Anna Hazare Supports Trinamool. Good Move or Bad?

Anna Hazare has long been going bizarre for a long time now. First, his going pro for an imperfect Lokpal bill. Second, his thanking Rahul Gandhi and other UPA ministers for it. Third, not readily available to meet public in Ralegan and now, his supporting Mamata Bannerjee and her party Trinamool Congress. What needs to be articulated is whether it is a good move or a bad one.

We all know that Mamata Bannerjee is a very clean minister with no corruption charges and has a track record of leading a very simple life with no luxuries. She doesn't use a government vehicle, bungalow or any other services. She doesn't even take most part of her salary. But the question still plunges out to the same thing. Apparently, Anna wrote a letter involving 17 points/demands to various political leaders and only Mamata Bannerjee replied to him promising all the changes if she comes to power. Now, Anna is convinced that she can make the best PM as she had taken the time to reply him. This absolutely doesn't make any sense. Isn't this the rhetoric of every other politician based on; to make promises. Despite Mamata being clean and anti-corruption, we all know how pathetic is the development in Kolkata and other parts of West Bengal. Kolkata, the city which once used to beam into advancement is now embodied with stalled growth and very little investment in manufacturing sector. Look at the poverty in West Bengal, the small HDI(Human Development Index) and increasing unemploment. Is this a symbol of Incredible India? I don't think so.

So, the rest again follows with how blind are Anna's followers and how much knowledge they have about politics cuz, your one vote matters a lot! Trust me.

Is there a NaMo wave in the country?

Seriously? Is that even a question! Any person living in India or abroad with even the slightest knowledge on Indian Politics would be in a position to state emphatically that there is indeed a Modi Wave in the country. Though somewhat shielded by the AAP wave recently, no one doubts on the capabilities of Modi.

AAP and Arvind Kejriwal have got into the limelight recently with their electoral win and by forming a minority government in Delhi. It is a good start for a new party as Delhi runs on surplus budget. There is less expenditure than income. A new leader can be risked for a better government formation. I don't want to talk about how well Arvind Kejriwal is doing in Delhi but would definitely state that the State finances are working his way.  DJB has enough balance to provide water to the entire Delhi for the next three months for free.The policies are strong and the man is honest with good intentions.

Coming to NaMo, we certainly would give him enough credit for the developments he has brought about in Gujarat. India's economy is coming to a standstill at a low growth rate and we are willing to get away with it under any circumstances. Stakes are high but people are ready for NaMo to take the top job in the country and right the ship. BJP might be corrupt but Gujarat has shown developments. Modi has been recently given a clean chit over the allegations that he did not do enough to stop the riots in 2002. As put in the words of Maulana Madani in an interview, a section of Muslims have voted for Modi in Gujarat and they are far better off than the muslims in the, so called, "SECULAR" parties-run states. Modi has brought about great developments in Gujarat. The Sabarmati riverfront is an eye catching and easily understandable change. This is how it looks now.

And this is how it used to be.

It is undeniably the best transformation one could witness. Moreover, the electricity is available 24*7 in the cities as well as in some of the villages. This is one of the landmark features backing Modi for GE14. The amount of investments from foreign countries in Gujarat, the tie-ups with European Union and other heftily pocketed groups who ready to invest in India are inspiring.

Although the intentions of Kejriwal might be better than Modi but he cannot be risked for the Prime Minister's job as he has not shown any such growth yet. Its not his fault but he is a new CM and very less experienced than Modi and hasn't shown any ace-move yet. In fact, a leader of AAP, Shazia Ilmi had herself said that the party supporters are divided on the view of their support towards Modi. If there is Junta Darbar(flop and discontinued now) from AAP in Delhi, there is a much better and successful grievance redressal system in Gujarat by Modi named SWAGAT which won United Nations Public Service Award in 2010. There are many fields where Modi leads but it would be wrong if we say Arvind Kejriwal doesn't stand a chance.

