Thursday, April 24, 2014

Wrong’un



It is cake-wake for a criminal or a person who involved with the and in the criminal activates and numerous criminal cases pending against such, yet they allowed to contest to be a law-maker.  Life turned topsy turvy for a common man when one accidently fall prey to a minor problem with the law. Not necessarily a real one. However, the lawmaker can do away with it. The alleged murderer, thieves, dacoit and rapist all are in fray for the upcoming election. Why in the earth this happening and how we can stop.    

With unlimited number of political parties India has been astoundingly increased and no political parties follow any principal or ethics. While giving tickets to the candidate, parties only bother about win-loss equation but never follow the   mushroom growth of political parties is not the result of upgrading in political standard; nor is it because more competent and service-minded persons are entering the field of politics, determined to serve the country and its people. On the contrary, it is a definite indication of political standards going down to appalling levels. The field of politics nowadays does not attract altruistic gentlemen, eager to use their expertise and time for nation-building; it attracts rowdies and criminals with proven record of hooliganism, who want to become rich quickly and dominate the officials and respectable citizens. Subject to rare exceptions, in short, the politics in India has become a money-making business for criminals.

None of the political parties bothers for the problem and the duty towards the citizen of the country. They do not promote nationalism and obligation to nation-building. They do not want to bond the people of nation by pressurizing the significance of harmonious living. On the contrary, they achieve the dissimilarity among the people and make full use of those divergences for creating discrepancy among them.

A brand of politics supports electorates to vote on the basis of narrow communal considerations, often against their better judgment, it is considered inimical to democracy. It can happen only in India, where vote-bank politics scores decisively over national interest and issues relating to India's sovereignty. These political parties and independent candidates have astronomical expenditure called vote buying and other illegitimate purposes through these criminals or so called Goons. Politicians link them in their respective constituencies & it develops political crime. People do not know why they compromise the majority of voters of this country. Therefore majority of the voters are purchasable. We all have also witnessed that the political parties are given cabinet post because of their muscle and money power fetches critical votes to them. There is a possible vote bank including those who are accused robbers and murders.  


 Corruption: As of December 2008, 120 of India's 523 parliament members were facing criminal charges. Many of the biggest scandals since 2010 have involved very high levels of government, including Cabinet Ministers and Chief Ministers, such as in the 2G spectrum scam, the 2010 Commonwealth Games scam and the Adarsh Housing Society scam, Coal Mining Scam, mining scandal in Karnataka and cash for vote scam. Politicians are alleged to steal state property. In cities and villages throughout India, elected politicians acquire, develop and sell land in illegal ways. In 2012 India has ranked 94th out of 176 countries in Transparency Internationals Corruption Perceptions Index. In Indian politics in every election all parties have put up their candidates with a criminal background. By acting in such manner we fail to realise that the greatest power that the democracy arms the people is to vote incompetent people out of power.

!!!It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen. -  George MacDonald!!!

!!!The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought. -  John Jay Chapman!!!

Thursday, April 17, 2014

The Man of Integrity



He is a man who inherited all inner quality we envy for. Honesty, integrity, intellectual by own right and soft spoken yet he was ridicule by of his own man those known as over the top politico and humiliated by most of  illiterate opposition as good as a chai-walla too and betrayed by his own man. Now, time will tell actually whodunit  for India and I will be wait for it. He also can be call as father of economy reform and globalization. At the end of his ten year tenure he himself know more than anybody that what he intended to do he could not because due to presence of unfaithful and corrupt element in his government. I feel sad because it was so dirty over there that a respected man like him always was misfit to the dirty tricks played around. He,  himself maintains that history will judge him - and his government - far better than his peers or the contemporary. He continues to maintain, quite contrary to popular perception of 'policy paralysis, that "no other decade has recorded as much development as there has been in the last 10 years" of the UPA under his prime ministership. A little from the life of Mr. Manmohan Singh what I bound to put together.


Early Life

Singh was born to Gurmukh Singh and Amrit Kaur on 26 September 1932, in Gah, Punjab (Pakistan).  He lost his mother when he was very young and was raised by his paternal grandmother, to whom he was very close.

Education

After the Partition of India, his family migrated to Amritsar, India, where he studied at Hindu College. He attended Panjab University, Chandigarh. studying Economics and got his bachelor's and master's degrees in 1952 and 1954, respectively, standing first throughout his academic career. He completed his Economics Tripos at University of Cambridge as he was a member of St John's College in 1957.

