Congress men shut down Restaurant in Mumbai over bill note

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Unable to swallow the 'insult' after Aditi Restaurant prints bills with a note slamming UPA government, Congress men force it to shut down; owner says he had printed it to protest tax on AC restaurants

Dissent is not for this UPA-led democracy. Angry, young Congress men on Monday swamped a popular restaurant in Parel, opposite KEM Hospital, because the owner had started printing ‘defamatory’ material against the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) central government on food bills.

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Around 30 to 35 workers of the Indian Youth Congress -- which is chaired by party vice-president Rahul Gandhi -- approached the restaurant, Aditi Pure Veg, around 3 pm. Led by Ganesh Kumar Yadav, city president of the party’s youth wing, and party MLA Kalidas Kolambkar, they approached the hotel and asked the owner to shut shop.

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The marching orders for the swoop down came from the party headquarters in Delhi, said Congress workers, and after receiving them, they clamped down on the restaurant and later approached the Bhoiwada police against the businessman for defamation.

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“Some of the Congress workers who had come to KEM Hospital had food at Aditi. They saw the hotel owner had printed defamatory material against the ruling alliance and wrote to the Congress party leaders in Delhi, who then diverted the matter to us,” said Pratik A Nakate, president, Wadala assembly of Mumbai Pradesh Youth Congress.

“So our Youth Congress workers approached the restaurant and demanded its closure and asked for an apology. We have informed the Bhoiwada police about it,” said Omshree Kadam, secretary of south-central district Congress committee.

The food bills that patrons of the eatery located on Dr E Borges Road in Parel received came printed with a witticism the owner had come up with:
‘As per UPA government, eating money (2G, Coal, CWG scam) is a necessity and eating food in an AC restaurant is a luxury,’ read the bill receipts on their underside.

The Congress workers, who failed to see the wit when first served the bill, of course, had the last laugh, when cops slapped the proprietor, Srinivas Shetty, with an NC. The central government introduced service tax on eating at air-conditioned restaurants in recent years, aggravating restaurateurs and customers, who ultimately end up footing the extra cost.

Said an officer from Bhoiwada police station, “We have registered a non-cognisable complaint (NC) against the restaurant for printing matter known to be defamatory (Section 501 of IPC) and have settled the matter for now. The restaurant owner has promised that he will not circulate those bills now.”

Youth Congress leaders expressed surprise that despite all the work they put in for the greater good of the people, some failed to notice it. “We are doing such good work in our areas as part of the Youth Congress and such comments de-motivate people from joining the party.

The owner might have his issues but he should fight them in a legal way rather than defaming the party for some people’s corruption,” said Sandeep Pansade, general secretary, south-central region of Youth Congress.

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Source:
Midday

OMG OMG :mrgreen:

Look at that cabinet, its got two rear exhaust fan ports. rare thing in such local cabinets

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harshilsharma63 said:
Look at that cabinet, its got two rear exhaust fan ports. rare thing in such local cabinets

oh!! I thought it was an office file :-D

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They've done a big favour to the guy who owns the restaurant... There's nothing like free popularity

lol , I saw that bill on Facebook a couple of days ago , posted by someone. I had a intuition about this.

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KDroid said:
They've done a big favour to the guy who owns the restaurant... There's nothing like free popularity

yeah, news channels are flooding with it.

welcome to Con-Gress Taliban, grow up Pappu.......... lekin maza aa gaya

If narebazzi is allowed, then so should be such thing.

ghotala..ghotala... :lol:

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I remember going to that hotel a few times. Their pav-bhaji was awesome.

Back on topic, this is ridiculous. At least they could have told the owner to remove that text from future bills rather than showing such bullish behaviour.

Rishi. said:
lol , I saw that bill on Facebook a couple of days ago , posted by someone. I had a intuition about this.

Actually, IIRC, He put that line in bill when AC Restaurants were imposed a new tax. So quite old. Congress reacted quite late

Some people are having hard time accepting that fact that their time is over now.
Do whatever you want to stop the defamation , but the truth and result of next year is quite inevitable.

Rishi. said:
Some people are having hard time accepting that fact that their time is over now.
Do whatever you want to stop the defamation , but the truth and result of next year is quite inevitable.

you have said lot of things in these two lines.. pappu cant dance sala

@rishi; well said

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Rishi. said:
Some people are having hard time accepting that fact that their time is over now.
Do whatever you want to stop the defamation , but the truth and result of next year is quite inevitable.

Well I highly doubt that because one thing I have noticed in the last year or so that the public is awesome when it comes to voting. With everyday polls suggesting anti-congress opinion, tv debates filled with scams involving congress leaders, online forums/blogs filled with anti-congress essays/letters/passages/messages, people congregating in every Ramlila maidan to support that 'this country needs another revolution' & whatnot!... What actually happens? Congress comes to power in Uttrakhand, Karnataka, Jharkhand, retains Manipur, now there's speculation of Congress-JD(U) alliance in Bihar, SP/BSP give outside support to Congress... Congress is the most powerful party of India & if any other party actually comes to power then we have seen what happened in the past. If people have so much problem with this party, why don't they go outside & vote against it? :-D

theterminator said:
Well I highly doubt that because one thing I have noticed in the last year or so that the public is awesome when it comes to voting. With everyday polls suggesting anti-congress opinion, tv debates filled with scams involving congress leaders, online forums/blogs filled with anti-congress essays/letters/passages/messages, people congregating in every Ramlila maidan to support that 'this country needs another revolution' & whatnot!... What actually happens? Congress comes to power in Uttrakhand, Karnataka, Jharkhand, retains Manipur, now there's speculation of Congress-JD(U) alliance in Bihar, SP/BSP give outside support to Congress... Congress is the most powerful party of India & if any other party actually comes to power then we have seen what happened in the past. If people have so much problem with this party, why don't they go outside & vote against it?

