The heading " Pm's Authority" itself is not pleasing for a collision Government. Where is the question of authority? in a collision govt:. Congress has been ruling this country as a single party with it's own will and authority. Now the time is changed. Pm should be a leader of a team of ministers only. In collision govt. the team only should be authorised to take a decision. Manmohan singh is a suitable leader for a collision govt. The question of disinvestment of a public sector for economic reform should be given a deep thinking for a developing country like India. The cabinet ministers and economic advisors should take a decision. How ever the employees of a publicc sector deciding about the disinvestment should not be encouraged. It will curtail the economic development of a country in long run.
Sitting at Delhi, Sheela Bhat thinks she can write any stupid thing. The suthor doesnt seem to have understand any thing on the ground realities. 1) 30,000 employees are on the road 2) The entire south is going on dark due to power cut. 3) DMK is running a minority government 4) The arrogant Jaya as usual is trying to fish in the troubled water.
The article only talk about the ego clash between FM and CM. Actually there is no such thing. Even the FM had made it clear that he has no plans to aspire for CM. Moreover, The congress in TN has died 40 years back and it can never aspire for power in TN atleast for the next 60 years. May be, they can celebrate 100 years without power in 2067.
My requst is please dont publish this kind of stupid articles, which will never add any value for rediff. The coalition politics requires full of compromises and Dr Singh is trying to balance the situation. One more thing, the author should understand is that Dr is doing a fine job in the given circumstances and Sonia is fully backing him. Please note Dr Singh will be on the chair only as long as Sonia wants and as everyone knows, Dr Singh is not a run of the mill politician.
Once again Dr.Manmohan singh has proved himself that he is the weekest PM India ever had. Tomorrow DMK may ask PM to make chennai as capital of India and Tamil as the national language. Who knows, Dr.Singh may oblige for this too!!!!!
Simple Economics. The ordinary person is deeply concerned with the security of his/her employment, and about receiving adequate and timely remuneration. This is why the ordinary person prefers Government Employment in our Nation. If there is a public sector enterprise that is running well, why does the Government wish to tamper with it? Disinvestment would be better targeted by making a list of Industries and Corporations that are not running well. There are plenty of those. Why must we sell the Household silver when all that is required is to get rid of the trash?
If prime minister has weakened due to the shelving of disinvestment announcement of NLF and lack of support from Sonia Gandhi, it is mearly due to his and Mr. Chidambarm's intentional planning to sideline the UPA-Left common minimum programme. The CMP clealy states that, the coalation will not disinvest profit making PSU's. Its very clear that Mr. Chidambaram neither has any interest in the selling off of loss making ones nor re-structuring it. But he is interested in weakning the backbone of national economy by selling good profit making and stratagically important industrial establishments like BHEL, NFL, Nalco or national oil companies
Further, it would be interesting to have a study about the previously disinvested PSU's (both, profit making and loss making)- what benefit it made to the employees, huge land and other properties, etc.
Ever since the formation of the UPA government at the centre, Congress party has been capitulating to the blackmails of Karunanidhi&Co. Karunanidhi got the maximum number of minesterial berths and plum ones at that,for his kith and kin, even at the expense of his allies from the state.
It is not that the Central Govt. will fall overnight if Manmohan Singh did not acquiesce to the demands of the DMK. In fact DMK Govt. in Tamil Nadu itself depends on the Congress for its survival.
Sonia Gandhi should stop stooping to such frequent threats and blackmail and support her Prime Minister, or else Manmohan Singh should quit rather than face such ignominies.
What a shame...??? A minister can make PM to do whatever he wants on the counts of votes... but lakhs of people of this country cud not convince him to withdraw the reservation system... This is a country "for the people, by the people, of the people" or a country "for the politicians, by the politicians, of the politicians"????
Mr.PM as an economist and a great thinker nobody expected that you wud b just a puppet in the hands of these politicians. Leave this party and go back to your social reforms acts... congress is not going to make any gud to anybody.. and it has already ruined u'r image.
