Opinion Two to go
Many important bills cant be passed due to the lack of support in the House
Two to go
Apropos Two more years? (IE,May 23),UPA 2 appears to have lost the inclination to drive home its point on important issues. Many important bills cant be passed due to the lack of support in the House. Some allies are creating difficult conditions,to which the Congress is not adjusting. Within the Congress,there is factionalism and indiscipline. The BJP is in a similar,seemingly rudderless boat. Both parties should cooperate to pass important bills,especially those affecting the economy. Elections 2014 are not far away.
Sharda Bhargav,Jalandhar
Two of a kind
THIS refers to Bharatiya Janata Parties (IE,May 22). Why single out the BJP? Some years back,the Congress also worked as a cohesive unit under its proactive chairperson to ensure that UPA 1 was successful. UPA 2 has come to be the very antithesis of its earlier avatar. Infighting and one-upmanship in the Congress may appear muted,but it is merely the glue of power that holds it together. The BJP has no such adhesive but lacks a leader. Worse,the BJP has misread the script and is often seen to be double-faced on the reforms agenda. It shows little inclination and much less ambition to reinvent itself.
R. Narayanan
Ghaziabad
STRANGELY,on one hand,we criticise the Congress for not nurturing strong regional leaders and,on the other,when the BJP has an array of such leaders,we say that it is a collection of many state parties! The BJPs only problem is that it does not have anyone to fill Atal Bihari Vajpayees big shoes a leader who took not only his party but even its allies along and had a modern vision.
Bal Govind
Noida
In black and white
THE white paper on black money is indeed a bikini,as an opposition veteran said (White Paper like a bikini: BJP,IE,May 22). Instead of doing just paper-work like issuing white papers,the government should have the will power and boldness to implement measures which may curb the recycling of black money in realty and bullion deals.
Madhu Agrawal
Teething troubles?
THE true nature of our MPs was well brought out in Comic stripped (IE,May 16). But I wonder if they could take cognizance of it,especially after the way they reacted to the inclusion of some cartoons in a
textbook for children,those who will become voters in some years. With this controversy,parliamentarians have lowered the stature of the House. They have also lowered the stature of the very person in the cartoon,the architect of our Constitution for whose sake they took umbrage. Our MPs need to grow up.
Ram Varma
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