Real Buzz : About KA Paul and YSR!
The Congress Government in the state is unearthing a land scandal that can make K.A.Paul the prime accused. His brother David Raju, who is running an orphanage in Sadasivapet of Medak District is believed to have acquired land to the extent of 1000 acres. This acquisition took place during the TDP regime. K.A.Paul’s proximity with Balayogi(who was killed in the wreckage of a chopper arranged by Paul himself) and Chandra Babu Naidu is known to every one in the state.
Though Paul and his brother tried to maintain similar rapport with the Congress Government, his efforts bore no fruits. There are severe charges of illegal occupation farmer’s lands on Paul and his brother.
At one time revenue officers took hold of the land in dispute. Paul’s brother , using the good offices of a top ranking police officer, could get his land back. Now the Congress leaders are trying to rake up the issue.
If the State Government initiates any action, Paul and his brother will be in soup. To preempt this move, K.A.Paul felt heavily upon Y.S.Rajasekhar Reddy, reliable sources say. There are similar charges of land grabbing against Paul in other parts of the state, including Visakhapatnam and Krishna districts, sources say.
Fact Sheet: Babu leaves KA Paul in the lurch!
A day after he supported international evangelist KA Paul, Telugu Desam president and former chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu decided to dump him. The reason? There are allegations against the evangelist and the TD leadership felt that it would be inviting more political trouble if Chandrababu Naidu sided with Paul.
So Chandrababu Naidu has called off his visit to East Godavari district on Sunday. He was scheduled to participate in Paul's programmes arranged locally. Moreover, Chief Minister YS Rajasekhar Reddy has alleged that Paul was very close to Chandrababu Naidu. This left the TD leader in the lurch. If he participates in Paul's meetings, he will be proving YSR right. So Chandrababu Naidu felt that it is better to dump Paul rather than involving in a poltical fisticuff with the Congress and YSR.
Buzz: Babu grabs Paul's offer to YSR!
Another interesting aspect with regard to Christian preacher K A Paul has come to light in connection with his allegations against Chief Minister Dr Y S Rajasekhar Reddy stating that the latter had asked Rs 20 crore from the former towards election fund.
Paul said he had refused to give money, but had offered to arrange a meeting between his billionaire friends and YSR in the USA, so that they could help him out in fund raising for the Congress election campaign. YSR did not go to the USA to mobilise funds.
But, the offer is now said to be grabbed by Telugu Desam president N Chandrababu Naidu. The TD president is in a same position as YSR was in 2003 – he needs party funds for the electioneering in 2009. Paul reportedly made a similar offer to Naidu – come to the USA and he would arrange a meeting with his billionaire friends, who would help him out in the election fund raising.
While YSR had refused the offer in 2003, Naidu has quickly grabbed the opportunity now. He is leaving for the USA in the last week of June in the name of attending the Telugu Association of North America conference, but he will also be interacting with some NRI "friends" to raise funds for the party and Paul would play behind the screen role. In fact, Naidu was supposed to attend Paul's meeting at Kakinada on Saturday and Sunday, but he is likely to drop out fearing criticism from the Congress leaders, in the wake of latest episode.
Buzz: K A Paul's Website goes ‘offline’!
A website on which evangelist K A Paul had posted his acerbic letter against CM Rajasekhara Reddy, is not accessible now. Paul’s detailed letter was on the homepage of www.globalpeacenow.com on Friday, the day he held a press meet to make allegations against Reddy.
However, the website of Global Peace Initiative, which Paul heads, appears to have been blocked on Saturday. “There is currently no site configured at the address,” an announcement on the website read.
It appears Paul himself would have got the website blocked as police said that they had no role in the matter.
What American Press says about KA Paul
Here is a report in the Houston Press (June 9, 2007 issue) on the tantrums international evangelist KA Paul plays with the rich and mighty. That his allegations against Chief Minister YS Rajasekhar Reddy are baseless is clearly evident from the Houston Press report.
Just go through the report and judge for yourself about this man.
On a Saturday afternoon in January 2005, a short Indian minister stormed into Gallery Furniture and demanded to speak to owner Jim "Mattress Mac" McIngvale.
There are few places as crowded as Gallery Furniture on a Saturday, but the man, surrounded by his entourage, was insistent. A staff member summoned McIngvale, who agreed to talk with the man for a few minutes.
He introduced himself as Dr. K.A. Paul. He was a famous globetrotting minister based in Houston. He wanted to bring medical supplies to tsunami victims in Sri Lanka, but he needed $200,000 for gas money. He needed it now.
"The whole thing was kind of surreal," McIngvale recalls. He'd never heard of Paul. He had also just donated $250,000 to the tsunami relief program launched by former presidents Bush and Clinton.
"I just figured, if you've got enough money to buy a billion-dollar airplane, you oughta have enough money to [pump it] full of gas," McIngvale says. "That'd be like some guy in a brand-new Rolls-Royce pulling up here asking for gas money."
It smelled bad. McIngvale denied Paul's request.
So the minister did what any good Christian would do: He held a press conference blaming McIngvale for withholding desperately needed supplies from helpless children.
Paul was not used to being denied. His ministry claims powerful backers. Dallas millionaire Nelson Bunker Hunt was a major contributor. Cincinnati Reds owner Carl Lindner Jr., too. Flying around the world in his 747, Global Peace One (for more about the plane, see the sidebar "The 'Flying Death Trap,' " at the end of this article), Paul says he's counseled dictators Charles Taylor, Saddam Hussein and Slobodan Milosevic. He claims to operate the biggest, most successful orphanage in India. He's saved countless widows in India and brought peace to Rwanda. His peacekeeping missions have succeeded where America's have failed, which has put him in the crosshairs of A-list enemies like Condoleezza Rice.
But a Houston Press investigation into Anand Kilari -- the man who calls himself Dr. K.A. Paul -- showed some far less admirable moments in his life, including:
• claiming another minister's leper colony as his own, and videotaping said lepers for a promotional video
• transporting children in an airplane one former crew member called a "flying death trap"
• leaving a trail of unpaid bills for the plane's fuel and maintenance
• interfering with a murder investigation in India, earning the wrath of that country's National Council of Churches
• fleeing to the United States from India after nine of his American volunteers were arrested and thrown in prison
• abandoning an 11-year-old girl after checking her into a hospital
The investigation revealed a story much different from the one spun by Anand Kilari and his supporters. It's the story of an egomaniac with a doctored past and an obsession with an airplane that receives more money than starving orphans in India, a man whose hubris and deceptions have burned nearly every bridge that was supposed to lead him to his true, unspoken goal: to show the world that where there once was Mother Teresa, Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., there is now Dr. K.A. Paul.
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