3- Review

3- Aishwarya R.Dhanush's intention to deliver a soul stirring love story is clearly evident from the story (2nd half). but sadly she failed to do that convincingly. Ram's (Dhanush) love for his wife janani (shruthi) is incredible but then it hardly touch us or make us feel that. thats the problem with 3. may be becoz luv before marriage is not shown as deep as luv after marriage. big minus of 3 is shruthi hassan. she did her best but she is so allien to be believed as a normal tamil girl. her face, body language, dialogue delivery... nothing convince us to relate her as a next-door tamil girl. shruthi, nee tamizh ponnaa nadikkaadhaa pls... also pls stop dubbing on ur own voice... mudiyalammaaaa. dhanush is awesome with his intense emotional performance. his bad luck that his character got coincided with that in mayakkam enna. but then you rocked man. bgm of aniruth is worth mentioning. on the whole, director's sincere effort to give a heart touching love story ends in vain. blame it on slow screenplay and shruthi hassan.

Conference on Electoral and Political Reforms 2011

Being a science student, it was a first of its kind experience for me to attend a conference on political and electoral reforms. Thanks to senthil anna who posted the information about this conference on his facebook page. As a sincere follower of present day current affairs and politics in our country, I was triggered to participate in this conference with a quest to learn many aspects as I am still a beginner in political course.

Conference was organized by National Election Watch (NEW) and Association for Democratic Reform (ADR). What a perfect time to host this event! when five states are gearing up for assembly election in near future. As I proceed with the highlights of some of the important sessions of conference, we can understand the essence and prime purpose of this meet. The inauguration function was organized big with all the national and local media attendance; thanks to present and former CECs like Mr.Qureshi, Mr.Gopalswamy and many other officials of election commission. Immediately after inauguration, first session had a total of seven talks covering many aspects of electoral process. It was really the brilliant session in my view which included the direct interaction between participants and higher electoral officials. In particular, CEC Mr.Qureshi was kind enough to spend half a day in the conference and answer most of the questions by himself posted by the participants. Let me highlight the important issues which were discussed in this two day conference.

The main topic of discussion was 49-O. Many suggested that 49-O can be included as one of the button in the present ballot instead of voting for it seperately by giving the voter's details. CEC Qureshi replied that this notion is now in the form of political bill and political parties are not ready to pass this bill to turn it as reality. This clearly shows that politicians are really afraid of 49-O. There was a difference of opinions on the issue of 49-O. CEC Qureshi expressed his view on 49-O as negative voting and it is of no use. But he also stated that election commission encourages 49-O on the other side to stop the misuse of votes of non-voters by political parties. Few refuted the idea of considering 49-O as negative voting. They clearly said that in the long term process, if the percentage of 49-O voting is higher, then it will pave way for the political parties to think from their side to reform their principles and also to propose good candidates in the election.

The use of money power was the next major issue that was widely discussed. Almost all the participants and election commission officials expressed their concern on the selling of votes by the public. It was discussed only as the wrong method adapted by the politicians and not as the mistake of public to get money. But few suggestions were given like taking this issue to public by means of media awareness and also the volunteer actions of people concerned about this. All the participants agreed that they would do their level best to bring the awareness of money power and to stop the misuse of that in the elections.

One session was dedicated to the political reforms in which politicians from various parties were also participated for interaction. The topic of discussion was inner political democracy and transparency of financial accounts of political parties. It was of no surprise that no politicians except Mr.D.Raja talked about the above points but only focussed on "this and thats" of their parties. Even politicians showed their angry when a valid question was pointed at them. As a highlight painful comedy, T.K.S. Elangovan criticized the people for getting money to vote. He is from the party which mastered this art of money power to buy the people and he criticized the people for the same. Disgusting! The interaction of politicians clearly conveyed that no party is ready to reform their political principles as they stand that their party's present condition is very principled and always focussed on the welfare of people.

When one person suggested that interested volunteers and ngo's can be allowed to involve in election activities instead of government employers during the polling time, CEC Qureshi said that if it is allowed, many fake NGO's and volunteers will come from the political parties side to misuse that provision. He also told that government employees are the perfect choice as their job security is in the hands of election commission through government and thereby prevent them to indulge in wrong activities, which is not guaranteed when the volunteers and NGO's are allowed to involve... a real valid point!

