Abandoned father, honoured son

Kerala Congress (B) Chairman, R Balakrishna Pillai and his B Ganesh Kumar have become role models for Keralites  as an abandoned father and an  accepted son.

Pillai was quite long ignored by Chief Minister Oommen Chandy as  MLA Ganesh Kumar is more precious than Pillai who is unable to present an MLA from his party. It is not leaders but MLAs run the UDF Ministry. The UDF feels a dearth for MLAs

Pillai could continue protest against the price hike of essential commodities and else what but none would hear him as he was abandoned by his son and the UDF. Pillai is no longer a head-ache for Oommen Chandy Government and the only option for Pillai is to support the Government and to forgive the faults of his son. A father can of course do it.

K A Solaman

SBI Life Insurance

For quite long I was under the presumption that the SBI Life Insurance was an investment scheme to hoodwink the people as the return from this investment is little or negative. And that was confirmed with the series of advertisements now they air through channels. All participants in the ads ask non-sense questions suited to their investment with SBI life!

K A Solaman

GKSF megamela

One of the man-made disasters of Kerala is the Grand Kerala Shopping Festival. Almost all merchant establishments across State are hell bound to squeeze the uninformed customers by selling various products they really never need. The only attraction of yester-year GKSF ads was cine actor Innocent with his rare histrionic talent, but this year he is absent owing to illness

What this GKSF owners show as advertisement in channel is an utter non-sense which provoke all sensible persons. The unscrupulous channel owners shattering all telecast norms air these advertisements throughout the prime show. The GKSF promoters should understand what is responsiveness and rubbish. For instance see the ad of ‘Asset Kasavu’- a more soothing one than the prime show itself.

Money can be spent for ads, but why GKSF is not spending it wisely? All their ads are disgusting.

It is time for all sensible customers to opt this GKSF festival time as occasion not to buy valuable commodities. The prize or gift given at sales is a ploy to hoodwink the customers. The merchants should sell the goods at the correct retail price. Selling a commodity with a gift is to demoralize fellow merchants and the customers.

K A Solaman 

Murali’s satyagraha

K Muraleedharan MLA, the son of late K Karunakaran has become more or less a clown in Kerala politics with his witty comments. His latest attempt to save his father’s lost face by defaming late PM  Narasimha Rao ended up in a joke as there were no takers for the same in his party and the UDF. His ‘kandakashani’ comment in the backdrop of A K Antony’s ‘Brahmos missile’ also landed in deep sea. Now he says he has pulled off from the satyagraha that he had planned following his talks with chief minister Oommen Chandy.

Murali had planned a satyagraha protesting against the neglect shown by the state govt  in connection with the monorail project. The proposed satyagraha was in front of the secretariat building from December 9 onwards. Nevertheless, he withdrew his strike 20 days in advance

Intermittent satyagraha is good for tummy people as it would make them lean. Muralidharan might have waited up to Dec 8 to make some among his followers.

- K A Solaman 

Mani’s arrest.

The arrest of CPI-M leader M M Mani is due to  the error of his counsel who advised him not to  turn up for a polygraph test for the probe in connection with his controversial speech about elimination of party rivals. The counsel should have evaluated this possibility too. Mani’s arrest is not a big news as his crime deserves punitive action. The CPM-M calling a hartal In Idukki is just  because they have no good business at present in the State. It could be presumed that hartal would continue as the next person going to be arrested is party’s district secretary himself, who is also one accused in the case.

Mani's speech caused embarrassment to all and hence some sort of check is needed for those who make fuss  with their loose tongues.

- K A Solaman 

Minister of nuisance!

This is for quite another time the Excise Minister of Kerala K Babu twists his tongue against the Hight Court of Kerala.

During the first week of last month the Kerala High Court has slammed his statement that the people would decide what they should drink and not the court. Disturbed by this Justice S.Siri Jagan observed that if the people could decide what they should do, why should there be laws like compulsory wearing of helmets by riders of two-wheelers. Sometimes, laws were made to protect the people against themselves. The classic example was the Abkari Act itself. Why should there were licensing of liquor, if the people could decide what they should drink? And that was a direct warning to the Minister.

