Dear Mr Rajasekaran
I must congratulate you on your noble resolve. 2nd October 2010 is a very long time away, if you want to start a practice satyagraha immediately (practice makes perfect), we can begin in front of office of Mr Habibullah anytime next week which is mutually convenient.
As Mr Habibullah is a man of letters (and I don't mean the French variety), we will not stoop to infantile devices like singing the national anthem in his office. In any case I am constitutionally exempted in law from standing up when the national anthem is played.
If our satygraha is successful we shall, like another "satyagrahi" Ms.Medha Patkar last year, have the privilege of pigging out at the CIC's next 5th National RTI convention.
Sarbajit
--- In rti_india@yahoogroups.com, James Rajasekaran <jamesrajasekaran@...> wrote:
>
> Email: gandhiansb@...
> Tel: 011-26464688
>
> Telefax: 011-26444711
>
>
>
> GANDHIAN SATYAGRAHA BRIGADE
>
>
>
> An All India NGO of Gandhian Persuasion, Registered under the Societies
> Registration Act 1860
>
> Formalities under completion for amending our name Lajpat
> Bhawan, Lajpat Nagar IV,
>
> to read "Gandhian Seva & Satyagraha Brigade" Delhi 110024
>
>
> April 20, 2010
>
>
> Crusade for a
> corruption free India, commencing with elimination of corruption &
> criminality from Indian politics
>
> FAST UNTO DEATH
> ITS VALIDITY & RELEVANCE
>
> Dear Satyagrahi members,
> Supporting members and Moral supporters,
>
> About two years ago, I received
> from Gujarat the following feed-back from an esteemed Freedom Fighter and a Satyagrahi
> member:
>
> “No amount of Satyagraha howsoever prolonged is
> going to have any effect on the Union Government unless you find some
> Satyagrahi to fast unto death for the cause you have been struggling for so
> many years. If even then the Government does not implement their promises, you
> shall have done your duty.â€
>
> I immediately responded as under:
>
> “Why should I go in search of such a
> Satyagrahi prepared to die for the cause of ethics and morality in the Nation’s
> politics? I will be that Satyagrahi myselfâ€
>
> 2. In resolving to take this extreme step, I was
> pleasantly surprised to find that four or five members of GSB, as ‘mad’ as
> myself were prepared to join me in undertaking the fast. I told them that I
> will not allow any Satyagrahi member less than 60/65 years to join me because
> ‘they must live to fight another day’ and that I will restrict the number to
> five including myself. At 92, I am the eldest of them all though the majority
> are in the age group of 80-90 years. I cautioned them regarding the fiery ordeal
> ahead and told them to withdraw if they so liked and that after such withdrawal
> we shall still stay the best of friends, but I found that some of them were
> determined to join me; (for their names please see page 5).
>
> 3. In deciding
> as above I found unequivocal support from Mahatma Gandhi, the Author of
> Satyagraha and Father of the Nation as under:
>
> (i) “PLACE OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE; it can be offered
> without regard to effect, though aimed at a particular wrong or evil, by way of
> self-immolation in order to rouse local consciousness or conscience..... Civil
> disobedience can never be directed for a general cause such as Independence.
> The issue must be definite and capable of being clearly understood and within
> the power of the opponent to yield.â€
>
> (ii) “I am not aching for
> martyrdom, but if it comes my way in the prosecution of what I consider to be
> the supreme duty in defence of the faith I hold.... I shall have earned
> it.â€Â â€" M.K. Gandhi
>
> Accordingly, we
> shall request the Govt. to give the Nation a reasonable time-frame for
> implementing the three vital recommendations of ARC re: Lok Pal,
> Disqualification of candidates and Confiscation of illegally acquired property,
> failing which our fasts unto death shall commence w.e.f. 2nd October 2010.
>
> Regards,
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Â
>
> Shambhu Dutta,
>
> Hony. General Secretary, GSB
>
> Â
>
> Â
>
> ROLL OF HONOUR
>
> Â
>
> Names of Satyagrahi members of GSB who shall undertake
> Fast-unto-Death with effect from 2nd October, 2010
> at Delhi, for the elimination of corruption and criminality from Indian
> Politics. This is in case there is no commitment by the Union Government in two
> months for a concrete and reasonable time frame for acceptance and
> implementation of ARC’s three recommendations re: (i) Lok Pal (ii)
> Disqualification of corrupt & criminal candidates for election to
> Parliament and State Legislatures and (iii) Confiscation of property acquired
> illegally or by corrupt means.
>
> 1. Shri K.P. Sahu, HIG-28, Shailashree
> Vihar, Phase-7, Bhubaneswar-751 021 Orissa.
>
> Â Â Â Â Ph: 0674-2743700
>
> Â Â Â Â Email:
> gautam_kps@...
>
> 2. Shri James Rajasekaran E., PARD, PB No.
> 87 Madurai- 625 020Â Ph: 0452-2533493
>
> Â Â Â Â (M) 09543903735
>
> Â Â Â Â Email:
> pardmadurai@...
>
> 3. Smt. R.S.
> Devi, 113, R.P.S. Flates, Sheikh Sarai, Phase-I, New Delhi-110 017 Ph:
> 011-26013676
>
> 4. Shri
> Murari Lal Gupta, 142, Daya Nand Vihar, Vikas Marg Extn., Delhi-110
> 092Â Ph: 011-22373263
>
> 5. Shri G.N.
> Seth, “Sangam Ashram†10-A, Underhill Lane, Civil Lines, Delhi-110 054 Ph:
> 011-23940728
>
> 6. Shambhu Dutta, KD-18A, Ashok Vihar,
> Phase-I,
>
> Â Â Â Â Delhi-110 052Â Ph: (R) 011-27427978
>
> Â Â Â Â (Off.) 011-26464688
>
> Â Â Â Â Email:
> sdsharma18a@...
>
> The rest, if any, shall be our Reservists.
>
> The above names are being
> intimated to the Government (Hon’ble Prime Minister and other Union Ministers
> concerned), also to Smt. Sonia Gandhi, Chairperson UPA(2) & President,
> Indian National Congress, under a suitable covering letter.
>
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