The role of corporate people in the political ground was also discussed. The major source of income for the political parties comes from the corporate companies as a key of token for getting their work done easily. Only because of the corporate peoples, the political parties get so much of money as donation which is later used by the political parties to show their money power during election. So, election commission officials told that there should be some limitations imposed on the level of amount that can be given as donation to the political parties.

I also learnt that the electoral reform process will reach new heights if the election commission is given all the powers to make rules independent of government. Election commission has its own limitations in making regulations and rules in view of electoral reform and even if they make or propose, it cannot be realized in practice due to the pressure and blockage given by the political parties especially the ruling government (which again a political party). Surely election commission should be given all the power as a separate body like SEBI which will bring about significant change.

Let me list out some of the resolutions made in the conference.
1) First and foremost is to work hard for bringing the awareness against the use of money power to buy the voters.
2) To increase the percentage of voting (achieve 100% voting) through campaign especially in urban areas where the level of voting is poorer than the rural areas.
3) To use the Right to Information (RTI) act efficiently to bring transparency to keep a track on the political parties expenses in the election.
4) To provide the valid information anytime to a 24x7 call center specially set up by the election commission regarding the misuse of money by the political parties.
5) To use the social networks and modern technology like cell phone(sms), email, facebook, twitter, orkut etc. to bring the awareness of voting and misuse of money.

On the whole, this two day conference was a new learning experience all the way for me.

Farmers suicides- Indian Agriculture at its threshold

"Farmers are the backbone of the country"- Mahatma Gandhi

"More than 2,40,000 farmers committed suicide from 1995 to 2009" - Government of India's own National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB)

Its really heart breaking to see the above statistics of number of farmers suicide happened recently which clearly conveys that India is losing its major backbone at an alarmingly increasing rate. At least 17,368 Indian farmers killed themselves in 2009, the worst figure for farm suicides in six years according to the data of NCRB. This data covers almost entire nation from nouth to south. Please note that this figure is given by the government itself (actual figure may be even higher). Its really shameful to see that the same government claims and self-praises that India is fast developing in an international medium. How can a country be considered in the "developing side" when the major source of income for majority of the people (villagers) is getting worsen day by day. Is this the real development of a nation? There is no doubt that technological and industrial developments are most happening in India. But the pitty truth is that at many of the places, these developments takes place purely at the cost of farmers and agriculture.

What is the cause for this increasing rate of farmers suicides? The major reason behind this is undoubtedly the inaction of government in terms of effective agricultural policies and plans. Everything has changed now right from the climate to the method of agriculturing. But there is no new realistic actions (announced only in words) in view to cope up with this changing trend. Since villages form the majority of India and agriculture and farmers form the main part of villages, its the moral responsibility of a government to introduce new projects and policies to improve the agriculture and the farmers life conditions. No need to say that in India, the first and foremost aim of the government must be centered on uplifting the overall agriculture. But our government seem to think the other way. They are very much interested in establishing and strengthening industrial and technological revolution. They are very keen to bring globalization in our country and not much cared about the destruction of our very own strength "agriculture & farmers". Politicians only visit the villages during the elections and after that villages and farmers falls under their "selective amnesia" regime. Government and politicians joins hand with industrialists to steal the maximum out from the ignorance of the poor people at the cost of their own living.

May be politicians want the poor people to remain poor for their political advantage. May be due to that, agriculture and farmers are not given the much needed attention. To the disgrace, dirty politicians have started to give open comments that "as long as poor are there, freebies will be there". Shame on them. Its the threshold time that government needs to act immediately and effectively to stop farmers suicides. Surely government can help farmers to regain their golden time by means of introduction of many new policies, dedicated five year plans and projects aimed at increasing the agriculture growth. This can be done with the advice of agricultural experts and researchers. Many good hearts are even voluntarily ready to help the government in this regard. Govt should stop encouraging the import of food and agricultural items that can be grown and cultivated in our own country. The present regulations adopted for the buying and selling of agricultural products between farmers, government and distributors has to be finely revised in accordance with the maximum advantage for farmers. When farmers economy level is improved and if they regain their lost glory, then change will happen and every farmers will be happy to encourage their childrens towards agriculture (something rare at present) so that the next level generation will follow the footsteps of harvesting, which will further ensure the indian green era in coming days.

