Saturday, 8 April 2017

Nangli Sahib Nangli Tirath

Nangli Tirath, a final destination of His Holiness Satguru Swami Shri Nangli Niwasi Bhagwaan ji, a sacred sanctum, is located at Nangli Tirath village in Meerut District and is few kilometers off the Delhi-Haridwar Highway. It houses the holliest grave of Satguru Swami Shri Shri 1008 Shri Swami Swaroopanand Ji Maharaj also called His Holiness Satguru Swami Shri Nangli Niwasi Bhagwaan ji, a saint, who sanctified the village by his visit. The path from the main road to the teerth has 84 turns on it, which symbolizes the mukti (salvation) through eighty four lakh yonis. Thousands of devotees from various parts of India visit this tirath. Shree Nangli Sahib Tirath / Satguru Nagar is Shri Guru Maharaj Ji's abode. This place is situated about 12 K.M away from Sakauti Tanda, one has to go off the main Road of Delhi Dehradun Road. One has to take a right turn on the high way, while facing the dehradun and coming from Delhi, just before the Sakauti Tanda Railway Station.

His Holiness Satguru Swami Shri Nangli niwasi Bhagwaan ji


The Supreme power has bound the nature in a particular system in order to manage the universe. Nothing in the universe is in disorder. Ages over ages passes away but His rules and principles as regards to nature remained untouched inspite of heavily destructions world-wide. The regulations and management of nature has been successfully in operation since inception and this will continue and go on forever unchanged. It is obvious that nature is incessantly managing its work silently as per rules set by its Creator. It surprises the intellectuals and scientists about systematic work of the nature; hence it appears that every particle of this world is bound by some particular rules. In means wherever a thing is demanded, its arrangements are pre- ordained by nature with adequate speed. In spiritualism also, the same principle follows. It has been an age long tradition that Spiritual Knowledge transfuse from one heart to another as a result the Great Souls take human form/birth at a place, at fixed times.


Incarnation of His Holineolor: #333333; text-align: justify;" />Either Creator orders Saint to take birth or sometime the Creator Himself decides to born in human form for particular task. Hence Almighty in the form of Perfect Saint Shri Shri 1008 Swami Swarupanand Ji Maharaj[His Holiness Satguru Swami Shri Nangli niwasi Bhagwaan ji] took birth on the most auspicious day of Basant, on Friday, the 1st Day of Feburary, 1884 A.D., or 20th Magh, Samwat 1940 Bikrami in a reputed Vasudeva family at Teri in Tehsil Banda, in District Kohat of North. West. Frontier. Province., Whose advent was long awaited. The relatives present at that time realized that a divine light appeared in His home as a true message that He would reform and bring about a radical change in ethical and spiritual life. Moreover, there were no signs of weeping as generally when a child is born, instead a sweet smile seen on the beautiful lips of the Divine Child. Revered Lala Prabhu Dayal Ji was His father and Smt. Radha Devi enjoyed the honour of being called His mother.
Teri at that time was experiencing extreme cruelty and utmost injustice, as compared to the rest of the country. The piteous calls of the God loving people approached the Almighty. The Excessiveness of cruel pathans were a routine at that time and even for petty matters they had no fear to shoot or murder with sword. They also used to kidnap hindus for ransom. Therefore He had to make Teri, His birthplace, the moment He touched that piece of earth with His sacred feet, that land becomes celebrated. In view of the above, the Second Guru had chosen to bless the Frontier Province and put the people of that very state on the right path by kindling in them the flame of devotion.


Hindi Quote:-

A“Kulam pavitram jananni kritartha vasundra punyawati ch tain”

English version:-

Fortunate were the parents, the clan and the house where the sun of knowledge, who was destined to shine forth in all the three worlds, appeared.

Mother’s Experience


Sometime before the birth of Second Guru, His mother share experiences used to say, “I never know who plays the flute in my ears and remained attached while listening different spiritual music’s.” As a result, the mother had become munificent by nature. Faquirs and beggars got whatever demanded and if any family member advised her to restraint, she used to say that she was only complying with the orders of someone else as such she was helpless.

