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Politicians sponsoring terrorism with foreign support: Rane

Saturday, 06 December , 2008, 19:23

Mumbai: Suspended Congress leader Narayan Rane on Saturday hit out at his rivals within the party, saying some Indian political leaders were supporting external forces and financing terror activities in the country.

"The government must conduct an inquiry into this aspect and if required, I can provide evidence. I am making this statement with full responsibility," Rane told a packed media conference at his residence here. He said that these political leaders not only financed terrorists but also provided them safe haven in the country.

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He, however, declined to name any leaders or parties, saying: "When the right time comes, I shall provide all these details." He also alleged that Congress leaders were only interested in making money and had no regard for public sentiments or the development of the country.

His allegations came after he was suspended from the party earlier in the day for indiscipline. He was critical of the party leadership for ignoring him while choosing Ashok Chavan as the next Maharashtra chief minister.

Vilasrao Deshmukh resigned as chief minister earlier this week, taking moral responsibility for failing to prevent the November 26 terrorist attacks here.

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Detailing his version of the political developments in the past two days, Rane said that a conspiracy had been hatched in Varsha, the official residence of the chief minister, to keep him out of the post "at all cost". "Deshmukh, along with state party president Manikrao Thakre and Mumbai party chief Kripa Shankar Singh, with the backing of some industrialists, conspired to prevent me from becoming chief minister, though 48 legislators had proposed my name - as compared to 32 who supported Chavan - to the party's central observers," Rane said.

"With this kind of support, my name was due to be announced, it was stopped at the last minute," Rane claimed. He warned that if his political rivals continued to make baseless allegations against him, he would be compelled to show his "strength" in the party.

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"Even at this juncture, I can block the new government from taking office. I can prove the support I enjoy among the legislators. I can approach the state governor and bring to his notice that (chief minister-designate) Ashok Chavan does not enjoy majority support. "However, keeping in view the grim situation confronting Mumbai and the state in the wake of the terrorist attacks, I shall not take this step," Rane declared.

Continuing his attack on Deshmukh, Rane read out what he said were official government records proving that the outgoing chief minister had been involved in a number of land scams. He threatened that he had gathered "so much evidence against Deshmukh" that he could expose a new scam every day.

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"They were scared that if I become chief minister, all their scams along with several industrialists would be out in the open. That's why they had decided even before the legislators' meetings with the central party observers that I should not be allowed to become chief minister at any cost," Rane said.

Welcoming his "expulsion" from the Congress, Rane regretted that the party did not want honest and capable persons. Despite persistent questioning, Rane declined to reveal his future course of action, and laughed off suggestions that he was "offered" plum posts by the Congress as well as other parties.

Responding to a query, he asserted that he had never uttered a word against Congress president Sonia Gandhi nor insulted her political advisor Ahmed Patel, as alleged by his rivals. "I hold her and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in great esteem and have great respect for them," he said.

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Serious charges against Sonia and Congress leaders of criminal cognizable offences – by Narayan Rane. Sonia, quit public offices, quit politics.

What Narayan Rane has alleged are NOT internal affairs of the Congress Party.

He has accused Congress of selling the nation for money. This is a charge of sedition.
The credibility of Sonia Gandhi is at its lowest gutter level. He has been betrayed by Sonia Gandhi who had promised to make him CM and ditched him.

"Congress leaders are selling nation for money. Congress doesn't like people with self-respect or people who work for people so I was sure they wouldn't keep me," added Rane.

"Congress leaders like Vilasrao Deshmukh and Ahmed Patel were involved in scams of Videocon, Hudco, MHADA, MIDC among others," he said.

These allegations of selling the nation for money, of scams and corruption involving public funds are charges which demand a Commission of Inquiry to nail the named culprits -- Vilasraol Deshmukh and Ahmed Patel and bring them to justice.

It is a well-known secret that every week 120 were being sent in by Deshmukh to Congress High Command.

