Yogendra Yadav quits from AAP PAC, Jaihind from AAP's National Executive : Reports

New Delhi, May 31 (ANI): Aam Aadmi Party leader Yogendra Yadav has quit from the party's the Political Affairs Committee (PAC).

Television reports showed that Yadav resigned from AAP's PAC taking responsibility of the party's poor performance in Haryana in the Lok Sabha polls.

Another AAP leader Naveen Jaihind said that he has resigned as a member of National Executive of AAP.

My issue was with volunteers that they should get respect and sought for solution in Haryana, which led to Yogendra Yadav seeking a showcause notice to me although I did nothing. Since, the party did not take action against me he said that he will resign. I have said to the party that I will resign if he has so much problem, while I will work as a volunteer for the party.(ANI)

Yogendra Yadav replies

Rumours about my quitting AAP are baseless.

 I am very much with the party and committed to working for it harder than ever.

INDIAN BOY WHO INVENTED EMAIL

 Even the best  brains in computer and software engineering may not be able to answer if you ask them who invented email. This was illustrated on Sunday when this writer checked the same with Prof. Achuthsankar S. Nair, Director, State Inter-University Centre of Excellence in Bioinformatics, Government of Kerala and Dr. Iyemperumal,Executive Director, Tamil Nadu State Science and Technology Centre.

Both of them expressed their helplessness even though both of them handle hundreds of email messages per day.
 It is a 14-year-old boy from India and that, too, with roots in Tamil Nadu who invented email as well as the five-letter word which has become synonymous with communication. 

V A Shiva Ayyadurai, hardly out of school in New Jersey, ushered in the paperless era into this world. It was in response to a challenge thrown at him by Dr. Leslie P Michelson, Director, High Performance Computing Lab, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ), in Newark, New Jersey, which made little Shiva create the world's first email system in November 1978.

“The UMDNJ was a big campus connected by a wide area computer network. The computer was in its initial stages of being used in the office environment. Dr. Michelson wanted me to create an electronic version of the interoffice mail system so that the entire staff of doctors, secretaries, students and staff could communicate faster.

At that time, secretaries and staff were performing drafting, typing, copying, hand delivering of the entire paper-based mail. By observing the interoffice mail system, I created a parts list: Inbox, Outbox, Memo, Folders, Address Book, Attachments, and then created a computer programme of nearly 50,000 lines of computer code which replicated this entire system.

I called my innovation ‘email,’ a term that had never been used before. The world’s first email I sent was to Dr. Michelson in November 1978,” Dr. Ayyadurai told The Pioneer on Sunday. Dr. Ayyadurai developed email as a software programme.

“Software itself was a new concept then. In 1978, it was not even covered under the Intellectual Property Rights. The US Copyright Law of 1976 was amended, however, in 1980, to allow for the protection of software.

In 1982, I was awarded the first US Copyright for ‘Email,’ recognising me as the inventor of email by the US Government,” said Dr. Ayyadurai, who holds four different Post Graduate degrees including a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

“What you see in any email system today, the Inbox, Outbox, Address Book, the Memo (From, To, Date, Subject, Body, CC and BCC), Attachments, etc are based on my observations to replicate the interoffice mail system.

In November 1978, as a 14-year-old school boy, I addressed the doctors of the University on what I invented and demonstrated the use of this entire system,” reminiscences Dr. Ayyadurai, son of Vellayappa Ayyadurai, a chemical engineer hailing from Rajapalayam in Tamil Nadu and Meenakshi, a mathematics teacher who went on to become the head of the elite Don Bosco Public School in Mumbai.

The Ayyadurais migrated to the USA in 1970 in search of greater challenges so that little Shiva could get better education and exposure. He did not let his parents down.

By the age of 13 he had mastered all known computer programming languages in vogue and went on to create email, which revolutionised the world of communication.

Dr Ayyadurai has come out with a book 'The Email Revolution: Unleashing The Power of Connect' which has foreword by Dr. Leslie Michelson and an introduction by none other than Prof. Noam Chomsky. He is in India as part of his mission to identify more “Shivas” who have much better innovations to offer to the world.

“Young people of all colors, hungry to make this world a better place, are going to innovate things we’ve never imagined. We have to provide more global images to young people. In India, for example, with icons, beyond just white skinned and white haired, bearded scientists,” said Dr Ayyadurai.

And how many of us is aware of the fact that radio was invented by Prof. Jagdish Chandra Bose! It was his failure to get it patented that cost Dr. Bose the title.

Marconi, who had seen Dr. Bose’ public demonstration of the radio, had approached him with an irresistible offer to market the same. But, Dr. Bose wanted the radio to be used for the welfare of the humanity.

