July 6, 2009
Ashadh Shuddha ChaturdashiNew Delhi: No one in the opposition trusts electronic voting machines (EVMs) any more.They have raised doubts about the dependability on EVMs after former Delhi chief secretary Omesh Saigal, an IIT graduate, showed that EVMs can easily be tampered with. BJP leader LK Advani is the latest to join the chorus against EVMs.
He has demanded that ballot boxes be re-introduced, starting with the elections in Maharashtra and other states, later this year. Advani advocated using ballot papers until the election commission (EC) ensures that EVMs are foolproof and every possibility of their malfunctioning is plugged. However, the BJP made it "very clear" it was not questioning the recently-held Lok Sabha elections, in the "absence of any tangible proof".
BJP spokesperson Ravishankar Prasad said apprehensions were being raised by different quarters about the alleged malfunctioning of EVMs. "Recently, former Delhi chief secretary Omesh Saigal gave a scientific and technical presentation showing how EVMS can be manipulated. The EC has now asked a deputy election commissioner to conduct an inquiry," Prasad said.
"Since the EC itself has ordered an inquiry, they should assure everybody that EVMs are not open to manipulation and malfunctioning. But till such assurance comes, the forthcoming elections in four states should be conducted using ballot papers," Prasad said. He noted also that Germany had rejected EVMs, while in the US it was mandatory to provide paper back-ups. "Now, many of the world's democracies are following the old ballot paper system," he said.
Congress spokesperson Manish Tiwari labelled Advani's comments as "a stretch of imagination", but the TDP's Yerran Naidu pointed out that cabinet minister Ghulam Nabi Azad had said in Orissa that the Congress won fewer seats there due to manipulation of EVMs by the ruling BJD.
"I wrote to Azad congratulating him on his statement and suggested that he discuss it in the cabinet," said Naidu. AIADMK chief J Jayalalithaa had expressed her distrust of EVMs to the EC in January. Janata Party's Subramaniam Swamy wrote a detailed article some weeks ago on the issue.
While the CPI(M) refused to comment, saying it has not gone into the issue in detail "to form an opinion", its senior leader, Nilotpal Basu, said "there have been questions coming up" about it (EVMs).
Naidu averred that EVMs lack transparency. "The voter does not know whether his vote has gone to the party he voted for. He cannot see it. If EVMs are so 'perfect', why are there so many instances of EVMs not working properly? In many areas, voting started at 3pm because the EVM was not working. At the time of counting, there were cases where an EVM would not open and votes could not be counted," he said.
Source: DNA India
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bhagavaan daas, Canada
06 Jul 2009, 23:19
-----Advani finds support from rivals on EVM issue------CONGRESS WON THE ELECTION BECAUSE OF TEMPRED EVM . this is a right step in a right direction . keep on this justified work .
TO ALL HINDUUS ----PLEASE READ ON ---- THE MIND BLOWING HIDDEN TRUTH ------ --- On Thu, 18/6/09, rajaratnam_chandrasegaran <rajaratnam_chandrasegaran@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: rajaratnam_chandrasegaran <rajaratnam_chandrasegaran@yahoo.com>
Subject: [akandabaratam] MindBlowin' Hidden Truth of Taj Mahal
To: akandabaratam@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, 18 June, 2009, 4:24 PM
MindBlowin' Hidden Truth of Taj Mahal
IS HISTORY JUSTIFIED??? ??
BBC says about Taj Mahal---Hidden Truth - Never say it is a Tomb
Aerial view of the Taj Mahal
The interior water well
Frontal view of the Taj Mahal and dome
Close up of the dome with pinnacle
Close up of the pinnacle
Inlaid pinnacle pattern in courtyard
Red lotus at apex of the entrance
Rear view of the Taj & 22 apartments
View of sealed doors & windows in back
Typical Vedic style corridors
The Music House--a contradiction
A locked room on upper floor
A marble apartment on ground floor
The OM in the flowers on the walls
Staircase that leads to the lower levels
300 foot long corridor inside apartments
One of the 22 rooms in the secret lower level
Interior of one of the 22 secret rooms
Interior of another of the locked rooms
Vedic design on ceiling of a locked room
Huge ventilator sealed shut with bricks
Secret walled door that leads to other rooms
Secret bricked door that hides more evidence
Palace in Barhanpur where Mumtaz died
Pavilion where Mumtaz is said to be buried
NOW READ THIS.......
No one has ever challenged it except Prof. P. N. Oak, who believes the whole world has been duped. In his book Taj Mahal: The True Story, Oak says
theTaj Mahal is not Queen Mumtaz's tomb but an ancient Hindu temple palace of Lord Shiv then known as Tejo Mahalay . In the course of his research Oak discovered that the Shiv temple palace was usurped by Shah Jahan from then Maharaja of Jaipur, Jai Singh. In his own court chronicle,
Badshahnama, Shah Jahan admits that an exceptionally beautiful grand mansion in Agra was taken from Jai Singh for Mumtaz's burial . The ex-Maharaja of Jaipur still retains in his secret collection two orders from Shah Jahan for surrendering the Taj building. Using captured temples and mansions, as a
burial place for dead courtiers and royalty was a common practice among Muslim rulers.
For example, Humayun,Akbar, Etmud-ud-Daula and Safdarjung are all buried in such mansions. Oak's inquiries began with the name of Taj Mahal. He says the term " Mahal " has never been used for a building in any Muslim countries from Afghanisthan to Algeria . "The unusual explanation that the term Taj Mahal derives from Mumtaz Mahal was illogical in atleast two respects.
Firstly, her name was never Mumtaz Mahal but Mumtaz-ul-Zamani," .
Secondly, one cannot omit the first three letters 'Mum' from a woman's name to derive the remainder as the name for the building."Taj Mahal, , is a corrupt version of Tejo Mahalay, or Lord Shiv's Palace . also says the love story of Mumtaz and Shah Jahan is a fairy tale created by court sycophants, bxxxxering historians and sloppy archaeologists . Not a single royal chronicle of Shah Jahan's time corroborates the love story.
Furthermore, Oak cites several documents suggesting the Taj Mahal predates Shah Jahan's era, and was a temple dedicated to Shiv, worshipped by Rajputs of Agra city.
For example, Prof. Marvin Miller of New York took a few samples from the riverside doorway of the Taj. Carbon dating tests revealed that the door was 300 years older than Shah Jahan.
European traveler Johan Albert Mandelslo,who visited Agra in 1638 only seven years after Mumtaz's death, describes the life of the city in his memoirs. But he makes no reference to the Taj Mahal being built.
The writings of Peter Mundy, an English visitor to Agra within a year of Mumtaz's death, also suggest the Taj was a noteworthy building well before Shah Jahan's time.
Prof. Oak points out a number of design and architectural inconsistencies that support the belief of the Taj Mahal being a typical Hindu temple rather than a mausoleum. Many rooms in the Taj ! Mahal have remained sealed since Shah Jahan's time and are still inaccessible to the public . Oak asserts they contain a headless statue of Lord Shiv and other objects commonly used for worship rituals in Hindu temples .
Fearing political backlash, Indira Gandhi's government tried to have Prof. Oak's book withdrawn from the bookstores, and threatened the Indian publisher of the first edition dire consequences . There is only one way to discredit or validate Oak's research.
The current government should open the sealed rooms of the Taj Mahal under U.N. supervision, and let international experts investigate.
Do circulate this to all you know and let them know about this reality.....
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