In the last so many years that Congress led government has been at the helm, the only thing that has grown is the economy. No mean achievement that. Except, now most of the tools and rules are in place and even a telephone pole in the PM’s chair cannot stop that kind of economic growth. Short of any major reversal in policy, the infrastructure alone can take care of the economics. But since most of the development is passing the real aam aadmi, what has Congress done to alleviate that? Precious nothing.
They have failed to keep us safe. We have been attacked on all fronts and all we do is to make tough statements. Even those have become milder lest we upset the votebank.
They have failed on the corruption front miserably. With scams after scams tumbling out of the closet, one is forced to admire people like Laloo Yadav who only stole in 100’s of crores.
With sole focus on UNSC seat, the foreign policy is also a disaster. The Chinese are in the PoK and essentially redrawing the map and all this government has done is to make Indo-China trade more lop-sided the wrong way. The aam aadmi can only pray that there are people out there who can donate their spines donors to help our leaders out.
With our poorer children eating clay to feed themselves up while grains either rot or are stolen by the babu-politician-businessman nexus, the Congress has failed on that front as well.
Is there any doubt in the aam aadmi’s mind that Congress has miserable failed on all fronts? In fact, this as comprehensive as failures get. If India were not such an established democracy with her god-loving citizens, we would have plunged into a banana republic like unrest.
As the song goes – “baaki joh kuch bachaa toh mehn-gayee maar gayee!! Our esteemed, honorable and most qualified economist Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has been helpless in curtailing the spiraling food inflation. Per last year’s UN report India had 410 million below the poverty line. It said India added 100 million more poor below the UN estimated poverty line of $1.25 a day, a 10% poverty rate increase from 27.5% to 37.2% since 2004. That’s during the corruption and scam ridden Congress’ rule. With agriculture ministry headed by minister who declined to distribute the rotting food grain and pulses free to the poor, it’s anybody’s guess as to who Sharad Pawar cares more about; the cartel and not the poor. The Competition Commission of India fearing a scam in the way onion prices has spiked has ordered a probe into a possible cartelization by the onion traders.
What will the aam aadmi eat if even the staple food such as onions becomes unaffordable? Now the poor in India are even robbed of the raw onion that he could eat with his sookha roti when the dal became expensive. Cannot believe as to how the population is servicing in a country where majority of the population is estimated to spend more than 50 percent of their household income on food.
Following are the yearly rise in prices of some essential commodities that form the sub-index for food articles:
Onions: 82.47 percent
Vegetables: 58.85 percent
Fruits: 19.99 percent
Milk: 19.59 percent
Eggs, meat, fish: 20.83 percent
An aam aadmi/common man interviewed by a TV channel said “It becomes really difficult and impossible to sustain and live after the 10th of every month”.
Food prices were sky high even during the UPA-1. Even then people voted for Congress. Since in democracy, we deserve the government we elect, the only people who can complain now are the BJP voters. Everyone else needs to stand up and accept the blame. Those voters may not all have voted for Congress. However, they may have voted for regional parties who have no ideological standing and ended up enabling the Congress. Those parties must be ignored. Voters need to look at their own self interest and then vote. The party who can feed them and keep them safe.
In one of our earlier posts, we mentioned an interview with a Kolkata based Muslim “sabjiwallah”. He lamented that at least during BJP rule, he did not have to worry about food prices. No BJP supporter, he!!
With leaders like Bhai Narendra Modi and others, the choice for Indian voters could not be starker.
Food gets out of aam admi’s reach
It is not onion alone which is bringing tears into the eyes of buyers. While an increase of over 82 per cent in onion prices and 58.85 per cent in vegetables led to the overall increase in food inflation, prices of egg, meat and fish were up by 20.83 per cent, fruits by 19.99 per cent and milk by 19.59 per cent).
Meanwhile, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said though it was a weekly figure, the Government was concerned. “These are weekly (figures). Let us wait for the monthly figures. These are weekly variations, but it is a matter of concern,” he said.
They have failed to keep us safe. We have been attacked on all fronts and all we do is to make tough statements. Even those have become milder lest we upset the votebank.
They have failed on the corruption front miserably. With scams after scams tumbling out of the closet, one is forced to admire people like Laloo Yadav who only stole in 100’s of crores.
With sole focus on UNSC seat, the foreign policy is also a disaster. The Chinese are in the PoK and essentially redrawing the map and all this government has done is to make Indo-China trade more lop-sided the wrong way. The aam aadmi can only pray that there are people out there who can donate their spines donors to help our leaders out.
With our poorer children eating clay to feed themselves up while grains either rot or are stolen by the babu-politician-businessman nexus, the Congress has failed on that front as well.
Is there any doubt in the aam aadmi’s mind that Congress has miserable failed on all fronts? In fact, this as comprehensive as failures get. If India were not such an established democracy with her god-loving citizens, we would have plunged into a banana republic like unrest.
