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SAY

NO

to

CORRUPTION

& PRICE RISE

A Samudaaya Campaign

Adarsh, Satyam and Common Wealth! What virtuous names for vicious scams!

Spate of corruption scandals

2G Spectrum : Rs. 1,76,000 cr. Commonwealth : Rs. 58,000 Cr. Kar Mining Scandal : Rs. 22,000 cr Kar Land Scams : Rs. 17,000 cr

SPATE OF Questions Why ? How ?

Vegetable Price Rise reminding IPL Auction !

Vegetable price increase 67% in 9 months Onion prices jumped from Rs. 80 to Rs.110 this JanPetrol prices hiked 8 times since deregulationSpeculation in essential commodities =1.5 times budget corporate share in food retailing tripled in past 4 years

COMMONWEALTH GAMES LOOT Rs. 58,000 Cr.

Cost of Commonwealth Games

Original Estimate : Rs. 617.5 Crores2010 (India) : Rs 60,000 crores!!!

Comparison

2002 (UK) : Rs 2,100 crores2006 (Australia) : Rs 5,000 crores2014 (UK-estimated) : Rs 2,200 crores!

There was in fact a successful auction of spectrum only it was not conducted by the government but by its corporate sector cronies who made a fortune on the deal. ..Also auctioned alongside were the government's individual Ministers,posts and integrity. Two auctions for the price of none.. P Sainath The Hindu Feb 21, 2011

Who says there was no auction in 2G ?

Karnataka Landscams

Total loot from Landscams Rs.17,000 Crores

Land Grab (2000- 2004 ) of about 41,000 acres : Rs. 1550 CrNICE scam = Rs. 10,000 cr.Land grab by Yeddy family in Shimoga: Rs. 2000 CroresDenotification by Yeddy Govt of 600 acres: Rs. 3800 croresLokayukta is investigating 18 cases of Land grab by CM

Karnataka Minescam

Loot in Karnataka mining scam: Rs. 22,000 cr.

In last 6 yrs. 305 lakh tonnes of iron ore export without valid permits. Illegal exports value Rs 15,245 croreSupreme Court appointed CEC has indicted OMC of Reddy brothers of most suspected scam methodsCEC indicted both state governments of allowing and conniving with illegal activities of mining companies Supreme Court banned mining in Bellary area and exports

Karnataka is on the path of becoming number one state in the country in corruption.

Prof. G Venkatasbbayya,

Veteran scholar - in the Presidential Address of 77th Kannada Sahitya Parishath

TAGS our LEADERS have earned us

Karnataka - most corrupt state in India State ruled by real estate and mining mafiaFixing and toppling of Govt.s by the MafiaOperation Lotus to Resort politics, anything goesAverage rate of MLA around Rs. 50 crores

Black Money Swiss Banks, Hawala and Mutts

India first among deposits in Tax havens, India lost in illegal outflows

over $ 460 Billion (Rs. 21 Lakh crores) since 1947

Losing Rs. 240 crores per day

Tax evasion, Hawala, Depositing in - Swiss Banks & Tax havens, underworld and mutts are pastimes of the Rich and Ugly

Corruption is present ever since independence...

But never of this scale and ubiquity

1948-1991 (in crores of Rs)

Mundhra Scandal 1957 1.2 Dhamateja Loan 196022.0

Kairon (Punjab CM) 1963 NA

Biju Patnaik (Ors CM) 1963 NA

Kuo Oil Deal 1976 2.2

Antulay Trust 198130.0

HDW Commissions 1987 20

Bofors Pay-off 198764

1992-1998 (in crores of Rs)

Harshad Mehta Security 1992 5000 Indian Bank Rip-off 1992 1300 Sugar Import 1994 650 Vote for Notes - 1 1995 ?00

MSShoes Share Price Rig 1994 699

Bihar Fodder Scam 1996 950 Urea Import 1996 133 Hawala Jain Diary 1996 ?00 Bhansali Financial Pyramid 1997 1000

