PM Modi's remark expunged in Rajya Sabha

PM Narendra Modi's comments about BK Hariprasad, a Congress candidate in the August 9, 2018 Rajya Sabha deputy chairperson election, have been expunged from the records. PM Modi's comments were delivered after Hariprasad lost the election to the NDA's Harivansh Narayan Singh. This is the first time a prime minister's statement in Parliament has been removed from the records.

• In a lighter vein, Mr. Modi, referring to the JD(U) candidate and Opposition nominee, Congress MP B.K. Hariprasad, said the election was between two “Haris”, He then went on to take a swipe at Mr. Hariprasad, playing on his initials, which left the House in splits.
• RJD MP Manoj Jha, flagging the PM’s comments, said they were derogatory in direction and intent. He requested that they be expunged. The remarks were expunged by M. Venkaiah Naidu, Rajya Sabha chairman. 
• The Rajya Sabha Secretariat has confirmed that the part of the prime minister's speech that involved a wordplay on BK Hariprasad's name has been expunged from the House's records.
• The Congress leader was miffed by PM Modi's jibe. "The Prime Minister belittled the dignity of the chair and brought down the dignity of the House," Hariprasad said.
• Earlier on May 13, 2018, ex-PM Manmohan Singh etc has written to President Ram Nath Kovind, asking him to advise PM Modi against using "unwarranted, threatening and intimidating" language. The letter stated that the PM's words as unacceptable and termed them as “menacing” and “intimidating” with the “intent to insult” and “provoke breach of the peace.” On May 6, in Hubli public meeting, PM Modi said, "Congress ke neta kaan khol ke sun lijeye, agar seemayo ko paar kaorogi, toh yeh Modi hai, lene ke dene pad jayenge (Congress leaders should listen to me with open ears, if you cross your limits, this is Modi, you will have to pay)." That had led to a Parliament stalemate with the Congress demanding that PM Modi apologise on the floor of the house. The issue was finally resolved after FM Arun Jaitley tendered a half-apology. 
• “I think it becomes a massive shame for this country when the PM uses unparliamentary expressions in any House of Parliament,” Congress MP Shashi Tharoor said. 

Modi's comments are perversion of rhetoric. These unprovoked remarks reflects the true nature of the person and his attitudes towards other people in general and opposition leaders in particular. It is a national shame to have such a irresponsible fellow as our prime minister who neither tender apology nor expresses remorse for the offensive, derogatory and unparliamentary remarks on the floor of the house without any context or provocation. The least people of India could do is to defeat this type of people in forthcoming elections.

BJP in AP - dilemma is suicidal

1. During the course of AP Reorganization Bill, BJP cooperated with Congress totally, ignoring the assurance given by LK Advani that unjust act will not be allowed to go through.
2. Subsequently it was BJP's Venkaiah Naidu and Arun Jaitley who coined "Special Category Status" for AP for a period of 10 years which Congress had reduced to 5 years as promise outside the bill & Act.
3. BJP admitted TDP into its NDA fold during 2014 elections (keeping aside the  personal animosity of Modi against Chandrababu Naidu during the period of Gujarat Riots 2002 etc.) with the sole objective of grabbing power and absolute majority for BJP was highly uncertain.
4. Modi during election campaign has made umpteen promises to residual AP many more beyond the AP Reorganization Act which are still reverberating in the ears of AP people.
5. BJP's Hari Babu could win Visakhapatnam LS seat with Vizag Railway Zone as his top most item during campaign.
6. Modi as PM has completely ignored not only his promises but also center's obligations to assist AP for its development, Polavaram project, new capital construction and so on and released minuscule amounts during the past 4 years. At this rate fulfilling promises and obligations would take 50-100 years.
7. So many things were said during the past 4 years, but people of AP feel totally let down by BJP, much worse than by Congress during 2014. Modi came out in his true colors and people of AP has lost faith in him and BJP whatsoever and if polls were held today BJP may not get even 1% votes, worse than Congress would get. Having cooperated with BJP for Jagan to come out of his CBI & ED corruption cases, YSRCP's vote base has deteriorated significantly. Pawan Kalyan with his confusing stances since an year and suddenly taking U-turn and started cooperating with BJP for undisclosed reasons too has lost his charm & credibility.
8. Today's opinion poll results in social media, even though not very authentic, but does reflect reality. TDP's popular support, with NOTA excluded, is about 60% with its only rival YSRCP at less than 20%, Pawan Kalyan's Janasena at 15% and Congress, BJP & others at 5%.
   
   
9. In real polls next year with large rural population included, popular support to TDP may very well exceed 65%. 

BJP committed suicide in AP with Modi's arrogance at its peak. With North & West uncertain, South and East in the hands of popular regional parties, BJP/NDA's 2019 tally may not exceed 100/150, with most allies already exited NDA. Modi saddled with negatives like economic destruction, agrarian distress, unemployment and so on, has no achievements to present to people and blaming Congress etc even after 5 years of being in power will not yield any benefit to him. Most BJP-Modi fans are openly talking that Congress was better with all its corruption and scams. While Central Government has never ever revealed complete truths to nation in the past, but it has also refrained from blatant lies. But Modi's administration has crossed all limits of decency and hurls at blatant lies at the fall of hat bringing down its own credibility. Today, Modi has more enemies inside BJP than outside. BJP leaders in AP are scared of meeting public and are confining themselves to press meets now and then. Their briefings are limited to reproduction of what BJP says in Delhi. Even a BJP MP and an Ex BJP Minister who are reluctant to carry the burden of BJP and being friends of Chandrababu Naidu are likely to join TDP before 2019 elections. 

