Posts : vote bank politics

S I Srinivas T R - my nominee for this year-end Namma Bengaluru award

murali772 - 1-JUL-2014

Some unsolicited advice for AAP, Bengaluru

murali772 - 17-DEC-2013

Aam Aadmi Party's rout of the Congress, I would like to believe, had more to do with the revulsion of the Delhi-ites with the inept and corrupt Central regime than with the comparatively competent Sheila Dikshit government. Perhaps some of the populist programmes, listed in AAP's election manifesto, too helped in garnering votes.

The questionable Food Security Bill

murali772 - 31-MAR-2013

The food security bill will condemn India’s poor to perpetual poverty. The bill plans to distribute grain to two thirds of India’s population at a 90 per cent subsidy costing over Rs 1,00,000 crores.