Bihar, Buta and Bad Luck

Posted : May 23, 2005 at 8:43 pm [IST]


I couldnt resist myself from writing this entry after hearing the news of the dissolution of Bihar assembly on Zee USA in the evening news yesterday here in USA thousands of miles away from my sweet home in India.

It was clear the day the government made the Great sycophant and servant of Gandhi family Buta Singh the Governor of Bihar. He will be doing all that or more what Laloo and Rabri were doing. One more chance to get some improvement in that state has gone in history. With the declaration of dissolution of the recently elected assembly, the fear has become a reality. Bihar is back again in uncertainty.

All these days I was thinking why the respectable Manmohan could not make KPS Gill the governor of Bihar. KPS Gillcould solve the problem of Punjab when Punjab was burning. Bihar is suffering from more painful and depressing law and order problem for a longer period. You see the faces of so called MLAs on TV screen and you can realize that they are no better than theworst of the terrorists of Punjab of those days. Actually Bihar required some one like Gill. Instead Buta was appointed naturally with the consent of Congress president to serve the purpose of the party. Congress has come in its old form; we had seen it replacing governors in past whenever that didnt suit it. But this time there is a course correction. It is selecting only those persons as governors who will find out the wish of the party in advance before they take an action.

Can the party come any timein power in Bihar with all these manipulations and mockery of democracy? The newsreader talked of the night long meeting at the Prime Minister house to take a decision on Bihar as some MLAs of one party whose head is the minister of the present governmentwanted to form a government by supporting Shri Nitish Kumar, the chief minister nominee of NDA. Could not there be a better solution than the dissolution and re-election? Will the next election give a clear verdict? Who is responsible for this drain on public money that could have solved the power shortage, if invested for a power plant or could have connected some hundreds of villages through good roads?
Will the people be permitted to understand this simple thing or again the caste and community will decide the person to be voted in the next election?

Many like me still think Bihar must be kept under President rule with a person like KPS Gill as governor. Do you agree?

- Indra

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President’s Rule, dictatorship - or some kind of *forced* oligocracy. Anything but democracy. We biharis should be saved from ourselves.[ The current governance in USA clearly exemplifies the benefits of oligocracy over much hyped democracy :)) Besides, the rest of the *enlightened* india always has had oligarchy anyways - from the communists to the plutocrats … ]

Posted by: sonal at May 24, 2005 @ 6:57 am

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