Fuel price hike-War against people

Common man in this country which is supposed to be having a democratically elected government “for the people,by the people” is helpless.Whatever these rulers of the country (who call themselves as servants of people but in reality looters of the country)do ,common man will have to suffer as none of them are not even bothered about common people of this country.Whether you rise price of petroleum products to any level and whether inflation goes so high to make our currency a valueless paper,these rulers are not affected.They get money in tones by looting the country and all their personal needs and comforts are taken care of fully by the state machinery.This is true whether the party ruling has a khadi uniform or saffron uniform or a red blood colour uniform.None of them are bothered about the people or even the economic health of the country.

The other day I was talking to an old friend of mine who has just recently retired as CMD of a large public sector undertaking of Kerala.I met him at the corporate office of a private sector company possibly for discussions to get an assignment in that company at a senior level. I asked him-“Why you did not try to get an extension or a posting in any other public sector undertaking?”His answer was not surprising to me.

“The central minister in charge is extremely corrupt.How long I can sign on the dotted lines sanctioning or abetting his looting?” I know my friend to be an upright honest man.In an earlier occasion when a high ranking person from Delhi representing a Dutch MNC contacted me for  assistance to approach this man for a murky deal,I have straight away refused without even contacting my friend knowing his integrity and honesty.
Funniest part of the story is that this particular central minister is not even considered as corrupt by the media who are eager to get any such story.Gone are the days when corrupt deals of few crores like Bofors  get headlines in news.Now they loot in lakhs of crores and still nobody bothers.Can you imagine these crooks ruling the country taking interest in lives of you and me?They are not bothered even if diesel price is made double and one tea or coffee price reaches Rs.100 or more.

Look at price structure of petroleum products.Almost 50% of the cost is taxes and duties.When you pay Rs.41 for a liter of diesel,price which the oil company gets is only Rs.20/-This price of Rs.20 itself has got in it inputs of import duty on crude oil and uncontrolled heavy overhead expenses of public sector oil companies merry making without any competition.More than 25% of the crude oil is indigenously manufactured and it does not have any  price to be paid or import duty.Who bothers about all these?

When Kerala ruling party declares yet another Harthal threatening people with dire consequences if they move out on daily chores from their houses as a protest against petroleum price hike,I wonder why they are not even thinking of reducing 25% local tax on price of diesel if they have even the slightest concern for the poor helpless people of this country run by political crooks including them?

They will not reduce taxes and will consider petroleum products as the easiest route to amass maximum tax revenue knowing  very well that common man will have to buy it whatever may be the cost.

How to escape after doing anything

There are few people who try and become VIPs on their own.They manage money somehow.As long as you have money power nobody bothers to ask you how you got it.Once you have enough money amassed,then you need political power.What better way than forming a political party? If you have money ,you can get people to shout for you,and very recently two people even pretended to do suicide for the “great leader unable to hear possibility of him getting arrested.” Luckily they got what they wanted(media coverage) and they escaped unhurt in the attempt to self immolate them for fear of their” undisputed leader getting arrested”!

Look at what all the great achievements of this great leader.More than 55 innocent people killed in bomb blast at Coimbatore are forgotten by every one.Nobody is punished for the great crime for “lack of evidence”.Our judicial system has got the basic principle that it simply do not bother if a culprit of heinous crimes is left out.Funniest part of the story is that the culprit start talking as if the bomb blast has taken place without anybody doing anything for it.Probably those people died in bomb blast are punished by God for their sins without any of the great “leaders” doing anything for it.

After escaping jail,the accused is treated as a saint.Great Pinaray talks as if he is innocence in human form.One more Kalamassery bus torching and now Bangalore bomb blast.With the help of money power and political power that follows he is still eloquently talking as if he is innocent.Probably he will again manage to obtain no evidence for this case also.One more bomb blast and several innocent people die.But who cares for them? people behind such anti national activities are acclaimed as innocent VIPs!There is not a single political or otherwise leader in Kerala willing to call a spade a spade.Those dead in bomb blasts are simply forgotten.They have no money power or political power

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Do Congress in Kerala need Murali or Karunakaran?

