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 

Pakistan love jihad.

Love has no barriers and it is blind. The advocates of ‘eternal love’ could rejoice now.  The magic of blind love is inexplicable, otherwise, the handsome young Bilawal, the future Pakistan premier, aged 24 , will not  fall  in love with a 35 years old, mother of two daughters, Hina Rabbani Khar, Pakistan Foreign Minister.

 Though it is purely a Pakistan affair, we Indians are much interested in it not only because of our foreign minister S M Krishna’s bilateral exchange with Khar but of the enthusiasm we always show in India-Pakistan cricket match. The Khar-Bilawal love affair is a sufficient tool for the mind set for those who hate older woman marrying young man.

Let the women have an upper hand and they decide matters for a better world.

K A Solaman

K A Solaman Blog: This State is not for the poor.

K A Solaman Blog: This State is not for the poor.

This State is not for the poor.

Any rise in the price of diesel or petrol will certainly raise the price of essential commodities. However, in Kerala price raise of commodities is beyond any proportion. The ineptness of the state government is very much evident in checking the unfair price rise.

The State of Kerala depends on other states for every item of daily use. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh may have his justifications for the hike in the price of diesel but prices of essential commodities are soaring at unprecedented rates. Can one justify Rs 12 hike for one kg rice when there is only Rs 5 hike for one litre diesel?

 Prices of all essential commodities have gone up in Kerala by up to 40 percent since September 14, the day the diesel price hike came into force. The traders, who seek protection from common people against the impact of FDI in retail market, have cunningly manipulated market conditions.  The Congress-led UDF Government in the State in collusion with these deceitful traders did nothing to control the sudden surge in prices. The ministers like Arayadan, and K C Joseph have made it an occasion to hike prices of electricity and milk from Milma. Bus tickets also cost more in the immediate future.

The State has been turned into a land for the rich where the ordinary and poor are to bear the brunt of tough measures by the Centre. The State rulers are mere spectators having  no control over devious traders and bus-lorry owners.  

K A Solaman 

Hassan-Isaac war.

The ugly spat going over Janasree and Kudumbasree can be rightly put as Hassan-Isaac war. Janasree Chairman M M Hassan alleges that former minister T M Thomas Isaac is spreading false news against Janasree Mission to tarnish his image. He also alleges that Kudumbasree schemes organised by Isaac and coterie are nothing but farce. All the Isaac’s projects in Mararikulam are not at all functioning now according to Hassan and that is a truth. The PDS instituted by the blessing of Isaac under the chairmanship S N College professor T Pradeep is on the verge of collapse as the local co-operative bank has sent notice for payment of dues in tune with Rs 5 lakh.

On the other hand Thomas Isaac argues that Kudumbasree mission is the only sustainable project and Janasree is formed to slay Kudumbasree.

Whatever it maybe, people believe that Kudumbasree is the project intended to help comrades and Janasree to assist Congress men. More specifically Kudumbasree is to attract women for Marxist party procession in red ‘set sari’ and Janasree to align women in green set sari.  In both missions poltiticians divert plan fund for their personal gains and that is what one see in the inept implementation of projects undertaken by both Janasree and Kudumbasree. Growth of Janasree is obviously due to misappropriation funds in Kudumbasree and acute politicisation of its projects.

K A Solaman 

Nothing serious

The TMC pullout of the Congress-led ruling coalition, tilting the govt into a minority, is nothing much serious. Mamta and her TMC could come back to coalition at any time, the past story tells so. It is not for the first time the UPA 2  have came with anti-people policies and in all the occasions, after an initial protest, Mamta reaffirmed her faith in the coalition. And that is after getting a lush package for her government from the Centre. This time also, one expects, Mamta will return after discussion with UPA chair person Sonia Gandhi.

It is to be stated that decision of the Central Government to raise diesel price and open India's supermarket sector to investment from foreign chains are out and out anti-people. The prices of essential commodities have increased 15-20 percent with the diesel price hike. The price hike would not come down even if the diesel price is fully or partly withdrawn.

The question that whether the government survive or not is meaningless as there are several regional parties ready to fish in troubled waters. The support to Congress by Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and the Samajwadi Party (SP) is not based on any national interest but on personal gains.

