End of Anarchy or Imperlisim

The Muslim world is witnessing a plethora of agitation and in some cases bodering into civil war and it is all happening in successive mode and breaking open from the Shackles of Anarchism and Imperlism into a iconclastic social order, which inturn will pave way for democratic order in the State.

The order of the king is no more gospel and people are on the street demanding freedom and liberation form the so called ruling class, infact they are ready for Military rule than be ruled by the tyrants or dictators. India as a leading democracy should facilitate in restoring the State Machinery and infusing democratic traditions in these headless republics.

Having said this I did not mean India should act like Big Brother but the whole process should be that of Negotiations and offer help when it is requried, primarlily they should help them draft Constitution, facilitate in the process of conducting free and fair Elections, help in maininting Law & Order like the way they have done it in Nepal. India should not offer any sort of help to the dicatators or Military as it would demean the reason of us being a Democracy.
The interface between Oligiarchy and Democracy should not be blank(Meaning law less) as it can be drawn into the brink of yet an Dictorial rule or Military rule and our help should be to extend all possible help in
pulling these republics to democratic rule as it will augur well for us,to have more democracies by our side in case of Elections in the International forum.

The successive unrest in different parts of the muslim world is the reason of peoples perception over the rule and the agitation is for a Change in Governance, while the world Conveys their condemnation over force being used aganist the agitators by the present day Government , International sanctions by the erring government is fine but why were these very bodies silent when Tinamen Square Student revolution were quelled by the then Chinese Government with a Iron hand, were these bodies less powerful that time or defunct. The reason is simple we have two sets of rules in the International forums one for countires which are powerful and other to the rest of its entities.

Having said all this I am not diverting the attentions from the main topic, but I am only trying to bring in democratic parlance in the forum that the democracies are to be staying to-gether, meeting common and shared values democratically.

Ramesh.v.Naivaruni
Bangalore

INDIAN BUDGETS---INDIA ON THE WAY TO DEBT TRAP

The finance ministers both State and Centre has done a tremendous in making all of believe that there will be a growth year after year while the budget and budgetary allocation says otherwise and indications are that by the year 2015 India will have a huge burden and every Indian will have few lakhs on his head to repay for the Misgovernance that the political establishment has done with the hard earned money of the taxpayer.

Dr.Manmohan Singh who is definetely one of the architects of Indian Liberalisation during his stinct has finance minister in the Narashima Roa Government, has toed the line of populism when he is in the helm of affairs a Prime Minister, the 7-8% growth which he is talking about is something which is not possible without financial jugglery which every Fianance Minister do with their impeccable speech some with poetry which includes even regional langauges like Bengali... Now that it is clear that nothing big is going to happen because of the Government and nothing unusal will be in the Pranab Mukerji"s Financial Statement for the year 2011-12 which will include only some populist measures for the so called weaker sections of the society, which will definetely include Minority and thereby wooing them into voting for the UPA in the General Elections slated somewhere in future.

We will have some sops for States which doesnt have Congress as some of them are likely to go to the polls during the next year. The Hard working Businessman will have to foot the burden of  political establishment Kitschy. The case in focus will be Tamil nadu, Maharashtra and Karnataka which is definetely heading for election during the course of next two years and Congress is out of power in Karnataka will have to harp on their secularistic credential and their messiah and hence the dole out will be better these Three states.

I want to know is there no governing procedure on finance in this country, is the RBI and other nodal Agencies do not bother when the Political Parties dole out cash and Kinds as part of fullfilling their Manifestos, can there not be a Code of Conduct that needs to be maintained or a rule book which will curtail political parties from offering sops like Free Telivision sets, Free houses, Concessional interest rate etc, which presently forms the core of the manifestos. Similarly States should be maintain some reasonable amount of transperancy which should be advertised as to how much of the budgetary allocation that has been used from the Centre, a minimal drawal needs to emphasised for future allocations. For example if Karnataka is given 1000crores for infrastructure and if the Government of Karnataka is not using the fund then the next year allocation should have the barring on the present usage.

The political parties should abstain from promising free bees, sops and reservation, Infact reservation on all aspects of this democracy should be abolished as reservation and freebees are aganist the basic tenets of Liberlisation and hence it should be withdrawn. The subsidies should also go, if the Gas cylinder is costing Rs.700/- it must be sold for that price which will not bleed the economy. Once that is acheived than the taxation will automatically come down as taxation in our economy is inversly propotional to subsidies which many of us fail to realise.

Any party which comes with agenda to share the public weath during their tenure governance should be restarined from taking part in the by Elections and morale code of conduct should be framed and every parties should adhere to it.  While student Concessional passes are okay as they form our future, old age men should be given the facility as they have contributed to this economy during their earning days, the earning members and youth should not be give such priveledges as that is the burden to the exchequer and where they will get money, either they borrow or take it from your in the form of Taxes, duties and other levies.

