Government – Role and Responsibility
July 10, 2022
Government – Role and Responsibility
Padmini Arhant
The government in a real functioning democracy is defined as the organization elected by the people, for the people and of the people.
Is government truly representative of the people and for the people even though government is proudly claimed to be elected by the people in reference to the political capital?
Why are people disillusioned by government in power?
What is the role of government and are those seated in positions as Prime Minister, President, Vice President, Speaker, political opposition and other designations sincerely committed to serving the people across the nation including the electorate that did not vote for them?
If government is elected by the people to serve them and the nation at large anywhere,
Why is running for public office at the municipal to national level costs millions and billions through illegal funds flowing from any and all directions?
The bidders on political candidates in election become the stakeholder upon their candidate election to office. The lobbying begins to benefit the stakeholders’ economic gains, environment violations and other known as well as hidden agenda.
Where is the political representation for people amidst such corruption involved campaigns and subsequent commitment to special interests groups by office bearers from top to bottom?
The other strange predicament is the candidacy having received money from various sources not barring some or many unlawful channels including overseas governments to exert influence over the elected member, these members as the elected rather selected representatives in Parliament or Congress passing legislations and making laws that have been violated by them in the course of entry to public office.
Most nations have their political members violating laws they introduced and voted for in Parliament and Congress essentially holding them above law they legislated for the rest of the society to comply with.
The double standards in many scenarios form the basis for public mistrust raising questions on politics and ethics – generally oxymoron in political system.
The same would apply on transparency and accountability. The members in politics with enormous excess baggage of corruption, criminal records, treason and more are safe and secure with political impunity. They are guaranteed untouchability meaning the arms of justice would never reach them no matter what they do. The crimes committed by them ranging from abuse of power, human rights violations, political tactics deployed to grab and remain in power via bribes, threats and in some cases murder as well are not regarded punishable by law they passed for most law abiding civil society.
How does government operate?
With tax money paid by citizens generally the vast ordinary income group since the wealthiest and major corporations pay little or no taxes given their influence on government essentially at the former service in most parts of the world.
How do governments spend people’s money?
The governments are obligatory to publish information in this regard basically accounting for the money collected in taxes and national revenue from domestic and overseas trade. The current account balance resulting in foreign remittance from trade and receipts in transactions on foreign currency are reported though this figure is often hyped or not provided correctly on many accounts.
As for spending public money, the governments are known for gambling people’s money in many wasteful expenditures while depriving tax payers from due relief during natural or man made crisis like the pandemic and economic decline brought upon by government policy and plan.
The big government is a major expenditure for taxpayers dealing with bureaucracy, red tape and other agencies basically serving government private needs more than public requirements. There are too many government agencies doing very little or nothing to benefit taxpayers and citizens except serving the political power targeted tasks like IT cells and social media to attack and silence constructive criticism on government performance or the lack thereof. There are government set up agencies to spy, snoop, intimidate and threaten political opposition and civil society in fear of public scrutiny of the ruling power in office.
Overall the government’s mismanagement of public money and economy besides corruption is the reason behind poverty, unemployment, inflation and the persistent gap between the rich and poor in society.
How does politics benefit those seeking career from the field?
Politics is a gold mine for vast majority who claim to belong to humble background prior to entry to charm voters on the campaign trail.
There are those seeking the highest office on land like Presidency and Prime Ministership publicly stating that as community organizers they had maxed out credit cards and have unpaid student loans despite twenty or more years since graduation from Princeton and Harvard law school. Then there are others repeating their one liner on having sold tea / chai on curbside to paint a modest past. The stretch having emerged from a cave adorning the heavenly incarnate is not ruled out in this context.
These individuals turning into billionaire during the term in office speaks volume on their handling or mishandling of public money and importantly lucrative backend deals with major industries in the economy and foreign contracts is the cash cow behind overnight political enrichment.
Nonetheless, a majority in politics with serious financial debts and poor economic status walk out with hefty bank balance in off shore accounts and assets worth millions and billions at the end of the term in office.
The trend make them eligible to join the billionaire club and recreational activity membership like premier golf club with annual membership fees at $250,000 or more. The opportunity to own seaside real estate and vineyards are also galore for them having criticized their target for personal properties owned via honest hard labor and life savings in the latter lifetime. The political hypocrisy in such instances is yet another shade of politics in the end justifying the means for them.
Not to mention the highest office is also misused to enhance and secure financial earnings increased exponentially with perks and privileges enacted extending beyond the term in office as lifelong package.
Whilst individual extraordinary monetary welfare are arranged lasting lifetime in the course of political career costing taxpayers indefinitely, there are leaderships eliminating basic financial assistance and medical compensation to army personnel.
The reference is to the foot soldiers facing the bullets, snipers, missiles and land mine explosives in battle field and peace time. The rank and file army in front line are categorically denied medical and retirement payments in the government effort to overhaul defense expenditure like in India.
The topic will resume on identity politics discarding meritocracy at the national and electorate expense.
Padmini Arhant
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Sri Lanka – Political and Economic Crises
July 9, 2022
Sri Lanka – Political and Economic Crises
Padmini Arhant
Update: With Sri Lanka facing financial catastrophe, it is incumbent on all off shore tax havens and foreign bank accounts in Switzerland, Singapore, United States, European Union member states, Mauritius, Seychelles, Virgin Island and island nations in South Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Ocean i.e. worldwide to freeze assets and security holdings of Mahinda Rajapaksa, his brother, the ousted President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and the entire Rajapaksa family including Sri Lankan key political members and other influential forces in Sri Lankan society.
The Rajapaksa family and other affluent members in Sri Lanka known for massive corruption scandals and backend deals with China, India and other foreign contracts are obligatory to surrender the nation’s wealth amassed by them to the economically struggling Sri Lankan people in entirety without any alienation or segregation of any demography.
