Road names

In our country a lot of significance is attached to names, the location of a premises and its effects on the person or the institution. The conspiracy theorists working overtime in India's political circles state that this cultural belief is clearly evident in the fortunes of two of the most important political parties in the country, namely the Congress and the BJP.
These political parties are headquarters at two important roads in the national capital, with both these roads named after a great ruler from a different era in the nation's history. The Congress, which heads the ruling coalition, has its headquarters at Akbar Road, named after the greatest Muslim ruler of the medieval era. The political pundits are quick to point out that in national
politics the Congress seems to have evolved and established itself as an inheritor of the secular credentials as a political outfit. Much like Akbar was termed after he introduced the Din-e-elahi faith and conducted an exhaustive discussion on matters of faith with other religions. This despite the fact that both Congress and Akbar were, at some point of time during their rule,
blamed for excesses against minority communities.
These political theorists are also quick to add that the main Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party has its headquarters at Ashoka Road. The name of the road being derived from the one of the greatest Hindu rulers that the country has seen (Ashoka only became Buddhist after gaining control and establishing his kingdom).
The party's Hindu nationalist outlook on things is being blamed on this association. The name's association is also being seen as one which has affected the party's fortunes as it has been able to squander its superior position it had till a few years ago and becoming a weak party without a
proper planning for future.

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PM under Lokpal

Why shouldn't the PM be under the ambit of Lokpal? The office should be under its purview so as to prevent any Prime Minister from turning corrupt.
In fact, the provisions should also include booking of the incumbent PM if he had turned a blind eye to an ongoing scam. Like what happened in the case of 2G payoffs and Mamohan Singh's inefficient leadership.....despite his so called clean image and the letter to A Raja, the prosn solely being blamed for the 2G mess.
No one is above the law and the corrupt should be booked. They cannot take shield behind a high office.

Another goof-up by Home Ministry

India's Home Ministry, headed by the most egoistic minister P Chidambaram, has once again proved that it is the most incompetent ministry in the country. And maybe in the world.
It is done it again. The Ministry's most wanted terror suspect number 24 - Feroz Rashid Khan has been traced to Mumbai's Arthur road jail.
This despite the fact that Chidambaram's department, with an able IAS officer GK Pillai at its head, naming the wanted person as being in Pakistan. This goof-up comes at the cost of the nation as a similar mistake has been detected by The Times of India just days ago. Shame on the people who are running this country as a joke. They should all resign and let us have some good leaders at the helm.

Mama supports Amul Baby

Sonia Gandhiji, the matriarch of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, has jumped in the ongoing war between Amul Baby Rahul and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati.
The legend of selflessness has given support to the facts presented by 70-feet mound seeker Rahulji. She also claimed that her son was making all the correct statements....I am not quoting any so as not to misquote any of the two.
Trying to win Assembly polls, scheduled to be held next year in the state, is the only thing that is seeming on the mind of the mother-son duo. Without even considering what amount of problems can be caused by such irresponsible claims and allegations. I hope that the middle aged young political mind really gets to learn something out of this as he is scheduled to lead this country some day.

PS- The UP government has in its analysis of ash mounds found no evidence of human remains. The announcement was made by UP chief secretary Shashank Shekhar Singh this evening. Maybe the Central government should get these ash mounds examined by its own forensic labs to find what the yuvraj claims to have seen.

India's most wanted fiasco

The Indian government is an inefficient and inept being. This we all knew. But its Home Ministry, headed by the pompous P Chidambaram, has outdone itself yet again.
The Ministry has prepared and submitted a list of 50 most wanted terrorists in the country which it claimed were being shielded by Pakistan. As it turns out one of these most dreaded extremists Wazhul Kamar Khan, who was arrested last year for his alleged role in the 2003 Mulund train blasts, has been residing in Mumbai for the past several years, also making regular appearances in the court where the cases against him are being contested.
Khan'a name featured at number 41 in the list of 50 fugitives to Pakistan at the Home Secretary level talks in March. It seems that Home Secretary G K Pillai really needs his retirement and his boss too needs to brush up his skills at finding details. The Ministers in the UPA cabinet may be dreading the Home Minister, trying to be in his good books, but as far as the terrorists go it seems that the minister still has a lot to find out.

PS -- At least don't commit a blunder like Pakistan which hid Osama under its nose.

