Good News and Bad News – Part 2

As if on cue:

Baalu admits to taking favour for family firms

“…Shipping and surface transport minister T R Baalu told the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday that there was nothing wrong if he had requested the Union petroleum minister to provide gas to a company of which he was the managing director in the past and with which his sons and their wives are currently associated…”

Also here: Yes, I used my position, says TR Baalu

While some would admire the (rare) frankness and “honesty” of confessing to such an act, it raises a larger question around ethics, trust and abuse of authority…

Sadly, I doubt if anyone is going to even bother thinking about such things…

Praada: Sorry..I missed your comment.

I am not an ardent supporter of BJP…but I am an ardent supporter of some of their policies.

When it comes to vote bank politics (or playing the caste card), they are probably no better or worse than others.

Dear Members, our supporters and all of you who have voted for our candidates in the polls on May 10th….

The founders of Lok Paritran, who form the National Committee, held a PressConference on Monday and made allegations on Mr. B.T.Naganna. Almost all the newspapers have carried the details of this press note in their editions on Tuesday and the same has also been put up on the website of the party.

Mr. B.T.Naganna was our State President until he was removed from the post yesterday as per the announcement in the Press Conference. He was also our candidate from KRPuram constituency.

*All the allegations made by the National committee are baseless and totally false.
*We are now in the process of filing our case on the founders for defamation and damages. The details will be made available to all of you as soon as we actually file the case in the court of law.

The charge that Mr. Naganna attacked Tanmay is also false – in fact, Tanmay and his team organised a pre-meditated attack on Naganna at around 9.30pm on the 10th evening, after we all dispersed from the Press Club around 8.30pm.

The reason for the attack on Naganna is extremely shocking and shameful – but we want all our people to know the truth, however bitter it may be….

About 10 days ago, when all our candidates had started their Election campaigns in full earnest, the National General Secretary, Tanmay Rajpurohit, asked two of our candidates to adjust about Rs. 6 lakhs to 7 lakhs of expenses on behalf of candidates from one of the largest National political party. Both our candidates refused to do so.

Tanmay’s reasoning for this was that as none of our candidates were going to show more than Rs. 2 lakhs as the poll expenses, this would be very `helpful’ to our party.

This matter was discussed between a few select members and other candidates and was decided that we would refuse to do this `adjustment’ and that the National committee would be confronted with this issue immediately after the polling.

Tanmay and their team were also pressurizing our (ex) State Treasurer – Mr. Shashidhar Alabur, to submit the State unit’s accounts on the 5th of May itself. He said it would not be possible because of lack of time and when he demanded to see the accounts of the National unit, his request was refused by Tanmay saying that he had no right to scrutinize their accounts.

Thereafter, on the night of May 5th, around 1am, Tanmay and his team along with about 15 others came in 3 vehicles to his house and started banging on the gate of his house. Fearing that some untoward incident may happen, he did not venture out and called the police. Tanmay and his team left the premises before the police arrived. However, a formal complaint was not lodged as this could be extremely embarrassing for our candidates if this news leaked out to the press while the actual polling date was just 5 days away.

All candidates and core members were supposed to meet in the party office at 6pm on 10th evening after the polling concluded and take the National team to task on the above and many other such matters like a) they never joined any candidates’ campaigns even though they had supposedly more than 15 party members who had come down from Delhi/Rajasthan to help the candidates, b) there was absolutely no help in terms of funds for the State unit or the candidates, c) they were creating more problems for the candidates than helping them out by calling them for meetings at odd hours and places etc.

However, because of a bogus voting issue in one booth of one of our candidates, we all had to rush to the Chief Election Commissioner’s office where we joined the press conference in progress and then lodged our formal complaint on the bogus voting problem. Thereafter, all of us present had various discussions with the media and then dispersed around 8.30pm. A few minutes after Naganna left, Tanmay called him on his mobile and told him they wanted to have a personal discussion with him and agreed to meet near TGI Friday on Airport Road. All of them met for some time and Chandrashekhar, the National President, then asked Naganna to instruct all the candidates to ‘adjust’ Rs. 5 lakhs to 7 lakhs for another party’s candidates in our poll expenses. Naganna refused to do so and walked away.
Just as he got into his van, 4 men dressed in black, wearing black helmets with dark visors attacked him from both sides. A baseball bat was shoved in from one window which bruised Naganna in the face – but he was quick to grab the bat, get out from the other side and chase one of them with the bat. In the skirmish that followed, Naganna sustained injuries on his hands and legs also – but the thugs managed to escape in an old blue Maruti van. Tanmay & co were spotted watching all this and then they rushed to get into an auto and vanish.

When we all joined forces in the morning on Sunday and went to the Police Station to lodge a complaint, we found Tanmay & co also in the same Police station lodging a complaint on us ! Thereafter, we discovered that they had also lodged another complaint in another Police station on the events of the previous night claiming that Naganna had attacked Tanmay. And on Monday we got the news that they had conducted a press conference where they accused Naganna of various things and that the State committee has been dissolved.

In view of all these events, many statements made by Tanmay and Chandrashekhar, during the last so many meetings and even just before the nominations were filed, assume a different significance now. Remarks like ‘it is very easy to get money during elections’, ‘just pay 5000 for the nomination deposit and the rest will automatically come to you’, ‘adjusting 5 or 10 lakhs (rupees) is not a big thing during elections’ etc. etc. The fact that during the Elections in Gujarat, while the campaigns were in full swing in Gujarat, the whole team flew in from Ahmedabad to Bangalore for 2 days just to meet us and were found having a party at the Leela Palace !

