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I keep dreaming about a 40 something' date=' charismatic, noble but efficient, ruthless but benevolent politician comes out of nowhere (somewhat like that douche bag vP Singh), becomes a PM and takes India forward to its rightful place - not the #1 country in the world by GDP, but as a place where there is little corruption, everyone is treated fairly and people live in complete peace with each other. That is the India I would be proud to call as my motherland.[/quote'] A really nice dictator is the way forward. Although history shows there have not been too many nice dictators:--D
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A really nice dictator is the way forward. Although history shows there have not been too many nice dictators:--D
A benevolent dictatorship is the best form of government, but like you said, there have not too been too many of them. Our best course is democracy. The best we can hope for is for a good guy to somehow slip through the cracks of our corrupt system and pull us out of it. Charismatic, efficient, selfless, ruthless, highly intelligent and high personal integrity. Lot to ask for in one person, but we have a billion possibilities. Lets hope for the best.
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A benevolent dictatorship is the best form of government' date=' but like you said, there have not too been too many of them. Our best course is democracy. [b']The best we can hope for is for a good guy to somehow slip through the cracks of our corrupt system and pull us out of it. Charismatic, efficient, selfless, ruthless, highly intelligent and high personal integrity. Lot to ask for in one person, but we have a billion possibilities. Lets hope for the best.
In our system that is not possible because once you go ahead with indirect democracy - one person is not enough, you require multiple people across the country in every state, every constituency. I doubt that will ever happen.
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Arnab Goswami just asked this question - Is this policy of hit and run sustainable? Media has been biggest factor in IAC's campaign so far. They are giving coverage to IAC and Kejriwal because they see it good product for viewers. Sensational news and burning questions. Lot of drama - like Khushid's press conference and whatever happened after that. It's more entertaining than many regular tv serials. But at least once people will get bored of this shows and start asking - what's the use of all this. I guess IAC needs to get at least 1 case to it's anzaam. That will be very helpful to his party as people will start believing that he can actually do something instead of just making allegations.

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Arnab Goswami just asked this question - Is this policy of hit and run sustainable? Media has been biggest factor in IAC's campaign so far. They are giving coverage to IAC and Kejriwal because they see it good product for viewers. Sensational news and burning questions. Lot of drama - like Khushid's press conference and whatever happened after that. It's more entertaining than many regular tv serials. But at least once people will get bored of this shows and start asking - what's the use of all this. I guess IAC needs to get at least 1 case to it's anzaam. That will be very helpful to his party as people will start believing that he can actually do something instead of just making allegations.
Well they tried doing it through so called institutional processes i.e have a strong bill to tackle corruption. Anyone remeber Lokpal Bill.:giggle:Well the govt and all other parties did everything to ensure no such bill would be put in or a strong and meaningful bill put through to tackle corruption. Thus no other option to go down this root and use the media to galvanise the people.
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A I guess IAC needs to get at least 1 case to it's anzaam. That will be very helpful to his party as people will start believing that he can actually do something instead of just making allegations.
If they could do it, they would have done it by now. They are also normal people like me and you and court cases and inquiry take time. Even that simple Salman Khurshid inquiry will take 6 ****ing months by UP gvt..
