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Zardari is jealous about India

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

Zardari drops Kashmir-bomb, says ready for ‘1000-yr ideological war’ with India

So, that’s it. He has come to the line of traditional Pakistan leaders, who knew that their survival depends on the India bashing and India specific politics. Zardari’s survival is now at state in politics, since the Pakistan Supreme Court has ordered investigation of his unending corruption at the time of his wife Benazir Bhutto’s tenure as prime minister. The level of corruption was such that he was nick named Mr. 10%.

Whatever would be the outcome of investigation is the future, and that would take long time, no doubt in that. At the moment, he needs to strengthen his position as the president of the country, hence, the rhetoric started. The same Zardaro, soon after becoming the president stated all positive statements in favor of India. One may argue that this is politics and nothing from the mouth of the politicians should be taken seriously. Their only intention is their benefit, for which they are ready to utter anything and everything at any time.

He intends to continue the ideological war with India on the subject of Kashmir. What does that mean? Had he contemplated a reasonable solution of Kashmir problem; he would have been credited for that. Again, we are mistaking the Pakistani leaders, who are jealous and angry about India, and over 62 years not a single leader on the western front of India we found is reasonable, honest, and progressive in nature.

Zardari is living in fool’s paradise like his predecessors dreaming the Kashmir in Pakistan kitty soon. His misinterpretation of the world powers in this issue has made him dream in this direction.

The Kashmir problem is an artificial issue for Pakistan, which they do not want to let go, as this issue is like a milking cow that gives its leaders and army men a ready unending scapegoat.



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Passed by House in Aug, right to education yet to be law

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

Passed by House in Aug, right to education yet to be law

The heads of government ministries along with their bureaucrat brains are yet to learn about the list of preference factor for the country’s development and progress. Sixty-two years have gone by, and many more will pass with planning, rhetoric, meetings, and seminars spending crores, but the real issue would remain in the dark as it is. This is exactly what is happening in ‘Right To Education’.

In a democracy, people are the main assets of the country, and more literate they are better the chances of progress. The political leaders lack the thought initiative to understand this; hence, the vital issue of education does not get the importance.

After fifty-five years, the bill was placed in the parliament in 2002, and it was passed after four months’ deliberations. That is not all, what was needed after that is the notifications to both the legislations, which has not been done yet, hence the passing of the bill is as useless as without passing. The cost factor is the biggest hurdles according to the government source. The people, who would be responsible to implement the actual work, are of the opinion that there are so many other things to do before the actual implementation, which do not cost much money, and those could be taken into action now, if the notifications were sent. If the government in the centre takes another three or so months, then the actual work could not be initiated, as the state governments would not have any money allocation for the RTE in their annual budget passed before March.

Certain points in the bill such as the teacher-student ratio, examination reforms, new learning methods, etc could be started with the knowledge that the bill has been notified.

The biggest problem is not the money, since India’s economy is growing at the rate of more than 7% for the past few years. Even, there is finance problem, that problem should have been overcome by giving preference to this issue over other trivial issues, as according to me, this is of vital importance.

Fundamentally, education is one area that needs the maximum exposures after shelter and food.



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India on an adventurous and dangerous path: Kayani

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

India on an adventurous and dangerous path: Kayani

Often we have found that people in high responsible ranks in the governments talk in the same wavelength that is as common as water in the ocean. What General Kiyani has said contains no sensibility being in the position of army chief of Pakistan.

It is not General Kapoor, who tries to instigate any one; it is Kiyani, who is doing the same to cover up his failures to control terrorism as the army chief in his own country. Needless to say, he is recognized already in the international arena as the facilitator of the terrorist group, which, of course, he will deny. Now, the country is facing the heat of their created monsters in their own country. The fact remains, the government as well as the military does not have any honest interest to do good for the people of Pakistan, and their only intention is to make money through corruption while keeping he citizens in the dark under the pretext of India. This is dirty politics that is being followed decades after decades, and no leader or army chief has shown the guts to take a different path to restore democracy truly.

I will not say that Indian politicians are the honest lot as far as politics is concerned. However, the system of democracy is still intact in India and the country has progressed in all fields substantially unlike Pakistan.

