Campaign Tall Talk VS Governance Tough Ask

I am not among those fuel sensitive people, who got riled up and start shouting slogans with different voices when there is a rise or fall of fuel price. The reason is, I know, Fuel price has one way to chart; unless we discover that sea water can be a substitute to scarce petrochemicals. Also, I commute to office on my Cycle. :)

These words of justification for fuel price rise from a CONGI will be a music to those Sanghi who are trying hard to justify each "U" turn of Modi Sarkar. I believe, most of the Congi would have a consistent stand on fuel price hike, train fair hike or similar such tough but INEVITABLE measures.

But, the issue becomes little complicated when you look at the campaign utterances and promises in the official party election manifesto, RIDING which the party has got the strongest mandate in terms of number in loksabha since 1984. Clearly, the voters 81% of them thought Congress has failed to deliver what it has promised, especially in the front of PRICE RISE. But, I guarantee they are merely showing knee jerk reactions to an issue which they seldom understand. Let me put two graphics to show what I am trying to say.

Crude Price Trend since 1997

Petrol Price in Metros Since 2002

The pictorial data I have posted above speak for them selves. Since Congress came to power, the CRUDE PRICE has shoot up from $35/37 in 2004 to $ 147 in 2008 and now stabilized over $ 100. I have given the trend of petrol in four metros from 2002. 

If we look at it closely, these things happened during full UPA term:

1. Development model changed from ONLY GROWTH to GROWTH +  INCLUSIVENESS
2. Social sector funding was increased
3. Fuel price was hiked to fund the spending
4. World fuel price increased by many times
5. Fuel subsidy also increased because Govt. failed to deregulate the fuel for OBVIOUS reasons
6. World including India fought two back to back economic crisis
7. Investment slows down
8. Govt. chose social equity over growth thinking that investment in HR would pay rich dividend later
9. Rural wage and consumption rose
10. Prices shoot up and middle class felt cheated, but they were very much part of the Indian consumption story

These are the TOUGH TASK of governance. They were well intended, but things do not pan out as you plan in a complex politics like us along with the uncertainties of the connected world.

Narendra Modi, used these contradictions in Indian politics to reach the highest political office. He uttered what the people wanted to here and obviously they were not able to think beyond their small world. Many of them started believing what he was FAKING in the hope that this man will remove Congress from the path of "Achey Din" waiting for them. I have tried to collect few of his campaign rhetoric, below:

Some campaign Posters

Be it swearing in ceremony amidst the killing of soldiers on the LOC, the Chinese chopper in Arunchal, boats in ladkh or the map showing Arunchal as part of Chinese political map, be it his lack of response when a techies was killed in Pune and then crying for lack of honeymoon; reflects that this is not campaign. This is rigor of Governance and time to full fill the Tall Campaign Talk into reality. 

There is another talk of abolishing Planning Commission; such talk of destruction of institutions are all good and can be passed on as flavor of the time. Right now, out of Anna Drama and Kejri Dharna, we all want to pull down one institution the other for the collective satisfaction of the MOB. Such news bites are great to here, as that reflects some sort of DYNAMISM in the Govt. But, does it mean that India will not have any institution which will do a medium to long term planning? Obviously, we need one. For the shake of doing something, Modi Sarkar might at best replace Planing commission with another lose body with personnel drawn from all ministries; just to show that this is "Less Govt & More Governance" But in few years, that has to be turned into a concrete platform with accountability built into it. Then people will call it another Planning commission. :)

Governance is Tough Task; Campaign is just Tall Talk. 

SAARC Satellite, Sai Baba is Muslim, RSS Appeared & Passed the MP Exam (SCAM)

Gift a Satellite to SAARC

Do you think, he is asking "Kitni deti Hey?" :)

Indian PM on the occasion of an opportunistic appearance at the cradle of FRUGAL ENGINEERING  ORGANIZATION i.e. ISRO tried to PROPEL his so called Statesmanship to another level. He wanted ISRO to build one SATELLITE for SAARC nations as a Gift. That would be a costly gift if he wants to make good on the saree he received from his Pakistan counterpart. Nevertheless, that is a great sound bite from an unexpected source. Now, we have to see, how much fund is going to be allocated for the same in the upcoming union budget. 

