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Before we take on this highly qualified, High flying 'NEW BUSINESS' man who takes people for granted, who takes people for a ride - not just in Lucknow or Varanasi or Delhi or Mumbai but also in far off lands of U.S.A and Europe.
Lets see what others have to say for him.
What one Donor has to say --- Directly from the web
Open letter to Dr. Sandeep Pandey
... Excellent article. Sandeep Pandey was also reported to have been found with a lot of anarchist propaganda literature ... by an unknown user) Rating. Sandeep Pandey is touring the USA now ...www.india-forum.com/articles/46/1/Open-letter-to-Dr.-Sandeep-Pandey
Open letter to Dr. Sandeep Pandey
- Anonymous Former AID donor.
I am not a rich person by any standards. But like most Indians, I was (and still am) concerned about the plight of the millions in India further down on the economic scale. When I first came to the US for grad school, my earnings were by no means substantial, but I felt that it was important to contribute towards India’s development and did not think twice about foregoing my own comforts. Like many of my colleagues and friends, I decided that rather than complain about the problems facing India, I would try to do something about them. I volunteered my time and donated a part of my earnings to local charity organizations including AID and ASHA, two of the most active organizations on campus that I believed were doing development work in India. Although I no longer contribute to these organizations, I am distressed to hear reports that AID has been diverting funds for other purposes, including funding fundamentalist and political groups in India.[1] There is more to be said about these groups and their activities, but that is not the focus of this article.
Dr. Sandeep Pandey probably needs no introduction. The founder of the US-based ASHA for Education (ASHA), Dr. Pandey moved back to India in the 90s to take up social work full-time. He is the recipient of the Magsaysay Award and has traveled far and wide throughout India as well as the US, campaigning for various causes that he supports and helping raise funds for organizations that he supports, which include the Association for India’s Development (AID) and ASHA. He is also prominent on the lecture circuit in the US and is currently on one such tour, speaking at various AID and ASHA chapters, among other engagements, including one in the Bay Area. It was listening to people like Dr. Pandey and reading about organizations like AID and ASHA that motivated me to start thinking about my fellow citizens back home and got me interested in volunteer work.
Dr. Sandeep Pandey, to whom my questions are addressed, is considered by many to be a true Gandhian devoted to the Mahatma’s ideals of peaceful co-existence and non-violent struggle.
In the past few years, I have been disturbed by reports of Dr. Pandey’s association with terrorist groups and shady organizations. I have been disturbed to note that ASHA and AID have been sharing the stage with obscurantist Muslim organizations in the US and fundamentalist left-wing groups in India. I am distressed to hear reports that these organizations have been diverting funds. Much of this has been under the guise of promoting “secularism,” although strangely, ASHA and AID rarely work with Hindu organizations in India, even though Hindus form more than 80 percent of Indian population.
As a past donor to ASHA and AID, two organizations that Dr. Pandey works with, I would like to take this opportunity to ask him some questions. I have observed that most volunteers of ASHA and AID are decent people, truly interested in the development of India and the upliftment of its poor and downtrodden. But I also know that several of them share my concerns and have questions similar to mine. Several donors to these organizations have also expressed similar sentiments. I am sure all of them would also like to hear Dr. Pandey’s answers.
1. Dr. Pandey, who is sponsoring your present tour of the USA? How much expenditure does it incur? Don’t you think that the money spent on this tour could have been better used to help poor people in India instead?
2. Dr. Pandey, you participated in a meeting honoring Naxalites who have murdered law enforcement officers and civilians.[2] CPI-ML, which organized the meet, has also announced in its publication that you attended the meet and called for revolutionary fronts like CPI-ML to unite.[3] You claim to be a Gandhian. Could you please explain how a Gandhian could support Naxalite terrorist organizations?
3. Dr. Pandey, CPI-ML, whose conference you attended, calls for armed revolution and for raising an army.[4] Is it not hypocrisy to claim that you are a Gandhian but still attend CPI-ML conferences that call for armed revolution?[5] How does the violent and fundamentalist ideology of groups like CPI-ML fit into your self-professed Gandhian ideals? Do you wear one mask in front of American donors and volunteers and another in front of violent CPI-ML activists?
4. Dr. Pandey, many ASHA donors and volunteers live in America and some are even US citizens. You have called America "the biggest evil power on earth”[6] and "the biggest terrorist state."[7] If so, why do you and ASHA, which you founded, raise funds from the USA?
5. Dr. Pandey, while you have no qualms about calling a democratic state like America terrorist, you have never used such words for real terrorists like the Al Qaeda and Taliban. In fact, you turned into an apologist for Al Qaeda in an interview you gave to a Muslim newspaper in the aftermath of the 9/11 massacre. Even though it had been proven that it was Al Qaeda terrorists who carried out the attacks you claimed that nobody knew who perpetrated the crime.[8] Could you please explain why you chose to whitewash a terrorist crime but didn’t take side with American victims?