May be this was due to some ‘adjustment’ ?

It is now quite obvious to us that these founders of Lok Paritran have always had these intentions of making money during the elections as the primary purpose and all that ideology etc is just eyewash.
We always felt, that, even though the founders had a horrible dress sense, were quite often rude and rough with members – we felt this was due to immaturity and that they would learn in the course of time – but we never doubted their integrity and morals. Alas, we have been proved wrong.
However, every single active member of our Bangalore unit as well as all the candidates (except Nalin Jain who contested from Gandhinagar constituency, who happens to be Tanmay’s close associate) have expressed their solidarity with Naganna and the state committee. Those of you who know us personally or have met us will know who is speaking the truth.

*We assure you all that all of us in the State committee, District committee and all the 10 candidates have been true to the ideology of Lok Paritran, are non-corrupt, are transparent in our actions and accountable for our actions totally – and will continue to be so.

* Some other facts that you all should be aware of :
Tanmay and Chandrashekhar are own brothers – but Chandrashekhar never writes Rajpurohit after his name (probably to hide this fact)
Dheeraj Kumar who is on the national committee is a cousin of Tanmay.
Santanagopalan and Srikant Chakravarti – who are also on the National committee are cousins of Tanmay.
So, the national committee is a family affair now.
(That is transparency for all of us !)

The three or four of the other founders who were with Tanmay when the party was founded have all left (or were forced to leave).

None of the National team answers their phones on Tuesday !!! (Seriously, we are not joking) – they did not want any of the candidates to file their nominations on Tuesday this time in Bangalore – but some did anyway. (May be they don’t teach about superstitions in IIT ?)

*What next for all of us and Lok Paritran ? *
We have decided to wait till the announcement of the poll results on May 25th before taking a final decision.
We feel this is not the end of it as the National committee has some more dirty tricks in their bag and will try and do some more damage to us in the next 10-15 days – but we will show them that they cannot get away with it anymore.

Many many sincere thanks to all of you who have supported us in our endeavors and efforts in these last 2 years. We will continue to strive for good governance and removal of corruption – and we hope your support is there for us too….

By the (ex) State Committee, (ex) District committee and our 10 candidates.

Dear Sir,
I thought that LP was a better party than the others… with all of those from IITs and IIMs founding a party, I definitely thought that it would do some thing good to the country and its people. But looking at this fight i dont think that you are any different from the other parties. Good that less people know about your party and hence less number are fooled by your dedication towards politics and that towards the country.
Thanking you and hoping that you dont even win a single seat in the current elections (because u dont deserve to win any).
And by the way i know that this comment will not be moderated as it is against LP….

@ ABC: You said: “And by the way i know that this comment will not be moderated as it is against LP….”

What is that supposed to mean?

I am not *for* or *against* anyone…The only thing I stand for – and will fight for is *Truth*.

In fact this chain of comments was started by Prassana (who I presume is still from Lok Paritran) and if I get another comment – giving their side of the story, I will be happy to publish it as well.

The important thing is for everyone to know what is going on – people can then make their own judgements.

Dear all,
Just one clarification :
Professionals in Bangalore who were ‘supporting’ or ‘campaigning’ for LP was actually doing it because of some of the candidates who have good credibility in Bangalore. LP just happened to be the platform on which they were contesting. The party was immaterial.
We would have even campaigned for them if they had contested on the Congress symbol, because we felt that we needed some different from other regular politicians.
In fact I heard about LP only from one of the candidates who invited me to join them.
I would be only glad to work these people (the 10 candidates) because of their credibility and determination to create a difference to politics.
Rajeev Kumar
[I had actively campaigned and supported the candidates of LP in Bangalore.]

Politics is to add the people and not to remove them. I have seen that n number of people joined LP but disappeared due to the behavior of LP’s founders. Now take example of Naganna (Ex Karnataka state president), He has done more work for LP than the founders. He is even more known in the public. Now LP’s founders are blaming that he is not a Graduate. Even if he is not then is LP is giving him job?? Is it written in LP constitution that only Graduate can hold post of President? Due to Nagana only LP exists in Karnatka and not due to LP’s founders. Why they didn’t check his certificate at the time of giving him president post? No one was taker of LP in Karnataka and today also no one is there to take care of LP in Karnataka. Through mail I came to know that all are supporting Naganna and no one is contacting LP’s founders. From LP’s founders only I heard about the murder case pending against Naganna. I just wanted to tell LP’s founder that if Indian law doesn’t have any issue with Naganna then why you are bothering. You should provide proof also other wise some day you may also get same changes by others. Respect others to get respect.

through mail only I came to know that all the candidate have put their hard earned money and didn’t get even a single coins from LP’s founder as they promised. Most of the candidates are in depth of 50K to 75K. This is due to false promises by LP’s founders. I just wanted to tell you that all the members in Karnataka state unit including the entire candidate are very much true because they are not politician and they are as pure as any thing.

LP Karnataka members are shocked but their moral is very high. They will be keeping continuing their work but not under LP banners.

Jai Hind

Its very unfortunate to see the things turning up this way. I was devasted after hearing all about LP. It was the only party that I had a hope in. But it seems its not different than other parties. When I first met Tanmay in bangalore, in no way he sounded like a leader. He sounded more arogant and not listening to audiences. Even did not gave respect to elderly persons. How one can lead anybody without having this basic principle in life. Still this party made significant progress in Bangalore within short span of time, all the credit goes obviously to the disolved state committee. I owe my full support to the state unit. I remember a famous dialogue from film SARKAR ” taakat logonko jodane se milati hai, todane se nahi”..