K A Solaman

Emerging Kerala dud.

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The preceding GIM organised by the Kerala Government was a dud. Likewise the present “Emerging Kerala 2012”. What has emerged in the whole meet is the greed of some politicians and stupidity of some bureaucrats.  They all want to sell the whole land of Kerala to multinationals for a throwaway price.

Disgraces emerged in the Emerging Kerala meet is beyond any proportion. The latest controversy concerns the claim of the Government that Volkswagen India had presented a proposal at the meet for setting up a Rs 2,000-crore engine assembly unit in Kochi. It was summarily rejected by Volkswagen Spokesman.

Another interesting thing that emerged in the meet is the foolhardiness of Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia. He asked all Keralites to abandon paddy fields and convert them into industrial houses. For people like  Ahluwalia with specially made turbans paddy is immaterial as they eat only wheat.

There is much confusion about the proposals worth 40,000crore evolved in the meet. The CM or the Industries minister is not able give a clear picture about its outcome. What is clear is, huge amount that is lavishly spent for organising this drivel meet. The Opposition has taken a wise decision by boycotting the meet. Their credibility stands high with Ahluwalia’s theory that Kerala need not focus on food security and PM’s five finger gesture of hiking diesel price by Rs five on leaving the venue after inaugurating the meet.

K A Solaman

Spoilsport by SCERT

It is reported that the education department has decided to implement an open book on demand online examination style for higher secondary students. The SCERT recommended a complete change in syllabus along with conduct of examination and valuation. SCERT opts for OMR examination style with multiple choice questions.

The multiple-choice question model examination is just blind man’s throw on a mango tree and occasionally he gets one or two.  A teacher of medical science recently told me that many students admitted to MBBS are below average because they passed the medical entrance test only by sheer luck at OMR tests. Some of the students admitted do not even know to write a passage correctly. The advocates of multiple-choice question model of entrance test may argue that medical education needs no passage writing. And for them medical education is just a bubble shading with blank ink!

According to the report, students must evaluate teachers too. This, of course, is now happening many schools where teachers are manhandled by students with political sponsors from outside. And in future if a teacher is unpopular among students’ political outfit he would get a low grade.

    

The SCERT wants to reduce strain of students and to lessen the burden of higher secondary examination. Why can’t this be extended to medical entrance examination and Bank/PSCtests too? To give least strain and equal opportunity to all-that is the right choice. Is n’t it.?

K A Solaman 

The River

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K A Solaman Blog: Status study of Thiruvananthapuram women

K A Solaman Blog: Status study of Thiruvananthapuram women: Priests, particularly Catholic priests, are a class who are drilled fiercely a decade or more by keeping them on knees to view e...

Status study of Thiruvananthapuram women

Priests, particularly Catholic priests, are a class who are drilled fiercely a decade or more by keeping them on knees to view everything so unwearyingly that they could even laugh loudly at funerals and suppurate silently at weddings.   The Status study of Kerala women fish vendors done by the Catholic priest S. Ignatius tells a story in this line.

The priest S Ignatius, the secretary of TSSS (Trivandrum Social Service Society) in his study found that among women fish vendors in the State capital sexuality remained a taboo topic, and discussion of sexuality within families does not happen. According to him these women remain largely ignorant of different options for contraception and have poor sexual hygiene. Menstruation is considered impure and not even discussed, so adolescent girls grow up with little knowledge of their own bodies. More interesting findings are: only 24 percent of the women in the study could tell what happened to the female body during menstruation and only eight percent of the women used sanitary pads. Barely 21 percent of the women understand sexuality before they were married.

There is a character called “Kurathi Kalyani” in S L Puram Sadanandan’s fames drama “ Kattukuthira”. Kalyani tells: “when she needs sex she would fume some oyster (kakka) and breathe in the burn”.  As the topic of study of father Ignatius is interesting he will be the most sort person for several invited talks on status study of Thiruvananthapuram women.  Unquestionably the Catholic priests practising celibacy need a way out for their sexual urge.

K A Solaman 

Adieu to the great entrepreneur!

