What is the mystery behind AK Antony’s son's 33 loss making companies?

MobME (http://mobme.in) is a company based out of Cochin, Kerala. They have offices in Thiruvananthapuram, Gurgaon and Mumbai. They have been taking government projects from Kerala government and Central government for about 6-7 years now.

Few facts about MobME as available in media:

1) The Co-founder is veteran Congress leader A.K. Antony's son (Link).

2) Their promoter is one Jose Thomas Pattara (Link), an NRI who has direct connections with the Gandhis - Sonia, Rahul and Priyanka (Link). The Commissioner of Central Excise & Customs Kochi, vide its order 14/2011 dated September 30, 2011 has also imposed a penalty on Jose Thomas Pattara to the tune of Rs. 1,21,33,999/- (Link).

3) They survive on government projects and there seems to be no criteria chosen by the government regarding the tender or bids involved (Link). Interestingly, the MobME website gives no insights regarding their services and offerings other than a set of technical jargon. In none of the interviews, do any of the company officials explicitly mention what exactly they do - other than giving meaningless technical terms.

4) MobME wanted to launch an IPO for Rs. 25 crore and even started celebrating by calling themselves the first college start-up to go public. But it didn’t materialize and they had to take funding of USD 3 million from private investors (Link). They have a group of 43 companies, of which 33 are in loss (Link). This includes a fashion magazine, an e-commerce portal and a host of other verticals.

Few facts about Startup Village (http://startupvillage.in/):

1) Started in 2012 by Congress government in Kerala under PPP model - with MobME as it's private partner. As shown above, MobME is a highly incapable company which was not able to even get its IPO done, but government of Kerala has funded Rs. 500 crores to them for Startup Village (Link).

When there are other recognized bodies doing this on a national level, such as NASSCOM, why was the government keen on giving this to MobME - a company that had a revenue of Rs. 23.1 crore?

2) Inside Startup Village there exists 'Congress Companies' that do campaigns for Congress Party on social media. One such company, Riafy, came out with a 'study' that said 'all' tweets by right wingers are 'bots' and activists who are paid (Link).

3) Startup Village claims they have 500+ startups with them (Link). But a quick look at their websites (if there are any) shows that most of these companies are non existent.

4) Though they have people like Kris Gopalakrishnan as mentors, 99% of the companies in Startup Village have hardly seen him in person even once, forget being mentored by him.

Are they using his good will and reputation for their own private needs? Is this consensual or is he being tricked into it?

5) Andhra CM Chandrababu Naidu has already entered into an MoU with MobME for replicating the same in Andhra Pradesh. IT Minister Ravishankar Prasad has also announced more funds to Startup Village type ventures (Link).

In the light of the above mentioned facts, will the Narendra Modi led NDA order an inquiry into the same to uncover the real agenda and truth behind these ventures?

Bone Chilling Statistics About Islam

As long as the Muslim population remains around or under 2% in any given country, they will be for the most part be regarded as a peace-loving minority, and not as a threat to other citizens. This is the case in:

United States - Muslim 0.6%
Australia - Muslim 1.5%
Canada - Muslim 1.9%
China - Muslim 1.8%
Italy - Muslim 1.5%
Norway - Muslim 1.8%

At 2% to 5%, they begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups, often with major recruiting from the jails and among street gangs. This is happening in:

Denmark - Muslim 2%
Germany - Muslim 3.7%
United Kingdom - Muslim 2.7%
Spain - Muslim 4%
Thailand - Muslim 4.6%

From 5% on, they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population.

France - Muslim 8%
Philippines - 5%
Sweden - Muslim 5%
Switzerland - Muslim 4.3%
The Netherlands - Muslim 5.5%
Trinidad & Tobago - Muslim 5.8%

At this point, they will work to get the ruling government to allow them to rule themselves (within their ghettos) under Sharia (Islamic Law).

The ultimate goal of Islamists is to establish Sharia law over the entire world.

When Muslims approach 10% of the population, they tend to increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions. In Paris, we are already seeing car-burnings. Any non-Muslim action offends Islam and results in uprisings and threats, such as in Amsterdam, with opposition to Mohammed cartoons and films about Islam. Such tensions are seen daily, particularly in Muslim sections, in:

Guyana - Muslim 10%
India - Muslim 13.4%
Israel - Muslim 16%
Kenya - Muslim 10%
Russia - Muslim 15%

After reaching 20%, nations can expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia formations, sporadic killings, and the burnings of Christian churches and Jewish synagogues, such as in:

Ethiopia - Muslim 32.8%

At 40%, nations experience widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks, and ongoing militia warfare, such as in:

