PRESS RELEASE OF DR.SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY IN 2009

Statement of Dr.Subramanian Swamy, President of Janata Party made in Chennai on 06.12.2009
1. Following my announcement last week that the Centre has once again asked the Tamil Nadu government for a “no objection” to my proposal to have the Madurai Airport re-named as MuthuramalingaThevar International Airport [see Annexure 1], I have obtained the Union Civil Ministry’s file notings to show that my proposal originally sent in 2001 was turned down by the Paneerselvam state government [Annexure2].
2. This refusal is a betrayal of the memory of the magnificent sacrifices of Thevar and an insult to all Indian patriots who cherish the Freedom Struggle and Thevar’s contribution.
3. I demand that Paneerselvam publicly apologise for this huge betrayal of the Tamil people. I also demand that the DMK government immediately send their approval to the Centre or face an agitation launched by the Janata Party, in alliance with the BJP, with the support of RSS, VHP, Hindu Munnani, Hindu Dharma Acharya Sabha, and other nationalist forces in the state.
4. On Netaji Subash Bose’s birthday i.e., January 23, 2010, the Janata Party will organize a public meeting in Tamukam Maidan in Madurai decide on the protest.
5. I shall soon be filing a Writ Petition to ask the Court to grant me Sanction to prosecute Minister of Telecom Mr.A.Raja under the Prevention of Corruption Act for fraud and cheating of more than Rs. 50,000 crores of public taxpayers money in the allotment of 2G Spectrum.
6. The Division Bench on November 24, 2009 has quashed Raja’s Order to advance the closure of bids date from October 1, 2007 to September 24, 2007 after closure on January 10, 2008!! This has strengthened my case for Sanction. Hence, I will give the PM one more notice to grant me Sanction by December 15th, otherwise the PM is liable to be made a co-conspirator in the corrupt scandal.
7. It is time now for the Muslim community to voluntarily sacrifice their claims to have a mosque at Ayodhya, Kashi and Mathura. According to a Constitution Bench judgment of 1994 in Farooqui vs. The Union of India case, a mosque is merely a facilitation centre for reading namaz and is not an essential part of Islam.
8. Mosques have therefore been in the past demolished for building roads in Saudi Arabia, and even in India before 1947during British rule. Mosques in Ayodhya, Kashi, Mathura, and about 30,000 places, have been built during Mughal dictatorial tyrannical by demolishing ancient temples.
9. Hence, to promote communal harmony and to enable Hindus to forget past history, the Muslim community in India must voluntarily give up the claim to mosques in Ayodhya, Kashi, and Mathura.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

December 5, 2009
PRESS RELEASE
The continuing explosions in Pakistan set off by Talibans suicide bombers is a part of the ISI-Al Qaeda conspiracy to topple the Pakistan civilian government and install a military dictatorship. Such a military rule will be Taliban dominated since over 70% of Pakistan Army’s middle-level officers of the rank of Captains, Majors and Colonels are followers of the Taliban.
Hence, time has arrived for India to draw up an effective contingency plan to combat the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Otherwise after a few years we shall have to face the Taliban inside India.
As a first step, India to accept the invitation of President Karzai of Afghanistan and send 40,000 Indian troops to that country. This will position Indian troops next to Baluchistan and Pakistan-held Kashmir.
When Taliban takes over Pakistan, India can strike to liberate PoK and help Baluchistan.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

Statement of Dr.Subramanian Swamy, President of Janata Party
made in Chennai on 28.11.2009
1. The Centre has once again at my urging written to the Tamil Nadu government asking for concurrence to name Madurai airport as Muthuramalinga Thevar International Airport [letter enclosed].
2. Hence I demand that the Tamil Nadu government withdraw the letter written in 2001 by Thiru.Paneerselvan as Chief Minister to the then Union Civil Aviation Minister Mr.Sharad Yadav in which the then CM had opposed Union Minister’s decision to accept my proposal. The Union Civil Ministry had then written to the TN State Government seeking its “no objection” to this re-naming.
3. I have spoken to the Civil Aviation Ministry officials recently, and they have confirmed that the day the TN Government withdraws the letter of Paneerselvan, the Madurai airport will be re-named in the great Thevar’s name.
4. If the present CM does not withdraw the letter by Pongal Day and Makar Sankranti, i.e., January 14, 2010, and writes to the Centre that they accept my proposal, the Janata Party will launch an agitation in the state to demand the withdrawal of that obnoxious letter. We shall invite our ally in the state, the BJP, and also seek the support of all Thevar bhaktargals, the RSS & VHP. The Janata Party will hold a rally in mid-January in Madurai to mobilize for the agitation.
5. The Liberhan Commission after 17 years of deliberations has concluded that issues like building a Ram temple in Ayodhya cannot be settled in courts. Hence, a peaceful people’s movement to remove masjids from our sacred temples such as in Ayodhya, Mathura, and Varanasi is justified. Moreover, in 1994 a Constitution Bench in the Farooqui vs. Union of India case has held that a mosque is not an essential part of Islam religion and hence can be demolished as it is done periodically in Saudi Arabia to build roads. Hence, for communal harmony, the Muslim community must voluntarily clear out from all mosques built by demolishing temples during Mughal rule. Hindus will then build them new mosques on alternative sites. As I had tried to do as a Minister of Law & Justice in 1990-91, the present UPA government must assist is this. Otherwise people will take law into their own hands as on December 6, 1992.
6. India should offer President Karzai to send 40,000 troops to Afghanistan to help that country fight Taliban terrorism. This would be a fitting reply to Pakistan’s sponsoring terrorist attacks in India. It would also position Indian troops next to Baluchistan and our Kashmir territory that is illegally occupied by Pakistan.
7. condemn the Kerala Government for bringing out a Muslim appeasement G.O No. 1336/2009/ID dated 14.10.09 announcing the State Government’s intention to set up an Islamic Financial Institution and bank according to Shariah principles. This violates the constitutional principle of secularism and discriminates against Hindus. Hence I shall file a PIL in Kerala High Court next week.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

STATEMENT OF DR.SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY, PRESIDENT OF
JANATA PARTY, MADE IN CHENNAI ON 21.11.2009
1. The violent acts committed admittedly by the Shiv Sena volunteers on the IBN premises in Mumbai must be probed by the CBI, and responsibility for it must be fixed on the leader of the Shiv Sena who had directed the violence.

However, the management of CNN-IBN should realize that there cannot be a double standard on politically directed violence.

In April 2006 in Rae Bareli I was attacked and nearly murdered by Congress Party workers outside the Returning Officers premises where I had gone to file objections to Sonia Gandhi’s candidature in the Lok Sabha by-elections. The entire violent episode was filmed by the video cameras of the CNN-IBN, but the channel refused to screen the incident or even scroll the news of the attack because they did not want to annoy Sonia Gandhi.

That same evening, in Lucknow, VVIP Guest House, a Congress mob shouting pro-Sonia Gandhi slogans charged into the premises and tried to breakdown the door to my suite while I was inside. Timely intervention by the PM office which office I telephoned saved my life there. Again the CNN IBN filmed the entire episode but declined to screen it because of the same reason-not to annoy Sonia Gandhi.

The CNN IBN should realize that there cannot be two standards: one for Bal Thackeray and one for Sonia Gandhi.

This incident is therefore a wake-up call for the CNN IBN because freedom of the press is indivisible. They should atone now by sending their media persons to Rae Bareli and Amethi and interview anonymously the residents and report the daily terror being practiced by Congress Party workers in these two constituencies.

2. The Home Minister Mr.P.Chidambaram must apologize to the Nation for holding secret talks with Hurriyat leader Mirwaiz, since now Hurriyat wants China to be made a party to talks on Kashmir. Chidambaram has thus helped to internationalize the Kashmsir issue which is totally unacceptable to Indian patriots.

(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

STATEMENT OF DR.SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY, PRESIDENT OF
JANATA PARTY, MADE IN CHENNAI ON 21.11.2009

1. I demand that the Tamil Nadu government withdraw the letter written in 2001 by Thiru Paneerselvan as Chief Minister to the then Union Civil Aviation Minister Mr.Sharad Yadav in which the CM had opposed Union Minister’s decision to accept my plea to re-name Madurai airport as Muthuramalinga Thevar International Airport. The Union Civil Ministry had written to the TN State Government seeking its “no objection” to this re-naming. I have spoken to the Civil Aviation Minister recently, and he has confirmed that the day the TN Government withdraws the letter of Paneerselvan, the Madurai airport will be re-named in Thevar’s name.

2. If the present CM does not withdraw the letter by Pongal Day and Makar Sankranti, i.e., January 14, 2010, the Janata Party will launch an agitation in the state to demand the withdrawal of that obnoxious letter. We shall invite our ally in the state, the BJP, and also seek the support of all Thevar bhaktargal the RSS & VHP. The Janata Party will hold a rally in mid-January in Madurai to mobilize for the agitation.

3. The current price spiral is due to the injection of cash into the economy of Rs. 125, 000 crores in the Budgets of 2018-09 and 2009-10 in the name of economic stimulus. Most of this cash has been cornered by racketeers and those crooks with political connections. They are now using the cash to hoard the essential commodities and thus providing at the same time the Government with an excuse to import rice and sugar and thus earn illegal commissions and kich-backs.

4. India should offer President Karzai to send 40,000 troops to Afghanistan to help that country fight Taliban terrorism. This would be a fitting reply to Pakistan’s sponsoring terrorist attacks in India. It would also position Indian troops next to Baluchistan and our Kashmir territory that is illegally occupied by Pakistan.

5. I warn all Muslim majority Town Panchayats [40 in number] from Melvisharam in Vellore district to Thondi in Ramnad district to learn from the recent Supreme Court judgment that they must impartially administer the Town panchayata and not force the Hindus minorities to convert to Islam as a pre-condition for providing civic amenities ot their areas. Soon I shall visit all 40 Town panchayat areas to hear the grievances of the minority Hindus.

6. I condemn the Kerala Government for bring out a Muslim appeasement G.O No. 1336/2009/ID dated 14.10.09 announcing the State Government’s intention to set up an Islamic Financial Institution and bank according to Shariah principles. This violates the constitutional principle of secularism and discriminates against Hindus.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

08.11.2009
PRESS RELEASE
The recent revelations from the FBI in USA about the LeT and Al Qaeda plans to carry out more horrific terrorists attacks than the 26/11 Mumbai atrocity, needs to be replied to by taking the anti-terrorist war to the source.
Pakistan, even if we take their denial at face value of not sponsoring terror, is a cess pool in which terrorists breed. Hence, instead of demanding Pakistan take effective steps against LeT & Al Qaeda, India must ally with the US and Israel, dispatch a 100,000 troops to Afghanistan to assist NATO forces, and be positioned to dismember Pakistan when Taliban inevitably takes over control of Pakistan and its nuclear weapons. India has the skilled military manpower, US has the weapons, and Israel has the counter-terror intelligence infrastructure, and therefore an India-US-Israel combine will be deadly force for the Islamic terrorists.
If Prime Minister Manmohan Singh does not have the nerve to do this, he should resign and call for elections as a defacto referendum on how to deter terrorists. Indians cannot sit around like chickens in a hatchery waiting to be sent to the tandoori.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

08.11.2009
PRESS RELEASE
The recent revelations from the FBI in USA about the LeT and Al Qaeda plans to carry out more horrific terrorists attacks than the 26/11 Mumbai atrocity, needs to be replied to by taking the anti-terrorist war to the source.
Pakistan, even if we take their denial at face value of not sponsoring terror, is a cess pool in which terrorists breed. Hence, instead of demanding Pakistan take effective steps against LeT & Al Qaeda, India must ally with the US and Israel, dispatch a 100,000 troops to Afghanistan to assist NATO forces, and be positioned to dismember Pakistan when Taliban inevitably takes over control of Pakistan and its nuclear weapons. India has the skilled military manpower, US has the weapons, and Israel has the counter-terror intelligence infrastructure, and therefore an India-US-Israel combine will be deadly force for the Islamic terrorists.
If Prime Minister Manmohan Singh does not have the nerve to do this, he should resign and call for elections as a defacto referendum on how to deter terrorists. Indians cannot sit around like chickens in a hatchery waiting to be sent to the tandoori.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)


November 5, 2009.
PRESS RELEASE
1. The proposed visit to Tawang of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, meant to be for religious purposes, has however rapidly acquired a political colour because the Tibetan Bureau’s request to the Government of India to issue visas to 40 foreign media persons to accompany His Holiness to Tawang, which believe now will be turned down.
2. This publicity plan, that is inconsistent with a religious purpose of the visit, has been compounded by the so-called “Exile Government of Tibet” and “Tibet Parliament”operating in Dharamshala, the town in Himachal where the Dalai Lama resides normally, by their informing the media persons that Tawang is not a part of India but of “Free” Tibet. This is ominous and paradoxical for India-China relations.
3. Hence, the Government must ask the Dalai Lama to re-schedule his visit to a later date till the vitiated atmosphere is altered. A quiet genuinely religious visit to Tawang later for the Dalai Lama can be organized for him.
4. India is in a position to face any threat from China including war, but we do not have to be railroaded into it by foreign inspired forces and secessionist forces. Encouraging such forces is a double edged razor for India.
5. I also demand Ministry of External Affairs publish a “White Paper” on the date from which China has been issuing detachable visas for Kashmiris with India passport. I believe this practice has been going on since at least five years, but the MEA did not protest till the media hype overtook it.
6. As far as the dam across the Brahmaputra is concerned, as long as China does not block 79 billion cubic metres of flow into Arunachal, we cannot object. Moreover, the dam is 1100 kilometers into Chinese territory, and hence we can object to the dam only if it obstructs the flow into India.
7. Let us remember always that as Prime Ministers, Jawarharlal Nehru and Atal Behari Vajpayee signed agreements with China recognizing Tibet as a part of that country. Unless we abrogate that treaty and face the attendant consequences, we have to abide by that treaty, which is not to interfere in the internal affairs of China in Tibet unless gross human rights take place or Chinese actions impinge on India’s internal affairs.
(SUBRAMANIA SWAMY)

November 4, 2009.
PRESS RELEASE
The Resolution passed yesterday at the Deoband seminary gathering directing Muslims in the nature of a fatwa, to reject Vande Mataram, is violative of the Constitution and hence actionable under the IPC.
On January 24, 2950, Dr. Rajendra Prasad, then presiding over the Constituent assembly had got passed by unanimous acclaim and applause with all members present including Muslim members, that Vande Mataram sung limited to first two stanzas “shall have equal status with it (singing Jana Gana Mana)”. Hence Vande Mataram be sung on all appropriate occasions by all citizens, without any exception. In 1983, in the Bijoy Emmanuel case, a Constitutional Bench upheld the dismissal of students from a school for refusing to sing the national anthem.
Hence refusal to honour the Vande Mataram as the national song, even as based on a faulty translation of the word “Vande”, the Deoband assembly has committed an act of treason, which is actionable.
I want the Muslim community leaders to denounce this fatwa, and place the nation and its Constitution above their religion. Otherwise a clash of religions, sooner or later, in India will become inevitable which will be tragic for the nation.
By being silent on the occasion and being present on the dais of the Deoband Assembly, the Home Minister, Mr. P. Chidambaram (who is a Lok Sabha MP by fraud in the elections) has disgraced chair occupied by Sardar Patel and betrayed the freedom fighters who went to the gallows singing Vande Mataram. I therefore demand his dismissal from the Cabinet since he has become a national shame.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

