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Chautala, son get 10-year jail, supporters go on rampage

In one of the harshest punishments handed down to a politician for corruption yet, a special court in New Delhi sentenced former Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala and son Ajay Chautala to 10 years jail each in a teachers’ recruitment scam.

As soon as the sentence was pronounced, activists of Chautalas’ Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) went on a rampage outside the court complex in Rohini area of north Delhi, hurling stones and crude bombs at police and in the court area. Police lobbed tear gas shells and baton-charged the crowds to disperse them.

Special CBI Judge Vinod Kumar, who last week convicted the 55 of the 62 people accused in the scam, sentenced the Chautalas and seven others to 10 years in jail each while one convict was given five years, and 45 others four years in jail.

“Considering the enormity of the offences and the manner in which politicianbureaucrat nexus has resulted in depriving such a large number of candidates of their constitutional rights, I do not find any reason for leniency in sentencing those convicts who were masterminding the entire conspiracy or assisting them in execution of the same,” the court said.

Of the 62 people accused in the junior basic trained (JBT) teachers’ hiring scam, six died during the trial and one was discharged during framing of charges.

Besides the Chautalas, Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Sanjeev Kumar, the then director of primary education, Chautala’s former officer on special duty Vidya Dhar, also a former IAS officer, and political adviser Sher Singh Badshami, who is a sitting Haryana legislator, also were awarded 10 years in jail.

Four other education department officers also were given 10-year jail terms.

Chautala and his son Ajay, both sitting legislators in Haryana, were taken into custody Jan 16 after being convicted for the illegal recruitment of over 3,200 JBT teachers in the state.

The CBI formally charged the Chautalas and the others June 6, 2008, for their role in the scam that took place between 1999 and 2000 when Chautala was the chief minister.

The scam came to light when Sanjeev Kumar, who was pressurised by Chautala to change the list of selected candidates by fudging marks of certain favourites, approached the Supreme Court and submitted before it the list of the candidates originally selected for state employment.

The apex court directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to investigate the matter. The agency, in its charge sheet, said forged documents were used to appoint the teachers.

Sanjeev Kumar, who claimed to be a whistle-blower in the case, was also made an accused by the CBI. Chautala, the son of former deputy prime minister Devi Lal, is leader of opposition in the Haryana assembly. He was the chief minister from 1999 to 2005. His second son, Abhay Singh Chautala, is also a legislator.

The conviction and sentencing could impact politics in Haryana, where assembly elections are due next year, as the Chautalas could be disqualified from contesting if their conviction is not suspended by a higher court.The Representation of the People Act debars from contesting polls any person convicted of any offence and sentenced to more than two years’ imprisonment from the date of conviction and for a further period of six years after the term ends.

The sentencing led to violence from around 2,000 Chautala supporters, who had gathered outside the Rohini court complex in north Delhi from early morning and started shouting slogans.

Their presence forced police to ban the entry of media, lawyers and others into the complex and the court room. Over 1,000 policemen were guarding the court complex, apprehending trouble from Chautala supporters.

“Many Chautala supporters tried to enter the court premises. The crowd calmed down for a while, but started throwing stones and crude bombs as soon as the ruling was delivered,” a police official said. One of the protestors was injured in the police action.

After the rioting outside the court complex was controlled, the police took the convicted politicians and bureaucrats with them to Tihar Jail under tight security around 1 p.m.

Abhay Chautala said that they will appeal against the verdict in a higher court. “We will come out clean. This is a conspiracy by the Congress through the CBI,” he said.

Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda appealed for peace.

“All are equal for court, and we have faith in the judiciary. We will appeal to the people to maintain peace, Haryana is a peaceful state,” Hooda told reporters after the verdict.

Haryana Janhit Congress leader Kuldip Bishnoi welcomed the court verdict and sentencing.

“There is no future for INLD in Haryana now. This judgment will not only have an impact on Haryana but all over the country,” he said.

Testing times ahead for Rahul

A special Congress session in Jaipur formally launched Rahul Gandhi as the official number two after party chief Sonia Gandhi, making him the presumptive prime ministerial candidate of the party for the 2014 general elections, but the battle is half won and testing times lie ahead for the 42-year-old fifth generation leader of the Nehru-Gandhi family.

The Jaipur Declaration, that emerged from the three-day Jan 18-20 introspection-cumstrategy session Chintan Shivir appeared to have lost significance once Rahul was made the vice president, converting his de facto status into a de jure one.

