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Hi!

In this thread, I propose to write my opinions, comments, expectations and wishful thinking about anything and everything that gets covered and connects to Political and Government

The subject of Psychology starts with the base statement of Individuals differ and therefore, it is quite possible that others may differ. They are free to post their view points.

I would request that jokes and gags, that may be connected to Political and/or Government may please be excused in this thread, because there are other threads for jokes and gags.

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To start with the newly elected Government and Pranab becoming the FM. He has been FM till late eighties. that is before the Manmohan-Ciddu era.

I found his activities. in a way funny. To reduce a percentage or half [or even 2 or more] of the duty in one case and increase the same elsewhere was his motto. There was no clear-cut direction that could be seen from these decisions. More over, it appeared like favouring the one and punishing the other, for whatever unknown reasons that could have existed.

Pranab has already declared today, that the Budget is expected during the first week of July 09. But there is not going to be any change for Income Tax or possibly also for Customs-Excise rates. It could be only to do with the Finance management, for which, in my opinion, Pranab is NOT the best person available.

By July, the results of the first quarter shall start becoming available. Market shall have some expectations for the interest rates and other related economic matters, which shall prove to be over expectations and markets may come down there after.

What goes up, comes down. But for anything to come down, it needs to be reasonably up, to start with. And thats why, I expect markets to be up in June 09.

I also expect that the UPA Khichdi may break-out. Atleast one member party is expected to move out, prior to the next Budget in Feb 10. And if this happens, then from the Ministries vacated by that party, Pranab shall get moved to one of the Ministries available, Chiddu would like to put his hands once again on Finance, with the Home going to the PM himself.

Alternatively, Chiddu may stay with Home and Manmohan shall take additional charge of Finance.

Either of the two cases, shall be to the benefit of the country than Pranab remaining in charge of Finance, unless Montek gets the MoS [Minister of State] for Finance, and becomes the real FM behind the curtain, with Pranab as the rubber stamp.

Thats my view point and I could be wrong.

Cheers!
SS

Hi!

This country became independent in 1947 and this 15th August, we shall be completing 62 years of Independence.

Prior to independence, it was a single country, fighting for Independence, barring the later development for a demand for separate Muslim state of Pakistan.

Majority of the time, every Indian fought as an Indian, irrespective of the fact of the religion, cast, region, language, that he or she belonged to. And for a common cause most of them all preferred to stay united under one Political Entity…. The Indian National Congress. The only other major party was the Muslim League.

And then the country got it’s Independence from the British. But as the time passed, it appears that the Congress leadership started taking it’s members for granted, that led to fall-outs from the party, only to form a new political party.

Today, after 60 plus years, the scenario is exactly reversed.

Everyone wants to fight as a Marathi, Gujarati, Tamil, Bengali, etc…. and also as a Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Christian, Jain, Buddhist, etc…. and also as a Merit holder versus reservation for SC, ST, BC, OBC, etc The Regional political parties are becoming more strong than the National political parties.

Thanks to the Congress, who has led the country for more number of years, and has always kept the eye on the vote bank more to consolidate the position of their leaders, that well being of the country.

The party in Power in the Municipal corporation of Mumbai is in opposition in the Maharashtra state assembly. As a result, instances like the minister collecting garbage and dumping in the front of the office of the corporation do take place.

Everything is a show. No one really bothers for the garbage disposal…. Whether in Mumbai, Pune or Nashik. The elected representatives seem to be totally without any merit, ability or direction, and are NOT ashamed to keep their cities dirty.

And yet, they do get re-elected, only to continue ‘to serve the people’ for providing a dirty environment and polluted air once again.

While the cars are halted for checking for the PUC certificate for pollution, it is always the truck on government duty, that is throwing a lot of smoke to pollute the environment, and manages to get ignored by everyone.

Mera Bharat Mahan !
Cheers!
SS

Hi!

We don’t learn from the mistakes made earlier by us or even by others.

For the employees of the government bodies and offices, the rule allows the employee to be erroneous and does NOT punish him, provided that the decision made is in the interest of the office he/she works for, and hence in the interest of the nation.

The last part “provided….nation” has always been ignored. The decisions made are usually erroneous and are mostly in the interest of the employee concerned.

