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Tuesday 3 May 2016

Yeola Nashik's man with the golden shirt' Pankaj Parakh enters Guinness book

Yeola Nashik: Maharashtra’s well-known businessman-politician Pankaj Parakh called ‘The Man With The Golden Shirt’ by his friends - has earned a place in the Guinness World Records(GWR).

The GWR certificate issued on Tuesday cites Parakh, 47, as the man with “the most expensive gold shirt in the world costing Rs.98,35,099 ($161,354/GBP 95,856)” as on August 1, 2014.

“This is simply unbelievable. I am a small man from a remote area in Maharashtra. I am happy that this achievement had catapulted my village name into the whole world,” said an emotional Parakh

The school dropout, who made his fortunes from a garment fabrication business is also the Nationalist Congress Party’s Deputy Mayor of Yeola town in Nashik district, around 260 km from Mumbai.

The shirt, weighing exactly 4.10 kg, is currently valued at over Rs1.30 crore. It is supplemented by other golden paraphernalia including a gold watch, several gold chains, large gold rings, a gold mobile cover and golden-framed spectacles - the total weight of this opulence being a whopping 10 kgs!

Whenever Parakh steps onto the streets of Yeola in his full ‘shining golden gear’ and his licensed revolver worn discreetly, he admits that women stare and men glare at him, while two stern private security guards manage to keep everyone at a safe distance.

“I had stitched this special gold shirt with seven golden buttons for my 45th birthday two years ago. I have been fascinated by gold since my school days and over the years it became a passion, almost an obsession,” Parakh smiled.

The shirt was designed by Bafna Jewellers, Nashik, 85 km away, and meticulously executed by Shanti Jewellers at Parel in Mumbai.

A team of 20 select artisans spent 3,200 hours over two months to craft the 18-22 carat pure gold strands, to the last thread and ‘stitch’ it, and the deal was fully billed - to keep tax sleuths at bay!

Though made of gold, the shirt is fully flexible and comfortable, absolutely smooth and harmless and with a thin cloth lining the inside to avoid rubbing or chapping the body, washable and even repairable with a lifetime guarantee, Parakh said.

Barely three decades ago, the poor, young Parakh could ill-afford his school education and dropped out after Class VIII to enter the family’s small garments business in Yeola.

In 1982, he branched out to an independent business and a decade later even entered politics to be elected as a municipal councillor in Yeola.

“At my marriage 25 years ago, many guests considered me an embarrassment as I wore more gold than the bride,” he recalled.

Progressing and prospering over the years, he took care of all his family’s needs - a good house looked after by wife Pratibha and higher education for his two doting sons Siddharth (24) and Rahul (21).

Then, he indulged in his passion and invested his excess incomes to acquire a ‘gilded edge’ that helped him enter the GWR.

However, his unimpressed family does not share his passion for gold, they ignore it as ‘a necessary evil,’ but all his relatives think he has gone bonkers, Parakh guffawed.

Parakh remembers how, when the entire family attends weddings or important social occasions, he adorns himself with around three-and-half kg gold ornaments while his wife looks bare and stark with just 40-50 grams gold jewellery!

Yeola is renowned for its Paithani silk saris and the Shalu and Pitamber varieties of saris, considered nationally-recognised brands.

Despite his gilt-edge, Parakh is a down-to-earth and caring human being, deeply involved in a variety of social and educational activities.

For instance, he has fully financed 150 polio operations in the past seven years through the renowned Narayan Seva Sansthan Hospital of Udaipur in Rajasthan, the country biggest 1,000-bed polio hospital.

He spends a week each year to offer voluntary services, financing poor patients, providing food, medicines and other requirements.

Tuesday 15 March 2016

Yeola Paithani Inauguration video by Yeola City News portal

BIOGRAPHY OF DR. AMBEDKAR by Yeola City News Portal

B.R Ambedkar speech at yeola in 1935

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, born on 14 April 1891, also known as Babasaheb, was an Indian jurist, political leader, Buddhist activist, philosopher, thinker, anthropologist, historian, orator, prolific writer, economist, scholar, editor, revolutionary and a revivalist for Buddhism in India. He was also the chief architect of the Indian Constitution. Born into a poor Mahar, then Untouchable, family, Ambedkar spent his whole life fighting against social discrimination, the system of Chaturvarna — the categorization of Hindu society into four varnas — and the Hindu caste system. He is also credited with providing a spark for the conversion of hundreds of thousands of Dalits with his Ambedkar (ite) Buddhism. Ambedkar has been honoured with the Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civilian award.

Overcoming numerous social and financial obstacles, Ambedkar became one of the first “Outcast” to obtain a college education in India. Eventually earning law degrees and multiple doctorates for his study and research in law, economics and political science from Columbia University and the London School of Economics, Ambedkar returned home as a famous scholar and practiced law for a few years before publishing journals advocating political rights and social freedom for India’s untouchables. He is regarded as a Bodhisattva by Indian Buddhists even though he never claimed himself to be a Bodhisattva.
Early life

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was born in the British-founded town and military cantonment of Mhow in the Central Provinces (now in Madhya Pradesh). He was the 14th and last child of Ramji Maloji Sakpal and Bhimabai. His family was of Marathi background from the town of Ambavade in the Ratnagiri district of modern-day Maharashtra. They belonged to the Hindu, Mahar caste, who were treated as untouchables and subjected to intense socio-economic discrimination. Ambedkar’s ancestors had for long been in the employment of the army of the British East India Company, and his father Ramji Sakpal served in the Indian Army at the Mhow cantonment. He had received a degree of formal education in Marathi and English, and encouraged his children to learn and work hard at school

