Using the ATM ? Careful. New Rules Apply

Frequent withdrawal of cash from ATMs or automated teller machines will become expensive from November, with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) imposing a limit of three free transactions per month from ATMs of other banks and five from the same bank in metropolitan cities.

A customer will be required to pay a fee of up to Rs.20 for using ATMs beyond the permitted numbers of transactions in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, Kolkata and Hyderabad.

"The number of mandatory free ATM transactions for savings bank account customers at other banks' ATMs is reduced from the present 5 to 3 transactions per month (inclusive of both financial and non-financial transactions) for transactions done at the ATMs located in 6 metro centres," RBI said in a notification.

With regard to own bank ATMs, RBI said that banks will have to permit at least five free transactions per month (both financial and non-financial).

The new guidelines, which were issued in pursuance of a representation made to the central bank by Indian Banks' Association (IBA), will come into effect from November 1, 2014.

Banks have been allowed to charge a maximum fee of Rs. 20 per transaction beyond the stipulated ceilings.

The RBI also made it clear that the said reduction will not apply to small/no frills/basic savings bank deposit account holders.

Also, it will not be applicable for account holders other than in the six metro cities. India has a total of 1.6 lakh ATMs across the country as of March 2014

It surprises me that the RBI and Banks seem to be talking at cross purposes.

The banks would like us to keep our money with them but on the other hand have been asked to charge for withdrawal through ATM beyond 5 withdrawals.

What is the solution.

For myself, I will withdraw my complete salary as soon as it is deposited so that I do not have to make even reach the 5 withdrawal mark.

Bye bye bank.

Why does not the World recognize the racism of the Muslims?

These are the words of Simon Deng, once a Sudanese slave, addressing the Durban Conference in NY:

