Remember the summer of 2010? The ruling UPA coalition was sitting pretty with nary a worry in the wind. Though there was a perception of coalition compulsions, the general belief and expectation was the second Manmohan Singh Administration or UPA-2 was hitting all the right notes.[http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?265491]
It was the general mood on the ground and also reflected in many opinion polls and editorial.
It is a different matter that people with foresight (which essentially means me) had misgivings even then. The world is full of people who are blessed with hindsight and do not have time for those who can think ahead. No regrets, That’s the way it has been, and it will be.
:-P
Looking back people tend to think that the UPA’s misfortune started the next year, in 2011, the so called year of scams with the 2G Spectrum allocation scam, the Radia Tapes, the Commonwealth Games loot, Akash Housing Scam, the Antrix-Devas fiasco, the Anna Hazare drama, the Army Chief’s date of birth controversy, to list some of them.
Actually, trouble started brewing when people in responsible positions started to suffer from the ‘foot-in-the-mouth’ disease. To my mind it started with the present Home Minister P. Chidambaram’s gaffe by almost assuring the agitators that a Telengana state would be carved out very soon.
It was exacerbated by the repeated uttering of the PM, the Finance Minister, the Food Minister, the RBI Governor and the Planning Commission Chairman, that the food prices will come down soon and inflation would be controlled.
Almost every problem of the current UPA administration can be laid at the foot (no pun intended) of the loud mouths of the people in power and who ought to know better. After all who can forget Kapil Sibal’s forceful, bullying tone denying that there was any loss to the exchequer in the 2G Spectrum scandal.
The other famous affront was the Rs. 32/- a day makes an Indian Rich affidavit by the Planning Commission’s M.S. Ahluwalia, who has been cawing that food inflation would come down in next 3 months - for the last 3 years.
If at all the others decided to give us a respite, there is always Digvijaya Singh - trying to list out his ‘achievements’ here would be like attempting to write down 1001 nights in one post.
:-D
The latest to join is Salman Kurshid with his ‘let the Election Commission hang me’ bravado. Perhaps it should be termed as false bravado, as Salman Kurshid knows fully well that we don’t hang even terrorists, let alone powerful politicians for defying constitutional authorities.
You know, Kapil Sibal might threaten bloggers and web giants with censorship, running roughshod over our freedom of speech, but he sure comes out to defend when it is one of his own who blatantly chooses to violate constitutional authority. Kapil Sibal terms it as ‘he (Kurshid) has its own reasons (views) and I (Sibal) cannot comment on it’.
All this can be laid at the feet of one man (again no pun) - the Prime Minister - who refrained and has been refraining from taking action against erring bags of hot air. They say culling is the best cure and sure fire way to stop the Foot and Mouth disease in cattle. Seeing the cattle like behaviour of the people who should know better, it is high time that Manmohan Singh cracks the whip at least, if not attempt a cull as a warning against future outbreaks.
>;-)
Today morning while fetching milk, a yuppie waiting for his cab pickup to go to work, remarked, ‘Every company warns the people not to gossip or talk, especially to press and here is a government which wants to think the nation as a Inc., the PM as CEO and the budget as a P&L A/C, but still doesn’t deem it prudent to warn everyone to keep the mouth shut. Frankly it is both amazing and frustrating.’ Which indicates that the public is starting to lose its patience with such shenanigans.
To me at least, the tide appears to have turned for the present ruling combine, but they just don’t have enough time before next general elections to weather another ‘2011’. And the next ‘2011’ might well be the creation of air heads shooting their mouths off.
My Praying half purrs, ‘You know there is only one who looks cute with the foot in his mouth - and even he sucks only the big toe’.
kararavindena padaravindam
mukharavinde viniveshayantam
vatasya patrasya pute shayanam
balam mukundam manasa smarami
I pray to Bala-Mukunda,
the One who lies on a Banyan leaf,
placing his lotus like foot in his lotus like mouth,
with his lotus like hand.
It was the general mood on the ground and also reflected in many opinion polls and editorial.
It is a different matter that people with foresight (which essentially means me) had misgivings even then. The world is full of people who are blessed with hindsight and do not have time for those who can think ahead. No regrets, That’s the way it has been, and it will be.
:-P
Looking back people tend to think that the UPA’s misfortune started the next year, in 2011, the so called year of scams with the 2G Spectrum allocation scam, the Radia Tapes, the Commonwealth Games loot, Akash Housing Scam, the Antrix-Devas fiasco, the Anna Hazare drama, the Army Chief’s date of birth controversy, to list some of them.
Actually, trouble started brewing when people in responsible positions started to suffer from the ‘foot-in-the-mouth’ disease. To my mind it started with the present Home Minister P. Chidambaram’s gaffe by almost assuring the agitators that a Telengana state would be carved out very soon.
It was exacerbated by the repeated uttering of the PM, the Finance Minister, the Food Minister, the RBI Governor and the Planning Commission Chairman, that the food prices will come down soon and inflation would be controlled.
Almost every problem of the current UPA administration can be laid at the foot (no pun intended) of the loud mouths of the people in power and who ought to know better. After all who can forget Kapil Sibal’s forceful, bullying tone denying that there was any loss to the exchequer in the 2G Spectrum scandal.
The other famous affront was the Rs. 32/- a day makes an Indian Rich affidavit by the Planning Commission’s M.S. Ahluwalia, who has been cawing that food inflation would come down in next 3 months - for the last 3 years.
If at all the others decided to give us a respite, there is always Digvijaya Singh - trying to list out his ‘achievements’ here would be like attempting to write down 1001 nights in one post.
:-D
The latest to join is Salman Kurshid with his ‘let the Election Commission hang me’ bravado. Perhaps it should be termed as false bravado, as Salman Kurshid knows fully well that we don’t hang even terrorists, let alone powerful politicians for defying constitutional authorities.
You know, Kapil Sibal might threaten bloggers and web giants with censorship, running roughshod over our freedom of speech, but he sure comes out to defend when it is one of his own who blatantly chooses to violate constitutional authority. Kapil Sibal terms it as ‘he (Kurshid) has its own reasons (views) and I (Sibal) cannot comment on it’.
All this can be laid at the feet of one man (again no pun) - the Prime Minister - who refrained and has been refraining from taking action against erring bags of hot air. They say culling is the best cure and sure fire way to stop the Foot and Mouth disease in cattle. Seeing the cattle like behaviour of the people who should know better, it is high time that Manmohan Singh cracks the whip at least, if not attempt a cull as a warning against future outbreaks.
>;-)
Today morning while fetching milk, a yuppie waiting for his cab pickup to go to work, remarked, ‘Every company warns the people not to gossip or talk, especially to press and here is a government which wants to think the nation as a Inc., the PM as CEO and the budget as a P&L A/C, but still doesn’t deem it prudent to warn everyone to keep the mouth shut. Frankly it is both amazing and frustrating.’ Which indicates that the public is starting to lose its patience with such shenanigans.
To me at least, the tide appears to have turned for the present ruling combine, but they just don’t have enough time before next general elections to weather another ‘2011’. And the next ‘2011’ might well be the creation of air heads shooting their mouths off.
My Praying half purrs, ‘You know there is only one who looks cute with the foot in his mouth - and even he sucks only the big toe’.
kararavindena padaravindam
mukharavinde viniveshayantam
vatasya patrasya pute shayanam
balam mukundam manasa smarami
I pray to Bala-Mukunda,
the One who lies on a Banyan leaf,
placing his lotus like foot in his lotus like mouth,
with his lotus like hand.
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