PRESS RELEASE OF DR.SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY IN 2010

11/07/2010
PRESS RELEASE

I condemn the Income Tax raid carried out at the behest of Ms. Sonia Gandhi on the residences and institutions of His Holiness Mermattur Adigalar Swami. What ever money and wealth found in these premises during this illegal raid are willing donations of the public and cannot constitute a criminal offense for which I-T raids are provided for in I-T Act. There are no charges by any of his devotees of deceit or defrauding, and hence I demand to know how the Finance Minister sanctioned such an illegal raid unless Ms. Sonia Gandhi had ordered him to do so.

Adigalar Swamiji has been working for a united Hindu society based on a Vedic concept of equality of all souls. He has millions of followers from the downtrodden people of India. But this was not to the liking of foreign Christian missionaries who felt the Adigalar Swamiji made it difficult for them to get Christian converts by financial inducement. Hence this raid has been carried in an attempt to defame him. But it will be a fiasco that will boomerang on the his detractors.

I demand all Tamil Nadu MPs tender their resignation form Parliament in protest unless the Prime Minister makes a public apology to the Adigalar Swami, and returns the seized properties along with Rs.10 crores as compensation for the mental anguish caused to his fiollowers. Otherwise I will move the Hindu Dharma Acharya Sabha to take this matter to the level of agitation throughout the country.

Targeting of Hindu sants and sadhus is a part of the Sonia Gandhi-directed and Vatican-ordered campaign against Hindu society to coerce Hindus to convert to Christianity. It is an undeclared War of Rome against Om.

(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)


Please find below the press release prepared by BATS members.

"Hindu Dharmic heritage and a constitutional democracy are India's greatest strengths" observed the Janata Party President and Visiting Harvard Professor, Dr.Subramanian Swamy, to a gathering of Tamils yesterday in the famed Silicon Valley in California. The gathering was organized by Bharati Tamil Sangam (BATS) a Silicon Valley based cultural organization for world-wide Tamils, and which adheres to Hindu Culture and Dharmic traditions. In the age of Globalization, it is necessary for the Tamil youth to be knowledgeable and proud about their spiritual heritage, ancestral culture, and history; Bharati Tamil Sangam views these aspects as indispensable and key for the Tamil Youth abroad to grow and thrive in a healthy way. Dr. Subramaniam Swamy underlined the need to strengthen such organizations that celebrate Indian heritage and rich Hindu spirituality and culture. He talked high of the Indian democracy and pointed that the Indian electorate had not been easy to predict and had successfully brought in much-needed political changes time and again. Quoting Bhagvat Gita he pointed that there is no sanction for Birth-based discrimination in the Indian scripture. He observed that the threats that Hindu culture faces today must be faced in a united and sustained fashion. In this connection he praised the services of such web-sites as http://www.tamilhindu.com that provide a uniquely enlightening and stimulating perspective on the current political, historical, literary and social aspects covering the Tamil Hindu sphere. Janata Party all India General Secretary Vishvananthan Kakkan was also present in the meeting and addressed it briefly".

Statement of Dr. Subramanian Swamy, Janata Party President made on June 5, 2010
1. From June 15th to August 10th I shall be teaching economics at Harvard University USA for the summer term. After my return I will be busy with final hearings of many cases of public interest. Amongst them are Raja Sanction case, Sonia's citizenship case, EVMs fraud case, Chidambaram Nataraja temple case, HR&CE ACT unconstitutionality case, Ram Temple case, and Islamic Bank illegality case.
2. On completing 87 years, Mr. Karunanidhi must ponder why the Dravidian Movement has failed. Originally the British Imperialists promoted some their anti-Indian stooges to start the Movement agsinst India's Freedom from the British, to oppose the Hindu religious concepts especially the concept of Brahmin, the speaking of Sanskrit and using Sanskrit words in Tamil, and to vulgarise Rama because he was "Aryan" and to deify Ravana because he was a Dravidian. The Dravidian Movement has been defeated on all these agenda items. India has become free and DMK has eaten humble pie by swearing by the Indian Constitution, 42% of the Tamil words today are from Sanskrit, Karunanidhi's own name and that of his grand children are mostly Sanskrit, and one of wives goes regularly to temples and the Kanchi Mutt for blessing and prasadams. Karunanidhi's last stand was in the Sethusamudram Project, but he has been defeated in the Supreme Court. Ravana it now turn out-- reading Kamban Ramayana-- was a pious Shiva worshipping Brahmin. Thus, except for enriching himself by shameless corrupt, Karunanidhi's political life has been a total failure. He must now chant "Ram Ram" to go painlessly, just as Ravana did in when his end came.
3. The Janata Party will contest a large number of Assembly seats when the Vidhan Sabha elections take place next year in TN and Kerala. It will field candidates on the basis of an alternative ideology of Inclusive Hindutva and National Renaissance. The party will seek the blessings of the Hindu Dharma Acharya Sabha, and the support of the RSS and VHP in the elections. For this purpose, the Janata Party has set up a Manifesto Committee of four All India General Secretaries, V.Sundaram, Advocate Vishwanathan Kakkan, Prof. Tholoor Sashidharan and A.P.Jagga. The TN JP Vice President Sridharan will be the Convenor of this Committee and the Committee will meet in Chennai. From September, I shall tour both TN and Kerala to prepare a short-list of candidates on the basis of the Hindutva ideology.
4. I condemn the Tamil Film lobby for seeking a boycott of IIFC festival in Sri Lanka as anti national, and the heroes who complied with the boycott call as cowards and zeroes. I also condemn Home Minister for his flip flop on how to fight the Maoists. Publicly he talks of exterminating them with the help of the army, but privately he begs pro-Naxalite leaders such as Swami Agnivesh to help him out. On June 3rd he went to Tirumalai Tirupati and prostrated at 2.30 am before the Balaji stat
5. I propose to file a case in the British Court in London against the British Museum to recover two Sarasvati ideols stolen by the British Imperialists more than a hundred years ago from a sacred temple in Dhar in Madhya Pradesh.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

