Saturday, May 10, 2008

Elections

I have thought quite deeply before making this post
Elections are around in Karnataka.I am really sad with the sad state of affairs.
Even after 60 years of independence the basic issues of elections 1)Food 2)Shelter 3)Roads 4)Water 5)Sanitation.
Common guys give me a break.Where is all the tax money going ?.What sort of democracy do we have ? Is this the way democracy is run.The same money for votes stuff,arrack,liquor,sarees being distributed,reservation,free power,waiving off loans -ridiculous stuff.
I think it is high time we need to bring a legislation wherein a law is made to make sure that "x" amount of money is for x purpose in a 5 year tenure and we need results,if the work is not upto the mark we need to try these people in courts ,dont you think so ?We need to make sure that the party in rule does the basic minimum agreed upon development activities
I mean how can you waive off Rs 60,000 crores?This is tax payers money.If you are so much bothered about farmers please do it proactively .I am not against farmers.I am sure not many farmers will be benfitted from this.Besides farmers need help in the first place ,help them with kisan loans ,give them loans at subsidised rates,there are no free lunches remember.
Our country can never become a singapore or a beijing if it goes on like this.Take the example of trains ,the rail minister has laid railways lines for his native village ,quite atrocious.There needs to be all round development .Set aside some money for each state irrespective of the state and start developing it .Even if we had taken one state and developed train lines for a full year ,we would have developed each state twice with full connevity by now ,this i am talking about the worst case scenario.
Something is seriously wrong ,we were better off under dictators than seeing our country being ruined by the idiotic spineless politicians.

2 comments:

Reflections said...

U r talking worse case scenario. Our beloved Railway minister:-), for all his faults, has managed to show a profit in the Railways ONLY after he strolled in to take the post. Yes it happens that sometimes Politicans do give a bit of priority to their state and Bihar is one of the most under developed states in India. You cant blame Laloo for trying to do his bit there. I'm not saying he is completely right but he is not fully wrong either.

India is a DEMOCRACY with the largest POPULATION. So things do take a bit more time than usual. And corrupt politicans and lawmakers do not help matters but these kind of people are everywhere.

Actually young EDUCATED blood should be introduced in Politics. Only then can v see visible results....maybe in a decade or so:-P

STALAG SUKHOI said...

Nancy : I dont agree with you .I am talking about say for the past 60 years ,where has all the money gone which the railways have earned .for eg : a rail route from mlore to bangalore - conversion to broad gauge was pending for the last 20 years ,tell me does not make sense to complete past projects than start new ones ? 20 years a long time mind,the slowlessness in executing the project is miserable.compare the sample with lhasa and beijing line ,the toughest railway line (google it )was built in 4 years flat ,we need people who exeute ,there is no point in railways making profit if it is not put back to the system,i am not just saying for just my state,we need to have a list and go by it ,where in each state gets its turn.

If we dont wake up now ,it will be too late,democracy doesnt mean we have to make decisions at a snails pace.