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TSUNAMI SWINDLER

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The Chairman on the Sub Committee of
Tsunami Relief under Parliamentary Standing
Committee of Ministry of Home Affairs,
Government of India, Mr.V.Narayanaswamy

Dated 8 th January 2008

“During your visit here in your official duty


exercising the representative character of the
highest and supreme law enacting body of India,
which is also the custodian of Indian people,
namely the Indian Parliament, we the political
party which plays the responsible role of
Opposition here, are presenting our complaint
against the Chief Minister of Puducherry
N.Rangaswamy who had also subverted the
powers of his office to create a Princely state of
Thathanchavady. It is an underground movement
launched by the Chief Minister with the
connivance of former Chief Secretary Khairwal,
who might become the Diwan of the Princely
state once it declares the unilateral declaration of
independence seceding from the Union Territory
of Puducherry.”

1.In media you and the Leader of the PMK group


in Parliament Professor M.Ramdass have been
cautioning against the path of bankruptcy in
which Puducherry government had been slipping

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down, but your voices have been unheard, where
it must have evoked due response. The
Comptroller ad Audit General of India, deputes
his regional commanders to audit the accounts of
this union territory and they have been doing
their work not to the satisfaction of the general
public. Though we wont say they failed
miserably we must point out that there is an
urgent need to depute a high level audit
committee drawn from central pool to audit the
already audited accounts of the Union Territory
of Puducherry since 2001 till date coinciding
with the tenure of current Chief Minister
N.Rangaswamy.

Hence we appeal through this sub committee and


through Parliament to direct the Comptroller and
Audit General of India to institute a high level
audit committee for Puducherry. In mundane
words it is similar for asking CBI enquiry having
lost faith in local police. Let us examine even
whatever little that has been detected by the
Audit.

The extract from the Audit Report of Puducherry


for the year 2005-06
Tsunami Relief, Rehabilitation and
Reconstruction

The Tsunami of December 2004 damaged 33


villages in the Union Territory of Puducherry.
The Government provided assistance in cash and

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kind to the affected families. There was no
comprehensive action plan to utilize funds
received from Government of India.

There were deficiencies in identification of


beneficiaries for immediate relief and
rehabilitation of Tsunami affected people.
Assistance for repair/replacement of fishing
crafts was delayed by 4 to 17 months after the
calamity. Considerable delay was also noticed in
reconstruction activities. Consequently, out of
7,567 families who were to be resettled by way
of shifting to houses constructed for them, only
100 were resettled as of November 2006.
Monitoring of the implementation was poor.
(Paragraph 3.1)

2. Dravida Peravai had been sending


representations time again and we are enclosing
two petitions, which includes materials that will
fall under the purview of the sub committee
headed by you. First is our memorandum dated
30.10.2006 addressed to the Rastrapathi and
Prime Minister of India and to all Cabinet
Ministers of the Union Cabinet, faxed and mailed
to all of them in one go to open the eyes of the
Union Government over the various commissions
and omissions of the Chief Minister
N.Rangaswamy.

Dravida Peravai, registered political party active


in the Union Territory of Puducherry for more

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than a decade and which had fought many battles
for just causes, with anguish brings to your notice
the autocratic behavior of Puducherry Chief
Minister Hon'ble N.Rangasamy, as if he is ruling
a princely state in colonial era. Behind the guise
of appearance of innocence and the mask of
simplicity remains the hidden the real man with
no vision for the state and no plans to make a
better future for our people.

You may be aware that the people of Karaikal, an


enclave of Puducherry, which sends 6 legislators
to the U.T.Assembly, routed all the 4 Congress
candidates in the last assembly polls, with 2
DMK legislators escaping defeat by few votes.
The people of Karaikal had been nursing a
legitimate long-standing grievance that the Chief
Minister's constituency garners all jobs and all
developments take place only in his constituency.
Karaikal Struggle Group was formed by Dravida
Peravai, which spearheads the separate Union
Territory demand for Karaikal. The voicing of
this demand and peoples support for the demand
is due to the one and only reason that all
development goes to the Chief Minister's
constituency only.

Now in the main enclave of Puducherry, which


sends 20 legislators, there is a growing
perception that 19 constituencies are neglected
with only one getting undue share in the overall
development. Let me explain how the nepotism

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takes shape. There are established canons of law
and laid down in procedure about the
implementation of schemes with financial
implications. You may be aware that postings of
Indian Administrative Officers at the control of
Puducherry Government have 4 exceptions.
Chief Secretary, Development Commissioner,
Secretary Finance and Law Secretary are always
under the posting control of Home Ministry.
Other Secretaries are placed under the disposal of
the UT Government. Whereas in Puducherry for
quite sometime especially from the period of
Hon'ble N.Rangasamy, these norms have been
given a go by. For this the Former Chief
Secretary was totally responsible colluding with
the Chief Minister to float all established norms
of good governance. The nexus between then
Chief Minister and Chief Secretary who finds
place in CVC archives, made the subordinate
bureaucrats to behave as yes men and to go scot-
free and violating all procedures in files and
proposals.

