Right decision

The senior CPI leader K E Ismail was playing an Achuthanandan  of CPM with his discordant comment in connection with the CPI Ministers’ cabinet meet boycott over Thomas Chandy issue. Seemingly  Ismail’s’ public statement was a gross violation of party discipline.

Everyone knows KE Ismail was a candidate for a kill against Kanam Rajendran in the secretary election but he was outrightly rejected by the party. In the Thomas Chandy episode CPI got an added advantage and hence Ismail's  statement went on the wrong foot. So, in this connection CPI decision to take action against Ismail is in the right direction.

K A Salaman

Needed social audit

The Kerala government decision to introduce ten percent reservation for the economically backward among forward communities in appointments to Devaswom boards, is an impringement in the constitutional rights of the minority communities. This is seemingly a conspicuous attempt to take over reservation in other departments too. In this context SNDP. KPMS, KLCA and other organisations of backward  communities should come forward to fight against the wrong policy of the  government.

What doesthe Constitution of India  guarantee is caste-based and not economic reservation. As social justice is still in peril it is unjust on the part of LDF government not to consider
backwardness of dalit communities.
Economic reservation is against the constitutional provisions of reservation and hence  before making any decision in this direction government should conduct a social audit.

K A Solaman

Last minute drill

The connecting links against Dileep in the actor abduction case available with the police is apparently fragile. That is why the police failed to submit the charge sheet before the court till date.The Special Investigation Team is in a desperate bid to collect more evidence. The police team making last minute  interrogation of  actor Dileep reads in this direction. The police may be of notion that Dileep himself will hand over to them a sealed cover containing all the evidences against him.

Seemingly, summoning Dileep to the Police Club and watching his old numbers is a pastime for the police. The interrogation drill will continue.

K A Solaman

Unfortunate act by IMA

The Indian Medical Association (IMA) had the history  of supporting nurses and they had earlier demanded private hospital managements and the State government to revise the pay and service conditions of nurses. Nevertheless, when it comes to striking nurses of Cherthala KVM hospital they are deadly against nurses. The reason is obvious. The manager of the hospital is a doctor who is a member of IMA. As the member doctor is the prime accused in nurses strike IMA has no option other than to support the doctor. Instead of asking the
management to ensure  the pay of the nursing staff and their working hours  as per government stipulation they took an obnoxious stand.

The IMA that stood always for the provisions of the Minimum Wages Act in hospitals coming against Cherthala KVM nurses, is unfortunate. 
K A Solaman

Highly judicious

The Kerala High Court, once again reiterating its ban on political strikes in educational institutions, has given direct warning to all and sundry who openly criticise its initial order. The court has categorically said it is not about banning students politics but about strikes inside  the campus. However, misinterpreting this,even national leaders  find it as a golden opportunity to openly criticise the court.

It is true that educational institutions are for studies. Several students through participation in politics start indiscipline in colleges. Most of the students for these activities are rusticated from educational interests. Many politicians are dragging the students in hartals and  strikes for their interests, which in turn spoil students lives. In that point the present court observation is highly judicious.

K A Solaman

Denouncing Taj Mahal!

Rewriting history is not all good for BJP or any other political party. BJP leader Sangeet Som saying that Taj Mahal is a "blot" on Indian culture is a misquote. In fact, the Taj Mahal was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1983 for being the jewel of Muslim art in India and one of the universally admired masterpieces of the world's heritage.  Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore has described it as "the tear-drop on the cheek of time".  It is regarded by many as the best example of Mughal Architecture and a symbol of India's rich history.  It now presently values 5280 crore rupees ard  attracts 7–8 million visitors a year. In 2007, it was declared a winner of the New 7 Wonders.

