With the change of reign in Kerala, come new expectations. During one channel interview, someone from Ernakulam opined that Govt’s change, but our plights don’t change.
VS Achuthanandan and CPM in general with their characteristic style of opposing all things and everything, supposedly for the sake of ordinary people, needs to now realign their thinking a lot towards the modern world where SEZ (special economic zones)’s and FDI (Foreign direct investment) is norm.
It is the children of those ordinary people who aspire to get into an IT job and that’s why they should not oppose Smart city and initiatives such as smart city.
Achuthanandan should adapt to welcoming foreign firms to do business in his state and at the same time provide solace to farmers who end up resorting to suicide due to mounting financial problems as a result of poor yield.
Also, Kannur district always plunges to political violence as soon as left begins to rule. This is to be attributed to their influence in the police force. Such violence also needs to stemmed if it does develop.
It is good news that the much maligned Kunhalikutty and Murali candidates were thrown away by the enlightened Keralites. Murali has now repeated his failure. When he failed first he said “one failure is common”. It is interesting to know what he would say now?
Overall, let us hope for the best from the left.
Left ride in Kerala - 12/05/06, CalicutNet.com
Massive win for Left in Kerala - Gulf News.
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In need of a Kerala 'Budha'
Media and many of the Indians are all praise to ‘Brand Budha’ what Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has been doing to West Bengal. On political front: during the previous (2001) assembly elections, he brought CPM from the brink of losing 25+ years of rule by veteran Jyoti Basu. Trinamool Congress a strong opposition during that assembly election, is now fighting for existence.
‘Budha’ now transforming the employee-friendly eastern state to both employee and employer-friendly. Development activities are being parallel to what China has been achieving on a global market.
Simple look at the statistics of LDF win in Kerala during this election with a majority of 98 out of 140, is not up to what UDF did in 2001, wherein it was 100 out of 140. All Keralites know very well what did we achieve with the outgoing UDF led government with 100 MLAs. The achievements may be compared merely on 48 seats they have right now against the 100.
The bottom line is that not the massive majority bring the expectations of people up. We are in need of a ‘Brand Budha’ in Kerala too. Neither a ‘Smart’ Oommen, hard-core Achu, Singapore Vijayan, Dhrutharashtra Karunakaran nor an ideology-lost Antony. But, simply a ‘Kerala Budha’. Would there be anyone like that?
Posted by: George Manuval | May 13, 2006 at 09:39 AM