Extraordinary Acts of Childhood
The people of Teri impressed by His Divine glory and extraordinary acts, they could not restrain exclaiming that He was an Incarnate (god in human form) and not an ordinary person. Hence He was worshipped in each and every house. The residents of the area were deeply impressed due to His extraordinary virtues, they used to ask Him as to what was there in the fist, and His reply surprised everyone when they found His prediction would come out true. As people would begin to praise He would prefer to avoid wrangle and escape. He used to spend most of His time in meditation. There was divine intoxication in His eyes and a halo of indescribable splendour around his head, which bewitched the hearts of the devotees. These people often told His near relatives that He was surely an accomplished Faquir(Saint) and He was not born to lead the worldly life. They used to invite Second Guru into their homes, expressed their love & devotion, touch feet to realize eternal peace.

Here displaying His few childhood glimpses are only like a drop from the ocean. Various acts of the Second Guru could not be described here, because His extraordinary spiritual powers as well as performances can not be confined to any limits. Those were indeed fortunate people, who were present and had seen such acts and experienced His Divine personality. There is another ‘leela’(act) of His childhood when he was hardly three months old, His revered mother Radha went to a Deity temple to worship, at a hill along with Second Guru and other ladies friends. As she had to go for worship, she laid down Second Guru on a stone nearby. After completing riutals she came out, she was deeply depressed not to find Him there. No whereabouts of Him were noticed in spite of thorough search, several enquiries from her near and dear ones but all were surprised as to where the Divine Child had gone. Mother Radha suspected that some wild animal might have taken Him away. As such, when all their efforts proved disappointing, none in the family take food even for three days due to deep sorrow. After three days, the Pujari of the Temple approached their house and informed that innocent child lying unattended at the Temple balcony. Everyone was overjoyed to listen the good news and later found that the child was none else but whom all of them had been searching for three days. So he rejoicing brought Him home. There was no end to the happiness, performed number of auspicious ceremonies to find her child come back safe. Who knows the import behind this incident? He thereby, made it clear; that someone else who was born and He is unborn as such entered the body only after natural milk of the mother got pure.


After few days of the above incident a Faquir with long hairs came before his house. His revered mother offered some alms for him. The Faquir refused to accept anything, saying that he had visited only to have a glimpse of her child. It indicates the signs of His greatness and confirmed the fact that He was the Puran Sadguru (Perfect Master). At this mother feared and refused to bring the child before the Faquir. But the Faquir was insisting on seeing the child. In the meanwhile Pandit Hemraj ji approached there and came to know the wishes of the Faquir. Pandit Ji turned to His mother and said, “There is no harm in bringing the child out to attain blessings alone.” The Faqir apprised Pandit ji about his intent desire to see the child. Then Pandit Ji brought the child before the Faquir, who took Him in his arms and for some time kept gazing at Him; very affectionately asked Him, ‘Do you recognize me?” The child looked at his face and smiled. Before Pandit Ji took inside and laid Him in the cradle, the Faqir was nowhere to be found. Pandit ji made an intensive search for the faquir, but the faquir disappeared. It seemed as if some god from heaven had come in disguise to have His divine look.’ It is indeed beyond the human intellect to guess as to whom that Faquir was, but his wish was duly fulfilled by seeing the smile on the Divine Child’s face. This incident also reminds us the Child days of lord shri Krishna, when god shiva in form of faquir with matted hair came to Gokul to have a glimpse of bal gopal (divine infant), mother yashoda expressed her inability to meet his demand as she had harboured the idea, that perhaps the Faqir might conjure her child. But the Faquir was also adamant and insisted on seeing the child. After several requests mother yashoda brought the child before him, the faquir then took the divine child in his arms and looked at with great devotion. As such same incident repeats here.
Since childhood He never went to any school but whenever any person would ask Him to study, He would begin discussion in detail on some spiritual topic. He used to ask whether bookish knowledge alone was the measure to know the depth of one understands. Greatness, according to Him, lay in knowing one’s own self. Even intelligent and highly educated people surprised at it. In fact He studied that lesson from where all education originates. When He grew about nine years old, He would go to the mountain caves bare footed in order to get absorbed there in meditation, if anyone noticed Him in meditation He would change the place of meditation, as real Saints never allowed to be known as great.
When Second Guru was hardly thirteen, family members insisted Him to take interest in business in order to share burden. But He had come from Heaven to trade in Truth and not to get Himself engaged in worldly affairs. That was why He never paid any attention to business. If ever He sat in the shop and a customer asked for some goods He would give and never ask for money. As such family members asked him not to do business and do whatever you want. He has come in the world to liberate one and all. Emperors of the world could not equal even the dust of His sacred feet.

