PM Meets Cabinet, With Maran Present


New Delhi, June 2 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Thursday met his cabinet at his residence here, and an official said yoga guru Baba Ramdev's threatened hunger strike against corruption might be discussed.

Senior ministers, including Dayanidhi Maran, who has come under the 2G spectrum scam cloud, were present at the 7 Race Course Road residence, the official said.

This is the first time Maran is attending a cabinet meeting after he was accused of having received kickbacks for issuing a 2G licence to a private operator when he was the communication minister 2004-07.

Maran has denied the allegations amid demands for his resignation.

The cabinet meeting comes a day after Ramdev ignored appeals from the government to abandon his fast. Informed sources said the ministers would discuss how to break the deadlock with the yoga guru.

Manmohan Singh Wednesday night met senior cabinet ministers to discuss the Ramdev issue.

The cabinet is also likely to consider a 5-15 percent increase in minimum support price for crops planted in the coming kharif season. This includes paddy, groundnut, cotton and some coarse cereals.

This would compensate farmers for the sharp rise in costs of inputs and prices in general.

  

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  • Satish Chandra, Toronto

    Thu, Jun 02 2011

    In my Press Release dated May 31, 2011 I said:-
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    In a letter which appeared in Indian Express, Delhi, under the heading "The Organ and the Keys" two decades ago, I described how RAW was supporting the half dozen terrorist groups in Sri Lanka against one another, playing them like the keys of an organ, bringing them all under its control to produce whatever music it wanted. I have said Anna Hazare's fast was sponsored by CIA-RAW (see my blog below) but now RAW is also supporting Baba Ram Dev and if it makes him prime minister, will keep the threat of bringing his office under Lok Pal and, with true or false charges of corruption against him, keep him under its control. The Intelligence Bureau, out of which RAW was created, did this for half a century under the British instigating Hindu-Muslim conflicts and partition of India, etc. and continues the tactic to this day. Other activities of CIA-RAW, the real ruler of India, are deadlier, such as sabotaging its defence and economy. I am India's expert in strategic defence and the father of India's strategic program including the Integrated Guided Missile Development Program and in "What You Should Know About RAW" in my blog titled 'Nuclear Supremacy For India Over U.S.' which can be found by a Yahoo search with the title, I ended with "The point is that all the tens of thousands of RAW employees are guilty of the gravest treason and deserve the death penalty. So do all those politicians, civil servants and others who are willing collaborators of CIA-RAW." On September 24, 2005 I wrote "the Armed Forces should arrest the top 1,000 or so officers of RAW (quietly if they go quietly, otherwise noisily) as a first step to the total destruction of this agency which functions as a branch of the C.I.A. against India.". The service chiefs have not done this and will be destroyed in the nuclear destruction of New Delhi that will destroy RAW see my blog.

    In the same letter in Indian Express I pointed out that a New York Times report shortly before the 1991 General Elections and Rajiv Gandhi's assassination said that Rajiv Gandhi told the foreign media in New Delhi that the Indian armed forces had "gone berserk in Kashmir. Human rights have been violated in Kashmir", that this comment of his was directed at U.S. lawmakers who control the CIA money which elects and keeps India's prime ministers in office and that the Indian press had failed to report this comment, controlled as it is by the CIA. His assassination followed within days of the publication of this letter of mine.
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    Now a PTI report says "A day after stating that the Prime Minister and Chief Justice of India should not be brought under the ambit of the proposed Lokpal Bill, yoga guru Baba Ramdev on Wednesday did a volte-face saying he did not make such a statement". This volte face on his part was caused by what I said in the above press release just as Rajiv Gandhi's assassination was caused by what I said in my

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