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Highlights: Sharad Pawar is centre of real scam, says activist YP Singh Mumbai: Arvind Kejriwal has concealed information about a massive scam in Maharashtra because he is selective about which politicians he targets - that's the allegation made today by YP Singh, a former senior police officer who now works as an activist. Here are the highlights of what he said in his press conference: He was in the investigation with me; he had the facts but did not bring it in front of the media. The details of the larger irrigation scam were not brought out. It is my duty, that it is important to put this in front of the media when such a big politician was involved. Kejriwal had the information/material to expose him. He didn't do it. Do not believe me. Scrutinize the evidence that I place before you. Sharad Pawar is such a big political figure - you can then decide whether he has the right to continue as a union minister after that. Kejriwal's point that farmers' land that was acquired should be returned to farmers, is against Supreme Court guidelines. The top court says there should be a public auction of such land. In Lavasa, Ajit Pawar granted 341 acres to Lake City Corp on 30 years lease at just Rs. 23,000 per month. In Mumbai, the smallest one bedroom house is not available for that price. 20.81% shares belonged to Supriya Sule and Sadanand Sule. Supriya Sule is Ajit Pawar's cousin. Supriya Sule had at least 10.4% share in Lake City Corp. Ajit Pawar gave the land to this company virtually free. In 2006, Sule and her husband sold shareholding - but at what cost? In June 2008, Axis Bank valued the shares at 10,000 crore. When Supriya Sule sold the shares the company should have been valued at least at 5000 crore. But Supriya Sule declared her assets to be worth 15 crore. According to that she sold her Lavasa shares for 5 crore. But according to the Axis Bank valuation, she would have got Rs. 500 crore at least. The whistle blower revenue officer, Ramesh Kumar, was victimised for exposing the irregularities in this scam. Sharad Pawar is a Union Agriculture Minister - he has nothing to do with land-related matters in Maharashtra. But he interfered in that. In 2006, Lavasa sought some concessions and that was rejected. Global Floor Space Index (FSI) including lakes, mountains was taken into account so that the height of the building could be raised. Sharad Pawar and his nephew Ajit, who was then the irrigation minister, met the then CM and senior IAS officers in a guest house in Lavasa called Ekant and decided to give Lavasa a global floating FSI. We have the detailed minutes of meeting that has been attached.

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Former IAC member Annie Kohli confronts Arvind Kejriwal, drama at press meet GHAZIABAD/NEW DELHI: High drama was witnessed at Arvind Kejriwal's press meet today when he was angrily confronted by a woman claiming to be a former IAC volunteer and sharply questioned him on his conduct. The press conference was convened by Kejriwal to condemn the action against his supporters who clashed with police when they were prevented from barging into the residence of Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda in New Delhi's Pandit Pant Marg to protest on Robert Vadra-DLF issue. As he fielded questions and paraded some of the injured persons before the media in Ghaziabad after bringing them from a Delhi hospital, some protesters accompanying the elderly woman Annie Kohli shouted slogans and levelled allegations against Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia, saying they were using the anti-corruption movement for their own gains. When the sloganeering continued, Kejriwal said he will talk to the detractors and understand what their grievances were. Soon after Kejriwal wound up the press meet, Kohli, who is based in Mumbai and who led the protesters, and others tried to enter the premises but were prevented by police. Kejriwal then came out and listened to Kohli who asked him whether he was a revolutionary or a Gandhian or a politician. "You speak with lots of affection but you are doing politics. You are using this as a ladder for your politics. Revolutionaries never ran away from sufferings. But for you, when the time came, you ran away," Kohli, whom Kejriwal said he does not know, alleged. "You were on protest with disabled people on Salman Khurshid case. First you said, you will sit there till you get result. But after four days, you left the place saying now you will go to Farrukhabad. You have support in Delhi. You want to become a leader," she said. When Kejriwal intervened saying she can sit in Delhi when he goes to Farrukhabad, she said she is from Mumbai. Kohli also distributed a pamphlet in which she raised a question what his ideology was. "The independence struggle has two streams of protests. One the revolutionary path of Bhagat Singh and another that of Mahatma Gandhi. "Which one do you follow? Once you answer this, I will raise another nine questions," she said in the pamphlet. A youth, who claims to be against the movement taking a political plunge, alleged Kejriwal's intentions were not right and that he is a friend of Congress MP Sandeep Dikshit. Kohli alleged that she had tried to meet Kejriwal at airport recently but his associates prevented her from meeting him and pushed her. She also levelled allegations against another IAC activist Mayank Gandhi. When asked about Kohli, Kejriwal said, "I don't know her. No questions have been raised by her. What kind of questions she is raising? Every agitation has its own strategy." Earlier in the day, scores of IAC activists clashed with police who used water canons and force to disperse