29.10.2009
PRESS RELEASE
The Prime Minister Dr.Manmohan Singh should stop offering to hold talks with Pakistan on the Kashmir issue since he as PM is sworn to uphold the Constitution of India, in which Article 1 states that no part of the country, not even an inch of territory can be severed from the Republic of India as of January 26, 1950.
Hence what is the use of discussing Kashmir with Pakistan when legally and constitutionally the Government cannot give away even an inch of any territory of India in any negotiation?
Instead the PM should scrap Article 370 by a Presidential Order with J & K Governor’s concurrence, since the demographic structure of the state has been forcibly altered by driving out of 350,000 Hindus from the state, and Pakistani infiltrators have settled illegally in the State. This is against the objects and reasons for incorporating Article 370 in the Constitution. Hence the Article has become infructuous.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

STATEMENT OF DR.SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY, PRESIDENT OF JANATA PARTY MADE IN CHENNAI on 28.10.2009
1. The office bearers of TN unit of the Janata Party will meet on November 7th to consider the Central Parliamentary Board draft on “Hindutva” as an ideological plank of the party. The party is already committed since 1977 to “Gandhian philosophy.”
2. According to me, the nation is ready for a well defined Hindutva ideology and will give a mandate to rule for a political formation that credibly assures the voter of their commitment to implement the Hindutva agenda.
3. Hindutva, Anti-Corruption, Law & Order, Assured Civic Amenities, and Price Stability constitute the proposed five point programme of the party for the next state Assembly elections which can come at any time now.
4. The party is allied to the BJP nation-wide. In TN Assembly election, the two parties will contest all the 234 seats and thus offer a distinct alternative to the British Imperialist created Dravidian Movement parties and their foreign inspired allies.
5. As I had hoped after my Beijing visit, the India China PMs meet in Thailand has brought back some sense into relations of the two countries. We should now stop pin-pricking each other like Mylapore mamis, and look at the macro-significant events of Asia and the globe that affect both of us.
6. I demand that Fertiliser Minister M.K. Alagiri be dismissed from the Minister’s post he holds and sent back to Thanjavur. He should be externed from Madurai where he has become a menace to society. On September 11th he violated Ministerial guides[see enclosed] to recommend to Uzbekistan’s Ambassador to ask for “help” for two dubious businessmen Early this month he had demanded a cut from the public sector undertaking Indian Potash Limited for the windfall profit it had earned by buying urea cheap in distress sale by cargo ships marooned at sea, and selling it market price. When the officials refused, he through the Ministry made a false charge in writing that the cargo was condemned and already rejected by Pakistan when the ship docked there. This was to frighten the officials into giving a cut. But the officials refused and instead wrote back pointing that the ship had never docked in Pakistan, or was anywhere in Pakistan waters. Hence, for such blackmail tactics I demand that the PM dismiss Alagiri from the Council of Ministers.
7. The Telecom Minister A.Raja is continuously telling a lie in stating that he had acted on the TRAI recommendation to choose “first come first served” basis for giving licences instead of Auction and had the concurrence of the PM and the Law Ministry. File notes show the exact opposite. Raja is blatantly telling lies on the matter because of the strone support he is receiving from Ms.Sonia Gandhi who is a co-conspirator in this biggest loot of the 21st century.
8. As Union Law minister, H.R. Bhardwaj[responding to an opinion sought by the Telecom Ministry on going ahead with the allocation of 2G spectrum on first-come-first-served basis and on prices fixed in 2001] wrote on file on November 1, 2007 that: “In view of the importance of the case (2G spectrum allocation) and various options indicated in the statement of the case, it is necessary that the whole issue is first considered by an Empowered Group of Ministers and, in that process, the legal opinion of A-G (Attorney General) can be obtained.”
9. This Law Ministry opinion did not go down well with Raja. On the following day, the morning of November 2, 2007, Raja wrote a D.O. to the Prime Minister and questioned the Law Ministry’s wisdom in asking for setting up an EGoM as follows: “The Ministry of Law and Justice, instead of examining the legal tenability of these alternative procedures, suggested referring the matter to EGoM. Since the present issues relate to procedures, the suggestion of the Law Ministry is totally out of context.”
10. The same afternoon, the Prime Minister wrote back to the Telecom Minister and cautioned him against taking any measures without informing him. In his reply he wrote: “I would request you to give urgent consideration to the issues being raised with a view to ensuring fairness and transparency and let me know of the position before you take any further action in this regard.”
11. In the two-page letter, Manmohan Singh also objected to Raja proposal to go ahead with the first-come-first-served model and cheap pricing. Singh instructed the Minister to adopt “correct pricing of spectrum and revision of entry fee”. The Prime Minister also asked Raja to clarify on the objections raised by TRAI over the first-come-first-served basis and the 2001 pricing for sale in 2008.
12. After his silence for the ensuing 50 days, Raja wrote another letter to him on December 26, 2007. Therein, he claimed that he had received consent from the then External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee and the then Solicitor General Goolam Vahanvati to go ahead with the spectrum allocation. He wrote: “In these circumstances, the discussions with External Affairs Minister and Solicitor General of India have further enlightened me to take a pre-emptive and pro-active decision on these issues as per the guidelines and rules framed thereunder to avoid any further confusion and delay.”
13. Mukherjee and Vahanvati, if quoted correctly by Raja, have no locus standi to overrule the PM. The Prime Minister merely acknowledged the letter on January 3, 2008, but said nothing more. Between December 26, 2007 and January 5, 2008, Ms. Sonia Gandhi was sent Rs. 10,000 crores in dollars equivalent by Raja’s benefactors into her Cayman Island Bank of America account, which incidentally Rahul Gandhi also operates.
14. Hence, the PM became silent. I urge the BJP to attack Sonia Gandhi for this deal and not waste time on our puppet PM. She is the Tadaka who has to be countered and not her minions. I also demand that the PM grant me sanction under the Prevention of Corruption Act or face me in court as a co-conspirator in this deal.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

24.10.2009
PRESS RELEASE
The Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Mr.Navin Chawla has been on a falsehood binge about the infallibility of the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs). He obviously is “protesting too much” to hide the truth.
His repeated assertion wherever he goes in the country, that “no one had been able to prove that the EVMs could be tampered with all alleged by some quarters” is a blatant lie because on September 3rd when accompanied by two brilliant software engineers from Andhra Pradesh, Dr.V.V.Rao and Dr.Hariprasad, I had gone to the Election Commission on the CEC’s invitation to prove just that. When Dr.Hariprasad began to demonstrate the riggability of the EVMs, the Electronic Commission of India’s (ECIL) representative protested that the dissembling of the EVM by the expert was a “violation of their Intellectual Property Rights and Patent Rights”!
The demonstration thus was halted half-way on the advice of retired Professor P.V.Indiresan, whose knowledge of electronics is dated and does not extend beyond soldering of two electric wires. The EC officials promised to reconvene the meeting after a fresh authorization from Mr.Navin Chawla to permit out dissembling the EVM placed before us.
No new meeting for the demonstration has since been scheduled by the EC. In the meantime, the ECIL has sent Dr.Hariprasad a written legal notice for damages for “defaming the EVMs”, a most ridiculous if not hilarious development.
Therefore, convinced that the CEC has something to hide, I filed a PIL in the Delhi High Court. On September 23rd after hearing both sides, myself and the EC Counsel, Chief Justice A.P.Shah ordered the EC to file an affidavit within four weeks stating their views on EVMs and on my suggestions for safe electronic voting. When the matter was listed again after four weeks, the EC asked for four more weeks to file their affidavit. Now the next hearing is fixed for November 25th. Hence, Mr.Navin Chawla should stop spreading canards about the invincibility of the EVMs. The EVMs are under a cloud the world over today, and hence voter confidence has to be restored by a constructive attitude and not by bravado, bluff and bluster of the CEC. Given Mr.Chawla’s dubious record of service during the State of Emergency in the country (1975-77), he should bend backwards to establish his honesty of purpose and commitment to democracy and voting integrity.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

23.10.2009
PRESS RELEASE
I demand that the Prime Minister now give me Sanction to prosecute Telecom Minister A.Raja under the Prevention of Corruption Act. I had filed with him as “Appropriate Authority” under the Act, a petition for grant of Sanction on November 29, 2008 in order to launch a criminal investigation on a private complaint under Section 11 and 13 of the Prevention of Corruption Act (1988) against Mr.Raja.
The raids by the CBI on an FIR registered under the same Act, and the questioning of the Minister yesterday at 3.00 P.M. in his office in Sanchar Bhavan, now makes the granting of Sanction to me by the Prime Minister a formality under the Act.
The CBI investigation of the Minister may be held to be supplementary to the filing of a case by me in the Designated Sessions Court set up for trying cases registered under the Prevention of Corruption Act. Moreover, since the majority in Parliament of the UPA Government depends on the support of the DMK. Hence the prosecution by the CBI, as was the case of Oettvio Quattorachhi may be constrained and biased in favour Mr.Mr.Raja. Hence an independent case filed by me in which the CBI may assist the Court, is the best recourse for a fair and just prosecution of this Rs.50,000 crores 2-G Spectrum scandal.
My recent book: Corruption and Corporate Governance in India – Satyam, Spectrum, and Sundaram (Har Anand Publications), released by Mr.Nariman and Dr.Sanjaya Baru on October 2, 2009 at New Delhi fully documents the extraordinary rip-off of Rs.50,000 crores by Mr.Raja.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)


22.10.2009
PRESS RELEASE
1. The Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council in its report released yesterday has tried to fool the people by putting on a gloss on the gloomy data on the economy. This financial year, 2009-10 will see a growth rate in GDP which will not be any higher than last year’s 6% per year rate. Yet, the Council makes out that the growth rate will be higher by ½% point, as if GDP data measurements are so accurate to be able to discern a ½% higher rate.
2. Even this presumed higher rate is conditional on a normal rabi crop output which assumption is outright false since the rainfall in the country has been poor and sporadic. The Council also assumes that manufacturing and services sector output will accelerate in growth which too is unlikely since there is a credit squeeze and foreign loans are drying up for the manufacturing sector while central budget fiscal deficit has soared to 7% of GDP, double the level two years ago.
3. As a consequence, what is true is that the money supply injected by the so-called stimulus into the economy will accelerate inflation while the economy suffers stagnation in demand.
4. Hence, the economy is in crisis, and the Council is obviously hiding this grim truth from the public, and not admitting that the UPA economic policy is itself bankrupt of ideas. All they can think of is pumping more RBI printed notes into the economy such as through NREGA which is siphoned off by the corrupt elements, and sending out of black money through hawala to re-cycle it back to the stock market via the Participatory Notes to rig the equity market and thus earn windfall loot in the fluctuating SENSEX. UPA is thus a government of the corrupt, by the corrupt and for the corrupt. Unfortunately India today lacks an aggressive and informed Opposition and hence the UPA is making hay while the sun shines for them.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

STATEMENT OF DR.SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY, JANATA PARTY PRESIDENT, MADE IN CHENNAI ON OCTOBER 20, 2009
1. I returned yesterday from a four day visit to Beijing, China, where I had gone to address the Asian African Development Research Institute [AADRI] of the State Council of the Chinese Government on “South Asia and Sino-Indian Relations”. The State Council is the equivalent of India’s Cabinet, and AADRI is its think tank that prepares policy documents for the Chinese government.
2. I also met Mr. Ai Ping, Director General of the International Department of the Chinese Communist Party and had a detailed discussion with him on the current state of Sino-Indian relations and how it could be improved.
3. At present there is possibility that India and China may be sucked into a serious border conflict by miscalculation and self-fulfilling hype. Such a war will end in a stalemate, and damage the economies of both nations.
4. Much of the hostility to India in the Chinese media is seen in Communist Party organs such Peoples Daily and Global Times newspapers. This is claimed to be in reaction to Indian media’s “false anti-China” reporting that Chinese allege is motivated by the Indian government sources. In India much of the hostile anti-China reporting is based on events such as border incursions by China, which events used to sporadically happen earlier but did not come to media’s knowledge and was not reported. These local events, Indian media hold are directed by Chinese government.
5. Both these presumptions are wrong. Hence, the Prime Ministers of the two countries should the “hotline” set up recently, before the Bangalore BRIC meeting, and clear the air. The two PMs should see to it that media reports do generate a hysteria in the public which could spiral into an armed conflict on the border by miscalculation on both sides.
6. Border incursions have been made by units of Chinese internal security armed police and not by Chinese army as reported in Indian media. Moreover, India has now moved a squadron of Sukhoi jets to Tezpur and strengthened Ladakh cantonment. Hence, a rational Chinese strategist would recognize that an armed border attack today will not be of the same result as in 1962.
7. The situation has spiraled because Indian opinion today unfortunately is dominated by the trauma of 1962 and the public perception of a repeat “Chinese betrayal” when in fact 1962 border war was the outcome of the foolishness of Prime Minister Nehru in failing to first develop defence capability before asking the army to “throw the Chinese out”. Our jawans had to fight on the icy hills with tennis shoes. To hide such truths is why the government is still refusing to provide the Hendersen-Brookes Inquiry Report under the RTI.
8. In China too, the people and Chinese media exhibit the same kind of trauma with regard to Japan’s alleged militarism, despite Japan being one of the most peace loving countries today. This is because of the savage invasion and occupation of China by Japan in 1937-45 period.
9. India has accepted [vide agreements signed by Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1988, and by Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee in 2003, thus making this acceptance bi-partisan] that the border has to be negotiated and settled on the ground. At the moment there exists no legal border. Till such a border is negotiated, border crossings by China’s Tibet police and by our ITBP are inevitable. The media should report it, but the people should not get into a hysteria.
10. However, our defence preparedness for a possible Chinese attack should always be up to date, even as our foreign policy should strive for friendly relations with China. India and China will have to create a new global order as two very large and fast progressing countries. We should not allow ourselves to be derailed by micro events but be guided by macro and global perspectives in Sino-Indian relations.
11. I urge Prime Minister Manmohan Singh not to be intimidated by jingoism in the media but to boldy and frankly talk on the hotline, and discuss with visiting Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiaobao in Bangalore next week on how the two nation can moderate the current negative hype, and get back to developing a productive strategic partnership with each other, especially against the common terrorist threat arising from the Taliban ascendancy in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and well as the fragility of the global financial architecture.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)
Statement of Dr.Subramanian Swamy, President of the Janata Party made in Chennai on October 13, 2009
1. I am leaving for Beijing today on a four day visit, accompanied by my party General Secretary, Jagdish Shetty, to participate in a seminar on “Current State of South Asia and Sino-Indian Relations” sponsored by the Development Research Center of State Council of China [equivalent of Council of Ministers]. I shall return on October 18th night to Chennai. During my stay I shall meet government officials, scholars, and my former Harvard students, to gain an understanding of how China foresees India-China relations now. I shall also frankly state what the patriotic Indian opinion is on the current affairs concerning our relations.
2. The DMK alliance delegation to Sri Lanka is led by one of the most corrupt ex-Ministers of the UPA government T.R.Baalu and he has made India’s position ridiculous. Mr.Baalu was removed in May 2009 from the cabinet because of his crude behavior with the Prime Minister, despite Mr.Baalu’s patronage from Ms.Sonia Gandhi. The delegation has already become the laughing stock in world press, because they have no other purpose in Sri Lanka except to throw their weight around and try to boost the morale of the rump LTTE on the run in Sri Lanka. I demand that the TN CM Mr. Karunanidhi apologise to the Sri Lankan people for sending on a jaunt these crude, ill-informed and ill-mannered MPs, and thus for bringing the nation into international disrepute.
3. The TN CM Mr. Karunanidhi has betrayed the Tamil people by fiddling away while Kerala has proceeded undeterred to go about setting the stage for the demolition of the Mulla Periyar Dam, and to welch on the Supreme Court order of February 2004 given on my PIL, to raise the water level immediately to 142 feet from the present 136 feet and to 152 feet after the baby dam is further fortified. That order on my PIL still stands and has not been stayed. Hence if Mr.Karunanidhi wants to, he can even today send the TN PWD to operate the shutters and raise the water level to 142 feet, in fact to 152 feet because the baby dam has now been repaired fully. But he will not do so because he has an unholy bribe deal with Kerala landlords who have built resort houses on the land vacated by the Periyar river after the water level was lowered in 1979 to 136 feet. I demand that Mr.Karunanidhi immediately raise the water level or resign from his Chief Ministership forthwith.
4. I spent two days trekking up the Ganga river bank from Haridwar to Gangotri area from where the Ganga originates. I was shocked at the reckless diversion of the river waters and the gross pollution caused, making Ganga nearly disappear from sight [see enclosed letters to PM]. If the PM does not intervene I shall be filing a PIL in the courts.
5. The Chidambaram temple High Court judgment will be challenged by me by way of a SLP filed in the Supreme Court immediately after Deepavali and my return from China.
6. I shall be touring Tamil Nadu state district headquarters starting from Kanyakumari, from December 1st. The tour will be conducted in instalments of five district headquarters per week, each with two week interval between tours.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