As a fellow citizens, we need to give importance to this issue of farmers suicides as our eatables comes only because of those great labours. As our part, we can take this issue to the government and everyone's attention as much as we can. It will be of much effect to talk about this matter to our fellow citizens, circulate this issue through mails and social networking sites which can reach the broader section of people. It will be a great boost if media of all kinds... magazines, television, cinema and also popular celebrities give wide exposure to this issue so that the reach is more deeper and stronger.

Like in the case of #tnfishermen compaign for taking action against killing of tamilnadu fishermen by lankan army, we can also initiate a new compaign to bring maximum and immediate attention to the indian farmers suicide. The compaign mantra can be #stopindianfarmerssuicide and this can be used in net columns like facebook, orkut and twitter to gather the attention of the indian government and urban people.

Let us work at our level best to bring smiles on faces of people who feed us daily.

Long live farmers! Long live agriculture!!!

Traffic- Malayalam movie review

Luckily i came to know about this malayalam movie when i was browsing through sify website. Attracted by the positive comments from both critics and also the viewers, i decided to go to this movie at the cost of my plan to watch a tamil movie. I had no idea of what this movie is all about as i always prefer to skip the storyline when i read the reviews. But after watching this Traffic movie, i was so satisfied and overjoyed for making the decision to go ahead with this excellent flick.

Traffic is not at all a normal stuff. The storyline is inspired by a true incident that happened on chennai few months back. But kudos to the screenplay adopted by the director Rajesh Pillai in delivering the true incident with such a cinematic touch with emotions bound edge of the seat thrilling moments. Director excels in merging the fast tracked storyline with valuable emotions through out the movie providing the way for essential speed breakers. Basically the movie revolves around eight main characters and an incident that take place on September 16th which eventually brings all of them involved in one way or other. What is that incident... What connects the eight characters... forms the main plot.

Traffic is a must watch for all cinema lovers beyond the language barrier. Even though I dont know malayalam, i enjoyed this movie as good as a malayalam fan. Hat off to director, actors, technical team especially music director and entire crew for coming up with this awesome entertainer.

Verdict- Go for it!

Vote & Voting

In the entire world, it will be hard to find a democratic, secular country like India considering its huge population and wide spectrum of community peoples (mainly in terms of religion and caste). Its an absolute honour to be a part of this largest democratic country in the world. But the real question is how far the democratic principles and its horizons are explored and fully utilized by the indian people even in its root level, the so-called 'voting'.

Vote, an invaluable right of each and every citizen, forms the foundation of this whole concept of democracy which allow the participation of people directly in the governance of the country. The whole world admire the democratic philosophies in view of its merits that it owe to the people. But its really very hard to digest the level of importance given to this incredible 'right' and so the voting system in our country. The average voting percentage of India is near 60%, which utterly reflect the ignorance of indian people even though they are part of largest democratic country. Why is that so? What are the reasons behind this? How people are handled in this important issue? What can be done with it? I wish to share my opinion on this whole scenario.

It is widely believed that the prime reason for the poor voting percentage in a country is mainly because of the low literacy rate of people. Nearly 40% (may be higher too) of our people are not getting proper education and their knowledge become very narrowed to their surroundings and they turn alien to the happenings around them. The proper awareness on the significance of voting is not given to these peoples by either government or fellow knowledgable persons. To the surprise, the voting percentage of the educated people is also not complete in the other side. We can forgive the ignorant people accounting for their lack of knowledge and vision. But what to say about these so called educated and knowledgeable non-voters? These people, for their advantage and reasoning, put the blame on others saying all are fraud and no one, no party is good to vote. But the real fact behind this is that they are too thoughtless about their fundamental duty and sometimes they simply skip their right at the cost of their laziness. These peoples also allow the culprits to vote on behalf of them and thus contribute to dirty politics indirectly. It is mainly because of these unresponsible citizens, we miss the oppurtunity to realize the dream of much needed change by giving the chances for some real good party and good politicians. If we could bring these non-voters to vote, it will surely lead to a striking healthy change in political system.

