Good Evening Speakasians,
“Khisiani bili…. Khamba noche”
The above proverb roughly translates as follows “a frustrated cat… starts scratching the pole” (in vain).
I was forced to start this update today with the above proverb after reading various news items which were not only factually incorrect but in most case was an attempt to place before the readers/viewers old wine in a new bottle. This is the case of churning out old news in new packaging. Was this an attempt of a frustrated adversary?
NO 150 panelists have been arrested anywhere in India. The news of scores of accounts having been frozen is actually very old news which the media is trying to put across as new seizures. We all know that almost 150 crores were seized from various Panelists’ and franchisees accounts sometime in the month of July arising out of the Vijayawada case and the Khosla case in Mumbai. After that no bank account has been frozen by the authorities.
There was news carried by media, announcing that a consignment worth over 1000 Crores was seized by the customs authorities, this again is very old news, I just cannot fathom or cannot see any reason why the media has resorted to this recycling of news. In good old times one publication would never run a news item published by another but then like ‘shudh ghee’ is not available nowadays, even shudh journalism seems to be nonexistent.
I ask myself a few questions. Why over the last couple of days have the Speakasian Panelists been bombarded with so much disinformation about the impending investigation of individual panelists by the authorities and the seizing of their accounts? Is it to spread panic amongst the panelist family? Is this a desperate attempt by the enemy to influence the authorities against SAOL?
I ask myself, has there ever been a case in the history of independent India, when employment has been generated for over 20 lakh people within a short period of 10 months, has this ever been done by any Government, semi Government, or any NGO. Then why try to stop a revolutionary module like the business module of Speakasia.
I ask myself, how is SAOL a fraud that it is been made out to be? Here is a company which had regularly paid their panelists without fail till 12th May, 2011. The company has not been able to pay their panelists since 12th May 2011, not because they do not want to pay, but because they are not being allowed to pay. What amuses me no end is everybody wants to hang SAOL by the first visible pole without even trying to understand the revolutionary business module. The only crime that SAOL has possibly done is that they have been ahead of their time, much ahead.
Here is a company, which has been approaching various authorities including RBI, requesting them, actually pleading with them, to be allowed to make payouts to the panelists but alas all such requests seem to fall on deaf ears.
The funniest part of this comical circus is that the entire case of the EOW is based on one, YES ONE, solitary FIR filed by a disillusioned individual going by the name of Mr. Khosla who had purchased subscriptions amounting to approx 5 lakhs or thereabouts who has earned almost one lack sixty thousand or thereabouts regularly upto 12th May, 2011. Please note that it is not his case that he was not paid before 12th May, 2011. His case is that since 12th May he has not been paid. I ask Mr. Khosla and everybody how can anybody be paid if all banking channels have been frozen up post 12th May 2011 pursuant to the aggrieved cautionary RBI circular dated 23rd May, 2011.
I ask myself, what could have been the possible material before the RBI, to have in the first place, circulated such a circular. Has the circular been circulated after application of mind? I hope it is not a result of a hallucinating mind. This has unfortunately resulted, in robbing over 20 lakh Indian citizens, of their basic right to seek gainful employment and is in gross violation of their basic human rights.
Here is a classic example of a person who strangulates you and continues to slap you because you cannot sing melodiously. I ask myself, how on earth can I sing if I am not allowed to even breathe?
“There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians - they stay bought”.…Bill Moyers
Jai Speakasia
Ashok Bahirwani
Secretary
AISPA