Bosnia - Muslim 40%
Chad - Muslim 53.1%
Lebanon - Muslim 59.7%

From 60%, nations experience unfettered persecution of non-believers of all other religions (including non-conforming Muslims), sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia Law as a weapon, and Jizya (the tax placed on infidels), such as in:

Albania - Muslim 70%
Malaysia - Muslim 60.4%
Qatar - Muslim 77.5%
Sudan - Muslim 70%

After 80%, expect daily intimidation and violent jihad, some State-run ethnic cleansing, and even some genocide, as these nations drive out the infidels, and move toward 100% Muslim, such as has been experienced and in some ways is on-going in:

Bangladesh - Muslim 83%
Egypt - Muslim 90%
Gaza - Muslim 98.7%
Indonesia - Muslim 86.1%
Iran - Muslim 98%
Iraq - Muslim 97%
Jordan - Muslim 92%
Morocco - Muslim 98.7%
Pakistan - Muslim 97%
Palestine - Muslim 99%
Syria - Muslim 90%
Tajikistan - Muslim 90%
Turkey - Muslim 99.8%
United Arab Emirates - Muslim 96%

100% will usher in the peace of 'Dar-es-Salaam' - the Islamic House of Peace. Here there's supposed to be peace, because everybody is a Muslim, the Madrasses are the only schools, and the Koran is the only word, such as in:

Afghanistan - Muslim 100%
Saudi Arabia - Muslim 100%
Somalia - Muslim 100%
Yemen - Muslim 100%

Unfortunately, peace is never achieved, as in these 100% states the most radical Muslims intimidate and often kill less radical Muslims, for a variety of reasons.

(Extract from Slavery, Terrorism and Islam: The Historical Roots and Contemporary Threat by Dr. Peter Hammond)

IS ARUN JAITLEY CORRUPT?

“Black money will never come back so long as Arun Jaitley is the Finance Minister”, Mr. Ram Jethmalani recently thundered in a Press Conference (Link) and in his 2 letters to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley. (Letter 1) (Letter 2)

We all know Mr. Jethmalani is no saint but his scathing claims reminds one of a pertinent quote, “It is not what you think that makes you. It’s that which you do.”

Google search results on 'Arun Jaitley' help throw light on why he gives the appearance of being wily and ambiguous in his actions and lackadaisical in ethics.

Consider the following ethical lapses and omissions on the part of the veteran BJP politician that reveal his poor moral constitution:

1. The Income Tax department, now under Mr. Jaitley, claims to possess 500 hours of telephonic transcripts of suspected Hawala dealer, Moin Qureshi. (Link) As per the transcripts, Mr. Qureshi used to have regular interactions with Mr. Ahmed Patel, political secretary to Congress President Sonia Gandhi and one of the most powerful politicians in India. Why is the Income Tax department going slow in investigating Mr. Patel’s nexus with Mr. Qureshi?

2. In the year 2006, when one can easily say that Mr. Jaitley was in a prime position in Indian politics, he chose to take blood money from a tainted organization, The Dow Chemical Company, parent of the infamous Union Carbide that was involved in the Bhopal Gas Leak horror. (Link) Mr. Jaitley, in his legal advise, expounded how, in their new avatar, the group companies were shielded from liabilities towards the gas leak victims i.e. monies that would go to the families and victims of the horrifying episode.

Strangely, despite being a leading lawyer and politician of the country, Mr. Jaitley’s advice to the Dow Chemicals Company on 13th December, 2006 stated that 4,000 people died in the Bhopal gas tragedy. However, according to Government of India’s affidavit filed much earlier in the Supreme Court of India on 26th October, 2006; 5,207 people died due to direct exposure of Methyl Isocyanate (MIC) gas and 10,084 died due to injuries. (Link) Why did Mr. Jaitley play down the number of dead and for whose benefit? Did he even know the scale of the loss of the sufferers?

3. In 1998, the Delhi High Court dismissed a case filed by Dr Subramanian Swami against P. Chidambaram for having invested in scam tainted Fairgrowth Financial Services Ltd while he was the Minister of Commerce in the Narasimha Rao government. Dr. Swamy had alleged that Mr. Chidambaram had acquired 10,000 shares of Fairgrowth and had wanted the Court to order a CBI inquiry into it. Guess who represented Mr. Chidambaram in the Delhi High Court and got Dr. Swamy’s case dismissed? None but our incumbent Finance Minister, Mr. Arun Jaitley! (Link)

4. According to the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) Report No. 4 of 2009 / 10 (Direct Taxes), Hasan Ali alone accounts for ₹ 71,874 crore of uncollected demand.

Till today we hear nothing of the matter from the Finance Ministry on the steps it is planning to take to recover and bring back this ₹ 71,874 crore black-money to India. It is quite clear that Hasan Ali is the lynchpin in investigations against top notch politicians of the country. Is Mr. Jaitley trying to protect someone?