Harshad Mehta Share Price Rig1997 ?000 Sukharam Telecom 1997 1500 Companies Vanishing Post-IPO 1997 330 Teak Plantation 1997 2600

1999-2004 (in crores of Rs)

Mobile License Policy Change 1999 46,000 Modern Foods Privatisation 2000 2,050

BALCO Privatisation 2001 4,050

Ketan Parekh K-10 Scrip Rig 2001 1,250 UTI Collapse 2001 4,800 Dinseh Dalmia 2001 595 Stock Market collapse 20011,15,000 Wheat Import 2003 10,000 NICE Land Grab 2004 10,000 Karnataka Land Scam 1 2004 1,550

2005-2011 (in crores of Rs)

IPO-Demat 2005 146 Taj Corridoor 2006 175

Satyam 2008 10,000

Army Ration pilferage 2008 5,000

Rice Export 2009 2,500

Madhu Koda Jhrakand Mine Lease 2009 4,000

Orissa Mine Lease 2009 7,000

Karnataka Illegal Mining 2009 22,000

Operational Lotus 2009 ?,000

Karnataka Land Sacm - 2 2009 5,800

Vote for Notes - 2 2010 ??,000

Commonwealth Loot 2010 58,000

Resort Politics 2010 ??,000

2G Spectrum 2011 1,76,000

Hassan Ali Tax evasion 2010 89.000

Scams increased in torrents after Economic Reforms in 1991

Major scam occurences gone up from 1 in 6 years to 1 in 5 monthsScams are direct result of economic reforms in 1990s unleashed by Dr. Singh and later accelerated by Vajpeyee and Dr. Singhs regimesScam size grown in torrents from Rs. tens of Crores to hundreds, thro thousands to lakhs of crores in the 4 phasesMajor Root cause has moved from License-Contract Raj - to Grabbing Public Assets - to Policy Fixing - to Minister Fixing in the 4 phasesResignations , arrests and convictions reduced to trickle and cases are delayed indefinitely

Business-Politician- Bureacracy Nexuscourtesy : Radia Tapes

Disclaimer: This maze is an Artists impression of 2G and other Orgy parties. Any resemblance with persons partying in public or private not co-incidental, more likely to be factual.

A powerful nexus against the common man

Bureacracy

Media

Politicians

Business

When a person like him makes a statement, I think we should take him seriously," Sharad Pawar

Banana republics are run on cronyism. People of great power wield great power,......So I think it can happen, I mean a Banana Republic kind of an environment could emerge... Ratan Tata

In fact, every policy decision, or change in policy, in most of these sectors are being made based on the money which is handed out by the consortium of Indian big business and MNCs. ....Indiais fast reaching the level ofThailand, PhilippinesandIndonesia- all countries which see the free play of MNCs and crony capitalism.. Prakash Karat

If four public figures across the spectrum are agreeing.. It must be true.. Corruption is caused by Neo-liberal policies driven by and encouraging CRONY CAPITALISM !

It was gratifying to have the head of Indias most reputed business house confirm the existence of crony capitalism in the country.....Mr. Tata rightly warns us against becoming a banana republic..... P Sainath

APL, BPL and IPL Incentives for The rich and ugly, death Sentence for farmers

Govt. gifted away to rich and ugly Rs. 5 lakhs crores in last budget (=2.5x the 2G scam losses)Rs. 21 lakhs crores (or half a trillion dollars) the legal loot of rich in last 5 years (since 2005-06)The same budget cuts Rs. 5568 Crores from Agriculture Food subsidy for the poor is being cut in the name of APL and BPL, Super-rich Scandal-infested IPL is given IT rebate

Price Rise and Government Policies

Price rise is neither market nor natural phenemenonIt is caused or affected by delibarate Govt policiesIt can also be prevented or fought by right policies

unprecedented price rise in last few years are caused by Neo-liberal policies

Oil Price de-regulation

Allowing Commodity forward trading

Dismantling of PDS in the name of targeting

Corporate takeover of retail (including food)

