My Petition to UN High Commission on Human Rights

Before the Office of the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights, Geneva, Switzerland
via email to : petitions@ohchr.org
As per Model Complaint Form
For communications under: INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS
Date:  July 18, 2019
I. Information on the complainant:
Name:                         Ram Bansal                             First name(s):   Ram
Nationality:     Indian
Date and place of birth:          Sept. 09, 1948, Khandoi, Bulandshahr, India
Address for correspondence on this complaint:
Village Khandoi 203398,
District Bulandshahr, U.P., India
Submitting the communication:                                                         on his/her own behalf
II. State concerned/Articles violated
Name of the State against which the complaint is directed:             Government of India
Articles of the Covenant or Convention alleged to have been violated:
Elections to the National Parliament of India of 542 elected members were held by Election Commission of India (ECI) in seven phases beginning from April 11, 2019 with votes cast through Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and finishing with counting of votes on May 23, 2019 together for all the seven phases.
Before the votes were counted on May 23, 2019, hectic movements of EVMs in various types of private vehicles were noticed by people, in and out of the strong rooms where ECI has arranged secured storage of EVMs after the polls until the counting of votes. Some EVMs were also found in private homes, hotel rooms, etc in possession of ECI staff for no official reason thereof. On objections by people at some places, local administrative officials had pacified people but with no explanation or action against anybody involved in such unauthorized possessions and movements of EVMs.
At some places like Chandauli in Uttar Pradesh state, people noticed and objected to replacement of EVMs in strong rooms with those brought from outside. Local officials arranged return of brought in machines to pacify people. Enough of videographic evidences are available on such instances in Indian Youtube news channels listed in Annexure of this complaint.  
Such instances prove that ECI tried manipulation of election results through replacement of actually used EVMs in strong rooms with preprogrammed machines for victory of candidates of a particular political party, thus nullifying voting rights of people of India. This manipulation affected election results of 373 constituencies evidenced by difference in votes polled and votes counted in the election. Thus, election results for 373 constituencies declared by ECI prove to be faked. Hence the Modi Government formed on basis of faked election results is illegal and unconstitutional.     
Counting of votes was shown performed and winning candidates for all the constituencies were declared by ECI without data on number of votes cast in favor of various candidates in the 542 constituencies. The data once placed by the ECI on their official website had discrepancies in total number of votes counted and those polled in 373 constituencies. When this discrepancy was communicated through email to the ECI by Mr Raghav Bahl, Editor of Quint, the ECI removed the data from the website saying that the data was tentative. Since then, no data has been provided by the ECI.
ECI conducts elections with staff borrowed from various government departments who rejoined their normal duties on May 25, 2019 after finishing their election duties and submitting all the data in their possession to the ECI. In spite of this, ECI has not yet come out with final election data in their possession. Hence the election results declared by the Commission on elected Members of Parliament (MPs) remain tentative and no government can be formed based on tentative election results.
But based on the tentatively declared elected MPs, a government has been formed with Narendra Modi as the Prime Minister of India. This amounts to a fraud by the ECI against people of India, including myself, in facilitating formation of a government without final constituency-wise data on votes polled in favor of various candidates in the elections.      
III. Exhaustion of domestic remedies/Application to other international procedures
The complainant wrote two letters sent via official email IDs of authorities in government of India responsible for following due democratic procedures for conducting free and fair elections and formation of Government on the basis of Election results duly declared, on June 15, 2019. Copies of these messages are provided below.  
My Letter to Election Commission of India -

Ram Bansal <rambansal5@gmail.com>	Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 6:24 AM
To: complaints@eci.gov.in
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To Chief Election Commiissioner Election Commission of India Nirvachan Bhawan New Delhi complaints@eci.gov.in DECLARATION OF RESULTS OF PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS 2019 Sir I have noted with disgust and agony that your office has not yet properly declared results of Parliamentary Elections 2019 with constituency-wise full data on votes polled, and votes obtained by each of the candidates in the constituencies. The data your office once provided on the website had serious discrepancies in number of votes polled and votes counted on 373 constituencies, which was later removed. Publication of authentic data is a prerequisite of declaration of any candidate elected to the Indian Parliament, particularly now when intentions of ECI are doubtful in minds of people. It is unbelievable that the data from Returning Officers on poll duty has not yet reached your office, as all involved in election duties rejoined their usual duties by 25th May after the election results were declared. Kindly publish full data on the elections with results thereof for formation of a proper government at union level of India. Yours Ram Bansal s/o Shri Karan Lal, Village Khandoi 203398 District Bulandshahr, U.P. This message was responded to by ECI on July 4, 2019 with a url link https://results.eci.gov.in about election results which carries information on number of party-wise winners in elections 2019, without any response to my demand of constituency-wise data of votes received by various candidates in the elections.     My Letter to the President of India -
Ram Bansal <rambansal5@gmail.com>	Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 6:36 AM
To: secy.president@rb.nic.in
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To Hon’ble President of India Rashtrapati Bhawan, New Delhi 110001 secy.president@rb.nic.in ILLEGITIMACY OF APPOINTMENT OF PRIME MINISTER Sir It is to bring to your kind notice that The Election Commission of India has not yet declared/published results of Parliamentary Elections 2019 with constituency-wise authentic data, members declared elected by ECI based on tentative data (as per ECI) remain tentative only, hence no Member of Parliament (MP) is officially declared elected. In such a situation, there arises no question of MPs electing anybody to hold the office of the Prime Minister of India, and the PM selecting his Council of Ministers. This makes the present Government of India illegal. Kindly ask your government stop functioning with immediate effect until the whole procedure of declaration of results by ECI, and then so-elected MPs elect their leader is properly adopted. Yours Ram Bansal s/o Shri Karan Lal Village Khandoi, 203398 District Bulandshahr, U.P.

