Buddha Vacana
— The words of the Buddha —
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Anti-national rants since 5/2014 clearly indicate the abundance of But when will he kick out Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Vadra from the palatial bungalows they are occupying?
By imposing the Aadhaar [scheme], the government of the day wants to
keep track of every single paise earned by citizens, and on other hand,
political parties can receive funds anonymously through electoral
bonds,” the petitioner said, comparing the Aadhaar programme to an
“undeclared emergency”.
Araria Muslims arrested for pro-Pakistan slogan, but analysis doubts veracity of video
scoundrels among politicians, PRESSTITUTE TV anchors and the coolies in
the media .
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Budho Vacana
Sutta Piṭaka
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By imposing the Aadhaar [scheme], the government of the day wants to
keep track of every single paise earned by citizens, and on other hand,
political parties can receive funds anonymously through electoral
bonds,” the petitioner said, comparing the Aadhaar programme to an
“undeclared emergency”.
Santosh Min B also said that his father, N
Bhanu Vikaraman, had left behind an unfinished letter for Prime Minister
Narendra Modi.. In the letter, he said, his father had written about
how and the sick faced harassment while submitting their life
certificate form at provident fund offices countrywide. The petitioner
linked his father’s death to not being able to file his life certificate
at a provident fund office in Bengaluru as the system could not
authenticate his identity because of his faded fingerprints and a
cataract surgery.
Man moves Supreme Court seeking late father’s biometric details from Aadhaar authority
The petitioner argued that the data would not be of any use to the
Unique Identification Authority of India, but could be misused in the
wrong hands.
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Updated an hour ago.
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Man moves Supreme Court seeking late father’s biometric details from Aadhaar authority
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A man on Thursday filed a petition in the Supreme Court, asking for the
Aadhaar authority to return the biometric details of his father who
died in December, PTI reported.
Santosh Min B, a human resources
manager from Bengaluru, said his father’s biometric details would now be
of no use to the Unique Identification Authority of India, but could be
misused in the wrong hands. To avoid such a possibility, he requested
the court to hand over his father’s “biometrics in printed form” so he
could “keep it for posterity”.
“By imposing the Aadhaar [scheme],
the government of the day wants to keep track of every single paise
earned by citizens, and on other hand, political parties can receive
funds anonymously through electoral bonds,” the petitioner said,
comparing the Aadhaar programme to an “undeclared emergency”.
Santosh Min B also said that his father, N Bhanu Vikaraman, had left
behind an unfinished letter for Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In the
letter, he said, his father had written about how and the sick faced
harassment while submitting their life certificate form at provident
fund offices countrywide. The petitioner linked his father’s death to
not being able to file his life certificate at a provident fund office
in Bengaluru as the system could not authenticate his identity because
of his faded fingerprints and a cataract surgery.
A Constitution
bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and justices AK Sikri, AM Khanwilkar,
DY Chandrachud and Ashok Bhushan scheduled the next hearing in the
matter for March 20. The five-judge bench is hearing a clutch of
petitions challenging the validity of the Aadhaar scheme and the law
that enables it.
On Thursday, senior advocate KV Vishwanathan,
who represents one of the petitioners in the case, argued that the
Aadhaar Act does not include any “procedural safeguards” to “govern the
actions of private entities” and also neglects to mention “remedies” in
cases were Aadhaar details could not be authenticated because of system
failures. The lawyer was referring to cases where citizens have been
denied services, such as rations, because of glitches in the Aadhaar
network.
“Such mandatory authentication has caused, and continues
to cause, exclusion of the most marginalised sections of society,” he
asserted.
These arguments come two days after the Supreme Court
on Tuesday indefinitely extended the March 31 deadline to link Aadhaar
with bank accounts and mobile numbers, but kept the deadline to link the
12-digit number to avail subsidies and benefits unchanged. The bench
said there will be no deadline to mandatorily link Aadhaar until it
pronounces its judgment on the petitions it is currently hearing.
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Araria Muslims arrested for pro-Pakistan slogan, but analysis doubts
veracity of video
Friday March 16, 2018 8:11 PM, ummid.com News Network
Patna: Bihar police on Friday arrested two Muslims from Araria after a
purported video showing them raising pro-Pakistan slogans went viral
on social media sites. However, the analysis of the video based on
which Bihar police arrested Sultan Aazmi and Shehjad showed that it
didn’t seem to have lip sync.