In India, we can see how voting is influenced by many number of factors. I wish to share few examples that continue to happen in our country. The first major factor that influences the voting at present is MONEY. Particularly in few states like Tamilnadu, few parties like DMK have started a whole new brand of money politics. It is disgusting to know the ignorance of people to get the money and vote. It is the only time when people turn politician by bribing money for doing their own duty of voting. You know what these people speak of their loyalty to the person who gave them the money to vote. They fail to realize that the same candidate will bribe the money from them to get back it once they come to rule. They fail to realize the money that they get for one day turn them victim for the next five years or so. They fail to realize that by doing that they are losing their moral eligibility to question the governance in any way. They fail to realize that this is nothing less than the killing of self respect by giving away their own incredible right. Severe measures has to be taken on this regard at the earliest possible in maximum ways to stop this outrageous activity that is being spread by the politicians to literally buy the people using their greediness and ignorance. What is even more important is that people should start introspect themselves and come out of this dangerous plot they got involved into.

Among the other few factors, we can clearly see how a family head influences his entire family members to support for the party that he belongs or he favors. What I mean here is... compulsion of husband to his wife, compulsion of father to his son or daughter to vote for his party and leaders. In some families, even though the young generation think on their own and move ahead by making their own choice of which party to support.. all the time they are not encouraged to do that completely with full freedom... they are insisted and compelled by their father or mother to take up their party and its leaders. Youth are pushed backwards and thus kept away from thinking out of the box. This should change and parents should let their next generation to select their own political principle and party and leader. On the other hand, our country ladies never fails to show their loyalty to their husbands by voting to the person that he instructs her to support. Even if she favored any other party before marriage(that time, mostly father's party!!!!!!), she keep herself out of her own wish and opinion. This attitude should change among women so that they can independently think and vote for their right choice.

With the upcoming assembly elections at many of the places, What can be done with all these constraints that prevent people from voting and to be very specific, healthy voting? I share some of my views.

First and foremost, the percentage of voting has to be increased. The awareness of importance of voting should be spread among the all sectors of people... non-voters are in all areas... right from the villages to the urban city areas. People who are concerned about this vital problem can turn themselves as volunteers and can talk to their family, friends, relatives and surroundings regarding the importance of voting. Volunteers can eradicate the ignorance of the people by reaching the people with the ill-facts of getting money for vote. I also feel that the importance of voting and vote should be included in our education system from the schooling level itself.

The legal actions against the politicians for giving money for votes is not enough at all. In my view, the election commission and our judiciary system should come up with legal actions against the citizens who sell their vote for money.. because this can also be considered as bribe. The election commission can form a committee with high profile judges and other eligible persons to probe this matter seriously and come up with solutions on it.

As of now, election commission can also form many groups which go around each and every villages and all places to spread the importance of voting and also to convey the consequences of selling votes for money through drama, songs, plays, discussions, awareness meeting etc. All volunteer groups and organizations can also involve in this kind of activities within their level of scope.

Media in all forms.. daily newspapers, magazines, television channels, cinemas can contribute in this matter considering the public interest. Popular personalities can come forward to promote the importance of healthy voting.

As individuals, as pointed earlier, we can talk to our family, friends, relatives and surroundings. In addition, we can use the emails, online forums, social networks like facebook, orkut to reach out to the larger people to spread the awareness of voting.

Let us think and vote! Let us achieve 100% healthy voting!!!

With love,
S.Philip Raja

Kamal Hassan- A lost wonder?

I got the chance to watch Kamal Hassan's "Manmadhan Ambu" in second day of its release depsite the huge crowd (thanks to online ticket booking). Movie was quite entertaining and a nice time pass too. I can clearly see the bright chances of it making big in box office business with its solo release (Kamal should thank Udayanidhi Stalin for using political power and struggling hard to stop the release of other biggies like Kavalan to get the maximum advantage of all theatres). Despite that MMA is entertaining, at one point of time towards the end of the movie, I strongly felt that this is not the kind of cinema that we expect from Mr.Kamal. That too at the present scenario when tamil cinema is realy moving forward with so many realistic movies hitting the screens and taking up the audience's cinema viewing experience to the next level. This particular perception gave me the push to share my views on Kamal Hassan and his movies in the recent times.

