truthbetold wrote:If a good investigation leads to the bottom of these events, it could spell doom for the dynasty.  That is the minimum modi could do for the country.

Marathadi-Saamiyaar wrote:

Needs to be bookmarked...

Selling india's interests to international lobbyists - and that too, the Chinese - is to be expected from Italian dual citizens.

truthbetold wrote:If a good investigation leads to the bottom of these events, it could spell doom for the dynasty.  That is the minimum modi could do for the country.

truthbetold wrote:The Al manufacturers around world did not like the Vendata deal.  They orchestrated a oposition movement in india (similar to anti nuclear protests in TN).  They could fund few NGOs and enlist ever reliable left wing extremists. After few small and big storms,  they make representations to High command and they react as if these are responses to public demand.  In other words, the greater conspiracy involves the high command from the beginning. But they come into view only as saviours. 

Merlot Daruwala wrote:

truthbetold wrote:The Al manufacturers around world did not like the Vendata deal.  They orchestrated a oposition movement in india (similar to anti nuclear protests in TN).  They could fund few NGOs and enlist ever reliable left wing extremists. After few small and big storms,  they make representations to High command and they react as if these are responses to public demand.  In other words, the greater conspiracy involves the high command from the beginning. But they come into view only as saviours. 

Conspiracy theories, especially of the hidden foreign hand, are always easy to cook up in India and that has been so for the last six decades. But in this context, I'm a little skeptical - it smacks too much of Vedanta's PR machinery at work. The numbers just don't add up. Vedanta's proposed mines in Niyamgiri would have raised their Lanjigarh plant's bauxite capacity to 5 MTPA. In a world that produces 259 MTPA, I don't see how 5 MTPA would halve global aluminium prices.

I do believe NGOs played a big role in inciting the tribals of Niyamgiri to reject Vedanta's proposal in the referendum last year. But that could be said of just about every large project in the country, from Narmada dam to POSCO to Kundankulam to whatever else you can think of.

truthbetold wrote:"Lanjigarh plant's bauxite capacity to 5 MTPA. In a world that produces 259 MTPA, I don't see how 5 MTPA would halve global aluminium prices."


That is why we need a full scale investigation to get the bottom of the issue.  In good old days, one of the powerful news papers would have sent investigative journos. Now that breed is dead. So we need SC or HC, overstepping its jurisdiction, order an SIT to get fair investigation of such accusations.