9 Meditation Tips from Paramhansa Yogananda


9 Meditation Tips from Paramhansa Yogananda

How easy the spiritual path is, if you give even a little time each day to meditation. Meditate intensely, morning and evening. Even fifteen minutes of meditation is better than no time at all. Better still, make it half an hour, or even one hour.
—Paramhansa Yogananda
1. Every sincere effort is registered in the divine consciousness. Your duty as a devotee is to accept whatever [God] sends you — and, for that matter, whatever He doesn’t send. God alone knows what past karma keeps you from perceiving Him right now. He may want you to finish up your karma in this life, before He gives you eternal bliss in Him.

2. Do not be anxious if you don’t have meditative experiences. The path to God is not a circus! Don’t even be anxious about such fruits of meditation as inner joy and peace. Everything will come in God’s time. Meanwhile, consider meditation, too, as a form of karma yoga: action without desire for the fruits of action. Meditate above all to please God, not yourself.

3. In meditation, you must go beyond thought. As long as you are busy thinking, you are in your rational mind, on the conscious plane. When you sleep and dream, you are on the subconscious plane, and in your astral body. And when your mind is fully withdrawn in superconsciousness, it becomes centered in the bliss of the spine. You are then in your ideational, or causal, body. That is the level of the soul’s existence.

4. Don’t waste the perception of God’s presence, acquired in meditation, by useless chatting. Idle words are like bullets: they riddle the milk pail of peace. In devoting time unnecessarily to conversation and exuberant laughter, you’ll find you have nothing left inside. Fill the pail of your consciousness with the milk of meditative peace, then keep it filled. Joking is false happiness. Too much laughter riddles the mind and lets the peace in the bucket flow out, wasting it.

5. Meditate regularly, and you will find a joy inside that is real. You will then have something you can compare to sense pleasures. That comparison will automatically make you want to forsake your sorrow-producing bad habits. The best way to overcome temptation is to have something more fulfilling to compare it with.

6. Never count your faults. Just think whether you love God enough. He doesn’t mind your faults. He minds your indifference.

7. Many people meditate till they feel a touch of peace, but jump up then and leave their meditation for their activities. That’s all right, if you have important work waiting for you, for it is always better to meditate before any activity, that you may feel at least some peace as you work. Whenever possible, however, sit for a long time after your practice of the techniques. That is when the deepest enjoyment comes. Intuition is developed by continuously deepening that enjoyment, and, later on, by holding on to its calm aftereffect.

8. God answers all prayers. Restless prayers, however, He answers only a little bit. If you offer to others something that isn’t yours to give, won’t that be a merely empty gesture? If you pray to God, similarly, but lack control over your own thoughts, that prayer will be without power. Thoughts and feelings, both, must be focused when you pray. Otherwise God will meet your little trickle with another trickle of His own! He will dole His answers out to you in a teaspoon. Too often, prayer is more like the halfhearted mumbling of a beggar than the confident, loving demand of a friend.

9. You won’t find God by making constant excuses: for example, saying, “When I find a quiet place, I will meditate.” That is not at all the way to get there! If you tell yourself, however, “Right now I will plunge into deep meditation!” you can be there in a moment. When you are really sleepy, you have no difficulty in sleeping no matter where you are. When a person is in love, he finds no difficulty in thinking of his beloved; rather, it is difficult not to think of her, even to the point of ignoring his work. Be in love with God! It is easy to meditate deeply, when your love for Him is deep enough.

