Category — Politics

With the Kishlay kidnapping generating so much political smoke with both Lalu Prasad Yadav and Ram Vilas Paswan accusing each other, there just had to be some kind of fire!

And it doesn’t take too much guesswork to deduct why the gangster Vicky thakur, prime accused in the Kishlay kidnapping, was killed in police firing!

Goa’s swaying palms and the golden sands suggest peace and quietude that is belied by the tumultuous events in the corridors of power. No sirree, Bob! … Goa’s politics is anything but tranquil at the moment!!

People have been concentrating a lot on the Governor’s and the Speaker’s actions. They should of course be studied and analysed. I’ll do that in a moment. But the real drama began last week with the curious incident of a party merging with the BJP and its members defecting a couple of days later. This is the action that kickstarted a series of events that eventually led to the downfall of the BJP government in Goa. On the face of it, it seems highly probable that the decision by UGDP (S) to merge with the BJP was just a ruse to circumvent some provisions of the Anti Defection Law. Even allowing for stupidity, that comes naturally to most politicians today, I cannot think of any other reason for (even) a political party to switch sides twice within two days. If you ask me, this was Congress placing its pieces on the chess-board before the end-game.

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If ‘Lalu Yadav is a visionary‘, then I am Santa Claus!!

Jagdish Tytler, a minister in charge of a pretty superfluous ministry (he’s the minister for overseas Indians) says, in an interview to rediff.com, that his ministry will listen to Indians abroad.

By all means! … But I’d much rather prefer it if his government listens to Indians within the country first… instead of turning its ears only towards the Left!

And I couldn’t help but chuckle when the minister was asked which countries he had covered in his extensive foreign jaunts and he started off by mentioning Brussels!! :-P

Sucheta Dalal alerts us to the Government’s silent intrusion into the privacy of honest tax-paying citizens.

The average honest tax payer, especially the non-salaried class would have ordinarily welcomed this effort to flush out chronic tax evaders, except that the rot in the regulatory and enforcement machinery is deep that these measures are viewed with extreme cynicism and even anger.

Each of these actions only allow government agencies to intrude a little more into the lives or ordinary citizens. Confidential information about their assets and spending habits will now filter through porous government departments from a variety of different sources.

Time to sit up and take notice!!