Kiyani should look back in the history and learn what his predecessors had achieved in their initiated adventure against India. He may be in the wrong elated perception due to the possession of nuclear weapons, but that would be the last great mistake they would make, if ever they trigger the nuclear button. India has never indulged in any adventure is the proof that it could annexed Bangladesh easily after declutching it from the wrong hands of Pakistan.

Kiyani has to control his people, and he had to take the path of rhetoric. He opened his mind while addressing the high-ranking officials of military at the General Headquarters. It is easy to make out the wrong intent of Kiyani, as he tried to mix religion with the country’s defense, which the people most fear in that country.



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Tharoor tweets on visa restrictions, says Mumbai killers had no visas: ridiculous thinking

Monday, December 28th, 2009

Tharoor tweets on visa restrictions, says Mumbai killers had no visas: ridiculous thinking

Even after knowing that Headley, a terrorist, entered India easily with valid visa and lots of controversy about his visa sanction, Tharoor’s comments on visa tightening rules for foreigners show his lack of thinking power in the right direction. If this is his contention on the rules issuing visas to foreigners, then only one conclusion can be made about him, and that is his deficiency in reasonable thinking power.

He is right in saying that the 26/11 terrorists did not have visas to enter India; however, he fails to understand that with easy available visas terrorists enter this country. He probably wanted to become over smart by expressing his latest controversial statement through tweets that he loves intensely. As he wonders and thinks that there is no sense in tightening visa rules for foreigners, we can think that he is in favor of issuing visas to Tom, Dick, and Harry without any deliberations.

We know already his caliber through his statements on austerity measures of the government, and other issues, and now he has confirmed our assessment by his latest statement on visa rules. Is he not aware of the cases of Headley and Tahawur Rana, both terrorists, who were arrested in US for plotting of terror attack on India? He is the minister of state in the foreign affairs ministry. He should rather support the tightening rules of visas to foreigners, instead of opposing it.

“Is all that worth it just in hope of making it difficult for a future Headley to recce? R we going 2 allow terrorists 2 make us less welcoming?” this is what he wrote in his tweets. My goodness, if a person like him continues in the foreign ministry, the country would easily become a terrorists’ haven, any doubt.

The government should assess what is his actual intention; otherwise, he might take some decisions in his capacity that may harm the country.

 

 



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Poverty on decline even on new scale: PM

Sunday, December 27th, 2009

Poverty on decline even on new scale: PM

What a pretension is this? The prime minister has expressed his satisfaction by saying that poverty line of the country is steadily declining. Isn’t this something called self-appraisal that the prime minister is telling after 62 years of independence? He is in the saddle of this country’s running for almost six years; can he give a figure to show that enough has been done during this period to reduce the poverty figure? Why in the first place poverty should exist in this country, when the economic growth is adequate? That means, the growth is confined to a selective group of people at the cost the people at the poverty level.

The argument of what could be the basis of defining the poverty line is another ploy of the government. Whether it is 27 or 37 percentage, both are high figure. The government seems to be complacent with the 27% figure. Indeed, we have fantastic leaders, who are concerned with the figures instead of eradicate this figure altogether. Singh’s argument that poverty is declining is rather an excuse to cover up the government’s failure in this front. Why in this front, the government has failed in almost in every front in his tenure. The government, which is busy appeasing the west certainly would fail in the home front, we are not surprised. The people are not interested in his rhetoric of apple to apple, not apple to orange; they are interested in getting food, work, shelter, sanitation, etc, which the government failed to provide.

What he said in the conference of Indian Economic Association held in Bhubhneswar is nothing but futile argument. The former chairman of the prime minister’s economic advisory council has rightly said that parameters such as sanitation, health, and education should be included while summing out the poverty figure. Why the government wants to resist this? Does it think that just two time food is the only criterion to assess poverty? Ridiculous it is in the part of the government.

 



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JMM, BJP set to form government in Jharkhand

Friday, December 25th, 2009

JMM, BJP set to form government in Jharkhand

Politics for most of the politicians is power and mint money subsequently. There is no other better way to mint money as easily as can be done in power of politics.