The offshore accounts holdings of the Rajapaksa family and others return remittance of funds to Sri Lankan treasury is critical to ease the financial meltdown created by the absconding Mahinda Rajapaksa, Gotabaya Rajapaksa and family as well as every one of those individuals behind the systemic financial fraud.
Unfortunately, the Sri Lankan Buddhist monks initially responsible for rallying behind Mahinda Rajapaksa and playing a negative controversial role in Sri Lankan politics is against Buddhism and Buddhist ideology.
Sri Lankan Buddhist monks remaining committed to religious activities and refraining from politics conclusively would epitomize Sri Lankan Buddhist religious dias adherence to Gautam Buddha’s philosophy on detachment to political power and authority.
Gautam Buddha renouncing the throne in quest for knowledge about life and existence that was shared among those desired to learn from Gautam Buddha’s teachings is the paradigm. Accordingly, the disciples and those drawn towards buddhism are naturally expected to pursue and observe Buddhist values exemplified by Lord Buddha prior to and post nirvana.
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~The political and economic crises drowning the island nation Sri Lanka in dire straits is the result of feudalists and fiduciary interests overwhelming the economic situation in the country.
Sri Lanka’s bankruptcy exacerbated by Mahinda Rajapaksa and family regime boosted and bolstered by political regimes in neighboring India – previously the Congress led by Sonia Gandhi and subsequently by the successor Hindutva fundamentalist RSS run BJP Narendra Modi regime in New Delhi.
The foreign intrusions were not limited to India and China in Sri Lanka, the international criminal clique adept at bankrupting economies via corrupt proxy and puppet regimes fitting in with upending democracy and political stability anywhere extended the nod in installing the unpopular, corrupt and violent Rajapaksa regime by unconstitutionally removing the predecessor government from power.
Now when the chips are down and having been instrumental in Sri Lanka’s political and economic turmoil, these foreign powers behind the mayhem have exploited the economically embattled Sri Lanka’s position.
China on its part as creditor has strangled Sri Lanka’s economy albeit with then President and later Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa’s surrender to China’s extraordinary financial demands that included the strategically critical sea port on the Indian Ocean – the Hambantota port in Southern province of the island.
The neighbor India under Narendra Modi’s regime on their part having been the front line supporters in illegally reinstating the Rajapaksa regime in power along with the likes of BJP’s Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy rooting for Mahinda Rajapaksa did not want the Sri Lankan crises to go waste.
Narendra Modi’s government exclusively at the service of Adani and Ambani oligarchy in India recently had the Adani groups grab the strategic port terminal project in Colombo on September 30, 2021 titled Build Operate Transfer (BOT) pact.
‘The 35 year-long BOT agreement entitles the Adani Group majority stakes at 51%, while John Keells would hold 34% and the SLPA 15% per news reports verification.
Furthermore public details on this deal –
“Colombo West International Container Terminal (CWICT) at the strategically advantaged Colombo Port, located amidst one of the busiest shipping routes in the world.
Primarily a container port, the Colombo Port has handled over 5 million TEU of containerised cargo. It has five functional terminals.”
The Indian and Sri Lankan news reports confirm the Indian government under Narendra Modi pitched the Sri Lankan BOT deal as Adani Ports and acquired the same using diplomatic extortions involving the Indian External Affairs Minister JaiShankar’s several visits to the capital Colombo to negotiate on Adani group’s behalf and favor.
The Sri Lankan government were hamstrung and subject to blackmail in the deal process according to the leading daily and sources on either side.
The news reports claim the deal nearly abandoned by Sri Lankan government due to protests from Sri Lankan population comprising port workers, unions, nationalists groups and Buddhist monks against selling national assets.
Regardless the deal was revived using shady political tactics that are commonly reported in Adani Ambani related business targets. The trend vigorously maintained in India by Narendra Modi government in servile commitment handing public sector to Adani Ambani empire much to severe economic plight of the Indian unemployed youth and majority workforce.
In addition to the Colombo port deal to Adani group, India’s ordinary citizens funded government dispensation under Narendra Modi were prodded by Adani to clinch the two large power projects in Sri Lanka’s northern province.
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“According to Indian daily – The Hindu – titled
After port terminal deal, Adani group bags power projects in Sri Lanka
New Delhi resorting to ‘diplomatic blackmail’ says popular Colombo newspaper
India’s Adani Group has signed a deal for two large power projects in Sri Lanka’s Northern Province, six months after it bagged a strategic port terminal project in Colombo that it is now executing with majority stakes.
There is no official announcement or statement yet on the agreement to jointly execute renewable power projects in Mannar, on Sri Lanka’s north-western coast, and Pooneryn, located just south of Jaffna Peninsula, from the Sri Lankan side, the Adani Group, or Indian authorities, raising questions in some quarters on the apparent lack of transparency in an international agreement. “While it was not announced, the CEB also signed a Memorandum of Understanding with India’s Adani Green Energy Ltd,” the Colombo-based Sunday Times reported.
Revealing the details of the MoU, Sri Lanka’s weekend newspaper The Sunday Morning said the two renewable energy projects, involving the Adani Group, were aimed at generating combined capacity of 500 MW, at a cost of $ 500 million. Both projects are in the Northern Province, where New Delhi objected to a Chinese energy project last year, citing proximity to the Tamil Nadu coast.”
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What is happening in Sri Lanka is synonymous to western invasion and occupation of Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya and bifurcation of Sudan…in 2001, 2003, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014…etc. under the pretext of western liberation of these countries that were anything but liberty for the people of these targeted nations in the project for new american century (PNAC).
For example Afghanistan is rich in resources like copper, gold, oil, natural gas, uranium, bauxite, coal, iron ore, rare earths, lithium, chromium, lead, zinc, gemstones, talc, sulphur, travertine, gypsum and marble.
No wonder the central asian nation Afghanistan has been invaded by British imperialists to Former Soviet Union, then American and western NATO alliance, China and India in the last decade competing with each other through the so-called soft power – infrastructure gimmick.
