My Opinion

Nowadays, Indrani Mukherjea’s case is being widely discussed. She has been accused of mercilessly killing her daughter. Nithari case cannot be forgotten too where small children were killed. In Haryana, a girl killed her entire family. And even the Dec 16th gangrape case of Delhi. All these cases are still alive in people’s mind. All the criminals related to these cases should be shown mercy who never thought once before killing innocent people. This will be injustice to the society. The punishment should be harsh in all these cases. The Law Commission has just given a suggestion right now. Now this report will be handed over to the Law Ministry. Then whatever recommendations are accepted, it will be tabled in the Parliament. Then only there will be a decision.

The BJP will have more problems than Nitish Kumar and Lalu Yadav in seat sharing for the Bihar polls. Lalu, Nitish and Congress have to join hands to fight PM Modi. That is why everyone agreed and came to a consensus on seat sharing. But the NDA leaders are confident of winning the polls in Bihar this time. That is why Paswan, Upendra Kushwaha and Jitan Ram Manjhi want the maximum share as if the govt is formed they will have more involvement. Right now everyone is saying that there is no differences, but the reality will be known only when seat sharing is announced.

Currently the crude oil prices have fallen to a five year low in the international market. The oil imported by India costs around USD 47 per barrel. This has impacted us. A large portion of our import budget is for crude oil. That is why fall in rates will impact our economy. And at this time the whole world’s economy has gone for a toss because of China. India can be empowered because of this.

Santhara is an age old tradition. This is true that in our country suicide is against the law. Provoking suicide is also a crime. But in Santhara, no one provokes or no youth gives his life. This tradition is followed by aged people. Crores of people have faith in this tradition. This issue is related to their faith. That is why the court should also think in that perspective.

PM Modi will inform the RSS that what are his achievements in the past one and a half years. Where are the problems. RSS leaders will also give suggestions to the government. The bigger impact to this is that the opposition will start saying that RSS controls the government.

There’s nothing new in population analysis on the basis of religion and it has been a tradition. But during past few months, Hindu organizations have been saying about decreasing no. of Hindus and their low growth rate openly and sometimes from the backstage. Some people even advised Hindus to have more children. It is now clear that this census report will give boost to the points raised by people like Yogi Adiyanath and others earlier. They will now say that they were absolutely correct. However, we need to be aware that these things do not spread communalism and tension among the people.

It is difficult for the Gujarat government. On one side, there is people’s support, thousands of people are demanding and on the other side, there is Supreme Court’s guidelines. This is Gujarat govt’s obligation.The good news is Chief Minister Anandiben Patel did not make any false promises rather conveyed her helplessness. Hardik Patel is an educated man. He also knows the problem. But he has raised this issue which is emotional. It appeals the people. Members of one community get together. With such an intensity, these protests will surely create pressure on our leaders but not on the Court. For the sake of votes, reservations were given in states like Maharshtra, Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala. But the result was clear.

Real reason of call drop is lack of mobile towers. There is a need to raise the number of mobile towers. Companies are ready to set up more towers. But they say that court orders do not permit them to set up more towers. The order states that towers cannot be erected at residential areas, public places and hospitals. This is a major roadblock. Ravi Shankar Prasad has tried to get a solution to this problem. He has written to all the states asking them to allow setting up of mobile towers across all government buildings. May be we can see some relief.

This was a local body election but has a major political impact. BJP governs states like Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh and BJP was victorious in the local body polls recently held there. Rahul Gandhi even raised the issue of resignation of Shivraj Singh Chauhan and Vasundhara Raje. He did not even allow the Parliament to function. But Congress governs Karnataka, and the party lost the local body polls in Bengaluru. This loss might cause worry for Rahul Gandhi.

The nation has full sympathies to retired army men and hope that their demands will be accepted within a day or two. The govt will announce One Rank One Pension. However it is clear that in last 24 years Congress and BJP have been making promises on this issue but no one fulfilled. PM Narendra Modi had promised retired army soldiers of OROP ahead of elections and the good thing is that he still remembers it and is trying to implement. But the bad thing is it has been too late now.

Analysing Owaisi’s views and his comments, it is not difficult to believe that Owaisi might be a BJP agent. Hence, the way Digvijaya Singh has attacked Owaisi, called him an agent of the BJP, will cause problems not only for the Congress but also to Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad Yadav. Another thing is that Owaisi will file a defamation case against Digvijaya Singh.

Current economic condition of the world is an opportunity for India. The nation needs to improve its condition at the earliest. Taking this into account, Congress should not protest the GST bill because govt is bringing the same bill that was made during Manmohan Singh’s regime with few amendments and today we need this. But looking at Rahul Gandhi’s actions, it looks like the Congress will protest. The central govt has full majority in Lok Sabha. Samajwadi Party, BSP, Trinamool Congress and Biju Janta Dal also supports the govt in Rajya Sabha. The government is trying its best to push the bill in the Parliament. If the Congress does not support them on this, it will take help of other Opposition parties and pass the bill in Rajya Sabha. This will isolate Congress and is not a good thing for them.