*** But you are speaking of the enlightened, Gujaratis and their Gujarat. They have apparently been able to do what the rest can't, stand up-to Dilli. That was your lament about Assam.
My curiosity too is about Assam. What is it about Assam that cannot get the money to attract the Nanos of India or the NRI investors to replicate the Gujarati boom? And create those Kharkhowa Naren Modis to stand up to Dilli, that you wish for as I do ? :-) On Mar 23, 2011, at 8:24 AM, Dilip Deka wrote: > The prescription is there right in the original article. Money talks. Gujarat > quietly built up its economic might and now the state is a power to > recognize. Gujarat's is known as a business friendly government. Everyone has > heard the Tata Nano factory story. Everyone knows whose gain and whose loss > it was. > When the government, the business and the workers all row in the same > direction, in unison, the boat moves faster. > Dilip > ================================================== > > --- On Mon, 3/21/11, Chan Mahanta <cmaha...@gmail.com> wrote: > >I wish Assam could face upto Delhi the same way. > > *** Any thoughts on WHY it is NOt so now, or HOW it could be accomplished? > > On Mar 20, 2011, at 10:27 PM, Dilip Deka wrote: > > > Gujarat is too powerful for Delhi to mess with. Gujarati people, the state > > government and the NRIs investing in Gujarat sing the same tune - Help the > > economy prosper and everyone gets benefit from it. > > I can bet Delhi will have to retract. Delhi and the Congress bigwigs tried > > to remove Modi before but didn't succeed. I wish Assam could face upto > > Delhi the same way. > > Dilip Deka > > > > From: mc mahant <mikemah...@hotmail.com> > > > Off with his head > > > Tavleen Singh > > > > Posted: Mar 20, 2011 > > > Last week, when it was announced that there were > > plans afoot to set income tax sleuths on to those who invest in Gujarat, > > my first reaction was disbelief. Surely not, I thought, not when > > foreign investors are fleeing India in droves, not when the Reserve Bank > > has itself pointed out ominously that foreign direct investment in > > India has dropped by nearly 40 per cent in recent months. Why would a > > prime minister whose expertise lies in the field of economics allow such > > insanity to go ahead? > > > > The reasons could most certainly not be economic, so I started searching > > for political reasons and realisation quickly dawned. Narendra Modi has > > long been seen by political pundits in Delhi, especially those of > > Congress persuasion, as the only man who could in 2014 challenge their > > glamorous young prince and so he must be destroyed. Besides he has been > > flying too high for his own good, has he not? Always holding those > > conventions to boast about ‘vibrant’ Gujarat and always making jokes > > about the Congress Party that the silly old ‘aam aadmi’ laughs his head > > off at without noticing that they are laughing on the same side as a > > merchant of death, a ‘maut ka saudagar’. Remember when the financial > > scandals started falling out of the central government’s cupboard at so > > alarming a rate and how he made that speech in which he said ‘munni > > badnaam hui’. How dare he? Who did he mean? The Congress Party or she > > who leads it? So off with his head. > > > Not easily done politically because somehow he has managed, wretched > > man, to keep winning elections (with even Muslims voting for him), so > > someone in Delhi came up with the cunning plan to destroy him > > economically. Ordering income tax raids on political opponents is an old > > Congress practice that was used recklessly and with powerful effect by > > first Mrs Gandhi during the Emergency and then again by V P Singh when he > > was > > Rajiv’s finance minister. He went too far, though, because he started to > > raid Rajiv’s friends and so he had to go. But to get back to Gujarat. > > Under that ‘maut ka saudagar’, its economy has climbed to dizzying > > heights. Even a casual visitor can see the speed at which roads get > > built, the availability of electricity in remote villages, the check > > dams that help irrigate areas that have never seen irrigation, the > > primary health centres that actually work. Investors see much more. They > > see an administration that is less corrupt than most and a chief > > minister who fulfills his promises. If he tells you that he will make > > land available to you in a week, he ensures that this happens, and if he > > promises a single window to clear your projects, he delivers. > > These are not things that Congress chief ministers can do because their > > primary concern is to ensure that the ‘high command’ is kept happy by > > regular and large infusions into the coffers of the party. They can get > > away with no governance at all as long as they do this. Then they have > > to ensure that they pay regular obeisance to the party’s ruling Dynasty > > and by the time all this is over, there is little time for doing > > anything else. So the best governed states in India are those that are > > not run by Congress chief ministers and the only way to keep them in > > check is to curb them in every possible way. If it is income tax raids > > in Gujarat, it is unwieldy schemes like the NREGA in Bihar. You see when > > the central government puts in place a scheme like this then the state > > government loses some of its own control over funds and welfare > > policies. They regularly complain about this but their complaints fall > > on deaf ears because this is an area in which Sonia Gandhi and her > > cabinet, the National Advisory Council, are personally interested. > > The end result is that India, so glittering, so full of allure only six > > months ago, is now beginning to look like it did before economic > > liberalisation. It is beginning to look like a dangerous country to > > invest in and in this bleak scenario there is Gujarat that has so far > > continued to shine like a beacon where foreign and Indian investors are > > concerned. This cannot be allowed to happen because it makes the rest of > > India look even worse than it already does. Besides, we all know that > > Narendra Modi is an evil man, a merchant of death, so who cares if all > > his efforts to make Gujarat rich and prosperous are endangered by > > famously corrupt income tax inspectors. Of course, there is the small > > problem that the people of Gujarat may suffer as well but since they > > have been regularly rejecting Congress at election time who cares about > > them. Off with their heads as well. > > _______________________________________________ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