The most serious charge Rane made is treaon. "Suspended Congress leader Narayan Rane Saturday hit out at his rivals within the party, saying some Indian political leaders were supporting external forces and financing terror activities in the country.”The government must conduct an inquiry into this aspect and if required, I can provide evidence. I am making this statement with full responsibility,” Rane told a packed media conference at his residence here."

Speaker of the Lok Sabha should take suo moto notice of these serious charges and suspend the privileges of Sonia Gandhi as a Member of the Lok Sabha.

President should advice the PM to constitute an inquiry commission forthwith against Sonia Gandhi and leaders of the Congress Party.

All parties should support this demand for an inquiry commission in the national interest and redeem the image of politicians which has reached very low levels in the wake of the 26/11 Mumbai islamist jihadi terror attack.

These charges supplement the j’accuse report of Francois Gautier (attached for ready reference) asking Sonia Gandhi to quit forthwith.

Kalyanaraman

Politicians sponsoring terrorism with foreign support: Rane (Lead)

December 6th, 2008 - 7:10 pm ICT by IANS -

Mumbai, Dec 6 (IANS) Suspended Congress leader Narayan Rane Saturday hit out at his rivals within the party, saying some Indian political leaders were supporting external forces and financing terror activities in the country.”The government must conduct an inquiry into this aspect and if required, I can provide evidence. I am making this statement with full responsibility,” Rane told a packed media conference at his residence here.

He said that these political leaders not only financed terrorists but also provided them safe haven in the country.

He, however, declined to name any leaders or parties, saying: “When the right time comes, I shall provide all these details.”

He also alleged that Congress leaders were only interested in making money and had no regard for public sentiments or the development of the country.

His allegations came after he was suspended from the party earlier in the day for indiscipline. He was critical of the party leadership for ignoring him while choosing Ashok Chavan as the next Maharashtra chief minister.

Vilasrao Deshmukh resigned as chief minister earlier this week, taking moral responsibility for failing to prevent the Nov 26 terrorist attacks here.

Detailing his version of the political developments in the past two days, Rane said that a conspiracy had been hatched in Varsha, the official residence of the chief minister, to keep him out of the post “at all cost”.

“Deshmukh, along with state party president Manikrao Thakre and Mumbai party chief Kripa Shankar Singh, with the backing of some industrialists, conspired to prevent me from becoming chief minister, though 48 legislators had proposed my name - as compared to 32 who supported Chavan - to the party’s central observers,” Rane said.

“With this kind of support, my name was due to be announced, it was stopped at the last minute,” Rane claimed.

He warned that if his political rivals continued to make baseless allegations against him, he would be compelled to show his “strength” in the party.

“Even at this juncture, I can block the new government from taking office. I can prove the support I enjoy among the legislators. I can approach the state governor and bring to his notice that (chief minister-designate) Ashok Chavan does not enjoy majority support.

“However, keeping in view the grim situation confronting Mumbai and the state in the wake of the terrorist attacks, I shall not take this step,” Rane declared.

Continuing his attack on Deshmukh, Rane read out what he said were official government records proving that the outgoing chief minister had been involved in a number of land scams.

He threatened that he had gathered “so much evidence against Deshmukh” that he could expose a new scam every day.

“They were scared that if I become chief minister, all their scams along with several industrialists would be out in the open. That’s why they had decided even before the legislators’ meetings with the central party observers that I should not be allowed to become chief minister at any cost,” Rane said.

Welcoming his “expulsion” from the Congress, Rane regretted that the party did not want honest and capable persons.

Despite persistent questioning, Rane declined to reveal his future course of action, and laughed off suggestions that he was “offered” plum posts by the Congress as well as other parties.

Responding to a query, he asserted that he had never uttered a word against Congress president Sonia Gandhi nor insulted her political advisor Ahmed Patel, as alleged by his rivals.

“I hold her and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in great esteem and have great respect for them,” he said.

http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/world-news/politicians-sponsoring-terrorism-with-foreign-support-rane-lead_100127913.html

Rane lashes out at Cong after suspension
Agencies

SPEAKING OUT: In a press conference Rane lashed out at Congress accusing it of selling the nation for money.