Four decades of interactions with many government departments and bodies at many levels has made me accept a fact….. if one abides by the law and does NOT wish to break the law, then one is in bad books of the government employees and faces harassment. But if one breaks the law and passes a percentage of gains made through breaking the law, then one can maintain “Good Relations” with the enforcing officers.

No wonder we are in the Era of the tented ministers, without whom the coalition cannot rule. Possibly without the tented employees, the government bodies and departments too cannot function.

But what is there to learn?

It is said that if one plants a Poison tree, it’s seeds could be destructive to the tree itself.

See what happened in Pakistan. ISI’s head quarter itself was attached and a building was brought down. Current news is that in Peshawar also there were similar attacks, claimed to be made by Talibans. Now ISI shall have to fight on many fronts.

They, also being of the Indian origin, would NOT learn a lesson and shall continue with their earlier dirty work of supporting terrorists for creating problems for India, and simultaneously, they shall have to fight with the terrorists & Talibans, who have gone against Pakistan, for whatever reasons.

We many times are tempted to compare India with the US…. but one most important difference we always ignore.

Every office in the government machinery is personally made accountable and responsible for his/her errors and mistakes and is made to pay through his own known sources of income, while getting terminated from his/her employment.

This accountability can never be enforced in India due to fear of loosing that vote bank, irrespective of the religion, region, cast, language that they belong to.

No political party in India has the courage to bell this cat, and the corruption shall continue to be on the increase, because in true sense, anything and everything connected with “Political” and/or “Government” is against the interest of the nation as a whole.

Mera Bharat Mahan
Cheers!
SS

Hi!

The breakout of the USSR in early nineties marked the failure of the Communism. Theoretically, although the basis appears correct and attractive to some, practically it shall meet the same fate as that of USSR.

China realised it fast, and changed it’s style of functioning, letting the base of communism to go for a toss.

The main commuting transport preferred in china, was by using the bicycles. The government owned bicycle manufacturing factory of “Flying Pigeon” brand was soon privatised. The new private owner slashed the labour force to 30% of the original strength.

Known as the communist country, and NOT required to cater to any Vote Bank, that the 70% of the newly un-employed workers had to remain quiet.

And soon it was found that with the 30% strength, the new private owner managed to get THREE Times the output of the previous year, which had 100% strength.

This …. in a way … throws a lot of light on the government owned Public Sector companies, which give a secured job to any and every employee, thereby increasing the non- functioning dead-wood staff and workers.

Private sector, on the other hand, has an accountability at every level and calls for performing to the targets and goals set by the company, failing which, the employee gets the boot.

And yet, the Communists have a backing in India, which shows the amount of illiteracy and absence of knowledge of the current affairs. The so called “Maoist” group appears to be functioning as per the ground rules set by Mao himself, when China first became a communist country….. the rules which China itself has trashed long ago.

The US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has planned a visit to China to talk to the Chinese about growth and how to save the world. For this, he will meet top Chinese government officials including President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao in Beijing early next week

Here, while talking about the world, the US is actually worried about saving itself and it’s own economy. China, the leading buyer of U.S. Treasury securities, may use the opportunity to repeat its worry about the safety of its U.S. assets

Most expect behind the scenes pressure to move the yuan higher, amid the concern in China over rising U.S. debt. However, knowing the Chinese way of behaviour, China shall care a damn for this move from the US, which shall leave only one option balance for the US …. Devaluation of the US Dollar.

And if this happens, in my opinion, Pranab is the last person, who could find a suitable and proper solution to keep India out of the World crisis, that shall irrupt.

Cheers
SS

Hi!

We see the “Consumer Right” ads on the TV Channels. What they really show, is humbug in my opinion, and the ads are probably floated to get some kick backs for some persons in that department.

Because, the Toll Free Telephone Number, Website details, and the E-Mail address to which one could write one’s complain, are the things that should be seen through-out the ad. But only the toll free number flashes for a fraction of a second at the end of the ad.

This makes it clear, that the department does NOT want anyone to make any complaint and make the employees of that department work.

A parallel machinery, called the “Weights & Measures” could provide a lot of work to the Consumer Grievances forum, which shall avoid many un-necessary individual applications. But who cares?

The Law advices for standard packaging and in the event the package is non-standard, it is required to be highlighted.

