Get GOvernING

Just about 40 days of govt. and its harsh to assess a Govt. with bare minimum majority. But surely they have not been doing what they should have done. I personally feel they’ve not been let to do what they must. For ages we’ve been seeing the farming community not only Karnataka but also elsewhere in the Nation, crying for adequate supply of sow seeds and fertilizers, but it had not snowballed into a major agitation, with a few of them committing suicide for the same. There are hundreds of protesters in the nation, nowhere do the police fire, forget real bullets they even fear to strike back at a mob, and that too a mob of farmers, and we have a Golibar happening at them. Barely into its seventh day in office the govt was put under a crucible, just give a thought, for nearly 60 years we’ve haven’t seen a change in terms of the governing, and we expect a radical change in 40 days, but with that, our chief minister who took oath in the name of the farmer could do little about the issue as he insisted that the Centre had not supplied the state with fertz… But being a chief minister that should not have been his resolve, poorly for him he is habituated to the politics in the opposition.

It’s agreed that the govt has to fortify itself in terms of the numbers, but to do so it has gone shopping, into the cadres of JD(s) and Cong, and sadly so. But from BJP’s point of it lacks the numbers in the Upper House, so every bill that has to be implemented can be halted at the Upper House, critically impairing the Govt.’s functioning with a hostile governor, things could be difficult for it to function “successfully”. Poorly the Mandate in Karnataka lacks political activism from the people. For many years now it has been the contest of the Gowdas and Lingayats, the two communities which form the electoral majority sway with either Cong and JDs and BJP respectively. Thus Karnataka lacks a multi-partite political scenario unlike the states of TN, AP, UP, Bihar etc… where in case of certain issues the ruling party can expect conditional from minor parties to support at least for certain bills and policies.

But at least now, after the swooping of the opposition MLAs the govt needs to concentrate on building the trust of the people and perform well, Bangalore brings in the revenues and it is the showcase for the state and it must not be neglect, the rural part are the most in need of govt support, and it too must not be neglected, as the CM says, Rural and Urban Development should go hand in hand, with a sense of gratitude towards the mandate.