Bramha Rishi Yogiraj Shree Devraha Baba


Devraha Baba (died 19 May 1990), also spelled Deoraha baba was an Indian Siddha Yogi saint who lived beside the Yamuna river in Mathura. He was known as "ageless Yogi with a secular image". He was known as a sadhu who preached harmony between religious communities.

Devraha Baba was a siddha who lived for over 250 years, before entering Samadhi in 1989. Dr. Rajendra Prashad, who was the first president of India, verified Devraha Baba's old age. He said that he personally attests to Devraha Baba being at least 150 years old. He said that when he was 73 years old that his father took him to see Baba in young age, when Baba was a very old man. His father already had known Baba for many years before that. An Allahabad High Court Barrister had stated that seven generations of his family had sat at the feet of Devraha Baba. Incidentally, Devraha Baba had predicted the time of his death five years in advance.

Devraha was described as a "fully God realized master" and "an ageless saint of legendary repute". One legend has it that Devraha blessed Tulsidas (1532 – 1623), which would make him even over 500 years old.[3] A rough estimate is that around the world, his devotees may number in hundreds of thousands to millions of people.



He was always radiating love. He was Premasvarupa, the embodiment and incarnation of true spiritual love. People of all castes and states came from every corner of India to worship him.
Devraha Baba never took food, and never set foot on the ground. According to Devraha he wasn't born from a woman's womb, but emerged from water.He lived in a unique hut that was raised off the ground by bamboo poles.Devraha Baba was a yogi who lived just such a lifestyle.

Devraha Baba’s first tapobhumi – Mael Tehsil District: Deoria (U.P.) located on river bank. This area was called as Devar....... in local language......Bhojpuri. He left this place Mael Distict : Deoria located near LAR ROAD Railway Station which is situated between Salempur Jn & Varanasi Jn,  after a long journey and showering his blessings on people of this area and shifted to Vrindaban- Mathura lived beside the Yamuna river in Mathura till mahasamadhi.He lived on a 12-foot-high wooden platform where he usually remained stark naked.He never ate food. He only drank water from the Yamuna River.He could be in two places simultaneously (a siddhi described in Patanjali's Yoga Sutras). Another attributed miracle was his ability to stay underwater for 30 minutes at a time, without resurfacing for air.He could also allegedly understand the language of animals, control wild animals, heal people by his look or word, and tell the future.


He always radiated love. He was a Premaswarupa, an incarnation of love. He gave darshan (spiritual blessing) to devotees who came to pay homage. Many came to visit this great illustrious saint. People came from all over India and from all walks of life. He was a favorite among India's senior politicians, and was visited by Mrs. Indira and Mr. Rajiv Gandhi. Ministers, saints, yogis, priests, rich and poor all came for Baba's darshan.

Regardless of his exact longevity, celebrities flocked to secure his blessings. President Rajendra Prasad, accompanied by the Uttar Pradesh governor K.M. Munshi, chief minister Sampurnanand, Lal Bahadur Shastri and C.B. Gupta, conducted a puja of the Devraha Baba during Kumbh Mela. Indira Gandhi too met the Baba and was said to be a devotee. Before beginning his election campaign in Faizabad on November 6, 1989, Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, accompanied by the home minister Buta Singh, UP chief minister N.D. Tiwari and K.Natwar Singh, spent 40 minutes with the Baba.
 Among many other the names Madhu Chenna Reddy & Balram Jakhad are also taken.

Devraha Baba at the greatest celebrations of Kumbh Mela in India, which takes place every 12 years, was recorded 12 times. 

• Devraha Baba would sit silently in front of his little hut during those festivals -Kumbh mela , when he was available for darshan, and would not speak. The tension for the listener would grow, until Baba would suddenly begin to offer a discourse, usually on Krishna devotion as a path opposed to the pleasures of this world. Devraha's voice challenged in its unpredictability: he would withhold his presence and voice, sitting hidden inside his aerial hut and then would suddenly appear, sit silently in view, and then suddenly speak.

Longevity Miracle: Devraha Baba was 250 + years old when he took Samadhi but not confirmed his exact age

Various researches on done on the miracle of his longevity. He was considered as “ The Ageless Yogi”.


