drskmukherjee

People in general and the bhagats in particular fail to understand as to what I mean by political democracy and how it is different from constitutional democracy. The constitutional rights of the people are reframed in the party manifesto to bully us for fulfilment of our legitimate rights only if we vote for the party. There is a bargain in a political democracy than a dedicated will of a political party to implement constitutional rights of the people and constitutional duties of political party forming the government. Our Prime Minister Modi kissed the entrance floor of Parliament before entering the Temple of Democracy. The whole nation went emotional for the advent of a new messiah of Democracy, who will fulfill the hopes and aspiration of people. Now I will take you inside the temple to show how actually the democracy works in our country. Freedom is a very vital component of democracy. In 2011-12 corporates had the audacity to write letters signed by top 20 corporates headed ...

India has witnessed an unprecedented political change since the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led National Development Alliance (NDA) government came to power. The sheer continuity of the government has surprised many as the impressive electoral journey of the BJP which has, by now, expanded its footprint and formed governments in every region of the country, Karnataka being the most recent one where BJP emerged as single largest party though it couldn't form her government. BJP's argument during the various state election campaigns has been that they could achieve their expansion due to a much better synchronisation between the Centre and the states where NDA is in power . That is why the BJP sees  Prime Minister Modi as the undisputed, universal leader. Now the moot questions are : 1. Has the government transformed the country's development contours? 2. Has this political change actually helped end poverty, social exclusion and discrimination in India? A dispassionat...

The Statue of Unity has come at a time when the euphoria of expectations of the people from the government has ebbed. The idea of development that once united all in 2014 has disillusioned the youth, the poor, the farmer, the unemployed, the women and the people in general. Deep political, social, religious and cast divisions run across the country over the last four and a half years. The country has witnessed and still experiencing the threat to unity. Believe it or not that deep under the psyche it is not difficult to read the mind of the government to raise the stature of Patel in comparison to Nehru - though Patel once banned RSS over Mahatma Gandhi's assassination. It is very strange that secular Democrat like Patel is hailed as only maker of united India by the believers of hinduttva politics. It is better to debate pointwise than getting personal. Anyone can have one's way of thinking. Asking questions to the government in power shouldn't be the cause for anybody ...

As the election 2019 is approaching near the BJP and some power licking media are on their way to confuse the nation with self cooked controversies to divert the people from the promised issues. It seems Sudhir Choudhary of Zee News is either under the spell of opium or his blind docility to  Subhash Chandra that has forced him to use, abuse and misuse his journalistic scholarship. However Ramdev has gone mum these days - not talking much about Modi. It is expected very soon Subhash Chandra will follow suit and instruct his media team to cease to be power sycophants. Does the BJP led govt has the guts to initiate a tirade against Mahatma Gandhi to condemn his association in the so called "game plan" of holding Congress to overshoot Netaji? BJP cannot because the Massolinized RSS led BJP is an anti democracy party which never took part in indian freedom movement, spied for the British government, opposed Quit India Movement and begged mercy for their life to be spared from ...

What irked the PMO for the unprecedented removal of or to be exact asked to go on leave the serving CBI Director Alok Verma? That too despite the law granting him a fixed tenure of not less than two years. Yes this is the pertinent question that every educated and knowledgeable citizen must ask. And you all seems to have missed this point as it has already been challenged in Supreme Court. What all CBI has always been suffering from is too much control of the Centre to influence and use the investigation agency as per their will. Therefore the appointments are also made to suit the government in power. When Alok Verma objected to the appointment of Rakesh Asthana as CBI Special Director Pramod Kumar Mishra in PMO had summoned the Central Vigilance Commissioner,  K.V. Chowdary, and directed him to ensure Asthana was appointed. Why the CBI not allowed to proceed with her investigation and FIR registered against the agency Number Two man Rakesh Asthana for alleged bribery, exto...

It is hard to arrive at an immediate comprehensive assessment of the performance of the economy due to lack of availability of relevant data. Some of or  many of important data will be available long after the government's tenure is completed, while some of the preliminary data currently available would also undergo revisions over time before it becomes final. The past governments must have also confronted this. Moreover the effort of pinpointed analysis of performance of the Modi led government has become all the more complicated due to -- t he introduction of new way to calculate GDP, the base year has been shifted to 2011-12 from 2004-05 earlier resulted insubstantial instability of the data on GDP and thereby overestimate of growth of the economy. -- the second factor which has been the demonetization announced by the government in November 2016 and its adverse effect largely on the 'informal' sector of the Indian economy. Hence what the government is claimin...

The hard pressed farmers are still committing suicide due to crop failure and not getting minimum support price (MSP) of their produce. The government sat quiet for four years to honour her promise on MSP and whatever announced under the scheme in a huff is very confusing and not in line with her promise. It was obvious that the MSP as announced by the government is un-implementable in the current term of their office. Crop failure is another major reason for farmers committing suicide due to their inability to pay back their loan to the bank. Agriculture insurance is recognized the world over as an important safety net for farmers to deal with the impacts of extreme and unseasonal weather condition due to climate change. The Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojna (PMFBY) was launched by the Centre on April 1, 2016 to help farmers cope with crop losses due to unseasonal and extreme weather. It is hardly the historic and path-breaking scheme that the government claims it to be. It is a dres...