Monday, September 27, 2010

Ecorape in Navi Mumbai

( Via email )

Dear Jairam,

I suggest you to send your team to Nerul, Navi Mumbai ( opposite Dr.D.Y.Patil stadium ). You can see that the beauty of Navi Mumbai ; the hillocks are being razed down under the patronage of the NCP leader , Ganesh Naik.

This is nothing short of an 'Ecorape' . Please save the beautiful hills and the natural creations . Today , these are being razed to make way for sky scrapers . Our next generations will pay a heavy price for such neglect and callous attitude of builder lobby in Navi Mumbai

Expect an immediate stop to such activities

Best regards

Rajendra Pratap Gupta

Friday, September 17, 2010

Government ( MP's ) , Government employees & the Common Man !!

A few days back, the members of Parliament got a raise ( Over 300 % ) . Today, the government employees got 10 % increase in their dearness allowance , and the “poor” Common Man gets to read the headlines that, the inflation for food items has crossed over 15 %. But Pranab says, economy will grow at 9 % next year

This is the government (of ) MP’s, (for ) government employees & (at the cost) of the common man !! This is what happens when there is “democracy” for a population that is either illiterate or unemployed or both ............Votes count and voters don’t .

Democracy will function effectively in a population that is literate and employed .Else dictatorship or democracy mean the same !!

Rajendra Pratap Gupta

Email : office@rajendragupta.in

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

US increases VISA fees and Bans outsourcing

It is quite natural for any country into recession to resort to protectionists measures. So for sure, that Indian IT / BPO companies will face a flack and lose business . So what to do ? How to counter the threat ?

Improve & increase the current offering , slash prices and force the US firms to come over to you..............this is the best way for Indian companies to help US based companies to lower costs and increase profits ...and ensure that Indian IT companies are more compelling value proposition for US corporations hungry for profits . Let's see what works better - Business over politics or Politics over business ?

Rajendra Pratap Gupta

Sunday, September 12, 2010

An Open Letter to the Prime Minister

13th September 2010

Dr. Manmohan Singh
Prime Minister
Government of India
7, Race Course , New Delhi-110011

An Open letter from a common man

Dear Dr.Singh,

Namaskaar

I wrote you a letter on 14th February this year asking about creating wealth and employment ( available on my blog www.rajendragupta.wordpress.com ). Post that letter , i did hear Pranab da stating that we need to create wealth ........but as always, i have not seen a concrete action plan post that “loaded statement”

For the past few months , i have been wanting to communicate to you what an ordinary Indian thinks about the current state of affairs, so that you can take appropriate action. Since so many things have happened, i will just randomly start than prioritizing any particular issue

Wastage of Food grains : In India , it has been a tradition of not wasting food on the plate . But we are wasting more than 50000 of tons of food grain and on the other side , we are having unprecedented and unchecked inflation. Conditions are revolting for the common man. If i was born in a deprived family , i would have become a ‘Civilian with a gun, out there to seek revenge’; what you can call as a naxalite !! But i have a very decent corporate job , i live with my family in Mumbai and i have a more sophisticated way to vent my anger with this note ( i presume that is the reason why we say that the Pen is mightier than the sword ! ). Else , for sure , i would be a more dreaded naxalite that Koteshwara Rao !! My social & financial standing prohibit me to think on those lines for moment ............

Back to the point of the wastage of food grains , i am quite surprised that supreme court ( knowing well , that our courts are the most inefficient & corrupt ). Still they felt that the government should distribute grains free than letting them rot and even passed an order . Not just the citizens but the court also believes that the government is a laggard when it comes to addressing the issues of the common-man & So it had to pass an order !)

What are the steps you are taking to ensure that this wastage does not happen again ? Have you taken the FCI & Ministry of agriculture to task for a poor job on forecasting the production , planning storage and facilitating distribution of grains or exporting them rather than letting them rot when the country is facing a double digit inflation ? If i were in your position, i would sack the minister , the secretary of the Ministry & a bunch of senior officials responsible for the criminal waste and start the legal proceedings to penalise them & disqualify them from holding any post ever . So that no one would ever repeat this even for one KG of food grain, leave alone 50,000 tonnes. You seem to be enjoying as a silent spectator !!

Dr.Singh , how would you feel if your children or grand children slept hungry for a few days or just had one meal a day ? Do not forget that , 4 lac of children have their first birthday as their last & 56 % of the women suffer from anaemia . All this is easily preventable . I wish your children were malnourished and then you became the Prime Minister

Honesty , inefficiency & Corruption : Dr.Singh, i sometimes wonder why people call you honest ! In my view , you are not honest at all . Yes you might have some integrity ( though you have become morally flexible to a large extent ). Let me quote your silence on ministries handled by Mamta , Lalu, Raja, Sharad and others........if you were honest , you would never tolerate their incompetence and corrupt practices ! You are the patron ( rather the Head ) of this gang of inefficient ministers . CBI has become ‘Congress Blackmail & Bachane ka institution” . When there is a show of strength in Lok Sabha or there is a need for support , CBI goes to the Supreme court to withdraw cases against Mulayam , Maya and Lalu etc . Whenever these people take congress to task , CBI starts knocking the door with charge sheets. Which honesty are you talking about Dr.Singh or are you selectively blind ?