30.05.2010
PRESS RELEASE
The pasting of Tiruvalluvar photo over, and to cover the Tamil Nadu Government’s Gopuram emblem that is (painted on the side of every state transport bus) is illegal and violative of sections of the Emblems Act (1950) and Article 51A of the Constitution. Obviously it was done by anti national elements who need to be brought to book.
Hence, I demand immediate action by the TN Government by invoking the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act to detain these culprits till these criminals are prosecuted convicted and sent to jail.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

26.05.2010
PRESS RELEASE
The proposal under consideration in the Union Cabinet to include caste in the bio details to be enumerated in the Census 2011 will if implemented, be disastrous for the nation much as the British Imperialist proposal in 1932 for a separate electorate for scheduled caste. The 1932 proposal was shot down by Gandhiji’s fast unto death and the sagacity of Dr.B.R.Ambedkar.

I urge the RSS to launch a national disobedience movement if this proposal for caste census is accepted by the Cabinet. Caste is not according to the Gita (Chapter IV) birth-based and hence time has come for Hindus to jettison this baggage of history once for all.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)


10.05.2010
PRESS RELEASE
1. The UPA Government which has already failed on the economic front has thoroughly exposed itself on the issues of corruption and terrorism recently.
2. The Prime Minister Dr.Manmohan Singh has chosen to facilitate the corruption of the Telecom Minister Mr.Raja, rather than go out of office. The DMK Chief Mr.Karunanidhi during his recent visit to New Delhi asked Dr.Singh and Ms.Sonia Gandhi to choose between continuing to tolerate the corruption of Mr.Raja or face the DMK withdrawal of support and fall of the Government. The PM abjectly and meekly surrendered to this blackmail. That is why I have not yet got the necessary sanction to prosecute Mr.Raja. The Delhi High Court will now pronounce on it on May 18th.
3. The granting a visa to Ms.Parvathi Ammal, the mother of the deceased terrorist V.Prabhakaran is one more example of the UPA’s capitulationist policies on terror. The Indian nation is under no humanitarian obligation to extend medical facilities to her, especially since she has failed to condemn the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi by her son. Humanitarian gesture is only for maintaining human dignity. It is instead’s Indian human dignity being sacrificed.
4. The nation cannot therefore trust the UPA Government to fight terror since the Supremo of the Congress Party Ms.Sonia Gandhi seems severely compromised on the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

04.05.2010
PRESS RELEASE
The absurd and ridiculous claim of the DMK leader Mr.Karunanidhi that action against Telecom Minister Mr.A.Raja on corruption charges is being sought by those of upper castes on the ground that Raja is a Dalit, deserves to be condemned as typically hypocritical of him. When I was pursuing corruption cases against Ramakrishna Hegde and J.Jayalalitha, Mr.Karunanidhi had praised me. He did not raise the caste issue then. In fact he invited me to dinner once to congratulate me for pursuing Jayalalitha by filing cases. Mr.Karunanidhi's real fear now is that his family members are also on the take in this scam.

