir valley took place. When the rank and file of the Hindu community, but for a few, left Kashmir, what was the point in the Priest class staying back? In some parts of the Kashmir valley, not even a single Hindu family stayed back because even the local Muslim population had turned hostile. In some cases the local Muslims had their evil eye on the property of the Hindus and also on their pretty nubile girls. So, the Hindu population migrated to the Jammu region of the State, notwithstanding half a million strong Indian Army being stationed in the valley. The Indian Army was not permitted by the local government to intervene as it was only a law and order problem and not one of foreign aggression. Thus almost three hundred thousand Hindus became refugees in their own country and their own soldiers were toothless to protect them. The posterity will not pardon the decision makers who let this ethnic-cum-religious cleansing take place in blatant violation of the constitutional law. 
Fake Mahants replaced the real mahants in temples. The fake mahants stepped into the shoes of the real claimants and started administering the temple property. Now it has come to light that one such mahant was not even a citizen of India. He slipped into the temple administrative hierarchy surreptitiously and acted in a manner that was detrimental to the interests of the Hindu temple. Initially, the Hindus were dazed because of the lethal blows of terrorists but once they regained their senses, they questioned the impropriety of transferring Hindu temple immoveable property to non-Hindu parties. The sale deeds were fake like fake mahants in some cases that were rightly challenged in due course of time. It is rather surprising that the State government was as immobile in questioning the illegal transfer of land of the Hindu temples as the surviving mahants in limbo in some secluded corner of Jammu.
HIGH COURT INTERVENES
Justice Sunil Hali took cognizance of numerous law suits pending in lower courts where the Kashmiri Pundits had challenged the transfer of temple property to business houses in Srinagar for purposes other than the advancement of the Hindu Dharma. It may be recalled that the House of Dogra Kings had created Dharm Sansthan in the entire state of Jammu and Kashmir over two centuries ago. Extensive land was attached to the temples to bear the expenditure of their maintenance. The land in Srinagar appreciated many fold over a period of time and the builders, property dealers etc eyed this custodian-bereft property. The present state government took little interest in the upkeep and maintenance of temples and other Hindu charitable institutions created by the Hindu endowments. This was the golden opportunity for the land sharks to make a kill and they did so. Many temple properties created by private Hindu trusts and left abandoned since 1990 after the mass migration of the Hindus were transferred to business houses for commercial motives. The state officials colluded in the illegal sale and transfer of property. The High Court has now asked the state government to stop such transfer of temple property and take possession of property lying in limbo.
But for the intervention of the judiciary, the private trusts would have become defunct and fake mahants would have sold temple lands to new non-Hindu commercial establishments and lined their personal pockets. It may, however, be mentioned that the temples and their appurtenances governed by the high powered religious trusts created by the Dogra kings are protected and well administered. Dr Karan Singh, a direct descendant of the Dogra kings is himself taking personal interest in the management of temples and property attached to them.
The need of the hour is to remain alert and prevent transfer of temple land to land sharks. Retrieval of land lost owing to fake transfers must also be pursued vigorously by the state government under the supervision of the Hon’ble High Court of Jammu & Kashmir.
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Political corruption and Indian Black money abroad

Indian Black money abroad

Posted on December 28, 2011 by odishakhabara

Following are the highlights of the speech by Sri S Gurumurthy delivered on 21st May, 2011 at the Keshava Krupa auditorium. The topic of the speech was ’Political corruption and Indian Black money abroad’. Prof. Vaidyanathan of IIMB was also present at the occasion.

Sri Gurumurthy’s talks was divided into different topics.

Status of Black money abroad:

• During 2009 Lok Sabha elections, Jairam Ramesh, refused to even acknowledge the presence of Black money abroad and rubbished all claims by Individuals and various other leaders as ‘mostly bogus sources’.
• The German govt was willing to give the details of the secret account in Liechtenstein to GOI. However, the GOI never requested such information ever and continously denied presence of any such ‘Black’ money. But then Global Financial Integrity, a Public Policy Think Tank in Washington DC, researched and reported that an estimated $462 billion of India’s illicit assets were held abroad. 67% of this amount was stashed in last 18 years, i.e after liberalization. (Report on Indian unaccounted money abroad - http://india.gfip.org/)
• In 1986, Sri Gurumurthy along with Mr.Vinod Pande and Mr. Bhure Lal started a anti-corruption campaign. Their work in this regard revealed that close to $300 billion of Indian money was stashed away in swiss banks. However a forged letter was planted to discredit Sri Gurumurthy for availing the services of a US detective agency, Fairfax. Sri Gurumurthy was arrested on the count that he was trying to get details of Sonia Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi and Amitabh Bachchan and the anti-corruption movement came to a halt.(http://www.cscsarchive.org:8081/MediaArchive/audience.nsf/(docid)/3BE4371E8803F741652569400062C30D - Arrest of Gurumurthy and related news)
• Sri Gurumurthy said that the present anti-corruption movement is hijacked by the GOI itself with the blessings of Sonia Gandhi, so it will not succeed. A anti-corruption movement has to be against the govt and not anybody else. The opposition has to take the lead in such a movement, which is not a case currently.

