Strong Measures Needed

Whenever strong measures by our armed forces are suggested by our opposition parties ----or any citizen’s forum or an individual--against terror-outfits or their support actors from across the border, immediately a grave warning comes from our internal sources advising us against any such action.  Same thing happened when I suggested that if our military is given a free hand, without any political interference, our forces will surely act positively and ensure that there is no border infiltration which will effectively reduce the support base of the indigenous terror outfits.  One reader went to the extent of stating that if we act against Pak.interests, even US and China will come to Pak’s rescue because of its strategic importance and hence we cannot act “hot-headed”.

 Let me analyze this point carefully.

1]. Firstly I have only suggested that we act firmly with infiltrators –our border level aggressors- and against our indigenous terror outfits who receive active support from anti-national elements. Cross border shelling and firings are merely a cover to enable trained anti-national elements to infiltrate across the national border and hence treating infiltrators as terrorist-traitors and using our military might without restriction against them can never be equated to aggression against Pakistan.  We are only solving our internal problem by eliminating infiltrators as they enter our territory.  Military can have a free hand in curbing these menaces.

2] Secondly china did not interfere to help Pakistan when US raided inside their territory repeatedly since they knew US was not attacking Pakistan. They knew that US just directed their might against their known enemies holed up inside Pakistan.

3] Thirdly When China acted firmly against “demonstrators in favor of democracy” within their territory, neither US nor India--greatest democracies in the world--raised any objections but treated it as their internal matter.

In the same way neither US nor China will interfere if we act firmly in our national interest against indigenous terror outfits who receive assistance from abroad.  Even Pakistan will not dare to interfere in this act of ours overtly. Once infiltrators are killed while in the process of crossing the border surreptitiously, Pakistan may just disown them. 

 4] Fourthly India’s threat is actually internal and not external. Presence of innumerable number of elected representatives with dubious criminal records is a major stumbling block for our government to act tough against terror outfits, anti-nationals and corrupt elements.  No external force will ever interfere in our operation to neutralize these anti-socials overtly since we are only solving our internal problem.  All that is required is just a strong will to protect our national interests at all costs.  We need men of steel at the helm of affairs willing to sacrifice their personal self-interests.  The present set of rulers either in the centre or their supporting partners in states do not have these qualities. Only leaders with no strong family attachments can fit the bill under present conditions. Choose one such leader and our nation can be deemed to be in safe hands.

Capping the number of LPG cylinders per family

           Government should study the following points before deciding on giving additional LPG cylinders
            per family in the congress ruled states alone. The differential treatment to some states is bound to
            create tricky situations:


     1)     Is it fair to cap the number of subsidized LPG cylinders per family, higher in Congress ruled  states    
            alone? Will Congress Party bear the additional costs involved from its own party funds?

2)      What happens if the Congress Government decides to give extra 50% cash benefit on all “am aadmi” schemes for states ruled by their party only? Like in LPG case.

3)      When there are plans to directly transfer subsidy amounts to the beneficiaries’ bank accounts under “Aadhar” scheme, will giving additional cash benefits to the people belonging to select states be legally tenable?

4)      Such discriminative policies will only further divide the already fragmented society. Congress must be forced to implement uniform subsidy scheme for all states. 

5)  Or they can scrap subsidy altogether.

6)      With Lok Sabha elections not far away Congress’ efforts only seem to be aimed at retaining power at least in the states they rule. This will only highlight their defeatist mentality even before the elections

The recent trouble between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu over cauvery waters dispute is worrying. Recently I casually commented that it is unfair for the river originating state to simply store water when the tail-end state  is suffering from lack of sufficient water for their crops. Immediately a few drastically unfavourable comments appeared connecting me to various organisations. This is the situation. Everything is politics here. More disturbing is the two faces on display of the national parties. The politicians of the same national parties  are taking diametrically opposing stand on this cauvery water issue depending which state they belong to. How can they call themselves National Parties when they cannot take a unified stand based on national perspective and unity?  The BJP or the Congress are as chauvinistic as any state/local outfit. Iam beginning to wonder whether our great leaders of the past have committed a blunder, although in good faith, in creating states on linguistic lines. They probably would never have, in their wildest dreams, anticipated emergence of such political leaders with total lack of national perspective on any problem. Politicians of national parties, particularly, should be encouraged by their national leaders to take a unified stand on matters of inter-state disputes. Only then the influence of regional and local chauvinistic outfits can be effectively curtailed. Our so-called national parties are solely responsible for the growth of  regional/state/local level political parties. The top level leaders of national parties seem to have lost control over their state units and as such state units take entirely opposing stands on very critical matters of national importance. Very unfortunate.