With Tremendous Response from Voters, Campaign Ends on High Note

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With Tremendous Response from Voters, Campaign Ends on High Note

Vows to continue challenging the Modi-fied Politics and Expose the Corruption of NCP

As the campaign for the 16^th Lok Sabha draws to a closure today, the campaign witnessed tremendous response from wide range of people in the Mumbai North East constituency. This response and the large number of issues emerging is also because of the failure of Corporator, MLAs and MP in discharging their duties as elected representatives. None of them have taken any steps to curb the fundamental corruption involved in the projects. There has not been any attempt to policy making, focus on basic amenities and housing.  We received a response from the people owing to the issues raised by us in the past few years and because of their faith in our continuous work on those issues.

Out of my nearly 40 years of work, the 17 years I worked in Mumbai has given me an inside out knowledge about the basic issues of the constituency. This election is important for us, as we seek larger representation of people in decision making and to continue raise those issue with more strength and vigour. Hence we make a pledge to implement all national level commitments by Aam Aadmi Party in its Manifesto and in the Mumbai Manifesto. Further, we issue a Mumbai North East specific prime issues pledge that we will leave no stone unturned to fulfil those. We also reiterate that all our efforts will be participatory, transparent and accountable, involving the people of the constituency across the caste-class-creed-gender differences, and political ideologies.

Hence we appeal to the voters to join us in these efforts, with all their strength and commitment, to bring in change and make our city corruption free. We will achieve this together with participation of people from all walks of life, contribution of professional skills and inputs from experts.

Modi’s lies and threat to not just secular fabric, but even dalits, adivasis and downtrodden

In a rally addressed by Modi in Mumbai yesterday he said that “Maharashtra would get electricity worth Rs 400 crores for free if the project (Sardar Sarovar Narmada project) was completed.” The blatant lie repeated for the second time in this election season is another attempt t to mislead the people.  Maharashtra, which has also sacrificed a few thousands crores of revenue, by submergence of 33 hilly adivasi villages, will lose 9500 ha of land; parts of it are forests, in the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP). Additionally she spends Rs.3000 crores in proportion to the 27% of power from the project. SSP is an interstate project, with financial commitment by each of the party states. How can then the power be free to Maharashtra?

While Modi builds his campaign on lies and twisted facts, he poses a serious threat to the secular fabric of the country. By his silence isn’t Modi supporting Vishwa Hindu Parishad’;s (VHP) president Pravin Togadia’s communal venom in Bhavnagar by saying “evict Muslims from Hindu areas”?

 

His outlook towards the dalits and socially marginalised is evident from his reported statement he made during the release of his book ‘SamajikSamrasata’. He was reported saying that dalits were like mentally retarded children. What an irony, somebody who does not respect the dalits and marginalised writes a book with its title SamajikSamrasata (Social Equity)!

 

Last year, The Gujarat High Court ordered the Gujarat government to strictly adhere to the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of) Forest Rights Act, 2006, and the rules framed thereafter under this central Act.The order came on a public interest litigation (PIL) by a group of NGOs, which said the state government was violating the provisions of the Act in deciding the claims of tribals and had arbitrarily rejected more than one lakh such claims. 

It will be a figment of our imagination if we do buy in the messages communicated by Modi via his aggressive advertising methods. He has a proven track record for being anti poor, anti dalit, anti adivasi and minorities and could leave the country divided that is built on the foundations of secularism, tolerance and respect to each other.

We will stand by dalits, who apart from asserting their identity and dignity, face the challenge of getting the basic rights, as upheld in the Constitution, as envisioned by Dr.BabasahebAmbedkar. The positive discrimination and reservation will be implemented only when they stand united.

If Modi around, can NCP be far behind?

We will challenge the corrupt party NCP, who are involved in scams worth thousands of crores. Some of them include, irrigation scam, Gosikhurd canal scam, sugar factory scam, even the former Member of Parliament seem to have contributed to corrupt practices in using the MPLAD funds. By not raising the corruption issues in this Constituency, such as allotment of MHADA land, rehabilitation of slum dwellers and in infrastructure projects, he has permitted the corrupt practices.

He cannot shrug the responsibility of his inability to curb corruption, failure to address the fundamental issues of the constituency and not being around for the people when the people needed him most.

We will launch enquiries into all those allegations of corruption once the elections are over.

We appeal to all voters of the Constituency to come out in large numbers on the voting day, cast their vote and be a part of the democratic process. We appeal to the voters to cast their vote in favour of honesty, accountability and good governance and against corruption, communalism and injustice.

Yours Truly, 

MedhaPatkar

Arvind Kejriwal’s nomination

 

 

Aam Aadmi Party national convenor Arvind Kejriwal will file his nomination papers for the Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency on Wednesday, April 23. He will proceed from Lahurabeer Chowk where the party volunteers and supporters will start gathering from 9 AM onwards.

