Today’s news is that students in AP boycotted exams and worst news is the university postponed all the exams instead of failing all those students who does not want to write exams. My question is why government is not considering to stop all the scholarships to those students who want to enter into politics and want to make university campus as their political play group. I think its time to teach a lesson to all those misguided students and show them what could happen when they are not doing their duty. Its clearly government’s right to stop all those scholarships to those students and punish them for all their misdoings. Here I am not talking about a region or university I am talking about all those students who thinks studies are their second priority.

As a tax payer who is shelling out my money to spend on scholarships, I have the right to ask to stop all those scholarships.

I fully support this and I want this to happen at the national level. I appreciate Mr. Modi for up taking this  cause and forcing people to vote. The only concern I have, there must be an option in ballot paper enabling voter to not to choose any candidate.

In my opinion its the right decision and I appreciate UPA government for doing this, I hope they still to this decision. I heard the comments by Mr. Karath, he wants to resolve the naxals issue by political discussions what as joke it is. I think in India we are trying to do the same for last 40+ years, since naxalite movement started. May be 20 years or 30 years back they were radical political group with different ideas for the good of people. But today they are more like terrorists than the groups of people with good intentions. They are lost in their own ideology and in the process of trying to find their ground they started hitting at the people who they think they are protecting, the best example is the rejection to any kind of development.

I heard a lot of stories about REC(now NIT) and medical students turning into naxalites with the intention of helping people, and they used help people for sure. But now its more of protecting themselves from the same people and of course government.  Simple saying naxalites lost their cause and their rotten ideology is no more good for people.

Well this seems the question everywhere now a days. They officially chose Shushma Swaraj as their deputy leader in lok sabha and they have Mr. Arun Jaitley as their leader in Rajya Sabha, not sure if they follow congress foot steps and nominate their leader in Rajya sabha as their PM candidate. In that case Mr. Arun Jaitley would be the PM candidate, but I really doubt it. Because Mr. Jaitly is really not a crowd puller, just like Mr. M Singh and does not enjoy support from party or RSS. It was easy for Mr. Singh because he has the full support of First Family of this country( Sorry I restrained myself calling it Royal family) and every one in congress had no option than support Mr. Singh. But in party like BJP, its very very very hard to get support of everyone, especially support from RSS.

I can think of few names like Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley, Narendra Modi and Rajnath Singh. As the present head of the party, may be Rajnath singh gets the high priority and also it seems he got the support of RSS, the second contender would be Narendra Modi but I am not sure how people will react when they have to compare him with soft spoken Mr. Manmohan Singh. Next is Sushma Swaraj, not sure if she can get any support from RSS or from party. Out of these four Mr.Jaitley has the least chances to become party’s PM candidate.

In my opinion Rajnath Singh has the high chances of becoming parties PM candidate in next general elections.

The latest breaking news in media is about the Punjab riots and the visuals of burning trains and fearless violent crowd on streets. My first reaction after seeing these visuals is wohh.. all those who are rioting so fearlessly on streets are teenagers or kids, its like they are spending their summer vacations in adventures way(if I may say that). Funny part is when the rioters were wearing a 4 feet knife, the so called riot police are facing them with same length sticks.

May be I am stupid but I still cannot understand what triggered these riots, yes I know some one killed some one very important on the other side of the world for some personal reasons. So, why riots what are they trying to prove by burning private and public property. It looks like now a days all people need to come on streets is some reason, but sadly they are always choosing the wrong reason and wrong method to demonstrate their protest.

The latest news from the NDAs camp is that they are going choose Mr.Advani as their leader in parliment. I guess they are making this move to avoid any immediate infight with in the party/aliance for choosing Advani’s successor, but this may backfire as they are just trying to postpone most invitable infight to accupy Mr. Advani’s place as parties PM candidate for the next general election. Instead they might have taken the though decision now, by giving some time to themself to fix everything with in the party/aliance and getting ready for the next elections.

Who ever may be the successor to Mr.Advani as partie’s/aliace’s PM candidate, its not going to be a simple job to fill the shoes left by a person with stature as Mr. Advani. I hope BJP now quickly learn how to be a good oppsistion in parliment, instead of being a typical indian oppsition by opposing evey move of governament, with out giving any thought or learning how good/bad it’s going to make to the people of this country.

What ever you may say or think about my statement, to me democracy stands for giving authority to people and respecting what ever the out come of that authority. We recently saw the results of 2009 general elections and how the rejected parties and people accepted the defeat quietly, including so called hard liners. There are many democracies we saw in recent times whose participants just could not accept the defeat and choose to protect the people’s verdict. But fortunately our democracy is not one of those and people and parties still stick to some basic principles of democracy, except for some insignificant people and parties who choose to air their views disregarding the people’s verdict. 

To my knowledge in India people’s verdict was always respected, except for the times when emergency period declared by Mrs.Indira Gandhi. Though there are different theories about the tendency of the Indian voters voting based on the caste and region.

After seeing honest and successful persons(Shashi Tharror, Cpt. Gopinath and lot of more people) jumping into politics and contesting in this general election, I am seriously giving a thought to the advantages of changing the way we choose our government. After electing parties for 60+ years, we have gave them enough chance to prove their worth. But sadly they failed miserably by concentrating more on politics than on the job they supposed to do. I think its a good idea to give a chance to persons to serve us by giving them a freehand in choosing their cabinet just like in US by not restricting them to choose from elected members of the parliament. Then at least we can have someone in cabinet level who knows what they are talking.

Yes, I agree this change is virtually impossible in present political setup in India, as this needs lots and lots of constitutional amendments. But I still hope this happens for bringing us some good.

Do we really need a third alternative? After seeing governance of congress and BJP prime ministers in the past decades I prefer to see a third party coming to power with new set ideas. Here I prefer a new individual than a party, I want that option coming from something else other than what congress and BJP are offering in this general election. Yes, we need to have one third alternative.

Somehow before every general election politicians start talking about third political alternative and they call it third front. Any layman like me, with a closer look at that third front can understand its just a groups of opportunists without any common principles. Well I am not sure if any of them has any real principles, but at least what they talk about. Now and then they even toss the word secular alliance, ha..ha..ha.. that’s a big joke to me. How come they talk about secularism and not even mention of common civil code in this 60+ year old country. Now a days even BJP stopped talking about common civil code. I reckon for any country to be called as secular, common civil code is a must.

Coming back to third alternative, we really don’t have any third alternative as of now in this country. I hate to say, BSP is coming close to get that spot. Why I hate BSP? Basically one hates BJP because of its hindutva hard line stance, why not BSP for its caste based politics? Yes I hate BSP.

When ever people call India a democracy, I ask my self is it really one. Ours is a country rules by a family for more than 40 years and looking at present political circumstances we will be ruled by same family at least for one more generation. Its just not the situation at the union level, its the case of more than half of the states in India(AP, Tamilnadu, Panjab, Orissa, Rajastan and many more).

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