The right to information bill is now enacted into law by the UPA government.
Opaque administration and thwarting the right to information has been standard practice so far. One cannot expect to fight corruption while doing everything possible to keep the public in the dark on the true state of affairs. Till then fight against corruption is more of rhetoric and the seriousness of the earlier governments including Congress in fighting corruption is well known.
The Government despite cynical opposition of the patents law by the BJP (which was most of the time boycotting parliament rather on fivolous reasons rather than playing the role of the opposition ) and the lifting of FDI limits in civil aviation despite resistance from the left has shown its commitment to go by what is right for the country.
The recently announced Bharat Nirman (to build infrastructure and to carry potable water to all villages by 2009) does not in the least suggest an ineffective UPA government.
The recent efforts as part of the G-4 to gain representation to the UNSC and the innovative moves by Mani Shankar Aiyar to deal with the growing energy needs (as petroleum minister) have been noteworthy
RE:Positive achievements
by Gauzbig on May 29, 2005 10:45 AM Permalink
HK: Firstly, on the claim of misuse of Governors, the Governor did the right thing in Goa, Jharkhand and Bihar.If you hold a contrary view show me where the UPA has misused the office of governor. Since you want my response here are Srinivas's points and my response:
c)our PM tries to make peace with the opposition his own party stops him and then they say the opposition should apologise, what a way to deal with opposition
Comment:government is not responsible for petulant opposition behaviour.
d.) Lalu's, the jewel crown, antics are too well known. Comment: Be specific.Dont know what is being referred to.
e.) Musharaf did NOT acknowledge on anything and still talks tough,. Musharraf had much high regard to vajiapee. Musharraf did talk the language of terrirism under NDA rule too!
Comment: Whats the point being made ? Refute my comments in response to Jagga
f.) You talk of RSS, the communists are running havoc and if i show you factual areas where they have suppressed facts you will be shcoked
Comment: Be specific.
g.) Repeal of POTA is a shame Comment: Demeaning to comment
h & i) Minorityism etc Comment:False allegation no need to comment
RE:Positive achievements
by Gauzbig on May 29, 2005 11:29 AM Permalink
Kaushik Das:
You say that India is in line for a UN position because it is a nuclear power.
Firstly, make no mistake about it. India went nuclear in the mid seventies under Indira Gandhi.
It was already a nuclear power when the rag-tag NDA coalition came to power. Incidentally, the Defence Minister of the supra-nationalist NDA opposed the nuclear implosion in the seventies as a fraud on the poor in India!
THE NDA IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR INDIA BECOMING A NUCLEAR STATE. THIER SOLE ACHIEVEMENT IS GOADING PAKISTAN INTO OVERT NUCLEAR CAPABILITY.
Incidentally if possessing nuclear capabilities is the sole criteria for UN permanent membership then countries like Japan (which is deadly opposed to nuclear proliferation) and Germany will have no chance in hell, how come they are in the running without nuclear weapons ??
Also by that twisted logic that nuclear capabilities drive UN security council membership Pakistan should also be in the reckoning ? Huh ?!? Am I missing something?
RE:Positive achievements
by HK on May 27, 2005 07:58 AM Permalink
Gauzbig
u didnt reply to the point c,d,e,f,g,h and i part of srinivas' points.
about ur explanation of point "a". If the NDA did something, the UPA gets the right to do the similar. So how does it make the UPA better than the NDA ?
RE:Positive achievements
by Kaushik Das on May 27, 2005 12:53 PM Permalink
What about the red-tape? who introduced that? You are arguing as if red-tape was a part of NDA's agenda and congress is the one reversing that. Get your facts correct and base your opinions on them. India has become a contender for security council simply because it became a nuclear power under the NDA. What exactly has MS aiyar done so great? By this time, we should have been researching solar energy and other renewable forms of energy. What has congress done so many years? Buy oil from the terrorist saudis?
UPA government of Mamohan Singh
by Gauzbig on May 25, 2005 08:57 AM Permalink
Srinivas, to comment on the first two points you raised.
a) You accuse the UPA of using the governors:Without getting into what the NDA attempted to achieve through the governor(before they were slowed down by the President and rapped on the knuckles by Parliament) what did you expect the governor to do in GOA ? Tolerate physical eviction of a legislator who was sitting quietly in his seat (all this beamed on television) and not allowing him to exercise his vote on a confidence motion and thereby conjuring a sham 'victory' for the Parikkar government? Tolerate horse trading and splitting of parties in Bihar and Jharkhand?
b) Bharat Nirman is way beyond what the NDA could remotely conceptualise. So, claiming credit for Bharat Nirman and suggesting it is one of the NDA projects with another name is baseless. Show we where the NDA, and in which project and by what name the NDA had covered all the proposals that are embodied in the Bharat Nirman proposal. Claiming otherwise is disingenous and even the NDA has been unwilling to go to the extent of staging a political heist (and appropriating Bharat Nirman as its own.
RE:Positive achievements - Gauzbig
by Srinivas on May 24, 2005 05:55 PM Permalink
Gauzbig, we also know how the UPA a.) used governors and tried to ensure no opposition government is formed anywhere b.) Bharat Nirman: changing a name does not mean what NDA started can be said to be an idea of UPA. For your info GOlden Quadrilateral has more or less come to a standstill - this is shocking c.) our PM tries to make peace with the opposition his own party stops him and then they say the opposition should apologise, what a way to deal with opposition d.) Lalu's, the jewel crown, antics are too well known e.) Musharaf did NOT acknowledge on anything and still talks tough,. Musharraf had much high regard to vajiapee. Musharraf did talk the language of terrirism under NDA rule too! f.) You talk of RSS, the communists are running havoc and if i show you factual areas where they have suppressed facts you will be shcoked g.) Repeal of POTA is a shame h.) Minorityism is what UPA does and that is the secula nature - Paswan wants a muslim CM and hence is secula. BJP has more muslim MLAs but they are communcal i.) Look at the sychophancy that is rampant in congress any person with self-esteem would be ashamed
RE:Positive achievements
by Kaushik Das on May 27, 2005 12:59 PM Permalink
That chap was not sitting quietly in government. Also, I am from Bihar. Want to know what state it is in and how much could have been avoided if NDA had actually succeeded in evicting Laloo at that time itself. Instead, the present government, then in opposition, supported and continues to support his misrule in Bihar. Don't compare that with Goa or Jharkhand. Well, the NDA was ACTUALLY trying to construct INDIA, not another saudi arabia/pakistan as you would want. Look at the achievments in the communications sector. Look at finance, business, FDI, the comfort that foreign companies showed in doing business in India in spite of having opposing factions in its hold (like mayawati, mamta, etc.).
