From: balaji@milli.cs.umn.edu (Balaji Srinivasan)
Subject: Re: 3 BJP ruled state govts. dismissed
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, CSci dept.
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 00:57:28 GMT

In article <1992Dec18.191019.20626@usl.edu> sgs1679@usl.edu (Sudhindranath Sira G) writes:
>In article <1992Dec17.231440.7702@news2.cis.umn.edu> balaji@milli.cs.umn.edu (Balaji Srinivasan) writes:
>
>Either you are very naive or you must be kidding. Who do you think 
>holds the key to the lockers that contain the Congress(I) party funds ? 
>You don't know ? Wonder about it for a while and you may get the answer...
>
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 This is an allegation you are making and you cannot go on making allegations
 without substantiating them. Well, you may be correct in your statement but
 how do YOU know it for sure ? I wouldn't post such stuff without citing 
 concrete proof. 
>
>IG/RG are responsible for creating the indecent political "culture"
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>that exists in India today. And I would say that, more than 
>anything else, it is this "culture" that has now plunged India into
>anarchy.
>
 what exactly are you referring to when you say "political culture " ? 
 Are you talking about the  politicians in general who wouldn't hesitate
 to barter the nation for personal gains ? well, when it comes to that, 
 all of them are essentially the same I suppose. When you have a bunch of 
 crooks(I'm talking about all our desi politicians here) there is no point
 singling out a few and making it seem as if all the others are relatively 
 perfect 
 and only these few are responsible for everthing. I would make a general 
 statement that the politicians in general (CONG(I),JD,BJP, CPI(M) or whatevr 
 shit - they are all the same to me ) are responsible for all the problems
 in our country. 

 When you criticise somebody , one should look at both the good and bad 
 points. Stalin was a dictator, but I would say he did have leadership 
 qualities. In spite of her authoritarianism , when IG was in power at least
 there was a decent time gap between 2 successive elections ! But whenever 
 the opposition was given the mandate, their infighting and urge to hold on 
 to the 'gaddi' , come what may, prevented them from having a unanimous leader
 Now don't you agree political instability and the need to have mid-term 
 elections every now and then thereby wasting crores of rupees is "plunging
 India into political crises " if not anarchy, as you call it ? 

 I would agree with you if you said the Punjab problem was a creation of IG.
 Similarly the Kashmir/Sri Lanka issues were terribly handled by the CONG(I) 
 But there are several causes for the situation in which we are today, to 
 which the contribution of fundamentalist parties like BJP is no less. 
 So there is no point just exaggerating one cause , namely the politics 
 played by IG/RG and keep on repeating it , as ypu have been doing in most of
 your postings. Do not distinguish between the crooks. They are all the same.
         
>Regards,
>
>--Sudhi.

- Balaji.S. 

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