Navin Chawla: Say No
Tuesday, 3. February 2009 - 2:05 AM
Do your bit because the media is busy readying up to campaign for the Congress party. Feel free to link to this or use this image on your own blog.
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3. February 2009 - 3:42 AM
NO NO NO to NAVIN!!
Down with congress!!
3. February 2009 - 6:57 AM
Filtering all the shrill ’secular’ cacophony it becomes crystal clear that there is NO case to defend Chawla. He must go.
3. February 2009 - 8:26 AM
A Big NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
3. February 2009 - 9:23 AM
Sandeep,
Are you sure the above post will not call for a defamation. Who knows libel queen Burkha may advise loo Chawla to follow her footsteps
3. February 2009 - 12:10 PM
A Big NOOOOOO.
Please visit this link too of rediff. http://www.rediff.com/news/2009/feb/02chawlas-loo-breaks-led-to-congress-phone-calls-cec.htm
3. February 2009 - 2:26 PM
Navin = Close to Miss. of Charity.
Navin = Authored Teressa bio
Navin = Close to Mainoo.
Navin’s wife = Old Gandhi sycophant
Navin’s wife = Art dealer helped Mainoo in ‘ exporting ‘ art
Navin’s wife = Mainoo kitchen cabinet member aka koterie
Navin’s wife = Running Lepra India Trust on paper to do what?
3. February 2009 - 2:48 PM
NO to Navin! Navin should go!
3. February 2009 - 3:27 PM
Well, if he stays, BJP can blame him if they lose.
3. February 2009 - 6:02 PM
It is unfortunate that by not sacking the tainted EC and by elevating him to CEC in waiting, the Congress Party wants to rename CEC as Congress Election Commissioner.
4. February 2009 - 2:51 PM
Hi Sandeep, Have some doubts:
can you please elaborate on the charges?
Why he is called emergency enabler?
Who declared him unfit to hold office?
When and where did he subverted poll processes?
4. February 2009 - 11:56 PM
Pearl this is for you:
http://rajeev2004.blogspot.com/2009/02/radha-rajan-war-clouds-over-election.html
At the time of the Emergency of 1975-77, Mr. Navin Chawla was Private Secretary to the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi, Kishan Chand (who later committed suicide unable to bear the ‘humiliation’ following the adverse finding about him in the Shah Commission’s report). According to Justice Shah, Mr. Chawla, along with his cohorts in the police at the time, “exercised enormous powers during the emergency because they had easy access to the then Prime Minister’s house. Their approach to the problems of the period relating to the citizens was authoritarian and callous. They grossly misused their position and abused their powers in cynical disregard of the welfare of the citizens, and in the process rendered themselves unfit to hold any public office which demands an attitude of fair play and consideration for others. In their relish for power, they completely subverted the normal channels of command and administrative procedures.” Shocking material!
Mr. Chawla was also found to have exercised ‘extra statutory control in jail matters’, including ‘the treatment of detenues’. Not confining himself to dictating to his boss as to the persons to be arrested, he also prescribed how they were to be treated in prison. For instance, he was for constructing special cells with asbestos roofs to “bake” certain prisoners. Kishan Chand pathetically admitted to Justice Shah that he was not a free agent and Mr. Chawla used to receive instructions directly from Sanjay Gandhi and he (Kishan Chand) came into the picture only to the extent that he was required to fulfill some technical formalities.
The L. P. Singh Committee had no doubt that the shocking material contained in the Shah Commission’s report indeed made Mr. Chawla unfit to hold any public office and that he deserved to be summarily dismissed from service without any further inquiry or proceedings, invoking the special powers under provisos (b) and (c) of Article 311 of the Constitution. This precisely was the fate Mr. Chawla would have met with but for the fall of the Janata Government and return of Indira Gandhi to power resulting in the restoration to coveted posts with a vengeance of all those indicted by Justice Shah.
Appointing a person with such a background to the Election Commission which is the fountainhead of all other institutions of democracy was itself a brazen defiance of norms of accountability and decencies of public life. This is quite apart from the allegations of bounties received from the Congress Government in Rajasthan and a number of Congress MPs.by the Jaipur-based Lala Chaman Lal Education Trust established by Mr. Chawla and his wife, and the unsavoury speculation engendered by the Government of Italy conferring on him the Mazzini award in March 2005 ‘in recognition of his efforts to forge a new relationship with Italy and strengthening existing bonds’”.
5. February 2009 - 10:31 PM
The hard earned creditability by former election commissioner Tirunellai Narayana Iyer Seshan for Election Commission of India is at stake, when Indian government on Monday categorically hinted that it will not abide by the recommendation of CEC N Gopalaswami for removal of his colleague Navin Chawla.
6. February 2009 - 12:54 PM
Sudhir,
With all respect, Barkha is free to shove whatever problem she has with criticism to her professional incompetence and utter disregard for the nation’s security and lack of any concern for real people caught in life-death situations — up her a$$, where the sun don’t shine.
And Sandeep, Mr Kunte and the other bloggers, who are increasingly the one source of unbiased news-reporting are free to write what they please. If their opinions offend someone, they can literally shove them up their a$$. I guess that woman and her sidekick Pranoy don’t know that its thanks to freedom of speech that they’re raking in their popularity and their millions. But the days of fooling gullible Indians are over. We’re now in the information age and they’re just going to have to deal with people finding alternative means of getting that information. I say boycott all these useless psec newschannels, they are all bark, no bite.
6. February 2009 - 1:01 PM
What I don’t understand is WHY Mr Kunte took down his post and apologized? I don’t get it? Someone want to explain? So what if she wanted to sue him? I mean, under what pretext?
6. February 2009 - 2:36 PM
Desigyrl,
You’re very calm I see.
Why Kunte took down his post is something we can only speculate on. So here goes. Look at the language of his apology post. It’s very “legal.” Which makes me suspect they sent in the legal notice PLUS the wording for the apology. I guess he didn’t want to take on a big media firm given he doesn’t live in India, plus the cost and hassles of getting justice in India.
>>So what if she wanted to sue him? I mean, under what pretext?
No pretext except her bloated arrogance, which was oh-soooooo injured. More than anything, she threatened him and it worked.
7. February 2009 - 2:22 PM
Mr. Kunte taking down the post was a masterstroke! Think about it. There could not have been a better option for him.
7. February 2009 - 10:24 PM
No NO NO, No Navin. Throw the Maino & Family outside the country.
7. February 2009 - 10:25 PM
NO NO No to Navin, Throw the Maino Family outside the country.
9. February 2009 - 1:39 AM
Sandeep, thanks for your response.