them while trying to barge into Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Hooda's residence in Delhi. Condemning the police action, Kejriwal said his supporters from Haryana were on a peaceful demonstration to protest alleged efforts to save Vadra, whom they alleged was aided by Hooda in favouring the realty major. Police used water canons and force to disperse the protesters, who breached a barricade put on Pandit Pant Marg near Hooda's residence, and detained them this afternoon. Kejriwal or any other senior leaders of the group were not present at the protest. Protesters, most of them from Haryana wing of the IAC, claimed over scores of activists were injured in the police action. The activists had assembled near Gol Dakhana and marched towards Hooda's residence, where police had put up barricades. The protesters breached the barricade and marched towards Hooda's residence when they were stopped by police. However, the activists insisted on marching ahead and they reached near the residence. A senior police official said they were forced to resort to water canon and use force to disperse the crowd. Later in the day, Kejriwal got three-four protesters who were injured in the police action from Ram Manohar Lohia hospital to address a press conference in his office in Kaushambi along with him. He made the injured activists show the wounds they sustained the action. "Congress and the government are now trying to save Vadra. The chief minister has transfered the officer who has ordered a probe into the incident. They are telling us corruption will go on and we will have to suffer," he told reporters. http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/former-iac-member-annie-kohli-confronts-arvind-kejriwal-drama-at-press-meet/articleshow/16903356.cms
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Never supported this kejriwal and hazare when they used to do hunger strike.. as such strikes are the language of anarchy.. now i am happy with kejriwal that he decided to join the system.. in the elections his party may win 2-3 seats in total from urban areas..that will give them an entry into the parliament from where they can raise issues...hazare was too naive, but kejriwal is now playing it smart..he is doing hit and run accusations..rising his political profile and being in the news.. if you want to beat them you must learn how to play the game!

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Never supported this kejriwal and hazare when they used to do hunger strike.. as such strikes are the language of anarchy.. now i am happy with kejriwal that he decided to join the system.. in the elections his party may win 2-3 seats in total from urban areas..that will give them an entry into the parliament from where they can raise issues...hazare was too naive' date=' but kejriwal is now playing it smart..he is doing hit and run accusations..rising his political profile and being in the news.. if you want to beat them you must learn how to play the game![/quote'] Yes raising questions in parliament will really make the thieves stop thieving:giggle:
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Legal notice sent by Sheila Dikshit's aide to Arvind Kejriwal
This is what the legal notice says: Shri Pawan Khera, political secretary to Chief Minister, Delhi, through his lawyer Mehmood Pracha, sent a legal notice for civil and criminal defamation to Shri Arvind Kejriwal and others, today. The notice regarding legal action comes in the light of derogatory remarks by Shri Kejriwal,meant to maliciously defame the Chief Minister and thus all those working in close proximity with her. A case in point being use of the word 'Dalaal' for the Chief Minister in a talk show recently.Advocate Mehmood Pracha said that the legal notice calls upon Shri Kejriwal to:- 1. "Immediately withdraw all the allegations and aspersions made by youagainst Smt Sheila Dikshit, Hon'ble Chief Minister GNCT Delhi which havethus defamed my client and the Office of Hon'ble Chief Minister GNCT Delhi in the talk show, at least on three prominent Channels and newspapers inequal if not more prominence than the original defamatory content." 2. "Tender an unconditional public apology to my client to his satisfactionthrough print and electronic media with regard to the said baseless allegations and aspersions and using foul and filthy language, again with equal if not more prominence which was given to the original defamatory content in the said talk show." 3. "And to refrain from committing any such act(s) i.e. using foul and filthy language unbecoming of civil public discourse in future." 4. "And refrain from making any false and baseless accusations which are false to your knowledge." "In case of failure to comply with this notice within a period of two (2) days of receipt of this legal notice, you shall render yourselves jointly and severally liable to face appropriate civil as well as criminal proceedings under the relevant provisions of law at your risk as to cost and consequences." (MEHMOOD PRACHA) Advocate C-253, 2nd Floor, Defence, Colony New Delhi-110024. Ph. 011-41404040 9310188857
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Google Hangout with Arvind Kejriwal

An interactive session for global volunteers: Know and ask Arvind Kejrwal how this political revolution will change the shape of established politics and India. Encourage all across the globe to join this session. Google Hangout detail would be shared shortly here which can also be watched on www.iaclive.com/liveEvent.html To make it more interactive, we will share a Google moderator link to help you ask your questions, along with a phone line which will be opened only on that day 30 minutes before event starts.
