Pkl. Afternoon, 3.30pm,Sunday , 8th june ,2008 I am shocked to hear the gruesome killing of Mehta who was on social audit of NREGA in Jharkhand area ,lately.His father sri Jagdish Mehta alleges his son was in possession of a CD that disclosed the corruption and connivance of local politkos and Mafia in distribution of NREGA Funds.It is no News, We have been inured to all this over decades, as when late Rajiv spilled the administrative beans that more than 80%of Development funds do not reach planned targets among developing fields. How the Panchayati Raj or MLA Raj politikos and local gadflies could make it any different ,now? As far as Dyarchy despite the formidable academic credentials of Sr. manmohansingh he has hardly any grip of crises whether as a finance Minister under Narshingha Rao's Gov. vide Harshad Mehta's Scams or other infamies that we have faced under his boss Soniji. But the crises that we face is that democracy has given too much to parochial identity politics and global terrorism including OPEC's Oil terrorism on the importers of crude. we need committed governance , and iron will that the UPA leadership of Either Soniaji or PM lacks completely . It is a coalition of opprtunists,with all the vices of its constituents and strengths of none of its partners. D. Goel