The President of India office has not responded to this message from the petitioner.
Since courts in India have been captivated by the ruling junta through undue threats or extraordinary benefits to judges as experienced by many filing suits against those in the government, no court case has been filed by the complainant. In response to a public interest litigation filed by Advocate M. L. Sharma on July 5, 2019 regarding use of EVMs, Supreme Court of India refused to hear any plea on validity of the elections 2019 with respect to use of EVMs.
Have you submitted the same matter for examination under another procedure of international investigation or settlement (e.g. the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the European Court of Human Rights, or the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights)?   No
IV. Facts of the complaint

A- BACKGROUND : MODI GOVERNMENT 2014-19

How political power was captured in 2014 through exorbitantly lucrative false promises

In the year of 2014, India had Parliamentary Elections wherein a new aspirant to the position of Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) put up candidates for Membership of Parliament constituency-wise and appealed to people for voting to his candidates, with the promises, if he comes to power, provided hereunder –

1.  Employment to 20 million youths every year,

2. Bringing back black money of Indians in Swiss Banks and distribution of the money among people @ INR 1.5 million each,

3. Doubling farmers income who have been committing suicides for financial crises,

4. Inclusive growth - Working with all, developing all, thus making a new India.

5. A check on rising prices and bringing down of prices of essential commodities for better quality of life of poor people of India.

With such lucrative promises, BJP won Parliamentary Elections 2014 and formed the Government at the Center with Narendra Modi as the Prime Minister.

During 5 year tenure of the government, none of the above promises was fulfilled by the government that worked for cornering nation’s assets with support to large business houses as a capitalistic regime, and promoted Hindu extremism by supporting political armies named Bajrang Dal and Hindu Mahasabha for violence against religious minorities and poor classes of India. These two organizations are declared Religious Militant Organizations even by CIA.

Instead of working as per election promises, those in authority tried for pocketing all the economic assets of the nation under different schemes, some of which are detailed here.

Jan Dhan Yojana (JDY) : Under this scheme, every family was asked to have an Account with a Bank and deposit all their working money in the account. Indian banking business is mainly in hands of public sector banks under control of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) which is under government control. From this, the government collected INR 110 billion from pockets of poor people who never had a Bank Account.  

Demonetization : The government demonetized INR 500 and 1,000 currency notes in 2016 in the name of curbing black money in the country. It is notable here that the Government had names of 675 black money holders in the country. No action was taken against them, but common people were denied withdrawal of money from their bank accounts for the demonetization process that continued for over six months. So many patients died for having no money for medical treatment. About 150 persons died in queues in front of bank gates, police resorted to violence against people to keep them quiet.

The data released by RBI on demonetization reveals that out of demonetized currency notes worth INR 15.42 trillion in circulation, about 99.3 percent worth INR 15.31 trillion were received back by the RBI, thus black money worth only INR 0.13 trillion proves to be caught in the process of demonetization which is a negligible amount.  

Principal beneficiaries of the scheme have been BJP politicians. In exchange of demonetized currency notes, 11 cooperative banks under BJP leaders like President Amit Shah stood on top in transactions. It is now established that these banks exchanged currency notes worth 31,18 billion of black money holders for commission of 30 to 40 percent. Other bank officials also did the same. This way, the ruling clan collected a huge amount of black money with no gain to the government and huge sufferings to people.

Then the RBI issued INR 2,000 currency notes in place of 1,000 currency notes, a step against financial prudence for facilitating black money holders.

Goods and Services Tax (GST) : Taxation on sale of goods was replaced by a common GST that ranged from 18 to 28 percent on most of the goods, pushing up prices exorbitantly, thus making life of people miserable. On the eve of elections, the rate was reduced to 18 percent which still remained higher than pre-GST taxation regime. This way the Government gets huge funds under their control.

Bank Loans to Friendly Businesspersons : Another economically disastrous move by the ruling junta had been to force the public sector bank officials to advance huge loans to their friends, who ran away from the country without any repayment. It is reported in Indian press that 32 persons thus escaped from the country putting the banking business in the country in great financial distress for these unpaid advances. One such fugitive named Nirav Modi is stated to have said in an England Court that he was asked to run away after he paid INR 550 million to BJP bosses. 

According to RBI report published in Outlook magazine, public sector banks and other financial institutions losses due to unpaid loans have been as follows –

Year     2015-16,          4,693 cases     loss of INR 186,988.2 million

            2016-17,          5,076 cases     loss of INR 239,338.5 million

            2017-18,          5,916 cases     loss of INR 411,670.3 million

            2018-19,          6,801 cases     loss of INR 715,000 million

Most of the defaulters left India in connivance with those in authority.

In addition to above, Modi government waived off loans of INR 5.5 trillion taken by his friendly businesspersons from public sector banks. In the last year of power of the first phase from April 2018 to March 2019, Modi government delivered loan waivers and other benefits to their cronies worth INR 1.09 trillion.

Electoral Bond Act : In the meantime, the government enacted a law for no scrutiny of foreign funds received by a political party. It is reported in the press that Indian political parties received a sum of INR 30 to 40 billion from foreign sources, out of which 90 percent went to BJP account.

This made BJP as the richest political party of the country. Multi-storey office complexes have been built for the party at national, state and district levels which used to operate so far from rented spaces.

International Borrowings by Government : Modi government resorted to huge borrowings from international funding agencies, enhancing the debt on the nation by 49 percent to the level of INR 82 trillion.

RBI Reserves : When this didn’t prove enough, the government pressurized the then Governor of Reserve Bank of India to transfer the Bank’s reserve funds to the government. The Governor didn’t agree and resigned from his post. Another person was appointed as Governor who transferred INR 280 billion from reserve funds to the government.