Scientific approach to financial discipline is the answer, we should allow the experts to handle financial, and believe me, we have the best finance minister and equally a expert financial expert in Manmohan singh but they are made to toe the populist line by their respecitve parties, it is better that we stop it now or our Children will come into this world with a huge burden left behind by us and will curse us , for taking
India into a debt track.

Ramesh.V.Naivaruni

Indian political parties "THE BLUE LINE APPROACH"

THE BLUE LINE APPROACH OF INDIAN POLITICAL PARTIES

Blog by  RAMESH.V.NAIVARUNI

From the state of Anarchism which in a literal sense of terms means “Stateless society”, as  it promotes individual interest and syndicalism  promotes individuals with ego centric approach the rule, The next form of Governance is  Monarchy which is a rule by a King and his council of minister with absolute  and conclusive Statehood and a unwritten rule book. Here the succession is through the blue line or lineage, the third in the line of political reform is Oligarchy which in simple terms means a rule by few, could be a group or from the members of a Family again this is just another step of statehood where only few holds the key to the Governance, communism which is a all inclusive approach to share people wealth or what we could call a rule by a Party to which all must agree approach, Finally democracy is a rule by the people and here the will of the people will rein supreme and absolute and refined form of Governance which is the most powerful and accepted  method of Governance . It was in 1213 AD the Mangna carta was signed by the British crown transferring power to rule from him can be said to be the beginning to the process of democratic governance.

India is one amongst the finest example of this practice and it is the first country ever to practice democracy beginning  at  Lichavi  where  panchayat comprising of people would decided what should be done and majority approval sought  and such proposals or projects gets the sanctioned which according to me is the ultimate form of democratic  traditions practiced anywhere in the world.

Having said this the free India also adopted Democratic  traditions with a well defined constitution and during its journey the governing parties  mixed the Blue line approach of succession beginning with Pandit Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Rajeev Gandhi , Sonia Gandhi and now the heir apparent  Rahul Gandhi .

 The Congress party  can be said to have left this bad precedent which does not augur well with the basic  tenets  for democratic Governance and practices.

The rule by succession or by the blue line has not ended with Congress, but has gained a firm ground with other  national and regional parties embracing such blue line  method to promote self interest and family rule which defeats the very reason why we should have had democratic  form of Governance .   Our leaders have  wilfully fooled the people  in believing ,that they are the champions of democracy ,while practicing  pseudo-democratic  practices which in fact in India borders around the  earlier  rule by the  Kings with respective Kingdoms .The only difference between the two is that now they are called States instead of Kingdom.The ascension to the throne is by the heir apparent and this  is  prevalent today in most of the States barring few with leftist rule.

The de-generation of popular mandate and internal democracy can be traced backed to the times of Mahatma Gandhi, who  unknowingly favoured his candidate  Pathabi  Sitaramiah  against the Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose for the presidential election of the congress at Tripuri in 1939 .

The Mahatma made a blatant statement that “ Sitaramiahs defeat is my defeat” which brought in a situation where Mr.Subhash Chandra Bose had to resign, as Mahatma who was very popular had polarised the congress with his followers like  Pandit Nehru who is  even today itermed as Mahatma’s successor. It  is because of Gandhiji  persistence  Pandit Nehru  became the first Prime Minister of India and rest of the succession is the by product of this tragic episode.

While we could see Indira Gandhi with Prime Minister Nehru during his soujourn abroad as Prime Minister we really can fault Nehru of promoting  Mrs Indira Gandhi to take over from him.  It was people like  Kama raj in 1967  who put the rule books to winds and paved her way to the Top Indian Job as Prime Minister ignoring the popular leader like Moraji Desai.This lead  for dynastic successions  thereafter, thus reversing  the  tenets to democratic  approach to Governance.

We have  Rahul as well ,in the line of succession waiting for his time ,to stake his claim for Premier ship of India, the leadership craved  congress ,will  ready accept even his wife or his son in future as well thus making the election slogan of the 1980’s true which was “AFTER INDIRA  IT WILL BE SANJAY, THEN RAJEEV, RAHUL AND THEN IT WILL BE POSTERITY.

