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India’s maritime interests are under threat – mostly from China. There were three news items this week of some significance, both commercial and military. The first was that, despite a strong warning from National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, a Chinese submarine, Changzheng 2, docked at Colombo, along with warship Chang Xing Dao, according to the Times of India (Chinese submarine docking in Lanka ‘inimical’ to India’s interests: Govt).

The second was the sinking of a naval vessel off Vishakhapatnam and the loss of life of Navy personnel. Preliminary reports seemed to indicate that the ship was over 30 years old, which would mean it is older than what a military vessel should be. Besides, given the catastrophic failure of the ship, it is not clear that sabotage can be ruled out. Given the previous tragedy of the Kilo-class submarine INS Sindhurakshak, which sank with all hands in Mumbai, we have to worry about our Navy ships. The INS Sindhuratna, another submarine, also had an on-board fire.


Naval security challenges for India. Reuters

The third event was the series of intelligence warnings that the airport and seaport in Kolkata were under serious threat of an attack by un-named terrorists. According to the Hindustan Times(Kolkata port on high alert after terror threat), two Indian warships, INS Khukri and INS Sumitra, were moved out of the port where they had been for routine visit, with an open house scheduled for 5 and 6 November.

In light of an attempt by Al Qaeda terrorists to capture a Pakistani Navy frigate at Karachi in September, the threat of an attack in Kolkata is credible. In Karachi, the intent was to capture the frigate and then attack American and Indian vessels in the Indian Ocean. Although far-fetched, the idea has merit, and it was purely through good luck that the attack was foiled and no rogue Pakistani ship loomed on the horizon.

For some years, India has under-invested in its Navy, and also in its commercial port infrastructure. These mistakes are now coming back to haunt the country, as our trade capability is affected, and there are long-term strategic holes that our adversaries are looking to exploit. One such is the lack of container ports and the concomitant dependence on the kindness of strangers.

To go back to the appearance of Chinese submarines in Colombo, this is an explicit statement by Sri Lanka that it prefers China to India. It may also well be a subtle Chinese warning against India getting too close to Vietnam. Apparently the previous visit by Chinese submarines to Colombo took place in secret at the very time the President of India was in Vietnam earlier this year.

Last week I wrote about how the Vietnamese premier’s visit to India could be considered part of a setting up of a 'reverse string of pearls' against China; and this could well be a veiled threat. But in fact it is tit for tat the other way: China infiltrating into India’s neighborhood is encouraging India to seek out friends on China’s periphery.
The 'Maritime Silk Road' idea that China talks about includes a number of ‘pearls’, such as Chittagong in Bangladesh, Sittwe and Cocos in Myanmar, Hambantota in Sri Lanka, potentially Spratlys and Paracels in the South China Sea, Karachi in Pakistan, some possible facilities in the Maldives and the Isthmus of Kra in Thailand, and most significantly, the Chinese-built and controlled port of Gwadar in Baluchistan at the mouth of the Persian Gulf. Taken together, these can draw a cordon sanitaire around India.


Source: The Economist, June 2012

Geostrategist Brahma Chellaney suggested that it was a big mistake on the part of Lanka to ignore the stern warning from India’s NSA. However, from Sri Lanka’s point of view, they may simply be paying off debts incurred during their civil war, when China, free of considerations about human rights and so on, supplied them with military equipment. Besides, China has built a major port at Hambantota in Sri Lanka’s far south.

If you look at the big picture, then, it is essential for India to respond to Chinese aggressiveness with its own: thus it makes even more sense as I suggested to lease part of Cam Ranh Bay and to have the Indian Navy make Haiphong a port of call, so that India has some presence in the South China Sea as well. It’s not just India, it turns out that Japan is getting quite worried about Chinese naval aggression in the Senkakus and elsewhere, as they fear a vacuum when American aircraft carriers will be absent for four months.

But in addition to the military angle, there is a significant commercial or civilian cargo issue as well. This has to do with India’s lack of container ports. There are only a few ports with container handling capabilities: Mumbai, Mundra, Chennai, Kochi, Vishakhapatnam, etc. There are few, if any, container trans-shipment ports capable of handling large motherships. This leads to a situation where most of India’s container traffic is diverted to the large trans-shipment ports at Dubai, Colombo, or Singapore, from where the containers are transferred to smaller vessels to bring them to India.