However, now with his statement on the other day the Minister once again targeted the court saying that the court had clipped out the Abkari policy of the government. With his repeated statements against the court it seems that minister Babu of the UDF is making a M V (Mulaku Vellam) Jayarajan of the LDF. The court may therefore contemplate to put a lock on Babu’s tongue that he should, no longer, make rubbish speak against the honourable courts and the rule of the land. Of course, this minister has become a public nuisance. The habit of politicians, irrespective of their hue, coming out with scathing attacks on courts should be detained  by High Court itself.

K A Solaman

Utter lethargy in State Information Commission

 It was in 2005, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government introduced India’s first Right to Information Act, an anti-corruption measure that was intended to provide citizens access to records and documents kept by local and central authorities. Applicants submit questions attached to a simple request for information. The RTI law gave hundreds of millions of Indians the ability to hold the country’s vast bureaucracy to account, and, it was hoped, to arrest the endemic corruption in its ranks. The RTI law had been a central plank of the Congress campaign in the 2004 general elections

This is an old story as the present performance of the Commission, particularly in Kerala, is a damp squib. Any Government agency can keep unanswered for RTI application and its first appeal as the second appeal to the State Information Commission remains unattended for many years. There are many complainants against the State Information Commission about its inefficacy to the settle cases violating RTI Act. The Commission may have its justification like shortage of staff and other infrastructure. Then the responsibility goes to the UDF ministry  which boasts  much for achievements in the State. The State Information Commission has turned out into a white elephant to feed some worn-out Government Staff and unworthy old politicians where lakhs of rupees are  siphoned for no work. The time delay is the worst handicap all the cases in judicial forums, likewise  the Information Commission has also entered into the bottle neck utter lethargy.  Hereinafter people would not expect any quick action for their RTI requests as the condition of the State RTI Commission is deplorably poor.

If the agency, which has the  power to impose penalties on recalcitrant officials, sits ideal , no one is going to submit  petitions under RTI Act.  An unlimited time permission to SIC to handle appeals is a major fault of RTIA 2005. Unless something is done immediately to protect the RTI Act, which is intended to spot the beginning of a new era of corruption-free India, it would then mark another dark era of the country.

K A Solaman 

Defence Minister’s fear

For quite long A K Antony was under the presumption that he was sidelined by the UDF leaders in Kerala. This is the sole reason for otherwise tight-lipped Antony to open his mouth in Kerala against one-and-half year-old Congress-led United Democratic Front government.  Antony said that he could not risk bringing new defence projects to Kerala as the industrial environment in the state in the last one-and-a-half years has not been favourable for investments. But in fact the atmosphere in Kerala is not as worse as one at the time of Antony’s regime.

 Nevertheless, Antony has shown his shrewdness in praising both VS Achuthanandan and his arch rival Elamaram Kareem, the one who called the former as ‘class enemy’ for the first time in the milieu of group rivalry in Marxist party. From 2006 to 2011, the Left front ministry gave Antony unstinting support, is fake claim. For people who live in Kerala, Industries Minister Kareem in the last LDF ministry and present Industries P K  Kunhalikutty are the birds of the same feather known for interest in realty business.

The daring Defence minister of India Antony fears to allocate new projects to Kerala because of the existing ‘terrorism’ in the State. Thus he turned this God’s on country to terrorists’ own country. Or else he might have disclosed the person responsible for the unfavourable atmosphere in the State without sending people for a wild guess.

K A Solaman 
The new Indian Express published on 19 Nov 2012

Next queue before bank counter.

