Team Anna upset with Ramdev

New Delhi: Within a month of stitching an alliance to fight corruption, Team Anna is now fuming at yoga guru Ramdev for his "one-up manship" and "not taking into confidence" Anna Hazare while announcing the future course of action.
Hazare had a meeting with Ramdev on Friday at Gurgaon following which a press meet was arranged, which Team Anna claims they were unaware of.
At the press conference, Hazare and Ramdev announced a series of agitations starting from May one followed by a joint fast at Jantar Mantar on June three. On May one, Hazare will start his agitation from Shirdi while Ramdev will embark on an yatra from Durg in Chhattisgarh.

Team Anna, sources said, have expressed their unhappiness at the press meet organised by Ramdev without taking Hazare nto confidence to announce the agitation plans.
Also, a section in the Hazare camp has apprehensions about involving Ramdev in the anti-corruption movement as he has a "credibility crisis" due to allegations against the yoga guru's Patanjali Yogpeeth and his close aide.
After an on-and-off relationship for about an year, Hazare had announced last month that both Team Anna and Ramdev will support each other and will participate in each other's agitations against corruption.
According to Team Anna sources, they do not have any problems with the announcement of agitations. "If Anna decides on agitation, nobody will have objections. But the issue here is that Ramdev played one-up manship and he did not take Anna into confidence.
"He had sought a meeting to discuss issues. But after the meeting he was forced to attend the media briefing. We have serious objections to this," a Team Anna member said. Ramdev's spokesperson SK Tijariwala could not be reached for comments. Meanwhile, Team Anna's Core Committee will be meeting in Noida tomorrow to decide on the future course of action. The issue involving Ramdev is likely to be discussed in the meeting which will be attended by Hazare and other prominent members.

Anna Hazare to tour Maharashtra for strong Lokayukta

Ralegan Siddhi: Anna Hazare will from May 1 start his month-long tour in the state to spread awareness about a strong Lokayukta bill, an aide said in Ralegan Siddhi on Tuesday.
"Annaji is going tour entire Maharashtra starting on Maharashtra Day which falls on May 1 to spread awareness about a strong and effective Lokayukta bill," Hazare's associate Anil Sharma told IANS.
"He will start from Shirdi in Ahmednagar district from May 1. His tour will culminate June 6. We are still finalising his schedule," he added.

Hazare had, on April 12, written to Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan, urging him to initiate steps to table a strong Lokayukta bill in the legislature.
The state-wide tour is aimed at educating the common people about the Lokayukta law and to urge them to be ready for an agitation if the government failed to bring a strong Lokayukta, the letter said.
The draft of the Lokayukta bill should not be prepared by the government only and there should be participation of civil society also, Hazare said in the letter.

Anna, Ramdev joint protest fast on June 3

New Delhi: Launching a new tirade against government on the issues of blackmoney and corruption, Yoga guru Baba Ramdev on Friday announced that he will undertake a symbolic protest along with social activist Anna Hazare on June 3. He said that his nationwide agitation will start from May 1. He also warned that the country will see a bigger moment from August.

"We need two andolans (moments) to bring back black money and for strong Lokpal. I will sit on a token fast with Anna on June 3. We will start an agitation from Durg in Chhattisgarh from May 1. Anna will lso start his yatra from Shirdi from May 1. Anna will reach Delhi by the evening of June 2," Ramdev said.
Speaking about his future course of action to take on the government on the issue of the Lokpal Bill, Anna Hazare claimed that only 25 per cent of the country's money is being spent on development."

Abhishek Manu Singhvi CD

Most of us know Abhishek Manu Singhvi. What is the sex tape people are talking about? How is Abhishek Manu Singhvi involved? Why and what are people commenting on his intimate moments with a lawyer? Read on to find answers.

A Brief Intro Of Abhishek Singhvi

Abhishek Manu Singhvi (born 24 February 1959) is an Indian politician belonging to Indian National Congress party and is presently a Member of the Parliament of India representing Rajasthan in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament. He is presently the spokesperson of the Congress party.

Abhishek Singhvi is married to ghazal and sufi singer Anita Singhvi. They have two sons, Anubhav (born 1st Dec 1984) and Avishkar (born 12th Oct 1987)

He obtained B.A.(Hons.), M.A., Ph.D., PIL educated at St. Columba's School, Delhi, St. Stephen's College, Delhi University, Trinity College, Cambridge, University of Cambridge, U.K. and Harvard University, U.S.A.

Abhishek Vs Mukesh Lal (His Driver)

All the above shows Abhishek is an intellectual. His topic for Ph.D. was emergency powers. And did he use that intellect to stop people from peeking into his private life. And was it really private? He was having sex with a lady lawyer in a car?! How could the driver get to his personal chambers?

There are certain things I am not very clear about and all this write up is based on what I could conclude from different articles on the Internet and from tweets on Twitter. You are welcome to point out the errors to assist others get a better picture.

As far as I know - at the time of writeup, there is a case pending in Delhi High court: between Abhishek and his car driver, Mukesh Lal. Abhishek Manu Singhvi says the car driver made the sex tape for blackmailing him and for extortion.

