Thursday, February 9, 2012

INDIAN MINISTERS RESIGN OVER SEX VIDEO

3 INDIAN MINISTERS RESIGN IN
ASSEMBLY PORN-VIEWING SCANDAL
Bangalore (AFP) - Three state ministers from southern India, including one holding a portfolio for women and child development, quit on Wednesday after being accused of watching porn in the local assembly. The ministers from the ruling right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) were filmed by television cameras watching graphic footage on their mobile phones on Tuesday while other lawmakers in the house were debating legislation. In the footage, the ministers were seen watching a woman dancing, undressing and then engaging in a sexual act. They passed their mobile phones amongst themselves.“We have resigned to avoid embarrassment to our party and not give the opposition an opportunity to disrupt the assembly proceedings today,” state minister for cooperation Laxman Savadi told reporters.“We were watching a clipping of an incident for a discussion on the rave parties held at St. Mary’s Island (on the western coast of Karnataka). It was not a porn clip.” Karnataka’s minister for women and child development, C.C. Patil, and the minister for ports and fishery Krishna Palemar also stepped down. “It’s a shameless act. The three ministers have submitted their resignation. We will set up an inquiry committee to probe the incident,” said BJP spokeswoman Nirmala Sitharaman in New Delhi.

A survey by India Today magazine conducted in 2008 in Indian cities found that three out of five men and one out of five women approved of pornography, which is illegal but widely available in India. The incident is the latest embarrassment to hit the Hindu nationalist BJP. An ombudsman investigating corrupt mining practices reported last year that illegal mining fraud had cost the Karnataka state and federal exchequers $3.6 billion. After the scandal broke B.S. Yeddyurappa, the chief minister of Karnataka, had to resign and was arrested on graft accusations. He is now free on bail. Yeddyurappa also faces allegations of selling government land at below market cost to family members. Reacting to the sex video incident, a leader of the national ruling Congress party, Kapil Sibal, who is also telecom minister, said the BJP should “introspect” before they preach morality in public life. In 2009, young activists from the radical Vishwa Hindu Parishad, or World Hindu Council, which has close ties with the BJP, attacked women in a fashionable bar, accusing them of “debauched behaviour” for drinking and smoking.

Three government ministers in the southern Indian state of Karnataka resigned Wednesday after they were accused of watching a pornographic video during an assembly session. They were ordered to resign after television channels aired footage of the men watching the allegedly pornographic video clip while the state assembly proceedings were going on. They denied they were watching pornography. The low morals and lack of belief in higher values encourage pornography and prostitution.

WHAT DO THE VEDIC TEACHINGS TELL US? 
Modern society has different elements which lead their members to destruction, such as lust and pornography; the latter is so prominent, which becomes a real danger to a person’s spiritual progress. ... There is pornography on the internet, in magazines, everywhere, even in many modern writings in which, apparently there is only text, but it is filled with terrible pornography.  Pornography is the worst offense to the people and sex, because it describes the human being just like a source of pleasure, in other words: The body would be the gift that God gave us to enjoy irresponsibly of the sex and have it whomever, whenever and whatever. ... So the world goes from bad to worse; this is what we observe, and we have to face it because lust and pornography are the enemies number one for spiritual advancement.  God says in the Bhagavad Gita - “kāma esha krodha esha rajo-guna”: “Lust is the largest of the sins; lust is the all-devouring sinful enemy of this world.”

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