Of petrol prices and communism….
We are almost thru with that great deal of fiasco where our LEFT alliance was so determined to stop the petrol hike. Hey don’t consider me to be all in for inflation and price hikes…..even I am suffering the brunt, but get to think of it are we really proving something with this parade of democracy. Price hikes in fiel prices have been all forever been on cards yet we get so aggravated on this context that we blame governments and , government in turn makes it a vote gathering innuendo to appease people. Are we really in for this appeasement when the crude oil prices are skyrocketing and our oil companies are suffering crores of losses everyday. How my subsidization can we really expect??? To be very frank even I don’t care but when on the other hand PSU are barred from their assets on terms of “Non Performance” it gets on to the “Outrageous” side of my dictionary. So many of you must be thinking that I sound like a spokesperson voicing out things for which 90 pc of my countrymen are against of. Private players are already rolling out, PSU are daily crying over the losses and our reservoirs are not at all being potentially trapped…. So EOD we are going to buy fuel. When are we going to understand that…..Bush accuses countries like China and India to be the reason of this fuel shortage on our beloved planet…..but hey aren’t we suppose to move out of this “Under Developed” tag???
And people believe it or not….Success and Progress are synonymous to Power consumption and Pollution. Our political party especially LEFT is one of those good for nothing bunch of people which when asked to propose a solution for no price hike answer in vague suggestions…. People fuel is bound to get pricy and we better get prepared. Politicians….do they even have a clue about the finances of our country…. I totally stand by Mr. 
Chidambaram’s act for 0 duty tax on wheat import….now that’s how you stop inflation. Communism has all its perils and no gains…. They are not capable of thinking about anything else than “Hire or Fire….over inflated debate” and unions…..look what happened to Kolkata and now they are begging for companies to come in …..once they have subdued those baseless school of thought. Lets see how our politicians have had a course of merry making…. If I were asked to name the two biggest natural disasters ever to hit Indian shores, I would have no hesitation in naming the horrendously over hyped and much lied about duo of J Nehru and MK Gandhi. Whether evaluated from an economic, foreign-relations or human perspective, these two did all in their power to cripple the country and leave it in a total shambles by the time they were through.Let’s just look a bit objectively at the oh-so-great Mr. N then for starters. Power hungry as he was, his first act was to ensure, with able assistance and ultimate guidance from Mr. G that the Congress’ decision of appointing Patel as PM was shot down and he was to lead the nation. This decision of course, led to Jinnah asking for Pakistan, since his only condition was that Nehru not be made PM. A secular Jinnah, when rebuffed by Gandhi on this demand immediately turned to hardline religiosity and ultimately this led to the infamous rioting that left thousands dead and the populations of two nations scarred.This however was just the precursor to what Nehru truly aimed to accomplish. Jinnah was perhaps the wisest man of that time and I base this opinion purely on the fact that hindsight shows how right he was to demand that Nehru not be made PM. Just after Independence, with Pakistan mounting an attack on Kashmir, the then-ruler of the independent State rushed to Delhi and signed an accession treaty with India.
As part of the country, perhaps I am not being too demanding when I state that India’s duty was now to retaliate to uphold sovereignty – a suggestion that Patel (Home Minster) made.Yet Nehru in his infinite wisdom chose to rush to the UN with this issue rather than use force. The result? A total fiasco with India rejecting the UN’s decision, an International Border that is non-existent and much-debated, a ‘Line-of-Control’ that is farcical and ill-defined at best and of course, the wonderful gift of terrorism that shows no signs of ceasing.But Nehru was an all-
rounder, to be sure. India was a newly freed nation and this of course afforded him with ample elbow-room to wreak all the havoc that his mind dreamed up. Economically, he imposed on the country a model more incompetent and ridiculous than any could have imagined. A similar model was tried and immediately rejected by China, but Nehru of course knew better.So, we had regulations that ensured that there was no private sector at all, we had a monolithic public sector that apart from boosting the employment figures provided little productivity and ensured that incompetence, corruption and red tape became inextricable parts of our industry and culture. The growth rates under Nehru was not just laughable, but contemptible and the economy hurtled quickly towards the crisis that would envelop it in the 1970s.Foreign affairs though, was the field for which Nehru reserved his best. He started this little baby called the Non-Alignment Movement. Fantastic as it may sound, this joke not just survived its ill-conceived inception, but lasts to date!!!
This despite the Cold War itself having been over for well over a decade. Oh well, since we can’t blame the last bit on Nehru, I will just leave that as a pointer to how ridiculous the concept was in itself.NAM of course meant that the member nations of this organisation aligned with neither the United States nor the USSR. It’s perhaps the easiest fact to point out that none of the NAM countries achieved anything significant in terms of growth during the Cold War era. India of course, was to play an even bigger clown under the expert guidance of the highly esteemed Mr. Nehru.While a leading light of NAM and one of the founder nations, India was quite obviously cozying up to the USSR. This of course was hardly invisible to the USA who quite nicely formed an alliance with Pakistan. (It took massive efforts to shrug off the effects of this phase and Indian relations with the USA did not improve till ABV's reign... Even now of course, the astoundingly stupid Left and their cronies are creating a ruckus, but then again, they'd do that anyway.) Yet India was never really assured of overt Russian support anyway, since we were, ostensibly at least, a part of NAM and therefore could hardly afford to support one of the Big Two on any public forum!Yet Nehru’s biggest showpiece, his grandest moment and the culmination of all his efforts on these different fronts was the confrontation with China. Much is made in history texts in Indian schools of the fact that the Chinese were the aggressors in this conflict. This of course, is a vicious campaign of misinformation used by the Congress to sweep under the carpet all the horrendous mistakes that Nehru made in the lead-up to the conflict.The great statesman that he was, he deliberately redrew the maps and asked the Indian forces to proceed further and further, assuming that the Chinese troops that would inevitably be returning to their outposts would not care to fight and take back what was theirs, as the land in that region was hardly fertile (Wonder why he wanted it then, but then I’m not as smart or as much a visionary as he was).Nehru then repeatedly ignored Chinese pleas to withdraw and the result of course was the war itself.
This is where Nehru’s other achievements came into play. Where the maps and the records showed bridges and roads that the exchequer had paid millions for, there were in reality none present! And Nehru being the tactical genius and the geography master that he was, asked the Indian soldiers to march into combat in the Himalayas, wearing no more than a sleeveless sweater. Perhaps his assumption was that the firing would keep them warm. Who knows? Perhaps he was right. We’ll never know the soldiers’ perspective of course as they were all massacred on the battlefield…As an illustration of the truth of all this, consider that China, having marched well into the disputed territory and being in a fantastic position, unchallenged and facing pressure from nobody, unilaterally declared a ceasefire as well as a withdrawal of troops and returned vast portions of the disputed territory to India. This is after the fact that their initial offer for a ceasefire in September (all they asked in return was that India agree to negotiate on the issues that Nehru had so far ignored), was rejected by Nehru even before he read it!!! This of course sparked off the combat in October and November that claimed over a thousand soldiers. 
To those that may contest the facts I present regarding the China War, please visit this link. It may enlighten you…and trust me, it makes for a depressing read, particularly if you are a Congress-loving person who believes in that web of lies and deception about Nehru… …The later feed has been borrowed from various sites. Someday I will talk about Kolakata perils and Kerela stagnancy….but that has to wait….. Till then please drop in your views.
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