Colombo has just constructed a second trans-shipment container terminal, which is expected to account for fully 28 percent of all of India’s container traffic! Furthermore, this terminal has been built and operated by the Chinese! According to The Economist from June 2013 this will make Colombo one of the world’s top 20 container ports. Apparently it is also being positioned for a new generation of super-sized container ships. Says the article, "Colombo is deep enough for ships with an 18-metre draft. Its cranes can cope with ships 24 containers wide. Nothing in India compares with that."

Now what could be wrong with this picture? 28 percent of India’s container traffic flowing through Colombo, through a terminal controlled by a Chinese entity? Let me remind you of what happened a while ago when China, which has a near-monopoly on rare-earth metals, imposed an undeclared embargo on Japan, in the wake of tension about sudden Chinese claims to the Senkaku Islands.

Without declaring that there was an embargo – which would have run afoul of WTO regulations – Chinese ports suddenly stopped clearing rare-earth cargo bound for Japan, bringing its electronics industry to its knees. So much so that Japan has now contracted with India for a second source of the same minerals.

Such a scenario could easily happen with India’s container traffic through Colombo. Therefore it is a significant national security angle, not to mention trade angle: a vulnerable chokepoint in the hands of a commercial and military foe.

What should India do in such a situation? The Economist suggests, helpfully, that "should Sri Lanka ever succeed in dominating India’s trade while being a close Chinese ally, India would surely improve its ports enough to be independent". Yes, one would think so. But what is the reality?

The one trans-shipment port nearby is in Vallarpadam near Cochin. Unfortunately, this is a poor location, because it is in a bay with limited depth. Furthermore, this port, run by Dubai Port World, is notorious for labor trouble, and it is running at only 1/3rd of capacity, even though cabotage rules have been relaxed to make it more competitive.

Vallarpadam was a political decision by the UPA government to please a section of its voters. While the port of Cochin benefits from being in a sheltered bay at the mouth of a river, the draft is too shallow even for merchant ships. A master navigator I spoke to described how he had great trouble steering his ship through the narrow channel without running aground.

As for the container terminal at Vallarpadam, this means that even with constant dredging, it will never be a viable trans-shipment hub, because it simply cannot accommodate large vessels. On its web site, the port boasts that in July 2011, yes, three years ago, "the largest container ship ever to visit a South Indian port" docked there. It had a capacity of 6478 TEUs (roughly speaking, TEU = container). Compare this to the latest container ships being built with 16,000 to 18,000 TEU capacity. It is impossible for these to dock at Vallarpadam, essentially reducing it to a secondary terminal.

There is an alternative, the proposed container trans-shipment port at Vizhinjam in Trivandrum. This, an ancient port dating back to Roman times, has the deepest draft (72 feet) in India, is rocky and does not need any dredging.

Vizhinjam port is now in the final stages of tendering, but it has been sabotaged several times previous by vested interests. One group are the political heavyweights and godfathers of the UPA/UDF, whose base is Cochin – and thus they do not want Vizhinjam challenging Vallarpadam, now that they have gone to all the trouble to hoodwink the government of India to invest some Rs 4,000 crore there. Besides, Vallarpadam dredging contracts are an annuity: they can make money on them every year. In a way, Vizhinjam's greatest handicap according to them is that it doesn't need dredging!

The second group is more intriguing: fishermen, instigated by Christian clergymen. Much like the Koodankulam agitation which was intended to benefit European countries at the expense of Russia, and also spearheaded by Christian clergy, the Vizhinjam agitation may well be an end-run by resort owners who have illegally encroached the neighboring coastal areas (quite possibly in violation of coastal zoning regulations).

A third group is Dubai-based, as Vallarpadam is run by Dubai Port World. There are also accusations about Dubai elements with interests in Colombo and Singapore.

A fourth group is attempting to protect the Tamil Nadu port of Tuticorin, although it would actually make great sense for Vizhinjam and Tuticorin to be connected by a freight and industrial corridor. This will be the topic of a future column.
Recently, the Government of India decided to guarantee viability gap funding to Vizhinjam to the tune of Rs 800 crore, which will certainly help in meeting the capital costs in the proposed public-private partnership.

But the most recent news about Vizhinjam is quite bizarre: there is an environmental clearance petition being heard by the National Green Tribunal. The petitioner, a fisherman named Marydasan, withdrew the complaint and accused a local Christian priest of giving him, an illiterate in English, a piece of paper to sign, which he did without knowing what was in it!

Thus, in the face of grave threats, Indians are playing games with each other to protect vested interests. A classic case of local optimization to accommodate petty interests, with the net result being a strategic disaster for the whole country – much like the responses to all the invaders that came over the Khyber Pass or by sea.