Belonging to the Kabir Panth, Ramji Sakpal encouraged his children to read the Hindu classics. He used his position in the army to lobby for his children to study at the government school, as they faced resistance owing to their caste. Although able to attend school, Ambedkar and other untouchable children were segregated and given no attention or assistance by the teachers. They were not allowed to sit inside the class. Even if they needed to drink water somebody from a higher caste would have to pour that water from a height as they were not allowed to touch either the water or the vessel that contained it. This task was usually performed for the young Ambedkar by the school peon, and if the peon was not available then he had to go without water, Ambedkar states this situation as “No peon, No Water”. Ramji Sakpal retired in 1894 and the family moved to Satara two years later. Shortly after their move, Ambedkar’s mother died. The children were cared for by their paternal aunt, and lived in difficult circumstances. Only three sons — Balaram, Anandrao and Bhimrao — and two daughters — Manjula and Tulasa — of the Ambedkars would go on to survive them. Of his brothers and sisters, only Ambedkar succeeded in passing his examinations and graduating to a higher school. Bhimrao Sakpal Ambavadekar the surname comes from his native village ‘Ambavade’ in Ratnagiri District. His Bhramin teacher Madahev Ambedkar who was so much fond of him, has changed his surname from ‘Ambavadekar’ to his own surname ‘Ambedkar’ in school records.
Ramji Sakpal remarried in 1898, and the family moved to Mumbai (then Bombay), where Ambedkar became the first untouchable student at the Government High School near Elphinstone Road. Although excelling in his studies, Ambedkar was increasingly disturbed by the segregation and discrimination that he faced. In 1907, he passed his matriculation examination and entered the University of Bombay, becoming one of the first persons of untouchable origin to enter a college in India. This success provoked celebrations in his community, and after a public ceremony he was presented with a biography of the Buddha by his teacher Krishnaji Arjun Keluskar also known as Dada Keluskar, a Maratha caste scholar. Ambedkar’s marriage had been arranged the previous year as per Hindu custom, to Ramabai, a nine-year old girl from Dapoli. In 1908, he entered Elphinstone College and obtained a scholarship of twenty five rupees a month from the Gayakwad ruler of Baroda, Sahyaji Rao III. By 1912, he obtained his degree in economics and political science from Bombay University, and prepared to take up employment with the Baroda state government. His wife gave birth to his first son, Yashwant, in the same year. Ambedkar had just moved his young family and started work, when he dashed back to Mumbai to see his ailing father, who died on February 2, 1913.
In 1913 he recived Baroda State Scholarship of 11.50 British pounds a month for three years to join the Political Department of the Columbia University as a Post Graduate Student. In New York he stayed at Livingston Hall with his friend Naval Bhathena, a Parsi; the two remained friends for life. He used to sit for hours studing in Low Library. Young Graduate Student passed his M.A. exam in June, 1913, majoring in Economics, with Sociology, History, Philosophy, and Anthropology as other subjects of study; he presented a Thesis,”Ancient Indian Commerce”. In 1916 he offered another M.A. thesis, “National Dividend of India-A Historic and Analytical Study”. On May 9, he read his paper Castes in India: Their Mechanism, Genesis and Development” before a seminar conducted by the anthropologist prof. Alexander Goldenweiser. In October 1916 he was admitted to Gray’s Inn for Law, and to the London School of Economics and Political Science for Economics where he started work on a Doctoral thesis. In 1917 June he was obliged to go back to India as the term of his scholarship from Baroda ended, however he was given permission to return and submit his thesis within four years. He sent his precious and much-loved collection of books back on a steamer, but it was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarien.
As he was educated by the Borada State, he was bound to serve the State. He was appointed as Military Secretary to the Gaikwar of Baroda, which he had to quit within short time, this fiasco was described by Ambedkar in his autobiography “Waiting for a Visa” he states that “This scene of a dozen Parsis armed with sticks line before me in a menacing mood, and myself standing before them with a terrified look imploring for mercy, is a scene which so long a period as eighteen years had not succeeded in fading away. I can even vividly recall it– and I never recall it without tears in my eyes. It was then for the first time that I learnt that a person who is an untouchable to a Hindu is also an untouchable to a Parsi “. Then after he tried to find ways to make a living for his growing family. He worked as private tutor, as an accountant, investment consulting business, but it failed when his clients learned that he was an untouchables. In 1918 he became Professor of Political Economy in the Sydenham College of Commerce and Economics in Bombay, other professors objected to his sharing the same drinking-water jug that they all used.
Fight against untouchability
As a leading Indian scholar, Ambedkar had been invited to testify before the Southborough Committee, which was preparing the Government of India Act 1919. At this hearing, Ambedkar argued for creating separate electorates and reservations for Dalits and other religious communities. In 1920, he began the publication of the weekly Mooknayak (Leader of the Silent) in Mumbai. Attaining popularity, Ambedkar used this journal to criticize orthodox Hindu politicians and a perceived reluctance of the Indian political community to fight caste discrimination. His speech at a Depressed Classes Conference in Kolhapur impressed the local state ruler Shahu IV, who shocked orthodox society by dining with Ambekdar. Ambedkar established a successful legal practice, and also organised the Bahishkrit Hitakarini Sabha to promote education and socio-economic uplifting of the depressed classes.
By 1927 Dr. Ambedkar decided to launch active movements against untouchability. He began with public movements and marches to open up and share public drinking water resources; also he began a struggle for the right to enter Hindu temples. He led a Satyagraha in Mahad to fight for the right of the untouchable community to draw water from the main water tank of the town.
He was appointed to the Bombay Presidency Committee to work with the all-European Simon Commission in 1925. This commission had sparked great protests across India, and while its report was ignored by most Indians, Ambedkar himself wrote a separate set of recommendations for future constitutional reformers.
Political career
In 1935, Ambedkar was appointed principal of the Government Law College, Mumbai, a position he held for two years. Settling in Mumbai, Ambedkar oversaw the construction of a house, and stocked his personal library with more than 50,000 books. His wife Ramabai died after a long illness in the same year. It had been her long-standing wish to go on a pilgrimage to Pandharpur, but Ambedkar had refused to let her go, telling her that he would create a new Pandharpur for her instead of Hinduism’s Pandharpur which treated them as untouchables. Speaking at the Yeola Conversion Conference on October 13 near Nasik, Ambedkar announced his intention to convert to a different religion and exhorted his followers to leave Hinduism. He would repeat his message at numerous public meetings across India.
In 1936, Ambedkar founded the Independent Labour Party, which won 15 seats in the 1937 elections to the Central Legislative Assembly. He published his book The Annihilation of Caste in the same year, based on the thesis he had written in New York. Attaining immense popular success, Ambedkar’s work strongly criticized Hindu orthodox religious leaders and the caste system in general. Ambedkar served on the Defence Advisory Committee and the Viceroy’s Executive Council as minister for labour. With What Congress and Gandhi Have Done to the Untouchables, Ambedkar intensified his attacks on Gandhi and the Congress, hypocrisy. In his work Who Were the Shudras?, Ambedkar attempted to explain the formation of the Shudras i.e. the lowest caste in hierarchy of Hindu caste system. He also emphasised how Shudras are separate from Untouchables. Ambedkar oversaw the transformation of his political party into the All India Scheduled Castes Federation, although it performed poorly in the elections held in 1946 for the Constituent Assembly of India. In writing a sequel to Who Were the Shudras? in 1948, Ambedkar lambasted Hinduism in the Untouchables.