For example on the following: 1.Puducherry


Special Economic Zone 2.Procurement of Rice
for Free Distribution 3. Recruitment of daily
rated staff 4. Tsunami Fund Non-Distribution

Special Economic Zone: The SEZ scheme has


been earmarked with PIPDIC. The Hon'ble CM
formed a Public Limited Company called
Pondicherry SEZ Company Limited in which

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PIPDIC has got 26 % share. for that 26 %
Puducherry Government had acquired 360 acres
of agricultural land, remaining 74 % shares has
been allotted to Messrs Kothari and Messrs Metal
whereas both companies are not investing any
physical investment. Now the Government is
trying to transfer the acquired land from PIPDIC
to the Puducheery Sez Co Ltd without following
any procedures. The present Chief Secretary had
not approved the proposal for the simple reason
the non-investment of the shareholders will
ultimately end in real estate business.

Lands acquired for a specific purpose by are


diverted to real estate business, which is our
charge, for which we want you to initiate a probe
or call for papers.

Rice Scandal: Puducherry Government is getting


annually 3 lakhs tons of rice at the cost of Rs
2.50 from the FCI under PDS system. This rice
was used to distribute among the marginal
income holders for a subsidized rate and during
natural calamity period with free of cost from the
fund of local bodies. This has been covering
roughly 1.8 lakh cardholders. Whereas the CM
very recently declared to supply rice to all the
cardholders of Pudiucherry be it rich or poor.
This scheme covers 3.5 lakh cardholders of this
U.T with 10 kilos each. For this Govt procured
about 3 lakh tons rice from open market at Rs 8
per kg. And also they have not utilized the FCI

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allocations for reasons best known to them. The
financial implication has been credited from
Social Welfare Department fund for which they
have not obtained prior sanction from GOI. The
Govt has not followed any system for the
purchase of this huge quantity of rice. The
suppliers are close associates of CM and involve
huge kick back.

The undistributed rice had been recycled once


again as if it had been procured fresh.

Jobs to One Constituency: The CM recruited not


less than 10,000 people from his constituency
without following any norms. And these
recruitments have taken place by adopting token
system. Majority of them are either non-
puducherian or migrated relatives of the CM.
There was a writ petition in the HC of Madras in
this regard and the order of the HC suspending
these appointments has been thrown into the
dustbin.

Tsunami Swindle: Govt of India as well as


voluntary agencies have allocated huge crores of
rupees under the Tsunami Rehabilitation. This
fund was under the direct supervision of the CM
and he spent it without any norms with even as
cash transactions and the same has not yet been
audited.

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No houses were built to the fishermen who faced
the fury of Nature. Dravida Peravai urges you to
direct a high level probe on the Tsunami swindle
here and to unravel the truth.

Port Scandal: Having wasted crores and crores


for the so-called Port development, the
Government of Puducherry had given it on a
platter to a Private Hotel.

These methods planned with pre-thought aims at


spending public money to develop infrastructure
then pass it to private for paltry pittance
depriving the State Exchequer revenue on its
expenditure in infrastructure thereby diverting
and piling mountains of money in their hidden
troves of the Thattanchavadi princely state.

This may sound an unusual request. In a


democracy how can a duly elected Chief Minister
be removed by a titular head of the State,
eyebrows may raise. Unprecedented autocratic
governance warrants unforeseen strong remedial
reactions. Further you, the President of India,
directly administer a Union Territory and you
have the right to intervene.

Dravida Peravai, a party of Periyarites who never


aspire power urges you to direct all the
intelligence agencies in the command of the
Union Government to shadow one night the
Chief Minister on his weekly travels to pleasure

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destinations and to report truth to the Union
Cabinet to form the basis of suitable action apart
from the charges listed above.

The second enclosure will be a petition dated 4 th


Feb 2007 sent to the President of India, Prime
Minister of India and Comptroller and Audit
General of India, marking copies to the
Lt.Governor and Chief Secretary.

Subject: Urgent pre-emptive measures sought to


halt the Tsunami Swindle of
Thiru.N.Rangasamy Government and violation of
Central guidelines regarding

Nowhere in India will democracy be replaced by


lootocracy, and nowhere in India all parties in the
assembly will be one party to loot public
exchequer. Puducherry being tiny territory could
have been administered in much efficient way
and with a vision for development. But here the
Chief Minister N.Rangasamy has acquired mafia
culture and is dividing the spoils of the system to
all parties represented in the assembly. Hence
people's woes could not be echoed due to
legislator's dancing to the tunes of the paymaster.
This may sound as wild allegation and even
breach of privilege could arise over my remarks.
But I don't want the breach of good governance
to go unchecked. I don't want the breach of the
constitutional mechanism to accountability be
mocked at with immunity. I don't want, in the

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absence of right to recall, elected representatives
stabbing the people's expectations behind their
back, in order to amass ill-gotten wealth.