Oct 18, 2009
PRESS NOTE
Dr.Swamy in China
(Oct 14-18, 2009)
The Janata Party President and former Minister Dr.Subramanian Swamy addressed a high level gathering of Chinese officials and scholars here on “The current state of South Asia and Sino-Indian Relations” at the Asia- Africa Research Centre set up as a past of the PRC State Council, the Chinese counterpart of Union Council of Ministers.
Dr.Swamy told the gathering that it was premature its call the present Sino-Indian Relations as a “strategic partnership” as the two nations Prime Ministers had declared in 2005. He listed various policy measures of what China must first do for India, what India must do for China, and what the two nations should do together, before a strategic partnership can come into effect.
He expressed the view that the border settlement should be a part of the overall strategic adjustments of the two nations. He told his Chinese hosts that once China settled the border with Burma by accepting the McMahon Line, it had lost any moral right to reject it in a settlement with India. He also compared the Chinese demand for Tawang as similiar to India’s demand for return of Kailash and Manasarovar area.
Dr.Swamy also said that without a re-definition of the parameters of Sino-Pakistan and Indo-US relations, any talk of a Sino-Indian strategic partnership is futile and will be disappointing for the people of both countries.
Dr.Swamy who is also prominent here as a Harvard scholar on China was a on a four day visit to Beijing at the invitation of the Chinese Government. He is also addressed the Central Committee of the International Department of the Communist Party of China, and met scholars of Tsinghua University and Peking University China’s premier educational institutions.
Dr.Swamy, who was accompanied by Janata Party General Secretary Jagdish Shetty left for Chennai this afternoon.

October 3, 2009
Statement of Dr. Subramanian Swamy, President of the Janata Party.
The Government of India at this juncture as a strategic move, and in keeping with the agreements signed between India and the United States on strategic partnership, should offer to send a hundred thousand troops to assist the Afghanistan government in the anti-terrorist operation in return for a US commitment to build India’s physical infra-structure on a turn-key basis and also sell defence fighter aircrafts and aircraft carriers at subsidized prices.
The United States can accept this offer only if the People’s Republic of China does not in reality and de facto have a veto on United States actions in south Asia. In 1998 when the NDA Prime Minister Mr. Vajpayee wrote a confidential letter to the US President Mr.Bill Clinton, the latter in keeping with this de facto veto forwarded this confidential letter to the Chinese that contained some adverse reference about them.
Hence it is necessary for India in its preparation to formulate a new strategic policy vis-à-vis China that we know for sure whether the Chinese exercise a veto over United States relations in south Asia. In the event the United States agree to our offer, India will gain strategically by getting a presence in Afghanistan and thereby also proximity to Balochistan, not to mention the economic and defence benefits that follow from the development of infra-structure and acquisition of weaponry from the United States. Hence it is crucial at this juncture in our developing Sino-Indian relations to ensure clarity about the United States’ intentions in south Asia vis-à-vis India so that we do not learn of the bitter truth the hard way some time in the future at the cost of our security.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

15.09.2009
PRESS RELEASE
The judgment dismissing the Writ Appeal of the Podu Dikshitars by the Division Bench of the Madras High Court will be appealed against by me in the Supreme Court in a Special Leave Petition very soon. The judgment of the Madras High Court delivered today is bad in law, and hence should not be allowed to remain in the books without a challenge at the appellate stage at the Supreme Court. The illegal take over of the Nataraj temple in Chidambaram by the anti- Hindu Tamil Nadu Government has to be set aside at the earliest for fair and impartial governance in the State.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

11.9.2009
PRESS RELEASE
The Union Home Minister, P. Chidamabaram’s visit to the US is clearly a flop judging by the treatment given to him and the bland outcome announced by Mr. Chidambaram himself at a press conference at the Indian Embassy in Washington. There were no joint press briefings, nor did the US spokesperson make any reference to his visit, much less the outcome of his talks. The US media completely blacked out his arrival and his stay in US. Even the New York Police Department refused to permit his official car to pick the Minister from his hotel, and Mr. Chidambaram, dressed like a head waiter in a five star hotel in his “suit-boot”, had to walk half a mile to the parking lot to take the car.
The US had earlier called off his visit in January this year because the then Secretary of State was to busy too receive. Yet, hoping for some cheap captive TV media publicity in India, Chidambaram was craving to visit the US on some excuse or another.
It is time the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh put an end to such silly Ministerial visits and thus save valuable public funds at this hour of financial crisis. By such visits India is being made to look like a country of concubines of the Americans—lots of proximity but no status or recognition in public.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

Statement of Dr.Subramanian Swamy, President of Janata Party, made in Chennai on 5.9.2009

The Election Commission of India (ECI) on September 3rd halted the demonstration initiated by the technical experts led by V.V. Rao, who had earlier filed a writ petition in the Hon’ble Supreme Court. The Supreme Court had referred the matter to the Election Commission to consider our claims on the possibility of rigging elections with EVMs. I was as an adviser to the team and party, present during this aborted demonstration, on a written invitation of the Election Commission to demonstrate tamperability or riggability of EVM’s.
Our team began the inspection process led by Hari Prasad, a technical expert from NetIndia, by noting in writing the flaws in the EVM’s, but the ECI representatives and technical committee experts protested holding such noting as intrusion into their intellectual property!
I also took serious objection to a legal notice sent to Hari Prasad by the ECIL, one of the manufacturers of EVM’s, threatening criminal and civil proceedings for defamation for highlighting concerns regarding the tamperability of EVM’s. The threat of legal action by one of its EVM suppliers, [the ECIL] amounted to intimidation of petitioners who were pursuing a cause in public interest, and on the direction of the Supreme Court. The ECI officials informed us that they had advised the ECIL to withdraw the legal notice.
However, the ECIL claimed that the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) of the EVM technology belonged to the ECIL and not Election Commission of India!!
On the advice, Dr. P.V.Indiresan, the ECI’s ‘expert’ on EVMs the Commission officials halted the demonstration process, stating that they needed to seek the permission of all the Election Commissioners, before going further on the demonstration process.
The meeting abruptly ended in the middle of the demonstration, with the ECI informing the petitioners that a new date would be fixed for a demonstration after obtained permission of the Election Commissioners for our procedure.
The EVMs are world-wide held to be hackable and riggable, for which I have given the ECI several authorities holding this view (see enclosed letter of mine to the ECI).
We are ready the demonstrate that the EVMs as presently manufactured by ECIL and BEL are riggable to safeguard against it. I want the Election Commission to enable a printed receipt for every voter, just as we get from ATMs after cash withdrawal. This paper receipt is a requirement under the Information Technology Act of 2000, which the ECI is presently adamantly and obstinately refusing to comply with.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

02.09.2009
PRESS RELEASE
The President of India has failed to apply her mind in her rejection of P.Rajan’s petition holding that Ms.Sonia Gandhi had incurred disqualification under Article 102(1)(d) of the Constitution by receiving the title of the Order of Leopold from Belgium.
The Article of the Statute of Association of the said Order make it clear that it is a title.
The President upon receipt of the petition had referred it to the Election Commission for an opinion under Article 103(2). The then Chief Election Commissioner Mr.N.Gopalaswami returned the reference (due to the obstructive attitude of the two ECs), with the observation that “the inquiry as contemplated under the Constitution could not be made in this case”.
Subsequently I had written to the President a letter dated August 25, 2009, seeking an opportunity to present arguments, but the President declined to receive me on this matter.
Hence, I shall challenge this decision of the President in Court soon.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

01.09.2009
PRESS RELEASE
I have been invited to visit the Peoples Republic of China on a mutually convenient date this year to discuss issues of bilateral interests of the peoples of both countries. I will go after Deepavali festival.
Highly placed Chinese personages have informed me that the Chinese government are ready to allow India to open a Consulate General’s Office in Lhasa, Tibet, and I have conveyed the same to the Ministry of External Affairs this information. It may be recalled that it was at my initiative in 1981 that China’s leader Deng Xiaoping agreed to re-open the Kailash-Manasarovar route in Tibet for Hindu pilgrims. Today, about 12,000 tirthyatris from India visit that holy spot between May and September every year.
India must match the growing defence capacity of China and without letting down our guard, but at the same time out intentions towards Chins in foreign policy should transparent and easily understood by that country. While we should not bond with any other country or force, to form an anti-China axis but at the same time we expect China to reciprocate in our neighbourhood.
India and China should jointly as members of SAARC persuade the Sri Lanka President Rajapakse to implement the necessary and already agreed amendments in the Sri Lanka Constitution so that Tamils of the island may feel secure and live in equality. The present unitary Constitution is insufficient.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

16.08.2009
PRESS RELEASE
The outcry against recent US Homeland Security Agents, for detaining Mumbai cine actor Shahrukh Khan at the Nework New Jersey airport for about two hours to verify his antecedents, is ridiculous. The detention has nothing to with Mr.Khan bearing that Muslim name because some months ago, Senator Edward Kennedy of the iconic Kenndy clan was off-loaded at Washington D.C. airport because his name sake, an Irish terrorist was on the airport watch list. Despite Kennedy producing his ID that he was a US senator and not an Irish terrorist, he was not allowed to board his flight, which he had therefore to miss and his speaking engagements.
After the perfidy of the 9/11 terrorist attack on unsuspecting Americans, the US has prevented every possible attempts since then by Islamic terrorists. This feat they have achieved by being over cautious. In India, we have one terrorist attack a month and people die like flies. Hence we are not position to protest to the US against methods that have protected their citizens, while cannot protect ours from terrorist attacks.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

Statement of Dr. Subramanian Swamy, Janata Party President and fmr. Union Law Minister made on July 29,2009
The Congress President Ms.Sonia Gandhi is certain to be disqualified from being Member of Parliament of the Lok Sabha by the President of India, a conclusion I have reached based on the reliable information I received in Brussels during my brief stay there recently.
Ms.Gandhi had been awarded the Order of Leopold by the King of Belgium in 2007, and this award I have verified is a title conferred on her by the sovereign power of Belgium and thus constitutes an allegiance to that country. In the Haja Sharief case, a Constitutional Bench of the Madras High Court had disqualified him from being a MLC of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly merely because he was an Honorary Consul of a small European country. The Bench held that it was a title hence implied allegiance and therefore violative of Constitution of India.
On a complaint before the Election Commission in this matter of disqualification of Ms. Gandhi, the then Election Commissioner Navin Chawla suo moto had argued that the Belgium King's Order was a decoration and not a title despite Ms. Gandhi refusing the full Commission a copy of the citation given to her at the ceremony to receive which she had kneeled before the King of Belgium.
The matter is now before the President of India for a decision. But the Commission was not unanimous in its report sent to the President for a decision since the then CEC Mr. Gopalaswami had opined that the Commission would have to see the citation before the full Commission could decide on merits. But out-voted, the CEC sent the report to the President without seeing the citation or calling Ms. Gandhi to tender evidence before the full Commission. This short-circuiting of procedures laid down under the Civil Procedure Code, which Code is binding on the Commission, is patently illegal.
Hence upon returning from Harvard where I am presently teaching, I shall seek an appointment with President to present arguments why she should send back the report to the Commission directing that complete evidence, written and oral, be gathered before sending back for a decision on disqualification.
(Subramanian Swamy)

Dartmouth, Mass, USA: July 19: The Janata Party President Dr. Subramanian Swamy, and presently teaching economics at Harvard University in the summer term, advocated the concept of Brihad Virat Hindutva to bring about a renaissance in the current secular India's value system and thus create a unified patriotic and spiritual society. At present, he said, the Indian nation is slowly but surely sliding into a crass one-dimensional society of material pursuits which can lead to the nation's balkanisation.
Dr.Swamy was delivering the Special Public Lecture as guest of honour, to the delegates of the 18th International Congress on Vedanta held for three days at the campus of the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth this week. Dr.Swamy said that Hindu civilisation has lasted so long, in fact the longest is because it was a society that had found a blend and harmonisation of material pursuits with spiritual values. Elaborating he said:"In the 19th century, Swami Vivekananda had propagated the concept of Brihad{Greater} Hindutva, while Sri Aurobindo and Veer Savarkar who had spoken from different perspectives, advocated a Virat[virile] Hindutva. All these revelations were made to the people in pre-political de-colonised India. But unfortunately after becoming free, the academia and political power went into the hands of Marxists and Macaulayists who were determined to reduce the Hinduness of Indians to a minimum of acceptability labelling it as obscurantist and politically chauvinist, or communal and fundamentalist, and make out the concept as a danger to secularism. He declared that the history of Hinduism disproves these charges, but the slander continues. Now to end the current moral degeneration in a democratic dispensation in India, he would advocate propagating a sythesis of Vedanta, Brihad and Virat concepts.
Therefore, Dr.Swamy declared, time has come to confront the Marxist and Macaulayists and challenge them to a debate a new sythesis of Brihad Virat Hindutva if they dare to debate. To a question from the audience he answered that he cannot be expected to defend past missed opportunities especially when the BJP was in office for six years. But he added, since his party is now allied to the BJP, he can speak of the future and what should be done.
Dr.Swamy is scheduled to return to Chennai on August 9th to resume his political activities. He informed that he would be presenting a detailed discussion paper on Brihad Virat Hindutva in Ahmedabad in a two-day conference on Hindutva to be held mid- September. The RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat will be participating in the proceedings.

