Indian Holocaust My Father`s Life and Time - 513
Palash Biswas
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"In the progress of the country lies our progress; in its salvation our salvation and in its emancipation, our emancipation"
Babu Jagjivan Ram...
I do not remember my father, late Pulin Babu to have interacted with Babau Jagajivan Ram ever in my memory! Though, the undisputed All India Bengali Refugee Leader of SC and OBC communities used to interact with everyone including Presidents, Prime Ministers, Chief Ministers, Central Ministers and other Political leaders. I had been drafting letters for him addressed to all Ministers and Leaders Ruling and Opposition. We NEVER did get any Response from Either Bengali Leaders Brahamins or NON Brahamins nor Babu Jagajivan Ram. I only know SUBOL Mandal of Shaktifarm to have intimate realations with Babu Jagajivan Ram who got our friend JOGEN Mandal of Shaktifarm admitted in a Soviet University for Medical Studies. Mandal belonged toa poor family from Pragaon often Flood hit. But he Never returned to his Family. Ror us, Babu Jaga Jivan Ram also NEVER did return to Aboriginal Indigenous Humanscape once he was Co Opted into the Manusmriti Hegemony as his daughter Meira Kumar, the Loksabha Speaker has been.
I would not have written these lines anyway but the way the Manusmriti Hegemony used Aboriginal Indigenous Icons to justifay the Rconomic Ethnic Clensing and agenda of Mass Destructionin the Free Market democracy dominated by Brahamins, I am no way but to say the Truth! I am refering to the Full Page Government ads remembering Bau JagajivanRam published in PrintMedia today with Diluting the Most Suceesful Bharat Bandh and United Opposition on the issue of Fuel Pricing Decontrolled. Leading hindiDaily Jansatta also reported that the Bandh was limited within Left and BJP Ruled states!
A fast-advancing southwest monsoon lashed all of north India with rains over Sunday night and Monday, providing relief to the government jittery over the 16% rainfall deficit in June.
"The monsoons have now covered all of India except some parts of western Rajasthan," an India Meterological Department (IMD) spokesperson said.
The slow progress of the monsoon to the northern grain bowl had caused concerns in the government, already on the defensive because of the persistently high food inflation and the recent fuel price hike.
"If there is still any iffiness about the monsoons, it is only about the total quantum of rainfall that the different regions will now receive through July to September," IMD director BP Yadav told ET.
Crop planting suffered last month as rainfall was 16% below normal. But the Met department said the delay was not worrisome. "In terms of sowing of kharif crops, this is not considered worrisome. If the rains keep normal pace in terms of total quantum in the crucial sowing month of July and the rest of the monsoon season, we don't foresee any problem, agriculturally speaking," Mr Yadav added.
The only delay, in the Met terms, in the arrival of monsoon was in east UP and Bihar, he said. On June 25, when the monsoon was at its weakest, the IMD had forecast that rainfall would be 102% of the long-term average for the entire country.
On Sunday, the IMD had forecast that the monsoon could cover Delhi and the entire north anytime within the next four days. By late Sunday night, the monsoon covered most parts of Rajasthan, Delhi, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Chandigarh and the entire Punjab-Haryana region.
The rapid advance of the summer monsoon sparked off immediate optimism in the government over a bumper production this summer. Jettisoning earlier caution over keeping overt optimism at bay until mid July, food and farm minister Sharad Pawar today said that the area under kharif crops such as paddy, oilseeds and pulses is likely to be higher than that in the last two years.
On the back of strong industrial production, corporate India is opening its wallet to increase its production capacities. For the quarter ended June, projects worth Rs 5.82 lakh crore were added — the second highest ever after the Rs 8.81 lakh crore committed in the January-March 2009 quarter.
According to the CMIE Quarterly Survey, projects worth Rs 5.82 lakh crore were either announced or proposed or were under various stages of implementation during the April-June quarter.
"This data is significant and a clear indication on how the growth story is unfolding. We are definite that the country is progressing towards a 9% plus GDP growth. At this point we are more inclined to believe that this growth will continue. Besides, the capex boom has just started," Dipankar Mitra, economist with Motilal Oswal told TOI.
As per the CMIE data, projects worth Rs 54,884 crore were completed during April-June (Rs 1,00,270 crore in the same quarter last year).
But strikingly, projects worth Rs 12,869 crore were shelved by corporate Indiacompared with Rs 13,461 crore in the year-ago period. With all these, the order book of projects outstanding as on June 30, 2010, stood at Rs 105.19 lakh crore.
"A key indicator to the growth story is the capacity utilisation levels of companies . We are now seeing new highs with every passing month on utilisation levels," said an analyst with an MF.
"This clearly means that companies should start enhancing production capabilities , which is reflected in the announcements of either greenfield (new) investments or brownfield capacity additions . The story looks rosy, but external threats of Eurozone trouble still hangs."
However, Mitra of Motilal said that for the moment the European trouble may not hamper investments. "Unless there is a major derailment of economic situation like the collapse of the Euro or disintegration of the European Union, we do not see any big trouble for investments ," he said.
Meanwhile,Kasikorn Asset Management, Thailand's biggest money manager, plans to raise as much as 8 billion baht ($247 million) selling the nation's first mutual fund investing in bonds of Indian banks and companies.
The fund will invest in five state-owned and private companies such as Indian Oil, ICICI Bank and Export-Import Bank of India, said Patchara Samalapa, managing director of Kasikorn Asset, which oversees about $16 billion of assets.
Thai investors are looking overseas for returns as the Bank of Thailand keeps its benchmark rate at 1.25%, the lowest level since July 2004. South Korea's key rate is 2%, and India last week raised the reverse repurchase rate for a third time this year to 4%, the highest level since March 2009.
"There is huge demand from domestic investors who are searching for better returns than domestic deposits and government bonds," Patchara said. "The India fixed-income fund will serve this demand with similar low risk and higher return."
Kasikorn Asset's 'K Indian Fixed Income 2 Years A fund', which will expire in two years, will probably offer a return of about 3% a year, Patchara said. That compares with the return of 1.5% on the bank's two-year fixed deposits and 2.3% on Thai government bonds, he said.
