‘Delhi chalo’ is BSP’s new slogan - Economic Times - 08-22-2007, 08:20 PM
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LUCKNOW: Chief Minister Mayawati, on completion of 100 days in office, hinted that capturing power in New Delhi is the next big target of the Bahujan Samaj Party.
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Friday, Aug 24, 2007
Mayawati puts on hold corporate-run retail business
Special Correspondent
LUCKNOW: Chief Minister Mayawati on Thursday rolled back the Agriculture Infrastructure and Investment Policy, which lays emphasis on contract farming, in the “interest of the farmers.” Simultaneously, the Bahujan Samaj Party Government clamped down on corporate-run retail business and ordered the closure of Reliance Fresh stores in Lucknow and Varanasi.
A high-powered committee headed by Cabinet Secretary Shashank Shekhar Singh was constituted by the Chief Minister for reviewing the different aspects, including the law and order issue, before granting permission for retail stores in the State. The panel will submit its report within a month. Till then, the other retail stores in the pipeline have been put on hold.
Ms. Mayawati clarified that the Government decision reached at the Cabinet meeting here on Thursday did not pertain to Reliance Fresh alone, it covered the retail stores of other business houses as well.
However, the retail stores in malls will not be affected by the Cabinet decision.
Around 14 Reliance Fresh stores selling fresh vegetables, fruits and commodities of daily use were inaugurated in Lucknow on Wednesday. But their opening sparked off violent protests in the State capital and in Varanasi, where the protesters damaged the store. The president of UP Udyog Vyapar Mandal (Traders’ Association) and Samajwadi Party MP, Banwari Lal Kanchhal, was among those arrested by the police in Lucknow on Wednesday.
The Chief Minister said the decision to close down the Reliance Fresh stores in Lucknow and Varanasi was taken after reviewing Wednesday’s incidents of violence.
No change in U.P. Ceiling Act
Lucknow : August 24, 2007 The U.P. Government has denied any change in maximum land limit for any family under U.P. Ceiling Act 1960. The Principal Secretary for Revenue, Mr. S.R. Lakha, while giving this information here today, said that there was no proposal for consideration at government level for decreasing the maximum land limit under U.P. Ceiling Act 1960. He said that government came to know about the rumours being spread among people in different parts of the State that proceeding was going on for decreasing the maximum land limit for any family by amendment of U.P. Ceiling Act 1960, which was totally baseless and false. Mr. Lakha said that directives had been issued to all commissioners and district magistrates in this regard. They have been directed for making aware to their sub-ordinates ADMs, SDMs, tehsildars, nayab tehsildars, revenue inspectors and lekhpals, so that there should not be any confusion in this connection and rumours could be put off.
Craving
The Awakened One
enumerates the many kinds of tangled thoughts experienced by a mind not yet free of craving. Sound familiar?
” True Followers of the Path shaown by The Awakened One, I will teach you craving: the ensnarer that has flowed along, spread out, and caught hold, with which this world is smothered & enveloped like a tangled skein, a knotted ball of string, like matted rushes and reeds, and does not go beyond transmigration, beyond the planes of deprivation, woe, & bad destinations. Listen well, and I will speak.”
“Yes, lord,” the True Followers of the Path shaown by The Awakened One responded.
The Blessed One said: “And which craving is the ensnarer that has flowed along, spread out, and caught hold, with which this world is smothered & enveloped like a tangled skein, a knotted ball of string, like matted rushes and reeds, and does not go beyond transmigration, beyond the planes of deprivation, woe, & bad destinations? These 18 craving-verbalizations dependent on what is internal and 18 craving-verbalizations dependent on what is external.
“And which are the 18 craving-verbalizations dependent on what is internal? There being ‘I am,’ there comes to be ‘I am here,’ there comes to be ‘I am like this’ … ‘I am otherwise’ … ‘I am bad’ … ‘I am good’ … ‘I might be’ … ‘I might be here’ … ‘I might be like this’ … ‘I might be otherwise’ … ‘May I be’ … ‘May I be here’ … ‘May I be like this’ … ‘May I be otherwise’ … ‘I will be’ … ‘I will be here’ … ‘I will be like this’ … ‘I will be otherwise.’ These are the 18 craving-verbalizations dependent on what is internal.
“And which are the 18 craving-verbalizations dependent on what is external? There being ‘I am because of this (or: by means of this),’ there comes to be ‘I am here because of this,’ there comes to be ‘I am like this because of this’ … ‘I am otherwise because of this’ … ‘I am bad because of this’ … ‘I am good because of this’ … ‘I might be because of this’ … ‘I might be here because of this’ … ‘I might be like this because of this’ … ‘I might be otherwise because of this’ … ‘May I be because of this’ … ‘May I be here because of this’ … ‘May I be like this because of this’ … ‘May I be otherwise because of this’ … ‘I will be because of this’ … ‘I will be here because of this’ … ‘I will be like this because of this’ … ‘I will be otherwise because of this.’ These are the 18 craving-verbalizations dependent on what is external.
“Thus there are 18 craving-verbalizations dependent on what is internal and 18 craving-verbalizations dependent on what is external. These are called the 36 craving-verbalizations. Thus, with 36 craving-verbalizations of this sort in the past, 36 in the future, and 36 in the present, there are 108 craving-verbalizations.
“This, monks is craving the ensnarer that has flowed along, spread out, and caught hold, with which this world is smothered & enveloped like a tangled skein, a knotted ball of string, like matted rushes and reeds, and does not go beyond transmigration, beyond the planes of deprivation, woe, & bad destinations.”
Spiritual Community of the True Followers of the Path shown by The Awakened One
“Four types of noble disciples…”
“In this community of True Followers of the Path shown by The Awakened One or there are True Followers of the Path shown by The Awakened One who are arahants, whose mental effluents are ended, who have reached fulfillment, done the task, laid down the burden, attained the true goal, totally destroyed the fetter of becoming, and who are released through right gnosis: such are the True Followers of the Path shown by The Awakened One in this community of True Followers of the Path shown by The Awakened One.
“In this community of True Followers of the Path shown by The Awakened One there are True Followers of the Path shown by The Awakened One who, with the total ending of the first set of five fetters, are due to be reborn [in the Pure Abodes], there to be totally unbound, never again to return from that world: such are the monks in this community of True Followers of the Path shown by The Awakened One.
“In this community of True Followers of the Path shown by The Awakened One there are True Followers of the Path shown by The Awakened One who, with the total ending of [the first] three fetters, and with the attenuation of passion, aversion, & delusion, are once-returners, who — on returning only one more time to this world — will make an ending to stress: such are the True Followers of the Path shown by The Awakened One in this community of True Followers of the Path shown by The Awakened One.
“In this community of True Followers of the Path shown by The Awakened One there are True Followers of the Path shown by The Awakened One who, with the total ending of [the first] three fetters, are stream-winners, steadfast, never again destined for states of woe, headed for self-awakening: such are the True Followers of the Path shown by The Awakened One in this community of True Followers of the Path shown by The Awakened One.”