Statement of Dr.Subramanian Swamy, Janata Party President and currently teaching economics at Harvard University July 11th 2009
I stand vindicated in having warned the Indian public through the media repeatedly that the Indo-US Nuclear Deal bestows India a concubine status and hence should not be signed. The brazen decision of the G8 countries in the presence of the Indian Prime Minister Dr.Manmohan Singh, and that too in Italy, that no country will assist or trade with any country, outside the five nation Nuclear Suppliers Group, in any potentially fissile material unless such a country is either a NPT signatory or at least NPT compliant by bilateral agreement, proves the contention in my warning.
This blow is not only a failure of diplomacy but also a public declaration that no goodies will come to India unless our country agrees to be a part of the nuclear "harem" of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council. India must therefore respond effectively, otherwise it be taken that the PM has secretly agreed to this demeaning status. I therefore demand that the PM put the completion of the Thorium third phase development as part of the Infrastructure Plan and allocate of Rs 2000 crores for it. India must become self-sufficient in nuclear fissile materials by 2012.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

6.7.2009
Press Release
The Janata Party President Dr. Subramanian Swamy today said that the problem of Kashmir Pandits arose because of a wider and larger issue of a clash between the Hindu civilisation of the state and the goal of Nizam-e-Mustafa of international Islamic movement.
Dr.Swamy was speaking at the inaugural session of The Kashmiri Pandit Association's three day conference at the resort town of Lake Tahoe in Nevada state of US. Dr.Swamy is in US as Visiting Professor of Economics at Harvard University for the Summer semester.
He said international events were getting favourable for India retrieving the so-called Azad Kashmir. He added that when Taliban takes over Pakistan probably within the next three years, the world would support India becoming a bastion of democracy in South Asia and would help India to militarily recover Azad Kashmir to establish a common border with Afghanistan. It is then the Kashmiri Pandits will get justice just as Draupadi got for her humiliation only after the Mahabharat war.
The Janata Party has recently entered into a long term alliance with BJP
(Secretary)


01.07.2009
Press Release
Some New York based NRIs have decided to sue Congress President Ms.Sonia Gandhi in a court of law in New York claiming damages of $ 221 million for her having, through the Overseas Congress, filed earlier a Defamation Suit for $ 100 million damages against these NRIs, namely Narain Kataria, Arish Sahani and Satya Dosapati. These NRIs had taken out a full page advertisement on October 2, 2007 in the New York Times alleging that Ms. Sonia Gandhi was an imposter, a KGB agent and had falsely claimed educational qualifications on a sworn affidavit, qualifications that she did not possess, and that Rahul Gandhi had been arrested in Boston Airport in September 2001 by the FBI on the charge of carrying $ 160,000 in cash undeclared and was then with a female companion called Veronique of Colombia, which country is the narcotics drug centre of the world. Mr. Gandhi had later been freed on the intervention of the then Prime Minister Mr.Vajpayee.
The Congress Party defamation suit was subsequently, a year later, dismissed by the Supreme Court of New York on the ground that Ms.Sonia Gandhi had failed to turn up in court to lead evidence on the alleged defamation. There has been no appeal against the dismissal order by the Congress Party.
At a meeting held today in New York of some NRIs and attended by Janata Party President Dr.Subramanian Swamy, it was decided to pursue this suit for damages since the defamation suit filed on behalf of Ms.Sonia Gandhi was reckless and had caused harassment to the NRIs. Dr.Swamy is presently teaching economics at Harvard University till the first week of August and has been providing legal advice on this matter to the NRIs.
(Secretary)

17.06.2009
PRESS RELEASE
The Janata Party and former Union Minister Dr.Subramanian Swamy has been once again invited to teach Economics at Harvard University this summer semester, which starts on June 22nd and ends on August 9th.
Dr.Swamy who holds a Ph.D in Economics from Harvard, has been on Harvard Faculty since 1963, and taught in that university off and on since then. He was also Professor of Economics at IIT Delhi for more than a decade, before entering politics.
Dr.Swamy will teach two courses: Economics S-110: “Mathematical Methods in Economics” and Economics S-1316: “Economic Development of India and China” (see www.summer.harvard.edu).
Dr.Swamy will visit Washington DC in mid-July to meet senior US officials to discuss the post-LTTE situation in Sri Lanka. Dr.Swamy has also been invited visit China again, and will go to Beijing in September for a week.
(SECRETARY)


STATEMENT OF DR.SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY, PRESIDENT OF JANATA PARTY MADE IN CHENNAI 17.06.2009
The recently announced compact of BJP and Janata Party will emerge, by 2011 General Elections to the Tamil Nadu Assembly, as the main challenger to the DMK-Congress opportunistic alliance which alliance, full of ideological and programme contradictions.
The BJP-JP compact however is an alliance with no ideological contradictions. The basis for this coming together of the two parties is to foster a dynamic and inclusive Hindutva (Hinduness), as an Indian’s identity, which concept is inclusive of those Muslims and Christians who proudly accept that their ancestors are Hindus.
This modern Hindutva (in Sanskrit: ‘Virat Brihad Hindutva’) will be focused on uniting Hindus of Tamil Nadu by debunking the birth-based caste divisions and by rejecting the bogus British Imperialist concocted Aryan-Dravidian theory. A correct reading of Hindu scriptures and the results of recent scientific research on DNA of Indians, in fact support this modern Hindutva concept, which should be acceptable to all patriotic Indians.
My campaign for this ideological alternative will begin with the end of the “honeymoon” period of the new UPA government that would commence after the 2009-10 Budget is presented on July 7th, and the Prime Minister’s Independence Day speech on August 15th. I shall thereafter travel to all 30 District headquarters to address headquarters to address public meetings to prepare the people for the BJP-JP alliance. I shall also meet prominent Hindu sadhus, as also those Imams and Bishops who agree with this concept of modern Hindutva, to seek their blessings to uproot the anti-national DMK-Congress alliance from the state.
The BJP-JP compact has a distinct programme of good governance, rapid development, and national security. Thus based on the ideological foundation of Hindutva and this programme thrust, it will emerge soon as the main challenger to the ruling DMK-Congress combine.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

08.06.2009
PRESS RELEASE
The Union Government should cancel the visas of all Sri Lankan citizens who are campaigning against their Government on Indian soil. Most of them are pro-LTTE propagandists.
Sri Lanka is a democracy and a member of SAARC, and having diplomatic relations with India. Hence Sri Lankan citizens have no right to campaign against their own country on Indian soil, when they can speak out in Sri Lanka itself. If Indians campaign against the Indian government amongst foreigners abroad, we Indians will not tolerate it, and in fact suspect foreign governments of planning to de-stabilize our country.
Hence we cannot practice double standards in such delicate matters.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

Are electronic voting machines tamper-proof?
Subramanian Swamy
(Published in The Hindu dt.17.6.2009)
No, argues the author, because each step in the life cycle of a voting machine involves different people gaining access to the machines, often installing new software. But there are many ways of preventing EVM fraud.

Is there a possibility of rigging electoral outcomes in a general election to the Lok Sabha? This question has arisen not only because of the unexpected number of seats won or lost by some parties in the recent contest. It is accentuated by the recent spate of articles published in reputed computer engineering journals and in the popular international press, which raise doubts about the integrity of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs).

For example, the respected International Electrical & Electronics Engineering Journal (IEEE, May 2009, p.23) has published an article by two eminent professors of computer science, titled “Trustworthy Voting.” They conclude that although electronic voting machines do offer a myriad of benefits, these cannot be reaped unless nine suggested safeguards are put in place for protecting the integrity of the outcome. None of these nine safeguards, however, is in place in Indian EVMs. Hence, electronic voting machines in India today do not meet the standard of national integrity or safeguard the sanctity of our democracy.

Newsweek (issue of June 1, 2009) has published an interesting article by Evgeny Morozov, who points out that when Ireland embarked on an ambitious e-voting scheme in 2006, such as touch-screen voting machines, the innovation was widely welcomed. Three years and 51 million euros later, the government scrapped the entire initiative. What doomed the effort was a lack of people’s trust in the machines. Voters just didn’t like that the machines would record their votes as mere electronic blips, with no tangible record.

Mr. Morozov points out that, as most PC-users know, computers can be hacked. While we are not unwilling to accept this security risk in banking, shopping, and e-mailing (since the fraud is at the micro-level and of individual consequence, which in most cases is rectifiable), the ballot box is sacred. It needs to be perfectly safeguarded because of the monumental consequence of a rigged or faulty vote recording. It is of macro-significance, in the nature of an e-coup d’etat. At least that’s what voters across Europe seem to have said loud and clear.

Thus, a backlash against e-voting is brewing across the European continent. After nearly two years of deliberation, Germany’s Supreme Court ruled last March that e-voting was unconstitutional because the average citizen could not be expected to understand the exact steps involved in the recording and tallying of votes. Ulrich Wiesner, a software consultant who holds a Ph.D. in physics and who filed the initial lawsuit, said in an interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel that the Dutch Nedap machines used in Germany were even less secure than mobile phones!

In fact, the Dutch public-interest group ‘Wij Vertrouwen Stemcomputers Niet’ (‘We Do Not Trust Voting Machines’) produced a video showing how quickly the Nedap machines could be hacked without voters or election officials being aware (it took just five minutes). After the clip was broadcast on Dutch national television in October 2006, the Netherlands banned all electronic voting machines from use in elections.

Numerous electronic voting inconsistencies in developing countries, where governments are often all too eager to manipulate votes, have only fuelled the controversy. After Hugo Chavez won the 2004 election in Venezuela, it came out that the government owned 28 per cent of Bizta, the company that manufactured the voting machines. On the eve of the 2009 elections in India, I raised the issue at a press conference in Chennai, pointing out that a political party just before the elections had recruited those who had been convicted in the U.S. for hacking bank accounts on the Internet and credit cards.

In the U.S. too, there is a significant controversy on Elms. In fact, the Secretary of State of California has set up a full-fledged inquiry into EVMs, after staying all further use.

Why are the EVMs so vulnerable? Each step in the life cycle of a voting machine — from the time it is developed and installed to when the votes are recorded and the data transferred to a central repository for tallying — involves different people gaining access to the machines, often installing new software. It wouldn’t be hard for, say, an election official to paint a parallel programme under another password on one or many voting machines that would, before voters arrived at the poll stations, ensure a pre-determined outcome.

The Election Commission of India has known of these dangers since 2000. Dr M. S. Gill, the then CEC, had arranged at my initiative for Professor Sanjay Sarma, the father of RFID software fame at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and his wife Dr Gitanjali Swamy of Harvard, to demonstrate how unsafeguarded the chips in EVMs were. Some changes in procedure were made subsequently by the EC. But the fundamental flaws, which made them compliant to hacking, remained.

In 2004, the Supreme Court’s First Bench, comprising Chief Justice V. N. Khare and Justices Babu and Kapadia, directed the Election Commission to consider the technical flaws in EVMs put forward by Satinath Choudhary, a U.S.-based software engineer, in a PIL. But the EC has failed to consider his representation.

There are many ways to prevent EVM fraud. One way to reduce the risk of fraud is to have machines print a paper record of each vote, which voters could then deposit into a conventional ballot box. While this procedure will ensure that each vote can be verified, using paper ballots defeats the purpose of electronic voting in the first place. Using two machines produced by different manufacturers decreases the risk of a security compromise, but doesn’t eliminate it.

A better way, it is argued in the IEEE article I have cited, is to expose the software behind electronic voting machines to public scrutiny. The root problem of popular electronic machines is that the computer programmes that run them are usually closely held trade secrets (it doesn’t help that the software often runs on the Microsoft Windows operating system, which is not the world’s most secure). Having the software closely examined and tested by experts not affiliated with the company would make it easier to close technical loopholes that hackers can exploit. Experience with web servers has shown that opening software to public scrutiny can uncover potential security breaches.

However, as the Newsweek article points out, the electronic voting machine industry argues that openness will hurt the competitive position of the current market leaders. A report released in April by the Election Technology Council, a U.S. trade association, says that disclosing information on known vulnerabilities might help would-be attackers more than those who would defend against such attacks. Some computer scientists have proposed that computer codes should be disclosed to a limited group of certified experts. Making such disclosure mandatory for all electronic voting machines will be a good first step for preventing vote fraud. It will also be consistent with openness in the electoral process.

Now several High Courts are hearing PILs on the EVMs. This is good news. I believe the time has arrived for the Supreme Court to transfer these cases to itself, and take a long, hard look at these riggable machines that favour a ruling party that can ensure a pliant Election Commission.

Else, elections will soon lose their credibility and the demise of democracy will be near. Hence evidence must now be collected by all political parties to determine the number of constituencies in which they suspect rigging. The number will not exceed 75, in my opinion. We can identify them as follows: any 2009 general election result in which the main losing candidate of a recognised party found that more than 10 per cent of the polling booths showed fewer than five votes per booth should be taken, prima facie, as a constituency in which rigging took place. This is because the main recognised parties usually have more than five party workers per booth, and hence with their families will poll a minimum of 25 votes per booth for their party candidate. If these 25 voters can give affidavits affirming who they voted for, the High Court can treat this as evidence and order a full inquiry.
(The writer is a former Union Law Minister.)

STATEMENT OF DR.SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY PRESIDENT OF JANATA PARTY MADE IN CHENNAI 04.06.2009

1. The Expert Group of the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) of the Ministry of Science and Technology under the Prime Minister has informed the Government and the Dr.R.K. Pachauri Committee in a Report dated March 2009, that the Sethusamudram Ship Channel Project (SSCP) as designed under the stewardship of Mr.T.R. Baalu, as Minister of Shipping, was without “any study done on the potential impact of tectonic events on the Sethusamudram Canal”. It points out that “during February 1948 to January 1949, tectonic events led to the submergence of a part of Dhanushkodi town”. It goes on to recommend that “an answer to this question is clearly needed to estimate the impact and viability of this (SSCP) Project itself”.
2. A copy of the Expert Group Report was provided to me by an official of the PMO, but it should be made public by laying on the Table of Parliament so that all citizens can know what skullduggery took place in ramming the SSCP through for implementation by T.R. Baalu.
3. It may be recalled that the SSCP was stayed by the Supreme Court in August 2007 on my Writ Petition, and subsequently after long arguments, on July 31, 2008 the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Shri Balakrishnan directed the Government to consider an alternate route proposed by me, now designated Alignment No. 4A. This was being considered by the Pachauri Committee, which had referred the matter to the NIO for an expert opinion on feasibility of the alignments. The SSCP Alignment No.6 had required cutting through the Rama Setu, which was not acceptable to the Supreme Court.
4. The said Report of the Expert Group of the NIO further censured the Ministry of Shipping for implementing the SSCP even as “there exists no baseline data to permit a conclusive statement to be made regarding the potential impact of a switch in alignment (i.e., so as not to damage the Rama Setu), as asked for by the Hon’ble Chief Justice of India.”.
5. The Expert Group therefore recommends that “a full fledged EIA (Environment Impact Assessment) be carried out to enable an assessment of the possible impact of Alignment 4A, and indeed of Alignment 6 on the Marine Biosphere Reserve”. This would take another five years.
6. Mr.T.R.Baalu can now be prosecuted under the Prevention of Corruption Act along with all other officials and Ministers who approved the SSCP in gross violation of all canons and norms of government principles. His personal family pecuniary benefits from the SSCP would also come under the scanner.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

May 21, 2009
STATEMENT OF DR. SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY,PRESIDENT OF THE JANATA PARTY

1. Today I paid homage to the memory of former Prime Minister and my good friend Rajiv Gandhi, at the Sriperumbudur Memorial on May 21st, in the wake of the death of V. Prabhakaran and Pottu Amman, the two terrorists who had ordered his assassination. But while the pending trial of these two killers stands terminated, there is still a question that remains unanswered: Whether the LTTE acted alone, or they were encouraged or contracted to kill Rajiv Gandhi. The Commission of Inquiry headed by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, J.S.Verma had found that Congress persons had disrupted the security arrangements in Sriperumbudur. This Report has been buried and diverted by the Jain Commission circus. Recently the then CBI Director and head of the SIT on the assassination told the media that certain politicians and journalists had tried to pressure him to exonerate the role of the LTTE in the assassination, but he did not succumb to the pressure. The nation needs to know by a proper inquiry who these politicians and journalists were. It is also sad that just yesterday Ms.Sonia Gandhi, the widow of Rajiv Gandhi, had invited Thirumavalavan of VCK to her house, one who has repeatedly defended the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi by LTTE.