The fund will hedge its foreign exchange risk with forward contracts, Patchara said. It introduced the fund after recently becoming the first Thai mutual fund to win Indian government approval for bond investments, he said.
The government plans to devise and publicly share a new pricing formula for key auto fuels, looking to inject greater transparency into an arcane system of price-setting amid hopes it will draw greater private participation in the state-dominated fuel retailing sector.
The proposed new formula will also contain an in-built mechanism to freeze pump prices of petrol and diesel if global oil prices rise beyond a certain level to protect consumers, a senior government official told ET.
The finance ministry has in a note proposed creating a software that will dynamically calculate retail prices of fuel, factoring in variables such as global prices of crude, the exchange rate and tax rates prevailing at any given time.
"The formula-based pricing system would bring automatic changes in auto fuel prices without any government intervention," the official added. The finance ministry is of the opinion that the formula would also be acceptable to private players such as Reliance and Essar and incentivise them to expand their fuel retailing operations, and the
increased competition could help kep prices under check.
The transparent system will help these firms effectively compete with state-run oil companies, which operate more than 90% of the nearly 40,000 petrol pumps in the country.
"Private oil companies may accept a formula-based pricing mechanism if, for each international price rise, the rise in the domestic price is stated clearly and in advance," says the note circulated to top decision makers in the government. The note also mentions a system of predictable retail price variations in case there is a large rise in global oil prices.
"If the global price rises very high, since we will not fully raise the domestic price cap, private players will make a loss at such times. But if we make it clear in advance that we shall do this only if the price goes really very high, many private firms will take the gamble and come in," it said.
The finance ministry is confident that the proposed mechanism will attract private firms, bring in competition and keep a lid on retail prices.
"What is currently called the market price in India is not really the market price but the price at which the existing public sector firms do not incur a loss. Indeed, if there were more private players —- we would (not) have had to raise petrol prices by Rs 3.50 (a litre)," the note said, referring to increase in the price of petrol that accompanied the government's decision last month to set market determined prices for auto fuels.
"Even with a Rs 2 (a litre) rise a private firm, with its greater efficiency, could turn in a profit," the note added. On June 25, while freeing petrol and diesel prices, the government had said that it could step in to protect consumers from sharp spikes in global crude prices.
It is working out a pricing mechanism including frequency of price revisions and the level of global crude price beyond which it would control retail prices of auto fuel.
The finance ministry is in favour of initially revising auto fuel prices every two weeks before moving to a weekly system.
The partial deregulation was announced at a time when India's average global crude oil import price based on a basket of crude oil grades was around $74.84 a barrel. The average crude oil import price now is $71.11 a barrel, indicating room for a downward revision in petrol and diesel prices.
Sham protest
6 Jul 2010, 0502 hrs IST,ET Bureau
India's Opposition parties want world oil prices to behave or, at least, the government of India to create a make-believe world in which oil prices are stable and low. To make the point, they disrupted normal life in many parts of the country on Monday, leading to loss of production, incomes and, in some cases, public property. They want to pass this off as democratic politics, articulation of popular anger over the government's decision to hike petro-fuel prices. This is grossly irresponsible. To subsidise energy at a time of rising energy costs is to cripple the economy in the medium term.
The pretence that the government can, somehow, make the effects of rising crude prices disappear into thin air is not acceptable from any party that hopes to be a ruling party at the Centre. The regime of repressed retail prices is underwritten by forgone revenue and profits by the oil companies, subsidy from the exchequer and, most insidiously, sacrificed economic growth.
That oil subsidies depress economic growth might not be obvious to many, but that does not make it any less real. If the subsidy is borne by the government, it jacks up the fiscal deficit, making the government borrow more. If the oil companies bear the subsidy, they borrow to make good the deficit. In either case, resources are diverted from investment to consumption.
The added demand for loans from the government and the oil companies put upward pressure on interest rates, depressing investment. Subsidised energy prices act against conserving energy. In contrast, higher energy prices put a premium on energy efficiency and raise the entire economy to a higher level of productivity, raising international competitiveness.
Sure, the poor need protection from inflation. They need not just direct subsidies (which the government provides) but macroeconomic balance as well. Higher petro-fuel prices at the retail level ease the subsidy burden and reduce the fiscal deficit, leading to better macroeconomic balance and reduced inflation. For political parties to pretend that all this is incidental is to declare that they are not fit to govern.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/opinion/editorial/Sham-protest/articleshow/6133059.cms
Maoist, UML cadres vandalise newspaper offices
KATHMANDU: Cadres of UCPN-Maoist and ruling CPN-UML in Nepal have allegedly vandalised newspaper offices and assaulted journalists for publishing news reports against their parties.Cadres of the Youth Force, a wing of the ruling CPN-UML, vandalised the office of the Janasambad daily in Jhapa district, the Freedom Forum, an NGO monitoring press freedom, alleged.
Separately, the Maoists assaulted some staffers of the Sudursandesh daily being published from Dhangadhi in western Nepal for allegedly publishing anti-Maoist news reports.
Around 10 Maoists cadres stormed into the office the paper in search of the editor and then started attacking other staff indiscriminately, the newspaper said.
Meanwhile, Federation of Nepalese Journalists said it would stage protest in the district against the attacks.
Advani hopes strike would silence Opposition's critics
New Delhi Senior BJP leader L K Advani on Tuesday hoped that the strike called against price rise would put an end to criticism that the opposition was not doing enough on the issue."Through you (the media) I would like to thank the people of the country for making Bharat Bandh an unprecedented success. I would also like to thank the people of Delhi and our supporters here for this success," he said.
He was speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a function held to mark the birth anniversary of party ideologue Shyama Prasad Mookherjee.
The NDA and Left partied had on Monday called for a Bharat Bandh to protest against fuel price hike.
Advani said he had been hearing criticism from some quarters that opposition parties were not taking up the issue of price rise in a big way.
