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When are they going to announce the elections? @Puchtoon

 

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vijay sankhnad rally in Ahmedabad - www.divyabhaskar.co.in

Mind boggling crowd in Modi's rally. Modi's adversary will piss in pant.

 

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Corrupt Pappu and his Mom acquired Rs 1600 Cr Property for Just 50 lkahs.

Corruption: Subramanian Swamy corners Sonia, Rahul Gandhi - News Oneindia


Did Congress pay Rs 89.5 cr to Sonia and Rahul through Young Indian? | Business Standard

 

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I want to fight corruption - Rahul Gandhi

 

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After Narendra Modi tea, Lalu tea stalls to open soon

Politics over a cup of tea is warming up in Bihar as RJD members have decided to open Lalu tea stalls to counter the BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi's claim to being a tea seller.

Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad said about 10 days ago that he was the "real tea seller" and Modi was junior to him in this business.

Lalu's party workers have set up the first Lalu tea stall in Muzaffarpur, and many more will soon be opened in different parts of the state.

"Lalu Chai Stall in Muzaffarpur is just a beginning of an innovative idea," RJD leader Iqbal Shami said.

Shami said that by opening such tea stalls, the party wants to call Modi's bluff that he sold tea at railway stations.

He argues that it was Modi's father who ran a canteen.

"In contrast to that. Lalu in his childhood as a student used to sell tea to earn livelihood," Shami said.

The RJD leader said that Lalu tea stall will serve free tea.

"We have decided to open 17 such tea stalls in each block of the Muzaffarpur district," he added.

Another RJD leader, Harendra Kumar said that Lalu tea stalls will provide an opportunity to connect with people.

However, Bharatiya Janata Party state president Mangal Pandey said Lalu tea stall is a copy of their campaign for Modi.

Lalu Prasad recently revealed that he sold tea at a shop in the veterinary college campus in Patna during his childhood.
After Narendra Modi tea, Lalu tea stalls to open soon | Latest News & Updates at DNAIndia.com

Oh well.. now everyone wants to be part of tea selling brigade. Lassi stall would have made sense when it comes to Laloo...

 

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I want to fight corruption - Rahul Gandhi

Expose: How govt posts were for sale by this man! BJP worker Champavat's arrest to open new chapters. This is how corruption happen in Gujarat.

 

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vijay sankhnad rally in Ahmedabad - www.divyabhaskar.co.in

Mind boggling crowd in Modi's rally. Modi's adversary will piss in pant.

Children are forced to attend Modi functions & punished if they deny! What a sick thought! BJP can never run India.

How Adani got contracts for supplying power despite being the most expensive | Gulail.com

FEKU Exposed!: What does Adani give you, Mr. Feku? An untold nexus exposed.

Friday, 21 February 2014

It all began in 2006 when the Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam Limited (GUVNL) invited tenders for the purchase of 2000MW electricity. Three companies – Adani Enterprises Limited, Jindal Power Limited and Power Trading Corporation (PTC) India Limited filed tenders on 26 June 2006. Adani offered a price of Rs 3.7038 per unit, Jindal Rs 3.48 per unit and PTC offered a price of Rs 3.25 per unit. Adani and Jindal had bid to supply 500MW and 150 MW power respectively, while PTC had bid to supply 440 MW (190 MW from Chitarpur Coal and Power Limited and 250 MW from JSW Energy Limited at Ratnagiri). PTC is a power trading company which purchases and sells power.

But the Tender Evaluation Committee of the GUVNL found these rates unreasonably high and hence it re-invited financial bids from the bidders who had already submitted their RFQ (request for qualification) documents. On 9 November 2006 three companies – Adani, Jindal and PTC – filed fresh tenders offering rates of Rs 3.2939, Rs 3.24 and Rs 3.2497 respectively. The Evaluation Committee recommended that Jindal’s bid should be allotted tender because it was offering the lowest price. When PTC and Adani came to know about the Jindal offer, they too offered to supply power at the same rate as Jindal. As a result the corporation sent letters of intent to all the three companies to supply power at the same rate, which was Rs 3.24 per unit.

The day PTC received the letter of intent it wrote back proposing to increase its total power supply from 440 to 630 MW. But strangely the GUVNL rejected its proposal contending that it could not be considered since the letter was received after the letter of intent had been sent. The rejection of PTC’s revised offer was shocking to say the least.

