Whispers Forum

If congress does not align with AAP for general election 2019, it is sure that BJP is going to get all the seven seats in Delhi. As on date, there are chances of AAP getting atleast one or two seats if it contests alone. And the Congress will get "nil: seats. in Delhi. Therefore, it is better for congress to align with AAP; because this will not only be face saving for them, but certainly AAP and Congress will get all the 7 seats in Delhi. If congress is adamant and go alone, it means they are interested in indirectly help BJP against AAP.
Rahul

This is the dirtiest election one is seeing in this country. Lies, abuses, manipulation, twisting facts, using agencies under control to frame charges against opponents, jumping from one party to another to and fro, winning over the strong candidates on your side (latest example is president of Nishad party who became M.P on SP ticket from Gorakhpur in a bypoll now moving to BJP). Nobody seems to have any ideology. The only factor that weighs is 'who is the winning side ?' or if denied ticket by his party then move to the other side. Money is playing a big role in these elections. Buying winnable candidates is one strategy. Or get those who are popular with the public. So actors, sportsmen, singers, dancers are much in demand. They are interested only in numbers. The character of the person does not matter. Even donkey bhi chalega if people are willing to vote for him. Are we electing people who will occupy the benches of our august Lok Sabha and make laws and debate on policies which affect 125 crores persons in this country or are we going to set up a playground for cricketers, wrestlers or shooters or studio for film shootings or a stage for singers , dancers or comedians .it will be a house full of party hoppers. Those sitting on the opposition benches in the dissolved house will be on the ruling side and vice versa. Disgusting !.It is really a mockery of Democracy. Only the wildest can win in this no holds barred match.
Aarti Khosla
Do we want more Taxes ?
The choice before us all today is :- Low Tax Economy - BJP ; High Tax Economy - Congress !! The Congress think tank economists have clearly stated Middle Class India will be taxed more to fund NYAY scheme ! All of us have a clear idea now of Vision of each party on our future ! Do we want more TAXES ? Vote accordingly !
Devindra

The Congress President's Office and it's team of inexperienced apolitical under bosses browbeating the party organization and hell bent on changing Congress ideals and culture by fiat, are adopting Modi-Shah-BJP style of politics to promote their loyalists over the heads to decent and committed Congressmen and Congresswomen.
Not only will the lightweight candidates representing such a political dispensation lose; more significantly, this political strategy (or the lack of it) orchestrating an overnight change of the face and image of the Congress Party in these troubled and testing times, will destroy the Indian National Congress.
One does not challenge Modi by becoming so weak that we need multiple crutches of alliances in every state, this only strengthens Modi's case of being the only constant star in the Indian political firmament. Alliances certainly admit an absence of commitment, possibly also a lack of conviction, such constructs do not inspire the voter's faith.
The sole reason for the existence of the Congress is to serve higher ideals with courage of conviction: deviations are unacceptable, as the history at political hustings has been repeatedly proving.
The Congress Party was meant to serve the Indian nation as subsequently enshrined in our national constitution. Any and all betrayal of this duty destroys both the Congress and the Indian nation by parts.
The maverick Modi-Shah-BJP experiment has done us a great favour, forcing us to introspect and contemplate the choices before us.
Any and all Congress leaderships which fails to understand, endorse and serve the ideals and convictions enshrined in the original Congress Constitution shall fail; those who dare to try to subvert these ideals shall be destroyed by their own contradictions, such is the mystic foundation of the Indian National Congress.
Namit Verma
Even Modi can also lose !
You are too ambitious to say that Rahul will lose. Indian voters mind cannot be predicted so easily. I sense that even Modi can also lose from Varanasi in an unexpected way then what will you do.
Pankaj Kumar

Election time is when the political parties promise the moon. Their think tanks, geniuses of unique species, invent highly impressive schemes to seduce the voters. It is welcome. At least, once in five years these self- perpetuating species of democracy’s creation, think of the welfare of the voter. They visit temples, churches, mosques and all kinds of religious places to propitiate the Almighty, whom their atheism kept rejecting the whole life. God, like the voter, is pleased with even such a small gesture! But whether it will make the first-time voter happy is for them to understand. Around 1.5 crore young voters will be exercising their vote in the hope that their future is genuinely bright. But they do not know that the future can be bright only for one: the politician or the voter. A majority of these voters will be eligible for their first job in July 2019. Can any Politician assure them jobs in July 2019? If not, then their future is dark. They will be joining the other 1.5 Crore youths of the earlier election whose future is their present and both are destined to sail in the same boat! Why? This question no political party, its thinkers and international geniuses has even tried to examine, not to talk of answer. One possible reason is that we are producing inadequately skilled graduates- a large majority is language & maths challenged. It is like building a palace structure without foundations. Employers demand skilled workforce and the unskilled workforce demands employment. Exploiting the mismatch is the political fraternity and their manifesto. We are watching Journey To The Mars film in the making!
M L Gupta

