Priceless wife, first or second or third?

It is of very bad taste for the State of Kerala where in a reception accorded to newly sworn in Minister Shashi Tharoor at Thiruvananthapuram, a Congress worker misbehaved with Sunanda.Pushkar, the wife of the minister. And it is the habit of some Congress workers to annoy women and get slapped on face. It has been reported that an Irritated Pushkar responded quickly by slapping Congress man a couple of times.

The Congress leaders of the state are seen not much worried over the incident as it is customary among them, nevertheless the Marxist daily that survived the Emergency has declared emergency over the incident. The front page of the daily carries major space with comments of those who are well versed on such subjects and also quoted the mutual verbal attacks of Shasi Tharoor and Gujarat CM Narendra Modi.

Modi said in a meeting that Shashi Tharoor's wife Sunanda Pushkar was a Rs 50-crore Girlfriend. And in retort to Modi, Tharoor tweeted back, “My  wife is priceless”.
Which wife, is it first or second or third? And that was the question of my friend Christa.

K A Solaman

Cheer no much, Alappuzhayans.

There are a total of 640 districts in India and Alappuzha is the one. It is rather difficult to sort out any other district in India with the unique status of having four Central Ministers. The Cabinet Ministers A K Antony and Vayalar Ravi, other ministers K C Venugopal and new incumbent Kodikunnel Suresh- all represent the Alappuza district. Nevertheless, one of the most backward districts in Kerala is not going to advantage much. Just one example is the Alappuzha by-pass. This by-pass has a dubious history of past 25 years, and still remaining in the same initial unfinished state. This by-pass can be considered as the monument of the inefficacy of the ministers  representing Alappuzha. This will continue even if Kodikkunnel assumes charge.

   

The latest cabinet reshuffle exposes the government since corrupt ministers are protected. The re-appointment of Shashi Tharoor as minister is a case of testing the poor memory of the public. The IPL ‘sweat share’ and related matters still remain unresolved but Tharoor got his berth again. One hopes that he would once again avoid his cattle class journeyand stay in ‘Five stars’ abandoning ministerial huts.

The ‘corrupt’ Salman Khurshid) was law minister and has been elevated as foreign minister. Thanks for not making him the PM. 

The present reshuffle in the Central Ministry is not for the benefit of the country but for the politicians.

K A Solaman

Kejriwal’s crusade.

A person like Arvind Kejriwal is a must for our society.  It has become difficult for all party leaders to disregard Kejriwal’s crusade against corruption. Kehriwal’s accusation against Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra, Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid and his wife Louise Khurshid, Nationalist Congress Party leader Ajit Pawar, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit,and BJP President Gadgiri remains unattended or little attended.

As a weak and repulsive response Vadra commented about the plight of “mango people in a banana republic”.  Vadra has no explanation about his unholy nexus with DLF Company and the Haryana government.  On the other hand Khurshid on television channels asked if  Kejriwal could visit his constituency, Farrukhabad, he might experience some difficulty in leaving the area. Khurshid was in an outright confrontation mood with Kejriwal.  

.The leaders who are accused of corruption by Kejriwal are seemingly found difficult to defend themselves. This means Kejriwal is right in action against corruption. His crusade will dare the politicians and their relatives not to involve further corruption, though these fraudsters are not punished for past misdeed.

K A Solaman 

No need to seek explanation from Tom Jose

The Kerala Cabinet decision to seek an explanation Tom Jose IAS  who in a letter on the proposed Kochi Metro Rail project sought clarification from union Urban Development secretary Sudhir Krishna on  E. Sreedharan's role in the project, is not in the right direction. What is wrong in writing a letter to one Government Secretary by another? After all who is E Sreedharan for  Kerala ministers. Doesn’t the project show up without Sreedharan? Is there no person in the world other than Sreedharan to materialise the Kochi Metro?

Tom Jose is an able bureaucrat and a man of vision. As he never dance with the juggle of thoughtless politicians many LDF firebrands, and minister Aryadan Muhammed keep despise towards him. It is better for Aryadan to give up charge of this project. Aryadan’s incapability is the sole reason for all the mess in the Kochi Metro project.

Of course, the Cabinet could decide what action should be taken against Tom Jose but this would augment the reason for able IAS officers to abandon the state. If these officers wish to seek berths in central ministry there is no difference between LDF and UDF regarding proceed to top civil servants.