Poona Pact
By now Ambedkar had become one of the most prominent political figures of the time. He had grown increasingly critical of mainstream Indian political parties for their perceived lack of emphasis for the elimination of the caste system. Ambedkar criticized the Indian National Congress and its leader Mahatma Gandhi, whom he accused of reducing the untouchable community to a figure of pathos. Ambedkar was also dissatisfied with the failures of British rule, and advocated a political identity for untouchables separate from both the Congress and the British. At a Depressed Classes Conference on August 8, 1930 Ambedkar outlined his political vision, insisting that the safety of the Depressed Classes hinged on their being independent of the Government and the Congress both:
Ambedkar’s political work (his demand prompted Ambedkar to make an official demand for Separate Electorate System)had made him very unpopular[citation needed] with Hindus, as well as with many Congress politicians who had earlier condemned untouchability. This was largely because these “liberal” politicians usually stopped short of advocating full equality for untouchables.
Due to Ambedkar’s prominence and popular support amongst the untouchable community, he was invited to attend the Second Round Table Conference in London in 1932.Gandhi fiercely opposed separate electorate for untouchables, but accepted separate electorate for all other minority groups like Muslims,sikhs…etc. Gandhi feared that separate electorates for untouchables would divide Hindu society for future generations.
When the British agreed with Ambedkar and announced the awarding of separate electorates, Gandhi began a fast-unto-death while imprisoned in the Yerwada Central Jail of Pune in 1932 against the separate electorate for untouchables only. , Gandhi asked for the political unity of Hindus. Gandhi’s fast provoked great public support across India, and orthodox Hindu leaders, Congress politicians and activists such as Madan Mohan Malaviya and Palwankar Baloo organized joint meetings with Ambedkar and his supporters at Yeravada. Fearing a communal reprisal and killings of untouchables in the event of Gandhi’s death, Ambedkar agreed under massive coercion from the supporters of Gandhi . This agreement, which saw Gandhi end his fast, while dropping the demand for separate electorates that was promised through the British Communal Award prior to Ambedkar’s meeting with Gandhi. Ambedkar was to later criticise this fast of Gandhi as a gimmick to deny political rights to the untouchables and increase the coercion he had faced to give up the demand for separate electorates.
Father of India’s constitution and Father of Modern India
Upon India’s independence on August 15, 1947, the new Congress-led government invited Ambedkar to serve as the nation’s first law minister, which he accepted. On August 29, Ambedkar was appointed Chairman of the Constitution Drafting Committee, charged by the Assembly to write free India’s new Constitution. Ambedkar won great praise from his colleagues and contemporary observers for his drafting work. In this task Ambedkar’s study of sangha practice among early Buddhists and his extensive reading in Buddhist scriptures were to come to his aid. Sangha practice incorporated voting by ballot, rules of debate and precedence and the use of agendas, committees and proposals to conduct business. Sangha practice itself was modelled on the oligarchic system of governance followed by tribal republics of ancient India such as the Shakyas and the Lichchavis. Thus, although Ambedkar used Western models to give his Constitution shape, its spirit was Indian and, indeed, tribal.
Granville Austin has described the Indian Constitution drafted by Dr Ambedkar as ‘first and foremost a social document.The majority of India’s constitutional provisions are either directly arrived at furthering the aim of social revolution or attempt to foster this revolution by establishing conditions necessary for its achievement.’
The text prepared by Ambedkar provided constitutional guarantees and protections for a wide range of civil liberties for individual citizens, including freedom of religion, the abolition of untouchability and the outlawing of all forms of discrimination Ambedkar argued for extensive economic and social rights for women, and also won the Assembly’s support for introducing a system of reservations of jobs in the civil services, schools and colleges for members of scheduled castes and scheduled tribes, a system akin to affirmative action. India’s lawmakers hoped to eradicate the socio-economic inequalities and lack of opportunities for India’s depressed classes through this measure, which had been originally envisioned as temporary on a need basis. The Constitution was adopted on November 26, 1949 by the Constituent Assembly.
Ambedkar resigned from the cabinet in 1951 following the stalling in parliament of his draft of the Hindu Code Bill, which sought to expound gender equality in the laws of inheritance, marriage and the economy. Although supported by Prime Minister Nehru, the cabinet and many other Congress leaders, it received criticism from a large number of members of parliament. Ambedkar independently contested an election in 1952 to the lower house of parliament, the Lok Sabha, but was defeated. He was appointed to the, of parliament, the Rajya Sabha in March 1952 and would remain a member until his death.
Conversion back to Buddhism
As a profound life long student of anthropology Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar made a remarkable discovery that the Mahar people are originally ancient Buddhist people of India. They have been forced outside a village to live like an outcast as they refused to leave Buddhist practices and eventually they were made into untouchables. He wrote a scholarly book on this topic- Who were Sudras? How they became Untouchables.
Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, with his followers embraced Buddhism Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar studied Buddhism all his life, and around 1950s, Ambedkar turned his attention fully to Buddhism and travelled to Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) to attend a convention of Buddhist scholars and monks. While dedicating a new Buddhist vihara near Pune, Ambedkar announced that he was writing a book on Buddhism, and that as soon as it was finished, he planned to make a formal conversion back to Buddhism. Ambedkar twice visited Burma in 1954; the second time in order to attend the third conference of the World Fellowship of Buddhists in Rangoon. In 1955, he founded the Bharatiya Bauddha Mahasabha, or the Buddhist Society of India. He completed his final work, The Buddha and His Dhamma, in 1956. It was published posthumously.
After meetings with the Sri Lankan Buddhist monk Hammalawa Saddhatissa, Ambedkar organised a formal public ceremony for himself and his supporters in Nagpur on October 14, 1956. Accepting the Three Refuges and Five Precepts from a Buddhist monk in the traditional manner, Ambedkar completed his own conversion. He then proceeded to convert an estimated 500,000 of his supporters who were gathered around him. Taking the 22 Vows. He then traveled to Kathmandu in Nepal to attend the Fourth World Buddhist Conference. His work on The Buddha or Karl Marx and “Revolution and counter-revolution in ancient India” (which was necessary for understanding his book “The Buddha and his dhamma”)remained incomplete.
Mahaparinirwan
Since 1948, Ambedkar had been suffering from diabetes. He was bed-ridden from June to October in 1954 owing to clinical depression and failing eyesight. He had been increasingly embittered by political issues, which took a toll on his health. His health worsened as he furiously worked through 1955. Just three days after completing his final manuscript The Buddha and His Dhamma, it is said that Ambedkar died in his sleep on December 6, 1956 at his home in Delhi.
A Buddhist-style cremation was organised for him at Dadar on December 7, attended by lakhs of supporters, activists and admirers. A conversion program was supposed to be organised on 16 December 1956. So, those who had attended cremation function also got converted to buddhism at same place.
A number of unfinished typescripts and handwritten drafts were found among Ambedkar’s notes and papers and gradually made available. Among these were Waiting for a Visa, which probably dates from 1935–36 and is an autobiographical work, and the Untouchables, or the Children of India’s Ghetto, which refers to the census of 1951.