2. I demand that the Tamil Nadu Government withdraw the bogus murder case pending against the Shankaracharya of Kanchi. It is a waste of public funds to continue with this now defunct case. The Supreme Court while granting bail to the Shankaracharya has already observed that the case lacked prima facie evidence. No new evidence has been unearthed since then.

3. Moreover, in a recent judgment [(2009) 4 SCC 437], the Supreme Court has held that “arrest is not a must” in all murder cases. The Apex Court held that principle guiding the arrest laid down in its earlier 1994 judgment, is that to require arrest, the suspect could disappear or melt into a crowd, and hence become unavailable. Therefore such accused have to be held in custody for purpose of investigation. This principle does not apply to the Shankaracharya even in the wildest of imagination, and hence the Jayalalitha-led Tamil Nadu Government broke the law laid down by the Supreme Court, by throwing the Shankaracharya into Vellore Jail along with criminals and killers of Rajiv Gandhi. She must now express public regret for this illegal action.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

May 19, 2009
Press Release
The defeat and decimation of the LTTE by the Sri Lanka armed forces with the firm resolve of President Rajapakse, is a cause for rejoicing by democratic patriotic people of India. LTTE not only killed Rajiv Gandhi, but was training cadres of ULFA, Naxalites, PWG and Dravida Kazhagam. It was smuggling arms and narcotics into India and petrol, diesel and medicines out of our country.

The people of Tamil Nadu have several times demonstrated that they do not want to have anything to do with the LTTE. In the recent General Elections, they defeated the touts of the LTTE viz., the leaders of MDMK and PMK. Hence, we are pleased that President Rajapakse has accepted to address the root causes, namely, the lack of adequate human and political rights of the Tamils in Sri Lanka.

The President of Sri Lanka therefore must take steps to devolve powers in the Constitution to the Tamils areas in North and East Sri Lanka, to enable the residents to pursue their local economic and cultural aspirations.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

08.05.2009
PRESS RELEASE
The Congress Party is living in a fool’s paradise and on a wild goose chase for allies to support a Congress-led Government.

However since BJP will be the single largest party, hence inevitably L.K.Advani will be first called to form the Government. There is therefore every possibility of a 1977-type “Janata Front” emerging to which Front the SP, RJP and LJP could extend support as they did in 1977, to fight against the Emergency.

Today with all our neighbouring countries dangerously on fire, and the Taliban looming large to grab Pakistan and its nuclear weapons, the formation of such a Janata Front is necessary for safeguarding India’s national security and integrity.

I am personally in touch with my good friends Mulayam Singh, Lalu Yadav, and Ram Vilas Paswan to try and facilitate the formation of such a Janata Front to support the Prime Ministership of L.K.Advani.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

02.05.2009
PRESS RELEASE

The AIADMK leader Ms.Jayalalitha must reply to facts that have become now available about the reality in Sri Lanka, and change her defacto pro-LTTE stand.

First, of all, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar has disowned Ms.Jayalalitha’s statement that he had shown her a DVD of horrors committed on Sri Lankan Tamils by the Sri Lankan army in refugee camps in the island. In his public rebuttal he stated that the Sri Lanka refugee camps were “far better” than the refugee camps for Sri Lankan Tamil refugees in Tamil Nadu, and also for Hindus refugees from Kashmir in north India.

Ms.Jayalalitha had advocated for Tamil Eelam on the ground of this non-existent DVD.

Will Ms.Jayalalitha therefore now re-consider her impractical demand for Tamil Eelam when a federal Constitution is a more acceptable option for the Tamils?

Second, India and foreign media have reported through interviews with arriving Sri Lankan Tamil refugees, three findings: (1) that the LTTE is forcibly holding Tamils as human shields for its self protection (2) that the LTTE is forcibly recruiting child soldiers from amongst these hostages which is against all international human right norms, and is also a war crime (3) that the LTTE is shooting and killing any Tamil hostage who tries to flee from the sub-human conditions that they are being forcibly kept in by that terrorist organization.

Will Ms.Jayalalitha therefore shift her attention from her current disastrous political one-up-manship with Karunanidhi, and return to her anti-terror and nationalist resolve of the past? If she does so admitting to her error it will add to her stature and not diminish it. She should not be swayed by financial orphans of the LTTE in India who have surrounded her, and commit thereby political hara-kiri (suicide).
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

29.04.2009
PRESS RELEASE
The CBI’s decision on UPA Government’s legal advice to notify the Interpol that the Red Corner Notice and arrest warrant against Maino’s family friend and confidant, Mr.Ottavio Quattrocchi, be withdrawn is to be condemned as a gross misuse of power.
It is also a solid indicator that the Congress President Ms.Sonia Gandhi and her political cohorts have determined that their party has no chance of whatsoever to return to power at the Centre post-May 16th. Hence they have decided to pursue “the scorched earth” policy that defeated and retreating armies practice.
However, there is no escape for the Maino family on this and other infractions of the law committed by them to date.
(Subramanian Swamy)

27.04.2009
PRESS RELEASE
The Tamil Nadu electioneering is becoming an international comic opera with slogan escalation which are becoming more and more ridiculous.
The common Tamil Nadu problems such as unemployment, law & order, power cuts and corruption have been completely forgotten in this narrow jingoism.
The call for an independent Tamil Eelam given by Ms.Jayalalitha is quixotic since she has failed to tell the Tamils how this can be achieved in Sri Lanka, a SAARC country which is also a member of the United Nations and is not friendless. Moreover, Sri Sri Ravishankar has disowned her claim that he had showed proof of atrocities in Sri Lanka camps. In fact, the Swamiji has stated the conditions are better in Sri Lanka than in India for refugees, completely discrediting Jayalalitha.
Similarly, the post-breakfast pre-lunch fast unto death of Mr. Karunanidhi is deceitful. Late last night, Mr.Karunanidhi was informed by the Union Government that the LTTE has become exhausted and hence the Sri Lanka army would now concentrate on combing operations. This was also posted Sri Lankan Defence Ministry website last night. Yet Mr.Karunanidhi has dishonestly enacted this virtual fast drama. Tamils should therefore vote only for the BJP-led front, and teach DMK & AIADMK a lesson by defeating them both.
(Subramanian Swamy)

25.04.2009
PRESS RELEASE
The DMK-led Tamil Nadu Government must now take pre-emptive steps against pro-LTTE secessionist elements in the state from disturbing the law and order in the state. The National Security Act and the Unlawful Activities Act must be used to arrest the leaders of the trouble-makers, such as Vaiko, Nedumaran, Veeramani, Thirumavalan and others immediately.
Only those Tamils who consider themselves as Indians first are entitled to democratic freedoms and fundamental rights. Others have to be put in prison.
Mr.Karunanidhi should ask for CRPF and BSF from the Centre, to assist the Tamil Nadu Police without hesitation. After, all, Mr.Karunanidhi and his son Stalin’s personal security are from the Central Security personnel.
(Subramanian Swamy)

24.04.2009
PRESS RELEASE
Today’s newspapers have printed a photograph of MDMK leader Vaiko standing, at attention with folded hands, on the stage while Ms.Jayalalitha addressed a public meeting his constituency. This slavish behaviour is a pathetic demonstration of the demise of the Dravidian Movement of E.V.Ramaswamy Naicker, which was founded as a ‘self-respect’ movement.
For a person who threatened a river of Indian to flow blood and the secession of Tamil Nadu from the Indian Union for “even a scratch” on the terrorist-on-the-run V.Prabhakaran, this degradation is the ultimate shame for all self-respecting Tamils.
Vaiko is a candidate for Lok Sabha from Virudhunagar, the home of the tallest Tamil leader K.Kamaraj. Hence, the voters should elect M.Karthik, the BJP led coalition candidate, who is a nationalist and from a patriotic family, and defeat this anti-national servile person to uphold the sacred memory of Kamarajar.
(Subramanian Swamy)

April 22, 2009.
PRESS RELEASE
I condemn the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Mr.M.Karunanidhi for calling for a bandh to pressurize the Central Government to ensure a cease-fire in Sri Lanka. There is no need for a bandh to effect a cease-fire in Sri Lanka because the Tamil civilians in the no-firing zone have already escaped from in the LTTE held areas, to safe areas under the control of Sri Lankan army. Moreover, the LTTE is finished and it is only a matter of days before Prabhakaran is taken dead or alive. Hence a cease-fire is on the cards because there will be no war left to fight for the Sri Lankan army.
The bandh however is condemnable because the election process is on, and 23rd is the second last days for filing of nomination for candidates for Lok Sabha constituencies in Tamil Nadu. Hence while being Chief Minister and having taken the oath to uphold the Indian Constitution, it is a gross dereliction of duty and contempt of the Indian Constitution to call for a bandh.
I therefore demand that President’s rule be imposed in Tamil Nadu and the Union Government dispatch CRPF and BSF to assist the Tamil Police in maintaining law and order in the State. I also demand the pre-emptive arrest of anti-national Tamil politicians like Vaiko, Nedumaran and such like who have become financial orphans after the demise of the LTTE, to ensure that they do not encourage history-sheeters and known criminals to riot in the State.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

April 21, 2009.
PRESS RELEASE
I appeal to the leadership of the NDA to support the candidacy of George Fernandes presently contesting as an Independent from Muzaffarpur in Bihar. This support can be facilitated by withdrawing the NDA candidate from that constituency in his favour.
Mr.George Fernandes was in the forefront of the struggle against the Emergency and had inspired the country’s youth by his valour and rebellion against atrocities being committed by the then Indira Gandhi Government. It is because of persons like George Fernandes and organizations like the RSS that today the nation is having democracy and elections are being conducted on schedule.
Hence, it will be morally wrong to disregard Fernandes’ huge past contribution to the nation on grounds of his age and indifferent health. He is still mentally very active. Therefore, at this moment in his life the nation and his erstwhile political colleagues must honour him by setting aside narrow considerations, endorse him, and work for his victory in the election.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

April 20, 2009
PRESS RELEASE
The flip flop of the TN CM Mr.M.Karunanidhi on the LTTE issue is symptomatic of the deeper malaise in the thinking of pro-LTTE Tamil Nadu leaders. They are torn between the reality that the people of Tamil Nadu do not care about the fate of the LTTE and their vanity about the Dravidian Movement and its assumed illusory macho character. It is unbearable for them that the LTTE would get such a thrashing and face such a pathetic end.
Only financial orphans like Vaiko are today bothered about the imminent demise of the LTTE. Hence Karunanidhi and Jayalalithaa should get real and drop the LATE issue from the political discourse in the ongoing election and debate issues which concern the common man such as governance, development, and law&order.
Subramanian Swamy

14.04.2009
PRESS RELEASE
The decision announced by Mr.Rahul Gandhi, General Secretary of the Congress Party in a press conference today that he will sue the New Indian Express for publishing a false and defamatory article is a bravado that he does not intend to pursue. He is upset at the newspaper for an allegedly false and defamatory article debunking his claim in the sworn affidavit that he filed as Lok Sabha candidate at having received a M.Phil degree in Development Economics from University of Cambridge.
I hope this is not the usual Maino-Gandhi threat that is soon after to be conveniently forgotten. For example, Mr.Gandhi had got issued through his lawyer a Notice to a website for publishing certain scandalous details about an incident involving him and one Sukhanya of Amethi on the night of December, 2006. Despite the author of the defamatory article ignoring his legal notice, Mr.Gandhi conveniently forgot about it and so did the Indian media after publicizing his legal notice.
Again Mr.Rahul Gandhi was caught red-handed is Boston airport, USA, by the FBI because he was carrying US$1,60,000 in cash without declaring it to the US Customs US laws require cash carried above US$10,000 has to be declared to US Customs upon arrival in US. For this criminal violation of the law, Mr.Rahul Gandhi was arrested by the FBI on 27th September, 2001 at Boston airport and kept in the FBI custody for nine hours before the then Prime Minister Mr.Atal Behari Vajpayee intervened to have him set free.
A complete and full opportunity is required for the public to know who is Mr.Rahul Gandhi: Is he an Indian or still a citizen of Italy under the name Rahul Vinci? A court case will provide an opportunity to obtain authenticated and certified documents on the matter procured by Letters Rogatory issued by the Court, once a criminal complaint or a suit under the Civil Procedure Code is filed by Mr.Rahul Gandhi.
Therefore I advise the New Indian Express to ignore his notice as a silly harassment, and demand that he file a fulfledged complaint. Public persons should not file defamation cases, but answer through the media by producing clinching documents. Otherwise they should be taught a lesson in Court.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

10.04.2009
PRESS RELEASE
The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Mr.M.Karunanidhi appears to have accepted that the end of LTTE Supremo Prabhakaran is near. Otherwise there is no reason for him to appeal to Sri Lanka Government to show the terrorist and Rajiv Gandhi killer, Prabhakaran, any mercy befitting a “fallen king”. The Alexander-Porus episode is in fact a figment of the imagination of paid Greek Chroniclers (Alexander was actually defeated on the Persian-Hindustan border, and died of a broken heart while on retreat), despite that, the mythical Porus even according to these chroniclers had put himself in front of the civilian population and did not, as Prabhakaran is doing today hide behind innocent civilians holding them hostage at a point of a gun.

Instead of spinning romantic yarns, the Chief Minister should prepare the state now for the post-Prabhakaran situation in the State. I have seen some videos and audio tapes smuggled out by Tamil refugees from Pudukudiyarppu, which show Prabhakaran behaving much like Hitler in early April 1945. On 30th April 1945 Hitler committed suicide. In his last days his megalomania got a reality check which led to his ranting and raving just as Prabhakaran is doing now.

