politics of aid by AID - supporting communist party
From: "Prahalad Appaji"
Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 18:18:19 +0000
Subject: MUST READ - politics of aid by AID - supporting communist party
Friends,
Out of ignorance, I think I have made a mistake supporting AID's efforts ( AID is Association for India's Development ) in Tsunami relief. Few years ago AID was embroiled in controversy when one of it's leaders Sandeep Pandey attended a Naxalites conference ( yes, the same movement which is slaughtering 10s all over India ) and encouraged that COMMUNIST parties should strengthen. When the world is moving towards democracies this is insane. Unfortunately he is linked to ASHA too. Yes, more about him @ http://geocities.com/enemiesofbharat/sandeeppandey.html
The core issue NOW is this: One Balaji Sampath, the relief coordinator in Chennai is diverting funds to DYFI and SFI. Both are communist outfits. DYFI is the youth wing of CPI ( Communist Party of India ). Here's the link for all the proof : http://www.geocities.com/aid_india_info/AID_DOC.html. When this AID-DYFI link was found out AID website removed all references to DYFI, now you won't find it's mention from the daily dispatches coming from Tamil Nadu. Read that story below - a chameleon behavior indeed!!!
I never contributed to ASHA and henceforth will desist from contributing to AID too. I do not want to fund either Naxalism or Communism or vested interests sympathetic to Pakistan - even indirectly after knowing these.
More about this:
Removing the Communist link
There has been mention in Sulekha Newshopper that AID India is a charity that uses DYFI for its work. DYFI is the youth wing of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). To look for this, I scanned the AID India website and there was no mention of DYFI anywhere. So for example if you look at the despatch from Chennai you get to read
After the initial shock and chaos, we are now quite well organized to handle the relief efforts. A number of organizations have started working together to handle the relief work - AID, TNSF, Pondicherry Science Forum, Vidyarambam, Pratham and the PHM Organizations. We have formed a quick informal coalition to coordinate this work. As of now the state level coordination is being done from the AID-India office in Gopalapuram Chennai. [Update from Chennai-III]
But then if you look at the cached page from Google, you see that the word DYFI was taken out from the same paragraph.
After the initial shock and chaos, we are now quite well organized to handle the relief efforts. A number of organizations have started working together to handle the relief work - AID, TNSF, Pondicherry Science Forum, DYFI, Vidyarambam, Pratham and the PHM Organizations. We have formed a quick informal coalition to coordinate this work. As of now the state level coordination is being done from the AID-India office in Gopalapuram Chennai.[ Update from Chennai-III (cached version)]
The same editing is seen in the Update from Chennai and its cached version.
Why is AID India removing this DYFI word from all its documents ? Is it because they are no longer working with them or are they trying to remove the Communist link or are they supressing information ? Can anyone from AID India answer ?
From various reports I have been reading they seem to be doing excellent job on the ground and seem to have very little overhead.
Update:
AID India, an organisation I can’t praise highly enough for their unflagging relief work in the state, have taken a pragmatic approach, tying up with anyone who shares their vision and work ethic. They have adopted two villages in this area, Pudupettai and Pudukubbam, in association with DYFI and another group called SFI – Students Federation of India. One of their coordinators, Muthu Kumar, showed me a document all the team leaders have been given, the text of an email from their leader in Tamil Nadu, Balaji Sampath.[Despatches 19: The three levels of public aid]
Both DYFI and SFI are Communist organizations. ( source: http://www.varnam.org/blog/archives/2005/01/removing_the_co.html )
Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 18:18:19 +0000
Subject: MUST READ - politics of aid by AID - supporting communist party
Friends,
Out of ignorance, I think I have made a mistake supporting AID's efforts ( AID is Association for India's Development ) in Tsunami relief. Few years ago AID was embroiled in controversy when one of it's leaders Sandeep Pandey attended a Naxalites conference ( yes, the same movement which is slaughtering 10s all over India ) and encouraged that COMMUNIST parties should strengthen. When the world is moving towards democracies this is insane. Unfortunately he is linked to ASHA too. Yes, more about him @ http://geocities.com/enemiesofbharat/sandeeppandey.html
The core issue NOW is this: One Balaji Sampath, the relief coordinator in Chennai is diverting funds to DYFI and SFI. Both are communist outfits. DYFI is the youth wing of CPI ( Communist Party of India ). Here's the link for all the proof : http://www.geocities.com/aid_india_info/AID_DOC.html. When this AID-DYFI link was found out AID website removed all references to DYFI, now you won't find it's mention from the daily dispatches coming from Tamil Nadu. Read that story below - a chameleon behavior indeed!!!
I never contributed to ASHA and henceforth will desist from contributing to AID too. I do not want to fund either Naxalism or Communism or vested interests sympathetic to Pakistan - even indirectly after knowing these.
More about this:
Removing the Communist link
There has been mention in Sulekha Newshopper that AID India is a charity that uses DYFI for its work. DYFI is the youth wing of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). To look for this, I scanned the AID India website and there was no mention of DYFI anywhere. So for example if you look at the despatch from Chennai you get to read
After the initial shock and chaos, we are now quite well organized to handle the relief efforts. A number of organizations have started working together to handle the relief work - AID, TNSF, Pondicherry Science Forum, Vidyarambam, Pratham and the PHM Organizations. We have formed a quick informal coalition to coordinate this work. As of now the state level coordination is being done from the AID-India office in Gopalapuram Chennai. [Update from Chennai-III]
But then if you look at the cached page from Google, you see that the word DYFI was taken out from the same paragraph.
After the initial shock and chaos, we are now quite well organized to handle the relief efforts. A number of organizations have started working together to handle the relief work - AID, TNSF, Pondicherry Science Forum, DYFI, Vidyarambam, Pratham and the PHM Organizations. We have formed a quick informal coalition to coordinate this work. As of now the state level coordination is being done from the AID-India office in Gopalapuram Chennai.[ Update from Chennai-III (cached version)]
The same editing is seen in the Update from Chennai and its cached version.
Why is AID India removing this DYFI word from all its documents ? Is it because they are no longer working with them or are they trying to remove the Communist link or are they supressing information ? Can anyone from AID India answer ?
From various reports I have been reading they seem to be doing excellent job on the ground and seem to have very little overhead.
Update:
AID India, an organisation I can’t praise highly enough for their unflagging relief work in the state, have taken a pragmatic approach, tying up with anyone who shares their vision and work ethic. They have adopted two villages in this area, Pudupettai and Pudukubbam, in association with DYFI and another group called SFI – Students Federation of India. One of their coordinators, Muthu Kumar, showed me a document all the team leaders have been given, the text of an email from their leader in Tamil Nadu, Balaji Sampath.[Despatches 19: The three levels of public aid]
Both DYFI and SFI are Communist organizations. ( source: http://www.varnam.org/blog/archives/2005/01/removing_the_co.html )
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