Patna: Bihar police on Friday arrested two Muslims from Araria after a
purported video showing them raising pro-Pakistan slogans went viral on
social media sites.
The arrest of the Muslim men, who were
celebrating the victory of RJD candidate Sarfaraz Alam in the Araria Lok
Sabha by-election, was made after protest broke out in the city
demanding action against the three men who were seen in the purported
video.
However, the analysis of the video based on which Bihar
police arrested Sultan Aazmi and Shehjad showed that it didn’t seem to
have lip sync. To ascertain whether the audio and video are in sync,
Altnews examined individual frames from the video against the audio
waveform.
“Even a casual look a the video will make it apparent
that there are serious issues with lip sync in the video. We analysed
the three videos using an audio editing software called Audacity. What
is observed consistently across all the three videos is that in two
spots in the video, the volume or the audio level is ZERO”, AltNews
reported supporting its claim with graphics, audio waveforms and images.
“The same lack of volume can be seen when the audio is analysed using
Spek which is an acoustic spectrum analyzer software. The image
generated by Spek can be seen below. The two distinct spots with zero
audio level is even more apparently in the waveform generated by Spek”,
the portal, which had earlier unearthed many fake news and videos,
claimed.
“As we mentioned earlier, the very first observation
about the video was that it didn’t seem to have lip sync. To ascertain
whether the audio and video are in sync, we examined individual frames
from the video against the audio waveform.
“The above
observations necessitate that the video be examined by a certified
forensic laboratory for its authenticity. With so many easy-to-use
software tools available which allows one to dub an audio over an
existing video, news channels or journalists shouldn’t be propagating
such videos without doing an independent analysis of their own”, AltNews
said.
“Videos like the one above can cause friction between
communities of an area and can be used as part of a political agenda. It
is therefore of utmost importance that when these videos become viral,
extra care must be taken before mainstream media further popularises
such videos”, it said.
Interestingly, soon after the BJP
candidate was defeated in Araria, Union Minister Giriraj Singh tried to
give it a communal colour by saying that Sarfaraz Alam’s victory will
make Araria a terrorism hub. “The RJD has started a new political
culture for its political ambitions. They have spawned an extremist
ideology which is a danger not only to Bihar but also to the country in
the coming days. It will become a hub of terrorism,” he said.
Hitting back at Giriraj Singh, former Bihar Chief Minister Rabri Devi
said the BJP headquarter is actually a hub of terrorists. “Giriraj Singh
has lost his mind after suffering the resounding defeat. Their slogan-
Har Har Modi, Ghar Ghar Modi has been blown away. They have lost both in
Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. They have lost both the seats in Uttar
Pradesh. People of Araria have taught BJP a lesson and they must rectify
their strategy. He should take back his comment and apologise to the
people of Araria, else they will never forgive BJP,” Rabri Devi said.
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Anti-national rants since 5/2014 clearly indicate the abundance of
scoundrels among politicians, PRESSTITUTE TV anchors and the coolies in
the media .
This Country had been ruled by the so called
anti-nationals since 1947 with ‘purna bahumat’ except for a brief spell
of 10 years (1998 to 2004 & from 2014 till now). Yet the Country has
not disintegrated. It is very much intact.
But the overnight desh bhakts want us to believe that they are THE only
saviours of this land. These upstart desh premis also want us to
believe that but for Murderer of democratic institutions (Modi) Country
by now would have been swallowed by Pak.
Bhakts, please apply an ounce of your brain before uttering such bullshits.
Plain truth: Nation survives despite a stupid 56″ Rambo!
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Gorakhpur, Phulpur, Araria: Success has only one father - Murderer of
democtatic institutions (Modi): Failure has many - Local Leaders
To be sure, these defeats are attributable not only to the local
leaders, but also to Murderer of democratic institutions (Modi) himself,
being very much the masthead of the Party.
