Wow! How innovative!! Kapil Sibal has outdone himself. He has come up with a new idea of how to humiliate his government.
And to think I was thinking that the government may not humiliate itself any more. How foolish of me to even think like this.
Kapil Sibal - a senior member of the Congress Party, a senior Minister in the Union Cabinet - has conceived a very innovative idea. This time he wants to control the content on the internet. He wants to apply censorship to the social networking sites.
You many wonder, what he can achieve with this? Oh! It is simple.
The government has already gained a reputation as a roll-back government. It has time and again gone back on its own announcements. Be it a simple bilateral treaty with Bangladesh or allowance of FDI in the retail sector. This time the government has decided to try its power in harnessing the internet, something that even the economical giants like US have been unable to do.
He is doing this so that the young crowd that frequents these sites are alienate against the government. He wants to ensure that the government looses the very little support it has left behind it, after the way Ramdev Baba's and Anna Hazare's agitations were handled.
The government has left no stone unturned in the last six to seven months in destroying its own credibility. It has gone to lengths to prove that it does respect the people's wishes. It does not want corruption to stop. It does not want the return of the black money from the Swiss Banks. In fact, it is even ready to prosecute those who dare to raise these issues.
Wake up, O members of the Indian Government. You may not be worried about how the international community thinks of you, but we still respect our country and would like to save its image.
Showing posts with label FDI. Show all posts
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Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Saturday, December 3, 2011
Roll Back Government has Rolled Back Again
The Government of India, which has earned a reputation for itself in rolling back its own decisions has done it once again.
This time the government has rolled back its decision to allow FDI investment in the retail sector. Although the government is saying that it has put the decision on hold "until a consensus is evolved" among its allies. So it is as good as a roll-back. The government is not going to implement another one of its announcements.
With the roll back of the FDI issue, the path has now been cleared to focus back to the topic of the Jan-Lokpal Bill.
Anna Hazare has already announced a symbolic one-day protest for 11-Dec-2011, and said he is ready for another hunger strike by the end of the month if the Jan-Lokpal Bill is not passed, in accordance the PMs letter to him and the sense-of-the-parliament conveyed to him during the previous Parliament Session.
It will be interesting to see what the government does this time to humiliate itself.
This time the government has rolled back its decision to allow FDI investment in the retail sector. Although the government is saying that it has put the decision on hold "until a consensus is evolved" among its allies. So it is as good as a roll-back. The government is not going to implement another one of its announcements.
With the roll back of the FDI issue, the path has now been cleared to focus back to the topic of the Jan-Lokpal Bill.
Anna Hazare has already announced a symbolic one-day protest for 11-Dec-2011, and said he is ready for another hunger strike by the end of the month if the Jan-Lokpal Bill is not passed, in accordance the PMs letter to him and the sense-of-the-parliament conveyed to him during the previous Parliament Session.
It will be interesting to see what the government does this time to humiliate itself.
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
No Working in Parliament during Monsoon Session
The Indian democracy is facing tough times.
The Government:
The nation is governed by a stubborn government, that is adamant on its own political views, and does not give a damn to what public opinion is. The government has gone back on most of its decisions in the recent times.
The Opposition:
An equally stubborn opposition, that in the current situation appears to have public support.
The Result:
There has not been a single day of working in the current monsoon session of the parliament.
The government is stuck on an issue that does not have any or very little public support. It has decided to allow FDI in the retail sector. This decision is not liked by the common public. The only ones in support of the decision are the corporate houses who have foreign collaborations and want to cash-in on the FDI.
People say why do we need foreigners to sell goods in India.
In fact, they say, the government should entertain FDI in manufacturing. We have very stiff requirements in the defense sector for which we have to spend a lot of foreign exchange in importing. Should the government not focus on getting it manufactured locally with the help of the private sector within the country?
The Government:
The nation is governed by a stubborn government, that is adamant on its own political views, and does not give a damn to what public opinion is. The government has gone back on most of its decisions in the recent times.
The Opposition:
An equally stubborn opposition, that in the current situation appears to have public support.
The Result:
There has not been a single day of working in the current monsoon session of the parliament.
The government is stuck on an issue that does not have any or very little public support. It has decided to allow FDI in the retail sector. This decision is not liked by the common public. The only ones in support of the decision are the corporate houses who have foreign collaborations and want to cash-in on the FDI.
People say why do we need foreigners to sell goods in India.
In fact, they say, the government should entertain FDI in manufacturing. We have very stiff requirements in the defense sector for which we have to spend a lot of foreign exchange in importing. Should the government not focus on getting it manufactured locally with the help of the private sector within the country?
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