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10india-popup.jpg Stirring the Pot and Striking Fear in India http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/10/world/asia/arvind-kejriwal-stirs-the-pot-and-strikes-fear-in-india.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
HUNDREDS of reporters stood waiting, everyone expecting a helping of scandal, and Arvind Kejriwal did not disappoint. He pushed past the television cameras, smiling slyly in his white Gandhian cap, and took a seat on the podium. The crowd pressed forward, drawn by the question now shaking India’s political establishment: Who will Arvind go after next? Slight and bespectacled, with a neatly trimmed mustache, Mr. Kejriwal, 44, could be mistaken for a bookkeeper, rather than what he has become — the unlikely bomb thrower of Indian politics. His recent appearance was one of his staged media spectacles, in which he has produced documents and leveled corruption charges at some of India’s most powerful political figures. Corruption, he argues, corrodes all the political parties in a fundamentally compromised system. His solution? The formation of a new political party, in time for national elections in 2014. “We hope that the people of this country will be able to do something in 2014,” Mr. Kejriwal said. That Mr. Kejriwal is now one of India’s most powerful figures represents a strikingly swift turnaround. Only months ago, conventional wisdom held that he was finished politically. He had been the mastermind of the huge anticorruption movement that last year shook the country — but had then seemed to miscalculate. First, the movement fizzled. Then, earlier this year, his alliance shattered with Anna Hazare, the hunger striker and symbol of the movement: Mr. Hazare unexpectedly balked over plans to form a political party. Politicos snickered that Mr. Kejriwal’s party, without Mr. Hazare, would be dead before it was born. Mr. Kejriwal, the backstage manager, would now be the public face, which raised a question: Would ordinary Indians rally behind a party whose public draw was a wiry, intense former tax examiner? That remains to be seen, but no one is snickering at Mr. Kejriwal any longer. Instead, he is feared. He has accused Robert Vadra, the son-in-law of Sonia Gandhi, the country’s most powerful politician, of reaping millions in improper real estate deals. He has delved into the business dealings of Nitin Gadkari, leader of the main opposition party. He has alleged improprieties in a charity for the handicapped run by the family of Salman Khurshid, the country’s new foreign minister — prompting a barely veiled threat from Mr. Khurshid. In some instances, he is merely resurrecting and amplifying existing accusations. Yet, through it all, Mr. Kejriwal has steadily pushed his simple, if radical, message: India’s democracy, the largest in the world, does not merely need reform. India needs a revolution. IT is Sunday night, three days after Mr. Kejriwal’s news conference on Oct. 25. His target that day was Reliance Industries Ltd., India’s most powerful corporation, which he accused of exerting political influence to bilk billions of dollars on natural gas contracts. (On Friday, Mr. Kejriwal held another news conference, this time accusing Mukesh Ambani, the owner of Reliance, and others of illegally stashing money overseas.) Reliance has denied the charges — as have all of his targets — but Mr. Kejriwal seemed pleased. The establishment has been rattled. Now Mr. Kejriwal sat inside a cramped conference room of his headquarters, in a small house at the edge of the capital, beside a dingy slum. He was engaged in a ritual of Indian politics: the public audience. One man had traveled hundreds of miles to pledge his support. Another unexpectedly started singing a tribute song. A father and mother presented their 10-year-old son as a future foot soldier in Mr. Kejriwal’s efforts. “After seeing you,” the boy’s mother said, “I have the courage that now we can raise our voices.” Mr. Kejriwal grew up in the city of Hisar, in the northern state of Haryana, the son of an engineer. Like many ambitious Indians, his parents wanted him to become a doctor or an engineer, and the young Mr. Kejriwal studied obsessively to gain entrance to India’s most prestigious engineering school. After graduation, he worked for three years as a mechanical engineer before testing into India’s elite civil service as a tax examiner. It would change his life. He met his