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Hazare's fast and its Impact
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malhotraraul
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breaking news, mayawati wants a dalit in the lokpal committee, wonder what maneka gandhi has to say which animal to be included, then the minority, then the gujjars, gorkhas & another 50 years pass till anna hazare's predecessor takes over.
malhotraraul
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it is only for the politics side to decide, for the civil society the list is finalized with some 5 people on board, the tug-of-war is ON as we post.agantuk said:
^ Anna Hazare is the public representative 
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Funny part is that the 'civil society' representative has been self appointed / appointed by Anna Hazare, whereas the ones actually elected by the civil society are the 'government'. Now what is what?
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Funny part is that the 'civil society' representative has been self appointed / appointed by Anna Hazare, whereas the ones actually elected by the civil society are the 'government'. Now what is what?
malhotraraul
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atleast the government part is legal because they are elected democratically (they being corrupt is different question) but the peoples part seems like the backbenchers who also want the share.agantuk said:^ Anna Hazare is the public representative
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Funny part is that the 'civil society' representative has been self appointed / appointed by Anna Hazare, whereas the ones actually elected by the civil society are the 'government'. Now what is what?
ultimately at the end of the day it is who gets what.
i remember a dialogue from dharmatma (old feroze khan movie) where dad prem nath says to his son firoze khan : "JISNE JITNE BADI BOLI LAGAYI, WO UTNI BADI GADDI SAMBHAL KE BAITH GAYA"
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No I meant those are the expenses for his campaign.
Can't make much of it since we don't know how many people are part of his bandwagon.
malhotraraul said:
I thought the Bhushans on the civil society team are in trouble for corruption and might be axed from the list. The Anna Hazare camp itself has been wavering about their support for the Bhushans.
kippu said:
Anna Hazare picks his dream team. If you want democracy, go to China :lol:
Anyway from my understanding, the civil team just implies people who are not politicians. Because only politicians are corrupt, normal people are not
A lot of (educated) people have given him full support to do what he wants, either because they're too busy or too lazy to handle corruption themselves. Till everyone understands their individual responsibility, corruption isn't going anywhere, no matter Anna Hazare telling you he can fix things overnight.
malhotraraul
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malhotraraul
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Congress had done to Ramdev what Mayawati did to Rahul. Making a hero of someone who doesn't have enough political muscle.chiron said:
I am no fan of Ramdev (or Anna Hazare for that matter), but Congress really shot themselves in the foot with what they did. They were clearly in the advantage after they leaked Ramdev's deal with them, but all that tamasha in the night has cost them a lot. They simply didn't have to do that, and the media would have done the rest.
malhotraraul
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Baby ramdev always wanted to be part of politics.
All his points were agreed but still because of some false point he just wanted to go ahead.
Anyways this drama was similar to karunadhi arrest stuff.
In todays paper there was really a good article which did analysis of this baby ramdev conditions
You can read it here
Rage of a yoga teacher - Hindustan Times
SOme important points
Ramdev wants all wealth held illegally abroad by Indians to be declared as national property and those holding them be charged with sedition.
The fact that sovereignty issues of foreign countries might come into play doesn’t seem to have crossed his mind. I can just see Dawood Ibrahim’s house in Clifton, Karachi, becoming Indian national property overnight. In any case, I would think that India entering into tax information exchange agreements with 14 of the 22 countries identified as tax havens for Indians would be a more fruitful move than the general satsang discourse by the yoga teacher.
Ramdev wants R500 and R1,000 currency notes to be abolished
If he thinks that we’re still in the bad old Harshad Mehta days when black money had to be carried only in slim attaches, times have changed. The estimated R300 billion of undeclared income will simply slosh about in lower denominations. I don’t know what Ramdev’s views are on carrying plastic as opposed to cash, but the more serious problem confronting a ban on R500 and R1,000 notes would be the government having to spend extra crores of exchequer’s money to print many more lower denomination notes.
He wants all courses to be taught in ‘local languages’.
He wants to revoke the Land Acquisition Act so that no farmer can be moved for the purpose of industrialisation.
Ramdev wants all labourers, no matter what category, to get the same wages.
I won’t insult your intelligence and ask you what the last ‘few’ of the yoga teacher’s demands have to do with making black money or corruption disappear. But there you have it.
All his points were agreed but still because of some false point he just wanted to go ahead.
Anyways this drama was similar to karunadhi arrest stuff.
In todays paper there was really a good article which did analysis of this baby ramdev conditions
You can read it here
Rage of a yoga teacher - Hindustan Times
SOme important points
Ramdev wants all wealth held illegally abroad by Indians to be declared as national property and those holding them be charged with sedition.
The fact that sovereignty issues of foreign countries might come into play doesn’t seem to have crossed his mind. I can just see Dawood Ibrahim’s house in Clifton, Karachi, becoming Indian national property overnight. In any case, I would think that India entering into tax information exchange agreements with 14 of the 22 countries identified as tax havens for Indians would be a more fruitful move than the general satsang discourse by the yoga teacher.
Ramdev wants R500 and R1,000 currency notes to be abolished
If he thinks that we’re still in the bad old Harshad Mehta days when black money had to be carried only in slim attaches, times have changed. The estimated R300 billion of undeclared income will simply slosh about in lower denominations. I don’t know what Ramdev’s views are on carrying plastic as opposed to cash, but the more serious problem confronting a ban on R500 and R1,000 notes would be the government having to spend extra crores of exchequer’s money to print many more lower denomination notes.
He wants all courses to be taught in ‘local languages’.
He wants to revoke the Land Acquisition Act so that no farmer can be moved for the purpose of industrialisation.
Ramdev wants all labourers, no matter what category, to get the same wages.
I won’t insult your intelligence and ask you what the last ‘few’ of the yoga teacher’s demands have to do with making black money or corruption disappear. But there you have it.
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