The Hon'ble Home Minister of India Mr.Shivraj


Patil visited Puducherry and what instructions he
gave is known to all in this Administration, more
particularly the Chief Minister of Puducherry. If I
had to remind for the sake of refreshing the
memory of Hon'ble Home Minister of India, I
must humbly state that he strictly told that only
for projects funds should be spent and in no case
ex- gratia payment should be made. Tsunami did
not strike yesterday or few days before Home
Minister visited Puducherry in 2007. People are
not marooned and no urgency exists to hand over
cash to the tsunami victims, that too in 2007
February, after a long gap of time for a tsunami
that hit on 26 th December of 2004.

Few days ago a meeting to Review Tsunami


Relief was conducted in the Secretariat of the
Pondicherry, wherein almost all Members of the
Legislature, in stage-managed operation tutored
by the Chief Minister had demanded cash
payments to be made through them to
whomsoever they identify as tsunami victim.
This is gross violation. This is daylight robbery.
This is open swindle of public money. This is to
openly defy the Union Home Minister's
directions that only for specific purpose and that
too only for projects and schemes moneys should

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be spent. This is using public money to buy the
silence of all the legislative members, and to
deny the people of respective constituencies their
legitimate right to be heard through their
representatives. This is seducing all parties and
making them corrupt. This is bypassing the
administration and to establish parallel
administration. This is prelude to convert
Puducherry into a princely state, where the King
can dispose moneys as he wishes, without having
any due respect to the Comptroller and Auditor
General of India. This is to run Puducherry as
feudal state and not as a union territory
accountable to Center.

Dravida Peravai, a party that plays the opposition


role in all crises in the decade of its existence,
once again sounds the alarm bell. Dravida
Peravai prays for the Comptroller and Auditor
General to intervene immediately to stall the
proposed loot. Dravida Peravai appeals to the
Union Government to stop the plunder with
immediate effect.

In the book published by Union Government on


the achievements of Union Territory under UPA
government two important observations need to
be mentioned. Rajiv Gandhi Package of
assistance for Tsunami Affected Persons:
Assistance of Rs 155 crore was approved under
the package for providing immediate relief such
as ex gratia payment, temporary housing, and

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assistance for fishermen etc. Will the
Government of India bring out a White paper on
how this money was spent in Puducherry? When
Tsunami struck Karaikal region and
Nagapattinam of Tamilnadu, the most of the
moneys should have gone there. But it never
went. Under the Right to Information Act, an
activist of Consumer Forum in Karaikal had been
asking for the quantum of money received by
government for tsunami and how it was spent.
All authorities as per the hierarchy that is fixed to
answer questions under Right to Information act
had given only expenses figures; never had they
given the figures of the amount received. Is it a
state secret? Mr.Nallusamy, the senior citizen of
the Consumer Forum is tirelessly knocking the
doors after one after one office, till about
Karaikal region everything remains shrouded in
secrecy.

The same book brought out by Press Information


Bureau claims: Permanent Shelters for Tsunami
Affected persons: A World Bank assisted Project
for providing permanent shelters and livelihood
programmes for tsunami affected people of
Puducherry is under implementation, with an
outlay of Rs158 crore. It is envisaged that 8,125
permanent houses will be built in Puducherry
with substantial contributions from NGO's in the
effort.

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While Union Government publication makes tall
claims being misled by N.Rangasamy
government, The Center for Fisher folk's
Empowerment in a representation to Union
Home Minister dated 20.01.2007 states: "In
Puducherry region there are 15 fishing villages.
Out of this, the N.Rangasamy Government has
taken steps to build houses only in 5 villages
even after a lapse of 2 years that too with the
funds provided by NGO's and Government of
Maharashtra. The total number of houses needed
for these 15 villages are 7350, but the
N.Rangasamy Government proposes to build
only 4074 houses, whereas the Press Information
Bureau publication claims 8125 houses are to be
built. Who is fooling whom? Whether the Center
is being fooled by N.Rangasamy Government to
extract money from World Bank for 8125 houses
but actually planning to construct only 4074
houses, thereby trying to loot the balance. ? It is
for you to read in between the lines, the famous
phrase of Kuldip Nayyar.

Hence the most affected Karaikal region wants to


separate itself from this misrule. That is why
Union Territory status is being sought by
Karaikal enclave of Puducherry separated by 160
kilometers from the Capital Puducherry.

