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Soren diluting Green Hunt
posted on 07/02/2010 12:48:34 PM
Former chief minister and Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (JVM) chief Babulal Marandi has accused chief minister Shibu Soren of trying to render Operation Green Hunt ineffective.
“I have concrete information that Soren is tampering with the intelligence system to make Green Hunt ineffective,” Marandi said, adding that Soren’s public statements in support of the offensive were only aimed at confusing the forces.
Marandi’s charge comes just days before chief ministers of rebel-hit states like Jharkhand, Orissa, Bengal and Bihar are to meet in Calcutta to fine-tune a strategy to combat Maoist rebels.
Not satisfied with targeting Soren alone, Marandi trained his guns on the BJP as well. “I want the BJP and its leaders to clear their stand on Naxalites and Green Hunt,” he said.
“Since Vajpayee’s time, in every BJP-ruled state, the party’s stand on Naxalites has been clear, except in Jharkhand,” he added.
According to the JVM leader, the present government was the weakest Jharkhand has ever had.
“The government could not implement it’s own promises. The JMM had announced in its manifesto and also made a noise before the elections about declaring the state a drought-hit one, but has done nothing about it so far,” Marandi told reporters at the old circuit house here.
Commenting on the government, the JVM (P) chief said: “We had plans to make available ration cards to every home in Jharkhand and to provide foodgrains on nominal rates. The (PDS) public distribution system has to be strengthened to provide relief to people who are bearing the brunt of price rise. The JMM had also similar promises, but have not acted on them so far. The 100-day agenda has also not taken shape.”
He warned the government that if results were not visible soon, his party would hit the streets in protest.
Source :The Telegraph
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Third coming of Shibu Soren
posted on 28/12/2009 09:02:29 PM
November 20, 2009: “The JMM and Congress were responsible for creating a shameful situation in Jharkhand”, said BJP leader and Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh
November 21: “The BJP is a party of communalists”, alleged JMM vice-president Hemlal Murmu
November 22: “By making Koda a pawn, the JMM, Congress and RJD looted Jharkhand. If an NDA government is formed, we will put a finger inside their mouths and bring out the looted funds”, so said the then BJP president Rajnath Singh.
Cut to year-end 2009 and JMM chief Shibu Soren is poised to take oath as chief minister of his state for the third time in the past four years. Shoring up his claim to power are his brand new friends and allies, the NDA comprising the BJP-JD(U) and the All Jharkhand Students Union.
It has been a long—and controversial—journey for Soren who is facing trial in a murder case in Giridih. Although most witnesses of the prosecution had turned hostile, the subordinate court has not absolved him yet. There is the disproportionate assets case filed by the CBI in 1995. The Supreme Court is also slated to hear the infamous kidnapping-cum-murder of his private secretary Shashi Nath Jha on March 8.
In a letter written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Jha’s brother Vijaynath, daughter Preeti and the petitioner Mukesh Baba have sought his intervention. “I appeal to him to bring my father back. In case he is dead, help me get his body”, wrote Preeti. “The accused was held guilty by the Tees Hazari court. But the Delhi High Court absolved him. When we filed the petition, the apex court asked the CBI why Soren was not made an accused. The CBI filed a counter affidavit saying the Union law ministry did not give permission. Does this mean that the poor who did not have high political connections cannot get justice even after the lapse of 15 long years?” asked Baba.
For now, the BJP-JD(U)-AJSU-JMM coalition is gearing up to form government. “To provide stability and able governance”, says BJP leader Anant Kumar.
Among the people, however, there appears to be pessimism at the somersaults executed by the leaders. The Congress is now embracing the ‘ethical’ stance that was adopted by the BJP when Soren became chief minister twice—the first time for a week, March 4-March 12 in 2005 and the second time for less than six months between August 27, 2008 and…
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| About Giridih |
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Giridih, is one of the districts of Jharkhand state, India. The literal meaning of Giridih is the land of hills & hillocks - giri, a Hindi word, means hills and dih, another word of the local dialect, indicates upland. The district of Giridih, acquired the status of an independent district on 6th Dec, 1972.
It lies 72 miles (115 km) northeast of Hazaribagh town, on both banks of the Usri River. In 1871 a branch line of the Eastern Railway was built to the town, increasing its importance as a transport centre for coal mined at nearby Kuharbarie, Serampore, and Baniadih. It is the headquarters of the country's major mica-producing firms.
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Achha yeh batao, Gupta ji tender kaise pass kara liye..koi setting hain kya
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| GIRIDIH - COLONIAL TIMES - Excerpt from RUDYARD KIPLING's BOOK |
 | It is a queer life that they lead, these men of the coal-fields, and a ‘big’ life to boot. To describe one half of their labours would need a week at the least, and would be incomplete then. ‘If you want to see anything,’ they say, ‘you should go over to the Baragunda copper-mines; you should look at the Barakar ironworks; you should see our boring operations five miles away; you should see how we sink pits; you should, above all, see Giridih Bazar on a Sunday. Why, you haven’t seen anything. There’s no end of a Sonthal Mission hereabouts. All the little dev—dears have gone on a picnic. Wait till they come back, and see ’em learning to read. …… |
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| Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis |
 | He was the first Indian statistician to receive world recognition.In fact, the history of statistics in India is his personal history.
The founder of ISI, P.C. Mahalanobis, had established a centre here in 1931 because he liked the scenic beauty of Giridih. He used to be a frequent visitor to Giridih. Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore and scientist Sir J.C. Bose had worked on some of their great works from here.
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| Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose |
 | Indian plant physiologist and physicist whose invention of highly sensitive instruments for the detection of minute responses by living organisms to external stimuli enabled him to anticipate the parallelism between animal and plant tissues noted by later biophysicists Jagdish Chandra Bose also glorified the soil of Giridih. His then residence is known as "Vigyan Kendra". This organisation is run by "Bihar Council of Science and Technology". The personality had performed many researches in the same house. |
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| Rabindra Nath Tagore |
| The great literary figure Tagore also had been a resident of Giridih. He wrote his Shivaji Utsav in 1904 at Giridih. His then residence "Dwasika Bhawan" is still existing at Giridih. |
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