Interestingly none heed lessons from the predecessors and the persisting curse on Afghanistan invaders and occupiers’ era ending with severe blow to imperialistic quest and economic liabilities in the season finale.
The western military invasion set the trail for looting and pillage of those nation’s treasure especially free oil stolen from Iraq, Syria and Libya or rich minerals from Afghanistan and uranium from Ukraine prior to Russian invasion on February 24, 2022 in plain public sight.
The tradition set precedence for others like China and Indian oligarchy to follow suit via customized piracy in their region like Sri Lanka and elsewhere.
With such western legacy and backdrop the reference gold digger nuanced at me as personal attack by unscrupulous billionaire club and alike is the weirdest obnoxious hypocrisy ad nauseam.
Nonetheless, the vexed and desperate Sri Lankan population storming the President’s palace in the last 24 hours demanding the resignation of the entire failed government beginning at the top President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, a U.S. Citizen installed by external and internal corrupt forces in power together with Prime Minister and others removal from office was expected sooner than later.
The public patience and endurance to tolerate government’s blatant abuse of power destroying economy by selling public owned national assets to private and foreign ownership thereby subjugating the nation and people to exploitative environment is the worst treason from any leadership against own citizens and country.
The public outbursts unfolding in Sri Lankan capital right now is the clarion call for corrupt regimes to step down from office and quit treasonous activities misinterpreting the so-called political capital against the electorate.
Sri Lanka is at the crossroads of regaining power to unified republic against corrupt feudalist fiduciary system having transformed the nation into a vassal state to China and Indian oligarchs and a banana republic in economic status.
The current developments and deterioration in Sri Lanka is the end product of massive internal and external collusion reminiscent of subverting developing and growth oriented economy into insolvency experienced by nations worldwide throughout twentieth and twenty first century.
The people power at times like these have demonstrated their determination to take control of the nation made possible upon chasing the raccoons raiding the domain.
Sri Lankan citizens reinstating constitutional governed democracy with transparency and accountability to the nation’s republic barring nepotism, political dynasty and importantly foreign interventions aimed at sabotage of political and economic prospects is the preliminary step towards rescue operation of the coastal state.
Padmini Arhant
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Japan – Ex- Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Assassination
July 8, 2022
Japan – Ex- Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Assassination
Padmini Arhant
The former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s assassination in Japan is tragic and not conforming to peace and democracy maintained by Japan post world war 2.
There is no place for violence against anyone in any society. The individual or collective decision to take life of another depriving the victim due survival until natural death reflect the indulged disturbed mind with hatred in heart. Such action only burden the soul of those committing the crime besides enduring guilt in living and after their death.
I convey my sincere condolences to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s family and the people of Japan in the hour of grief and mourning with prayers for peace and stability in Japan and the region.
Padmini Arhant
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India – Political Asinine
July 6, 2022
India – Political Asinine
Padmini Arhant
The message from the worst political skunk.
Hi,
I’m Kahlua Shitra aka controversy. I’m the kind who can never be tamed for I have no shame. I represent the goon gutter politics besides corruption, criminality, murder and treason…that Indian politics is infamously known for since India became domestically shackled in pseudo democracy.
I’m an embarrassment to public service and a major liability on Indian taxpayers. I willfully and enthusiastically take marching orders from those sparing some change for my public asinine performance.
I’m who I’m, the incorrigible political skunk who stinks with provocative cheap shots for notoriety. The competition is stiff in politics with such theatrics amidst sinking titanic beginning at the incognito helm and in your face proxy puppet regimes to cameo rookie at the rock bottom like me and several other women.
You certainly don’t want to be me – Kahlua Shitra aka controversy and notoriety, the dismal desparado!
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India – Politics Engineered Violence
July 2, 2022
India – Politics Engineered Violence
Padmini Arhant
Update July 3, 2022.
Pulwama attack on 14 February, 2019 by the New Delhi regime headed by PM Narendra Modi, HM Amit Shah and Defense Minister Rajnath Singh merit focus.
The strategist behind state organized and orchestrated Pulwama attack on 14 February, 2019 is Narendra Modi’s then political advisor Gurumurthy.
“Gurumurthy, also known as Thuglaq Gurumurthy, is an RSS Ideologue. He is also a journalist editing the Tamil political weekly Thuglak. He is also the editor of Rajasthan Patrika ”
The RSS and BJP loyalist Gurumurthy, then political advisor to Narendra Modi reminded the embattled incumbent Prime Minister Narendra Modi whose re-election prospects were abysmal due to issues enunciated below to launch an event involving armed forces adding that is bound to get the nation rally behind the failed Prime Minister.
Gurumurthy’s political tip obviously not original instead borrowed from western playbook such as the Project for New American Century (PNAC) prompting then Bush-Cheney administration to invade Iraq, Afghanistan and the rest for political and hegemonic interests at that time.
Narendra Modi then executed the heinous plan against own defense personnel in Pulwama attack with 40 active duty servicemen dispensed as the sacrificial lamb for hideous strategy. The event was carefully devised and successfully performed for Narendra Modi’s re-election in 2019.
The statement from Gurumurthy having been the strategist and key proponent in suggesting the so-called master stroke plan to Narendra Modi was made public to share the glory of Narendra Modi’s rigged re-election victory in 2019.
The regime headed by PM Narendra Modi, HM Amit Shah and Defense Minister Rajnath Singh, Finance Minister Nirmala Prakash, External Affairs Minister Jai Shankar among the front line cabinet along with others in the administration lost credibility and Indian electorate trust in 2019 and thereafter for the following reasons;
The demonetization debacle in 2016.
PM Narendra Modi’s action to appease and facilitate the World Economic Forum (WEF) agenda to eliminate cash economy as part of the Great Reset of the global financial system was disastrous.
Narendra Modi did not even hesitate to use his 90+ years old mother then in the demonetization gimmick.