At first place, cinema is a business and the cinema people are there to make money. I am a cinema fan where everything matters to me... right from pakkaa masala entertainer to realistic world cinemas. There are directors, actors, technicians who openly declare that cinema is purely for fun and entertainment and their movies will be based on that idealogy. We know that very few actors have made it very big by simply following this notion. But how far and how long will that satisfy the audience? thats the seperate issue. They will pay the due price when they cant satisfy the audience within that scope of cinema making. There are other kind of cinema makers who always speak of meaningful cinemas of high quality... for them cinema is not just cinema. Its something more than that where realism should blend with the perfect cinema language. Ofcourse, only when their movies and thoughts are in same wavelength, audience will accept and place them in that wonderful league of artists. Kamal Hassan is one such film personality who has always projected himself as an actor and a technician believing in the outcome of meaningful cinema. He has proved this many times in the past. But what about the present? Let us have a look.

I can surely say without hesitation that the present period is the most healthy time in the last few decades of tamil cinema. Almost each and every novel attempts in presenting a different kind of cinema in terms of screenplay or realistic film making or new dimensional subjects or new technology... everything is receiving the never seen before appreciation and recognition accompanied with box office success. I can say countless examples to prove that there has been a tremendous change in tamil cinema audience's viewing level... right from Sethu to Autograph, Kaadhal, Naan Kadavul, Paruthiveeran, Subramanipuram, Imsai arasan, Anjadhey, Veyil, Nadodigal, Chennai 600028, Pasanga, Eeram, Angadi theru, Madarasapattinam, Kalavani, Mynaa... all these movies with its unique presentation in one way or the other has fared well in box office and also got appreciated in all class of audience(a,b and c) which is really a very rare thing to happen in the past. The most striking evidence for the fact that the tamil audience are no longer ready to accept the old wines in the new bottle can be clearly seen from the recent failures of many big budget movies with great star power. Star value has no value right now. Its only the content and way of presentation that clicks with the audience now.

With this quick glimpse of present tamil cinema's healthy trend, let me come back to the point of discussion. Kamal Hassan was undoubtedly one among the few creators who laid the foundation for the upcoming of innovative meaningful tamil cinemas. No one can doubt his profound knowledge on all facets of film making.. acting, direction, cinematography, production, music, dance, lyrics... after all he is an artist with 25 years of experience. Who can forget his classics like Nayagan, Moondram Pirai, Mahanadhi, Gunaa, Kuruthipunal, Thevar Magan... all these movies were unique with its realistic characters and sensible film making. But what about his present age movies? Sadly, the truth is that Kamal has slowly deviated from this inspiring path and caught himself somewhere into the commercial format of cinema. This can be easily understood by looking at his movies that got released after 1998... from Kaadhala kaadhala, Hey Ram, Thenali, Alavandhan, Panchathandhiram, Pammal K. Sammandham, Anbe Sivam, Virumaandi, Vassol Raja M.B.B.S, Mumbai Express, Vettaiyadu Velaiyaadu, Dasavatharam, Unnaipol Oruvan, Manmadhan Ambu... Out of these movies, only Anbe Sivam deserves to be considered as a ground-breaking movie. Hey Ram was a novel effort but it has so much flaws.. first of all it was presented in a very compllicated manner which is not understandable for a common man even upto to a reasonable level. Other than these two movies and Unnai Pol Oruvan, all other movies were centered on the commercial structure.

Kamal seems to have got struck with the monotonous type of comedy films.. kaadhala kaadhala, panchadhandhiram, pammal k.sammandham, vasool raja, mumbai express and latest to join this list is manmadhan ambu... all these films have more or less same brand of comedy where group of people talk non-stop irrelevant to each other making a complete mess out of situation... its fine and enjoyable to a certain level.. but watching it again and again... even in 2010 it continues... give me a break! Next question is why Kamal for this scripts? anyone can do this. So, where is the Kamal we saw as a father of two childrens (mahanadhi)... where is the kamal we saw as an mentally affected innocent lover (gunaa)... where is the kamal we saw playing diverse role of very down to earth real life characters? its hard to find that Kamal in screen these days. I can hear someone saying "hey he has played ten different roles in a single movie (dasavatharam)?"... Dasavatharam cant be placed in the classic league of Kamal movies as it can only be considered as a mammoth advertisement for Kamal's acting. Its a fantasy movie no where near to the realism. When good sensible movies are releasing and getting recognition with the casting of new comers itself, why is not Kamal using his star power to make the impact even stronger and deeper? I sincerely doubt that Kamal has lost his passion for sensible cinemas.

