Helping Kashmir move up.

Recently Narendra Modi went to Leh and Kargil, twin districts in Jammu and Kashmir separately ruled by autonomous councils in Ladakh. As Narendra Modi visited the two important cities of the nation, one which even hosted India’s one of the most deadly wars with Pakistan, a lot of media attention has gathered and with attention speculations are also rife about the visit of Mr. Modi in the land of Jammu and Kashmir.

According to me, this visit of Mr. Modi to Jammu and Kashmir means a lot both nationally as well as internationally. Jammu and Kashmir from the very beginning has been a battle ground for Mr. Modi. From the debate of article 370 to that of Kashmiri Pandits, Modi has been vigilant in the state’s affairs for a very long time, from even before the commencement of his PM campaign as the BJP’s candidate. Jammu Kashmir was also one of those few states which got complete attention of Mr. Modi and as a matter of fact, even after becoming the Prime minister of the nation, Modi has visited the state two times thus showing his alacrity to induce reforms in the state.

The two aspects, I would like to talk about in this article are the national as well as international significance of Modi’s visit to the state.

Let’s first talk about the international aspect of the visit of Mr. Modi to the state. Unlike the previous governments at the centre, Mr. Modi from the very beginning has been watchful over India’s foreign diplomacy with other global states and especially its neighbours and Pakistan is one of them. Mr. Modi has been keeping a tough eye on Pakistan over issues related to border terrorism and ceasefire agreements on the borders unlike his previous counterparts who just knew to give message of peace and do nothing else.

During his visit to the state of Jammu and Kashmir, Mr. Modi seriously decried the proxy-war tactics being played by Pakistan and also hinted at warning Pakistan of dire consequences if it aims to breed terrorism on its soil against India. This has truly been a great effort by Mr. Modi. The regime of the previous government of UPA was marked by a large number of terrorist activities and cross border terrorism. In one of the assaults the Pakistani soldiers even decapitated two of Indian soldiers and the previous government unfortunately didn’t do anything in order to stiffly condemn the inhumane act of Pakistani forces. But as Mr. Modi has been very much particular about topics related to Indian security and integrity, he would surely try to abate such activities and why only abate, he would surly try to eradicate and sabotage all such plans of Pakistani terrorists, in order to safeguard Indian unity, integrity and power. And this surely appeals much to the Indian denizens who were eagerly waiting for such a robust Prime Minister. One more thing that I would like to add is that such actions being taken by Mr. Narendra Modi are sure to increment his popularity in the international forums too, in which he will take part in the long run as the Prime minister of India. This would surely position him as a strong Prime Minister of India.

One more aspect about which I would like to talk about is Mr. Modi’s national plan regarding the state. Even before being elected the Prime Minister of the nation, Mr. Modi announced his progressive and promising plans regarding the state of Jammu and Kashmir and after being elected the Prime Minister with such a thumping majority, Mr. Modi didn’t forget to fulfill his promises. As promised, he started the work to reestablish Kashmiri Pandits in the state of Jammu and Kashmir and one of his ministers also announced that the plans to roll back article 370 have also started. This shows the profundity of his interest in the state. But unfortunately due to a different structure of the constitution of Jammu and Kashmir, nothing can happen in the state until and unless the state government clears the projects, but as we all know that contemporarily there is a government of Omar Abdullah in the state (who is also one of the biggest critics of Narendra Modi), Modi would not be able to do much in the state, owning to concurrent circumstances. Therefore if Mr Modi really wants to induce changes in the state, he needs to have his own government in the state and that’s one of the biggest motives behind his frequent visits to the state.

I also hope that Jammu and Kashmir would also soon get a BJP government in order to observe progress rather than protest, in order to observe advancements rather than unworthy politics and that Mr. Modi would soon change the state for better.

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT

JAI MA BHARTI

From riches to rags: The Bengal saga continues.

IF we turn the pages of history in order to reach to the British Colonial Era, we are sure to find marvelous significance of one state i.e. the state of Bengal. Bengal was, before the British colonization and for some years during the British epoch too, was the hub of all Indian activities, i.e. from industrialization to patriotism, from trade to manufacturing and was once of the most remarkable and power-wielding state of India whose significance can never be denied. But unfortunately as time succeeded, Bengal receded to a nadir and haplessly today Bengal is one of the most impoverished states of India, undergoing minimal advancements and progress therefore sliding into oblivion day by day.