I read some of the comments and felt the disappointment you all feel…Let me unequivocally state…things will change and it will happen in our life time and in the next two decades. Whosoever i meet up, talk to; I can feel a surge of pasison for a change, desire for a change across the country and sooner or later this will turn into a national movement. My take is that the next election will see a powerful new front of passionate leaders wanting to lead the country to the rightful place it deserves….

Dnyanesh Sovani
Volunteer Lok satta movement(loksattamovement.org)

Its been a long time i am exprssing my views.I joind the party for the same reasons as of myfellow members.Initially I though that this party is going to change things with the kind of mission and vision it came up with and the way is started here in bangalore.But I just kept aloof for sometime just to wait and watch as I anticip[atyed somethig this this but definitely not so fast.They way we started working from the grassroot level with the superb decication form each and every core member was really commendable.When I met with the national team for the very first time I was quite disappointed as they were not integrated at all.The benifit that they had was operating from the national level.with units at various state.I wish thaey could have capitalised on this and would have made a strong base.But things went down the other way.Now the only option I see for the members of LP at bangalore either to join with another party to venture in politics or just set up another group with somethibg catchy that people will digest.The main attraction of LP was IIT and IIM now as that banner is removed i believe the only options are either to get someone from those institutions (impossible task) or keep working like NGO’s assisting people and gain populariy and trust of public and then contest in elections to gain a strong base and further work to the goal(removing corruption).I only wish all the luck to all members for all future endeavours and be be carefull about taking any steps forward.

Dear all,
Greetings! I am Cdr. (Retd) BB Khilari from Bangalore, who has contested the Assembly elections from Lok Paritran and awaiting results on 25 May 08. At the outset, I would like to inform you in right earnestness that you all are being totally ill-informed and mis-guided about Karnataka LP party by Tanmay Raj Purohit and his brother Chandrashekhar through LP website.

You all may be surprised to know that if at all LP party noticeably exists in the country, it is the Karnataka unit, thanks to the dedicated efforts of Mr. BT Naganna, the erstwhile State President and Mr. Shashidhar Alabur, the Treasurer, who have been sweating it out for over two and a quarter years to spread the message of LP, without any recognisable support from the so-called National Committee of LP headed by the two brothers mentioned above.

I only joined about six months ago, highly impressed by the ideology and vision portrayed by the party, and contributed my bit in its growth. However, you shall all be surprised to know that none of the National Committee members have helped any of the 11 candidates in the campaigning process even on a single day. Instead they were busy contacting the candidates one by one to adjust the poll expenses of Congress candidates into their accounts as the maximum expenditure of LP candidates was around 2 to 2.5 lakhs against the CEC allowed limit of 10 lakhs. The basic aim seems to have been to convert black money of the Congress candidates into white for their own self-aggrandisement.

When I got the wind of this and when Tanmay Purohit and Chandrashekhar wanted to visit me alone at my residence, I refused and asked them to arrange a formal meeting at the party Hqs. Since none of the candidates, except perhaps, one, Nalin Jain, presumably their relative, and an unfit LP candidate projected by the National team, agreed to their nefarious demands, on 10th May, they invited Mr. Naganna, for a personal discussion at about 8.45 pm. and after the discussions, where in Mr. Naganna refused to influence any of the candidates accounts or make adjustments in the State accounts, and when Mr. Naganna was about to leave by his car he was attacked by three masked men from a car immediately behind his car with sticks and base ball bats. Naganna somehow managed to chase them away and went home and informed Mr. Shashidhar and others of the party (I have a message received at about 10.21 pm stating Naganna attacked by Tanmay and gang, be careful, saved in my mobile). The conspirators then went and lodged a complaint with police that Naganna had attacked them. However, Mr. Naganna, keepiung in mind, the reputation of the party had discussion with many a party members and candidates next morning and filed a complaint of assault in the evening.

In the mean time on that day Chandrashekhar and Tanmay addressed a press conference ( all pre-planned, as you have to book in advance) to state that Mr. Naganna has been dismissed and the State unit of Lp has been dissolved, by slapping totally false and baseless charges against Naganna, an act which is also utterly illegal as no prior notice had been issued nor the National council meeting had been convened to take such a decision. Surprisingly, yesterday, when the state committee was holding its meeting from 1600 hours and extended upto 2000 hours Mr. Nalin Jain, in collusion with Tanmay and Chandrashekhar, lodged a complaint in a remote police station at about 1830 hours that Mr. Naganna, Mr. Shashidhar and Mr. Anuj Mishra, a candidate, along with 10 heavily armed goondas attacked him at his office and demanded Rs. six lakhs and to withdraw the complaint lodged by Tanmay against Naganna. I, along with others went to the Police station today and have told the Inspector that this complaint was absolutely false as all the 3 members accused were in a meeting with us the previous day at the alleged time of attack.