K A Solaman 

Taliban extremism

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That Pakistani cute girl Malala Yousufzai has  drawn all world attention and prayers because of Taliban  brutality .  The Taliban extremists who shot in the head of Yousufzai deserve no mercy and this extremist group should be wiped out from the world.

Yousufzai, who was advocating education for girls, was not against Islam and the Taliban is not the sole proprietor of Islam. There are many Muslim groups in the world that speak against the Taliban, demolishers Budha statues in Afghanistan.

Taliban extremism is a curse of the present world and that should be dealt with an iron hand by all world countries.

K A Solaman

Stupid act by Government.

State Government secretly moving a waste treatment plant into the dump-yard in the in Vilappilasala panchayat under the cover of darkness when the people were asleep was a stupid act. . The anti-garbage crusade in Vilappilsala is a reasonable one as the people of that village are not obliged to hold all the malice of the entire city corporation of Thiruvananthapuram. 

The corporation people are living there for their convenience and they should find their own way to dispose the waste. The waste sending to adjacent village is same as one throwing waste kit to neighbours’ compound. All sensible people, therefore, should support the intense struggle  of Vilappilsala people  against dumping of wastes in the yard by the Thiruvananthapuram Corporation.  

Why can’t the Corporation find places within its premise to dispose waste they accrue? Why the Corporation dumps waste to contaminate all their water sources of Vilappilsala?  Are the people of Vilappilsala lesser human beings? Why the Corporation stopped immediately the move to dump waste to abandoned granite quarries?  

The City Corporation should ask hoteliers and others to sort out their own waste disposal methods. Meanwhile it should find places within its premise to dispose waste.

K A Solaman

NIE Published on 22-10-12

No public toilet in Cherthala

Cherthala town and neighborhood are badly in need of public toilets.   Elderly persons suffering from prostate and urinary infections find it very difficult meet their natural calls while in Cherthala. Cherthala is the land of great leaders like Antonyji and Vayalarji and when one visits this place his day often ends up in disgrace.

The municipality is the custodian of public toilets. The public toilets installed long back are neglected and the present rulers are interested only  in e-toilets. By spending several lakhs of rupees two e-toilets were purchased by the municipality but kept in safe custody without installing. The reason told is, the municipal authority has apprehension about the feasibility of these toilets. The news from neighboring place Aroor where one e-toilet installed is, however, not in favor of  putting a new one. In Aroor the e-toilet is in an abandoned condition and the users enter e-toilet for not the purpose it is meant but for safe intake of liquors. The other reason it is heard from Cherthala is that it is very difficult find  a political leader capable of  inaugurating an e-toilet.

The people of Cherthala are mostly peace loving except some skirmish around Poochackal and elsewhere. That is why they have no intense protest against waste disposal and negligence of the municipality. The waste collection and disposal system of the Municipality are  poor and fish vendors are polluting the entire street with waste water from fish containers. Mosquito growth in the town has multiplied, and if it goes at the present rate the land of filariasis will regain its past ‘glory’

K A Solaman
The Deccan Chronicle published 15-10-12

K A Solaman Blog: Five day drill for State employees.

K A Solaman Blog: Five day drill for State employees.: The proposal by the Kerala Government for five-day work week for its employees is borne out of financial emergency rather than any ingen...

Five day drill for State employees.

The proposal by the Kerala Government for five-day work week for its employees is borne out of financial emergency rather than any ingenious plan to improve administration.  The proposal is just like the drivel model pension age hike and the contributory pension.

The services by Kerala Government employees are very poor. The Chief Minister’s much said “Mass contact programme” is pointer to this. If employees do their designated work on time there would arise no mass contact programme.  As it stands now, the lessening of a work day result in poorer services for the public though there is no much gain for government expenditure.  Just as an instance I may quote one.

There is an office at Ernakulam called the office the Deputy Director of Collegiate Education. This office is meant for looking the service need of all the teaching and non-teaching staff members of 33 aided colleges associated with. The action on service and pension papers of many staff members are  long overdue at this office. There are teachers working in affiliated colleges for about two years since appointment without salary due to the inefficacy of this office.  None is bothered to see the employees available there do their work. It is learnt from a college clerk visiting DD office that the clerk in duty of dealing with pension papers attend the office only once in week. Does it mean that if 5 day week is implemented this clerk would never attend his office? The superior officer who is about to retire soon is least bothered in correcting his junior because of his future pension apprehensions.

So, the Government planning to improve administration should see that the employees are present in their office in time and doing their duty. The habit of leaving the office for union meet after putting signature should be made illegal.   An immediate accountability check of the staff is more important than executing five day drill for them.

