Letters To The Editor

• The Left and BJP had several things in common earlier which gave them both strength—such as sticking to ideology, disdain for posts etc. But somewhere along the way, the BJP lost its core base and has now become a sinking Titanic with its leaders racing to mint money whenever in power. This is the reason the BJP lost the general election.

Madhu Agrawal

• It is an irony that in spite of the international business community’s continued interest to invest money in India as a result of the phenomenal growth of its economy, the state and central governments have not given due importance to infrastructure development (‘City Plights’, June 25). Political and bureaucratic apathy, coupled with all-pervasive corruption, have adversely affected developmental projects. In our country, it takes the marriage of a minister or his kin or a visit of a VVIP to push the administration to lay roads, supply electricity and water.

The PM has shown that he means business when he ticked off Maharashtra CM Vilasrao Deshmukh for not devoting attention to infrastructural development issues in Mumbai. One wonders how the city of Mumbai is going to be transformed into another Shanghai. There are no noticeable signs to indicate the state government’s earnestness to make it happen. Other states are worse off.

V P Damodar

• Theoretically, what Montek Singh Ahluwalia talks about—‘Good economics has to be made into good politics…It’s worth it’ (June 25)—it is a good idea, but practically it is not possible in the present times, as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seems to have realised. Nowadays whenever politics and economics clash, economics always loses out.

Mahesh Kumar