Mr.Raja has committed the most monumental corruption in the history of the world in the allotment of 2G Spectrum. It has cost the nation Rs. 100,000 crores which is now confirmed by the recent auction going on in 3G Spectrum. Once convicted for the corruption in 2G Spectrum allocation Raja's name will find a place in the Guinness Book of World Records.

I demand that the Prime Minister as Designated Authority under the Prevention of Corruption Act grant me the necessary Sanction to prosecute Raja under Sections 11 and 13 of the Act, and before the Delhi High Court hears my Writ Petition on the matter on May 18th. If the PM does not do so, he could become culpable as an accessory after the fact, which is also a crime under the IPC. I also demand that the corrupt 2G Spectrum allocation be cancelled, and an auction be held as in the case of 3G presently.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

02.05.2010
PRESS RELEASE
I demand that the Union Government re-start the Rameshwaram-Talimanar ferry service to help restore normalcy in the Sri Lanka.

Now that the Sethusamudram Ship Channel Project is “clinically” dead, re-starting this ferry service should be no problem for the Union Government.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)
April 29, 2010.
Statement of Dr. Subramanian Swamy, President of the Janata Party.

The decision of the DMK Government, translated by the actions of the Chennai Municipal Corporation and other local bodies, that all Roman letters and English signboards will be required to change compulsorily to Tamil script and in Tamil translated equivalent words, is a hypocritical step bereft of any benefit to the nation.

If Mr. Karunanidhi is serious about Tamilization, then he should begin with his family by renaming his son from Stalin which is a Russian name, to some Tamil name. He should also order that Sun TV should henceforth be called Surya Doordarshanam.
( SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY )

STATEMENT OF DR.SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY, PRESIDENT OF JANATA PARTY,
MADE IN CHENNAI ON 28.04.2010
1. The IPL controversy should not be allowed to be sabotaged from being exposed fully, by red herring issues such as telephone tapping. Of course tapping is going on, but the Telegraph Act which was enacted in 1885 is out of date for wireless phones. Hence, all that is now necessary is a new law phone tapping.

2. It is time to focus on the real end beneficiaries of the IPL loot. First we must find out who allowed the IPL to bid for players in dollars and make payments in dollars and prevented the RBI from intervening. Second, we must know who prevented the CBI from registering a FIR on match fixing. Third, we must know the secret of the moving of IPL-2 to South Africa on a thin threat of terrorist attacks. Fourth, we must know why Russian, Latvian, and South African women from Escort Services run by gangsters be recruited for being cheer leaders at the games, and for providing hospitality to visiting Indian Ministers and MPs.

3. According to me, the money trail will lead to Congress MP Rajiv Shukla and Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law, Robert Vadra.

4. Mr.Shukla, is Chairman of BCCI’s Finance Committee and member of BCCI’s Governing Council. Just as IPL-1 biddings in 2008 were to begin, Mr. Shah Rukh Khan and his wife invested Rs.10 crores in Mr.Shukla’s wife’s company, BAG Glamour, to buy 10 percent equity stake. The Khans’ then won the Kolkata Knight Riders bid. Mr.Shukla never disclosed this conflict of interest before the biddings began, as he legally was bound to do so

5. It is a matter of shame that when Dr.Ambedkar’s statue was being unveiled in the Madras High Court premises, and in the presence of the Chief Minister Mr.Karunanidhi, some disgruntled lawyers showed black flags. Thereafter other lawyers threw chairs and injured several people. This shows that Mr.Karunanidhi has lost control of the law and order in the state. I demand therefore the state be brought under President’s Rule for three months and elections be held thereafter.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

17.04.2010
PRESS RELEASE
1. Now with the official revelation that the 26/11 Pakistani terrorists were trained by LeT and Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, and US had been an impotent watcher, that was either kept in the dark by Pakistan, or chose to look the other way, it is time India enter into direct negotiation with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai to sign a bilateral Defence and Security Treaty, whereby India should station 40,000 troops (2 Divisions) and two squadrons of the IAF (40 fighter/bomber planes) on Afghan soil.
India has to combat Taliban in Afghanistan now, or fight them on Indian soil later. President Karzai is keen for Indian troops, and it is time in our own national interests we oblige him.
President Karzai was educated in India, and his ancestors were Hindus. Moreover Afghanistan was once a part of Akhand Hindustan.
2. The denial of entry to the mother of the dead terrorist and Rajiv’s killer Prabhakaran is the right thing to do for the Indian government.
India is not a dharamsala for anyone to come and reside at anytime of his or her choosing. Let Prabhakaran’s mother first condemn her son for killing Rajiv Gandhi. Then we can consider her case for entry.
(SUBRMANIAN SWAMY)
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08.04.2010
PRESS RELEASE
I congratulate Dr.Jairam Ramesh, the Union Environment & Forest Minister for declaring Majuli, an island on Brahmaputra river where Krishna had danced with the Gopis, as an econ-sensitive zone. Earlier the PM had written to the UNESCO to make Majuli as a world heritage site. These demands I had made earlier while arguing the Sethusamudram case in the Supreme Court in 2008.
Now I demand that the Union government agree to another demand that I have made in letters to the PM and Dr.Ramesh, to make the entire Ganga valley from the Gangotri to Haridwar in Uttarakhand as a econ-sensitive area and allow Ganga unfettered flow in all its hoary and pristine glory.
(SUBRMANIAN SWAMY)

