drskmukherjee

Allow me to lay it bare as to how the facts get buried under the era of publicity and propaganda by the government. Those who do not check with the facts get swayed away by the theatrics of lies. Allow me to probe PM Modi’s claim as regard to rural electrification of 18,452 villages. He was very loud to give credit to his government for taking electricity to 18,452 villages and was appalled at people not having electricity in the 21st century and lay all blame on the Congress government for not fulfilling her promise of “Electricity For All by 2009” in his usual style of ranting and he asked what the government was doing till 2014. The former Power Minister Piyush Goyal was also quick to say, the nation is getting  illuminated all due to Modi. The NASA satellite night picture was used in ad to show illuminated India. Having worked as a power sector professional for decades I take this opportunity to acquaint you all with the fact as to how much work was done in the field of electri

I Grew Up Seeing Vajpayee’s High Sense of Dignity and Openness as Opposed to the Degradation in Politics Today…. History must judge Vajpayee by what he achieved against odds--at home and in the neighbourhood. What he achieved has been to hold not only the party but the whole nation together with his own sense of discipline of inclusiveness. He was secular by heart and he also expected it from everyone to respect secular ideology. He was against Hindu Muslim or communal discrimination. He never allowed this Hindu Muslim debate in the name of hindutva as we have today. So much of communal poison due to fanaticism vitiating the nation today we never had before. True it all started with LK Advani who steered the communal chariot creating the cloud of dusty hatred from Somnath Mandir to Babri Masjid. Vajpayee’s moderate approach was conspicuously visible right from the demolition of the Babri Masjid in 1992 and during the communal riots in Gujarat in 2002. He managed to mainta