The man who revolutionised the milk industry in India is no more. The 10 million farmers and millions of Amul users are indebted to V Kurien, the father of White Revolution. He was a man of vision and breath of imagination.
The Amul pattern of co-operative societies became a success and it was replicated throughout in Gujarat. It was a model to all milk societies in India. Kurien will be remembered for his contribution to the milk industry. Adieu to the great entrepreneur!

K A Solaman

The Punjab model

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The Punjab Government has asked all its departments to pre-maturely retire the corrupt and inefficient officers to provide a clean and transparent administration. Why can’t the same rule be extended to Kerala too?
Many of the government offices in Kerala are doing little or no work, indicated by the heaps of files pending on the tables of ‘babus’.
They give lame excuses for non-performance. A thorough review of the work record of these employees should be done. Since officials are reluctant to do their duty on time, the ministers interfere and often land up in trouble oblivious of the rules and facts. It is finally the court that rectifies the failing. The intervention of the judiciary in day-to-day matters of the government points out at the inefficacy of the bureaucracy.

K A SOLAMAN, Alappuzha, Kerala.
The Tribune, Sept 5, 2012

Put the phone in Manmohan Singh mode.

Most people of India do not have the habit of reading more than two dailies. And if one keeps a taste of reading more than a dozen a day he will satisfy with New York Times from America and the Tele graph from London. The Washington Post or Asian Age may not be a selection for an august reader. The PMO office in India has made it a big business by compelling all Indians to read the Washington Post. And that all started with an article published in the Post against Indian PM Dr Manmohan Singh.

Whether or not Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is a sad figure, it is not the concern of Americans. It is the concern of Indians. In India itself there is harsh criticism against the PM about 2G scam, Coal gate and what else. He is the subject matter of offensive articles and   crude poems. For instance in a poem by Kerala’s former Co-operation Minister G Sudhakaran, the PM has been ridiculed much. Mr. Sudhakaran has, of course, written a more vulgar poem about US President Barrack Obama  titled  “Who are you Obama?”. Nevertheless,  none from the US is seen worried about the humiliation done to Obama by Sudhakaran’s poem published in a Malayalam daily.

The man in the Washington post who wrote the article about Manmohan Singh may not be a person of  high esteem. He is  just a column writer and then why the PMO office makes it a big issue. The profile published by the Post said the prime minister's image of a 'scrupulously honorable, humble and intellectual technocrat' had turned into one who is 'a dithering, ineffectual bureaucrat presiding over a deeply corrupt government'.  This observation is apparently true as corruption in the country is far beyond any reckon.

It is better for PMO office to keep their mobile phones on 'Manmohan Singh mode',  that is, on  the silent mode. There is no need for much hullaballoo about the article in the Washington Post.
K A Solaman

K A Solaman Blog: Karuthamma to the last resort!

K A Solaman Blog: Karuthamma to the last resort!: Entry into the “last resort of a scoundrel” is a tough task for a person especially a woman celebrity at 70. This I say not...

Karuthamma to the last resort!

Entry into the “last resort of a scoundrel” is a tough task for a person especially a woman celebrity at 70. This I say not because of the task of appointing a person to accompany her with bottle of ayurvedic emulsion to use at knee pain but of of the difficulty in tackling the crowd she attracts. “Karuthamma”  is still a heart throb for “sixty plus youths”.

The veteran actress Sheela has thrilled not only the Defence Minister of the country but all Keralaites with her decision to join Congress. Certainly her choice is good as she could, at least, save her life even if she abandons the party. Some other political parties in Kerala never tolerate when its member leaves the party discontented.

When Sheela visited his home the Defence Minister might have delighted much and cherished those hassle-free days in Thiruvananthapuram where he and his disciple Cherian Philip roamed from theatre to theatre watching Sheela and Nazir “tree orbiting” on the silver screen.

Sheela  holds the world record for acting as the leading lady of Malayalam "evergreen hero" Prem Nazir in the maximum number of films (110), and now she needs to do something for the people, especially for women. Nevertheless, her attempt to save the boozers of the State would reach nowhere as the Government itself survives on the 6000 crore collected as tax over liquor sale. Again, whatever may be her contribution to culture and politics, the stalwarts of the Congress like Sobhana George, Padmaja and  Sindhu Joy  are not ready to discount it. The Youth Congress Men will not allow Sobhana, Padmaja and Sindhu to sacrifice themselves for the seventy plus old lady. Sheela will be always under these ladies.