The PM’s mother was made to wait in ATM line and the stunt was filmed by the camera crew together with crony media’s running commentary representing the Prime Minister to deceive naive and helpless Indian population anchored by the government to buy the economically flawed demonetization policy.
PM Narendra Modi’s demonetization resulted in 165 or more deaths on the same day amongst population unable to bear the shock from the hard earned savings declared void.
Record Unemployment from 2014 until date i.e. July 2022.
The soaring unemployment impetus educated and skilled unemployed youth to declare and observe PM Narendra Modi’s birthday September 17 as the Unemployment Day.
The frustrated unemployed youth generation were advised by Narendra Modi to fry Pakoras, the spicy Indian snack in the street corners and bazaar upon seeking government action to address joblessness in the economy.
There is no doubt the regime headed by Narendra Modi was desperately relying on unscrupulous shady political scheme as game changer and resort to criminal stratagem via Pulwama attack in 2019 prior to the national election in May 2019.
The government headed by Narendra Modi, Amit Shah and others mentioned above are culpable and accountable to the victims, their families and the Indian electorate in the Pulwama attack in February 2019 entirely for political gains at the defense personnel expense.
Anything goes in politics from corruption to murder and political scams not barring treason is the culture to grab and remain in power.
Padmini Arhant
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The RSS BJP regime spokesperson Nupur Sharma’s incendiary remark on national television against Islam’s Prophet Mohammad – May Peace be Upon the Revered Soul,
The series of violent actions originating from the regime’s government at the center and the state viz. Uttar Pradesh exemplify the regime’s status quo.
Following the blasphemous statement from BJP’s Nupur Sharma, there weee peaceful rallies not only in India but in most parts of the world objecting such disposition against a religion and their prophet.
During the peaceful protests with no violence reported or registered at that time in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh with majority muslim population, the BJP regime’s State government having established the record for intense communal politics sowing the seeds of hatred and prejudice against muslims in particular and other so-called lower caste and untouchables Hindu demography arbitrarily arrests peaceful muslim protesters on the scene.
These arrested individuals are held in indefinite detention in unknown locations denying them any legal rights or due process.
The extreme measures from the regime did not end with mass arrests of muslims, the state government under the Chief Minister Ajay Mohan Singh alias Adityanath authorize bull dozing of muslim residents’ homes without any notice or communication to that effect. The State government action slights any and all rule of law legislated and effective in the State of Uttar Pradesh and national level including the Supreme Court directives in this context.
Amid the center and state involved communal bias and targeted violence against muslims in this instance, another incident happens in the northwestern state of Rajasthan.
Here in Rajasthan, the famous city Udaipur attracting tourists from all over the world captures attention.
A tailor incidentally by the name ‘Kanhaiya Lal’ (Kanhaiya is one of many names of Lord Krishna) apparently tweeted from his phone expressing his alleged support to notorious Nupur Sharma and her infamous comment.
Soon after that tweet, the report suggests the two muslim men hiring the motor cycle with the registration number 2611 that has correlation with terror bomb blast on November 26, 2011 in Mumbai, arrive at the tailor’s shop. These two men reportedly were not alone. They were accompanied by camera man i.e. someone to shoot the entire incident about to take place.
According to the regime’s widely published and presented narrative – one of the two muslim men approached the tailor by the name Kanhaiya Lal and asked him to take measurement for a tailored clothing. In the meantime, the cameraman accompanying the two muslim men begin filming the entire episode. The tailor Kanhaiya Lal’s head is severed in gory fashion.
Needless to say, the uproar and outrage once again sparked by the regime’s media similar to the incident onset of Nupur Sharma’s controversial statement grips the targeted listeners and viewers mind with detest and poison for the perpetrators of the horrendous crime.
There is no doubt killing and murdering anyone in any manner is reprehensible and deserve condemnation synonymous to those involved in Godhra pogrom in 2002, subsequent violence in Delhi in 2020 burning down muslim and so-called Dalits homes, hospitals and schools under direct and public decree from BJP’s MP of the Lok Sabha – the people’s house.
The regime in New Delhi instigated violence against peaceful farmers’ rally claiming at least 700 to 800 farmers’ lives in 2021.
Yet another incident involving the New Delhi regime’s Union Minister Ajay Mishra unfolds on October 8, 2021.
Oct 8, 2021 — On Sunday, a convoy of three SUVs owned by Union minister Ajay Mishra rammed into a group of peaceful farmer protesters agitating against Narendra Modi’s anti-agrarian and pro-oligarchy bill.
Total eight people died in the violence. Two farmers died on the spot while two more died later in the hospital. Ten farmers were injured.
Ashish Mishra, Union Minister Ajay Mishra’s son and the main accused in the killing of protesting farmers in UP’s Lakhimpur Kheri last year, has been released from jail.Feb 15, 2022.
Or,
For that matter, the timely violent attack on the Indian armed personnel in Pulwama, Kashmir costing 40 active duty veterans lives on the New Delhi regime’s watch on February 14, 2019 just three months ahead of national election i.e. May 2019.
These events benefitting the regime’s relentless pursuit and ideology of divide and conquer inherited from the colonial masters is the only political strategy at the regime’s disposal to remain in power.
While there are demands to publicly execute the two muslim killers of organized and videographed killing of the tailor Kanhaiya Lal in Udaipur, the violent crime unequivocally generate reasonable doubt for elements and factors not ruling out the state i.e. New Delhi regime’s involvement in the extraordinary evolution of incidents following Nupur Sharma’s televised remark.
Notwithstanding the regime’s past and present track record of the state sponsored violence hosting most violent and ghastly killings carried out with political impunity. Again none of the the RSS and BJP regime’s violence instigators have been subject to the same rule of law in any violent killings and communal massacre whether in Godhra pogrom in 2002 or violent events from 2014 until 2022 till date.
There is always more to it than meets the eye especially when the regime transitioned from the so-called democracy into fascism unleashing carte blanche authority.
