The wonderful hobby of throwing mud at each other

We know that those who live in glasses houses should not throw stones. We have also been taught that when we point a finger at somebody, another four fingers point back at us. One also remembers the instance of a group of men and women who wanted to punish a woman by pelting her with stones. Jesus Christ stood beside the woman and said he who has never committed a crime could throw the first stone. And – no one threw stones at the woman. However, today throwing mud at each other has become the norms. Recently, a huge scam came to light in Bengal. The Enforcement Directorate ED believes that Partho Chatterjee, a senior minister of the ruling Trinamool Congress TMC, was involved. He had engineered the scam, along with Arpita Mukherjee, a celebrity of the film industry. The total value of the scam is yet to be ascertained by the authorities. They say it runs into several crores of rupees. It has come as a shock to the TMC and its leaders are trying to reduce the damages by throwing mud at other political parties like the BJP that is in power at the center. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, TMC Supremo, has already sacked the minister. Mamata Banerjee sacks minister Partha Chatterjee after cash haul at his aide’s residence

Incidentally, there are leaders in other political parties, who are equally if not more corrupt. Those who are close to these politicians know the truth but prefer to remain silent spectators for fear of serious repercussions. Spilling the beans could end up in loss of lives for the men or loss of face for the women and girls. The fact remains that when there is a scam and it blows out of proportion, the opposition tries to divert attention. They draw a red herring across the trail to dilute the issue. Politicians treat these as wars and justify their actions by saying - everything is fair in love and war. The Ajay Devgan movie Gangajal of 2003 is a depiction of how those in politics treat others. Things have not changed much over the last nearly two decades.

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Ever since taking over office, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has set a trend for not only himself but also of how the government should run. But, the results are always not what he would have liked. Therefore, BJP parliamentarian Shatrughan Sinha made some taunting remarks over the fact that India still ranking a poor 130 in the world in ease of doing business.
Last year, India's rank was 131 - or, this year it has gone up only one place compared to last year. Shotgun, Lok Sabha member from Bihar, hoped that the "dashing dynamic PM" would find a solution.
This has been reported in telegraphindia.com dated 29 October 2016.

The BJP has been mentioning Narendra Modi's knack for business-friendly administration and keeps holding up Gujarat as proof. Therefore, Shatrughan Sinha, a former Union minister wants the dashing dynamic PM to look into the situation and provide necessary impetus for improvement.
He has also openly criticised his party during last year's Bihar elections while expressing support for rival Nitish Kumar. Continuing in the same vein, he aimed a barb at Modi's claims of a "56-inch chest" while showering praise on Nitish, the "popular CM of Bihar". This was with reference to the release of a kidnapped businessman. Shotgun praised Nitish Kumar for the brilliant success of his police department and its senior officers and made special mention of the police officer who had led the operation.
Shotgun said - the police officer may not have a 56 (inch) chest but his 32 (inch) waist was enough to take care of the goons.
Interestingly, Shatrughan's comments come close on the heels of another Sinha - BJP veteran and former Union minister Yashwant Sinha. He embarrassed the party by leading a team of civil liberty activists to Kashmir and meeting the separatists. Obviously, there are bickerings within BJP and that is gradually surfacing.


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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has shown that he is the Boss by asking his FM Arun Jaitley to shelve the proposal of imposing income tax on PF withdrawals of the salaried class. The Prime Minister felt that the entire proposal should be deferred because, there were fears that such a step could rob the "feel-good" vibes that the government's third budget had generated.
This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 6 March 2016.

