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CPI(M) opposes further opening up of FDI in India

13 Friday Nov 2015

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The Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) strongly condemns the announcement by the Prime Minister easing the regulations for Foreign Direct Investments in our country.  15 areas, including single brand retail, banking, construction, media, airlines, defence, banking, plantations etc., are to be opened up for approval under the automatic route.  32 new investment points will now allow FDI automatically.  The cap for approval of foreign investments has been raised to Rs. 5,000 crore from the existing Rs. 3,000 crores. The increase in the FDI to 49 per cent for news channels and radio is particularly harmful as it will facilitate near complete control of the news media by foreign media monopolies.

All these decisions have been taken on the eve of the winter session of the Parliament.  Worse they have been taken even without the Cabinet approval.  This is a complete travesty of our system of parliamentary democracy.  The Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) condemns such unilateral decisions by the PM.

Clearly, these announcements have come on the eve of Prime Minister Modi’s yet another programme of foreign tours to London, G-20, Malaysia and Singapore.  PM Modi made these announcements with an aim to appease foreign capital.  Thus both India’s markets and resources are being opened up further for the maximization of profits for foreign capital.

This license to loot comes at a time when the majority of the Indian people continue to groan under newer economic burdens. Price rise of essential commodities continues unabated. The agrarian distress is deepening.  The increases in the minimum support prices are so meagre that they do not even cover the production costs.  This is accelerating the distress suicides of our farmers.

The Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) calls upon PM Modi and his government to focus attention on providing relief to the vast majority of our Indian people as promised during the 2014 election campaign.

Modi’s Political Authority Stands Diminished in the Eyes of Global Investors | The Wire

13 Friday Nov 2015

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The Prime Minister will be under tremendous pressure to create a broader climate for faster economic growth. So far, his ego has come in the way of personally reaching out to opposition leaders like Sonia Gandhi.

Source: Modi’s Political Authority Stands Diminished in the Eyes of Global Investors | The Wire

Sunanda Pushkar Murder Case: Shashi Tharoor Likely To Be Questioned Agai

13 Friday Nov 2015

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PTI 13/11/2015

NEW DELHI — Investigators probing the mysterious death of Sunanda Pushkar may again question her husband and Congress MP Shashi Tharoor and move court soon seeking lie detector test on him even as a long-awaited FBI report of her viscera samples said she died of poison.

Sources in Delhi police said court’s permission to conduct a polygraph test on Tharoor was likely to be sought soon as the investigators were trying to take the high-profile case to a logical conclusion.

The investigators have so far conducted polygraph test on six persons, all prime witnesses in the case, including Tharoors’ domestic help Narayan Singh, driver Bajrangi and Sanjay Dewan, a close friend of the couple.

Tharoor was not subjected to the test but was questioned thrice in the case. 52-year-old Sunanda was found dead in a five-star hotel suite on January 17 last year, a day after she was involved in a spat with Pakistani journalist Mehr Tarar on Twitter over the latter’s alleged affair with Tharoor.

The sources said Tharoor is likely to be questioned again as the eight-page FBI report of Sunanda’s viscera brought to fore certain details crucial to the probe. The police will soon submit the report to court.

The report received via e-mail on Tuesday, suggested that Sunanda died of some poison, which they have named, said sources. However, police have so far refused to disclose the type of poison mentioned in the report.

Delhi Police Commissioner B S Bassi said the report from the Washington DC-based laboratory of FBI would soon be handed over to a medical board for examination.

“The FBI lab had conducted analysis of various substances. And this should give an indication (as to the reason behind her death) once the doctors go through the report,” said Bassi.

The report has ruled out the theory of the variant of a radioactive element named Polonium having caused Sunanda’s death, Bassi said, adding that radiation levels in her viscera samples were “within the standard safety norms”.

Analysis of the report shall take time and, even after submission in court, it shall only be shared once all the legal issues connected with it have been studied, he said.

 

COUNTERVIEW: Monolithic, flattened view of India’s history “not supported” by sources, or by any serious historical inquiry

13 Friday Nov 2015

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What the present regime seems to be promoting is a legislated account of the past, glorifying a homogenized and inflexible ‘Hindu’ tradition

Source: COUNTERVIEW: Monolithic, flattened view of India’s history “not supported” by sources, or by any serious historical inquiry

Indian Politics’ ‘Baghban’ Moment: Modi Shouldn’t Dismiss Advani’s Letter Bomb As Damp Squib

11 Wednesday Nov 2015

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What’s in a name? Plenty. The problem with calling someone a margdarshak is he might live up to his name and show the way. The patriarchs of the BJP have done exactly that. Mothballed in

Source: Indian Politics’ ‘Baghban’ Moment: Modi Shouldn’t Dismiss Advani’s Letter Bomb As Damp Squib