Dear Friends

Today ,I want to share with you about certain ongoing issues . There are three burning issues in my mind today:

1. Tata's has announced to rethink to take away the Car project from West Bengal to some other location.

2. Raj Thackrey and Bal Thackrey have come out heavily on Bachhans.

3. L.N.Mittal in interview today said that the projects in Orissa and Jharkhand are delayed by two years and cost over run is about 50%.

In all the above incidences there is one similarity. Indian politics has gone so low that they don't care really about the people. In Bengal ,Tata had put in every thing but he found himself sandwiched between the various political parties. He had no option and announced to go out. Till he was quiet, every political party was exploiting his project and tried to take more and more mileage from the incidence. Now even Governor is mediating to bring him back. The parties now think their vote bank would get annoyed because of job losses. So they are now singing different tunes. Similarly two projects of LN Mittal group worth Rs. 90000 Crs are delayed due to permissions and approvals from the government. He said it is already costlier by 50% i.e. Rs. 45000 Crs. more. He did not say any thing negative but I could read in between the lines a clear cut warning that if political parties don't change their attitude, he would scrap this project. Again lacs of people, who could find jobs may not get this opportunity. I wish political parties would now run after him to get the projects through. It is not worth mentioning about the reasons of delay in giving approvals and permissions. Now friends third incidence shows that smaller parties are after certain people to get the mileage at any cost. And surprisingly all the parties are quiet. No one wants to loose the vote bank and those suffering are just suffering day by day. I agree Mumbai is the center of entertainment and finance industry. But who are the people making the city so proud? The thekedars should understand that If Amitabh Bachhan announces to go out of mumbai, and industry looks for any other location out of maharashtra, then where these thekedars would go? What feeling outsiders would have in mind? Will any other industry survive with this attitude? Then where these so called marathi gods would go?

It is really painful to see such situation in our country and more painful is that national parties like BJP and Congress are just spectators because they don't want to loose their vote bank. I think we indians require some new political set up with written code of conduct.

Wit Love

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