oops
Tiger, Tiger my mistake
Mistook you for William Blake
- (Ogden Nash) :-)
2009/3/29 sreenivas v.p <[email protected]>
> thanks . i did not know that you are a supplier of nursery rhymes . thanks
> . it will help me sometime .
>
> --- On *Sun, 29/3/09, damodar prasad <[email protected]>* wrote:
>
>
> From: damodar prasad <[email protected]>
> Subject: [GreenYouth] Re: The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India
> (Marxist) has issued the following statement:Investigate the Israeli Missile
> Contract
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Sunday, 29 March, 2009, 9:59 PM
>
> Another William Blake poem for you, sreenivas.
> its cute little:
>
> *INFANT JOY *
>
> '*I have no name;
> I am but two days old.'
> What shall I call thee?
> 'I happy am,
> Joy is my name.'
>
> Sweet joy befall thee!
>
> Pretty joy!
> Sweet joy, but two days old.
> Sweet joy I call thee:
> Thou dost smile,
> I sing the while;
> Sweet joy befall thee!
> *
>
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 8:43 PM, sreenivas v.p
> <[email protected]<http://in.mc87.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]>
> > wrote:
>
>> why suprise ?
>> CPM is the only party in India which speaks for the basic issues of common
>> people .
>> "Thammil bedam Thomman" .
>> In the recent Rajastan assembly elections , CPM gained three seats which
>> were the result of working for the village people of Rajastan in drinking
>> water related issues . The same will be repeated in the lok sabha elections
>> as well .
>> sreenivas
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --- On *Sun, 29/3/09, damodar prasad
>> <[email protected]<http://in.mc87.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]>
>> >* wrote:
>>
>>
>> From: damodar prasad
>> <[email protected]<http://in.mc87.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]>
>> >
>> Subject: [GreenYouth] Re: The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India
>> (Marxist) has issued the following statement:Investigate the Israeli Missile
>> Contract
>> To:
>> [email protected]<http://in.mc87.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]>
>> Date: Sunday, 29 March, 2009, 4:16 PM
>>
>>
>> This is a surprise forward from Venu!!
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 8:20 AM, Venugopalan K M
>> <[email protected]<http://in.mc87.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]>
>> > wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Press Statement
>>>
>>> The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued
>>> the following statement:
>>>
>>> Investigate the Israeli Missile Contract
>>>
>>> The Rs. 10,000 crore missile production deal with an Israeli company,
>>> the Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), has now been exposed as a deal
>>> involving massive kickbacks besides being an unnecessary contract. The
>>> Left parties had asked in a letter to the Prime Minister in March 2008
>>> that the $ 2.5 billion deal for developing a medium range surface to air
>>> missile with the IAI should not be proceeded with in view of the fact
>>> that the earlier Barak missile deal with the same company is being
>>> investigated by the CBI for kickbacks. The Defence Minister replied to
>>> this letter that if there is any impropriety or violation of law, action
>>> would be taken (letters attached).
>>>
>>> An investigative report by the DNA newspaper has exposed the fact that
>>> the Israeli missile deal involves a "business charge" which is six per
>>> cent of the total value (approximately Rs. 600 crore). This makes it a
>>> scam of ten-fold magnitude compared to the Bofors Rs. 64 crore
>>> kickbacks.
>>>
>>> The Left parties had written to the Prime Minister again in February
>>> 2009 barely three weeks before the contract was signed once again urging
>>> the government not to proceed with the deal (letter attached). The
>>> reason cited was that the DRDO had already developed a missile system
>>> which was superior to the one being offered by the IAI for
>>> co-production. The letter also reiterated that IAI should have been
>>> blacklisted just like the South African firm Denel which is also under
>>> investigation for kickbacks .
>>>
>>> Given the seriousness of the charges the government has to answer the
>>> following questions:
>>>
>>> 1. The IAI had got the contract for the supply of Barak missile in 2000
>>> during the NDA regime. The FIR lodged by the CBI in October 2006 names
>>> IAI as an accused besides naming the Delhi-based arms dealer, Suresh
>>> Nanda and other family members as agents of the Israeli firms IAI and
>>> Rafael Corporation. Why was the IAI not embargoed from further supplies
>>> till the case was disposed off?
>>>
>>> 2. Was the Government not aware that the Israeli authorities had
>>> investigated the IAI for malpractices in contracts with other countries?
>>> Such charges led to the head of the IAI stepping down in 2005.
>>>
>>> 3. Was the Ministry of Defence not aware that an Indian agent of the
>>> Israeli company replaced by another petitioned the Israeli defence
>>> ministry claiming additional commissions were due to him?
>>>
>>> 4. What does the Manmohan Singh government have to say about the DRDO
>>> having developed and field proven its Advanced Air Defence (AAD) missile
>>> capacity? Why was the DRDO compelled to enter into the so-called "joint
>>> development" of the IAI air defence missile when it already has its own
>>> superior AAD missile?
>>>
>>> 5. Was the Manmohan Singh government not aware of the fact that like in
>>> the Barak missile deal, there are middlemen and intermediaries involved
>>> who are being paid commissions/kickbacks? Was the government not aware
>>> of identity of these agents?
>>>
>>> 6. How does the Manmohan Singh government explain the six per cent
>>>
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