Mr. Chatterjee is an honest man and we all should accept him so. He is only repaying the MADAM and MMS for the support he received from them during the Office-for-Profit episode.
UPA will crash tomorrow after trust vote...MArxists are invincible...we will kick anybody out if they move against our decisios..be its somanth or jyothibasu..
RE:We hail Chatterjee's decision
by Shyam on Jul 22, 2008 10:01 AM Permalink
You are wrong. The post of Speaker is always held by the Ruling party (coalition). CPM being an ally was not willing to take ministerial post in the Cabinet, so Somnath was made Speaker of Lok Sabha. Now that the Left has left the Government, it is his moral duty to leave the post he got when his party was part of the UPA. Sticking to seat shows his greed for position.
RE:We hail Chatterjee's decision
by Sunita Nair on Jul 22, 2008 08:58 AM Permalink
Who has made him speaker? Without left support , he would have never become speaker. Now that ther are news, he will resign on Aug12th after his forign visit. Is it fair? Please think seperately , not involving the trust vote reason/session.
RE:We hail Chatterjee's decision
by Rahul on Jul 22, 2008 09:05 AM Permalink
Speaker is ofcourse not above the politics. He is an elected CPM MP and once the CPM withdraw their support , he should have left immediately. This incident clearly indictes that all polititians are alike...No one is saint.
RE:We hail Chatterjee's decision
by viswanatha seshadri on Jul 22, 2008 09:50 AM Permalink
Rahul, you are wrong. Speaker, once elected, from any party, has to remain above party politics, after that, for the sake of the parlianment and the country. Marxists have proposed somnath for speaker and others accepted him, only bec he was seen more a nationalist than just a communist. Those who serve as speaker in reputable ways should aspire for posts of VP, Pres. Not for return to party politics. Country should establish sound traditions, in these matters.
RE:We hail Chatterjee's decision
by santosh krsna on Jul 22, 2008 10:13 AM Permalink
CPM supported him becoz he was seen as strict on BJP. Now it boomeranged on CPM. Good show.
RE:We hail Chatterjee's decision
by S R Ganguli on Jul 22, 2008 09:06 AM Permalink
The mob gave Caear a ladder to climb up. After he had climbed it up he never looked back upon the mob.
RE:We hail Chatterjee's decision
by hari ray on Jul 22, 2008 09:39 AM Permalink
circuit-e notun bawa! naki jali alias-o palte nile?! jai hoke, thik-i likhecho.
RE:We hail Chatterjee's decision
by vivek anand palanisamy on Jul 22, 2008 09:38 AM Permalink
som nath is a power hungry politician , he has not only defied his party but also the nation and his pseudo reputation , he is unfit to continue in politics, his act is a shameful
RE:We hail Chatterjee's decision
by santosh krsna on Jul 22, 2008 10:16 AM Permalink
He wouldn't have benn there without CPM. Who is bigger? Is it CPM or some small time idiot called Chomnathdaaaaaaaaaaaaaa?
With the rise of the UNPA, LK Advanis;s Prime Ministerial bid has nose dived. BJP can by themselves hope to regain the Center without allies. The needed allies in Andhra Pradesh, UP, NE, West Bengal, Assam etc. All those parties which BJP were eyeing like TRS, TDP, TC, BSP, NC have joined the 3rd Front.
As a result a trickle of defections from BJP-NDA is nowing threatening to turn to a flood.
However, a UPA win will burst the UNPA bubble as the reward for all Mayawati's poaching of MPs will be that she will be tried for corruption. Once UNPA disintegrates, these parties will flock back to either the NDA or UPA.
Knickerwallahs are known for their love of Goebbelian communications techniques. Advani in his speech against the motion accused Nehru wanting to sign the NPT. Pranab Murkherjee literally caught him with his pants down. He retorted that how Nehru who died in 1962 could sign a NPT which came into force only in the 70s?