"We had been hearing criticism that the opposition was not living upto the expectations of the people by not taking up the issue of price rise which was responsible for the plight of the people," Advani said.
Earlier during the ceremony to pay tributes to Mookerjee, Advani told his party members to strive towards making BJP "a party with a difference" as envisaged by former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
"We are in politics not to serve our own agenda but to make this country great," Advani said, in what appeared to be a message to BJP's top brass which is mostly seen competing with each other for one-upmanship.
He said BJP workers should be proud as the organisation and its leaders were "incomparable".
Bharat bandh affects normal life across the country
Senior BJP leaders Arun Jaitley and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi were arrested in Lucknow while trying to lead a procession towards the main Hazratganj crossing. BJP workers claimed that a number of party activists and leaders were injured when police baton-charged the protestors.In NDA-ruled Bihar, Punjab and Karnataka, life was thrown out of gear with agitators stopping trains and buses.
Schools, colleges and business establishments remained closed as groups of protestors hit streets trying to enforce the 12-hour bandh.
In West Bengal and Kerala, air, rail and road services were disrupted. Only Air India flights operated out of NSC Bose International Airport in Kolkata as streets wore a deserted look in the eastern metropolis where CITU gave the strike call.
In Maharashtra, police cracked down on trouble makers and detained nearly 10,000 people, official sources said.
Considering low passenger load in view of the bandh, domestic airlines have cancelled 45 departures and 39 arrivals at the domestic airport in Mumbai.
While taxis and auto-rickshaws are off the road in the country's financial capital, municipal buses and local trains were plying with very few passengers during the usually crowded morning hours.
At suburban Mulund railway station, BJP workers led by former MP Kirit Somaiya were detained while staging "rail roko". In suburban Borivali, Mumbai BJP president and MLA Gopal Shetty was detained with supporters during a similar protest.
Incidents of stone-pelting on buses and trains were reported from Pune and some parts of Mumbai including Vikhroli, Borivali and Kandivali. However, no one was injured.
Besides the BJP, those participating in the bandh are Shiv Sena, Samajwadi Party, JD-U, CPI-M, CPI, Forward Block, RSP, AIADMK, PMK, MDMK TDP, BJD, JD(S), AGP, Akali Dal and INLD to protest against the increase in fuel prices.
Jaitely claimed in Lucknow, "The bandh is an unprecedented success. We are getting messages in this regard from all across the country. This protest has been widely supported by the average common man because he is really the target of UPA government's policies".
The BJP leader said protest against the policies of the Centre will be reflected in Parliament.
In Bihar, train and road services came to a virtual halt and shops and business establishment downed their shutters.
Several long distance and passenger trains, including New Delhi-Muzaffarpur Sampark Kranti Express were detained at different stations in Bihar following the agitation, East Central Railway (ECR) Chief Public Relations Officer, Dilip Kumar said.
Bandh supporters cut hose pipes of some trains and squatted and demonstrated on the railway tracks to enforce the bandh.
The Rajgir-Danapur passenger train was detained at Karahdhi, Hatia-Patna express at Jehanabad, Gaya-Patna passenger train at Islampur besides over 10 mail express trains were detained at Sasaram, Vikarmganj, Dholi, Narahan, Motihari, Sitamarhi and Jainagar railway stations in Bihar by the agitators, Kumar said.
Reports reaching the state headquarters from Muzaffarpur, Gaya, Biharsharif, Bhagalpur, Begusarai, Motihari, Bettia, Siwan, Gopalganj, Chapra, Darbhanga, Saharsa, Khagaria and Katihar said the bandh evoked good response with markets remaining closed.
Stray incidents of stone pelting were reported in Karnataka where BJP activists stopped the Mysore-Bangalore passenger train briefly and shouted slogans against the UPA government at the Centre.
In Kerala, shops remained closed and buses, taxis and autorickshaws kept off the roads throughout the state, seriously affecting mobility of people. No violence was reported from anywhere.
In Andhra Pradesh, bus services were badly hit as workers of various opposition parties staged demonstrations in front of some bus depots in Khammam, Nalgonda, Ranga Reddy and Kadapa districts.
In Rajahmundhry, services of over 700 buses in nine depots have been cancelled as protestors stopped buses and organised agitations, a APSRTC official said.
Bandh supporters in Orissa picketed various Central government and PSU offices to prevent employees from reporting for duty and road and rail traffic disrupted in the state.
Vehicular movement on roads was virtually paralysed throughout the state as buses, trucks and other vehicles stopped plying, leaving a large number of passengers stranded, police sources said.
The bandh evoked near total reponse in Punjab and is partial in Haryana.
Reports from Ludhiana, Phagwara and Jalandhar said that shops, commercial establishments and schools were closed in the wake of bandh call.
In Congress-ruled Haryana where opposition parties including Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) and CPI and CPI (M) are supporting the bandh, the strike evoked a mixed response.
In Gujarat, stone-pelting incidents were reported in Surat while the bandh remained largely peaceful in the BJP-ruled state.
The bandh evoked a lukewarm response in Tamil Nadu where public transport, educational institutions, the banking sector and other business establishments functioned normally.
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More hikes in the offing
Shobhana Subramanian,Shobhana Subramanian
Posted: Jul 06, 2010 at 0008 hrs IST
The immediate provocation for the inter-meeting rate hike in key policy rates by the Reserve bank of India (RBI) was probably the hike in fuel prices and the fear that it could stoke inflationary pressures. By now even the central bank must have realised that inflation is unlikely to settle at levels of 5.5% by March next year, as it is hoping, even if food inflation moderates, as it did in May. The number is now likely to be closer to 7%, thanks to a favourable base rate kicking in during the January-March 2011 period because inflation averaged close to 10% in the corresponding period of 2010. That means that real policy rates are still negative and will remain do for some time a trigger for another 25 basis points increase in the repo and reverse repo rates at the July 27, 2010. In fact, what the central bank might do, once liquidity pressures in the system ease, is to up the cash reserve ratio because that can be more effective than a rate hike. None of these moves is unlikely to really derail growth. The real economy is more than chugging along—the IIP number for April came in at 17.6% though it's true that the latest credit growth numbers of 20% or so have been somewhat skewed by payments for telecom licences.