April 3, 2010.
Statement of Dr. Subramanian Swamy, President of the Janata Party.
I demand that the Karnataka Government immediately place the mining magnates, otherwise known as Reddy Brothers, in detention under the Unlawful Activities Act. Reddy Brothers are really agents of Congress, and function as “sleepers” in BJP.

Their detention is necessary because Reddy Brothers, in order to silence criticism of their illegal activities, are engaging on the widespread violence against patriotic citizens who are using the Right to Information Act to expose their nefarious activities.

I have verified that Reddy Brothers have been exporting illegally ore from Karnataka mines and other States to China and depositing their ill-gotten money thus received in Macau, which is a secret banking haven, more secret than even Switzerland.

Worse still, the Reddy Brothers are using their ill-gotten crores and crores of rupees to finance for favourably disposed politicians, and to campaign against those who are not with them. Their reach now is in Delhi where highly placed politicians in power dance to their tune on carrots and sticks of bribes and blackmail. Amongst them is the Congress Party General Secretary Mr. Digvijay Singh of Madhya Pradesh. There are highly placed politicians in other parties too which ought to be investigated by the CBI and the list made public.

I am writing therefore a letter to the Karnataka Home Minister Dr. V.S. Acharya to take necessary steps to investigate and cleanse Karnataka politics of such mafia elements. Otherwise, I will have no alternative but to approach the Courts.
( SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY )

01.04.2010
PRESS RELEASE
It is surprising that the official spokesperson of the Congress Party yesterday issued a statement that the party had no stand on whether Rajiv Gandhi assassination conspirator Ms.S.Nalini should be released from prison on remission. If it is so, then why did Ms.Sonia Gandhi write to the President of India in 1999 for giving Nalini clemency from capital punishment that had been awarded by the Supreme Court.

If Nalini’s incarceration was no concern to Ms.Sonia Gandhi and her family, then why did her daughter Ms.Priyanka Vadra break prison rules and enter Vellore jail to meet Ms.Nalini?

These mysterious developments cannot be brushed under the carpet. I demand the MDMA set up under CBI for probing the conspiracy angle, now interrogate Ms.Sonia Gandhi and her daughter. It may be recalled that family friend Ottavio Quattrocchi when he was a Chartered Accountant in Chennai during the 1970s had developed close links with the LTTE.
(SUBRMANIAN SWAMY)

29.03.2010
PRESS RELEASE
The rejection by the Division Bench of the Madras High Court of S.Nalini, convict in Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination case of being set free is a vindication of the dictum that the Constitution is above all, even above dynasties. India is thus is a nation of laws and not ruled by any family and its firmans.

Although it was on my Writ Petition that Nalini has lost, it is more important to remember that it is the martyrdom of Rajiv Gandhi which has won today, despite his immediate family abandoning him on the bogus reason of “humanitarian” concerns. Godse and Satwant Singh were not shown any such mercy.

But the nation has a right to ask Ms.Sonia Gandhi why she abandoned the memory of Rajiv Gandhi for some obscure reason? What was the hidden reason?
(SUBRMANIAN SWAMY)

19.03.2010
PRESS RELEASE
The snub of the US authorities given to India by entering into a plea bargain with the notorious 26/11 terrorist reconnaissance stalker Headley is actually a profound comment on the UPA government’s style of functioning.

First, the UPA government does not carry out the Supreme Court judgments on terrorists as evidenced in the Afzal Guru and the 4 LTTE cases where they were awared death sentences.

Second, the UPA government seems to crawl before the US even if they ask India to bend only such as in the US-India Nuclear Deal.

Third, the Home Minister P.Chidambaram is seen as a clown who makes a daily statement before the media without meaning a word of what he says.

