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.