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BHOPAL

Though the Madhya Pradesh gov-

ernment has Madhya Pradesh

Bhavan and Madhyanchal at New

Delhi, the ministers and bureaucrats of

the state prefer to stay in expensive hotels

at a considerable cost to the exchequer.

In a revelation, courtesy to right to in-

formation query it has come to light that

Ministers Vijay Shah, Nagendra Singh,

Jagdish Deora, Kailash Vijayvargiya,

Narayan Singh Kushwaha, Narottam

Mishra, Karan Singh Verma, Jai Singh

Maravi, Nana Bhau Mahor, Anup Mishra,

Ranjana Baghel, Gopal Bhargava, Mahen-

dra Hardia, Manohar Untwaal, Gauris-

hankar Bisen, during their Delhi tours

had stayed in hotels, running up billsworth lakhs of rupees.

Amongst bureaucrats, IS Dani, Manoj

Goyal, MK Rai, Devraj Birdi, RK Swai,

Manish Rastogi, Devendra Singhai, BP

Singh, SR Mohanti, RS Julania, Prabhan-

shu Kamal, Snehlata Shrivastava, AP

Shrivastava, K Suresh, Bharat Yadav,

Vishesh Gadpale, SPS Parihar, Deepak

Khandekar and Abha Asthana are the

ones who preferred to stay in hotels than

government guest houses during their

Delhi tours.

Not only this, bureaucrats of principal

secretary level, including Anil Shrivasta-

va and Manoj Jhalani, who stayed at Mad-

hya Pradesh Bhawan for months while on

their deputation at the Centre, did not

make any payment.

Shrivastava stayed at Madhya Pradesh

Bhawan for more than 7 months at Delhi

and owes Rs 1,03,363 to pay as lodging bill.

Similarly Jhalani, who stayed for 4

months at the same place in two turns, has

to pay a bill of Rs 66,763.

According to RTI activist Ajay Dubey,

the state is already facing malnutrition

while its ministers and bureaucrats are

spending lakhs in staying in hotels.

Govt owned 6flats lying vacantfor 16 years

The state government had bought 6

flats for Rs 32 lakhs from Delhi De-

velopment Authority in 1997 for

providing lodging facility to its officers

and employees in Delhi. It is strange that

in past 16 years, no officer has availed this

facility. As per information, these flats,

situated at Indrapuram, are 25 kilometres

away from the main city. This matter wasalso raised during audit of these flats too.

Ministers, bureaucrats prefer

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World10 BHOPAL September 23 to September 29, 2013 WE THE STATE

Who are Nairobi mall attackers al-Shabab? All you need to know

Islamist terror group al Shabab

claimed responsibility for a horrific

26/11 style terror attack on an up-

scale Nairobi mall on Saturday after-

noon local time, saying that it was in re-

taliation for Kenyas military involve-

ment in Somalia. The attack has killed

at least 43 people and injured more than

200, according to the latest reports.

However this toll is likely to rise fur-

ther, especially since a number of gun-

men are still holed up inside the mall

with an unspecified number of

hostages. Shortly after the attack, al

Shabab claimed responsibility via its

Twitter feed, and said that it has many

times warned Kenyas government that

failure to remove its forces from Soma-

lia would have severe consequences.

al-Shabaab is a Somali offshoot of

the al-Qaeda. However as this CNN

analysis report notes, Al-Shabaab has

long been regarded as a regional off-

shoot of al-Qaeda, its leaders only de-

clared their formal ties to the interna-

tional terror organization in February

2012. al-Shabaab means The youth in

Arabic. The group is fighting to establish a

strict Islamic state in Somalia. The

group describes itself as waging jihad

against enemies of Islam

Its indiscriminate bombing strate-

gies that saw many civilian and Muslim

casualties came in for criticism from

other branches of the al Qaeda includ-

ing Osama Bin Laden himself. It is note-

worthy that the group reportedly es-

corted Muslims out of the mall before

indiscriminately firing and throwing

grenades inside.