Not to forget, the
BJP (Brashtachar Jiyadha Psychopaths) got simply washed out in the last
Delhi assembly poll, not too long after sweeping all the parliamentary
seats from there, with Modi as the principal campaigner on both the
occasions, more so in the latter case.
Somewhat similar was the case with Bihar, subsequently.
Then, again, in Punjab.
Even in his own home turf, Gujarat, still later, his performance was less than spectacular.
《Apparently, the BJP would put its trust in political efficacy of
Modi’s magic which found resonance in 2014. And there is hardly any sign
of depletion in Modi’s magic at the national level.
UP by-election 2018: Gorakhpur, Phulpur losses show Modi is BJP’s only vote-getter, others are pretenders
Politics Ajay Singh Mar 15, 2018 19:24:18 IST
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The unambiguous message of the by-elections in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar
is that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is not just the BJP’s biggest
vote-catcher, he is the party’s only one.
File image of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. AP
If you remove Modi from any election campaign, the BJP loses its
marbles squarely. Despite undertaking a massive organisational
expansion, Modi’s absence from the scene makes the party’s cadre an
unguided force which may work to the detriment of the party. The fact
that the party lacks regional leaders of stature in Uttar Pradesh and
Bihar who can mobilise the cadre and public opinion has once again been
reaffirmed in the bypoll verdicts.
The fall of Gorakhpur, what is
considered a saffron citadel, has clearly belied the unreasonable
expectations that Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath had begun
nursing about himself, of being a mass leader.
The electorate of
Gorakhpur dashed Yogi’s hopes not only by choosing a political
alternative but also by remaining indifferent to his appeals. The low
turnout for polling was an indication of this.
Similarly, the
party’s drubbing in the Phulpur Lok Sabha seat, earlier held by Deputy
Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya who is considered a powerful OBC
regional satrap, has proved beyond a doubt that bereft of Modi, the BJP
is far less than a match for the guile and craftiness of regional
players. For instance, the BJP tried to wean away Muslim votes by
indirectly propping up mafia don Atiq Ahmed. But the strategy backfired
as Muslims refused to bite the bait.
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Similarly, in the Araria constituency of Bihar, the fight was unequal
right from the word go. The sympathy wave in favour of RJD candidate
Sarfaraz Alam, son of Mohammed Taslimuddin, whose death had necessitated
the bypoll, consolidated further following the incarceration of Lalu
Prasad Yadav. The Muslim-Yadav combine of the constituency was enough of
a support base to allow the RJD to sail through.
Obviously, it
would be rather naïve to read these verdicts as precursor of an imminent
downfall of the BJP. By-elections hardly set a national trend. But it
would be equally foolish to dismiss the results as inconsequential so
far as the national elections in 2019 are concerned. Of course, the BJP
leadership would be living in a make-believe world if they ignore the
glee with which the party’s cadre reacted to its defeats in three
by-elections.
For instance, a large section of the party workers
in Gorakhpur silently celebrated the defeat as it would crush the
larger-than-life egos of local BJP leaders, including the chief
minister. That is the precise reason why Brahmins, a dominant social
segment, drifted away from the BJP and chose indifference. In
Gorakhpur’s politics, Mahant Yogi Adityanath is seen to be taking the
side of Rajputs. With his ascension as chief minister, Yogi has still
not been able to dispel this firmly entrenched impression. That is a
cause for worry.
Similarly, the manner in which Maurya conducted
himself since his election as MP from Phulpur in 2014 is frowned upon by
the electorate. His subsequent elevation as the BJP’s state chief was
seen as the party’s plan to reach out to non-Yadav OBCs. After the UP
Assembly elections, he was made deputy chief minister in the fond hope
that he would keep the flock of backward classes intact for the party.
His abysmal failure to retain his support base even in his home turf was
also indicative of the fact that he was far removed from the ground
reality. Till the day of counting, Maurya was boasting of winning the
election hands down.
Obviously, the BJP’s vulnerability when
elections are fought on the local issues is evident. There is no doubt
that the SP-BSP combine presents a formidable social coalition if it
continues to pose a stiff challenge to the BJP in the 2019 Lok Sabha
elections. Apparently, the BJP would put its trust in political efficacy
of Modi’s magic which found resonance in 2014. And there is hardly any
sign of depletion in Modi’s magic at the national level.
