Slamming non - PM

Kick ass, totally.

What interests or rather troubles me is not the content of speech that our honourable non PM gave. He must have known, as someone who can be assumed to have at least rudimentary knowledge of economics, that the speech was nothing but bovine manure.He was casting industrialists as villain, essentially pandering for votes, harking back to hey days of Indira Gandhi and her delusional daddy, when surplus labour was the socialist equivalent of blood libel.

In other words, the speech was nothing more than pink Schick. Now this whole pandering business is something which happens frequently in politics. However what made it worse in this case is that, it made no political sense!

This socialist grandstanding is past its sell by date. Law of diminishing returns has ensured that any further invocation of this mantra will result in zero returns. This dead horse is not going to gallop howsoever MMS may flog it. The times they are a-changing.*

This is what frightens me. This is not just bad policy, but also bad politics. Whatever be the shortcoming of Indira Gandhi she knew the pulse of "common people". However the direction of the agenda that Sonia Gandhi has pursued since coming to power (due to sheer luck) only suggests that she is out of touch of reality or groundswell.

If there is anything worse than an opportunist politician, it is an opportunist politician, who is out of touch of reality.

* More about it later