Arjun Sing: Get Well Soon

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I wish Arjun Singh a speedy recovery; but would like to know if he insisted upon being treated by doctors who joined the medical profession through the reservation quota. As a self proclaimed champion of the down trodden, this was a golden opportunity for him to set an example for other politicians of his ilk and silence those who accuse him of promoting reservation just to gain political space rather than out of any sense of social justice. So, did he grab the opportunity?

Public Lesson for Top Cop

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Chhayamani Mohanty, mother of the 22 year old rapist Nitay Mohanty, helping the police to nab her culprit son is a contrast with another Mohanty of Orissa who dumped his duty to the public and helped his convicted Rapist son escape prison term. Hopefully, if the father and son hear of this news, it would turn their faces red with shame. It was exactly one year ago that Orissa government was forced to act against its Director General of Police (Home Guard) Bidya Bhusan Mohanty for helping his son Bitihotra (Biti) Mohanty who was facing a seven year jail term after being charged for criminal assault on a German tourist in Jaipur jumped parole in November 2006. The sequence of events in the case were.

On March 20, 2006 Rajasthan Police arrested Biti Mohanty on rape charges.

On April 12, a local court in Jaipur announced a seven years of rigorous imprisonment In November 2006, Mohanty appealed for a temporary parole in the court. The court allowed a parole period till Dec 04 but Biti Mohanty did not return after the end of the period.

On May 2007 the Jaipur court order Rajasthan police to arrest BB Mohanty with charges under IPC section 216 and 130.
BB Mohanty appealed in Jaipur session court for anticipatory bail that gave him a six week respite till May 31 st 07.
On May 28, Rajasthan Police sent a team to Orissa to catch the top cop but did not get any clue as he was on medical leave.

The cops would do well to learn a lesson in morality from Chayamani Mohanti.

HRD Minister Being Treated By Quota Docs?

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Arjun Singh must be flooded with 'Get Well Soon' messages after being admitted to the AIIMS for treatment of acute Cholecysitis (stomach ailment), cardio-artery disease, breathing trouble and kidney problem as a result of diabetes. As it is, the Minister was getting the similar messages even before people of this great country knew he was admitted in the hospital. I wonder if the doctors treating him examined his head for cerebral problem the poor Minster ails from. Are the doctors from amongst those whose cause he has all along been advocating?

Manmohan Singh and the Comrades

The Left parties have never shied away from sounding criticism of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, of whatever he tried to do, the US, the Indo-US nuclear deal, economic reforms, banking reforms and just about everything that makes a country tick. In fact, the CPM Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee of West Bengal is on record having accused Manmohan Singh of being inefficient and incompetent. He added that West Bengal and the whole country are suffering due to Manmohan Singh's incompetence and failure to perform his duties and responsibilities as a Prime Minister on all fronts. He also accused Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of neglecting the interests of the common man.

Prakash Karat and his communist buddies Sitaram Yechury, D Raja and AB Bardhan went a step further and said that the Prime Minister has ignored the National Common Minimum Programme (NCMP). They have held him responsible for the rise in prices of essential commodities.

If the Left parties genuinely believed all the accusations they hurled at Manmohan Singh from time to time during the last four years, it is amazing they did not press for his removal and continued to support the Congress from the outside. By extension, they too are responsible for every folly they accuse Manmohan Singh of having committed. But ofcourse, you need to be men of character to admit your own role in any negative development.

As far as the Indo-US nuclear Deal is concerned, it is amusing to see the communists trying to implement Chinese agenda while talking about whats good for India. This may be the right time to remind the likes of pro-China Sitaram Yechury, D Raja, Prakash Karat and AB Burdhan that the people of India are aware of China’s arrogant expansionist designs to encircle Indian waters from Gwadar to Coco islands. That It annexed Tibet in 1950, forcibly took possession of Aksai Chin in 1962, happily took an illegitimate 'gift' of Indian land from Pakistan, claims the entire Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh and refuses to issue visas to resident Indians of Arunachal; not to mention the crude summoning of the Indian Ambassador at 2 AM for a routine protest. Inspite of the long history of Chinese belligerence, the communists in India only see the threat of US imperialism, BJP communalism and inefficiency of Manmohan Singh. Manmohan Singh’s great disappointment over failing to clinch the nuclear deal is well chronicled. Though this deal was not part of the NCMP, the Congress manifesto did promise to improve the strategic relationship with the US. Now that the issue is behind us with the trust vote in Parliament in favor of the UPA and by extension, in favor of the nuclear deal, all the NSG members except China have welcomed the development. The Chinese have left it to the Indian communists to sulk on their behalf.

The communist perception smacks of closed minds that refuse to see the brighter and more positive side of an emerging India and its brilliant Prime Minister. Manmohan Singh is a humble man and an acknowledged economist of international repute. For the first time since India gained independence, the PMO under Manmohan Singh has an exercise to monitor the implementation of the NCMP adopted by the UPA when it came to power on 22 May 2004. The various promises made and policies adopted in the NCMP have been itemized into 142 general and specific commitments. Then a report card of sorts has been prepared. This in itself is extraordinary as governments never bother to monitor the implementation of their political manifesto. It is intriguing that Manmohan Singh has made a sincere attempt to implement virtually all the promises. For instance, in the areas of employment, agriculture, tribal rights and the promises made to the minorities, Manmohan Singh’s Government has in effect gone according to the letter of the NCMP. Ofcourse, the effectiveness of his policies can be debated, as the implantation machinery, the beaurocracy, is renowned for its inefficiency and corruption. As far as the economy is concerned, the Prime Minister had anticipated the price rise a year ago as he carefully monitored global trends and rising oil prices. May be the comrades would like to blame Manmohan Singh for the global economic mess too!