When I hear all the big talk about Murali trying to enter back into Congress by hook or crook,I cannot help wondering whether Congress party in Kerala need Murali or for that matter his father,Karunakaran about whom I have nothing good to remember about.All that I could remember about his days in power is that he is corrupt,ruthless ,unmindful about what people may think of his actions and highly unpopular.Still he thought he has several supporters.That is precisely why he left Congress with his son and formed a party whose name may not be even remembered by anyone-DIC.
After forming his own party Karunakaran and Murali realised for the first time that people of Kerala do not simply care a damn about them and they would prefer to forget them in the dustbin of history.So,they tried to fight back their entry into Congress for fear of loosing their right to rule poor helpless people of Kerala .Then Karunakaran some how managed to get back to Congress party due to acute low level of intelligence by whoever take decisions for that party.One of my clients commented to me-“Some body who does not want Congress to do well has purposefully allowed this old man inside to create problems for the party.”
In my opinion CPIM ,the main party opposing Congress in Kerala owes a lot to Karunakaran.They have cashed heavily on the hatred of common man of this state to Karunakaran and his clan.Probably they will be quite happy to see both Karunakaran and Murali inside Congress so that both Father and son will make their job very easy.When I hear people like V.M Sudheeran and Minister Mullappally Ramachandran supporting Murali entry into Congress I cannot help suspecting their intelligence or loyalty to the party.Probably they must be having some hidden agenda.Who knows what is inside minds of these politicians!
I am sure Murali will get back entry into Congress.Possibly A.K.Antony himself will help him.If you ask me why,even I do not know the answer.But politicians are much more intelligent than we ordinary people and our intelligence level is not good enough to understand their actions.So with Murali and Karunakaran inside and Congress unnecessarily lamenting on entry of P J Joseph to UDF,Pinaray Vijayan can smile again and continue to make arrogant comments about any one living in this state.If at all UDF come back to power there should be some one to get Pinaray Vijayan back into power after five years.That job Murali will do well for Pinaray.You might ask why I am not referring to VS.All of us know that he is only a toy in the hands of great Pinaray, crying when he presses the toy.He will be happy and content to sit in that chair till the last day allowed by constitution.Keeping his eyes,ears and mouth shut is a lesser price to pay for that.

Kerala Congress drama

I do not know why and how Kerala Congress came into existence in Kerala Politics.When I become old enough to understand politics  even a little bit,there was only one Kerala Congress.Both Christians especially Syrian Catholics and a few Nair community people were enthusiastic about Kerala Congress.K.M.Mani who used to be the patriarch of the party used to be so considerate of his fellow Syrian Catholics that he will do anything and everything in his capability when some one from the community approached him for favors whether for justifiable or non justifiable reasons.Syrian Catholic clergy also used to be favoured like this.

When I got unreasonably framed by vested interests in a case,during my college days all efforts of me and my fellow students to get justice failed when we approached all other politicians probably because doing favours to college students did not give them any political or financial gains.But K.M .Mani helped us to get out of the imbroglio as Minister then.When my younger brother wanted admission for PG Course in a Christian management college in management quota, his letter could settle the matter.Such small helps is exactly what common man expect from a political leader and for obtaining such favours he gives in return political loyalty to the leader concerned.

When P.J.Joseph parted company with K.M.Mani I could not find any justifiable reason for the parting of ways except may be personal ego clash between them.Apart from giving small favours to followers both K.M.Mani and P.J.Joseph has done nothing  for the development of Kerala state.Both Balakrishnana Pillai and T.M.Jacob who parted company with K.M. Mani and started own political outfits also did not have any reason for parting of ways other than personal ego clash.So there was never any credible reason for existence of several “Kerala Congress” parties.Kerala State has in no way benefitted by these so many number of “Kerala Congress” with several different initials in the brackets.So What if they join together and become one Kerala Congress? Nothing good or bad  will happen to Kerala state and people of this state.Unlike DMK and AIADMK in Tamil Nadu.all outfits of  Kerala Congress is not bothered about development of the State.Probably they are very much interested in personal developments and that must be the reason for continuous divisions enabling every leader to become Minister and thus do what every one expect a minister to do-Fill his coffers by hook or crook.

Leaving LDF and joining UDF does not mean anything other than changing name of the team in which they play games to make money.Both LDF and UDF compete each other in the art of doing corruption or rather money making which alone happens to be the  duty of every Minister.Now this new development of Joseph going to other camp has made Surendran Pillai lucky to become what he was dreaming for years together-become a Minister and reap the harvest even by making the soil infertile  forever.