He looks to be quite worried man. Don't worry, Mr. finance minister, a satellite can be made at the budget of few thousands; those tiny satellites from college labs. :) 

The Modia Statesman should do one thing before embarking on his IMAGE MAKEOVER DRAMA; he should allow Pakistani media channels in India. Can he do it? 

RSS Appeared & Passed the MP Exam (SCAM) - VYAPAM

While, the MODIA is doing everything to address the complain of Sulking Modi for lack of honeymoon,we are unfortunately being kept away from some very important revelations. The investigations being carried out in MP on the order of Lokayukt fro the last six months, has brought a large number of TOP politicians including the WIFE of MP's CAESAR aka MAMAJI in to a very uncomfortable limelight. 

That same investigation also brought some TOP RSS leaders into picture. When things got little more talked about, the Mp police did a great "U" turn and gave clean chit to the RSS leadership. This is a great performance of RSS guys who APPEARED and SUCCESSFULLY PASSED the MP exam Scam. 

These guys have gave life to see BJP rise to power, and naturally they should enjoy some Govt. comfort and that is only what they were trying to extract. We are just making mountain out of molehill. ;)

Shankara Charya: Do not Worship Sai Baba, the MUSLIM FAKIR!

He is other-wisely quite a sensible man; but this reasoning of shunning Sai Baba because, he is JUST a MUSLIM FAKIR  is quite a stretch. I think that should be the reason why he should be respected and emulated. I am not a religious person to endorse what is happening in Shirdi in HIS name, but not a unreasonable person to toe the line of a RICH religious AUTHORITY too. 

Worship Sai baba or not, but a least try to live a life which is 1% of his life; an example of austerity given his influence on the lives of people in that area. 

Achey Din Ayaa Kya? No Honeymoon for the Moon Seller, No to Condom and Sex Education, Sonia-Rahul Key Achey Din

So, there are some enthusiastic fans of Achey Din who are little pissed off because they can not wait for few more years before the Achey Din finally hit the MARKET. Apparently they have filed an PIL for the same. It is high time that the courts have to take the PIL business little more seriously to see if it is actually serving the purpose. But in the view of,  Delhi Lokayukta indicting Sheila Dixit for her pre-poll promises, this seems to be QUITE FAIR.

Let's see how the Achey din is unfolding!

Sulking Modi Complains About Lack of Honeymoon Period 

Which Honeymoon is he referring to; the one 44 years before or does the Constitution has a provision of a honeymoon period for a new Govt in office?

How do you have HoneyMoon? You have promised to turn India the land of HONEY and gift them the Dream of Moon, if they oust Congress from power. Now, that they have done it and you have failed them from the Day One; can you get any sympathy for your IMPOTENCY?

Note: This Impotency is similar to that Subramnyam Swamy used for Atal Bihari Vajpayee on the floor of the parliament.


Harsha Vardhan Uvacha: No to Sex Education in Schools

No, he is not the descendant of  the great Harsha Vardhan the jewell of Pushyabhuti or the Vadhan dynasty. He was more sensible than our Health Minister and perpetual CM in waiting Mr. Hasha Vardhan. Just a month in to office, he has stated talking like a VIADRAJ in Modi Dynasty. First, he reminded us of our GREAT CULTURE and asked us to count on that over CONDOM to prevent AIDS. 

I do not understand what CULTURE he is talking about; the culture which has made India a 125 crore and counting ENTERPRISE? By his assertion, India would be providing grants to the developed west, which has no CULTURE of their own. 