Ever since 1977, non-congress parties has been proving time and again that they are worthy to sit in opposition benches only and squandered away every opportunity given to them with their shortsightedness, strongheadedness, insufficient vision to rule a diverse nation like India.

Swachch Bharat - Failure

India Today  |  Oct 16, 2017  |  Page 9

Without going into too many details, it is safe to declare that 'Swachch Bharat' has derailed and a 'Failure', simply because World Bank hasn't released any money committed for 'Clean India' even after three years of its launching and spending huge amounts mostly on publicity, with participation of President, PM, Governors, CMs, Ministers and everyone from politics and government with broom sticks posing for TV cameras, citing "moderately unsatisfactory" and "campaign's wider ineffectiveness". Thousands of crores of rupees spent so far has gone down the drain burdening exchequer with no lasting benefits. Modi & co must own up responsibility for this debacle along with many more failures. But it is too much to expect such nice things from third rated politicians from BJP and Sangh parivar. The reason for failure of 'Swachch Bharat' is insufficient home work done and improper planning prior to launching etc.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and 

I will spend the first four sharpening the axe ... Abraham Lincoln

Rahul Gandhi's plain speak at Berkeley

Rahul Gandhi’s candour and aggression at Berkeley unsettled the BJP and pepped up the Congress. The 47-year-old Congress scion himself the foremost dynast in Indian polity and his party lost the 2014 Lok Sabha elections primarily because of the stigma of corruption. It was a scenario that Rahul Gandhi seemed to speak in a mature way, not running away from the realities of India and the Congress.

• BJP leaders cracked jokes about his going to Berkeley but it kicked up a political storm back home.
• He attacked the Modi government and said he was ready to become Congress president and the prime minister candidate for the Lok Sabha elections in 2019. 
• He was also upfront on dynastic politics.
• He condemned the anti-Sikh riots unequivocally.
• What can destroy our momentum is the opposite energy: hatred, anger and violence and the politics of polarisation which has raised its ugly head in India today ... Rahul said.
• Rahul attacked the PM for taking ad hoc decisions in a reckless and dangerous manner. Demonetisation, a completely self-inflicted wound, caused approximately 2% loss in India’s GDP,” he said.
• He said 30,000 new youngsters were joining the job market every day, and, the government was creating only 500 jobs a day. He said the economic decline was worrying and had led to an upsurge of anger. He ripped into the hastily-applied GST.
• Rahul accused Modi of running a propaganda machinery to sully his image. There’s a BJP machine, a thousand guys with computers, to abuse me, tell you I am reluctant, I am stupid... It is a tremendous machine. All day they spread abuse about me, and the operation is run by the gentleman who is running our country, he said.
• As he took on Modi, it was clear that he is the main opponent of the prime minister. He admitted to Modi’s skills. He is a very good communicator, probably better than me - he said.
• The onslaught rattled the BJP, which launched its top guns to mount a counter attack. Union Minister Smriti Irani called Rahul a failed dynast. People occupying the top constitutional posts, President Ram Nath Kovind, Vice President Venkaiah Naidu and the Prime Minister, they all come from humble backgrounds.
• BJP president Amit Shah said failed leaders were running off to the US to lecture as no one listened to them back home. 
• The joke in BJP circles is that Rahul is the saffron party’s biggest asset. BJP often reacts in a disproportionate manner. Every time he has attacked Modi or the BJP the BJP goes after him. And Irani, who lost to Rahul in Amethi in 2014, is his prime attacker.
• The one time that the BJP had really got rattled was when Rahul called the BJP government “Suit Boot Ki Sarkar”. The title seems to have damaged Modi’s image and BJP lost Delhi assembly elections in 2015. Ever since, Modi has been trying to project his government as being on the side of the underprivileged.
• Despite winning the UP elections and forming the government in Bihar, BJP has been troubled by price rise, failure of demonetisation, the economic downturn, low employment opportunities. And in the aftermath of journalist Gauri Lankesh’s murder, the social media wave has turned against the BJP.
• Coincidentally, a day after Rahul’s speech, BJP's ABVP lost to the Congress’s NSUI, in the Delhi University Students’ Union elections, after being in power for four years.
• By expressing willingness to lead the Congress party, Rahul has energised the party with no room for leadership ambiguity. Rahul’s willingness to be prime ministerial candidate is likely to have a positive impact on the assembly polls in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh later this year, and Karnataka next year.
• Rahul spoke with unusual candour on dynastic politics. Most parties in India have that problem. That is how India runs. Don’t get after me because that is how the entire country is running. By the way, Mr Ambani’s kids were running the business and that was also going on in Infosys.
• Once Rahul takes over next month, several Congress leaders who were comfortable working with Sonia will have some tough time.
• Rahul admitted the party had lost touch with the ground reality as it became arrogant, leading to its loss in the Lok Sabha elections 2014. He showed remarkable candour in giving an insight into what is wrong with the Congress and what has to be done.
• Rahul's template for the party as it takes on the BJP in the assembly elections as well as the Lok Sabha polls is (1) Murder of journalist Gauri Lankesh (2) RBI report confirms failure of demonetisation (3) Failure to get its OBC constitutional bill passed in its original form (4) GDP growth at three-year low of 5.7% (5) Worrying unemployment trends (6) Problems in GST implementation (7) SC overruling government’s objections to privacy as constitutional right (8) Failure to defeat Ahmed Patel in Gujarat RS polls (9) Kashmir crisis