But money isn't really all that expensive right now. And even if interest rates
move up by August or September, there should be more borrowers in the market. Of course, higher fuel prices and costlier loans do impact sales of cars and two wheelers but right now both car and two wheeler makers seem to be doing brisk business. What could prompt companies to go slow with their expansion plans, if at all, is the uncertainty in the global economy, which going by current indications, isn't recovering in a hurry; indeed there's some amount of deceleration that's being anticipated in the next six months. The dynamics of global growth will also influence monetary policy and that's why the quantum of increase rates, over the year till March 2011, is unlikely to be more than125 basis points in all. Again, the system should not be short of money since the government is expected to start spending the Rs one lakh crore or so that's moved to its coffers out on account of payments for telecom licences.
While companies should be able to access debt at reasonable rates, they may not find it as easy to mop money in the equity markets. Not because of higher interest rates but because the uncertainty globally, may result in higher risk aversion and therefore, foreign flows into equities could slow down. So far, emerging markets have seen a mixed pattern; flows into EPFR Global-tracked Emerging Market Equity Funds hit a ten-week high in the second week of June as investors put their money to work. But Citigroup reported that in the week to July 3, 2010, inflows into all emerging market fell to $949 million compared with an average of $2.3 billion in each of the two previous weeks. Interestingly, of the nearly $700 or so that moved into Asian funds, China cornered half while India picked up around $50 million. It's not that India won't get its fair share, it's just that right now it's not clear just how much will come into emerging markets.
The RJD-LJP combine has given a 'Bihar Bandh' call on July 10 to protest rise in the prices of petroleum products and essential commodities.
"RJD-LJP bandh call will have mass support as against the bandh organised by NDA in Bihar with the help of the state machinery," Prasad said.
He also alleged that the Bihar government had failed to take advantage of Centre-sponsored schemes aimed at providing foodgrains to rural people.
"The Nitish Kumar government has failed to take advantage of Centre-sponsored schemes, mainly under public distribution system, to provide sufficient foodgrain to BPL families."
The state government had failed to initiate action against hoarders, black-marketeers, causing artificial crisis of foodgrains and edible oil in the market, he alleged.
Prasad also demanded implementation of Sachar Committee report and Justice Ranganath Mishra Commission recommendations for job reservation of people from minority community.
BJP supporters also ransacked a bus carrying passengers at Baguihati crossing at 12 noon as it tried to speed past a group of their party men. At the same spot, they forced taxi passengers to come out and deflated the tyres.
Various other vehicles going towards Dum Dum airport were also stopped by the BJP supporters.
At various key crossings, BJP flags could be seen pitched side by side with CPI(M) flags. A BJP rally in which the state's top leaders participated started from the party's state headquarters at Murlidhar Sen Lane and reached Esplanade's Dorina crossing at 11 am. The rallyists then squatted at the site for nearly 45 minutes.
At Hazra, BJP worker Gautam Majhi was arrested while trying to deflate the tyres of a taxi whose driver had ventured out. Majhi, who was a candidate from ward number 91 in the recent KMC elections, was detained by Kolkata Police till late in the evening.
"The CPM called a bandh just 10 days ago over the same issue. That bandh was not as successfully as today's. It was only because of the BJP's involvement and support that today's strike has turned out to be the most successful and spontaneous in West Bengal," asserted state BJP President Rahul Sinha.
BJP leaders claimed that their party workers had been more effective in enforcing the bandh and pointed out that BJP leaders across the country had courted arrest over the issue of petroleum price hike.The Socialist Unity Center of India (SUCI), a Left party which is allied to the Trinamool Congress, also took out a rally in the city in support of the bandh. Over 170 of its supporters were arrested when they tried to break a police cordon and march to Raj Bhavan.
But money isn't really all that expensive right now. And even if interest rates
While companies should be able to access debt at reasonable rates, they may not find it as easy to mop money in the equity markets. Not because of higher interest rates but because the uncertainty globally, may result in higher risk aversion and therefore, foreign flows into equities could slow down. So far, emerging markets have seen a mixed pattern; flows into EPFR Global-tracked Emerging Market Equity Funds hit a ten-week high in the second week of June as investors put their money to work. But Citigroup reported that in the week to July 3, 2010, inflows into all emerging market fell to $949 million compared with an average of $2.3 billion in each of the two previous weeks. Interestingly, of the nearly $700 or so that moved into Asian funds, China cornered half while India picked up around $50 million. It's not that India won't get its fair share, it's just that right now it's not clear just how much will come into emerging markets.
NDA has no right to call bandh: Lalu
NDA had no right to call Bharat bandh as they were also responsible for price rise of essential commodities, RJD supremo Lalu Prasad claimed Monday.
"NDA has no right to give the call for Bharat bandh on the issue of price rise as it was also responsible for the same," he told reporters on the occasion of party's 14th foundation day celebrations here.The RJD-LJP combine has given a 'Bihar Bandh' call on July 10 to protest rise in the prices of petroleum products and essential commodities.
"RJD-LJP bandh call will have mass support as against the bandh organised by NDA in Bihar with the help of the state machinery," Prasad said.
He also alleged that the Bihar government had failed to take advantage of Centre-sponsored schemes aimed at providing foodgrains to rural people.
"The Nitish Kumar government has failed to take advantage of Centre-sponsored schemes, mainly under public distribution system, to provide sufficient foodgrain to BPL families."
The state government had failed to initiate action against hoarders, black-marketeers, causing artificial crisis of foodgrains and edible oil in the market, he alleged.
Prasad also demanded implementation of Sachar Committee report and Justice Ranganath Mishra Commission recommendations for job reservation of people from minority community.
BJP makes all-out bid to outbandh Leftists
The West Bengal unit of the BJP made an all-out effort on Monday to be perceived as more proactive than the CPI(M)-led Left Front in enforcing the bandh against the UPA Government's oil price hike. At some places, the saffron party workers even managed to outnumber their Marxist counterparts.
