A faltering UPA -2

The UPA magic is waning a year into the second term, the administration looks more fragile than ever. Infighting amongst the cabinet ministers, Kashmir situation, Maoist violence, Foreign affairs goof ups, Price rise and to top all these the brazen Common wealth scandal.

Dr Man Mohan Singh’s much applauded strengths of cool, calm and collected are becoming his nemesis, he is appearing indecisive as days pass by, how can he let the Kashmir situation get out of hand. It is sad to see the Hurriyat dictating terms to the center. It is a meek response to the challenge at hand. The usually smug Home minister appears lost. Where is the promise to create more jobs to the Kashmiri youth, jobless men will throw stones and do whatever is necessary to kill time.

One can agree Kashmir is a difficult situation to handle with a myriad of complexities but the incoherent response to the Maoist violence shows lack of conviction on part of the Home Minister. His colleagues do not agree with his assessment on handling the violence. The iron clad defense of Mr. Chidambaram on critical issues is breaking.

The Aam aadmi slogan is fast appearing a mirage. Price rise is killing the Aam admi and there seems to be no clear strategy to check the price rise. PDS is in shambles, FCI is letting the food grains rot in godowns. Where is the promised efficient administration? It is a crime to let people go hungry while food stocks rot. Sharad Pawar has other priorities.

Less said about handling foreign affairs with Pakistan. Pakistan seems to pull a fast one on us on every occasion. We should stop complaining to US and the whole world on Pakistan exporting terrorism to Indian soil, what is our response, just complain?