Sunday, October 14, 2012

Law Minister Salman Khurshid lied about his & his spouse's assets

It saddens me to admit as an proud Indian, but its true Yes, Government of India's Law Minister Salman Khurshid lied about his spouse's assets. According to Indian election laws, it is mandatory for candidates running in election, so Mr. Salman Khurshid duly filed his and his family asset details! Here is the link of his disclosure put up by association for democratic reforms:

So on 2009, the minister & his family was found to be doing well! Good for them, Mrs. Khurshid did not own any house on her name, but Mr. Khurshid stated she owned:
Agricultural Land

           45,00,000  45 Lacs+
           JOINT WITH CHILDREN - AREA : 90 NALI 17.5 MUTTHI LAND
Non Agricultural Land
          10,20,000  10 Lacs+
         JOINT WITH CHILDREN - AREA :11.90 ACRES LAND

For those who don't know what a lac is, it is 100 thousand, a crore is 10 million.

Fine, still no problem! Doing well and owning property is not a crime, but when in 2011 the Union Ministers were told to give current assets, which started showing first chinks in his armor! His assets found to be skyrocketed from 26 million to 62 million INR! http://myneta.info/unionministers2011/candidate.php?candidate_id=29 gives us the details:

He & his family had Rs.1,44,42,965 (14 million) in cash only. He had 7 million himself, when his total salary for that period of 2 years was less than 2 million! So how can have that much of cash??? Since this was in public domain and I am ordinary citizen, I hoped that media will take up this matter. Somehow Minister managed stay out of trouble!

In 2011, Mrs. Khurshid is found to have following lands & buildings:

Agricultural Land

AGRI LAND VILL.SATOLI, DISTT. NAINITAL PROP. IN THE NAME OF MY WIFE AND THREE DEPENDENT SONS
Total Area 
Whether Inherited N 
Purchase Date 0000-00-00 
Purchase Cost 0.00 
Development Cost 0.00
47,00,000  47 Lacs+ 

AGRI LAND VILL.ROHILAPUR, DISTT. GAUTAM BUDH NAGAR PROP. IN THE NAME OF MY WIFE AND THREE DEPENDENT SONS
Total Area 31 BIGHA 15 BISWA 
Whether Inherited N 
Purchase Date 0000-00-00 
Purchase Cost 0.00 
Development Cost 0.00
1,30,81,000  1 Crore+ 

AGRI LAND VILL. DHARAMPUR, DISTT. FARRUKHABAD PROP. IN THE NAME OF MY WIFE AND THREE DEPENDENT SONS
Total Area 60 BIGHAS 
Whether Inherited N 
Purchase Date 0000-00-00 
Purchase Cost 0.00 
Development Cost 0.00
15,00,000  15 Lacs+


No detail was given for purchase date, we will find that this was not full disclosure; which will be a criminal case! Since no declaration was given about the income of his family, I thought may be someone is doing exceedingly well in his household.

2 Building Mrs. Khurshid received gift from her father seemed to be shown of highly low value:

APARTMENT IN GOA, H.NO.129/4 BERNARD SIMAO RESORTS, BEHIND HOTEL CALANGUDE GOA, THESE APARMENTS HAVE BEEN PURCHASED BY FATHER AND GIFTED TO HER
Total Area 110 SQ.MT. 
Built Up Area 
Whether Inherited N 
Purchase Date 0000-00-00 
Purchase Cost 0.00 
Development Cost 0.00
4,29,200  4 Lacs+ 

APARTMENT IN GOA, H.NO.129/4 BERNARD SIMAO RESORTS, BEHIND HOTEL CALANGUDE GOA, THESE APARMENTS HAVE BEEN PURCHASED BY FATHER AND GIFTED TO HER
Total Area 102 SQ.MT. 
Built Up Area 
Whether Inherited N 
Purchase Date 0000-00-00 
Purchase Cost 0.00 
Development Cost 0.00
3,94,400  3 Lacs+ 

You can't even rent those premises for 6 months at the price mentioned, So again Mr. Khurshid deliberately understated this data also! These disclosures are proper legal disclosure and deliberate falsification is a crime, as Law Minister of India Mr. Khurshid is well aware of that fact. Still it looks like allegation not evidence, Right! Then came the final revelation is 2012, when Mrs. Khurshid came up to fight local assembly elections.

