Winners keepers

The editorial in the latest issue of the Organiser is titled 8220;Nano in Gujarat8221;. It observes: 8220;The Tatas choosing Gujarat need not have hit headlines.

The editorial in the latest issue of the Organiser is titled 8220;Nano in Gujarat8221;. It observes: 8220;The Tatas choosing Gujarat need not have hit headlines. But Ratan Tata choosing Gujarat after a wasted, controversial and disappointing experience in West Bengal has created history8230; Tatas is not like any other corporate house in the country. It is truly the pride of India. It has built a reputation unique for itself over many decades and it is widely acknowledged as the benchmark of corporate ethics. The Tatas has grown to occupy its position as the most-reputed corporate national entity and Indian multinational company by upholding character, professionalism, grit and vision. It was with this eacute;lan and business acumen that Tatas chose Gujarat. It is, rather, homecoming.8221;

It adds: 8220;Equally significant is the context and the host. When Tatas went to West Bengal to set up its dream project it was really ground-breaking and adventurous. Marxists are not known to be entrepreneur savvy. In three decades the Left has ensured that the state became a graveyard of industries. From being the number one industrial state in the country West Bengal under the Marxists decayed to an abyss of poverty, illiteracy, backwardness and flight of talent. Buddhadeb tried to change the format in a crude, arrogant, top-down-type Chinese way. But that Tatas decided to go to Singur immensely raised the Marxist Chief Minister8217;s stock and perhaps it played a major part in his unprecedented victory in the last assembly election. Mamata Banerjee8217;s obstinacy and the CPM8217;s obduracy demolished it all8212;Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is the winner in the bargain.8221;

Nuclear servitude

A two-page spread titled 8220;Deal capped our right to test and tied India to NPT8221; reproduces RSS chief K S Sudarshan8217;s Vijayadashmi speech In Nagpur. The RSS chief noted: 8220;It will be better if the Prime Minister, instead of making controversial decisions, concentrates on curbing the bane of terrorism which will be backed by the whole nation. What is the message he is sending by not executing the perpetrator of terror-blasts?8230; If all of us move in unison, tread our own respective paths cooperating with each other then the day is not far away when the flag of our nation will fly highest in the world. 8217;8217;

On the 123 Indo-US nuclear deal, he observed: 8220;In case India goes for nuclear test it would result in 8216;most serious consequences8217; including immediate cut off of nuclear-fuel, its technology and the supply of atomic reactors. In spite of all this, if the Prime Minister thinks that Bharat has got a waiver for atomic test then it means that he considers the people of Bharat as fools. The logical conclusion is that Bharat has mortgaged its right to conduct nuclear tests and bound itself with Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty NPT and Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty CTBT.8221;

Appeasement politics

In his column tilted 8220;An Indian parallel in appeasement politics in the US,8221; Organiser editor R. Balashankar observes: 8220;The global financial crisis might largely be the outcome of the incompetence and greed of the private sector. Many experts in the US however blame the government for its mindless affirmative action at the root of the mortgage crisis. If it is true India is also fast slipping into a similar situation. As in the US, in India too some of the actions of the government have all the potential to create a financial disaster. The Manmohan Singh government has crossed all permissible limits in budget deficit by its various poll-oriented populist schemes like loan waiver and subsidy. The real attack on the health of the financial system has come in the form of affirmative action with the pledge of giving minorities the 8216;first right8217; in national resources. The sincerity of this statement is widely doubted. But the manner in which the government implemented it raised many eyebrows.8221;

Compiled by Suman K Jha