The political party members in opposition and other groups, the Supreme Court of India, the central bank Reserve Bank of India and lately the army Chiefs representing the Army, Navy and Air Force are presented and utilized as the State controlled and hamstrung entities to promote the regime under PM Narendra Modi and HM Amit Shah’s economically detrimental, political and socially destructive and last but not the least militarily debilitating policies against national growth and development across the spectrum.
Not to mention jeopardizing Indian national security interests via the latest Agnipath defense policy.
The BJP central and UP state government coercion, threats and intimidation – the regime’s signature trait against anyone in politics and variety is the norm.
The central government or BJP members’ participation in any form and deployment of such tactics using two muslim men and their accomplice cameraman in the killing of tailor Kanhaiya Lal arguably cross the minds of some concerned members in society that are not against the trend in the state committed crimes with no accountability whatsoever.
International independent committee is required to investigate the BJP and RSS human rights violations with appropriate protocol such as sanctions against main powerful entities as then Chief Minister and Home minister of the state and now the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah at national level.
Likewise, the inquiry against current Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Ajay Mohan Singh alias Adityanath’s unprecedented violations and extra judicial abuse of power is critical to protect innocent civilians’s lives, rights and property that are systematically aimed for political segregation and discord in society.
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India – Agnipath Defense Policy
June 28, 2022
India – Agnipath Defense Policy
Padmini Arhant
Update June 30, 2022:
Indian National Security Advisor Ajit Doval during the latest interview to ANI a week ago elaborated on the importance and relevance of the government introduced controversial defense recruitment policy titled Agnipath.
In this interview, NSA chief defended Agnipath policy to contract the size of defense force personnel significantly from the traditional recruitment claiming the contemporary modern warfare as contactless and suggesting the need for such decision.
While the military warfare scenario is projected as contactless by NSA chief Ajit Doval, such military operations are applicable only in full scale engagement as witnessed in the present Russia and Ukraine war.
Again even in this situation, the earlier phase of the military invasion from Russia on 24 February, 2022 and thereafter until arms supply from the United States and western Europe viz. Britain and France much later, the Ukrainian conventional and emergency voluntary defense force effectively resisted and retaliated against Russian movement on the ground.
In the military position between China and India, China has incrementally advanced into Indian territories utilizing the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) command forces along LAC and further into Indian zone especially in the last three years remaining the status quo.
China’s strategy along LAC and Indian North East is predominantly premised on establishing footprints in the Indian landmass using PLA.
China’s encroachment is evidenced in Arunachal Pradesh, Ladakh, Sikkim, Assam and expected to extend along the Indian region as far as Himachal Pradesh.
These conditions arguably necessitated massive troop deployment in the Himalayan region for Indian defense force having lost at least officially twenty and unofficially more martyred armed personnel in the recent China’s troop infringement along the Line of Action Control (LAC) evolved into aggressive confrontation on 5 May, 2020.
As a result of the ongoing China’s incursion in the Himalayan and along the entire north east regions, the requirement to increase armed personnel presence to physically deal with neighbor China’s exponential expansionist territorial quest is a persisting dilemma for India in the Indian sub-continent.
Under these circumstances, the government’s Agnipath policy aimed at reduction rather than maintaining the original strength if not enlargement for ground preparedness creates considerable challenge.
The Agnipath policy as contingent army reserve alongside traditional Indian defense force recruitment and managements serve the immediate and near term unpredictable crisis.
The reinstatement of previous Indian defense force recruitment and service procedure adequately merit attention and implementation from the relevant department such as NSA and critically the Indian Defense Force barring political intervention.
Padmini Arhant
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lndian Civil Society Views on Agnipath.
Source – Satya Hindi. Thank you.
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Agnipath policy retire the 75% unsuccessful recruits at the age of 21 years considering the enrollment age is 17.5 years with four years in the defense force.
The overall experience for the discharged armed personnel in this program is approximately 2 to 2.5 years based on the relevant training and operational opportunity.
In comparison, the traditional Indian defense force recruitment at 21 years as the median age with younger or older recruits representing the defense requirement developed and promoted skills exceeding the military combat capability while facilitating exceptional caliber.
There are many fine examples from Indian Defense Force who successfully fought the war in 1971 against Pakistan and later the Kargil war in 1999.
However, the Air Force veteran from the Indian Defense Force travel to space in India and Former Soviet Union Interkosmos mission in 1984 established a unique and admirable space voyage.
The Air Force veteran is none other than Wing Commander Indian Air Force – Rakesh Sharma with the following profile.
Astronaut — Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma, AC (born 13 January 1949) is a former Indian Air Force pilot who flew aboard Soyuz T- 11
Wing Commander Indian Air Force Rakesh Sharma
Service 1970 – 1990
Years of service: 1970 – 1990 (20 years)
Service number: 12396 F(P)
Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma, AC is a former Indian Air Force pilot who flew aboard Soyuz T-11 on 3 April 1984 as part of the Soviet Interkosmos programme. He is the only Indian citizen to travel in space.
Since the contemporary political culture especially the leadership at the helm as Prime Minister claim credit on any achievements as personal regardless of legitimacy,
Accordingly, this phenomenal feat was a proud moment for India under the female leadership of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi who like her predecessors, her father the first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in particular only remembered and reminded of all things negative and counterproductive under his tenure by the current political party in power.
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is constantly used for one and only one reason – overt emergency rule in 1975 unlike the present covert emergency in India which is obviously a major hypocrisy.
Nonetheless, the former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s confidence in the Indian Defense Force that delivered her victory in 1971 and subsequently kept both China and Pakistan at bay during her term in office exemplify then Indian Defense Force autonomy.
Unfortunately, the same status is not necessarily prevalent in the present time in the Indian Defense Force with the central political authority in New Delhi extending concentration of power on all institutions in India that were earlier relatively autonomous if not independent in respective decision-making process.