The night he held the public demonstration, his equipment was robbed from his hotel room. The rest is history,” Prof Ranjit Nair, leading physicist, had told this writer.

So, today we all think Marconi, an Italian, invented Radio.

But, when it comes to email, it's time to set the record straight, once and for all — it was a boy, a 14-year-old Indian boy, who invented email. The facts are in black and white.  

13(30%) out of 44 Ministers analysed have declared criminal cases against themselves. Out of these, 8(18%) Ministers have declared serious criminal cases. Average Assets: Rs. 13.47 crores

Press Release

16^th Lok Sabha

Analysis of Criminal, Financial, and Other background details of Union Council of Ministers

National Election Watch (NEW) and Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) had sent a letter to the Hon’ble Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, on the 20^th of May, 2014 bringing to his notice the disturbing fact that the newly formed 16th Lok Sabha has a sizeable number of MPs (112 i.e. 21%) facing serious criminal charges and requesting him to include only clean representatives in his Cabinet. Shri Narendra Modi committed to critically examine MPs with self-declared criminal cases and fast tracking cases against them during the recent Lok Sabha campaign said, “the next Parliament would be cleaned by punishing the guilty”. 

National Election Watch (NEW) and Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) have analysed the self-sworn affidavits of 44 ministers out of 46Ministers (Including Prime Minister) from Lok Sabha 2014 and current Rajya Sabha. The details of Prakash Javadekar and Nirmala Sitharamanwere not analysed as they are not currently members of either house.

Detailed Report in English attached with this mail

Criminal Background

• Ministers with Criminal Cases: Out of the 44 Ministers analysed, 13 (30%) Ministers have declared criminal cases against themselves.
• Ministers with Serious Criminal Cases: 8 (18%) Ministers have declared serious criminal cases including cases related to attempt to murder, communal disharmony, kidnapping, electoral violations etc.
• Minister with case related to Attempt to Murder: Uma Bharti from Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh of BJP has declared a case related to attempt to murder (IPC Section-307)
• Ministers with cases related to causing Communal Disharmony: Uma Bharti from Jhansi constituency, Uttar Pradesh of BJP has declared a case Promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language, etc., and doing acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony (IPC Section-153A)
• Ministers with cases related to Electoral Violations: Uma Bharti of BJP from Jhansi constituency, Uttar Pradesh, has declared a case related to Illegal payments in connection with an election (IPC Section-171H). Upendra Kushwaha of Rashtriya Lok Samta Party  from Karakat constituency, Bihar and Ram Vilas Paswan of LJP from Hajipur constituency, Bihar have each declared a case related to Bribery (IPC Section – 171E)
• Ministers with cases related to Kidnapping: Munde Gopinathrao Pandurang from Beed Constituency, Maharashtra of BJP has declared a case related to Kidnapping or abducting with intent secretly and wrongfully to confine person (IPC Section-365)

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​Financial Background​

• ​Crorepati Ministers: Out of the 44 Ministers analysed, 40 (91%) are crorepatis.
• Average Assets*: The average assets per minister is Rs.13.47 crores.
• High Asset Ministers*: 5 Ministers have declared more than Rs.30 crores worth of assets. These Ministers are as follows:

S.No.	Name	State	Constituency	Party Name	Total Assets (Rs)	PAN Given
1	Arun Jaitley	Gujarat	Rajya Sabha (Gujarat)	BJP	1,13,02,16,000  113 Crore+	Y
2	Harsimrat Kaur Badal	Punjab	Bathinda	SAD	1,08,16,64,910  108 Crore+	Y
3	Munde Gopinathrao Pandurang	Maharashtra	Beed	BJP	38,00,72,890  38 Crore+	Y
4	Maneka Sanjay Gandhi	Uttar Pradesh	Pilibhit	BJP	37,41,32,826  37 Crore+	Y
5	Piyush Goyal	Maharashtra	Rajya Sabha (Maharashtra)	BJP	30,34,65,410  30 Crore+	Y

*Total Assets includes assets of self, spouse and dependents.