A memorial for Ambedkar was established in his Delhi house at 26 Alipur Road. His birthdate is celebrated as a public holiday known as Ambedkar Jayanti or Bhim Jayanti. He was posthumously awarded India’s highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna in 1990. Many public institutions are named in his honour, such as the Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Open University in Hyderabad, Dr BR Ambedkar University in SrikakulamAndhra Pradesh, B. R. Ambedkar Bihar University, Muzaffarpur Dr.B.R.Ambedkar National Institute of Technology,Jalandhar the other being Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport in Nagpur, which was otherwise known as Sonegaon Airport. A large official portrait of Ambedkar is on display in the Indian Parliament building. On the anniversary of his birth (14 April) and death (6 December) and on Dhamma Chakra Pravartan Din, 14th Oct at Nagpur, at least half a million people gather to pay homage to him at his memorial in Mumbai. Thousands of bookshops are set up, and books are sold. His message to his followers was ” Educate!!!, Agitate!!!, Organize!!!”.

पुढील दोन-चार वर्ष भुजबळ जेलबाहेर येणार नाही: किरीट सोमय्या

मुंबई: ‘देवेंद्र फडणवीस आणि किरीट सोमय्यांनी यांनी दिलेलं वचन आज पूर्ण केलं. हे आज पहिलं यश आहे. भक्कम पुरावं सादर केले असल्यानं भुजबळ आता पुढील 2 ते 4 वर्ष काही बाहेर येणार नाही.’ अशी प्रतिक्रिया भाजप खासदार किरीट सोमय्या यांनी व्यक्त केली आहे.

‘आम्ही दिलेलं वचन पूर्ण केलं असून आता समीर भुजबळांसोबत छगन भुजबळांना ऑर्थर रोड जेलमध्ये मुक्काम करावा लागणार आहे.’ असं सोमय्या म्हणाले.

‘छगन भुजबळ ही तर सुरुवात आहे. यानंतर आता 70 हजार कोटींच्या सिंचन घोटाळा प्रकरणी सुनील तटकरे आणि अजित पवार यांनाही जेलमध्ये जावं लागणार आहे. एवढंच नव्हे आता एकापोठापाठ एक अटक सुरु होणार.’ असा ठाम विश्वास सोमय्या यांनी व्यक्त केला.

छगन भुजबळांना नेमकी कोणत्या प्रकरणात अटक?