Gokhale once said, “What Bengal thinks today, India thinks tomorrow”, but today this quotation by Gokhale seems to be nothing more than a preposterous curse. Today most of the problems that are being faced by Bengalis can be owed to the unworthy leadership of various lumped politicians who have done nothing in Bengal rather than devastating its stature and position. The problems that we encounter today in Bengal actually commenced during the pre-independence era.

Even Britishers were pretty much jealous with the development and pace of advancement being experienced by Bengal at that time, and on finding that Bengal was the center of the whole nation’s progress and power, Britishers hatched out many plans in order to completely annihilate this great state of the nation. The foremost and the most decisive step that Brits took in order to disestablish this great state was to strip away the state’s business. Britishers knew that as long as the traders and manufacturers in Bengal survived, they would never be able to carry out their own work in the nation and hence they went on a rampage in order to shatter the whole of the business activities in Bengal. Therefore Britishers ripped off Bengal from its jute mills, engineering units and many other crucial units in order to mutate the whole of Bengal from a fertile state to that of a barren piece of land.

After that when India was freed from the shackles of colonialism, Bengal could have been made a paradigm for all other states if appropriate actions would have been taken but due to negligence portrayed by political parties and leaders Bengal slipped out of the race of becoming a developed and prosperous state. Although BC Roy, the first Chief Minister of West Bengal, used much of his influence and power in order to fetch jobs to the state, but the number of jobseekers soon outnumbered the number of jobs available and again Bengal was left with nothing and all the efforts remained futile. After that, migration of six million citizens from East Pakistan between 1947 to 1973, added fuel to the fire, therefore increasing the population density of Bengal to two and a half times to that of India. Haplessly India moved ahead but Bengal didn’t take a step forward therefore left out of the mainstream.

Then to further the loss, CPM which took charge in 1977, thereby starting the story of complete decline of Bengal. Despite of distributing land among the people, Left followed a very much secluded and cloistered policy therefore taking the state away from progress and jostling it into complete devastation.  The communists taught the Bengalis to do nothing but protest. Bengal protested against everything. From a single rupee increase in bus fare to small pity things, Bengal was regularly burnt in protests but unfortunately the people of Bengal never gained anything out of the protests while on the other hand the CPM thugs at the grass root level licked away all the benefits from the common man’s pocket and made itself superior.

After that a wave of change was observed when Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee tried to influence his party to ameliorate the level of urbanization and industrialization in Bengal but this didn’t impressed those ground level thugs and in order to stop Mr. Bhattarcharjee from taking progress to common people these thugs shifter towards Mamata Banerjee who was at that time also improving her condition in Bengal as a better and powerful alternative than Communists. People of Bengal therefore voted for change and TMC (Trinamool Congress) swept the whole of Bengal’s elections therefore making the left demit from its 34 years long rule in the state and then Mamata Banerjee sat in the Writer’s building.

Unfortunately Ms. Banerjee also let her state down and even send out various investments like Tata’s Nano Project etc. out of Bengal (which was later taken up by Narendra Modi-led Gujarat).  Her whole tenure was smeared with allegations of corruption and misbehavior with the denizens of Bengal. Here callous stand on various issues also aroused huge public fury and her arrogance also made the whole of the state flow into resentment and criticism.

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Even till now Bengal is facing the consequence of bad political leaders and insensitive leadership and this great state has been a exemplary of “riches to rags”. But today something needs to be done for sure. A change needs to be effected in the whole of the state to make this great part of motherland soar high.

Jai Hind, Jai Bharat

Jai Ma Bharti

TAMING THE JUDICIARY

A war was recently waged in the lobbies of the Indian judicial system when Chairman of Press Council of India Markandey Katju went on the rampage to disclose some flabbergasting and astounding activities being conducted in the world of Indian judiciary.

