I vote for Raman Singh



All of them had a personality and aura of their own. But somehow my vote went for the less sophisticated, less sung, Hindi speaking Raman Singh, chief minister of Chhattisgarh, as three chief ministers shared their vision at the HT Leadership Summit.

What an irony! Even his own party is so smitten by his Gujarat counterpart that they rarely speak about his success story.

Of course, the other two chief ministers –Sheila Dikshit and Prithviraj Chavan –came out as more suave and sophisticated, but it was Raman Singh’s conviction that stood out. An Ayurvedic doctor, he looked to have the right prescription for his state and its ailments!

He spoke after Sheila Dikshit, who talked about a shining Delhi and the metro rail, and stuck to problems of his own state which he dubbed as ‘very different than the national capital’.

Singh said, “Our main problems are countering Naxalite violence and poverty alleviation.” With a growth rate of 10-11 percent, with migration levels falling from millions to barely thousands, with core sectors like steel and cement growing leaps and bounds, with total electrification of the state and its rural pockets, he had so much to share and claim.

His experience of serving the three tiers of governance – from local to the state to central – was clearly reflected in his approach to the problems. Imagine airdropping somewhere in Chhattisgarh along with the chief secretary and finding answers to people’s problems there itself. He does all that.

He said, “Some of our decisions have come from the ground itself.”

That’s the real concept of government at your doorstep, a nomenclature so often used by successive chief ministers in Uttar Pradesh while they were locking themselves within the confines of their secured environs. When did a UP chief minister go to a village, sat there for a day to solve problems the local way?

It needs guts for any CM to say that he is confident that his state will be counted among the top three states of the country.

It’s time the states learn from each other to provide greater benefit to the people.

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  • Anonymous

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  • anil

    Congress will no doubt will choose some one with corruption baggage in the background so all they can stay in the league and if necessary strings can be pulled to fall in line in “bad” times.

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  • Anonymous

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    5. Must be ready to act as rubber stamp for Sonia Gandhi and her clan.
    6. Should flout constitution at the direction of Congress high command.
    7. Should have drab personality.
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  • Gt12563

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  • http://www.youbihar.com/ Shalu Sharma

    Presidents are hand picked for their loyalty to the party president. The post should be scrapped and an elected person should be appointed. As a matter of fact, India should move towards a presidential type of system.

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  • Anonymous

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  • http://twitter.com/DrYogeshSharma1 Dr.Yogesh Sharma

    SARKARI-SECT

    NATION
    WITHIN NATION

    Recently a report was published in the major newspapers of
    the country about the status of minorities in India. The report was based on the
    study carried out by Washington based Pew
    Research Centre, a highly respected US think-tank. But the findings of
    the centre can be branded as the worst joke of the year. It found India next only to Iraq on religious discrimination.
    The strange study has found even Saudi Arabia,
    Afghanistan and Pakistan better than India.

    The
    study titled ‘Global Restrictions on Religion’, which blamed India for religious discrimination
    but the ground realities are just opposite to the findings. India is a secular nation and
    everybody is euphoric about this provision. But when it comes to practice one
    can see that religion plays an important role in the working of the nation and
    minority groups exploit this tendency for their benefit. For the present UPA
    government at the center Islam is the most important religion. Muslim first is
    the war cry of Prime Minister Dr. Man Mohan Singh. Working on this design he
    has also formed a number of commissions for this purpose like, Sachhar
    committee and Rang Nath Mishra Committee etc., whose sole aim was to grant
    special benefits to Muslims only. In no other country no one can find such
    religion based commissions. Minority groups enjoy a special status in this
    country.

    Huge
    amount of money is spent on the communal activities of Muslim. When last year
    the Allahabad High Court declared Haj subsidies, unconstitutional, the UPA
    government at the centre immediately rushed to the Supreme Court. When the
    Supreme Court restored the Haj subsidy, there was jubilation in the UPA camp.
    Now in India
    the scholarships for higher education are given to a very small number of students
    that too after great difficulty, but Haj subsidy is rained on, around one lakh
    and fifty thousand Muslims. If this huge amount is spent on education or health
    the picture of the nation would be much brighter and happier.

    Although
    the apex court lifted the ban but expressed unhappiness about subsidies granted
    to a religion in a secular state but it did not dares to ban the Haj subsidy.
    Indian secularism does not permit to finance or promote any religion and
    religious activities. This is mentioned in the constitution in Part-III, which
    deals with fundamental rights. All religions are equal before the state and no
    religion can be given preference over the other.

    But
    in India
    one can see that all the so called minorities or non Hindu religions are financed
    and promoted by the state openly and Islam is much more than equal due to his
    big vote bank. One can see the plethora of minority commissions, minority
    educational institutions, madarsas, Haj Houses, Waqf Boards, mosques, etc., financed and patronized by the government. All the more
    deplorable is the fact that these bodies are spreading communalism and hatred.
    In case of noted writer Taslima Nasreen and Salman Rushdie they all demonstrated
    their communal and violent color nakedly.

    The
    insertion of term ‘secular’ in the Preamble in 1976 was simply a reiteration of
    earlier provision in the constitution. Under the provision the policy of given
    subsidy to religious activity like Haj, Madarsa etc., amounts to an
    infringement of the principal of secularism, but UPA and its allies who always shout
    for secularism, should realize that by extending subsidies to Hajjis and
    financing Islamic and minority bodies, they are not only spoiling the secular
    fiber of the nation but are also falling pray to Islamic and minority communal-ism and a party in its abatement.

