Cover UP Sacm Session of Indian Parliament Begins Today Amidst National Attention Focused on CRICKET CARNIVAL !Mind you, Brahaminical Media Hype is that the Indian government of India Incs, Washington Superslaves and LPG Mafia is to concede to opposition demands for a cross-party probe into an alleged telecoms fraud that cost the nation up to $40 billion in lost revenue, lawmakers said on Sunday.KHAO AUR KHANE DO formula is well set to Dominate the Parliamentary Soap Opera as UPA as well as NDA ably supported by the LEFT and AMBEDKARITES have arranged to get an ESCAPE Route out of CORRUPTION and Black Money Crisis. Adwani has cleared the Decks as Black Money Hunt has been REDUCED to an APOLOGY to UPA Chairman and Ruling Dynasty Head, Mrs Sonia Gandhi!Parliament looks all set for a smooth budget session!Parliament expected to see lot of work in budget session!
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Parliament looks all set for a smooth budget session!With the issue of JPC into the 2G spectrum scam resolved, the budget session of Parliament beginning tomorrow is expected to see a lot of work including the Budget, as against the washout of the winter session. Faced with a rash of scams, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh , Leader of the Lok Sabha Pranab Mukherjee and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal have given signals that the government was ready to go the extra mile on the JPC issue and a decision will be taken by Wednesday.
Parliament expected to see lot of work in budget session!The shadow of the winter session, which saw the longest shutdown of the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha, is no longer looming large over the budget session given the signals by the government indicating formation of a Joint Parliamentary Committee.
Cover UP Sacm Session of Indian Parliament Begins Today Amidst National Attention Focused on CRICKET CARNIVAL !Mind you, Brahaminical Media Hype is that the Indian government of India Incs, Washington Superslaves and LPG Mafia is to concede to opposition demands for a cross-party probe into an alleged telecoms fraud that cost the nation up to $40 billion in lost revenue, lawmakers said on Sunday.KHAO AUR KHANE DO formula is well set to Dominate the Parliamentary Soap Opera as UPA as well as NDA ably supported by the LEFT and AMBEDKARITES have arranged to get an ESCAPE Route out of CORRUPTION and Black Money Crisis. Adwani has cleared the Decks as Black Money Hunt has been REDUCED to an APOLOGY to UPA Chairman and Ruling Dynasty Head, Mrs Sonia Gandhi!
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Opposition parties wrecked the last parliamentary session of 2010 by holding protests every day demanding the investigation and refusing to allow any legislation to be debated or passed.Putting aside its winter fiasco, Parliament is all set for a smooth budget session from tomorrow with government telling the opposition that an announcement on the constitution of a JPC into the 2G spectrum will be made on Tuesday.Before the formal announcement about the probe, the talk in opposition circles has turned to the nitty-gritty of the JPC at a time the government appeared to rule out widening its ambit to cover other scandals, a demand by the BJP.
After indications emerged that the UPA government may agree to formation of the JPC to probe the 2G scam, an issue which had derailed the entire winter session of Parliament, BJP has been talking of inclusion of the Commonwealth Games scandal and the Adarsh Housing scam also in its ambit.
The General Budget for 2011-12 will be presented on February 28 while the Railway budget on February 25. The pre- budget Economic Survey will also be tabled on February 25.
Deputy Leader Lok Sabha Gopinath Munde said, "The government on 22nd should announce that a JPC will be formed. Only then will a conducive atmosphere be created for the smooth functioning of the house".
The opposition has however assured the government that it will not disrupt proceedings during the presidential address on Monday morning but it insists that the first thing in the agenda item on Tuesday should be the announcement on constituting a JPC.
Post the annual presidential address to the joint session the matter will again be taken up in the Business Advisory Committee of the Lok Sabha on Monday afternoon. Till then at least on the modalities and terms of reference of the proposed committee the government is keeping its cards close to the chest.