China's maritime threat: How India let its best bet Vizhinjam be sabotaged
 
But now it seems all of that sabotage work gone in to vain.
Govt is hard pressing for Vizhinjam .Centre allowed viabality gap fund and State govt almost cleared all procedures.
 
But now it seems all of that sabotage work gone in to vain.
Govt is hard pressing for Vizhinjam .Centre allowed viabality gap fund and State govt almost cleared all procedures.
bro, watch this video....
 
But now it seems all of that sabotage work gone in to vain.
Govt is hard pressing for Vizhinjam .Centre allowed viabality gap fund and State govt almost cleared all procedures.
C.S.I church is behind this(The very same sponsor of Srilankan Tamil LTTE terrorist wing,koodankulam protests)....They are funded by anti Indian Western organizations like ford foundation and American pentacostal missions..Government should take close monitoring and firm action against them...
 
bro, watch this video....


I know and watched news in different channels on this subject.But whoever worked against this port whatever itis their game is over.
Now GoI is planning for reducing the powers of Green tribunal.
 
C.S.I church is behind this(The very same sponsor of Srilankan Tamil LTTE terrorist wing,koodankulam protests)....They are funded by anti Indian Western organizations like ford foundation and American pentacostal missions..Government should take close monitoring and firm action against them...

Govt already clamped the stupidity of NGOs.
Church is already under scrutiny after allegations about suspectful movement to prevent Vizhinjam port.
AFAIK almost all obstacles that blocked the development of Vizhinjam is already removed.
 
Sree, I got a question. I see some cases where Christian clergy are supposedly indulging in activtiies that seem to be out of their scope. I am just wondering are they doing this for the benefit of the public? Or is it for Congress Party since many Christians in Kerala have backed the party forever? Or are the Christian clergy being controlled and manipulated by a foriegn power?
 
C.S.I church is behind this(The very same sponsor of Srilankan Tamil LTTE terrorist wing,koodankulam protests)....They are funded by anti Indian Western organizations like ford foundation and American pentacostal missions..Government should take close monitoring and firm action against them...



Wasn't LTTE sponsored by India to some degree? As for CSI Church, they as well the as the Pentecostal churches are very radical in nature. They only look out for their Church members and are crazy for money. They will talk this BS about not wearing jewelry but their goal in life revolves entirely around money.
 
Sree, I got a question. I see some cases where Christian clergy are supposedly indulging in activtiies that seem to be out of their scope. I am just wondering are they doing this for the benefit of the public? Or is it for Congress Party since many Christians in Kerala have backed the party forever? Or are the Christian clergy being controlled and manipulated by a foriegn power?

Some Christian institutions have a lot of benefits from Western Christian nations .A few years ago there was a news about huge
unaccounted foreign funding of a paster and his institutions of around 1000 crores .That man ,forgot his name, failed to notify his sources in IT dept .But somehow he manged to hide its subsequent investigation.;)
Congress party's ally Kerala Congress (M) under K M Mani have enough power to influence any govt institutions.
Have you heard about Sister Abhaya case?
One nun and 2 Reverands were arrested in that case .But it took 3 CBI investigation .Because former investigation were influenced by powerful Chrisitian lobbies and blocked it for avoiding embarrasment
Chrisitians in Kerala are generally wealthy and powerful.And when time arises western agents demand cooperation like this.
They also interefered to solve Marine case.But SC direct intervention and Media scrutiny burned their hands .
Same happened in the case of Vizhinjam .Kerala Medias continues scrutiny and investigation clipped their wings .During UPA govt they were successful to resist it. But NDA govt under Modi wont show such favour.
 
India’s maritime interests are under threat – mostly from China. There were three news items this week of some significance, both commercial and military. The first was that, despite a strong warning from National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, a Chinese submarine, Changzheng 2, docked at Colombo, along with warship Chang Xing Dao, according to the Times of India (Chinese submarine docking in Lanka ‘inimical’ to India’s interests: Govt).

The second was the sinking of a naval vessel off Vishakhapatnam and the loss of life of Navy personnel. Preliminary reports seemed to indicate that the ship was over 30 years old, which would mean it is older than what a military vessel should be. Besides, given the catastrophic failure of the ship, it is not clear that sabotage can be ruled out. Given the previous tragedy of the Kilo-class submarine INS Sindhurakshak, which sank with all hands in Mumbai, we have to worry about our Navy ships. The INS Sindhuratna, another submarine, also had an on-board fire.