For the first time, the BJP has to deploy its best to defend the prime minister. The spokespersons came prepared to take on the government, as a good opposition party should do. In response to Rahul's confession that dynasty is a reality in India, and cited examples, Irani's comment that he came from a failed dynasty, sounded cheap. A dynasty that has held a political party together for more than 70 years and country united and democracy intact, can hardly be called “failed”. A dynasty that had three generations in the office of prime minister, and made three others prime minister, cannot be called “failed”.  It can hardly be said that Rahul was telling lies. BJP only has to look inwards, and it will find that dynasty is indeed true in the Indian context. BJP too has numerous dynasts in itself. Congress party has been made almost irrelevant but there is scope for a spectacular revival, which makes the BJP take serious note. While Congress scams during UPA I & II, the losses are quantifiable and they never meddled with lives of poor & peasants, Modi's reckless adventures inflicted incalculable injuries to all people of India especially to poor & peasants and losses are unquantifiable. In the process, constitution was undermined, cabinet & parliament ciphered, citizen's rights trampled, rule of the law destroyed, judiciary weakened, institutions made irrelevant and India's democracy is indeed perilous. 

Venkaiah Naidu: Muslims in India are secure ?

• In an interview to Rajya Sabha TV, the outgoing Vice-President Hamid Ansari bluntly remarked that “a sense of insecurity was creeping in among Muslims because of the vigilantism and intolerance”.
• Instead of allaying Ansari’s fears, the BJP, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, attacked him. by saying that Ansari had spent the last ten years “confined to the Constitution”. Modi seemed to be suggesting that the commitment to secularism that underlay many of Ansari’s speeches as vice president were somehow shallow, and that now, freed from the constraints of office, he could pursue his “core beliefs”. 
• The Vice President elect, Venkaiah Naidu, was more direct. He said: “Some people are saying the minorities are insecure. It is a political propaganda. Compared to the entire world, the minorities are more safe and secure in India and they get their due”.
• Ironically, both these reactions only reinforced Ansari’s fears. Instead of taking this opportunity to assure the Muslim community that the government would protect them from majoritarian onslaught, the BJP has taken the route of complete denial. By browbeating Ansari, the BJP has only proved his point.

Hyper-nationalism is a sign of insecurity, says Vice President Hamid Ansari

Modi attacks Hamid Ansari

While tolerance is a good virtue, it is not a sufficient virtue ... Hamid Ansari 

Democracy can become a tyranny if opposition parties are not allowed 

to criticise government policies ...Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Who ever is reading news papers will agree that Muslims are unsafe in India ever since Modi government issued orders banning cattle sales for slaughtering in the name of cow protection and cow vigilante groups started lynching attacking cattle transporters, mostly Muslims and no action by police or government. The response by Modi and Venkaiah Naidu are irresponsible, indecent, doesn't befit their positions and reconfirms their fears.

Read Hindustan or Lynchistan?

GST and KCR's outbursts

• In November 2016, KCR was the first non-BJP/NDA chief minister to support Modi's demonetization move. Telangana was the first state to pass the GST legislation on Apr 16, 2017. TRS extended unconditional support to BJP's  Ramnath Kovind as NDA's Presidential nominee and Vice President candidate.
• The dalliance between the ruling TRS and the BJP has practically ended with the completion of elections of the President and the vice-president. While the change in tone of KCR may appear at the outset to fight the GST, the battle between the Modi and TRS governments is about much more than what meets the eye. 
• GST Council has already lowered GST rates on  public utility and infrastructure projects from 18% to 12% as requested by several states in its first meeting. The Telangana state government has been asking the Centre not to levy 12% GST on the public utility and infrastructure projects. Telangana wants these projects to be taxed at 5%. 
• Under GST, the tax rate on cement, steel, and concrete — all key ingredients for the projects — has been reduced. This benefit will be pocketed by EPC contractors.
• Due to GST @12% in place of VAT @5%, Telangana government will have to bear the additional burden of Rs.19,500 on all ongoing public utility and infrastructure projects which are worth Rs.2.30 lakh crores.
• Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao declared Goods & Services Tax (GST) is a failure in several Nations. He made it clear success of GST in India depends on how well Centre handles the concerns.
• Now the CM KCR decided to write to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to reduce 12% GST on the ongoing projects. Rao held that since the project estimates have been prepared keeping in view 5%  VAT, it is not possible to change them. He had "threatened" that the state government would engage in a "legal battle" in Supreme Court against the union government over the issue.

