Tuesday, June 7, 2011


Ramdev has clarified that he has no political ambitions and is not interested in starting a political party, but feels it's his obligatory duty to reform social and political ambiguities apart from popularising yoga and thus strengthen the country.For changing governance policies, he has initiated a movement named Bharat Swabhiman. Below are his demands:
  1. 100% voting
  2. 100% nationalist thought,
  3. 100% boycott of foreign companies and adoption of swadeshi,
  4. 100% unification of the people of the nation and
  5. 100% yoga-oriented nation
He has also claimed that the use of fertilizers and pesticides has led to an undue economic load on farmers and increased the profits of large business houses involved in the business. In many yog shivir (yoga camps), he has raised the issue of increased consumption of fast foods, packed foods and soft drinks by the people.

Something about Swami Ramdev,
He was inspired by the portraits of Ram Prasad 'Bismil' and Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.
Perhaps he is aware of that the freedom fight with sathyagraha alone was not the reason for our independence. He was a follower of Swami Aurobindo Ghosh after reading his book Yogik Sadhan. Then he went to himalaya and practiced self discipline and meditation. The New York Times called him "an Indian, who built Yoga Empire, a product and symbol of the New India, a yogic fusion of Richard Simmons, Dr. Oz and Oprah Winfrey, irrepressible and bursting with Vedic wisdom". He started Astha TV in 2003 and own The Pathanjali Yoga Peetha, where practicing yoga against diabetics, obesity, hipertension. Patanjali Yog Peeth has acquired a Scottish Island for about £2 million to set up a wellness retreat in UK, which is the base for yoga abroad.
He believes black money curbs the country. So he gave the following steps for eradication of black money:
  1. Withdrawal and demonetizing of Rs. 500 and Rs. 1000 currency notes - so as to avoid misuse of unaccounted money and quick arrest of the entire locally circulated black money, bribing, and fake note traffic.
  2. Agree to and accept the U.N. Convention against Corruption – pending since 2006.
  3. Death penalty provision for the corrupt persons in Indian Penal Code.
  4. Access, monitor and disrupt payment gateway servers enabling corrupt people to manage money in tax havens.
  5. Scrutinizing accounts of people having credit/debit cards of foreign banks without any foreign work/relation.
  6. Disabling operations of any bank from a tax haven country
He has raised the issue of Indian money stashed away illegally in Swiss Bank which is estimated to be anywhere between 1 to 1.5 trillion USD. He says that the government must take immediate action and bring back the money as it belongs to the people of India. Not only this he openly charges that this black money has been taken out of the country illegally and also very strongly demands a capital punishment to all those Indians or N.R.I.s, who acquire, handle and stash black money. He suggests that Mauritius route is a tax haven for black money operators in India and this route should be cut effectively by the Indian government.

Land Acquistion:
1. No Agriculture Land should be acquired for non-agri purposes
2. No Land should be acquired without the permission of the Grama Sabhas

GM and Seeds:
3. A 10-year moratorium on Bt-Brinjal and all field trials and commercial release of all GM crops
4. Price regulation on Seeds
5. Every district to have a Community Controlled Seed Centre with a gene bank for traditional seeds

Pesticides:
6. A ban on all the 67 pesticides that have been banned in other countries but still used in India.

Sustainable Agriculture:

7. 12th Five Year Plan to have 25% of total agriculture area brought under Non-Pesticidal Management as in the CMSA in Andhra Pradesh (the NPM has been repeated in 3 places in the demand annexes)

8. A Land Conservation fund for farmers to the tune of Rs. 5000 crore to be allocated each year

Other farmers issues:

9. A Farmers Income Commission to be setup and income guaranteed to the farmer through a Farmers Income Guarantee Act (FIGA)

10. MSP to incorporate the farmers contribution as a Skilled Labour and not as General Labour and the MSP be calculated after fixing at 50% higher that the C2 Cost.

11. 24-hr water and electricity supply to be given to farmers

12. Community grain banks in every panchayath

ഈ സമരം വിജയിക്കേണ്ടത് നമ്മുടെ ആവശ്യമാണ്. ഇതില്‍ ഞാനും യോജിക്കുന്നു,
ബാബാ രാംദേവിന്റെയും ലക്ഷക്കണക്കിന്‌ അനുയായികളുടെയും നിരാഹാരത്തിന് ഞാനും പിന്തുണ പ്രഖ്യാപിച്ചു.

നിങ്ങളോ

HIGH TIME TO REACT..


See how Lokpal Bill can curb the politicians

1. Existing System

No politician or senior officer ever goes to jail despite huge evidence because Anti Corruption Branch (ACB) and CBI directly come under the government. Before starting investigation or initiating prosecution in any case, they have to take permission from the same bosses, against whom the case has to be investigated.

1. System Proposed by civil society (by the tax payer society)

Lokpal at centre and Lokayukta at state level will be independent bodies. ACB and CBI will be merged into these bodies. They will have power to initiate investigations and prosecution against any officer or politician without needing anyone’s permission. Investigation should be completed within 1 year and trial to get over in next 1 year. Within two years, the corrupt should go to jail.

2. Existing System

No corrupt officer is dismissed from the job because Central Vigilance Commission, which is supposed to dismiss corrupt officers, is only an advisory body. Whenever it advises government to dismiss any senior corrupt officer, its advice is never implemented.

2. System Proposed by civil society (by the tax payer society)

Lokpal and Lokayukta will have complete powers to order dismissal of a corrupt officer. CVC and all departmental vigilance will be merged into Lokpal and state vigilance will be merged into Lokayukta.

3. Existing System

No action is taken against corrupt judgesbecause permission is required from the Chief Justice of India to even register an FIR against corrupt judges.

3. System Proposed by civil society (by the tax payer society)

Lokpal & Lokayukta shall have powers to investigate and prosecute any judge without needing anyone’s permission.

4. Existing System

Nowhere to go- People expose corruption but no action is taken on their complaints.

4. System Proposed by civil society (by the tax payer society)

Lokpal & Lokayukta will have to enquire into and hear every complaint.

5. Existing System

There is so much corruption within CBI and vigilance departments. Their functioning is so secret that it encourages corruption within these agencies.

5. System Proposed by civil society (by the tax payer society)

All investigations in Lokpal & Lokayukta shall be transparent. After completion of investigation, all case records shall be open to public. Complaint against any staff of Lokpal & Lokayukta shall be enquired and punishment announced within two months.

6. Existing System

Weak and corrupt people are appointed as heads of anti-corruption agencies.

6. System Proposed by civil society (by the tax payer society)

Politicians will have absolutely no say in selectionsof Chairperson and members of Lokpal & Lokayukta. Selections will take place through a transparent and public participatory process.

7. Existing System

Citizens face harassmentin government offices. Sometimes they are forced to pay bribes. One can only complaint to senior officers. No action is taken on complaints because senior officers also get their cut.

7. System Proposed by civil society (by the tax payer society)

Lokpal & Lokayukta will get public grievances resolved in time bound manner, impose a penalty of Rs 250 per day of delay to be deducted from the salary of guilty officer and award that amount as compensation to the aggrieved citizen.

8. Existing System

Nothing in law to recover ill gotten wealth. A corrupt person can come out of jail and enjoy that money.

8. System Proposed by civil society (by the tax payer society)

Loss caused to the government due to corruption will be recovered from all accused.

9. Existing System

Small punishment for corruption-Punishment for corruption is minimum 6 months and maximum 7 years.

9. System Proposed by civil society (by the tax payer society)

Enhanced punishment -The punishment would be minimum 5 years and maximum of life imprisonment.