Watching inane TV debates 24x7 involving second rate politicians, professing third rate ideologies, is making us insane. The media wants us to eat, drink and breathe politics and die like morons. To hell with this intellectual terrorism.
No right-thinking Indian should support subtle manipulation of gullible minds of voters. Freedom of speech is a farce. And, so is the sham democracy. We are filled with hatred, anguish and contempt for politics. Media is sold out to media barons remote-controlled by politico- criminal- bureaucratic mafia.
Corruption grows many times over during elections. And, so do communalism, casteism and sub- nationalism causing permanent damage to country's secular fabric. Some politicians demand a separate Prime minister for Kashmir. Election Commission is speechless, helpless. Permanent executive has failed, as always, awaiting orders from the political class that is presently pre-occupied with politics.
A K Saxena (A former civil servant)
An excellent officer
Dr. Ravi Kanth is an excellent officer and has done well wherever, he was posted.
DB Sabharwall

The latest institution that has come under the hammer is Information Commission, it seems. The right to information was a great step towards making citizens empowered. Its dilution started a few years ago and perhaps is on its wayout. That two committees comprising of bureaucrats will probe the complaints against CIC and information commissioners. This is certainly an onslaught on the Independence of the commission without which the commission is useless. As it is the Commission had become a parking lot for retired civil servants. Still it did exercise its role mostly in an impartial manner true to its role. the citizens including the aggrieved civil servants could ask for the information denied to them otherwise and why should they not get it when it affects them personally. For example an officer is not empanelled for Joint Secretary's post inspite of best of reports simply because opinion about him or her was sought from someone senior or junior without him knowing from whom and that someone gave unfavourable opinion maybe out of malice ,,jealousy or simply cussedness. Had the officer known the names he or she would have the opportunity to explain why the other person was hostile to him or her. The present Government has done some great things but some policies and actions have ruined many institutions which is not good for Democracy .i hope better sense prevails and the activists who were responsible for forcing the government to enact right to Information Act stop its dilution.
Aarti Khosla
Excellent gesture
Excellent gesture by UAE and an resounding success of the policies of PM.
Srinivas

Apropos WIC News item dt April 2, 2019.
DOP&T has invited applications from officers of organised services subject to fulfillment of certain criteria. Those interested may apply to DOP&T with an “ Essay “ (300 words) to justify their suitability for the assignment.
But, who will evaluate the essays? This remains a riddle inside an enigma wrapped in mystery. Babus in DOP&T, Cab Sectt or PMO ?
A small suggestion. Personality tests of written-qualified shortlisted candidates must be conducted by a three- member committee headed by the PM, with CJI and LOP ( or Rahul baba) as members.
Civil Services aspirants should be available for providing free coaching to the applicants in Essay writing. They have a compulsory paper on essay writing in UPSC’s civil services examination.
A K Saxena (A former civil servant)

In a recent case the Bank and its Central Pension wing had asked the widow to submit the documents that are for persons other than the wife of the deceased. DOPT should clearly and firmly tell the Banks that as long as the pension account is jointly held by the deceased and his wife, only death certificate is necessary to release the family pension. Asking for life certificate, employment certificate, non-marriage certificate etc should be clearly avoided. The purpose of indicating family pension in the PPO is defeated if the Banks decide to impose its own rules.
Lakshminarayanan

The slogan to the extent it says 'Na khaunga' could be correct. But 'Na khane doonga' is a purely a myth, a bunkum. .
Paarth
Wanted 545 Chowkidars
Voters in India have to select and elect 545 Chowkidars to guard the Republic, public money, assets, governance, policy and democracy for the next 5 years. They should henceforth be called the Chowkidar, not people’s representative or simply members of parliament. These Chowkidars do their duty. They examine, debate, support or oppose all legislation. They ask questions in Parliament on all matters concerning the vast variety of subjects from defence to economy included in the Union List of subjects in the Constitution of India and the Concurrent List. They supervise governance of state/s under President’s Rule. They force adjournment of the proceedings of the Lok Sabha to consider any matter of urgent public significance. They move call attention notice to discuss matters of importance. They move No Confidence Motion against the government, thereby keeping a strict vigil on government functioning, and remove any corrupt or inefficient government. They grant funds for public expenditure. They decide on all matters of taxation. They go into minute details in Committees of the parliament which have expert advice available to them on the issue. They provide oversight to every department by way of Parliamentary Standing committee on each department of the government, whose chairperson is the minister of the department. They have the power to impeach the President and judges of the SC/HC. They can exercise all the powers on any residual matters not allotted specifically to any authority. If these 545 Chowkidars were to work honestly and do their duty as by law cast upon them, no scams of any kind can ever happen. It depends on the voters to make the right choice, elect only persons of such integrity and character and capability. The voter can then rest in peace for 5 years. The shor/noise being made by the chors/looters will fall silent the moment these 545 chowkidars start working as per the mandate of the Constitution of India.
M L Gupta