The just held election in the state of Jharkhand, the fractured mandate has once again given the opportunity to all elected members to make money in the horse trading as well as grabbing lucrative ministry in the new state government. The number game is on, and where it would end is a million dollar question. The adage ‘there is no permanent friend or enemy in politics’ is prominent in the statements coming from various elected members.

Shibu Shoren, is a known corrupt person, who was in jail earlier. Now that his party JMM has bagged 18 seats, he is the man to reckon with to form the new government. The other party that has bagged equal number of seats is BJP. In the 81-seat assembly, one of these two party must be in the side of the new alliance to form the government. This equation has given Shibu the chance of demanding the chair of chief minister at any cost. The congress and its ally Jharkhand Vikas Morcha – Prajatantrik together got 25 seats and was in the process to get the support of JMM to form the government. Since, Soren could not be convinced to accept anything other than chief minister; the effort of forming the government by the congress became dim. Now, Soren’s bete-noire BJP accepted Soren’s condition with their own conditions that Soren too accepted, and the possibility of the new formation became bright. BJP wants 7 cabinet ministers and one deputy chief minister’s slots, and the other group All Jharkhand Students Union (AJSU)’s demand of three cabinet minister and one deputy Chief Minister’s slots. Both demands are ok for Shibu Soren, and he will meet the governor to claim his stake tomorrow, the report said. AJSU has five seats in its credit, which is critical for the formation of the government.

The final figure of the election result is BJP-18, JMM-18, Congress-13, JVMP-P-12, AJSU-5, RJD-5, JD(U)-2, rest possibly are independents.

The system of politics is wrong in India. Unless a drastic rule change is brought in the first place, unscrupulous men would take the advantage of farce election, and corruption would increase.



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I was treated like a dog: Ruchika’s brother to court

Friday, December 25th, 2009

I was treated like a dog: Ruchika’s brother to court

The common thread that runs through all the cases of Jessica Lal murder, Nitish Katara Murder, Ruchika’s abetted suicide, and many others is the high linkage of the government/politicians with the accused. Why on the Earth, all these nasty people are not punished until the public pressure is exerted on the system?

Shame on this system that is more concerned about the horrible government officers than the victims of their heinous acts. A man, who was supposed to protect people, molested Ruchika Girhotra, knowing fully well that he has the influence to save himself easily. The then chief minister of the Haryana State Om Prakash Chauthala has been allegedly accused of shielding the culprit SPS Rathore, and even accepted his promotion after committing the crime on duty. This is another example out of many, how the politicians play nexus games for reasons better known to them.

As it is, the Girhotra family was under shock and stress after the molestation of Ruchika by Rathore, over and above, that same man utilized his power, being the high-end police officer, to harass the whole family to the extent of collapse. It is the family and one friend of Ruchika that resolved to see the end of this noxious game of Rathore and colluded people in the government in spite of having enormous difficulties in the process. Eventually, the truth prevailed, the court has accepted the crime of Rathore, and sentended him to six months’ imprisonment with the provision of appealing to the higher court.

Now that the public and media pressure is increasing, the government seems to have no option than to take appropriate action in the matter. The terrible experience narrated by Ruchika’s brother Ashu in the Haryana High Court on December 3, 2001 clearly states how mean the system could be by the unscrupulous behaviour of the government officers. He was tortured, abused, deprived of proper food and water in the police custody on the only reason that Rathore instructed all these. All charges brought on Ashu were found false in the court, and the police had to release him from the custody 3 December 1993 after Ruchika committed suicide.

If this were the state of affairs in India, then the faith on system would lose its sheen, no doubt about it.



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DGP sentenced for molestation: Karat calls for fast track justice

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

DGP sentenced for molestation: Karat calls for fast track justice

What a fuss of the judicial system in this country that is pronounced in finding a high profile government officer guilty of molestation to a 14 year girl. If the Central Bureau of Investigation special court takes almost two decades to decide a case of molestation, then it is not surprising to note that the high and mighty in the government are all shady. The culprit SPS Rathore is actually not punished with six months’ sentence; it is the public money wasted in the process. The judge of the case should be accountable for the delay in the case. This is a good precedence for others in the power to commit crime, as they know what would happen ultimately. Nineteen years is taken by the CBI court, and now the accused has been allowed to appeal to the higher court against the sentence, which the culprit is going to do, inform the source.