Add to that, he has problem with Sex Education at schools. When a portion of Patna is Wi-Fied and a the whole India will be broadbanded through 64000 Km of National Optical Fiber Network in few years, this SANGHI Vaidraj has clearly missed the bus. 

Are Maa-Bete being Fixed!

Even if the new Sarkar decides to have a ministry of Fixing Maa-Bete, that should not raise any brouhaha. It is perfectly in harmony with the campaign sentiment of BJP. For a Congress Mukt Bharat for which all the conventional media has dumped the party to turn MODIA; it is a perfect strategy to rid Congress to have its own MOUTHPIECE.
The National Herald was founded by Pt. Nehru in 1937 to counter the British propaganda was thought to be do the same for Congress, which lost the election entirely due to the MODIA onslaught. But, it seems BJP is doing all its can to stop Congress to have a say.

Look at the choicest image MODIA has for the duo to understand how important The young India Ltd. is as an alternate Media outlet against the current sold out MODIA. 

Achey Din 6/26/2014: Modi vs MMS, Subverting Judiciary, Politics in Education, Railway vs Home

It is not a very tall ask that I should be able to write at least 500 words a day apart from my official work. But, that is still not happening. I do not know whether this new attempt is going to achieve that wish; lets see.

The Sanghi PM, Sri Narendra Modi, is going to complete his first month in office today. By his standard, the tenure is a Pin-Drop-Silent one. It is not that there was nothing to speak; rather there were many things to indulge in fist fight on national TV like:

• Arnab's Brawl
• Rahul's Court
• Barkha's Darbar
• Rajdeep's Reliance :)

Yet, he chose to give a parting shot to the former PM, Dr. Manmohan Singh, whom they called
MOUN Mohan Singh. Fair enough!

While scrolling through the Web page of several news portals, I thought, without putting my comment there below the news items, it would be great If I put them on my blog. This may help me achieve my objective of writing at least 500 words each day. :)

Lets begin!

Chaos of  Sound vs Silence of Lamp

56 inch nu Whatever and 283 nu Number is of no use, if you are not SURE. And if a dispensation is not sure with such physical prowess and Parliamentary muscle; then what can be construed?  This is not like one off incident; there are trends of such U turns in the last 30 days of Modi sarkar, like:

• Train price roll back
• Article 370
• Gas & diesel pricing

Dr. Singh with 145 Congress member did not even bat his eye-lid once when Left walked away UPA 1 over Nuclear deal. He did it again, when TMAC and DMK left UPA 2 when certain pro-reform stands were taken. A decision can be wrong or right; it can not partially right or wrong. All the time his silence spoke and that was louder than any orchestrated vibrataion of  vocal cord of a 56 inch nu seena.

Gopal Subramanium HAD to turn-down the offer of CJI for he OFFERED ROSE PETAL to GANDHI!

Is this related to article 377? Well, very likely. How can a married old man offer rose petals to a widower? That is gross by the standard of SANGHIS; even if they have ENSURED that the widower is a mere statue.

Jokes apart, it seems the Modi Sarkar wants to subvert the judiciary to their liking as that is the last bastion of opposition the COHORTS of criminal expect a setback from.

So, Judiciary has also tested the "Achey Din" of Modi Sarkar. It is even more dangerous that on the day Smt. Indira Gandhi called emergency 38 years before, the SC is capitulating to the WHIM of the Govt.

Smriti Irani (Jo Abhi Bhi 12th class hey) Firing Politics at DU Over the Shoulder of UGC

Did SaaS ever applied for DU and she was rejected due to high cut-off? It seems SaasU Maa is targeting to complete her B.A. or B.Com, aren't they same?  :)

On a serious note, the former HRD minister, who completed all his degrees TRUTHFULLY, wrote a very detailed article about the role of UPA in dealing with autonomous bodies like DU and UGC. In contrast, the Modi Sarkar is doing all its take to take forward the unfinished agenda of previous NDA regime to SAFFRONISE education. In the same breath, I want to also denounce the stance taken by the NSUI in this regard. I do not believe that one year is sufficient to judge, rectify and reject a new system.