New Delhi: The Congress on Saturday suspended Maharashtra Revenue Minister Narayan Rane for "gross indiscipline" following his public outburst against the party high command after he was ignored for the post of state chief minister.

"I have learnt from TV channels that I've been suspended from Congress, as nothing has been communicated to me," Rane said while addresing a press conference on Saturday.

"Congress leaders are selling nation for money. Congress doesn't like people with self-respect or people who work for people so I was sure they wouldn't keep me," added Rane.

While lashing out at Congress Rane said that the Government is in minority and cannot be formed without the support of his MLAs.

"I have 25 to 30 MLAs who support me. I can go to the Governor but I will not go to him for the sake of the state," he said.

Rane also verbally attacked former Mahsrashtra chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, saying he had taken the state back by 20 years. He also accused Deshmukh and Ahmed Patel of corruption.

"Congress leaders like Vilasrao Deshmukh and Ahmed Patel were involved in scams of Videocon, Hudco, MHADA, MIDC among others," he said.

"I had 48 supporters in assembly, by number I should have won. If the decision was later attributed to Congress President Sonia Gandhi, why did they ask MLAs for opinion in first place," he demaded.

Meanwhile, decision to suspend Rane comes a day after he attacked outgoing Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh and chief minister-designate Ashok Chavan, as well as the party, at a hurriedly convened media briefing at his residence.

"It has been observed that after the announcement of the new leader of the CLP in Maharashtra, Narayan Rane is making public statements deliberately with a view to lowering the prestige of the Indian National Congress," said AICC General Secretary Janardan Dwivedi.

"The party has taken a serious view of his utterances and considering this as a case of gross indiscipline, Narayan Rane has been suspended from the party with immediate effect," he said in a statement hours before Rane was scheduled to hold a press conference in Mumbai on Saturday.

Rane, whose name was being considered for the top post after Deshmukh resigned on Wednesday in the wake of the Mumbai terror attacks, opted out of the race after the party leadership selected Industry Minister Ashok Chavan for the top job.

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Rane, who was overlooked by the party high command in favour Ashok Chavan [Images] for Chief Ministership, had attacked the Congress leadership yesterday accusing it of reneging on a promise to make him the chief minister.

"I don't trust even Sonia Gandhi anymore", he said which party sources said was the trigger for his suspension.

Rane, a leader from the Konkan area who had left Shiv Sena three years ago, had attacked not only Deshmukh but also Ashok Chavan and some central leaders and accused them of conspiring and ignoring his claim for the top job in the state.

http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/dec/06maharashtra-congress-suspends-narayan-rane.htm

Have lost faith in Sonia: Rane
6 Dec 2008, 0452 hrs IST, Prafulla Marpakwar, TNN

MUMBAI: A few hours before external affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee declared Ashok Chavan as the state's new CM, revenue minister Narayan Rane raised a banner of revolt against the leadership of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, saying that he had lost confidence in the party high command.

Rane also launched a frontal attack on outgoing CM Vilasrao Deshmukh, MPCC president Manikrao Thakre and Mumbai Congress president Kripa Shankar Singh, saying that they were hand-in-gloves and that Deshmukh was a blot on Maharashtra politics. Rane didn't forget to predict that Congress would be wiped out in the coming Lok Sabha and Assembly elections. ( Watch )

"When I joined Congress three years ago, I was promised the CM's post. On Thursday, when party observers were in the process of declaring me as the leader of the legislature party, there was some sudden pressure on them and they declared the new leader would be announced in Delhi. The entire exercise was a farce," Rane told reporters at his official residence on Friday.

Party insiders said Rane would quit Congress and float his own regional party with eight to 10 legislators. He said, "I have no plan to quit the party now but, sooner or later, I will have to take a decision. Congress is not a reliable organisation."

Rane made it clear that it wasn't possible for him to work under the leadership of Ashok Chavan as he was the "most incompetent politician". "No sensible politican will work under him and there is no question of my joining the cabinet," he said.

