BIHAR POLLS

The Bihar Polls seems to be the most important issue at this very point of time. Nitish Kumar, the incumbent CM who has got laurels from most  parts of the country for his wonderful development work is the strongest contender as per my opinion. The Congress Party is also trying to to gain momentum, BJP already being in alliance with Nitish's JDU. On the other hand Lalu and Pasvan are also making huge claims and are quite confident of their success.

The motive of Election Campaign should be to bring into the light the unexplored and undiscovered avenues of growth and development which can be pursued by the party concerned on the basis of the blueprint it has prepared. But unfortunately Campaign is a medium of carrying flaks, blames, right and wrong and the like committed by the Government during its tenure by the contesting political parties (earlier opposition) which is a total repetition of opposition's work already been carried out earlier. The tendency to win due to other's failure or criticism mars the zeal to win due to one's own excellence. And that is the main reason of the falling political ethos of the country. 

The attitude of schadenfreude possessed by the opposition towards each and every failure of Government is condemnable especially when that incapacity and incapability comes heavily upon the national interests. This feeling is bearable upto a certain extent when it only entangles the internal affairs of that political party or alliance that is in power.

Recently, Rahul Gandhi commented that Nitish Kumar could not utilise the funds from the Central Government in the most efficient manner and similar views then were expressed by our PM Manmohan Singh. Our PM went on to say, " It is unfortunate to know that the state government is taking credit for the schemes of the Central government and their benefits are not reaching those intended". I would lament the first part of the statement being made by the occupant of such a high post but would support the second one. It is because the first one is a baseless and a political remark not in nexus with the PMO. All the Central schemes have their own name and it can be easliy verified from GOI's Website. The Centre's makes scheme for all the states including Jharkhand and Chattisgarh; first one of them being struggling to have a legitimate government since its very inception in 2000 and the other being a constant target of naxalites. What this brings out is that even for a proper implementation of Centre's scheme, state government's efforts must be there.

And finally what everyone wants is development irrespective of the originators of the schemes which subsequently resulted in this development...