What if a person does not eat at all, but is able to switch his body metabolism into living directly off of sunshine, can he prolong his life? Recent studies made on behalf of NASA, as well as other prior scientific research studies have proven that humans can live without food. They do not understand why or how, only that it is possible for humans to do so. 

If a person were able to draw his required energy from cosmic sources he would eliminate the toxic fallout (free radicals and Ecs) that occurs from eating food, and this would help him prolong his life span. And, if the person practiced meditation and lived a relaxed lifestyle (thus lowering his metabolism), and also practiced yoga postures (stimulating his endocrine system), his life span would surely be prolonged. Taking these three factors together, it should be possible for a person living such a lifestyle to extend his life span dramatically.

The ancient teachings of the Rishis, which heretofore have been kept secret and only shared with the closest of disciples, now are readily available to everyone. As more people begin meditation practices and learn to tap their inner cosmic energies, and as medical science moves towards eradicating all diseases, it is conceivable that the human life span will be extended by decades if not by centuries.

The importance of the voice draws more on generational than divine transaction. The old body becomes a source of powerful charisma when it no longer constitutes a threat to children seeking legitimating of the morality of their appropriation of the household. 

My birth place Tairia,Salempur,Deoria is hardly 15 Kilometers from this place-Mael. I had  visited this holy place many times when Baba was there and was  fortunate enough to have  Darshan, blessing and prasadam every time. And at last a diksha to recite.

For More visit.. http://devrahababa.iconosites.com/

Thursday, 6 April 2017

Amit Shah

Amitbhai Anilchandra "AmitShah (born 22 October 1964) is an Indian politician Gujarat and the current President of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Shah was elected as an MLA from Sarkhej in four consecutive elections: 1997 (by-election), 1998, 2002 and 2007. 
He is a close associate of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and held a number of portfolios in the state government during Modi's tenure as Chief Minister of Gujarat. He is the MLA from Naranpura, elected in the 2012 elections.
Shah was the BJP's in-charge for India's largest and most politically crucial state, Uttar Pradesh, during the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. The BJP and its allies swept the entire state, registering their best ever performance, by winning 73 out of 80 seats. As a result, Shah rose to national prominence and was appointed as the party's national president in July 2014.
Under his leadership, BJP achieved success in Legislative Assembly elections in MaharashtraHaryanaJammu & KashmirJharkhand and Assam in 2014, but lost the elections in Delhi and Bihar in 2015. In 2017, he led the party towards landslide victory in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand and marked the party's strong debut in Manipur, but the Akali-BJP alliance lost power in Punjab. BJP also won 13 seats in Goa and now tactfully runs a coalition government with Manohar Parrikar as the CM for the 4th time.
Early life
Amit Shah was born in Mumbai, in a well-to-do Jain Gujarati-baniya family.His father Mansa, owned a successful PVC pipe business.He did his schooling in Mehsana and moved to Ahmedabad to study biochemistry at CU Shah Science College. He graduated with a B.Sc. degree in biochemistry, and then worked for his father's business.He also worked as a stockbroker and in co-operative banks in Ahmedabad.
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Anilchandra Shah, a businessman from
Shah was involved with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh since childhood, participating in the neighbourhood shakhas (branches) as a boy. He formally became an RSS swayamsevak (volunteer) during his college days in Ahmedabad. He first met Narendra Modi in 1982 through Ahmedabad RSS circles. At that time, Modi was an RSS pracharak (propagator), working as in-charge of youth activities in city.
Early political career
Amit Shah started his political career as a leader of the student wing of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, in 1983.He joined BJP in 1986, one year before Modi joined the party.He became an activist of BJP's youth wing Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) in 1987. He then gradually rose in the BJYM hierarchy, holding various posts including that of ward secretary, taluka secretary, state secretary, vice-president, and general secretary.He campaigned for Lal Krishna Advani in Gandhinagar during the 1991 Lok Sabha elections.
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In 1995, BJP formed its first government in Gujarat, with Keshubhai Patel as the Chief Minister. At that time, BJP's main rival Indian National Congress was highly influential in rural Gujarat. Modi and Shah worked together to decimate Congress in the rural areas. Their pradhan (village chief) post in various villages.
strategy was to find the second most influential leader in every village, and get him or her to join BJP. They created a network of 8,000 influential rural leaders who had lost elections to the
Modi and Shah used the same strategy to reduce Congress' influence over the state's powerful co-operatives, which play an important role in the state's economy. In 1999, Shah was elected as the President of Ahmedabad District Cooperative Bank (ADCB), the biggest cooperative bank in India. In Gujarat, such elections had traditionally been won on the caste considerations, and the co-operative banks had traditionally been controlled by PatelsGaderias and Kshatriyas. Despite not belonging to any of these castes, Shah managed to win the election. At that time, the bank was on the verge of collapsing, having accumulated  36 crore. Shah turned around the bank's fortune within a year's time: the next year, the bank registered a profit of  27 crore. By 2014, the bank's profit had increased to around  250 crore.Shah also ensured that 11 of the Bank's 22 directors were BJP loyalists.
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Modi and Shah also sought to reduce the Congress hold over sports bodies in the state.Shah served as the President of Gujarat State Chess Association.In 2009, he became the vice-president of the cash-rich Gujarat Cricket Association (GCA), when Narendra Modi served as its President. In 2014, after Modi became Prime Minister of India, Shah became the President of GCA.
Modi, who had become a general secretary in the party's state unit by the early 1990s, used his influence to get bigger roles for Shah. He convinced Patel to appoint Shah as the chairman of the Gujarat State Financial Corporation, a public sector financial institution which finances small and medium-scale enterprises. After Shankersinh Vaghela and some other leaders complained about Modi's growing clout in the Gujarat government, the party leadership moved Modi out of Gujarat, to the BJP headquarters in Delhi. During this time (1995-2001), Shah served as Modi's informer in Gujarat.
In 1997, Modi lobbied to get Shah a BJP ticket for the Gujarat Legislative Assembly by-election in Sarkhej. Shah became an MLA in February 1997 after winning the by-election.He retained his seat in the 1998 Assembly elections.
As a Gujarat minister

