Liability for Lord Venkateshwara

Now it is the liability of Lord Venkateshwara of Tirupati to wash off all sins and save the humble son Vijay Mallya from all his wrong doings. Mallya could have paid up employees of King Fisher Airlines instead of offering three kgs of gold to the lord.  If he needs to do something good, he could have adopted villages to give poor children the good education. He could also have been abstained from liquor manufacturing as many thousands of families have been  ruined by consuming the products made by his company.  A man who believe in God truthfully, do honest job and in Mallya’s case it is not so. It would take decades for people like Mallya to understand that serving mankind is serving god.

It is equally bad for a temple to accept money from an unscrupulous business man who earned money by selling liquor and ruining thousands.. The country should make laws to confiscate money accumulated in temples and other worship places and it should be advantageously diverted for feeding the poor and educating them.

K A Solaman . 

MLAs with laptop and iPad

It is a novel gesture by Speaker G Karthikeyan permitting the Members of Kerala Legislative Assembly to use laptop and iPad in the House. Let us hope that the new facility would help improve the performance of the members in the House. And if they use these gadgets for variety purpose as done by the members of the Karnataka Assembly, then never allow that news to leak out from the house.

Moreover, those seventy plus members who are unable to differentiate iPad and sanitary pad should be given awareness class to avoid further embarrassment. Nevertheless, more interesting stories are expected from the house about the use of laptop and tablet because we have past story of a minister keeping his clothes in a brand new refrigerator.

K A Solaman 

Insensitive remarks by Delhi CM

The remarks of Delhi CM Sheila Dikshit that 'Rs 600 is enough to feed family of five for one month' is obnoxious. This I say for a simple reason. Indian Coffee Houses run by Thrissur based cooperative society in Kerala charges Rs 31 for one ‘masala dosa’. Hardly one gets 20 dosa for rupees 600. Does Delhi CM mean that 20 dosa is sufficient for a family of five one month. In my opinion not even a single rupee is needed if all the five members lie down and watch the sky for all the days in a month

    

Ms Dikshit’s remarks are bound to make her party uncomfortable, especially since the Congress would be hoping to take advantage of on the scheme in view of the assembly elections that are slated next year. The party is already promoting the latest venture, due to be implemented on April 1 next year, with a slogan, 'aapka paisa, aapke haath' (your money in your hands), as one for the aam aadmi. If Sheila Dikshit has said as reported it is sure that there are ignorant people, as PM put it, among Chief Ministers too. Dikshit needs some sort of education to understand the way in which the country lopes.

Ms Dikshit comment is derogatory and insensitive as they are the people who spent Rs 600 per minute for themselves and ask a family of five to sustain for one month with Rs 600. The Delhi CM should be ashamed of making such irrelevant statement.

K A Solaman 

Maudani again in the limelight.

Who said  All India Muslim League is  not a secular political party? If anyone has doubt look at the comment by the central minister and leader of the Muslim league E Ahmed. He said he would not allow any Muslim to suffer in jail.  His party’s secularism is very clear with the word ‘Muslim’ instead of ‘citizen’

‘Let bygones be bygones’ is a good motto. Forget and forgive the past. What Abdul Nazar Maudany said and done is a past story. He was in Coimbatore jail for about nine years and now about twenty eight months in Bangalore jail and that too without any trial. This is sufficiently a human rights violation case, nevertheless, more interesting is the interference of political parties in Maudani’s case.  Maudani’ jail term is a subject of discussion among political parties during election time, however, now without any election in the offing all parties in Kerala took the matter intently and the most provoking comment is from E Ahmed. The word ’Muslim’ in his statement is highly confrontational and for this single reason he is unfit to stay as a member in the Central Cabinet.

And in Maudani’s case what former Kerala chief minister V.S. Achuthanandan said is acceptable. Maudani should get justice from the court and it is not the ruling UDF or the official faction of the CPM to decide Maudani’s fate. If there is any sluggishness in the proceedings of the court it is due the fault of  all political parties which ruled India time to time.

K A Solaman

Double charge by KSEB

For quite long the KSEB has become a nightmare to power consumers in Kerala. And with the regulatory commission permitting it to levy double charge per unit from consumers using above 300 units in a month is an added misery.  It is a pity that there is no substitute for KSEB when all other sectors have been privatised by the Government.

The KSEB action of load-shedding for one hour a day is a futile gesture. It is a ploy to hoodwink the poor and to promote the inverter industry. The rich ones find no problem during power cut because of  the backups they maintain at home and offices.

The frequent hike in power price not only siphons consumers’ money but increases the price of essential commodities.

-K A Solaman
Published by the Deccan Chronicle on 15-12-12

Post-mortem time.

It is the post-mortem time in Kerala. Soon after the inquiry and arrest of one-two-three killers M M Moni et al, the Kerala Police has taken over re-investigation of the murder case of  KT Jayakrishnan in Kannur in 1999. The Government took the decision to reopen the case on the basis of the disclosure made by TK Rajeesh, arrested for the murder of TP Chandrasekharan.

