Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Unposted letter. May or may not post it, but keep it for public record my view on the Judgement



S. Subramaniam Balaji                                                                     S-42, J Block, Golden
Advocate                                                                                                           Enclave Apts,
                                                                                                (Behind Navasakthi Vinayakar
                                                                                                       Temple) 180, Luz Corner,
                                                                                                           Mylapore, Chennai – 4.
                                                                                                                    Ph: 98405 66877

To,                                                                                                                               28-8-2013
The  Election Commission of India
New Delhi


Sirs,

            Sub: All party meeting on freebie regulation in manifesto of political parties conducted on 12-8- 2013– reg

            Ref: Order of Honourable Supreme Court in S. Subramaniam Balaji Vs Govt of Tamil Nadu & others  ordered on 5-7-2013.

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                In the above matter before the Honourable Supreme Court  of India, your commission had wantonly misled the Honourable Supreme Court and the Nation by stating that the Representation of People’s act does not cover manifesto and that ended in the Honourable Supreme Court giving out a pathetically wrong order stating that Manifesto has not been covered under the said Act and therefore large scale freebie bribes would not be a corrupt practice under the R.P. Act, and by which you have betrayed the nation.  

            Your commission along with your lawyers who argued the matter had willfully and wantonly misled the Court  by wantonly suppressing  section 127-A (3) (b) wherein it has been clearly stated that manifesto would clearly fall under election notices and pamphlets printed by a candidate or on his behalf to promote or influence his election prospects.  If you had indeed suppressed it deliberately before the Honourable Supreme court  then it means that you did that to protect and promote the same persons whom you stated had vitiated the elections but have been condoned and let go freely and happily.  This also means that the all party meeting convened too is illegal and unconstitutional since the subject matter of manifesto is already covered in the said section.  If you had not seen section 127-A (3) (b)  at all by oversight and your counsels had also not seen it then is it not your duty to seek review of the Judgment by now ?  if you did not do it, what is the

reason?  Is the ECI afraid of corrupt politicians and wants to preserve and protect them by championing their cause at the cost of the nation and Constitution and also the RP Act ? 

 You were also joined by the Comptroller and Auditor General ‘s office and also the Ministry of Finance in this manipulative argument strategy wherein the CAG had not brought in one single Government Order of the Tamil Nadu Government which had illegally and unconstitutionally diverted funds for other welfare schemes for the free TV scheme and that too to non-existent cartels which imported junked  Chinese make 14 inch television sets and assembled and distributed it to the Tamil Nadu Government, completely failing the concept of “Public Purpose”, which ought to have been stopped by the CAG’s office in the first place.  The CAG’s attitude too was sickening since they did not even point out the MPLADS case (Bhim Singh Vs Union of India) wherein it is clearly stated that public monies cannot be expended on individuals. The Constitutional Limitation on the powers of the Government to spend were clearly violated and the CAG had turned the other way in order to aid this national loot of the exchequer. 

There is nothing  to say about  the Finance Ministry, which also wants to destroy the Constitution and sacrifice it and wants to bribe the entire nation with cheap useless goods just because (a) a corrupt alliance partner wants it , (b)  from writing off debts to the tune of  72,000crores just to win last general  elections and ( c ) also promise illegal and unconstitutional direct cash transfers to people to be unleashed before the upcoming general elections  just because some unemployed fellow wants it and  (d) also because some cheap, manipulative and fraudulent  zombie government  which wants to stick to power and survive for the only sake of covering up scams after scams and be back with such and more freebie mafia political alliances.

            The all party meeting, that you conducted on 12-8-2012 had rendered the above referred judgment null, void and otiose.  The very fact that the political parties want to promise freebies and do it more proves that they would vitiate further elections and your commission cannot do anything but to sit idle as you had done. 
Of course you will not act against people, who, in your own words have proven to  have vitiated two elections.
            
Anyway, I am sure that with this Judgment the nation is destined to be doomed with more and more freebies, directly and indirectly, promised and distributed as a “last resort by scoundrels masquerading as politicians”, adding to fiscal and monetary deficits together with destruction of people’s desire to work and earn accruing into future debt traps, but first destroying the foundation of our democracy, the Elections. 
If you want to save the Constitution of India and also your stature as an Honourable creation of the Constitution of India, you can go on a review. I am not going  to file a review anymore since I found that the spirit of the Constitution of India could not even be understood by the Constitutional bodies and therefore I don’t expect  anything better  in my matter which is against the spirit in Bhim Singh case – Justice Sathasivam   and  P.A Sangma Vs Pranab Mukherjee – Justice Ranjan Gogoi .

