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By: V SUNDARAM
Wednesday, 07 May, 2008 , 03:26 PM
Mystory about a first rate politi-cal (apart from being a regular!) criminal called Mani Kumar Subba, a Congress MP from Nepal (!), may read like an Agatha Christie crime thriller.
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I understand that the CBI, after conducting a detailed investigation about the criminal antecedents of this distinguished Congressman, has filed a detailed report about Subba’s great expertise in forging documents relating to his own date and place of birth from time to time. Everything about him has been dubious and mysterious. It is evident from Lok Sabha (LS) records, his own affidavits and the information supplied by him to the passport authorities – all this basic details relating to a Congress MP kept on changing from year to year. The LS records put his year of birth as 1950, 1951 and 1958. Likewise, the LS was taken into confidence by Subba when he kept on changing his place of birth from Tezpur in Assam to Siliguri in West Bengal. The LS records, examined by CBI, show three different dates of birth for Mani Kumar Subba, who started as a Congress MLA before getting elected from Tezpur, Assam to the Lok Sabha for four consecutive terms. The affidavit signed by Subba on January 27, 1998 for the 12th Lok Sabha stated his age as 48, meaning that he was born in 1950. But according to the Lok Sabha publication relating to the biographical sketches of the MPs of the 12th Lok Sabha revealed his date of birth as March 16, 1951. However in the affidavit filed by Subba for the 13th Lok Sabha, he stated that his age was 47 years as on January 1, 1997, thus confirming that his year of birth was 1950. But, paradoxically, according to the biographical sketch of the 13th Lok Sabha MPs, Subba was born on March 16, 1958, which was maintained in the 14th Lok Sabha records.
Subba’s passport story is even more exciting. The passport issued to him by the Regional Passport Officer (RTO) Guwahati stated that Subba was born on March 16, 1951, at Harmati, P.O. Merbil, PS Bihpuria, Lakhimpur District, Assam. This information was furnished by the CBI in response to the order to probe the allegations leveled by a petitioner called B.N.Singh, accusing Subba of being none other than Maniraj Limboo, a citizen of Nepal who after conviction in a murder case by Nepalese Courts, had fled to India. Though the CBI had failed to get hold of the certified copies of the Nepalese Court Orders relating to Subba’s crimes, yet it was able to get hold of an affidavit dated October 3, 1985, by Subba before the Executive Magistrate, Tezpur in which he had stated “Mani Kumar Subba and Maniraj Limboo are one and the same persons and that there was a criminal case against him in the name of the Maniraj Limboo.”
Even more thrilling is the crime story relating to the Educational Qualifications of Mani Kumar Subba. Here the disgusting Congress criminal Subba and the even more despicable Sonia Gandhi are on the same footing. Subba had earlier stated in an affidavit filed in the Supreme Court that he passed the 8th standard from Gandhi Vidyalaya, Bordubi, Tinsukia District in the year 1972. After due investigation, the CBI found out that this School started functioning only from January 1, 1973, with classes upto the 6th. This in effect means that Subba passed 8th Class, a year before the establishment of the School! It is quite another climactic story that the Classes from 8th to 10th were added to Gandhi Vidyalaya on from 1999. In a mood of helpless exasperation the CBI reported “Mani Kumar Subba would be 22 years old when he reportedly passed the 8th Class from Gandhi Vidyalaya”.
The story of Subba’s date of birth is a crime thriller. Likewise, the drama relating to his place of birth is a hair rising crime thriller. The tale of his educational qualifications reads like a Sherlock Holmes crime story. To cap it all, we have the titillating story regarding his matrimonial adventures/mis-adventures! After a detailed enquiry, the CBI reported “While Mani Kumar Subba married Tilmaya Chang in the year 1978 as per his declaration on Page 6 of his affidavit 2007, he married Jyoti Subba aka Jyoti Limboo in the year 1978 as per biographical sketch of member of 12th and 13th LS. He married Jyoti Subba also in 1989 as per the biographical sketch of member of 14th LS and as per his affidavit dated April 2007”.