Family

Singh married Gursharan Kaur in 1958. They have three daughters, Upinder Singh, Daman Singh and Amrit Singh. Upinder Singh is a professor of history at Delhi University. She has written six books, including Ancient Delhi (1999) and A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India. Daman Singh is a graduate of St. Stephen's College, Delhi and Institute of Rural Management, Anand, Gujarat, and author of The Last Frontier: People and Forests in Mizoram and a novel Nine by Nine, she is married to an I.P.S official Ashok Patnaik who is on deputation to Intelligence Bureau. Amrit Singh is a staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union.

Finance

n June 1991, India's Prime Minister at the time, P.V. Narasimha Rao, chose Singh to be his Finance Minister. Singh told Mark Tully the British journalist in 2005 “Rao sent his Principal Secretary to me saying, `The PM would like you to become the Minister of Finance’. I didn’t take it seriously. He eventually tracked me down the next morning, rather angry, and demanded that I get dressed up and come to Rashtrapati Bhavan for the swearing in. So that’s how I started in politics”

Prime Minister

After the 2004 general elections, the Indian National Congress becoming the political party with the single largest number of seats in the Lok Sabha. Chairperson Sonia Gandhi declared Manmohan Singh, as the UPA candidate for the Prime Ministership. In 2009, Congress led UPA returned to power and Manmohan Singh was sworn in as the Prime Minister fro second term.

Perhaps, if Manmohan Singh were better advised, especially in his second term, Manmohan may still have been the star brand on whose work the Congress rode to victory in 2009.


EDUCATION
  1. BA (Hons), Economics, Punjab University, Chandigarh [First]
  2. MA (Economics), Punjab University, Chandigarh [First]
  3. Honours degree in Economics, University of Cambridge 
  4. Wrenbury scholar, University of Cambridge,
  5. DPhil in Economics, University of Oxford
  6. DLitt (Honoris Causa);
  7. PhD thesis "India’s export performance”
OCCUPATION
Teaching
  1. Senior Lecturer, Economics (1957–1959)
  2. Reader (1959–1963),Professor (1963–1965)
  3. Professor of International Trade (1969–1971)
  4. Honorary Professor (1966), Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi
  5. Honorary Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (1976)

  1. Chief, Financing for Trade Section, UNCTAD, United Nations Secretariat, Manhattan, New York
  2. Economic Advisor, Ministry of Foreign Trade, India (1971–1972)
  3. Chief Economic Advisor, Ministry of Finance, India, (1972–1976)
  4. Director, Reserve Bank of India (1976–1980)
  5. Director, Industrial Development Bank of India (1976–1980)
  6. Secretary, Ministry of Finance (Department of Economic Affairs), Government of India, (1977–1980)
Others
  1. Governor, Reserve Bank of India (1982–1985)
  2. Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission of India, (1985–1987)
  3. Secretary General, South Commission, Geneva (1987–1990)
  4. Advisor to Prime Minister of India on Economic Affairs (1990–1991)
  5. Chairman, University Grants Commission (15 March 1991 – 20 June 1991)
  6. Finance Minister of India, (21 June 1991 – 15 May 1996)
  7. Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha (1998–2004)
  1. Prime Minister of India (22 May 2004 – 2014)


Year
Name of Award or Honour
Awarding Organisation
2010
World Statesman Award
Appeal of Conscience Foundation
2005
Top 100 Influential People in the World
Time
2002
Outstanding Parliamentarian Award
Indian Parliamentary Group
2000
Annasaheb Chirmule Award
Annasaheb Chirmule Trust
1999
H.H. Kanchi Sri Paramacharya Award for Excellence
Shri R. Venkataraman, The Centenarian Trust
1999
Fellow of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, New Delhi
National Academy of Agricultural Sciences
1997
Lokmanya Tilak Award
Tilak Smarak Trust, Pune
1997
Justice K.S. Hegde Foundation Award
Justice K.S. Hegde Foundation
1997
Nikkei Asia prize for Regional Growth
Nihon Keizai Shimbun Inc.
1996
Honorary Professorship
Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, Delhi
1995
Jawaharlal Nehru Birth Centenary Award (1994–95)
Indian Science Congress Association
1994
Finance Minister of the Year
Asiamoney
1994
Jawaharlal Nehru Birth Centenary Award (1994–95)
Indian Science Congress Association.
1994
Elected Distinguished Fellow of the London School of Economics
London School of Economics, Centre for Asia Economy, Politics and Society
1994
Elected Honorary Fellow, Nuffield College
Nuffield College, University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K.
1994
Elected Distinguished Fellow of the London School of Economics
London School of Economics, Centre for Asia Economy, Politics and Society
1994
Elected Honorary Fellow of the All India Management Association
All India Management Association
1993
Finance Minister of the Year
Euromoney
1993
Finance Minister of the Year
Asiamoney
1987
Padma Vibhushan
President of India
1986
Elected National Fellow, National Institute of Education
National Institute of Education
1985
Elected President of the Indian Economic Association
Indian Economic Association
1982
Elected Honorary Fellow, St. John's College
St John's College, Cambridge
1982
Elected Honorary Fellow, Indian Institute of Bankers
Indian Institute of Bankers
1976
Honorary Professorship
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
1957
Elected Wrenbury Scholar
University of Cambridge, U.K.
1956
Adam Smith Prize
University of Cambridge, U.K.
1955
Wright Prize for Distinguished Performance
St. John’s College, Cambridge, U.K.
1954
Uttar Chand Kapur Medal, for standing first in M.A. (Economics)
Panjab University, Chandigarh{Was then in Hoshiarpur,Punjab}
1952
University Medal for standing first in B.A. (Honors Economics)
Panjab University, Chandigarh