It all commenced with Markandey Katju’s 20 July blog post entry in which he accused the former UPA government as well as former Chief Justice of India Justice Ramesh Chandra Lahoti, of indulging in illegitimate activities and disrupting the procedure prescribed by the law by choosing an unfit and illegible person to work as an additional judge in the high court. Justice Katju in his blog post pasted on record many arguments and cited his own personal experience with the corruption in judiciary. Justice Katju in his explosive blog post lucidly accused former three Chief Justices of India (CJIs) in giving extension to the term of a tainted judge notwithstanding being fully aware of the unlawful activities of the corrupt judge.

Justice Katju wrote that while he was working as the Chief Justice of Madras High Court from 2004 to 2005, he came to know about various astonishing acts of an Additional Judge of Madras High Court. Justice Katju wrote that the alleged judge was first a district judge and because during his tenure as a district judge in Tamil Nadu, he had granted bail to a political leader from a party which was at that time an ally to the Congress part. Due to this act of the judge, the alleged judge soon gained prominence and he despite of 8 adverse entries against him on record was selected as an Additional judge in the High Court of Madras.

When Justice Katju went to Madras in order to head the Madras High Court, he came to know about the judge and asked the Chief Justice of India at that time, Justice Lahoti to get a covert Intelligence Bureau (IB) investigation done against him. Justice Lahoti executed the same and corroborated to the belief of Justice Katju that, that judge was actually involved in some heinous activities.

After that Justice Katju tells that he came to know that the tenure of that alleged judge was coming to an end and Justice Katju assumed that the accused judge would be sacked from his position on grounds of the IB enquiry report but paradoxically all thing went against his assumption. The alleged judge even got 1 year extension to his tenure.

Later Justice Katju writes that he came to know about the true facts of the situation. He writes that at that time three senior most judges of Supreme Court namely Justice Lahoti, Justice Sabarwal and Justice Ruma Pal, asked the government to sack the alleged judge after the end of his tenure in view of the consequences of the inquiry report against him. The three judges therefore sent their recommendation to the Government of India, but amusingly the Government of India asked the then CJI to extend the alleged judge’s term. Later Justice Katju found out that, as former Prime Minister of India, Manmohan Singh was leaving for New York in order to attend a meeting of New York General Assembly, he was notified by the leader from Tamilnadu (the one who was granted bail by the alleged judge) that Mr. Singh’s government would fall by the time he returns back to India owning to the ousting of the alleged judge. This panicked former Prime Minister of India, who asked his close aides to do something in order to avert the toppling of the government at the center. After that a message was sent through PMO (Prime Minister’s Office) that a crisis would engulf the whole nation if the alleged judge is ousted from his position. After getting to know about this, the then CJI gave in and yielded to the pressure and finally extended the term of the judge. The addition judge was later given another term as Additional judge by the new CJI Justice Sabarwal and then the next CJI  KG Balkrishnan confirmed his as a permanent judge(but transferred to another high court).

In yet another blog spot Justice Katju made some new revelations. This time on the target was Justice Kapadia. In his new blog post Justice Katju tells, that on ground of suspicion of suspicious activities being carried out by a judge in the Allahabad High Court, Justice Katju arranged for numbers of 3 agents of that judge through which he used to arrange for bribes. Justice Katju gave the numbers of the agents to the then CJI Justice SH Kapadia and asked him to get the phones of these people taped by authorities in order to check whether the doubt of Justice Katju was reasonable or not. After some time Justice Kapadia informed Justice Katju that his suspicion was correct and the judge was indulged in such activities. On account of this Justice Kapadia was required to pass an impeachment motion against the judge but unfortunately justice Kapadia did nothing.

While some judges including the former CJI who have been accused blame Justice Katju of defaming judiciary but has Justice Katju done anything wrong? I clearly don’t believe in that. First of all the accusations alleged by Justice Katju clearly have many facts supporting then and therefore hold true. If exposing corruption is a bad task then one day corrupt ministers would blame organizations like CBI etc. of defaming the government by exposing the corrupt activities of the government.

