WHO SAVED THE SONIA GOVERNMENT?
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Who saved Sonia Govt?
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
This is about the untold story of why Sonia Govt. was saved during
the nuke vote
This is about the nuke deal and the contracts waiting to be signed as
part of the deal after the MPs sold themselves. What price is aatman
in the service of the nation?
I asked two questions on thakuramarsingh blog and no answers have
been forthcoming so far:
1. Who donated to Clinton Foundation on behalf of Amar Singh?
2. Why did SP vote to ditch their partner CPM and to save Sonia
Gandhi's Govt. during the nuke deal scam of cash for vote by MP's?
We are dealing with the darkest moment of democracy in Hindusthan
when MPs discarded all sense of shame and allowed themselves to be
bought at the rate of Rs. 25 crores per vote, as alleged by CPI
Bardhan.
Now that Amar Singh will lose his Rajya Sabha membership and is no
longer a member of SP, will he come clean on what happened prior to
the nuke vote to save Sonia?
It is irrelevant whether there is future for Amar Singh in Congress
party. It is relevant if there is future for Indian democracy with
the type of activities indulged in leading to the darkest moment of
the nation?
Should this not be a subject for suo moto inquiry by the Hon'ble
Supreme Court?
http://www.clintonfoundation.org/contributors/pages/page_2.html
This is the page on which Amar Singh figures (together with Lakshmi
N. Mittal) in the $1,000,001 to $5m donor list. The 3205 pages of
contributor info. (now 2009 list has come out; those with * are 2009
contributors) is a revelation of the way it works to get deals
struck. Ultimate suckers are the US tax-payers and the poor people of
the rest of the world.
S. Kalyanaraman
Amar, Jaya expelled from SP
Agencies, 2 February 2010, 01:08pm IST
Lukhnow: The Samajwadi Party (SP) on Tuesday expelled rebel leaders
Amar Singh and Jaya Prada and four Uttar Pradesh legislators for
criticizing the party leadership publicly.
The newly-appointed general secretary Mohan Singh told reporters here
that they were trying to split the party.
Meanwhile, a senior Congress spokesperson said in Delhi that Amar
Singh has no political future. The statement is significant given the
fact that there was speculation about Singh joining Congress.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Amar-Jaya-expelled-from-SP/articleshow/5527183.cms
Amar Singh is in the news these days. A news report of 19 Dec. 2008
together with a video news clip will be of interest to define the
importance of Amar Singh for Congress. When Congress needed to
survive during the vote for the nuke deal with America, defeating the
CPI-M was made possible by switching SP votes to Congress. The role
played by him in the cash for vote scam (at the alleged rate of Rs.
25 crores per vote -- alleged by CPI Bardhan -- which translates to
about Rs. 750 crores for SP votes alone) is yet to be unraveled by
investigative journalists of Hindusthan.
One thing is clear from the 19 Dec. 2008 report. Someone had paid
Clinton Foundation a large sum of greenbacks. Amar Singh claimed that
the payment could have been made by someone on his behalf.
Who could this be who acted on behalf of Amar Singh? Surely, someone
who had access to lots of greenbacks?
On whose behalf was Amar Singh lobbying in USA for getting the nuke
deal through?
I hope this will not become a mystery footnote in the dirty politics
of Hindusthan during the 21st century for an event claimed by Anil
Kakodkar to be a high-point of his atomic career.
S. Kalyanaraman
Amar Singh makes huge donation to Clinton Foundation
TNN, 19 December 2008, 02:15am IST
New Delhi: SP general secretary Amar Singh seems to dote on the
Clintons, one of the most influential political families of the US.
(Watch)
The Samajwadi Party leader donated a huge chunk of his assets to the
Clinton Foundation -- a charity floated by former US president
BillClinton which, while engaged in noble causes ranging from
battling climate change to AIDS prevention, has raised eyebrows for
tapping unorthodox sources.
Singh figures among those who made donations worth anywhere between
Rs 4.6 crore to Rs 23 crore. Assuming that the SP general secretary
just about made the grade, he would have parted with at least 20% of
his declared assets to the Clinton Foundation.
In his affidavit to the Election Commission, Singh, a member of Rajya
Sabha, put the total value of his assets at Rs 37 crore.
When asked about the huge donation, a seemingly unperturbed Singh
told reporters, "I have nothing to say. I won't deny anything."
He, however, also said that the "payment could have been made by
someone else on his behalf". He refused to be drawn out on the
remark, saying that he did not wish to become another Margaret Alva -
- an allusion to the former Congress general secretary who lost her
job and quite a deal of prominence after alleging that Congress
tickets for this year's Karnataka elections were sold.
But the disclosure has set tongues wagging, and not just in India.
US's influential daily The New York Times raised the issue of
potential conflict of interest by citing Amar Singh's generosity
towards the Clinton Foundation. "The potential for appearances of
conflict was illustrated by Amar Singh, a politician in India who
gave $1 million to $5 million. Mr Singh visited the US in September
to lobby for a deal allowing India to obtain civil nuclear technology
even though it never signed the NPT. He met with Mrs Clinton who he
said assured him that Democrats would not block the deal. Congress
approved it weeks later," the paper said.
The disclosure, prompted by US President-elect Barack Obama's
insistence that his secretary of state pick Hillary Clinton must come
clean on all her connections, show that the trend of flow of money
from West to India may have finally been reversed.
Besides Amar Singh, the other donors to Clinton include Lakshmi
Mittal and Tulsi Tanti. The exact amount donated has not been
disclosed and instead all of them have been categorised as per the
range of payment made. All three of them, according to
thefoundation's website, paid in the region of $1-5 million.
Industry pressure group, Confederation of Indian Industry, too is
named in the list as having paid between $500,000 to $1 million.
Fund manager Dave Katragadda, who has interests in entertainment,
technology and healthcare, and Ajit Gulabchand, the Hindustan
Construction chief, are two other Indians among major donors listed
on the foundation's website.
While the linkage sought to be established by NY Times
betweenClinton's support for the deal and the generous contribution
from Amar Singh could help the SP leader argue that he was acting in
national interest, Americans seemed worried that Clintons' penchant
for donations could make them vulnerable to lobbying by vested
foreign interests. "Such contributions could provoke suspicion at
home and abroad among those wondering about any effect on
administration policy," the influential daily said in a report on
Thursday in what marked a role reversal from the days when CIA was
accused of using dirty tricks to promote US's foreign interests.
Islamabad, which nurses a grudge against Bill Clinton whose
presidency saw the beginning of the end of hyphenation in US's
dealings with India and Pakistan, also seemed troubled. A report in
Pakistani media has suggested that Hillary, because of her husband's
proximity to Indians, may not be neutral in her dealings with India
and Pakistan.
Clinton's proximity to Singh, however, is not new. Eyebrows were
first raised when Clinton first visited Lucknow in September 2005
apparently to inaugurate a rural health scheme. SP chief Mulayam
Singh Yadav was the chief minister then. Clinton was accompanied by
US hotel baron Sant Singh Chatwal during the visit.
Meanwhile, the India Today group has denied that it made any donation
to the Clinton Foundation as reported by a news agency. It clarified
that it only paid a fee to the Speaker Agency -- M/s Harry Walker USA
-- for Bill Clinton's satellite address at the India Today conclave.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-3864349,prtpage-1.cms
http://kalyan97.amplify.com/2010/02/02/who-saved-sonia-govt/
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Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
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