I want to thank the organizers of this conference, The Perils of Global Intolerance. It is a great honour for me and it is a privilege really to be among today's distinguished speakers.I came here as a friend of the State of Israel and the Jewish people. I came to protest this Durban conference, which is based on a set of lies. It is organized by nations who are themselves guilty of the worst kind of oppression.It will not help the victims of racism. It will only isolate and target the Jewish state. It is a tool of the enemies of Israel.The UN has itself become a tool against Israel. For over 50 years, 82 percent of the UN General Assembly emergency meetings have been about condemning one state - Israel. Hitler couldn't have been made happier!The Durban Conference is an outrage. All decent people will know that.But friends, I come here today with a radical idea. I come to tell you that there are peoples who suffer from the UN's anti-Israelism even more than the Israelis. I belong to one of those people.Please hear me out.By exaggerating Palestinian suffering, and by blaming the Jews for it, the UN has muffled the cries of those who suffer on a far larger scale.For over fifty years the indigenous black population of Sudan -- Christians and Muslims alike --- have been the victims of the brutal, racist Arab Muslim regimes in Khartoum.In South Sudan , my homeland, about 4 million innocent men, women and children were slaughtered from 1955 to 2005.  Seven million were ethnically cleansed and they became the largest refugee group since World War II.The UN is concerned about the so-called Palestinian refugees. They dedicated a separate agency for them, and they are treated with a special privilege.Meanwhile, my people, ethnically cleansed, murdered and enslaved, are relatively ignored. The UN refuses to tell the world the truth about the real causes of Sudan 's conflicts. Who knows really what is happening in Darfur? It is not a "tribal conflict."It is a conflict rooted in Arab colonialism well known in north Africa. In Darfur, a region in the Western Sudan , everybody is Muslim. Everybody is Muslim because the Arabs invaded the North of Africa and converted the indigenous people to Islam. In the eyes of the Islamists in Khartoum, the Darfuris are not Muslim enough. And the Darfuris do not want to be Arabized.They love their own African languages and dress and customs. The Arab response is genocide! But nobody at the UN tells the truth about Darfur.In the Nuba Mountains, another region of Sudan, genocide is taking place as I speak. The Islamist regime in Khartoum is targeting the black Africans - Muslims and Christians. Nobody at the UN has told the truth about the Nuba Mountains ....Do you hear the UN condemn Arab racism against blacks?What you find on the pages of the New York Times, or in the record of the UN condemnations is “Israeli crimes” and Palestinian suffering.My people have been driven off the front pages because of the exaggerations about Palestinian suffering.What Israel does is portrayed as a Western sin. But the truth is that the real sin happens when the West abandons us: the victims of Arab/Islamic apartheid.Chattel slavery was practiced for centuries in Sudan. It was revived as a tool of war in the early 90s.Khartoum declared jihad against my people and this legitimized taking slaves as war booty.Arab militias were sent to destroy Southern villages and were encouraged to take African women and children as slaves.We believe that up to 200,000 were kidnapped, brought to the North and sold into slavery.I am a living proof of this crime against humanity!I don't like talking about my experience as a slave, but I do it because it is important for the world to know that slavery exists even today.I was only nine years old when an Arab neighbour named Abdullahi tricked me into following him to a boat. The boat wound up in Northern Sudan where he gave me as a gift to his family. For three and a half years I was their slave going through something that no child should ever go through: brutal beatings and humiliations; working around the clock; sleeping on the ground with animals; eating the family’s left-overs. During those three years I was unable to say the word “no”.
All I could say was “yes,” “yes,” “yes.”The United Nations knew about the enslavement of South Sudanese by the Arabs. Their own staff reported it. It took UNICEF – under pressure from the Jewish–led American Anti-Slavery Group --sixteen years to acknowledge what was happening. I want to publicly thank my friend Dr. Charles Jacobs for leading the anti-slavery fight.But the Sudanese government and the Arab League pressured UNICEF, and UNICEF backtracked, and started to criticize those who worked to liberate Sudanese slaves. In 1998, Dr. Gaspar Biro, the courageous UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Sudan who reported on slavery, resigned in protest of the UN's actions.My friends, today, tens of thousands of black South Sudanese still serve their masters in the North and the UN is silent about that. It would offend the OIC and the Arab League.As a former slave and a victim of the worst sort of racism, allow me to explain why I think calling Israel a racist state is absolutely absurd and immoral.I have been to Israel five times visiting the Sudanese refugees. Let me tell you how they ended up there. These are Sudanese who fled Arab racism, hoping to find shelter in Egypt. They were wrong. When Egyptian security forces slaughtered twenty six black refugees in Cairo who were protesting Egyptian racism, the Sudanese realized that the Arab racism is the same in Khartoum or Cairo. They needed shelter and they found it in Israel. Dodging the bullets of the Egyptian border patrols and walking for very long distances, the refugees' only hope was to reach Israel's side of the fence, where they knew they would be safe.Black Muslims from Darfur chose Israel above all the other Arab-Muslim states of the area. Do you know what this means!!!?? And the Arabs say Israel is racist!!!?In Israel, black Sudanese, Christian and Muslim, were welcomed and treated like human beings. Just go and ask them, like I have done. They told me that compared to the situation in Egypt , Israel is "heaven."Is Israel a racist state? To my people, the people who know racism – the answer is: 'absolutely not'. Israel is a state of people who are the colours of the rainbow. Jews themselves come in all colours, even black. I met with Ethiopian Jews in Israel. Beautiful black Jews.So, yes … I came here today to tell you that the people who suffer most from the UN anti-Israel policy are not the Israelis, but all those people whom the UN ignores in order to tell its big lie against Israel: we, the victims of Arab/Muslim abuse: women, ethnic minorities, religious minorities, homosexuals, in the Arab/Muslim world. These are the biggest victims of UN Israel hatred.Look at the situation of the Copts in Egypt, the Christians in Iraq, and Nigeria, and Iran, the Hindus and Bahais who suffer from Islamic oppression. The Sikhs. We -- a rainbow coalition of victims and targets of Jihadis -- all suffer. We are ignored, we are abandoned. So that the big lie against the Jews can go forward.In 2005, I visited one of the refugee camps in South Sudan. I met a twelve year old girl who told me about her dream.In a dream, she wanted to go to school to become a doctor. And then, she wanted to visit Israel. I was shocked.How could this refugee girl who spent most of her life in the North know about Israel ? When I asked why she wanted to visit Israel , she said: "This is our people."  I was never able to find an answer to my question.On January 9 of 2011 South Sudan became an independent state. For South Sudanese, that means continuation of oppression, brutalization, demonization, Islamization, Arabization and enslavement.In a similar manner, the Arabs continue denying Jews their right for sovereignty in their homeland and the Durban III conference continues denying Israel's legitimacy.As a friend of Israel, I bring you the news that my President, the President of the Republic of South Sudan, Salva Kiir -- publicly stated that the South Sudan Embassy in Israel will be built--- not in Tel Aviv, but in Jerusalem, the eternal capital of the Jewish people.I also want to assure you that my own new nation, and all of its peoples, will oppose racist forums like the Durban III. We will oppose it by simply continuing to tell the truth! Our truth!My Jewish friends taught me something that I now want to say with you.AM YISROEL CHAI!Thank you

The above has been sent by Arun Shroff.