Its quite puzzling that Kamal who gave meaningful cinemas when audience are not ready to accept (gunaa, kuruthipunal are failures) is avoiding himself to make such attempts at present when tamil audience have evloved themselves as quality viewers. Unfortunately, Kamal has started to believe that using english dialogues to a greater extent can improve the quality of the movie and can take the tamil cinema to the next level. Sorry Kamal sir, you are simply doing a greater mistake with this kind of approach. Movies like Mynaa, Subramaniyapuram, Paruthiveeran... which are very close to our nativity takes us forward in the cinematic experience rather than your so-called english dominated ventures right from Vettaiyadu... unnai pol oruvan... to the latest Manmadhan Ambu.

Then how about Kamal Hassan as producer? When fantasy director Shankar is producing novel quality cinemas like Kaadhal, Imsai Arasan, Eeram... what about the true cinema lover Kamal's "Rajkamal Internationals"? Can you name a product from raj kamal company in the recent times with high quality content that refrain commercial elements? I dont mean that there should not be any commercial elements.. whats the issue here is how much and how far artist like Kamal who project themselves as a believer of good cinema are continuing to make efforts on their side for the outcome of the same.

Kamal can learn a lot from Aamir Khan. Aamir is doing a great job and contribution to the hindi film industry (even I can say Indian film industry) with his excellent movies. Be it as an actor or a producer... he is surely taking the indian cinema standard to a higher level in each and every movie of his. Have a look at his recent movies... Lagaan, Dil chahta hai, Mangal Pandi, Fanaa, Rang Se Pasanthi, 3 Idiots, Ghajini, Taare Zameen Par, Peepli live and the latest "Dhobi Ghat" even before its release is already doing rounds in many film festivals. All these movies released at a stretch justifies and speaks for the true commitment of Aamir towards the making of sensible cinemas. The highlight is that even though his movies are of high standard, they are not complicated in any way in the name of inclusion of other languages or subject wise or whtsoever, which makes a common man to understand it with ease. He make it a point to take the cinema experience to the next level in each of his movies. That surely onething which Kamal misses to do completely these days. "Kamal sir, please learn the commitment towards the meaningful sensible cinemas from Aamir".

I cannot expect all this from Rajinikanth or Vijay... but I can surely expect and demand it from Kamal because of his projection as lover and believer of good cinemas. He has done justification to his stand before but now its not the same... which make way for this article in search of that great artist lost by us.

My concluding words to Kamal Hassan...

"Neenga nalla padam yedukkalanu sollala, yeduthaa nallaa irukkum nu dhan soldren"

2G Scam & Political fixtures

2G spectrum scam is undoubtedly the ultimate focus right now in all sectors of our country. Be it politics or law or media or people... all r talking about this. As far as media is concerned, biased projection of news and reports are clearly observed in regional daily newspapers, magazines and channels especially in tamilnadu. But it is highly appreciable that the national channels like NDTV, IBNLive, Headlines Today are neutral in this issue atleast upto this point of time. How about law and order? I am glad to see the way things shaping up and its really very encouraging from a common man view. Supreme court has acted sensibly and following its hard hitting comments, CBI also has finally started to probe the issue with raids and questioning of concerned persons involved in it. Not to mention, its a big shame on CBI for taking no actions towards the investigation of 2g issue for nearly one year even after a case was filed on it. Atleast by now, it is good to see them moving ahead in a right direction. But then, how far and up to what extend? That we need to wait and watch. (CBI promised to submit final report on 2G to apex court by February end)

Coming to the bottomline of this article, how 2G scam is handled in political grounds? let us have a glance of it. First, let me start with ruling congress party and so the central government. We are very unfortunate to have a prime minister who turned himself like a "Deaf and Dumb" when the whole nation is concerned about it. He didnt make a single statement even though he was personally questioned on this 2g scam. He didnt speak a single word. Now after the complete logjam of entire winter parl session, he announces that he is ready to appear before Public Account Committee (PAC) for questioning. "What are you upto Mr.P.M? What made you to keep your mouth shut for such a long time when the whole nation is expecting you to speak. You are the most ineligible person to be a leader of a nation! Dont be a slave to someone in the role of a leader". Shame on peoples who praise his dignity... he is such a disgrace to P.M position.