KCR walking extra miles to please Modi, devoid of merit and for unknown reasons, in matters of demonetization, GST, President & Vice President elections and expecting all he wants from Modi is not only naive but also stupidity. Modi is only a taker but never a giver. Ask Naveen Patnaik how much he got extra for Odisha from Modi, during past 3 years. Literally zero. The impacts of GST and its rates were well known in advance. Going forward states will become like municipalities of centre with very less freedom to mobilize funds. Centre will become extremely powerful with no direct responsibility of people welfare where as states will become extremely powerless and saddled with total responsibility of people's welfare. This is in contradiction of federal polity of our constitution. Ambedkar's fears of abuse of constitution without amending it are coming true in Modi's India.

Venkaiah Naidu nominated for Vice President. Why?

Senior BJP leader and party veteran Venkaiah Naidu was picked up as the ruling NDA's vice-presidential candidate to contest against opposition nominee Gopalkrishna Gandhi. Naidu's name was finalised at a meeting of the BJP parliamentary board here attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, party president Amit Shah and other senior party leaders. There was no happiness in Venkaiah Naidu's face, rather he was sad for punishment meted out to him.

• Why was the 68-year-old leader was coerced to file his nomination for ornamental Vice President position? 
• Naidu openly expressed his desire to continue as Union Minister and continue in active politics. 
• This is despite and not showing any interest in either President or Vice President positions, which are ornamental positions. Not once but several times.
• Why was his preference ignored and decision made against his wishes? 
• Ramnath Kovind, who was nobody when Naidu was National President of BJP, was already nominated for President's post. Even Modi was his junior in party. 
• Nominating Naidu to work under Kovind is nothing short of an insult. 
• This is in contradiction to Modi's earlier assertion not to sacrifice anyone from his cabinet for President & Vice President positions. 
• This is analogous to Congress style of destroying an active & powerful person coercing him to resign and accept ignominious positions like Governor and afterwards fade out.

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• Venkaiah Naidu was one of the first persons in BJP to switch loyalties from Advani and join the rogue group headed by Modi in 2013. He stood as his confident and trouble shooter all these years and was suddenly shown the exit door by Modi. Why? What are the real reasons?
• In 2002, AP CM Chandrababu Naidu was vehement that Modi should resign as Gujarat CM in the wake of Gujarat Riots. Chandrababu Naidu even made statement that he would arrest Modi if he enters AP. When Modi tried to meet Chandrababu Naidu at Delhi to explain Gujarat riots matters, he was denied appointment by Babu. 
• After Modi became PM, Chandrababu Naidu (AP CM now) tried to bend backwards to please him but that didn't cut ice with Modi. 
• Venkaiah Naidu and Chandrababu Naidu belongs to neighboring districts, same caste and very close to each other for over 4 decades. Modi never trusted either of these two Naidu's except using them.
• Of late Venkaiah Naidu's confidential remarks that Modi is becoming increasingly inaccessible even to his cabinet and his aversion to listen to genuinely good things must have reached Modi.
• Contradiction with Amit Shah regarding BJP to grow independently breaking alliance with TDP in TS & AP is another point of friction.
• Venkaiah Naidu prevailing over Telangana's BJP leaders to break its TDP alliance was another issue with Amit Shah.
• AP BJP leaders who don't like Venkaiah Naidu are of the opinion that breaking away with TDP and allying with YCP would get them greater share of power positions than what Naidu was granting them. The elements led by Ram Madhav convinced Amit Shah.
• Chandra Babu Naidu being a tough bargainer would never yield even a single extra position where BJP is not fairly stronger than TDP. That irks BJP state leaders who wants to piggy ride on TDP's back to power positions .
• Amit Shah is convinced that unless Venkaiah Naidu is eased out of BJP and alliance broken with TDP, junior leaders in AP & TS, BJP won't grow in AP. While Modi knew the reality and prevailed so far, has now yielded to Amit Shah & Co.
• Now it is a matter of time, BJP will break alliance with TDP and ally with YCP well before 2019 elections and Jagan surrendering to BJP as quid pro quo favor to go soft on his CBI & ED cases. 
• Chandra Babu Naidu may very well pay huge price for trusting Modi even before 2014 election results. Intelligence is jumping out of sinking ship well in advance. Chandra Babu Naidu should preemptively walk out of NDA and go to public explaining injustices meted out to AP by Modi & Co.
• And this would make Ex-Congress leaders in BJP like Purandeshwari, Kavuri Sambasiva Rao, Kanna Lakshminarayana etc, BJP Kapu leaders like Somu Veerraju and TS BJP leaders like M.Krishna Reddy etc many more happy.
• But BJP, with no grass roots cadres in rural areas and their ideologies vague and no worthwhile poor & peasant policies, making inroads into rural AP & TS is an uphill task.