I only hope against hope and wonder when we Keralites will be able to see a politician even slightly interested in improving the lives of ordinary people of this State!

One more Harthal for us

It used to be called as Bandh.Then  there was a court order banning Bandh.After all,what is there in a name?.Harthal is the new name for Bandh.We Keralites enjoy Bandh as we have no choice.Only thing we can do against Harthal or Bandh is write like this without any benefit.

Prominent political party of Kerala is called CPI(M).They have a single leader .All others are simply his yes men.Even the All India Boss  also listens and obeys him.So he decides to force people of Kerala out of work on the day he decides as Harthal.All his coalition partners can only say yes to him also.On the day of Bandh you should not go to work,you should not travel,you should not move out of the house.Luckily they have not banned sleeping ,eating and drinking at home on the day of Harthal.If you defy these orders you may be attacked physically by the so called “party workers”.You may even be killed!

By conducting such forceful deprivation of all rights guaranteed by Constitution of India to people of this sovereign republic of India what do these people gain?However hard I tried,I could not find any benefit either to those who threaten people to cuddle inside their homes or to any human being living in this state of Kerala.

Crores of rupees will be lost due to stoppage of work and all activities of life.Those who get higher income can simply treat the day as a holiday and enjoy eating and drinking at home.Sale of alcoholic drinks increases invariably on the day before Harthal.People who do manual work and earn daily wages will lose one day wage.

Marriages will have to be postponed.Those who need medical attention may not be able to be hospitalised.But these political beings do not bother.After threatening and forcing people to remain indoors at home,next day these people will make statement like this-“Entire people of the state has supported us by willingly joining  in Harthal and doing nothing outside their houses”

What did these Harthal lovers gain? What did people of Kerala gain?Such barbaric customs should not be allowed to continue in this country.But the majority of helpless people cannot do anything else other than fearing these anti social elements and shutting themselves inside closed doors of their homes on the day of Harthal.Our next Harthal is on 27,April,2010.Please do not come to Kerala on that day.You may have to sleep at airports or railway stations without food and drinks.

Against a proper road for Kerala

I keep travelling up and down all over Kerala as my work demand it(visiting work sites of house construction and visiting possible house construction sites for design as well as consultation.)
From Trichur to Cochin now roads are coming some what nicely with four lanes and in some places with  additional small roads on either sides for local slow vehicles to go.Up to Cherthala from Cochin this four lane of roads go well.Once you touch Cherthala,four lane become two lanes causing continuous road accidents and deaths near Cherthala Railway station.
But once you cross Cherthala and when you reach Alleppey you have to travel through narrow  roads inside the town and as a long distance traveler you will feel frustrated when you have to find your way through traffic blocks and slow movements.Situation gets worse or practically same when you have to pass through Kollam.

I keep wondering why nobody has bothered about making possible at least a clear four lane traffic from northern part of Kerala to south end of Kerala which is the capital of this tiny state.Situation is worse when you have to pass through northern Malabar area as it is an area permanently forgotten from all project books of development.
At some time back when Dr.Muneer was Minister of Public works in UDF government,there was talk about an Express High way giving at least hope for thought that at least one day you can travel hassle free without wasting time and money from one end of Kerala to other.But all those so called revolutionary politicians fought with each other to provide his utter contempt for this “foolish” idea of making travel less time consuming less troublesome and less costly.So in spite of his best efforts Dr.Muneer has to eat his words and he was dumped as “anti progressive”
Now both opposition and ruling politicians of Kerala has sat together and decided that people of Kerala does not need this four lane or six lane roads because they consider disturbing shops and establishments near both sides of existing road as dangerous. All these years we travelled through these narrow roads with utter chaos,confusion,road blocks,traffic blocks and travelling in four lane or six lane roads will be simply boring for us Keralites.So  a delegation of all party representatives is going to meet Dr.Manmohan Singh to give him enlightenment on the great wisdom of Keralites.

Are we moving forward or back ward?In my opinion,present National High way has to be widened and there has to be an Express way newly made going through present undeveloped and under developed areas of Kerala villages so that high speed commodity carrying vehicles can go through that Express high way saving time and money.But who will listen to it and we deserve curse of next generations for continuously pulling down Kerala from development.