In that case  Uttar Pradesh government removing the Taj Mahal from the list of attractions in its tourism booklet, is idiotic. Many people are disappointed because of Taj Mahal is being removed from the UP tourism booklet. BJP MLA Som  has no right to distort history. Those that fail to learn from history, are doomed to utter non-sense

K A Solaman

Sea cleaning mission

The sea cleaning mission ‘Suchithwa Sagaram’  launched by Minister Mercykutty Amma is a novel gesture. The waste plastic collection started  at Neendakara and Sakthikulangara regions extending to Kochi, Alappuzha, Kozhikode coasts, is also welcome.

The waste plastic  could be crushed and used  for road construction and for that an immediate co-ordination between various departments is needed. The mission gives awareness to fishermen to do away with the practice of throwing plastic kits to the sea. The boat owners getting 2000 sacks to collect the waste from sea is an added attraction.

And if this mission is extended to land also more and more people will come forward to collect plastic wastes. Carry bags, milk packets and sacks are available in plenty at school-college compounds, markets, worship places, festival sites, and road sides. If they get a reasonable price also for plastic waste more people will collect and sell it.

K A Solaman

War of words crossing limit

BJP led 'Jana Raksha Yatra’ is a desperate bid by the party to fish out in troubled waters In the state. BJP Chief Amit Shah, who was once barred by the Supreme Court from entering his own state, is now seemingly tries to make trouble in the communal- political frame work of the state. With BJP yatra the peaceful political atmosphere has been disrupted. There are reports of  clash between warring groups from all parts of the state.

More disgustig is the provocative outbursts of certain party leaders opposing BJP. CPM state secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan said Amit Shah was scared to walk through Pinarayi. Is Pinarayi town a hell unsuitable to walk for a national leader with Z-plus security? For BJP leaders Shah is a lion and for opponents he is a lion without teeth.

The war of words between BJP leaders and their detractors crossed all limits.

K A Solaman

Prakash Raj agenda

Of late TN cine actors are playing petty politics. Latest entry in this direction is popular actor Prakash Raj. To win accolades he takes on Prime Minister Modi. Prakash Raj had criticised Modi’s silence on those  celebrating the killing of journalist Gauri Lankesh.

Now it is time for all and sundry actors to target PM Modi. There are no lesser leaders for them to hurl abuses. Actor Raj has shown his political immaturity with his statement. The actors with poor personal life are incapable to attract the faith of ordinary people.

Raj can continue acting in films but he is not able to do anything good in politics.

K A Solaman

Stenchy gesture

Tourism Minister Alphons Kannanthanam taking Prime Minister Narendra Modi's call for 'Swachhta hi Seva' is a good gesture but he wiping  paan and gutkha stained walls with bare hands is a very poor show.   Handling filth with bare hands  invites  the risk of certain contageous diseseas. In addition, it gives wrong notion to students taking part in Swachchata hi-Seva. To remove stain, filth and waste one has to invariably use brush, gloves and shovel.

Keep India clean slogan is a laudable one and should be welcomed. However, the gimmicks like cleaning filth with bare hands and minister's staff putting filth in advance enabling him to clear it with bare hands, are intolerable. If minister Kannanthanam  wants to see real filth, keep open his eyes while occassionally passing through NH 66 in Kerala. The entire road-side is piled up.with waste by vendors. In Kerala fish vendors have abandoned fish market for quite long and assembled on highways making the entire reach filthy and stenchy

K A Solaman

Solar Scam Report

The Solar Comission report regarding the solar scam was handed over to the Chief Minister. This detailed report was welcomed by former Chief Minister Oommen Chandy and prime accused Saritha S  Nair. Hopefully, this report will 
meet the same fate of oblivion like the previous ones in the history of Kerala.

The Commission told, the Chief Minister would reveal the details of the report. This will unlikely to happen. As the Vengara poll is in the offing, the CM may reveal some silly stuff from the report and not anything serious. Oommen Chandy is a clever man and if Pinarayi dares to reveal anything serious against, Chandy will open his suitcase to verify photos, CDs, pen drives and what else, to keep mouth of his adversaries shut.