Hence, the US government does not need to take the 1 billion plus people of India seriously thanks to the UPA’s buffoonery.
(SUBRMANIAN SWAMY)

17.03.2010
PRESS RELEASE
1. I demand the resignation of the HR & CE Minister Mr.Periya Karuppan or that the CM shift him to another portfolio, for his crude misuse of his office to terrorize the Dikshidars of the Chidambaram Nataraj temple, and to demolish the ancient temple structures to build an air-conditioned office for the HR&CE Department officers and himself, as also auction space for shops, and construct toilets for the public inside the temple complex. These are all against the Rules of the HR&CE Act (1959).
The Minister has also got installed high tower lamps as in Cricket stadiums, by digging up the ancient temple floors, as well as damaging pillars which have God’s carved statues in order to fasten the Hundial stainless steel can with iron bars.
Moreover, the Minister held a public meeting in the compound of the temple which he came to driving in his official car, and with his shoes on
All these are violation of the Rules framed under the HR&CE Act (1959), and the Minister is bound by these Rules.
2. Hence if he does not resign, or the CM does not shift him to another Ministry, then I shall file a case against him under Section 295A of the IPC. If he continues with these anti-Hindu activities, I shall move the Supreme Court on a Contempt of Court Petition against punishment.
3. I also warn the Commissioner of the HR&CE Department and his E.O., not to obey illegal orders of the Minister as they are then equally culpable. They must stop all construction or demolishing activities forthwith or face Contempt of Court punishment.
4. Under the Constitutional provisions, the DMK Government has been illegally keeping 36,584 temples in their control, including the Meenakshi and Rameswaram temples. Shortly I shall be filing a PIL to get all these temples to be handed over to their respective trustees or to Hindu Dharma Acharya Sabha.
(SUBRMANIAN SWAMY)

04.03.2010
PRESS RELEASE
The salacious and uncensored screening by Sun TV of the sex scenes featuring Swami Nityananda and a B-grade actress may thrill the lewd viewership of that TV channel but has also laid open the Dravidian Movement’s double standards.

The ‘bare’ question here is: Even if the video tape is not forged, what law under the IPC has Swami Nityananda broken?

The actress involved has not denied that whatever transpired with the Swami has been with her consent, nor any ‘bhakta’ come forward to file a formal complaint for breach of trust. Therefore the Swami should sue the Sun TV for criminal invasion of privacy.

He need not of course take note of the protests organized by Periyar DK whose claim to morality if tested against what many of the Dravida Movement leaders are doing every day, and have done in the past, would make their protests on morality laughable.

Of course, if the tape is genuine, then Swami Nityananda, like Rishi Vishwamitra, should do prayaschit (penance) for his indiscretion and violating the moral law.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

Statement of Dr. Subramanian Swamy, Janata Party President made in Madurai on 02.03.2010
1. The DMK President Mr.Karunanidhi has betrayed the Tamil people and especially the farmers by making a secret deal with Kerala real estate property dealers not to allow the implementation of the 2006 Supreme Court Order. The Supreme Court Order of February 27, 2006 given on my Writ Petition after I had adduced arguments on behalf of the Tamil people for eight years permitted Tamil Nadu to raise immediately the water level to 142 feet from the present 136 feet, and later after some more minor repairs to 152 feet.
Instead of going ahead by raising the water level as permitted by the Supreme Court Order, Mr.Karunanidhi raced to the Supreme Court to file another case thus admitting that there was a dispute and willfully playing into Kerala hands.
But now seeing the angry reaction of the Tamil people, Karunanidhi has developed cold feet, and hence this ridiculous Resolution passed by the DMK General Council.
2. To protest the DMK government’s betrayal of the Tamil interests, especially since we had a favourable Supreme Court Order of 2006 already at hand, I demand the immediate resignation of Karunanidhi.
3. The CEC Mr.Navin Chawla is guilty of perjury because of the sworn affidavit that the EC filed in the Delhi High Court in my Writ Petition on EVMs. The next bearing is on April 14, 2010 when I shall raise this issue.
4. The EC had stated two falsehoods, knowing it to be false, that no one had come forward to prove that the EVMs can be rigged or tampered with. Dr.Hari Prasad and Mr.V.V.Rao accompanied by me to the EC in New Delhi on September 3, 2009 had proceeded to demonstrate it when the EC official aborted the demonstration on the excuse that it would violate the intellectual property rights of the ECIL and BEL, the EVM suppliers to the EC.
5. The second falsehood is that ECIL and BEL had received international recognition for the EVMs. But documents supplied to me from World Intellectual Property Organisation (enclosed) show that fearing rejection, the ECIL and BEL had withdrawn their Patent application after failing to convince the WIPO about the reliability and uniqueness of the EVMs produced by them.
6. I demand the Mr.Navin Chawla resign from the post of the CEC, or face perjury charges and go to jail.
7. My stay Petition of the Madras High Court judgment in the Chidambaram Nataraj Temple take-over (by TN Government) is coming up before the Supreme Court on March 11th. I shall also argue that the 36,584 temples under HR & CE Department control be returned back to the temple trustees since it is illegal for Government to keep them in their hands for an indefinite period.
8. The Union Government of Dr.Manmohan Singh must now retaliate for the killing by the ISI- supported Taliban of nine Indians in Kabul. These Indian citizens were there in the service of the motherland and call of duty.
Therefore I demand that India dispatch two divisions of the Indian Army i.e., about 40,000 soldiers under a squadron of the Air Force for which we have an open invitation from the Afghanistan President Mr.Hamid Karzai. Part of this deployment should be on the eastern borders of Afghanistan near the Pak-occupied Kashmsir for a future possibility.
The Government of Dr.Manmohan must show a resolve to defend Indians serving abroad the motherland, or he should quit office.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