It shows that the Gujarat government had already made up its mind to make a closed-door deal with the Adani group. The state needed at least 2000MW power whereas the total contract capacity of all successful bidders was just 1590MW. In such a scenario the rejection of PTC’s renewed proposal made no commerical or financial sense. On the contrary it exposes a case of favouritism and corruption. Gujarat was grappling with severe power shortage. To make up for the widening gap in demand and supply, the governmnet was buying merchant power (the business terminology for power that is purchased on temporary basis as distinguished from power purchased under long term agreements) from Adani Enterprises at an exorbitant rate of Rs 5.31 to Rs 5.45 per unit. Documents available with Gulail show that between October 2006 to August 2007 alone, Gujarat government had paid Rs 322 crores to Adani Enterprises for short-term power at a rate of Rs 5.45 per unit.
On the one hand the Modi government was purchasing expensive short-term power from Adani and on other it resolutely refused to accept additional 190 MW power from PTC which was cheaper by Rs 2.21 per unit. Why?



Wasting Public Money...
The story of crony capitalism doesn’t stop at this. At this stage Adani and Modi governmnet held hush-hush back door mettings and decided to award Adani the contract for 1000 MW at Rs 2.89 per unit. A similar opportunity to lower their bid offers was not offered to PTC and Jindal. Instead they were unilateraly issued termination letters invalidating the earlier issued letters of intent. The ground for termination was cited as lower tariff of Rs 2.89 offered by Adani.

The subsequent judicial process revealed that the contract with Adani was signed on 8.1.2007 while the LOIs of Jindal and PTC were cancelled on 12.1.2006. It is a classic case of politician-corporate nexus under which diefferent rules were set for different companies. It shows that the Modi regime had already made up its mind to award contract only to Adani while shutting its doors to Adani’s competitors.

Even though PTC and Jidnal were willing to supply long term power they were denied the opportunity to renegotiate even as Adani entered into closed door negotiations to lower its offer price after the letter of intent had been sent.

Shantanu from Prayas Energy Group, a Pune based NGO dedicated to democratizing energy governance in India, stressed, “There needs to be transparency in the tender process. There should be no tampering with the documents related to bidding and after the details have been set there should be no changes implemented in the original conditions that were laid out.”

Jindal Power filed a writ petition in the Gujarat High court against this one-sided decision of the GUVNL, following which the HC on 24 January 2007 put a stay on the tender process, which essentially meant that GUVNL could not go ahead with the deal with Adani. In response Adani Power Limited filed a Civil Application asking for the stay to be vacated. On 6 February 2007, the Advocate General, the top law officer of the Gujarat government, appeared for GUVNL and made a written submission before the court that in case the final outcome of the case went in Jindal Power’s favour, the GUVNL would sign the agreement with Jindal on same tems as it had offered Adani. On this, the court vacated the stay.
Within a few hours of the court order, the GUVNL signed the contract with Adani group.

There was a sinister design behind this mad rush to sign the contract with Adani, as subsequent court proceedings revealed.

Four days before signing the Rs 2.89 PPA, on 2.2.2007, the GUVNL entered into another agreement with Adani for supply of 1000MW power at the rate of Rs 2.35 per unit. This fact was hidden from both public and other power producers.
The question is why did the Modi regime sign a contract at Rs 2.89 when only four days earlier it had signed a similar contract with Adani at Rs 2.35 per unit. A difference of even one paisa per unit balloons into an extra burden of hundreds of crores every year. After all it’s the people of Gujarat who are going to foot the bill for expensive electricity. (Subsequently, Adani reneged on the Rs 2.35 contract on various dubious grounds, only honouring the more expensive Rs 2.89 contract)
Coming back to the fight put up by PTC and Jindal against favouristism shown towards Adani, the PTC too filed a separate case in the HC on February 22, 2007 challenging the cancellation of its Letter of Intent. The GUVNL again submitted in the court that in case PTC went on to win the case it too would be accommodated in the bid and allowed to supply 440MW power at the same terms as Adani.
Subsequently, Jindal Power opted out of the race and its application was disposed of.

But PTC continued its fight. Finally, the HC allowed PTC to enter into an agreement with GUVNL to sign a PPA to supply 440MW power for 25 years at the rate of Rs 2.89 per unit, the same as was signed with Adani on 6 February 2007. But the GUVNL was so intent on muscling out PTC and allowing only Adani to reap the benefits that it filed a Special Leave Petition in the SC challenging the directions of the HC. The SC threw out the application.

But still the Modi regime refused to sign the contract with PTC. The GUVNL now rejected PTC’s bid on the pretext that the company had now offered to give all of 440 MW from just one source that is Chitrapur Power Ltd.

 

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De ghumake -Real version

Lol wtf? This is getting ugly.

 

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Modi’s minister convicted for corruption | Tehelka.com

[paste:font size="6"]Rajkot (PTI): A senior minister in the Narendra Modi government was today sentenced to three years imprisonment by a court in Porbandar in the Rs 54-crore illegal limestone mining case of 2006.

Gujarat Water Resources minister Babu Bokhiria was convicted by Chief Judicial Magistrate C V Pandya.