Misuse of Funds by those in Authority : Except construction of some highways, no considerable development work was done by the government during its five year tenure, and the huge funds under control of those in power were misspent mainly on -

·         Luxurious lifestyles of BJP leaders with a huge number of RSS activists, and 95 foreign trips of the Prime Minister,

·         Unprecedented Advertising and publicity through news media including favored printed newspapers,  tv news media, and and social media advertisements, and also hoardings on gasolene selling stations and key locations along highways throughout the country for personal aggrandizement of those in authority,

·         Construction of 1.5 km long underground tunnel from PM residence to the Airport for comfortable passage for the Prime Minister,

·         Import of a statue at a price of INR 33 billion from China,

·         Import of a huge number of luxury cars best available in the world for those in power,

·         Hiring of Air and Sea planes and choppers for travels of those in power, 

·         Purchase of Defense Aircrafts from France at highly enhanced prices,

·         Writing off loans to large business houses to the tune of INR 5.5 trillion as reported by Hindu, a reputed Newspaper of India. ,

Notable non-governmental expenditures during 2014-19 term are -

·         Control of judiciary and administrative officials through bribery and other undue rewards for those working favorably to powerful persons or punishments to dissidents,

·         Construction of Palatial office buildings for BJP at national, state and district levels at a reported cost of INR 130 billion,

·         BJP spent INR 270 billion on Parliamentary Election 2019,

On political front, the government did unimaginably worse for the Nation -

Government in Control of Large Business Houses : With financial resources under full control, Modi government 2014-19 accepted to work under large business houses like those of Ambanis, Adani, Mallya, Ram Dev, etc and provided them public funds and other assets very liberally, freed them from loans to the tune of INR 5.5 trillion, and transferred to them national assets like land at throw away prices, to gain their favor for controlling the masses through news media run by them. Interests of many public sector undertakings were hit for favoring competing private enterprises.

Control on News Media : Since news media is owned by large business houses, control on them began easy through friendly relationships with business barons. In return, the media channels were provided huge funds from the government for mass scale propaganda advertisements on performance of the government.

For the whole period of about 5 years, all the favored Newspapers carried from 5 to 10 advertisements from the center and state governments, with an average advertisement costing INR 100 thousand. Each favored TV channels, about 20, conducted debates in appreciation of the government performance and other advertisements which cost about INR 600 per second of their time. All the gasoline stations in the country carried huge hoardings of the government and ruling politicians, each of which cost about INR 60,000 in rural areas to INR 100,000 in urban areas.  

Control on Constitutional Bodies : Constitutional bodies supposed to work independent of those in government, like Reserve Bank of India (RBI), Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), National Investigation Agency (NIA), Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), Election Commission of India (ECI), etc,  have been brought under direct control of those in power, to get done through them anything the powerful may like. For this purpose, all mean ways like creating parallel positions for posting favorable persons, posting of persons of Gujarat cadre considered loyal to those in power, etc were adopted.  

Control on Judiciary : For using Judiciary to suppress opposition and support own clan in legal suits, judicial officers were either allured or terrorized by the BJP bosses, thus strangulating independence of judicial process. This is supported by investigating agencies like Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), National Investigation Agency (NIA) and state controlled Criminal Investigation Departments, etc tuned to work under command of BJP bosses. A few cases are worth citation here –

·         Death of Justice Loya of Maharashtra High Court under mysterious circumstance with involvement of BJP President Amit Shah,

·         Rape and Murder of Asifa, 8 yr girl in Kathua (HP) by Bajrang Dal activists. The culprits have been spared from prescribed death sentence for such crimes,

·         Rape of a teenage girl by an BJP MLA, and killing of the victim’s father by Police for complaining against the MLA. The case is still pending. The MLA is a close associate of UP Chief Minister.

·         When hearing of Rafael Deal for purchase of French Defense aircrafts by Modi government was going on in Supreme Court, a sexual molestation charge against the Chief Justice of India was masterminded, thus disrupting the hearing on the Rafael deal. Chief Justice was stated to have said that high profile people are involved in leveling the charge. After that, hearing on Rafael deal got frozen and not done so far. After all, no respectable person can afford such nasty accusations.   

Corrupting the Administration : All key positions in administration of people were given to persons who were loyal to BJP bosses out of fear or under allurement with no consideration for capability of the incumbent. This makes the Administration unconcerned with their duties to people of India hence sufferings of people with respect to health, education, justice, etc have been enhancing.   

Promotion of Private Political Armies named Bajaranga Dal and Hindu Mahaasabhaa : Bajarang Dal is a Hindu extremist private army of BJP/RSS with volunteers trained to attack people of religious minorities. Murder of a missionary Graham Staines, along with his two minor sons, working in Odisha state of India has been a flag performance of Bajrang Dal. Now with political support from BJP government, the organization takes up armed violence and sexual attacks against people of religious minorities on a large scale in which even children are not spared. 

Hindu Mahaasabhaa is another political army of RSS/BJP which trains youths in armed violence. Their leaders have been openly distributing knives to students with tacit support from the government. Their leaders openly advocate honor to Nathuram Godse, killer of Mahatma Gandhi, father of the Nation.

 Mismanagement of Public Sector Undertakings : Public sector undertakings (PSUs) in India have been symbolic of self reliance of the nation for their entry into business fields to which private enterprising was discouraging for capital intensiveness, long gestation periods, uncertainty of market, etc. Many of these undertakings have been doing wonderfully well since independence but became loser during Modi regime. Oil and Natural Gas Commission, Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd, Air India, etc are few glaring examples which were let down by the government for promoting private enterprises in these fields. 

One such case is that of the most profitable Government of India undertaking Oil and Natural Gas Commission (ONGC), year-wise performace of which is provided here –

2013-14                       INR 107,969 million as cash reserve,

2014-15                       INR 1,185 million cash reserve,

2015-16                       INR 139 million cash reserve,

2016-17                       INR 427 million cash reserve,

2017-18                       INR 296 million cash reserve.