In these columns, as early as in March 2007, I had written an article on this controversial Congress MP under the title “A ‘Great’ Congress MP from Nepal”. I had observed as follows: “In the decadent India of today, the Congress Party has let loose an orgy of corruption in our public life – indescribably vicious and brazen. It is not correct to say that all Muslims in India are terrorists. Yet at the same time it cannot also be disputed that all the terrorists in India are Muslims. Likewise it is not correct to say that all knaves and scoundrels in India are Congressmen. At the same time it cannot also be doubted that most of the Congressmen today are generally scoundrels and knaves. Why is it so? Why should it be so? The answer is simple. The Congress High Command by convention extends its full support and patronage only to knaves and scoundrels…. For at least 16 years, Congress MP Moni Kumar Subba has brazenly snubbed allegations that he is not an Indian. The shocking news is that he is not an Indian national. He is reported to be a Nepali national and he has so far successfully lied about his age, education and place of birth to the Election Commission and Parliament. If one is to go by official records of Congress MP Moni Kumar Subba, he was born THRICE AND AT THREE PLACES. The Congress MP from Tezpur and an escaped criminal in Nepal have many things common between them! M K Subba claims to have studied in the Gandhi Vidhyalaya in Assam in 1972. But the school didn’t even exist at that time. The cruel joke is that all the so called law enforcement agencies of the Government of India and the State Governments have totally failed to identify the glorious background of this great son of India (?) that is not Bharat!”
All the above facts have been reported widely during the last five days in all our English and other language newspapers. News Today was the first newspaper in India which exposed the fraudulent activities of this criminal from Nepal as early as in March 2007. For what is good journalism all about? On a working, finite level it is the effort to achieve illuminating candour in print and to strip away cant. It is the effort to do this not only in matters of State, diplomacy and politics but also in every aspect of life that touches the public interest and engages proper public curiosity. It is the effort to explain everything from a summit conference to why the moon looks larger coming over the horizon than it does when it has fully risen in the heavens. It is the effort, too, to describe the lives of men – and women – big and small, close at hand or thousands of miles away, familiar in their behaviour or unfamiliar in their idiosyncrasies crisis. It is – to use the big word – the pursuit of and the effort to state the truth. The pursuit of the truth, and the articulation of it, is the most delegate, hazardous, exacting an inexact of all tasks. Most of the mainline English Newspapers of India today are dedicated to deplorable drivel, duplicity and demeaning programming in regard to the presentation of news. I am of the view that the failure of the press to inform the public better than it does is the evasion of its responsibility. Its failure to educate and elevate the public taste rather than following that taste like a blind, wallowing dinosaur is an abuse of its freedom. Our mainline English press in India today has become a passive, yielding, and curiously an effeminate press, giving the public too much of froth and very little of relevant substance. No responsible newspaper can lose sight of the goals of the pursuit of truth, information and public enlightenment.
Like M.K. Subba, Sonia Gandhi also gave a false affidavit regarding her educational qualifications obtained from Cambridge University. Sonia-Congress Party has degenerated into a Servants of Sonia Society (SOSS). All the Congress men and all the Congress Ministers are in her bonded labour. Her Indian citizenship like that of Mani Kumar Subba is equally dubious and questionable. Despite the highly condemnable, partisan and one-sided Judgment given by the Honourable Supreme Court of India (viewing her fraudulent educational qualifications fictitiously obtained from the University of Cambridge as a ‘Stale issue’), the whole country knows the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth about her proudly proclaimed educational and academic background!. Now by accepting the ‘Order of Leopold’ from the King of Belgium in November 2006, she has clearly shown that she has contempt for India and the Indian people. She has greater contempt for the Law of Indian Constitution. It is a known public fact that Sonia treats the office of the President of India as a disposable Pawn to be moved about on the Chess Board of Indian Politics at her sweet will and pleasure depending upon political exigencies from time to time.