While we are all worried of the Palestine problem, the Islamists are committing genocide of which the world is blissfully ignorant. I suggest we take it up to inform the world.

Muslims would like to live peacefully in other countries where a different religion is practised but in their own countries they do not give the same respect to other religions.

It makes you wonder if Modi was right?

There are lawyers, advocates and attorneys. What's the Difference?

ATTORNEY: What was the first thing your husband said to you that morning? WITNESS: He said, 'Where am I, Cathy?' ATTORNEY: And why did that upset you? WITNESS: My name is Susan! 
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ATTORNEY: What gear were you in at the moment of the impact? WITNESS: Gucci sweats and Reeboks. 
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ATTORNEY: Are you sexually active? WITNESS: No, I just lie there. 
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ATTORNEY: What is your date of birth? WITNESS: July 18th. ATTORNEY: What year? WITNESS: Every year. 
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ATTORNEY: How old is your son, the one living with you? WITNESS: Thirty-eight or thirty-five, I can't remember which. ATTORNEY: How long has he lived with you? WITNESS: Forty-five years. 
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ATTORNEY: This myasthenia gravis, does it affect your memory at all? WITNESS: Yes. ATTORNEY: And in what ways does it affect your memory? WITNESS: I forget.. ATTORNEY: You forget? Can you give us an example of something you forgot? 
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ATTORNEY: Now doctor, isn't it true that when a person dies in his sleep, he doesn't know about it until the next morning? WITNESS: Did you actually pass the bar exam? 
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ATTORNEY: The youngest son, the 20-year-old, how old is he? WITNESS: He's 20, much like your IQ. 
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ATTORNEY: Were you present when your picture was taken? WITNESS: Are you shitting me? 
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ATTORNEY: So the date of conception (of the baby) was August 8th? WITNESS: Yes. ATTORNEY: And what were you doing at that time? WITNESS: Getting laid 
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ATTORNEY: She had three children , right? WITNESS: Yes. ATTORNEY: How many were boys? WITNESS: None. ATTORNEY: Were there any girls? WITNESS: Your Honor, I think I need a different attorney. Can I get a new attorney? 
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ATTORNEY: How was your first marriage terminated? WITNESS: By death.. ATTORNEY: And by whose death was it terminated? WITNESS: Take a guess. 
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ATTORNEY: Can you describe the individual? WITNESS: He was about medium height and had a beard ATTORNEY: Was this a male or a female? WITNESS: Unless the Circus was in town I'm going with male. 
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ATTORNEY: Is your appearance here this morning pursuant to a deposition notice which I sent to your attorney? WITNESS: No, this is how I dress when I go to work. 
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ATTORNEY: Doctor , how many of your autopsies have you performed on dead people? WITNESS: All of them. The live ones put up too much of a fight. 
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ATTORNEY: ALL your responses MUST be oral, OK? What school did you go to? WITNESS: Oral... 
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ATTORNEY: Do you recall the time that you examined the body? WITNESS: The autopsy started around 8:30 PM ATTORNEY: And Mr. Denton was dead at the time? WITNESS: If not, he was by the time I finished. 
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ATTORNEY: Are you qualified to give a urine sample? WITNESS: Are you qualified to ask that question? 
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And last: ATTORNEY: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse? WITNESS: No. ATTORNEY: Did you check for blood pressure? WITNESS: No. ATTORNEY: Did you check for breathing? WITNESS: No.. ATTORNEY: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy? WITNESS: No. ATTORNEY: How can you be so sure, Doctor? WITNESS: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar. ATTORNEY: I see, but could the patient have still been alive, nevertheless? WITNESS: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law

Sent by Arun Shroff

CAG raps Narendra Modi govt for Rs 17,000 cr losses

GANDHINAGAR: The Comptroller and Auditor General reports for 2009-10 and 2010-11, placed before the Gujarat assembly on the last day of the budget session on Friday, tore into the Narendra Modi government on the issue of corruption by pointing out irregularities causing a cumulative loss of nearly Rs 17,000 crore.