It is noteworthy here that during this period BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra was appointed director of ONGC by the government.

Outcome of the Governance 2014-19

During 2014-19, performance of the government of Narendra Modi as the Prime Minister had been very dismal with no election promise fulfilled. It has five important repercussions –

·         Unemployment rose to the level of 7.2 percent, highest in the last 45 years,

·         Gross Domestic Production (GDP) fell down to a level of 4.5 percent against a normal of 7 and above.

·         Violence against religious minorities and women (including minor girls) increased manifold.

·         While rich persons of India became richer, the poor people of the country became poorer, thus democracy turned into Capitalism.

·         Education was made costlier, and justice almost unavailable to common people of India, thus degrading quality of life of people.

Hence, India suffered from a financial crisis but not the BJP which became the richest political party of India. The people of India were against reelection of BJP to power in 2019 Parliamentary Elections.

B- PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS 2019

Main Objective of BJP : With everything reset during power tenure of 2014-19 for fulfilling RSS dream of making India a Hindu Nation, main objective of BJP for elections 2019 was to grab political power by hook or crook. Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora was there to help the party in materializing their dream of capturing political power.

Since, people were set against reelecting BJP back to power, a multipronged strategy was chalked out by BJP bosses to win in the elections. 

High Handedness of BJP : It is reported in the press that BJP organized over 250 electioneering rallies of grand scale, mostly addressed by the Prime Minister with cost to the people of India by mixing official duty and electioneering. Even with complaints by the opposition leaders to the 3 member Election Commission of India (ECI) against Modi’s misconduct during electioneering, no action was taken by ECI. On this, one member of the Commission dissented whose dissent was not even recorded, hence he stopped attending meetings of the Commission.

In one incident of the Prime Minister’s travelling to address an election rally using a helicopter, an election commission observer tried to check the helicopter. He was prevented from performing his duty and was suspended. Such have been the high handedness of BJP personnel during electioneering with support from the Chief Election Commissioner.

Money Power : Apart from electioneering by the Prime Minister on public cost, BJP is reported to have spent INR 270 billion on Parliamentary Elections 2019 while the total expenditure on these elections has been INR 600 billion which includes expenses by all the political parties, their candidates and the government. Thus, these elections have not been between those on equal footing. Expenditure by BJP included use of helicopters by top leaders, electioneering expenses by candidates, bribing administrative officials to favor BJP candidates during elections, and bribing the voters at the rate of INR 500 per vote as put on record by Chandauli (U.P.) voters. Elsewhere too, the BJP money flooded changing voters’ choices overnight. 

There was more than enough money in hands of BJP bosses, its strategic applications were set to be –

• High pitch electioneering with huge pomp and show to mesmerize people about supremacy of BJP over opposition parties. For this not only stages were made with extraordinary skills, audiences from surrounding areas of the rallies were hired for up to INR 1,000 per head per day with free travel and boarding services. Apart from this, a huge number of paid RSS workers with saffron scarves were called on duty in each rally.  
• Newspaper staff and their column writers were hired to publish articles in favor of BJP to improve image of the party among common people. News correspondents of these publications were appointed agents for distribution of money among voters for changing their loyalty to favor BJP. 
• Administrative Officials throughout the nation were pleased with whatever they liked to have to work for BJP candidates in all possible ways – fair or foul. Similarly, election staff working at booth level on election days were flooded with money for their working in favor of BJP.  
• It came to notice at one polling station, voters were asked no need to go for voting as their votes are cast. For keeping quiet, every voter was paid INR 500 by BJP representatives. Such a manipulation was possible with the polling staff agreeing for such fake voting. This is evidenced by videography of voters.

Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) : Even with demand by opposition parties for elections using ballot papers, as is the practice worldwide, the government decided to use EVMs. There was a specific reason for this.

Over the last 15 years, number of EVMs supplied to the ECI was found to be around 4,000,000 by two Public Sector Undertakings – Electronics Corporation of India Ltd (ECIL) and Bharat Electronics Ltd. (BEL), but ECI record showed receipt of only 2,000,000 machines. This information was received by Mr Manoranjana Roy under Right To Information Act (RTIA) and a legal suit is pending in Maharashtra High Court about missing EVMs.

Election Schedule : Parliamentary election 2019 was planned in a record 7 number of phases with 6/7 days gap in between consecutive phases. The first phase of elections was held on April 11, counting of votes for all the 7 phases of elections was done on May 23, 2017. Once elections to a phase was over, the EVMs were shifted to district-wise located strong rooms under security control of ECI. Thus ECI got ample opportunities of playing with EVMs for affecting election results.

Replacement of EVMs in strong rooms : Chief Election Commissioner and BJP leadership planned to use the so called missing (spare) EVMs for manipulating election results in favor of BJP. Accordingly, these spare machines were preprogrammed for votes cast with victory of BJP candidates. As soon as an election phase was over and used EVMs shifted to strong rooms, preprogrammed EVMs were put in strong rooms and actually used machines were removed. This remained a secret until all the seven phases of elections were over with the local administrative officials responsible for security of strong rooms managing the replacements of EVMs while political party workers being busy in electioneering work.

Public Notice of EVMs Movements in Private Vehicles : After finishing with electioneering of all the seven phases, people casually began watching strong rooms when they noticed truckloads of EVMs being brought to strong-rooms, to which people complained to local administrative officials. At many places, people resorted to sit-in strikes to safeguard the strong-rooms. Cunningly, local administrative officials pacified people. On some complaints reaching the ECI, it was explained as a local issue which got resolved by local officials.

At the same time, a lot of EVMs were found in homes, hotel rooms and many such places where these should not have been found. Some cases reported in the press are –

·         16 EVMs were found in a Hotel in Muzaffarpur (Bihar) taken by the Sector Magistrate – Reports Economic Times (Newspaper in Print and online), on May 7, 2019 and ABP News (TV channel) on the same date.

