Monday, September 23, 2013

The BJP's 'akla chalo' challenge

History awaits to be rewritten after a long time, not surely for a common man's good government dream coming true, but quite definitely for a unified national vote in the upcoming elections. From jhuggis to glass walls, everwhere the discussion seems to encircle the BJP's Prime-Ministrial candidate- Mr. Narendra Modi.
He has a presence, which a coomon man, a college student, a housewife and a rikshawala feels.
Since, 1984 there has been no government formed on the basis of unified votes. All went into coalition with other parties.
Mr. Modi has a national projection of a modern and aspirational leader, an image also elevated by RSS. In 1996 the brand 'Vajpayee' with a sense of innovation, tried to capture the masses, and was successful, though it took it two years to be fruitful. At that time the part made several alliances, but lost them all, in the wave of 2002 Gujarat violence. Today the BJP has only two allies viz. Shiv Sena and Akali Dal.

If Mr. Modi wins the elections, then it will be the first such single-handed victory and one of its kind national wave after the assassination of Indira Gandhi in 1984. Since then the regional parties have grown stronger, hence prevented a single leader to come up.
Lets wait and see, who gets the bookmark in the history of pilitics.  

Time for honest introspection

What is diplomacy? As explained by Wiki it is 'The profession, activity, or skill of managing international relations, typically by a country's representatives abroad'. By managing it quite surely means solving the international problems, and not just discussing them. By far India has been a country with good diplomatic terms, but yet to solve its timeless insecurity of Kashmir and China Border related problems. Now and again summits have been called upon to discuss these issues but with no success. Has it been keen Chacha Nehru or reluctant Dr. Manmohan, the unsolved issues are a mirror of the odd or the good-looking diplomatism.

All in future we can seek for will be a revival of the four point formula which spells no surrender by any side and will radically change the entire atmosphere,

Friday, September 20, 2013

Don't waiver now on nuclear liability - 20/9/13

The today's editorial deal with the liability of the supplier of nuclear reactors, under the specified constitutional and international laws, in case of any accidents or mishappenings related to the reactors. Under the Act which deals with these rights and laws, Section 17 a, b and c are specified with the details of the rights of the operator of the nuclear reactor and liability of the supplier.  Section 17 (c) says that the operator country can claim the compensation from the supplier country if mentioned in the written agreements between the two countries.
As, India has seen in its past tragic industrial accidents, especially the Bhopal Gas Tragedy, the Indian Constitution is looking forward to take the benefits of this section, by removing any ambiguities the existing nuclear agreement laws has. So, if the clause is added in the contract between the supplier and the operator, then the supplier will be completely liable for any future damages or accidents.
In India the setting up and running of nuclear power plants is totally governed by Government institutions viz. NPCIL and BHAVINI. So, currently these Gov. institutions are to provide monetary compensations in case of any accidents in India. As these are Gov. run institutions, it means it is the money of taxpayers. But acc. to the Supreme Court of India there can be no such agreements between two parties in which they waive off certain claims or rights, if they can adversely affect the public interest; as it would, if the supplier liability section in agreements be waived off.
So, the Parliament of India needs to look objectively on the issue and act to remove any ambiguities in the way of enactment of the law.