My View:

If by a good chance, Chandra Babu Naidu and KCR gets re-elcted with BJP opposing them, BJP will get doomed and suffer severe damage in Telugu states of AP & TS. Naidu should assert his forgotten pride of Telugu people and make Modi's injustices transparent to Telugu people. Naidu & KCR should remember development is not the prime thing concerning people. Above that are good governance, minimal corruption, long term vision and taking care of poor & peasants. Needless to say, Venkaiah Naidu paid a bitter price for keeping politics above everything. He should have been more loyal to his motherland - the state of AP rather than Modi & BJP for their selfish dirty politics which inflicted injustice to AP.  Advani would be smiling for Venkaiah Naidu's debasement for ditching him in preference to rising Modi in 2013.

RSS hold on India is total

• Venkaiah Naidu's selection for Vice President is as per expectations because Modi's vision of India doesn't go beyond RSS.
• President, Vice President, Prime Minister, Home Minister, UP CM - all crucial power positions are now under the armpits of RSS.
• None of these people, other than their politics in RSS & BJP, have no accomplishments worth advertising! Of course they had the artistic gift of public speaking.
• Their contributions or sacrifices for nation, poor or peasants are none, so far.
• Minorities, especially Muslims and people from Southern and Eastern states be careful in their political, business and industrial activities. They have no love last for these people. Their vision is confined to North, West & Central India, the Hindi speaking belts.

Here are few important points about RSS:

• The RSS was banned once during British rule, and then thrice by the post-independence Indian government – first in 1948 when a former RSS member assassinated Mahatma Gandhi; then during the emergency (1975–77); and for a third time after the demolition of Babri Masjid in 1992.
• RSS founder KB Hegdewar was  a political protege of B. S. Moonje, a Tilakite Congressman. Hedgewar personally participated in the 'Satyagraha' launched by Gandhi in April 1930, but he did not get the RSS involved in the movement. 
• The Bombay government, in a report, appreciated the RSS by noting that the Sangh had scrupulously kept itself within the law and refrained from taking part in the disturbances (Quit India Movement) that broke out in August 1942. RSS assured the British authorities that it had no intentions of offending against the orders of the Government.
• The RSS initially did not recognize the Tricolor as the National Flag of India. The RSS mouthpiece, the Organiser, demanded, in an editorial that the Bhagwa Dhwaj (Saffron Flag) be adopted as the National Flag of India. After the Tricolor was adopted as the National Flag of India by the Constituent Assembly of India on 22 July 1947, the Organiser viciously attacked the Tricolor and the decision to adopt it as the National Flag of India. The RSS hoisted the National Flag of India at its headquarters in Nagpur, on 14 August 1947 and on 26 January 1950, but stopped doing so after that.
• The RSS initially did not recognize the Constitution of India, strongly criticising it because the Indian Constitution made no mention of "Manu's laws" – from the controversial ancient Hindu text Manusmriti, which had been said to denigrate the lower castes and untouchables in India. 
• The RSS criticised B. R. Ambedkar's public pronouncements that the new constitution would give equality to all castes. On 6 February 1950 the Organizer carried another article, titled "Manu Rules our Hearts", written by a retired High Court Judge named Sankar Subba Aiyar, that reaffirmed their support for the Manusmriti as the final law giving authority for Hindus, rather than the Constitution of India.
• The RSS' opposition to, and vitriolic attacks against, the Constitution of India and its author Ambedkar continued post independence, even long after Ambedkar's death. 

Swachh Bharat fails but touted as success

As of 2011, 53% of 246 million households don't have latrines. Half of the households i.e. half of the population, defecate in open. As of 2015, 564 million people i.e. 50% of population still defecate in open. 65,000 tonnes of uncovered, untreated faeces were being introduced into environment every single day. Swachch Bharat Mission makes it a major objective to completely eliminate this open defecation by 2019. This is enormous, noble and admirable goal. Next comes hygiene and sanitation. Door to door collection of garbage and process the inorganic trash for power generation and organic waste to covert into manure is another task. Between 1990-2015, 394 million people stopped defecatinhg in open, but overall situation remain dismal.