• Low Asset Ministers: A total of 4 Ministers have declared assets less than Rs. 1 crore. These four Ministers with lowest assets are as follows:

S.No.	Name	State	Constituency	Party Name	Movable Assets (Rs)	Immovable Assets (Rs)	Total Assets (Rs)	PAN Given
1	Mansukhbhai Dhanjibhai Vasava	Gujarat	Bharuch	BJP	45,21,062	20,50,000	65,71,062  65 Lacs+	Y
2	Thavarchand	Madhya Pradesh	Rajya Sabha (Madhya Pradesh)	BJP	19,64,293*	66,48,690*	86,12,983  86 Lacs+	Y
3	Sudarshan Bhagat	Jharkhand	Lohardaga	BJP	75,81,009	14,50,000*	90,31,009  90 Lacs+	Y
4	Ram Vilas Paswan	Bihar	Hajipur	LJP	68,42,023	28,00,000	96,42,023  96 Lacs+	Y

• Ministers with High Liabilities: A total of 9 Ministers have declared liabilities of Rs. 1 crore and above. Out of these 9 Ministers, 2 have declared liabilities of Rs. 30 crore and above. These Ministers are as given below:

S.No.	Name	State	Constituency	Party Name	Total Assets(Rs)	Liabilities (Rs)	PAN Given
1	Harsimrat Kaur Badal	Punjab	Bathinda	SAD	1,08,16,64,910  108 Crore+	41,26,34,299  41 Crore+	Y
2	Munde Gopinathrao Pandurang	Maharashtra	Beed	BJP	38,00,72,890  38 Crore+	33,57,29,817  33 Crore+	Y

​Other Background Details​

• ​Education Details of Ministers: 8(18%) Ministers have declared that have an education qualification of 12^th pass or below while 35(80%)Ministers have declared having an educational qualification of graduate or above.

Education Group	Number of Ministers analyzed
5th Pass	1
10th Pass	5
12th Pass	2
Graduate	6
Graduate Professional	17
Post Graduate	9
Doctorate	3
Others	1
Total	44

• Age Details of Ministers: 9(20%) Ministers have declared their age to be between 31 to 50 years while 33(75%) Ministers have declared their age to be between 51 to 70 years and 2 ministers have declared their age to be above 70 years.

Age Group	Number of Ministers Analyzed
31-40	1
41-50	8
51-60	16
61-70	17
71-80	2
Total	44

• Gender Details of Ministers: There are 7 (15%) women ministers out of a total of 46 ministers.​

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Elections over, BDOs face govt backlash

Calcutta, May 27: Dinabandhu Gayen, the Habra II block development officer who had accused a Trinamul MLA and his aides of assaulting him for removing election paraphernalia carrying the chief minister’s images before the Lok Sabha polls, was today put on compulsory waiting.

Another BDO, Debdulal Patra of Barasat II, has also been put on compulsory waiting for leading several WBCS officers from North 24-Parganas to seek action against the MLA.

“Both the WBCS officers have been put on compulsory waiting following instructions from the government brass,” a senior official said.

The government did not cite any reason for sending the two officers on compulsory waiting. It is, however, not binding on the government to furnish reasons for such action against officials.

A section of officials said that by taking stern action against the two BDOs, the government might have sent a message to employees working at the grassroots.

“The message is clear. If any official takes a step that goes against the ruling party, however appropriate it may be, he or she will face the music,” an official said.

“The order to send the BDOs on compulsory waiting is in stark contrast with the one to reinstate officials who were transferred by the Election Commission for alleged bias towards the ruling party and for inaction on complaints lodged by the Opposition,” the official added.

BDO Gayen had initially lodged a police complaint alleging that Trinamul MLA Dhiman Roy and his associates had assaulted him on March 25 after he had removed festoons, posters and banners carrying the chief minister’s images from a road maintained by the PWD as it violated the model code of conduct for the Lok Sabha polls.

Gayen later lodged a second complaint that did not mention Roy or any assault, confining the charges to threats and “hot talkings” by 25 Trinamul supporters.

North 24-Parganas district magistrate Sanjay Bansal, who had been accused of going slow on the probe into Gayen’s allegations, was transferred by the Election Commission on April 7 along with six other officials for alleged bias and inaction.

All eight officials were reinstated in their previous posts by the government through an order on May 19.

So far, the Trinamul government has sent over a dozen officials on compulsory waiting, including then Siliguri police commissioner K. Jayaraman on December 1.

Jayaraman, who has been on compulsory waiting for 187 days now, had arrested then Malda district magistrate Godala Kiran Kumar for alleged funds misappropriation when the IAS officer was the CEO of the Siliguri-Jalpaiguri Development Authority. Kiran Kumar is expected to be sent on compulsory waiting after he returns from leave sometime this week. The officer was sent on leave after he obtained bail on December 1.

Officials on compulsory waiting have to report to the personnel and administrative reforms department, but they are not given any work.

Barasat II BDO Patra, sources said, had led WBCS officers from North 24-Parganas to “put pressure” on Bansal to initiate steps against MLA Roy. “Patra had led the WBCS officers. It has now been proved that like Gayen, Patra has become a target of the administration,” a senior state government official said.

I have been regularly stating my opinion that elections should be held under President's Rule. The above action of the state government just reinforces my views. We should seriously think of dismissing government three months before elections and holding all (MLA and MP) elections under President's rule.