मुंबई : इन्फोर्समेंट डिरोक्टरेट म्हणजे अंमलबजावणी संचलनालयाने माजी उपमुख्यमंत्री आणि राष्ट्रवादीचे ज्येष्ठ नेते छगन भुजबळ यांना अटक केली आहे. ईडी तपास करत असलेलं प्रकरण मनी लाँडरिंग म्हणजे पैशाच्या अफरातफरीचं म्हणजेच ब्लॅकमनी व्हाईट करण्याचं आहे. छगन भुजबळ आणि त्यांच्या कुटुंबीयांनी केलेल्या वेगवेगळ्या मनी लाँडरिंगच्या प्रकरणात सरकारला तब्बल 880 कोटी रुपयांचा फटका बसला. भुजबळ यांच्यावर होत असलेल्या अनेक गैरव्यवहारांच्या प्रकरणांपैकी फक्त या एकाच प्रकरणाचा तपास अंमलबजावणी संचलनालय करत आहे.

हवाला किंवा अन्य मार्गाने रोख रक्कम (ब्लॅकमनी) देशांतर्गत किंवा देशाबाहेर पाठवणं आणि त्याबदल्यात व्हाईट मनी छगन भुजबळ आणि कुटुंबीयांच्या मालकीच्या कंपन्यात पाठवणं असं हे एकूण प्रकरण आहे. भुजबळ यांच्याकडे असेलल्या रु. 870 कोटी एवढ्या कथित ब्लॅकमनीपैकी फक्त 114 कोटी रुपयांचा हिशेब मिळत आहे. अन्य रुपयांचा काहीच तपास किंवा माग लागत नाही. यासाठीच ईडीने छगन भुजबळ यांना अटक केली आहे.

छगन भुजबळ यांनी उपमुख्यमंत्री तसंच सार्वजनिक बांधकाम मंत्री असताना जे वेगवेगळे प्रकल्प मंजूर केले आणि त्याच्या निविदा आणि कंत्राटे वेगवेगळ्या कंपन्यांना दिले, त्यामधून त्यांना मोठ्या प्रमाणावर आर्थिक लाभ झाला असाही आरोप आहे. हा आर्थिक लाभ त्यांनी वैध बनवण्यासाठी जे मार्ग अवलंबले त्याचा तपास ईडी करत आहे. यामध्ये भुजबळांकडून मोठ्या प्रमाणावर रोख रकमा देशभरातील वेगवेगळ्या लोकांना देण्यात आल्या, त्यानंतर त्या रकम व्हाईट करुन म्हणजे वैध करुन पुन्हा भुजबळ यांच्याच कंपनीत गुंतवण्यात आल्या.

थोडक्यात, ‘अ’ या व्यक्तीकडे असलेला ब्लॅक मनी किंवा रोख रक्कम त्याने ‘ब’ या व्यक्तीला द्यायची, त्या बदल्यात ‘ब’ हा व्यक्ती त्या रकमेचा चेक किंवा डीडी (कायदेशीर मार्ग) ‘अ’ या व्यक्तीला किंवा त्याच्या कंपनीला द्यायचा. म्हणजे ‘अ’ व्यक्तीकडे असलेली रक्कम ‘ब’ या व्यक्तीने व्हाईट करुन दिली. ‘ब’ व्यक्तीने ‘अ’ व्यक्तीला किंवा त्याच्या कंपनीला चेक किंवा डीडी द्यायचा तर ही रक्कम कशाच्या बदल्यात दिली हेही सांगावं लागतं. म्हणजे काहीतरी खरेदी किंवा विक्री होणं आवश्यक असतं. बऱ्याचदा अशी खरेदी किंवा विक्री अव्वाच्या सव्वा किंमतीला म्हणजे एखाद्या वस्तूचं तेवढं नैसर्गिक किंवा वैध मूल्य नसतानाही दिलं जातं.

खरंतर काळापैसा पांढरा करण्यासाठी त्यावर चुकवलेला कर आणि दंड भरावा लागतो, तसंच त्या पैशांचा स्रोत सांगावा लागतो. काळा पैसा पांढरा करण्याचा हा वैध आणि कायदेशीर मार्ग. या मार्गाने सरकारला मोठं उत्पन्न मिळतं. त्याऐवजी हवालासारख्या माध्यमातून पैशाचा व्यवहार झाल्यामुळे सरकारचं उत्पन्न बुडतं.

ईडीच्या सुत्रांकडून जारी करण्यात आलेल्या माहितीनुसार, भुजबळाच्या कथित मनी लाँडरिंगचा तपास करताना, त्यांनी भुजबळांच्या आर्थिक व्यवहाराशी संबंधित अनेक कर्मचारी, संचालक आणि चार्टर्ड अकाऊंटट यांच्याही जबान्या घेतल्या आहेत.

इन्फोर्समेंट डिरोक्टरेट म्हणजे अंमलबजावणी संचलनालयाने माजी मुख्यमंत्री आणि राष्ट्रवादीचे ज्येष्ठ नेते छगन भुजबळ यांना अटक केली आहे. ईडी तपास करत असलेलं प्रकरण मनी लाँडरिंग म्हणजे पैशाच्या अफरातफरीचं म्हणजेच ब्लॅकमनी व्हाईट करण्याचं आहे. छगन भुजबळ आणि त्यांच्या कुटुंबीयांनी केलेल्या वेगवेगळ्या मनी लाँडरिंगच्या प्रकरणात सरकारला तब्बल 880 कोटी रुपयांचा फटका बसला. भुजबळ यांच्यावर होत असलेल्या अनेक गैरव्यवहारांच्या प्रकरणांपैकी फक्त या एकाच प्रकरणाचा तपास अंमलबजावणी संचलनालय करत आहे.