-K A Solaman 

The Punjab model

Punjab Government has decided to do away with its inefficient officers and employees. For this purpose, the State Government asked all its departments to pre-maturely retire the corrupt and inefficient officers and employees to provide a clean and transparent administration. Why can’t it be extended to Kerala too?

Many of the State Government employees in Kerala are doing little work or no work. The heap of files pending on their tables is an indication for this. The lame excuse of these employees is that the files were accumulated by the person just before him in his place and he is new to the post. And when a person asks about this he says: “These files are intended for CM’s Mass Contact Programme”. A thorough reviewing of the work record of these employees should be done and they should be allowed to continue in service until they meet the requisites. All officials absconding from their seat during work time for union work should be identified and they should be sent on leave for doing that work.

Since all officials are reluctant to do their duty in time, the ministers interfere and often land up in trouble unknowing the rules. And it is finally the court that rectifies the failing. The interference of court in all day-to-day matters of the government fingers to the inefficacy of the bureaucracy. The Punjab model to abandon the inefficient officials is quite welcome.

K A Solaman

Mani in British Parliament !

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If anyone has uncertainty about the intellect of British Cabinet ministers, Lords, MPs, eminent professors of Cambridge and Oxford Universities and London School of Economics, it will fade away with the talk of Mani in the British Parliament. The State Finance Minister K M Mani is all set to deliver a speech by entering the British House of Commons as a special invitee, it is reported. The subject of talk is his famed `Working Class Ideology’ (Adhwana Varga Sidhantham).

If this subject is incomprehensible to the Commons, then Mani will speak about his famous research topic ‘grow and split’ (valarum, pilarum’). For quite long the English men are forgotten laughing at jokes.

K A Solaman 
Published New Indian Express dated 3-9-12

Liquor tourism in Kerala

“If bar timings are imposed here, it will be a death knell for the tourism industry” is the view of a leading resort owner from Kovalam. This means the revenue in tune with Rs.6,000 crore to the state government by way of taxes is totally from liquor tourism.  The inquiry of Kerala High Court about prohibiting foreign liquor in bars and hotels before 5pm by September 10 has annoyed the State Government.

The Chief Minister and other ministers always talk in full mouth about reducing liquor consumption in the State. Nevertheless, they have seemingly lost control over the inquiry of the court. When court asked about the closing of bars annoyed Excise officials are thinking of closing 383 government-owned outlets that sell liquor.

The Court’s inquiry, of course, has brought out the emptiness in the words of ministers about reducing gradually liquor consumption in the State. The rulers could not pass over the huge revenue the State collected as tax.

-K A Solaman

It is ugly politics.

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It is not green or greedy politics in Kerala but ugly politics. Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy  playing down appearance of posters against him at the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee office  is a part of it. The posters accused him of being responsible for the delay in reconstitution of KPCC and DCCs and criticized his unsure stand on Nelliyampathy estate cases. The Congress men could not affix these without the consent of the green politics campaigners.

The reason for UDF rule to still sustain in the State is not its merit but by the split in the LDF. Nelliyampathy estate issue has snowballed into a major crisis for Congress and ruling UDF because some are benefitted and others not.  Seemingly the law of equi-partition was not observed in distributing money collected from Nelliampathy.  

The ruling front and the opposition parties lost faith in Kerala police and that is why they demand CBI inquiry in all shambles.  State Forest Minister KB Ganeshkumar  seeking  CBI probe into Nelliampathy issue indicates what else. The term “green politics” is a misnomer as none in the State is interested in protecting its green pastures. Congress MLAs’ claim that they stand for 'green politics' is dubious. Their revolt is against Oommen Chandy with the blessing of oneat the Centre.

K A Solaman 

Marriage is not in heaven but in different panchayats.!

Reason for preferring Kerala as a place for marriage is, of course, the convenience of the people especially the foreigners. They get married easily and  get the marriage certificate not one but many from local bodies if marriages are conducted in different locations. The rules of the marriage registration agency particularly those of the panchayats are baggy to get certificate very easily. It is now not an offence to get more certificates by arranging the marriage of the same couple at different localities.