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No paper has written so much on Hindu India's corruption as DV. Our writings are not like those shallow, superficial, cosmetic treatment of those willing to wound but afraid to hurt. We have gone into the very depth of this malignant disease called corruption and come to very definite conclusions on the basis of historical truths and sociological analysis. (1) Look at the Kerala High Court's question (on Jan.20) if the Makara Jyoti hoax that killed 102 pilgrims in stampede at Sabarimala (Kerala) in Jan. 2nd week was a "man-made phenomenon". And Kerala's Manuwadi Marxist Govt.'s answer that it could not come in the way of people's faith. Monkey business: Year after year the Sabarimala temple has been attracting millions of poor, unthinking, innocent fellows who like the flies flock round the burning lamp and simply die. But only after pouring millions and millions of rupees into the temple coffers. Over 40 years back, a group of rationalists had been to the very spot where this hoax is being played year after year with the connivance of the Brahmin priests, and found that it was a man-made trick to attract the gullible fellows. That the Makara Jyoti is a bloody bullshit is known to every thinking person. But the business of all Brahmin temples is to make people not to think. It is the unthinking persons who can be managed and made a monkey. Brahminism is specialised in this monkey business. The country's most famous Brahminical daily, the Hindu, published on Jan.22 interviews of six Hindus saying that the Makara Jyoti is a man-made bullshit. But none can stop this temple corruption. Brahminism fleeces people and kills them in millions in Kumbha Mela and all such temple functions. Why this Makara Jyoti hoax is being played year after year? Even after over 100 died this year, you can take it from us that it will be repeated next year again — killing more innocents, all in the name of faith. All other religions also stress faith but in Brahminism it is only faith — blind and deadly. (2) Again it is in the name of faith that Babri Masjid was demolished by the Brahmana Jati Party killing thousands of innocent people. The Allahabad High Court (Sept.30, 2010) defended the demolition in the name of faith — though historical proof say Babri Masjid is a Muslim shrine and it belongs to Muslims. Here is a fantastic case of the judiciary itself defending unlawful and unhistorical acts — judicial murder of Indian democracy which was applauded by all Hindus. Mental corruption is more dangerous than money corruption. (3) The Karnataka Governor sanctioned prosecution of Yeddyurappa (Jan.22, 2011) who proved to be Karnataka's most corrupt Chief Minister. But the CM is being defended by all the Hindu religious leaders. The Brahmana Jati Party attacks the "Khatri Sick" PM in Delhi for corruption but defends its most corrupt CM in Karnataka. Sai Baba corruption: (4) India's richest godman, "Bhagwan" Sri Satya Sai Baba, who is now dying despite being the god, is the treasurer for the stolen money of all the most notorious thieves of India. Most of the stolen money is kept with Hindu swamis and their temples. Vivekananda disowned: We are yet to come across a Hindu swami who is morally, intellectually and financially clean. Why did the Advaita Ashram of Calcutta stop reprinting Vivekananda's famous book,Caste, Culture & Socialism, which tore the Brahmins to pieces? Is this not corruption? We wrote them several letters but they just don't reply. "Khatri Sick" PM's role: (5) In the country's biggest money corruption "2-G spectrum scandal", amounting to Rs. 1.76 lakh crores only the poor A. Raja's head was cut because he was Dalit. What about the involvement of the country's largest business house, the Tata's, the role played by the "Khatri Sick" PM who was fully kept informed at different stags by Raja, and the corruption of journalists disclosed in "Radia Tapes"? Why the "Khatri Sick" PM, described as "god's good man", is avoiding the Joint Parliamentary Committee probe into this scandal if he is honest? We can go on citing any number of cases like this to prove our point that "Hindu India" hitting the pinnacle of corruption is solely because of its religion. Caste corruption: Brahminism is solely responsible for India's Himalayan high corruption. When we say this some Hindus howled, called us anti-Hindu and asked if there is no corruption in Christian or Muslim country. In the country's recent biggest corruption case we did not read any Muslim or Christian name. Yes. Corruption is there all over the world. China too recently executed a couple of people for corruption. But the corruption in "Hindu India" is the limit to which no other country can claim credit. Here every section of our society is corrupt —executive, judiciary, defence, media, religious order, bureaucracy. Even the private sector. Our lowest village panchayat system is built on caste corruption which is the worst form of corruption (please read our book, India's Intellectual Desert, DSA-1999, Rs. 50). Intellectual corruption: Caste system is the other name for Hinduism. It begins at the