Watch the deficits
A front-page article in RSS weekly Organiser claims the UPA government is taking India back to a 1991-type economic crisis. Among other issues,it questions the increase in the trade deficit,which has risen from $8.7 billion in 2002-03 to $114 billion in the last fiscal year,and is threatening to shoot up to $281 billion by 2014. On other other hand,it says the IMF has cautioned that a rise of the current account deficit above 3 per cent would increase the risks arising from volatility of capital flows.
The article claims that managing inflation is as serious a concern as it was in 1991. In his famous budget speech of July 24,1991,Dr Singh had observed the people of India have to face double digit inflation which hurts most the poorer sections of our society. …Has the price situation during the UPA 2 regime not been similar to the one that existed in 1991? it asks.
Sonias secrecy
The BJPs Panchjanya has an article on Sonia Gandhis illness. It says: The people of this country want to know why the physical health of such a big leader was being kept hidden from it? When the can people be given real-time information about the prime ministers surgery sometime back,then why there is no information on the operation of the chairperson of National Advisory Council? What is being sought to be concealed under the garb of privacy? it asks.
The article says Sonias entire life has been shrouded in mystery. Indians have nothing to do with her days in Italy,her family background and her life before marriage to Rajiv Gandhi. This is her private world. But Indians certainly have a right to know everything about the woman who influences the countrys politics and its national activities, it says.
Conversing with Kashmir
The Organiser editorial claims that the interlocutors appointed by the government for J&K have frittered away their own credibility and that keeping them on had now become untenable. From the beginning,we have been sceptical of their mission. It was not explained as to how the UPA government arrived at the conclusion that the Kashmir solution lies in the appointment of a team of interlocutors and that they can do more than what the political process in the country cannot, it says.
It says that while appointing such a team,the government should have done at least a minimum amount of homework. Dwelling on the controversy over Dilip Padgoankar having attended conferences organised by Ghulam Nabi Fai,it argues that this alone was reason enough to disband the team: The UPA government,it seems is obdurate about the funny slanging match in the interlocutors team. The taint wont disappear,however much the so-called free thinkers try. Can the country gloss over the fact that these people have sympathised with the ISI agent and accepted his hospitality? The editorial says that the best way out for the Centre now is to immediately wind up the panel and institute an inquiry into their activities in the company of Pak patriots.
Compiled by Manoj C.G.
