Is Anna Hazare blackmailing the government?

That is a nice one sir.

How can anyone with even an iota of subject familiarity and living national sensibilities call it blackmail.

If insisting for one's right is blackmail than it is much better method than forever carrying a beggar's bowl or remaining a court-jester in wait for chance to grab. Typically in this case it so appears "Since we have not learnt to stand on on our own legs we would not allow others do it".  

Have a simple question to critics of ANNA: What would have been better without his insistence for LOKPAL draft or if they had a better way to attain objective?

We certainly need many more who understand value of ethics and place of dignity in human life. Anna certainly is demanding what every concerned citizen must stand up and demand for is "value for his share of resources."                                       How can someone keep deciding unilaterally what is good for you or me or use our money or other resources as if it is his personal domain to squander.

Being answerable for one's action is crucial even when someone is involved in social work without earning any salary or profit.   And here we have people hired or nominated who are paid salaries from nations money and certainly no prizes guessing how they behave and where do they spend. 

Is it about blackmail, hotmail, open mail or email??

These days Anna, corruption, 2G, is all over toostep.

Corruption is all about creating scarcity “keep it among few”

You have to pay a premium, “bribe” may be cash kind physical sex whatever.

If we want to get rid of corruption, create abundance!!

What’s that?

Make it available (abundance). How?

Use technology; as “technology knows no master”, that’s bad!! Yes if we set a policy on a server (windows 2008 R2) as an example, it will get executed n times without any corruption (bribe favour scam’s etc.)

The sad side is our politicians don’t want this (transparency) the bureaucrats and the sarkari naukar from group “d” to up above do not want automation.

An example you book a train ticket online we have to pay Rs 20 $0.4 USD as online charges is this not absurd, yes.

Draw money from your Debit card (Nationalized Bank ex. Union Bank) at Baroda bank ATM you pay Rs. 20 $0.4 USD charges per transaction. Is this not absurd?

The way out is stand in a Queue for hour, We simply do not want to take care of ourselves. Go to Citi bank we can withdraw money and deposit money in the ATM machine itself.

I told this to a State Bank Branch Manager in Kolkata (Komunist) she questioned How many customers does Citi bank have? I have 26,000 FD in my branch!! this is the reply I got.

This is Pagar (take salary go home) lo ghar jao type of mindset, is it not?

Rathin da Anna's Gandhigiri is good, lok pal etc fine, I am trying to bring respected Anna to present time, where technology makes implementation easy cost effective that can reach the masses. I am enriching Anna in his endeavour to eradicate corruption.

A question out of this question arises "was Gandhiji trying to blackmail the British Government? If Gandhiji tried to blackmail the then British Government to attain independence for India, Anna may also be treated to be trying to blackmail the present Government to eradicate corruption out of the system.

MEMBERS MAY LIKE TO SEE TWO OF MY BEFITTING REPLIES TO THE STORY "The other side of the company that Anna Hazare keeps," AS RESENTED BY ONE OF THE MEDIA PERSON AT THE FOLLOWING LINK:

"http://toostep.com/insight/the-other-side-of-the-company-that-anna-hazare-keeps

EXTRACT OF ONE OF THE REPLIES IS ALSO PLACED HERE FOR MEMBERS REFERENCE:

"Even Mr. Rajeev Sharma's clarification puts his own position in MORE doubt when he says that he is "just a conveyor belt." His clarification, itself proves that he is acting just like a puppet in the hands of some one else, not as a strategic analyst.

The question arises, when he claims to be a strategic analyst, what analysis he made before putting the story before the audience? He has not done even a slight analysis while placing the other's long story. He himself agreed that he merely acted just like a dumb, deaf and lifeless conveyor belt that is moved by the power of other source.

He has stated that he has tried to show the mirror, but in fact here he has tried to show the opposite (opaque) side of the mirror. He is putting some one else's story before the members with the heading showing Anna hazare keeping the company of those fellows, but the story actually does not even slightly points out towards any effort on the part of Anna Hazare in trying to keep the company of those fellows, the story tells about.

REALLY SAD ON THE PART OF MR. SHARMA, IF HE PUTS SUCH NASTY STORIES BEFORE US, WITHOUT APPLYING EVEN SLIGHTLY HIS MIND, WHEN HE CLAIMS TO BE A STRATEGIC ANALYST !"

NO

REMOVE FAKE GANDHIS

There are at least 10 Crore people in India, who are more capable, educated, experienced & Patriotic than these Fake Gandhis

Starting from Indira to Sanjay to Rajiv to Sonia to Priyanka to Rahul nobody falls in the Category of Educated & Intellectual Class, they are either below Graduate or somehow Graduate......

