Since I posted my last blog there was lots of activity taking place in Egypt and Yemen, some of its credit should be given to the media. The protest and subsequent fall of the dictator in Tunisia was extensively shown through the satellite channel all over the world had some effects to other neighbouring state that includes Egypt. The main question is that even if Mubarak goes, will Egypt survive and can form a non bias democratic government or not, only time will tell us. China is taking lot of precautions, the government over there trying to protect their internet gateways that gives access to the word ‘Egypt’, the word is barred from the internet search list.
Back home, things are not good, high inflation and the umpteen numbers of scams are the main concern. India, world’s largest democratic country yet corruption level as good as it is in those non-democratic countries. About inflation, our agriculture minister is too busy with cricket seems hardly having any time for his portfolio. Finally, last week the incident involving the gruesome murder of Additional District Collector of Malegaon, Yeshwant Sonawane, that exposed the one of many naked faces of the corruption.
Kopergaon, a town of Ahmednagar is famous because from here you can easily reach to the famous Shirdi temple and Manmad hardly forty kilometer away from Kopergaon. I traveled many times through these routes and the first time I had gone there, it was a small village with little activities around. Of-course Manmad falls in Nashik district and it hosts a major intersection of four highways. From Manmad most of the oil tankers make their way to neighbouring district and villages. Mafia around this place is stealing kerosene from the trucks when it passed through. Sonawane stumbled upon this while on an official tour and while filming the act on his mobile he was set on fire by the main accused Popat Shinde. On January 26, 2010, Sonawane had stood proudly at the Guard of Honour. On the eve of this Republic Day, his dedication to duty cost him his life. Only, Mr. Sonawane able to punished his as well as our antagonist before he died, he reportedly grabbed Shinde during the attack, causing the burns and Shinde too died form the same fire that he had himself set.
Shanmugam Manjunath
Manjunath was a Computer Science Engineer and had done his MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow. Manjunath was a marketing manager for the Indian Oil Corporation. He was murdered for sealing a corrupt petrol station in UP. While working for the Indian Oil Corporation in Lucknow, he had sealed two petrol pumps at the same area for selling adulterated fuel. The pump started operating within a month. Manjunath decided to conduct a raid around November 19, 2005. During his inspection, Manjunath had been shot dead. His bullet-riddled body was found in his own car. The main accused, pump-owner Pawan Kumar Mittal, was held along with seven others.
Satyendra Dubey
Public memory is very short, how many of us today remember Satyendra Dubey, the Siwan boy who came from very poor family and also the first one from his village to study Engineering. He was an IIT grad and had done his M.Tech. from BHU (Banaras Hindu University). Dubey worked at the Ministry of Surface Transport in Delhi and then he was selected for the Indian Engineering Service (IES). It is known that while working in IES he once called the police when offered a bribe. His last job was as Assistant Project Manager with National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) at Koderma, Jharkhand. He was responsible for managing a section of National Highway, that was part of the Golden Quadrilateral Corridor Project that involved almost $10 billion. Dubey exposing some serious financial irregularities. Dubey wrote a letter to then Prime Minister’s (A. B. Vajpayee) Office regarding the corruption and irregularities in NHAI. He never signed the complain letter but attached a separate resume along with the letter. He also requested the authority not to disclose his name. His letter may have reached the criminal nexus in Bihar and definitely, someone from PMO leaked it. At dawn of November 27, 2003, Dubey was killed while returning from a wedding, he was only thirty. There were some arrest and police also tried to cover up by putting up a theory that it was a simple case of robbery attempt. However, why no one ever asked the government that who backstab Dubey from PMO, knowing his life was in danger then too they taken great effort to make his name known to the mafia.
Dubey, mafia never able to bought him, if so then his address in Siwan would say a different story. His father refused to accept any cheque and demanded only justice for his son.
Satyendra Dubey, the second son of seven brothers and sisters, was the main breadwinner, supporting his parents his younger brothers and sisters. Shailesh Gandhi, president of IIT-Mumbai Alumni, has convinced the Dubey family not to refuse the goodwill of a public that is determined to help. The IIT alumni wanted to help the Dubeys, decided to raise Rs 15 lakh through their alumni network.
!!!In our great country, being honest mean digging his own grave.!!!
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