As a result, then young vibrant ambitious Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma with adequate training in the span 14 years since inception in the Air Force in 1970 qualified aboard InterKosmos Soyuz T-11.
Personally, I recall as an Indian citizen at that time in New Delhi in 1984, the nation shared the joy and pride when then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi interacted with the astronaut via satellite and asked the Wing Commander and Astronaut Rakesh Sharma for his reaction on
How earth appeared from the space above?
The patriotic armed force pilot and Astronaut Rakesh Sharma enthusiastically responded by quoting Indian national song composed by Urdu Poet Muhammad Iqbal in Urdu language.
Sare Jahan se Accha Hindustan Hamara !
Translation – Of all the places on earth, India is great.
“Sare Jahan se Accha” (Urdu: سارے جہاں سے اچھا; Sāre Jahāṉ se Acchā), formally known as “Tarānah-e-Hindi” (Urdu: ترانۂ ہندی, “Anthem of the People of Hindustan”),”
The glory and astonishing accomplishment from this mission deservingly earned by the Indian Defense Force and former Soviet InterKosmos team besides the astronaut Rakesh Sharma along with the crew back in 1984.
Notwithstanding the late lady Prime Minister Indira Gandhi only being targeted for political hostility in the domestic and external factions nuanced venom regurgitation, the trend with no end in sight.
The late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and the Indian Defense Force merit recognition for motivation and provision in deriving the best amongst the defense force personnel at that time. The cause for celebration was equitable on the outstanding occasion.
Contrarily, the highly educated and skilled unemployed youth today are instead demoralized with the incumbent leadership suggestion on the alternative employment to fry pakoras – spicy Indian snack sold on the curb side by street hawkers in Indian street corners and bazaar.
In conclusion, Agnipath diminish prospects to exhibit and explore talent due to the short term service and limited exposure for aspiring youth with such potential.
All the more reason to reverse course and retain the traditional recruitment and service protocol to a minimum of 15 or more years in the Indian Defense Force.
Padmini Arhant
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India – Karma and the Prisoner of Guilt
June 28, 2022
India – Karma
and
The Prisoner of Guilt
Padmini Arhant
The guilty having committed horrendous crimes and remains unrelenting as old habits die hard, the sinner is the prisoner of guilt with the inner conscience witness to entire deeds in the lifetime,
As a result, no matter how many favorable rulings are obtained in quid pro quo from the Supreme Court, High Court, self-appointed committee and various propaganda means, the guilty is guilty of crimes in the murder of innocent children, women, disabled, youth and senior citizens in the politically instigated pogrom.
When then Chief Minister of the state widely known and categorically proved via documented substantiated evidence to have fomented and facilitated gory violence against own citizens of the state Gujarat in 2002,
Then upon assuming office as the Prime Minister of the nation, the government’s unilateral enactment of the controversial CAA and NRC act engage to strip citizenship status of muslim minority and Hindu majority subjugated in caste denominations and brazen communal politics.
In the course of unconstitutional undemocratic process, the Prime Minister rallies the captive audience to violently target fellow citizens by specific clothing and appearance viz. the muslims in society.
The action speaks volume of the past and present besides being the harbinger of similar episodes in the future.
Likewise, the equal if not senior partner in crime then state Home Minister of Gujarat elevated to the National Home Minister position in New Delhi can hardly contain the impulse in promoting communal hatred and violence.
In 2002, the State Home Minister authorized and instructed the killings of non-violent innocent civilians like children, women, disabled, youth and the elderly predominantly muslims and many Hindus as well as other segments in the worst state sponsored and directly involved communal riots in Godhra, Gujarat.
The murder of key witnesses not barring the Mumbai High Court judge delivering the verdict convicting the state authorities was also murdered to lay the matter to rest.
Despite the killings, elimination and incarceration of individual’s punished for presenting facts and truth telling on Godhra violence detailed in the article below, the National Home Minister’s public speech during political campaign rally in West Bengal post CAA and NRC act in 2019 referred to muslims from Bangladesh as termites.
The two most powerful entities evading accountability on their previous involvement in inciting violence could barely resist defaulting to status quo in open public delivery in 2019 and until now as cited above.
The duo duplicity could only be summed up as
Nau sau choohey nochkar do billé chalé khumbh melé Ganga snaan karné !
नौ सौ चूहे नोचकर दो बिल्ले चले कुम्भ मेले गंगा स्नान करने !
Translation – After munching 900 mice, the tom cats were off to Hindu Khumbh Mela (religious festival) for a dip in the Holy Ganges!
Indeed Atma Chinthan (introspection and Soul searching) is the need of the hour and ever for both of them and their contingency.
Padmini Arhant
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India – Controversial Defense Recruitment Policy
June 23, 2022
India – Controversial Defense Recruitment Policy
Padmini Arhant
The hard fact – Agnipath policy introduced by Indian PM Narendra Modi with emphasis on youthfulness, clean record and meritocracy were to be applied to political career in entirety especially ethics and merit – none qualify considering the tarnished record and criminal legacy beginning with India’s Prime Minister, Home Minister, the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and the rest of the cadre in the central and state government. The unfortunate trend is the irony in the laws and policy introduced against civil society and now targeting the national defense force.
Importantly, term limit like four years in Agnipath policy, the Prime Minister terms should be no more than 2 without exception. Above all Indian democracy would be real and effective with the citizens’ right to recall head of the nation viz. Prime Minister, Home Minister, Finance Minister, Defense Minister, External Affairs among many others at the center, state and all the way to the municipal level on dismal performance and abysmal economic, political and social environment. No delivery on economy in controlling inflation, creating employment, job growth, access to public utilities like electricity, clean water and basic needs… no right to power for those in politics
Indian democracy has long been subverted with political representation committed and dedicated to individual, private and fiduciary interests alone.
