Senior BJP leader LK Advani

NEW DELHI: Senior leader LK Advani on Tuesday led party MPs from Gujarat protesting outside Parliament House against the appointment of Lokayukta in the state by the governor without consulting the Narendra Modi government and demanded her removal for "bypassing" established norms.

Advani, Haren Pathak and around 15 other BJP MPs from Gujarat protested at the Gandhi statue in Parliament complex against the appointment of RA Mehta as the Lokayukta by governor Kamla Beniwal.

"We are going to meet the President on September 1 or 2 when she returns to the capital. All norms were ignored by the governor like consultation with the chief minister before the appointment or taking the advice of his Cabinet on the issue. The Lokayukta was appointed by the governor bypassing all established norms," Advani told reporters.

The MPs shouted slogans against the governor demanding her recall. Some of them held placards saying, "Dual policy on Gujarat will not be tolerated", "Recall Gujarat governor", "murder of democracy" and "Rajyapal Bhawan has become Congress Bhawan (governor's House has become Congress Bhawan).

Asked if the BJP would demand Beniwal's removal as governor, Advani said, "Yes. We are going to meet the President over this."

In reply to another question, the senior BJP leader said, "It is a very serious matter and we condemn it. It is an attack on the federal structure of the country. It has never happened before."

Earlier, BJP gave notices in both Houses of Parliament for suspension of Question Hour to discuss the issue which it claims is violation of Article 163 of the Constitution that states the governor should act according to the advice of the council of ministers.

New Delhi: Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy Friday allowed by a Delhi court to conduct his private complaint in the 2G scam.
The court also gave him time for filing an application which seeks to make then Finance Minister P Chidambaram an accused in the case as the matter is pending in the Supreme Court.
"Since my application seeking CBI inquiry into the role of Chidambaram in 2G scam is pending before the Supreme Court, it would be in the interest of justice to wait for the apex court's order and then come here (to this court) with the plea to make him (Chidambaram) an accused in the case," Swamy told Special CBI Judge O P Saini.
The Janata Party chief informed the judge that the apex court order on his petition is likely to be delivered on September 1 and than then he would file by September 15 the application seeking to make Chidambaram an accused in the case.
The court fixed the matter for further hearing on September 15.
Swamy, during the last hearing, had complained before the court that the charge sheets field by the CBI did not cover the role of the Chidambaram, who "jointly took important decisions" on allocation of radio waves.
He had also urged the court that he be appointed Special Public Prosecutor to conduct his case himself.
Swamy had told the court that his private complaint dated December 15, 2010, has a wider ambit including national security which the CBI has not investigated.
Swamy had alleged that the CBI's charge sheet puts the entire blame on Raja while there were joint decisions taken by the then telecom minister and Chidambaram.
He had also complained that the CBI was "not willing to club his private complaint with its case" and sought his plea be heard separately as it would give him more independence.
"I would like my private complaint to be heard separately. I have wider issues (in the complaint) touching national security aspect, which the CBI is not investigating," Swamy contended.
While seeking his appointment as public prosecutor in the 2G case, Swamy had said that he has every right to be appointed a prosecutor.
The CBI had opposed Swamy's plea seeking his appointment as prosecutor in the case, saying his complaint was "not tenable in law" and not "worth accepting".
The agency had told the court that Swamy's submission regarding clubbing of his private complaint with the CBI's case was not in the interest of justice and his complaint may be dealt with separately.

Assembly elections are due in six states in 2012: Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Gujarat, Goa and Manipur. The biggest of them all, Uttar Pradesh, was supposed to have been a face-off between Mayawati and Rahul Gandhi. But there's another player in the arena. The BJP's move to introduce Uma Bharati and put Hindutva hardliner Rajnath Singh in charge of the state seems to have met with some measure of success. In UP, 38 per cent say Uma's return has helped the BJP. In Punjab, Parkash Singh Badal's Akali Dal has a slim edge in the general elections, but within the state, Congress candidate Amarinder Singh is ahead. Andhra seems to be slipping out of the Congress grasp even though no elections are slated in the near future. The threat is not from the TDP but the breakaway Congress faction led by Jaganmohan Reddy. Both the Congress and Jagan have polled 37 per cent each in the state.After he swept the recent by-elections in the state,two Congress general secretaries, Ghulam Nabi Azad and Digvijaya Singh, tried to woo Jagan back to the party. His polite 'no'will have an electoral resonance during the next polls.