The financial orphans of the LTTE in Tamil Nadu such as MDMK along with VCK, Naxalities etc., have already threatened a “blood bath” in Tamil Nadu and are bound to create trouble. Hence, the Government must take pre-emptive action by posting the CRPF and BSF, as also put the Army on a stand-by in the state, and carry out pre-emptive arrest as the Chandrashekhar Government did in 1991.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

09.04.2009
PRESS RELEASE
The speech given by MDMK leader Vaiko at a public meeting yesterday in Chennai is highly objectionable, anti-national, and deserving strict action under the law. Mr.Varun Gandhi was sent to prison under the NSA for a speech inciting communal passions. By that criterion, Vaiko’s speech threatening “rivers of blood” in Tamil Nadu followed by secession of the State, if that militarily defeated, murderer, terrorist and foreigner V.Prabhakaran who is a Proclaimed Offender in India for having ordered the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, is in anyway harmed by the Sri Lankan army in Sri Lanka, is extraordinary incitement to violence and disloyalty to the nation.
This is the most traitorous and offensive statement by any person claiming to be an Indian. Hence I demand that Chief Minister Mr.Karunanidhi wake from his slumber and shake off his attitude of gross permissiveness, and put Vaiko in prison under the NSA. Otherwise the Centre should act by giving a direction to Tamilnadu Government under Article 355 of the Constitution.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

07.04.2009
PRESS RELEASE
The revelation in New Indian Express, Chennai today of the false claim of Mr.Rahul Gandhi made in his sworn affidavit that he holds a M Phil in Development Economics from Trinity College, Cambridge University calls from an immediate Notice for perjury to be sent to him by the Election Commission. Otherwise, I shall move the Courts for action.
The revelation confirms the disclosure I made after a visit to the Department of Development Studies, University of Cambridge in 2005. I was informed by the Department’s library and revealed in its computer, that Mr.Gandhi did not complete his M Phil degree because he had failed the National Economic Planning and Policy exam and hence could not fulfil the mandatory requirement of writing a M Phil thesis (much less defend it). Also, Trinity College does not award M Phil degrees, and Development Studies Department has nothing to do with the Economics Department.
Moreover, according to University records Mr.Gandhi as Raul Vinci had given his citizenship as ‘Italian citizen by birth since born to an Italian mother”, and holds an Italian passport in that name. He also paid his fees from a numbered account in a tax-haven bank.
Incidentally, Mr.Gandhi had failed the first year B,A in St.Stephan’s College in Delhi because, as his sister had in Jesus and Mary College, he failed the Hindi compulsory course exam.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

06.04.2009
PRESS RELEASE
The nomination of Ms.Sonia Gandhi as a candidate for Lok Sabha from Rae Bareli is liable to be rejected because her name does not appear in the Home Ministry records of all registered citizens of India. There is a name of one Ms.Antonia Maino, born in Luciana, Italy, who has been granted citizenship of India in 1983. But Ms.Sonia Gandhi claims, according to Lok Sabha records, as having being born in Orbassano, Italy. Moreover there is no G.O or official notification which is required, that Sonia Gandhi is the changed name of Ms.Antonia Maino.
Moreover, Ms.Sonia Gandhi, even if she is Ms.Antonia Maino, has not submitted an official certificate from Italy Internal Affairs Department that she has formally renounced her Italian citizenship. This is a mandatory requirement for grant of Indian citizenship. Hence on these two counts Ms.Sonia Gandhi must produce proof of Indian citizenship at the time of scrutiny of her nomination forms. Otherwise her nomination papers must be rejected.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

04.04.2009
PRESS RELEASE
The Congress Party President Ms.Sonia Gandhi seeing the imminent collapse of the UPA has set-up a seven member ‘crisis management’ team of foreigners based in a five star hotel in Delhi. This is a serious threat India’s national security.
While the names of all seven members are available with me, I am gathering the detailed antecedents of these dirty seven. The first member identified for me is an obscure UK-based journalist called Mr.David Green who has written for London tabloids on “snack foods”. He was easy to identify because he is often seen-by SPG at the residence of Ms.Sonia Gandhi reading secret files being made available to her by some Ministers and bureaucrats. Indian intelligence is being blocked by the Home Minister P.Chidambaram from investigating whether Ms.Green is an operative for British Intelligence, the MI-6.
One of the tasks assigned to this nefarious team is how to doctor the electronic voting machines in about 50 constituencies by using dual passwords technique and by hacking via wireless cyber techniques.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

28.03.2009
PRESS RELEASE
1. The Union Home Ministry decision to make security arrangements for the Davis Cup Tennis Tournament in Chennai, but not for the IPL is extremely curious especially since the son of Mr.Chidambaram the Union Home Minister has some indirect business interests in promoting this tournament.
2. It is an offence under the Prevention of Corruption Act to use government security to promote directly or indirectly the private business of one’s kith and kin.
3. I demand the Home Minister give a clarification as to how he has agreed to provide security for the Davis Cup but not for IPL.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

March 23, 2009
PRESS RELEASE
The Election Commission has broken new ground by offering advice gratis to the BJP on why Varun Gandhi should not be made a candidate of the Party to contest the forthcoming General Elections to the Lok Sabha. It will be therefore a mark of their impartiality if they now also wrote to the Congress Party not to field Ms.Sonia Gandhi for having committed perjury by falsely declaring in a sworn affidavit at the 2004 Lok Sabha candidate of the Congress Party that she had been educated at the University of Cambridge. Communal speeches are as heinous a crime as perjury by a candidate standing in an election.
If the EC fails to do so, it will mean that they have targeted Varun Gandhi at the behest of Ms. Sonia Gandhi.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

March 19, 2009
PRESS RELEASE
The decision of the Madras High Court Special Bench to direct the suspension of two police officials for facilitating an inquiry into the alleged unauthorized armed police entry in the High Court campus on February 19th and the consequent disproportionate use of the force by police against the pro-LTTE rock-throwing and arson-indulging lawyers, is one-sided that needs to be rectified by the Court itself in future proceedings in the matter. The next hearings in the High Court and Supreme Court for this is slated for mid-April.
It is moreover ridiculous for these pro-LTTE advocates to take-out a “victory procession”, perhaps to hide their climb down from their earlier demands to suspend the DGP and Chennai Police Commissioner and for a ceasefire in Sri Lanka.
Action against criminal activities and professional misconduct by about 20 advocates whose names figure in the February 17th FIR on the cowardly egg-throwing incident in open court and the 19th FIR on rioting and torching of the Police Station inside the High Court premises, now entrusted to the CBI, cannot be kept anymore in abeyance. Along with the Justice Sri Krishna’s Report on these ugly criminal incidents, the whole matter of the rule of law and a code of conduct for advocates will be have to be thoroughly argued in Court for which I will be soon filing a PIL.
( SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY )

14.03.2009
PRESS RELEASE
The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Mr.Karunanidhi, now that the Chief Justice of the Madras High Court has drawn the judicial "Lakshman Rekha" for advocates, now discharge his constitutional responsibilities and perform his administrative duties by taking necessary steps to restore law and order in the state. One of pillars of our democracy the judicial system has, for two working months, not been able to function in the state to dispense justice to the people due to a lack of a peaceful environment. The blame for this state of affairs rests on the Chief Minister for his permissive and lax attitude towards anti-national, pro-LTTE, and violent briefless advocates during the last four months following the rout of the LTTE in Sri Lanka.
The Chief Minister who also holds the Home portfolio must now take action over the weekend and put under preventive detention the known trouble makers, history sheeters, financial orphans of the LTTE, and those known to the Intelligence Bureau as agents of other foreign terrorist organisations and foreign religious missionaries, all of whom are acting to de-stabilise the state and the nation.
For this action, the Tamil Nadu government can invoke the National Security Act, Unlawful Activities Act, and the Goondas Act, not to mention the cognisable offences prima facie committed according the FIRs on the violent incidents of February 17th and 19th. These anti-national briefless lawyers and touts are also liable to be sent to jail for criminal Contempt of Court and disbarred from practice misconduct under the Advocates Act. Verifiable vidoes are now available to identify them and accordingly prosecute them.
People in a democracy go to the courts to get justice. Advocates are officers of the court and are supposed to argue for the people to get them justice. But in Tamil Nadu we are witnessing a ridiculous and shameful situation wherein the officers of the court have no faith in the judicial system and have instead come out violently on the streets in favour of foreign terrorists. If the enraged people denied timely justice also come out in the streets where will these advocates hide especially since they have made the police into their enemies? The best friend of advocates is democracy. They should therefore strive to nuture it and not soil it.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

10.03.2009
PRESS RELEASE
The news report that some so-called advocates have asked for Contempt of Court proceedings against some civil servants and police officials for the police crackdown of February 19th in the Madras High Court campus, is ridiculous and betrays a complete lack of knowledge of law.
Contempt of Court Act makes it clear that only if the administration of justice is threatened by failure to comply with judicial orders will the Act come into operation. By this standard, those advocates go on strike have flouted the Supreme Court judgment of 2003 in the Uppal case, and hence the strike since January 29th is a gross contempt of court and a breach of the Advocates Act which entails disbarment from the profession for misconduct. Those who threw eggs at me and several others on February 17th inside the Court of Justices Misra and Chandru while Court was in session, are undoubtedly slated for removal from the Bar and also imprisonment because the evidence assembled is incontrovertible and cross-verified by the three independent sources: The Division Bench’s Order, the FIR registered on ACP Khader Moindeen’s complaint, and the Report of the Justice Sri Krishna. The claim of some advocates that the Sri Krishna report is biased is silly because the Committee was appointed by the Supreme Court with the concurrence of the advocates from the MHC Bar Association. Now because the Report is not to their liking, therefore it cannot be faulted.
The after thought to register a case under PCR Act against me two days after on February 19th for allegedly making a derogatory caste remark in open Court on February 17th is laughable. This cheap trick has been used before against me by pro-LTTE forces. In 1995, such an attempt was made by a Madurai based LTTE stooge, and backed by the Dravida Kazhagam. Chief Justice Ahmadi’s First Bench rebuked such attempts and passed an Order that I cannot be arrested under the Act anywhere in Tamil Nadu except at my Mylapore residence and simultaneously released immediately on giving on a plain piece of paper a Rs.100 bond.
Ever since I fought for the Scheduled Castes in the Kodiyankulam caste cum police atrocity, made prominent Scheduled Castes leaders like Kakkan Vishvanathan as Janata Party office bearers, and helped Dalit IAS officers like K. Sivagami [now BSP] get their due, the DK has been fronting for attempts to create doubts in the minds of unsuspecting Scheduled Castes by such cheap tricks. A Brahmin-SC alliance is death knell for the Dravidian Movement. Hence, to nip that in the bud such cheap tricks have to be resorted to. The moment I get a copy of this bogus FIR I will again approach the Supreme Court for more safeguards against the misuse of the Act, and also to extend the PCRA to including abusing of Brahmins which the pro-LTTE so-called advocates had indulged in.
The real question is now the breakdown of the Constitution in the state of Tamil Nadu due to the paralysis in all the courts in the state caused by the strike. There appears to be a foreign hand funding some advocates to drag the strike into the General Election whereby maximum fraud can be conducted in the polling. Hence, unless the Chief Minister cum Home Minister, Mr. Karunaidhi acts to restore normalcy by arresting some fifty odd so-called advocates under the NSA, Unlawful Activities Act and Goondas Act, it can be assumed that he is assisting this foreign hand for his narrow political and electoral interests.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

09.03.2009
Selvi. J.Jayalalithaa,
General Secretary, AIADMK
36 Poes Garden
Chennai, TN.

Dear Selvi Jayalalithaa avl:

Please accept my congratulations for highlighting the current plight of the innocent Tamil people of Sri Lanka. The hapless Tamils have been at the receiving end of violence, betrayal and crude denial of human rights for long perpetrated by the Sri Lanka Government and terrorist LTTE. Your fast is therefore necessary and appropriate today in the context of the LTTE being on the run and facing decimation. The Sri Lankan Government has pledged to leaders of many democratic nations that once the LTTE menace is contained or eliminated, the Tamil people of the island will get constitutionally enshrined rights and devolution of power for a secure state within a federal Sri Lanka. But the Sri Lankan Government, dominated by hegemonistic attitude of some Sinhala leaders, has a very poor past track record in keeping promises.
Hence time has arrived for leaders like yourself to issue warning to the Sri Lanka government that if Tamil human rights are not constitutionally safeguarded, a future Indian government in which you will be having a major say, will not watch passively as onlookers. The denial of human rights to Tamils in the island spills into a flow of refugees to India, and hence the Indian Government have to be concerned about the affairs of Sri Lanka.
My best wishes for the success of your mission today to highlight the plight of Tamils and also to expose the fraud on the people of India perpetrated by the minority DMK Government in the state and insensitive outgoing UPA government at the Centre.
Yours sincerely,
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

March 7, 2009.
PRESS RELEASE
The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh should drop his Home Minister P. Chidambaram for being scatter-brained and running after quick fixes. Hence the national reputation and awe for the office of Home Minister has been completely dissipated.
PC began his tenure as Home Minister by announcing that he had been invited for an official visit to the US. But the US Government promptly snubbed him with the then Secretary of State Dr. Condolessa Rice declaring that she had no time to receive him. Therefore that visit had to be aborted. Then he made a media--blitzed trip to Assam, where, upon his arrival, terrorists set off bombs. While in Assam he concentrated on the Pakistani threats while HUJI was crawling all over Assam, from Bangla Desh sanctuaries. Thereafter he declared that he is ready to arrange a ceasefire in Sri Lanka provided both sides, Government and LTTE, laid down arms. This subject had nothing to do with his portfolio. The MEA therefore distanced itself while both Sri Lanka government and LTTE ridiculed the offer.
Now instead of wanting to help Karnataka Government set up NSG centers and tone up security infrastructure in the State, he pompously informed the State Government that he wanted a discussion on the security at the booze pubs in the State and the safety in Christian Churches in Mangalore. This concern while he has not bothered to probe the killing of the 89-year old saintly Swami Lakshmananda in Orissa, probably because his political patron would not have approved.
Mr. Chidambaram has thus brought shame to the august Ministry of Home Affairs. The sooner he is sent home the better for national security.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

March 6, 2009
PRESS RELEASE
The Sri Krishna Inquiry Committee set up by the Supreme Court has its Report judiciously considered all the facts and come to the conclusion that: (1) the incidents of violence in the Madras High Court on February 17th and 19th was caused first by a handful of lawyers. (2) that police did commit excesses but there were mitigating circumstances in light of violent behaviour of the lawyer-agitators and therefore force had became necessary to restore public order; and (3) that lawyers were guilty of unprofessional misconduct and therefore they ought to have been punished under Section 34 of the Advocates Act, and that the Bar Council was not alert to its responsibilities on this score. I feel personally vindicated by the factual narration in the Sri Krishna report of the egg throwing incident when I went to Court on February 17th.
Hence, I demand now that the Senior Advocates and democratic minded lawyers of Madras High Court must now decisively reject the forces of disruption and anti-nationalism and resume work on Monday. If they are not able do so, then the TN Government must obtain necessary permission from the Chief Justice and provide adequate protection to all lawyers who want to resume work in Courts. If necessary, CRPF and BSF should be summoned by the Chief Minister for this purpose, since maintenance of public order is of utmost importance. If Mr.Karunanidhi cannot protect the judicial system and ensure its smooth functioning in interest of public order, then he better resign and suggest imposition of President’s rule in the State.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