Certain media publishing the photo footage of Oommen chandy and Saritha S Nair with equal importance is highly interesting.

K A Solaman

Kannanthanam funny

A London returned preist while addressing local people in Alappuzha coastal area once said: The children of London are beautiful like red apple and not like these wormy children sitting here. The trouble then started was amicably settled by an immediate apology by the priest.

Likewise Union Minister Alphons Kannanthanam speaks non-sense in Odisha and corrects  in Kerala saying it was a joke cracked by him there. Kannanthanam said that his comments made in Odisha on beef was meant to be funny and not meant to be on record. According to him when good beef is available in foreign countries, there is no need for them to come here and eat the meat of lean animals.

This is an outright insult to Indian cattle especially cow because a major chunk of beef to foregn countries are exported from India. It is a major attraction for foreigners to eat good beef while India than cold storaged poor quality beef available in their country.

The main complaint of Kannanthanam is that there is none in Kerala to enjoy good humour. This is true as there is no takers for his joke in the tune; even when there is hike in petrol prices, the cost of commodities are not going up here!

K A Solaman

Craze for MBBS course

Most of our parents still believe that  only medical courses have status.Even learned people are mis-guided and fall into the trap of MBBS/BDS courses. They feel that their children will ensure a prosperous future if they enter a medical college. They are ready to spend several lakhs to make their children doctors. This belief has led to a prolific increase in the number of self-financed, self-styled  professional colleges. Most of the self financing medical colleges provide sub-standard education and produce under-qualified doctors. What the parents fail to realize is that unless their wards have a real aptitude for the MBBS course they can never become successful doctors. Even bright students find it difficult complete the course succesfully.

The society also needs other professionals like teachers, journalists, artists, dancers, actors, singers and chef others. A job of a chef in a five ster hotel earning Rs 3 lakh per month is not of low profile. Some of the doctors  have given up their profession to become artists, film actors, playback singers etc. This proves that not only they did not have the aptitude to become doctors but they have also prevented the ones with the real aptitude for the profession. It time for our parents to think more logically and sensibily their wards are not tortured.

K A Solaman

Antony speak

The Kerala Govt.plan to implement  hydro-power project at ecologically sensitive Athirappilly in Thrissur district is aimed at ecological disaster. This decision is an insult to the Mother Nature and a U-turn from the previous stance of the LDF. In this context, after many years of hibernation on Kerala matters, Congress leader A.K. Antony coming against the Athirappilly hydel project is praiseworthy. The CPM-led State government is now keen to implement it.

The implementation of the project on the downstreams of Chalakudy river would convert that area into a dumpyard of construction materials which would severly affect fauna and flora. It is well researched and reported that a new dam spending  several crores of rupees is no longer feasible to Kerala. Hence, the present plan  to book some quick bucks by politicians and bureaucrats will not be permitted by the peope of Kerala at any cost.

The reason for both LDF and UDF standing for the dam when in power and speak against it when out of power is curious.

K A Solaman

Card drill will continue

Issue of Aadhaar card or PAN card has become a child's play now. As one knows, Aadhaar is a 12-digit biometrics based identity number issued by the UIDAI. It has been now reported that
around 81 lakh Aadhaar numbers have been deactivated by the UIDAI or Unique Identification Authority of India, according to Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology. This means out of the 115 crore Aadhaars issued, 81 lakh of people possess  invalid Aadhaar numbers.  All they have to reappear before Aadhaar issuing offices to get new one. This creates loss of 81lakh working days as one day is needed to finish Aadhaar application formalities. Money loss for travel and food is extra. Like wise is the case of PAN cards. Several lakhs of PAN cards also have been deactivated,

Then, who is responsible for this sort descrepancy? Is our government mechanism is so poor fo execute a work meticulously?

In Kerala, people are in queue for quite long to get Ration cards without mistake. After Ration card,  it is another turn for them to get foolproof Aadhaar card.  Seemingly the drill will continue.