As the song goes – “baaki joh kuch bachaa toh mehn-gayee maar gayee!! Our esteemed, honorable and most qualified economist Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has been helpless in curtailing the spiraling food inflation. Per last year’s UN report India had 410 million below the poverty line. It said India added 100 million more poor below the UN estimated poverty line of $1.25 a day, a 10% poverty rate increase from 27.5% to 37.2% since 2004. That’s during the corruption and scam ridden Congress’ rule. With agriculture ministry headed by minister who declined to distribute the rotting food grain and pulses free to the poor, it’s anybody’s guess as to who Sharad Pawar cares more about; the cartel and not the poor. The Competition Commission of India fearing a scam in the way onion prices has spiked has ordered a probe into a possible cartelization by the onion traders.
What will the aam aadmi eat if even the staple food such as onions becomes unaffordable? Now the poor in India are even robbed of the raw onion that he could eat with his sookha roti when the dal became expensive. Cannot believe as to how the population is servicing in a country where majority of the population is estimated to spend more than 50 percent of their household income on food.
Following are the yearly rise in prices of some essential commodities that form the sub-index for food articles:
Onions: 82.47 percent
Vegetables: 58.85 percent
Fruits: 19.99 percent
Milk: 19.59 percent
Eggs, meat, fish: 20.83 percent
An aam aadmi/common man interviewed by a TV channel said “It becomes really difficult and impossible to sustain and live after the 10th of every month”.
Food prices were sky high even during the UPA-1. Even then people voted for Congress. Since in democracy, we deserve the government we elect, the only people who can complain now are the BJP voters. Everyone else needs to stand up and accept the blame. Those voters may not all have voted for Congress. However, they may have voted for regional parties who have no ideological standing and ended up enabling the Congress. Those parties must be ignored. Voters need to look at their own self interest and then vote. The party who can feed them and keep them safe.
In one of our earlier posts, we mentioned an interview with a Kolkata based Muslim “sabjiwallah”. He lamented that at least during BJP rule, he did not have to worry about food prices. No BJP supporter, he!!
With leaders like Bhai Narendra Modi and others, the choice for Indian voters could not be starker.
Food gets out of aam admi’s reach
It is not onion alone which is bringing tears into the eyes of buyers. While an increase of over 82 per cent in onion prices and 58.85 per cent in vegetables led to the overall increase in food inflation, prices of egg, meat and fish were up by 20.83 per cent, fruits by 19.99 per cent and milk by 19.59 per cent).
Meanwhile, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said though it was a weekly figure, the Government was concerned. “These are weekly (figures). Let us wait for the monthly figures. These are weekly variations, but it is a matter of concern,” he said.
http://www.dailypioneer.com/308929/Food-gets-out-of-aam-admi’s-reach.html
Steep rise in Indian food costs sparks fears of global effects
India's Commerce and Industry Ministry said Thursday that food prices rose at an annual rate of 18.32 percent in the week ending Dec. 25. That capped more than a year of double-digit food price inflation for India, where millions of people still spend more than 50 percent of their household income on food.
The latest sharp rise in Indian food-price inflation was partly due to the jump in the price of onions, a staple ingredient in India's curries.
Ali Mohammad, a 30-year-old onion trader in Mumbai, said: "People have to buy the same number of onions. It's a staple. That is why I haven't seen any change in sales. But what I have seen is that rather than buying 1 kilogram at a time, as before, they will buy less, but more often, so it is manageable."
Naresh Vitlani, a 54-year-old clothes trader, said: "It seems everything is going up in price, from vegetables and meat to diesel and household cooking gas. We are always worried as to what is next." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/06/AR2011010603757.html
Can't implement Supreme Court order on foodgrain: Sharad Pawar
Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has responded to Supreme Court's recommendations of distributing grains to the poor for free instead of letting them rot.
"It's not possible to implement the Supreme Court's order," the minister said.
Steep rise in Indian food costs sparks fears of global effects
India's Commerce and Industry Ministry said Thursday that food prices rose at an annual rate of 18.32 percent in the week ending Dec. 25. That capped more than a year of double-digit food price inflation for India, where millions of people still spend more than 50 percent of their household income on food.
The latest sharp rise in Indian food-price inflation was partly due to the jump in the price of onions, a staple ingredient in India's curries.
Ali Mohammad, a 30-year-old onion trader in Mumbai, said: "People have to buy the same number of onions. It's a staple. That is why I haven't seen any change in sales. But what I have seen is that rather than buying 1 kilogram at a time, as before, they will buy less, but more often, so it is manageable."
Naresh Vitlani, a 54-year-old clothes trader, said: "It seems everything is going up in price, from vegetables and meat to diesel and household cooking gas. We are always worried as to what is next." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/06/AR2011010603757.html
Can't implement Supreme Court order on foodgrain: Sharad Pawar
Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has responded to Supreme Court's recommendations of distributing grains to the poor for free instead of letting them rot.
"It's not possible to implement the Supreme Court's order," the minister said.
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