The Modi Era: 2014-2025 Magnificent achievements indeed ! This past 11 year period will certainly have to be reckoned by historians of the future as India’s “finest hour” heralding a golden era in the life of the nation. Anand Ranganathan’s one glaring omission of India’s achievements in the last 11 years is the great stridesContinue reading “With the 11-Year “Narendra Modi Report Card” of Anand Ranganathan, I concur and say, “This was India’s Finest Hour”!”
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“INDIAN POLITICAL PARTIES: A huge governance challenge”, writes former CEC T.S.Krishnamurthy
Dear Sri TSK Sir, Thank you for sharing your article (scroll down to the end below) with me. It is a very well written, sober and sobering commentary on the ills of our country’s electoral system . The solutions to many of the problems highlighted by you lie not in the hands of the ECIContinue reading ““INDIAN POLITICAL PARTIES: A huge governance challenge”, writes former CEC T.S.Krishnamurthy”
A social-contract reeking of conflict of interest and moral hazard: Electoral Bond Scheme
“The Hindu” today 21 Feb 2024 : DATA POINT At least the Data analysis above — if not the noisy news and editorial commentaries in the media that have only confused and confounded me — confirms now my own suspicions voiced in my previous blogposts that I posted here over the last few days, everContinue reading “A social-contract reeking of conflict of interest and moral hazard: Electoral Bond Scheme”
Was PM Narendra Modi right in invoking the Sudama and Krishna metaphor ?
I do not agree with Ritesh Sharma’s view below ⬇️ I think what PM Modi really meant was that ordinary people who were able to make anonymously small contributions to political parties in India under the Electoral Bond Scheme EBS have now lost that means of exercising even a modicum of popular influence on politicalContinue reading “Was PM Narendra Modi right in invoking the Sudama and Krishna metaphor ?”
“sab chaltha hai yaar!… kuch nahi kar saktha koi bhi … Supreme Court ya Khudha..!
For big corporates and big business political donations are part of their business strategy… Donations to this or that party constitutes an investment with an expected return within a given time frame. But we all know for a fact that there are millions of other small business men, traders, shopkeepers and vendors of goods andContinue reading ““sab chaltha hai yaar!… kuch nahi kar saktha koi bhi … Supreme Court ya Khudha..! “
Electoral Bond Scheme verdict: Conspiracy of the Powerful to pull wool over our eyes?
Matching buyers of electoral bonds with recipients could be tricky, say activists – https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/matching-buyers-of-electoral-bonds-with-recipients-could-be-tricky-say-activists/article67850160.ece The news today say that it’s going to be technically tricky to reveal exactly “who gave how much to which party” under the Electoral Bond Scheme which yesterday the Supreme Court of India declared as illegal and unconstitutional. In other words,Continue reading “Electoral Bond Scheme verdict: Conspiracy of the Powerful to pull wool over our eyes?”
The Supreme Court has outlawed the Electoral Bond Scheme : Will Modi now walk the talk ?
Do we all remember Anna Hazare’s short lived mass movement not so long ago against Corruption in political life ? Why did Anna Hazare catch the imagination of the people —- even if only very briefly — when he launched his anti corruption movement ? Election funding in our country today is the fountainhead ofContinue reading “The Supreme Court has outlawed the Electoral Bond Scheme : Will Modi now walk the talk ?”
A “National Referendum of the People” is needed to side-step the Constitution of India whose provisions are thwarting the implementation of the “one-nation, one-election” principle !
The impossibility of implementing a change — from the current electoral system in India of holding multiple elections at multiple times in multiple constituencies in our vast country to a system of “one-nation , one-election” every 5 years — has been lucidly explained by a well-respected luminary ( name withheld for privacy reasons) below. AfterContinue reading “A “National Referendum of the People” is needed to side-step the Constitution of India whose provisions are thwarting the implementation of the “one-nation, one-election” principle !”
The BBC, the Electoral Bond Scheme and Legalised Prostitution
Usually , I read BBC news analysis with more than a truckload of incredulity given the fact of its anti-India prejudice. But this one exception of an article on the Electoral Bond Scheme of India, I confess I really can’t find fault with. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-62991256.amp Arun Jaitley’s devious legal brain it was that conceived, introduced andContinue reading “The BBC, the Electoral Bond Scheme and Legalised Prostitution”