al-Shabaab was originally engaged

in combat with the Somali government

and a multinational force called AMI-

SOM, the African Union Mission in So-

malia, which has been conducting

peacekeeping operations with the back-

ing of the United Nations. Led by Ugan-

das army, AMISOM succeeded in forc-

ing al-Shabab to retreat from Mo-

gadishu, Somalis capital, in 2011. Last

year, more than 2,000 Kenyan troops

joined hands with a Somali clan to evict

al-Shabab from its last urban strong-

hold, the port town of Kisimayo. How-

ever it evolved its fighting methods In-

stead of force-on-force fighting with

AMISOM, it switched to terrorism.By

avoiding direct military confronta-

tion, according to a UN report, it has

preserved the core of its fighting force

and resources.

According to the US National Count-

er terrorism centre, al-Shabaab is not

centralized or monolithic in its agenda

or goals. Its rank-and-file members

come from disparate clans, and the

group is susceptible to clan politics, in-

ternal divisions, and shifting al-

liances.

According to this media agencies re-

port, The group is believed to be re-

sponsible for attacks in Somalia that

have killed international aid workers,

journalists, civilian leaders and

African Union peacekeepers. It has

struck abroad, too. It was responsible

for the July 2010 suicide bombings in

Kampala, Uganda, that killed more

than 70 people, including a U.S. citizen,

as they gathered to watch a World Cup

final soccer match.

Are other terrorgroups also involved?

K

enyan authorities suspected

that terror groups other then

al-Shabaab could also be in-

volved in the deadly attack in an up-

scale shopping mall . Al-Shabaab, a

Somalia-based terror outfit having

links with al-Qaeda, claimed respon-

sibility for the attack. Meanwhile,

the Kenyan security agencies came

under serious criticism for the way

they handled the disaster. The agen-

cies had no prior information about

the attacks and it took a long time for

the specialised forces to reach the

spot.

The local police initially prepared

themselves for an armed robbery in

the mall. The effort to flush out the

terrorists, including a woman, wasnot over even after two days and the

death toll was expected to rise more.

Presidential spokesperson Manoah

Esipisu was reportedly defensive

while giving interview to news chan-

nels over the gruesome incident that

saw the death of many foreign na-

tionals, including two Indians. He

said the way of reacting to a terror

attack is not always uniform.

Indian shot when hecouldn't answer queryon Islam

An Indian man was shot when

he failed to answer a question

on Islam posed by a heavily-

armed gunman who had struck at a

mall in Nairobi

Joshua Hakim saw gunmen, some

of whom looked to be teenagers,

strapped with ammunition belts.

They were carrying AK-47 assault ri-

fles. "They were firing indiscrimi-

nately, they shot a lot of people," the-

guardian.com quoted him as saying

Sunday. During a lull in the firing,

the gunmen spoke in Swahili for

Muslims to identify themselves and

leave.

Hakim covered the Christian nameon his ID with his thumb and ap-

proached one of the attackers. He

showed the plastic card.

"They told me to go. Then an Indian

man came forward and they said,

'What is the name of Muhammad's

mother?' When he couldn't answer

they just shot him," he said.

It was not clear from the media re-

port whether the Indian was injured

or fatally shot.

BERLIN

German Chancellor Angela

Merkel's conservative ChristianDemocrats (CDU) and their

Bavarian sister party, the Christian So-

cial Union (CSU), emerged as the biggest

winner in Sunday's federal election, offi-

cial results showed early Monday. The

pair garnered 41.5 percent of the vote,

while the largest opposition party, the

centre-left Social Democrats (SPD), took

25.7 percent, according to the results,

Xinhua reported.

The Green Party, the SPD's favoured

ally, captured 8.4 percent, and the LeftParty got 8.6 percent, showed the provi-

sional poll results. Merkel's junior coali-

tion partner, the Free Democrats (FDP),

however, failed to retain its seats in par-

liament, with its disappointing share of

4.8 percent falling short of the five per-

cent minimum needed to enter parlia-

ment.