Rahul & farmers

The Congress Yuvraj is out to prove that someone listens to him at home. An allegation that was leveled against him by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati. The scion of our nation's first family took along a few farmers from Bhatta Parsaul area in Greater Noida to meet his kitchen cabinet Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh.
As if we wanted to know that MMS really listened to Gandhiji. This is the biggest fraud being dealt to the nation's citizenry. Does the middle-aged know-it-all and wannabe Prime Minister want to replace Mahendra Singh Tikait just a day after his death.
It seems that the media too think that it is the most important issue at hand. If the Yuvraj really wants to see the real bad deeds committed in the name of land acquisition he should visit a tribal state like Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand. The mainstream media doesn't even have a inch of column space for the atrocities committed on these second class citizens who reside in the C-grade states in our country.
The farmers in the NCR region are too well fed off the builders and the land mafia, which are controlled by the political class. The prince needs to amend his ways as he is also leading the same path which has been followed by this preceding family members. I do not want another Prime Minister (he is bound to claim the throne some day) that doesn't care for the majority of our people.

Petrol price hike

The Congress government has done it again. A proposed price hike on petroleum products is set to be implemented a day after it won Assembly polls in three important states. The party has shown its true colour.
It doesn't work for the aam aadmi. It works for itself. Its leaders. Who aren't ever satisfied with any amount of money that they can make.
They are out to screw the aam aadmi. Rahul Gandhi ji any comments please.
Or are you waiting for permission from Sonia Gandhi ji who will surely intervene and limit the Rs five hike to a mere Rs three per litre of petrol.

Rahul the pillon riding moron

Today's television pictures proved it....what we all knew for long. The middle aged youth leader of Congress doesn't have a brain to protect. Cause he rides pillon on the back of motorbikes on un-metalled roads of Uttar Pradesh, a state which his family has destroyed.
The yuvaraj of Congress rode into Bhatta Parsol village to seek the political mileage of the acquisition affected village. The same law that is now being opposed by his government was used by his several predecessors to ruin the nation's farmers. How things change....
One more thing....will the Uttar Pradesh police have the balls to book Rahul Gandhi who rode the motorbike for not wearing a helmet?

Tiwari the nymph

Na yeh purush hai na yeh naari hai..... yeh to Narayan Dutt Tiwari hai..... or so goes the old Congress slogan.

The octogenarian Congress leader who has been a legend amongst the common citizenry and classy political circles for his virility and libido has finally met his match. The Delhi High Court has finally ordered him to undergo a DNA test to resolve a long-pending paternity dispute law suit.
Tiwari, a person who has been known for his affinity for the opposite sex, will now be a bit agitated for his youthful indiscretions.
The days when the Congress leaders thought of this country as their personal fiefdom and its women as their personal property are long over. Lets hope that the suit filed by the Rohit Shekhar, who claims to be the biological son of Tiwari, gets to its logical conclusion.

Arunachal CM vanishes

In all the melee over the killing of Al Qaida chief Osama bin Laden the country seems to have all but forgotten the search and rescue mission for Arunachal Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu. The government's commitment to the North-East, which often blames the country for forgetting it, couldn't be illustrated any better than this case.
The national commitment in the case of a similar accident that happened with Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YSR Reddy is a case in point. We have to respect the Chief Minister's of all our states equally and not weigh them by the amount of MPs their states send to the Lok Sabha or the money they contribute to party coffers.

India's Pakistan frustration

With Osama bin Laden resting in peace at the bottom of an ocean floor the Indian media seems hell bent on crying itself hoarse on the Pakistani involvement. He was killed in Pakistan... there is a definite complicity.
Ya. Right.
So. Why are we questioning the Pakistani government instead of raising the same questions to our Minister Dr Manmohan Singh. Shouldn't our anchors and mediamen put these uncomfortable questions to the Indian ministers, both Chidambaram and SM Krishna, on their strategy to target most wanted criminals who committed crimes in India and are now being harboured in Pakistan.
The Pakistani dispensation is not answerable to our media. Or does our media feel that they grown so big that they can put them in dock.
The only solution to address the issue is to put our ministers in the firing line of such uncomfortable facts and asking them for a time line to resolve such disputes.
If the US can do it why can't we? They are committed to their cause, why aren't we?