During a bandh which was by and large peaceful, without many instances of political workers trying to enforce the strike forcibly � as very few people dared to venture out anyways � the BJP activists came out on the streets in a very obvious attempt to disrupt life. The party's workers were the first to block traffic at Howrah Bridge and other adjoining areas at 6.30 am � long before a CITU rally reached the bridge at about 8 pm.BJP supporters also ransacked a bus carrying passengers at Baguihati crossing at 12 noon as it tried to speed past a group of their party men. At the same spot, they forced taxi passengers to come out and deflated the tyres.
Various other vehicles going towards Dum Dum airport were also stopped by the BJP supporters.
At various key crossings, BJP flags could be seen pitched side by side with CPI(M) flags. A BJP rally in which the state's top leaders participated started from the party's state headquarters at Murlidhar Sen Lane and reached Esplanade's Dorina crossing at 11 am. The rallyists then squatted at the site for nearly 45 minutes.
At Hazra, BJP worker Gautam Majhi was arrested while trying to deflate the tyres of a taxi whose driver had ventured out. Majhi, who was a candidate from ward number 91 in the recent KMC elections, was detained by Kolkata Police till late in the evening.
"The CPM called a bandh just 10 days ago over the same issue. That bandh was not as successfully as today's. It was only because of the BJP's involvement and support that today's strike has turned out to be the most successful and spontaneous in West Bengal," asserted state BJP President Rahul Sinha.
BJP leaders claimed that their party workers had been more effective in enforcing the bandh and pointed out that BJP leaders across the country had courted arrest over the issue of petroleum price hike.The Socialist Unity Center of India (SUCI), a Left party which is allied to the Trinamool Congress, also took out a rally in the city in support of the bandh. Over 170 of its supporters were arrested when they tried to break a police cordon and march to Raj Bhavan.
Bharat Bandh: Shot in the arm for 'united' Opposition
6 Jul 2010, 0441 hrs IST,ET Bureau
NEW DELHI: Obliterating the post-Babri Masjid political fault lines, the Opposition on Monday tapped into the frustration of the aam aadmi over spiralling prices by organising a largely successful Bharat bandh.
For the government, which has been nurturing the belief that Opposition unity is a misnomer, Monday's bandh gave a glimpse into the potential of the price rise issue to bridge the by-now-familiar political differences. Although Opposition parties worked separately to force a shutdown, the bandh has ensured the return of price rise as the most potent issue that has the capacity to undermine the legitimacy of the government.
On its part, the government has been maintaining that it cannot recklessly steer the economy into a ditch by not addressing the unsustainable subsidy bill. But at the same time, there was admission that the public show of protest will increase the government's vulnerability to public pressure.
"Reality doesn't matter, impressions do. The average citizen is not interested in nuances and details. You cannot tell people that today's hardships will bring a better tomorrow," said a senior Congress functionary.
The populists in the government like Ms Mamata Banerjee can be expected to demand fresh initiatives to insulate people from back-breaking prices. There will also be increasing pressure on the Centre to walk its talk on public assurances that inflation will come down to 6% by October. "The party is concerned about food inflation. And there is no magical solution to bring it down immediately," said a Congress leader.
If the current mood in the Opposition is anything to go by, it is certain to unleash an offensive against the government over price rise in the monsoon session of Parliament. It could also complicate the government's plans to exploit divisions in the Opposition ranks, particularly in Rajya Sabha where it faces an acute numerical deficit.
The public outrage over rising prices is certain to prompt the Congress to give an aggressive push to the food security bill. The National Advisory Council, which is rewriting the bill, is learnt to be of the view that the programme should be rolled out immediately in at least 150 districts. The NREGA, it be recalled, began with 200 poor districts and then scaled up.
Need to strike out such farce
6 Jul 2010, 0501 hrs IST,TK Arun,
The right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is fundamental. Assertion of formal rights by a mobilised populace is, indeed, the lifeblood of democracy, giving substance to form.
However, Monday's Bharat Bandh, which disrupted life, stopped work, created loss and damaged property, not so much articulated democratic rights as abused them. The dividing line is drawn by what motivates the protest, how it advances the collective cause.
The sham protest against higher petro-fuel prices serves populist expedience, not the public good. As if holding down retail fuel prices as global crude prices flare up would not cripple the oil companies, feed energy profligacy, hurt competitiveness, burden the exchequer, hike interest rates and depress growth! Enough of such farce.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/Need-to-strike-out-such-farce/articleshow/6133057.cms
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Protest would be carried forward: Karat indiablooms Who says Bharat Bandh was Un-necessary ? MyNews.in Advani thanks people for success of shutdownSify - 16 hours ago The government hiked the prices of diesel by Rs.2 a litre, kerosene - known as the poor man's fuel and traditionally spared during periodic fuel price hikes ... No roll back of fuel price hike: Pranab Investing Contrarian Is Nifty likely to breach 5200?Moneycontrol.com - 3 hours ago Overall, it was a quiet session for markets due to Bharat Bandh declared by opposition parties on petrol price hike by UPA government. Daily Market View: Expect range-bound Moneylife Personal Finance Magazine Sensex little-changed; M&M, Cipla, Tata Motors up Economic Times More results for Fuel price hike » | Babu Jagjivan Ram, endearingly called Babuji, was a freedom fighter and a crusader for social justice. His meteoric rise in public life saw him emerge as an eminent and popular political leader who devoted his entire life working for the welfare of his country. He belonged to the vintage era of modern Indian politics. As national leader, parliamentarian, union minister and champion of depressed classes.....  |
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- A national Foundation viz. "Babu Jagjivan Ram National Foundation" has been established in the memory of Babu Jagjivan Ram and to propagate his ideology, philosophy of his life and mission and services rendered for the sake of the underprivileged. and the country
- The Foundation shall function as an autonomous body under the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment. It is registered as a society under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 with a one-time corpus grant of Rs. 50 crore. It will be located in the National Capital Region of Delhi (Jeevan Prakash Building, 9th floor, Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi).
