My Musings

 Musings……. Power of the Common Man  The Farmers bill being repealed by the Modi led Central government comes as no surprise. The crucial states of Punjab and UP goes to polls in February 2022 and its results will mostly decide the mood of the Opposition for 2024.  The three contentious Farmers  bills were wrought with problems right from the beginning. From its hasty implementation through ordinances to its passing in Parliament without debate through a voice vote, the bill was bulldozed by the Government.  Public sentiment was against the bill right from the beginning. However, the central government which pushed through Demonetisation and GST, became complacent.  Both GST and Demonetisation did humongous damage to the economy, and was deemed by every expert on Economy as a policy failure. Still the Government survived it through their propaganda machinery and agenda setting.  This time too the Government would have thought it could hush any dissent given time. However, they seem to

  Musings……. Vinod Rai  What can be said about this civil servant. Today he has tendered his unconditional apology to court in a defamation case filed by a Congress leader.    To be more specific former Congress MP Sanjay Nirupam had filed a defamation case against Vinod Rai, then CAG for alleging that the ex MP had pressured him to drop then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s name from his report.  Vinod Rai a Kerala cadre IAS officer, rose to National stardom when he as CAG reported on the 2G and coal block allocations. This led to the UPA- II government to be portrayed as corrupt.  What subsequently followed is anyone’s guess. Congress led government was comprehensively voted out in 2014, leading to the rise of Narendra Modi to the helm.  Since 2014 India is under majoritarian, right wing, Hindutva led NDA rule. What has it produced ? Blunder over blunder right from Demonetisation to botched up GST law, to mismanagement of the economy to huge price rise !!  The Petrol- Diesel- LPG pric