Today we need to emend the procedure prescribed by the constitution in choosing high court and Supreme Court judges. Today we need to manage the influence of government in the selection processes of the judges while on the other hand the collegiate which chooses the judges must be made transparent also and for this purpose we need to make the process more pellucid and transparent. Then only we would be successful in taming the corruption in judiciary or many other matter like this would get unreported.

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT

JAI MA BHARATI

GO OUT AND DONATE

Around three decades ago, India was a nation completely deficient of voluntary donors of blood. Whenever there was a need to do surgery or operation blood had to be bought from people and you can also call that a barter system of blood, but this system apparently led to huge losses of life of poor people who succumbed to their injuries or disease as a result of not being able to pay the money required to buy blood.

Fortunately today the whole situation has transformed into a better. Today more than 40 lakh units are available for the needy people thus saving the lives of so many innocuous people on the earth. And the same needs to be done for organ donation.

The most important thing is to change people’s perspective about the whole situation. Around 30 years ago, people used to believe that blood donation was an unholy process and myths in the mind of people averred so many virtual and unauthentic side effects that most of the people declined this practice but today the situation has changed completely. With so many awareness programmes and drives today India is having a large number of people who are donating their blood for a better cause. Today the same needs to be done with organ donation.

Today there is a critical gap between the supply and demand of the organs. Today the number of those wanting organs remains to be high while the number of donors available for the purpose continues to constitute a meagre proportion of the population thereby leading to death of so many of those who could have survived  if they would have got organ transplants at the right time.

Let’s first talk about Kidney transplantation in India. Kidney transplantation in India started in the 1980s. At that time it was just a type of business in which poor people donated (not at all) their kidney to rich people in exchange for money and therefore only the rich could afford to buy the kidney and lakhs of paupers were made to die. Even the laws allowed the same and finally all this resulted in corruption by doctors and also illegitimate export of kidneys to western countries.

It was not until 1994 when the law was mutated and a new organ transplantation act was enacted to stop illegal organ trading and focussed on making organ transplantation for the poor and middle class.

But still the execution of the above mentioned step taken by the judicial services remains completely poor due to some reasons.

The first is that there are a lot of those waiting for transplants but not many people are there for donation. At present 1,50,000 people want a kidney transplant but still only 40,000 donors are there. Ever year our nation requires 4 crore units of blood but only 40 Lakh units of blood are available to the people. All this creates a huge situation of turmoil in the whole nation and at last because of such a great shortfall between the number of those wanting organs and number of those donating , the rich at last is at the receiving end while the poor is nowhere there or is just made to donate his organs due to lack of money.

The second thing is the high cost of transplantations. In India more than 95% of liver transplants are done in private hospitals which demand 16-24 lakhs per transplant. With post-transplant costs of about Rs. 10,000 per month for immunosuppressive drugs to restrain your body from rejecting the new organs, also exacerbated the problems of people thereby making it only an affair of rich people.  

The other thing is that in India even families of deceased people are not ready to donate their organs just because of some myths. In India only 5% transplantations are from deceased donors while in the western countries the figure is of about 80%.

So now the question that comes in front of us is how can we make the organ transplantation affordable for poor.

First of all we need to destroy the myths in people’s mind about organ donation. A large part of Indian population continues to be illiterate and therefore have no idea about the process of organ transplantation and have a myth that if they donate their organs (even after death) God will never forgive them. It is true that such things really exist in India. But now a change needs to be effected in the nation. These people need to be told that even in our mythology organ transplantation is there. Rishi Dadichi once donated his bones to make weapons out of them.  While on the other hand, some drives and awareness programs also need to be commenced in order to change people’s perspective about the whole situation.

The second step that we need to take up is with the brain dead people. Families of brain dead people believe that if the person’s heart is beating, there are chances of him getting recovered and therefore never donate the patients organs. But today doctors and other authorities should take up the initiative in order to tell the families of brain dead people about their exact position and ask them to donate the organs of the patient. More than 50 people can be saved by tissue donors and organ donors can save upto the life of around 8 people. Isn’t that amazing that so many people would turn over a new lease of life through the help of brain dead patients. That surely can serve that purpose.

 In order to expedite the process of organ transplantation, India need to educate its people and also make tougher laws in order to stop illegal trading of organs and to make the transplantation affordable to the poor people.