Euphemistically speaking - the government has had second thoughts and has decided to defer its plan to levy tax on 60% of employees' provident fund withdrawal because Prime Minister Narendra Modi intervened. It seems the PM requested Jaitley to put the tax proposal on hold since the matter needed to be studied in detail in view of protests from the salaried middle class. They felt that such a move would impact their retirement savings and restrict options, with many describing it as a regressive step.
Not only the salaried employees, there were protests from opposition parties as well as from within BJP - the net result was a well-planned retraction of steps. Or - was it a well orchestrated strategy to feel the pulse of the people and see how far they can be pushed?
This question arises because it is difficult to believe that the Finance Minister had decided on such an extraordinary step without consulting the Prime Minister - that is what a section of critics of the government might say. But - all is well that ends well and with assurances of satus quo being maintained, everyone can breathe easy now.
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BJP has worked out a sort of master plan to woo people who live along the banks of the River Ganges and depend on the river for their livelihood. There are a total of 1,649 villages on the banks of the Ganga — from Gomukh to Ganga Sagar. People who live on its banks comprise the mallah (boatmen), flower-sellers, Purohit (Brahmin) and others and the BJP wants to influence them – with the upcoming assembly elections in UP and West Bengal, such an action is expected to pay rich dividends.
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The BJP wants to make inroads into these villages – if it succeeds, the party could tap around 43% population of 11 states dependent on the holy river, directly or indirectly. Hence, the party has created a separate unit — Namami Gange Committee. Its objective would be to reach out to villages and make people aware about the river.
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It is a real anti-climax – the admission of the CBDT that only 638 people have come out in open and declared an amount of Rs 3,770 crore as a part of the one-time compliance window for disclosing black money is far removed from the poll promises of BJP that they would bring back all black money stashed abroad within 100 days of taking over office. This has been revealed in zeenews.india.com dated 2 October 2015.

Obviously, the common man’s dream of getting Rs 15 lakh credited to his bank account sound hollow now and will remain a dream. In this connection, excerpts of report published in financialexpress.com dated 29 October 2014 is relevant – ‘ … the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders were declaring from the rooftops that the black money stashed abroad will be brought back within 100 days. (But) when it came to declaring the names, they just released three. … Ramdev had said that more than 50,000 people have stashed money away in foreign banks and (prime minister) Narendra Modi had said during the election campaign that Rs 15 lakh will be deposited in the bank accounts of all Indians once the black money is recovered… ‘ Incidentally, there are 442 crorepatis in the 16th Lok Sabha with the BJP leading the crorepati club with 237. Its ally Telugu Desam Party has the richest member, whose assets cross Rs 683 crore. As to other parties, the Congress has 35 crorepatis, the AIADMK 29 and the Trinamool Congress 21. The figures speak for themselves – very seldom is one born a crorepati. It takes plenty of guile to create the crores and, stashing them in foreign banks is the solution. Therefore, trying to unearth and bring the defaulters to book would be a really uphill task. (Image courtesy wikimediacommons.org)

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The Modi government at the center is faced with the same problem of skyrocketing prices of onions as the previous governments and, while mouthing words like ‘achhe din’, the leaders have no answer but to go in for imports. In 2013, the very same BJP had agitated against high onion prices when the UPA was in power!!
Governments may change but the sufferings of the common man will remain.
The price of onion has shot up by Rs 10-15 in the past one week in Delhi, and there has been similar spike in prices in Mumbai and other cities. The government has, therefore, asked the state-owned MMTC to import 10,000 tonnes of onions immediately.
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Politics is a dirty game and mudslinging is a part of the game. Before elections, parties make a whole lot of promises and BJP was no exception. They had promised a clean corruption free government – but, already within one year, a number of irregularities have surfaced that has tarnished its image.
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And, to counter this, the BJP has brought up the issue of resignation of Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat over "liquor scam" worth hundreds of crores which has been revealed through a sting operation and "loot" carried out during the 2013 floods.
They have also added the issue of a charge sheet filed against Congress leader and former Arunachal Pradesh chief minister PK Thungon over a 1998 corruption case. He has been convicted only now in a corruption case after 17 years. The question BJP should ask themselves is – should BJP go the same way as the Congress? Where then is the promised change?
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The man who has embarrassed BJP is none other than Shanta Kumar – he has raised the issues of corruption that the party is facing in the states of Rajasthan and Maharashtra. In his opinion, such acts are affecting the morale of the party workers. He has also called for setting up an ethics committee to act as a Lokpal to keep a check on party leaders.
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Narendra Modi, during his aggressive campaign in the last Lok Sabha elections had promised the electorate that ‘achhe din’ or ‘good days’ will soon come for one and all. However, BJP President, while talking to his party workers in Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh has said that the BJP will take 25 years to deliver "achhe din" that had been promised by the Prime Minister before the 2014 elections.
In his words - "achhe din aane mein 25 saal lagenge (It will take 25 years to bring achhe din).
This has been reported in ibnlive.com dated 14 July 2015.