wife, another tax examiner, but also found himself confronted with rampant bribe-taking. “There was corruption at every stage,” Mr. Kejriwal recalled. He grew disillusioned and quietly got involved in the nationwide effort by civil society groups that resulted in the Right to Information, the 2005 law that established a public right to access official records and documents. He had taken a formal leave from the tax bureau in 2000 and would earn international recognition after founding Parivartan, a nonprofit group focused on government transparency and accountability. Then in 2006, Mr. Kejriwal decided to quit the civil service to become a full-time social activist, tendering his resignation without even telling his wife. Four years later, Mr. Kejriwal became involved in efforts that have lasted for decades to create an independent anticorruption agency, known as the Lokpal. The Lokpal campaign, led by Mr. Hazare, brought together an odd coalition of civil society leaders, in what became known as Team Anna. To a degree, Mr. Kejriwal was the least established of these advisers, yet he quickly positioned himself as the key adviser to Mr. Hazare. And he was instrumental in building an organization, India Against Corruption, that was laden with technology-savvy young people who used the Internet and social media to make the Lokpal cause a nationwide campaign. BUT if some allies regarded Mr. Kejriwal as a committed activist and brilliant tactician, others saw him as calculating and manipulative, a Rasputin whispering in Mr. Hazare’s ear. “I could see through Arvind’s manipulative tactics from the very beginning,” said Swami Agnivesh, a longtime social activist who broke from Team Anna. “He was trying to get control of Anna, more and more.” Ultimately, Team Anna splintered, after efforts stalled to pass Lokpal legislation in India’s Parliament. Today, Mr. Kejriwal blames India’s lawmakers for breaking their promise; yet others say Mr. Kejriwal’s uncompromising nature and refusal to budge in negotiations helped kill any deal. “Today,” Mr. Kejriwal said, “these parties are very good at fighting elections on the basis of money and muscle power. We cannot win on that turf.” The question, of course, is whether Mr. Kejriwal’s party can win anything at all. He and his team are expected to announce formal plans for the party — as well as the party’s name — at some point this month. Mr. Kejriwal has certainly tapped into public anger over official corruption, especially among India’s urban middle class, yet there is no certainty that anger will translate into votes against established parties with entrenched vote bank machines. Mr. Kejriwal also has competition on other fronts: Mr. Hazare and a handful of others are reconstituting their anticorruption movement, even contemplating opening an office down the street from Mr. Kejriwal, according to Indian news media. But Mr. Kejriwal is careful to praise Mr. Hazare, saying he remains an ally, while emphasizing that the decision to enter electoral politics was a difficult one. “We are getting into the system to change the system,” he said. Mr. Kejriwal said his initial focus would be to field candidates in next year’s state elections in Delhi, the city-state that includes the national capital, New Delhi. This might be his best chance, since much of the middle class uprising over the Lokpal occurred in the capital. Meanwhile, Mr. Kejriwal seems likely to keep attacking the political elite. “This little tiny ant has gotten inside the trunk of an elephant,” said Yogendra Yadav, a prominent political scientist who is serving as an adviser to the new party, “and the elephant is hopping mad.”
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^Just when he started to earn my trust' date=' he comes up with some of most half baked BS on ambanis and black money.[/quote'] Pardon me but you are very "cynical". It's like one cycle - Kejriwal alleges, Party denies, Probe takes place, Exposed ... boom wham! There is a list of 700 people who have money stored up in their Swiss bank accounts. The government has not made that list public - I'm not sure why. Btw, try reading this and come up with a better counter argument than just an opinion Here is proof that Congress is lying about the 700 Indian accounts in HSBC http://www.moneylife.in/article/here-is-proof-that-the-congress-is-lying-about-the-700-indian-accounts-of-hsbc/29603.html#.UJ326Uu8HKs.facebook
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