• Launched by PM Modi on Oct 2, 2014, with objective of “A clean India would be the best tribute India could pay to Mahatma Gandhi on his 150th birth anniversary in 2019.”
• He roped in every layer of India’s vast government—from the cabinet, through the ministries and state and district administrations, down all the way to individual urban authorities and village panchayats.
• A cess of 0.5 percent on all taxable services to help raise money for the campaign. 
• On the second anniversary of the Swachh Bharat Mission came the proclamation of one of its most touted successes. They declared that Gujarat, Modi’s home state, had eradicated open defecation in all urban areas. The minister M Venkaiah Naidu, hailed this “interim gift” to Gandhi. 
• As part of the Swachh Bharat Mission, the Gujarat government has declared that all of the state’s urban areas, including Ahmedabad, have eradicated open defecation. Yet the practice continues in Maninagar, an area in Ahmedabad that thrice elected Narendra Modi as its MLA, and in other parts of the city too—belying the government’s claim.
• Apart from constructing latrines, sanitary systems maintenance and disposal of sewerage captured are even more important and nothing is being done in these matters. Whole of the money is spent on publicity and construction of latrines which serves no purpose.
• The ending of manual scavenging was not given much thought or importance in any of the schemes of Swachh Bharat Mission, speaks volumes about the apathy of Modi administration. They do only visible things that garner them publicity.
• The CAG report stating that less than 3% of Gujarat Municipalities have sewage segregation systems in place,  none of its municipal corporations have segregation rates more than 18% and none of the state's municipalities have working sewage treatment facilities - speaks volumes about what Modi has done in this direction during his 14 years as CM of Gujarat.
• In his unreleased book 'Karmayog' of 2007 published by GSPC, Chief Minister Narendra Modi writes that scavenging was an 'experience in spirituality' for the Valmikis. Modi describes scavengers assigned role in the caste order as a "job bestowed upon them by Gods". This blatant casteism outraged Dalit groups, is another matter. Under Modi's instructions Gujarat Information Dept withdrew the book from circulation. Poet Nirav Patel asked bitterly: “Why didn’t it occur to Modi that the spirituality involved in doing menial jobs hasn’t ever been experienced by the upper castes?”
• Unless overall governance at grass root level improves, mere deployment of resources may not have any significant impact.
• Swachh Bharat Mission failed to make any impact for people living on margins of society especially in rural areas, due to lack of conviction down the line and meager resources spent mostly on publicity and campaign.

Down The Drain: How the Swachh Bharat Mission is heading for failure

My View:
Habits won't change with edicts. People change when others change and they find benefits, over time. Education and awareness are the keys. Like any other scheme, Modi announces and publicity reverberates in all corners spending hundreds of millions of rupees. BJP troll brigade makes sure that social media carries all publicity. And when the truth surfaces later, Modi & Co maintains stoic silence. He never answers parliament where reply must straight and point by point inviting supplementary questions. But he responds in public meeting or televised address which carries whatever he wants to say, usually blatant lies and abusing past regimes i.e. Congress & Nehru family. Imagine a nation's prime minister telling blatant lies and distorted truths to its people, all the times!

Modi & Co cheats Andhra Pradesh

We all know that Sonia Gandhi and UPA with the connivance of BJP etc has bifurcated the state of Andhra Pradesh in 2014 purely for political reasons without following procedures, conventions, rules, laws and even abused constitution giving away capital, bulk of the assets, revenue, job & business opportunities to Telangana and inflicting deadly blow to residual Andhra Pradesh saddled with huge liabilities and unmanageable budget deficits. The Act only doled out vague assurances with out mentioning financial implications and time frames for development of AP in the AP Reorganization Act 2014, by using meaningless words 'shall', 'examine', 'consider' etc in the Act stunning the the people of AP.

The then PM Mr. Manmohan Singh, while speaking in Rajya Sabha on February 20, 2014 offered following steps to address concerns of people of Seemandhra region, outside the AP Reorganization Act 2014 at the behest of BJP's leaders Arun Jaitley and Venkaiah Naidu:
1. Special category status will be extended to the new AP state for period of 5 years to put state finances on firmer footing
2. Central government will take all fiscal measures such as tax incentives to promote industrialization and economic growth in successor states, along the lines extended to other states
3. Special development package to backward regions of the new AP state, which includes 4 districts of Rayalaseema and 3 districts of Uttarandhra (northern districts), along the lines of KBK plan and Budelkhand plan
4. Central government will execute Polavaram project including passing amendments for full rehabilitation of displaced families
5. Appointed day will be fixed to facilitate smooth transfer of personnel, finances etc
6. Any resource gap (i.e. revenue deficit) encountered by successor state of AP in bridging state finances between appointed day and acceptance of 14th Finance Commission recommendations by government will be compensated in 2014-15 budget.

The promises made for helping AP to survive without capital, institutions and budget deficits etc works out to Rs.3,00,000 crores and over 10 years it works out to Rs.30,000 crores per annum. During the past 2+ years central budget provisions were NIL and actual funds flow to AP were less than Rs 5,000 crores. With people of AP and Govt of AP becoming increasingly impatient and agitations and sentiments getting hardened, Modi & Co sat down to implement promises made in the Act only ignoring several promises made on the floor of Parliament while passing the Bill. The attached document 'Central Assistance to Andhra Pradesh' unveiled by Arun Jaitley & Venkaiah Naidu, Union Ministers in the press conference at New Delhi on Sep 8, 2016, again leaving the most important issues hazy and unaddressed. At best the package works out to about Rs.1,50,000 crores without any time frames. Implementation of the proposed package, falling short of the Act, is gross and mischievous violation of implementation of AP Reorganization Act 2014.

AP should file writ of mandamus in Supreme Court against Union Government to properly fulfill their duties or correct deliberate abuse of discretion. Recently ONGC fled case in SC against Reliance Industries as A1 and Union Government (MoPNG), the 70% equity share holder, as A2 in "Great India Gas Robbery by Reliance" and independent consultant's findings were embarrassing for GOI's complicity in Reliance's systematic pilferage of Gas from ONGC's gas fields for several years. Hats off to ONGC chairman Mr. Dinesh K Sarraf for walking extra daring miles to safe guard its organization's interests.