The young defense force aspirant – one of many whose dreams have been shattered with the controversial Agnipath meaning fire path literally setting the economically devastated youth population aspirations ablaze in Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Haryana, Chattisgarh, Assam states in the north and northeastern region. These defense force applicants deserve attention and recruitment in the Indian military as they would be invaluable assets.
Regardless of New Delhi government propaganda highlighting the benefits of provocative policy – Agnipath has one too many flaws and far reaching ill consequences that are best averted with the withdrawal of the government unilateral policy.
First and foremost – the Agnipath (Fire Path) is aimed at 17 1/2 – 21 years of age – the life time when critical education is pursued for high school certificate and under graduate course with a degree enabling the career onset in work force.
The Agnipath enrollees would have to either differ their education if any of them were interested and considered the high school diploma and undergraduate degree important which majority would desire and do if the same were to be affordable.
Alternatively, the Agnipath policy apparently has the option for the potential recruits to study at their expense after duty and training hours which obviously may not be suitable or possible for all of them.
The above two scenarios on scholastic achievements are challenging for the young recruits given the tough competition as only 25% among the 100% initial recruits are expected to be selected and that 25% is also supposedly on need basis. They are placed in a dilemma to study for high school exam and later the undergraduate course while competing for selection among 25%.
Many defense force applicants in India are predominantly from the rural areas of the country as farmers’ sons and daughters or those from very poor economic background unable to complete high school and further college education.
Again the difficulty seeking high school and college education for this demography is directly linked to economic costs more than aptitude. However, the Agnipath policy presume the latter as the issue and trying to entice the rural youth mass as such citing monthly payments as salary and discharge package after four years upon not being selected to serve long term in the defense force.
Accordingly, the youth from these segments join the defense force similar to the United States where many unable to afford college education enlist in the military and earn their educational qualifications paid for by the United States defense force besides appointment in the respective armed services such as Army, Navy and Air Force.
Second, the Indian government’s hostile decision to deprive servicemen and women in military uniform the essential benefits like pension and medical care is attributed to defense budget reallocation to capital expenditure on modernization.
In this context, the approach on military personnel displacement with modern hardware and equipment is gross miscalculation. The new wave military operation cannot entirely function on auto pilot, although the latter also require maintenance and trouble shooting technical glitches by human man power.
Despite the hype and discussion on machine replacing human involvement, the machinery functionality and fine tuning are dependent on human monitoring and skills in relevant technology. The software and hardware at the end of the day are developed and manufactured by human mind and physical labor through computer programming, physics and engineering science.
The concept trimming military recruitment for renovation is a major misstep with inevitable adverse ramifications synonymous to demonetization debacle that led to many ordinary citizens’ deaths in 2016 and robbed livelihoods of the mainstream population paying the price until today.
The military modernization is necessary upgrading to contemporary innovative technology. However, the funding could be easily afforded by slashing wasteful spending on politicians’ undeserving privileges and lifetime emoluments. Notwithstanding the lavish expenditure on elaborate Prime Minister residence viz. Central Vista and new Parliament House…at ordinary taxpayers, foot soldiers, farmers, informal and formal sectors lower and middle income workers’ expense.
The Indian Central government in New Delhi promise on job reservation to 75% unsuccessful recruits in Agnipath policy is not taken seriously by youthful aspirants and believed to be a hoax for good reasons.
There are too many incidents beginning with Rs.15 lakhs i.e. 1.5 million rupees in every Indian citizen’s account was guaranteed during demonetization by the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2016. Six years later in 2022, there is no sign of any amount let alone Rs. 15 lakhs i.e. 1.5 million rupees in any ordinary citizens’ account till date.
In 2019 national election, the former serviceman Tej Bahadur Yadav from Haryana having served in the army in Siachin border in the Himalayan region for over 25 years was denied civil service. The former military personnel Tej Bahadur Yadav ran for public office against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Varanasi in 2019. The ex-serviceman Tej Bahadur Yadav was mercilessly disqualified from competing in the national election. Without any proof or explanation Tej Bahadur Yadav was deprived from the election in 2019.
The reality is the constituency Varanasi was prepared to vote for Tej Bahadur Yadav against Narendra Modi in 2019 and PM Narendra Modi’s defeat was certain in the public poll. Then immediately the former army personnel Tej Bahadur Yadav was informed of discrepancy in election papers filing which was previously confirmed by election officials as proper and valid.
The direct involvement by PM Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath made sure the ex-serviceman Tej Bahadur Yadav is prevented from participating in the general election in 2019 proving the lack of respect and opportunity for military personnel in public civil service among the high ranked public office.
Padmini Arhant
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Indian Democracy is Mobocracy and Kleptocracy
June 22, 2022
Indian Democracy is Mobocracy and Kleptocracy
Padmini Arhant
Indian democracy is mobocracy and kleptocracy with political opposition systematically eliminated by New Delhi regime.
The head of the regime’s background speaks volume and serve as evidence that violence begets violence.
In the absence of positive performance, the regime survival heavily rely on media cohorts’ and own political party propaganda. The external foreign role promoting despotism and dictatorial exertion via pseudo glorification to upend democracy cannot be ruled out in particular slighting the regime’s glaring violations on human rights, corruption and criminal legacy.
The regime’s political strategy is bribes with illegal money and lofty positions in cabinet, bureaucracy and legislative assembly especially the upper house – Rajya Sabha membership offered to media house like Zee Soap Opera and WION youtube channel proprietor Subash Chandra Goenks. As s result fake news and indoctrination continues unabated in appeasement politics quid pro quo. The opposition members are lured with such offers as well to jump ship making mockery of democracy.
The bribery through Rajya Sabha upper house entry is also reserved for the Indian Supreme Court Chief Justice as witnessed in the former CJS Ranjan Gogoi rewarded for key decisions favoring the New Delhi regime on major scandals like Rafale defense contract corruption and on communal issues siding with RSS and BJP’s militant Hindutvs ideology in the controversial Ayodhya and Babri Masjjd matter.