Naval security challenges for India. Reuters

The third event was the series of intelligence warnings that the airport and seaport in Kolkata were under serious threat of an attack by un-named terrorists. According to the Hindustan Times(Kolkata port on high alert after terror threat), two Indian warships, INS Khukri and INS Sumitra, were moved out of the port where they had been for routine visit, with an open house scheduled for 5 and 6 November.

In light of an attempt by Al Qaeda terrorists to capture a Pakistani Navy frigate at Karachi in September, the threat of an attack in Kolkata is credible. In Karachi, the intent was to capture the frigate and then attack American and Indian vessels in the Indian Ocean. Although far-fetched, the idea has merit, and it was purely through good luck that the attack was foiled and no rogue Pakistani ship loomed on the horizon.

For some years, India has under-invested in its Navy, and also in its commercial port infrastructure. These mistakes are now coming back to haunt the country, as our trade capability is affected, and there are long-term strategic holes that our adversaries are looking to exploit. One such is the lack of container ports and the concomitant dependence on the kindness of strangers.

To go back to the appearance of Chinese submarines in Colombo, this is an explicit statement by Sri Lanka that it prefers China to India. It may also well be a subtle Chinese warning against India getting too close to Vietnam. Apparently the previous visit by Chinese submarines to Colombo took place in secret at the very time the President of India was in Vietnam earlier this year.

Last week I wrote about how the Vietnamese premier’s visit to India could be considered part of a setting up of a 'reverse string of pearls' against China; and this could well be a veiled threat. But in fact it is tit for tat the other way: China infiltrating into India’s neighborhood is encouraging India to seek out friends on China’s periphery.
The 'Maritime Silk Road' idea that China talks about includes a number of ‘pearls’, such as Chittagong in Bangladesh, Sittwe and Cocos in Myanmar, Hambantota in Sri Lanka, potentially Spratlys and Paracels in the South China Sea, Karachi in Pakistan, some possible facilities in the Maldives and the Isthmus of Kra in Thailand, and most significantly, the Chinese-built and controlled port of Gwadar in Baluchistan at the mouth of the Persian Gulf. Taken together, these can draw a cordon sanitaire around India.


Source: The Economist, June 2012

Geostrategist Brahma Chellaney suggested that it was a big mistake on the part of Lanka to ignore the stern warning from India’s NSA. However, from Sri Lanka’s point of view, they may simply be paying off debts incurred during their civil war, when China, free of considerations about human rights and so on, supplied them with military equipment. Besides, China has built a major port at Hambantota in Sri Lanka’s far south.

If you look at the big picture, then, it is essential for India to respond to Chinese aggressiveness with its own: thus it makes even more sense as I suggested to lease part of Cam Ranh Bay and to have the Indian Navy make Haiphong a port of call, so that India has some presence in the South China Sea as well. It’s not just India, it turns out that Japan is getting quite worried about Chinese naval aggression in the Senkakus and elsewhere, as they fear a vacuum when American aircraft carriers will be absent for four months.

But in addition to the military angle, there is a significant commercial or civilian cargo issue as well. This has to do with India’s lack of container ports. There are only a few ports with container handling capabilities: Mumbai, Mundra, Chennai, Kochi, Vishakhapatnam, etc. There are few, if any, container trans-shipment ports capable of handling large motherships. This leads to a situation where most of India’s container traffic is diverted to the large trans-shipment ports at Dubai, Colombo, or Singapore, from where the containers are transferred to smaller vessels to bring them to India.

Colombo has just constructed a second trans-shipment container terminal, which is expected to account for fully 28 percent of all of India’s container traffic! Furthermore, this terminal has been built and operated by the Chinese! According to The Economist from June 2013 this will make Colombo one of the world’s top 20 container ports. Apparently it is also being positioned for a new generation of super-sized container ships. Says the article, "Colombo is deep enough for ships with an 18-metre draft. Its cranes can cope with ships 24 containers wide. Nothing in India compares with that."

Now what could be wrong with this picture? 28 percent of India’s container traffic flowing through Colombo, through a terminal controlled by a Chinese entity? Let me remind you of what happened a while ago when China, which has a near-monopoly on rare-earth metals, imposed an undeclared embargo on Japan, in the wake of tension about sudden Chinese claims to the Senkaku Islands.

Without declaring that there was an embargo – which would have run afoul of WTO regulations – Chinese ports suddenly stopped clearing rare-earth cargo bound for Japan, bringing its electronics industry to its knees. So much so that Japan has now contracted with India for a second source of the same minerals.