The villain of the piece turned out to be state-owned public sector undertaking (PSU), Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation (GSPC), which showed irregularities leading to losses of up to Rs 12,400 crore.

The reports slam the handling of finances by the Gujarat government, saying there were regular unspent "excesses" left in all departments over the last four years, and that there were "last minute fund releases and issuance of re-appropriation/surrender orders at the fag end, particularly on the last day of the year".

State-owned power distribution companies (DISCOMs) also bled the exchequer, according to the CAG reports. CAG also came down heavily on the government for its failure to keep its water bodies, rivers, lakes and ponds, free of pollution. Saying the Sabarmati Riverfront project's planning and scope was "inadequate", CAG underlined that the project "defeated" the objective of keeping the river clean. Central Effluent Treatment Plants were not complying with norms on quality of discharge either, it said.

On pollution, due to urbanization and industrialization, CAG said out of 170 urban local bodies, 46 were discharging sewage into rivers. Of these 46, only six had sewage treatment plants to release treated sewage into the rivers. Further, nine local bodies discharged untreated sewage into the lakes, 26 into natural drains, and nine into the sea.

CAG found holes in the pipelined water supply in rural areas. It said 32% of drinking water sources were contaminated during a pre-monsoon survey, and the affected villagers were not even alerted about this. As a result, there was no reduction in the incidence of water-borne diseases across the state.

With all but four Congress MLAs suspended from the House, there could be no debate on the damning CAG reports. As soon as the house began functioning on Friday, MLAs Rajendrasinh Parmar, Paranjayadityasinhji Parmar, Jodhaji Thakore and Amit Chavda sought discussion on CAG report, which the speaker Ganpar Vasava disallowed.

The quartet rushed to the well carrying banners on CAG. They were suspended, quite predictably, and escorted out by the security staff.

The BJP was very noisy when CAG had published the reported loss to the exchequer because of the Coalgate and 2G scam.

Why are they silent now

UPA pressured me to drop names from CAG reports: Vinod Rai

NEW DELHI: The Congress leadership is headed for a fresh spell of embarrassment with former Comptroller and Auditor General Vinod Rai making the damning disclosure that UPA functionaries deputed politicians to get him to leave out names from the auditor's reports on Coalgate and Commonwealth Games scams.

"Politicians came to my home and told me not to name some people and to protect some others in connection with the CWG and coal allocation reports," Rai told TOI offering an exclusive peep into his much-awaited recollection of his tumultuous tenure as the federal auditor.

Rai, who spoke to TOI on the sidelines of a book launch function, revealed that "Not Just An Accountant", set to be released on September 15, will also provide details of how sheer considerations of survival led the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to acquiesce to decisions which caused huge loss to the exchequer.

"See the PM is the primus inter pares or the first among equals. He has to take the last call which sometimes he did, sometime he didn't," Rai said. The former CAG, who was attacked by Congress for his reports on scams — from 2G and Commonwealth to Coalgate — dodged a direct response when asked whether the swindles could have been averted if Manmohan had exercised his authority as PM. "I cannot tell you how I have put it in the book but very frankly I have discussed the action taken or not taken by the functionaries whose responsibility it was to take decision at the appropriate time, including those on whose desk the buck finally stopped."

RBI Governor on Crony Capitalism

Dear  friends,
We have a FB site of our old school where we put in our views.
Recently I had written the following comments of the RBI Governors statement on Crony Capitalism.
It created quite a to and for comments, which is worth reading by all AAP members.

Is there any such thing as a FREE LUNCH?
Except for saints, will anyone help you without strings attached.
Will capitalists give you money if it is not going to benefit them?
The RBI governor gives you the answer.
http://goethals1907-2007.blogspot.in/2014/08/crony-capitalism-big-threat-to.html

Sujay Sahu On which free lunch did AAP contest the elections? Will AAP be paying back the money that they burned?

Sanjay Kumar Singh Why did the people give AAP money if they did not expect any thing in return? Is AAP going to return all the "donations"they took so that they will not have to do the donors any flavors. "Crony Capitalism" doesn't apply to AAP while collecting all the crores for the last election. Or does a different yard stick apply to AAP when it does the same things the other parties do. I think AAP will distance itself from any thing that has capitalism in it, maybe what AAP does can be called "Crony-Communism" after all your principles are more left then the left , in fact they are even more left than DIDI. Maybe that is why APP get left out.