PM Modi addresses a BJP National Council Meet
In October 2001, BJP replaced Keshubhai Patel with Narendra Modi as the chief minister of Gujarat, following allegations of inefficient administration. Over the next few years, Modi and Shah gradually sidelined their political rivals.
Amit Shah contested the 2002 Assembly election from the Sarkhej constituency in Ahmedabad. He won by the highest margin among all candidates: 158,036 votes. In the 2007 Assembly election, he won from Sarkhej again, improving his margin of victory.
During Narendra Modi's twelve-year tenure as the Gujarat CM, Shah emerged as one of the most powerful leaders in Gujarat. After winning the 2002 elections, he became the youngest minister in the Modi government, and was given multiple portfolios. At one time, he held 12 portfolios: Home, Law and Justice, Prison, Border Security, Civil Defence, Excise, Transport, Prohibition, Home Guards, Gram Rakshak Dal, Police Housing, and Legislative and Parliamentary Affairs.
In 2004, the Congress-led Central Government announced its intention to repeal the Prevention of Terrorism Act, calling it regressive. Amit Shah piloted the Gujarat Control of Organised Crime (Amendment) Bill through Gujarat state assembly amid an opposition walk-out. Shah also played an important role in convincing the Narendra Modi government to pass the Gujarat Freedom of Religion Act, which made religious conversions difficult in the Hindu-majority Gujarat. His opponents argued that the Act went against the rights guaranteed by the Indian Constitution, but Shah defended the bill, calling it a measure against forced conversions. His efforts in getting the bill passed impressed the senior leadership of RSS.