6. Dr. Pandey, in the same interview, you also expressed support for Kashmiri separatism. But you have never expressed your support for and sympathies with Kashmiri Pandits, who are victims of Islamic terrorism. The entire Kashmiri Pandit community of more than 700,000 was ethnically cleansed from Kashmir and nearly 400,000 of them languish in refugee camps. Why did you not ever support the victims but instead supported the oppressors?
7. Dr. Pandey, the newspaper mentioned above has sympathized with the Taliban.[9] Do you agree with their Taliban sympathies? If not, why would a person like you, who calls himself a Gandhian, disseminate his views through such media channels, implicitly giving them credibility?
8. Dr. Pandey, recently you wrote an opinion editorial for Al Jazeerah, where you demanded the release of an alleged Muslim criminal charged with abducting a woman.[10] Would you please explain why you opted to associate with a media outlet that has openly expressed anti-Semitic hatred and has been credibly accused of being connected to terrorist groups including Al Qaeda? Al Jazeerah has no circulation in India. Yet you chose it among several possible venues to publish your opinion on an issue concerning an alleged petty criminal from India. And perhaps even more surprisingly, Al Jazeerah published your piece. Which audience were you appealing to? What is your connection with Al Jazeerah?
9. Dr. Pandey, you have participated in several conferences and meetings organized by ASHA and AID in support of Muslim victims of the Gujarat riots. AID and ASHA have never organized any meeting, seminar, conference, or campaign in support of Hindu victims anywhere, but several other groups have organized such events in solidarity with victims of Islamic terrorism in Kashmir. Why have you never participated in or even expressed your support for such events? Do you think Hindu victims do not deserve sympathy? Would you urge ASHA and AID to make amends and sponsor events to express support for the Hindu victims of Islamic terrorism in Kashmir and Bangladesh?
10. Dr. Pandey, as mentioned above, ASHA and AID have never sponsored an event in support of Hindu victims of terrorism and ethnic cleansing. But they have sponsored extremely sectarian events in association with groups such as the Indian Muslim Council USA (IMC-USA).[11] One of the key speakers in one such convention was Mohammad Ahmadullah Siddiqi who founded the banned Islamic terrorist organization, Student Islamic Movement of India (SIMI).[12] Would you be willing to publicly state that ASHA and AID should not associate with such organizations?
11. Dr. Pandey, would you be willing to ask ASHA and AID to co-sponsor events with Hindu organizations like the Ramakrishna Mission, Sathya Sai Organization, and ISKCON Bangalore which do exceptional charitable work all over India and serves poor people everywhere without regard to religion, caste, or language?
12. Dr. Pandey, last but not the least, do you unequivocally and without reservation denounce Communist and Islamic terrorism? Will you publicly denounce Communist and Islamic terrorist organizations?
13. Dr. Pandey, during the tsunami fund raiser, AID channeled funds through the Democratic youth Federation of India (DYFI), the youth wing of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), which has been implicated for fomenting violence.[13] The AID website also reported this. However, when the news became public, and people started to express reservation over AID’s funding of communist outfits like DYFI, AID started removing the references to the diversion from its website.[14] Do you think what AID did was ethical? Would you publicly condemn AID for diverting charity funds to outfits that engage in violence?
Politicians mouth vacuous platitudes and resort to high-pitched rhetoric when confronted with difficult questions that raise specific and serious concerns. I hope Dr. Pandey will provide honest and direct answers to all these questions, and not evade them like a politician who has something to hide. He should do so, if not for my sake, at least for the sake of volunteers and donors who are concerned about where their time, dedication, and hard-earned money are going.
Most importantly, please do not repeat your evasive reply that had you been a Communist, Magsaysay Foundation would not have conferred the award on you. These awards do not negate such associations. After all, you would agree that Yasser Arafat won the Nobel Prize for peace despite his track record as the leader of dreaded terrorist groups. Please answer the questions honestly and directly so that the volunteers and donors of ASHA and AID could evaluate you.
Yours truly,
A former donor
[Name withheld because of security concerns, and given the track record of terrorist groups which Dr. Pandey has been associated with].
What the other has to say ---- directly from the web
Shadow Warrior: Sandeep Pandey's ratha-yatra: where's the money going?
