CHAPTER 139

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BIRTHRIGHT

The Chief Justice of India –designate on 6 May 2010 thundered that one could become popular easily but one could not be correct easily. His statement shows that the present writer is a popular figure in the Supreme Court. The premonition that the Supreme Court Bench would consider the views of this writer as a correct one in the impending gas dispute judgment might have prompted him to talk like this. Further, he does not accept the method of the classification of the learned judges of the Supreme Court into attached and detached judges as a correct method.

A three judge Bench of the Supreme Court of India headed by  Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan  on 7 May 2010 declared that all natural resources must be exclusively handled by the Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) rather than by the private sector. The court considered this as the “ideal” policy. The court said this while delivering the judgment of the gas dispute case between two private companies. The court explained that "a constitutional democracy like India must see that all natural assets belong to the people”.

The other judges in the Bench were Justices P.Sathasivam snd Sudershan Reddy.

The logical extension of this judgment is that the BALCO verdict has lost its validity. Further, all natural resources, including the ores and spectrum, – consistent with this work - must come under the Government. The immediate consequence is that the Government cannot give the 3G spectrum to private parties under any pretext because it would go against the spirit of the judgment.

Anyone going through this work would agree that the judgment could be construed as a theoretical victory for this work. This is the effect of more than hundred letters submitted to the successive Presidents of India and the Chief Justices of India.

However, the Court did not direct the Government to take over all natural assets forthwith. If it had done so, all natural assets would have come under the Government with effect from the date of judgment. The Supreme Court - as an institution –would have gone upward to higher planets.

Now the Government would connive at the judgment. Therefore, the tendency of the Government would be to conceal this. The people also would forget the social, economic and political consequences of this. If that happened, anyone would agree that the Supreme Court did a great disservice to the nation. The nation would go downward.

Further, it is disturbing to note that the Court did not verify the veracity of the submission that a private company was getting a profit of over $ 16 billion per year from a gas field alone.

China on 7 May 2010 decried the import ban imposed by India to Chinese- made telecom equipment. It said that security concerns cited by India were a pretext for trade protectionism. It added that the ban would be necessary only if such imports affected Indian industry.

Anyone would agree that the extraordinary pressure exerted by the present writer is yielding results.

In this connection, it must be noted that China availed itself of the services of the manipulators to penetrate deep into the Indian system. The influence of China on India is such that the latter would even think of arresting Indian citizens at the behest of the manipulators rather than confiscating illegally imported Chinese products. India has not even issued a warning for this. As a result, several Indian companies are fast disappearing.

Further, China utilized its unlimited wealth to encircle India. It has even agreed to supply nuclear reactors to Pakistan.

Obviously, a wealthy China is a threat to the security of India. Therefore, it must annul all its defense tie ups with the peripheral countries of India including Pakistan and Myanmar.

The peripheral countries of India should not be loyal to China as at present. Until this happens, Chinese engagements in India must be banned.

The militant people killed 7 police personnel on 8 May 2010. On the next day, the police killed 10 militant people. There is no use in reporting this cannibalism because the Government is not disclosing all killings.

Now, the Union Government has warned the intellectuals and others that the people supporting the militant people would be liable to be punished under Section 39 of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967.

Evidently, the Government could detain anyone under the above act.

“FREEDOM is my birthright. So long as it is awake within me, I am not old. No weapon can cut this spirit, no fire can burn it, no water can wet it, no wind can dry it and no CID can burn it.

Some people have the courage to declare what is harmful to them and some have not that courage.

Who does not know the meaning of Home Rule? Who does not want it? Would you like it, if I enter your house and take possession of your cooking department? I must have the right to manage the affairs in my own house.”

When Bal Gangadhar Tilak said the above in May 1917, the then enemy of India, the British, allowed the people all over India to hear it. Now, the Government does not give even a fraction of FREEDOM given by the enemy of India. The Government does not allow the people to hear anything present in this work.

When there was FREEDOM the people fought for FREEDOM and got slavery. Consequently, people do not know that they have no FREEDOM. Now they do not know how to run the affairs of their country.

Obviously, the Government is the enemy of the people. The Government must become the friend of the people to give them FREEDOM. FREEDOM is their birthright.

The facts from 6 May 2010 to 9 May 2010 are being submitted to Her Excellency the President of India on 10 May 2010.

V.SABARIMUTHU