STATEMENTOF DR.SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY, PRESIDENT OF JANATA PARTY MADE IN CHENNAI ON 04.03.2009
1. The Supreme Court Order on the Madras High Court violent incidents concerned only happenings that led to the police lathi charge on February 19th, and on the illegality of the strike called by Advocates, which illegality is also Contempt of Court since the strike flouts the order of the Supreme Court made in an earlier case {reported in (2003) 2 SCC 45}.
2. In the FIR filed on February 17th 16 named and four unidentified advocates have been named as accused on the complaint of the Assistant Commissioner of Police Khader Moideen regarding the egg-throwing incidents, and the assault of the police personnel inside the court. This FIR is fully backed by facts recorded in a written Order of the Division Bench of Justices P.K. Misra and K. Chanddru. This FIR will have to be investigated by the CBI, preferably under High Court monitoring. A five Judge Bench will hear the police and Registrar General’s report on the matter will be heard as a PIL in the Madras High Court on March 11, 2009, on which occasion reference to CBI investigation may be made.
3. The Justice Sri Krishna Commission appointed by the SC ought to consider complaints made by police regarding the various scandalous atrocities committed by offending Advocates including the stripping of officers and unsavoury lewd sexual misdemeanour with women police personnel inside court premises.
4. The Janata Party Madurai office attack case will be heard by the Madurai Bench of the High Court.
5. The real malaise today in the Legal profession is because of just 5 percent of the Advocates of Naxalite, VCK and LTTE persuations. They have to be isolated and debarred from the legal profession under Section 34 of the Advocates Act and as per the Supreme Court 2003 judgment. There is no escape for them from India’s patriotic democratic forces who have been aroused now by the anti-national acts and contempt of Court by these 5 percent. Just as their mentor, V.Prabhakaran of the terrorist outfit the LTTE, is on the run, they will be brought to book or be on the run.
6. Recent incidents of terrorism inside Pakistan including the latest attack on the Sri Lanka Cricket Team is further confirmation my earlier warning that Pakistan is a failed state since there are five different independent centers of Government, viz., civil, military, ISI, Mullahs and Taliban. It is only a matter of time before Pakistan collapses and comes into the grip of Al Qaeda. Hence, India must prepare for a final war within the next two years with Al Qaeda controlled Pakistan.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

27,02. 2009
PRESS RELEASE
The Supreme Court Order made yesterday concerns only the police lathi charge on February 19th and on the illegality of the strike called by Advocates, which illegality is also Contempt of Court since the strike flouts the order of the Supreme Court made in an earlier case {reported in (2003) 2 SCC 45 }.
However, the FIR against 16 named and four unidentified advocates as accused on the complaint of the Assistant Commissioner of Police Khader Moideen on the February 17th egg-throwing (on me) and the assault of the police personnel inside the court, which indecent and violent behaviour was fully recorded in a written Order by a Division Bench of Justices P.K. Misra and K. Chanddru, is with the CBI, and will be investigated and prosecuted by the agency under High Court monitoring.
Police have every right now to place before the Justice Sri Krishna Committee the various other scandalous atrocities committed by the offending Advocates including the stripping of officers and unsavoury lewd sexual misdemeanour with women police personnel inside court premises.
The real malaise is in just 5 percent of the Advocates of Naxalite, VCK and LTTE persuation. They have to be isolated and disbarred from the legal profession. There is no escape for them from patriotic democratic forces.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

26.02.2009
PRESS RELEASE
The threat to assassinate the AIADMK leader Ms.J.Jayalalitha sent in a cowardly anonymous letter to her residence is symptomatic of the general decline in law and order, which has been permissively presided over by the Chief Minister holding the Home portfolio.
The culture of violence and disregard for the rule of law were sharply visible in the recent Tirumangalam bye-election and in the release of hardened unrepentant criminals last September on the occasion of Anna’s birthday. The licence given by Mr.Karunanidhi to goondaism was in sharp focus in these events. In fact, the Police Commissioner of Chennai has said on record that the release of hardened convicts serving life sentences in prison was primarily responsible for the rise in crime in Tamil Nadu, which by now, according to the Bureau of Police records, Ministry of Home Affairs, places Tamil Nadu as No.2 crime State in the country.
The anonymous threat to the life of Ms.Jayalalitha has therefore to be taken seriously by the Centre because the anti-national forces in the State who are paid agents of the pro-LTTE outfits see the rise in the popularity of Ms.Jayalalithaa and the possibility of her becoming a key player in Delhi in the formation of the next Government as a threat to the sinister livelihood and loot. There is a crime network that has been set up under the malignant regime of Mr.Karunanidhi since 2004.
I, therefore, urge the Prime Minister to take personal note of it and spruce up the vigil for the safety to Ms.Jayalalithaa, especially since the present Union Home Minister cannot be trusted to do the task impartially in view of the social company he keeps.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

24.02.2009
PRESS RELEASE
The Law minister of the Tamilnadu DMK-led government Mr.Duraimurugan has in his statement in the TN legislative Assembly deliberately tried to politicise and thereby dignify the rowdy behavior and acts of goondaism by some Advocates in Tamilnadu during the recent past in the Madras High Court. He has thus committed a breach of privilege of the House.
He alleged that some anti social elements, and not advocates, had resorted to egg throwing and offensive sloganeering before the Division Bench of Justices P.K.Mishra and K.Chandru while the Court was in session.
This contradicts the order of the Division Bench made suo moto after the ugly and deplorable incident, in which the Bench has stated that “an unruly mob consisting of many Advocates, entered inside Court Hall No.3 and started shouting slogans in support of Sri Lankan Tamils. Some members of the mob threw rotten eggs inside the Court Hall and shouted in filthy language including slogans……. Such unruly behavior continued despite being warned by the Judges sitting on the dias”.
Mr.Duraimurugan statement in the House also contradicts the FIR registered by the state police. In FIR No.B4 Cr.No.13/2009 dated 18.2.2009, the complainant ACP Khader Mohideen has identified 14 Advocates whose names figure in the Bar Council rolls, who “threw rotten eggs at Subramanian Swamy”
Thus Mr.Duraimurugan has told a blatant lie on the floor of the Assembly and hence guilty of breach of privilege of the House.
The ugly incident in Court has tarnished the fair name of Tamilnadu nationally and internationally. The main reason for such incidents is the permissive attitude toward lawlessness of the DMK Government who have a long record of anti-national acts and violence against their opponents. The DMK Government is unable to protect the honour of even the women police positioned inside the Court who have been subjected to crude and vulgar advances by pro-LTTE advocates.
In my view, the administration of the State can no more by conducted according to the requirements of the Constitution, and hence a period of President’s Rule is no essential for the restoration of law and order and normalcy in Tamilnadu.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

23.02.2009
PRESS RELEASE
The statement of Mr.Abdul Khaleque Madrasi, Vice Rector of the Islamic seminary, Dar-ul-Uloom at Deoband, which institution is widely regarded as the most authoritative and respected for its rulings on Islamic religious philosophy and life style and which rulings are obeyed and followed by Muslims all over India, has given a stirring message which could well lay the foundation for Hindu-Muslim unity in India.
Reacting to the demand [to declare India as Darul Aman and not Darul Harab] contained in the Resolution passed at the Dharma Raksha Manch conference in Mumbai on December 28-29 last year, and released to the press day before yesterday by Mr.Ashok Singhal, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad International President Mr.Madrasi agreed that India cannot be subject to jihad by religious Muslims because it cannot be categorized as Dar-ul-Harb and is better described as Dar-ul-Aman (abode of peace).
The Dharma Raksha Manch conference was attended by all the Shankaracharyas, Muttadhipatis, Peethadhipatis and Akhara chiefs. I had also attended at the invitation of the Manch and was the only politician invited.
Mr.Madrasi also said that the Daru-ul-Uloom is ready to issue a Fatwa as demanded in the Resolution, if the prescribed procedure for obtaining such a religious edict is followed by the Manch.
This historical demand of the Dharma Raksha Manch followed by Muslims positive response can be the foundation for lasting peace and harmony between the Hindus and Muslim Community.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

21.02.2008
PRESS RELEASE
The LTTE’s bombing of Colombo yesterday represents the last flicker burst of terrorism by the outfit before becoming extinguished. It is a last desperate act of terrorism.
The LTTE has now been thoroughly exposed as a terrorist organization bereft of any civilized society support anywhere in the world. Their much touted backing in the Tamil Nadu has been shown to be of riff raffs who commit arson on public transport vehicles which are despicable acts of goodaism. In 1991 when Janata Government under the Prime Ministership of Mr.Chandrashekhar had dismissed the DMK Government, the claim of Tamil supporters for LTTE was exposed. Not a single cycle was burnt, much less a bus or jeep, following the aftermath of the dismissal of the DMK Government on January 31, 1991. The Tamil Nadu police which was acting as a supplicant during the DMK regime became the vanguard for protective and patriotic action under Central rule under my supervision. Hence it is the political leadership which decides the behavior of the police and not the police themselves.
I demand action against those lawyers who had humiliated the ACP by name Khader Moiuddin in open court in front of almost hundred advocates, two senior Judges, and roughed him up. We now learn from the police that another police officer was stripped of his clothes by some LTTE/Naxalite/MDMK/PMK/VCK lawyers. Police personnel also are human beings and have self-respect. If to vindicate themselves they commit excesses, we cannot justify it but certainly treat it as a mitigating circumstance.
Let this incident now serve notice to all anti-national characters in Tamil Nadu that to maintain public order the whole country will rally for it. If any Administration is not able to maintain public order that Government will not remain in Office.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

20.02.2008
PRESS RELEASE
I welcome a CBI inquiry into the violent incidents that occurred in the campus of the Madras High Court. This inquiry should be under Court monitoring and should be judicially decided.
The CBI should not only investigate the police lathi-charge, but also the humiliation and brutal attack or Assistant Commissioner of Police Khaja Moinuddeen in the Court premises in front of all of us as well as the Division Bench of Hon’ble Judges Misra and Chandra.
While police excesses may be brought to book, the mitigating circumstances of constant humiliation of the police by a handful of pro-LTTE so-called lawyers have to be also taken into account in reaching a judicial decision after the CBI submits its report to Court.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

19.02.2008
PRESS RELEASE
I welcome the decisive and clear policy statement of Mr.Pranab Mukherjee, the defacto Acting Prime Minister holding the portfolios of External Affairs and finance made in Parliament yesterday.
With the return of clarity to Congress led Government in its policy toward LTTE, to the level it was during Prime Minister Mr.Narasimha Rao’s tenure, there is now a very wide bi-partisan consensus on how to deal with the menace of LTTE’s terrorism
LTTE is part of the problem in Sri Lanka, and can never be part of any solution acceptable to India. Hence India must assist the Sri Lanka Government in every way to put an end to the LTTE and bring its supremo Prabhakaran to book decisively and with finality for Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

13.02.2008
PRESS RELEASE
The DMK led state Government is not at all sincere about the Mullaperiyar Dam water level issue.
I first moved the Writ Petition to raise the water level in 1997 and it later was supported by the AIADMK led Government. The matter was argued for nine years till 2006 when in February 2006 the Supreme Court ordered the water level to be immediately raised to 142 feet from the present 136 feet, and after a year and some further repairs, raised to 152 feet.
But unfortunately the DMK soon after came to power in the state Assembly elections. The Chief Minister Mr.Karunanidhi thereafter failed to act on the Supreme Court order and lost valuable time during which time the Kerala Assembly passed a new Act to claim it had ‘nullified’ the Supreme Court order!
Even today the order of the Supreme Court has not been stayed. Hence if Mr.Karunanidhi is sincere about the suffering farmers of Tamil Nadu, he can order the PWD engineers to go to the dam site and open the shutters to raise the water level to 142 feet.
But Mr.Karunanidhi and sincerity are contradictions in terms. In 2002, for example, he asked the then Union Environment Minister A.Raja to file an affidavit in the Supreme Court in my Writ Petitions to support the environmental concerns of Kerala if the water level of the dam is raised. This was rejected by the Supreme Court later, but it represents a betrayal of Tamils by Karunanidhi.
Mr.Karunanidhi and Kerala real estate builder are in a conspiracy not to allow the water level to be raised so that later, luxury houses can be built. Hence Mr.Karunanidhi will betray the Tamil interests unless he is voted out in the next election due this May.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

12.2.2009
PRESS RELEASE
The Union Government must impose President's Rule immediately on Tamil Nadu because the state is paralysed due to a spineless government. Schools and Colleges are indefinitely closed down, the Courts have stopped work because of pro-LTTE advocates unrestrained by police, are engaging in hooliganism instead of arguing law for the people before judges, and no one in government is prepared to be answerable for any grievance of the public because the CM is hospitalised and incommunicado. The administration of Tamil Nadu is today running hither thither like a headless chicken. And all this is happening under the cover of calling for safeguarding human rights of the of Lanka Tamils. Thus these anti-national few Tamils in the state are willing to block the human rights of Tamils of India for the sake of protection for the LTTE terrorists abroad in Sri Lanka, who anyway are on the run and heading for a complete route. In the meantime an ineffective fun loving and partying Union Home Minister, much as Nero of Rome, is too frightened for his narrow selfish electoral interest to take on the non-performing state government. Let these few traitors realise that the same situation had prevailed in 1990, but a new dispensation in Delhi came to power in November 1990 and had crushed them. The same thing will happen this May and hence let these traitors be forewarned to prepare for their escape route from the country now. In meantime, let me warn the CM that if the fundamental rights of Tamils of India are not protected by the state administration, I shall approach the Supreme Court for urgent relief.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

06.02.2009
PRESS RELEASE
The Tamilnadu Government seems unable to carry on the administration of law and order according to the Constitution, and hence should be dismissed by the Centre under Article 356 of the Constitution.
The week long illegal strike by pro-LTTE advocates of the Madras High Court and Subordinate Courts have violently and with impunity disrupted completely the normal work of the courts from dispensing justice to the people.
It is ironic that these anti-national advocates are agitating for justice for Tamils of Sri Lanka while forcibly and callously are denying justice to Tamils of their own country by closing the Courts. If these advocates prefer Sri Lanka Tamils, they should migrate to that country.
Since the Chief Minister Mr.Karunanidhi is guilty of gross dereliction of his constitutional duty, I demand that the Centre dismiss his minority government.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

04.02.2009
PRESS RELEASE
I have decided in the public interest in the Appeal to be filed in the Madras High Court against the Single Judge order of February 2, 2009 directing the Tamil Nadu Government to take over the management of the 1200 Nataraja temple in Chidambaram.
This Order has to be challenged in the larger national and public interest of opposing State control of Hindu religious institutions. Reasonable regulation on governance of these temples and such institutions is welcome, but State take-over is abhorrent to the concept of genuine and enlightened secularism, and moreover is discriminatory since mosques and churches are completely exempt by the Government from any scrutiny or regulation.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

03.02.2009
PRESS RELEASE
The DMK should stop playing double on the Sri Lankan Tamil issue. While the party passed a resolution seeking devolution of constitutional power in Sri Lanka without any reference to ceasefire, the DMK President Mr.Karunanidhi’s daughter and party MP, Ms.Kanimozhi immediately issued a statement (and reported by CNN-IBN TV channel) that there should be an immediate ceasefire. This is because Ms.Kanimozhi was a formal member of LTTE when she was living in Southeast Asian countries in the 1990s.
Immediately ceasefire today in the island is actually a ploy to give breathing time to the LTTE which is on the run today, to regroup.
Unless the LTTE is militarily terminated, Tamils in Sri Lanka can never have peace and constitutional freedom. Hence patriotic Indians fully support Sri Lanka’s drive to hunt the LTTE leaders and bring them to justice.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

STATEMENT OF DR.SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY, PRESIDENT OF JANATA PARTY, MADE IN CHENNAI ON 02.02.2009
1. The Tamil Nadu Government’s decision to close all schools and colleges in definitely is a panic reaction to a handful of pro-LTTE demonstrators to hold the society to ransom. It will require about 60,000 girl students from North India to vacate hostels and leave for their homes, causing huge misery to the students.
Such panic reaction means that the minority DMK Government is incapable of ruling the state according to the provisions of the Constitution. Hence I demand the Centre dismiss the DMK Government and hold Assembly elections along with the Lok Sabha elections.
2. The LTTE should be condemned for failing to free the innocent Tamil civilians during the 48 hour ceasefire announced by the Sri Lankan army. Instead the LTTE continues to endanger Tamil lives by holding the people as hostage. As the enclosed extract of the letter written by the Bishop of Jaffna addressed to President Rajapaksa shows, the earlier sympathetic Bishop has held the LTTE squarely responsible for the plight of the Tamil civilians and their deaths.
3. The Janata Party has been consistently stating that the solution of linguistic problem of the Tamil people lay in a federal constitution which has been promised by the Sri Lankan President once the military victory over the LTTE has been achieved.
4. Hence, it is now the responsibility of the Indian Government that the Sri Lankan President keeps this promise made to the international community.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

The text of the letter dated 25.01.2009 of the Bishop of Jaffna Rt. Rev. Dr.Thomas Savundaranayagam to President Mahinda Rajapaksa.