Bokhiria along with former Congress MP Bharat Odedara, alleged gangster Bhima Dula Odedara, who is behind the bars in a murder case, and his son Lakshman Dula Odedara, who is chairman of Porbandar marketing yard, were sentenced to three years imprisonment and fined Rs 5,000 each.

In 2006, manager of Saurashtra Chemical Company Umesh Bhavsar had registered a complaint against the four alleging that they had illegally mined limestone from the land where the company holds mining rights.

The complaint also mentioned that they had to face a loss of Rs 54 crore due to the illegal mining done by the four persons. Porbandar is around 180 Kms from here.

Porbandar Police had arrested Bokhiria in 2007 from city airport as after the complaint, he left the country and was declared as an absconder. However, the high court had later released him on bail.

In the last state assembly elections held in December 2012, Bokhiria had defeated state Congress president Arjun Modhwadia. Bokhiria was made cabinet minister in the Modi government which took over the reins on December 25 last year.

 

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"Chetna March" by Sachin Ji

We introduced ‘Right to Information’ and created an accountable and transparent system of governance. ‪#‎INC2014‬ Read more here:Vision - INC

 

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Bokhiria along with former Congress MP Bharat Odedara, alleged gangster Bhima Dula Odedara, who is behind the bars in a murder case, and his son Lakshman Dula Odedara, who is chairman of Porbandar marketing yard, were sentenced to three years imprisonment and fined Rs 5,000 each.

Firstly the news in from July 2013, secondly he was prosecuted in Gujarat, and was put behind the bars when found guilty, no one tried to save him. Thirdly, a Congress MP too was put behind the bars for the same case.

Lastly, Congressi Tejpal the Rapist is in Jail

 

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Firstly the news in from July 2013, secondly he was prosecuted in Gujarat, and was put behind the bars when found guilty, no one tried to save him. Thirdly, a Congress MP too was put behind the bars for the same case.

Lastly, Congressi Tejpal the Rapist is in Jail

It's a POLL VENDETTA by Goa's BJP Govt.

Lol wtf? This is getting ugly.

from that video, one comment, which makes the MOST SENSE:

AAP is just a group of frustrated wannabes who have no ideas, no plans, no knowledge, no policies for running the country, they have hijacked one issue, and present themselves as the God sent saviors of the country. They made a mess in Delhi, and now want to create a mess throughout India. I really hope people of this country will vote sensibly and will choose a stable, strong government, not a gang of these small wannabe parties, who are making joke of the state.

 

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Firstly the news in from July 2013, secondly he was prosecuted in Gujarat, and was put behind the bars when found guilty, no one tried to save him. Thirdly, a Congress MP too was put behind the bars for the same case.

Lastly, Congressi Tejpal the Rapist is in Jail

Don't practice Gujarat model in any other state: Congress to BJP | Latest News & Updates at DNAIndia.com


Claiming that Modi and BJP preside over an "empire of corruption", Sibal wondered how can the BJP even make allegations against the Congress on the issue of corruption asking which of its ministers has been convicted or in jail.

He alleged that 22 BJP legislators were involved in land grab deals in Karnataka, and in Madhya Pradesh, the Lokayukta has complained that the state government is not forwarding documents even as he wants to start proceedings against 10 BJP ministers.

"Why is the BJP and Modi silent on this matter? Look at the plots that have been given by Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan to members of his family at throw-away prices.

"Nobody talks about that. What about this Saraswati Shishu Mandir. They have been given plots across the state. Nobody talks about that," he said.

About Gujarat, Sibal said another minister Purushottam Solanki was 'prosecuted' under Prevention of Corruption Act but no action was taken by the BJP government against them.

Shakeel Ahmed said that he does not think that Modi's dreams will fructify including "his biggest dream" of becoming Prime Minister.

 

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Don't practice Gujarat model in any other state: Congress to BJP | Latest News & Updates at DNAIndia.com
Claiming that Modi and BJP preside over an "empire of corruption", Sibal wondered how can the BJP even make allegations against the Congress on the issue of corruption asking which of its ministers has been convicted or in jail.

He alleged that 22 BJP legislators were involved in land grab deals in Karnataka, and in Madhya Pradesh, the Lokayukta has complained that the state government is not forwarding documents even as he wants to start proceedings against 10 BJP ministers.

"Why is the BJP and Modi silent on this matter? Look at the plots that have been given by Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan to members of his family at throw-away prices.

"Nobody talks about that. What about this Saraswati Shishu Mandir. They have been given plots across the state. Nobody talks about that," he said.

About Gujarat, Sibal said another minister Purushottam Solanki was 'prosecuted' under Prevention of Corruption Act but no action was taken by the BJP government against them.

Shakeel Ahmed said that he does not think that Modi's dreams will fructify including "his biggest dream" of becoming Prime Minister.

Congress Issues Certificates of Corruption??

BTW, Mr. Sibal himself is predicted to LOSE his seat