Like Nehru was Imposed on us in place of Sardar Ballabhbhai Patel, Indira was also imposed on us by the Puppets in Congress

Rajiv came through back door (Sympathy Wave) - He was the foollest & the most Corrupt of all Fake Gandhis

Sonia (Antonio Maino) is a total Fraud, but presently the Rajmata..........

Priyanka & Rahuls are two Kids, promoted by Doggy Raja & others........

In my opinion Amish, Sumanta Sahu, Nagesh Rao, Gurleen Kaur, Mohan Murari, S. Muralidharan, Raju V P, Vrushank Dave & Ajay Khaitan (Me Included) etc ....... are much more qualified & knowledgeable than these Fake Gandhis.............

Keep writing....... Keep fighting......... against these Corrupt,  Cruel, heartless & Coward Congress... till they are removed from India..

They are so cruel, they have no shame in attacking 1 Lac peaceful People while sleeping..... they are more Cruel than Ravan, Kansh, Hiranyakashyap, Hiranakshya & other Daityas & Rakshas

We can change India with or without Baba Ramdev & Anna Hazare

There are only few problems

1. We are not united / Unanimous

2. We are not taking the Lead

3. We are egoistic & always fighting

4. Not really interested in Solutions

5. Always blaming others

6. Hatred of any kind

Solutions

1. Honesty

2. Love / Respect

3. Truthfulness

4. Faith / Trust

5. Determination

India at the Top - No Taxes, No Corruption

India at the Top - No Taxes, No Corruption

burocratic not working properly that why it's needed to crate a pressure on bill. Burocratic behaving like owner of country. Why Gov not take any action aganist corruption earlier. Why people need to do such type of strikes.

OKAY ACCEPTED, HE IS BLACKMAILING....

BUT WE SHOULD NOT FORGET THAT HE IS ENDEAVORING TO UPROOT RAMPANT CORRUPTION IN INDIA.  

WE SHOULD BE THANKFUL TO HIM.

 

ITS A GOOD MOVE....

THANKS FOR REFERRAL SHALINI......

thank you Prakash for your comments. 

Please refer the following link for answer to the questions of btpassing parliament, un-democratic etc etc raised on Sh. Anna's movement.

http://toostep.com/insight/answer-to-question-of-non-democratic-black-mailing-by-passin

Greed is a human attribute, I am not aware which gene is responsible, a few greedy minds get together to grab the larger chunk of resource, leading to scarcity. Others trying to get a share “bribe”. There is nothing American, British, German, African about this, I guess this is clear English.

The 2G Scam is a glaring example. Raja Radiya, Anil etc got together to loot Rs 170000, crores INR from public money (resource) or Like 40 Billion USD. More then this year’s Railway budget.

Now to do something that the world will appreciate, we need to know what exists and how good is it, only then can we create something better, what do you say professor?

I did not criticise anyone I narrated what I have undergone, I shared some difficulty faced with the banking system which is the backborn of accounted (on paper) economics (finance) of a country. Professor you were trying to find out what is pinching me!! How badly I am hit, is it below the belt?

What’s the good of producing billion crooked nails? Learn the process technique to produce a 100 or 1000 straight one’s. Why and where do you smell Americanism in this?

In 2003 quad core was for server today its available in laptop. If SBI and ICICI can’t handle transaction why are they using computers? Banks and Telecom Use Mainframe and Midrange (Unix) for backborn computing; it’s the front end that has Intel     Microsoft.

Professor Krishnamurthy Its good to see that you read between lines.

Implementing what respected Anna is fighting for is a bigger challenge, this is where technology comes in, no Jugaar works. 

It is a pity in our democracy that always making criticism on anybody doing any good thing for a common cause. Neither we will initiate nor we will appreciate those who are taking at least some initiative towards the public interest.

Anybody doing a good thing they should not be criticized or the people who are criticizing should involve in a better way than the former. At least Mr.Anna Hazare has taken the initiative and why people are insulating some other meaning.

Either you do or allow others to do. Our Indian mentality is like that. WHO WILL BELL THE CAT?

Because of his initiative the govt has yield.

Please note that if anybody has done the same thing other than  good personalities like Mr.Anna Hazare, the entire efforts will be defeated or crushed, kindly mind that. This type of mental block has been a great punctuation for our growth.

Thanks for the referral Ms.Shalini.

If few people grab most of the resource it becomes scares to others so corruption is to create scarcity, greed as you said; is a human attribute that is used. I don’t know which gene is responsible, it’s human nature,

By your definition of profit India should ban MNC, in fact we have walked a long path on liberalization, In west technology is being used to tackle the profit making, and not squeezing people all MNC do the same they pay much higher salary then any Indian cos.

Prof. Krishnofurthy, this is the challenge we may have the Lok pal bill passed, we have reservation how many are benefitted?