lowest village and goes right up to Delhi. But our Hindu heroes who export their swamis to USA to purify that country are not interested in cleaning our villages which is stinking with caste poison. The worst corrupt are India's "intellectuals" who are mostly Brahminical. Had the intellectuals been honest "Hindu India" would never have hit this road-block. Some "Hindus" did flare up against us for saying the principal cause for India's Himalayan-sized corruption is Brahminism, hiding under the name of Hinduism. They called us anti-Hindu. (1) To this our answer is this: You may call us anti-Hindu. Yes. But we are not anti-human. (2) All our great Hindu heroes including their favourite M.K. Gandhi have called Dalits Hindu. Gandhi himself indulged in every variety of mental, moral and intellectual corruption but those who killed him only hailed him Mahatma for their selfish gains. Look at the corruption on both the sides. (3) So as "Hindus", we have very right to criticise the "religion" of Hinduism, though the country's Supreme Court has said Hinduism is not a religion but a way of life. Hindu money in Swiss bank: Look at the mental agony of the Hindu hero, "Khatri Sick" PM, who is suffering on the Hindu money in Swiss banks. He can't go against the corrupt Hindus who are hiding their billons and trillions in Swiss banks. If he touches the corrupt rascals, the "Khatri Sick" PM's Govt. will be pulled down with the blessings of all Hindu religious leaders. It is not possible to touch the corrupt Hindus who rule "Hindu India". They are prepared to sell this country to anybody who offers them the highest money. Law can't curb corruption: Corruption in Hindu India cannot be crushed or controlled by law because our law-enforcing agencies are themselves corrupt. Bombay's Brahmin ATS officer Karkare was not corrupt. Why did the Hindu heroes of Abhinav Bharat kill him? We are sorry to say "Hindu India" has no future. "Hindu corruption" is not a post-independent phenomenon. Corrupt Hindu raja's only invited all "foreign invaders". This is what history of India says. However, it is the British "invaders" who were the first to come in the way of Hindu corruption and made the life of the Bhoodevatas miserable. To fight the British, India's top Brahminical brains went to Germany, sold their "Aryan Myth" to brainwash the brilliant German intellectuals, sold their Hindu symbol swastika to Hitler and brought about the World War-II (Read the book, Aryan Myth by a noted French Jewish historian, photocopy available with DV. Rs. 350). Did privatisation curb corruption: The ruling upper castes have another funny argument to fool those willing to be fooled (whose number is too big). They say more and more privatisation, reducing state intervention (public sector) would reduce corruption. What they mean is corruption is confined only to govt. officials and politicians. This argument may be true in other countries. But in "Hindu India" our experience of the private sector shows it is equally corrupt, inefficient and unconcerned like the public sector. It is the same upper castes who were earlier in public sector jumped over to private sector. Almost 100% of the small shops, (dealing in grocery, stationary, vegetables, fruits, bakery), are privately owned. The pawn brokers are all private. Marwadis and Banias dominate this sector which specialises in cheating. Who says private sector is clean? The famous IPL cricket is totally private sector but stinking in corruption. Large-scale tax evasion, breaking of laws and cheating in private sector are reported daily. It is the private businessmen who stashed 213 billion dollars (36% of India's GDP in 2008) in Swiss banks. Deregulation and trade liberalisation actually contributed to transfer of money abroad (Hindu, Nov.30, 2010). Glorification of the rich: All our newspapers, periodicals, TV and films glorify the rich. Periodically they announce the names and pictures of India's richest. People seeing it are encouraged to follow their examples. In a country where Laxmi is worshipped (not Saraswati), every man or woman is encouraged to beg, borrow, steal or murder to get rich quick — because the rich alone is worshipped in Hindu India. The best example is Karnataka's most corrupt CM, Yeddyurappa. He is universally loved and admired and if there is a re-election he will be voted back. Nobody will ask how Yeddyurappa made the money. He is liked because he not only is rich but helped every thug to loot and break the head to steal. This is Hinduism and its value system which worships wealth and the wealthy are honoured and admired everywhere. Did not the killer Modi, Chief Minister of Gujarat, become the darling of the Hindus? Hindu India has a different yardstick to measure greatness. It is this yardstick that made the Gujarati Bania into mahatma — torn to pieces by Dr. Ambedkar, the Father of India. In the book, Riddles in Hinduism, (Vol.4, W&S) Dr. Ambedkar has given a picture of the two most famous Hindu gods — Ram and Krishna — who present before us all aspects of Hindu corruption — moral, mental, intellectual, social, political. Babasaheb says as long as we worship