Such a scenario could easily happen with India’s container traffic through Colombo. Therefore it is a significant national security angle, not to mention trade angle: a vulnerable chokepoint in the hands of a commercial and military foe.

What should India do in such a situation? The Economist suggests, helpfully, that "should Sri Lanka ever succeed in dominating India’s trade while being a close Chinese ally, India would surely improve its ports enough to be independent". Yes, one would think so. But what is the reality?

The one trans-shipment port nearby is in Vallarpadam near Cochin. Unfortunately, this is a poor location, because it is in a bay with limited depth. Furthermore, this port, run by Dubai Port World, is notorious for labor trouble, and it is running at only 1/3rd of capacity, even though cabotage rules have been relaxed to make it more competitive.

Vallarpadam was a political decision by the UPA government to please a section of its voters. While the port of Cochin benefits from being in a sheltered bay at the mouth of a river, the draft is too shallow even for merchant ships. A master navigator I spoke to described how he had great trouble steering his ship through the narrow channel without running aground.

As for the container terminal at Vallarpadam, this means that even with constant dredging, it will never be a viable trans-shipment hub, because it simply cannot accommodate large vessels. On its web site, the port boasts that in July 2011, yes, three years ago, "the largest container ship ever to visit a South Indian port" docked there. It had a capacity of 6478 TEUs (roughly speaking, TEU = container). Compare this to the latest container ships being built with 16,000 to 18,000 TEU capacity. It is impossible for these to dock at Vallarpadam, essentially reducing it to a secondary terminal.

There is an alternative, the proposed container trans-shipment port at Vizhinjam in Trivandrum. This, an ancient port dating back to Roman times, has the deepest draft (72 feet) in India, is rocky and does not need any dredging.

Vizhinjam port is now in the final stages of tendering, but it has been sabotaged several times previous by vested interests. One group are the political heavyweights and godfathers of the UPA/UDF, whose base is Cochin – and thus they do not want Vizhinjam challenging Vallarpadam, now that they have gone to all the trouble to hoodwink the government of India to invest some Rs 4,000 crore there. Besides, Vallarpadam dredging contracts are an annuity: they can make money on them every year. In a way, Vizhinjam's greatest handicap according to them is that it doesn't need dredging!

The second group is more intriguing: fishermen, instigated by Christian clergymen. Much like the Koodankulam agitation which was intended to benefit European countries at the expense of Russia, and also spearheaded by Christian clergy, the Vizhinjam agitation may well be an end-run by resort owners who have illegally encroached the neighboring coastal areas (quite possibly in violation of coastal zoning regulations).

A third group is Dubai-based, as Vallarpadam is run by Dubai Port World. There are also accusations about Dubai elements with interests in Colombo and Singapore.

A fourth group is attempting to protect the Tamil Nadu port of Tuticorin, although it would actually make great sense for Vizhinjam and Tuticorin to be connected by a freight and industrial corridor. This will be the topic of a future column.
Recently, the Government of India decided to guarantee viability gap funding to Vizhinjam to the tune of Rs 800 crore, which will certainly help in meeting the capital costs in the proposed public-private partnership.

But the most recent news about Vizhinjam is quite bizarre: there is an environmental clearance petition being heard by the National Green Tribunal. The petitioner, a fisherman named Marydasan, withdrew the complaint and accused a local Christian priest of giving him, an illiterate in English, a piece of paper to sign, which he did without knowing what was in it!

Thus, in the face of grave threats, Indians are playing games with each other to protect vested interests. A classic case of local optimization to accommodate petty interests, with the net result being a strategic disaster for the whole country – much like the responses to all the invaders that came over the Khyber Pass or by sea.

China's maritime threat: How India let its best bet Vizhinjam be sabotaged

Good Job Done by Sicular Indians!!!

Earlier it was Kudankulam Nuclear Plant now this!!
 
Sister Abhaya case? LOL Of course I know that one with Kottor "Kallan" Achan! I did not know of the misuse of influence but I figured how does an investigation go on for so long.....go figure. I also did not know there were supporters of the Marines in Kerala? Damn. I am stumped why would anyone support those marines? I thought it was all about Sonia.
 