I provided Citi Bank as an example of efficiency, we are lagging behind acknowledge this. If an MNC can do it why can’t we do it, Citi too operates under RBI guidelines and deals with INR.

Professor you seem to be interested to know how and where I was hit, this is highly Indian, Indians enjoy when other fellow is hit, In US its just the opposite.

As I deal with technology and people I plug the problem, its become the way of life, Respected Anna is trying to plug the problem at policy level,  my focus is implementation, Professor.

What the pointing your professing Krishnofurthy if students don’t pass!!

Thank you for your time Professor.

I want to support your statement / views, Srinivas, as it is easy to understand.

Dear Krishnamurthy,

Thanks for your compliments.

In fact media has totally lost its credibility and has touched to its lowest ebb by now. It seems as if media is acting merely like as agents of some politicians and has every time tried to mislead the people, while it has to prove as the true reporters of the truth begfore the people by presenting proper analysis of the situation. Earlier also, in another reporting by the same fellow, I questioned him about his being a strategic analyst. Still in another posting by one Sr. Princincipal Correspondent I had to challenge her wisdom by questioned the sense of her posting, when she tried to make a spicy story out of the earthquake of Japan under the caption "If India were Japan.." at the following link:

http://toostep.com/debate/if-india-were-japan

I really wonder, if they are really the journalists and true to their profession.

Dear Praveen,

Thanks for your compliments. I have tried to put the clear picture about the media before our member brethren. Media is doing nothing except putting wrong spicy stories to mislead the common readers.

Dear Joyadeep, Thanks for your posting.Let me provide some theoretical insights. The valorisation or valorization of capital is a theoretical concept created by Karl Marx in his critique of political economy. The German original term is "Verwertung" (specifically Kapitalverwertung) but this is difficult to translate, and often wrongly rendered as "realisation of capital", "creation of surplus-value" or "self-expansion of capital" or "increase in value". A worker is supposed to crate more value than what his labor is worth, so that a capitalist enjoys or robs the workers labor. Not only that every capitalist tries to create labor surplus; he or she tries to create a situation where labor can be hired cheaply. So that he can make profit at the cost of workers. There is lot of criticism against the Government of West Bengal. Do you see the kind of poverty ( please see the Oxford Multidimensional Poverty Index). 79.93% of Indians live below two dollars per day as it is there in other states such as Odissa or so called more progressive states? No.It is not the scarcity that makes the corruption;it is greed of globalization that makes us corrupt.

We did not reach the 1.2 billion mark overnight, yes? did we? Moreover having manual ticket booking centres are astronomically costly then the online infrastructure. To access a online facility one need's a comp and an internet connection with genuine OS and proper security i.e AV etc.

The Union Bank ATM was not functioning so I asked the Bank employee (lady) what to do She said take it from Baroda across the street, this was my first transaction of less then Rs 5000 INR $ 100 USD. I had to shell out Rs 20 INR.

I came back to the branch and reported the same, to the lady employee also later to the Branch Manager.

My Citi Bank account was a salary account hence Zero Balance.

Citi Bank operates 24X7 even tele banking, Citi Bank doesn’t sleep I transferred cash via tele banking at 3:00 AM, I paid my credit card telephone bills online, shopping with My Debit card I deposited cash check on Sunday’s, way back in 2003.

My experience with Citi Bank till date is honey moon like, I am single though. I mean when it comes to ease of banking.

Though at the end you write the government babus refuse office automation, which is what I am highlighting creating the Eden of corruption. Yet I See you hit the thumb down.

Thank you Raju for your Time. 

Dear Swapan, You are right. Some of the politicians wanted to take the initiative in their hands. They lost. They are propagating these ideas. If you observe both the arguments all support Anna. Let us wish him all the best.

Joydeep I agree on your point of view but what poor Anna has to do with it?

Blackmail?? Absurd!! To demand public good a black mail?? What is his motive and gain? blackmailing presupposes the existence of a motive. what are his credentials? Those who are using the word "blackmail" are certainly insensitive to the purpose that is being sought to be achieved. Expression is demeaning the people's support on the issue. Let us be very sure that Indian society is yet to come up for a successful democracy in true sense.

In my view, constitution need a overhaul to take care of experienced lacunae, which political class (and babus) is exploiting to have a striving business of making money. This certainly does not address the aspiration of people in this century. Else there is a risk of anarchy, as we saw in middel east and north Africa. Lt us not ignore the source of this unrest, which is corruption, corruption and corruption and resultant disparity of the masses versus the rulers.

Had Indian form of democracy was so effective, there would not have been "the other India".

Putting forward an agenda & demanding it from Govt. through Non-violence is not a blackmailing. If we construe this as Black-mailing, then ,there are so many Trade Union Leaders gives ultimatum to govt to resolve it by time frame, what do we call it? . Is it a Black-mail?