Rajdhani Accident; Tussle between Railway and home Minstry

It was not an unusual scene on a railway track. But, it assumed more importance because the train was a RAJDHANI train. Rich or poor, any life lost is avoidable and we can only have sympathy for the deceased and the injured ones.

But, the problem is the way different departments trying to split the hair. Railway is calling it a sabotage, where as Home Minister is calling it an accident. I hope the Supreme Leader of Modi Sarkar pronounce the final reason of this accident soon.  

Silence of NOISE!

According to Shekhar Gupta, the dream year for the journalists was 1984. That year so many things happened in Indian political space that the news desks were feeling resource crunch to cover them. I do not know about that. I just can remember, I was 2 and Half years then and my father took me to the Kendrapara High school Ground to see Indira Gandhi. That was her last visit to Odisha. I do not know, how can I have a photographic memory of that event till now, I can not remember anything close to that during that time; may be morning shows the day. :) 

Then I remember several noisy elections in rural setup; those were quite colorful. I loved the election counting days, because we would have back to back movies on Doordarshan. Still, they were not noisy. The Noise increased with the advent of Private TV channels. The noise level broke limits when the Jamuna water sipped into the newly prepared Common Wealth Game Village buildings; Arnab Goswamy reached his teen,  Rahul Knawal was born and Barkha bruised by Radi tapes, was trying to regain her youth. 

And this was the time, a well orchestrated Noisy drama made its way into Indian politics. The main protagonist of that drama was Narendra Modi who was smart enough to understand the requirement of the new age media houses. They were competing for NOISE and the NOISE himself was available. 

The noise was Narendra Modi. 

The NOISE made its way through the following stages:

Stage 1:

First few years the noise was in the form of CAG reports and then the related pandemonium in the parliament and he subsequent replacement of Parliament debate by debates in corporate funded media houses.

Stage 2:

Then the staged crusade against corruption through Saffron agents like Anna Hazare, Ram dev, Kiran Bedi and controversial Army chief V.K Singh. 

Stage 3: 
New media enterprise in the form of Unreal Times and Faking News, which took over the imagination of gossip loving Indian youths. 

Stage 4:

Then the noise was spread onto the social media in the form of filthy cartoons of Dr. Manmohan singh and Smt. Sonia Gandhi and spoofs of  Rahul Gandhi on Youtube. 

Stage 5:
Suddenly from no where the Gujrat Model hit the stand. It was a classical Shock & Awe drill played on bot the social media and mainstream media like economic Times.  

Stage 5:
Dec 16 rape in Delhi, one of the well orchestrated movements that build the crescendo before the NOISE himself made an entry.

Stage 6: 
Finally, the NOISE made a grand entry with his modulating voice. Even, on the Republic Day, he challenged the PM of India; even Pakistan will never do it. 

This is how NOISE spoke fro the last 4 years. No issue was given a go by to target Dr. Singh. Be it:

• the CAG report
• the killing of Army jawan on the border
• the corruption issue
• the rape in dec 16
• the price of Diesel
• the Gas price hike

People of India; 31% of them lapped it up; India finally elected her 15th PM. Suddenly, he became an orator to Narendra Damodar Mauni. 

On 21st May i.e. five days before taking oath of the office , he siad, 

CAG reports must not be used to target opponents

Impressive start, isn't it? The media which has MODIfied itself now into MOIDA played the ball shamelessly. There was no heated debate in TV studios and that was great precursor for the impending SILENCE that was coming our way. 

Then came the report of a killing of army jawan on the border, still the new Mauni baba went ahead and literally bent at 45 degree before Nawaz Shariff. 

No question was asked or no answer was given.

Then cams the occasion of inducting Ministers, he did not falter. He went ahead and presided over one of the most criminal cabinet in history. 

No question was asked or no answer was given.