What happened in the past? NDA came to power in 1998. Ruled for 6 years. In retrospect, NDA seems to be much better than the present-day UPA.

Also, let's see if Congress is able to win even one assembly elections in MP, Rajasthan or Chattisgarh this year

It most probably will even lose Delhi if BJP gets its act together.

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US has 2 party democracy so they get two options. We have multi party democracy but we don't have even half an option. Vote for evil or the big brother of evil *sigh*

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KDroid said:
What happened in the past? NDA came to power in 1998. Ruled for 6 years. In retrospect, NDA seems to be much better than the present-day UPA.

Compare that with Congress ruling since Independence. There was this hype of third-front & janata party....we all saw what happened & that hype is renewing again but will not affect since the regional parties have nothing in common. If NDA rule was much better than why it was voted out of power & why Congress again won in 2009? Whatever happens in 2014 will not change the equation because if by some miracle BJP does come to power then it will be highly unlikely that it will sustain given the internal mahabharata of the party.

KDroid said:
Also, let's see if Congress is able to win even one assembly elections in MP, Rajasthan or Chattisgarh this year It most probably will even lose Delhi if BJP gets its act together.

Already BJP has suffered much damage with the Advani-Modi spat & with Rajnath Singh's covert PM ambitions , god knows what will happen with the BJP :-D

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Don't criticize congress , they are in work training ...after 2014 election when they will be ousted from power ..this will be their main job

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Yeah, a tsunami is going to come in 2014 & will dismantle Congress for good. Then we'll have a new govt for, may be, 1 or 2 or a full term...but by the end of that comments will pour onto the Internet that 'we need another revolution' :-D

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ssdivisiongermany1933 said:
Don't criticize congress , they are in work training ...after 2014 election when they will be ousted from power ..this will be their main job

theterminator said:
Well I highly doubt that because one thing I have noticed in the last year or so that the public is awesome when it comes to voting. With everyday polls suggesting anti-congress opinion, tv debates filled with scams involving congress leaders, online forums/blogs filled with anti-congress essays/letters/passages/messages, people congregating in every Ramlila maidan to support that 'this country needs another revolution' & whatnot!... What actually happens? Congress comes to power in Uttrakhand, Karnataka, Jharkhand, retains Manipur, now there's speculation of Congress-JD(U) alliance in Bihar, SP/BSP give outside support to Congress... Congress is the most powerful party of India & if any other party actually comes to power then we have seen what happened in the past. If people have so much problem with this party, why don't they go outside & vote against it?

The reason why I am saying that it's end of regime for con-grash is because of certain facts :
1.Con-grash is too much abused on the social media for corruption and rise in cost-of-living.
2.OfCourse ,their pappu can't dance sala...
3.The most important factor implying that their dominance will be crushed in 2014Elec , is presence of NaMo. Even the Con-grash is scared of him , and not his party.
4.When it comes to voting for PM , majority of people will vote in the name of NaMo and not their local leaders.
5.Con-Grash has pissed off almost every mango-people , except their Vote-banks.
6.A majority of their close-pals and brethrens are parting from th'm because they don't like eating Italian Pasta daily.

Although , I am not saying that Bee-Jay-Pi will dominate and win , but I am certain con-grash will not hold good for sure.

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Rishi. said:
The reason why I am saying that it's end of regime for con-grash is because of certain facts :
1.Con-grash is too much abused on the social media for corruption and rise in cost-of-living.
2.OfCourse ,their pappu can't dance sala...
3.The most important factor implying that their dominance will be crushed in 2014Elec , is presence of NaMo. Even the Con-grash is scared of him , and not his party.
4.When it comes to voting for PM , majority of people will vote in the name of NaMo and not their local leaders.
5.Con-Grash has pissed off almost every mango-people , except their Vote-banks.
6.A majority of their close-pals and brethrens are parting from th'm because they don't like eating Italian Pasta daily.

Although , I am not saying that Bee-Jay-Pi will dominate and win , but I am certain con-grash will not hold good for sure.

Hope that people who criticize congress especially on the web , go out & actually vote because they didn't do that in recent assembly polls which brought congress to power.

theterminator said:
Hope that people who criticize congress especially on the web , go out & actually vote because they didn't do that in recent assembly polls which brought congress to power.

I hope those netizens do vote this time , specially because Bee-jay-Pi is throwing a lot of money for social media publicity.
IMO , it's the remotely located voters(like villages) who are unaware of social media and development, should be a bigger concern for Be-jay-Pi , mostly because they are not influenced by the anti-kong thing going on these days.

Well this time , Con-gras has made a lot of enemies including , Mr.KayzriWal's party and the people under influence of Anna , Keeran Bedi , and others.

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Isn't everyone thinking Kezriwal & Co. are covert congress ops?

india became Nuclear power in regime of BJP, Indian army fought with coward MF Jihadis in Kargil and won, and listen when NaMo speaks, he never talks about religion or beg vote in the name of religion, yesterday he was live on a news channel he was talking about how we can improve our economics - he talked about simple things like manufacturing more and selling outside world, India has become only market......... well there was more he talked

the things is that Con-gress is financing more in Media to show him in a bad light, and this actually helping him

look how China and other small nations are treating India.... we dont show respect to our self...