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1. We citizens know that political parties’ manifestos are empty promises. They are therefore simply meaningless. Former Lokayukta Justice N Santosh Hegde’s remarks that “political parties will promise anything to come to power and do anything to retain it” tell everything about ALL political parties’ conduct today. These remarks hold good for all promises given in manifestos of BJP and Congress. 2. I believe the Congress, as the oldest political party in our country has a special moral responsibility and it must clarify to citizen-voters how the “Nyay” or minimum income guarantee scheme will be implemented as the party’s manifesto is silent about ways to generate adequate revenue. 3. Incidental observations: there is massive use of unaccounted money in elections. No political party is willing to give powers to Election Commission to order a professional audit of accounts of political parties. 4. As regards economy, NDA government‘s performance during five years cannot simply be compared with Congress & UPA governments’ performance during four decades. 5. BJP & Congress would do a great service to the nation if both of them agree to have in place a comprehensive and reliable administrative-cum legal set-up which will exclusively investigate and deal with corruption cases against politicians, bureaucrats etc. Citizens demand that Fast Track Special Courts should be set-up to exclusively try all corruption cases against politicians, a process we now was opposed by the Congress party in the Rajya Sabha.
1. We citizens know that political parties’ manifestos are empty promises. They are therefore simply meaningless. Former Lokayukta Justice N Santosh Hegde’s remarks that “political parties will promise anything to come to power and do anything to retain it” tell everything about ALL political parties’ conduct today. These remarks hold good for all promises given in manifestos of BJP and Congress. 2. I believe the Congress, as the oldest political party in our country has a special moral responsibility and it must clarify to citizen-voters how the “Nyay” or minimum income guarantee scheme will be implemented as the party’s manifesto is silent about ways to generate adequate revenue. 3. Incidental observations: there is massive use of unaccounted money in elections. No political party is willing to give powers to Election Commission to order a professional audit of accounts of political parties. 4. As regards economy, NDA government‘s performance during five years cannot simply be compared with Congress & UPA governments’ performance during four decades. 5. BJP & Congress would do a great service to the nation if both of them agree to have in place a comprehensive and reliable administrative-cum legal set-up which will exclusively investigate and deal with corruption cases against politicians, bureaucrats etc. Citizens demand that Fast Track Special Courts should be set-up to exclusively try all corruption cases against politicians, a process we now was opposed by the Congress party in the Rajya Sabha.
Let’s see how it goes to woo the voters.