Make no mistake - I am no fan of the CPIM nor of their rutty state level pseudo-politics. But this unique nonagenarian has proved again that he is a master class. You can not but admire the brilliance and firmness of his political brain. Probably we never had the best prime minister of our country that we could have had!
RE:nuclear deal and jyoti basu's comments
by pp R on Sep 21, 2007 07:01 PM Permalink
U are wrong , nabanita .. what jyoti basu is saying now is only to save face and retreat on the stand taken by his party regarding the nuclear deal .. every body in India wants development and even the bengalis have deserted CPIM on the nuclear issue .. so this is jyoti's face saving tactics .. regarding your comment that we never had best PM, I take it that U wanted Jyoti to be the PM of India .. we would have been doomed if Jyoti would have become the PM .. he has totally ruined West Bengal during his rule as the CM and he would have taken India back by another 30-40 years if he would have become the PM .. God save us all from the leftists who are not concerned about the growth and development of our country but just want to appease their Chinese masters ... shame on Karat/Yechuri and his other leftist friends .. what a pity that although India is a country of rich heritage, history and culture, these leftists don't have their own truly Indian Ideology and have to follow the communism and Marx & lenin and their chinese comrades for their day to day livelihood ...
RE:nuclear deal and jyoti basu's comments
by jay krishnan on Sep 22, 2007 02:35 AM Permalink
You guys need to learn a lot about the quality of life of people in WB and Kerala before you can shoot your mouth off most learnedly. Mere presence of huge industries with few people mainly foriegners making shit loads of money to take home to their families while using up the native state resources and increasing local pollution and thus effecting the health of local people and doling out a few coins to the native workers and keep them uninformed nor make them part of management or strategy or profit sharing, while the spoils are shared by a select few with industries mushrooming up all over with < 0.1% of population owning and profiting from these businesses and while the gap between haves and havenots is longer than the great wall of China and the impoverished keep getting poorer and the grass roots are neglected while it serves only a few backboneless software coolies, raising up real estate prices such that a decent house is beyond the reach of the common man or senselessly spend their western licked earned dollars thus raising the inflation on the price of essential goods through the roof for the common man, whose greedy and selfish nature is legendary, and ship abandoning skills that would make a possom proud, Or the rich few who have no religion or patriotism ( these so called 'global citizens') and who have forgotten how to speak their native language in their own homes) and who will sell their country off in a jiffy.. this is your idea of upliftment of people ?
RE:nuclear deal and jyoti basu's comments
by Vishnu Sharma on Sep 22, 2007 12:04 AM Permalink
Tell me something frankly. Are you blind and deaf at the same time ?
RE:nuclear deal and jyoti basu's comments
by halloindia on Sep 21, 2007 06:54 PM Permalink
Well said!! I too think he would have been the best prime minister.
RE:nuclear deal and jyoti basu's comments
by Chaitanya on Sep 21, 2007 07:00 PM Permalink
When he was CM of Bengal, once he was quoted to Say "Whom I would ask to work? Table, Chairs ? Yes this gentle man was better choice than anybody else.
RE:nuclear deal and jyoti basu's comments
by Prem Mohan on Sep 21, 2007 07:14 PM Permalink
Yes. Jyoti Basu deindustrialised West Bengal and would have done the same to India.
RE:nuclear deal and jyoti basu's comments
by Jayendra Bandyopadhyay on Sep 21, 2007 06:58 PM Permalink
Exactly!! Bengal's development was pathetic in his regime.
RE:nuclear deal and jyoti basu's comments
by halloindia on Sep 21, 2007 07:05 PM Permalink
Don't forget that 820 millions Indians all over India earns less than Rs 20 a day. So poverty is everywhere and this is not the topic off discussion