Black Money and Tax Havens and western interests:

• There are 70 tax havens in the world today. 8 Lakh 23 Thousand comapnies are registered in the British Virgin Islands. In the 1980′s the Western countries encouraged the third world countries to stash money in tax havens as they could earn profit out of it. Later politicians, criminals took advantage of it.
• Black money outside is as good as treason. The money stashed abroad could be used against the country itself and so amounts to treason. Whereas money that is parked in India itself, though illegal, will still be used within the country for various purposes.
• Black money is not an issue with the west, as for them they are fine collecting the taxes on it. India has to get the black money back.
• Stock market capital in 1997 was $20 billion, in 2009 it was $48 billion. But net worth of rich individuals was $3 trillion in 97, in 2009 it rose to $33 trillion. America borrows money from rest of the world so that they can spend!!! Housing debt of Americans is about $10.3 trillion. Alan Greenspan said saving money is in the interest of America but the American economy became a debt economy through credits and loans.

Cause of black money:

• In 1967, it was estimated that 10% of India’s GPD was black money. In 2009 it was 50% of the country’s GDP!
• Corruption, bribes, kickbacks, criminal acts, etc raise the black money.
• AG Noorani wrote in the ‘Statesman’(December 31, 1988), on how Rajiv Gandhi expressed deep gratitude to KGB for the benefits accruing to the Prime Minister’s family from the commercial dealings of the firm he controls in co-operation with the Soviet foreign trade organisations. (Rajiv Gandhi’s secret letters - http://defenceforumindia.com/political-%7C-social/18347-rajiv-gandhis-one-swiss-bank-account-has-%24-2-2-billion-%24-11-billion.html - Read the ‘KGB Papers’ section)
• Subramanium Swamy wrote to the swiss magazine,Schweizer Illustrierte, to confirm the publication of the article mentioning Rajiv Gandhi as holder of $2.2 Billion in swiss bank account (Scanned copy of the article ->http://goo.gl/0mJrr). The magazine confirmed the article (here -> http://www.janataparty.org/annexures/ann10p43.html), but the GOI did not act on this information for obvious reasons.

Hasan Ali case:

• Hasan Ali is protected by the people in power currently at the centre. Ali’s swiss bank accounts were not frozen despite the proof of his holdings.
• A sting on him by Ashok Deshbhratar, an DCP who was probing the case, exposed Ali. Ashok was forced to do the sting as Hasan Ali never revealed anything during official interrogation. However, Deshbhratar was suspended (Cop who conducted ‘sting operation’ on Hasan Ali faces suspension -> http://goo.gl/lIa0w) for the ‘unofficial’ sting. Deshbhratar today is forced to go on indefinite leave. However, Ashok Deshbhratar filed an affidavit in the SC mentioning the sting operation and its details.
• Sri Gurumurthy read out a portion of Ashok Deshbhratar’s affidavit in the SC at the lecture.
• Sonia Gandhi protected Ali by changing the Mumbai police commissioner and derailed the process of investigation.
• The opposition is not targeting Sonia Gandhi as they claim they do not have sufficient proofs. The session concluded by Sri Gurumurthy requesting the public, right thinking individuals, intellectuals to put pressure on the opposition to question Sonia Gandhi and ask GOI to get the black money back.

The lecture was followed by a short 15mins Q&A session. The day ended with a soulful rendition of ‘Vande Mataram’ by a Swayamsevak.

THE LOKPAL AND LOKAYUKTAS BILL, 2011 To BE INTRODUCED IN LoK SABHA

To BE INTRODUCED IN LoK SABHA

THE LOKPAL AND LOKAYUKTAS BILL, 2011

ARRANGEMENT OF CLAUSES

PART I

PRELIMINARY

1. Short title, extent, application and commencement.

2. Definitions.

3. EstablishmentofLokpal.

PART II

LOKPAL FOR THE UNION

CHAPTER I

DEFINITIONS

CHAPTER II

EsTABLISHMENT OF LoKPAL

Bill No. 134 of2011

4. Appointment of Chairperson and Members on recommendations of Selection Committee.

5. Filling of vacancies of Chairperson or Members.

6. Term of office ofChairperson and Members.

7. Salary, allowances and other conditions of service of Chairperson and Members.

8. Restriction on employment by Chairperson and Members after ceasing to hold office.

9. Member to act as Chairperson or to discharge his functions in certain circumstances.

10. Secretary, other officers and staff of Lokpal.

CHAPTER III

INQUIRY WING

l L Inquiry Wing.

