Rajeev gandhi the computer man of india

Rajeev Gandhi A visionary leader…..

Man behind computers in India

• Rajiv Gandhi during his Prime Minister ship brings a total change in the Indian communication system and his revolutionary steps changed the Indian communication and Information Technology totally. Prior to Rajiv Gandhi’s era neither the Indian people nor the Indian Government was aware or accustomed with the concept called information technology. It is pertinent to mention that Rajiv Gandhi perhaps would not be able to take the steps without the assistance of Dr. Shyam Pitroda who was originally from Orissa.
• That when computer was first introduced in India I was a student of school and to me it was like a typewriter placed before a television set. That when Rajiv Gandhi’s mother Smt Indira Gandhi was assassinated in 1984 at that time only Indian National Television’s (National Doordarshan) broadcasting. All India Radios transmission and local news papers information was our only source of knowledge.
• I still remember that in our Indian Television at that time I saw most probably a small Japanese T.V. unit is taking out and or opening a small umbrella like thing from a suitcase and was doing something.
• I latter under stood from the commentary of the Indian T.V. anchor that those person was showing live telecast of the cremation ceremonies to the Japanese spectators. The incident really astonished me a lot as at that point of time we the Indian people could not imagine such thing.
• In early 80’s one of my relative I remembered went for a foreign tour mainly Europe and I went with my father till Dumdum Airport now known as Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport; they returned to India after one and a half months and I still remember my elder cousin sister gifted me one sketch pen set bought from UK consisting of 3r colors shade.
• I was very much interested to know from my cousin about Europe and its people but she could give me a little information as she was not interested over the matter she only told me there television is broadcasted round the clock and there is more than 20 channel’s I was spell bound at that time we had only one channel and that too telecasted for a limited period in the evening.
• The satellite channel, cable channel the word was unknown to us. When Rajiv Gandhi first introduced computer in India few Left Political Parties through out the country launched demonstrations and propagated that computer is a super robot like thing and a single computer will finish the job of at least 100 labors as a result of which there will be acute job loss for the people and out of this fear the Left provincial government of the state of West Bengal resistedentry of computer in the state for at least 10 years until there wrong concept broke; and now the same Government is giving utmost importance to the Information and Technology sector and is also financing indigenous computer manufacturing units.
• Today information is a mouse click away for me and I feel sorry for my parents who died in 1996 before I purchase a computer first a PC then a Laptop. I am lawyer and I started my profession depending on the old legal journals of my father’s law library but thereafter in 2005 I purchased my first PC and became accustomed with it I was using windows 98 and gradually I became dependable or better to say addicted to computer in all aspect, instead of raising dust from the old books I am very much comfortable with my laptop as in a click I can find out the required citations.
• Recently for filing a case I went to New Delhi the capital of my country and in a small excretion with my law clerk; mainly for his interest I accompanied him to Indira Gandhi memorial; the house which was once upon a time Mrs. Gandhi’s residence bungalow as Prime minister and also her office at the adjacent bungalow and the place where in 1984 she was assassinated. At present Govt of India had converted two bungalows to a museum in memory of Smt Gandhi and inside that memorial there is a pavilion in memory of her elder son Rajiv Gandhi who was also assassinated at South India few years latter.
• I like that place as it is a historic spot for modern India’s history undoubtedly the house was actually the seat of power of India and its foreign policy. Each time I visited the house and stand in front of Late Rajiv Gandhi’s particular display I find his laptop and also a black and white photograph inside an airplane with that laptop. I became very nostalgic as the owner of the laptop is no more there is no one to charge the batteries or to switch on the system or to shut it down, no one is there to operate the machine it had became silent for ever like its master who once opened the gateway of IT sector of India by introducing computer in our country. Mouse of Rajiv Gandhi’s computer will never be clicked by any one, but it opened a scope for billion and billion clicks of several computers of my countrymen. It is my tribute and homage to the departed soul of a real gentleman of Indian politics had ever seen.

