View-point

The Long Road Ahead

The wounds need to be healed, the scars might remain, reminding the gory past but one can overcome this if the present government can make India really Shining and Feel Good Factor percolates down to the remotest part of the subcontinent.

From day one Manmohan Singh’s government has taken up the challenge of the Herculean task in executing the CMP. India had to once again standup on the global platform and make her presence felt not only as the largest democracy but also as a developed nation. The present government has inherited from the past a frayed secular fabric that needs to be restored to its formal glory by the magic fingers. On the economic front the government has pledged to create a congenial atmosphere for the vast population of youth by assuring hundred days of work per head per year.

Agriculture Sector – The True Picture

Till election – 60 million tonnes of grains bursting at the seams of FCI godowns. Millions of small and middle farmers caught in a debt trap. Thousands of farmers commit suicide in Andhra, Karnataka and even Punjab. Starvation deaths in remote areas of Kashipur in Orissa.

The virtual collapse of the Public Distribution System.

Can one imagine the damage control exercise of the new Government? And to top it all, the shady deals of disinvestments, the defence and financial scams have left India writhing in pain.

NDA’s name may soon appear in the Guiness Book of World Records for what you know it!

The rare combination of a visionary President, an economist Prime Minister with his able colleagues, (a number of them belonging to diverse political ideologies) supported by the communists who cry for the downtrodden, poor and the true Indian Sonia Gandhi can wipe the tears of millions of this country.

Last but not the least, the battalion of young lieutenants led by Rahul Gandhi has a major task to galvanize the youth in Nation Building. All this has happened due to the U-Turn at the Rashtrapati Bhawan of a lady who could easily have been the Prime Minister but decided to work for the organisation in serving the poor and the downtrodden.

"Should I say Sonia lives for India and not for herself!"

(Anil Shastri - Secretary, AICC, Editor, Congress Sandesh and a former Union Minister)