While Prime Minister Narendra Modi maintains stoic silence, his deputies Arun Jaitley and Venkaiah Naidu cites vague interpretation of 14th Finance Commission report to deprive Special Category Status to AP. The only place 'Special Category Status' was mentioned in the report is as below
On page 17 (para 2.29 & 2.30) of the Report, the Commission has stated (inter alia):
“We did not make a distinction between special and general category states in determining our norms and recommendations ... In our assessment of State resources, we have taken into account the disabilities arising from constraints unique to each State to arrive at the expenditure requirements. ...
This only limits financial assistance to states irrespective of category. But more important benefit is in the form of tax incentives to industries which will boost economy, revenues and employment opportunities etc which was unaddressed by Arun Jaitley and misrepresented by Venkaiah Naidu in his press conferences with his vocal talents. This is outright abuse of AP and misleading the nation.

New capital construction, with its associated features & facilities, requires at the least Rs.75,000 crores and at the best Rs.250,000 crores and centre extending Rs.2,500 crores assistance is a matter shame. AP CM Chandrababu Naidu remarking that this paltry amount is not even sufficient for underground power cabling amply reflects the displeasure.

The mischievously worded Polavaram project assistance
The Central Government will fund the Polavaram Irrigation Project in the following manner:
(i) It will provide 100% of the remaining cost of the irrigation component only of the project for the period starting from
1.4.2014, to the extent of the cost of the irrigation component on that date.
puts huge burden on AP Govt due to (1) exclusion of Power House (2) limiting the central assistance as per 2014 estimates (3) Non reimbursement of money already spent by AP to the tune of Rs.5,000 crores. The result is that Centre will spend about 50% of actual project cost as and when it gets completed and remaining by AP Govt. This is day light robbery of AP by Centre.

More and more analysis will only end up in Central Government abstaining from its committed responsibilities towards the people of AP and BJP will surely pay bitter price in next 2019 elections. Discrimination between North and South is amply clear. I won't get surprised if BJP collapses under its own weight and Congress returns to power. Pavan Kalyan's compared Jaitley's package as two rotten laddu's and demanded AP Govt to reject it outright.

It is pertinent that Modi should 

1. be empathetic to the suffering of people AP after illegal state bifurcation
2. understand aspirations of people of India instead of capitalists of foreign countries
3. realize that governance is not maximizing revenues by elimination subsidies & deceiving southern people rather than trimming its own expenses and balancing budget as per IMF guidelines 
4. limit his own very expensive and unnecessary & fancy foreign jaunts 
5. avoid fancy & white elephant projects like 'Ahmedabad-Mumbai bullet train project' which only serves Gujarati rich people rather than Indian common man
6. special status and central assistance to AP is the right of people of AP and Modi & Co's behavior denying these is nothing but rude and highhanded 
7. recollect Gandhi's advise to Nehru & Patel on assuming offices just after independence is paraphrased below .... whenever you set up to sign a file think of the common on the street & peasant in the fields and if it benefits him then sign it otherwise examine it thoroughly,

otherwise his Waterloo in 2019 elections is certain paving the way for undesirable Congress to return to power like in 1979, 1992 and 2004 mainly due to BJP leaders behaving worse than Congress leaders.

Venkaiah Naidu has completed successful burial of BJP in AP, 100 feet below the ground by doing nothing and defending Modi & Jaitley's manipulations. Needless to say Sonia Gandhi got nothing out of manipulations and Venkaiah Naidu in all probability will also get nothing despite his aspiration to the post of President or Vice President. 

Arun Jaitley declines granting Special Category status to AP

On providing more funds to the state, the minister said that the central 

government also had limited resources, and it is doing its best

IANS  |  New Delhi   July 29, 2016 Last Updated at 17:44 IST

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday said the central government will handhold Andhra Pradesh till it recovers to a level from where it can progress on its own, but his assurance did not satisfy the opposition Congress which staged a walkout from the Rajya Sabha.

The minister was replying to a short duration discussion in the upper house on implementing the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, which led to creation of Telangana. "Andhra Pradesh has lost revenue, even though in long run it is bound to recover. For some time it will need handholding. Undivided Andhra was a revenue surplus state. But the division created a situation where the more lucrative part has gone to Telangana," Jaitley said, adding he was confident that Andhra will get back on track of development.

"As far as our commitment to honour each one of these commitments is concerned it is absolute, there are no ifs and buts," he said. On providing more funds to the state, the minister said that the central government also had limited resources, and it is doing its best.

As he finished, Congress leader Digvijaya Singh said his party was not satisfied with the reply, and its members staged a walkout from the house.

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Being an articulate Supreme Court advocate by profession, Arun Jaitley didn't answer the question of granting Special Category Status to AP as promised by the then Prime Minister in Rajya Sabha while passing AP Re-organisation Bill 2014, as a precondition set by Venkaiah Naidu and himself, BJP leaders in RS. While BJP demanded 10 year status, Manmohan Singh announced status for 5 years only.

The following were promises & commitments made in AP Re-organisation Bill 2014.