Today I attended a Christian marriage at Vanaswargam Church, S L Puram, Cherthala for which the bride was one converted from Hindu religion. The marriage is likely to be registered in Kanjikkuzhy panchayat. The reception was arranged in an auditorium at Muhamma Panchayat. When I reached the auditorium the people there were waiting for the bride and groom to come as the “muhurtham” was almost ahead for the marriage. Soon the couple married  at the church an hour before  reached spot in Hindu marriage attire and re-married in the Hindu style. A priest (Shanti) of the local SNDPwith a photo of Sre Narayana Guru and a traditional lamp was present their to chant the Hindu marriage manthras. Obviously this Hindu marriage is going to be registered in Muhamma Munchayat. The whole incident was incomprehensible to me and hence I left the place avoiding the reception. I think, I was invited only for the Christian marriage in the Church.

And which certificate the couple is going to collect is unknown to me. Perhaps they collect certificates from both the panchayats and use them advantageously for their foreign trips. And they also keep separate wedding albums to show their kids in future the diverse version of their marriages. This is not my first experience  to attend a marriage of the sort as I had another experience  at Kanichukulangara Co-operative bank auditorium a few months back.

I can’t understand why the people arrange both the types of marriage ceremony for inter-caste marriages. Why can’t they prefer a registered marriage in that case?.  Does the law permit people to hold two more marriage certificates?  And if it is a criminal offence what is the punishment? Could the marriage registration authority issue certificates  without proper enquiry?

Thanks to cell phone and the Internet.  Coming are the days of more and more “online” inter-caste marriages. The government should weigh up to make rules to contain marriage frauds.

Don’t permit God’s Own Country to become a place of  fraud nuptial knots.

K A Solaman 

The secret !

Thought for the Day

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.— Agatha Christie

Thought for the Day

A happy family is but an earlier heaven. — George Bernard Shaw

CPM Kangaroo court

The Kerala CPM have made an introspection about the violence they organised in connection with the arrest of their Kannur District Secretary. That is why they kept silence on August 13 when   one of their MLAs T V Rajesh  being locked up in jail under remand. The MLA was seen very happy with no weeping, his usual practice of sharing emotions at minor episodes. The People of Kerala have not forgotten the scene in the recently concluded session in the Kerala Assembly.

The police have done a tough job by charging Rajesh with concealing design to commit the crime under Section 118 of the IPC in the Shukoor murder case. Rajesh and P Jayarajan, both now in Kannur jail, could fight the cases legally and the two Jayarajan’s outside the jail politically. It is M V Jayarajan who benifitted much with P Jayarajan's arrest. Decayed one is the manure for the other.

It is hoped that the Marxist executioners would stop their work with the further proceedings of this case and similar others as conspiring leaders are also booked along with serial killers.  The CPM Kangaroo court should stop functioning in the State -that is the need of the hour.

K A Solaman 

K A Solaman Blog: Risky contributory pension

K A Solaman Blog: Risky contributory pension: Bizarre is the decision of the Kerala Government to replace statutory pension scheme with the contributory pension scheme for its new emp...

Risky contributory pension

Bizarre is the decision of the Kerala Government to replace statutory pension scheme with the contributory pension scheme for its new employees joining from next year. This can be thought as a free runner to hike the retirement age from 56 to 60. Seemingly the present government has no concern about the fates of thousands of unemployed educated youths waiting for a job.

For the present staff, the decision of the government about contributory pension and pension age hike is something very sweet to chew and the same time very sour to swallow. Past experience tells that the youth organizations cannot be trusted because they are more interested in matters other than those related to unemployed youths.

The Chief Minister or else who defending the pension age hike by quoting examples of other states is unacceptable as the situation is entirely different in Kerala. It is of course a bad practice on the part of the government to sustain by withholding the retirement benefits of the employees. The government implementing such bizarre pension scheme without any discussion in the State assembly or among public is unjustifiable.

The pension fund collected by way of contributory pension is going to the hands of private mutual fund and insurance promoters and the past records of most of them are dubious The future pensioners are likely to lose their pension as operation in stock market is unpredictable especially when the fund managers are unscrupulous persons. The present decision of the government is highly risky and it should be withdrawn.