- The main objectives of the Foundation are as follows:
- To propagate the ideology and philosophy of life and mission of Babu Jagjivan Ram;
- To collect, acquire, maintain and preserve the personal papers and other historical material pertaining to Babu Jagjivan Ram;
- To encourage and promote study and research on his life and work;
- To publish, sell and distribute books, papers, pamphlets and information in pursuance of the objectives the Foundation;
- To acquire, preserve and protect places connected with him and raise memorials;
- To propagate his ideals and memory through print and electronic media by promoting artists belonging to dalit community who are not getting ample opportunity to come up;
- To encourage and promote dalit artists through specially designed development schemes for their social, cultural, educational and economic development;
- To implement special schemes for removal of untouchability and caste-based prejudices in the society;
- To undertake and implement various schemes and programmes assigned from time to time by the Central and State Govts;
- To organize birth and death anniversaries and other commemorative events of the life of Babu Jagjivan Ram;
- To undertake all such activities as are not specially mentioned in the aims and objectives listed above, but which promote these objectives
- The entire expenditure would be borne from the XI Plan outlay of this Ministry.
- This is a plan scheme under the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, which involves a projected expenditure of Rs.54 crore in the 11th Five-Year- Period. The proposed provisions include both recurring and non-recurring expenses. An amount of Rs. 50 crore is proposed by way of one time grant to create a Corpus Fund. However, a grant of Rs. 4 crore would also be provided to kick-start the activities and to meet the initial establishment costs.
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Jagjivan Ram
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| Babu Jagjivan Ram | |
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| In office 1952-1986 | |
| Constituency | Sasaram |
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| In office 1970-1974 | |
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| In office (1967-1970);(1974-77) | |
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| In office 1956-1962 | |
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| In office March 23 , 1977 - August 22 , 1979 | |
| Succeeded by | Yashwantrao Chavan |
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| In office 1970-1971 | |
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| Born | April 5, 1908(1908-04-05) Chandwa near Arrah, Bihar. |
| Died | July 6, 1986 (aged 78) New Delhi |
| Resting place | Samata Sthal (Memorial) 28°38'24"N 77°14'41"E [1] |
| Political party | Janata Party Alliance (1977-80) |
| Other political affiliations | Indian National Congress (1932-1977), Congress for Democracy(1977) Congress (J) (1981-86) |
| Children | Meira Kumar |
| Residence | New Delhi |
| Website | Members Profile (Lok Sabha) |
In 1946, he became the youngest minister in Jawaharlal Nehru's provisional government, the First Union Cabinet of India as a Labour minister, and also a member of Constituent Assembly of India, where he ensured that social justice was enshrined in the Constitution [2]. He went on serve as a minister in the Indian parliament with various portfolios for more than forty years as a member of Indian National Congress (INC), most importantly he was the Defence Minister of India during the Indo-Pak war of 1971, which resulted in formation of Bangladesh. His contribution to the Green Revolution in India and modernising Indian agriculture, during his two tenures as Union Agriculture Minister are still remembered, especial during 1974 drought when he was asked to hold the additional portfolio to tide over the food crisis [3][4]. Though he supported Indira Gandhi during the Emergency in India (1975–1977), he left Congress in 1977 and joined Janata Party alliance in 1977, along with his Congress for Democracy, he later served as the Deputy Prime Minister of India (1977–1979), then in 1980, he formed Congress (J) [5]. He is also famous for "forgetting to pay his taxes" during his years in power.
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[edit] Early life and education
Jagjivan Ram was born at Chandwa near Arrah in Bihar, to a family of five siblings, elder brother Sant Lal, and three sisters. His father Sobhi Ram was with British Indian Army, posted at Peshawar, but later resigned due to some differences and bought some farming land in his native village Chandwa, and settled there. He also became a Mahant of Shiv Narayani sect, skilled in calligraphy he illustrated many book of the sect and distributed locally.[6][7].Young Jagjivan started going a local school in January 1914, but shortly afterward his father died prematurely, leaving him and his mother Vasanti Devi to economic hardships. He joined Aggrawal Middle School in Arrah in 1920, where the medium of instruction was English for the first time, and joined Arrah Town School in 1922, it was here that is faced caste discrimination for the first time, yet remained unfazed. An often cited incident occurred in the school, there was this tradition of having two water pots in the school, one for Hindus and another for Muslims, so when Jagjivan drank water from the Hindu pot, while being from an untouchable class, the matter was reported to the Principal, who placed a third pot for "untouchables" in the school, but this pot was broken by him twice, eventually the Principal decided against placing the third pot [6][7]. An important turning point in his life came in 1925, when Pt. Madan Mohan Malviya visited his school, and impressed by his welcome address, invited him to join Banaras Hindu University [7][8].
Jagjivan Ram passed his matriculation in the first division and joined the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) in 1927, where he was awarded the Birla scholarship, and passed his Inter Science Examination; while at BHU he organised the scheduled castes to protest against social discrimination [9].As a Dalit student, he would not be served meals in his hostel, denied haircut by local barbers, a Dalit barber would arrive from Ghazipur from occasionally to trim his hair, eventually he left BHU and pursued graduation from Calcutta University. In 2007, the BHU set up a Babu Jagjivan Ram Chair in its faculty of social sciences to study caste discrimination and economic backwardness [10][11].
He received a B.Sc. degree from the University of Calcutta in 1931, here again he organized conferences to draw the attention towards issues of discrimination, and also participated in the anti-untouchability movement started by Mahatma Gandhi [9].
