sanyasi

Tuesday 16 October 2012

Dear all

Robert Vadera, a nice name to remember is not only a lucky guy but also intelligent. He stuck a deal with DLF and the Haryana government and made bucks. An opportunistic politician found the right time to make it public and launch his party. A humble IAS officer who was the Inspector general of land registration orders and enquiry and he is fired. Don’t you see this tamasha enacted daily in our national television. Sometimes I think that are these events a one off event seen during the congress rule or are they a regular one and part of our socio-political system. The answer is that , when there is media freedom and upheaval, these issues gets our attention, but otherwise also it exists. Our country has hundreds of Robert vaderas , but this particular chap is targeted as he is from the ruling family and a oportunistic and startegic political target.

The issue here is not about catching a thief but about stopping robbery. It is about attitudes and ethics of political and corporate governance, rather than a single event. We debate this a lot, get tired and then go to sleep with out arriving at a solution. When it is unbearable people go to the street and get violent. When our babas started speaking on Lokpal we thought that it would be a solution and we all cheered the movement , but that missile too have now lost its trajectory.

Well we need to now think laterally to an alternate system of governance which iam recommending for a national debate.

1 The political party based elections should be banned. Instead the cabinet should be directly elected by the people of India with sweeping powers. Any citizen of India can be a candidate to be a cabinet minister. The elected cabinet ministers will choose a prime minister or the chief minister as the case may be.

2 Economic offences should invite life imprisonment or death penalty.

3 A special court should be set up parallel to the civil/criminal courts which handles only economic offence .

These ideas may seem queer, but just try it and see the difference. Your thougts please..

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crying babies have milk

Dear all, The prime minister''s independence day speech was disappointing to most of the ex service men . According to them the PM did not deliver what he had promised to them during the elections. Yes, I mean the one rank one pension scheme (OROP) . The TV channels showed flocks of ex service men predominantly people from Punjab, Himachal and Haryana cursing the PM as a traitor. We all know that it is easy to make election promises but when it comes to implementation , reality strikes. The same is the case with OROP . This is a great idea in principle , but the cost to exchequer is said to be nearly Rs 10000 Crore . Who will bill this ? Lets now go to Bihar. Our PM has now gone and pledged around Rs 1.3 Lakh Crore for Bihar's development. Well, I do not know whether the learned people from Bihar will bite the bait or whether they too will have to go for a Dharna later. Time and the election results will speak. The larger point here is about the culture of freebies and rent seeking by interest groups. This has been part of India's body- politic since long and have made large Vote banks . Is nt this at the cost of others ? . Guys I am not being parochial. You go to a railway station , airport and any Central Government office , don''t you get a larger taste of Hindi, Bihar and the stench from the cow belt. I am afraid I don't see any diversity here. ( except the occasional face of some dark coloured Southees or marathees in the CISF security team at Mumbai airport). I don't have numbers to throw and prove statistics but the point is that there seems to be a collective bargaining and a reciprocal political blessing based on election needs, be it from UPA or NDA. ( In fact both seems to be two parts of the same coin). If Bihar can claim Rs 1.3 Lakh crore (if at all it happens ) why not Orissa , Bengal and Telengana. Are'nt they also underdeveloped. The resource pledging seems to skew unequally over the geography of India particularly away from the South and East; Well that is for you to think , but what worries me is on the tax that I pay. I don''t mind that the tax taken from me is given to the right people or if the government comes up with some schemes which percolates my income down the pyramid, but what annoys me is that I don't want my tax to be pledged for votes . Anyway as somebody said crying babies always have milk. That is what democracy is for. Jai Hind: