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Since writer of this article is a Congress MP I wish that he places before his party’s President following questions on behalf of citizen-voters who have no political affiliation. Questions are: (a) Use of black money: Will he take steps to make audit of accounts of political parties mandatory? (b) What he and his party wish to do to curb use of black money in our elections? (c) Rafale aircrafts deal: In case he is voted to power, would the deal be cancelled, or would it be renegotiated? (d) Since Rafale aircrafts deal is just one instance of corruption in defence equipment procurement deals, would he show political and administrative will to ensure that all commission payments in such deals are disclosed? (e) It is easy to make promises about schemes which aim to provide minimum income for farmers but it is next to impossible to implement such promises. Instead of giving false promises his party should come out with a practical plan to provide income support to small & marginal farmers. Would Congress party do this? (f) How would his government deal with alleged deficiencies in GST implementation? (g) Is there any plan to solve farmers’ problems which have direct relationship with climate change and erratic monsoon? (h) Issues relating farmers’ loans cannot be dealt with without detailed information of indebtedness of small, marginal and medium scale farmers. But till date our governments’ policies and programmes have benefited farmers who are politically networked and who really do not deserve subsidies on fertilisers, electricity supply, loan waivers and so on. The influential farmers’ lobby is good at ensuring that they get all the benefits. Would he and his party come out with a concrete plan which will ensure that government policies actually benefit small and marginal farmers? We the citizen-voters wish that Congress President provides honest and straight forward answers to above questions.
I wonder why Kumar writes the same ideas in different articles. The moment you see his article, you know its content like -It is Modi who utterly failed to keep his promises, is cause of all the current problems and he failed miserably to provide solutions to any of them. Further, Modi is the evil incarnate and even BJP and RSS think likewise. Of course, thankfully, he does not specifically assert that Congress and UPA was and is the best for the country. Utterly nonsensical article and sorry to say, an idiotic man.
Ties with Maldives have improved, and are normal now with the ouster of the dictator, if you are not updated with it. It was strategically and morally right for India to stay away from that Chinese puppet and fundamentalist autocrat. Or do you support such type of governance?
Also, China blocked UNSC listing of Azhar during MMS era as well, to refresh your memory.
And if you think RG has no media support I can suggest you a pretty long list of print and electronic sources to watch/read and enjoy as they eulogize the “prince” and bash the “saffronites” in pursuit of neutral journalism.
Anti-Modi article from this Gentleman, what can you expect from a congress man. Wastage of space by PRINT.IN , kindly encourage good articles,
not anti national ones.
The moment you see the name of the writer, it is already time to move on to something else. He is so predictably and contemptuously disposed against Modi and the BJP that it is a sheer waste of time reading whatever he writes, because you can easily second guess him. He never says anything new and never comes up with a different perspective about the current political scene. But then, anyone offered a Rajya Sabha seat on a plate can be expected to be as thankful to his Donors. Look at Manmohan Singh !
This election seems to be a replica of 1971 when Mrs Indira Gandhi stormed home to the victory by defeating Grand Alliance. However, at that time Left/liberal barring the CPM preferred to hail Mrs Gandhi as such a move helped them to share power, denied to them since independence. Perception is not a new phenomenon. Every election was contested on perceptions. It is heartening that the ace commentator Kumar Ketkar remains honest in his political assessment despite his accommodation in the Rajya Sabha by the Congress, a dream of journalists in the country. but the line” He is a Congress member of the Rajya Sabha” is missing from this post.
Since writer of this article is a Congress MP I wish that he places before his party’s President following questions on behalf of citizen-voters who have no political affiliation. Questions are: (a) Use of black money: Will he take steps to make audit of accounts of political parties mandatory? (b) What he and his party wish to do to curb use of black money in our elections? (c) Rafale aircrafts deal: In case he is voted to power, would the deal be cancelled, or would it be renegotiated? (d) Since Rafale aircrafts deal is just one instance of corruption in defence equipment procurement deals, would he show political and administrative will to ensure that all commission payments in such deals are disclosed? (e) It is easy to make promises about schemes which aim to provide minimum income for farmers but it is next to impossible to implement such promises. Instead of giving false promises his party should come out with a practical plan to provide income support to small & marginal farmers. Would Congress party do this? (f) How would his government deal with alleged deficiencies in GST implementation? (g) Is there any plan to solve farmers’ problems which have direct relationship with climate change and erratic monsoon? (h) Issues relating farmers’ loans cannot be dealt with without detailed information of indebtedness of small, marginal and medium scale farmers. But till date our governments’ policies and programmes have benefited farmers who are politically networked and who really do not deserve subsidies on fertilisers, electricity supply, loan waivers and so on. The influential farmers’ lobby is good at ensuring that they get all the benefits. Would he and his party come out with a concrete plan which will ensure that government policies actually benefit small and marginal farmers? We the citizen-voters wish that Congress President provides honest and straight forward answers to above questions.
I wonder why Kumar writes the same ideas in different articles. The moment you see his article, you know its content like -It is Modi who utterly failed to keep his promises, is cause of all the current problems and he failed miserably to provide solutions to any of them. Further, Modi is the evil incarnate and even BJP and RSS think likewise. Of course, thankfully, he does not specifically assert that Congress and UPA was and is the best for the country. Utterly nonsensical article and sorry to say, an idiotic man.
The media is working as a force multiplier. The results will show us how far the effort has succeeded.
Ties with Maldives have improved, and are normal now with the ouster of the dictator, if you are not updated with it. It was strategically and morally right for India to stay away from that Chinese puppet and fundamentalist autocrat. Or do you support such type of governance?
Also, China blocked UNSC listing of Azhar during MMS era as well, to refresh your memory.
And if you think RG has no media support I can suggest you a pretty long list of print and electronic sources to watch/read and enjoy as they eulogize the “prince” and bash the “saffronites” in pursuit of neutral journalism.
Anti-Modi article from this Gentleman, what can you expect from a congress man. Wastage of space by PRINT.IN , kindly encourage good articles,
not anti national ones.
The moment you see the name of the writer, it is already time to move on to something else. He is so predictably and contemptuously disposed against Modi and the BJP that it is a sheer waste of time reading whatever he writes, because you can easily second guess him. He never says anything new and never comes up with a different perspective about the current political scene. But then, anyone offered a Rajya Sabha seat on a plate can be expected to be as thankful to his Donors. Look at Manmohan Singh !
This election seems to be a replica of 1971 when Mrs Indira Gandhi stormed home to the victory by defeating Grand Alliance. However, at that time Left/liberal barring the CPM preferred to hail Mrs Gandhi as such a move helped them to share power, denied to them since independence. Perception is not a new phenomenon. Every election was contested on perceptions. It is heartening that the ace commentator Kumar Ketkar remains honest in his political assessment despite his accommodation in the Rajya Sabha by the Congress, a dream of journalists in the country. but the line” He is a Congress member of the Rajya Sabha” is missing from this post.