September 14th, 2011 
Girish Nikam When the 1999 lok sabha elections were announced and Congress President, Sonia Gandhi a greenhorn in politics then, chose Bellary as one of the two constituencies to contest, the reason why she chose it was because it was considered one of the safest constituencies for the party in the country. Congress had never been defeated [...]
September 4th, 2011 Girish Nikam At the receiving end of people’s wrath and cynicism all through the last one year or so, the MPs and politicians have certainly never had it so bad. The spate of scams and the general atmosphere of distrust it has generated against the politicians, climaxed at the Ram Lila maidan last week, when all and [...]
August 18th, 2011 Girish Nikam On the morning of August 15, when Prime Minister braving the incessant downpour briskly climbed up the ramparts of the Red fort, his mind was obviously occupied by the issue of probity in public life. No wonder he spent nearly one third of his address on the issue of corruption and tried to convince the [...]
August 2nd, 2011 Girish Nikam For a national political party like the BJP, nothing can be more embarrassing than their top decision-making body, the Central Parliamentary Board, is made to look like a helpless spectator. A party which prides itself on its “disciplined cadre” and never misses an occasion to blow its trumpet now finds itself in an unprecedented state. [...]
July 31st, 2011 Girish Nikam we are publishing the pages (362 to 378) from the report prepared by Lok Ayukta of Karnataka. REPORT ON THE REFERENCE MADE BY THE GOVERNMENT OF KARNATAKA UNDER SECTION 7(2-A) OF THE KARNATAKA LOKAYUKTA ACT, 1984 (PART – II) ———————————————- M/S SOUTH WEST MINING COMPANY LIMITED Dr. U.V. Singh in his Report submitted to me [...]
July 7th, 2011 Girish Nikam On Dec.9, 2009, when Home Minister P.Chidambaram made that late night statement, promising to initiate the process of the formation of a separate state of Telangana, succumbing to the pressure from the Telangana Rashtra Samithi(TRS) chief, K.Chandrashekara Rao’s fast unto death, the Centre had opened a Pandora’s box. As the Telangana region starts to boil [...]
June 6th, 2011 Girish Nikam “We need to follow the Chinese example of shooting dead the people found guilty of corruption” “Homosexuality is a ‘disease’ and it can be cured through yoga. It is a virus and once it effects the person can go nowhere”. “Actress such as Celina Jaitley know nothing about Bhartiya sanskriti because they always stay away [...]
May 31st, 2011 Girish Nikam The janus-faced character of Niira Radia has been a matter of much discussion for the last several months. Here is the evidence to it. After the last post on this site exposed her methods to obfuscate and mislead investigators during her interrogation by the CBI, the following deposition before the Public Accounts Committee of the [...]
May 28th, 2011 Girish Nikam The Niira Radia saga continues to hold public interest and fascinate as she roams around scot free, even as some of her close friends, like former Union Minister A.Raja and DMK MP, Kanimozhi, languish in Tihar Jail. How does Niira Radia, because of whom the above two as well as many corporate czars and executives [...]
May 18th, 2011 Girish Nikam Much is being written, discussed and analysed about the last week’s results to the five State legislative Assemblies. One common grain of thought in all this is how people of these States have shown to the world that corruption is no more going to be tolerated. Even if the Governments perform, corruption and nepotism can [...]
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