Radheshyam Sharma People gave money to AAP so that AAP would give them a clean government and AAP will when it comes to power in Delhi. The Ambanis and Adanis gave money to the BJP so that the BJP would tweak the rules so that their profits would increase manifold. The AAP works for the common man and the BJP works only for the rich. The common man does not expect the money back, it is a contribution to improve the nation. BJP is already paying back to the Ambanis by restricting the power of Anti Corruption Bureau in Delhi so that it does not file criminal charges against Mukesh Ambani.

Suhasini Sharma Why do you always speak in favour of AAP? Have you personally experienced something or are they just your views??

Sujay Sahu He is just married to AAP so he has no option.

Radheshyam Sharma I am now 66 years of age.
Although I am not a student of political science, I have been observing without joining politics since I was in college in 1966.
I was against Indira Gandhi's nationalisation of banks and abolition of Privy Purses for the Princes and had sent my views to Indira Gandhi herself. I believe, an agreement is an agreement and it should not be violated.
She had sent a reply which did not satisfy me.
I was against Indira's Emergency and when the Congress lost in 1977 I went first thing in the morning to my brother-in-law's place to give him sweets, for he was a die hard supporter of Indira Gandhi.
I had high hopes of the Janata Dal but in just one year, Chandrasekhar, Charan Singh and the others showed they were no different from the Congress.
With Atal leading the BJP, I started supporting the BJP as there was no third choice.
I continued supporting the BJP until they started producing people like Bangaru Laxman and Yedyurappa. The final nail was the picture of Sushma Swaraj standing behind the seated Reddy brothers and blessing them.
Fortunately, at that time Anna's movement started.
Their aim was to root out corruption and I became a contributing member of IAC. After two rounds of fast and the government refusing to pass the Lok Pal Bill, Arvind Kejriwal rightly realized that the corrupt politicians would not cut the branches they were sitting on.
IAC sent out SMS to all IAC members requesting their views whether to form a political party.
I was one of the millions of YES voters.
The overwhelming view was to form a political party.
Anna who initially agreed to send out the SMS, but back tracked for some reason and so Arvind formed AAP.
Here is a party which is doing what it preaches. All the candidates selected by AAP in the last Lok Sabha elections were great persons with none having any criminal charges against them.
On the other hand, all the other parties foisted people with criminal records.
Except for 4 AAP candidates from Punjab, all others lost.
Why?
It must have been a combination of any or all of the following causes.
1) The main reason was the mess created by the Congress in the last 10 years, made the people just want a change like Mamata Banerjee seeping away the CPM in Bengal.
2) Modi had done a good job in promoting Gujarat through an advertisement Blitzkrieg led by Amitabh Bacchan and so people decided to give him a chance.
3) Limitless source of unaccounted money so that people were bombarded by his voice and image, wherever one went and whatever media one viewed or listened.
4) Using money and muscle power to brow-beat the opposition and even sending them to hospital.
5) AAP's own lack of resources as it depended on the common man and accepted only white money.
What is my interest in AAP?
At my age, my interest is that India should have an honest government.
India is presently the butt of all jokes in the western countries for their corrupt and criminal politicians.
India stands 94th in the world Corruption Perception Index. Oh! yes, we could thump our backs and say look, Pakistan stands 127th.
Why can't we find ourselves in this list of the least corrupt?
Rank Country Score
1 Denmark 91
1 New Zealand 91
3 Finland 89
3 Sweden 89
5 Norway 86
5 Singapore 86
7 Switzerland 85
8 Netherlands 83
9 Australia 81
9 Canada 81.
People say that Modi himself is not corrupt.
People also felt the Manmohan Singh was not corrupt but see what a mess he has made of the economy. You yourself may not be corrupt but when you turn a blind eye and allow it to flourish, you will be accused of corruption.
Modi has a minister in his cabinet who is accused of rape. He has health minister who instead of taking action on the corrupt, is taking action on the person who is fighting corruption in AIIMS. What idea does it give you?
On the other hand, Arvind Kejriwal is not only honest himself but does not tolerate corruption by any member.
That is the difference.
There may be some errors in the selection process and some corrupt person may gain entry into AAP but they will be weeded out.
As long as Arvind is there, we can be sure that AAP will be an honest party.
In his intention to give India an honest government he may have made some errors in judgement as he did not gauge the mamoth strength of the opposition which controls the media too.
I have not only contributed by donating money but also my time to AAP in the hope that some time in the future we will get an honest government when people see through the Modi "Acche Din" syndrome