Given
the fact that an incompatible and mutually hostile political coalition
of sundry discredited regional players is coming up to defeat Modi, it
may give enough political space for Modi to reinvent himself in the epic
image of an ‘Abhimanyu besieged by evil forces’. Given the level of
trust the prime minister enjoys, he is unlikely to be a pushover like
Yogi or Maurya.
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On Thursday 22 February 2018, 12:03:49 AM IST, Deva Sarran Samaroo
LUTYENS SQUATTERS 1500 KICKED OUT SINCE Murderer of democratic
institutions (Modi)I Gobbled the Master Key by tampering the fraud EVMs
AND REORGANIZATION OF BUREAUCRATIC SYSTEM
With 1500 squatters kicked out from Lutyens bungalows, it might explain why its always Modi
Modi makes sweeping changes at Government Offices
New leader has ordered a massive cleanup, demanding bureaucrats reorganize their desks and throw out unwanted files
Yesterday, Modi inaugurated the Brashatachar Jiyadha Psychopaths
(BJP)’s gleaming new headquarters on Deen Dayal Upadhyay Marg in New
Delhi. Naturally, this event was highlighted prominently by most major
news portals, channels and newspapers.
Predictably, there were
also people on social media taking potshots at Modi and the ruling
party, mocking them for making a show of wealth and asking why the party
needs grand new headquarters. While these people were misinformed, It
is feit that it is unfair to call them trolls. Because the media at
large has done a very poor job of informing the public about what goes
on in Lutyens’ Delhi. This is likely a direct result of the fact that
the media is closely involved with the exact same power elite that has
benefited all these years from the colonial comforts of Lutyens’
bungalows.
So, here are the facts. Why is the BJP moving? Because
there is actually a directive from the Supreme Court asking not just
BJP, but all parties to vacate their Lutyens’ bungalows and move out.
So, for any Modi baiters out there on social media trying to shame the
ruling party, the BJP is not making a show of wealth. It is merely being
the first and only party so far to comply with the Supreme Court order.
Too bad for you.
And, for sure, the Congress Party has also been
allotted space in New Delhi for its own office. In fact, Dr Manmohan
Singh and Madam Sonia Gandhi laid the foundation stone for the Congress’
new HQ as far back as December 2009. And the Congress has done with
this new space exactly what you would expect the Congress to do with
anything it can get its ‘hands’ on. It took the new space *and* kept all
the four bungalows that it was already occupying in Lutyens’ zone.
Their real election symbol is a closed fist, the open palm of the hand is just for show.
This also seems like an opportune moment to talk about the cleaning up
that has happened in Lutyens’ Delhi since the Modi came to power. In
the first year itself, more than 460 squatters were sent packing out of
their cosy Lutyens’ bungalows. Many of them had been staying there for
generations, some approached the courts with appeals to let them keep
their fiefdoms. But to no avail.
Ajit Singh, the son of former PM
Charan Singh was squatting on a bungalow. He was locked out and his
belongings thrown on the lawn.
Painter Jatin Das, the father of actor Nandita Das, was enjoying another bungalow in Lutyens. Evicted!
Have you ever wondered why Modi has no friends? Why it is always “Modi vs all”?
That is one possible answer right there. Only today, Kumar Ketkar was
asking in The Print why Modi does not have an army of intellectuals
defending him, unlike the Nehru-Gandhis. Dear Ketkar, this information
may be of interest to you!
More than 460 evictions from Lutyens’
Delhi in his first year alone. But Modi was just getting started. By
late 2016, the number of evictions had swelled to 1500.
You know
why they love living in Lutyens’ bungalows so much? Because of the
colonial sense of privilege, the prestige and the fact that all of it
comes for the low price tag of only around Rs 16,000 a month.
But, as “Modi came up with a rule, fixing 10% additional charge to the
rent for the first month of overstay. For the second, the penalty goes
up to 20%, and doubles each subsequent month until the charge reaches
the maximum limit of Rs 10 lakh.”
The penalty doubles each subsequent month?
You can draw a graph and sketch the rising intolerance.