    The
    government must put an end to the policy of funding religions. Only on Haj
    alone, the centre and state governments have to spend thousand of corers.
    Government funding is un-Islamic also. An honest Muslim who can financially
    afford to perform the Haj can go to Mecca.
    A Muslim should not go on pilgrimage to MECCA
    by borrowing money from any source. He should undertake the pilgrimage to Haj
    only with his own honestly earned money.

    A
    trip to Mecca
    with state subsidy or grant cannot be called Haj in the true Islamic sense.
    Moreover, the money collected by the state as taxes is largely given by Hindus.
    Muslims in India
    are not in a habit to pay taxes to the state. Even they are not honest in
    paying electricity, water, house tax and VAT. In the areas dominated by
    Muslims, the theft of electricity is almost a common feature. The former Chief
    Minister of Jammu and Kashmir
    Shri Gulam Nabi Azad has once himself admitted this bitter truth. So Haj and all the
    other Islamic activities are performed on state largesse, contributed by Hindus
    by paying taxes.

    Haj
    is not the isolated case, financed, heavily by the state, but large number of
    madrasas, mosques, Haj Housed, Waqf Boards, minority
    institutions, minority commissions etc are financed and patronized by the
    state. Due to big vote banks state plays a very active role in promoting
    Islamic and minority communalism. Even in judicial disputes Indian states
    always side with Islamic bodies. For example when Allahbad High Court quashed
    the communal character of Aligarh Muslim University,
    centre immediately rushed to safeguard the communal character of Aligarh Muslim University.
    Similarly when Allahabad High Court declared that Muslims cannot be treated as minorities,
    again UPA government joined the Mullahs in opposing the court ruling.

    This
    communal appeasement is also visible on Eid. There is large scale slaughtering
    of goats and other animals. No body tries to prevent this cruelty against
    animals although under the provisions of the Constitution of India, this is a
    crime under the Prevention of Cruelty against Animals Acts. Not only this our
    State leaders, extend greeting to Muslims on this slaughtering of animals and
    some even joins them with great pride.

    Similarly
    our Prime Minister could not sleep when a doctor Haneef was arrested for terror
    links, but same prime minister remained unperturbed when large scale Hindus are
    killed by Islamic terrorists. Even when in Malaysia, large scale Hindus were
    arrested and tortured our Prime Minister remained hale and healthy. Now
    communal reservation and communal budgeting are the other divisive acts done to
    consolidate Muslim vote banks.

    Even
    when noted writer Taslima Nasreen was attacked, the State of India danced with
    fanatics. Even the people connected with minority bodies, financed by the
    State, joined the Mullahs in attacking and demanding the banishment of the
    writer, but the three crore Bangladeshi intruders are permanent guests of the
    country, who are involved in unlawful activities and are a serious threat to
    the nation.

    When
    any Muslim criminal is sentenced big hue and cry is made against the judge and
    the judgment. This list can be extended. All this discussion clearly shows that
    the State of India is one with Mullahs and fanatics in spreading Islamic
    communalism, but the nation is blinded to the threat posed by such activities
    in the name of secularism. The so called secular parties never question,
    challenge and comfort the Muslim communalism. They are responsible for the
    growth of minority communalism. Due to this type of Islamic secularism, Islam
    and other Islam religions has become the Sarkari Religion. The state of Jammu and Kashmir has
    become almost an Islamic state, which has not seen any Non- Muslim chief
    minister, where Capt. Bana Singh, Parm Vir Chakra winner gets only Rs. 166 /=
    pm as pension but Islamic terrorists get huge financial packages on the name of
    healing touch and rehabilitation.

    In India due to special provisions to minorities
    the Punjab has become a Sikh state, Nagaland
    and Mizoram are become Christian states and these religions are become states
    religions unofficially. Till date states of Jammu and
    Kashmir, the Punjab, Nagaland and
    Mizoram have never seen a Hindu as a chief minister, although states dominated
    by Hindus have seen many non Hindus chief minister. Similarly in India number Muslims have been elected as presidents and VPs where as no other country in the world have ever elected their head from
    minority groups.

    Wherever
    any communal disturbance takes place, minorities are paid very handsomely by
    the states. In Gujarat compensation to Muslims victims were paid very liberally
    and handsomely where as in Jammu and
    Kashmir Hindus who were killed by Islamic terrorists
    were either paid very poorly or never got any compensation.

    In India
    terrorists and criminals belonging to minority groups are treated very
    softly. Criminals like Afzal Guru,
    Dawood Ibrahim etc., are treated in a special manner. Very few terrorists have
    been punished in India while
    lakhs of people have been killed by them in more than five decades of terror
    killings in Jammu and Kashmir, the Punjab and in North eastern states perpetuated by
    minority groups solely. Unfortunately in the name of healing touch and
    rehabilitation very attractive and liberal financial packages were given to
    them. General amnesty is a common reward to theses minority criminals and
    terrorists.

    All
    this shows that minorities in India
    are treated in a much better way than the majority community. Due to their
    special status minorities are become a nation within a nation. States of Jammu and Kashmir, the Punjab,
    Mizoram, Nagaland are very appropriate example of this kind. Reason behind this
    type of malicious report is the misinformation campaign let loose by some
    corrupt Non Government Organizations and opportunist secular right groups
    assisted by left wing activists. They are all financed and motivated by
    minorities groups and foreign powers. For this they are also paid and financed
    by them. Indian intelligence bodies and security forces have enough proves in
    this regard but due the vote bank greed no action has ever been initiated
    against such elements.

    On
    the basis of these deliberations it can be very safely and honestly put on
    record that the findings of Pew Research Centre are far away from the factual
    positions of minorities in India and before going to public in such sensitive
    matters ground realities should be studies by talking into the positions and
    views of both the minority and majority group. One way presentation may tarnish
    the image of the organisation and may add to hostilities in the minority
    groups.

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