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT

JAI MA BHARTI

Indian judicial system- a shame.

It is not a latent fact to the world that India is developing by leaps and bounds day by day. Contemporarily it is one of the world’s greatest economies and also carries the attribute of being one of the world’s most powerful countries of the world which is expected to trounce many other countries in becoming the most favoured nation of the world.

But as development approaches, we need to take some steps too in order to propel more development and facilitate the current processes and a robust judiciary system is a must for that. If we talk about Indian democracy then there are mainly three pillars of Indian democracy namely legislative, executive and judiciary and considering this it is an obvious fact that we at any cost can never even dare to ignore the judicial system of the nation. But unfortunately, due to reluctance to revamp and mend the judicial system by the previous law makers, it would not be a wrong thing to quote that despite of being one of the world’s biggest nations we carry the burden of one of the world’s most laggard judicial system.

Someone once rightly quoted that “Justice delayed is justice denied.” And if we follow that quotation in our own country India then you would find out that there have been so much delays in this judicial system that as per the quote, no person has even got justice in Indian courts. Indian judiciary system continues to be of very low quality today. Today more than 30 million cases are pending in front of the Indian courts and you would be amused to find out that most of these cases are even not valid ones.

Let’s assume a case that a son can file against his father only, but in Indian courts you are sure to find out that the same case has been filed by the son against his sister but the case still takes more than 20 years to be dismissed.

The other thing is that just due to such procrastination shown by the whole system, a lot of people were convicted for crimes which they never committed. For example in new Delhi, a boy names Shamsuddin Fakruddin  was made to tolerate a sentence of 1 year in Tihar jail without having his crime proved and at last after one year the judged officially sentenced him to a three month jail. The boy was made to live in the second hell (Tihar Jail) for one year just for such a simple crime and without having it proved. Imaging what would happen to that boy afterwards. Wouldn’t he loathe this world? He can even become a serial killer or get easily get in bad company and this proves that such problems take place in India just because of this laggard judicial system.

On one hand we come to watch that people who have done nothing are convicted for so many years while on the other hand we come to see people who have their guilt proved, but still continue to roam freely just because of corrupt judges and officials. According to a research more than 20% of the judges in India are corrupt.

As I recently mentioned that there is a back log of 30 million cases in the whole nation but you would be astonished to know that India is having only 13 judges to handle cases of 1 million people while on the other hand UK has 51 judges to execute the same work and US has 125 judges to perform the same duty. This fact truly proves that the policies adopted by the previous government have completely weaken the whole of the judiciary system making it a complete fiasco due to which thousands of people are made to bear the brunt of crimes which they have never committed while those who continue to be at fault continue to roam freely.

Today the Indian judicial system is so much fragile that it continues to wreak havoc on thousands of life who are engaged in a case. A simple case which can be decided on even the first hearing takes around 15 to 20 years to be decided and that too at the lower level and this at last breeds the seeds of animosity among the people and also the distrust which keeps them from believing in the system, the government and the authorities.

According to a report, if we ameliorate the Indian judicial system Indian GDP would get to watch a 2% increase per annum thus fuelling the Indian story of development. Therefore today we need to change and overhaul the whole of the Indian judicial system in order to become a developed country.

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT

JAI MA BHARTI

Turning a new lease of life in Indo- Nepal relationship.

Narendra Modi’s current visit to Nepal has arisen up to be a huge success. Just as Mr. Modi reached the neighbouring country, India as well as Nepal witnessed the winds of cooperation, friendship and love flowing to and fro in both the nations.

Narendra Modi, the current Prime Minister of India, is currently on his visit to Kathmandu and was given a thumping welcome by the whole of Nepal, which today desperately wants cooperation from global states like India in order to develop into a peaceful country. Notwithstanding witnessing the transition from monarchy to democracy, Nepal still continue to lag behind in most of the sectors due to be torn apart by in-fighting of its political leader which continue to harm the whole of Nepal from inside.