01.03.2010
PRESS RELEASE
The Minister of State of External Affairs Mr. Shashi Tharoor is unfit to hold the External Affairs portfolio in any form because of his inability to keep his counsel. which is required of even an ordinary diplomat, leave alone a Minister. I demand that Mr. Shashi Tharoor disclose his business interests in the West Asia region during the last ten years so that we can assess whether there is a conflict of interest in his official outbursts as in the recent one on Saudi Arabia's role as an interlocutor. Moreover, while we criticise M.F. Hussein for pornographic art, we must remember that the most pornographic spoof on the Mahabharata was written by Mr. Tharoor. He is a completely uprooted individual and hence unfit to represent the country.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

STATEMENT OF DR.SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY,
PRESIDENT JANATA PARTY MADE IN CHENNAI ON 13.02.2010
1. Today, February 13, 2010, I have convened in Chennai an International Conference on Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) at Savera Hotel. About 35 Experts from India, Germany, Netherlands and USA attended the Conference to review the international experience with EVMs in light of reports from several countries about the tamperability and the lack of transparency in polling of votes of the EVMs. The programme of the conference is enclosed.

2. Several countries have banned the use of EVMs in elections. Italy and Japan are recent addition (see enclosed) The German Supreme Court has recently banned the use of EVMs in German elections based on these reports. The advocate who argued the case, Mr.Till Jaegger participated in our conference today.
3. The Delhi High Court has been hearing my PIL on the use of EVMs in Indian elections. The next date of hearing is scheduled for February 17th.

4. The Chief Election Commissioner Mr.Navin Chawla has been telling a blatant lie to the media that no one has yet been able to demonstrate the tamperability of Indian EVMs. In fact on September 3, 2009, I was accompanied by two IT software engineers, Dr.Hariprasad and Dr.V.V.Rao (both of whom attended this conference) to the Election Commission for a demonstration. Half way through our demonstration, the EC officials abruptly aborted the meeting stating that they cannot allow us to continue the demonstration since it involved the patent rights of the ECIL, and needed special permission of the CEC! Since then no meeting has been held for us.

5. I had invited Mr.Chawla to our Conference today but he declined the invitation (see enclosed).

6. We are ready the demonstrate that the EVMs as presently manufactured by ECIL and BEL are riggable and the necessary to safeguard against it. I want the Election Commission to enable a printed receipt for every voter, just as we get from ATMs after cash withdrawal. This paper receipt is a requirement under the Information Technology Act of 2000, which the ECI is presently adamantly and obstinately refusing to comply with.

7. I shall urge the Delhi High Court on February 17th to appoint a expert committee, as the Supreme Court did in the Rama Setu case, to find out how EVMs can be safeguarded securely.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

Resolution adopted by the participants at the International EVMs Conference Chennai on February 13, 2010
CENTRE FOR NATIONAL RENAISSANCE
At the International Conference on EVMs, the participants consider in detail the current international practice and law relating to the deployment of EVMs, the evidence on and the scope for their tamper ability and the safeguards that are necessary to ensure that the deployment of EVMs, does not, in any manner, compromise the central requirements of transparency and accountability to the voter, at each and every stage of the election process.

In the interest of the electoral process remaining free and fair, transparent and accountable to the voter, the participants unanimously resolved that the EVMs should provide for an voter verifiable paper trail, and if not feasible then we should return to the paper ballot system.