them and hold them as heroes, Hindu India will continue to remain rotting in all varieties of corruption. Brahminism & corruption Some people may wonder what is the connection between Brahminism and corruption. Such doubts are natural in a land saturated with Brahminic thought — particularly among the "educated" lot (20%). Brahminism is a thought — that too a stinking, poisonous thought — on which the Father of India, Dr. Ambedkar, has written hundreds of pages. But this poisonous thought is so deadly that it consumed Babasaheb himself, Periyar and all the great saints and savants. Dalit Voice being pushed to deathbed is also part of this Brahminic poison. The country wilting and withering away of the state itself is part of this. The choice before us is to choose between Brahminism and Bharat. As the Jews are killing the US and the West, the Brahminists are killing India. Fortunately a section of the Muslims escaped slow death by forming Pakistan and Bangladesh — EDITOR. Editorial Corruption can't be curbed so long Brahminism continues as India's poisonous thought
"Wrongdoers will be punished," is the refrain of the ruling formation which is expected to utilise the presentation of the Union Budget 2011-12 on February 28 as an exercise to reach out to the common man, hit hard by the price rise.
While the Railway Budget 2011-12 will be presented on February 25, the Economic Survey will be tabled on the same day. The talk is that Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee, being projected as the next West Bengal Chief Minister, will go the whole hog in the exercise to placate rail passengers by not tinkering with the fares.
The government's move, which is likely to be officially announced on Tuesday, means the new parliamentary session starting on Monday should open without protest. The budget is due to be presented on February 28.Officially there was no word from the government on its plans on conceding to the JPC demand over which the entire winter session was washed out but opposition leaders coming out of the meeting disclosed the government's intention.
They said in keeping with Parliamentary norms that a formal statement should be made in the House, the government was reticent about making it public.
One opposition leader, who attended the meeting, said that while giving the assurance Mukherjee told them not to speak about it.
CPI Parliamentary Party leader Gurudas Dasgupta told the media "why you want me to break the niceties. Government has agreed on the JPC. It has come in the media".
"Government has agreed on the JPC (joint parliamentary committee)," Communist Party of India leader Gurudas Dasgupta told reporters after an all-party meeting on Sunday.
In a significant gesture, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Sunday joined leaders of all political parties at a luncheon meeting hosted by Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar and hoped for a 'fruitful' budget session of parliament that begins Monday.Leader of the House in the Lok Sabha and Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee gave the assurance to opposition leaders at a meeting convened by the Speaker Meira Kumar that the government will make the announcement in the House on JPC on Tuesday when actual proceedings of the budget session start.
Sources said there could be discussions between the government and the opposition parties before the announcement or after it about constitution of the committee, representation on it for parties and the terms of reference following which the House is expected to adopt a resolution.
Tomorrow, the session gets a formal start with the President's address to the joint sitting of both the Houses of Parliament. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh expressed the hope that the budget session would be "fruitful and productive".
With the entire winter session disrupted, there was all-round criticism and expression of concerns that led both sides to think ways of finding a way out of the impasse. According to one estimate, over Rs 150 crore was spent on a session that did not transact any business.
Manmohan Singh also said that the government is ready to discuss all issues.
The modalities for setting up a joint parliamentary committee to probe the 2G spectrum scam is reported to have figured in the talks.
The speaker is reported to have conveyed to the leaders on how important it is for normalcy to be restored in parliament.
With the government ready for a JPC probe, talks are being held on when to announce the decision, as well as the composition of the committee.
Earlier, at a pre-session press conference Friday, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal said that the government will in a day or two take a decision on the issue of a JPC probe into the 2G spectrum scam.
The 23-day winter session in November-December last year was virtually washed out as the opposition party members persistently protested, demanding a JPC into the 2G spectrum scam.
Research groups have calculated that the national exchequer suffered a loss of Rs.171 crore due to the disruption of parliamentary work in the winter session.