Apart from these memorandums wherein we


have dealt with the Tsunami swindle by the
Maharaja of Thattanchavady in waiting but

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currently holding Chief Minister's chair of this
Union Territory, the Karaikal District unit of
Dravida Peravai had published a pamphlet listing
out how transparently the Prime Minister of
India's web sites are providing information on
Tsunami funds thereby proving beyond an iota of
doubt that the hands, heart and mind of the Indian
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is clean. At the
same time we have exposed how the Puducherry
Governments web sites are suppressing facts and
hiding details.

The beneficiaries name will be provided, the


address will be given, even their bank account
number would be given including bank, but how
much was given as relief was with held in
government sites. Many consumer activists like
Mr.Nalluswamy of the Kottucherry Consumer
Protection Group had sought answers under
Right to Information Act, but the simple question
how much funds came from center and from
other non governmental agencies had never been
answered. The three activists, Nallusamy from
Kottucherry, Advocate Karthikeyan from
Thirumudinagar of Puducherry, Advocate
Kulothungan of Kalapet had filed petitions after
petitions to all authorities to know facts under
Right to Information Act. Dravida Peravai can
produce procuring from them. But we urge the
Sub Committee to summon officials exercising
power under Right to Information Act, and ask
them details of petitions received under the Act

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to know Tsunami accounts, and what replies they
had given so far.

4. There had been many agitations in fishermen


villages as well as before the Assembly, and the
sub committee must seek details summoning the
Special Branch of Police to provide details of the
agitations over non construction of tsunami
houses or anomalies over tsunami relief,
including the press clippings, so that the
Rajyasabha and its committee can know the
extent of the feelings of hurt in the tsunami
affected villages.

5. The Karai Union Pradesam, a journal from


Karaikal had brought out the list of funds
allocated by various Members of Parliament with
their pictures, and this sub committee is duty
bound to enquire on what happened to the funds
earmarked by the Honorable Members of
Parliament and why the relief measures did not
reach the people.

6. A team of Central P.W.D officials must be


ordered to visit the Tsunami affected villages to
assess the quality of the houses constructed
including its costs, because they were given on
contract to some big firms, which in turn
allocated it to sub contractors, ultimately even
what reached the people after looting all the way
in the process reminds me of what Late Rajiv
Gandhi had said on government expenditure. In

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every rupee marked for the people only 15 paise
reaches them, Rajiv Gandhi had lamented. Here
how much went and where it went cannot be a
matter of statements by parties like us and Chief
Minister's rebuttals. Center has agencies like
CPWD, which can assess, and no one is more fit
than the subcommittee of Rajyasabha to order for
a probe by CPWD on Tsunami Houses in Union
Territory of Puducherry.

7. There is an urgent need to track down where


all moneys meant for Tsunami had been hijacked
and a hunt for the safe havens it would have
reached must begin. Dravida Peravai urges the
sub committee to advice the Union Government
to order for a CBI probe into the tsunami
swindle. Being Union Territory no necessity to
obtain cabinet nod for calling in CBI is needed.
The CBI must be asked to probe not only within
Puducherry but also in the places of worship
frequented by the Chief Minister N.Rangasamy,
including the town of the sacred Samadhi of
Appapaithyam Swamigal, where it is learnt
nearly 5000 acres of land had been bought by
over night millionaires and their associates.

8. More than 500 people lost their lives in


Karaikal and Karaikal was hit by Tsunami in
worst ever form. Yet the immediate relief went to
the constituency of AIADMK legislator
A.Anbazhagan, and thereto instead of coastal
affected areas, the safe less affected inland places

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walked away with the relief. Our Cheap Minister,
sorry Chief Minister who had become cheap in
public esteem thrives by keeping opposition in
good humor, and amidst bravado in day time, the
AIADMK leader will always be seen in Chief
Minter's company, acting as his spokesperson
targeting against inner party enemies of the Chief
Minister. May be AIADMK Supremo must have
give exemption to this legislator to openly defend
ruling party, whereas AIADMK in Tamilnadu is
proving every day to be an opposition here. By
manipulation here opposition leader of media
hype will be midnight accomplice of Wrong
Asaamy in Tamil, Wrong Swamy
N.Rangaswamy. In recent websites the list of
immediate beneficiaries who got 5000 each is
provided running into more than 100 pages after
our party criticized the web sites in our pamphlet
attached. There it must be pointed out why on
large sums disposed there is silence, and why
government is seeking more funds even while it
cannot explain the 1600 crore's expenditure.

Chief Minister N.Rangasamy must be stripped


from office and summoned before Rajyasabha
and Loksabha to be admonished on wasting
Tsunami funds that too obtained in a National
calamity not heard in near past centuries. Hence
the Parliament must take the unusual step to
reprimand an individual, and to protect the
dignity of his office, he may be stripped before

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appearing in the dock before Rajya sabha and
Loksabha.

N.Nandhivarman

General Secretary Dravida Peravai

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