The police have also confirmed that no one visited Nalin Jain’s office as alleged and are taking suitable action. I would like to inform you people that 10 candidates, including Naganna and myself, who contested the elections really sweated it out against corruption, in-efficiency and in-competency in governance and apathy of the administrative machinery towards citizens’ problems with un-imaginable sincerity and dedication and that too in our pre-decided limited budgets, which was appreciated alround. The acts of the National committee of LP came as a surprising blow to all of us and has done considerable damage in the eyes of the public. We have learnt with fgeat pains that these conspirators and the so called founders of LP have done similar acts in Tamil Nadu, UP, Delhi, Mumbai, Pune and Gujrat and have not promoted the cause for LP’s growth , but were mis-guiding every one , including those who are funding from abroad.

Please convey this trurth to all those who you know and expose these mis-guided youths, who are younger to my children, and help me in pursuing my fight against corruption which is the original aim of this party.

My E-mail ID is bbkhilari@yahoo.com and you can contact me on 09342689574. Let us all together build a good society and a good governance.

Warm Regards,

Dear Shantanu,
I am with you. What I feel that all the fights are going on which is good because it helps to filter the people and things. Even if this is not good for LP but for other like BPD, Lok Satta etc, will help to improve the things. I heard that Lok Paritran got more than 30000 vote in Tamilnadu assembly election 2 years ago. Later I came to know that Ajit Shukla (now BPD founder) was behind the success because there also Tanmay created huge problem but some how Ajit managed it. I also came to know that the day when Ajit Shukla came out from Lok Paritran, it started dieing slowly and as a result LP was able to file only two candidates and each got around 150 votes. In Gujrat only one candidate even if entire LP national team was in Gujrat for more than two months. There also some how they managed to get around 125 Votes. In Karnata LP managed to get 11 candidate and this credit goes to Karnata State Prisident Sri Nagana and not to the LP founders.

LP founders are very rude and they never answer any question properly. If they don’t know they will answer some thing else and when you ask they will tell you, you don’t have that much maturity to understand and it will take time to understand it. So many LP members have complained about it.

I feel if LP founders don’t change their attitude they will finish soon and even getting job for 4th grade will be difficult for them. Any way 99% they are finished.

Jai Hind

There are many complaints and greveinces against lok paritran and its tanmay rajpurohit and chandrasekar but this is a big expose…

Its hard to understand that while these people claimed to be honest , why they have demanded lakhs of Rupees ?

They claimed to be transparent , why they have hidden that Tanmay and Chandrasekar are real brothers ?

They always spoke that they will eradicate the corruption and why they themselves are fully involved in corruption and illegal transactions ?

In public they use to wear khadi kurta and preached simplicity..and they are caught red handed while enjoying parties in hotel leela palace..

They gave example of gandhi and non voilence during elections in gujrat and they are using voilence as means to silence their own people..

Once they said that democracy is the best way and It seems that there is no democracy in their own party as they have expelled whole state commmitee..even without giving explaination…

lets imagine Naganna is not educated so what ? why all other are expelled..

People like mr.alabur , comander khilari are reputed people in their areas..

please come up with the truth…otherwise people of India will never forgive..

lok paritran and tanmay has been exposed long back
it is just repeated confirmation of the fact that they are not what they pretent to be. Their appearances are masks to hide their reality.My cousin was with them in IIT Mumbai ,he told that several police cases are pending against tanmay in various police stations in diff. states..

lets support the lok satta or bharat udai mission.

I am totally surprised and shocked to read this..

As lok paritran is exposed now ..tanmay must adress press conference and admit his crimes and ask for forgiveness from all those whom he has offended in tamilnadu , UP, goa ,gujarat , delhi and karanataka..

we should make efforts to make them realise their mistakes,.

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From No revenge of the nerds

When IITians dive into the murky waters of politics, we expect the halo to keep lighting the way. We expect that these youngsters with glowing grey cells will show that it is possible for ordinary, intelligent people to survive in politics. Perhaps because of this expectation, it is disheartening to see their political party split even before it has learned to stand firmly on its own two feet.

Lok Paritran – the party started in 2006 by six alumni of IIT-Powai and IIT-Kanpur – has for some time had a splinter group called Bharat Punarnirman Dal (BPD). Neither mother party nor splinter shies away from some old-fashioned mudslinging. “Ravi Kishore, vice-president of BPD passed out of IIT after a number of attempts,” says Tanmay Rajyaguru, national president of Lok Paritran. “We don’t expect them to understand our vision.” Ravi Kishore counters that the extra years were because he had taken a break from his studies during the dotcom boom and returned to campus later. Moreover, he says, he can’t be called a splinter since he never was an officer-bearer in LP in the first place, having turned down the post of Lok Paritran’s Andhra Pradesh state president because he did not see eye to eye with the rest.

In their twenties both, neither Tanmay nor Kishore fits the stereotype of IITian or politician. They complement their boyish looks and thin moustaches with baggy green fatigues and sneakers. During the recent Gujarat election, Tanmay moved around in an old rickety jeep that seemed to have bounced straight out of World War II. Kishore looks more like the businessman that he is, running coaching centres in five cities.

Lok Paritran first contested the Tamil Nadu assembly elections in May 2006 on seven seats in Chennai. They did not win a single seat but two of their candidates finished third, garnering nearly six per cent of the vote. This was seen as impressive for a party four months old and without free TVs and rice at its disposal. Immediately after the results, however, four of the seven said they did not wish to be part of the group. There were angry accusations of favouritism, and of all things, lack of transparency.

Both BPD and LP then decided to partipate in the Gujarat election only to find that there was nothing but quicksand in Modi land. BPD initially wanted to contest at least 10 seats but backed out completely at the last minute. Kishore says they did not find a single candidate who “shared our vision”. BPD is now focusing on the Delhi elections, has rented an office there and hopes to make a dent in the seat of Indian power.