1. AP Budget revenue deficit estimated for 1st year i.e. 2014-15 is Rs.16,000 crores for five years will be in the vicinity of Rs.40,000 crores.
2. Capital city construction .. conservative estimate shows at least Rs.1,00,000 crores.
3. Polavaram Project declared as national project will cost about Rs.25,000 crores.
4. Railway Zone with HQ in AP.
5. 20+ Central institutions like IIT, IIM, AIMS, NIT, IIIT, IISER, Central University, Tribal University, Petroleum University, Agriculture University, National Disaster Management Institute, etc will cost about Rs.20,000 crores.
6. Dugarajupatnam port development will cost about Rs.10,000 crores.
7. Steel plant at Kadapa will cost about Rs.15,000 crores.
8. Refinery & Petrochemical complex will cost about Rs.10,000 crores.
9. Visakhapatnam-Chennai industrial corridor.
10. Metros for Vijayawada & Visakhapatnam will cost about Rs.20,000 crores
11. ORR for Vijayawada will cost about Rs. 18,000 crores.
12. Urban development will cost about Rs. 20,000 crores.
13. Visakhapatnam, Vijayawada & Tirupati International Airports development might cost about Rs.10,000.

The total funds committed by Center in the Act would be over Rs.3,00,000 crores in 10 year time frame. Even if evenly spread out over 15 years budget should provide Rs.20,000+ crore every year.  In the last two budgets provision made was NIL and funds released so far was just Rs.2,000 crores.

Special category status, for 10 years, is all the more important to attract new industries setting up quickly, thus accelerating industrial growth, job opportunities and increasing state revenues.

Arun Jaitley & Narendra Modi are fundamentally anti-south. Jaitley immediately after taking over as FM remarked that there is no mechanism for transferring of central funds to state indicating that in his priorities extending assistance to AP is last. No provision made in his two budgets confirms this. Modi conveniently forgot all his election utterances while campaigning in AP. He promised sky and showed moon in his palm. Now he maintains stoic silence in AP matters. Chandrababu Naidu's 29 trips to Delhi is nothing but waste of time and petrol. 

Arun Jaitley stating that centre is facing deficit of 5-6% and hence could not extend liberal help to AP is untenable. Union Budget for the last 50-60 years was never surplus. In the absence of funds availability why UPA Govt in collusion with BJP resorted to AP Bifurcation in 2014 when the bill (without financial statement) was rejected by AP Assembly and Seemandhra people agitated against bifurcation, invoking Article 3. Why budget implication was not studied properly while preparing the bill in detail? Any bill which usually have an annexure of financial details was missing in this AP Re-organisation Bill 2014, which was never prepared by Union Home Ministry.

Venkaiah Naidu is another useless fellow. He cares for nobody. Not even family or friends. He cares for his minister position at any cost. Why he is licking boots of Modi & Jaitley when his motherland is being raped by them? Shameless fellow, tells AP people that centre has already given over a lakh of crores while CM is stating that the receipts from centre so far are about Rs.2,800 crores only. He is like a pet dog of then Vajpayee & Advani and now Modi wagging tail and licking boots. Last two years he talks, talks and never did any good to AP. Incapable to get anything for AP. Waste fellow. Fit only for cracking some jokes in Telugu like a joker. Comedian entertaining Modi & Co. Ignore him.

BJP's rule is worse than Congress. The only thing helping Modi is that crude oil prices at its lowest for two long years with no signs of increase for another one year had already resulted in FE outflow saving of about Rs.500,000 crores. Only 10-15% benefit of low prices was passed on to end users and remaining 85-90% was retained by centre and that helped economic parameters lookup. 

AP's budget deficit of Rs.16,000 crores pa translates to to Rs.1,333 crores every month. If centre reimburses this money after 3-4 years, how will AP Govt survive to pay its bills, salaries &  pensions, fund welfare apart from huge development expenditure, month on month?

Thus, Undavalli Arun Kumar ex-MP's remark - that while Congress attempted to rape AP in 2014, BJP actually raped AP in 2016 - very much true it is.

While Parliament is supreme, all other institutions namely National Development Council, Finance Commission, Planning Commission, Niti Aayog etc are subordinate bodies of Govt of India i.e. Council of Ministers headed by PM. When Manmohan Singh's Union Cabinet has already approved granting Special Category Status to AP in 2014, how can Modi & Co claim that Special status can't be accorded due to conflict of rules of Finance commission and Niti Aayog? Ridiculous excuse by Arun Jaitley and Venkaiah Naidu. Modi remains tight lipped.

Finally, it is very clear that BJP at Centre won't do anything to AP except lip service. These days people in high places are afraid of only lung power. Chandrababu Naidu should realize that. Requests and begging leads him to nowhere. The only way is to develop ourselves within our own means slowly and steadily rather than waiting and looking at sky for windfall to arrive. In the meantime enforce austerity, eliminate wastage and corruption and money thus saved, apart from money mobilized for overseas lending agencies, could be used for development step by step. Devoid of funding sources, no point in being hurry.

In Delhi, nobody works nobody. Everybody works for self for profit.