K A Solaman

Illegitimate father

I congratulate Rohit Shekhar, son of N D Tiwari and  Ujjwala Sharma  for his quest to not be called a ‘bastard’. As no one is born without a father it is highly humiliating to use the word ‘bastard’ against a man. It was not Rohit Shekhar alone in the country who has gone through such a humiliating experience. Rohit is a trailblazer to many who had undergone bitter experiences. He said: “I am not the illegitimate son, he(Tiwari) is my illegitimate father”. This is absolutely right.

High profile Congress leader ND Tiwari misused his political position and hence he should be asked to compensate for the wrong doings he has done to a woman and her son. The wishy-washy Tiwari has hoodwinked the entire country with his political poses as minister, governor etc.

Once again congratulations to Rohit Shekhar for 'giving birth' to his illegitimate father.

K A Solaman

Ugly spat within the UDF

The spat between Kerala Chief Whip PC George and Congress MLA T N Prathapan over Nelliyampathi issue is an ugly episode within the UDF. But one doesn’t think that it would bring any crisis to the UDF ministry.  UDF itself is a crisis management committee  where minor scuffle  of the George-Prathapan sort has no significance.  Gerge has to be appreciated for one thing for he never weeps like T N Prathapan or T V Rajesh before channels camera  . And George is the only one in the UDF to give immediate retort to any one of his Front or in the Opposition. The Chief Minister Oommen Chany knows this well and that is why he  resorted to silence on the issue.   I think Prathapan and his coterie are much disturbed for not getting any ministerial birth to him or his friend Satheesan and that is why this hullaballoo.  

Interestingly when the mudslinging between two leaders with in the UDF  has  escalated AK Antony from Delhi  said the Congress is a  world wonder. I think it is not actually the Congress but the UDF in Kerala is world wonder . The UDF sustains in Kerala because of the continuous support of Marxists by way of their street  killings and hartals. And nobody fear that the team of four  Congress MLAs, T N Prathapan, V D Satheeshan, Hiby Eden, V T Balram is planning to quit UDF and  join LDF for ministerial birth.

One who watched the channel observes that  nothing  so grave as Prathapan put before a channel woman about calling him as “Deevaran’. If Pulaya, Deevara, Araya, Asari, Mappila etc can co-exist in the society why it is so horrible to name these communities. What George has done is not a big mistake. It is foolish to ask George to realize  the worth of his position and act in a mature manner.

K A Solaman 

Who misused the police?

CPM State Secretary Pinarayi Vijayan  alleges  that the UDF government is trying to destroy his party by misusing the police. The same was the complaint of Ommen Chandy  while LDF was in power. When LDF rule, police association is headed by leftist leaders of the police and while UDF is in power rightists are in the helm of police association. This situation  has started ever since the police formed their association on political backing.

The political association of the police is a sham and in fact it should not be allowed. Do the UDF,  LDF and other political parties have guts to sit together to take a decision against the political affiliation of police?  Think of the case  the Indian Army forming an association similar to one of police with political connection to Congress, BJP and the Communist. What a travesty would be the situation!

The police being used or rather misused as a force against one party by another party, is the design of  politicians and hence they have to bear the brunt.  Politics and democratic elections are needed but not for police who are intended to maintain law and order without the pressure of caste, creed and politics.

K A Solaman 

Endless hartal

The hartal to protest against the arrest of P jayarajan, the CPM activists resorted to vandalising vehicles, party offices and media centres. During the sporadic violence hartal supporters stoned buses , cars and government offices. The violence on the streets sent a wave of panic among city dwellers and elsewhere in the State. It seems that they have no tomorrow with P jayarajan in jail. It is gripping to see that except a comment from PB member M A Baby  none among the bigwigs of CPM have asked the cadres to observe a peaceful protest. The party activists made the hartal a tough one and it seems that they would declare non-stop hartals because of oncoming arrests of M M Mani, T V Rajesh and else who.

It is unspeakable to see that though the Court has banned bandhs and hartals in the State but  it is still observed with utmost vigour and violence.The hartal observers should immediately be fined for the damages that they have done to the State with their destructive hartal.  The Government should do everything necessary for ensuring security of the people and their property.


K A Solaman
Publsihed NIE in 4-8-12