That’s a question that must be arousing interest in many. Where exactly is the current UPA government heading? What Mrs. Sonia Gandhi and Mr. Manmohan Singh are exactly trying to do?
With so many scams around them, so many questions to answer, what the government is currently doing is difficult to justify. The biggest problem behind the United Progressive Alliance is the call for JPC (Joint Parliamentary Committee) by the opposition. While the rigid stand by the opposition in this matter for not attending any Parliamentary session until a JPC is formed for the inspection of the 2G spectrum scam has already resulted in complete whitewash of the winter session of the parliament, it also threatens the Budget session. The Speaker Meira Kumar has tried to talk to all the national parties, but it has yielded little dividends. Why the government is not accepting this demand is awe. Crores of money is being lost due to the whitewash of Parliamentary sessions and nobody seems to care about it.
The next problem is the row on the CVC, the Chief Vigilance Officer P J Thomas. Integrity is always something that is lacking in Indian top brass, o rather I should say in most of the Indians. But Mr. Thomas has taken it to a new level. Being the CVC, he is expected to check the corruption, but he is doing exactly the opposite. While everyone around is thrashing on Thomas, Government is backing him. The Government has filed several affidavits in support of Thomas. In the 26 page long affidavit filed by the Department of Personnel and Training on January 14, the Government said that his appointment was fully eligible and did not require the consensus of Judiciary. Most of the leaders seem to be against the government.
The matter of inflation is also not being handled by the Government in a very good manner. While the sudden rise in the prices of onion prompted the government to spring into action, it is now learnt that the decisions made in hurry will now only increase the problems as the Onion supply in the market is expected to be excess which will not earn the farmers their appropriate revenue. The price of petrol has also increased twice within the last one month. The government recently came out with 14 ways to regulate inflation, but one of them seems to be much effective.
On January 14, the apex court questioned the government on its reluctance to disclose the names of the Indian nationals who have stashed money in the foreign banks, primarily the Swiss bank (which incidentally I also mentioned in my last article!!!). It is unknown as to why the government is not willing to disclose this list. With this, the Supreme Court has again highlighted the matter of black money.
With these, and so many other problems behind the UPA, the re-election of Congress to power in the next elections is highly unlikely. The UPA coalition parties have also started opposing the Congress and there are quarrels within. Now, the Indian Public is asking the question which I stated above, where is this alliance heading???..............
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