Here is the clinching  evidence http://myneta.info/up2012/candidate.php?candidate_id=1114 Mrs. Khurshid's disclosure

She states that same family asset is 48 million and not 62 million, poor Salman, surely in 2012 your bad times  has come up; But Devil lies in details:

This time election commission had asked to furnish income also and Mrs. Khurshid complies ( and I copy & paste ):
Person                      Financial Year      Taxable Income

Mrs. Khurshid 2010 - 2011 Rs 3,07,102 ~ 3 Lacs+
Mr. Khurshid 2010 - 2011         Rs 8,61,115 ~ 8 Lacs+
dependent1 2010 - 2011         Rs 1,48,970 ~ 1 Lacs+
dependent2 2010 - 2011         Rs 1,51,890 ~ 1 Lacs+


OMG! No Bill gates or Donald Trump or Ambani scale earning? Then how could he or Mrs. Khurshid purchase all these land!

Those huge cash given in 2011 are now back in the banks! Good good, has Mr. Khurshid shown the interest of the bank accounts inn the taxable income from Rs. 12.5 million (1,25 crore) in taxable income??? Not clear, facts show very less chance of being so! At least 5 lacs of bank interest is not shown in taxable income

Remember those buildings Mrs. Khurshid received from her father as gift, they are shown at 15 lacs and not 4 lacs, still nowhere near the real value of a beachfront property at Calanghute, Goa. She further states these were not gifts but "Inherited". Another discrepancy!


RESIDENT FLAT A BERNARD SIMON COMPLEX CANDILIM GOA 
Total Area 
Built Up Area 2000Sq.fit 
Whether Inherited Y 
Purchase Date 0000-00-00 
Purchase Cost 0.00 
Development Cost 0.00
15,00,000  15 Lacs+ 

RES FLAT B BERNARD SIMON COMPLEX CANDOLIM GOA 
Total Area 
Built Up Area 2000Sq.ft. 
Whether Inherited Y 
Purchase Date 0000-00-00 
Purchase Cost 0.00 
Development Cost 0.00
15,00,000  15 Lacs+


She further states, she owns a residential building since 2002, which Salman had never mentioned in his previous disclosures, neither in 2009 nor in 2011 ( Once maybe a mistake, twice proves a pattern for a crime), how can you forget to mention something you own for nearly a decade,Mr. Khurshid, when you don't really own that much.:)

 VILL.SATOLI TEH DIST NENITAL 
Total Area 
Built Up Area 4Nali 
Whether Inherited N 
Purchase Date 2002-11-15 
Purchase Cost 1400000.00 
Development Cost 0.00
16,50,000  16 Lacs+ 

Louise Khurshid also mentioned that she had 6 plots (huge ones) not 3 as Salman khurshid had stated, and the purchase dates show that she had most of them before 2009 (Marked in Red) also!


JAFAR,KHURSHID ,SAMAR AND UMAR VILL.STORI DIST NENITAL 
Total Area 90Nali 
Whether Inherited N 
Purchase Date 2002-03-31 
Purchase Cost 814765.00 
Development Cost 0.00
58,56,000  58 Lacs+ 

JAFAR,KHURSHID ,SAMAR AND UMAR VILL.STORI DIST NENITAL 
Total Area 19Nali 
Whether Inherited N 
Purchase Date 2001-03-30 
Purchase Cost 497000.00 
Development Cost 0.00
14,96,000  14 Lacs+ 

JAFAR,SAMAR,UMAR VILL.DHARMPUR BLOOK KAYMGANJ JANPAD FARRUKHABAD 
Total Area 32Bidha 
Whether Inherited N 
Purchase Date 2010-03-09 
Purchase Cost 820500.00 
Development Cost 0.00
12,00,000  12 Lacs+ 

JAFAR,SAMAR,UMAR VILL.DHARMPUR BLOOK KAYMGANJ JANPAD FARRUKHABAD 
Total Area 31Bidha 
Whether Inherited N 
Purchase Date 2010-03-09 
Purchase Cost 775000.00 
Development Cost 0.00
8,50,000  8 Lacs+ 

JAFAR,SAMAR,UMAR VILL.GANIPUR JOGPUR BLOCK NVABGAN JANPAD FARRUKHABAD 
Total Area 31Bidha 
Whether Inherited N 
Purchase Date 2010-03-09 
Purchase Cost 775000.00 
Development Cost 0.00
8,50,000  8 Lacs+ 

JAFAR,SAMAR,UMAR VILL.ROHILA DIST GOTAM BUDDHNAGAR 
Total Area 30Bidha 
Whether Inherited N 
Purchase Date 2006-01-01 
Purchase Cost 300000.00 
Development Cost 0.00
1,20,00,000  1 Crore+ 


That means Lousie Khurshid bought land worth 28 lakh in just one day, 9th March 2010! Now her annual income is just 3 lakh, total family income is just 13 lakh a year! So what was the source of this money. Please explain!