Who is rahul gandhi…

Yuvraj of congress:

Born 19 June 1970 (age 42)
New Delhi
Nationality Indian
Political party Indian National Congress

Relations Rajiv Gandhi (father)
Sonia Gandhi (mother)
Priyanka Vadra (sister)

Residence New Delhi
Alma mater
Harvard University
Rollins College
Trinity College, Cambridge

Profession Member of Parliament
As of 5 June, 2011
Rahul Gandhi born 19 June 1970 is an Indian politician and member of the Parliament of India, representing the Amethi constituency. Rahul Gandhi is the General Secretary of the Indian National Congress party. He is the Chairman of the Congress coordination panel for 2014 Lok Sabha polls. A fourth-generation scion of the politically powerful Nehru–Gandhi family, Rahul Gandhi is the son of Rajiv Gandhi (6th Prime Minister of India) and incumbent Congress president Sonia Gandhi, and the grandson of Feroze Gandhi and Indira Gandhi (3rd Prime Minister of India).

 

Early life and career

Rahul Gandhi was born in Delhi on 19 June 1970 as the first of the two children of Rajiv Gandhi, who later became the Prime Minister of India and Sonia Gandhi, who later became President of Indian National Congress, and as the grandson of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. He is also the great-grandson of India’s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. Priyanka Vadra is his younger sister and Robert Vadra is his brother-in-law.

Rahul Gandhi attended St. Columba’s School, Delhi before entering The Doon School in Dehradun (Uttarakhand) from 1981–83. Meanwhile, his father had joined politics and became the Prime Minister on 31 October 1984 when Indira Gandhi was assassinated. Due to the security threats faced by Indira Gandhi’s family from Sikh extremists, Rahul Gandhi and his sister, Priyanka were home-schooled thereafter. Rahul Gandhi joined St. Stephen’s College, Delhi in 1989 for his undergraduate education but moved to Harvard University after he completed the first year examinations.In 1991, after Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by LTTE during an election rally, he shifted to Rollins College due to security concerns and completed his B.A. in 1994.During this period, he assumed the pseudonym Raul Vinci and his identity was known only to the university officials and security agencies. He further went on to obtain a M.Phil from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1995.After graduation, Rahul Gandhi worked at the Monitor Group, a management consulting firm, in London. In 2002 he was one of the directors of Mumbai-based technology outsourcing firm Backops Services Private Ltd.

Political career

In March 2004, Rahul Gandhi announced his entry into politics by announcing that he would contest the May 2004 elections, standing for his father’s former constituency of Amethi in Uttar Pradesh in the Lok Sabha, India’s lower house of Parliament. The seat had been held by his mother until she transferred to the neighbouring seat of Rae Bareilly. The Congress had been doing poorly in Uttar Pradesh, holding only 10 of the 80 Lok Sabha seats in the state at the time.At the time, this move generated surprise among political commentators, who had regarded his sister Priyanka as being the more charismatic and likely to succeed. It generated speculation that the presence of a young member of India’s most famous political family would reinvigorate the Congress party’s political fortunes among India’s youthful populationIn his first interview with foreign media, Rahul Gandhi portrayed himself as a uniter of the country and condemned “divisive” politics in India, saying that he would try to reduce caste and religious tensions.

Rahul Gandhi won with a landslide majority, retaining the family stronghold with a margin of over 100,000 as the Congress unexpectedly defeated the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. Until 2006 he held no other office.

Rahul Gandhi and his sister, who is married to Robert Vadra, managed their mother’s campaign for re-election to Rae Bareilly in 2006, which was won easily with a margin greater than 400,000 votes.He was a prominent figure in the Congress campaign for the 2007 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections; Congress, however, won only 22 seats with 8.53% of votes.

Rahul Gandhi was appointed a general secretary of the All India Congress Committee on 24 September 2007 in a reshuffle of the party secretariat.In the same reshuffle, he was also given charge of the Indian Youth Congress and the National Students Union of India. In 2008, senior Congress leader Veerappa Moily mentioned “Rahul-as-PM” idea when the PM of India Manmohan Singh was still abroad.