During Indira Gandhi’s period when Mr.Rajeev Gandhi dated  Sonia it was his personal affair, but today congressmen has made her the president of Congress. They were wanting her to adron the chair of premiership of India , it is because of the factured  Electoral verdict she gave up in favour of Mr.Manmohan Singh. To be fair to Mrs.Soniaji  it was a sacrifice and let us give her the credit. Our late leader  Rajeev Gandhi  was also not interested in politics as such let us consider  the entry of the Itialian  Sonia  co-incidence.  Todays we are told that Mr.Rahul is  having a affair with a Spanish Girl who is a faceless  character as far as todays politics but what about tomorrow will our children be asked to accept the face less lady as our leader by the future Congress leaders which will put to shame  120 crore people of India to shame as we are not able to churn out one single individual to rule us. The fault does’nt lie with either  Mr.Rajeev or Mr.Rahul and according to me  both of them are innocent,  the cardinal of Congress or the Kitchen cabinet who is soley responsible for such sycophantic  approach to embrace Gandhi house hold. While there is no question about how competent  they were,  in fact I would regard Mrs. Indira Gandhi as one of the greatest leaders of the free India and I would rate her above Pandit  Nehru and it is only the way there were put into the top jobs at is questionable.

while we haven’t come across such practices in other National parties like Left, & BJP  so far. The regional player like  RJD,TDP,DMK,AIDMK,BJD,JD and samajwadi parties  are few glowing examples of Blue line culture.  Everybody Leader has their heir apparent to take over from them when they retire.

In Tamil nadu  the DMK has gone to such an extent that Dr.Karunanidhi  decided which son will be the next Cheif Minister and which one will be the Central Minister. His daughter will be Rajya Sabha M.P, it looks like  the entire State of Tamilnadu is being distributed to his family. He reminds me of our Joint family patriarch approach to  ancestral property and as a Kharta of the family, he has done his part to distribute Tamil nadu amongst his clan.

The second leading party in Tamil nadu AiADMK  is no different, the Late  M.G Ramachandran was succeeded by his wife Janki Ramachandran and thereon,  his one time favourite screen pair,  Ms. Jayalalitha also claimed his legacy and ruled the State.

In Karnataka the dynastic  politics  was initiated by Mr.Deva  Gowda the former Prime Minister of India, this willy politician wanted his son Mr. Kumaraswany to become the cheif  minister and he even paved way for his ascension by  asking  his son to join hands with BJP who he terms “Communal”.  Even after this episode he wanted  the people  of Karnatakato believe   his party  is secular and he is the champion of the minority. The moment Mr.Kumaraswamy’s terms of 20 months concluded he  ensured  BJP  did not get the chance to rule for the remaining 20 months.While he had  said he could not do a thing when Kumaraswamy took away the legislators, but when it came for his son to hand over the Mantle to Mr.Yeddurappa of BJP he was in total control over his son and the party. This led to the dissolution of the Assembly with more than 20 months to go and there by causing a loss to the exchequer..

In Andhra it was the Son-in –law Mr.Chandra babu Naidu who was the strategist behind emergence of TDP which encased upon the face value of legendary actor N.T.Ramaroa, ensured the very persona who is  the cause of TDP  to come to power was thrown out and ascended the throne of Andhra Pradesh.

The Indian political scene is incomplete without the mention of Mr.Lalu Prasad Yadav who rose to stardom through  the student route during the emergency days after he was  indicted on the fodder scam,he ensured his otherwise reculant house wife  Mrs.Rabri Devi succeeded  him. The people of Bihar had to accept this housewife as their Cheif Minister till the next elections.

 The  Indian political parties and its leaders has made commendable effort to erode and efface the tenets of democratic governance and the casuality is the democracy itself. This has lead to the paradigm shift in people perceptions of democracy and this perspective value is the reason for low voting averages .Over a period of time this degeneration will lead to total collapse of this form of governance and people will definitely want a chance and the change must be for better. For  the moment  the Indian Political Establishment  has put our democracy into a comatose slumb  and if corrective  actions are not taken now, it will go into a coma and we will not be able to revive it and it  is better that we act now. We need to relook into our Constitution and enhance the scope of Riight to recall the leader under representation of People act and might it more rigid which will ensure that the elected representative behave  themselves.

However cynical we are about our political parties yet we as people of this country, have a huge responsibility, to reverse this de-generationg by throwing out people and parties by using our fundamental right to vote. This will ensure proper  people with clear views comes into politics. Hence we should not allow the politician to bring in the blue line approach and if anybody tries we should make it loud and clear that  this is democracy  & ‘WE WILL NOT ACCEPT THE BLUE LINE APPROACH” ANY MORE.

HERE THESE WORDS FROM LORD KRISHNA  I FEEL IS APT.

“KARMA, DHARMA, SWDHARMA AND YAGNA KARMA ARE VARIOUS NAUSIANCES OF WORK,

KARMA IS INDIVIDUAL WORK, DHARMA IS GROUP ORIENTED WORK, SWADHARMA IS GROUP ORIENTED INDIVIDUAL WORK AND YAGNA KARMA IS ‘EGOLESS, SELFLESS GROUP ORIENTED WORK.

BHAGAVAT GITA  PREDICTS PREDICTS PEACE, PROSPERITY WHEN SOCIETY ENGAGES IN YAGNA KARMA.”

All these are embedded in the psyche of all of us, all that we need to do is to refresh them and remploy them and communicate a healthy work culture and values.

RAMESH.V.NAIVARUNI

16^TH FEB 2011