Deshmukh and Thakre summoned a section of Congress legislators to Varsha, the CM's official residence, when he emerged as a front-runner for the top post, Rane alleged. "My information is that a majority of legislators were in my favour. But Deshmukh and Thakre told them that they would be denied party tickets if they did not vote in Chavan's favour. So they voted in his favour in the presence of party observers," Rane said.

Deshmukh, however, reacted sharply to Rane's uncalled-for allegations. "I feel he is reacting like this because he is frustrated. All decisions on leadership issues is taken by the high command in Congress and there is no way I could have influenced the decision," he told TOI.

Once a firebrand Sena leader, Rane quit the party after his differences with Sena executive president Udhav Thackeray and joined Congress. Rane claimed that he was promised the CM's post — "in reasonable time" — when he joined the party but the Congress high command has maintained no such promise was made to him.

The main worry for Congress now is the political fallout of Rane's anger. "He was never with the party in the real sense though he joined Congress as he was all along aiming for the chief minister's post. We don't think his quitting the party will have any impact," a senior Congress leader said.

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I can topple Chavan govt if I wish to: Rane

Mumbai (PTI): Suspended Congress leader Narayan Rane today claimed that he holds key to the survival of soon-to-be-formed Ashok Chavan led Congress-NCP Government in Maharashtra.

"If I wish, I can prevent the new government from taking charge or topple it when it is formed. The new government is not in a majority and I can prove it on the floor of the house, even if the opposition does not demand a trust vote," Rane, who was suspended for his latest utterances against the party after he lost in the chief ministerial race, told a press conference here.

Rane refused to divulge his future course of action when the winter session of the legislature would be convened in Nagpur this month.

"I will be going to Nagpur," he said.

He said he could provide a letter of 30 MLAs to the Governor saying that they were not supporting the new government.

"I am refraining from doing this because the prevailing situation in the aftermath of terror attacks in Mumbai is not right. I warn the Congress not to provoke me to take such a step," he added.

Referring to his suspension from the Congress, Rane said he had been expecting the action.

"I consider this as a good omen. In 1997, Vilasrao Deshmukh was suspended from the party for six years and in 1999 he became the chief minister," Rane added.

http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/holnus/001200812061831.htm

Sonia’s presence in Delhi is costing India dearly

Francois Gautier 2 Dec. 2008-12-06

Source: New Indian Express

In 1898, the French writer Emile Zola wrote an open letter to the then French president in the newspaper L’Aurore, titled j’accuse (‘I accuse’), where he accused the French government of anti- Semitism towards Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer unfairly condemned for treason.

Now it is time for the people of India to say openly that which many, including within the Congress, think secretly and may utter in the privacy of their chambers.It is not about Manmohan Singh, it is not even about Shivraj Patil, the fall guy; it is about that one person, the Eminence Grise of India. She who pulls all the strings, She whose shadow looms menacingly over so many, She who holds no portfolio, is just a simple elected MP, like 540 others, but rules like an empress.

Sometimes, one’s very physical presence at the top is enough to move things, to influence the course of events. One word from Her, a glance, a frown, are enough to put the whole heavy, inert, unwilling machinery of India’s bureaucracy and political system in full motion. Sometimes She need not say anything: in the true tradition of Bhakti, Her ministers, Her secretaries, interpret Her silences and rush to cater to Her western and Christian identity.

Nevertheless, she has said and acted enough so that one day she may stand accused on the pages of History for what she must have done to India.

I’accuse Sonia Gandhi as being responsible for the tragedy of Mumbai, having emasculated India’s intelligence agencies by stopping them from investigating terror attacks in the last four years, including the Mumbai train blasts. She has also neutralised the ATS by ordering them at all costs to ferret out ‘Hindu terrorism’, which if it exists, has wrought minuscule damage compared to what Islamic terror has done since 2004.

