Jul
27
A year of living indecisively?
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It is showing off!
Minister’s performance is a mix of inefficiency, evasiveness and sheer corrupt deals and much more!
Yes, it is now openly admitted and acknowledged that it is no wiser and serves no purpose to blame the Prime Minister. The PM’s personal decency, no one questions. But everyone is very much concerned about the state of the country, the economy, and the very many shortcomings of the government.
The second year of the UPA-II hasn’t started off well. The PM’s first year performance car, his press conference and the series of the events and scandals that overtook this government is perhaps unprecedented. Here is a government, a coalition that saw its partners going their own ways. The Trinamul Congress, the NCP, the DMK went their own ways.
The Trinamul went its way and contested the Kolkata Municipal Council elections on its own and ditched the ally, the Congress and in the process the TC did so many other things and in the end we today see the Maoist derailment blamed on Mamata Banerjee, she didn’t show any remorse, she didn’t even visit the accident site at once and even acknowledge and even now didn’t explain what is her position on the Maoist menace. Is this what we expect from a crucial allay of the Central ruling party? Is this what the great Bengal intelligentsia is capable of contributing to the collective good of India? And for all her unpredictable nature Mamata Banerjee has some of the best and brightest of the MPs in the present Lok Sabha. Even if she behaves this way, her team members owe to their state and to the country some more wisdom and light.
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Jul
27
They must have a sense of stability and security for survival!
National Bandh totally unwarranted!
Cynicism of the totally bankrupt forces!
See who are all in the game?
The BJP under Nitin Gadkari banner seemed a welcome start. Yes, even now it is a welcome change from the good old days of L.K.Advani or the Rajnath Singh regime.
Even now, there are distortions in the BJP’s overall national map. In Gujarat it is still a great distortion. Mr.Narednra Modi is winning it seems on all his fronts. But then why he is not welcome in the Nitish Kumar-ruled state where his party, the BJP, is a key ally even now?
This is a complex question that needs some deep introspection on the part of the party as well as on the part of the national intelligentsia.
So, when the BJP calls for the bandh, on a key economic issue, namely, that of the fuel price rise, then, there must be some common agenda for the Left parties and the BJP.
The CPI (M) is the worst cynic, a worst cynical party in the country. It is in a deep crisis over its very identity in the new times and new situations. The CPI (M) secretariat and the Polit Bureau (PB) think and behave like the old Soviet regime time outfit. The Central Committee or whatever and the General Secretary behaves like Lenin or more patently like a modern day Stalin? We are not sure. But what we are sure is the hard line adopted or spelt out or the hard line pursued.
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Jul
2
Letter to Mr.Rahul Gandhi, MP
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Mr.Rahul Gandhi MP,
Tuglak lane.
New Delhi
Dear Mr.Rahul Gandhi,
Sub: Congress affairs in Tamil Nadu-regarding
I an old Congress member from Tamil Nadu. As you may be interested to know that I had moved closely with Pandit Nehru and Kamaraj and other senior leaders in the early 1960s and also worked at the AICC when the late Kamaraj was the AICC President and when was live.
In 1967 I was at the AICC and I wrote the Congress election pamphlets.
I and my other Oxford friend, Rudolf de Mello became ardent Congress members when we were both at Oxford in the early 60s and after coming back to India De Mellow became the Youth Congress President.
I later became an MLC in Madras in 1968 when the Congress was defeated by the DMK in 1967.
When Kamaraj and the Congress were defeated and were out in the cold, my election victory as an independent was hailed by Kamaraj as the first victory for the Congress in the state.
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