YSR Congress party chief YS Jaganmohan Reddy is neck-deep in trouble. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday carried out searches in five cities in connection with disproportionate assets case against him and other alleged irregularities. The raids were conducted simultaneously in Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Kolkata and Mumbai.
A team of 11 CBI officers started searching at the palatial residence of Jagan at Lotus Pond at Banjara Hills on Thursday. Separate teams were formed to conduct the searches after the central agency on Wednesday approached the CBI Special Court to seek search warrants for over 90 locations owned by as many as 32 corporates and some individuals who have invested in the firms owned by Jagan.
The action came a day after CBI registered a First Information Report in both the cases on the direction of Andhra Pradesh High Court. Jaganmohan is one of India’s wealthiest politicians. In April this year, he declared his assets worth Rs 365 crore.
The high court, based on separate petitions filed by Textile Minister P Shankar Rao and TDP leader Yerran Naidu, had recently ordered the CBI to probe the alleged illegal assets that the Kadapa MP had amassed during his father’s regime as Chief Minister.
Firstpost had earlier carried a series of reports centering around his reported wealth. Reddy, who launched his own party—the YSR Congress—earlier this year, sees “witch-hunting” at work on the part of the Congress. His disenchantment with the Congress was triggered by the party refusing to name him as the new chief minister after his father’s death.
The investigation into Reddy’s wealth was sanctioned by the Andhra High Court. Reddy moved the Supreme Court on Wednesday against the 10 August order of the High Court, saying it was not a reasoned decision.
In another development, CBI searched the premises of AP Principal Secretary (Home) B P Acharya and also registered a case against Dubai-based Emaar properties and searched the premises of real estate developer Emaar-MGF in Hyderabad and Delhi.
It is a case of conspiracy between Andhra Pradesh government officials and Emaar in the development of villas and apartments, the agency said.

The MP from Kadapa also announced that he would challenge in the Supreme Court the Andhra Pradesh High Court order of a probe by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into his alleged illegal assets.
Addressing a section of the television media, Jagan, as he is known, hit out at the Congress for targeting him for leaving the party and denied allegations that he misused power to amass huge wealth when his father was the chief minister.
The young leader also rubbished the allegations that the investments into his companies were made as a quid pro quo arrangement in return for favours that his father had shown to the investors.
Jagan alleged that the Congress had unleashed income tax and other agencies against him after he quit the party in November last year and later through a minister who filed a case against him in the court.
"It is all because they don't want a man who has left the Congress party to come back to power in the state," he said.
"This is the first time in the country that a dead man is being attacked," Jagan remarked while referring to allegations against his father YSR, who died in a helicopter crash in 2009.
Defending YSR, Jagan said the decisions to allot land or provide other benefits were taken by the entire cabinet.
Denying that he ever influenced any decision of the government, Jagan said he never visited the chief minister's camp office or the secretariat. "In fact, you should ask the likes of Ahmed Patel (political secretary of Congress president Sonia Gandhi) as to how many times they called up the chief minister to influence the decisions."
Claiming that it was because of his father that the Congress came to power in 2004 and retained it in 2009 both in the state and at the centre, Jagan said a man who did so much for the party was being targeted and maligned two years after his death.
"Just because my dad is no longer alive and because I have left Congress party, they are using the power to target a helpless and a young man, who has no backing of anybody," said Jagan.

Enforcement Directorate is reportedly building a case against former CM and his 'good friend' Shobha Karandlaje. This is first time she has been named in a scam linked to B S Yeddyurappa
More trouble seems to be hounding the already beleaguered former Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa, and he is now believed to be involved in a major international hawala racket.