Police encounter cases


Amit shah and Udit Raj
In 2010, Amit Shah was accused of having orchestrated the extrajudicial killings of a criminal Sohrabuddin Sheikh, his wife Kauser Bai and his criminal associate Tulsiram Prajapati. According to the CBI, Sohrabuddin had been harassing some marble traders of Rajasthan, by demanding hefty protection money. CBI claimed that two of these marble traders paid Amit Shah to eliminate Sohrabuddin. Amit Shah, along with the police officers DIG DG Vanzara and SP Rajkumar Pandian, allegedly hatched a plan to kill Sohrabuddin. In 2004, DCP Abhay Chudasama pressured Sohrabuddin and Tulsiram to fire at the office of two builder brothers - Raman Patel and Dashrath Patel.
This was done so that a fresh criminal case could be registered against Sohrabuddin and Tulsiram. The next year, the police picked up Sohrabuddin, Kausar Bi and Tulsiram, and took them to a farmhouse near Ahmedabad. Sohrabuddin was killed in a staged attack, with Vanzara claiming that he was a Lashkar-e-Taiba operative. Kausar Bi was also killed and cremated for being a witness. Tulsiram was initially let off, as he was an informer of Vanzara. He was eliminated later, after Sohrabuddin's death was exposed as an extrajudicial killing by a journalist. CBI claimed that Amit Shah had transferred Vanzara to various places in order to facilitate these killings.
Vanzara and several other officers were arrested in the case. As proof of Amit Shah's involvement in the crimes, the CBI presented phone call records, which showed that Shah had been in touch with the accused police officers when the victims were in their illegal custody. It also presented video tapes of Patel brothers' conversations with two of Amit Shah's associates at Ahmedabad District Cooperative Bank (ADCB). In the tape, ADCB Director Yashpal Chudasama and its Chairman Ajay Patel can be seen asking the brothers not to involve Amit Shah's name in the case. Yashpal Chudasama is the brother of the accused police officer Abhay Chudasama. According to CBI, Abhay used to run an extortion racket, with Sohrabuddin as his henchman.The Patel brothers, who had several criminal cases against them, also spoke against Amit Shah. They claimed that the police had falsely implicated them into various cases between 2001-2005 in order to extort money from them. They also claimed that Vanzara made them talk to Amit Shah over phone, and Amit Shah threatened them into giving a statement against Sohrabuddin and Tulsiram. They further stated that, in 2006, Ajay Patel and Abhay Chudasama called them again on behalf of Amit Shah, asking them to give certain statements to CBI.

Shah dismissed all the accusations against him as politically motivated. He pointed out that during his tenure as the Home Minister, Gujarat was one of the states with minimum number of police encounters in the country. He stated that he kept in touch with the police officers on the phone in the normal course of his duties as the home minister. He accused the Congress of misusing CBI, and claimed that only the encounter cases in Gujarat were being scrutinized when the rest of the country had witnessed around 1500 encounters during the same period. He said that if CBI had any solid evidence against him, it would have been able to frame charges against him. In 2010, Police Commissioner Geeta Johri, who first investigated the case, claimed that CBI was pressurizing her to falsely implicate Amit Shah in the Sohrabuddin case.
DG Vanzara was also accused in the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case, but the CBI gave Amit Shah a clean chit in the case.

Wednesday, 5 April 2017

Narendra Damodardas Modi

Narendra Damodardas Modi, born 17 September 1950) is an Indian politician who is 14th and current Prime Minister of India, in office since May 2014. He was the Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014, and is the Member of Parliament for Varanasi. Modi, a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), is a Hindu nationalist and member of the right-wing Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).
Born to a Gujarati family in Vadnagar, Modi helped his father sell tea as a child, and later ran his own stall. He was introduced to the RSS at the age of eight, beginning a long association with the organisation. He left home after graduating from school, partly because of an arranged marriage which he rejected. Modi traveled around India for two years, and visited a number of religious centers. He returned to Gujarat and moved to Ahmedabad in 1969 or 1970. In 1971 he became a full-time worker for the RSS. During the state of emergency imposed across the country in 1975, Modi was forced to go into hiding. The RSS assigned him to the BJP in 1985, and he held several positions within the party hierarchy until 2001, rising to the rank of general secretary.
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Modi was appointed chief minister of Gujarat in 2001, due to Keshubhai Patel's failing health and poor public image following the earthquake in Bhuj. Modi was elected to the legislative assembly soon after. His administration has been considered complicit in the 2002 Gujarat riots,[a] or otherwise criticised for its handling of it, although a court found no evidence to prosecute Modi. His policies as chief minister, credited with encouraging economic growth, have received praise,and several industrial projects were begun during his tenure. His administration has been criticized for failing to significantly improve health, poverty, and education indices in the state.
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Modi led the BJP in the 2014 general election, which gave the party a majority in the Lok Sabha, the first time a single party had achieved this since 1984. Modi himself was elected to parliament from Varanasi. Since taking office, Modi's administration has tried to raise foreign direct investment in the Indian economy, increased spending on infrastructure, and reduced spending on health and social welfare programmes. Modi has attempted to improve efficiency in the bureaucracy, and centralised power through the abolition of the planning commission. He has begun a high-profile sanitation campaign, and weakened or abolished environmental and labour laws. Credited with engineering a political realignment towards right-wing politics, Modi remains a figure of controversy domestically and internationally over his Hindu nationalist beliefs and his role during the 2002 Gujarat riots, cited as evidence of an exclusionary social agenda.