The Congress-led government had refused to allow the probe for months, saying that other independent investigations were underway, but pressure has been growing on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over the graft allegations.
Former telecoms minister A. Raja, who has been arrested, is suspected of rigging rules to favour certain companies bidding for second-generation (2G) mobile licences, causing a potential loss to the treasury of up to $40 billion.
The valuable deals were sold on a first-come, first-served basis instead of via auction.
Police suspect Raja and other top government officials colluded with firms -- many of which were ineligible to bid -- in selling the licences at bargain prices and are seeking to determine whether kickbacks were paid.
The 2G scandal and widespread corruption allegations stemming from the over-budget Delhi Commonwealth Games in October have shaken the government as public impatience with official corruption mounts.
Singh last week vowed to punish all corrupt officials regardless of their seniority.
"I am looking forward to a fruitful and productive session of parliament," he said on Sunday after the meeting.
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Senior BJP leader L K Advani has apologised to Congress President Sonia Gandhi for a party-appointed task force report, which had alleged that she and her late husband Rajiv had accounts in Swiss banks .
BJP had appointed the task force on unravelling the amount of black money stashed by Indians in foreign banks and ways to bring it back.
The report had alleged that Sonia Gandhi and former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi were among Indians who held Swiss bank accounts.
This had led Sonia Gandhi to write a letter to Advani denying the allegation.
Sources said in the letter, Gandhi had said that neither she nor her husband held Swiss bank accounts.
In his reply to the Congress President's letter, Advani expressed regret of her name and that of her late husband being mentioned in the task force report.
However, Advani also stated in his reply that the Gandhis should have denied this publicly when there were murmurs that names of her family members could figure in the report.
Advani said had she done so, the name of her family members would not have figured in the task force.
The four-member task force comprising S Gurumurthy, former IB director Ajit Doval, Professor R Vadiyanathan and advocate Mahesh Jethmalani has put the figure of money stashed in safe havens to be 25 lakh crore.
On February 1, NDA leaders had released a booklet 'Indian Black Money Abroad in Secret Banks and Tax Havens', the second report of the task force appointed by the BJP.
Kalmadi wants JPC into CWG scam
Sacked Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi today demanded a JPC probe into all issues relating to the mega sporting event amid reports that CBI has tracked an email alleging that he got kickbacks.
In a statement on the eve of the start of the Budget Session of Parliament, an embattled Kalmadi said he would resign as Member of Parliament in case any proof of him having taken even a single rupee surfaces.
Kalmadi also said he was "deeply pained and constrained" at the "malicious campaign" going against him regarding Commonwealth Games 2010. "The stories going around are far from actual facts," he said.
"Were the government to agree to constitution of a JPC into the 2G Spectrum issue it would only be fair a similar process of Joint Parliamentary Committee should go into the entire range of issues connected with preparations, executions and conduct of the Commonwealth Games. I am confident that this would enable the entire truth to emerge in the public domain," said Kalmadi.
According to reports, the CBI probing the corruption trail in the Commonwealth Games has tracked an email that, its officials say, is the first specific allegation of kickbacks paid to Kalmadi.
"I can vouch that I have not gained financially even a single rupee out of these games and if proved otherwise I am prepared to step down as a Member of Parliament," Kalmadi said.
The IOA president, who is an MP from Pune, re-iterated his oft-repeated claim that the OC budget was a very small amount of the total fund sanctioned for the Commonwealth Games.
"The OC budget for conducting the Games was just about 5 per cent of the total budget of CWG. In spite of this, I am the only one who have been singled out and targeted for investigations while the role of all other government agencies including Delhi Government and various other Central Government instrumental agencies connected with the decision making process, who have been associated with 95 per cent of the budget, have been completely overlooked," Kalmadi said.
"The sports fraternity -- from athletes to officials and international media -- have lauded the success of the Games and termed it the best ever CWG. Yet, my reputation has been greatly harmed by the continuous allegations of wrong doing with regular media bashing.
"It is a well known fact that even though the games were awarded in 2003, the actual work towards the games started somewhere in 2008, with the paucity of time on one side and reputation of country on the other side, there were pressures to complete and achieve target and deadline of 3 October 2010,"said Kalmadi.