The participants further resolved that, without such an auditable paper trail, the two essential requirements, namely transparency and accountability to the voter and the related requirement of verifiability of the validity of the votes cast by the voters envisaged under sections 100 and 101 of the Representation of People Act, 1951 will stand and seriously compromised as well as infringing Sections 11 to 14 of the Information Technology Act (2000) and the Indian Evidence Act (1872).

12.02.2010
PRESS RELEASE
Dr.Subramanian Swamy, the Chairman of the Centre for National Renaissance, will convene tomorrow February 13th at the Savera Hotel a one-day international conference on the tamperability of Electronic Voting Machines. Computer Scholars from USA, Germany and Netherlands will participate. The Conference will be open to the media.

The Conference will adopt a statement which will be filed in the Delhi High Court where Dr.Swamy’s PIL on EVMs is being heard by the Chief Justice’s Bench. The next hearing is on February 17th.

There will be a Press Conference addressed by me at 3.30 PM on February 13th at the Maple Room of the Savera Hotel.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

STATEMENT OF DR.SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY, PRESIDENT OF
JANATA PARTY MADE IN CHENNAI ON 11.02.2010
1. The attack on Sri Ram Sena Mr.Pramod Mutalik by suspected Youth Congress goons is indeed anti-democratic and lawless even if Mr.Mutalik has indulged in similar actions earlier in Mangalore.

No one should be allowed to take law into their own hands and engage in vigilante justice. The Youth Congress is supposed to be part of the Government in the Centre, and hence I urge the Karnataka Government to detain in prison the Youth Congress leaders of the State under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.

2. I am also surprised that the Maharashstra CM, Mr.Ashok Chavan has threatened to withdraw Mr.Uddhav Thackeray’s security cover if he opposes the screening of a movie featuring Shahrukh khan. Security is given on objective grounds of threat perception and decided a Committee in the Home Ministry. Hence, it is not a subjective decision of any Chief Minister or Home Minister as long as the threat perception remains.

Since security cover is not a gift for good behaviour in the eyes of those in power hence the CM must publicly apologize for making such an irresponsible statement.

If Mr.Thackeray engages in any illegal action, he should be proceeded against following a due process of law and not by such threats.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)
12.02.2010
H E Mr.Mike Nithavrianakis
Deputy High Commissioner of UK
British Deputy High Commission
20 Anderson Road
Chennai 600 006.
Dear Excellency:
I write as the Convenor of the Legal Cell of the Hindu Dharma Acharya Sabha the apex body of Hindu religious leaders to request your Government as an act of goodwill, to return the idol of the Hindu’s Goddess of Learning and Education, Sarasvati which is on display in the British Museum in London.
The idol belongs at the Bhojshala temple situated in Dhar, Madhya Pradesh, which was consecrated in 1034 AD. The people there, after the British colonialist forces forcible took away the idol to London, have been protesting by praying since then at the empty niche where the idol originally was situated.
I may draw your attention to a House of Lords judgment [(1991) 4 AII ER 638] upholding a Queen’s Bench judgment, that a Nataraj idol, which was purchased by a London auctioneer after it was found near a disused temple in Thanjavur TN, be returned to India. And in the judgment it was further held that a Hindu temple consecrated according to Agama Shastras is always a temple even if it is in disuse. Hence, idols must be restored to those who speak on behalf such temples.
Hence, I hope you will be inclined to prevail on your Government to restore the Sarasvati idol to us Hindus in the interest of justice and amity. I prepared to go to London to argue before the authorities if you feel it necessary.
Yours sincerely,
Sd/-
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)
STATEMENT OF DR.SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY, PRESIDENT OF JANATA PARTY MADE IN CHENNAI ON 04.02.2010
1. On February 13, 2010, I am convening in Chennai an International Conference on Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) at Savera Hotel. About 35 Experts from India, Germany, Netherlands and USA will be attending the Conference to review the international experience with EVMs in light of reports from several countries about the tamperability and the lack of transparency in polling of votes of the EVMs. The programme of the conference is enclosed.
The German Supreme Court has recently banned the use of EVMs in German elections based on these reports. The Delhi High Court has been hearing my PIL on the use of EVMs in Indian elections. The next date of hearing is scheduled for February 17th. In that petition, I have given two examples of two constituencies, Madurai (2004), Madhya Pradesh (2006) where prima facie rigging has taken place.

2. The Chief Election Commissioner Mr.Navin Chawla has been telling a blatant lie to the media that no one has yet been able to demonstrate the tamperability of Indian EVMs. In fact on September 3, 2009, I was accompanied by two IT software engineers, Dr.Hariprasad and Dr.V.V.Rao (both of whom will attend this conference) to the Election Commission for a demonstration. Half way through our demonstration, the EC officials abruptly aborted the meeting stating that they cannot allow us to continue the demonstration since it involved the patent rights of the ECIL, and needed special permission of the CEC! Since then no meeting has been held for us.