Manmohan Singh clearly identified the potential to bring in comprehensive changes in the area of social legislation. From the time of his swearing in as the Prime Minister, he created a team of three IAS officers, including secretary, PMO, Pulak Chatterjee, to monitor the NCMP. He then held a monthly review meeting to track how far the promises were being kept. Purely in terms of running a government, this is unparalleled. Had the Left been able to successfully muster support against the UPA Government and engineer its fall, it would have been responsible for the mess in future energy scene in the country. In pursuit of the Chinese agenda, the comrades' liaision with a corrupt Mayawati, egoist Ajit Singh and opportunist Deve Gouda were thankfully frustrated by nationalists in the Parliament.

Serial terror Blasts in Bangalore and Ahemdabad

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Indian cities will continue to be targets of Pakistan sponsored terrorists as long as our politicians remain busy counting cash in Parliament and outside it. It is a matter of great shame that legal instruments, like TADA and POTA, to tackle the terror menace have been done away with by power hungry politicians just to please one community to create their vote banks. The country is not important for the calculating political class in India and Indians are their last priority. No wonder single bomb blasts have been replaced by serial bomb blasts. There is no limit to appeasement of one community at the cost of rest of the country, as long it ensures a win in elections for our intellectually malnutritioned politicians and their morally bankrupt political parties. If they can sell themselves to remain relevant, they will not stop at selling this great country to gain an advantage.

Speaker has a Much Larger Role

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Mr Somnath Chatterjee is the speaker of the Lok Sabha and has the responsibility towards the nation. The party direction to him to quit is in poor taste, reflects the narrow outlook of the communists and will only highlight the desperation of the already disgraced Left whose priorities are out of sync with National interests. A case in point is the shameful Karat-Mayawati plotting to topple the Manmohan Sigh Govt.

Karat and Mayawati: Party above National Interests

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years ago, with 60 MPs in Parliament, it seemed as if the Communists had finally arrived on India's national stage. Four years later, Prakash Karat's dream of the 'non-Congress' 'non-BJP' Third Front lies in tatters. The comrades refused to join the government and take on responsibility. They preferred to criticize from the sidelines. Prakash Karat joining hands with a corrupt Mayawati to topple the Manmohan Singh Government, forcing the Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee to resign and usher in a chaos that is against Larger interests of the country is bound to have a negative fallout for the communists in times to come.

Their second mistake was to have failed to come to terms with the new India. Economic globalization, despite consistent communist opposition, is raging through the country like a wildfire. There are lots of things wrong with this New India. It does not have the social conscience so badly needed, it is creating vast inequalities between rich and poor, it is pauperizing traditional trades and providing little hope for those scratching out worms from riverbeds or eating grass to survive. But this New India is also shaping itself into an avalanche of upward mobility. Prakash Karat and his comrades are trying to tame the avalanche. They have stalled pension reform, stalled banking reforms and for long stalled the privatization of airports without realizing that keeping airports as a state monopoly was only preserving it as a sector for the rich. That all over the world air travel is dirt cheap precisely because it is privatized.


No to nuclear deal, no to reforms, no to change, no to newness, no to price rise, no to America; negativism seems the only reflex action with the communists. The comrades’ contempt for change, constant lamentation, moral righteousness are incongruous in a country shouting 'Chak de India!' In 1997, the communists committed the 'historic blunder' of not letting Jyoti Basu become Prime Minister because they were unwilling to share power. Today they have committed suicide because they did not know how to use power.


A.B. Bardhan says, ‘Bhaad mein jaye Sensex’ (to hell with the Sensex) as he pours scorn on millions of middle class Indians who invest and trade. In Kerala the communists are factionalized in a way that makes even the Congress look good. In Bengal they badly misread the outcome of murder by CPI (M) cadre and their arrogance in Nandigram. Despite blatant coercion and violence, large numbers silently voted against the party. People have begun to question the corruption of district / village-level leaders and the Marxist cadre. Large scale acquisition of rural land has affected Muslims sharply for most of them are farmers.


In 2007, the communist protests against joint Indian and American naval exercises got little response from the public. This year their so-called campaign against the petrol price hike was largely ignored by the people.



Opposition to the nuclear deal once again shows their distance from India. Sure, it's a commercial transaction, but why is anything to do with commerce necessarily evil? Even at the height of the Cold War, two million Indians lived in the US. The links between India and America are so massive, that as a leading economist put it, the Indo-US nuclear deal is an offshoot of a long process of civic exchange with America, not the basis of it. Karat and his men hate America and wish India’s foreign policies to conform to their hatred. Their indignant and consistent opposition to the US has forced them to withdraw support to the UPA and resulted in chaos. History will record the sordid communist role in toppling the Manmohan Singh Govt, if that happens, and apportion blame for the current horse trading of MPs to Prakash Karat, AB Bardhan, Sitaram Yechury, D Raja and their cohorts.