This Congress Party and AAP by not having alliance have as on date gifted atlaeast 3 Lok Sabhs Seats in Delhi to BJP. Only if they contest together, certainly AAP and Congress will get at least 6 lok sabha seats from delhi. BJP getting even one seat is remote. Hope they change their decision and contest together.
Pankaj Kumar
This is my personal number,you can speak to me directly!
Public-men are usually very liberal and generous in telling the people and also giving them their phone numbers, to contact them directly ,in case of need. But generally, such people, high-ups, bureaucrats, dignitaries, remain elusive to the people in need. They seldom personally pick up the phone to respond and rather their personal attendants would come out with the age- old excuses of the dignitaries about their being extremely busy in meetings of seniors or still more important people. Such people ,so often, would get the taste of their own medicine, when the persons ,whom they want to contact, come out with better inventions of not responding or responding in a very strange way. There was a principal secretary, whose phone will respond with a recorded message. He would never respond to any message, unless and until, it was said in the message that his minister or chief minister had given a message for him to perform certain job. There is another category of people, who do not pick up the phone at all. About four decades back, a prime minister was to visit a place in Himachal Pradesh. For any emergency landing on any airport, Adampur was the nearest place. So ,as per the protocol, all necessary arrangements were made at Jalandhar, as if prime minister would stay there. A hotline phone was to be provided from the circuit house to the prime minister's residence. The telephone authorities fixed up all the apparatus and rang up prime minister's residence to check, if the line was fully operational. But in spite of dialing the prime minister's residence a number of time, no one responded. The telephone authorities sent their senior officer from Delhi to the place. It was only then that the grave panic ended and everyone heaved a sigh of relief. A chief minister wanted to speak to his chief secretary very urgently. His staff tried its best, but only recorded message was heard. A special car had to be sent to the chief secretary's residence to tell him to speak to the chief minister. Many legislators and ministers, so often, very grudgingly rue that chief minister played like Aladin's treasure and remained inaccessible to them. There are, however instances ,when the dignitaries responded adequately ,even at the oddest hours. A message of the prime minister office was received by the deputy commissioner through the chief secretary. The message was conveyed to the concerned person at 1 AM at night. It was to be told to the Chief Secretary. The deputy commissioner told me to convey back the message to the chief secretary. Since , I was junior to the deputy commissioner, Ivery diffidently rang up the chief secretary. I never expected that he would personally pick up the phone and do it so quickly. But IC Puri, who was then chief secretary spoke in a highly dignified way at that odd hour. Another example of easy and effective accessibility of the officer came my way, when i had to travel with him ,after attending a meeting at Chandigarh. After every few minutes ,he would get a call at his mobile. Most of the calls pertained to the unlawful use of loud speakers. He would immediately get in contact with the concerned police officials directly and continued pursuing till the police parties departed for taking action. He would also tell the concerned sub divisional magistrates to monitor.We were near the Birowal religious place, when he received a call from a bitterly crying girl. He stopped the car to carefully listen to the panic struck girl. The girl lived in a village near Banga. She had told that her in-laws had turned her out along with two small children at that hour of the night. It was 10.30.pm then. The officer, who was deputy commissioner, immediately spoke to the senior superintendent of police. He later on directly spoke to station house officer of Banga police station too. He rang back to the girl twice to reassure her. He told me that he would first go to Banga police station and then proceed to the village of the girl. He seemed to be man possessed to help a person in deep distress. At Banga ,he told the girl that he would be personally coming to the place of her in-laws and would call her there. I got down from his car at Banga to sit in my car, which was following. I had to go to Amritsar. On the way , i rang him up. He told me that he had gathered the panchayat at that time, who got the responsibility of the safety of the girl and her children and her living in the house honourably. He looked fresh at 3.30am.There cannot be another person like him. He was, the then deputy commissioner Nawanshehar, Krishan kumar.
Surinderjit Singh Sandhu, Amritsar