त्यानुसार भुजबळांचे चार्टर्ड अकाऊंटंट सुनील नाईक यांनी दिलेली माहिती :

छगन भुजबळ आणि त्यांच्या कुटुंबीयांच्या संपूर्ण मालकीच्या आणि नियंत्रण असलेल्या परवेश कन्स्ट्रक्शन प्रा. लि. आणि आर्मस्ट्राँग एनर्जी प्रा. लि. या दोन कंपन्याचे शेअर्स अव्वाच्या सव्वा किंमतीला म्हणजे तब्बल रु. 990 प्रति शेअर जास्तीचा प्रीमियम आकारुन विकण्यात आले. परवेश कन्स्ट्रक्शनचे तब्बल 75 कोटी रुपये आणि आर्मस्ट्राँग एनर्जीचे तब्बल 50 कोटी रुपये या विक्रीतून भुजबळांच्या कंपन्यांना मिळाले. हा सव्वाशे कोटी रुपयांचा व्यवहार झाला. या दोन्ही कंपन्याच्या शेअर्सची जी मूळ किंमत होती त्यापेक्षा प्रति शेअर तब्बल 990 रुपये जास्त भावाने ही विक्री झाली.

सुरेश जाजोदिया (मार्केट ऑपरेटर) यांनी दिलेली माहिती :
सुरेश जाजोदिया याने भुजबळांच्या परवेश कन्स्ट्रक्शन आणि आर्मस्ट्राँग एनर्जी या दोन्ही कंपन्याच्या खात्यात तब्बल सव्वाशे कोटींची रक्कम चार्टर्ड अकाऊंटंट सुनील नाईक यांच्या सुचनेनुसार जमा केली. या बदल्यात त्याला रोख रक्कम भुजबळांच्या वांद्रे येथील एमईटी म्हणजे मुंबई एज्युकेशन ट्रस्टच्या कार्यालयातून मिळणार होती. एमईटीमधून मिळालेली ही रक्कम त्याने कोलकात्यातील एका व्यक्तीला हवालामार्फत पाठवायची होती.

प्रवीण जैन, अनेक कंपन्यांचे नियंत्रक

प्रवीण जैन यांनी भुजबळांचे चार्टर्ड अकाऊंटंट सुनील नाईक यांच्याकडून रोख रक्कम स्वीकारली आणि त्या बदल्यात आर्मस्ट्राँग एनर्जीच्या बँक खात्यात तब्बल साडे दहा (10.50) कोटी रुपये चेकच्या माध्यमातून जमा केल्याचं ईडीला दिलेल्या जबाबात मान्य केलं आहे. प्रवीण जैन यांच्याकडे काम करणाऱ्या प्रभाकर सोगम यांनी अनेकवेळा वांदऱ्यातील एमईटीमध्ये जाऊन अनेक वेळा रोख रकमा कलेक्ट केल्याचं जैन यांनी म्हटलं आहे.

संजीव जैन, कोलकाता स्थित आर्थिक सल्लागार :सुनील नाईक यांच्या निर्देशानुसार, संजीव जैन यांना जवळपास रोख 8 कोटी रुपये मिळाले, त्या बदल्यात त्यांनी परवेश कन्स्ट्रक्शन आणि आर्मस्ट्राँग एनर्जीच्या खात्यात जमा करण्यासाठी चेक जारी केले.

चंद्र शेखर, चार्टर्ड अकांऊटंट :
ईडीतील सुत्रांनी दिलेल्या माहितीनुसार, चंद्र शेखर या चार्टर्ड अकांऊटंटने भुजबळांच्या मिनुटेक्स प्रोसेसर्स प्रा. लि. आणि मंगल सागो प्रा. लि. या दोन कंपन्यांच्या बँक खात्यासाठी 10.24 कोटी आणि परवेज कन्स्ट्रक्शनच्या खात्यात जमा करण्यासाठी 15.78 कोटी रूपयांचे चेक जारी केले. त्यासाठी परवेश कन्स्ट्रक्शनचे शेअर्सची खरेदी झाल्याचं दाखवण्यात आलं. प्रत्यक्षात ही खरेदी अव्वाच्या सव्वा किंमतीला झाली होती.

ईडीच्या तपासात असंही स्पष्ट झालं की हिंगोरा फिनवेस्ट प्रा. लि. ही कंपनी परवेश कन्स्ट्रक्शनची सर्वात मोठी भागधारक आहे. मात्र हिंगोरा फिनवेस्ट ही कंपनी फक्त कागदावरच आस्तित्वात आहे. भारतात किंवा विदेशात कुठेही या कंपनीचं कसलंच आस्तित्व नाही. कोटक महिंद्रा बँकेने हे ईडीला अधिकृतपणे कळवलं आहे की हिंगोरा फिनवेस्ट कंपनीने दिलेल्या पत्त्यावर कोणतीच कंपनी आस्तित्वात नाही.

म्हणजेच भुजबळ आणि कुटुंबीयांवर जे जे घोटाळ्याचे आरोप झाले आहेत आणि त्यामधून त्यांना जो कथित आर्थिक लाभ झाला. या गैरव्यवहारासाठी त्यांच्यावर लाचलुचपत आणि अन्य तपास यंत्रणांनी गुन्हेही दाखल केले आहेत. त्या आर्थिक लाभांचा माग काढण्याचं काम ईडीने केलं आहे. त्यानुसार ईडीने केलेल्या तपासात, काळा पैसा पांढरा करण्यासाठी जे व्यवहार कागदावर दाखवण्यात आले, ते सर्व व्यवहार करणाऱ्या कंपन्या प्रत्यक्षात आस्तित्वातच नव्हत्या आणि सर्व व्यवहार फक्त कागदावरच दाखवण्यात आले.

ईडीने हा सर्व तपास करण्यासाठी तब्बल नऊ ठिकाणी छापे टाकले. त्यानंतरच सर्व माहिती उघड झाली.

भुजबळ कुटुंबीयांच्या वेगवेगळ्या कंपन्याच्या संचालकांनी ईडीला दिलेल्या जबाबात हे स्पष्ट केलं आहे की भुजबळ हेच या सर्व कंपन्यांचे सर्वेसर्वा आहेत. तसंच छगन भुजबळ यांच्यावतीने समीर भुजबळ हेच सर्व व्यवहार पाहात होते. त्यांच्या निर्देशानुसारच सर्व व्यवहार झाल्याचं सर्व संचालक ईडीला दिलेल्या जबानीत म्हणतात.

