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| Vendatta is part of political culture in India | | | NIRBHAY JAMMUAL
There is nothing unusual or unprecedented in what Mayawati has done to the congress dream project of Rs.1685.29 crore rail coach factory in Rae Bareli. In the name of farmers' resentment she decided to cancel the land allotment. She has said that her decision to cancel the land allotment was to stem the trouble which was brewing in the shape of serious agitation being launched by those whose land had been acquired for the project. See the height of Mawayati's fallacy. Local people of the villages where the proposed project was to come up said publicly that they had not opposed the project. They said that they had hoped the problem of unemployment in the area would be resolved when the work on the project was started. Who is right?Mayawati or the people.Possibly the former is definitely wrong as she had asked the District Magistrate to submit a report in which the Government was to be informed about the agitation. She hit back to see her dream of becoming the Prime Minister fulfilled. It was under the instructions of Mayawati that about 190 hectares of land had been allotted to the Ministry of Railways on May 19,2008.
The Congress is not prepared to take lying down.It raised its head in Gujarat where it blamed the Chief Minister, Narender Modi, for having sold valuable land for a song to Ratan Tata who had decided to set up his small car project in Gujarat after he was forced to abandon the poject in Singur in West Bengal.The Gujarat PCC President has said that the land given to the Tatas valued over Rs.1000 crores but Modi had charged only Rs.50 to Rs.100 crores.The Congress Chief had not taken into account the utility of the project which could resolve unemployment and help the state's economy.Even if he is right the full amount charged from the Tatas could have been a onetime benefit while the project was going to be a longtime gain.Why to blame the Congress in Gujarat or Mayawati in UP.Political vendetta has become part of the Indian democracy.There are many states where the policies and decisions of one Government have been either undone or drastically altered.At times chief ministers have settled personal scores with their predecessors.Take the instance of Punjab.What Prakash Singh Badal had done during his previous regime had been undone by his successor,Capt. Amrinder Singh.What the captain had done was being either modified or undone by Prakash Singh Badal.Not only this the Captain is facing charges of corruption for which Badal's men had to dig files.
In Haryana the then Chief Minister,Bansi Lal, had created one problem or the other for his arch political rival Devi Lal.And when Devi Lal became the Chief Minister he saw to it that Bansi Lal was involved in a case.He succeeded and Bansi Lal was arrested taken to the police station in hand cuffs.Bihar Chief Minister,Nitish Kumar,is busy in finding skeletons in the cupboard of Lalu Prasad Yadav.When Mufti Mohd.Sayeed took over as Chief Minister he reversed some of the decisions of Farooq Abdullah.The Mufti ended the National Conference control on Auqaf Trust and the management of the Sheri Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences at Soura in Srinagar.And if Farooq regains power he would first of all get a piece of legislation enacted for regaining control of both the trusts for the National Conference.When Farooq Abdullah became the Chief Minister in 1987 he reversed the then Governor Jagmohan's decision on banning private practice of Government doctors.Farooq even offered reinstatement of those doctors he had sought premature retirement while protesting against the ban on private practice.
The only ray of hope has been the way the UPA Government did not undo or alter the decision taken by the NDA Government on peace initiative and confidence building measures with Pakistan.In fact the Congress led UPA Government strengthened these initiatives.So do not blame Farooq Abdullah,or Mufti Sayeed,or Mayawati or Badal.Whatever they have done or were doing or would do is part of the political culture. |
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