Lok Paritran was more ambitious in Gujarat. It started out wanting to contest 40 seats, many of them in Saurashtra. In the end they put up only one candidate in the hotbed of Maninagar, the veritable Amethi of Gujarat given that Chief Minister Narendra Modi was taking on Union Minister of State for Petroleum Dinsha Patel there.

The LP candidate was a professional astrologer, Maulik Bhatt, who polled 267 votes. What was an astrologer doing in a party whose chiefs only believe in phenomena that can be proven in the controlled environment of a laboratory? Bhatt claims to have predicted Italy’s World Cup win, the tsunami and the Gujarat floods. The 28-year-old physics graduate says he was a non-believer until he started taking lessons in astrology. “Astrology is a knowledge system above pure science,” he says. “In fact, the higher you go in life, the higher the stakes and so you want to keep an eye on the future.” However, the party website does not mention his astrologer status preferring instead to say that he is a student of “Indian history and science”.

Ironically, both groups are trying hard to shake off the IIT tag. They are acutely aware that the IIT name can pull both ways. If it can lift you above the run-of-the-mill politician it can also drag you down if word gets out that that IITians are mere human, no different from the rest. They want to carefully unpin the halo themselves instead of public perception tearing it off their heads.

“When you brand us as a party of IITians, many good people are reluctant to join us,” says Kishore. “They assume that only IITians can become members or that the top posts would go to them.”

Perhaps, as part of the de-branding, they could consider rewriting their official website, which at present, is full of terrifying lines like: “Society is an aggregate of continuum of all kind of possibilities of human being.

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Tanmay has applied false allegations against ex-lok paritran member Ravikishore also because Ravi Kishore realised the reality of Tanmay and left him to join the honest efforts by Ajit Shukla’s BPD.

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it was said by some one as gujaratis are religious by nature and donate a lot to Gurus and swamis so that is the reason that Tanmay campaigned in gujarat by using the name Tanmay Rajyaguru.( read article above)

why they are deceiving people ?

My question is who is supporting them? Who is paying bills? These guys were students in US and now trying to get elected in couple of states. Even Congress and BJP face money crunch during election. We know we had not seen open contribution for them in US or UK. My question is who is this hidden hand in US.
Why they are sitting in Raj. and planning to get elected in southern states? and in future Gujarat?
Why founder had organized token health camp in Raj. why not in West Bengal, Tamil Naidu where there is a poverty.
They didn’t tried their luck in recent election in Bihar or West Bengal but interested in Gujarat. Why?
What they were doing after Tsumani?

First press release was all about Hinduism and we had not seen any action from them.

Yet to see any work from them on Hindusim, social work or on anything.

These guys were suspicious from the beginning only.

Kudos to Mr.Shantanu , Mr.Khilari , Mr.Naganna for exposing these fake IITians or Pseudo Patriots..

Ashish, Kunnu and Mudy: Thanks for your comments.

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Ashish and Kunnu: I have added links to the sources of your articles…Wherever possible, please add the link in the comment as it helps me (and other readers) to cross-reference the original article for themselves.

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@ What is the Truth: Good question and something that I am struggling with as well..

Many of you must have noticed that the comments here are overwhelmingly from Naganna supporters or others who have been disappointed with LP… That does not mean that they are false but I am somewhat surprised that no one – and I mean no one – from Lok Paritran has got in touch with me – or left a comment on this blog mentioning their side of the story.

This whole comment chain was started with a comment by Prassana (presumably from LP) on 13th May and the counter-comment on 15th May.

Unfortunately, Prasanna does not seem to have visited the blog after leaving his comment…

Over the next 1-2 days, I shall try and get in touch with the LP leadership to get their version of events.

I think we all would like to know the “truth” and what is really going on.

These kind of public insinuations and insults do not help anyone.

Thanks for joining the discussion.

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UPDATE: I have just sent a message via LokParitran’s website to get their version of events and answers to these questions. Let us wait and see (the email I sent to Prassana on the id that he had given while commenting has bounced).

*** MSG for Prassana ***

Dear Prassana,

There have been a lot of comments on my blog following your comment https://satyameva-jayate.org/2008/04/24/good-news-bad-news-2/#comment-11959

Please do have a look..

I would be very interested in hearing your version of events and the incident.

Thanks

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UPDATE 2: There is now a new Karantaka state office for LP http://www.lok-paritran.org/?q=node/550

We in south India would like to know the complete story right from the beginning .

why ajit shukla was expelled

why three lp office bearers were expelled for raising the vaild points in chennai

why there lp headquaters was attacked by their cadres in jodhpur

why amit beseen left the party

why tanmay and chandrasekar hide that they are brothers

now what is the tanmay side of story for this bangalore episode

truth must come out and truth will come out

tanmay knows that he is completely exposed now , just he is planning with his gang on the issue of implementing dirty tricks against naganna and other true workers in bangalore. tanmay want to defame them by levelling false charges and wrong allegation only to silence the voice of truth.

people in bangalore has seen the real face of tanmay and gang.

One side they claim to be progressive IIT engineers and on the other side they dont pick phone on tuesday and refrain from other activity on tuesday.

how foolish and supersticious

http://www.ibnlive.com/news/politics/04_2007/iitians-political-dream-goes-bust-37688.html

Lok Paritran Founder Tanmay accuses BPD Founder Ajit Shukla as Conspirator responsible for Split in LP , he also told media that founders of BPD have hacked Lok Paritrana Orkut Communities ???

