On 19/3/2017 Yogi Adityanath became UP CM. Soon there was meat ban in UP. Now BJP governments in Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, MP, Rajasthan, and Uttarakhand have imposed meat ban. Officially the governments claim they are against illegal slaughterhouses. In reality all slaughterhouses are shut down. BJP wants India to become a Hindu nation. For BJP vegetarianism…
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EVMs
Many politicians blame electronic voting machines when they lose elections. Other losers have blamed EVMs at different times. When same politicians win elections they don’t say EVMs wrong or were tampered with. In 2009 BJP blamed EVMs for Lok Sabha loss. In 2014 BJP won Lok Sabha elections did not have problem with EVMs. When…
Army and sahayaks
There is a problem with Indian Army. Many soldiers resent being sahayaks. Sahayak means assistant or helper. Soldiers say they join the army to fight for the country, not to do menial jobs of officers. Officers say sahayaks are buddies; it is voluntary to be a sahayak. Officers are busy. There are four officers where…
Bank charges
Three banks have decided to charge customers a minimum of 150 rupees for cash transactions exceeding four per month. Every fifth and subsequent transaction will be charged 150 rupees or 5 rupees per 1,000 rupees, whichever is higher. The banks are Axis Bank, HDFC Bank and ICICI Bank. The transactions include both deposits and withdrawals….
Instability in Tamil Nadu
There is many a slip between the cup and the lip. So it was for V. K. Sasikala, also known as Sasikala Natarajan, who was close to becoming Chief Minister and missed. On 5/2/2017 AIADMK MLAs elected Sasikala their leader and she was expected to become CM on 7 or 9 of February. O. Panneerselvam…
Budget 2017
On 1/2/2017 Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presented budget for 2017-18. It is the first time budget was presented on 1 February. This time Railway Budget was incorporated into budget. Opposition parties wanted postponement of budget due to elections in UP, Punjab, Manipur, Goa and Uttarakhand. Government did not agree. The matter went to Supreme Court….
Kingfisher arrests
One criticism against Barack Obama was that nobody went to jail for frauds that caused depression of 2008. In India at least some people went to jail for causing loss to a public sector bank. On 23/1/2017 CBI arrested nine persons; four were former officials of IDBI Bank. They were Chairman Yogesh Aggarwal, Deputy Managing…
Trump is President
On 20/1/2017 at noon local time, 10.30 p.m. Indian Standard Time, Donald John Trump became the President of USA. Voting was on 8/11/2016 and on 9/11/2016 Trump had enough Electoral College votes to be President. The matter should have rested there but enemies of Trump were not giving up. They tried other means to stop…
Ordinances
On 2/1/2017 Supreme Court held that re-promulgation of ordinances is a fraud on the Constitution and the ordinances are not immune from judicial scrutiny when the power has been exercised to secure an oblique purpose. It was a 5-2 majority judgment. Justices S. A. Bobde, Adarsh K. Goel, Uday U. Lalit, D. Y. Chandrachud and…
Ordinances
On 2/1/2017 Supreme Court held that re-promulgation of ordinances is a fraud on the Constitution and the ordinances are not immune from judicial scrutiny when the power has been exercised to secure an oblique purpose. It was a 5-2 majority judgment. Justices S. A. Bobde, Adarsh K. Goel, Uday U. Lalit, D. Y. Chandrachud and…