In Nepal the contemporary Prime Minister of India, addressed the whole parliament of Nepal and became the first foreign leader to do so. Modi was hugely lauded for his great oratory skills and the words of wisdom that he spoke in the parliament. Modi played a pretty good move in the parliament of Nepal which was that rather than plunging into Nepali crisis completely and giving Nepal suggestions over forming constitution and distribution of powers in the Nepal’s democracy, Narendra Modi took an initiative to inspire the leaders of Nepal into action and this was extolled very much by the young Nepali generation.

Modi’s visit to Nepal is in itself of great significance globally. The previous governments in India neglected Nepal to a great authority and also showed reluctance to effect a much needed amendment in the 1950 Indo-Nepal treaty of Peace and Friendship which upto this date has become completely redundant. The previous governments hardly showed any alacrity to this nation which at times hardly wanted Indian cooperation. Ultimately, when Nepal’s calls for cooperation were unanswered Nepal move towards China. China found this opportunity of great significance and with humongous happiness started investing in Nepal and from then on the Sino-Nepali relations turned to a new lease of life. From then on China has been exploiting the Nepali nation for its own use and to form a big brother image in Asia and the previous governments at the centre took hardly any notice of this harsh problem which is developing day by day. The present scenario is that today, despite of being geographically connected to India up to a great extent, Nepal still continues to remain far off to a large extent thus giving China complete opportunity to engulf India and therefore sending India at the back foot of the problems.

“You can choose your enemies and friends but you can never choose your next door neighbour.” That’s the problem that India is facing today. Today Nepal continues to be an underdeveloped nation and China continues to sympathise with it and India keeps ignoring this crucial nation, but today the time has come when India strike a harmonious relationship with Nepal which can prove to be a very good and crucial neighbour in the near future for India. But if India continues to ignore this crucial ally then other nations like China can easily exploit this nation thus, threatening Indian neighbourhood and forming an anti-Indian image in the whole of Asia thus promoting anti-Indian sentiments.

Therefore today we need to do something about this problem. Today we need to change the way we perceive our neighbours and we certainly need to strike the much needed change in Indo-Nepal relationship.

Jai Hind, Jai Bharat

Jai ma Bharti

Pre-Prepare yourself.

Recently as many international conflicts are gaining momentum in different parts of the planet, India, being a prominent nation, needs to opt out its stance which it will portray on the international front.

Just as the Moscow and Washington conflicts hit a new high on the Ukraine’s Crimea crisis and the whole world once again is fearing the veracity of the world’s falling back into the ditch of a new cold war, India today needs to devise its strategy according to an ingenious approach in order to be a successful play at the international stage.

This cold war would definitely not be the same as the last one. As the bad omens of an upcoming crisis strike the whole world, India needs to be cleared too about the problems that can shroud the nation if a wrong choice is made.

First of all, today the cold war is not about nuclear bombs. Contemporarily even nations like Pakistan boast of a nuclear bomb. The previous cold war which took place between USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) and USA (United States of America) was more of a show of power from both the nations. Both the nations at that time were equipped with nuclear power unlike other nations and had animosity towards each other which finally led to the devastation of USSR. At that time power was a criterion. Some of the nations slipped to USA while some collaborated with the USSR. But this time the whole situation is different. At such a technically advanced time, nuclear bombs hardly matter. Today most of the nations are completely equipped with such technologies and therefore needn’t feel the pressure of USA or Russia and therefore this time the war will be much of influence rather than being of showcasing your power in order to entice different nations towards you.

The other thing is that today technologically the whole world is connected with each other. Today even if a small nation is affected, tremors are felt in the whole of the planet and that’s why this cold war would be of alignment with other nations. The one which has better ties with others would surely be the silent winner of the battle. But due to this inter connectivity many nations would surely feel the problems too. For example, large volumes of internet data are controlled by United States while Russia provides EU members with crude oil and many other supplies and this ultimately leads to a dilemma crowding over the whole situation. Although nations like France and Germany are with United States today but when the prediction of cold war would start turning into reality these nations would also feel the heat in choosing from the two nations and India would also be in a similar situation. Therefore the new government in the New Delhi needs to make a careful plan to tackle the problems that can ensue as a consequence and should follow that place to avoid any last minute dilemma or problem.

JAI HIND JAI BHARAT

JAI MA BHARTI