Apart from this, Advani's speech was a damn squib.
i dont know why everyone is focused on indo - us deal. US made it clear that it wont happen unless we sign with IAEA.IAEA is the nuclear watch dog of UNITED NATIONS (UN).safeguard is authorised to inspect any country who violate NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION TREATY which was signed by all couuntries except india,pakistan and israel,and these 3 countries posess nuclear weapons.Now when we go and sign with IAEA,which comes under npt treaty,its sure going to be bad for india.the IAEA safeguard agreement is around 24 pages and npt is just 5 page document.Now the safeguard agreement is much more complicated than for npt signatories.why is the government very keen to sell india for some money????
RE:what a pathetic time for government!!!
by Harjit khurana on Jul 22, 2008 08:51 AM Permalink
check ur facts.. NPT does not fall under the IAEA. The Indo-US nuclear deal is outside the purview and stands as an exception to the NPT. we need not sign the NPT.
RE:what a pathetic time for government!!!
by S R Ganguli on Jul 22, 2008 09:11 AM Permalink
The Hyde Act 123 built into the Safeguards Agreement/N-Deal is an exception to India directly signing the NPT and CTBT. Please understand this. Also after IAEA governors accept the Safeguards Agreement India's reactors will be under their inspection purview
A speaker becomes apolitical after he assumes the chair. He has to become impartial. And, since we have taken our model of govt. from the westminster we aught to follow the british constitutional convention of speaker resigning from active politics once he steps down. He remains impartial and hence need not resign from his post under the present circumstances.
RE:Speaker need not resign
by S R Ganguli on Jul 22, 2008 09:16 AM Permalink
Did Chatterjee resign from his party after he became the Speaker. Please understand Indian constitution is a chimera. It says yes and at the same time No in relation to any articles therein. Gomang was CM yet he cast as an MP his vote in the Lok Sabha to vote out the Bajpayee govt. A CM and MP at the same time. Ha.
RE:Speaker need not resign
by dinyar on Jul 22, 2008 10:26 AM Permalink
The speaker votes along with his party but his chair is apolitical in nature and hence he need not resign.
RE:Speaker need not resign
by Shyam on Jul 22, 2008 10:04 AM Permalink
And to top it all, no action whatsoever for such big blunder on the democracy. Congress always played dirty politics. And now when in distress they are buying every possible MP by cash and carry method. Congress is a shame on our democracy.
whatever explanation the pm & his ministers give for the n-deal, to the common man the credibility of congress is lost. i had seen the debate in parliment yesterday and nobody from the ruling govt. explained why they went ahead with the n-deal without convincing the left parties and the nation. they should have gone for the japan meet only after getting the approval of the lok saba and the nation. since the congress party and its leaders are so arrogant that they went ahead. it is long time that the congress party behave like a national party instead of a family party. in today's voting, i am sure that the mps will ensure that the govt will not fall, otherwise the mps who have not completed 5 years will lose their benefits. since only 8 months have left nobody will be interested in sacrificing their pension and other benefits. after all it is common man's maoney why should the mps bother about it.yesterday i have seen one minister telling that they are giving petrol at rs.10/-, diesel at rs. 25/-, kerosene at rs.50/- and gas at rs.350/- loss to the public as if they are giving the subsidy from their pocket. this is wrong. the govt collects this money from the public by way of taxes and give subsidy. who asked them to do this.i once again appeal to the concerned that immediately all the political parties should be dissolved and only two/three parties should be allowed in india.
RE:credibility of congress is lost
by Krishnan Venkataraman on Jul 22, 2008 08:03 AM Permalink
Now a days MPs can get pension even if they attended the Parliament even for one day. The government has amended the rules accordingly already
ALTHOUGH ALL THE PARTY WANT THAT SPEAKER SHOULD BE FROM THEIR SIDE BUT THEY REFUSE TO APPRECIATE INDEPENDENT ACTION BY THE SPEAKER . CPM IS NO DIFFERNET. THEY SAY THAEY ARE DIFFERENT BUT IT IS NOT. THEY FOLLOW THOSE PRINCIPLE WHICH HAS FAILED EVERYWHERE INCLUDING IN THE COUNTRY OF ORIGIN. THEY SHOULD CHANGE THEMSELVES OR WISE THEY WILL BECOME MAN OF HISTORY
