In a land of scams, Yeddy is in the middle of a fresh one
The Karnataka Chief Minister has granted reserve forest land to a trust run by a BJP MP
Imran Khan
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This time, the Yeddyurappa government has granted 10.5 acres of reserve forest land near Sullia Mangalore to Udupi MP Sadanand Gowda’s trust violating forest laws.
The reserve forest land, which was earlier denied to a state power corporation, a community graveyard, and to the local panchayat, was immediately granted by the state forest department on the insistence of Yeddyurappa to Sadanand Gowda’s KS Gowda Education trust.
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Hooda misleading Jats over reservation, alleges CPI (M)
“Garnering political mileage by arousing caste feelings of peasantry”
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Friday alleged that Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and some other political leaders were “misleading the Jat reservationists as procedural norms laid down for reservations were being deliberately concealed to garner narrow political mileage by arousing caste feelings of the peasantry”.
“Double-talk”
Talking to media persons in Rohtak, CPI (M) Haryana unit Secretary Inderjit Singh said the Congress was “indulging in double-talk”.........
"We hope to break pattern in Kerala and maintain it in West Bengal"
The Communist Party of India(Marxist) on Friday said the Kerala and West Bengal Assembly elections were significant as the Left was the strongest in these States.
“We hope to break the pattern in Kerala and maintain it in West Bengal,” CPI (M) general secretary Prakash Karat said at an interaction at the Press Club of India here.
Referring to Kerala, he said empirical evidence suggested that there had been a change of government every five years and the party was concentrating on breaking this pattern. Asked about West Bengal, where the Left Front had won successive elections since 1977, he said: “We hope to maintain it.”
Hindu nationalism is opportunistic, said Jaitley
Is Hindu nationalism the raison d'être of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), or just another vote-catching device? In a private conversation with American diplomats in May 2005, senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley articulated the view that Hindu nationalism was an opportunistic issue for the party.
Mr. Jaitley, who is now the Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, met with Robert Blake, the Charge at the U.S. Embassy, on May 6, 2005, and provided him and the Political Counsel an insightful exposition on the politics of Hindutva. “Pressed on the question of Hindutva, Jaitley argued that Hindu nationalism ‘will always be a talking point' for the BJP. However, he characterized this as an opportunistic issue,” the Charge wrote in a cable dated May 10, 2005 (32279: confidential)............
(This article is a part of the series "The India Cables" based on the US diplomatic cables accessed by The Hindu via Wikileaks.)
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