[edit] Early career
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose took notice of him at Kolkata, when in 1928 he organized a Mazdoor Rally at Wellington Square, in which approximately 50,000 people participated. When the devastating Bihar earthquake of 1934 occurred he got actively involved in the relief work and his efforts were appreciated his work [12]. When popular rule was introduced under the 1935 Act and the scheduled castes were given representation in the legislatures, both the nationalists and the British loyalists sought him because of his first-hand knowledge of the social and economic situation in Bihar, Jagjivan Ram was nominated to the Bihar Council. He chose to go with the nationalists and joined Congress, which wanted him not only because he was valued as an able spokesperson for the depressed classes, but also that he could counter Ambedkar; he was elected to the Bihar assembly in 1937. However, he resigned his membership on the issue of irrigation cess [13].In 1935, he contributed to the establishment of the 'All-India Depressed Classes League', an organization dedicated to attaining equality for untouchables. He was also drawn into the Indian National Congress, in the same year he proposed a resolution in the 1935 session of the Hindu Mahasabha demanding that temples and drinking water wells be opened up to Dalits [4]. and in the early 1940s was imprisoned twice for his active participation in the Satyagraha and the Quit India Movements. He was among the principal leaders who publicly denounced India's participation in the World War II between the European nations and for which he was imprisoned in 1940 [2][14].
[edit] Parliamentary career
In 1946 he became the youngest minister in Jawaharlal Nehru's provisional government and also the subsequent First Indian Cabinet, as a Labour Minister, where he is credited for laying the foundation for several labour welfare policies in India. He was a part of the prestigious high profile Indian delegation that attended to attend the International Labour Organization (ILO)'s International Labour Conference on 16 August 1947 in Geneva along with the great Gandhian Bihar Bibhuti Dr. Anugrah Narayan Sinha[15] his chief political mentor and also the then head of the delegation, and few days later he was elected President of the ILO [16] . He served as Labour minister until 1952, later he several Ministerial posts in Nehru's Cabinet,Communications (1952–56), for Transport and railways (1956–62), and for Transport and communications (1962–63).In Indira Gandhi's government he worked as minister for Labour, employment, and rehabilitation (1966–67), and Union minister for Food and agriculture (1967–70), where he is best remembered for having successfully led the Green Revolution during his tenure [4][17]. When the Congress Party split in 1969, Jagjivan Ram joined the camp led by Indira Gandhi, and became the president of that faction of Congress. He worked as the Minister of Defence (1970–74) making him the virtual No. 2 in the cabinet, minister for Agriculture and irrigation (1974–77). It was during his tenure as the minister of Defence that the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 was fought, and Bangladesh achieved independence. While loyal to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi for most of the Indian Emergency, in 1977 he along with five other politicians resigned from the Cabinet and formed the Congress for Democracy party, within the Janata coalition.
A few days before the elections, on a Sunday, Jagjivan Ram addressed an Opposition rally at the famous Ram Lila Grounds in Delhi. The national broadcaster Doordarshan allegedly attempted to stop crowds from participating in the demonstration by telecasting the blockbuster movie Bobby. The rally still drew large crowds, and a newspaper headline the next day ran "Babu beats Bobby" [18]. He was the Deputy Prime Minister of India when Morarji Desai was the Prime Minister, from 1977 to 1979, though initially reluctant to join the cabinet, and was not present at the oath-taking ceremony on 27 March 1977; he eventually did so at the behest of Jai Prakash Narayan, who insisted that his presence for necessary, "not just as an individual but as a political and social force" and took oath later on [19]. However, he was once again given the defence portfolio. Disillusioned with the Janata party he formed his own party, the Congress (J). He remained a member of Parliament till his death in 1986, after over forty years as a parliamentarian. He was elected from Sasaram parliament constituency in Bihar. His uninterrupted representation in the Parliament from 1936 to 1986 was a world record, until Tony Benn overtook him by serving 51 years (1950–2001) in the British parliament. .
[edit] Positions held
Union Minister of Labour, 1946-1952. Union Minister for Communications, 1952-1956. Union Minister for Transport and Railways, 1956-1962. Union Minister for Transport and Communications, 1962-1963. Union Minister for Labour, Employment and Rehabilitation, 1966-1967. Union Minister for Food and Agriculture, 1967-1970. Union Minister of Defence, 1970–1974, 1977-1979. Union Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation, 1974-1977. Founding Member, Congress for Democracy party (aligned with Janata Party), 1977. Deputy Prime Minister of India, March 23, 1977-August 22, 1979. Founder, Congress (J). He served as President of the Bharat Scouts and Guides from September 1976 to April 1983 [20].[edit] Personal life
In August 1933 his first wife died after a brief illness, thereafter in June 1935 he married Indrani Devi, a daughter of Dr. Birbal, a well-known social worker of Kanpur, and the couple has two children, Suresh Kumar and Meira Kumar.[edit] Legacy
The place he was cremated has been turned into the memorial Samata Sthal, and his birth anniversary is observed as Samata Diwas., (Equality Day) in India, his centenary celebrations were held all over the nation in 2008, especially at his statues at the Parliament and at Nizam College; demands for awarding him posthumous Bharat Ratna have being raised from time to time Hyderabad [21][22]. Andhra University which had conferred an honorary doctorate on him in 1973, and in 2009 on the occasion of his 102nd birth anniversary, his statue was unveiled on the university premises .[23].His daughter, Meira Kumar, is a prominent INC leader, who has won his former seat Sasaram, both 2004 and 2009 and was later the Minister for Social Justice in the Manmohan Singh government (2004 - '09), thereafter she became the Speaker of Lok Sabha in 2009. To propagate his ideologies, the 'Babu Jagjivan Ram National Foundation', has been set up by Ministry of Social Justice, Govt. of India in Delhi [24].
[edit] Works
- Ram, Jagjivan; Shachi Rani Gurtu (1951). Jagjivan Ram on labour problems. Ram.
- Ram, Jagjivan (1980). Caste challenge in India. Vision Books.
[edit] Books on Jagjivan Ram
- Sharma, Devendra Prasad (1974). Jagjivan Ram: the man and the times. Indian Book Co..
- Chanchreek, Kanhaiyalal (1975). Jagjivanram: a select bibliography, 1908-1975. S. Chand.
- Singh, Nau Nihal (1977). Jagjivan Ram: symbol of social change. Sundeep Prakashan.
