London: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is among the top world leaders who have been invited for the Second G20 Summit to be held here in April, which will discuss ways and means to reinvigorate growth in the wake of the global economic crisis.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, whose country will host the global economic summit, has sent formal invitations to the world leaders.
"The global economic challenges we face need to be met with decisive action if we are to secure jobs, restore confidence and reinvigorate growth," Brown said yesterday.
Besides leaders from G20 nations, Chair of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), the Chair of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the President of the EU Commission have also been invited for the summit to be held here on April 2.
The Chairman of the African Union Commission will also attend. This is the second meeting of the grouping after the one in Washington on November 15 hosted by the then US President George W Bush.
"To be effective in addressing this global crisis we have to bring in partners from across the world. For that reason I have issued invitations to the leaders of G20 countries and the Chairs of NEPAD, ASEAN and the African Union will ensure their interests are not forgotten and their voices are heard," Brown said.
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Saturday, February 7, 2009
BALANDAN'S LETTER STIRS THE TRAJECTORY OF LAVALIN SCAM
Thiruvananthapuram/New Delhi: A letter written by E Balanandan, a former member of the CPM politburo who died last month, on the controversial SNC Lavalin deal is now haunting the party. Balanandan, who headed the party’s trade union, CITU, and a Kerala government-appointed panel on power reforms, had written to CPM General Secretary Prakash Karat on August 8, 2005 that the party “had lost its face over the deal.”
“We committed a grave mistake. Our party has lost its face. The deal with SNC Lavalin was not only a wrong decision, but the manner in which it was inked and the project implemented was an insult to the normal procedures in this regard. This deal would spoil the party and trigger a revolt within,” he said.
The letter is published in the latest issue of Janasakthi, a magazine brought out by former CPM members, purged from the party.
The CPM has described the CBI’s move to prosecute Pinarayi Vijayan, the state party chief, in the SNC Lavalin case as “politically motivated” while Kerala Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan has distanced himself from the party line.
Vijayan was the state power minister when the Government signed a deal with the Canadian company to get new plants for hydel projects in the state. When Balanandan wrote the letter to Karat, the state vigilance department had not even completed the probe into the case. The CBI took over the probe much later.
The party could have legally come out of this “shameful deal” and thus saved its face and protected the interest of the state, he said, detailing the irregularities in the deal. Balanandan, however, had not named anyone in the letter.
When contacted, Karat refused to comment. “I don’t talk about things that have a dishonest motive,” he said. His Politburo colleague S Ramachandran Pillai said: “I am not aware of it and I have no idea about this particular letter.”
The issues Balanandan raised in his letter were:
*The MoU route was wrong. There had been no proper contract to ensure that the grant promised by SNC Lavalin reached Malabar Cancer Centre.
*The renovation contract was given to the foreign firm, disregarding BHEL which was ready to take up the work for Rs 105 crore. The deal with Lavalin had cost the government Rs 374.5 crore.
*It is wrong to say that the Left government could not walk out of the deal initiated by the Congress-led government. As per Clause 13 of the consultancy pact signed by the Congress government on 24 February, 1996, the actual deal would come into effect only when certain conditions were honoured.
Balanandan said that the final deal was signed 10 days after his committee had submitted its report to the government. The panel had advised the Government against the deal.
“Lavalin escaped, but our party lost its face,” Balanandan concluded the letter requesting the party chief to look into the matter. Exactly a month later, he wrote another letter to Karat, detailing the technical flaws of the deal and the project.
“We committed a grave mistake. Our party has lost its face. The deal with SNC Lavalin was not only a wrong decision, but the manner in which it was inked and the project implemented was an insult to the normal procedures in this regard. This deal would spoil the party and trigger a revolt within,” he said.
The letter is published in the latest issue of Janasakthi, a magazine brought out by former CPM members, purged from the party.
The CPM has described the CBI’s move to prosecute Pinarayi Vijayan, the state party chief, in the SNC Lavalin case as “politically motivated” while Kerala Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan has distanced himself from the party line.
Vijayan was the state power minister when the Government signed a deal with the Canadian company to get new plants for hydel projects in the state. When Balanandan wrote the letter to Karat, the state vigilance department had not even completed the probe into the case. The CBI took over the probe much later.
The party could have legally come out of this “shameful deal” and thus saved its face and protected the interest of the state, he said, detailing the irregularities in the deal. Balanandan, however, had not named anyone in the letter.
When contacted, Karat refused to comment. “I don’t talk about things that have a dishonest motive,” he said. His Politburo colleague S Ramachandran Pillai said: “I am not aware of it and I have no idea about this particular letter.”