“We are very grateful to you for your concern for the civilians who have taken refuge in Vanni in the on-going War. We thank you sincerely for declaring a part of the west of Mullaitivu as safety one. The area indicated is small and uninhabitable considering and large number of the people who are congregating in this area.

We are also urgently requesting the Tamil Tigers not to station themselves among the people in the safety zone and fire their artillery-shells and rockets at the Army. This will only increase more and more the death of civilians thus endangering the safety of the people. I insist that both parties must observe the safety zone strictly.

Therefore, I am pleading with your Excellency to consider declaring the western portion of Mullaitivu also a safety zone for the sake of the innocent civilians.

We are not against the war but our priority is the safety of every innocent civilian in those areas of war.”

JANATA PARTY(TAMILNADU)STATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING RESOLUTIONS
The State Executive Committee Meeting of Janata Party, Tamilnadu Unit was held on 1.2.2009 at 10.30 am, Janata Party Headquarters, 3, Papanasam Sivam Salai, Mylapore, Chennai. The Chairperson of the meeting was Ms.V.S.Chandralekha IAS (Retd), State President and in the presence of Dr.Subramanian Swamy, All India President and Mr.Jagdish Shetty, All India General Secretary. The following resolutions were unanimously passed.

Resolution 1
The Janata Party stands vindicated because its consistent policy to oppose terrorism anywhere and zero tolerance toward terrorists. The looming military victory of the Sri Lankan armed forces assisted by US, Israel, and India over the LTTE is not only good news for Sri Lankans but for all SAARC countries in the region. No democratic country can tolerate such criminal armed rebellion as the LTTE represented. Hence, the Janata Party has consistently been demanding strong effective action against the LTTE during the last 25 years.
The end of LTTE will be good news for all patriotic Indians since the LTTE has been since 1990 helping terror training of the ULFA, PWG, Naxalites, Maoists, the Dravida Kazhagam and even the Veerappan criminal gang. It has been funding several political parties in India who are wailing today as financial orphans at the imminent demise of the LTTE. The leader of the LTTE, V.Prabhakaran today has nowhere to run to. He is a wanted criminal in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case in India and a Red Corner Notice of the Interpol for his arrest is pending internationally. Hence where can he go for asylum? Even the pro-LTTE parties in India do not dare to ask for refugee status for him in India. Nor can they dare to give him refuge in their homes.
But the time for democratic and patriotic forces to celebrate has not yet arrived. It will not arrive till the Sri Lankan President keeps his commitment to several heads of governments worldwide, namely that the Sri Lankan Parliament will amend the present Constitution to devolve adequate power to Sri Lanka’s distinct linguistic Tamil regions in the spirit of federalism but in conformity with the need for an United Sri Lanka.
The LTTE is certainly heading for decimation, but the Sri Lanka government must know that the fighting spirit of Tamils for human rights worldwide, of patriotic Sinhalese for equity, and of the movement for democracy worldwide has not been dimmed, or pacified yet, and will not be till the long standing Tamil demand for devolution and federalism is met.
The Janata Party therefore demands that the Centre now take steps to ensure, as a SAARC sister nation, that Sri Lanka must announce time-bound steps to implement the consensus devolution package as soon as possible without ifs and buts. Past history in this regard should be repeated.
Resolution 2
The Tamil Nadu State Janata Party resolves that the need of the hour today is to defeat the UPA in the coming General elections to the Lok Sabha because of its failure defend the nation against the onslaught of terrorism, money-induced religious conversions, widespread corruption, nepotism, and unemployment.
In Tamil Nadu, the DMK is a clandestine patron of terrorists and criminals, and concerned only with the progress of the family of the Chief Minister. Mr.Karunanidhi, his wives, and their numerous children who today have raked in about Rs. 10, 000 crores in illegal and extorted money and have kept it mostly abroad in properties and secret bank accounts. The recent Spectrum scandal is one of the many skeletons in Mr.Karunanidhi’s cupboard. The recent by-election in Tirumanagalam showed the brazen corruption of the voter by the DMK, and the blatant misuse of the police to terrorise the public, even to the extent of beating up AIADMK MLA R.Samy to frighten the voter. The Janata Party has written to the Election Commission demanding strict action to ensure that the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections are not similarly subverted [letter enclosed].
Hence this juncture therefore the Janata Party urges the people to rally around patriotic persons in the state to save Tamil Nadu from sinking into a quagmire to become another Zimbabwe. The Janata Party is of the view thus that a sustainable coalition to defeat the DMK and its collaborators in the ensuing elections, is most essential today. The AIADMK must therefore take the lead to convene such a Front.
Resolution 3
The state executive of Janata Party welcomes the 11 point Hindu agenda, adopted by the “Dharma Raksha Manch” consisting of senior acharyas, on Jan 28th and 29th 2009 at Mumbai. Janata Party President Dr.Subramanian Swamy was the only political leader invited for the deliberations of the Manch for his stellar contribution in saving Rama Setu. The State Executive congratulates him and records that Tamilians are proud of him for this public service.
The state executive resolves to adopt the 11 point agenda and recommends to the central parliamentary board of the party to make it part of the Party’s manifesto for the forthcoming Lok Sabha election.
(V.S.CHANDRALEKHA)
State President

27.01.2009
PRESS RELEASE
The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Mr.Karunanidhi should accept the invitation issued by the Sri Lankan President Mr.Mahinder Rajapakshe to visit Jaffna and Wanni and personally appeal to the LTTE to release civilians that have been held as human shield at gun point. According to a UN report, between 150 to 250 thousand Tamil civilians are trapped by the LTTE which has placed heavy guns and mortars on the civilians population to force the Sri Lanka to shell and bomb these areas, and then the LTTE can and has been howling about human rights abuses. Since Mr.Karunanidhi has been so often talking about the poor helpless Tamilians that are being killed in Sri Lanka, it is necessary for him to accept the Sri Lankan President’s invitation to free these Tamilians kept as hostages so that the world may know whether the Sri Lankans genuinely respects Tamil human rights.
The Sri Lanka President has also extended the invitation to Ms.Jayalalithaa to visit Sri Lanka and see for herself the prevailing situation. In my opinion such a visit would be premature. It would be most fit and proper for her before accepting to wait for the Sri Lankan Government to put into place the necessary Constitutional amendments to devolve adequate power to meet the local aspirations of the Tamil Nadu people within a united Sri Lanka. In any case the war against LTTE is not finally over. Hence, Ms.Jayalalitha’s presence in the Sri Lanka is a security risk for her which is not worth taking at the juncture with elections in India around the corner.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

19.01.2009
PRESS RELEASE
The UPA government must call the PMK leader Dr.Ramadoss bluff to shut down Tamilnadu in an indefinite bandh until Sri Lanka agrees to a ceasefire with the rump LTTE in the island. No demand in world history is as wild and ridiculous as this threat of Dr.Ramadoss.
If however Dr.Ramadoss pursues with this insane threat, with other financial orphans of the LTTE in the state in tow, and the DMK Government continues to play its double role, then an indefinite bandh would be violative of the Constitutional provisions and contempt of the judgments of the Supreme Court.
Hence, the Centre must then impose President’s Rule under Article 356, and detain Dr.Ramadoss and his ilk in prison under the NSA. However if Dr.Ramadoss is ready to sail to Mullaitheevu to defend the LTTE, the Indian government should make arrangements for his trip.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

17.01.2009
PRESS RELEASE
The suit for $20 million against alleged defamation by some NRIs of Mr.Sonia Gandhi, President of Indian National Congress, and filed in a US Court on her behalf by the Overseas Congress Party, in USA has again been dismissed by the US Court for want of credible locus standi. Ms.Sonia Gandhi had failed to appear in Court as witness for deposition on her behalf.
The judgment was delivered by Judge Nicholas J.Stroumtsor Jr., of the US District Court of New Jessey (equivalent to our High Court) on January 14, 2009 after hearing the arguments of the plaintiff (Congress Party) and defendants (the NRIs) who had taken out a full page advertisement in New York Times on October 2, 2007 to highlight charges against Ms.Sonia based on my pleadings in the Delhi High Court against her during 2001-2004.
This is the third time the Overseas Congress Party suit for defamation has been summarily dismissed by a US Court since October, 2007.
By failing to appear in Court to defend herself, Ms.Sonia Gandhi has proved thrice over that she has something to hide, and the charges against her on KGB connection, antique smuggling and falsification of her educational qualifications are true.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

07.01.2009
PRESS RELEASE
I condemn the Home Minister P.Chidambaram for his proposed visit to the US beginning this Thursday, with “all the dossiers” on the November 26th terror attack on Mumbai. I demand of the Prime Minister that he call it off.
Chidambaram’s mentality is of a supplicant, whether within India or abroad. His US visit so soon after taking over the Home portfolio has already sent a signal to Washington that he regards the US as some kind of divine Supreme Court to petition before, and prostrate. One billion plus Indians self-respect cannot be thus insulted. India does not need to propitiate the US on 26/11 terror attack.
Such dossiers can always be sent through Ambassadors, and there is no need for a Cabinet Minister to go rushing off to Washington to personally hand them over to the Americans for approval and clearance.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

January 6, 2009
PRESS RELEASE
The Government of India must now stand squarely behind Israel in its policy of deterring the Hamas terrorist group, by pre-emptive decisive air and land-based’strikes. We should not be swayed by the ususal terrorists’ ploy to scream human rights violation and genocide. Since terrorists hide in civilian areas, or hold civilian casualties. There has never been a war since the Mahabharata war at Kurukshetra which did not cause civilian casualties. We should learn from the IC-184 Kandhahar hijack that capitulation to terrorists for the sake of saving innocent civilian casualties will lead to several fold more civilian casualties later.
Hamas nas not only refused to recognize the State of Israel despite Israel being recognized as a member of the UN for the last sixty years, but has attacked Israel with rockets, as well as supported suicide bomb attacks against innocent Israeli citizens and killing them for the last seven years. Hamas did not condemn the 26/11 Mumbai terrorist outrage. In fact, the Hamas spokesman has criticised US President- elect Barack Obama for expressing sympathy for India.
But, Israel is a nation which has always supported India and hence must be fully supported to defend itself by pro-active deterrent retaliation against the terrorist Hamas.
No Indian national interest will be served by India supporting Hamas or by remaining neutral. Moreover about 80 percent of Indian people support Israel, regard it as a friendly nation and a valuable ally in the fight against terrorism. I challenge those in India who support the Hamas to call for a referendum on this issue. Hence should not communalise this terrorism issue by vote bank politics.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

STATEMENT OF DR.SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY, PRESIDENT OF JANATA PARTY MADE IN CHENNAI ON JANUARY 6, 2009
Further incriminating evidence against Union Minister for Communication and Information Technology Andimuthu Raja has become available [see enclosed] in the infamous spectrum allocation scandal. This indicates that Raja went against the recommendations of senior officials in the Ministry that he heads by ignoring it [not by overruling it on the file] and opting for a contentious first-come-first served (FCFS) method for allotting spectrum for use by mobile telecommunications companies.
The Minister did it by creating conditions for the topmost official, the Secretary in the Department of Telecom (DoT), D.S.Mathur, to resign, and another senior technocrat Ms.Manju Madhavan, to go in for premature retirement. Both of whom had argued against the Minister’s move to allot spectrum on a FCFS basis [see p.3 of the enclosed file noting]. He then inducted a bureaucrat of his choice and thus went ahread as if the file Note did not exist, with his controversial policy of allotting spectrum with licences to a clutch of private companies at prices that were around seven times lower than prevailing market rates.
Till October 1, 2007, the DoT had received 575 applications from 46 companies for allocating of licences with spectrum. On October 18 that year, at a meeting the DoT top brass headed by the then Secretary, Telecom, DS Mathur, with Raja, it was pointed out that since it would not be possible to allot spectrum to all the applicants, criteria for selection of applicants should be worked out based on availability of spectrum. In a note dated October 25 [enclosed], the then Member, Finance, of the Telecom Commission, Manju Madhavan, worked out three alternatives, the first of which was the FCFS method. Madhavan, in her note, suggested two other alternatives that involved public auction of spectrum to be conducted in a transparent manner, and recommended auction.
Moreover, she stated that “due to (the) highly competitive scenario, there is a need to review the entry fee and eligibility criteria.” This was precisely what Raja did not want, or rather refused to consider without recording his view on file.
What that Minister did instead is now clear. Nine companies were arbitrarily selected for allocation of spectrum on a FCFS basis, while more than three dozen other firms were kept waiting in the queue. A cut-off date for receipt of applications was announced and then changed without explanation.
Faced with a barrage of allegations, Raja has sought to justify his position by citing the National Telecom Policy of 1999, a 2003 Cabinet decision of the NDA government and a single paragraph out of a 178-page document put out by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI). What he has not stated is that each of these documents had finally recommended public auctions or competitive bidding as the process for discovering the true market value of the licences with spectrum that were awarded by the DoT.
Minister Raja took over from Dayanidhi Maran, as Union Minister for Environment & Forests on May 16, 2007. As Environment Minister he had come into contact with various real estate companies that had sought environmental clearances from the Ministry. Many of these real estate companies later applies for telecom licences—such firms include Unitech, Loop (part of the Ruia group), Datacomm (Videocon) and Swan (once partly owned by the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani group)—and some of them were indeed awarded licences.
On September 25, 2007, a few hours after Unitech put in 22 applications under eight companies, the DoT issued a press release stating that it would not accept applications beyond October 1, 2007. Despite the short notice, in this period of three working days only, as many as 373 additional applications were received.
Pressure was then mounted on former DoT Secretary Mathur to sign letters of intent in favour of certain applicants but he refused to oblige. Mathur was due to retire in two months but his service was not extended. He then left. Ms.Madhavan, the then Member, Finance took premature retirement from service. On the last day of 2007, December 31, Mathur thus retired and he was replaced by Siddharth Behura (who had earlier served as Secretary, Environment & Forests, under Raja).
Exactly 10 days later, on January 10, 2008, nine licences were awarded by the DoT on a FCFS basis, causing a loss of Rs.50,000 crores or more.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has yet not given me Sanction to prosecute A.Raja on my charges that have already been investigated by the Central Vigilance Commission and the Comptroller & Auditor General of India and upheld as prime facie valid. Hence, if I do not receive the necessary Sanction by February15th, I shall move the courts.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)