Having dismantled the constitutional framework and autonomy of most Indian institutions including the latest assault on Indian Defense Force institutional character, tradition and discipline, the regime’s ravenous appetite for power exemplified in unilateral decisions like demonetization debacle, haphazard GST rule etc., drowning the economy in cyclical crises with fudged and forged data on GDP, unemployment figures and overall ailing economy are merely the tip of the iceberg.
The farmers’ protests were ignored adopting violent means to curtail peaceful rallies for over two to three years until recently the inevitable outcome forced the withdrawal of the regime’s anti-agrarian and pro-oligarchy policy.
The regime’s latest stunt on the defense recruitment restructuring sparking anger, frustrations and violent eruption (taken from the RSS and BJP play book) among economically crippled rural and urban youth is perceived as authoritarian backlash on the defeat in the farmers’s bill forfeiture. The connectivity is the defense force aspirants are predominantly and vastly from rural areas as farmers’ sons and daughters and the remaining percentage belong to the poor economic background.
The RSS run BJP governance with the Prime Minister, Home Minister and regional chief minister in Uttar Pradesh hand picked by the Prime Minister along with several members in Parliament including the individual convicted of terrorism involving bomb blasts against the demography designated as outcasts such as the so-called backward class (BC), other backward class (OBC), Dalits, scheduled caste and scheduled tribe among diverse caste segregation and denominations,
The commonality beginning at the top i.e. the Prime Minister, Home Minister at the center along with Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Karnataka and many BJP governments preach and practice hatred, prejudice and violence.
The situation is buttressed with the state represented print, television and social media ever at regime’s disposal to spin and sensationalize communal politics and cover up government’s scandalous repertoire.
Kashmir Valley is the Xinjiang of India with the conditions exacerbated for rehabilitation of Hindu and other minorities in the territory.
The inflammable toxic political and social environment combined with debilitating economic status nationwide is cheered and celebrated as the Prime Minister’s charisma again not without endorsement from conspicuous quarters overseas exclusively for vested interests fueling anti-democratic and anti-unity agenda in South Asia.
Last but not the least, the regime’s routine topple of opposition state governments via horse trading using print black money is yet another factor for unsustainable rising inflation.
The overture accompanied by intimidations using false charges, income tax raids and other nefarious tactics misusing public funded police force against abducted political opposition members for personal and regime goals is the last straw in abuse of power.
The boiling point exceeded into overflow in corruption, criminality and absolute destruction of everything such as institutions, judiciary, economic sector, political opposition, religions and social fabric…is the epitome of democracy in peril.
Padmini Arhant
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Meritocracy in Politics
June 18, 2022
Meritocracy in Politics
Padmini Arhant
The contemporary dilemma in politics is acute deficit in caliber, credibility and capability with many marred in corruption and criminal legacy lead the country as the head of the state viz. President, Vice-President, Prime Minister and other key cabinet positions in the executive branch. The political opposition designated as such is again self-explanatory considering the excess baggage and quid pro quo with the ruling power. The deal is a secure insurance policy and amnesty for the polity.
Politics is run as exclusive membership in a private club with selection and rejection decided among internal and external groups exerting dominance in domestic and global affairs. The incognito power represented by conglomerate as secret society convened secret meetings in secret locations summoned Presidential, Chancellor, Prime Minister candidacies for approval in the so-called democracies seek loyalty and allegiance to forces behind subjugation of global population.
The global enterprise as the Western European World Economic Forum (WEF) initiating and promoting destructive economic policies or for that matter the western controlled International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank (WB) and European Central Bank (ECB) etc. created and designed permanent debt traps forcing developing nations to resign to debt servicing with their population as collateral are predominantly aimed at enrichment and empowerment of 1% at the remaining 99% generational enslavement.
Not to mention the western exalted latest economic power China’s belt and road initiative (BRI) approached on massive infrastructure development conversely resulting in developing nations’ banana republic status is yet another economic detrimental dynamic.
So much for western aversion to communist system. The communist China with enormous military expansionism is the immediate challenge to any nation’s sovereignty and independence.
These activities are merely the glimpse of smoke screen power play reining control over nearly 8 billion human destiny.
The international consortium authorizing ascendency to power in politics customarily favor tainted and tarnished profiles as they are convenient to bend and mold directly submitting to foreign demands, threats and diktat.
The trend is then continued by the appointees as Prime Minister, President, Vice-President in choosing cabinet members for various portfolios thereby surrounding themselves with crony, corrupt and criminal background to serve each others’ interests.
The politics – you scratch my back and vice versa is widely practiced and prevalent in the name of democracy. The authoritarian settings pale in comparison to pseudo democracy exercising carte blanche authority on citizens life and economic survival with little or no respect and concerns for ordinary lives exploited to the core for feudalistic and fiduciary benefit.
The nation and citizenry under such leadership and governance is transformed into vassal statehood. The client state essentially satisfy oligarchy ambitions besides facilitating foreign economic and strategic goals.
Meanwhile the abuse of power in the domestic front by foreign appointees are granted political impunity with transparency and accountability oxymoron to politics.
The personal image enhancement and false glorification contradictory to ground reality are navigational tools to remain in power. However, the factual details clarify such leadership and government a puppet regime servile to domestic and foreign extortions.
Not to mention the servility and subservience in appeasement politics reflected in abstinence with lack of courage to vote explicit yes or no in the United Nations referendums and resolutions speak volume on status quo.
Amidst the embarrassing least qualified and ethically bankrupt representation at the helm executing policies with meritocracy as criteria to serve in the army or civil service is the tragic irony.
Meritocracy is valid and legitimate upon the requirement beginning at the top with proven established exemplary track record trickling to the bottom implemented as the cardinal rule for effective positive change in society.
The highest in the hierarchy exempted in this regard exemplify hypocrisy and monumental disaster analogous to the clueless captain of the ship sailing the rough seas adept at exacerbating crisis rather than containment.
Padmini Arhant
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