From the link above we can see that these dirty tricks are not new from tanmay & LP company private limited. they have tried these dirty tricks with LP candidates in chennai as well as with the real founder of lok paritran Shri Ajit Shukla.

Youth Political Party led by IITians and educated India was brainchild of Shri Ajit Shukla and he tried hard to realise it and after tanmay took control of party , he first planned and forced ajit shukla to leave party so that no one questions his illegal and anti national ways of making money in name of IIT tag.

We all ex-members of LP urge you to take severe action against these thugs so that they are not able to cheat anybody else in the name of clean and transparent politics.

Youth Support and even IITians ( present and ex-IITians are with Mr.Naganna in this struggle forTruth)

Magesh

Ex-IITian

Still no reply from Founders of lok paritran ?

It seems they have no courage to face the truth and are hiding their faces in the same way they tried to hide that they both are brothers !

Inspite of trying and framing some false allegations against the bangalore team of lokparitarna , they should come forward and apologise publically in front of press and repent.

They were suspected from the beginning but the IIT tag saved them for these years now IITians have realised that these rogues are defaming the name of IIT and IIM , they have also distanced and disowned them.

spread the word so people will be aware of their nefarious designs and beat them out.

Its high time that either we remove Tanmay’s Mafia Team from Lok paritrana or we all leave LP and join BPD under the sincere leadership of Mr.Shukla and work for a developed India ..the India of our dreams.

together we can make it.

Its enough that these rogues are exposed and are of no use . we should remove them from the national committee and kick them out of lok paritran.
and next step we should make an Umbrella Organisation of all like minded people in India. we should unite groups like LP , BPD , Bharat Uday Mission, Lok Satta, BHUMI , Hindustan Vikas Morcha , and other NGOs working for the cause of Nation .

The biggest problem in India is corruption. We need to form organisation and use power of media to create awareness about every issue related with Nation. we need to realise the real power and potential what Indian Youth has.
we will change India .

I only remember Winston Churchill here-

A famous quote by Churchill in 1945 opposing the granting of Independence to India:

“Power will go into the hands of rascals, rogues and freebooters Not a bottle of water or a loaf of bread will escape taxation. Only the air will be free and the blood of these hungry millions will be on the head of Attlee. These are men of straw of whom no trace will be found after a few years. They will fight among themselves and India will be lost in political squabbles.”

Siva,

Well, I would repeat that, Tanmay in his speech never talks about Transparency. This is based on my interactions with him. His online documents dont make such claims. If Santhana made such statement, that holds no meaning to me. I have made similar promises on behalf of Lokparitran, when I was doing campaigns in Bangalore.

Coming back to the point, Tanmay does not have the courage to make it explicit in public… to be truthful. For Tanmay, existence is more important than principles. He openly claims that he has paid bribes to get LP registered. all in all I have wasted enough time here.and enough of this mudslinging.

By now I am completely disillusioned.I still dont know if this goal is really achievable through right means.

And I dont know any leader, whom I can really look upto as a National leader.

What does the heading- Good News and Bad News, Part 1, 2, 3, 4 … conveys to people? It can be anything and everything. It does not give any clues, what good and what is bad news, unless one read through the messages.

A heading must convey the theme, the subject-matter.

Bharat
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Inspite of good news bad news , the other heading can be ” Beware of Pseudo Patriots” or ” Lok paritran cadres against cheaters” or something similar.

You will see them selling tickets to candidates in forthcoming corporation elections and Loksabha polls. They have also opened new Office for business in bangalore. They are looking for some more scape goats in Kannadiga lands .One thing we must admire their talent to fool people and even their own supporters.

The news of Tanmay Rajpurohit and Chandrashekar came a bomb shell to me also..I am surprised that they have hidden that for so long.

even we met them in chennai in many meetings, they never speak about that LP is their family party with own brothers heading it and cousins like santhanagopalam , dhiraj , nailin and srikant as their deputies.

Now we should never involved this six guys in any of our honest efforts otherwise they will do fraud in our name and we will be defamed in the public eye and loose credibilty.

Few facts

No body is with Tanmay & his five member gang.

There are thousands and many more ex-paritran members who are not aware of these realities but are already disappointed with these so called founders and left the party

IITians are not with them . Fellow IITians of Tanmay in Mumbai also have negative opinion about him

His anti social activities are not new , it is just the continium of the past

These guys have no conscious to decide what is right and what is wrong. They strongly believe that what they have done is right and rest all others are wrong.

They have ” we know everything attitude” and dont want to listen to anyone , not even to the top members of their party

They have some shady connections with mafia & goonda sort of people in Delhi and Mumbai

we have ex-paritran members oppose this attack on Mr.Naganna and Mr.Alabur.

We stand tall with the Bangalore Team.

Thanks Shantanu.

I agree with you fully that we need to move forward and so, let us focus on the larger picture and do what we all need to do.

Our performance in the Karnataka State Assembly Elections are a huge disappointment – the only consolation being that like us even all the other Political parties (barring the big 3) were a wash out. The sentiment favoring a single party with a clear majority seems to have been so strong across the state that even BSP and JD(U) candidates have 3 digit vote counts in many constituencies !

So, let us start looking at what we need to do next !

Dear Sanjeev,

Thanks for the words of encouragement.

Such height of depression always leads to realization.
People from all active groups are contributing to this forum. looks like these discussions will eventually create history for new India that we all are dreaming of.