If it is just astute financial planning, we demand to know the details.
They claim to be social workers and devoted their life well-being of poor people, when we in India, have highest number of malnutrition cases, poverty is increasing, global economy in turmoil, he himself & his family goes scouting for agricultural land, which are close to F1 racing circuit at Goutam Buddhanagar & owning more 40% of a cold storage ( Value shown Rs. 0) ! On some searching on google, I find that kaimganj area has just 4 cold storage with combined capacity of 2545 mt., the value can't be 0.

So some pointed questions for them.

1. Name the sources of Income for Mrs. Louise Khurshid's one day land buying spree on 9th march 2010 amounting over 28 lacs?

2. Name the sources of Income for purchase of following cars ( as they are shown as dependent and having taxable income of 1 lakh each and they also don't have car loans)?
VERNA 
7,50,052 
MARUTI SWIFT 
5,47,766   


3. Why are they buying agricultural land and showing no development cost, are they doing real farming? if so, how many people they employ? Why their salary will not go under development cost?

4. What are their agricultural income from farming & cold storage? Why are they not showing them in any asset & income disclosures?

Nation needs answers and accountability, Mr. Law Minister! Shape up or Ship out! 
That's the call from me as one of 
common Indians, The Mango People! 












Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Friday, June 15, 2012

2012 Indian Monsoon is faltering

The Great Indian Monsoon is faltering, it has failed in the very fast fortnight of June, 2012  and shows no sign of picking up.

One may say, what's the big deal? Well, India, which hosts 1/6th of humanity, has 66% of population directly involved into monsoon-fed agriculture, which means 1 out of every 9 human being on the planet depends on it! Too much rainfall would flood the plains, too little will create heatwave and of course, on long-term (say a  couple of weeks to months) cause severe drought.

Indian Met Office has become very pro-active in releasing data regarding monsoon rainfall now. As can be seen from http://www.imd.gov.in/section/hydro/dynamic/rfmaps/sddaily.htm

But this is just number crunching, and might not interest all. IMD also creates a Map of the rainfall data. Since the image file changes from time to time, I have saved the rainfall map of 1 june to 13 June. IMD maps excess that usual in blue, Normal in green, red as deficient, yellow as scantly rain.

Now you get the picture, Excess rainfall is only remote islands of Andaman & Nicobar, Normal rain is in Himalayan & North-east states. Apart from North-east other places are not known for cultivation, none of them are hub of agricultural employment.

In India, we have a culture of gentlemanly lethargy, we expect media & govt to take all action. We would take comfort that India has its own satellite to track rain, storm etc. Unfortunately for us, satellites can't create rain (though impression of clouds can be made by tweaking frequency of IR). And satellites has been reporting the truth to us, perhaps we are blind or just too naive to see realize it.

 Lets compare two satellite images of last year and this year:
Image taken on Jun 14, 2012 23:30 IST

Image taken on Jun 14, 2011 23:30 IST


Is there any human cost of a failed/delayed monsoon. Well, of course, heatwave has killed hundreds in the state of Andhra Pradesh, Orissa & West Bengal. Imagine hundreds of normal people (not counting sick or elderly) dead due to heatstroke. Summer vacation of schools extended. Since India is in tropics without the shade and cooling of monsoon, things will only be worse.

Another side-effect of failed monsoon will be inflation, since commodity market is mostly unregulated and unorganized, hoarding and speculation will be rampant. Due to federal structure of Indian governance, a blame game would ensue between union and state governments. The food price will hit sky-high in India. That was the experience of the last drought.

Lets hope, we do better in coping with this natural calamity this time.



   





Saturday, February 4, 2012

A 2G Corruption case evidence (Src: RTI)

I had read this pdf file in some blog, creating public awareness against Crony Capitalism and corruption in the highest places.

This PDF is supposedly created by Govt of India ministry officials in response of a "Right To Information" appeal by an some aware citizen of India.

This PDF contains A. Raja's letters to the Prime Minister at the time of cooking the 2G corruption.

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B2vhutsrU7hfMjkzOGRiYWMtZjBlOC00MGJiLWI5Y2ItNzk5NTdkMzkzYTUw

This document shows that MMS was clearly aware of TRAI's issues and was the "watchdog" in this matter.

Page 4 of the document shows MMS' letter to A. Raja (Dated 2 Nov 2007)on official capacity of Prime Minister that MMS was more aware of TRAI's issues on 2G than perhaps even Raja.

Raja's last letter of depicting the cover-up under the garb of officialese, showed that other Ministers were also in constant touch regarding #2g case, namely Mr. Pranab Mukherjee (then External Minister).

Page 17 of the page shows that MMS had acknowledged Raja's letter (Signed by the Man himself).

Why we should not prosecute the whole corrupt lot? MMS, Pranab, Chidambaram, Raja and the whole lot.





Saturday, January 7, 2012