CHAPTER IV

PROSECUTION WING

12. Prosecution Wing.

CHAPTERV

EXPENSES OF LOKPAL TO BE CHARGED ON CONSOLIDATED FUND OF INDIA

13. Expenses of Lokpal to be charged on Consolidated Fund oflndia.

CHAPTER VI

JURISDICTION IN RESPECT OF INQUIRY

14. Jurisdiction ofLokpal to include Prime Minister, Ministers, Members of Parliament,

Groups A, B, C and D officers and officials of Central Government.

15. Matters pending before any court or committee or authority for inquiry before

Lokpal not to be affected.

16. Constitution of benches ofLokpal.

(ii)

17. Distribution of business amongst Benches.

18. Power of Chairperson to transfer cases.

19. Decision to be by majority.

CHAPTERVTI

PROCEDURE IN RESPECT OF PRELIMINARY INQUIRY AND INVESTIGATION

20. Provisions relating to complaints and preliminary inquiry and investigation.

21. Persons likely to be prejudicially affected to be heard.

22. Lokpa1 may require any public servant or any other person to furnish information, etc.

23. Previous sanction not necessary for investigation and initiating prosecution by Lokpal

in certain cases.

24. Action on investigation against public servant being Prime Minister, Ministers or

Members of Parliament.

CHAPTER VIII

POWERS OF LOKPAL

25. Supervisory powers ofLokpal.

26. Search and seizure.

27. Lokpal to have powers of civil court in certain cases.

28. Power ofLokpal to utilise services of officers of Central or State Government.

29. Provisional attachment of assets.

30. Confirmation of attachment of assets.

31. Confiscation of assets, proceeds, receipts and benefits arisen or procured by means of

corruption in special circumstances.

32. Power of Lokpal to recommend transfer or suspension of public servant connected

with allegation of corruption

33. Power ofLokpal to give directions to prevent destruction of records during preliminary

inquiry.

34. Power to delegate.

CHAPTER IX

SPECIAL COURTS

35. Special Courts to be notified by Central Government.

36. Letter of request to a contracting State in certain cases.

CHAPTER X

COMPLAINTS AGAINST CHAIRPERSON, MEMBERS AND OFFICIALS OF LOKPAL

37. Removal and suspension of Chairperson and Members of Lokpal.

38. Complaints against officials ofLokpal.

CHAPTER XI

ASSESSMENT OF LOSS AND RECOVERY THEREOF BY SPECIAL COURT

39. Assessment of loss and recovery thereof by Special Court.

CHAPTER XII

FINANCE, AccoUNTS AND AUDIT

40. Budget

..

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(iii)

41. Grants by Central Government.

42. Annual statement of accounts.

43. Furnishing of returns, etc., to Central Government.

CHAPTER XIII

DECLARATION OF ASSETS

44. Declaration of assets.

45. Presumption as to acquisition of assets by corrupt means in certain cases.

CHAPTER XIV

OFFENCES AND PENALTIES

46. Prosecution for false complaint and payment of compensation, etc., to public servant.

47. False complaint made by society or association of persons or trust.

48.

49.

50.

51.

52.

53.

54.

55.

56.

57.

58.

59.

60.

61.

62 .

CHAPTER XV

MISCELLANEOUS

Reports ofLokpal.

Lokpal to function as appellate authority for appeals arising out of any other law for

the time being in force.

Protection of action taken in good faith by any public servant.

Protection of action taken in good faith by others.

Members, officers and employees of Lokpal to be public servants.

Limitation to apply in certain cases.

Bar of Jurisdiction.

Legal assistance.

Act to have overriding effect

Provisions of this Act to be in addition of other laws.

Amendment of certain enactments.

Power to make rules.

Power ofLokpal to make regulations.

Laying of rules and regulations.

Power to remove difficulties.

PART III

LOKAYUKTA FOR A STATE

CHAPTER I

DEFINITIONS

63. Definitions.

CHAPTER II

ESTABLISHMENT OF LOKAYUKTA

64. Establishment ofLokayukta.

65. Appointment of Chairperson and Members and on recommendation of

Selection Committee.