The biscuits that I bought, made me curious about the whole issue.

While the Cream biscuit packets were of 80g or 90g depending upon the manufacturer, Bourbon packet was of 78 g. Parle-G was of 82.50 g

And likewise the Ice cream candies also have un-usual weights, based on the manufacturer’s wishes.

The 100 g Lays packet that was available for Rs 20, continued with it’s price of Rs 20, while reducing the contents, first to 90g, then to 80g and currently to 70 g.

It does NOT make any sense to me.

Are the Law enforcing personnel blind or incompetent or un-concerned ? Or all of it?
May be NOT.

They must be charging their Nuisance Value to the concerned manufacturers, “for looking the other way” and ignore the whole thing. These personnel, shall be the force for making & screening the ads for “Jago Grahak Jago”

The whole thing is Sick. That’s why Mera Bharat Mahan !

SS

Really bro I appreciate your knowledge presence of mind and hard work.God bless u

Hi!

There was a time, that I would wonder, as to how and why the Congress party calls itself secular, blaming the BJP.

Then I got the answer. While the BJP backed the Hinduism and itself was backed by VHP and RSS, Congress party, with it’s Nehru-Gandhi family roots had it’s own religion, which …. definitely was NOT necessarily Hindu.

The reason to believe this, was the family tree of the Nehru-Gandhi clan, that was available on the internet, which I am reproducing below as permitted, without violating the copyrights.




As per the prevailing law, if a Dalit woman marries a high cast man, then the children are NOT accounted to the Dalit roots and are denied reservation facilities. The religion and cast is decided by the religion and cast of the husband, and NOT of his wife.

In addition, as per catholic norms, the religion of the mother is the religion of the children…. naturally.

Fair enough.

Then what religion one should respectfully consider for the members of this clan?

So, we find that may be it was the first Prime Minister of this country, who was a Kashmiri Hindu Brahmin, and died on 27th May 1964.

Since then, possibly, the clan had no link with Hinduism, as could be seen from the family tree. The website holding the copyrights cannot be accessed by anyone and everyone, and a friend forwarded me this family tree as an information. Readers can try their luck by visiting the said site.

Personally, I have nothing against anyone in the family. But I oppose some of the current policies of the Congress party. There was a time, when I was a strong supporter of Indira Gandhi, then Prime Minister of India…. but that is a different story, and it needs a separate posting.

Cheers!
SS

Hi!

More I think, more I get convinced that the “Election Commission” is responsible for the current mess in the Political Scenario in India.

The appointment of Chawla as the Chief Election Commission, first being objected to by the opposition parties in the previous Lok Sabha, and later being blessed by the UPA led by Congress, that one gets a picture about the expected non-aligned behaviour of the commission with respect to the Political parties on India.

While the law guarantees every major citizen for voting through a secret ballot, law also provides the Rule O-49, which allows the voter to reject all the candidates as being non-suitable, while keeping the Vote as valid. Voting for more than one candidate or writing anything on the ballet paper, makes the Vote invalid.

But for voting under Rule O-49, that the voter has to approach the Chief Polling Officer of that polling office, and make a request, enter his name in a separate register provided for such entries.

The Election commission does NOT understand, or refuses to understand the fact that, I such a case, the voting is no more through a secret ballot, and the commission is acting against the basic human right of the citizen of India, which is illegal.

And I always feel, that if I can think of this, there must be tens or hundreds of other citizens, who think similarly. Only problem being that none of them appear to be in the legal profession to raise this issue, or is worried for raising the issue and opposing the tented candidates, which are not only becoming common, but their number is on the increase.

Mera Bharat Mahan

SS

Hi!

While in the office of the Prime Minister, that Mrs Indira Gandhi had declared Internal Emergency for the nation.

All the political parties that were in the opposition in the mid seventies, and especially the BJP, called it [and even calls today] the Dark Era of Indian Democracy.

I beg to differ. She did a Great job, that no one has done for the country so far, and no one is likely to do in future.

What Indira did, in my opinion, was THE BEST for the nation, as the circumstances then prevailed. The result was fabulous.

