[Reader-list] The VHP, Luxury Cars and Identical License Plates

Fri Aug 28 11:58:27 IST 2009

Dear Rashneek,

I  heartily welcome the CPI(M) and its senile allies dying a natural  
(or an unnatural death), or being put of out of their (and all our)  
misery by an act of merciful euthenasia. It is in fact happening at  
the same breathtaking speed as the terminal hardening of the BJP's  
arteries. The Congress will probably eventually choke on its own  
inbred and dynastic greed.
The Samajwadi Party will get some kind of lethal infectious virus,  
for which it will need (useless) treatment in Singapore.

Mayawati's BSP is already dead because otherwise she would not be so  
busy building necropolises with her own memorials in them, and as for  
the RSS it already has an advanced cancer of the prostate. Gandhism  
fasted itself to death long ago, and Maoists are busy being Kamikaze  
warriors. Islamists are too bust being martyrs to actually bother to  
live.

The entire Indian political landscape is one big death-orgy. And  
nothing could be more delightful.

All certainties are now candidates for obituaries, and I mourn none  
of their passing. It only means that there is time and space for some  
new thinking. Nothing could be more welcome.

best

Shuddha

On 28-Aug-09, at 10:33 AM, rashneek kher wrote:

> A (Harkishen Singh Surjeet) staunch leftist and marxist ideologue"  
> a defender of the underdogs" spent crores if not more on his son's  
> marriage.It had the who's who of Indian Industry.
> Now as the left wilts and is close to dying a natural death I would  
> be extremely pleased if the vestiges too go away.
>
> Rashneek
>
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Murali V <murali.chalam at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
> Sonia has declared that she does not own even a car??? That is
> something to seriously think about.
>
> "The Swiss newsmagazine Schweizer Illustrierte (November 11, 1991)  
> provided more
> details. Citing newly-opened KGB records, it reported that Sonia  
> Gandhi,
> widow of the former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, was controlling a  
> secret
> account worth 2.5 billion Swiss francs (about 2 billion dollars at  
> current
> exchange rates) in a Swiss bank in her minor son's name. This was  
> reported
> also by the Indian columnist A.G. Noorani in 1998."
>
> Regards,
> V Murali
>
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Shuddhabrata  
> Sengupta<shuddha at sarai.net> wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >
> > Here is an interesting story on NDTV on the assets of a Hindutva
> > leader in Rajasthan. Enjoy, and please do forward, especially to
> > every Hindu Hriday Samrat  (Emperor of the Hindu Heart) of your
> > acquaintance.
> >
> > I love the detail about seven luxury cars with the same license
> > plate. Not to speak of 23 crores worth of unaccounted income and
> > assets  and jewellery worth 57 lakhs. Why stash your black money in
> > far away Swiss banks as the 'congrssis' are alleged to have done,
> > when you are with the BJP or the VHP, you can do it closer to home,
> > in Rangila (colourful) Rajasthan.
> >
> > Clearly Shri Damodar Modi (the eminence in question) took the  
> 'Artha'
> > part of the four Hindu 'pursharthas' (goals of existence)  - Dharma
> > (righteousness), Artha (wealth), Kama (desire) and Moksha
> > (liberation) very seriously.
> >
> >  It only adds another rich, small but not insignificant detail into
> > the unravelling saga of the auto-destruction of the Hindu right in
> > India. With the BJP in disarray and the VHP mired in Hawala (money
> > laundering and trafficking), the next thing I would reallly love to
> > see is some sordid details (preferably videotaped) of yet another
> > Sangha pracharak's (RSS functionary) peccadiloes, preferably from  
> the
> > hriday (heart) of Hindutva, in Nagpur. What we really need now is a
> > hidden camera wearing loose khaki shorts.
> >
> > best,
> >
> > Shuddha
> >
> > --------------------------------
> >
> > Rs 23 cr, 7 cars seized from VHP leader in Jaipur
> >
> > http://www.ndtv.com/news/india/
> > rs_10_cr_15_cars_seized_from_jaipur_broker.php
> >
> > Even for a successful broker, Damodar Modi has a remarkable list of
> > assets. Jewellery worth Rs 57 lakhs, four houses in Jaipur, seven
> > luxury cars, all with the same license plate. Modi is also a senior
> > leader of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad or VHP in Rasjasthan.
> >
> > Through the day, VHP workers visited Modi's house to lend their
> > support. They offer the theory that the income tax raids on Modi are
> > a political conspiracy.
> >
> > One says, "This is just a bad phase but it's also political.  
> Since he
> > has links with the BJP, and Rajasthan has a Congress government now,
> > that's why these raids have happened."
> >
> > Modi apparently liked spreading his wealth around. Mainly among his
> > many selves. He had lockers in different names. "He has now admitted
> > that he has nearly Rs 23 crore of unaccounted income and assets,"
> > confirms Sunil Verma, Income Tax Commissioner, Rajasthan.
> >
> > Tax officials are now studying three diaries, maintained by Modi,  
> for
> > information on Hawala transactions.
> >
> > This is the highest seizure ever in Rajasthan...and points to the
> > growing nexus...between business, politics and black money... that's
> > raised a parallel economy in the country.
> >
> >
> > Shuddhabrata Sengupta
> > The Sarai Programme at CSDS
> > Raqs Media Collective
> > shuddha at sarai.net
> > www.sarai.net
> > www.raqsmediacollective.net
> >
> >
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Shuddhabrata Sengupta
The Sarai Programme at CSDS
Raqs Media Collective
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