Effectively, one can easily say that 2014 will witness the most interesting and debated election in the history of India. 

Anna Hazare Compromised? Maybe!

The anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare has always been an ideal for many people in India and around the globe. His work in Ralegan Sidhdhi had earned him laurels and he got into headlines again after two decades. The movement India Against Corruption gathered massive support from the people of India and was capable of pressurizing the government to pass the Jan-Lokpal bill. However, the movement was disrupted and the corruption repellent party "Aam Aadmi Party" set out with the ideals of Anna Hazaare to achieve the same goal of Corruption-free India.

In the recent development of events, it has been found that Anna Hazaare, who never accepted any changes over the proposed Jan-Lokpal bill, has suddenly got ready to do away with the government proposed Lokpal Bill which is imperfect. However, Arvind Kejriwal and his party are not ready to accept any changes or fabrication over the proposed Jan-Lokpal bill. This shows that AAP is still demystified about their goal. Moreover, Anna Hazaare must agree that had it not been for AAP, Congress and BJP would not have been this ready to accept a Lokpal Bill in the first place. It was AAP which showed the people of Delhi and India that a party can win support and the elections if they run clean. Congress is now bound to portray an anti-corruption image to the people in order to see even a slightest chance to return to power in future.

Please go through this article Letter to Anna Hazaare from The Hindu. Thank You.

Indian Defence Power and Missile Systems

This is a copy of one of the posts from my another blog http://harshankur.blogpost.com.

Some mind-blowing facts about Indian army :-

• Indian Army is the 3rd biggest military contingent in the World next to USA and China.
• India's indigenous nuclear-capable ICBM(Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile) AGNI-V puts India into the Elite Club consisting of USA, China, France and Russia.
• The famous missile series AGNI's first missile AGNI I failed in its first two tests and was made fun off by other countries like USA, UK, Pakistan, etc.
• It was successful in the third try but USA claimed that the project head A.P.J. Abdul Kalam( who happened to have visited Long Island, USA for some other work) had learnt the technology from their missiles. Now AGNI is one of the best missile systems in the world.
• Agni and Prithvi both are Nuclear capable basaltic  and are most accurate in the world in their respective categories. Prithvi will always hit within 50m of target coordinates thus making it devastating with even smaller payloads(explosives)
• India claims AGNI-V to have a reach of 5,000 kms to which Chinese and Australian delegates and experts suspect to have a range of 8,000 kms. and that India is hiding these facts just to avoid any concern from foreign countries.
• AGNI-VI(being built) will have a range of 10000 kms. which would give India the power to strike in any part of the world barring South America and very small parts of North America.
• India is also alleged to be secretly devloping Surya class missiles based on ISRO's PSLV model. Surya I and Surya II will have ranges around 10,000 and 20,000 Kms.
• India's cruise missile (being tested) NIRBHAY is a cruise nuclear-warhead missile which when blasted, moves in stealth mode and when the target is in nearby range, attacks it with a random procedure thus eliminating the probability of it getting stopped by any anti-missile system as its process is itself not defined. In other words-unstoppable.
• In the hilly terrains, it gives an advantage as the missile goes from the side of the mountains and attacks the target from the rear side.
• The missile BrahMos-2 (built in collaboration with Russia)(under development)(Brahmaputra+Moscow) is the fastest hypersonic missile in the world travelling at a speed of Mach-7 (7 times the speed of sound in air).
• BrahMos I is already devloped with 13 variants (ex air to ground, ground to ground, ground to sea, sea to sea etc) It is already in service of the Army, Navy and Air force. It is one of its kind because generally cruise misiles are Sea to Sea or Sea to Land.
  
  
  
  
  Coming to Navy-based missile systems
• India's INS-Vikrant(bought from UK) was the first aircraft carrier of India.
• The HMS Harriers(airplanes on INS VIRAAT) are one of its kind which has the ability of vertical landing and take-off.
  