... dear all, Sandeep Pandey is short of funds by about 5 lakhs and ... 6350919, e-mail: piler@cyber.net.pk. > Sandeep Pandey, NAPM, A-893, Indira Nagar, Lucknow-226016, U.P ...rajeev2004.blogspot.com/.../03/sandeep-pandeys-ratha-yatra-wheres.html
It Says ---
'As regards to this another Paki-boot-licking effort by Kuldeep Nayar clone Sandeep Pandey, who's taking ISI appeasing to new heights,I hope there's a counter-yatra by Kashmiri Pandits in Delhi.And it should be flagged off by a young graduate from NDA.People like Sandeep Pandey & Arundati Roy, who are celebrities, enjoying their 5-Star lifestyles, that NDA graduate of 21 years, who's all setto go to the heights of Siachen & fight the Musharaf-ISI trained terrorist, is the only answer.These insects who are making us weak internally are our real enemies.'
.........And I thought ASHA was a bit better than throwing our hard earned money at the Sandeep Pandey types.If it is really that bad, people like me prob'ly should strike 'em off our donations list. Currently they are trying to get attention from the local hindu temple where I live.A sort of "certification" of all these NGO's by knowledgeable & persuasive guys like Rajeev would be a good ideas for us "dumb sheep" who look at the clean cut faces of some desi student who approaches us, gives us the sales patter, & takes our money "all for a worthy cause"....
.....Check out this mail where he solicits funds. He needs Rs. 1 lakh for fuel (for 2 vehicles) and this is just for the indian leg of the march.The distance between Delhi and Wagah is approximately 450 kilometres.So the round trip is 900 kilometres and for two vehicles it works outto the amount of fuel needed for 1800 kilometres. Even at a poor rate of 10 kilometres to the litre, you need just Rs 7200 (assuming 40rupees per litre) Guess where the remaining 92,800 goes! That is 92.8% overheads< >From: akhila raman To: <>Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 23:29:34 -0800 (PST)Subject: [foil] URGENT: Funds for 23rd Peace March! dear all,Sandeep Pandey is short of funds by about 5 lakhs and the Peace March starts March 23rd! Could you please forward to your elists and help towards this effort?address to mail checks is enclosed in the end.thanks, akhila---
asha wrote:> dear akhila,> the preparations for the march are in final stages.> also, see if you can raise some funds from other sources. we have received a> commitment of about rs. 3.5 lakhs till now. the budget is attached atthe> bottom of this message.> sandeep
Budget For Sandeep Pandey's yatra
Poster and Publicity Material (in 4 languages - Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu and English) Rs. 2,00,000
Fuel for 2 vehicles Rs. 1,00,000
Travel (Indian leg of the march) Rs. 2,50,000
Telephone/ Fax/ E-mail Rs. 50,000
Inaugral Programme Rs. 1,00,000
Material with yatra (microphone, solar light) Rs. 30,000
Miscellaneous Rs. 1,00,000
TOTAL Rs. 8,30,000
SEE AND READ THIS:
Document: Sandeep Pandey's views on Kashmir (external link to Milli Gazette, archived )Excerpt:
'Government should become more serious about the peace process in Kashmir and involve all the voices of Kashmir, however militant they might be. It is after all their land. It is neither Indian nor Pakistani land'
And Onother has to say this ....... directly from the web
PUBLICOPINIONFORUM
Sandeep Pandey – Naxal terrorist in a blue funk
PUBLIC. OPINION. FORUM. Sandeep Pandey – Naxal terrorist in a blue funk ... Sandeep Pandey is a man of many parts, all of them skin-deep and each one of them ... the State in India'. Sandeep Pandey has so far picked only those ...www.vigilonline.com/news/plain_speak/ps_view.asp?plainSpeakId=92 - 29k -
Sandeep Pandey – Naxal terrorist in a blue funk
Sandeep Pandey is a man of many parts, all of them skin-deep and each one of them carefully and calculatedly crafted to feed his gargantuan appetite for Mammon. American greenback Mammon, that is. He walks, he talks, he writes, he protests – for his version of ‘peace’, against Indian nukes, for Kashmiri and other terrorists, for the terrorist state of Pakistan, against Coca Cola, against Hindus and their nationalism, for the poor destitute children of India who don’t go to school - which fact this Indian, this IIT graduate confesses in an interview to the Milli Gazette, he came to know late in his life, only during his years in the US from a book published by MIT in 1991 titled ‘The Child and the State in India’. Sandeep Pandey has so far picked only those issues for his money-making activism which will keep him in media limelight, and those issues which for the most part resonate like music in the US government establishment, that’s for sure; all except Coca Cola. Only the Coca Cola bit is a dead give away about the colour of skin-deep Sandeep’s ideology. Skin-deep San-deep’s activism is intentionally anti-Hindu and anti-Hindu nation which is why the US, and its client states were willingly deceived into patronizing the man with awards, media attention, with talking tours in foreign universities and with the Magsaysay; but dear Sandeep’s activism, far from leaning ideologically towards the West is inclined steeply towards the Left to which fact the US establishment is perhaps only now beginning to open its eyes. As I said, each one of these many parts of Sandeep Pandey is intended secondarily