Press Note Eng Dt: 23/03/2011 on Wikileaks

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Press Note                                                                            23thMarch, 2011

 

•  Proceedings of the house were disrupted as discussion on Wikileaks  was not allowed.
• Wikileaks says that Gujarat Chief Minister takes undue favours      from business houses.
• No where Wikileaks mentions that Modi is corruption free.
• No US diplomat has said that Modi is a good administrator or corruption free.
• Wikileaks only says that many feel that Modi has been able to create impression in many that he was a good administrator and was corruption free.
• An IAS officer has admitted that politics of Modi had created negative effect on the development of Gujarat.
• Gujarat gets only 4 percent FDI in the country.
• BJP coffers has got money from industrialists for their expansion plans.

 Congress today very forcefully raised the issue of Wikileaks in the State Assembly and the House was to be adjourned during the question hour. Wikileaks has very well established that Modi was a highly corrupt Chief Minister and Congress wanted to discuss this issue which was denied.

Leader of Opposition in the Assembly Shaktisinh Gohil said that yesterday citing Wikileaks reports Modi had projected before media as if US government considered him the most efficient and non-corrupt officer. He said that he had misled people and media.

 Gohil today produced original documents of Wikileaks which showed that Modi was the most corrupt Chief Minister. He said that money was being taken from big industrialists and it was flowing directly in BJP coffers. Even for the expansion of projects money was taken.

 Wikileaks says that Gujarat is not getting FDI which goes to states like Delhi and Maharashtra. For this Modi is responsible, he said. Wikileaks quotes IAS Arvind Agarwal that Modi’s negative politics was responsible for less investment in Gujarat. No where Wikileaks mentions that Modi is corruption free. In fact it has said that Modi has divided society in the name of creed and religion just to strengthen his hold. Wikileaks only says that many feel that Modi has been able to create impression in many that he was a good administrator and was corruption free. Modi has used this statement to create an impression that it was certificate of his efficiency and corruption free administration and thus misled people and media, Gohil said.

 The government did not accept Congress demand for discussion because it would have exposed the lie of Chief Minister Modi.

 Highlights of WIKILEAKS:

 WIKILEAKS SAYS

 

• Several people tell us that big ticket corruption is still common.
• The economic reality of Gujarat, however, may be far more complex than the ebullient statements of Modi’s supporters suggest. Although Gujarat tops all Indian states in terms of investment intentions, actual investment is far less, and certainly less than the neighboring state of Maharashtra. Despite the presence of a few well-known international companies, FDI flows into the state are relatively small. Gujarat received less than four percent of the FDI coming into India in the past five years (Note: Delhi and Maharashtra, the top two FDI destinations, got 28 percent and 22 percent respectively. End Note) Ahmedabad does not have the visible construction activity, and increasingly noticeable foreign presence, of Pune in neighboring Maharashtra, for example. Many Gujaratis will say that the state is still not sufficiently known abroad.
• Arvind Agarwal, GOG Industries Commissioner, conceded to us that the riots continue to negatively influence images of the state abroad.
• Industries paid a large bribe for permission to expand its refinery in Jamnagar. The money went into the BJP’s party coffers.
• Other contacts have told us that business money flows to the BJP in Gujarat.

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