In what is called a gobbledygook decision the State Government of Kerala is pushing the BPL and APL ration card holders to yet  another queue, after the one in front of rations shops, and that is before bank counters. The card holders should give their bank account number before March 31, next year and the subsidy would be credited with the outstanding amount from Jan 1. Those who give their account number after that date would be credited with the subsidy from then on, the CM said

In fact most of the BPL card holders do not hold a bank account and of course for that reason they have a peaceful mind as they have never experienced the callous attitude of some bank officials.  This will end soon as the consumers have to give their existing bank account numbers and wait before the cash counter of the bank. And also they have to sleep with their pass book to know whether they have been credited for ration subsidy.

No doubt, the curse of IT overweighs its merit at least for ration card holders.

K A Solaman 

Kejriwal is India’s Assange

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Julian Assange is a nightmare to political leaders ranging from U S President to mediocre Branch Secretary of CPM in Kerala. The reason is he exposes the corruption of these people with undeniable proof. Arvind Kejriwal is his Indian counterpart who declared ‘war’ with corrupt Indian politicians and deceitful Corporate heads. Kejriwal has released details and levelled charges against top Indian politicians and the country’s biggest business conglomerate.

On October 5, Kejriwal made a public accusation against Robert Vadra, son-in-law of Congress party president Sonia Gandhi. He claimed that Vadra had purchased property worth millions of dollars with “interest free unsecured free loan” by DLF, India’s major construction company. DLF’s market value dropped in a single day to the tune of $580m following the accusation. The accusation still stands unsettled authentically and the accused are waiting for short life of the memory of the public.

Then, on October 17, Kejriwal targeted the opposition party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He accused party president Nitin Gadkari of land grabbing by colluding with the ruling party in the western state of Maharashtra, and exploiting poor farmers to further his business interests in real estate.

Now he revealed about the dubious Swiss bank account of Indian politicians and Corporate heads. In fact Kejriwal’s accusations seem to have vitalized the people and created awareness, No doubt he is India’s Julian Assange.

K A Solaman 

Direct spit on Malayali’s face.

For cheap popularity and money man could do any nastiest thing. And that is what one see when film maker  Blessywho had experimented with the delivery of  actress Swetha Menon. He has filmed 38year old actress Ms Menon's ‘painful’ delivery for his latest film Kalimannu. He claims that he used four cameras at the same time to capture all features of the delivery. This means the fifth camera, which was indented to place in the delivery track  was abandoned because of space constraint!

As the shooting schedule is over,  next will be the film promotion. And that will soon take place in channels and colleges, especially Women’s colleges as they are the beneficiaries of the information gathered from this non-sense film. With this film Blessy, the director who makes films of lunatics and persons of memory loss, would become an international figure as there is only one such film  in the industry.

One experiences sex through touch, sight, sound and sometimes through smell, as one noted novelist described.  In Blessy’s case he has experimented with sight, sound and smell  with Ms Menonl. And whether he has any touch with this woman could only be revealed during channel promotion. I think Ms Menon’s husband has given permission to the film maker to disclose this too.

There is an agency called Film Censor Board at Delhi and elsewhere to check the contemptible acts in cinema industry. And if they permit this highly objectionable film  to be released, they should  to be beaten up.

Kalimannu is not about the relationship between a thirty eight year old mother and her newborn but a direct spit on Malayali’s face.

K A Solaman

Haughty Congress MP

To counteract Marxist brutality in Kannur man like K Sudharan was a design of the nature. Nevertheless, he and his party stooped to the level low by his protest outside the Valapattanam police station demanding the release of a Congress leader. The Congress leader was taken into custody for threatening the inspector of the station in a case relating to illegal sand transporting.

Like the Marxist leaders under LDF regime, the Congress leaders have also become very haughty in dealing with police force. K Sudhakaran’s behaviour is no less than the conduct of M V Jayarajan asking one Dy S P about pushing ‘spear into somebody’s anus’.

I doubt whether law would take its own course in Sudhakaran’s case as the Congress has no chance for winning any election in Kannur without Sudhakaran. It is Sudhakaran to apologise in public to regain his image gone off due to indecent protest at Valapattanam police station.

K A Solaman