Early life and education
Narendra Modi was born on 17 September 1950 to a family of grocers in VadnagarMehsana districtBombay State (present-day Gujarat). He was the third of six children born to Damodardas Mulchand Modi (c.1915 - 1989) and Hiraben Modi (born c.1920).Modi's family belonged to the Modh-Ghanchi-Teli (oil-presser) community,which is categorized as an Other Backward Class by the Indian government.

As a child, Modi helped his father sell tea at the Vadnagar railway station, and later ran a tea stall with his brother near a bus terminus. Modi completed his higher secondary education in Vadnagar in 1967, where a teacher described him as an average student and a keen debater, with an interest in theatre. Modi had an early gift for rhetoric in debates, and this was noted by his teachers and students. Modi preferred playing larger-than-life characters in theatrical productions, which has influenced his political image.
When eight years old, Modi discovered the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), and began attending its local shakhas (training sessions). There, Modi met Lakshmanrao Inamdar, popularly known as Vakil Saheb, who inducted him as a balswayamsevak (junior cadet) for RSS and became his political mentor. While Modi was training with the RSS, he also met Vasant Gajendragadkar and Nathalal Jaghda, Bharatiya Jana Sangh leaders who were founding members of the BJP's Gujarat unit in 1980. Engaged while still a child to Jashodaben Narendrabhai Modi, a girl from a family who lived close by, Modi rejected the arranged marriage at the same time he graduated from high school. The resulting familial tensions contributed to his decision to leave home in 1967.

Modi spent the ensuing two years travelling across Northern and North-eastern India, though few details of where he went have emerged.[31] In interviews, Modi has described visiting Hindu ashrams founded by Swami Vivekananda: the Belur Math near Kolkata, followed by the Advaita Ashrama in Almora and the Ramakrishna Mission in Rajkot. Modi remained only a short time at each, since he lacked the required college education.Vivekananda has been described as a large influence in Modi's life.[35]

In the early summer of 1968, Modi reached the Belur Math but was turned away, after which Modi wandered through Calcutta, West Bengal and Assam, stopping in Siliguri and Guwahati. Modi then went to the Ramakrishna Ashram in Almora, where he was again rejected, before travelling back to Gujarat via Delhi and Rajasthan in 1968–69.Sometime in late 1969 or early 1970, Modi returned to Vadnagar for a brief visit before leaving again for Ahmedabad.[38] There, Modi lived with his uncle, working in the latter's canteen at the Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation.

In Ahmedabad, Modi renewed his acquaintance with Inamdar, who was based at the Hedgewar Bhavan (RSS headquarters) in the city.After the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, he stopped working for his uncle and became a full-time pracharak (campaigner) for the RSS, working under Inamdar.Shortly before the war, Modi took part in a non-violent protest against the Indian government in New Delhi, for which he was arrested; this has been cited as a reason for Inamdar electing to mentor him. Many years later Modi would co-author a biography of Inamdar, published in 2001.In 1978 Modi received a degree in political science after a distance-education course from Delhi University.Five years later, in 1982, he received a Master of Arts degree in political science from Gujarat University.
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