Shashi sir, its nice to see you here and to stay in touch like this.

Geeta

Hi,
Can any one tell whether Lok Paritran new office address is correct or wrong? Address exists (complete address is there in the LP web site) but its always locked. Are they meeting in night only or what? Even mobile number provided also looks bogus because no one pick the call.

When one of my friend visited LP karnataka, new address, owner started shouting and telling that I have asked to vacate the place because they have not informed us about using this place for political activity. 3 month rent is also pending and also Police have started visiting on daily basys so near by people have started complainig. They also warned my friend not to visit the place again.

There is some news that ex LP members (Bangalore) have started getting offers from various political parties.

Let’s hope for the best.

– Jai Hind

PRESS NOTE (17 Jun 2008 @ Bangalore Press Club)
Karnataka State Unit – Lok Paritran (Political Party)
Lok Paritran, Karnataka State Committee members and active members of Lok Paritran
would like to reveal the truth behind the unfortunate events that have taken place in
the last few weeks. The National Committee of Lok Paritran has been making several
damaging statements in the Press and on their website, which are a distorted version of
events. The truth is, unfortunately, very bitter and shocking!
We, Lok Paritran Karnataka State Committee members/active members, who have toiled
ceaselessly to bring the state unit to the current position as a well-recognized party in
Karnataka, put forward with utmost sadness the unfortunate developments at Lok Paritran.
The conduct of the National Committee members (Mr. Chandrashekhar, Mr. Tanmay
Rajpurohit and Mr. Santanagopalan) has greatly distressed us. Since the filing of nominations
of the candidates for the Phase 1 Assembly Elections, the National Committee members
have repeatedly strayed from the ideologies and objectives with which the Karnataka state
unit was formed. We have initiated legal action against them and are awaiting justice.
We are, however, concerned by the statements made by these imposters to the press and on
the party website. Character assassination of dedicated state members, who are striving to
reform politics in Karnataka, is harmful to our society.
We have detailed below the sequence of events over the last one month:
1st May: National President, Mr. Chandrashekhar Rajpurohit and National General Secretary,
Mr. Tanmay Rajpurohit asked the candidate from Hebbal constituency, Mr.
Chinnappa Gowda to adjust an amount of Rs. 6 lakhs in his election expense
account on behalf of a candidate from a major political party. This being against
election rules, Mr. Chinnappa, after consultations with us, refused to do so.
4th May: Mr. Tanmay asked Mr. Shashidhar Alabur (treasurer) for the Statement of accounts
of the state unit, saying that they needed to adjust an expense of around Rs. 10
lakhs. Mr. Shashidhar refused to do so suspecting foul play in light of the previous
incident. Thereafter, Tanmay Rajpurohit continued to harass him with phones calls.
5th May: Just after midnight, the National Committee, along with Mr. Nalin Jain (now
announced as new State President) and 15 people came to Mr. Shashidhar’s house.
They were not allowed to enter the premises, and police were called in case they
tried to make trouble.
10th May:Mr. Tanmay called on Mr. Naganna, the Karnataka State President to meet him at
9:30 pm at the TGIF Building on Airport Road. During the meeting in which
Tanmay and Chandrashekhar, along with Srikant (Legal Advisor) and
Santanagopalan (Member, National Committee), were present, Mr. Naganna was
asked to instruct all the candidates to adjust an expense of around Rs. 6 Lakhs
each in their poll expenses and adjust around Rs. 10 lakhs in the state unit’s
accounts. Mr. Naganna flatly refused to do this and walked out.
As he got into his Maruti van, 4 people dressed in black T-shirts, black pants and
wearing dark black helmets attacked him with baseball bats and hockey sticks.
Mr. Naganna sustained injuries to his face, hands and legs but managed to escape
from them and reach home. The fact that these 4 people were waiting for him as
he got into his vehicle indicates a well-planned and pre-meditated intention of
causing grievous harm to Mr. Naganna for his refusal to aid and abet them in their
money-laundering activities.
We have filed an FIR no. 143/2008 registered under Sec. 321 ad 506 against the 4
people. We have thereafter learnt that they have filed false complaints against
Mr. Naganna, Mr. Shashidhar Alabur and Mr. Anuj Mishra in Jeevanbima Nagar
Police Station and Airport Road Police Station alleging that they were attacked
by us.
12th May:The imposters (National Committee) then held a press conference to announce
the dismissal of Naganna based on false allegations of two murder cases. We
have initiated criminal offence proceedings against Mr. Chandrashekhar and court
notices have been sent to him.
17th May:Nalin Jain filed a false complaint in the Girinagar Police Station that, around
6.30pm, Naganna, Shashidhar and Anuj Mishra attacked him at his shop along
with 15 goondas and threatened him. All three members were at our weekly
party meetings at the alleged time of attack for which a register is maintained.
The police have closed the complaint No. C.Misc 166/2008 as a false complaint.
23rd May:Around 4 am, some miscreants hurled large stones at the house of Anuj Mishra
and broke window panes and damaged his car. A Police complaint No.
24893/DWD-2006 has been lodged at the Subramanya Nagar Police Station in this
respect.
5th June: Web site of Lok Paritran claimed that Shri P.K.Shanbhag has been appointed as
chief Advisor to Lok Paritran. However, he has neither attended the meeting
where he was reportedly appointed, nor has he given consent for the same over
telephone or otherwise.
9th June: Lok Paritran’s web site prominently displays the photograph of Shashidhar Alabur
with a caption “the new face of corruption,” and in a press conference, Shashidhar
and Naganna have been accused of misusing the Party funds after having
withdrawn the balance amount available in the bank account of the Party. A
complaint has been lodged with the Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) and the
Dy. Supdt. of Police (Cyber Cell) against the false accusations made on the web site
of Lok Paritran.
All the funds in the Bank Account of the Party have been collected from donations
from well-wishers and have been used to pay the bills of expenses like printing of
pamphlets etc. In view of the unlawful methods used by the National Committee,
all available funds were withdrawn to take care of unpaid expenses.
It is distressing to see the Founders and the National Committee resort to such dirty methods
to discredit the members of the State Committee who have worked so hard to nurture and
develop the party in the state to this extent. Ironically, it is they who have tried to use the
elections as a means of making money by getting into agreements with a major National
Political party, and they are accusing us to cover their tracks.
The dissolution and dismissal of the State Lok Paritran Committee is unconstitutional/
illegal. The decisions to dismiss Mr. Naganna and dissolve the State Committee are against
the constitution drafted by the founders themselves. Such a decision can be taken only by a
National Council with representation from all states. As per the constitution, a notice is to be
served to the person and he/ she be given an opportunity to present their case. No such
procedure was followed.
It is notable that the case in Karnataka is not new in the history of Lok Paritran. In every
state where Lok Paritran has started building a base with dedicated efforts of the local
members, the National Committee has broken it apart to serve their unethical needs. This has
happened in Chennai, Mumbai, Pune, Hyderabad, Lucknow, Ahmedabad and Delhi.
Karnataka is today, the strongest forte/unit of Lok Paritran, and they have endeavored to
destroy the state unit here as well.
We have, in the past, attributed many of the unseemly statements/activities by Lok Paritran
National Members to their comparative immaturity/young age (25-28 years). We had always
felt that since they were products of reputed institutions like the IITs, their intentions were
noble. Our experience with these members makes us feel that they are a ‘blot’ on these
reputed institutions, and that they have unethically leveraged the names of these
institutions for their personal benefit.
We would like to state here that we have severed all relations with the aforesaid National
members of Lok Paritran as they do not embody the values and goals with which we have
worked for Karnataka Lok Paritran Unit over the last 2½ years. We, however, intend to
continue our efforts, to regather forces and continue the good work.
Yours sincerely,
Members of Lok Paritran Karnataka State Unit