What is  wrong  in the Judgment is when the ECI itself says that the elections have been vitiated and recorded by the Court but then casually circumvented inspite of the intrinsic knowledge and our submission of the Chennai Corporation Election case, wherein a vitiated election was set aside.  The settled principle of law that any process that is vitiated ought to be set aside always stares at the Court, but had been relegated for reasons unknown to me, but in the last paragraphs giving me a consolation prize saying that the freebies in elections have to be curbed. How can something that has been held to be Constitutional and valid in the same judgment be curbed from being advertised by its proponent ?

 In other words the judgment is a joke on the people of this great Nation. But I am not going to be bothered and file a review, not because of any monetary or logistical constraints or loss of confidence on the Institutions or the system, but because I think the people manning it are unworthy of my time and efforts.   I have nothing more to say than that all the respondents have worked hard to be the wizened warder to let through the enemy, as in the words of  Poet Edwin Muir in “The Castle”,  to prove the true character of the so called leaders of India as stated by Mr. Winston Churchill  and have also betrayed the makers of our Constitution.

The Castle
 



All through that summer at ease we lay,
And daily from the turret wall
We watched the mowers in the hay
And the enemy half a mile away
They seemed no threat to us at all.

For what, we thought, had we to fear
With our arms and provender, load on load,
Our towering battlements, tier on tier,
And friendly allies drawing near
On every leafy summer road.

Our gates were strong, our walls were thick,
So smooth and high, no man could win
A foothold there, no clever trick
Could take us, have us dead or quick.
Only a bird could have got in.

What could they offer us for bait?
Our captain was brave and we were true....
There was a little private gate,
A little wicked wicket gate.
The wizened warder let them through.


Oh then our maze of tunneled stone
Grew thin and treacherous as air.
The cause was lost without a groan,
The famous citadel overthrown,
And all its secret galleries bare.

How can this shameful tale be told?
I will maintain until my death
We could do nothing, being sold;
Our only enemy was gold,
And we had no arms to fight it with.


Edwin Muir



Here's what Churchill did say about ceding governmental power to India. Then a mere member of parliament (Woodford), he observed in a parliamentary debate on 6 March 1947 [2], [2] Commons Sitting of Thursday (India, Government Policy), 6 March 1947; House of Commons Debates, Hansard; Vol. 434, cc. 663-776.
“In handing over the Government of India to these so-called political classes we are handing over to men of straw, of whom, in a few years, no trace will remain.”

CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY OF INDIA - Volume I
Monday, the 9th December 1946
The first meeting of the Constituent Assembly of India took place in Constitution Hall, New Delhi, on Monday, the 9th December 1946. at Eleven of the Clock.
ELECTION OF TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN
Acharya J. B. Kripalani (United Provinces: General): (in requesting Dr. Sachchidananda Sinha to take the Chair as temporary Chairman, said)-
*[Friends, at this auspicious occasion of historical importance I invite, on your behalf, Dr. Sachchidananda Sinha to be the temporary Chairman of this Assembly. Dr. Sinha needs no introduction.
As a matter of fact………. Having quoted the greatest British authority on the great, inherent, merits of the American Constitution, you will, I hope, bear with me a fairly long quotation from the greatest American Jurist, Joseph Story. In concluding his celebrated book, called "Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States", he made certain striking and inspiring observations which I present to you as worthy of your attention. Said Story:--
"Let the American youth never forget, that they possess (in their Constitution) a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their ancestors; and capable, if wisely improved, and faithfully-guarded, of transmitting to their latest posterity all the substantial blessings of life, the peaceful enjoyment of liberty, property, religion, and independence. The structure has been erected by architects of consummate skill and fidelity; its foundations are solid; its compartments are beautiful, as well as useful its arrangements are full of wisdom and order; and its defences are impregnable from without. It has been reared for immortality if the work of man may justly aspire to such a title. It may, nevertheless, parish in an hour by the folly, or corruption, or negligence of its only keepers, THE PEOPLE. Republics are' created-these are the words which I commend to you for your consideration-by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.,'

Yours truly



S. Subramaniam Balaji
                 

                                                             Copy to : 1. The Comptroller and Auditor General of India
                                                                            2. The Secretary, Ministry of Finance, GOI.
                                                                            3.The Registrar –General, Supreme Court of India.

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