ईडीच्या सुत्रांनी दिलेल्या माहितीनुसार, समीर भुजबळ यांनी तपासाच्या कामात कधीच सहकार्य दिलं नाही. जेव्हा त्यांना काळ्या पैशांचा माग आणि स्रोत विचारण्यात आला तेव्हा त्यांनी कसलाही व्यवहार झाला नाही किंवा कुणाकडूनच कसलीच रक्कम कॉन्ट्रॅक्टच्या बदल्यात घेतली नाही, एवढीच माहिती देत राहिले.

आर्थिक अफरातफर प्रतिबंधक कायद्यातील कलम 50 नुसार समीर भुजबळ यांच्या जबानीत त्यांनी सर्व आरोपांचं खापर चार्टर्ड अकांऊटंट असलेल्या सुनील नाईक यांच्यावर फोडलं आहे. समीर भुजबळ यांच्यामते ते एक सक्रिय राजकारणी असल्यामुळे तसंच नाशिकचे खासदार असल्यामुळे त्यांना कंपन्याच्या दैनंदिन व्यवहारात त्याचं लक्ष नव्हतं. सर्व व्यवहार सुनील नाईक हेच पाहायचे, असंही समीर भुजबळ यांनी जबानीत सांगितलं.

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कोलकता - पाकिस्तानपेक्षा भारतात जास्त प्रेम मिळत असल्याचे वक्तव्य केल्याने अडचणीत आलेला पाकिस्तान कर्णधार शाहिद आफ्रिदीने आपला यातून सकारात्मक संदेश देण्याचा हेतू असल्याचे म्हटले आहे.

भारतात ट्वेंटी-20 विश्वकरंडक खेळण्यासाठी आलेल्या पाकिस्तान संघाचा कर्णधार आफ्रिदी आणि शोएब मलिक यांनी भारताचे गुणगान गात पाकिस्तानपेक्षा भारतात जास्त प्रेम मिळत असल्याचे म्हटले होते. यावर पाकिस्तानमधील क्रिकेटप्रेमी आणि माजी क्रिकेटपटूंकडून आफ्रिदीवर जोरदार टीका करण्यात आली. आफ्रिदीला कायदेशीर नोटीसही पाठविण्यात आली आहे.

यावर स्पष्टीकरण देताना आफ्रिदी म्हणाला की, दोन्ही देशातील क्रिकेट चाहत्यांना सकारात्मक संदेश देण्यासाठी आपण हे वक्तव्य केले होते. मी फक्त येथे पाकिस्तान संघाचा कर्णधार म्हणून आलो नाही, तर मी पाकिस्तानचे प्रतिनिधित्व करत आहे. त्यामुळे माझे वक्तव्याचा सकारात्मक अर्थ घ्यावा. माझी पूर्ण ओळख पाकिस्तानमुळे आहे.

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गुगल प्लेस्टोअरमधील 3 अॅपवर भारतीय लष्कराने घातली बंदी

नवी दिल्ली, दि. १५ - भारतीय लष्कराने गुगल प्लेस्टोअरवर उपलब्ध असणा-या 3 अॅपवर बंदी घातली आहे. पाकिस्तान या अॅपच्या सहाय्याने भारतीय लष्कराची महत्वाची माहिती मिळवत असल्याचा धोका असल्याने ही बंदी घालण्यात आली आहे. वीचॅट, स्मेश आणि लाईम हे अॅप डाऊनलोड न करण्याची सुचना भारतीय लष्कराने फेब्रुवारी महिन्यात जवानांना दिली आहे.

सीएनएन - आयीबएनने दिलेल्या वृत्तानुसार गुगलने याअगोदरच स्मेश हे अॅप काढून टाकले आहे. पाकिस्तान या अॅपच्या सहाय्याने भारतीय लष्कराच्या जवानांवर लक्ष ठेवत असल्याची माहिती तपासात समोर आल्यानंतर हे अॅप काढून टाकण्यात आलं होतं. लष्कराच्या तुकड्यांची हालचाल तसंच दहशतवादी हल्यांविरोधातील कारवाईची माहिती या अॅपच्या सहाय्याने पाकिस्तानला मिळत होती.

भारतीय लष्कराने जवानांना लोकेशन नोटिफिकेशनदेखील बंद ठेवण्यास सांगितलं आहे. आयएसआय सॉफ्टवेअरच्या सहाय्याने भारतीय जवानांचे स्मार्टफोन टॅब करुन ही मिळवत असल्याचं तपासात समोर आलं होतं. पठाणकोट हल्लावेळीदेखील जवानांच्या हालचालीची माहिती मिळवण्यासाठी पाकिस्तानी हँण्डलर याच पद्धतीचा वापर करत असल्याचं तपासात स्पष्ट झालं होतं.

भाजपा आमदाराने घोड्याला केली अमानुष मारहाण, तोडला पाय

डेहराडून, दि. १५ - उत्तराखंडचे मुख्यमंत्री हरीश रावत यांच्याविरोधात सुरू असलेल्या आंदोलनादरम्यान भाजपा आमदाराने एका घोड्यालाबेदम मारहाण केल्यामुळे त्याचा पाय मोडल्याची दुर्दैवी आणि तितकीच धक्कादायक घटना मसुरी येथे घडली. याप्रकरणी पोलिसांनी मसुरी येथील भाजप आमदार गणेश जोशी यांच्याविरोधात गुन्हा दाखल करण्यात आला आहे.