5. In a recent letter, BJP MP Kirti Azad has alleged ₹ 150 crore corruption under Mr. Jaitley's benign patronage when the latter was the President of the Delhi District Cricket Association (DDCA). Mr. Azad has used the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) report to bolster his claims that Mr. Jaitley’s 14 years long stint as President of DDCA saw scams galore at DDCA. (Link)

6. WikiLeaks cables thoroughly exposed Mr. Jaitley’s political leanings when he was quoted by Robert Blake, a senior US diplomat that Hindu nationalism is an "opportunistic issue" for his party. Mr. Blake said "Pressed on the question of Hindutva, Jaitley argued that Hindu nationalism 'will always be a talking point' for the BJP. However, he characterised this as an opportunistic issue". (Link) Why did Mr. Jaitley choose to brush Hindutva aside as inconsequential? Why was he, as a leader of a Hindutva party, acting as an apologist for his party’s core ideology before the embassy of a country that funds the maximum number of Christian conversions in India? (Link)

7. According to the Income Tax department, a minimum of ₹ 539 crore in taxes is due from NDTV and its promoters Prannoy Roy and Radhika Roy. Mr. Jaitley is fully aware that RSS ideologue S. Gurumurthy is fighting legal cases against NDTV in the Delhi High Court and the Supreme Court of India over the latter’s involvement in money laundering scams. Why has Mr. Jaitley given every exclusive interview only to NDTV knowing fully well that the Income Tax department, that reports to his Ministry, is investigating money laundering activities by them? When will Mr. Jaitley re-instate Mr. SK Srivastava, the IT Commissioner who unearthed the NDTV money laundering scam and is facing severe hardships due to his salary being suspended for more than 2 years? (Link)

Mr. Jaitley continuously appears as an opportunist, he belongs to a group which has Hindutva as its core ideology and yet contradicts it! He fails completely on codes of ethical conduct and conflict of interest. He just blows with the wind and creates political space for himself at any cost. It seems that his loyalty lies compromised elsewhere, away from BJP and Sangh’s stated goals.

While politics in India is being re-defined by a new breed of politicians today, Mr. Jaitley remains one of the old school boys that conformed, connived, hobnobbed and curried favour with the powers that were for political survival, (even if it involved sabotaging his own party from within) and thrived on manipulation and pure greed.

It however, remains to be seen as to when BJP and the Sangh Parivar will see through the real Mr. Jaitley, a dangerous weak link to the cause of nation building.

(Please send more instances of corruption or misdeeds by Arun Jaitley to rameshnaidoo@gmail.com. If you so desire, your identity shall be kept strictly confidential)

NDTV's partnership with 2G scam accused "Astro All Asia"

In August 2014, CBI filed a charge sheet in the Aircel-Maxis deal stating that former telecom minister Dayanidhi Maran and his family had received a bribe of Rs 742 crore for coercing entrepreneur C Sivasankaran to sell his telecom company Aircel to Malaysia-based Maxis.

CBI charge sheet had named Dayanidhi Maran, his brother Kalanithi, T Ananda Krishnan, Malaysia-based promoter of Maxis, Augustus Ralph Marshall - who headed Maxis' UK-based subsidiary Astro All Asia Network - and Sun Direct TV Pvt Limited, Astro All Asia Network, Maxis Communications and South Asia Entertainment, Mauritius.

In its charge sheet, CBI said that the bribe of Rs 549 crore in return of the favours was paid by Maxis through its subsidiary Astro All Asia Network Pvt Limited, based in the UK in the garb of investment (total investment of Rs 629 crore) in Sun Direct Pvt Limited, owned by Kalanithi Maran. The investment was done through purchase of shares of Sun Direct Pvt Limited by a Mauritius-based subsidiary of Astro Asia- South Asia Entertainment Holdings Limited.

Interestingly, in 2011, NDTV had sold 49 per cent stake for USD 40 million (about Rs 180 crore as on 3rd March, 2011) in its arm NDTV Lifestyle Holdings Pvt Ltd to Astro All Asia Networks. By a subscription of shares for USD 40 million, Astro All Asia Networks owned an effective indirect stake of 49 per cent in NDTV Lifestyle Holdings Pvt Ltd.

References:

1.) CBI press release: http://cbi.nic.in/pressreleases/pr_2014-08-29-1.php
2.) The Times of India: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Aircel-Maxis-deal-CBI-charges-Marans-says-they-took-Rs-742-crore-bribe/articleshow/41223805.cms
3.) The Hindu Business Line: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/ndtv-concludes-stake-sale-in-lifestyle-arm-to-astro-asia/article1505923.ece