- Ram, Jagjivan (1977). Four decades of Jagjivan Ram's parliamentary career. S. Chand.
- Ramesh Chandra, Sangh Mittra (2003). Jagjivan Ram And His Times. Commonwealth Publishers. ISBN 8171697372.
- Secretariat, Lok Sabha (2005). Babu Jagjivan Ram in parliament: a commemorative volume. Lok Sabha Secretariat.
- Maurya, Dr. Omprakash. Babu Jagjivan Ram. Publications Division, Govt. of India. http://publicationsdivision.nic.in/Hindi-Roman/Au-Wise/HRB06.HTM.
[edit] Further reading
- Sanjay Paswan, Pramanshi Jaideva (2002). Encyclopaedia of Dalits in India: Leaders - Volume 4 (Chapter 3). Gyan Publishing House. pp. 77–86. ISBN 8178350335. http://books.google.co.in/books?id=_DMUdof3ZQMC&pg=PA94&dq=Jagjivan+Ram+And+His+Times#v=onepage&q=Jagjivan%20Ram%20And%20His%20Times&f=false.
- "Valedictory Centenary Lecture by President of India on Jagjivan Ram Centenary Function". President of India website. 5 April 2008. http://presidentofindia.nic.in/sp050408.html.
- "PM's Address at Babu Jagjivan Ram Centenary Seminar on Agriculture". ICAR. February 7, 2008. http://www.icar.org.in/news/Jagjivan-Ram-Centenary.htm.
[edit] References
- ^ Smadhi Sthal wikimapia.
- ^ a b "`Jagjivan Ram an example of development politics'". The Hindu. Apr 06, 2007. http://www.hindu.com/2007/04/06/stories/2007040624850500.htm.
- ^ M. S. Swaminathan (Feb 07, 2008). "Jagjivan Ram & inclusive agricultural growth". The Hindu. http://www.hindu.com/2008/02/07/stories/2008020754831000.htm.
- ^ a b c "Prez, PM call for a second green revolution". The Times of India. 6 April 2008. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Prez_PM_call_for_2nd_green_revolution/articleshow/2929578.cms. Retrieved 27 August 2009.
- ^ "Jagjivan Ram". Britannica.com. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/490335/Jagjivan-Ram.
- ^ a b Profile Jagjivan Ram:Early life
- ^ a b c Bakshi, S. R. (1992). Jagjivan Ram: The Harijan Leader. Anmol Publications PVT. LTD.. pp. 1–2. ISBN 8170414962. http://books.google.co.in/books?id=n9td-jPgcIwC&pg=PP1&dq=Jagjivan+Ram#v=onepage&q=&f=false.
- ^ Sanjay Paswan, Pramanshi Jaideva (2002). Encyclopaedia of Dalits in India: Leaders - Volume 4 (Chapter 3). Gyan Publishing House. pp. 77–86. ISBN 8178350335. http://books.google.co.in/books?id=_DMUdof3ZQMC&pg=PA94&dq=Jagjivan+Ram+And+His+Times#v=onepage&q=Jagjivan%20Ram%20And%20His%20Times&f=false.
- ^ a b Jagjivan ram Research Reference and Training Div., Ministry of I & B, Govt. of India.
- ^ "Denied table, given Chair". The Telegraph (Kolkata). November 1, 2007. http://www.telegraphindia.com/1071101/asp/nation/story_8497983.asp. Retrieved August 25, 2009.
- ^ "BHU News: A chair for late Jagjivan Ram inaugurated". IT-BHU. August 2007. http://www.itbhu.org/chronicle/archives/2007/10/index.html#001507.
- ^ "Valedictory Centenary Lecture by President of India on Jagjivan Ram Centenary Function". President of India website. 5 April 2008. http://presidentofindia.nic.in/sp050408.html.
- ^ Past Presidents Indian National Congress INC Official website.
- ^ "8th Lok Sabha:Members Bioprofile". Lok Sabha. http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/biodata_1_12/750.htm.
- ^ Kamat. "Biography: Anugrah Narayan Sinha". Kamat's archive. http://www.kamat.com/database/biographies/anugrah_narayan_sinha.htm. Retrieved 2006-06-25.
- ^ Nehru, Jawaharlal (1984). Selected works of Jawaharlal Nehru, Volume 14, Part 2. Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund. p. 340.
- ^ "Babu Jagjivan Ram Bhavan to be built". The Hindu. Apr 06, 2007. http://www.hindu.com/2007/04/06/stories/2007040610400400.htm.
- ^ "Emergency: Memories of the dark midnight". The Hindu, Business Line. June 25, 2005. http://www.blonnet.com/2005/06/25/stories/2005062501140900.htm.
- ^ Mirchandani, G.G. (2003). 320 Million Judges. Abhinav Publications. p. 178. ISBN 8170170613. http://books.google.co.in/books?id=5xj0g8euumQC&pg=PA178&dq=Jagjivan+Ram&lr=#v=onepage&q=Jagjivan%20Ram&f=false.
- ^ Bharat Souts and Guides
- ^ "Confer Bharat Ratna on Jagjivan Ram: Naidu". The Hindu. Apr 06, 2006. http://www.thehindu.com/2006/04/06/stories/2006040613050500.htm.
- ^ "Tributes paid to Jagjivan Ram". The Hindu. Apr 06, 2007. http://www.hindu.com/2007/04/06/stories/2007040609940500.htm.
- ^ "Jagjivan Ram's services recalled". The Hindu. Apr 06, 2009. http://www.thehindu.com/2009/04/06/stories/2009040651390200.htm.
- ^ "A brief on Babu Jagjivan Ram National Foundation". http://www.socialjustice.nic.in/babujagjivanram.pdf.
- Bihar's first exemplary government:The Sri Babu-Anugrah Babu regime
- "Babu Jagjivan Ram". http://freeindia.org/dynamic/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=458. Retrieved December 5, 2005.
[edit] External links
- Babu Jagjivan Ram, Tribute website
- Babu Jagjivan Ram, Info website
- Babu Jagjivan Ram, a Centenary Celebrations Special
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