Friend indeed: Shobha Karandlaje has been named for the very first
time in a scam linked to Yeddyurappa. Pic/Satish Badiger
Yeddyurappa, who is accused in several corruption cases, is said to be under the scanner of the Enforcement Directorate (ED), which is reportedly building a strong case against him. The significance of the case is that close associate Shobha Karandlaje, who was immune to corruption charges involving the former CM so far, is linked and her name is surfacing for the first time.
Shobha is a minister in CM Sadananda Gowda's cabinet and has retained the same miniseries she held while in the erstwhile Yeddyurappa cabinet- food and civil supply and power. According to available information, Yeddyurappa has multiple bank accounts in Dubai and Hong Kong, and has invested in various businesses including real estate and hospitality. The ED is believed to have traced illegal money transfers from a city branch of a nationalised bank to these accounts.
A source in the ED informed that Yeddyurappa's sons -- B Y Raghavendra and B Y Vijendra -- were also mentioned in the case. Evidences points to involvement of his family members in companies based in Dubai, Hong Kong and Dubai and give enough ground to prove that they are the front companies of the family.
The ED and I-T departments have reportedly gathered details of investments made in several five star hotels in the countries mentioned.
"The cases surfacing so far pertain to irregularities at local level, but the case being built by the ED is fraud at an international level. It's huge in terms of money transfers and illegal transactions," said the source.
While declining to divulge intricate details, the source hinted that the Income Tax (I-T) department is also conducting an investigation even as the ED has gathered vital information to book him under Prevention of Money Laundering Act and Foreign Exchange Maintenance Act.
It is to be noted that Yeddyurappa and Shobha used to make quick trips to Dubai and Hong Kong, while H D Kumaraswamy, former CM and state president of JD(S), accused them of running front companies in foreign countries.
While Yeddyurappa and Shobha were not available for comment, R P Jagadish, spokesperson to the former CM said, "We don't have any details on the issue and have not received any notice from either the ED or I-T department. So, it is a hypothetical situation that requires no reaction."

Ahmedabad: The Gujarat government on Saturday chargesheeted IPS officer Rahul Sharma for alleged misconduct in not submitting the original CDs containing mobile phone call records related to the 2002 communal riots.
"Rahul Sharma has been served the copy of chargesheet today," Gujarat government spokesperson Jaynarayan Vyas told media persons here.
Sharma confirmed that he has received the copy of the chargesheet. He was charge sheeted today after his notice period ended yesterday. Sharma was served the first notice on January 27. He was served the final notice on July 28 and was asked to file reply to the notice within 15 days.
The officer has been accused of gross misconduct under Sec 3(1) of All India Service Rules 1969.
He has been accused of not submitting the CDs containing phone call records during the riots to respective investigating officers of Naroda Gam, Naroda Patia and Gulburg Society case.
The chargesheet came a day after Home Minister P Chidambaram said the Centre is willing to intervene in the matter.
Chidambaram said there are rules which allow the Centre to intervene. "Rules do provide for central government to take certain decisions but this depends on officer concerned. If officer concerned raises it we can," said Chidambaram.
According to the state government, Sharma's conduct had become unbecoming of an IPS officer as he did not submit the CDs to his superiors when he was transferred from the post of DCP control, Ahmedabad.
Yesterday, the High Court had rejected Sharma's petition seeking details of the grounds on which he was served a show cause notice by the state government early this year over providing phone call records pertaining to 2002 riots.

New Delhi: Accusing the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government of "monumental fraud" in appointing Suresh Kalmadi as Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chief, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday said that political heads in the government had allowed creation "of a private fiefdom" and did not have the right to continue in their posts.
Initiating a short duration discussion in the Rajya Sabha on the statement of Sports Minister Ajay Maken on the CWG 2010, BJP leader Arun Jaitley said all the documents relating to appointment of Kalmadi as chief of organising committee should be placed on the table of the house.
"It will reveal the truth, which the government does not want," Jaitley said. Jaitley said Kalmadi had floated a private society and the country was entitled to know the truth. "Was he a chairman in private capacity? If he was a government nominee, why was he allowed as a private society...the government lends shoulder to him," he said. Jaitley said every contract awarded by the private body was overpriced.
"It is not only procedural improprieties. Compare it with facts. We were disgraced by reports that everything was overpriced," he said, adding that the Central Bureau of Investigation was probing some cases.
Demanding political accountability for the lapses, Jaitley said "agencies will be accountable to whoever under law, but the political heads of government of Delhi and the government of India are responsbile to both houses of parliament".
He said the government has not taken the house into confidence fully and has not been candid. "The real truth is they saw a political ally and handed over the Games to him," the BJP leader said. He said that political heads of the government who were responsible for the "monumental fraud" do not have a right to continue in their posts.
Jaitley, who continued his speech in the post-lunch session following adjournments, said earlier that Maken's statement had concealed more than it revealed. Calling it a hurried statement, prompted by leaks to the media of parts of the Comptroller and Auditor General's (CAG) report on the CWG, Jaitley said an international sporting event was made into a massive scandal by the Congress-led government.
"The Commonwealth Games were supposed to be a major sporting event...but it transformed into a major scam," Jaitley said. "How much of the money was squandered away still remains a major national concern," he added.
Maken in his suo moto statement said that the then BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government had the onus for appointment of Kalmadi as chief of organising committee. Kalmadi is currently in jail for alleged involvement in financial irregularities in CWG projects.
Jaitley said while the bid for the Games was accepted in November 2003, an updated bid document appeared in the file of the Games in September 2004. "When the bid document was accepted in November 2003, how could IOA (Indian Olympics Association) revise the bid unilaterally?" Jaitley asked. Kalmadi was and continues to be the IOA president. Jaitley said the party took up the issue with then sports minister Vikram Verma, who said he did not remember any revision in the bid document in December 2003.
"How the revised bid appeared in the file in September 2004, he (Kalmadi) used a private route to take control," Jaitley said, adding when a "friendly government" came in 2004, he first wrote to the prime minister to "associate him" with the Games.
Jaitley also said while in a meeting it was decided that then sports minister Sunil Dutt was to head the OC, the decision was later changed, and the minutes of the meeting were also changed. "The entire ministry of sports and bureaucracy in the prime minister's office says this can't be done and it is overruled," he said referring to the appointment of Kalmadi as the OC chief.