Suhasini Sharma Every coin has two sides... Just flip over the coin... You will come to know why Anna Hazare Wasn't ready to join politics, the reason behind Arvind Kejriwal entering into politics and then leaving the post og CM of Delhi such disgracefully

Sanjay Kumar Singh Right, very wrll said. Some people think that all coins are like the Sholay coin. How blissfully ignorant they are .. Well to each his own except that they should not constantly deride others on their choices because it is different or inconvenient for tem.

Suhasini Sharma Haan right.. I will not say that Radheshyam Sharma galat keh rahe hai... bas wo wahi dkh rahe hai jo AAP sabko dikhane ki koshish kr rhi h... Itni badi post ko itne irresponsible tarike se chodna proves that Arvind Kejriwal never deserved anything better.

Umesh Singhania So the war has stared Again....Keep Going Guys.....All the Best.....

Suhasini Sharma No war.. just presenting views respectfully on a worthy topic

Umesh Singhania Yes yes....U r right......War in the sense War Using Words.....

Radheshyam Sharma Anna Hazare did not want to form a political party as he did not want to dirty himself.
Arvind said to change the system, if we have to dirty ourselves, so be it.
Anna thought he could get the Lok Ppal bill passed .
How wrong he was?
The Jokepal bill was finally passed by the same BJP government after Arvind won the Delhi elections. Anna also went along in the got up dharna (to retrieve some prestige) at Ralegaon which was completely organised by the BJP with V K Singh and Kiran Bedi in the lead.
You won't get any AAP news on the regular news channels unless the news is detrimental to AAP for as I said earlier, the complete media has been bought over by the Ambani & Adanis so that only BJP is put in good light. If you want to know AAP news, you will have to visit our FB or Net site. But why bother when it is much easier to flick a switch and view the trash purveyed by the paid media.
Arvind resigned as he could not get the Lokpal bill passed and wanted to go back to the electorate to give him a fresh mandate.
He agrees that he was wrong in resigning WITHOUT ASKING THE PEOPLE'S OPINION AS HE HAD DONE BEFORE ASSUMING OFFICE.Note the emphasis is on the part given in capital letters. We still believe we were right in resigning. We do not believe in sticking to our chairs like leaches without performing.
The Bhagoda title was given by the BJP and paid media.
As it is, they would have criticised him for whatever he did.
If he had not resigned they would have said that he was sticking to his chair like a leach.
The Congress and BJP have neither formed a government nor held a re-election.
The BJP has been trying to cause defections from the Congress and AAP to form a government but have failed so far.
Finally, the Supreme Court has had to pull up the Central Government for not holding elections nor forming a government and given them time up to 9th September.
Why is the BJP scared of holding elections in Delhi in spite of winning all the Lok Sabha seats from Delhi?
It is because Modi has not been able to keep his promise of "Acche Din ayenge". Instead he is just encouraging more corruption as we have seen by the removal of the CVO of AIIMs for enquiring into corruption of BJP people associated with AIIMS.
This is what Hooda did when he transferred Ashok Khemka for enquiring into Robert Vadra's dealings.
That time the BJP was very vociferous.
Why is the BJP voice silent now?
As you said, two sides of the coin - but the sides we have been saying are the Congress and the BJP, both equally corrupt.
The Congress had an excuse as they had to depend on their allies like the DMK who were deeply involved in the scams. A.Raja, Dayanidhi Raja were from the DMK.
But the BJP has no such excuse. It has got once in a life time opportunity to rid the country of corruption.
But Modi is just not interested.
He only gives lip service against corruption, rape, blah! blah! blah! for the gullible people. He even has a minister accused of rape in his cabinet and the finance minister calls the Delhi rape a minor affair.