Every government officer and bureaucrat was held accountable. As a result, Police stations would record one’s FIR as soon as the request was made. Application of any and every licence was responded by the issue of that licence at the earliest. No Govt employee dared to come out with one’s nuisance value, so there were no paper weight payments.

In short, I felt, that it possibly was “Ram Rajya” of the modern times, when the “Janata” was being respected, and was listened to. Everyone was made to follow the law.

Naturally, this was NOT liked by the opposition parties and the bureaucracy, who voted Indira and the Congress party out in 1977.

During the last 30 years, that the conditions are going from Bad to Worst. Most of the Govt offices are functioning, virtually with no administrative controls. Everything taking place “Ram Bharose”

There are no advance measures and actions. No proper planning. Crisis are allowed to get developed, a temporary solution is found in a hurry, and all seems to be by the rule of “Management by Crisis”

The rainy season is about to commence, and once again Mumbai shall be flooded. Maharashtra & Mumbai appear to face a major problem of plastic carry bags, though no other place in India and elsewhere in the world appears to face it with equal intensity.

In my opinion, it is a lack of ability in administration in the Govt department, for which the plastic bag manufacturers are being made the scapegoats. These bags are said to have blocked the drainage system of Mumbai in the 2006 floods. But no one talks about the flooding of the railway tracks each year…. Plastic bags or not.

Mera Bharat Mahan !
SS

Hi!

The work of the Mumbai-Pune Express way was started and got finished when the Congress was in the opposition in Maharashtra. So the current opposition parties, when in power, appear to have done a great job for the people who need to take this travel, using their own vehicles.

I travelled from Pune to Mumbai on Tuesday 2nd June. From Pune to Mankhurd-Govandi in the outskirts of Mumbai took only two hours, including a coffee halt of about 20 minutes. Earlier, the same travel used to take 3 to 4 hours or even more.

But then, from there to Vile Parle took almost an hour and half. The condition of the roads in the city, was NOT as good as the express highway, and the width too was less. The number of vehicles travelling in the city, were more than 100 times of that of those on the express way.

And although all the lanes of the express highway showed the speed limit of 80 kmph, except for heavy vehicles and also the Khatara cars like Premier-Fiat, Ambassador, Omni, Maruti 800 [or for that mater, any Maruti car], the others were all in excess of 100 kmph. Even the Volvo buses were running at hundred plus speed. Maruti owners will NOT like this statement. Individuals differ.

Persons buying Maruti, usually stick to Maruti brands, shall never know, what one misses, when one buys other cars like Hyundai, Chevy, Toyota, even Ford. The implementation of the latest laws for the emission cannot be made applicable in India, because Maruti is NOT yet ready for it. Even our own Indian Indica is ready.

Bu that is NOT the point. There is no planning for improving the roads, road conditions and the traffic in every metro city in this country. Traffic increases, traffic jams take place, Police use their nuisance value, and all of us get used to it.

If the express road could be a four lane road, why can’t all the major roads of the city be atleast 3 lanes, with proper in-ways and out-ways that avoid the crossings and hence the traffic light at crossings….. the traffic policemen on duty, like any other govt servant, may not be keen in doing their duty religiously, to ease the problems of the traveller/commuter.

This is based on the Congress theory of catering to vote bank, making a show of doing something for the backward classes and for that, to blame the medium and high income groups Then totally ignore them for any suitable facility like good and well maintained roads, while collecting a major portion of the govt income from this society of tax payers, that helps the MPs themselves to earn their known sources of income. That is why one finds Jhuggi-Jhopdi on the pavements-footpaths of the Metros, along with the hawkers, while NOT leaving a sufficient place on the road, for the movement of the vehicles and the pedestrians.

This has the socialistic background that Nehru once founded, which today, is practically [and suitably] ignored by Congress every where, except for showing off as helpers of the poor, by blaming and punishing the citizens, who through their merits, earn a good income and pay taxes.

Today’s newspapers in Mumbai mention that those engineers who shall ensure absence of pot-holes on the roads, shall get 2 extra increments. A wrong strategy. It should rather be the other way around. Those who maintain the roads properly, should only get their annual increment. Those who fail consistently for 2-3 years, should be thrown out of service as being incompetent. But that would never happen, because the tax payers have not yet united to raise their voices. May be it will happen someday.

Mera Bharat Mahan
SS