·         Amritsar (Punjab) May 16, 2019, Truckload of EVMs was found entering the strongroom, objected to by political workers,

·         Ghazipur (U.P.), May 20, 2019, Truckload of EVMs caught entering strongroom, objected by political worker who sat on a Sit-in-strike,

·         Chandauli (U.P.), May 20, 2019, EVMs replaced in strongroom, people objected to, Administrative officers got the EVMs reloaded into trucks and sent back with no action against anybody,

·         Saarana, Maharajganj (Bihar), Truckload of EVMs tried to enter strong room under instructions of BDO, objected to by people.

An article EVMs: Fears Remain, published in reputed magazine Frontline summarizes the manipulation available through url given hereunder. 

https://frontline.thehindu.com/the-nation/article27680220.ece

This raises a question on how movement of high security EVMs under care of the constitutional body Election Commission of India affecting the whole nation can be a local issue.

The fact remains that BJP entered into election arena with a highly nefarious two-pronged strategy of spending enormous amount of money to win the elections, and manipulation of election results using Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) with the help of their appointee Sunil Arora as the Chief Election Commissioner of India.

Counting of Votes

Counting of votes was undertaken on May 23 in which BJP candidates won in majority with never-before huge margins of votes as compared to those of opposition candidates. After the counting, Election Commission put up data of votes count on their official website. It was noticed by Raghav Bahl, Editor of Quint that there were discrepancies in votes polled and votes counted for 373 constituencies. Some of these discrepancies are provided here, for exemplification –

Constituency                                       Votes Cast                   Votes Counted

Begusarai (Bihar)                                1, 197,500                   1, 225, 599

Aurangabad (Bihar)                           930,758                       939,526

Kanchipuram (Tamilnadu)                  1,214,086                    1,232,917

Dharmapuri (Tamilnadu)                    1,194,440                    1,212, 311

Sriperumbudur (Tamilnadu)               1,388,666                    1,403,178

Total (U.P.)                              8,390 million               8,640 million

Mathura (U.P.)                        1,088,206                    1,098,112

Tripura West                           1,121,738                    1,101,362

Keonjhar (Odisha)                   1,184,697                    1,173,526

Machhlishahr (Odisha)           1,027,983                    1,032,111

Bhubneshwar (Odisha)           1,101,754                    1,003,704

Discrepancies in votes cast and those counted was published online by Quint Editor Raghav Bahl. He pointed out the discrepancies to The Election Commission of India (ECI) via email message dated May 27, 2019, which was not replied to by the ECI but they removed the data from their website. Later, ECI clarified that the data was tentative hence removed. No authentic data has so far been posted by the ECI, proving thereby that the ECI has no other data.  

Formation of Government

Based on the election results declared by the Election Commission without any constituency-wise authentic data, a Government has been formed with Modi as the Prime Minister. A vital question here is that if the data with the Commission is only tentative, how can a Government be formed? The Government formed based on tentative data is illegal and amounts to illegal capture of power by the culprits in connivance of Election Commission of India.

Notable features of the EVM elected Parliament and the Government so formed are –

·         Indian Parliament today has 243 members against whom criminal cases are pending in various courts, out of which 174 cases relate to murders.

·         One member of the Parliament named Pragya Thakur against whom a case is pending for her involvement in a terrorist activity known as Malegaon Blast case. 

·         Out of those included in the Ministry of Modi, 21 ministers have criminal cases against them,

·         Amit Shah, the present Home Minister is the person who was debarred from entering his home state of Gujarat by Supreme Court of India for his involvement in murder cases when he was the Home Minister of the State. 

·         One Minister named Pratap Sarangi is the Chief of Bajarang Dal, political army of BJP and declared a religious militant organization by CIA.

Dangers from Continuation of Present Government hence need for an urgent action

The Government though illegal has full control on Administration, Judiciary, Constitutional Institutions, etc of the country continued from their previous tenure, hence they are all out to misuse their authority, Some of the possibilities are –

·         The present Government has a brute majority in Parliament due to EVM manipulated results, hence would pursue BJP program of changing Constitution of India from secular to that of a Hindu nation, and hence would eliminate religious minorities from the land and put back historically downtrodden classes back to untouchable condition. For these purposes, Chief of a Political Army Bajaranga Dal, Pratap Sarangi, has been inducted as a Minister in the present government. He is a well known criminal with many criminal cases pending against him. He is in-charge of eliminating religious minorities through mob lynching, cases of which are on the rise.

·         This is dangerous not only to people of minority communities but to independent citizens of the society like the petitioner.  

·         Allowing an illegal government to function would become a bad precedent leading to more arbitrariness in future, hence elimination of democracy in the country and abrogation of democratic rights of people including the petitioner.

·         All criminal cases against the ruling party members are being decided in their favor or dismissed by courts under undue political pressure. Thus, criminalization of Indian politics would be complete, with elimination of any possibility of any gentle person exerting their democratic rights in future.

·         Under undue pressure on the Courts, persons having dissident views are being punished unduly and further hearing in the cases are being banned under orders of the Supreme Court of India. Two examples of this type of worth noting –

·         In case of EVM misuse in the Parliamentary Elections 2019, the Supreme Court has ordered no further consideration of any plea in this regard.

·         In case of murder of Ex-Home Minister Haren Pandya of Gujarat state, order of the trial court to punish people unduly was highly criticized by the High Court and the accused were acquitted. Now, the Supreme Court has punished the same accused persons and banned any further hearing in the case.

·         Such prohibitions on further hearings are affecting rights of common people for justice.

·         As in the previous tenure of the government, GDP had been going down and unemployment rate had been escalating, the trend is likely to continue leading to more miseries for the people of India. Deaths of children due to malnutrition have been on the rise due to such economic miseries of people.

·         All Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) which have been backbone of Indian Economy, self reliance and as model employers, since independence are likely to be drained out of their funds by the ruling party for their ultimate closure or sale to friends of those in power. As reported in the press, the Government has already planned to privatize or close down 47 of PSUs within the first 100 days of being in power. Thus national resource would be pocketed by those in power leading to economic downfall of the nation and drastic unemployment of youths in the country.

·         Present government being made up of Hindu Militants, violence against religious minorities would go on escalating, creating law and order problems in the country, hence disturbing peace of mind of people in general including that of the petitioner.

·         People of India have been gradually awakening to evil designs of the rulers and getting united for a revolt which may turn violent at any time. 

·         Ministers of the ruling junta have been visiting rapists and other criminals in prisons for assuring them their support, Many BJP legislators have declared that rapes are a usual thing hence need not be taken seriously.

·         A reign of terror has been unleashed by the ruling junta against dissenting voices, thus all the opposition leaders have been calmed down. Individual cases are being dealt with very strictly through police. A retired Professor of Indian Institute of Technology Mr Puniyani has been threatened with dire consequences if he doesn’t stop speaking against the government. Quint Editor Raghav Bahl who had pointed out discrepancy in votes count and votes polled has been charged with money laundering by Enforcement Directorate of Government of India as a punishment to him. 3 newsmen tweeting/debating about a woman visiting U.P. Chief Minister’s residence saying that she was beloved of the Chief Minister have been put behind bars. Prashant Kanaujia had tweeted on the above-said love affair, he was picked up from his Delhi residence by men in plain clothes, taken to Lucknow in U.P. area and arrested by U.P. Police. Noida Police arrested Ishika Singh and Anju Shukla for debating the issue in a TV program. Neha Yadav a student of Allahabad University has been suspended and asked to leave the university premises for showing black flag to Amit Shah, present Home Minister of the ruling junta. A Mumbai journalist Nikita Roy is fatally attacked for questioning the government policies. Editors’ Guild has been protesting against highhandedness of Authorities against news-personnel.

·         In order to make quick money, present government is going ahead on deforestation on massive scale, thus causing climatic crisis. In Chhatteesgarh State, 17,000 ha forests are being destroyed.

Author’s signature: _______________________ (Ram Bansal)
V. Checklist of supporting documentation (copies, not originals, to be enclosed with your complaint): NIL

A Realistic View on Growth of Online Business

Online business has been developing very well in the Westernized World and it is going to stay there. Traditional Eastern sector of the World is much larger than the Westernized masses, indicating a huge potential for growth of online business. It is an optimistic view but not the realistic one.

Online business needs more trust between sellers and buyers than that needed for traditional direct transactions. Therefore, it is not the population, potential or possibility of the market that matters for growth of online business but it is the mutual trust between buyers and sellers that works in online transactions.

Business people of the Western World have proved themselves fit for reliability, hence they are reaping good harvests on entering business online. This is not the case in the Eastern sector of the World which is highly segmented, hence need be understood segment-wise.

First level of segmentation is urban-rural, wherein rural segment, making about 60 percent of total Eastern market size, is totally blind for developing online business. Online business community has been very realistic in keeping this segment out of their view of the market, so far.

Second level of segmentation is born out of economic levels of people with vast diversity. About 30 percent of urbanized population comprised mainly of business-people, government employees and employed in the West or in prosperous Middle-East countries, have easy-going lifestyles for being richer than the rest of the population, hence make the real potential for developing online business. For various reasons like easily earned money (Government employees), being too-much busy in their routines (business-people), having rich inheritance, etc this segment hardly bothers for even trust-worthiness of businesspersons they deal with. They even don’t mind if cheated in some transactions for their consideration of cheating being a part of human life.

In some Asian countries with thick population density, like India, even rich-urbanized segment makes a huge market for initial growth of online business, but is not going to be enough forever. Saturation would become visible sooner than that may be expected now. It is therefore needed right now to understand what blocks the way of online-business growth into other segments of human population. For this study ahead, the focus would be on India as representative of the Eastern World.

Coming back to trustworthiness of businesspeople, it is in for dipping deeper than already existing low level. Since growth of business-houses has been through illicit supports of politicians in power, character of politicians has been inspiring them to be likewise. I take up a direct experience of mine to exemplify my above-said viewpoint. My friend in USA suffered some inconvenience in her online connectivity due to renovation work in that area by the service providing Company. To compensate for the inconvenience, the Company offered discounted rates for two months for their services to all their customers in the area. In India, I have been a customer of Jio Digital Life for about a year. Through my four recharges during this period, I have been paying for unlimited voice calls but not even a single voice-call has been materialized through their networking service for which I subscribe to Vodafone service which works only after my reaching rooftop of my home. I reported this matter to Prime Minister’s Office in February 2018 for their blind support to Jio, they forwarded my complaint to Bombay office of Jio. A Jio representative spoke to me assuring improvement in their services soon, but the status of service remains the same even today. How can I ever trust Jio people in my life.

In India, though no business sector can be said to be working reliably, Mobile Phone services, Medicinal and Health products, and Dairy Derivatives are the worst hit sectors by character crisis in businesspeople of the country. These products and services are available in acceptable quality only for super-rich customers who don’t bother for price-tags. Whole population can’t be that way, hence the crisis of trustworthiness is going to stay forever blocking expected growth of online business.

It is for warning the individuals relying on growth of online business, that they must be well-prepared with an alternative much before the said saturation in online business hits them.

Ram Bansal

Missions of My Life

Reality of Hinduism in India

I was born in a so-called Hindu family, studied and pursued Engineering profession, worked as an Engineering Consultant and as an Author, researched through Vaidic scriptures to trace out real history of the land. Presently at 70, I am studying Vaidic Sanskrita and Aayurveda to find ways of extending human lifespan to above 200 years and practicing the researched prescriptions on myself with very positive results.

