My Dear,
Advani ji, Gandhi Dynasty and whosoever consider themselves national level politician,
With due respect I would like to give my best wishes for forthcoming general elections. I am quite sure you people have already drafted your manifesto for this grand event. At the top we are going to have CMP (Common Minimum Program) from NDA and a one from Congress as they are not getting into any national level alliance (Since its not in their DNA before elections).
Well, If manifesto part is still pending please have a look on these issues.
One thing is quite sure that coming years is going to be very pathetic for our next finance minister as I can visualize the global recession from U.S. In many ways our economy is dependent on US. Though I am not an economist being an IT professional I can easily see the impact of current global recession in IT. In financial year 1997-98 IT industry contribution in India’s GDP was 1.2% and 5.5% in 2007-08. I think this was one of the major reason behind the sixth pay commission recommendation. Might be for other planning commission’s schemes as well. Believe me this year IT contribution is not going to be huge. Are we ready for this gap?
Though I mentioned the above issue at top but I still feel priority wise this is at bottom in our political system.
Hence, Let me be little greedy and put my demands as this is the best season to ask our favors.
1. Fielding Candidates
Can any party declare the policy of how they select candidates for elections? Because more or less we can find rapists, murderers, hardcore criminals, illiterates, cast domination etc. with much other qualification.
What exactly we are giving to society?
2. Mushroomed political parties
Please any one put this in their manifesto to control this practice. There should be no political party based on region and religion (Very easy to find the list just look for region or religion in their name) STOP this. Because this will force national parties to focus on local issues every time.
3. Reservations
I am strong supporter of reservation. I think this is the unique way to uplift weaker section of society. Very few people know that reservation practice was introduced long before Independence in most part of India few of them having 50%.
At the same time I strongly oppose the way of its implementation. We were supposed to give reservation to socially and economically backward section. What is the definition of backwardness? Can a ward of IAS / IPS / PCS enjoy this benefit? If yes, then what else do we need to do to uplift them?
If an upper cast man is not able to meet his both ends. Then what is procedure to get him in backward class to uplift this family?
I don’t want to get more into this. However, I am still looking for answer of this. If we can convert our religion. Then why can’t cast?
I am not suggesting any solution of this ever lasting Divide and Rule strategy. I have immense faith in my politicians that they know it and can solve this. If they want.?
4. Police
I feel police is the medium to put culprits in front of law. Primary role of police is to investigate the matter without being bias. Then why there is lot of transfers of senior officials right after change in govt in any particular state? I don’t find any reason why a DGP sings Happy B’day song during official hours?
In Delhi, police is very vigilant for pillion riders not wearing the helmets. Car riders not wearing up the seat belts (Even if traffic is moving less than 5 Km/H). But they really don’t care the mess on roads. A constable can hold the collar of even VP of a MNC. He can abuse on road for any thing.
From my personal experience, A relative of mine won’t be able to lodge FIR for his lost mobile (with mobile tracker feature) Even after giving the phone no. of the person using his mobile.
But yes, the same police is very efficient in VIP security they can shoot anyone if they come between the convoy of VIP’s.
Please include this in your agenda to let police know that they are supposed to work closely with common people. There is good number of other agencies to take care of country’s internal security issues. Common man really needs good police to whom they can rely.
My last demand is that politics is a very noble profession let it be like this.
With Love,
Dhiraj Srivastava
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