I can firmly say that Sonia and her congress party avoided the developments in the investigations of 2G scam right from the beginning merely for their political advantages. They were ready to hide this whole issue just for the sake to benefit from the coalition support that they enjoyed with DMK. Mr.Rahul Gandhi, who project himself as a new age politician is no exception to dirty politics. He went vanished with no trace of his news right from the day spectrum issue started. And you know what, today he has commented on the price hike of onions... Oh my god! Where was he when the whole parl session was washed out? Where was he when the opposition parties are strongly demanding for JPC? Representing him as the youth icon of congress party, he is bound to express his view and parties stand on this whole issue right from the start. but he is yet to make a word on 2g. "Why are you silent Mr.Rahul? Whats stopping you? Is that the dirty political basics?". Sonia herself is one of the suspect on 2G issue. Is that along with the alliance factor (dmk supporet) is the reason for your long drawn silence and refusal of JPC demand? Suprisingly, congress claims that they have acted against corruption by taking immediate actions in case of adarsh and shashi tharoor issue. When they are immediate enough to take actions in this cases, then "what stopped them from immediate actions against Raja when spectrum issue came out? nearly for one year there were no actions. Why is that so?". To make it simple, congress cleverly took the powerful masterstroke tool 'silence' to handle 2G scam. A kind request to congress, you have been accused for many issues... answer for it from your stand. dont play blaming back games... please stop blaming BJP... dont try to teach them to introspect. You need to introspect yourself lot more. its not about BJP... its about people. You rule the nation now. Think of people and act responsibly!

BJP really seem to have a double standard on corruption. When they claimed the immediate resignation of A.Raja after the release of CAG report, what are they waiting for in the case of Yeddyurappa's corruption in karnataka. This seriously makes a big letdown in BJP's position to question the government for its inaction in spectrum scam. But ruling government simply cannot blame back BJP and escape itself from JPC demand as the opposition party is not BJP alone. JPC is a demand of all parties which combinely form the opposition... communist parties, aiadmk and few more. Whats the answer of ruling government to communist party's demand for JPC? However, its shocking to see left communist parties are not showing keen involvement in their demand for JPC even though they still insist on it. Its hard to see press statements of senior communist leaders like Seetharam Yechury or Prakash Karat on JPC demand. Now and then they express that they still stand by JPC demand. But thats surely not enough to put pressure on ruling government and that too a government led by cunning congress.

Whats the stand of AIADMK? Its very interesting! purely a 100% political stand!! AIADMK is completely against DMK in this case and they want the investigations to go deep into karunanidhi family... when thats get done, they wont care for the further probe of this issue even a single percent. They only wish that DMK persons whoever related to the 2g corruption should be spotted and arrested, so that they can take political advantage out of it in upcoming assembly eletion. To make it simple, what they want in this issue is not that all guilty should be punished... its only that DMK guilty should be punished. AIADMK leaders are clearly showing a soft corner for congress in their recent interviews in view of the possibility to make alliance with them in case of any rift between DMK and congress as a consequence of 2G probe. What i mean here is even if AIADMK get the most reliable evidence and source to prove that congress party people are involved in 2G, they surely wont expose it to people right now. They will wait till the election! Now I hope you can understand whats my point is.

I have no words to say about DMK party and its leaders. I cannot find any words to express how dirty DMK leader Karunanidhi and his whole political family in this issue right from Radia tapes to till now. Karunanidhi is a poison. In my view, no other political party in this world could be as dirty as DMK.

To conclude, almost all these parties are only keen on their political interests and advantages one way or the other.. after all they do politics. Now what about us... we the people? We had to face all these bitter facts whether u r against it or not..... whether u like it or not. Its simply our fate and dont forget that we are the ones who are responsible for that too.

Atleast, let us make a change in the coming days.

Think and Vote!