Historically, my family belong to Agrawals who came here from Athens (Greece) when our peace-loving democratic state, the first in the World, Acropolis was ruined and taken over by Philip, father of Alexander, under a plot hatched by Plato. On arrival here, we merged our identity into Deva community led by Vaidic scholarly Puru couples – Brahmaa and Saraswati, Raama and Seetaa, Vishnu and Lakshmee, along with Ganesha, Shaaradaa and Lakshamana. We worked together to develop the land into a Nation without any religious and so-called Godly strings hence hence followed what is now known as atheism. Word ‘atheism’ is a derivative of the word ‘theo’ which is the Latin word for ‘deva’ race.

Then came here religious people Yadus as preachers of Judaism (Yahoodee) religion, Assyrians, Yavans and Dorians to invade the land and establish their rule here after killing our scholars and warriors. The first Assyrian batch reaching the land was Shankar with a group of women on buffalo backs. He sold the women to local lords, established himself as Aadishankaraachaarya, designed now-called modern Sanskrita language, distorted and misinterpretted Vaidic scriptures in modern Sanskrita, and became religious leader of Dorians (Dravidas) reaching the land as Alexander’s soldiers. He established Sanaatana Dharma.

Yadus, Yavans and Dorians used to kidnap, rape and abandon local women, thus producing a huge number of illegitimate children on the land. These were guided to pursue professions of beggars, astrologers, domestic cooks, religious preachers, and performers of religious rites, etc in dull-saffron dresses. Later, Judaism and Sanaatana Dharma were merged under banner of Hinduism and the society was divided into four sections (varnas) – saffron-robed as Braahmana, militants as Kshatriya, businesspersons as Vashya and local residents as Shudra and other poor classes. Opponents of this system were totured and killed by this first invasion of Hinduism on the land. Under fear, many adopted Hinduism under duress.  

During the Hindu invasion, Vishnu and Ganesha went underground for reappearing later as Vishnu Gupta Chaanakya and Chitra Gupta, respectively, and established rule of Gupta dynasty with Vishnu’s son Chandra Gupta Maurya as the Emperor. India became The Golden Bird of the World under Gupta’s rule of about 400 years.

After this until the first Islamic invasion in about 900 AD, India had been under rule of innumerous sectoral kings who forced the whole population into Hinduism. Muslims ruled the land in parts for about 800 years while remaining parts had been under rules of various Hindu kings. These rulers were thrown out of power by British who ruled the land until 1947 with heavy hands but developed some systems under their governance.

Indian National Congress took over reigns of power from British without even knowing how to govern the huge Nation. A haphazard Constitution was framed and applied in 1950 which doesn’t represent people’s aspirations and expectations. This Constitution though prescribes secularism for the governance but has miserably failed in making India a secular State. Every political leader of independent India has been carrying a tag of some religion, caste or even a family, against which the Constitution provides no remedy. At present, India is being ruled by Hindu fanatics, which has proved itself more destructive to common Indians than even Islamic fanatics and British empiricists.

Thus, the majority of Indian population seems to be of Hindus, but all these persons are not Hindus truly. Yes, Braahmans and Kshatriyas have been truly Hindus for their vested interests of ruling the land and reaping richness without working for it. Vaishyas, Kaayasthas and Goldsmiths belong to Deva community without tag of any religion, hence are not Hindus. Dozens of castes marked as Shudras by Braahmans have been the worst sufferers under Hinduism for their subhumanly treatment by other Hindus. They never adopted Hinduism willingly and are the first to revolt against Hinduism under inspiration from Dr Bheemarao Ambedkar. Some other local residents now marked as Lodhas, Gurjars, Maalis, etc have been producers of wealth in their fields. These castes and all sorts of craftspersons whose work has been exploited by two upper classes of Hindus too have never been willing Hindus.

Hindu classification of society into four varnas is distorted version of Vaidic prescription in this regard spelled in Manusmriti which prescribes the four professions to be chosen by individuals based on their personal capabilities and choice while the Hindu prescription provides for imposition of one’s profession based on their parents’ profession. This provision also says in numerous ways that a Brahman would always remain revered even after committing some crime, but a person from any other class won’t be revered whatever capabilities they may acquire. Recently, Maharshi Mahesh was the second in command of Jyotirmatha but was not appointed its Shankaraachaarya on death of the the then Shankaraachaarya for he coming from a Kayastha caste. A Braahman was searched and appointed Shankaraachaarya of Jyotimatha, one of the four highest religious bodies of Hinduism established by Aadishankaraachaarya in four corners of the land.

Hindu classification divides the society into two major sections – non-productive and productive. Braahman and Kshatriya belong to the non-productive section to be the supreme guide of the society, and to rule over the people through their militant strength, respectively. Productive section consists of Vaishya in control of trade, agriculture and cattle-breeding while the Shudra and other local castes and tribe would provide workforce to Vaishya community. In real terms, the lowest class people are there to create wealth through their work while Vaishya community manages the creation of the wealth. Braahman and Kshatriya are not supposed to do any productive work but enjoy their lavish lifestyles on wealth created by the other section.

Since imperial days are gone forever from the World, no religion can be forced on any person. Hence only the willing Hindus belonging to Braahman and Kshatriya factions of the society remain Hindus with all others stepping out of Hinduism to avoid their exploitation by the Hindu supremos.

Present Hindu governments at Center and in many States carries an agenda for reestablishing the above-said classification of society and make India a Hindu nation wherein non-Hindus would be converted to Hindus or ejected out of the land. Under Hinduism, majority of population would be treated as Shudras for serving Braahmans and Kshatriyas, as has been the tradition of Hinduism. This is going a boomarang earlier than expected by any estimate that would be devastating for the nation.      