उत्तराखंडचे मुख्यमंत्री हरिश रावत यांनी फंडाचा गैरवापर केल्याचा आरोप करत गणेश जोशी यांनी समर्थकांसह आंदोलन केले. त्यांना रोखण्यासाठी आलेल्या पोलिसांवर जोशी व समर्थकांनी हल्ला चढवला, त्याचवेळी जोशींनी पोलिसांच्या घोड्यावरही हल्ला केला. त्यांनी सुरवातीला घोड्याच्या तोंडावर दांडुका मारला, त्यांनतर त्याच्या पायावर प्रहार केल्याने घोडा खाली कोसळला. या दुर्दैवी घटनेत तो घोडा जबर जखमी झाला असून त्याचा एक पाय मोडला आहे, त्याला इंडियन मिलिटरी अकॅडमीच्या रुग्णालयात दाखल करण्यात आले असून त्याच्या पायावर शस्त्रक्रिया करावी लागणार आहे, अशी माहिती डेहराडूनचे वरिष्ठ पोलिस अधीक्षक सदानंद दाते यांनी दिली.

दरम्यान आपल्या या कृत्याचा जोशी यांना जराही पश्चाताप झालेला दिसत नसून उलट त्यांनी या कृत्याचे समर्थनच केले. ' पोलीस आंदोलकांना निर्दयीपणे मारहाण करत होते, त्यावेळी आम्ही बचावार्थ त्यांच्या काठ्या खेचून घेतल्या. मात्र त्यानंतर पोलिसांनी घोड्यांचा वापर करून आंदोलकांवर नियंत्रण मिळवण्याचा प्रयत्न केला असता, त्या झटापटीत घोड्याला दुखापत झाली. आम्ही काही त्याला मुद्दाम मारहाण केली नाही, आमची चूक नव्हती. त्या घोड्याला संपूर्ण दिवस पाणी आणि जेवण न दिल्यानेच तो खाली कोसळला' असे स्पष्टीकरण जोशी यांनी दिले. याप्रकरणी जोशी यांच्याविरोधात तक्रार दाखल करण्यात आली असून त्यांच्यावर कारवाई करण्याची मागणी होत आहे.

दरम्यान, उत्तराखंडचे मुख्यमंत्री हरीश रावत यांनी या दुर्दैवी घटनेबाबत दु:ख व्यक्त करत घोडा वा कोणत्याही मुक्या प्राण्याला अशा घटनेत ओढणे चुकीचे असल्याचे म्हटले. तसेच भाजपच्या शब्दकोशात सहिष्णु हा शब्दच नसल्याची टीकाही त्यांनी केली.

भुजबळांवरील कारवाई राजकीय हेतूने प्रेरित - शरद पवार

मुंबई, दि. १५ - छगन भुजबळ यांच्यावरील कारवाई राजकीय हेतूने प्रेरित होऊन करण्यात आली आहे, असा आरोप राष्ट्रवादी काँग्रेस अध्यक्ष शरद पवार यांनी केला आहे. मनी लाँडरिंगच्या आरोपावरून सक्त वसुली संचालनालयाने (ईडी) सोमवारी रात्री १० वाजता भुजबळ यांना अटक केली. ते उत्पन्नाच्या स्रोतांची माहिती देऊ न शकल्याने आणि चौकशीमध्ये सहकार्य करीत नसल्याने त्यांना अटक करण्यात आली, असे ईडीच्या अधिकाऱ्यांनी रात्री सांगितले.

या पार्श्वभूमीवर आज शरद पवार यांनी भुजबळ यांची पाठराखण करत पक्ष संपूर्णपणे त्यांच्या पाठिशी असल्याचे नमूद केले. भुजबळांसाठी पक्ष कायदेशीर लढाईदेखील लढेल असेही त्यांनी सांगितले.

तसेच महाराष्ट्र सदनासंबंधीचे निर्णय फक्त भुजबळांनी घेतले नाहीत, तर ते निर्णय संपूर्ण मंत्रिमंडळाचे होते असं सांगत पवारांनी भुजबळांची पाठराखण केली.

दरम्यान भुजबळांच्या अटकेचे राज्यभरात पडसाद उमटले असून भुजबळ समर्थकांनी विविध ठिकाणी रास्तारोको करत निदर्शने केली. तसेच विधानभवनाच्या पाय-यांवरही आंदोलन करत सरकारविरोधात घोषणा दिल्या.

- छगन भुजबळ यांना केलेल्या अटकेचा आज राष्ट्रवादी काँग्रेस पक्षासहित काँग्रेस, पिपल्स रिपब्लिकन पार्टी ऑफ इंडियाच्या आमदारांनी विधीमंडळाच्या पायऱ्यावर हाताला काळ्या फिती बांधून निषेध व्यक्त केला.

- आजच्या कामकाजाला सुरूवात झाल्यानंतर विधानसभेतही या आंदोलनाचे पडसाद उमटले. - नियम ९७ अन्वये जयंत पाटील यांनी सभागृहात स्थगन प्रस्ताव आणून छगन भुजबळ यांच्या अटकेविषयी सर्व कामकाज बाजूला ठेवून चर्चेची मागणी केली होती.

- विधानसभा अध्यक्षांनी हा प्रस्ताव फेटाळला. या निषेधार्थ विधानसभेत विरोधकांनी तीव्र स्वरांत आवाज उठवला.

- विधानपरिषदेमध्ये २८९ अन्वये विरोधी पक्षनेते धनंजय मुंडे यांनी स्थगन प्रस्ताव आणून भुजबळ यांच्या अटकेच्या बाबत चर्चा करण्याची मागणी केली.

- मात्र सभापती रामराजे नाईक निंबाळकर यांनी प्रश्नोत्तराचा तास आधी घेऊ असे सांगताच गोंधळ उडाला. त्यामुळे परिषद अर्ध्या तासासाठी तहकूब करण्यात आली.

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