66. Filling of vacancies of Chairperson or Members.

(iv)

67. Term of office ofChairperson and Members.

68. Salary, allowances and other conditions of service of Chairperson and Members.

69. Restriction on employment by Chairperson and Members after ceasing to hold office.

70. Member to act as Chairperson or to discharge his functions in certain circumstances.

71. Secretary, other officers and staff of Lokayukta.

CHAPTER III

INQUIRY WING

72. Inquiry Wing

CHAPTER IV

PROSECUTION WING

73. Appointment of Director of prosecution.

CHAPTERV

EXPENSES OF LOKAYUKTA TO BE CHARGED ON CONSOLIDATED FUND OF STATE

74. Expenses ofLokayukta to be charged on Consolidated Fund of State.

CHAPTER VI

JURISDICTION IN RESPECT OF INQUIRY

75. Jurisdiction ofLokayukta to include Chief Minister, Ministers, Members of Legislatures,

officers and employees of State Government.

76. Matters pending before any court or committee or authority for inquiry before Lokayukta

not to be affected.

77. Constitution of benches of Lokayukta.

78. Distribution of business amongst benches.

79. Power of Chairperson to transfer cases.

80. Decision to be by majority.

CHAPTER VII

PROCEDURE IN RESPECT OF PRELIMINARY INQUIRY AND INVESTIGATION

81. Provisions relating to complaints and preliminary inquiry and investigation.

82. Persons likely to be prejudicially affected to be heard.

83. Lokayukta may require any public servant or any other person to furnish information,

etc.

84. Previous sanction not necessary for investigation and initiating prosecution by

Lokayukta in certain cases

85. Action on inquiry against public servant being Chief Minister, Ministers or Members

of State Legislature.

CHAPTER VIII

POWERS OF LOKAYUKTA

86. Supervisory powers of Lokayukta.

87. Search and seizure.

88. Lokayukta to have powers of civil court in certain cases.

89. Power ofLokayukta to utilise services of officers of State Government.

(v)

90. Provisional attachment of assets.

91. Confirmation of attachment of assess.

92. Confiscation of assessts, proceeds, rceipts and benifits arisen or procured by means

of corruption in special circumstances.

93. Power ofLokayukta to recommend transfer or suspension of public servant

connected with allegation of corruption

94. Power of Lokayukta to give directions to prevent destruction of records during

preliminary inquiry.

95. Lokayukta to function as appellate authority for appeals arising out of any other

law.

96. Power to delegate.

CJ7. Application of certain provisions relating to Lokpal to apply to Lokayukta.

Ramdev swoop was pre-planned - CNN ibn report

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12th December 2011 : Patriot Babu Genu Balidandin

Babu Genu - A Swadeshi martyr

12th December 2011 :  Patriot Babu  Genu Balidandin

M.R.Venkatesh

He was a congress party worker in the pre-independence era. Yet not many congressmen today may know him. Very few even within that party (or for that matter in any other political party in India) today may realise the profound significance of the message contained in his life. Fewer still would be in a position to recall the same. Even old timers within the Congress would be unaware that he was a four-anna member of the party – his registration number being 81941. None from his family benefited by his “joining” politics or the congress party, nor did he not leave behind a “rich” legacy.

Though he was sad on hearing the news of the death of his mother, he confessed that he was in a way relieved at her death as it gave him the necessary leeway in life to fully devote himself for the cause of the nation. Being a fully dedicated volunteer to the cause of India’s independence; he did not have enough time and leisure to attend his brother’s wedding. Contrast this to the vulgar display of wealth in the marriages of those who are in power in modern times in India!

He was Babu Genu. On this day seventy-seven years ago (12th December 1930) Babu Genu was killed in the most gruesome manner while attempting to stop a speeding truck in Mumbai from carrying imported materials from Britain. Babu Genu lay on the ground before the speeding truck in the New Hanuman Road at Kalba Devi at around 11AM on that fateful day in an attempt to prevent foreign goods from entering the Indian soil.

Even as the police were physically preventing him and his colleagues from participating in this non-violent protest, Babu Genu never gave up his resolve to stop the trucks. The truck driver - Balbir Singh – an Indian would come close to the protestors and stop for he would not and could not drive over fellow Indians. Seeing this, the police once again intervened and physically removed the protestors from the road to enable the truck pass through.

Freeing himself from the policemen gathered there, Babu Genu once again lay on the road in another attempt to prevent the passing trucks. Seeing the procrastination of the Indian driver the British sergeant lost his temper and took on himself to drive the truck at full speed over Banu Genu crushing his head and leaving behind a pool of blood and mass of flesh. Babu Genu was seriously injured and within hours passed away. He was in his early twenties when he died. Yet his life is a message to every Indian.