Present political leaders in power forget that Shudras along with some other backward classes of India are the real sons of the soil while all others, particularly so-called superior classes of Hindus, have arrived here from foreign lands. Hence, Hindus have no right ti impose Hinduism on all the people of the land. Nobody would ever like to be a Hindu for being treated like a Shudra.  

Three Dismal Years of Modi Government in India

Through Parliamentary Elections of 2014 of India, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) under leadership of Narendra Modi was elected to power in New Delhi. Main issues raised by BJP leadership for impressing voters were price rise and black money deposited by Indian in foreign banks. During the 3 years of Modi Government in office, prices of all industrial products have doubled while those of agricultural produce have seen marginal rise due to government controls. It is notable here that industrial producers are mostly urban while agri-producers are rural. This in turn means that during the said period, urban population has enriched itself while the rural population has slided back on the prosperity scale. Industrial products are purchased and used mostly by urban population composed of employees of the Government of thse of organized sector whose income levels are exhorbitantly higher than those of the rural people, hence there is no considerable impact on their prosperity level. Rural people using and consuming highly-priced industrial products have been mercilessly chiseled by high prices of industrial products.

Government controls prices of agricultural produce for these falling under essential commodities, so that survival of poor sections of population is not endangered. Under this background and pretext, there is no logic for rise in prices of industrial products. This gap in prices escalation has made rich people richer and poor people poorer.

During election campaign of 2014, BJP leadership have expressly promised bringing back of India’s money in foreign Banks within 50 days in office. Even Ram Deva also organized a camaign to this effect. After coming to power, the issue is conveniently forgotten, and no progress has been made in this matter even in 1000 days of the Government in office. Ram Deva getting multiple benefits of BJP in power has also forgotten the issue. Thus, Modi Government has miserably failed on both the counts of their election campaign promises. 

In 2014, Samajwadi Party (SP) government was ruling U.P. State with heavy hand promoting criminals and interests of Muslim community only. BJP leadership, during 2014 election campaign had promised to dismiss SP government in U.P. immediately on coming to power in New Delhi. Since, Narendra Modi has friendly relationship with SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadava, said promise of election campaign was forgotten. It is notable here that, India’s two most corrupt politicians are Mulayam Singh of U.P. and Sharad Pawar of Maharashtra. Narendra Modi has very amicable relationships with both of these. This reflects on honesty of the present Prime Minister Modi.     

Currency Fiasco

Modi Government put all their energy in demonetisation of high value currency notes in circulation, throwing the whole financial system of the country out of gear. This was promised that demonetization would be beneficial to the nation and her poor people, and that the problems faced by common people for cash scarcity in Banks due to demonetization would be taken care of withing 50 days ie by December 31, 2016. While there is no cash shortage in urban Bank branches, account holders of rural branches have been suffering for cash scarcity even today, after 6 months of the promised date.

Due to no-cash in rural Bank branches, account holders have lost faith in the whole banking system, hence avoiding depositing their savings in the Banks and getting their money transferred through such Bank branches. So far, the government has not shown a single benefit of the demonetization. Of course, favorite Bank Branch Managers have been greatly benefitted by demonetization through using their power of converting black currency notes for heavy prices.        

Jan-Dhan Yojana

Modi Government launched Jan-Dhan Yojana prompting every citizen to have a Bank Account and deposit their savings in the account. This way, it is claimed by the PM himself that the government collected Rs 110,000 millions due to this scheme. Money so collected was loaned out to big business persons like Malya, Ambani, Adani, etc. After the said deposits by the poor people, Bank branches were declared cashless through demonetization, so that the depositors failed to get back their own money to meet their needs. Again, rich were made richer, and poor poorer.

With Jan Dhan Yojana, number of accounts in every Bank branch was doubled, but the Banks refused to increase their staff to serve the increased number of account holders, hence quality of service by Bank branches has considerably degraded.  

Digital India Dream

PM Modi is bent upon linking every citizen with Internet for various purposes of life, and he is pursuing this goal at war scale, without knowing that the country not yet have the infrastructure required for serving this purpose. In my village only 150 km from Delhi, like 40 percent of India’s village, still doesn’t have network signal strength suitable for an Internet connection. I am constrained to go to my rooftop after midnight hours whenever I wish the connectivity. Even then, I fail many times. Only possbility of connectivity is through BSNL Broadband with a landline phone. I had been their customer for 3 years but never got satisfactory service from them. Secondly, my ID used to be grossly misused by local exchange staff for connecting others with the Internet with bills to me. Actually, BSNL staff in rural exchanges have been at their places for decades with a cot in the exchange for sleeping during daytime. They don’t want any customer for BSNL.

River Sand

Due to misrepresentation by the Government of India, Supreme Court considers even taking river sand under Mining Act, and have imposed strict punitive measures on people for taking some sand for building their houses. As a result, local police finds it a good source of their illicit income because people essentially need the sand for which they must to the police personnel, or get arrested. A by-product of this is that price of river sand has quadrupled durig the last 3 years.

Sand is regularly produced by rivers in huge quantities as these descend from mountains to plains, and it is spread throughout the length of the rivers. People have been getting the sand from nearby rivers since known past without causing any damage to the ecology. If the sand is not removed from river beds, it would block flow of the river forcing it to change path. Hence, there is no need for any regulatory measures on getting sand from a river.

Now Governments are issuing licenses to traders for digging out river sand at far-away places and selling to the consumers. With this arrangement, the consumers are forced to pay a heavy price to contractor and for long distance transport, or steal the sand from a nearby river bed and pay a bribe to local police. Whole exercise of the Government is quite foolish, anti-people, and causing ecological damages.

What a Government is supposed to provide to people are adequate public health services, unifor education, speedy justice, work at their usual residence, and public services like roads, electricity gridlines, etc. But Modi government has not paid any attention to these in their 3 years in office, but have involved in creating controversies through intruding into private lives of people.