K A Solaman The New Indian Express published on 15 Oct

Dog killers should be arrested.

It is has become a frequent incident in Kerala that stray dogs are attacked and killed by unidentified persons. The culprits repeat the killing without any mercy and these people should be condemned.  The Animal Welfare Board  in the state is seen to have some business other than one to see the welfare of the animals.  It is a pity that people killing dogs cruelly in the state is out of control.
It is our duty not to make the lives of the fellow stray animals difficult. When someone buys a dog, he should be aware that he is buying almost 15 years of love, care and happiness. The dog killers should be brought to book at any cost.

K A Solaman

Insulting the nation.

With new  allegations against former Prime Minister P V Narasimha  Rao, former KPCC President K Muraleedharan, who was re-inducted into the Congress in February last year after a six-year-long suspension, is paving his way out from the party rather than making a strategy to come back to higher place in the party. A dead man never speaks; the former KPCC President too knows this and  that is why he places  allegations against a former P M, who is no more.

Muraleedharan’s ill speak would certainly cause discomfort for the Congress in the national level. Probably Muraleedharan has no evidence other than his father’s voice to his dear son who was in frequent quarrel with his father at the fag end of latter’s life. The allegation that former Prime Minister  Narasimha Rao could have played a role in a conspiracy behind the sensational ISRO espionage case of 1994, is very weak.

It is time-honored not to insult a dead leader or a dead man. In Muraleedharan’s case this customary gesture has been violated. Muraleedharan has insulted the former prime Minister and a national leader. There will be no takers for K Muraleedharan in the Congress party and outside.

K A Solaman

Common man’s burden

The poor people of the country were leading a peaceful life by using log, waste paper and what else as fuel for cooking their foods. Then ‘the people friendly’ government came onward asking them to abandon the old practice of cooking with wood and switch over LPG. In India most the natural gases are wasted and if people choose it for cooking it would be advantageous for both people and government.. The people soon abandoned their tradition and switched over to LPG. What happened? When all started using LPG the government  hiked its cost and the people have to run from pillar to post to get gas cylinder either in subsidized rate or not. The cunning Oil companies and the dealers made it an opportunity to book a good buck. The lesson that the people learned is:  never trust the rulers.

Every day the UPA government is giving distress to LPG users by increasing the price of gas cylinder. The harm done by the UPA government to common man is huge. The load on common man is increasing day by day by the wrong policies of Manmohan Singh Inc.

K A Solaman

Vadragate

Congress leader Sonia Gandhi’s image has taken a beating, thanks to the controversy surrounding her son-in-law Robert Vadra’s dealings with the DLF. Arvind Kejriwal’s allegation that Mr. Vadra acquired huge wealth due to his DLF connection — with the company being given 350 acres of land by the Haryana government as a quid pro quo — is shocking. Congress spokespersons need to do a lot to defend Mr. Vadra.

K.A. Solaman,

Alappuzha, The Hindu dated 8-10-12

Vadra’s assets

Somia Gandhi's public image has been shattered by charges against her son-in law Vadra. It has been reported that Priyanka Gandhi's husband has been on a property buying spree and he  had accumulated 31 properties in three Congress-ruled states of Haryana, Rajasthan and New Delhi between 2007 and 2010. The list of assets, if true, is astounding. More than 160 acres of land was purchased by Vadra in Bikaner, Rajasthan.

Kejriwal’ questions are seemingly acceptable. How come in just four years Vadra could buy so much land. What is his source of income? The Congress spokespersons have to drink a lot of water to defend Vadra and his shady transactions. The Congress politics have reached its bottom. 

I wonder how the leaders like Antony, who claims to be always clean, work with Sonia Gandhi and company?

K A Solaman

Toddy is harmful

Toddy is not a drink which is injurious to health, says KPCC chief Ramesh Chennithala. Where from he got this information? Is there any scientific backing for his finding? The eighteen percent alcohol content in pure toddy is injurious to health and it will affect drunkard's liver. If not harmful what is the need for erecting a board showing"consumption of liquor is injurious to health" before all the toddy shops in Kerala? 

It is not pure toddy but poisoned toddy is sold in all shops of Kerala and its harmful effect is beyond any count. 

If one claims toddy industry has saved many families, then the same industry has ruined families ten times. The hereditary industry of Kerala can be saved by making diverse products out of toddy. Direct consumption is not the only use of toddy.

K A Solaman