Then cam the appointment of former TRAI chief Nirpinder Mishra as Principle Secretary through a ordinance rout, when NDA enjoys a majority in Loksbaha. Remember, Mr. Mishra was the person on whose advice A. Raja turned down the PM and FM suggestions to auction 2G spectrum. Later the same was use PRESUMED as a scam by CAG and Modi used that handle to ASSUME power at center. 

No question was asked or no answer was given.

Then came the barbaric rape and murder in Badaun in UP. The man who was asking for vote using the insecurity of Dec 16 rape incident, suddenly went into a mute mode. Even the UN Secretary General was forced to make a statement, but he is yet to make one. 

No question was asked or no answer was given.

One fine morning, we read a news in some corner of the news papers (there was no breaking news) that Diesel price has been increased. 

No question was asked or no answer was given.

Then came the news of gas price hike; we came to know about it looking at the share value of Ambani on Stock Exchange. This man was opposing the Gas price hike before election. 

No question was asked or no answer was given.

So much silence from the Embodiment of NOISE, that people are concerned whether it is an ISI conspiracy. :)

Silence of NOISE is a concern as, this man ran a concerted campaign against the Silence of Dr. Singh before election, and when he assumed it, he is not speaking on important issues which is making him look like a HYPOCRITE.  

First Wicket has Fallen! Modi 2.0 is the Bowler!!

The day BJP own the national election, I changed my SM profiles with this photo. you do not need to believe in astrology to do a forecast about what a Modi sarkar will be. You just need to look at their rise to power; which is all about their intolerance based on some narrow religious identity. 

It was good to hear some reassuring words from Modi when he became the 15th PM of India. Since, he has been giving good sound bites which would have forced some independent observer to qualify the overtures as attempts to outreach. Some are hoping that Modi would be transformed from Modi 1.0 to Modi 2.0. Well, he might have already been transformed, with his journey from the CM of Gujrat to the PM of Indian. At least today, I do not see any change in his inner-self apart from his well scripted sound bites. 


Many stalwarts are eager to speculate and see a statesman in him, when he is yet to make any real effort to shade the tag of 2002. In the interview to Arnmab Goswamy, he came down heavily on Gujrat SIT for implicating his Women & child Development Minister, Maya Kodnani; and did a great hydra act to heap praise on the same SIT to give him a clean chit at the level of the sessions court. 

So, is this the sign of a person who wants to CHANGE? I at least, can not accept such silly charade and pretend to have discovered a Statesman. 

Now, after wining the election, when world was going gaga over his possible transformation, looking at the enormity of the post he is going to hold as PM of a piece of land mass which tests the limit of diversity, he was in a different mood. He was planning how to award the riot accused in Muzaffarnagar riot. 

Those who do not understand the significance of the occasion, they must be told that BJP increased its tally from 10 seats in 2009 to 73 in 2014. This is nothing less than BJP coming to power in Gujrat after 2002 riot. 

So, there has to be a Maya kodnani in union ministry too. So, Sanjeev Balayan was rewarded aptly. 

As the Modi 2.0 occupied Delhi, he became unusually SILENT. While a soldier was killed on the Indo-Pak border, he chose to bend before Pak PM. His ministers were found to be lying under oath, but he was silent because he was no MORALITY to ask questions to his minister for obvious reasons. 



The heart wrenching rape in UP while forced UN to take note, our glib PM was found wanting in expressing his views. 

All this was happening,  and still our media was heaping praise for him being very vocal about issues. Somebody should wake them up for their dream that the election campaign is over and Modi has stopped talking.

Finally, within a 10 days of his CORONATION, as several of his Bhakta are describing huis swearing-in-ceremony, an Indian was beaten to death for sporting a beard and wearing a skull cap. This is after the Hindutva forces went on rampage damaging 250 buses in Pune over a FB post. 

And, how are they describing it? 

FIRST WICKET HAS FALLEN!

And who is the Bowler? It's Modi 2.0.