In any reshuffle of the ministry, there will be some who will cheer, some suffer heartburn (they are not losers in the real sense). some who despise their fate being unlucky and a whole lot of people who are indifferent. I belong to the last category. I am indifferent for I feel that it will not make any difference to my existence. That is ture for all those in the last category.
A lot has been written in the media about the cabinet expansion. Media also gave their own rating, good, bad, ugly and so on. I remember that once a seasoned journalist told me that Indian public is very emotional, sensitive and more importantly, has a short memory. Journalists take advantage of these attributes in one way or the other. They criticize a person to the hilt, bring all his negative side before the public glare and all on a sudden, when he or she makes a grade, media laps it up. There are people in the expanded ministry, who have been pulled up by media for his vituperative utterances which created a lot of commotion and finally accommodated in the ministry. The only reason that I can figure out is that the state he represents will be going to polls next year and he can be a potential vote catcher.
I often wonder why our ministers are allowed to babble everything when it comes election. Should we have a law that prevents any individual who takes oath in the name of the constitution from taking partisan stand? During the time he or she holds the constitutional power, that person should be debarred from electoral politics. This will mean that the prime ministers, chief ministers, other ministers in the Center and states should not go for election campaign, during the incumbency of his or her office. It is a different matter they go for the campaign when the elections are announced. Such a time span between the announcement of election and the time the elections get over,he or she at best will be a part of the caretaker government. That way, they will not be able to take any decisions in the intervening time. Undoubtedly, such a measure will shore up the credibility of the government and the public will repose faith in them.
The newly expanded the ministry, according to media reports, is slim, mean, experienced, has set to the caste equations and so on. I really do not understand the nuances of these adjectives. But one thing is very clear, as it was the case earlier, each aspirant was planting the stories in media in ones favorite newspaper to enhance his or her chances. Some of them have succeeded in their effort and good luck to those who could not succeed for next time.
Coming to the kick start of the economy. Now that the finance minister can focus only on his portfolio. He need not have to oversee the complex ministry of defense, where there are myriad of challenges and issues. If hands on experience is the criteria, General VK Singh would have fit the bill as defense minister. But he seems to be sidelined to an innocuous ministry of program implementation and statistics and the earlier portfolio of DONER has been taken out of him. Does it have anything to do with his performance?
Now the ministers holding the economic portfolios are the finance minister Arun Jaitley , Commerce & Industry Minister Nirmala Sitaraman, Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu, Aviation Minister Gajapati Raju and others holding chemicals, fertilizers, power, portfolios etc. Can they put together their act well. Only time will tell that. But one can forewarn them that not many months they will have the luxury of a favorable media. They have to establish themselves through their hard work, integrity and peoples' connect. otherwise, there will be many like Gowda's, VK Singh's and Javedkar's in the next reshuffle.
Business Economics & Services Team (BEST)
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