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एमपी इलेक्शन: सर्वे की कोख से निकली लिस्ट

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  Kamal Nath is going out of way to prove he is not anti-Hindu MP Assembly Election Update: 14 October 2023 NK SINGH कमलनाथ के प्लान के मुताबिक काँग्रेस की लिस्ट इस दफा सर्वे-नाथ ने बनाई है। प्रदेश के नेताओं में आम तौर पर सहमति थी कि लिस्ट इस बार सर्वे के आधार पर बनेगी। पर क्या यह महज संयोग है कि यह लिस्ट राहुल गांधी के गेम-प्लान के मुताबिक भी है? वे अपनी पार्टी के क्षत्रपों के कार्टेल को ध्वस्त करना चाहते हैं, जो 10-15 एमएलए के बूते पर प्रदेश की पॉलिटिक्स चलाते हैं। सर्वे की कोख से निकली लिस्ट कमोबेश जीत की संभावना के आधार पर बनी है। एनपी प्रजापति जैसे अपवादों को छोड़कर कोई सप्राइज़ नहीं। बीजेपी की लिस्ट देखते हुए, काँग्रेस इस बार फूँक-फूक कर कदम रख रही थी। भाजपा उम्मीदवारों की पांचों लिस्ट 2018 के मुकाबले काफी बेहतर थी। नाम दिल्ली ने तय किए, प्रदेश के किसी भी नेता के प्रभाव से परे। चयन का आधार गुटबाजी नहीं, जीत की संभावना रही। इसलिए, दोनों तरफ के उम्मीदवारों का लाइन-अप देखकर लगता है, मुकाबला कांटे है। टिकट न मिलने से निराश नेताओं की बगावत का दौर शुरू हो गया है। यह हर चुनाव में होता है।
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Subramaniam Swamy sacked by Delhi IIT

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  Subramaniam Swamy NK SINGH The eight-month-old abrupt politicisation of the trade union activities in Delhi's prestigious Indian Institute of Technology culminated in the dismissal of Prof. Subramaniam Swamy, the leader of the workers' movement and the brain behind the rampant unrest on the campus. Later two non-teaching employees were also suspended for allegedly indulging in acts of assault and violence. According to reliable sources, the Institute authorities are seriously considering action against two other lecturers of the Humanities and Social Sciences department for their 'unacademic' role. The vital decision was taken given the eight-month-old turmoil in Delhi IIT, which is one of a family of five catering to the special technological needs of the country. The atmosphere of the Institute, which is supposed to be among the best in Asia, has been vitiated by demonstrations, slogan-shouting, gheraos, strikes, stray cases of assault and intimidation of individual
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Press: CIA ... From America with love

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  NK SINGH For the Indian media, the last month was a CIA month. Provoked by tirade fired against the mighty American espionage agency by all manner and shades of politicians in this country--ranging from Golwalkar to A K Gopalan and from the Prime Minister to the local netas --  almost all the Indian  newspapers and periodicals had something to say on the issue.  The voices were discordant and the attitudes adopted were different. But all agreed on one common point rather no one had the guts to disagree -- i.e., the CIA was active in India. Among the not-so-secret admirers of the CIA, Jammat-e Islami's Radiance , which described the entire episode as "wild charges" and "prime facie absurdity", was the most outspoken on the issue.  Indirectly,  it explained the reason for it's not overtly forthcoming "in defence of the CIA or the Government of the United States"; "the very action of challenging the allegation of Congress leaders will be regard
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Teja scandal : Underworld of crime and politics in Nehruvian India

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  Jayanti Dharma Teja NK SINGH On October 19, the former shipping magnate, Jayanti Dharma Teja, was sentenced to three years of rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs. 14,30,000 on eight separate charges of criminal breach of trust, forgery and falsification of accounts by Mr M.L. Jain, Additional Sessions Judge, Delhi. The conviction of Teja brings to an end the six-year-old battle waged by the Government of India to bring the former Chairman of the Jayanti Shipping Company to book.  The Central Bureau of Investigation had registered the case against him in 1966 on a complaint lodged by a former secretary of the Shipping Corporation of India. At the time, the accused was abroad.  Based on the investigations by the CBI in India, the UK, the US, Norway, Japan and the Bahamas, Teja was charged with having misappropriated and converted to his own use $10,42,000 belonging to the Jayanti Shipping. Teja and his wife, Ranjit Kaur, were arrested in the USA in May 1967 but they jumped bail duri
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Revolutionaries All

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  Tapan Sinha's Sagina Mahato (1970) was a brilliant spoof on working class movement. It convincingly proved how revolution devours its own children. NK SINGH   Delhi, to be precise New Delhi, is a city of rackets. And revolution is one of them. It is damned easy to establish yourself as a revolutionary--green, yellow, red white, whatever shade you prefer in this city of scandals, which is truly said to have no culture of its own. Naturally, the Delhi revolutionary never talks about a revolution in his area, rather he looks either towards the hills of Srikakulam, the forests of Naxalbari, the fields of Mushahari and the town of Calcutta or towards EMS's Kerala and Jyoti Babu's West Bengal and nobody's Tamilnadu for bringing about a change in the socio-economic structure of society. In Delhi revolution revolves around the Mini Cafe, the not-so-secret meeting place of local Naxal chaps, the Jawaharlal Nehru University, the fabulous, majestic Ajoy Bhavan on Kotla Road and
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