The issues Balanandan raised in his letter were:
*The MoU route was wrong. There had been no proper contract to ensure that the grant promised by SNC Lavalin reached Malabar Cancer Centre.
*The renovation contract was given to the foreign firm, disregarding BHEL which was ready to take up the work for Rs 105 crore. The deal with Lavalin had cost the government Rs 374.5 crore.
*It is wrong to say that the Left government could not walk out of the deal initiated by the Congress-led government. As per Clause 13 of the consultancy pact signed by the Congress government on 24 February, 1996, the actual deal would come into effect only when certain conditions were honoured.
Balanandan said that the final deal was signed 10 days after his committee had submitted its report to the government. The panel had advised the Government against the deal.
“Lavalin escaped, but our party lost its face,” Balanandan concluded the letter requesting the party chief to look into the matter. Exactly a month later, he wrote another letter to Karat, detailing the technical flaws of the deal and the project.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Sunday, January 25, 2009
CPIM Kerala state Secretary Pinarayi Vijayan to be arraigned in SNC LAVALIN corruption case
The CPIM Kerala State Secretary Pinarayi Vijayan is to be charge sheeted by the CBI for criminal conspiracy and misappropriation of position in the 390 crore SNC-LAVALIN scam.
Pinarayi vijayan, the leader of the Marxists in Kerala, under whose leadership, the CPIM (Private Limited) has become one of the largest business organizations in Kerala with the setting up of TV channels, amusement parks, has been exposed by the CBI in a memo submitted before the Special Judge for CBI Cases- I, Ernakulam.
The agreement with SNC-LAVALIN Company was signed by the CPIM led government of 1997 in order to augment the capacity of three hydroelectric projects in Kerala and the then minister for electricity, Pinarayi Vijayan mislead the government and ignored the dissent of several officials of Kerala state electricity board to enter this illegal contract which caused a loss of Rs 390 crores of public money. The mandatory sanctions of the central government and central electricity authority were not sought for this agreement either.
The contract was signed by Lavalin and KSEB by ignoring E Balanandan Committee report received a week ago recommending the replacement of essential parts alone at around 100 crores. (Friends, remember the poster that was pasted in our campus few days back, citing the demise of comrade Balanandan, and now they will come with posters endorsing Saint Pinarayi Vijayan’s innocence!)
Another serious discrepancy regarding the SNC-LAVALIN case is an agreement to provide a grant of Rs 100 crores for setting up a cancer center in Malabar. However, the proposed cancer center received jut Rs 12 crores from the Canadian company and where is the rest of the money, comrades, the guardians of political ethics and values ???
Now, the comrades in Kerala are organizing a massive state wide rally ironically titled ‘New Kerala rally’, led by none other than Comrade Pinarayi Vijayan, meaning that Kerala will ultimately ruled by the likes of Pinarayi!
Comrades, where are you? Waiting before your masters in AKG Bhavan to get the Goebbelsian propaganda up and running to whitewash their benevolent provider from Kerala. Commissar Karat, why are you so silent? How juicy was the bite?
Shame on CPIM, for robbing off the money meant for cancer patients!
Pinarayi vijayan, the leader of the Marxists in Kerala, under whose leadership, the CPIM (Private Limited) has become one of the largest business organizations in Kerala with the setting up of TV channels, amusement parks, has been exposed by the CBI in a memo submitted before the Special Judge for CBI Cases- I, Ernakulam.
The agreement with SNC-LAVALIN Company was signed by the CPIM led government of 1997 in order to augment the capacity of three hydroelectric projects in Kerala and the then minister for electricity, Pinarayi Vijayan mislead the government and ignored the dissent of several officials of Kerala state electricity board to enter this illegal contract which caused a loss of Rs 390 crores of public money. The mandatory sanctions of the central government and central electricity authority were not sought for this agreement either.
The contract was signed by Lavalin and KSEB by ignoring E Balanandan Committee report received a week ago recommending the replacement of essential parts alone at around 100 crores. (Friends, remember the poster that was pasted in our campus few days back, citing the demise of comrade Balanandan, and now they will come with posters endorsing Saint Pinarayi Vijayan’s innocence!)
Another serious discrepancy regarding the SNC-LAVALIN case is an agreement to provide a grant of Rs 100 crores for setting up a cancer center in Malabar. However, the proposed cancer center received jut Rs 12 crores from the Canadian company and where is the rest of the money, comrades, the guardians of political ethics and values ???