  Shown below is INS VIRAAT
  
  
  
• India's statistics for aircraft carriers is like this
  Active:
  • INS Viraat: Centaur class carrier (ex-HMS Hermes) in service since 1987.
  • INS Vikramaditya : Modified Kiev class carrier (ex-Admiral Gorshkov) due in service October 2013.
  Under construction:
  • INS Vikrant: 40,000 ton Vikrant class carrier. It is being built at Cochin Shipyard and is expected to enter service in 2017.
  Planned
  • INS Vishal: 65,000 ton Vikrant-class carrier. Expected to enter service in 2022.
  Retired:
  • INS Vikrant : Majestic-class carrier, (ex-HMS Hercules), in service from 1961 to 1997 and currently a museum ship docked at Mumbai.
• The image below shows the countries which currently operates aircraft carriers in blue and the historic operators in light blue.
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  India's INS-ARIHANT is the first indeginious(built completely in India, by India) nuclear powered submarine in India. It has a capability to shoot missiles with nuclear war-heads even after being at half-a-kilometer beneath the water-level.
  
  
  Coming to the Air Based Power
• The Sukhoi Su-30MKI, Dassault Mirage 2000,  and MiG-29 serve in the Indian Air Force and are also seen as a means to deliver nuclear weapons.
  
  Shown below is Sukhoi Su-30MKI
  
• In addition India maintains SEPECAT Jaguar and MiG-27M which can be used to drop gravity bombs.
• Shown below is the mid-air refueling of two Mirage 2000 aircrafts.
  
  
  
• The new in queue for the indigenous aircraft  of India is HAL-Tejas
• It integrates technologies such as relaxed static stability, fly-by-wire flight control system, multi-mode radar, integrated digital avionics system, composite material structures, and a flat ratedengine.
• It is a tailless, compound delta-wing design powered by a single engine.
  
  
  Shown below is HAL Tejas
  
  
  
  The entire list of the known missile types possessed by Indian Armed Forces can be found here
• India is also developing a fiftth generation stealth air superiority plane, that is it will not be seen on radar giving it an absolute advantage BVR(Beyond Visual Range) fights and bombing deep in to enemy territory.
• Below is an image of the plane... currently under trails
  
  
  List of missiles by country
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  Will update more information later.

USA is Not the Greatest Country Anymore

I bet a majority of the people in the world would agree with me when I say America is not the greatest country in the world. There once used to be a phase when America used to take the stance as a global leader and contributed a lot to Science and Medicine. Well, the leader part has faded away and the other parts are getting shared with other countries of the world. To put this in American's tongue, I would produce this video clip from the TV series The Newsroom. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h__uutzcQXc

Driving a recent incident into the consideration, I would highlight the Devyani Khobragade's incident. The way a Deputy Consular General was treated in New York was very shameful. Strip-Searching a woman is not good, let alone be it for visa fraud. What were the cops trying to find on her body? They need to comply with certain level of respect towards diplomats from a Friendly Nation. Do Americans even understand the term "Friendly Nation"! I don't think so. American diplomats have been provided special privilege in India in terms of airport passes, tax-free liquor import, etc. till very recently but now have got them stripped off. This position should have been taken much earlier and India should have shown that it is not any inferior country anymore. It has its strengths and its weaknesses and is rising but no country has any right to undermine its respect. Soon after this conflict, even smaller African countries like Dogo have started accepting India's terms of releasing the Indian sailor from its prison which it kept on denying from the past 6 months. India should now start establishing its terms on the world. 

America calls itself to be a very peace-loving country but it is always the first one to initiate any dispute ranging from the nuclear missiles to Syria case. Why was Obama given a Nobel Peace prize on the first hand?? It was America who placed its military forces in the region.

Well, I have another video from America's leading news channel Fox News which talks about the very things of Syria case and how Obama is a big loser and is doing all this but doesn't realize that it was all to benefit Al Qaeda. Must Watch. Till end. 