K A Solaman

Control them

Immigrant worker Murugan’s death following denial of treatment by various hospitals in Kollam and Thiruvananthapuram  indicates how greedy and unscrupulous are these hospital managements. The incident is a shame to the state. Action should be taken against these hospital managements for dereliction of service.

And in this regard Kerala Clinical Establishments (Registration and Regulation) bill stipulating hospitals  to put up boards displaying the service fee and medical package expenses, is a welcome move. At present most of the hospitals charge exorbitantly for their service. Hospitals refusing to admit accident cases and unwilling to reduce their treatment expenses should not be permitted to function.

K A Solaman

Respect one's mother tongue

Kerala C M Pinarayi Vijayan in an NDTV interview said the BJP and RSS were isolated in the state with no support from the people. May be it right or wrong my point is the poor performance of Pinarayi in English before the interviewer.

Knowing English is not a big issue as even beggers of US and Britain speak it fluently. Since our mother tongue is Malayalam, majority of us are not good at English. This is evident from the  performance  of Kerala MPs like P K Sreemathi, K C Venugopal or M B Rajesh in the Parliament.

Many of the world leaders like Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese Premier Xi Jinping and others prefer their mother tongue to English when they communicate with world leaders. Why can't our state leaders prefer Malayalam for interview instead of sitting as a laughing stock before Oxford trained channel interviewers? If one gives due respect to his mother tongue then there arises no question of humiliation for not knowing English.

K A Solaman

Politically motived case?

The arrest of an MLA for sexual assualt case, is first of its  kind in Kerala. However, the case smacks of conspiracy as woman's sister came in favour of Vincent MLA. Of late, sexual abuse complaints are rampant in the state and very often the woman who enjoyed the company of the man for long time, turns hostile for a reason and then registers a police complaint. As our law favours woman the end loser is man. Presumably in Vincent's case also this might had happened.

Taken advantage of the situation all ruling front MLAs came against Vincent and Opposition MLAs opted to keep mum. If Vincent's case is not amicably solved more cases would surface and more MLAs would be indicted. Politically
motivated sexual abuse cases could be targeted not only to opposition MLAs but also to ruling legislators.

K A Solaman

Fever pitch

According to reports, the fever death toll in Kerala has now crossed 200. Most of these deaths are H1N1- and dengue-related. The lack of cleanliness and sanitation is often a fundamental cause of such illnesses. The Kerala health department has not yet come up with a unique way to tackle the situation. Every day, press releases are issued cautioning doctors and health officers, but there seems to be no improvement. The streets in various parts of the state are lined with the waste discarded by fish vendors and hoteliers. All this filth, mixed with stagnant water, leads to the breeding of mosquitoes, which spread deadly diseases.

The panchayat and municipal authorities do not seem to be bothered about mobilizing field staff to keep the streets clean. Instead, they wish to instal CCTVs to identify and fine polluters. Clearly the installation of CCTVs is a more profitable business for the authorities than cleaning up the streets. No proper mosquito eradication method has been adopted so far. The State should ensure that the people are equipped to deal with fever. They should be given basic medicines and made aware of ways to keep mosquitoes at bay.
K A Solaman
The Telegraph, Calculta
July 4, 2017

Who is the suppressed?

The opposition nominee for the President's post, Meira Kumar saying that she and her party must fight for the most suppressed, is interesting. What does she mean by 'suppressed' ? If she fingers at the plight of the community she belongs, does it mean that her rival candidate Kovind of the ruling front, belong to upper class? She and her father Jagjivan Ram were in the helm of affairs of the country for many years, still fate of the oppressed remains the same.

Meira Kumar saying that here is no tolerance and there is so much fear,  is not pooh- poohed by sensible people because they are tolerant to a person destined for defeat. More interesting
is, arch-rivals of Congress party in Kerala, the CPM and its Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan supporting Meira Kumar.

K A Solaman