But the road ahead is paved with umpteen obstacles and uneasy will lie the head that is likely to wear the crown of thorns, that Gandhi alluded to when he talked about the “poison” that came with such heavy political responsibility and the personal risks that come with it. And his mother, who he revealed came to his room and cried the night before, understood it better than anyone else.

Nine assembly polls - five big ones in Delhi, Rajasthan, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Chhatisgarh, where the Congress will have direct contest with the Bharatiya Janata Party, and four in the northeast - will test his leadership skills.

The return of the third edition of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance in 2014 will also depend on how the Amethi lawmaker is able to restructure and reenergise the party for the big political fight. He heads the party’s coordination panel for the 2014 polls.

Rahul Gandhi is also expected to restructure the organisation and give key roles to younger leaders so the party is able to reach out to the voters, 70 percent of whom are below the age of 35. Reaching out to the youths of the country, who are angry over corruption in the system and other social issues, crave for better systems of governance and want accountability from the politicians and the government, will be a major task for the new Congress vice president.

The Nehru-Gandhi family scion would also be expected to spell out his position on various national issues clearly as he now holds an official post in the Congress.

While any success in the elections will bring him credit, he would also have to accept the blame in case of a failure.

The move to make him vice president, which marks a generational shift in the 127-year-old party, is significant and has mentally prepared the senior leaders to accept Rahul as their leader.

Party insiders said the decision was getting postponed for a while due to reservations among some senior leaders on giving him the official number two position in the grand old party.

But the members of the Youth Congress and National Students Union of India and the younger leaders in the party - who comprised a third of the 350-odd delegates at the session - made strong demands for his elevation, keeping in mind that 70 percent of the voters in the country are under 35 years of age.

Over 50 senior leaders who shared the dais with Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the session, not only heard Rahul with rapt attention, but stood up as soon as he finished his speech and were seen competing with one another in congratulating him. Rahul had arrived.

In an impassioned speech, Rahul made it clear that he does not hanker for power and stressed the need to transform the party’s systems and develop new leaders at all levels while saying the youths must be involved in decision making.

The question now is whether he will be able to bring the middle class, especially the “restless and impatient” young, to the Congress camp from which they stood quite alienated over perceptions of corruption, misgovernance, inflation and insensitivity to issues that concern them.

Trouble in BJP: Gadkari out, Rajnath likely as president

In dramatic developments on the eve of presidential nominations in the BJP, incumbent Nitin Gadkari announced that he will not seek a second term while former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Rajnath Singh emerged as his likely successor.

The development followed this week’s Income Tax ‘surveys’ of around nine locations connected to alleged financial wrongdoing by a company linked to Gadkari and signals by party MP Yashwant Sinha that he could contest if Gadkari was re-nominated.

Informed sources said BJP veteran L.K. Advani also had reservations of Gadkari getting a second term in view of allegations surrounding the Purti group linked to him.

They said that Rajnath Singh was likely to be once again made party chief though efforts were being made to find “a more nationally accepted face”. Singh has been BJP president twice earlier.

The BJP president has traditionally been elected unopposed.

Rajnath’s Singh’s name emerged after a series of meetings involving party leaders Arun Jaitley, Venkaiah Naidu, Ram Lal and Ananth Kumar.

There was unease in sections of BJP over Gadkari’s continuance though the party gave him a clean chit following a probe done by S. Gurumurthy, a financial analyst considered close to Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).

BJP leaders feared that his second term would come in the way of party’s all-out attack against the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government on the issue of corruption in the run up to series of assembly polls this year and Lok Sabha polls in 2014.

Sources said RSS had been in favour of giving a second term to Gadkari despite apparent lack of warmth to the move by Advani. They said that Gadkari not getting a second term was an affirmation of Advani’s writ running in the BJP and also vis-à-vis RSS. In his statement, Gadkari accused the UPA government of spreading disinformation about him.

“I have committed no wrong or any impropriety either directly or indirectly. Yet the UPA government has been making an effort to spread disinformation about me in order to hurt me and my party... I do not wish that this should in any way adversely affect the interest of the BJP. I, have, therefore decided not to seek a second term as the president of the BJP,” he said.

Earlier, Gadkari had issued a corrected statement terming “as calculated, mischievous and politically motivated the Income -Tax department’s attempts to drag his name” into its surveys of various companies in Mumbai.

His first statement of the day had talked of the IT survey coming on the eve of his “re-election as BJP president for a second term”.

Sinha, who has been against Gadkari’s continuation as president, caused a flutter as he collected a nomination form and a copy of the voters’ list from presidential poll incharge Thawarchand Gehlot.