Leadership abilities : You had once remarked that the history will judge you & not the opposition . Let me tell you that history would judge you as the most incapable leader who moved with the tide & sometimes it worked ( like in 1990’s ) and most of the time you failed miserably

Your party always projects you as the person who modernized India. Totally wrong !! In 1990’s , you were pushed against the wall with foreign exchange left for just a few days . Dr.Singh, you had no choice but to let the rupee devalue , and let the foreign investors bring money , and that too, was envisioned by PVNR ( who will never get his due share as he is was not from the Gandhi clan !! )

If you are such a great economist ( Look at your team: Finance minister is an economist , Home minister is a past finance minister , Montek is a finance man , In addition to this , you have Kaushik Basu, Raghuram Rajan etc....bunch of economic advisors ) . Then, why the hell are you all floundering !! You are all simply clueless about inflation and its solution!

I heard Pranab da saying yesterday that he was worried with inflation rising again !! He actually meant that he was failing ! I know that sometimes it is hard to put the right words, but public is not a fool Dr.Singh . We can make out what is underneath your statements .

Here is what historians would actually consider while rating you :

1. Allegiance to the Gandhi clan and not to the nation
2. Sharm-Al Shaikh & your love for Bush ( the residents of America hated the man and you loved him , i always fail to understand this one )
3. Double digit Inflation ( You even failed as a astrologer here )
4. Common Wealth Games fiasco
5. Kashmir violence ( Worst thing to imagine is that house wives are on the streets pelting stones & Omar & you are on the same boat !! )
6. Naxalites
7. Relations with China ( Visa row clearly indicates that relations are at an all time low )
8. US sanctions against outsourcing and increasing the VISA fees ( you just get flattered by Barack’s calling you ‘Guru’ , and you have gone overboard to get the nuclear deal through . Look at India’s past, and you will see that whenever India has faced sanctions , India has come out with its innovative research and developed the capabilities . Agni & Chandrayaan were built by Indian scientists. I don’t think that we should have surrendered our ‘Nuclear Sovereignty’ by signing the nuclear deal with a lot of riders and opening our sites for inspection to foreign powers .....You have let us down & undermined the capability of our scientists Dr.Singh ! Long term prospects of India of being the nuclear giant is gone with the deal . Without the deal , we could have taken longer but become stronger
9. Relations with Pakistan , Nepal & Sri Lanka have gone at an all time low during your regime
10. Farmers suicides are a blot to this nation
11. Andhra Violence
12. You are the only Prime Minister who has appointed & tolerated incompetent & disobedient ministers like Mamta , Sharad , Raja , Tharoor et al.


Under your Prime Ministership the political health, Social health & Economic health of the nation has touched a new low . I am not a fan of Advani , but when i see what Mani Shanker Aiyer did recently w.r.t. the Common Wealth Games or what Tharoor did a few months back or what Digvijay Singh has been saying about the Home minister or your own M.P’s criticizing the Kapil Sibal or Jagan defying congress and continuing with its Odarpu Yatra , i think Advani was right in saying that you are a weak Prime Minister . This is the worse government we have ever seen . The things have gone so bad that people curse you and your team . Even those who are well to do, are revolting in conscience and criticizing you ............you should be ashamed Dr.Singh of still sticking in your chair . Media calls you night watch man !! I feel ashamed to mention the language common man uses for you .

Dr.Singh , you represent the ‘political culture’ of this nation . If you are silent ( or helpless ) seeing the corruption and inefficiency of the ministers who report into you , how can you expect the citizens of this nation to stand up against corruption and inefficiency ? You are leading by a wrong example . Please change it immediately or do not give talks that calls the people to stand up & raise voice , when you are silent and blind to acts of corruption , inefficiency and nepotism !!

Seeing what you have done , i can put here that you never could become a politician and failed , and also that the professor in you died as you could not convince your colleagues of looking after the nation as per the mandate given to your government .

Every minute you stay in office or every inch you move is financed by my taxes ( read common man’s tax money ), and i have every right to question you about your indecision and decisions both . Please do not ignore the concerns of the common-man . Change your style of working , make changes in your cabinet , let the corrupt ministers go .......and do not do the mistake to pass off Rahul as a representative of youth for the nation .........He does not represent the youth , he represents the Gandhi’s

I expect you to act on this ...............you already have a detailed note sent out to you on Feb 14th about the steps you could consider to take in the interest of this nation . Else , resign and go. For sure , we will get a better Prime Minister ........


Rajendra Pratap Gupta
Email: mail@rajendragupta.org
office@rajendragupta.in

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Don't try to copy and chase China

One of the most important ( and expensive ) learning’s out of common wealth games experience has been that we should stop following China !!

We hoped to repeat the Beijing Olympic games at Common Wealth Games , and are very close to mess up with the much smaller games event than Olympic Games ( CWG )

It is time for our politicians to wake up and stop dreaming of making Mumbai like Shanghai or aping China in terms of double digit growth. India can never do a “China story”.

We tried to copy SEZ's model from China , and today we know how many SEZ bidders have walked away from their signed deals for setting up SEZ's

We have to come up with our indigenous model of growth rather than making references of China and trying to bench mark our growth numbers with China's milestones !

Rajendra