A brief life history

Babu Genu was born in 1908 in a poor family in Pune district of Maharasthra – a family that was steeped in abject poverty. The only prized possession of the family was a bullock that was used for farming. His father was a farmer and the other members of his family were his mother, two elder brothers and a sister. His father passed away in 1910 when he was a mere two year old child.

And when the bullock died too – a terrible tragedy for the family given their economic background - his mother unable to continue living in her village migrated to Mumbai to earn her livelihood as a domestic help. She left her sons back in the village in the care of some neighbours

All this meant that Babu was deprived of formal education in his formative years. Yet that did not mean that he was neither ignorant nor unaware of the issues confronting the country. After a spending a few years in the native village Babu Genu joined his mother in Mumbai. As his mother could not support his stay in Mumbai Babu Genu was compelled to seek employment as a casual labourer in the mills of Mumbai.

On many days he would not get employed. This did not deter him and he did not feel left down. Quite the contrary that gave him enough time and space to interact with the leading lights of independence movement in Mumbai and in the process understand it in different perspective.

Babu Genu was highly influenced by the sacrifices of Lala Lajpath Rai and the trio of Bhagath Singh, Rajguru and Sukh Dev. Yet he was wedded to the cause of non-violence and satyagraha as enunciated by Mahatma Gandhi.

The message of his life

As briefly mentioned above Babu Genu was not formally educated. Yet he understood the symbiotic link between geo-politics and geo-economics. He understood that the geo-strategic interests of the British Rule in India. He knew that economics was the driving force of British rule; establishment of the British Raj was merely a ruse to perpetuate the economic dominance of the British over India.

It is in this context Babu Genu understood the socio-economic-politic arguments propounded by Gandhiji and its significance. That meant that should the British rule were to be economically unsustainable it would collapse as there would be hardly any incentive for the British to continue their rule in India.

He knew economic independence of India was interlinked, intertwined and integrated to the political independence – a fact that escapes the attention of our political and the debating class today. He was fully aware that the no price could be less by any yardstick for the economic independence of the country. For there lay the key to political independence of the nation. No wonder he did not hesitate to make the supreme sacrifice of his life for the cause he so dearly believed.

Decades later as the nation is in search of the economic model that is suited for its development (and crucially what that development means) one may be tempted to dismiss Babu Genu’s economic thoughts as primordial, xenophobic or simply anachronistic. Yet one cannot and should not dismiss the message contained in the life of these great men, who literally and physically in broad daylight, gave their life for upholding their beliefs.

Why? Firstly, that is so because the fact of the matter is that we the present generation live in independent India only because of the noble thoughts, selfless actions and supreme sacrifices of these great men. That is the least a nation may do to express its gratitude to such great men.

Secondly, and the far more important reason is that the context of the life and history of Babu Genu may seemingly differ significantly from what it is prevalent in India today.

Yet, the text does not. Global powers clearly have a well-designed agenda – read global order - in imposing their will, thoughts, ideas and beliefs on others. If it was political domination through religion in the first millennia after Christ, it was done through the army in the second millennia. What is feared is that it could possibly be through economic intervention in the third.

Unfortunately, this brief history of mankind and a grim reminder of how the world looks at others and the manner in which it seeks to engage others – as one of that has to subjugate and ones that need to be subjugated. Surely, it is not how we look at the world or presume as to how the others look at the world – as one of near equals.

As the ideas and ideals of the likes of Babu Genu fade from our collective memory, one is tempted to only quote the oft-repeated cliché: if you forget history you are condemned to repeat it. Obviously, to assume that global economic interests are completely independent of geo-political intentions or devoid of conspiratorial motives in these modern times would be childish to say the least.

Yet this is what we seem to have done for the past several years. And the spectacular growth of our economy in the past few years seems to have made us oblivious to this risk. And that would mean necessarily understanding, redefining and recalibrating our concept of growth and development. Lop sided growth in recent years of our economy, rising disparity of income and crucially lack of genuine economic opportunities point out to a serious systemic imbalance, especially in the manner in which we have engaged the world – politically or otherwise.

And to correct the same we need to get our priorities right. It would be a fitting tribute to the life of Babu Genu if we could get our priorities right in our economic policies and begin afresh the debate on our development and growth and the terms by which we should engage the world, both in global politics and economics. And that in my opinion would be a fitting tribute to Babu Genu on his martyr’s day.