Today I am ending with as good as six quotes in honour of Mr. Manmohan Sing, some for his honesty and brilliance and other for those worthless group who betrayed  and ridiculed him.

!!!No legacy is so rich as honesty. - William Shakespeare!!!
!!!Genius always finds itself a century too early. - Ralph Waldo Emerson!!!
!!!Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.- Thomas Jefferson!!!
!!!Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities. - Oscar Wilde!!!
!!!Betrayal is common for men with no conscience. -  Toba Beta!!!

Thursday, April 10, 2014

Dance of Democracy





Democracy is the “Government of the people, By the people, And for the people". It is blessed to be born in a democrat country and One of the most important features of the democratic polity is elections at regular intervals.


The Election Commission of India


The Election Commission of India (ECI) is a constitutional body was established on January 25, 1950 with the aim to define and control the process for elections conducted at various levels: parliament, state legislatures, and the offices of the president and vice president of India. In other words, the ECI ensures smooth and successful functioning of the democracy.

Role of Election Commission

In its assigned role, the most crucial challenge before the Election Commission of India is to implement norms and the Model Code of Conduct to ensure free and fair elections in the country. Its existence and independence are necessitated by history, which has shown that democratic elections are not free from sabotage. Towards this end, it has been empowered to oversee political parties and candidates and take appropriate action in case of violations.

In some point between 1970's to 1990's, for some politicians the election was matter of joke and it was muscle power who won in the rural area by terrorizing the voter but the reform and style of voting change in 1991 when T.N. Seshan appointed as chief election commissioner.

Father of Reform

The appointment of T.N. Seshan as chief election commissioner in 1991 reinvigorated the Election Commission and curbed the illegal manipulation of India's electoral system. By canceling or re-polling elections where improprieties had occurred, disciplining errant poll officers, and fighting for the right to deploy paramilitary forces in sensitive areas, Seshan forced candidates to take the Election Commission's code of conduct seriously and strengthened its supervisory machinery.

First Election

Democracy took a giant step forward with the first general election held in 1951-52 over a four-month period. These elections were the biggest experiment in democracy anywhere in the world. The elections were held based on universal adult franchise, with all those twenty-one years of age or older having the right to vote. There were over 173 million voters, most of them poor, illiterate, and rural, and having had no experience of elections. The big question at the time was how would the people respond to this opportunity.

2014 Election

Estimated 814 million voter, out of that 23 millions are first time voter will vote for 3305 candidates in fray for 543 Loksabha seat spread over 35 Constituencies. 2014 Election will be a Nine-phased elections which began on April 7 and will conclude on May 12.


States
Total Constituencies


Uttar Pradesh
80

Maharashtra
48

Andhra Pradesh
42

West Bengal
42

Bihar
40

Tamil Nadu
39

Madhya Pradesh
29

Karnataka
28

Gujarat
26

Rajasthan
25

Odisha
21

Kerala
20

Assam
14

Jharkhand
14

Punjab
13

Chhattisgarh
11

Haryana
10

National Capital Territory of Delhi
7

Jammu & Kashmir
6

Uttarakhand
5

Himachal Pradesh
4

Arunachal Pradesh
2

Goa
2

Manipur
2

Meghalaya
2

Tripura
2

Mizoram
1

Nagaland
1

Sikkim
1

Andaman and Nicobar Islands
1

Chandigarh
1

Dadra and Nagar Haveli
1

Daman and Diu
1

Lakshadweep
1

Puducherry
1

Total
543



!!!As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. - Abraham Lincoln!!!