In July 2012, Union Law Minister, Salman Khurshid stated that Rahul Gandhi should provide a “new ideology” to meet the present day challenges, the Congress party was facing.

Youth politics

In September 2007 when he was appointed general secretary in charge of the Youth Congress (IYC) and the National Students Union of India (NSUI), Rahul Gandhi promised to reform youth politics. In his attempt to prove himself thus, in November 2008 Rahul Gandhi held interviews at his 12, Tughlak Lane residence in New Delhi to handpick at least 40 people who will make up the think-tank of the Indian Youth Congress (IYC), an organisation that he has been keen to transform since he was appointed general secretary in September 2007.

Under Rahul Gandhi, IYC and NSUI has seen a dramatic increase in members from a two lakhs to twenty five lakhs. The Indian Express wrote in 2011, “Three years later, as another organisational reshuffle is in the offing, Rahul’s dream remains unrealised with party veterans manipulating internal elections in the Youth Congress and a host of people with questionable background gaining entry into it.

2009 elections

In the 2009 Lok Sabha elections, Rahul Gandhi retained his Amethi seat by defeating his nearest rival by a margin of over 333,000 votes. Rahul Gandhi was credited with the Congress revival in Uttar Pradesh where they won 21 out of the total 80 Lok Sabha seats. He spoke at 125 rallies across the country in six weeks. The nationawide elections defied the predictions made by pre-poll predictions and exit polls and gave a clear mandate to the incumbent Congress government (80 seats gained).

Land Acquisition Protests Arrest

On 11 May 2011 Rahul Gandhi was arrested by the Uttar Pradesh police at Bhatta Parsaul village after he turned out in support of agitating farmers demanding more compensation for their land being acquired for a highway project.

2012 Assembly elections

Rahul Gandhi campaigned extensively in the 2012 Assembly elections, especially in the highly politically crucial state of Uttar Pradesh in the hope that his popularity would help revive the Congress in the state. However, the regionalist Samajwadi Party unexpectedly swept the elections. The Congress won 28 seats, an increase of only six seats from the 2007 elections.

Congress activists defended the result in Uttar Pradesh, claiming “there’s a big difference between state elections and national polls”, and pointing out the turn around attributed to Rahul Gandhi in the 2009 Lok Sabha national elections in the state. However, Rahul Gandhi publicly accepted responsibility for the result in an interview after the result was declared.

Political and social views

National security

Rahul Gandhi in a conversation with Timothy J. Roemer, U.S. Ambassador to India, said that he believes Hindu extremists pose a greater threat to his country than Muslim militants. Rahul Gandhi referred specifically to more-polarizing figures in the Bharatiya Janata Party. Also responding to the ambassador’s query about the activities in the region by the Islamist militant organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Rahul Gandhi said there was evidence of some support for the group among certain elements in India’s indigenous Muslim population. These conversations were released as part of the Wikileaks cables in 2010.

Rahul Gandhi has been critical of groups like the RSS and has compared them to terrorist organizations like SIMI.

A day after the 2011 Mumbai bombings, Rahul Gandhi declared: “It is very difficult to stop every single terrorist attack. The idea is that we have to fight terrorism at the local level. We have improved in leaps and bounds. But terrorism is something that it is impossible to stop all the time.”

Corruption

Rahul Gandhi opines that the Lokpal should be made a constitutional body and it should be made accountable to the Parliament, just like the Election Commission. He also feels that Lokpal alone cannot root out corruption. This statement came out on 25 August 2011, on the 10th day of Anna Hazare‘s fast. This statement was considered as a delaying tactic by the opposition and Team Anna‘s members. It was consequently slammed by prominent opposition leaders Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley. The Parliamentary Standing Committee led by Abhishek Manu Singhvi tabled the Lok Bill report in the Rajya Sabha on 9 December 2011. The report recommended the Lokpal to be made into a constitutional body. In response, Hazare attacked Rahul Gandhi, claiming he had made the bill “weak and ineffective”.

