Saturday, 31 August 2013

Vadodara Building Collapse: What Narendra Modi is hiding from you...



As you are aware, 11 persons killed and 5 injured in Collapse of Two towers at Madhavnagar, In EWS Housing scheme of VUDA. More than 1500 Houses in Madhavnagar, Keshavnagar and Dindayalnagar Phase 1, 2 -3 are constructed under EWS  Housing Scheme of CM Narendra Modi's 15 Point Programmme by VUDA. The conditions of most of these houses are similar to the houses that collapsed in Madhavnagar. Today 458 families of Madhavnagar are residing on Street with no alternative arrangement made for them and  are right now struggling with the authorities for alternative arrangements in LIEU of poor quality houses provided to them.

Initial survey by a team of Structure Engineers in MSU reported that more than 80 % houses of Madhavnagar should be demolished immediately to ensure that similar incidents do not occur in future.

This is a very Historic Case of Corruption as for the first time in history so many houses built for Urban Poor under Government scheme, by the Government needs to be demolished due to poor Quality of Construction. A classic example of extreme Corruption in Narendra Modi Government. There is a mass anger in the affected families as 500 families are forced to live on streets and others are struggling for alternative arrangements.

Narendra MODI wants to hush up everything and hence quickly constituted a Inquiry Commission, but the same officer Mrs. Manjula Subramaniam IAS, who was also a Chief Secretary in MODI Government, and a Urban Secretary under whose tenure this houses were constructed is nominated as head of Inquiry Commission. How can she be trusted to give an independent inquiry when she herself is right now under scanner? 

It is Deliberate attempt by Narendra MODI to Under play one of the BIGGEST Corruption "A HOUSING SCAM" where in more than 1500 Government Houses for Economically weaker Section needs to be demolished in period of 5-10 years . The so called houses which were designed to be earthquake resistant as highlighted on Government Websites by FEKU MODI.


(This text is derived from a letter to the media by Vadodara City District Congress Committee)

The Tale of Missing Children in Gujarat



- Gujarat government's Crime Investigation Department (CID), which is the nodal agency in the state for investigating cases pertaining to missing children, has admitted that most kids missing are teenagers, and they end up becoming child workers, with girls taken into sex rackets.

- CID's own track record in tracking down children who went missing is poor. Between 2007 and 2011, it failed to track as many as 4,314 children who went missing in this period couldn’t be tracked.

The success rate of children traced is very poor. During 2012-13, up to March, only 37% of those who have gone missing have been tracked -- 191 of 504.

As of today, 7,240 children are missing, with no tracks found by the government.

- Girls, unfortunately, form the bulk of the missing children. More teenage girls are missing as compared to their male counterparts. While the ratio is almost 1:1 in age group of 0-14 years, it jumps to 3:1 in the higher age group.

- Data of missing children reveal that a few of them are kidnapped and pushed into organ or sex trade. Still others leave home to escape emotional and educational pressures, or to live with a person they are in love with. Most toddlers, meanwhile, are kidnapped for illegal adoption.

- Those between three and ten years of age are made to beg or pushed into organ trade, while those above 11 years are lured into flesh trade and what is called in official circles as "sex tourism.

(excerpt from Gujaratlive.org)

Wednesday, 28 August 2013

X-Ray of a Fascist! (Amit Sengupta)



(Excerpts from http://www.gujaratlive.org/p/when-they-came-to-barren-border-areas.html)

Social scientist Ashis Nandy had interviewed Narendra Modi in the early 1990s. He came out of the interview shaken. In his own words:

“More than a decade ago, when Narendra Modi was a nobody, a small-time RSS pracharak trying to make it as a small-time BJP functionary, I had the privilege of interviewing him. . . . Modi, it gives me no pleasure to tell the readers, met virtually all the criteria that psychiatrists, psycho-analysts and psychologists had set up after years of empirical work on the authoritarian personality. He had the same mix of puritanical rigidity, narrowing of emotional life, massive use of the ego defence of projection, denial and fear of his own passions combined with fantasies of violence – all set within the matrix of clear paranoid and obsessive personality traits. I still remember the cool, measured tone in which he elaborated a theory of cosmic conspiracy against India that painted every Muslim as a suspected traitor and a potential terrorist. I came out of the interview shaken and told Yagnik that, for the first time, I had met a textbook case of a fascist and a prospective killer, perhaps even a future mass murderer.”


Another social scientist, Shiv Vishwanathan, recently called Narendra Modi an “uncivilized creature” on prime time TV. He said he was sure of this term because he has done “ten years of investigations” on Gujarat. JD(U) leader Shivanand Tewari had earlier said that Modi’s body language reeked of arrogance. He recently remarked (after Modi’s rather perverse and murderous ‘Kutte ka Bachcha’ comment during an interview with Reuters) that Modi should undergo “psycho analysis”.

However, we needn’t rely on these impressions – based, as they are, on body language and psychological profiling – to assess Modi’s character; we could simply look at the record of his conduct.

There are no less than 45 authenticated reports meticulously documenting the Gujarat carnage, which was state-sponsored and masterminded at the highest level. The mass-scale violence was facilitated and executed by the Gujarat police and bureaucracy, including the top brass, and implemented on the ground by blood-thirsty mobs and gang-rapists of the Sangh Parivar, Modi’s ministers and Hindutva leaders. The documentation includes the NHRC report and the bulky volumes of the People’s Tribunal, comprising eminent former judges as members. There are also scores of eye-witness accounts, including those of women – such as Bilquis Bano and Zakia Jafri – who were victims of the state-sponsored violence.

Zakia Jafri’s court petition and the arguments and evidence being presented with it point to a nexus between the Gujarat government and the so-called rioters and to the fact that the violent acts were planned with detailed precision. Several indicators point to Modi himself. The meeting of the top brass in the government one day before the state sponsored killings is a crucial indicator.

Other documents describe in detail the organized carnage and its aftermath in the tragic and inhuman mass refugee camps. People were hacked and burned alive. Swords ripped apart women’s stomachs. There were mass rapes and grotesque public spectacles of gang rapes. Kerosene-filled match boxes were put inside children’s mouths. Ravaged women and children were thrown alive into bonfires. All of this has been documented meticulously and extensively by journalists, activists, lawyers, witnesses, officials, filmmakers, and others.

Thursday, 22 August 2013

Is 'Feku' for Hindutva? Read on...



- When Chief Minister of Gujarat Narendra Modi declared that he will renovate the demolished Kedarnath temple during the recent Uttarakhand flood, everyone had a good thought about it.

- But what everyone forgot is that this is the same Modi who ordered razing of more than 80 temples in Gandhinagar, without relocation!

- Everyone thought that he would respect emotions of Hindus but in the name of 'development' these temples were removed.

- Even for Kedarnath, Modi's 'bluff' was exposed by none other that Vishwa Hindu Parishad International secretary Pravin Togadia, who publicly asked Modi that when Kedarnath temple has not faced any destruction, where was the question of renovation?

This is a leader who, all his life propagated 'Hindutva' but could not keep the faith of Hindus! How can he be trusted?