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PM Singh hopeful budget session will be productive   New Delhi: Putting aside its winter fiasco, Parliament is all set for a smooth budget session from Monday with the government telling the opposition that an announcement on the constitution of a JPC into the 2G spectrum will be made on 22nd February. Leader of the House in the Lok Sabha and Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee gave the assurance to opposition leaders at a meeting convened by the Speaker Meira Kumar that the government will make the announcement in the House on JPC on Tuesday when actual proceedings of the budget session start. Tomorrow, the session gets a formal start with the President's address to the joint sitting of both the Houses of Parliament. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh expressed the hope that the budget session would be "fruitful and productive". The General Budget for 2011/12 will be presented on February 28 while the Railway budget on February 25. The pre- budget Economic Survey will also be tabled on February 25. Officially there was no word from the government on its plans on conceding to the JPC demand over which the entire winter session was washed out but opposition leaders coming out of the meeting disclosed the government's intention. They said in keeping with Parliamentary norms that a formal statement should be made in the House, the government was reticent about making it public. One opposition leader, who attended the meeting, said that while giving the assurance Mukherjee told them not to speak about it. CPI Parliamentary Party leader Gurudas Dasgupta told the media, "why you want me to break the niceties. Government has agreed on the JPC. It has come in the media". After the two month long deadlock, indications had emerged from the government a fortnight ago that it was ready to blink with Mukherjee telling opposition leaders that no price was dearer than Parliament's functioning. Scenting success, the BJP sought to widen the ambit of the JPC by seeking probe into other scams like CWG and Adarsh Housing. But on Sunday, the party's Deputy Leader in Lok Sabha Gopinath Munde said after the meeting that the JPC would be on 2G and his party would seek discussion on other scams. The Prime Minister, who joined the leaders over lunch at the Parliament complex, hoped that the budget session will be a "peaceful and productive session". "We are looking forward to a fruitful and productive session. The government on its part is ready to discuss any issue which may be brought by the opposition. So I am hopeful that this will be a peaceful and productive session", he said. "I am always satisfied, I am always optimistic", Singh said when asked whether he was satisfied over the outcome of today's meeting. The Prime Minister said that a lot of legislative works have to be accomplished, the budget of the central government has to be passed and this, therefore, is the most important session of Parliament.   | Timeline of articles Number of sources covering this story
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Senior BJP leader L K Advani today took a dig at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for saying that he had to make "some compromises" to run a coalition and maintained that the NDA never used such "phoney constraints" as an excuse for compromising on integrity or good governance.
"The Prime Minister's television interaction with some leading journalists last week has been disappointing. It shows much less concern about corruption than about phoney coalition constraints," Advani wrote on his blog today.
In his first comments about the Prime Minister's interaction with editors of news channels, Advani conceded that his party was "acutely aware" that in policy matters, coalition partners have a restraining effect.
But these could not be cited as an excuse for making compromises, he said.
The BJP Parliamentary Party chief claimed that had NDA's alliance partner TDP not opposed the formation of Telangana, the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government would have gone ahead with it. "If our alliance partner TDP had been agreeable, we could have with as much ease formed Telangana also. But our coalition dharma did not permit it.
"But neither the Vajpayee Government, nor any other NDA Government in the states has ever allowed coalition dharma to become an alibi or excuse for compromising with integrity or good governance," he said.
In his blog posting, Advani has also commented on the principal opposition's campaign against corruption and Indian black money stashed in tax havens abroad.
Striking an idealist note, Advani stated that candidates contesting elections should also declare whether they have any wealth abroad.
"Today the election law requires every candidate for election to file his assets and liabilities. To deal with this issue of recovering Indian wealth overseas for India, let the law also obligate every candidate to declare on oath that he has no undeclared wealth overseas. The law may also empower Government to confiscate any such wealth traced by Government," Advani said.
He suggested that the same approach may be adopted in respect of all ministers, MPs and party officials, and a specific category of the country's affluent class.
Advani argued that Congress rule during the first 30 years after independence had led to corruption which led Jai Prakash Narain to launch the campaign against the menace and unite the opposition parties.
"The seeds were laid for the evolution of the bipolar polity which it has today become. It would thus be clear that the catalyst for the first major turning point in our political history was corruption," Advani said.
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