Guwahati: The Assam unit of the BJP on Sunday demanded that names of Hindus who were Indians should be deleted from "D" (doubtful) voters list, saying they are harassed by the authority in the name of compilation.
"Genuine Hindu Indian voters are being harassed by the authority in the name of compilation of "D" voters list and we demand that their names should not be in such list," party's state unit President Ranjit Dutta told.
Stating there was no division among the party after its recent assembly poll debacle, Dutta said national president Nitin Gadkari during his visit on Saturday had urged the partymen to stay united and fight against corruption.
On the recurring flood problem, Dutta said "We urge the Centre to recognise flood as a national problem and tackle it effectively."

Sr.No	Sector	Jun 19, 2009	Jun 17, 2011
I	Gross Bank Credit (II + III)	2639595	3785506
II	Food Credit	59506	76579
III	Non-food Credit (1 to 4)	2580088	3708927
1	Agriculture & Allied Activities	330513	453812
2	Industry (Micro & Small, Medium and Large )	1058085	1667577
2.1	Micro & Small	178884	233383
2.2	Medium	126934	187105
2.3	Large	752267	1247090
3	Services	635097	892281
3.1	Transport Operators	38554	58254
3.2	Computer Software	9656	14897
3.3	Tourism, Hotels & Restaurants	13669	29316
3.4	Shipping	9914	9619
3.5	Professional Services	44425	58244
3.6	Trade	142888	185142
3.6.1	Wholesale Trade (ex. food procurement)	68363	101837
3.6.2	Retail Trade	74525	83304
3.7	Commercial Real Estate	96380	113376
3.8	NBFCs	93739	169321
3.11	Other Services	185872	254114
4	Personal Loans	556393	695257
4.1	Consumer Durables	7783	10182
4.2	Housing (Including Priority Sector Housing)	279591	358828
4.3	Advances against FDs	46703	61113
4.4	Adv. Individuals against share, bonds, etc.	2317	3473
4.5	Credit Card Outstanding	26383	18134
4.6	Education	29452	44489
4.7	Vehicle Loans	60370	82330
4.8	Other Personal Loans	103794	116708
5	Priority Sector	918835	1247741
5.1	Agriculture & Allied Activities	330513	453812
5.2	Micro & Small Enterprises	317995	457547
5.2(a)	Manufacturing	178884	233383
5.2(b)	Services	139111	224165
5.3	Housing	199212	238400
5.4	Micro-Credit	16942	27137
5.5	Education Loans	29075	43600
5.6	State-Sponsored Orgs. for SC/ST	2409	1644
5.7	Weaker Sections	136921	203336
5.8	Export Credit	20736	33442

