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White & Black Paper(s) have taken Voters for a Ride

Published on 06 March 2024
(Cover Page of a Chargesheet by Jan Sangh, BJP's precursor)
 
Modi Government’s White Paper on UPA rule (2004-2014) & Congress’ counter Black Paper on governance (2014-2024) have enriched murky politics.
Both the documents mark a new high in political cacophony. Black-out of vital facts are a common feature of both the papers.  
Both papers have failed to connect each Union Budget with the next one to make sense of missed targets & achievements, unfulfilled or partly honoured promises.
Both papers have failed to cite crucial instances to lend credence to their respective contentions. Both have thus left voters groping in the dark about the truth on different shades of governance during the last 20 years.  
Consider first the White Paper. It has a familiar ring of BJP recalling Congress’ alleged misdeeds whenever it faces prickly questions on governance deficit. 
The White Paper makes one nostalgic about the BJP’s chargesheet on Congress-led UPA dated 4th April 2014. It had helped BJP sweep the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.
The Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, knows the crucial importance of the chargesheet as she was one of the six members of BJP committee that prepared it.
An average citizen thus expected the Government to connect the White Paper with BJP’s 2014 chargesheet titled ‘A Dark Decade in Governance’. Mute voter also expected the Government to explain the speed and scale of the delay in acting on BJP’s eight-page chargesheet captioned ‘Damad Shree - The Vadra Get-Rich Quick Model’. 

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Governors as Vikas Ke Rajdoot - Walk the Talk

Published on 08 January 2024
(Image Courtesy: rajbhavankolkata.gov.in)
 
THE Supreme Court's recent, critical observations on the issue of Governors not giving assent to bills passed & re-passed in some cases by State Assemblies are shocking.
In its verdict dated 10th November 2023 in Punjab versus Governor's office,the Supreme Court concluded:"there is no valid constitutional basis (for the Governor) to cast doubt on the validity of the session of the Vidhan Sabha which was held on 19 June 2023, 20 June 2023 and 20 October 2023. Any attempt to cast doubt on the session of the legislature would be replete with grave perils to democracy."
It stated:"the Governor of Punjab must now proceed to take a decision on the Bills which have been submitted for assent on the basis that the sitting of the House which was conducted on 19 June 2023, 20 June 2023 and 20 October 2023 was constitutionally valid."
The seven bills, which the Governor implicitly sought to nullify by dubbing the assembly sessions as patently illegal, included The Punjab Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management (Amendment) Bill, 2023; The Punjab Goods and Services Tax (Amendment) Bill, 2023; and The Indian Stamp (Punjab Amendment) Bill, 2023.
This & apex court's alarming observations in two other similar cases reflects the persistence of a totally avoidable problem for about 60 years. The underlying causes for this issue are two.

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Build Amrit Kaal Bharat With Latest Quality Data

Published on 01 November 2023
(Image Courtesy: taxindiaonline.com)
 
The I.N.D.I.A.-BJP cacophony over the demand for caste census has deflected attention from core issues. The foremost is the impact of unprecedented delay in the launch of Population Census 2021, thereby blurring Amrit Kaal vision.
The findings of such decennial census have served as the primary building block for future socio-political-economic development of the nation since first national census in 1881. Census 2021 is, however, a special one and hence more important for attaining Amrit Kaal. 
Other vital missing bricks or blocks in the foundation for Amrit Kaal Bharat/New India would figure during the course of this column.
The 2021 census would now be conducted after the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. The delay’s effect would be colossal if assessed against the invaluable advantages reaped by Modi Government from the 2011 census. It, for instance, enabled the Government to map 22 welfare schemes including free LPG connection scheme for the poor named Ujjwala Yojana.
As put by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, “Data is new gold.” He stated this at #HowdyModi event at Houston, Texas on 22nd September 2019. Applying this quote to census data, one can say that data generated and analysed from delayed, digital census would be diamond-studded 24-carat gold. 
Describing census 2021 as “Rashtriya Yagya” at an event held during September 2019, the Union Minister for Home Affairs, Amit Shah stated: “this exercise would lead to development in the Nation for next many decades to come and bring smiles to the people of the country.”

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An Urgent need to Revive Consensus Politics

Published on 11 August 2023

(Image Courtesy: taxindiaonline.com)

India is going through an unprecedented, internal war over I.N.D.I.A. (Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance). I.N.D.I.A. is much more than the name for the 26-parties Opposition Alliance formed to contest 2024 Lok Sabha elections. It represents the Opposition’s Idea of India (IoI).
The Opposition has pitted its IoI against BJP’s IoI. The bitter political war over different perceptions of I.N.D.I.A. has inflicted collateral damage to the Constitution-enshrined name for the country.
The whole world is thus naturally looking at India with bewilderment and shock. There is no parallel in the world where dominant leaders in a country suddenly developed pangs of guilt over its very identity as colonial baggage.
Assam Chief Minister and PM’s key lieutenant, Himanta Biswa Sarma, was the first BJP stalwart to flag name ‘India’ as a colonial legacy.  Immediately after I.N.D.I.A. hogged limelight on its launch on 18th July 2023, Mr Sarma tweeted: “Our civilisational conflict is pivoted around India and Bharat. The British named our country as India. We must strive to free ourselves from colonial legacies. Our forefathers fought for Bharat, and we will continue to work for Bharat.” (See inset on Renaming India at end of the column.)
A few hours before unveiling of I.N.D.I.A., Prime Minister Narendra Modi dubbed the Opposition’s meeting at Bengaluru as a gathering to promote corruption.
Mr. Modi resurrected Vajpayee-era National Democratic Alliance (NDA) with a new spin: “NDA has always believed in the ‘Coalition of Contributions’ unlike the Congress-led ‘Coalition of Compulsions’.”

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