PS: We request members of the press to contact any of the following persons to get a first
hand account of their experiences with the National Committee members :
Mr. Ajit Shukla, Founder member, Lok Paritran. Currently National
President of Bharat Punarnirman Dal (Registered Political Party)
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Ms. Geeta Gokhale, Former member, Lok Paritran (Karnataka) ,
currently based in Pune
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Mr. Mahesh Patil, Former member, Lok Paritran (Maharashtra) 0*****
Mr. Ravi Kishore, Former member, Lok Paritran (Andhra Pradesh) 0*****
Mr. Maran, Former member, Lok Paritran (Tamil Nadu – he also had
contested in the 2006 Assembly Elections in Tamil Nadu and had
secured in excess of 13000 votes)
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THE suspended state unit of Lok Paritran, the party floated by IIT alumni, is set to come back in a new avatar. Expelled state unit members are gearing up to launch a national party by the end of the month.

The yet-to-be-named party will be based in Bangalore. It will comprise techies, doctors and other professionals.

Though politicians will not be entertained in the new party, its members will contest BBMP and parliamentary polls, said a source.

“We will float a national party. Techies and doctors in Bangalore are joining hands with us. The formal procedure is expected to be over by the end of this month,” said B T Naganna, former president, Lok Paritran state unit.

“Around 10,000 IT professionals will become members of our party. But no politicians will be signed up. We will enroll young people in large numbers,” he said.

“The party will be a parallel force to the existing Lok Paritran. While Lok Pari-tran’s agenda is building a powerful and prosperous nation, the new party plans to work for social change,” said Shashidhar Alabur, former treasurer, Lok Paritran.

Blame game

Anuj Mishra, Dr Keshav, B B Khilari, N Krishnakumar, B T Naganna, and Shashidhar Alabur were recently suspended from the Lok Paritran party.

Keshav, Khilari, Krishnakumar and Naganna had contested the recent assembly polls from Shantinagar, Sarvajnanagar, Govindrajnagar and K R Puram constituencies, respectively.

In May 2008, Naganna and Shashidhar were charged with misappropriating of funds and suspended from the party.

The other members were reportedly shown the door for supporting Naganna and Shashidhar.

In turn, Naganna accused the national leaders of the party of money laundering, and claimed he was removed from his post because he refused to be part of the racket.

I am very very disappointed to know that these messiahs with IIT face are heads of money laundering racket. they have failed..

we have seen enough of blame game by LP heads. Now why you are wasting your time in giving undue importance and publicity to these false prophets. Tanmay Rajpurohit’s activities is nothing new , he is like this from the days of IIT Mumbai. His classmates know his views and have distanced from him. Only unknown people who are naive believes him. Their show is over long back when LP splitted several times in TN , UP and elsewhere. Just call ex-leaders and know the reality.

Now focus on the next steps to create awareness about the burning issues and ways to handle it. People are desperate in India , they need someone who can voice their concern so lets pool the resources to do real work against corruption and dirty politics.

I heard that Mr.Alaboor’s team is making a new party so lets support them in their noble efforts .