Friday, February 29, 2008

Congress, India, Election and Budget

In 1947, India was brought under a worser rule in the name of transferring the beautiful land into an independent country from a British colony. Ever since Jawaharlal Nehru sworn in as the Prime Minister of India and for a 50+ year span from then, Indian National Congress, now termed Congress (I) has been ruining the country inventing and introducing problems from nowhere. At the end of 50 years, American dollar's value went up to 45 rupees per $ from a point where INR had a better value than US $. A whole lot of the nation's unsolved problems could be attributed to Congress, its corrupt ministries, incapable leaders, senior citizens who hardly know anything but stage speaking in favor of an Italian lady and the legal heir system they introduced in raising to power.

Today, the finance minister of India brings in a budget that reduces the nett revenue of the Government just to make sure that the party performs better in the elections... If this attitude is continued, I would never think India can report a profit/surplus budget. The worst form of this betrayal comes in the form of waivers. I really couldn't comprehend the concept of waivers till date. Let us take the farmers loan waiver as an example. I completely understand that Agriculture is dependent on a lot of natural factors and there is a good possibility that a poor farmer suffers in poverty after all the hard work. But when the Government offers a loan to improve their status, shouldn't they take any measures to help the farmer improve the yield? That'd never happen... The loans would pile up. The farmers would end up in a loss and finally they'll waive all the loans just to please them and get their votes. A country that pioneered in arts, science, maths, medicine and so many other fields is now believing that all the valuable contributions to these fields came in from the west and we crave to live our lives like the Westerners. But in the name of corruption, mismanagement, vote bank politics, poor planning and incapable politicians all we are achieving is a bigger and bigger hole in an average Indian's dream to live in a country that he could proudly and comfortably be a part of!

4 comments:

Lakshminarayanan S said...

Completely agree with you. But we didn't have better alternatives in the past, thats true. Even now, BJP just performs a bit better than Congress but again they are also not corruption free. A party floated by ex-IITians called 'Lok Paritran' gave me some trust in Indian politics...but again, after the last election they seem to have taken an hibernate...

Have a look at my views on the budget:
My take on the Union Budget 2008-09

Agni said...

I too agree that BJP isn't too fancy a party! Better than Congress for sure but not the best. People like Modi should bring up the party! Let's hope and pray for it!

'Lok Paritran' to me is a crap... Will write on it pretty soon! Tell me ur comments then...

Eswar said...

yelei yennada polanthu katra!!!!!!!!!!

Agni said...

@Ishwar

Aren't u in favor of my thoughts? :)