The communist party leader Brinda Karat raised the point of delay in executing cases in the court in Rajya Sabha in the presence of the law minister Moily and home minister Chidambaram. What reaction they had was not reported in the news. In the name of justice, the government agencies are neglecting their work, and ordinary people are suffering. The central Bureau of Investigation is the country’s premier investigation entity. Is this a helping corrupt hand of the government or works independently. It would be appropriate to interpret CBI as Corrupt Bureau of Investigation.

The girl Ruchika Girhotra, a rising tennis player, could not digest the effect of Rathore’s heinous act as well as continuous harassment to her family, and committed suicide three years after the incident that happened in 1990. The culprit Rathore, the then Director General of Police of Haryana, is free now on bail, and would be able to drag the case another two decades  in higher court making complete mockery of the justice system. We would observe only big talks of useless ministers and bureaucrats as usual.



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‘Consult’ means review? Govt will face House heat today

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

‘Consult’ means review? Govt will face House heat today

According to Jairam Ramesh, India’s self declared action on climate change that should have contained no bindings at all is now to be consulted and analyzed by the western nations, and that is different from review. The Indian minister of environment is interpreting clauses as per his convenience, and to put-off the heat that would arise in the floor of the parliament. This government has the record of bowing to the western pressure earlier too, and this time it was no different. All along India was with the side of G-77 countries that firmly believed in the outcome of Kyoto Protocol, and suddenly with the arrival of the US President, our diplomats including the Prime Minister and the Minister of State for Environment forgot the immediate past and leaned towards the west.

Being a responsible country, we announced to do whatever we can within the parameters befitting our country, where was the need to agree on analysis and consultation. The statement of David Axelrod, a senior White House Advisor is something like a threatening call. He said to CNN, “Now, India and China set goals. We are going to be able to review what they are doing. We are going to able to challenge them if they do not meet those goals.”

If, according to Ramesh, analysis and consultations has nothing to do with review, then how Axelrod could state that they would review India and China’s action on this front. Pathetic it is in the part of the Manmohan Singh government. He has accommodated Obama for reasons only he knows.

The countries that have polluted this planet most must pay back with justified action by not taking the advantage of their superiority in economy and technology.

All opposition parties should see that it is not passed in the parliament in its present form. Let the government think what to do in future, and how to tackle US at the time of their challenge, as has been clear in the statement of David Axelrod.



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Guj law: ‘Not practical to make voting compulsory all India’

Monday, December 21st, 2009

Guj law: ‘Not practical to make voting compulsory all India’

In India, the democracy is still running without much problem because the people here are soft natured and peace loving. Barring the class of politicians and unsocial elements, public in general does not accept the way elected members behave after their win in the elections. It would not be an exaggeration to say that almost all politicians make money through corrupt means soon after acquiring power at various levels. Moreover, we all know what percentage of voters firmly supports their candidature in the elections. Those, who vote in favor of a candidate, do that for any reason other than his real choice of the candidate.

In a situation like this, if the voters are compelled to vote, it is nothing but dictatorship.

The Gujarat Government Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s contention to bring the voters in the center stage instead of the political parties can be interpreted as the intention is good but the method is blatant wrong. In fact, he is facilitating the political parties to capture the center stage by the amendment in Local authorities Law. Voting has been the right of the citizens, not the duty of the citizens. It is obvious, if I do not like the credential of any candidate, I would not cast my vote. If a minor percentage of voters do not cast their franchisee in the election, the matter can be ignored. If this percentage is high, then the matter is serious indeed. The law should be amended to the direction that to win an election, one must acquire more than 50% of the electorates in that constituency, not of the casting figures.

Chief Election Commissioner’s statement in this regard seems to be honest. In all parliament and assembly elections, compulsory voting cannot be implemented in the pathetic scenario, where huge population is under the poverty level. We should not cite examples of developed countries, as has been quoted by the former advisor to the election commission K J Rao are pathetic in nature. The governments of those countries take care of every citizen in terms of social obligations. India being the hub of corruption in the government circle, the issue of compulsory voting is not only unwarranted, it is unjustifiable too.



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