Regards

AAP Media Cell

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A History of the World in 100 Objects exhibition to run for 100 Days at Manarat Al Saadiyat

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A History of the World in 100 Objects exhibition to run for 100 Days at Manarat Al Saadiyat Transforming the popular BBC series into an exhibition for the first time, Abu Dhabi Tourism & Culture Authority opens A History of the World in 100 Objects   All India, 22nd April 2014 : Leading up to the eagerly anticipated opening of Zayed National Museum in 2016, the Abu Dhabi Tourism & Culture Authority (TCA Abu Dhabi) in collaboration with the British Museum, opens A History of the World in 100 Objects – an exhibitionthat captures a history of the world through a vivid display of compelling objects. Open for 100 days from 23 April  – 1 August at Manarat Al Saadiyat on Saadiyat Island, the exhibitionwill allow visitors to travel back in time and across the globe to see how humans have shaped the world, and been shaped by it. Curated by Becky Allen from the British Museum, A History of the World in 100 Objects presents 100 significant objects in a narrative that brings contemporary audiences face-to-face with cultures across time and space. Bringing to life the material culture of the past, the exhibition will feature a variety of objects such as a lifelike cast bronze hand from Yemen that was made between 100 and 300 CE, an Egyptian granite statue of the Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II discovered on Elephantine Island at the Temple of Khnum, and the famous Royal Game of Ur, found in a royal cemetery in southern Iraq and estimated to be around 4,500 years old. Within the exhibition narrative the story continues to contemporary time and to the celebration of today’s objects such as Reem Al Marzouqi’s recently conceived Prototype Foot-controlled Car. An Emirati student from the UAE University, Reem’s car showcases how inventors of today create objects that add new stories to our history. Salama Al Shamsi, Project Manager, Zayed National Museum said: “Navigating an unparalleled collection of historic objects that provides visitors with an opportunity to learn more about where we came from and ultimately who we are, A History of the World in 100 Objects places the cultural significance of the UAE and the Arab World in general within the context of human history.” Through exhibitions like this, TCA Abu Dhabi aims to put the Zayed National Museum story into the context of the Middle East and the wider world, while encouraging the development of a cultural ecosystem that will promote and celebrate the position of the UAE within the global community. Located in a dramatic new building at the centre of the Saadiyat Cultural District, and commanding views of Abu Dhabi and the Gulf beyond, Zayed National Museum will celebrate the unification of the Emirates and their transformation into a modern nation under Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan (1918–2004) – the ‘Father of the Nation.’ Becky Allen, the British Museum’s Curator of A History of the World in 100 Objects, said: “A History of the World in 100 Objectscelebrates human ingenuity, placing the things we make and use in the spotlight. The exhibition has a global scope, helping visitors to see the similarities that connect human beings across time and place. The objects we use today express something about the world in the present moment, just as the objects used by our ancestors tell us about the cultures of the past.  Whether ancient or modern, all the objects in the exhibition express human hopes, desires and ambitions. At its heart, this exhibition is about investigating and honouring the power of objects.” A lecture by the Director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor, entitled Unlocking Objects, will take place at 6.30pm on Tuesday, 22 April.  Neil MacGregor will explore a range of objects showcased in the exhibition, and examine their unique power to convey a story and forge global connections.  In addition to Neil MacGregor’s lecture, there will be a full public program of workshops, tours and seminars derived from the objects in the exhibition. For example, in a workshop dedicated to juniors, participants can create a blue-and-white design on pre-glazed earthenware using ceramic paint, or in another for adults, in a workshop inspired by the German artist Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) and his famous Rhinoceros woodcut (1515), people can learn about techniques and processes of woodblock printmaking.

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‘Scenarios of Kannada Activism in Bengaluru’

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Nehru Memorial Museum and Library

cordially invites you to a Public Lecture

(in the ‘India in Transition’ series)

at 3.00 pm on Wednesday, 23^rdApril, 2014

in the Seminar Room, First Floor, Library Building

on

‘Scenarios of Kannada Activism in Bengaluru’

by

Prof. Chandan Gowda,

Azim Premji University,

Bengaluru.

Abstract:

Bengaluru has seen a proliferation of pro-Kannada organizations since the early years of this century. The perceived decline in significance of Kannada and its speakers in the state’s capital appears a paramount concern for them. Many of these groups have found support from major institutional forces, including political parties, the local film industry, and the heads of Hindu religious establishments.  How do they conceive the Kannada cause and the strategies necessary for securing it? What are the continuities and discontinuities between their activist concerns and those of their predecessor outfits?  Mapping the shifting contours of Bengaluru-centred Kannada activism over the last few decades helps grasp the changing political and cultural milieu in the city. 

Speaker:

Prof. Chandan Gowda is Professor of Social Science at Azim Premji University, Bengaluru. His research interests include social theory, Indian normative traditions, and Kannada literature and cinema. In addition to his academic publications, he has written extensively for newspapers and published translations of Kannada fiction and non-fiction in English.  He completed his dissertation research at the Department of Sociology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2007. He is presently completing a book on the cultural politics of development in old Mysore state.