Merkel's

conservatives

biggest winner in

German poll


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BHOPAL: Swami Akhileshwaranand Giri urged

the state government to immediately take into its

possession 66.08 acres agriculture land in village

Khajri, Chhindwara, on which Asaram Bapu has

set up his ashram. A thorough probe should be

conducted by the administration how Asaram

Bapu encroached upon the agriculture land and

set up ashram, Swami Akhileshwaranand Giri

has demanded.

Swami Giri said the land originally belonged to

hisrelative LateRaghuveerDayal Agnihotri,who

donated 66.08 acres agriculture land in May 31,

1923 to a trust Sanskrit Pustakounnati Sabha

Vidyapeeth,Etawah,UttarPradesh.Nowthe trust

does not exist, the saint said. The land was given

for setting up a Sanskrit Vidyapeeth. In due

course of time the trustees died and the trust no

more exists now, he said.

In January 15, 1996, Chhindwara then addition-

al collector KR Pirda appointed the Chhindwara

tehsildar as administrator to look after this land

since there was no authorised person nominated

by the trust in Uttar Pradesh to look after it and

certain persons encroached upon it claiming as

trustees. The then additional collector also in-

structed the administrator (the tehsildar Chhind-

wara) to remove encroachers and auction this

agriculture land, if needed, to earn revenue to be

used for maintenance of this land.

Swami Giri claimed if this order of the addi-

tional collector would have been executed proper-

ly bysuccessivedistrictcollectors in Chhindwara

the land would never have been encroached upon

by any person. He has sought information from

the district collector, Chhindwara, how construc-

tionsweredone on theagriculture land,who gave

permission for construction, in whose name the

landis mentionedin revenuerecordand themed-

icines manufactured there are under license or

not.

Asarams ashram in Chhindwara on encroached land, claims Swami Giri

Real estate lobbytried to thwart

land bill: RameshBhopal:Union minister for Panchayats

and Rural DevelopmentJairam Ramesh

has said the credit for passing the Land

Acquisition Bill- 2013 went to all politi-

cal parties and not to Congress alone.

The bill, passed after an exercise of twoyears, is an unprecedented measure.

Talking with media persons at MPCC

office, Ramesh said the BJP tried for six

years to get the bill passed during the

NDA government.

On a question of political parties ac-

cusing the Congress of trying to get po-

litical mileage from the bill, Ramesh

said, We are not saints or an NGO and

we will surely bring our success in get-

ting the bill passed before the people

during the poll. The union minister

said real estate lobby and others made

various efforts to thwart the efforts for

the bill and had submitted objections.

The State governments acquired the

land for private builders and handed

over to them. Land should be acquired

for public purposes, he said.

Ramesh said bureaucracy only fol-

lowed the instruction of political mas-

ters in case of land acquisition. He said

the bill is expected to contribute in re-

duction of influence of naxals in affect-

ed districts because the problem rose

from land acquisition row.

He said chief minister of Madhya

PradeshShivrajSinghChauhan andhis

officers had suggested amendments in

the bill and they were accepted.

The MP government suggested relax-

ation in land for land provision for ac-

quisition for irrigation projects. We putthem up again in Lok Sabha even when

thebillhad already passedthereand got

approval on the amendments. Replying

to questions, he said project like Sardar

Sarovar dam of MP would not be affect-

ed because of the bill but farmers will

get justice. He said retrospective provi-

sionsof thisbillwould beput inplaceby

people affected by the dam projects. Be-

sides it will benefit farmers of Batta

Parsaul where Rahul Gandhi had held

agitation againstMayavatigovernment.

The union minister described the

Right to Information Act implemented

by the UPA government, along with

right to education act, forest dwellers

act as milestones.

It provided a tool to people to get ac-

cess to government and obtain officials

documents and now has become mill-

stone for the government but it would

continue.

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