And enquiry on the killing of Nalppadi Vasu and few others are in the offing. If this trend continues more and more police men would be recruited to meet the growing need. The hell-bound street duty of the police to squeeze two and four wheeler owners to fill the state coffers need much man hours of the police. And if post-mortem cases increase in the recent proportion there would be high dearth of the police men to maintain law and order.

K A Solaman

Clarification of VS

V S Achuthanandhan's clarification on his recent statement saying he had not uttered anything about the party making moves to remove him from the post of opposition leader, is true.  A clever politician is like this.  And I wonder why the other comrades in his party often fails  to read between the lines. They think a clarification of the sort from VS  would remove all doubts  of the ever confused party cadres. 

Is Kodiyeri the person who stitched the clothes of the Opposition leader? The conspirators in the UDF  can disclose it if the media is incapable of finding the fact. 

Yours fathfully

Setback to Chandy Govt

The quashing of FIR against former Kerala chief minister VS Achuthanandan in the land-deal case by the Kerala High Court single bench is a huge setback for the Oomen Chandy government. Though Chandy retrieved his lost ground a little through a stay order by the division bench  of the HC the initial blow was too heavy. The single judge’s observations against Chandy government are severely damaging.

Presumably severe pressure from two key allies viz Kunhalikkutty and R Balkrishna Pillai to act against Achuthanandan was forced Chandy to land up in trouble. The observation by the court that the vigilance department was looking for a nail, after deciding to crucify somebody is severely damaging for any democratic government.  Dealing a case ‘legally and  politically’in Kerala  means ruthlessly targeting a political opponent .

K A Solaman

K A Solaman Blog: Draconian rule

K A Solaman Blog: Draconian rule: The Norwegian rule of punishing parents for what is called an ill-treatment of their son is draconian. If reports can be believed wh...

Draconian rule

The Norwegian rule of punishing parents for what is called an ill-treatment of their son is draconian. If reports can be believed what the parents have done is a curative measure to save their child from future trouble. Perhaps the Norway Government would look after the boy in the absence of their parents; nevertheless this law is not suited to India where the parents have the sole responsibility for the well-being of their child. Children often make annoyance because of their age and it is the duty of their parents, and not anyone else, to correct them.  

The people should keep off work in tyrannical countries like Norway if they are really interested in the welfare of their sons and daughters.  Norway is denying the right of the child to get parental love by putting the parents in prison. No Government in the world can make substitute arrangement for parental care.

K A Solaman

.The New Indian Express published 8-12-12

Something personal!

K A Solaman	29 Nov (3 days ago)
to dcedirectorate

The Director,

The Collegiate Education, Govt of Kerala.

Sir,

Subject: 1) Pension in Private Colleges- K A Solaman, Asso.Prof (Rtd), Physics Dept,
 Pension Revision-reg

Ref: M1/32912/2012/ Cool.Edu Dept dated 8-10-12.

2) E2 Pen 5705/05 Dt 26.9.2005

Let me kindly know whether my pension has been revised or not. If not please inform
me the action to be taken on my part to get the pension revised as per order number
GO(P) 58/2010?Hr Edcn Dt 27.03.2010

Yours faithfully,
K A Solaman,

dce directorate	1 Dec (1 day ago)
to me

Sir,

The  proposal for revising your pensionary benefits has not been received in this office so far. You

 may contact the Principal of your college for details as to whether the proposal has been sent to

 the Deputy DCE, Ernakulam for transmission to the office of  the DCE,TVM -------------
----------------------------

regards,

A.O (Pension)
Directorate of Collegiate Education
Vikas Bhavan
Thiruvananthapuram                                            

K A Solaman	22:37 (1 minute ago)
to dce

Sir,

Thank you for the reply. If the Principal is not interested to do his duty what would be the next step? 

 I have submitted the proposal a month ago as per the instruction over phone from your office.

 The copy of the same has been forwarded to your office. 

Yours faithfully,

K A Solaman 

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K A Solaman Blog: Fire chain protest

K A Solaman Blog: Fire chain protest: The CPM is known for its novel protests like hartal,  human wall,  human chain, fire chain or what else. The latest fire chain protest is ...

Fire chain protest

The CPM is known for its novel protests like hartal,  human wall,  human chain, fire chain or what else. The latest fire chain protest is an original one and I appreciate it  not because of Achuthanandan’s wife prepared ‘payasam’, Pinaray’s wife cooked ‘kappa puzhukku, M A Baby’s wife ‘mathikkari’ or G Sudhakaran’s wife  boiled pipe water. It was a figurative remonstration against the hike in cooking gas price and the government move to curtail ration subsidy. Some sort of protest is absolutely necessary against the wrong policies of the UPA Government. The drastic cut in subsidised LPG cylinders to households and government move to cut ration subsidy is a blow to common man.

The protest participated by more than three  lakh people is an eye-opener to the Central Government who play hide and seek with oil refining companies.

K A Solaman

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

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