A good thing seems to be the removal of Jairam Ramesh from the Ministry of Environment & Forests. In a bid to placate the econuts, this man launched a jihad to jeopardise industrialisation. Project after project was torpedoed citing environmental reasons. Ramesh presented a retrograde world view in which progress is the enemy of environment and the ideal life can be lived only if all of us give up the advances and civilisation and starts living as our Stone Age ancestors did.
Unsurprisingly, Ramesh's dogmatic pursuance of a perverse ideology has not brought any penalty or reprimand; quite the contrary, regressive policies have helped him get elevated to the Cabinet rank, with Rural Development as portfolio. No bad deed goes unrewarded in the Sonia raj.
Jayanthi Natarajan replaces him in the Environment Ministry with Independent charge. Evidently, she has received prize for stubbornly defending as a Congress spokesperson the misdeeds of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) ministers. Defending the indefensible is her forte, as it is of other Congress spokespersons such as Manish Tiwari and Abhishek Manu Singhvi.
With Mamata Banerjee moving to West Bengal, the Railways Ministry was rendered headless. Coupled with the UPA's general neglect of important aspects of life and economy, this resulted into financial weakening and operational hiccups, the spurt in accidents being one of the manifestations of the serious malaise. UPA bosses and the Prime Minister have decided to keep the Railways under the Trinamool Congress. Dinesh Trivedi is the new minister. Read the full report here.
Source: by Sukhwant Kapoor, Organiser.