Suhasini Sharma I give up... _/\_... itna to mujhe pata hi nahi

Radheshyam Sharma That is the tragedy with the new generation.
They listen only to the news purveyed by the media which is totally adulterated.
You should get an alternate view which you will never get from them for the media are all owned by corporate entities who are interested in just prolonging the hold of the existing parties.
If you want to get a view of the opposite party, just go to AAP Facebook site https://www.facebook.com/AamAadmiParty.
All those who oppose me in FB are probably in their 30s and 40s and are enamored by the BJP.
They little realize that once I too was enamored by them and supported the BJP. But their miscellaneous corrupt acts have opened my eyes that there is no difference between the BJP and Congress.
The AAP is like a breath of fresh air which will remove all the foul air hovering over India.
No, I am not married to AAP but I believe in Arvind Kejriwal and the change he promises in India are also what I want.
Yes, he is in the minority now but his thoughts are what all Indians want and HE WILL SUCCEED.
As they say you can fool some of the people all the time and all the people some of the time but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Modi has already said, for 4 years, "Acche din" will come only for the Ambanis and Adanis. In the 5th year, when the elections will come, he will think of the Aam Aadmi.
For 66 years the Congress and BJP have been fooling Indians.
It is now time to change that.

After Shunting Out Vigilance Official, Health Minister Vows to End Corruption - Ha! Ha! Ha!

Days after the government shunted out an anti-corruption official from the country's premier All India Institute of Medical Sciences or AIIMs, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan today vowed to end corruption in the nation's central hospitals. 

He also defended the decision to transfer vigilance officer Sanjiv Chaturvedi, who had unearthed a string of corruption cases at AIIMS.

Mr Chaturvedi was shifted because his post of Chief Vigilance Officer was "opposed" by the Central Vigilance Commission or CVC, said the minister.

"The re-profiling of Mr Sanjeev Chaturvedi, the Deputy Secretary posted at AIIMS with the powers of a Chief Vigilance Officer, has generated a storm in some quarters. To the Minister what was moot was the anomaly in the very posting of a CVO without the sanction of the Central Vigilance Commission and preserving the sanctity of the institution," Mr Vardhan said in a statement. (Central Vigilance Commission Rejected Chaturvedi's Name Twice: Harsh Vardhan)

But there is no record of rejection or opposition by the CVC, sources in the health ministry told NDTV. 

Mr Vardhan has himself acknowledged Mr Chaturvedi as the CVO when he acted on a case forwarded to him from the vigilance department in June this year.

In his statement, the minister claimed, "There are many aspects to corruption in hospitals which as a medico I know exist".

"I had stated on my first day in office that I will impose 500 percent transparency and adopt zero tolerance for corruption", said Mr Vardhan, adding that all systems in India's central hospitals have been placed under critical review to end "systemic and symptomatic" corruption. 

The results of his efforts to end corruption, said Mr Vardhan, "would soon be in the public domain".

AIIMS Anti-Corruption Officer Shunted by Government, Doctors Question Decision

The anti-corruption officer at AIIMS, Sanjiv Chaturvedi, who was shunted out by the government for doing his job has got support from his colleagues at the renowned institute. 

A memorandum, signed by doctors at the premier hospital states that the officer proved to be "too hot to handle" for the health minister and was thus shown the door. It also says there is more to the government decision than meets the eye and that the real danger is the "manner of removal". 

Speaking to NDTV, Dr Chandrashekhar Yadav, Professor at the Orthopedic department, said, "I do not feel his selection was wrong. I've seen during his tenure, patient care has gone up. He's removed so many dishonest (officials) and corrected anomalies in AIIMS. I've never seen this in my 17 years here."

The Health Minister has given two reasons for Mr Chaturvedi's removal as Chief Vigilance Officer (CVC) saying he wasn't eligible for the post and that prior approval was not taken from the CVC before his appointment.

But when we checked the rulebook we found that a deputy secretary rank officer, a position Sanjiv Chaturvedi holds, is eligible for the post of Chief Vigilance Officer (CVO) and that AIIMS is not among the 100 organisations that need prior clearance for appointing a CVO.

But the government seems to be sticking to its stand. In a tweet, Dr Harsh Vardhan defended his decision. "Sanjeev Chaturvedi twice rejected by CVC.His continuation as CVO irregular and indefensible.CVC's unattended concerns addressed at last," he wrote on the micro blogging site.

Even though the government is relying on technicalities for his removal, the move has much larger implications. It would jeopardise all the graft and corruption cases that he initiated in his two years at AIIMS and they could end up becoming null and void.

That includes cases against those who went on unexplained, illegal foreign trips on tax payers' money and the officer who got his pet dog operated on at the AIIMS cancer centre.