Airing Of Sex Tapes Stayed

Abhishek got into action as soon as the sex tapes were leaked to three major media houses (Aaj Tak, India Today and Headlines Today) and got a stay order from courts to prevent the media houses from airing the tapes.

An article from LegallyIndia explains how Abhishek's business partner approached court to prevent Mukesh Lal, the driver, from distributing the sex tape to media houses... An excerpt for you...

Driver shoot sex CD of Abhishek Manu Singhvi

New Delhi: Where issue of sex CD of Mahipal Maderna in Bhanwari sex scandal is still on fire, Rajya Sabha MP (Congress) from Rajasthan Abhishek Manu Singhvi’s alleged sex CD is becoming talk of the town. It is said that, this CD is shooted by his driver. However, Delhi high court has ban the broadcast or publication of CD.


High court has ordered a media house to not to  broadcast the CD and even ban to publish any part of the CD. On the petition filed by Singhvi, justice Ravi Khetrapal passed the order. Next hearing on plea will be on May 21.


Delhi high court has asked to respond two channels of a media house, a weekly magazine and driver of Singhvi about the matter till May 21. Justice Khetrapal said that it will result to defamation of Singhvi if the broadcasting and publishing of CD is not banned. On the other hand, Singhvi said that the CD is fake and is Marf and fabricated.

Abhishek Manu Singhvi’s Sex Scandal CD : Court Restrains Media

Congress Leader & Spokesperson, Senior Advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi is in the middle of a Sex Scandal. This controversy has stormed the Indian media and political world and both Advocate Singhvi as well as the Congress party is running for cover. His driver for several years Mukesh Kumar Lal has been accused of filming a Sex CD involving Abhishek Manu Singhvi with another leading advocate and of Blackmailing him through SMS to make the CD public through media channels.
Abhishek Singhvi and his former colleague Abhimanyu Bhandari approached the court and stated that they came to know about the Sex CD through some political friends that many media channels were in possession of the alleged CD.
He also alleged that the content of the CD was “forged, concocted, morphed and fabricated”. Any move to telecast the alleged CD would infringe the right to reputation of Singhvi, the plea said.
The Delhi High Court in its judgement ruled that “Till the next date of hearing, the defendants (media house), their agents and all others acting for and/or on their behalf are restrained from publishing, broadcasting and disseminating or distributing in any form or any manner the content of any alleged CD or any other material as described in the plaint in relation to plaintiff 2 (Singhvi),”
“Irreparable injury is likely to be caused to the reputation and goodwill of Singhvi in case the defendants are not restrained. Accordingly, issue notice to defendants (one to four) which is returnable by May 21,” the Court said.
The court has also sought response by May 21 from Aaj Tak, Headlines Today and India Today and former driver of Singhvi, alleged mastermind behind the CD scandal.
Many people have opined that as Abhishek Manu Singhvi declares that the content is forged and morphed and fabricated and he has come to know about it only through other people, why is he so worried about such fake CD ???
Does he really have any proper answer or is it smoke without fire – only time will say.

Delhi HC Restrains Telecast Of Alleged Sex CD Of Abhishek Manu Singhvi

New Delhi, Apr 17: The Delhi High Court has restrained a media house from publishing, telecasting and broadcasting the contents of a CD allegedly pertaining to Congress leader and a leading advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi.

"Till the next hearing, the defendants (the media house), their agents and all others acting for and/or on their behalf are restrained from publishing, broadcasting and disseminating or distributing in any form or any manner the content of any alleged CD or any other material as described in the plaint," Justice Reva Khetrapal said in an order on a civil suit filed by Singhvi.

He had sought a restraint on the media group from making public the contents of the alleged CD. The court has also sought response by May 21 from Aaj Tak, Headlines Today and India Today and Singhvi's former driver, alleged mastermind behind the scandal.

"Irreparable injury is likely to be caused to the reputation and goodwill of Singhvi in case the defendants are not restrained. Accordingly, issue notice to defendants (one to four) which is returnable by May 21," it said.

Singhvi alleged that the CD was 'forged, concocted, morphed and fabricated'. Any move to telecast the alleged CD would infringe the right to reputation of Singhvi, the plea said.

The High Court has restrained one Mukesh Kumar Lal and others from “publishing, broadcasting, disseminating or distributing in any form or manner the contents of any alleged CD or any other material as described in the plaint in relation to the plaintiff No. 2,” senior Congress leader and Rajya Sabha MP Manu Abhishek Singhvi.

In the order of April 13, Justice Reva Khetrapal issued summons to the defendants for May 21.

Singhvi, who is the Congress national spokesperson and a senior advocate, and another lawyer, Abhimanyu Bhandari, had moved the court last week.

The court said that having heard the plaintiffs’ counsel, it was of the view that “...plaintiffs have made out a prima facie case for grant of an ex-parte ad interim injunction in their favour. The balance of convenience is also tilted in favour of the plaintiffs and against the defendants.”

The court observed that “irreparable injury is likely to be caused to the reputation and goodwill of the plaintiff No 2 (Singhvi) if the defendants are not restrained from disseminating the information allegedly in their possession in the form of a CD.”

After receiving the order, advocate Sangeeta Sharma, advocate for Bhandari and Singhvi, issued a statement that the CD has “fabricated material.”