Personal life

In 2004, Rahul Gandhi told the press that he has a girlfriend Veronique Cartelli, a Spanish architect who lives in Venezuela

Rape case which led to change the Indian law…

The Mathura rape case:

wherein Mathura- a sixteen year old tribal girl was raped by two policemen in the compound of Desai Ganj Police station in Chandrapur district of Maharashtra.
Her relatives, who had come to register a complaint, were patiently waiting outside even as the heinous act was being committed in the police station. When her relatives and the assembled crowd threatened to burn down the police chowky, the two guilty policemen, Ganpat and Tukaram, reluctantly agreed to file a panchnama.
The case came for hearing on 1st June, 1974 in the session’s court. The judgment however turned out to be in favour of the accused. Mathura was accused of being a liar. It was stated that since she was ‘habituated to sexual intercourse’ her consent was voluntary; under the circumstances only sexual intercourse could be proved and not rape.
On appeal the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court set aside the judgment of the Sessions Court, and sentenced the accused namely Tukaram and Ganpat to one and five years of rigorous imprisonment respectively. The Court held that passive submission due to fear induced by serious threats could not be construed as consent or willing sexual intercourse.
When the appeal was made to the Supreme Court, the Senior Counsel “Ram Jethmalani” while defending the accused Policemen divided the concept of consent into two i.e. Express and Implied consent. He said that there was not express consent but it was implied because Mathura raised no alarm, there was no tearing of clothes, no semen on clothes, no cry for help etc, he again said if there had not been any consent, there would have been at least a cry for help. These circumstances are enough to show that there was implied consent. The Supreme Court acquitted both the accused and held that Mathura had raised no alarm; and also that there were no visible marks of injury on her person thereby negating the struggle by her.
The Court in this case failed to comprehend that a helpless resignation in the face of inevitable compulsion or the passive giving in is no consent. However, the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1983 has made a statutory provision in the face of Section.114 (A) of the Evidence Act , which states that if the victim girl says that she did no consent to the sexual intercourse, the Court shall presume that she did not consent.

Rape cases not yet justified…When will “SHE” get justice…

“A murderer kills the body but a rapist kills the soul.”

Kunan Poshpora incident:

The Kunan Poshpora incident occurred on February 23, 1991, when units of the Indian army launched a search and interrogation operation in the village of Kunan Poshpora, located in Kashmir’s remote Kupwara District. At least 53 women were allegedly[1] gang raped by soldiers that night. However, Human Rights organizations including Human Rights Watch have reported that the number of raped women could be as high as 100.[2][3][4][5]
Although the Indian government’s investigations into the incident rejected the allegations as “baseless,”[6] international human rights organizations have expressed serious doubts about the integrity of these investigations and the manner in which they were conducted, stating that the Indian government launched a “campaign to acquit the army of charges of human rights violations and discredit those who brought the charges.

Real story

According to reports, on February 23, 1991 at approximately 11:00PM soldiers from the 4th Rajputana Rifles cordoned off the village of Kunan Poshpora to conduct a search operation. The soldiers allegedly gang raped a large number of village women overnight till 9:00 AM the next day.[9] Local villagers alleged that up to 100 women “were gang-raped without any consideration of their age, married, unmarried, pregnancy etc.,”[9] The victims ranged in age from 13 to 80.[10] The village headman and other leaders have claimed that they reported the rapes to army officials on February 27, but the officials denied the charges and refused to take any further action. However, army officials claim that no report was ever made.[3] On March 5, villagers complained to Kupwara district magistrate S.M. Yasin, who visited the village on March 7 to investigate. In his final report, he stated that the soldiers “behaved like wild beasts”[9] and described the attack as :A large number of armed personnel entered into the houses of villagers and at gunpoint they gang-raped 23 ladies, without any consideration of their age, married, unmarried, pregnancy etc… there was a hue and cry in the whole village.[9]