(SBU) SUMMARY: The leftist government in the southeastern Indian state of Kerala has been forced to rebid a $1 billion port project due to the Government of India's refusal - over security concerns - to authorize the participation of two Chinese corporations in the winning proposal. Kerala officials believe the proposed port's natural depth and close proximity to international shipping routes give it the potential to attract transshipment business presently handled at Colombo, Singapore and Salalah, Oman. However, skeptics note that the central government's Shipping Minister, from neighboring Tamil Nadu, is bent on promoting a competing project in his home state. END SUMMARY


¶2. (SBU) Abandoning a long effort to pressure the Center to approve security clearance for a Chinese consortium to develop Kerala's Vizhinjam port, the state's leftist government has decided to move on and retender the $1 billion project. Kerala Port Minister M. Vijayakumar of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) told Post that the Government of Kerala would soon invite fresh global tenders. He refuted some media reports that multinational companies would be excluded from bidding.


¶3. (U) Touted as Kerala's "Port of the Future," Vizhinjam has stayed that way for a long time. Sixteen kilometers south of Kerala's state capital Thiruvananthapuram, Vizhinjam now has a small port where, once in a while, tourist vessels call. Kerala officials say that with 5-6 meters dredging, Vizhinjam can berth the world's biggest ships and supertankers with ease. Close proximity to international sea routes would put the proposed port in the position to handle a substantial portion of the many containers to and from India that are presently transshipped through Colombo, Singapore and Salalah.


¶4. (SBU) In 2005, Kerala invited global bids for the development of the port into a mega container transshipment hub capable of handling post-Panamax class carrier ships. Twenty-two companies showed interest, but all except two backed out without presenting bids. In January 2006, the then Congress party-led government of Kerala accepted the bid by a consortium that included two Chinese companies -- China Harbor Engineering Company and Kaidi Electric Company -- and Zoom Developers, Mumbai. The central government, however, refused security clearance for the project. Journalist sources told Post that the presence of the Chinese companies -- particularly the China Harbor Engineering Company which is developing the Gwadar Port in Pakistan --- in the consortium was the reason for the refusal.


¶5. (SBU) After coming to power in May 2006, the state's new government, led by the Communist Party of India (Marxist), intensely lobbied New Delhi for the Chinese project. In August, the Chief Minister took an all-party delegation to beseech Prime Minister Singh to give the project the go-ahead. Kerala officials hoped that Chinese Premier Hu Jintao's 2006 India visit would help resurrect the project but that did not materialize. Faced with the Center's unflinching refusal, Kerala backed down and opted for a fresh bid.

¶6. (SBU) A competing project may hold back the Kerala proposal. Media contacts said that the central government's Shipping Minister, T.R. Balu of Tamil Nadu's ruling DMK party, is pushing for a similar project in Colachel in his home state. Although Kerala officials remain upbeat about the new bid process, the Tamil Nadu alternative presents a challenge.

¶7. (SBU) COMMENT: Kerala officials hope the central government's security concerns have only temporarily set back the project. The truth is that Vizhinjam faces a tough battle. Although certain factors, including the port's natural depth and its location, make the Kerala project cost-effective, those advantages may be overshadowed by economic realities. In contrast to Kerala's reputation for strikes and work stoppages, Tamil Nadu brings to the table a track record of positive industrial labor relations. Moreover, Tamil Nadu is seen by multinational corporations as investor friendly whereas Kerala, with its leftist orientation, is not.


¶8. (SBU) COMMENT CONTINUED: Caught between two of its coalition partners, the DMK Party and the Communist Party of India (M), the Congress Party must play its cards shrewdly. Since the Samajwadi Party withdrew support from the UPA government (reftel), Congress has grown increasingly fragile and vulnerable to the demands of the Left and its other coalition partners. Congress will try to manage these political realities, as well as the national security concern that the bureaucracy has raised. END COMMENT.

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Good Job Done by Sicular Indians!!!

Earlier it was Kudankulam Nuclear Plant now this!!



The nuclear plant still has issues of safety and the environment. That's why even under Modi there is a call to review such projects and questions have arisen about how the nuclear equioment is dated no cutting edge.
 
Sister Abhaya case? LOL Of course I know that one with Kottor "Kallan" Achan! I did not know of the misuse of influence but I figured how does an investigation go on for so long.....go figure. I also did not know there were supporters of the Marines in Kerala? Damn. I am stumped why would anyone support those marines? I thought it was all about Sonia.

some churches in kerala are in favor of those marines... Italy have a lot of influence over them..... but media and SC support the case... even the family members of the victims are brainwashed to such a level that they withdraw the case against the marines... and that sonia in power italy was confident that the case against marines will be rejected..
 
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