Now, the comrades in Kerala are organizing a massive state wide rally ironically titled ‘New Kerala rally’, led by none other than Comrade Pinarayi Vijayan, meaning that Kerala will ultimately ruled by the likes of Pinarayi!
Comrades, where are you? Waiting before your masters in AKG Bhavan to get the Goebbelsian propaganda up and running to whitewash their benevolent provider from Kerala. Commissar Karat, why are you so silent? How juicy was the bite?
Shame on CPIM, for robbing off the money meant for cancer patients!
Friday, January 16, 2009
NSUI FELICITATES HIBI EDEN
NSUI JNU UNIT CORDIALLY INVITES YOU TO ATTEND
FELICITATION CEREMONY
OF
H I B I E D E N
(National President, NSUI)
FELICITATION CEREMONY
OF
H I B I E D E N
(National President, NSUI)
Introduction: SIMMY JOSEPH, President, JNU NSUI
Guest Speakers:
MEENAKSHI NATRAJAN, Secretary, AICC
ASHOK TANWAR, National President, Indian Youth Congress (IYC)
Dr. CHANDAN KUMAR YADAV, General Secretary, IYC
SHAMIM AKTHAR, Former President, JNU NSUI
BATILAL BAIRVA, Former Secretary, IYC, Former JNUSU President
Dr. PREM CHAND, Former President, JNU NSUI
WASEEM SAGHAR AZMI, Former President, JNU NSUI
Dr. ZAHID UL HAQ, Vice President, Bihar State Youth Congress
Tapti Mess, 17th January (Saturday), 9:30 p.m.
Guest Speakers:
MEENAKSHI NATRAJAN, Secretary, AICC
ASHOK TANWAR, National President, Indian Youth Congress (IYC)
Dr. CHANDAN KUMAR YADAV, General Secretary, IYC
SHAMIM AKTHAR, Former President, JNU NSUI
BATILAL BAIRVA, Former Secretary, IYC, Former JNUSU President
Dr. PREM CHAND, Former President, JNU NSUI
WASEEM SAGHAR AZMI, Former President, JNU NSUI
Dr. ZAHID UL HAQ, Vice President, Bihar State Youth Congress
Tapti Mess, 17th January (Saturday), 9:30 p.m.
Monday, January 12, 2009
NSUI JNU TEAM PROTESTS AGAINST ISRAEL ATTACKS IN GAZA
How many children and Women? How many destroyed families, shattered dreams, smiles, laughter?
Stop this genocide NOW!
NSUI JNU strongly condemns the barbaric killings at Gaza and appeals to all the concerned students to...
Stop this genocide NOW!
NSUI JNU strongly condemns the barbaric killings at Gaza and appeals to all the concerned students to...
NSUI JNU TOOK PART IN THE PROTEST DEMO AT JANTAR MANTAR ORGANISED BY PALESTINE STUDENT'S UNION ON 10/1/09. SRI ADV. SAJEEV JOSEPH, CHAIRMAN INDIAN YOUTH CONGRESS-HUMAN RIGHTS CELL ADDRESSED THE GATHERING AND TERMED THE ATTACKS AS A VIOLATION OF NATURAL RIGHTS. HE ASSERTED ON THE RETHINKING ON INDO-ISRAELI DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS. HARSH VARDHAN, GEN. SEC. OF NSUI JNU CONDEMNED THE ISRAELI ATTACKS AND CALLED IT AS AN UNJUST AND BRUTAL WAR. NSUI JNU PRESIDENT SIMMY JOSEPH LED THE NSUI DELEGATION. ABHILASH RAMESH, K.S.RAJESH KUMAR, PREMJISH, MADAN, TAUQEER ALAM, ANDMUNEER WERE PRESENT.
Friday, December 19, 2008
HIBI EDEN BECOMES THE NEW PRESIDENT OF NSUI
NSUI JNU CONGRATULATES HIBI EDEN, PRESIDENT KERALA STUDENT'S UNION, FOR BECOMING THE NSUI NATIONAL PRESIDENT. HIBI EDEN IS THE SON OF FORMER CONGRESS MP LATE GEORGE EDEN. AFTER RAMESH CHENNITHALA AND MOHAN GOPAL HIBI IS THE THIRD PERSON FROM KERALA TO BECOME THE NATIONAL PRESIDENT OF NSUI. NSUI JNU UNIT WISHES HIM ALL THE BEST AND EXTENDS ITS WHOLEHEARTED SUPPORT FOR HIM.
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