The statement must have taken the BJP unawares and they have rushed in to defuse the situation and clarify what exactly Amit Shah had wanted to convey.
Clarifications given by BJP secretary and media cell in-charge Shrikant Sharma is that Amit Shah had said that the BJP government had curbed corruption and brought down inflation and is working to end corruption and create many jobs in five years. However, the dream of making India 'Vishwa guru (world leader) will take 25 years to realize.
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In his words, BJP's concept of ' acche din' was far broader than fixing the ' bijli, pani & sadak issues'. In the eyes of the BJP, ' acche din' means restorig the glory that India enjoyed before the British occupation.
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Yog Guru Baba Ramdev has always been a staunch supporter of the BJP but, as the Modi government is celebrating its one year in office, Ramdev has expressed his disillusionment. He made the comments while talking to a TV new channel and it has been reported in indiatoday.intoday.in dated 19 May 2015.
He has lauded the efforts of Rahul Gandhi to revive the Congress party, which suffered a major setback in the 2014 Assembly elections. He has also said that Rahul has injected new life in congress and has shown up the Modi government as anti-poor.

Ramdev has gone to the extent of saying that some of the BJP leaders have become arrogant after their landslide victory in 2014 Lok Sabha elections. Of course, he has praised PM Narendra Modi, but has also emphasized that the central government is gradually getting stuck with an anti-farmer image which needs to be coerced.
On the issue of black money, his enthusiasm appears to have been dampened because he, like so many others, had harbored an impression that bringing the stashed black money was a simple affair and that the earlier governments had not put in proper efforts.
The Baba is now a more wise man – he has realized that it is not that easy and simple affair and he has indicated that he would wait till June and then decide on the future course of action on black money.
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#cigarettes #cancer #beedibaron #BJP #health It is a fact that cigarette smoking is injurious to health and the Indian government wants to curb the menace by increase the size of pictorial warnings on tobacco packets from 40% to 85% of the main display area. Moreover, in order to discourage smoking, the BJP government has taken several taxation measures in the last two budgets.
Of course, within the BJP, there appears to be a difference of opinion. BJP MPs Shyam Charan Gupta, a beedi baron, and Dilip Gandhi, along with Ram Prasad Sarmah have raised a controversy by saying that there was no Indian scientific evidence to link smoking and cancer. Dilip Gandhi is head of the parliamentary committee, and Shyam Charan Gupta is a member on it. This has, naturally, embarrassed the NDA government.

This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 6 April 2015.
However, in Britain they have taken a much harder stance to discourage smoking and wean away the would-be smokers. They have decreed that there can be no display of cigarettes on shelves. They must be kept out of sight, preferably in cupboards. And, the only method of advertising would be to have a board saying ‘cigarettes sold here’ along with a list of brands available and their prices.
It seems two thirds of smokers begin from or before the age of 18 – hence, it is vital that everything is done to put tobacco out of sight to protect future generations. Catalogues of available brands may be shown only to customers over the age of 18.
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#cowslaughter #rajnathsingh #india #tourism #BJP #NDA Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh has indicated that the NDA government will try its "level best" to bring in a nationwide ban on cow slaughter through a consensus as reported in zeenews.india.com dated 30 March 2015.
His intentions are noble no doubt because we Indians look upon the cow as a Goddess and worship her as go-mata – hence, imposing a ban on cow slaughter would be in the fitness of things. Already BJP-ruled like Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra have introduced necessary legislation in this regard and no one should doubt the commitment of the government to prevent slaughter of cows.

However, introducing such a ban in all states of the country is not possible right now since the government does not have an absolute majority in both Houses of Parliament. Obviously, that would have to wait till such time the BJP manages to get the required numbers in the Rajya Sabha.
Of course, the leaders should also consider another important aspect – namely, the effect such legislations might have on tourism. On the one hand we want tourists to come over and spend their dollars in India but they would have to content themselves with dishes that do not have beef. Once the decision is implemented, the travel websites would inform would-be tourists to come prepared to dine on veg dishes.
Agree, veg dishes are healthy and there is a clamor for some foreigners to go vegan but, the fact remains that it could hurt tourism.

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