Cut in subsidies to agriculture inputs making it unviable

Corruption, Price Rise and us

2G scam losses = 1.76 lakh crores= 2 years of cost of universal PDS= 5 years of RTE implementationCommonwealth scam = 58,000 Crores= 2 Lakh Primary Health Centers= 12 lakh low-cost houses= 1 lakh PHC + 6 lakh houses

Unprecedented levels of both Corruption and Price Rise - are caused by neo-liberal policiesNeo-liberal policies are being driven and encouraged by Crony Capitalism growing rapidly in the last 20 years of ReformsBoth are symptoms of a systemNeed to overhaul of the system to eradicate them

In summary

Corruption

The common man

Crony Capitalist nexus

Crony Capitalism

InflationPovertyDisparity

Humungous ScamsNepotismBlack money

Effectiveness of Anti-Corruption Measures

Rate of conviction (6 Out of 38 Major cases since 1991)At best, there have been political sanyasBureaucracy is rarely even accused and never convicted or punishedSome of the famous acquittals or no-actions

Bofors, Karnataka Landscam, Karnataka Minescam, HDW, BALCO privatisation, Vote for Notes-1, Vote for Notes-2, Operation Lotus

Political parties have no will to fight or act on corruption and price-riseCases where politicians from either alliance (led by Congress & BJP) were involved are buriedFrequent noises about Black Money, Swiss bank deposits not followed-upRadia tapes and Wikileaks exposed the nexus of all political parties but for left) with Business, Foreign Govt,s, BureacracyEnthusiastic support to neo-liberal policies (but for left) show the lack of will

No Political will to fight Corruption

Few other weaknesses also are noteworthy

Jan lokpal bill as a be-all of anti-corruption measures

Apolitical and ignoring of all parliamentary institutions

Narrow definition of corruption

Lack of understanding of the root of problem crony capitalism and neo-liberal policies

Is Jan Lokpal Bill be-all of fight against Corruption ?

Anna Hazares movement for Lokpal Bill is positive development Demanding participation of civic society in drafting bills of importance is positive tooJan Lokpal Bill proposed raises many serious issuesOther weaknesses noted

Jan Lokpal bill as a be-all of anti-corruption measures

ignoring of all parliamentary institutions

Lack of understanding of the root of problem viz. crony capitalism and neo-liberal policies

We pledge to

Have ZERO tolerance for corruption at high places and price-rise

If we see, hear corrupt practices, we will speak out

Support and protect whistleblowers against corruption in all organizations including corporates

Use RTI to expose corruption in all organizations

Refuse to sell vote for notes or other allurements

Refuse to vote to a candidate whose assets significantly increased after a term

Utilize all avenues to participate in policy-making and overseeing of public programs

WE DEMAND

A comprehensive effective Lokpal Bill by this August 15 drafted with public consultation

Teeth to Karnataka Lokayukta including cabinet ministers in the jurisdiction and suo moto powers

Resignations of all accused in the recent scams - 2G, Commonwealth, Karnataka Mine and landscams

time-bound action and speedy conviction of accused in recent scams

RTI to be extended to private organisations including corporates

Protection of Whistleblowers Bill

Ban on Forward trading of essential commodities

Reduction of indirect taxes on Petroleum products

Strict action on Black-marketeers and hoarders of essentials

Universalisation of PDS

Implementation of Swaminathan Commission recommendations (2005) to make Agriculture viable

Samudaaya gratefully acknowldeges

Quotes, Resources

P Sainath Ratan Tata Sharad Pawar Prakash Karat

India Today Outlook Frontline Peoples Democracy IDEAS Transparency International CAG Wikileaks

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Mahamud Sudha, Prajavani, Deccan Herald Satish AcharyaSunday Midday SurendraThe Hindu Keshav R PrasadMail TodayRavishankarIndia Today ManjulDNA Raghupathy SringeriAmul

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And many other unknown unnamed unsung ones, including many Whistleblowers , who unearthed the scamsAnd not to forget to online search engines who helped us discover many of them