Monday, May 01, 2006

The Failing of a State

if u guess that Im going to speak about TN, sorry u have mistaken. Im just giving my random thoughts on how maharashtra is failing. The congress govt gleefully came back to power with free electricity, 2700 ruppess per quintal for cotton- promise and they didnt stick to any of them. Infact they reduced the support price to 1700 from 2200 and the CM deshmukh is shamelessly saying that the price was fixed by govt of India!!!!.Then why the F*** he shuld be chief minister of State. Every policy can be fixed by central govt and bureacrats can implement them.More than 400 suicides in Vidharbha alone this year; Malnutrition deaths in Thane (pretty near to mumbai) District. All these in a state which was leading in 1980's and 1990's. Misplaced priorties are pretty much a factor. This is what happens when the base is not as strong as the top. By base I mean the social sector indices. What happens when a state performs pretty well in industries and neglects its education and health ??? I would call it a Maharastra syndrome. It gives rises to fundamentalists who say that problem exists with the outsiders or Muslims. The inference I made for the above problem is based on the logical fact that economic inequalities(due to industrialization) and lack of political awarness( due to education) breeds fundamentalists. Now that fundamentalists are in power, the issues they place b4 people is Ram and not roti. RR patil(NCP) is not an exception. NCP based on maratha community is trying to play the card as well... Dance bars and the Wardrobe malfunctioning have become more important than electricity crisis. The debts of state are more than 1 lakh crore...
I m sure that the same thing will happen to gujarat as well. The base is pretty weak... I just hope that we dont fall to the same prey. As long as the competitiveness of Tamil Nadu is almost at the top of national level, we are in a right direction. Misplaced priorities like Tamil- classical language, kushboo issue will die a natural death. This elections have been interesting for me from one perspective. Will DMK deliever on its election promise. I have decided to place my bets on DMk returning back to power.
p.s : Came to know that PSG tech has got an open software group recently..... gr8 news..have to dig more for further info :)

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