Investigations

Following the district magistrate’s report, increased publicity about the incident led to strong denials from Indian military officials. On March 17, Mufti Baha-ud-Din Farooqi, Chief Justice of the High Court of Jammu and Kashmir, led a fact-finding mission to Kunan Poshpora. Over the course of his investigation, he interviewed fifty-three women[7] who claimed to have been raped by the soldiers, and tried to determine why a police investigation into the incident had never taken place. According to his report, villagers claimed that a police investigation into the event had never commenced because the officer assigned to the case, Assistant Superintendent Dilbaugh Singh, was on leave.[3] Farooqi later stated that in his 43 years on the bench he “had never seen a case in which normal investigative procedures were ignored as they were in this one.”[9] Just a few months later, in July, 1991, Dilbaugh Singh was transferred to another station without ever having started the investigation.[3]
On March 18, divisional commissioner Wajahat Habibullah visited the village, and filed a confidential report, parts of which were later released to the public. He concluded:
“While the veracity of the complaint is highly doubtful, it still needs to be determined why such complaint was made at all. The people of the village are simple folk and by the Army’s own admission have been generally helpful and even careful of security of the Army’s officers… Unlike Brig. Sharma I found many of the village women genuinely angry … It is recommended that the level of investigation be upgraded to that of a gazetted police officer.”[11]
In response to criticism of the government’s handling of the investigation, the army requested the Press Council of India to investigate the incident.[7] The investigative team visited Kunan Poshpora in June, more than three months after the alleged attacks. Upon interviewing a number of the alleged victims, the team claimed that contradictions in their testimony rendered their allegations of rape “baseless.”[3] The team interviewed hospital officials who stated that one of the women who had been pregnant at the time of the incident had given birth to a child with a fractured arm just 4 days afterwards. She claimed that she had been kicked during the rapes; a pediatrician who visited the village as part of the Jammu and Kashmir People’s Basic Rights Committee, confirmed her story.[9] The Press Council team claimed that the fetus had been injured during delivery.[3] Medical examinations conducted on 32 of the women between March 15 and 21, nearly one month after the incident, confirmed that the women had wounds on their chests and abdomens, and that the hymens of three of the unmarried women had been torn. The team claimed that “such a delayed medical examination proves nothing” and that the medical findings were typical among villagers.[3] Ultimately, the team concluded that the charges against the army were, “well-concocted bundle of fabricated lies” and “a massive hoax orchestrated by militant groups and their sympathizers and mentors in Kashmir and abroad…for reinscribing Kashmir on the international agenda as a human rights issue.[3]
The Press Council’s dismissal of all the Kunan Poshpora allegation, and the manner in which it carried out its investigation were widely criticized. Human Rights Watch wrote:
While the results of the examinations by themselves could not prove the charges of rape, they raised serious questions about the army’s actions in Kunan Poshpora. Under the circumstances, the committee’s eagerness to dismiss any evidence that might contradict the government’s version of events is deeply disturbing. In the end, the committee has revealed itself to be far more concerned about countering domestic and international criticism than about uncovering the truth.[3]

Asia Watch, in its 1991 report, stated:

“The alacrity with which military and government authorities in Kashmir discredited the allegations of rape and their failure to follow through with procedures that would provide critical evidence for any prosecution – in particular prompt medical examinations of the alleged rape victims — raise serious concerns about the integrity of the investigation…Given evidence of a possible cover-up, both the official and the Press Council investigation fall far short of the measures necessary to establish the facts in the incident and determine culpability.”[7]
The United States Department of State, in its 1992 report on international human rights, rejected the Indian government’s conclusion, and determined that there was “was credible evidence to support charges that an elite army unit engaged in mass rape in the Kashmiri village of Kunan Poshpora.”[12]
Outraged over the government’s handling of the situation, divisional commissioner Wajahat Habibullah immediately resigned, and asked for early retirement from the Indian Administrative Service.[9]
Aftermath
Following the release of the Press Council’s report, Indian authorities dismissed all of the allegations of mass rape as groundless. No further investigations were conducted. In October 2011 The State Human Rights Commission asked the government to reinvestigate the mass rape case and compensate the victims. They also called for proceedings to be taken against the then Director Of Prosecutions who had sought closure of the mass rape case and not