Jan Lokpal - The Public Ombudsman

It has been quite a week for many in the country. The anti-graft bill or the Lokpal Bill was finally passed in both the houses of the Parliament. Although the bill is not the "originally proposed" Jan-Lokpal Bill but nonetheless, it is an achievement for the people involved in the social movement for getting the bill into play. 

This particular bill has been the root cause for many important events that has taken place in the past two years. The movement India Against Corruption was started two years ago by Anna Hazare with the main motive to pressurise the government into getting the bill into force. It has seen the highest amount of social involvement of the public of India for the first time in support of a bill and was largely against the government.
This finally led to the movement getting ruptured and divided by Arvind Kejriwal, then an aid of Anna Hazare, who had the guts and zeal to get the thing done in a different way. It was he who gave Aam Aadmi Party its name, the curriculum and its first victory. Arvind and Anna had the same vision but on different paths. 

Then came the latest fast by Anna Hazare for the Lokpal Bill. This has been seen as not that difficult for Anna Hazare and his fellow companions as this time it witnessed the things going very easily for them. It was an easy fast and did not involve any disputes. It started very smooth and got over in the same pace. The difference this time was the presence of an already convinced government. After having faced a shameful loss in the recent State Elections, it was time for the Congress Party to get its feet on the ground and start showing some energy. The party that had opposed the bill for the greater part of its fight had suddenly become its biggest supporter. This was definitely done to portray the people of India that they were against corruption and that they should be made victorious once again. 

The fate of the bill is a modified bill and this can take effect by the mid-2014 as a law. Anna Hazare claims that the law might reduce the corruption by 40%. Lets pray for the best of this country.

Error 404 : Delhi CM not found

The recent election concluded in a hung assembly with BJP at the peak of votes and AAP finishing a close second. Delhi beckons its most-deserved CM candidate Arvind Kejriwal but finds its efforts heading towards "hope". Fighting elections is one thing and running a government is another. They have vast gaps in between. AAP proved its might in one but has not yet stepped into the other. Now, it would take a sorcerer's eye to figure out the actual motive of AAP but the way they have reacted yesterday by proposing 18 conditions depicts escapism. I personally don't want it to be true but their actions speak otherwise. It wouldn't take a genius to realise that if Congress strikes back later by removing their support, it is surely going to harm their own image and is hence, very unlikely to happen.

I have been a big follower of AAP and still believe that AAP is the most deserving and anti-corruption Party but the conditions Arvind Kejriwal has put forth on the opposition depicts his newly-developed over-ambitious nature. Moreover, some of the conditions are the ones which can easily be settled by themselves once they come to power as they would have the will and the supremacy to affirm their words.

Some of my friends and the other "blind followers" of AAP is viewing it as a stunt by Congress to put AAP on the government so that they can point at AAP when they fail to achieve what they promised. The catch here is the fear to fail. If AAP can fail here, why vote for it? It has made several promises to the Delhiites and this is the time to stand with it.
Some people even crossed their boundaries of practical thinking and are even down on saying that Congress wants Arvind Kejriwal to get stuck in Delhi as CM so that he stays away from being the PM candidate. I have two explanations for this shit.
1. A CM can contest for PM and can be replaced by a member of his party whoever is deemed worthy by the supremos.
2. It is very unlikely that AAP can ever win in the General Elections 2014(Lok Sabha Elections). The current economic state of India is poor and the growing percentage is also in turbulence. Rupee is falling, share prices going down and what not. It would be very difficult and illogical for the citizens by risking a man whom we expect can help our economy boom when we already have a man(Modi) who has proved his efficiency in promoting a great economy.

It is true that India is struck by Modi-Wave and I, like many other people, want AAP to be in Delhi but want BJP to rule the Centre.
http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-12-02/news/44657528_1_aap-kejriwal-narendra-modi