Another Gadkari-baiter and former member of the BJP’s national executive, lawyer Mahesh Jethmalani had indicated that he could contest against Gadkari if no one else does.

Party sources said Sushma Swaraj’s name was also being mentioned as a probable candidate but she had not accepted the offer so far.

Declassify government files on Netaji, says family

Claiming that over 100 secret files on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose were with various government departments, including the PMO, Netaji’s family members and researchers threatened to launch a mass movement if the documents are not declassified and made public at the earliest.

“The government of India has been sitting over 100 secret known and unknown files on Netaji. The PMO alone has 33 such files and the ministry of external affairs has over a dozen,” said author and researcher Anuj Dhar.

Dhar, who has written the book India’s Biggest Cover-up on the death mystery of Netaji, claimed that even spy agencies Research and Analysis Wing and Intelligence Bureau had scores of such files.

“One hand the government has always been maintaining that Netaji died in the 1945 plane crash and on the other it refuses to declassify secret files regarding him. Why is this contradiction? The government at the earliest must make the documents public,” said D.N. Bose, Netaji’s nephew.

Bose and Dhar quoted several documents and RTI replies to buttress their claims, and said only a nationwide mass movement can compel the government to make the documents public.

Quoting the Mukherjee Commission report which said that Bose did not die in the plane crash as alleged and the ashes in the Japanese temple are not of Netaji, Chitra Ghosh, niece of Netaji urged people to foil the alleged attempt of the government in establishing the contrary.

“Why is the centre trying to establish that Netaji died in a 1945 plane crash? Why there are attempts to bring the alleged ashes from Renkoji temple?” asked Ghosh.

Netaji’s daughter Anita Pfaff Jan 20 had rubbished media reports that she would be bringing her “father’s ashes” to India.

A branch of Netaji’s family as also many others outside believe that he died in a plane crash in Taiwan on Aug 18, 1945, and the ashes are preserved in the Renkoji temple in Tokyo. But there is also a strong second opinion across the nation which nixes the aircrash theory and does not consider the Renkoji ashes as those of Bose.

“I don’t have the ashes. After all, this would be a highly formal and diplomatic thing. It’s not a private issue, but involves two countries that have their own multiplelevel relations. It’s not that I’ll go to the temple ask for the ashes and they will give me. The two nations must agree on it,” Pfaff had said.

Project Hilsa: Indian scientists seek to save prized fish

With the population of the hilsa dwindling rapidly in Indian waters, a team of scientists from across the country have embarked on a project to save the fish, considered a delicacy in Bengali cuisine, and revive its numbers through various interventions.

Their efforts include efficient management of the natural reservoirs of the fish and even attempting to breed it in captivity. The fish’s diet and its hormonal changes while migrating from the sea to rivers will also be examined.

Hilsa, or ilish as it is known in Bengal, like salmon, migrates from seawater to freshwater to breed. After laying eggs, the current generation of the fish dies and the newly-hatched ones go back to the sea and repeat the cycle again.

The fish is expensive but is widely consumed in India and Bangladesh, particularly on special occasions, in a variety of delectable dishes.

“It is important to know what the hilsa feeds on that gives it its distinct seawater taste and accounts for its nutritive value,” a scientist from Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute (CIFRI) in Kolkata told IANS.

Besides CIFRI, experts from the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) labs too are part of the multi-dimensional project, said the scientist.

But what is also baffling the experts is that while the fish’s numbers are falling in Indian waters, it is flourishing in the waters of neigbouring Bangladesh. In fact, hilsa’s numbers are so large that its trade makes a major contribution to Bangladesh’s exports and national income.

“We must find out the reason why they are not entering our coasts. They are going to Bangladesh. The situation was the opposite 15 years ago. We must look into it immediately,” Samir Bhattacharya, an emeritus professor of life sciences at VisvaBharati University, who is also part of the project, told IANS.

He said the rising level of pollutants in the Ganges might be a factor inhibiting the hilsa’s breeding.

“Another factor is indiscriminate fishing of egg-carrying hilsa. Besides, there is a possibility that the fish might be attracted by a particular chemical called chemo-attractant present in fresh water. It may be so that the levels of that chemical has declined,” Bhattacharya said.

Habits like homing instincts of salmon and trout and other behaviours are welldocumented abroad whereas no such data existed for hilsa, he said.

The project would also focus on hormonal changes the hilsa undergo while migrating.

“In order to successfully breed them, we must pay attention to their habitats and requirements. This is an important national matter and hilsa is a prized fish. Revival of its population needs scientists from every branch,” Bhattacharya said.