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While Prime Minister (PM) directed State Government to initiate stern actions against black marketers, the Finance Minister (FM) reflected helplessness saying that he does not have a magic stick to control rising prices.
The ruling kinfolks have realized the affect of rising prices on common man after three years of hardship.
The Dainink Jagran story on MM-PC shared concern on back bone braking rising cost after three years is nothing but seems to be election gimmicks to shedding crocodile tears.
They cannot be absolved of from the responsibilities of over 1000 farmers committed suicide and over 11% unemployed youths have taken up crimes.
The slow but steady tactics of hiking prices had made hundreds of millionaires overnight in India than world.
Of course, every citizen of country knows that Mr P Chidambaram is not having a magic stick but the leadership has the common sense.
Were not they aware; the spiraling effect of raising petroleum products on other economic related cycles? If they say yes, than they had intentionally oozed out a common man sweat; and if they say no, than they are not fit to be leaders of this farmer's country.
In any case, after plundering the common citizens of India for three consecutive years, now MM-PC felt sharing and issuing a statement and sharing the agony of a common man.
The present government had totally failed in all failed in protecting her citizens from the scourge of rising prices.
All congress leaders led Governments have by and large after coming to power had axed common man's pocket first to fulfill capitalist's pockets.
When ever people of country ask their accountability for failed assignments, every time, they begin to tell that country should do this, that and blab, blab; but when they are in power, the entire leadership ignores a common man's need and concentrate on business of metal.
It is unfortunate that Indian parties are still being voted to power on past legacies with a margin of 2% to 3% of actual votes.
How effectively they had ruined rural economy is judged from the crocodile tears of PM assertion on 22 February 2007.
He has woken up after three years of financially upsetting common man's budget when the next elections are knocking at their doors.
The saying that better late than never is proving true once again when MM-PC duos has now realized that common man is also suffering.
They could hear business communities' cries from vaulted doors but could never lend their ears to common man on street? What is agony of a nation of farmers? Hereafter, I would also analyze the form and effect of country's next budget on common man How the next two budgets of current leadership would be can be easily envisaged.
I predict that; One to undo the previous three years harsh measures, they would try to reduce some burden on common man and win next elections.
Two, as the government had already accumulated billions of rupees by regularly raising prices in last three years; any reduction in cost would not impinge on their coffin and diminish bank balance in next two years.
Three, as all the market big bulls have already earned millions of rupees profit by raising market index three times from 4686 points in 2003-04 to 14426 points as on 23 February 2007, there would be meager effect on their financial standings in future.
Four, the tactics of first raising ten rupees; and thereafter reducing two to three rupees every year would not make any effect on common man because, poor had all suffered.
The MM-PC duos is playing my Push Forward and Drag Backward Economic Model (PFDBEM) ever since they had joined Indian politics, therefore, people of this country cannot be befooled any longer.
In this model of economy, government levies ten rupees and after people make hue and cry, they reduce one to two rupees with every public cry but continue to gain the desired target.
However, as our country is ripe for PFDB type of economic model, our common man suffered the most.
Recent reduction in rupees two in petrol and diesel had once again only given any relief to businessmen and not a common man at all.
The rates have been reducing when neither it benefited farmers due to non-harvesting seasons nor a common man.
The tactic of first increasing and later decreasing rates has been identified by common man.
The role of so-called secular and poor people's parties has been, by and large, very skeptical.
It is evident that to continue to stick to chair, these left parties and secular people had betrayed a common man's cause.
None of the leader, other than issuing a statement while attending lavish dinner or tea parties, had ever opposed heavy price hikes.
Infact, our present leadership had betrayed common man's causes.
The reduction in interest rates on all type of deposits, where as gave added leverage to banks to play around with large part of investors' money on one side, it has reduced banks repayment liabilities to consumers on the other.
The banks invested consumer's money on higher equities but paid less to the investors.
Infact so far all the economic policies of the present government had only robbed her citizens in all ways, whether it is a matter of interest rates on provident funds, bank saving, transactions on various issues, investments in saving and tax rebates or house building sector.
Every where a middleman was benefited while sitting in air conditioned offices and common street man suffered.
The total neglect of agro sector in last three years had nearly crippled Indian farming sector.
The acquisition of large cultivated land tracts for industries, setting urban colonies and other development projects had uprooted nearly five villages in Singur, West Bengal, 12 villages while constructing Narmda dam in Madhya Pradesh and six villages while constructing Tihri Dam in Uttaranchal.
Though, the acquisition of land is justified in some cases but most of the uprooting farmers are still living gypsies life without proper shelter and cover.
If at all the government had settles a few colonies, they all lack minimum essential services such as water, electricity, transportations and means of earning livelihood.
As all Indians see their mother in land, they consider selling their agricultural lands as unfortunate.
These farmers grieved as if their mother has passed away when government forcibly acquired cultivated land.
We need to understand the highly intricate and interwoven Indian family value systems in the villages where a family of up to 15 to 20 members can survive for generation on mere half a cares of land as joint family.
They believed that till they a smallest chunk of motherland and means of producing grains, none of them would die of hunger and the family can reside happily for ages.
This is what, where our new economic policies have struck.
Government has hit on farmers basic family value systems and tried to snatch even half an acre of cultivable farmer's land either acquiring directly or failing to provide means of cultivation to them to plow the land.
Snatching of motherland and means of survival of farmers has really forced many families to migrate for greener pastures towards cities and thus either taking to crimes or die with hunger honorably and most of them followed later options.
Once again I am struck with the basic question of analyzing that when all the ingredients of industry, labor, raw material, machinery, sites and skilled work force is cheapest in the country than why raise the prices of finished products like East Indian Company of 1858.
Why a car whose actual production cost is just rupees 75,000, it is priced rupees 2, 25,000 for sale.
Why and why Maruti, Mahindras, Infosys and many other houses are earning quarterly profits of 100 to 700 times? The readers must know the facts of such large business houses strategies of siphoning Crores of rupees to parties' coffin.
The government's gimmick of first raising the cost and later reducing it, itself cost a common man very dearly.
Most of the decisions are influenced by large business houses to meet their expenses and not of common man's pocket.
Today, Indian leadership, by and large, is well convinced that a common man would survive by any means but what would happen to ruling clans? Days are not very far off; when poor man or Have Not would snatch even a single food morsel from your hand and mouth to satisfy his hunger.
The entire credit of such state would go to our visionless leadership.
Days are not far off; when poor, helpless, landless, jobless cloth less hungry common man would rise and snatch away everything to survive.
Indian farmers are transiting through a very crucial stage because neither their future is safe nor they visualize secured future of their children anymore due to ever-growing land demand of industry.
Days are not far off; when a poor residing your next door would walk into your house, pick up or snatch food to satisfy his hunger and walk off.
If you resist, he would kill you.
He will still snatch without remorse because you have closed all his avenues to grow, work and live respectably.
When you his a common man's hungry stomach, then god save the nation from scourge of blood she which Indians are going to face sooner or later.
The rising crime graph of now landless farmer's children from Gurgaon, Muzzaffarnagar, Noida and many other areas is witness to this curse.
The farmers of Gurgaon would have never thought that they had to pay very heavy prices of selling their motherland.
We have to act when time is still with us and save future generations from fire of hunger and scourge of criminalization.
While analyzing the effects of rising prices on common man in next series, I would touch upon as to how to revive farming sector and village economy as I believe that the farmers of a country are revered as next to God because they feed the populace of that country; and not left to commit suicide at the mercy and whims and fancies of visionless leaders.
Jai Hind.
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