3. However, ECI continues to ‘informs’ us that Indian EVMs are special and somehow different from International EVMs and that concerns about Indian EVM’s are misplaced. But activists, technologists contest that position. These conferences will throw light how Indian EVMs lack the many safeguards that internationals EVMs have and they can be easily hacked ([perhaps much more easily) than many internationally used EVMs and if corrective actions are not taken, it will have serious implications to the democracy of the country.

4. What is at core is the issue of transparency, as German Supreme Court has enumerated, the ability of a common voter understand the process form the time vote is cast to the counting of that vote to the candidate specified by the voter. When that transparency is lost, the elections are greatly beholden to experts and election officials and leaves field open for fraud, potentially in a very large scale.

5. The challenge in India is also that the public is under the impression that EVM solved many issues related to paper ballots such as booth capturing, booth stuffing etc and is viewed as using technology to improve efficiency. However crimes of booth capturing etc., at the local level by physical means have now been replaced by the dangerous possibility of national level rigging by electronic means. The planned sessions in this conference are geared to bring an open discussion on these issues with international and national experts and help protect Indian Democracy.

6. International experts attending are: (see overleaf for biodata):

1) Dr.Rop Gonggrijp, Netherlands Computer hacker, successful Entrepreneur who is instrumental in banning of EVMs in Netherlands due to security reasons, in spite of huge investments made by Netherlands in EVMs.

Dr.Till Jaeger, Germany Attorney who argued the landmark German Supreme Court Judgment that effectively banned EVMs in German Elections.

Professor David Dill, USA (via Video Conference) University of Stanford, pioneer for reformation of usage of EVMs in US elections that resulted in 21 states in US either ban EVMs or require paper trail and additional 18 states require paper trail in state or local jurisdictions. Founder of Verified Voting Foundation. In 2004, Dr.Dill received the Electronic Frontier Foundation's “Pioneer Award”r spearheading and nurturing the popular movement for integrity and transparency in modern elections."

Dr.Alex Halderman, USA Computer Science Professor, University of Michigan, noted expert of Electronic Voting Security who demonstrated first voting machine virus, lead team of Scientists from Princeton and Berkeley for "Top to Bottom" review of California EVMs.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

24.01.2010
PRESS RELEASE
It is very revealing, judging even by her advocates media organized propaganda blitz, that despite 19 years in prison, convict Nalini shows no remorse associating with a foreign terrorists organization, and now even falsely claims that she had no idea of the assassination. In fact the Supreme Court had observed in its 400 page judgment that she knew that the human bomber Dhanu was being dressed with a belt bomb and Nalini accompanied her to Sriperumbudur where it was known that Rajiv Gandhi was to address a public meeting. In media she and others like Sonia Gandhi draw attention to her now 18 year old daughter living in UK and her loneliness, shamelessly forgetting the babies of 18 policemen who died in the assassination blast. None of these babies ever saw their father, whereas Nalini’s daughter could correspond with her convict mother.

The legal record also needs to be set right. Nalini is not serving a life sentence in prison but a death sentence awarded by the Supreme Court twice—as the judgment and then a review of the judgment on Nalini’s plea-- which sentence has been suspended for her life period by the Governor of Tamil Nadu. If therefore Nalini is set free by the TN CM Mr. Karunanidhi, then her death sentence becomes operative. So she will have to jump from the frying pan into the fire. These legal issues including the constitutionality of the original Governor’s order of clemency are pending in my Writ Appeal in Madras High Court, hence the Prison Advisory Board decision is of no value till my petition is decided.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)


22.01.2010
PRESS RELEASE

The AICC especially its head Ms.Sonia Gandhi, widow of Rajiv Gandhi must stop prevaricating on the issue of Ms.Nalini’s release from prison even while in on a already commuted life sentence.

The spokesperson Manish Tiwari made the ridiculous statement that Congress Party will wait for the State Government’s decision before reacting. By then it will be too late.

The extraordinary concern shown by Ms.Sonia Gandhi for Ms.Nalini is curious since despite the Supreme Court twice (judgment and review of the judgment on Ms.Nalini’s plea) holding that she is in “the rarest of rare case” category to deserve capital punishment. Now her silence, (even after Nalini’s daughter has now become an adult and migrated to UK) is in explicable. I demand Ms.Sonia Gandhi take a stand and let the people of India know where she stands.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)