Did the US send a warning to India that there may be an attack on Mumbai and that the Taj would be one of the targets? Were these ignored because the ATS was too busy chasing Hindu ‘terrorists’ on Sonia’s orders? I accuse Sonia and her government of having made the NSG the laughing stock of the world. How many times did the NSG (who took ten hours to reach Mumbai) claim that it had “sanitised the Taj and that the operation was over” and how many times did a bomb go off immediately after? For the last 20 years, the NSG has guarded VIPs and has become soft. See the comments of Israeli terror specialists, who said the NSG should have first sanitised the immediate surroundings of the places of conflict, kept the bystanders and press (who gave terrorists watching TV in the Taj rooms a perfect report of the security forces’ whereabouts) out of the place, gathered enough information about the position of the terrorists and hostages before taking action, instead of immediately engaging the terrorists, and ensuring the deaths of so many hostages.

I accuse Sonia of having let her Christian and Western background, in four years, divide India on religious and caste lines in a cynical and methodical manner.
I accuse Sonia of weakening India’s spirit of sacrifice and courage, so that 20 terrorists (or less) held at ransom the financial capital of India for more than three days.

I accuse Sonia Gandhi of always pointing the finger at Pakistan, when terrorism in India is now mostly homegrown, even if it takes help, training, refuge and arms from Pakistan; of not warning Indians of the grave dangers of Islamic terror for cynical election purposes.

I accuse Sonia of being an enemy of the Hindus, who always gave refuge to persecuted minorities, and who are the only people in the world to accept that God may manifest under different names, in different epochs, using different scriptures.

I accuse Sonia Gandhi of taking advantage of India’s respect for women, its undue fascination with the Gandhi name, and its stupid mania for White Skin.

I’accuse Sonia of exploiting the Indian Press’ obsession with her. She hardly ever gave interview in 20 years, except scripted ones to NDTV, yet the Press always protects her, never blames her and keeps silent over her covert role.

I’accuse Sonia and her government of trying to make heroes of subservient and inefficient men to hide the humiliation of Mumbai 26/11. Before going to his death, Hemant Karkare, the ATS chief, was shown on television clumsily handling his helmet, as someone who uses it very rarely. Why did he die of bullet wounds in the chest when he was wearing a bullet-proof vest? Either Indian vests are inferior quality or he was not wearing one.

How did the terrorists who killed him and his fellow officer escape in the same vehicle used by the ATS chief ? Why did he and his officers go into Cama Hospital without ascertaining where the terrorists were? We honour his death, but these facts say a lot about the ATS’ battle-readiness.

Will someone in the Congress, someone who feels more Indian than faithful to Sonia, stand up and speak the truth? Who said, “Go after Hindu terrorists”? Who insisted on putting pressure on BJP governments in Karnataka or Orissa for so-called persecution of Christians, when Christians have always practised their faith in total freedom here, while their missionaries are converting hundreds of thousands of innocent tribals and Dalits with the billions of dollars given by gullible westerners? Who said, “Go soft on Islamic terrorism”? Who wants to do away with India’s nuclear deterrence in the face of Pakistani and Chinese nuclear threats, by pushing at all costs the one sided Indo-US nuclear deal, which makes no secret of its intention to denuclearise India militarily? I am sure Sonia Gandhi has good qualities: she probably was a good wife to Rajiv, a good daughter in law to Indira and by all accounts, she is a good mother to her children. One also hears first-hand reports about her concern for smaller people, her dignity in the suffering that befell her when her husband was blown to pieces, and her courtesy with visitors.

Nevertheless, she is a danger to India.

Her very presence, both physical and occult, open the doors to forces inimical to India. Even Indian Christians should understand that she is not a gift to them: her presence at the top has emboldened fanatics like John Dayal or Valson Thampu, who practise an orthodox Christianity prevalent in the West in the early 20th century, but no longer, to radicalise their flock. Indian Christians should recognise that they have a much better deal here than Christians or Hindus have in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia or Saudi Arabia.

Under Sonia’s rule, Indian Muslims, too, have been used as electoral pawns. They have been encouraged to shun the Sufi streak, a blend of the best of Islam and Vedanta, for a hard-line Sunni brand imported from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

For the good of India, her civilisation, her immense spirituality and culture, Sonia Gandhi has to go and a government that thinks Indian, breathes nationalism and will protect its citizens must be voted to power.

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