to make money from anti-national disruptive activism. While these are well crafted money-making parts, the money-making is incidental to their primary role as false hair on the face to disguise him. Sandeep Pandey the pseudo educationist, the pseudo social activist, the pseudo peace activist, the pseudo anti-nuke activist – all of these pseudo beards disguise from public gaze Sandeep Pandey the committed and vocal supporter of Marxist-Leninist Naxalite terrorism. And skin-deep Sandeep is mortally afraid the false beard may fall off and that his Naxal proclivities may come under the US State Department scanner. Now why should that put dear Sandeep Pandey into a blue funk? Thereby hangs a tale – this tale in fact...........Sandeep Pandey’s ASHA raising close to four million dollars from inside the US is no small indicator of the Left rising from the dead. The other big indicators are the mammoth anti-WTO demonstrations in Seattle, the anti-war protests by millions of Americans who took to the streets following the invasion and occupation of Iraq, the anti-IMF and World Bank protestors growing by the year, the mammoth annual gathering of NGOs and other activists at the World Social Forum ............It is these fears which compels skin-deep Sandeep to go to great lengths to keep his pseudo beard on his chin – to keep his Left, and worse, his Naxal leanings a secret from the US government. The possibility of adverse media attention and the possibility of the US immigration doing to him what they did to another Indian Leftist, Ramachandra Guha, which will put paid to his luxurious five star activism bankrolled by American dollars must be giving dear Sandeep sleepless nights......... Sandeep Pandey’s communist nexus begins to unravel itself when, within months of accepting the Magsaysay award in 2002, he announces to the world that he will be returning the money component of the award worth 50,000 US$ because, he says, having called the US a terrorist state he cannot very well be receiving money from any American organization. It is obvious now that the communists used Sandeep Pandey and the Magsaysay award to deliver their first punch at the ‘imperialist’ US and the Ford Foundation. Needless to say dear Sandeep could afford to sniff at 50,000$ because he was making more than a couple of million dollars with his false beards in the US............ Hindu nationalists understand that both American imperialism and Communist-International have chosen India as their battle ground and that Hindu nationalism presents the biggest threat ideologically and physically to their hegemonic, homogenizing agenda. Sandeep Pandey represents one face of this twin threat to Hindu nationalism. Unmasking him and his like is in Hindu interest and will be the first step to get both monsters to vacate this land and choose another battle ground elsewhere.
Radha Rajan
14th October, 2005.
This is from another person ...... directly from the web
Sandeep Pandey's Naxal connections – Raju Rajagopal ko gussa kyon aata hai?
PUBLIC. OPINION. FORUM. Sandeep Pandey's Naxal connections – Raju Rajagopal ko gussa kyon aata hai? ... this mail confirming my theory that Sandeep Pandey and his partners and supporters are ... of his close association (?) partnership (?) with Sandeep Pandey. Both responses are extremely ...www.vigilonline.com/news/plain_speak/ps_view.asp?
Significantly, response to the Vigil Plainspeak comes from two persons – one an office-bearer in ASHA and the other from the individual who created yet another profitable US based NGO and who is now afraid that some mud, in fact a lot of mud will stick to him because of his close association (?) partnership (?) with Sandeep Pandey. Both responses are extremely interesting in that neither the ASHA office-bearer nor dear Raju Rajagopal have been able to deny dear Pandey’s Naxal connections which have been attested to by the CPI (ML) itself. ( http://www.cpiml.org/liberation/year_2003/january/feature.htm ) Even dear Sandeep Pandey couldn’t deny his connections and so he too was pushed into lying to his supporters. (http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~sudhakar/asha/weblog/sandeep.txt) Now neither this office-bearer of ASHA Netika Raval nor the co-ordinator of Promise Of India, Raju Rajagopal can deny the truth of Sandeep’s connections to Naxal terrorists or their own guilt by association with dear Sandeep and so they resort to beating around the bush. Please read their response all of you and see them playing ring-a-ring-a-rosy with the truth. They don’t even make the attempt to touch the issue of Sandeep’s Naxal connections. And because these two persons take us all to be idiots let me give you all another URL – this time a news report which testifies to the illustrious company that Sandeep Pandey keeps. http://www.rediff.com/news/2002/nov/15naxal.htm And dear Raju Rajagopal whose Promise Of India is supported and welcomed precisely by these same persons, now has to defend not only his association with dear Sandeep but also with these ‘internationally recognized and applauded’ eminent defenders of human rights and peace activists who assemble at the Seventh Congress of the CPI (ML) to ‘honour’ the memory of slain Maoist/Naxal terrorists because they think slain Maoist/Naxal terrorists are noble martyrs!
more to follow.........
