[rtitimes] Baba Ramdev’s Satyagraha, NRIs to Join the movement, 13 Cities in USA conducting meetings and observing Fast on June 4th.

On Sat, 21 May 2011 04:51:46 -0500, Dharma Sanchari from USA wrote:

[GHHF & BSO] Baba Ramdev’s Satyagraha, NRIs to Join the movement, 13 Cities in USA conducting meetings and observing Fast on June 4^th.

            “What India needs especially at this moment is the aggressive virtues, the spirit of soaring idealism, bold creation, fearless resistance, courageous attack..... We need to cultivate another training and temperament, another habit of mind. We would apply to the present situation the vigorous motto of Danton, that what we need, what we should learn above all things is to dare and again to dare and still to dare.'  Sri Aurobindo

            Baba Ramdev is the proud son of Bharat dedicated his life to improve the physical and spiritual health of the motherland. He is spearheading the movement to instill the dharmic virtues in the nation, create pride among people, re-establish the grandeur of sanatana dharma, infuse spiritualism, cultivate fearlessness, and impart the greatness of Vedic culture. To accomplish these ideals, he is determined to root out the rampant corruption that has permeated the whole nation. It is plaguing, strangling, suffocating, blunting, and stunting the growth of the nation depriving people of their opportunity to earn an honest living and to show their skills and talents to the fullest. Nation has to rise up to dare and again dare and still to dare to meet the challenge.

            To bring back the glory of Bharat, Baba Ramdev launched “Satyagraha Against Corruption.” He announced that he would conduct SATYGRAHA - start fast up to death - from June 4 at Ramlila Maidan, New Delhi. He is demanding that the Central government recover black money stashed away in foreign countries by politicians and declare it as public property. Ramdev is also demanding a ban on high denomination currency notes, which he says, is a reason for rampant corruption. He also wants the corrupt to be sentenced to death.

CALL TO BE COUNTED

Volunteers launched a toll-free landline number on May 9. A missed call from any mobile number on the toll free number – 0223308112 – will register the number in their database and updates of the campaign will be sent through text messages.

“Within a week of activating the toll-free number, nearly one crore people have given a missed call. Around 1.5 lakh people have vowed to fast with Baba Ramdev in Delhi,” said Raman Tiwari, a volunteer.

In support of Baba Ramdev’s Satyagraha, NRIs in US are conducting meetings and doing fast in the following cities. Please contact the coordinators and co-coordinators for more details:

(Under the policy, Email IDs  and Mobile Numbers of the coordinators and co-coordinators are not distributed in this message, if any one want to contact with any of the following cordinators, he/she should email me at milapchoraria@milapchoraria.com, I will forward his message to coordinators and co-coordinators from the following places in USA:-

Atlanta :   Coordinator:  Bharat Somal, Co-cordinators: Amitabh Sharma; Madhvi Kasam;  Nagesh Kasam,;  Pratap Singh,; Sujatha Reddy,
Boston : Coordinator: Ajay Verma,.
Chicago: Coordinator: Brij Kamboj,

Dallas : Coordinator: Sanjeev Khanna; Co-coordinators: V V Prakasha Rao; Jack Godhwani ; Krupa Thakkar  ; Sudheer Shinde ; Dhruv Pandya ; Gopal Ponangi; Rajesh Veerapaneni; Ram Yalamanchili; Krishna Athota; Ghanashyam Kakadia; Ravi Pattisam

 Houston : Coordinator:  Indira Singhal; Co-coordinators: Dev Mahajan; Parul/Narendra Rawal; Shekhar Agrawal; Vijay Pallod,

Los Angeles : Coordinator;  Surendra Mehta,
New York : Coordinator: Animesh Goenka, Co-coordinators: Alok Chauchan;  Radha  Vardhan; Satya Desapati; Vijay Arya;.
New Jersey: Coordinator: Dnyanoba (Ken) Kendre,

Norfolk : Coordinator: Abha Gupta, Co-coordinators: Dilip Sarkar,
San Francisco: Coordinator: Rajesh Tripathi,
Seattle : Coordinator: Raman Patel,

Tampa: Coordinator: Chanderkant Patel, Co-coordinators: Durgashanker Nagda,
Washington, DC: Coordinator: Lovely Lall, Co-coordinators: Asha Vardan,

BST USA : Chairman :  Bhishma K Agnihotri, General Secretary: Shekhar Agrawal),

What are his demands?

1) Lokpal Bill

            Determined to continue the fight against corruption, Ramdev said a strong Lokpal Bill should be enacted by August this year, as assured by the central government after a hunger strike by Hazare in New Delhi last month.

            Apart from the demand that the Lok Pal should have the power to take action against all those in constitutional positions (including the PM and the Chief Justice, an issue on which even the Lok Pal Bill joint drafting committee has wide differences), Ramdev has asked that an ordinary citizen be vested with the right to lodge police cases against any person in power, if he has evidence against that person for corruption.

            He has demanded the death penalty and life imprisonment for people guilty of hoarding money through corruption.

2) Stashed Money
            Speaking at length about his campaign “Satyagaraha Against Corruption,” that started on the November 14 last year, Ramdev mentioned that around 18 trillion dollars (according to estimates) stored in Swiss banks belong to people in Asian countries and pre-dominantly Indians. "These estimates are made by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and also supported by International Monetary Fund (IMF). If all this money is declared as the property of the Indian Government, then the suffering economy of the country would be supported and the Gross Domestic Production (GDP) growth would be greater than that of China," he said.

Speaking to reporters here, Ramdev demanded that the names of all foreign bank account holders should be made public and high denomination currency notes like of 500 and 1,000 be banned.

"Despite knowledge about it, the central government has not taken any concrete decision on the issue of black money plaguing the country," Ramdev said.

3) Land Acquisition Act

The third demand in his three-pointer action plan is to abolish laws that the Britishers had enacted and India still follows. "Why is it that we need the Land Acquisition Act? It is the reason so many farmers are committing suicide. Main ek krushi putra hoon - I know what the land means to the farmers."

4) Big Denomination Money

            Baba Ramdev launched his tirade against big denomination money (notes higher than Rs 100). He mentioned that the original purpose of having higher denominations was to help Britishers carry cash from India to Britain. He strongly feels that the higher denomination notes result in the circulation of black money. He said in a country where majority of the population doesn't have more than Rs 20 to spend in a day, a 500 or 1,000 rupee note was unnecessary.

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