Sr.No	Industry	Jun 19, 2009	Jun 17, 2011
2.1	Mining & Quarrying (incl. Coal)	14321	26890
2.2	Food Processing	54686	86482
2.2.1	Sugar	16696	26713
2.2.2	Edible Oils & Vanaspati	7652	13547
2.2.3	Tea	2112	2189
2.2.4	Others	28226	44033
2.3	Beverage & Tobacco	9215	12194
2.4	Textiles	103600	146145
2.4.1	Cotton Textiles	51748	75416
2.4.2	Jute Textiles	1442	1735
2.4.3	Man-Made Textiles	7678	7894
2.4.4	Other Textiles	42732	61101
2.5	Leather & Leather Products	5989	7306
2.6	Wood & Wood Products	4158	5781
2.7	Paper & Paper Products	15744	21508
2.8	Petroleum, Coal Products & Nuclear Fuels	57614	64202
2.9	Chemicals & Chemical Products	70506	92287
2.9.1	Fertiliser	13427	8085
2.9.2	Drugs & Pharmaceuticals	28401	40951
2.9.3	Petro Chemicals	7658	13269
2.9.4	Others	21020	29982
2.10	Rubber, Plastic & their Products	13458	22686
2.11	Glass & Glassware	4172	5512
2.12	Cement & Cement Products	20462	30802
2.13	Basic Metal & Metal Product	132749	214921
2.13.1	Iron & Steel	102976	165358
2.13.2	Other Metal & Metal Product	29773	49563
2.14	All Engineering	66304	95824
2.14.1	Electronics	18581	27147
2.14.2	Others	47723	68677
2.15	Vehicles, Vehicle Parts & Transport Equipment	32988	46420
2.16	Gems & Jewellery	28639	41559
2.17	Construction	37544	50668
2.18	Infrastructure	283173	552682
2.18.1	Power	136863	292342
2.18.2	Telecommunications	46980	94319
2.18.3	Roads	52756	99038
2.18.4	Other Infrastructure	46574	66983
2.19	Other Industries	102763	143706
2	Industries	1058085	1667575

I.	AGRICULTURE	10272.72
	1. Direct Finance	8648.48
	2. Indirect Finance	1624.24
II.	INDUSTRY	3390.14
	1. Mining & Quarrying	59.00
	2. Food Manufacturing & Processing	717.97
	(a) Rice Mills. Flour & Dal Mills	349.18
	(b) Sugar	137.99
	(c) Edible Oils & Vanaspati	54.01
	(d) Tea Processing	3.27
	(e) Processing of Fruits & Vegetables	16.88
	(f) Others	156.63
	3. Beverage & Tobacco	61.00
	4. Textiles	102.09
	(a) Cotton Textiles	33.91
	(b) Jute & Other Natural Fibre Textiles	4.10
	(c) Handloom Textiles & Khadi	28.02
	(d) Other Textiles & Textile Products	36.06
	5. Paper. Paper Products & Printing	65.50
	6. Woods and Wood Products	17.93
	7. Leather & Leather Products	14.61
	8. Gems and Jewellery	10.01
	9. Rubber & Plastic Products	53.51
	10. Chemicals & Chemical Products	93.52
	(a) Heavy Industrial Chemicals	16.72
	(b) Fertilisers	1.53
	(c) Drugs & Pharmaceuticals	10.89
	(d) Non-Edible Oils	3.04
	(e) Other Chemicals & Chemical Products	61.33
	11. Petroleum. Coal Products & Nuclear Fuels	85.21
	12. Manufacture of Cement & Cement Products	38.00
	13. Basic Metals & Metal Products	392.66
	(a) Iron & Steel	329.63
	(b) Non-Ferrous Metals	5.51
	(c) Metal Products	57.53
	14. Engineering	135.34
	(a) Heavy Engineering	19.62
	(b) Light Engineering	88.13
	(c) Electrical Machinery & Goods	21.32
	(d) Electronic Machinery & Goods	6.27
	15. Vehicles. Vehicle Parts & Transport Equipments	69.77
	16. Other Industries	242.36
	17. Electricity. Gas & Water	138.52
	(a) Electricity Generation & Transmission	128.96
	(b) Non-Conventional Energy	1.97
	(c) Gas. Steam & Water Supply	7.59
	18. Construction	1093.14
	(a) Other than Infrastructure	158.03
	(b) Infrastructure Construction	935.11
III.	TRANSPORT OPERATORS	437.18
IV.	PROFESSIONAL AND OTHER SERVICES	1375.56
	1. Professional Services	334.50
	2. Tourism. Hotel & Restaurants	67.79
	3. Recreation services	22.04
	4. IT and Telecommunications	30.84
	5. Others	920.39
V.	PERSONAL LOANS	8374.31
	1. Housing	2494.68
	2. Consumer Durables	95.54
	3. Vehicles	641.67
	4. Education	940.97
	5. Personal Credit Cards	101.11
	6. Others	4100.35
VI.	TRADE	5015.12
	1. Wholesale Trade	1277.12
	2. Retail Trade	3738.00
VII.	FINANCE	67.43
VIII.	ALL OTHERS	920.50
	TOTAL BANK CREDIT	29852.96