As mentioned before, there are only a handful of articles in the media
documenting this cleanup mission in Lutyens’ Delhi. There is even a
whataboutist article in The Wire explaining how the Congress had been
more generous in letting people, including BJP leaders, hang out in
Lutyens’ bungalows in the past. But while scanning these few articles,
It is found this absolute gem of a quote in The Telegraph from an
unnamed Congress MP.
“The Congress had a long tradition of not implementing the rules so strongly.”
This quote should go on the Congress party’s flag. Now you know why it is always “Modi vs all.”
Modi makes sweeping changes at government offices
New leader has ordered a massive cleanup, demanding bureaucrats reorganise their desks and throw out unwanted files
Modi makes sweeping changes at Government Offices
New leader has ordered a massive cleanup, demanding bureaucrats reorganize their desks and throw out unwanted files
Modi has been personally inspecting offices.
Modi has been personally inspecting offices and has demanded
bureaucrats start work at 9am sharp. Photograph: Xinhua /Landov /
Barcroft MediaThe vast quadrangle at the centre of a sprawling complex
of ministerial offices in Delhi has become a rubbish dump for broken
furniture, discarded water coolers, broken air conditioners, abandoned
telephones and large bags of discarded paper.Nearby, two clerks from
Country’s ministry of women and child welfare wheel piles of brown,
bedraggled office files on swivel chairs toward a waiting van bound for
the central records office.. Inside, another keys into a computer the
details of several more files before they too are sent for storage.On
orders from Modi, bureaucrats are busy clearing rooms, corridors and
staircases of the rubbish accumulated by previous administrations over
the past 67 years, especially useless paper files and broken
furniture.”All ministries are supposed to review and reorganise their
offices every four years, but nobody bothered, and old files and broken
furniture just piled up everywhere, including in the corridors and
staircases,” said the clerk..”But now that Modi has ordered it,
ministers and top officers do the rounds at 9am every day, personally
supervising the cleanup and reorganisation drive.”Modi, not long enough
to judge whether he can deliver on his campaign. But his obsession for
order and cleanliness has energised bureaucrats to make their working
space more presentable – and potentially more productive.Like a stern
housekeeper, he has roamed from floor to floor in government buildings,
casting disapproving glances at the litter, the sloth and the lack of
discipline. He found one office filled with cigarette smoke, despite “no
smoking” signs everywhere. In another, he saw dirty tea cups lying
around. “He just mentioned them and walked out, but it was enough for us
to get the message,” a bureaucrat told a reporter..Clean, well-ordered
offices is not the only thing Modi is demanding from Delhi’s
bureaucrats. He also wants them to come to work on time at 9am sharp,
rely more on computers, end extended lunch and tea breaks to play cards
in nearby parks (the junior ones) or golf at the club (an elite bunch of
200), say no to foreign junkets, be more responsive to the public and
resist political interference by ministers and MPs.The last instruction
could be a potential gamechanger. The new prime minister has made it
clear to the top bureaucrats in government that if they have a good
proposal blocked by their minister, they can pitch it directly to him
(but only in a PowerPoint format please, as Modi hates reading long
files and documents).
Modi’s approach may seem to undermine the
cabinet system of shared ministerial authority, but it has made top
civil servants enthusiastic about work after a demoralising phase under
the previous regime.
“The top, secretary-level officers are
feeling empowered for the first time and are hoping Modi succeeds in
putting the new system in place,” said Soma Chakravarthy, deputy editor
of Bureaucracy Today.
For more than a decade, India’s bureaucracy
has been ranked as the worst in Asia by the Hong Kong-based Political
& Economic Risk Consultancy. Much of the problem stems from
shortsighted policies and outdated laws that entangle people in reams of
red tape. But it is also to do with a work culture that shuns
initiative and rewards indolence.
Delhi’s bureaucrats had become
too lazy even to clear the dust-laden files submerging them in a sea of
decaying paper. After Modi ordered a cleanup, the home ministry
discovered 150,000 unwanted files in its cupboards. One was from 1948,
the year after Indian independence, and related to Lord Louis
Mountbatten, the last Viceroy of British India. The document records the
sanction of “Rs 64,000″ as travel allowance to Mountbatten for his
final return to Britain. The file went straight to the National
Archives.
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